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SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 161 



June meeting of the Marshall County Horticultural ^ocietj that are 

 very promising. They both seem to be especially adapted to canning, 

 an enterprise that the strawberry growers of Lacon and vicinity are 

 greatly interested in at this time. 



There are several valuable varieties of apples, for the commer- 

 cial orchard, sucli as Red Astrachan, for summer, Maiden's Blush, 

 for autumn, and Solome, Roman Stem and Willow Twig, for winter. 

 However, the three best varieties for the commercial orchard, are the 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, for summer, — its time is July and August -- 

 of RussiaD origin. The Fameuse or Snow, for fall, — its time is 

 September, October and November — of Canadian origin. The Hen- 

 nepin is the coming apple for winter. It is a seedling of the Yellow 

 Bellflower, supposed to have been pollenized with Ben Davis. It 

 combines the following points, viz: — size, style, quality, long keep- 

 ing, great bearer, hardy tree, and a very rapid grower, both in the 

 nursery and orchard — more leading points combined in the same 

 appl^ than any other that has yet come before the Americaa people. 

 The Hennepin is a native of Northern Illinois. Its time is from 

 December to June. The above named three varieties for the com- 

 mercial orchard, will carry us around the entire year in Northern or 

 Central Illinois, or throughout the entire great Northwest. 



Plant thirty per cent, of the orchard to summer; ten per coat, 

 to fall and sixty per cent, to winter, is the best advice your humble 

 servant can give to the apple growers of this great and growing 

 country, which is seemingly but in its infancy yet. 



Wishing the Illinois Central Society a good meeting, and hop- 

 ing that you in your wisdom, will think best to accept of the invi- 

 tation that our local society sends by our worthy City Mayor, Gr. W. 

 E. Cook, to meet with us one year hence. Then you can see our 

 canning factory in operation, and many other things of interest. 



0R(:HAKDS in CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 

 BT W. H. GREENE, BUSHNELL. 



A tree of beauty is a* joy forever, and especially one laden with 

 bloom or luscious fruit. I have stood in the orange grftves of the 

 South, and from the golden trees picked the luscious fruit, and have 

 seen the fragrant orange blossom; but in no land or climate can 

 anything be found to equal the apple orchards of our Middle and 

 Northern States in beautiful bloom, when, in spring time the air, 

 laden w^ith the sweetest odors, sweeps over prairie and woodland, 

 sweeter than the spicy breezes of the famed East Indies. 



There is nothing more beautiful than the bright and fragrant 

 bloom of an apple orchard. And what is more magnificent than the 

 crimson or golden fruit, so delicious and wholesome? We love a 



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