This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
J. G. Brayton, the horticultural editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, writes to the Ohio Farmer from Altaian Nurseries, Wisconsin, May 28: -
"The following varieties of the cherry and other fruits, have endured the cold of the past winter, nearly in the order in which the names of the several species are written: -
Early Purple, Guigne, Cleveland Bigarreau, Florence, Elton, Downer's late Red, Gov. Wood, Holland Bigarreau. Next to these. Knight's Early Black, and Black Tartarian. All .others are killed down, of the Heart and Bigarreau classes.
Nearly all killed down; White and Red Magnum Bontuns, and Smith's Orleans, form the exceptions.
Onondaga, Flemish Beauty, Virgalieu, Oswego Beurre, Stevens' Genesee, Doyenne d'Ete, Duchess d'Angouleme, Sisson, and Seckel. Nearly all others killed.
Those that were uninjured are: Early Pennock, Fall Stripe, Autumn Swaar, Fall Wine Sap, Fameuse, or Snow Apple, Fulton Strawberry, Fall Orange, Sweet June, Vance's Harvest, Sops of Wine, Lowell, or Tallow, Red Gilliflower, Rosseau, St. Lawrence, Sweet Pear, Utter's Large, Belleflower Yellow, Baily Sweet, Blue' Pearmain, Black Vandevere, English Russet, Perry Russet, Red Spitzenburgh, Rawle's Jennet, Herefordshire Pearmain, Talman's Sweet, White Winter Pearmain, Westfield Seek-no-further, Wine-sap".
 
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