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WHAT TO PLANT, AND WHY PLANT IT. 



In canvassing this and adjoining neighborhoods in search of specimen fruits 

 for exhibition, we have noticed in nearly avery orchard a very large per cent of 

 trees that have never paid for the room they occupy. If they produce fruit at alU 

 it is so inferior as to pay neither the buyer nor seller, and yet tends to gorge and 

 spoil the market for good Iruit. The protitable fruits of the East often prove the 

 unprofitable fruits of the West, hence so many worthless kinds in the old orchards 

 and no blame to the planters, who had to plant just what they could get, and take 

 chances on their adaptability to our soil and climate, and we should profit by their 

 costly experimenting. But there are still thousands of dollars lost annually 

 around us as the result of bad selection when planting ; therefore, we feel the 

 importance of urging all to be more careful, and would be pleased to assist any in 

 making a judicious selection for this spring's planting, but in attempting to do so,, 

 several things must be considered: Are you planting for market? What have 

 you already planted ? 



APPLES . 



Were I planting a commercial orchard, I would plant 50 Yellow Transparent 

 as the best early apple ; 50 Duchess, 50 Chenango, 50 Maiden's Blush, 50 Grimes* 

 Golden, 250 Jonathan, 150 Rome Beauty, 1000 Black Twig, an improved Winesap. 

 { this is not the Mammoth Black Twig, but the Black Twig of Tennessee, or Para- 

 gon ) ; 100 Smith's Cider, 100 Willow Twig, 100 Minkler, 25 Milan, 25 White Winter 

 Pearmain, and 500 Ben Davis. 



1 plant summer and fall apples because everbody else is planting winter 

 apples exclusively, and by the time a new orchard comes into bearing there will 

 be a good demand for summer and fall apples. 



PEARS. 



Standard, 200 ; Kieffer, 200; Garber, 200; Anjou, 200 ;— Wilder's Early and 50 

 Comet ; of dwarf, 500 Seckel, 500 Duchesse. Kieflfer, Garber and Comet are hybrids^ 

 and nearly exempt from blight ; vigorous growers, productive, fruit large, attrac- 

 tive, and like the Ben Davis apple, will eell, though inferior in size. 



PEACHES. 



In peaches I would plant Alexander, Stump, Old MixonFree and Health Clingy 

 just as many as would cleverly fill up my fence corners. 



CHERRIES. 



My cherries would be 25 Dyehouee, 50 Montmorency, ordinary, and 50 Wray^ 



PLUMS . 



Of plums, 500 Abundance, tree vigorous grower, exceedingly productive, fruit 

 purple, very large, delicious, and ripens early; 200 Forest Rose, 25 Spalding, 2.> 

 Wolf, 25 Pottawatomie. 



APBICOT.S, PRUNES, ETC. 



Having tried apricots, prunes, quinces and nectarines, and failed, I would 

 plant very few if any of them. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Of gooseberries, 1000 Champion, 500 Downing. 



CURRANTS. 



Of currants, 2000 Fay's Prolific, 1000 Crandal. 



