398 State Horticultural Society. 



Brother F. Wellhouse has planted so largely of the Missouri Pippin, 

 and as it bears so young and so full and grows so straight, it makes a 

 good "filler" in alternate rows in close planting, yet I believe its days are 

 numbered. The Winesap stands No. i in color, in keeping, in bearing, 

 in flavor, but it is small potatoes, especially on upland, while down in 

 the Arkansas river bottoms they average away up. I measured one of 

 9 5-8 inches in circumference, and some planters, like the ^Missouri 

 farmer on Janets, the jayhawkers want Winesap straight, but friend 

 Lowmiller tells me on Missouri bluffs the Winesap has a tendency to 

 scab. Now, about Uncle Ben Davis. So much has been said pro and 

 con, and everybody is so well acquainted with him, why should I need 

 to introduce hmi, only to say he gets there, the great, big, red-cheeked 

 fellow. I have measured him twelve inches round the waist. 



What of the Jonathan? ]\Ir. Wellhouse says it is the biggest bearer 

 and the greatest money-maker of them all, but pick him and sell him ; he 

 will not keep, nor will he hang on the trees, though everybody likes 

 him. The Grimes' Golden, a fair bearer, a golden Pippin, an excellent 

 eater, but they say a short-lived tree and uncertain cropper. Mr. John 

 Alter, of Kansas, said he would rather raise Ben Davis at 40 cents than 

 Grimes' Golden at $1 per bushel. He said he could make more money. 

 Among the latter day apples we are getting acquainted with more and 

 more, are the GanO','York, Imperial, M. B. Twig and the Ingram. They 

 are making more friends every day, and while they need a few more 

 years' trial to be sure how well they wnll wear, they are winning golden 

 opinions right along. 



Where, oh, where, are the apples of ray childhood? The Russett, 

 the Greening, the Baldwin, the Belleflower, the Spy, the Canada Red, the 

 Fameuse, the Dominie, the Newtown Pippin, the Spitzenberg — winter 

 apples in the Eastern states — they are all fall apples here and drop off 

 and rot, and do not suit our Western climate, with its long, hot days, 

 continuing so far into the fall. 



Our best list for commercial orchards, according to the best author- 

 ities, are Ben Davis, Winesap, Jonathan, Gano, York Imperial. M. B. 

 Twig, Ingram, Grimes' Golden for winter apples, with Maiden Blush, 

 Lowell, Rambo, Bailey Sweet and Wealthy for fall, and Harvest, As- 

 trachan, Benoni, Cooper's Early, Yellow Transparent for summer. This 

 is our best list in my opinion. 



CULTIVATION. 



What of it? Begin early, say April, and keep it humming till 

 August. For a few years plant some cultured crop among the trees — 



