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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
'Consider them just the thing for gardens, where an assortment 
is wished for the season; bearing early. Grew several bushels 
the past season. The trees are low in form, and many tender 
varieties could be grown in this way, on account of the facilities 
for protection, which would be lost if planted in the ordinary 
mode of standards. 
FRUITS IN NORTHERN IOWA. 
BY D. W. ADAMS, WAUKON, IOWA. 
Alas for human weakness and expectations! Twelve months 
from the day of my first efforts in orchard planting; not one 
tree in twenty contained a spark of life. Exposure in transpor¬ 
tation, imperfect planting, drouth, and winter frosts and winds 
completed the work commenced by the murderous knife and 
spade in the nursery; and the poor, little, abused, murdered 
trees spread out their leafless, barkless branches, in silent, yet 
eloquent appeals to ignorant man for mercy. 
Not baffled by difficulties, the following season I was encour¬ 
aged to “try again,*' as here and there I discovered a tree 
which grew luxuriantly, and bore abundantly, the finest fruit; 
this led me to believe that ignorance had as much to do with 
our failures as unsuitableness of soil and climate; and a care¬ 
ful examination revealed the fact that the Spitzenburghs, 
Greenings and Rambos, were not to be relied upon, while the 
Tallman’s Sweeting, St. Lawrence, Golden Russet and Seek-no- 
further were always found to be in a good condition. Here 
was a beginning of tried friends, which, after a lapse of seve¬ 
ral years, I have been enabled to extend to the following sorts: 
For Summer .—Yellow Harvest, Red Astrachan, Early Joe, 
Sops of Wine. 
Fall. — St. Lawrence, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Strawberry, 
Augustine Sweet, Superb Sweet. 
Winter. —Golden Russet, Fameuse, Jonathan, Seek-no-fur¬ 
ther, Dutch Mignonne, Bailey Sweet, Rawles’ Janet, Tallman 
