FRUIT-GROWERS’ REPORT. 
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Sweet, Yinesap, Lady, Winter Swaar, Herefordshire Pear- 
main, Yellow Bellflower, Malcarle. 
My list is short, but I have tried them severely. The above 
are all that I can recommend from an orchard containing 
upwards of 100 varieties. With the exception of an early 
sweet apple, they contain an assortment of apples that should 
satisfy any reasonable man — keeping through the whole year, 
early and late, sweet and sour, large and small, and all good 
enough. 
With pears I have had less experience, yet I have found, as 
far as tried, the following varieties hardy in the following order: 
Flemish Beauty, Belle Lucrative, Beurre d’Anjou, Winter 
Nellis, White Doyenne. 
Plums—I work altogether on the wild stock, and find Green 
Gage, Smith’s Orleans, Coes’ Golden Drop, Adams, Bradshaw, 
Purple Egg, and some others hardy and thrifty. 
Cherries on Mahaleb stocks of Dukes and Morello classes, 
prove hardy. 
Trees of every variety must be formed with low tops for the 
prairies—not of so great consequence in the timber—and in 
our light, friable soil, always mulched when planted. 
FRUIT CULTURE IN MINNESOTA. 
BY L. M. FORD, ST. PAUL. 
After an experience of some ten years in the growing of 
fruit and fruit trees, I have come to the conclusion, that for 
general purposes, our common varieties of apples, pears, plums, 
and cherries, are not adapted to the soil and climate of Min¬ 
nesota. We are forced to this conclusion, however unpleasant 
it may be on our part; but w r e are constrained, from the force 
of circumstances, to make the statement which we believe to 
be correct. Nor do we believe that this rule applies to our 
State alone; one-half of Wisconsin, the western portion of 
