Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-07-24
How 10 Select Orchard Trees that Will
not fail.

4ow 10 Select Orchard Trees that Will
not fail.
1t is conceded that fruit trees
which ripcned them wood last year
and are doing well at present can
not fail in the future, unless there
should happen seasons still more f4-
yorablo to late falI growth than that
Of IS65-lor no one doubts that the
late fail growth Of trees last year,
and immaturity Of wood and buds,
occasioned the destruction Of so
many orchard trees.
Tho winter following was not
harder than usual, nor The degroo ot
cold greater than that Of average
winters.
1t follows therefore that it was
not the cold reatJer but tho condition
trees were in at the onset Of winter
which made them yield.
The unripo condition Of trees in
The fall Of 1866 was accidental, or in
cidcnt to q warm September and
growth of wood out Of season, the
like Of which had not happened
since the year 1865, remembered rs
q like fatal epoch to that of 4 decade
thereafter.
We ere favored 10y Hon. j. b.
Dodge, who represents this section
IN furnishing the meteorological Re
ports for the National Agricultural
Department st Washington, with tbs
following statements of mean tenn
peratures during July, August and
September, 1865:
Average for July 20 l6 degrees
. August IS
F" September II "
First is days IN July 1866, 81 degrees.
The above report Of temperature
fer September in 1864, shows the
weather to have been favorable for a
vigorous growth Of trees at Il time,
when nature required IS a condition
to their existence that their sap
should be preparing their wood for
alternating during freezing weather.
Some trees, however, seedlings
and CRAFTS Of kinds now To be known
and distinguished for sure hardness
in future years, stood perfectly the
late winter and are now in perfect
health, showing conclusively that
such did not grow during the month
Of September 1865, but on the con
trary as forest trees prepared their
wood for winter during that month.
The following conclusions cannot
therefore be questioned
That trees Of kinds which failed
last year to ripcn their wood in con
sequence Of late fall growth, are I'M
safe for orchards in this country-a
like weather to that Of 1865 being
possible at some future period.
That grated trees of kinds'which
are doing we'll this year, not having
taken a late fall growth in Septcm-
Der 1865, must surely do we'll ever
aftcr-the late epoch having been the
most fatal EYER known in this coun-
try.
That scclling trees which stand
won uU tnis 'tffnc, having matnrcd
their wood last year, cannot fail
hencetorth and are therefore Of spa-
ciaf value for orchards.
That Nursery trees from milder
localities, not having been tested by
the severity Of last fall and winter,
are comparatively worthless here.
That fruit men may find %encQur-
agemcnt in the fact that there are
plenty Of varieties that are entirely
hardy ever under this last and seyc-
rest test.
And lastly, That the fruit inter
cstS Of Grant County must hence
forth be placed on a much more sure
and satisfactory basis than ever be-
fore, provided the people will dis
card all tender and doubtful trees
from abroad and plant only those
that have.bcen raised at homo and
exposed to all the yicissitudes Of
our climate and soil, both of which
seem at times to encourage unsea-
sonablc growing and fatality.