FEUITS Iisr PIEECE COUNTY. 573 
the largest of them lived and are doing well yet. Those trees were from 
the Janesville nursery. The varieties are not known. 
Third. The leaves commence to curl and twist during the hot weather, 
and have lots of large and small ants on them during the summer months. 
Fourth. The trees turn black, with white spots on the bodies, and finally 
die. 
But this county is very productive of the best of wild fruit; the woods are 
full of wild plums, grapes, cherries and crab apples, all the finest of the kind 
I ever saw ; and it seems strange that tame fruits do no better than they do. 
Thousands of dollars have been paid out to get fruits into this county, mostly 
to nursies out of this state. Apple tree pedlers have canvassed every part 
of the county, and trees have been set out and died. 
FEUITS IN PIEECE COUNTY. 
BY M. D. PKOCTOR, FALL RIVER. 
* * * Agreeably to request, I give a statement of my experiment 
in fruit raising. In the spring of 1863, I bought of 0. Salisbury fifty stand¬ 
ard apple trees, three years old, set them the first of May in a wheat field, . 
twenty-five feet apart; the soil, a sandy loam, rolling enough to carry off 
the surface water. I dug the holes about three feet square and one and a 
half deep, and set them as near as they stood in the nursery as I could. I 
then mnlched them with straw and corn-fodder from the barnyard, and kept 
the weeds and wheat hoed up for three feet around them. Although the 
season was very dry they all lived with one exception, and made a fair 
growth, and were not watered at all. I set fifty more last may, which are 
doing well; and now have twenty-seven varieties. 
The location is midway betw'een the valley and hill top, with a northern 
and western exposure, where the north-west and south winds had a fair 
sweep on the east there; was a mound that broke the force of the east wind 
somewhat, but no timber. The land was prairie, broken in 185Y, and had 
been cropped with oats, corn and wheat, and bore good crops. 
I set the following varieties: Perry Russet, Winter Wine Sap, Jefferson 
County, Sweet June, Bailey’s Sweet, Astrachan, Washington, Duchess of Ol¬ 
denburg, Seek-no-further, Snow, Yellow Bellefleur, Rawle’s Janett, St. Law¬ 
rence, SAveet Pear, and Tallman’s Sweeting. They had no protection in the 
winter, except the mulch that was applied at planting, and came out all 
right, with the exception of the Washington, Bellefleur and St. Lawrence. 
They were injured in the limbs some, but have made a fair growth. The rest 
