282 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Q: Do you know anything about the Foster? 



Mr. Morrill: Yes sir, it is somewhat of an improvement on the Early 

 Crawford and not much more productive. The question of soil largely 

 determines the value of some of these varieties. Now, I notice that the 

 Foster and the Crawfords with us on oak land with gravel and clay bot- 

 tom are productive. This is largely a question of locality which you 

 must determine for yourselves. I would rather have the Elberta and the 

 Gold Drop than the late Crawford for money. I saw a small orchard of 

 Gold Drops this year that every one were perfect clings. Season effects 

 certain varieties that way. 



Q: How about the Globe? 



Mr. Morrill: The Globe is an elegant peach, but I never succeed in 

 getting more than half a dozen to the row — it makes no difference about 

 the length of the row. The Crosby was larger than the Barnard with us. 

 We had a tree set one year, and it fruited nineteen peaches that were very 

 fair but not as large as the ones on three year old trees. They came 

 through the winter with the buds all alive. But we live sixty miles 

 west of Kalamazoo, and of course the soil may be different than it is here. 

 I have, I think, 200 Crosbys a year old, and there were but very few trees 

 in the lot that did not have one peach on up to a dozen. 



Q: Can you say anything for the Engle Mammoth? 



Mr. Morrill: Yes sir; T have none, but I have some neighbors that 

 have them, and are very much pleased with them. 



Q: Is it true that the Susquehanna, the Globe, the Wheatland, and 

 the Reeves Favorite do not bear well enough? 



Mr. Morrill : The Reeves Favorite, by the way, is a very good peach. 

 It is a large yellow, round peach with a red cheek, and a very strong 

 grower. Every Wheatland tree bore here, but I have some eight years 

 old, and they have not cut up that trick yet. 



Q: What varieties of peaches will do well on clay ground? 



Mr. Morrill : Now there is a poser. There is some clay land that I do 

 not believe any peaches will do well on. I know that if you take the 

 Lewis, or most of those early varieties, they do not seem to do well on it, 

 and as a rule yellow peaches stand it better than white ones. 



CELERY. 



MR. S. J. DUNKLEY, KALAMAZOO. 



Celery, I think, is very nearly identical with the fruit interest. It has 

 to have a great deal of care taken in raising it, and still more in finding a 

 market. Celery was first brought into public notice in the European 

 countries in a wild state. It was green, but the market gardeners 

 brought it into cultivation in the state you now see it. The seed we grow 

 in Kalamazoo is mostly grown in Europe. It is imported. Why it is 

 not raised here I do not know. The soil that we have in Kalamazoo is 

 something without any sulphate of iron in it. I think you have the same 

 soil here along the river. I know the last five or six years they have been 

 raising very good celery all over the United States. They thought once 

 that we had a monopoly at Kalamazoo, but it was simply that we took the 

 matter up first. 



