n'4 Stale liorticiiltural Society. 



President Murray. — Hon. Silas Wilson of Iowa will please come 

 forward and tell us about a list of varieties for North Missouri. 



Mr. Wilson. — Gentlemen of the Missouri Horticultural Society : I 

 assure you that it affords me a very great deal of pleasure to be here 

 and enjoy these discussions. When you had the subject of cultivation 

 of orchards under discussion this morning, it was to me the most im- 

 portant that I have heard, and I will venture the assertion the most 

 important that you will have during this session. It means more to the 

 apple growers of this region than any other subject that you will dis- 

 cuss, in my judgment. It is the same old subject that we have dis- 

 cussed for years up further north, and as this gentleman over here said, 

 I cannot call his name — the best thing is to apply good common sense 

 to the conditions that prevail in that particular locality, that is the best 

 thing I have heard said. 



Now this cultivation of orchards in Iowa has been a great question 

 with us. We have discussed it as you have here, but we have a great 

 many careful men there who studied the conditions and have mastered 

 the question very successfully, just as you have done here. I see no 

 difference. 



Now in regard to varieties for Western lovv^a or Southwestern Iowa. 

 I think about the same varieties that succeed in North Missouri succeed 

 well with us. We, of course, plant the Ben Davis, though we are not 

 in love with it very much, for home use. We don't grow apples in 

 commercial quantities there as you do here. Then we recommend 

 Jonathan, Grimes Golden, the Winesap ; they do very well in South- 

 western Iowa. A thoroughly profitable variety, the Rail's Jeanette or 

 Jenetan would be if it was not so small. We are very hopeful that the 

 Ingram will later on be valuable to us. I am inclined to think that it 

 will. 



A question : What do you raise for summer apples ? 



We grow a great abundance of summer apples. We grow Maiden 

 Blush, Red June, Duchess and the Utters Red. Most all those apples 

 succeed fairly well, but that is not much of a consideration with us — 

 summer apples. They are generally so plentiful with us that there is 

 no market. 



Now the York Imperial we are testing somewhat, but we have 

 not had experience enough to form an opinion as to its value as far 

 north as Southwestern Iowa. It has been grown in a limited w^ay in 

 some of the southwestern counties in Iowa, but we don't know very 

 much of it yet. 



Now, Mr. President, I want to call your attention to the advances 

 that we have made in Horticulture further north. Twenty-five and 



