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first cuts, or sections of the root, and have grown quite as 
rapidly. 
I have lost nothing from damage at the root, since the winter 
referred to. 
Francis Drake. 
January, 1860. 
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FRUIT GROWERS. 
BY JOHN TOWNLEY, OE MOUNDVILLE, MARQUETTE CO. 
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Dear Sir: I willingly comply with your request, to send 
you a list of the fruit I have tried here, with the results ob¬ 
tained. My experience as a fruit-grower in Wisconsin, is but 
limited; and commenced, moreover, under circumstances not 
very favorable for arriving at satisfactory conclusions. With 
the Horticulturist, Albany Cultivator , and Eastern Catalogues 
for my guides, I made my first purchase, and, of course selec¬ 
ted varieties, on account of their Eastern reputation; but any 
one acquainted with the history of popular varieties of fruit 
in this or other countries, might have been sure beforehand, 
that many highly esteemed kinds, perfectly well adapted to 
some of the Eastern States, would be likely to prove worthless 
when tried here, and such proves to be the case. 
My trees were bought in the fall of 1851, from Col. Renj. 
Hodge, of Buffalo, N. Y., and they certainly did credit to his 
nursery; they were addressed to the care of a valued friend in 
Milwaukee, but owing to the length of time it took a letter to 
reach me, and also, to some mismanagement of my own, I did 
not get the trees in the fall, as I had intended. When my land 
was thawed out in the spring, I went to Milwaukee for them, 
