282 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Vou can plant your apple orchard, and in six or seven years gather 

 good crops of luscious fruit, and this without the aid of manure of any 

 kind; while we must wait at least ten years, and be at the expense 

 of buying fertilizers with which to feed our trees; else we must wait 

 still longer before we can eat the fruit of our labors. 



The apple there, as well as here, is grown more than any other kind 

 or fruit. In variety your apples differ from ours; with the exception of 

 summer varieties, which are nearly the same. Our best fall apples are, 

 Congress, Fall Pippin. Gravenstein and Porters. The first is an old local 

 variety; at least I have failed to find it grown to any extent, except in 

 a few towns in the Connecticut valley. 



As a cooking apple it stands second to none. It is a grand old ap- 

 ple, and worthy of cultivation wherever it can be made to thrive. This, 

 with the Gravenstein are our two most profitable fall apples. 



Of winter apples the Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening, stand 

 first; of these the Baldwin is the most profitable; It is remarkably pro- 

 ductive, and stands shipping better than any other variety grown in the 

 east. If a good keeping sweet apple is wanted, the Talman's Sweet is 

 selected. Although we have a host of other varieties or apples, the 

 nearer one keeps to the varieties named, when planting a commercial 

 orchard, the more profitable will it be found. Boston is our best market, 

 for whenever the supply is greater than the home demand, the surplus 

 is shipped to England, thus keeping the price more uniform. The price 

 of apples well picked, sorted and packed, per barrel one year with an- 

 other is about $1.50. 



Among pears for general cultivation the Bartlett takes the lead, pro- 

 ducing the most fruit, under all conditions and circumstances of any va- 

 riety grown. 



Next to the Bartlett for profit comes the Beurrc d'Anjou, Seckle 

 and Beurre Bosc, this last variety wherever it makes a good growth is a 

 very profitable pear. I have stood in Quincy market, Boston, and seen 

 the Bosc sell for over three times the price good Bartletts sold at. 



For Dwarf pears the Duchess stands first, but even with this variety, 

 few have made a success financially, and as a whole Dwarf pears are not 

 popular with our orchardists. 



The cultivation of peaches in New England is looked upon with sus- 

 picion and many are the predictions of failure, freely offered by sympa- 

 thizing friends and neighbors, whenever one plants this fruit to any 

 considerable extent;' but it is my firm conviction that any man who 

 will give his trees the proper location, soil and care, can if he will not 

 get discouraged and give it up, make the growing of peaches profitable. 



