Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-24
HORTICULTUItE.
A Subject of Great Interest to Southern
Dakota.

a Subject of Great Interest to Southern
Dakota.
L. De Bell in The Dakota Farmer.
What shall we plantr In horticul-
ture, perhaps more than in any other
pursuit, are special qualifications and
methods eXacted, and the richest re-
wards are to those who use practical
energy and good Judgment. Soil and
climate are SO variable in different sec
tlons that what succeeds best in one
locality may be totally unfit for another.
We see this practically demonstrated
in the first attempts at fruit raising in
the west. People who emigrated from
the east were wont to send back their
orders for trees, etc, to eastern nurse
ries for the best varieties in that sec
ton, which resultad in failure in nearly
every instance SO far as the larger
fruits We're concerned; but SO enter
prising people were not to be deprived
OF fruit, and as result of their labors
in raising hardy seedlings, Russians,
Siberians and hybrids; young. thrifty,
bearing orchards are springing up all
through the west, yet the field that is
open for the raising, testing and expert
menting of new varieties of trees and
plants adapted to the northwest, is
broad enough to satisfy the most ambi-
ticus; in fact, to broad for individual
enterprise to cope successfully, and it
is to be hoped that the matter of estab
fishing an experimental department in
connection with the agricultural college
at Brookings, similar to the one estab-
llshed at the agricultural college at
Ames, Iowa. may b. brought before
the next legislature. In the meantime
every one who owns an acre of ground
or a town lot, should plant out those
hardy tested varieties which are known
to succeed here, and will probably do
well in nearly all parts Of southern Da-
kota. In the following list we will
name those sorts that we have found
from experience and observation to be
hardy and reliable, and will give to the
planter excellent returns: Apples
Wealthy, Duchess, Tetofski, also Nc
Mahan and Wolf River; new sorts not
so well tested, but believed to be fully
as hardy and reliable. Siberians--
Transcendent, Hyslop, Whitney No. 20,
Lake Winter, Lookey Winter, Sweet
Russet, and some others are all per-
fectly hardy, and for many purposes
are superior to the larger apples. Cher
ries-Early Richmond. Plums-Miner,
De Sofa. Currants Red Dutch, Victo-
ria. White Grape; the new Fay's Pro-
llfic is undoubtedly far ahead of all.
Gooseberries -Houghton and Downing.
Raspberries-Turner for Red, Deolittle
and Gregg for black. Strawberries
We put the Crescent Seeding ahead Of
all, but being pistilate, requires a good
fertilizing sort with it, for which there
is nothing better than the Charles
Downing; to extend the season plant
Sharpless, Miner, Piper, Sucker State;
the Wilson is not reliable here. Grapes
Worden and Concord.
The above are standard varieties and
are sold mt 25 to 30 cents each for apple
trees. less for large quantities, and
other things in proportion; but the tree
agent will charge you from 80 cents to
Sl.0o a tree, which is IL perfect swlndle.
and the chances are you will not get
what yon order; in fact, any person
who is thoroughly posted will never
give one an order. In all parts of the
northwest. spring is by far the bsst
time to plant out trees and plants of all
kinds. AT this season the soil, the
weather and the plant are in the best
condition for the immediate taking root
and growing, and by fall will he well
rooted and strong, able to Withstand
the winter, while. if set in the fall, they
do not become established sufficiently