Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-11
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Mltchell's Orchard and Nursery
Plant.

Last Thursday the editor of the
PLAIN DEALER and w. B. Webster of
the Republican, together visited the
nursery and orchards of j. B. Mitch
ell which cover nearly the plat of
former village of New Oregon, two
miles south from Cresco. Mr.. Nit
chell for more than quarter of CEN
tury has been in the nursery and or
chard business at New Oregon and
has devoted vast sums of money and
much valuable time in experiments to
test the hardness for both summer
and winter of the trees he propogates
and OF their fruiting properties both
as to quality and productiveness. The
Duchess is deemed the standard of
hardness in all the northwest and
yet in his experiments has found trees
among his Russians which will double
discount it beside giving fruit as large
and fair as that, with as fine a flavor
and with better keeping qualities.
His entire nursery stock is made up
from the varieties which have stood
the tests of hardness and good fruit
ing properties, as to quality. pro-
ductiveness, and their keeping quail
tiles as to summer fall and winter
apples. OF these choicely propogated
and carefully selected varieties he
now has forty-thonsand trees which
will be ready to transplant in the
coming spring. Among nearly all
nursery stock are varieties which
stand the winters and come out in
prime condition, but which blight in
summer thus destroying the value and
usefulness OF the tree. To guard
against these conditions Mr.. Mitchell
has worked assiduously with perfect
success in overcoming both. Among
his trees in the orchard we noticed
particularly wherever we came upon
the Lieby apple the tree was without
a blemish was loaded with apples as
large as full grown duchess, fine
shape, good quality and whose keep
ing season is to April, thus giving our
people an opportunity to provide their
winter fruit upon their own farms.
Mitchell's Red Warrior, so named by
Prof. j. l. Budd of the Iowa state
Agricultural college is another of the
trees hardy for both summer and
winter a profuse bearer, large size
and quality, aud in its season about
midwinter. For the early fall apple
he has varieties which he has thor
oughly tested for fruiting and for
adaptability of the tree to our climate
for both summer and winter. Of orna-
mental trees, evergreens shrubs and
plants he has large and varied assort-
ments and OF all the varieties of small
fruits. His stock of plums and cher
ries all hardy and tested he is we'll
supplied. A novelty was several
peach trees in fruit. If the farmers
who persist in saying apples can't be
grown in this county would only visit
his orchards, loaded with the choicest
of apples they would change their
song and try the orchard. In travel
ing over the county we come upon
farms which have been in cultivation
forty years and not tree because of
this belief that you can't raise apples
here. We also see many fine, young
orchards with plenty of apples, trees
healthy and vigorous and in nearly
every instance they came from Nit
chell's. Mr.. Mitchell has sent for an
exhibit at the coming state fair at Des
Moines, $50 varieties of apples grown
in his orchard at New Oregon.