Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-01-15
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AS to Fruit Raising
A. Tracy Contributes an Article
on Hardy Fruits Adapted to
This Soil and Climate.

1t the request of the editor I am
ting a short article on hardy fruits.
b planting fruit trees of any kind.
small fruit it is necessary to get.
hardy varieties that will sstand;
! northeast South Dakota climate.
ess we do this, failure is almost
kahn. We know there has been
usan6s of dollars paid out for nur
stock that was too tender to
I'd our dry Winds or hard winter
szes. ! have often been asked
IRE is the best place to get trees.
will name a few nurseries that
e no agents and raise the stock
sell. | believe them to be hon
because / have dealt with them.
Dybyig Nursery, Cotton, S. D.;
Whiting Nursery, Yankton, S. d.
Quincy Nursery, Yankton, S. d.;
and's Nursery, Taylor's Falls, Min
ota; Madison Nursery, Madison,
n. Send for their catalogues.
he Duchess apple is hardy, but
ut the worst tree to sun scald.
lie young it should be shaded on
south side up to the limbs.
ibernal, Patten Greening, Wealthy
Anism have been perfectly hardy
me for the past eighteen years;
e of them from rs to 80 years.
re are other varieties that might
d the winters if well protected
windbreaks. There have been a
BIT many Northwestern Greening
lie trees sold in this county by
hts as being perfectly hardy. They
reported as not being hardy at
e state experimental farm.
rabapples are nearly all hardy, but
e of them are subject to leaf and
blight. The Florence is n OF
& best. Its fruit is similar to the
#ncendent in flavor and keeping
nifty, and is an early and prolific
S&Srer, and has shown no blight SO
whitney, a large crab and good eat.
81 apple, Greenwood, Sweet Russet
SfAr Sweet and Jenkins are all good
III free from blight. Z
sMhe Early Strawberry, a good apple
Hrs heavily but blights bad, so il
@a short-lived tree.
Virginia, a good late crabapple, 9
|Sher shy bearer until it gets large
A4nhe Greenwood crabapple. is the
AIiest to come into bearing. To
lint three year old three, it usually
Immences to bear the next year
pens August first. have all of the
Dove varieties growing on my farm
The first dozen apple trees plant
| was in the spring of 1881. There
now only one of these alive. Thai
a Duchess. The Hyslop and Tran.
,ndent soon blighted to death. Two
the Duchess sunscalded SO they
ed. The one left was SO heavily
AIDED with fruit last year that put
wen props under the limbs to keel
lem from breaking down No one
how many times over that one
zee has paid for the whole dozen
il the past % years in bearing. THAI
ozen trees cost three dollars and has
aid me better than money loaned
ut at SO per cent interest.
Plums-Nearly all varieties grown
/ South Dakota or Minnesota are
ardy, except the Wild Goose famil,
I plums, native of southern Iowa. The
cry is probably the largest plum O
lat group. Even if they live an6
ear fruit they ripen SO late that the,
ct frosted on the tree.
1HGGSSUld pun luPCAs dpouI oSp
is. Several times | have hat
lem freeze on the trees before they
ere fully ripe. They / a god plum
nd a great bearer. The Wolf, Yyant
i'd Forest Garden are good pIums
| think very much of the Hansen
lums, originated by Prof. Hansen a
bookings. You will make no mistake
getting any Of them that the cat
advertise.
Among the ~currants the Red Dutch
nd White Grape are hardy and grea'
carers every year.
OF Gooseberries the Houghton i
ardy and bears well.
The Sunbeam Raspberry Is hardy
eeds no winter protection, and is {
BOD bearer. n
The strawberries known as the Dun
and Bederwood are perfect bios
,med. The Warfield and Sample i'm
They should all be covered
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