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FEUITS, &c., IN TKEMPEALEAU CO. 
growing of new sorts, but my advice is, to those who cannot afford it, “ don’t 
get bit.” I have passed through the mill and can speak from bitter expe¬ 
rience. 
To sum up, friends, let me advise all to plant fruits. Set out an orchard 
of hardy apples. * * Yes, plant them out, and by so doing leave a 
living monument to your children and children’s children ; and your satisfac¬ 
tion will be, that, as they grow up, they will enjoy the fruits of your labor and 
teach their children to call you blessed. 
February 3d, 1865. 
FRUITS, &c., IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY. 
BX B. WILCOX, TKEMPEALEAU, WIS. 
* * * This county extends from township 18 to 24 north, and ^ 
few miles back from the Mississippi river. The south part of the county is 
thought to be well adapted to many kinds of fruit. Here the wild plum, crab 
apple, grapes, raspberries, &c., grow. The people, not satisfied with these, 
have, with commendable zeal undertaken to raise nearly all kinds of cultiva¬ 
ted fruits, thought to be adapted to this latitue. Here can be found fruited 
the apple, plum, cherry, pear, grape and small fruits. The soil varies near 
the village. To the north is a sand prarie, while east and back from the 
river a mile or more, on the second table, is a strip from one-half to a mile in 
width of good soil, with a subsoil of gravel. This is thought to be one of 
the best fruit localities in our county or in the northwest part of our state. 
Here the grape, the pear, the plum, the apple, &c., are being cultivated to 
some eqtent, and with good prospects of success. The grapes were mostly 
killed to the ground last winter; this was thought to be occasioned rather by 
a hard frost in the fall on the immature vines than by the cold of winter, ex¬ 
treme as it was. The most careful cultivators mulch their trees, and throw 
earth about them in the fall, and cultivate the land in some hoed crop. It is 
difficult to report the kinds of apples and other fruits which promise best as 
the names are lost, and until they are in bearing it is not known what we 
have got. * * * Back of the before mentioned section, much 
of the country is rough and broken, with rich and fertile valleys. .At Gales- 
ville, the county seat, and eight miles from the river, the soil is good. Here 
also much is being done in fruit growing, and the trees in the gardens look 
very promising. 
Whortleberries.—A few miles north of this place, you come to the “huckle¬ 
berry ” region. And right here let me say that some who are not posted 
may be disposed to doubt what I may say; nevertheless, I will try to keep in 
the bounds of truth. In the northern part of this county, Jackson, &c. 
