348 State Horticultural Society. 



^^Orcharding" means in its broadest sense the growing of apple 

 orchards, pear orchards, peach, plum or cherry orchards in such quantities 

 as to make it a business for the person who undertakes it. The orchard- 

 ist should be a grower of all these fruits, so that he can supply his cus- 

 tomers with what they want and when they want it. He will have a 

 sufficient quantity of apples so that he can supply a firm with a lot of 

 apples every week during the winter, and, if possible, far into spring. 



Apple orcharding means then the growing of large quantities of 

 apples for the wholesale buyer, or the dealer, or the grocer, or the family, 

 or all combined. He wants then, first, a proper location, suitable soil, 

 the right climate in order to attempt the growing of apples in a com- 

 mercial way. In some vicinities you find the elevation above the sea 1,000 

 to 1,500 feet, and the correct location, where there are plenty of valleys 

 to draw off the cold air and protect the fruit from destruction by late 

 fro?t in spring or severe cold winter. 



Here you will find the suitable soil that gives the best of color, the 

 choicest in quality, the finest of texture and the greatest in quality of 

 any of our apples, of any place in all this broad land of ours. Missouri 

 offers untold advantages to the one who will go up and possess them. 

 Here you wall find the most desirable climate for the production of these 

 fruits in abundance, perfection and beauty. 



The elevation, the location, the soil, the climate, then, are what we 

 want, and if this soil of Missouri, that is so rich in all tree growth material, 

 in the iron that colors the fruit, in the potash that makes the wood, then 

 we need not fear to so locate, so plant, so cultivate and so gather of these 

 beautiful and pure and good fruits, that it will gladden the heart and 

 give health, and dollars will line the .pockets of the apple grower. 



What we will do individually may be to follow somewhat the plan 

 that we have always followed in all our business, a steady, earnest, continual 

 at it. To-day we find one thing succeeds best, to-morrcw another; this 

 year one variety or one class of fruits may be our success, another year 

 we may find that the same fruit or vegetable would prove a failure; to- 

 day proves one fact, to-morrow disproves it. Seven years ago I advised 

 a friend to plant out forty acres of apples and ten acres of peaches; last 

 year if his trees had all been peach, he said he should have made enough 

 to pay for the entire place. One year I had such a bountiful crop of 



