Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-31
Fruit Tree Planting IN Dakota.
cnArgEk II.

Why we We're So certain that fruits sniff
Gently hardy to succeed III j bart of
dlskota have been fonnd.y About twen-
ty.stx years ago tire Dpehess ef Olden
burg apple was introduced into Wiscop4
SIN pr Judge r. NJ. Black Of Baraboo, and
At soofi took les place as the standard 81.
hardness, which ii has held to this time.
NeAesssrtaiued that it originated ia
Russia, and cur eyes and ears were open
TO see and bear anything and ling
pertaining to the home Of such d hardy
fruit. About this time DIR. Robinson If
~. Paul wrote about the fruits ofinterior
Russta IN which he stated that immense
quaatities Of exceIlent apples we're grown
on those t~reeless steppes. beyond the in
hueRce ofany considerable bodies of VAT
en- and 800 to aaee00 raiies farther ssortts tE;aa
cur native fruits would succeed III tf.e
United states, We felt that the. hardy
trees from such a locality must succeed
anywhere ia the United States and M
der nearly the most trying circumstances.
Hon. Casius NJ. Clay was American Min
lister to Russia at that time. We wrofe
him & long letter stating our desire to test
some Of tie apples of Russia. IIa wrote
Q very nice letter in whieh he stated that
he had sent us some scions, which we re-
ceiyed shortly after. In 1870, several
htuidred varieties Of the apples or ussia
were sent to this government, and planted
inS.e experimental gardens at Washing
tor, seions from which were. lew dis
tributed III ssEa MobEaiued 4 small
beginning III 10 varieties, and hsye been
testing them since with the most satisfac-
tory results. Some varieties are Of but
little yaiae aside from their hardness,
while others are of fine size, color and
quality, with i promise 81 gf5as ae.s
iveness. 1t was our great desire til visit
Russia, but the lack of funds, and d hack
of interest in the subject by our State
Ifosticilturists prevented. Tn 1880 Cilas.
Gibb secretary fthe Montreal Iforticul-
talral Society, and Prof Buadof the Iowa
gRl8ultnxl EolIeees spent The spmmer
sad paTt "a ie III Russia 4Ai Ger.
ii
They found she most exfsfSiss cotisSier
cial orchards on the globe. hundreds of
inland and In ssch b climate as
would be the death Of anything among
our native fruits. Mr.. Glib Of Quebec
says; TN Russia We End fruit cultivated
largely in climates where the, conditions
Of extreme cold. dryness of ak, and scan
ty ~raiafall are greatly intensified. In tie
government Of Easau. above latitude 5sy
where the winter temperature 10 Eve de-
grees lower than iii the city Of Quebec,
the rainfall a good deal less than onc-half,
the evaporation Is great, we find apple
growing a great commercial industry. THE
industry, i'll fact, in twelve peasant viii
lagos. This is is the coolest profitable
orchard region Of the void. lntfle gov
1 nneilt Of yladimor, a climate scarcely
iilfereat from that of Kasau, the cherry
is grown in vast quantity and shipped by
the carload. At Simbirsk on the Volga,
ii Latitude 81, a climate just like Kassu,
q degree less cold ard abont n inch less
rainfall, we find the pear grown in vast
quantity though only ofsecond rate qliai-
ity. at ,~saratof, on the Nolga, in latitude
81, where the winter temperature IS but
one degree nilder than Quebec, we find
very large orchards, one Of 12,0C0 trees
A rear orchard, too, that the mercury at
times became solid Pro-. ltudd OF Iowa
Agricultural College, in his report, zorro
the above. These gentlemen
speak Of entire communities in tits cod
az RUS ia. whose sole business i
the growing and shipping Of fruit. send
ing out apples and even cherries from
Of those large commercial orchards
81 The carload. All reports from THAI
,ount speak Of TIC cd trees, whose
mbs aad With fruit almost every year
Trees appear healthy. Orchards, q ma
ortiz or whose trses have stem mo g thsa
,00 of those terrible winters We believe
nc. 80 statements, and If true. is there MT
certainty ii success in orchard growing
Dasott? Some may say those fruits
a,e small, and inferior. Is the Duchess
IF Oldenburg q seall and inferior apple
Of the new Russians excel tae
Iynches4. III size, beauty ard quality.
rheee Rassian fruits caa.e ftem aartheri,
china hundreds of years ago, and have
nden improved ~ he .afeiei experts 9 |
.g,insse horticulture, for may be Q
thorSand years, before Russia became
! ware oftheir extreme hardiness. II u