Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-10
Vol. XIV, NO. 7si-- SKINS F VOL TX. No. II.

live, large, excellent. Dee. 10 Nay.
II. Red spreading, very
. productive, small, fair. mild Jan. 10
4 June.
Second, For general cultivation.
Systematically Ryd, Red Astrachan,
/ Sweet juno.
] FALL. Fan Stripe, Cranberry, Adams
Sweet, Fall Ni4esap, jersey Sweet, SWEET
/ Pear, St. Lawrence, taluesl9e.
MlNysa.- Fameuse, Mestheid Seekno-
further Spy, Wanderers, yellow Bellfow-
Ter, White Gilliilower, Black F&udoyere,
Willow T@ig, Eng Golden Russell, Perry
Russell, r. Jannett, Red Romantic, Tai
NAN ard Campbell for baking and stock.
Thjrd, OF those varieties which have
1 proved tender, ahd should he set only IN
! cool, airy locations, aid then moderately,
/ Early Harvest, Summon Queen, Sweet
}ough, Summer Golden Sweet, Fall Pip
pin, Hawiey, Maiden's Blush, Belmont,
Baldwin, English Rnssett, Ranbo, Rox.
kassett, Rhode Island Gfeeuing.
These lists are not supposed to be COM.
pete, for there are many new varieties
which are proving hardy and line.
We would present the following sug4
gestions Gu pruniug, for the consideration
fo.t every beginner.
Isl. Cut away only such as seems nee
essaly to give form or equahze the flow of
sap, having in mind that the true form Of
q fuit-bearing Tree, is low branched,
stoeky, self-supi orting.
I'd. Ia taking away 8 whole limb, cut
T.
at t lie ouC edge Of the shoulder at the base,
ard never close 10 the main branch or
body.
Sd. Ten days before the Fow of sap in
spring, is the best time for heavy pruning;
midsummer pruning is preferable to that
| of May All wounds made while the sap
is flowing freely, should be covered with
composition applied hot.
4th. These rules do not strictly apply
20 trees newly tfansplaned, which require
the loss Of top in proportion to that of root,
and being dormant for some time, will not
often diced from fresh eats.
j. c. PLUMB,
Lake Mills March ., 1888.
MassRs EDrons The business Of
fruit growing in Wis ohsin is surrounded
with many difficulties, aud viii require the
combined experience aud intellect of tho
State for years, to cleanup those difficult
lies and render the fruit business compare
lively SAFE Yet believe that apples, at
least, can and will be successfully grown
here. 1t may take fifty years to find out
the varieties and the modes Of culture a.
dapted to this climate.
All y i'll notice that we have very Pc
culiar climate. For three months in the
summer the winds sweep up the Valley Of
the Mississippi River, from the Gulf of
Mexico, and give Us almost tropical cli-
mate, which together with our rich soil
produce rapid aud Succulent growth of
new wood, which is very pooly calculated
to withstand the three months OF arctic
winter winds, which for the same reason,
that there are no mountains to ebstruct
them, sweep up rhe valley of McKenzie's
River and across the low lands about the
Lake ofthe Woods, and give us almost an
arctic climate. So the productions, as it
were, of the Genial South, are obliged to
~iuter III the cod embrace Of the frigid
zone.
The frst thing then is to find a plant or
4 tree that will bean the extremes of heat
and cold Such varieties are never plenty,
ana | believe our best fruits are yet to or
ignate among US.
| have tested about two hundred varie-
ties of Eastern and Southern fruits and
find The following siuda worthy Of further
trial.
AppLEs-Y yllog Harvest, Sweet June,
Early Pennock, st. Lawrence, Famuse,
1 Fall Winesap, Golden Russell, Tallman
Sweet, RaNlcs ,Jannett and Red Romantic.
presume there are othergood kinds which
have never tested.
PEARs-Tbe Flemish Beautyis the only
kind that has stood the climate for thelast
three years, aud have sanguine hopes of
its s. cess.
/ CnERaIEs-I have no hopes Of them ex-
Iccpt the low spreading Morello. 81
PLuMs- Set them out; If we have q
run of five such winters as the present,you
will get paid for your trouble. No great
difference in varieties about standing the
! winter.
You can RAJ any amount of small
fruits. Get good varieties. and give them
as good cultivation as you do your corn.
Some prefer setting seedlings, but this
IS unnecessary further thanto originate new
varieties adapted to our climate for we al
ready have some grated fruit as hardy as
40 average lot Of seedlings Low head
led trees are preferable for reasons oft sta,
ted.
One word about root and stock grating.
i think there is more objection to the kind
/ IF roofs commonly used in root grating
| than IN the position Of the scion. fla va
/ riety is constitutioaally tender, you cannot
4 make il hardy By grating it high up, even
IF YOU should place the scion one hundred
feet from the ground.
There Is not room here to discuss the
Equeslion Of soils, exposure and cultivation.
i ''ou will see have barely gwen a hint
IN relation to the topics ! have mentioned!
+ Eastern fruit books are oil very little