520 WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
PLANTING AND PRUNING ORCHARD TREES, 
BY D. MATHEWS, OF BURLINGTON, WIS. 
Dear Sir:— 
In compliance with your request, I will mention those fruits, 
and those only, wdiich we have pretty well tested. 
The trees have been planted from eight to ten years, and 
have done well in every respect. I omit some from the list, 
which “promise well,” for the reason that they have not been 
sufficiently proven, and some others also, that seemed right in 
every respect, until slightly affected by the winter of 1855 and 
1856. 
SUMMER APPLES. 
Carolina Red June, JEarly Harvest, Red Astrachan , 
Sweet June, Duchess of Oldenburg , Sops of Wine, Summer 
Queen. 
AUTUMN APPLES. 
Late Strawberry, Bailey Sweet, Fall Orange, Fameuse, 
Porter, Colvert, Yellow Ingistris, Maiden Blush. 
WINTER APPLES. 
Fnglish Cold Russet, Jonathan, Sivaar, Rawle’s Janet, 
Westfield Seek-no-further, Talman's Sweeting , Yellow Belle- 
flower, Pomme Crise, Hubbards ton Nonsuch. 
PRUNING. 
I do not pretend to be an expert, but my impression is, that 
after cutting out the small, stunted and dead branches, the less 
pruning the better. The best season for pruning is, I think, 
Feb. and March. 
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