The Dickinson press., 1884-12-06
FRUIT.BEARlNG TREES.
The kinds That will Thrive in Dakota.
Raise all Your Own Fruit and
BERRIES.

The kinds That will Thrive in Dakota.
Raise all Your Own Fruit and
Berries.
see = great many different ideas
in regard to trees that are suited to
North Dakota. With your permis.
sion would like to state little of
my experience with trees. have
found that there are only few varie.
ties of the apple family that will
thrive in Dakota, except the crab va
rieties. don't think there is any of
the crab varieties but what will
thrive and fruit we'll in North Dako.
ia, but of the large varities there are
but few. will enumerate few va
tieties which feel cofident will stand
our winters and fruit. First, Petrol
sky, a beautiful early apple. 1t is
small size, quite acid, flesh white;
Duchess of Gutenberg, a beautiful
fall apple. Then there is Wealthy
Rot Pippin, Elgin Beauty, Rol Russet,
Farmers Red Astrachan and few
others that may possibly stand our
winters. The plum seems to be at
home in Dakota, as all the streams
and lakes have plenty of wild plums
along their banks, where they have
been protected from the prairie fires.
am cultivating some three or four
varieties that have stood the winter
all right, but it will not do to plant
all kinds, but just the very hardest.
OF the cherry family, 1 think there
is not any that will stand our winter
unless it be the early Richmond, a
small acid variety, but they can be
kept by tying them up with hay or
straw, commencing at the bottom and
winding them clear to the top of the
tree, together with all the limbs. To
do this effectually it will be neces-
sary to bank up with manure after
the ground is frozen. This plan
should be followed OH all choice shade
trees or Towering shrubs. Ounce or
pear trees may be grown in this way,
but without that kind of protection
it would be useless to plant. Cur
rants and gooseberries will grow and
fruit here without much care, still
they will pay much better by giving
them good care. They either need
good cultivation or good mulching.
Let the mulch be six or seven inches
deep and then there will not be any
weeds, but should there be a few
force their way through the mulch it
will be easy to pull them up. There
is nothing to hinder every farmer
from having nice bed of strawber-
ries in his garden, but the strawberry
must have protection in winter. The
best plan is to cover them about six
or seven inches deep after the ground
is frozen. Straw is the best thing to
cover them with; would prefer rye
straw if it could be had. Grape vines
should be laid down and covered; also
raspberries and blackberries.
Now, in regard to evegreens, 1 find
the red cedar and European larch
class the best, but there are many
other varieties that will do we'll here
by giving them a little care the first
year or two. They should be planted
with other trees and group them SO
that one will protect the other. The
wind hurts the evergreen more than
the cold in this country. 1t is my
impression that the day will come
when the prairie will be covered with
most all kinds of trees. Every farm.
er will have nice grove around his
house and learn the kind of shade
tree adapted to this country. First
box elder and cottonwood, then the
ash family, white, green and mount
ain ash. The white birch does well
in this climate-as we'll as the bass
wood or linden, hard and soft naples
The soft maple freezes back the first
two or three years, but after it gets
aged it will do all right. The Rus
rian mulberry will be a failure in this
country as it will surely freeze back
every neutrality-suspicious. North
western Farmer.