History of Winneshiek and Allamakee counties, Iowa . to give up the attempt. There were a few, however, indifferent portions of the county, who believed that with judiciousselection and management the apple would be made a success, andabout 1855 and 1856 there were numerous nucseries established,nearly every one of which proved failures. Among those whoentered this branch of horticulture was D. W. Adams, who estab-lished a nursery at Waukon in 1856, and persevering year afteryear, casting aside as worthless such varieties as winter-killed andpropagating only such as readily became acclimated,
History of Winneshiek and Allamakee counties, Iowa . to give up the attempt. There were a few, however, indifferent portions of the county, who believed that with judiciousselection and management the apple would be made a success, andabout 1855 and 1856 there were numerous nucseries established,nearly every one of which proved failures. Among those whoentered this branch of horticulture was D. W. Adams, who estab-lished a nursery at Waukon in 1856, and persevering year afteryear, casting aside as worthless such varieties as winter-killed andpropagating only such as readily became acclimated, he succeededin establishing the fact that some of the best apples in the coun-try can be easily grown in this region. He to-day has forty acresof bearing orchard, probably as fine as any in the Northwest,which has yielded as high as 2,000 bushels per annum. Through-out the county, too, are many orchards in bearing, supplied withthe varieties which have proven themselves well adapted to thisclimate—some of them seedlings of remarkable ^ I
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