512 WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
ground, red cheek, very handsome, tender, juicy, good or very 
good flavor. Tree of rather slender growth, tip end of limbs 
sometimes perish in winter, which makes me think it as some¬ 
what tender; otherwise worthy of cultivation. For flavor we 
think this equal to any of the grafted kinds. Sells very readi¬ 
ly; bears, rather overbears every second year. 
In Pears I have nothing to offer, except that of the six or 
seven kinds I grow, the Stephen’s Genesee and Oswego 
Beurre seem to be the hardiest and strongest bearers. They 
are both on quince stocks. 
Of cherries I have grown the following, viz: May Duke, 
Black-heart, Black Tartarian, May Bigarreau, Napoleon Bi- 
garreau, Yellow Spanish, Black Eagle, Early Purple. The 
, first named is the only survivor; it grows vigorously and bears 
full, when late frosts do not destroy the blossoms. 
I suggest that it would be worth trying to raise the various 
kinds of gtape vines native to Wisconsin; some might be valua¬ 
ble. They would certainly be hardy , a most important consid¬ 
eration. 
I never raised but three peaches, and dispair of succeeding 
with it in open culture. Trees freeze down to the ground, and 
start again from the roots to be cut down again in the same way 
a year or two afterwards. 
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Plums promise well here; sometimes bear fuller than I ever 
saw them in France. Curculio is however a terrible enemy 
with us. Best mode of fighting them after all is, I think, to 
raise so many trees that they cannot spoil all the fruit. Mira - 
belle , (obtained directly from France), is a nice little plum for 
preserves; bears well, seems to resist the winter. Purple Gage 
more tender. Washington does tolerably well; Prune D’Agen, 
rather tender, but valuable; Imperial Gage excellent—great 
bearer; but the best sort in my opinion for hardy habits and 
profuse bearing is p the Lombard. St. Catherine, (obtained from 
Patent Office), and McLaughlin, (from D. A. Fairbanks, Au¬ 
gusta, Maine), not fully tested as yet, promise well, but Mc¬ 
Laughlin seems a slow grower. 
