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STATE HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
came through, to all appearance as well as my crabs, by their side, and have 
done well through the summer. I cannot see but what the bark looks as 
bright as it does on the crabs. This year I plowed as near as I could, then 
forked around the trees and mulched again with old straw from the barn¬ 
yard, and planted the ground to potatoes. I have given them no protection 
this winter. Our climate here is different from what it is farther east. The 
winters are cold and dry with but little snow or rain. The summers are very 
warm. The thermometer ranges from 40 ® below to 100 ® above, with a 
very dry atmosphere. 
There are no apples raised here of any consequence. The most of the 
trees set in this vicinity came from New York, and have died out, until 
people have despaired, and given up in disgust; still, when they see trees 
bidding fair, they take courage, but they take hold carefully. Crab apples 
do finely, so do small fruits; and wild plums are in abundance. 
September 7, 2865. 
FEUITS IN WAUSHAEA COUNTY. 
BY HENKY FLOYD. 
* * * I came to my farm on the north bank of the Fox River, in 
the south-east corner of this county, fifteen years ago. I have on forty acres, 
eight or ten different kinds of soil, varying from a very light sand, with a 
clay subsoil, five feet below the surfaee, to stiff clay at the surface. I have a 
sandy loam, with clay subsoil from six to eighteen inches below the surface; 
also a rich marl quite sticky, with a subsoil of the same, from one to three 
feet deep, except being filled With gravel stones, this resting on a bed of 
pure gravel, and being the highest ground I have. The aspect is south-east and 
south-west. I have fruit trees on all the above varieties of soil, and find the 
English Golden Russett better adapted to light sandy soil than any other 
variety tried. I have but few varieties hardy enough to stand our coldest 
or hardest winters, without injury. 
The following lists are hardy enough to live, and have proved profitable 
with me. I name them in the order of their hardiness—all root grafted: 
Duchess of Oldenburg, Perry Russett, Red Astracham, Snow, ^Talman’s 
Sweet, Pomme Gris, Fall Orange, Lowell, St. Lawrence, Autumn Strawberry 
and Sops of Wine. The following are worked on the tops of hardy stocks: 
Westfield Seek-no-further, Yellow Bellflower, Calville Russet, Yandevere 
Pippin, Keswick Codling, Red Astrachan, Golden Sweet, Peck’s Pleasant, 
Summer Queen, Colvert, Mother, Ramsdell’s Sweet, Dominie,JPrimate, White 
Winter Pearman, Canada, Beauty of Kent and Baldwin. 
