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produced in the orchard of J. C. Myers six miles south of Kear- 

 ney, His Ben Davis and Winesap were of extraordinary size and 

 quality. In the twenty year old orchard of D. C. Blackburn in 

 west central Nebraska single trees of Grimes Golden gave 

 twenty bushels of the yellow fruit. From less than an acre of 

 orchard he supplied three families and marketed six-hundred 

 bushels of apples besides, for the sum $489. In Lincoln county 

 more than three-hundred miles west of the Missouri river, irri- 

 gated orchards are very healthy and promise large profits. 

 Single trees of Missouri Pippin gave a bushel and three pecks 

 the fifth season after planting. 



Among the varieties so far found successsful are Duchess, 

 Whitney No. 20, Wealthy, Grimes Golden, Utters Red, Plum 

 Cider, Longfield, Patten's Greening, Jonathan, Ben Davis, Wine- 

 sap, Missouri Pippin, Northwestern Greening, and Janet. 

 This list applies to districts two-hundred and fifty to three-hun- 

 dred and fifty miles west of the Missouri river. 



On the Gurnsey division of the B. and M. in extreme western 

 Nebraska, Ben Davis, Winesap, and Jonathan have suffered 

 from sunscald. Perhaps this may be reniedied by protecting 

 the trunks. The best varieties for that region are found in a 

 narrower list comprising Duchess, Wealthy, Whitney No. 20, 

 Iowa Blush, Day, and Northwestern Greening. To this may 

 be added Longfield and Patten's Greening which are equally 

 hardy but have not yet fruited there. 



PEACHES. 



In a Platte valley peach orchard twenty-one varieties of bud- 

 ded peaches gave a fine crop last summer, their third season's 

 growth. Many of these three-year-old trees drooped under the 

 burden of more than a bushel of peaches. In the David Hunter 

 orchard in Lincoln county, 318 miles west of Omaha, peach trees 

 have given good returns four consecutive years without a failure. 

 Last summer peaches fruited as far west as Lodgepole, and at 

 Mitchell within twenty miles of the Wyoming line. 



Peaches of the North China type are much hardier than those 

 of the Persian strain and should be used for western planting. 

 The hardy list for central and far western Nebraska includes 



