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small; the hardiest in bud I know of; ripens August 28th to Sep- 

 tember 10th. 



Piquet's Late — 75 per cent, crop ; large yellow free stone ; one 

 of the best for canning; ripens September 10th to 30th. 



Heath Cling — 35 per cent, crop; very large pale yellow; one 

 of the best cling stone ; ripens September 20th to 30th. 



Salway — 95 per cent, crop ; large yellow free stone, red cheek ; 

 one of the best to ship with me ; most profitable late peach ; ripens 

 September 28th to October 15th. 



Ten other varieties too badly winter-killed to report. 



About 50 seedling peach trees; most of them had a full crop, 

 but too small. Would not pay expense for picking and market- 

 ing. I sold most of my peaches in berry crates, crates to be re- 

 turned. 



Peach buds in Southwest Missouri, Vernon county, 100 miles 

 south of Kansas City, are killed by cold about six years out of 

 thirteen, or that has been my observation the past 30 years. But 

 planting on high, well-drained land, varieties hardy in bud, is a 

 profitable investment. 



There is no better fertilizer for peach trees than wood ashes; 

 also nothing I ever found to keep borers and other insects from 

 the roots of trees and cause a uniform healthy growth better than 

 wood ashes. Tobacco, also, is valuable to put around the bodies 

 of fruit trees (but not in human mouth). 



I got from sawmills over 200 bushels of wood ashes, all that 

 I could get, which I will put around the bodies of peach trees as 

 soon as I think ground proper, as much as it will freeze. This will 

 keep frost in the ground and retard bloom five to twelve days. I 

 put one peck to half bushel to a tree, according to size of tree and 

 strength of ashes. In spring, when trees bloom, I hoe and rake this 

 mound of ashes from the trees. I use a four-prong potato diger, 

 prongs standing like a hoe. 



REPORT OF IOWA MEETING. 



(By H. S. Wayman, Princeton, Mo.) 



The forty-first annual meeting of the Iowa State Society was 

 held in the horticultural room in the capitol building at Des 

 Moines, December 11 to 13, 1906, with their usual attendance of 

 enthusiastic fruit growers, who brought with them, in addition to 



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