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Mr. Gilbert — I believe that by selecting the proper varieties, pro- 

 'pagating the trees yourself aud taking good care of them, a peach or- 

 chard will give a considerable amount of profit, no matter whether it 

 is 25 acres or oOO acres. 



Maj. Holsinger — I am satisfied that this list along that line will 

 give you a continuous list of peaches throughout the season. They 

 are varieties which we have tried, and we know whereof we speak. I 

 would commence with Alexandra, with Troth's Early, Hill's Chilli, 

 Old Mixen, Elberta, Resplendent, Gold Dust, Salway, and Ihave added 

 Gemina. I have tried Gemina only for one year, but I am satisfied 

 that we are safe in planting it. If it will stand 22 degrees in Nebraska, 

 we rarely have more than that in Kansas City. We have very many 

 other varieties which we have discarded, but these we have found are 

 healthy and will stand our winters. The peach has given us fully as 

 much profit as the apple, and as many crops. During the past season 

 the peach gave us more satisfaction than any other variety of fruit. I 

 want to say right here that I received from Mr. Gilbert, some seven 

 years ago, a box containing about a bushel and a half of Salway peaches . 

 They were gems, and I concluded that right then was the time to com- 

 mence propagating. I planted 150 of the seed. I have some of those 

 "varieties, but they all run Salway, that is, the Salway blood is so dis- 

 tinct in them that you can trace it. There are too many clings. Pos- 

 sibly one-half of the number run to clings. There was not a single 

 peach from those seedling Salways which showed white blood. They 

 were all yellow. 



I will say that I have one tree that I believe is going to be worth 

 more than all the rest, in that it holds its fruit. I picked seven baskets 

 full of peaches from that one tree after everything else had gone. 



Best Plums For Profit. 



This subject having been assigned to one who is not a regular 

 shipper of plums, consequently I will not attempt to show which 

 "variety, and to wliat extent a variety may be profitable, but rather cite 

 the varieties that do well enough for profit, beginning with the variety 

 Wild Goose. This variety is too well known to need description here. 

 Ripens here July 4th to 10th. This variety does well in the southern 

 half of the State, and when planted with other varieties of plums or 

 in the vicinity of wild plums, bears much oftener as well as much 

 more abundantly than when planted alone. 



