The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
HORTICULTURAL.
What Kinds of Fruit to Plant.
ty horticultural Soefotv Han 2R

or for the market, What kinds of fruit
shall plantT'
1t is practically impossible to give an
idea of the loss from planting unsuitable
varieties, but there is no question but the
figures will amount TO hundreds ofthous-
ands of dollars and still the work goes
on, and every recurring season sees thous-
ands of trees planted which had better,
much better, be consigned to the brush
heap and burned, and the time, patience
and ultimate chagrin and disappoint-
ment saved, when the owner finds that
the tree will not live, or fails to bear, or
the fruit is of little or no value, and that
the same, or perhaps a less outlay, would
have secured remunerative crops of fruit.
The same regarding shade and orna-
mental trees. Arborvites, spruces and frs
in evergreens, soft maple, magnOlias,
chestnuts, mountain ash, and other kinds
Of the eastern states, have been tried over
and over again, only to result in failure
At this time it is the subject of fruit-trees
that we are TO consider, and the varieties
which may be planted with a prospect
of success.
One of the first essentials to this end is
to get trees of the right sort, as we'll as
in the proper condition. There is moth
ing more annoying than to spend six or
eight years of valuable time in caring for
a tree, and when the anxiously looked
for fruit appears, to find it some poor, in
significant variety, every way inferior to,
and different from, what it was bought
for. This is one of the most common re-
suits of buying trees of the peripatetic
tree-peddler who comes from some other
state, goes through the neghborhood,
gulls the people into giving him an order
for something which he tells them is
thus and so, and gulls them again by
giving them anything he pleases for
what they signed, all carefully labelled,
of course, pockets his money and that is
the end of him. If the tree grows, few
years must elapse ere the buyer can tell
whether he got what he wanted or not.
There is scarcely an orchard but what
tells the story Of disappointment in trees
not being true to name"
The travelling correspondent of the Kan
sas Farmer, short time since, wrote as
follows regarding this matter of buying
trees:
Farmers, beware of the men who are
selling grapevines by sample bunch of
dollhouse grapes, claiming them to be
the Salem. lately saw bunch of these
grapes that a tree-peddler was using. 1t
would weigh at least ten pounds. 1t
was about twelve inches long and six in
ches in diameter, and kept in alcohol.
This tree-fraud was exhibiting this bunch
OF dollhouse grapes as the salem ~
While the Salem is fair grape, yet it is
not so good as the Concord in this state,
and never grows a heavier bunch than
the Concord.
The charge for this new( y variety was
only three dollars apiece, and they sold
readily to the inspecting farmers.
If you must buy your trees out of the
state, send direct to the nursery for them,
and not patroniZe this dishonest tribe of
tree peddlers, 1t is better, however, to
always buy your trees as near home as
possible. While the best kinds of grape
vines can be bought for fifteen dollars
per thousand, it is not good economy, to
say the least, to pay one-fOurth of this
amount for one single grape-root, from
an unreliable tree-peddler.
And this reminds me af q plan prac-
ticed by the members of a grange in Mar
shall county. They send for catalogue
of reliable nurserymen, select their kinds
and club their order, and by this means
get trees and plants without the aid of
this unnecessary middleman-the tree
peddler. If your order is large enough,
and always accompanied with the cash,
you can buy just as cheap as the tree
peddler
In selecting this list follow strictly the
list as recommended by the State Horti-
cultural Society. Be sure also to get
but a few kinds, for 1t is better to get
fifty trees all of one kind, than
fifty trees all of one kind each. ] be-
lieve that not less than one hundred
thousand dollars a year could have been
saved in the last five years by the farm
ers of this State, if in their selections
of nursery stock they had been govern
ed by the list of this society in preference
to that given by the ordinary travelling
tree-peddler."
The State Horticultural Society has
made available the combined experience
of nearly all the most extensive growers of
the State, and this experience may GER
tainly be relied on to produce success
full results. --as
Prof III. E. VanDeman, of the Kan
sas State Agricultural college, in a late
communication to the same paper says:
The following list of fruit is copied
from the lief V1EHhlialsad ~, =
the Kansas Horticultural Society for
1877, and is compiled from the carefully
studied votes of seVenty-three of the most
experienced fruitgrowers of the state:
Best five summer apples named in or
der OF their worth: Early Harvest, Caro-
lima Red June, Red Astrachan, Early
PennOck, Am. Summer Pearmain.
Five best fall arieties-Maiden's
Blush, Rambo, Lowell, Fameuse, Fall
Wine.
Ten best winter varieties -Winesap,
Ben Davis, Jonathan, Rawle's Genet, w.
w: Pearmain, Missouri Pipin, Willow
twig, Rome Beauty, Gilpin, Domino.
Ten best peaches IN order of ripening.
Alexander, Amsden, Hale's Early,
Troth's Early Red, Large Early York,
Grawford's Early, Old Nixon Free,
Stump the World, Crawford's Late,
Heath's Cling.
The curculiO destroys the plum here.
and there is no use bothering with the
old and finer sorts like Damson, Green
Gage, ETC., but the common wild or Chich-
asaw family affords the only profitable
kinds. of those generally tested, the
Wild Goose and Miner are the two best.
As to pears.-Set but few and do not
enrich them too much. Standards are
the most reliable. The best of these are,
Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Clafas Favor
lite, Belle Lucrative, Seckel, Sheldon,
Lawrence. If dwarfs are wanted plant
Duchesse d. Angouleure, Louise Bon de
Jersey, Vicar of WINFIELD and Buffum.
Early Richmond and all other varie
ties of the MOrello cherry family, will do
well here, but failure in a few years is
sure to follow the setting of Yellow Span
ish, Gov. Wood, Black Tartarian and all
of the sweet cherries.
As to grapes, plant nenety-nine Con-
cord, and pay two dollars to some trav-
cling agent for one of some other kind
Ito make cOntrast), it matters not what.
Kittatinny is by far the best bIackber-
~ known.
Among raspberries, Mammoth Cluster
and Miami (some claim they are the
same) and Doolittle are the best. Spend
no time with red raspberries.
Plant a few currents on the north side
of stone fence or other protection and
you may succeed, if well mulched.
HoughtOn Seeding is the best and the