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one locality suited to all grapes/' as our friend Campbell, of Ohio, 

 has said. 



In conclusion let us hope and pray for more. favorable seasons 

 in the future, and with these, if we will persevere in our efforts, we 

 will also reap the reward of our labors. Every other branch of 

 industry has had, and every new branch will have its " ups and 

 downs." We cannot expect it otherwise in grape culture, but if we 

 sum up everything and profit by experience, I think we may look 

 forward to a bright future in this country for this noble and oldest 

 branch of- horticulture. 



EFFECTS OF SUMMER HEAT ON FRUIT CULTURE. 



. BY E. LISTON, VIRGIL CITY. 



This is the subject assigned to me for an article to be read on 

 this occasion. I do not feel myself able to the task of writing on a 

 subject so deep in science and will be very brief and will be appli- 

 cable to Southwest Missouri, and will be pincipally for the apple 

 because I have had more experience and have observed more closely 

 on the apple growing and because there are more people and money 

 in it than any other one kind of fruits. 



We observe that heat, drouth, soil, climate, neglect, or in any 

 manner disobeying the natural laws of vegetable life in tree, &c., 

 affects its products. 



If we understand those natural laws required by the tree and 

 plant and whenever they are absent supply them artificially we 

 then can hope for better results. 



In our section of country we can produce all common varieties 

 of fruits and on almost all kinds of soil. 



Although certain kinds of soil and certain kinds of frnits do 

 not adapt themselves together and the soil must be artificially put 

 in condition for the variety of fruit or else the- variety discarded. 



On some varieties of soil, heat and drouth affects the tree 

 much more than on others. 



A soil that is loamy, open, loose and always , dry either 

 naturally so or by under draining will show least effects by drouth 

 and heat. 



A soil right to the opposite of this, for instance a tight clay, 



