84 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I would suggest varieties about as follows for this part of Neb- 

 raska: For summer, Yellow Transparent and Duchess; for 

 autumn, Wealthy and Utter; for winter, Ben Davis, Gano, and 

 Northwestern Greening. Then add to these such other vari- 

 eties as have proven valuable in the locality where the or- 

 chard is to be planted. With these you will always have fruit. 

 Without these you will oftimes be without fruit. You might 

 think, "we've got plenty of money and can buy our fruit easier 

 than we can grow it." If we undertake to buy we will likely not 

 have it more than half of the time. If we grow it, we have got 

 it aU the time and we don't realize how much good we get out of 

 it. We don't know how much pleasure we get out of caring for 

 the orchard and vineyard and seeing them bloom and bear. 

 Taking all in all, I believe that the most pressing work directly 

 in front of the Horticultural Society today, is the development 

 of the family orchards and dooryards of the average Nebraska 

 home. (Applause.) 



DISCUSSION. 



Member: When did the Yellow Transparent come to the 

 front? 



Mr. Marshall.: I think in our district it has been the best 

 summer apple we have had for five or six years. What I say is 

 not authority of the society I will stand back of that myself. 

 It is to the front in all northeast of Nebraska. It is the only 

 apple. 



Member: This is the first time for ten or fifteen years I 

 have heard of the Yellow Transparent coming to the front. 



(Same) Member: I think his advise on planting cherry trees 

 from two to three inches deeper than where they were a foot is 

 a mistake. When you plant the tree you leave the place where 

 you plant the tree a little lower. 



Mr. Marshall: I said two or three inches deeper, and I 

 stick to it. The tree is not planted until the ground is level. 

 After a year or two, when it is complete, it is about two or 

 three inches deeper and you want that a foot under the ground, 

 in order not to winter kill. We have had quite a little ex- 

 perience in growing cherries. Of course I believe that it is al- 



