The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-12-18

fruit is of inferior quality or the
trees are too tender
Following is a list of some of the
apples grown here at the present
time:
Early Harvest. Early Cotton. Red
Astrachan. Yellow Transparent, Red
June, Early Strawberry. Sweet Bough.
Minnetcnka, Pewauke, Longfield,
Spencer, Minkler. Grimes, Golden,
Family Favorite, York lmeprial, Nam
moth Black Twig, Snow, Coffelt,
Beauty. Aitkin, Ben Davis, Mann,
Rome Beauty, Maiden Blush, Gano.
Delaware Red, Wallbridge. Lowell.
Jonathan. Shackelford, Northern Spy,
Robbery Russell. Rhode Ilsand
Greening, MacMahon's White, Wine
sap. Sptzenburg, Northwest Green
ing. White Winter Permain, etc.
Besides the above mentioned va
rieties there are number of un-
knowns. the names of which will be
ascertained in the noar future. Sew
eral varieties of pears, among which
the Clapp's Favorite. Flemish
Beauty, Sheldon ana Bonnie are the
best known. and there are also sew
eral varieties Of excellent quality, the
names of which have not yet been as
| Marrellos are doing well and some Of
the Dukes are very promising. The
sweet cherries so far have not
amounted 10 great deal. No finer
plums are grown anywhere than in the
Flathead valley, and among the var
ieties fruiting here so far are the
| Bradshaw, Peach Plum, Ponds Seed
ling or Hungarian Prune, Lombard,
Moor's Arctic, Yellow Egg, German
| Prunn, Italian Prune, Green Gage,
Burbank, etc. OF these the Peach
Plum and the Bradshaw are the most
promising on account of their early
ripening.
! Peach culture has been looked upon
as impossible here by most people,
but a few fruit growers on the shores
of Flathead lake have been expert
menting considerably in the hope of
| finding some variety suited to this eli
mate A number of the earlier vari-
cites have been planted. and few
of them fruited last season, and as
far as season and quality of fruit
went they done everything that could
be asked for. How they will be for
hardness has not yet been determin-
ed as we have not had any severe
l int hn Wi and
1899, but the fruit growers on the
east shore of Flathead lake are conf
dent that they will find varieties of
peaches hardy enough for that local
ity, and of as fine quality in fruit as
any shipped in here. There will be a
number of peach trees planted next
season but that will only be a small
beginning of what the next few years
will see.
Some effort is being made in the
way of originating new varieties and
considering the few seedlings grown
cessrul. Mr. Paul Fehlberg Of Shell.
don has very promising apple seed
ling. Mr.. Charles Fredensburg OF
Moniford has some very fine pear
seedlings and Mrs. Byron Swim OF
Holt has some seeding apples of very
fine quality. There is no doubt but
that the future will see some native
seedlings here that will rank with oul
standard varieties of today. and per
haps some one will originate new
plum or peach that will surpass any
, thing we have here SO far.
Small fruits are doing exceptional
/ ly well and no place are there straw
berries that can surpass our Flatheat
, Strawberries, either in quality OF
l quantity Other small fruits do equal
~ as well and the Flathead currant
! wine is getting well known on &C
count of it's fine quality.
} SO far the fruit output of the vale!
; is very small and there will be man.
years before the home demand car
| be supplied. as the consumption o
. fruit is increasing all the time. If tn,
5 trees that were planted here during
9 the last ten years had been adapted
+ to this locality we would be CROWN,
e considerable fruit now, but as mos
:, of the trees planted up to the las
+ three years are producing fruit o
I very small commercial value. Their
/ will be a few years yet before Their
e will be very much home grown frui
: on our markets.
t The Flathead fruit growers hav
been getting it in the neck from tire
i jobbers and INSCRIPTIONS nurser
o men. and it is safe to say that $500
l. will not begin to cover the damag
t done to them on account of trees nc
t being true to name. 1t seems tina
If this has been the dupmping groun
y for all the Gull and surplus stocks G
o the nurseries. Some one will get on
/ a catalogue of nursery that exist
d principally on paper. buy carload c
d the kind of stock just mentioned frol
some nursery at from $50 to $40 pc
e 1000, sometimes less and. and sell a
d from $3.50 to 5000 per 1000. Whe