514 WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
which have heretofore been highly esteemed, are of but tempo¬ 
rary continuance, owing to some unfavorable changes in our 
climate and soil, or to the want of adaptation in our climate and 
soil, or to a sure and inevitable decay in the variety cultivated, 
a knowledge of which is reserved for a more extended experi¬ 
ence, it is difficult to determine. 
Those of us who engaged in Horticulture in the West at an 
early day, still feel that our knowledge is yet too imperfect to 
decide on questions which a longer time and much observation 
can alone determine. 
As a proof of the position of adaptation, I would refer to 
the Baldwin, of New England, to the Newtown Pippin of New 
York, or to the Rawle’s Janet, of Southern Illinois. Every 
person that shall continue to plant, in Wisconsin and Northern 
Illinois, these and others of like character, will, I fear, suffer 
sore disappointment, and, in the end, will exclaim, that this 
is not a fruit country. 
Our appeal, then, is to every friend of Horticulture. It is a 
work, in which not only individuals, but States should heartily 
engage. The production of an apple, adapted to Wisconsin, 
of equal value to that of the Baldwin to New England, should 
be encouraged, and receive the highest award made by your 
State Society. Eive hundred dollars, with a gold medal would 
be worthy, and should be offered by the State of Wisconsin, for 
the production of a fruit of such excellence. 
For the Committee. 
L. S. PENNINGTON. 
P. S. What I mean with regard to the Rawle’s Janet is, 
that it does not attain to that excellence found in or near its na¬ 
tive locality, Southern Illinois or Northern Kentucky. The 
tree is, here, but partially hardy. 
L. S. P. 
