THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 35. OCTOBER, 1907. No. 10. 



ORCHARD NOTES. 



SETII H. KENNY, WATERVILLE. 



It has been my pleasure to be with you at most of the meetings 

 during the last twenty-eight years. I have come here to hear those 

 who are well learned in horticulture, and I feel that I have been well 

 paid, because they have been a great help to me. I like to be with 

 those gray heads I have been with so long, and I have tried in a 

 small way and with the little time I have at my disposal to get some 

 pointers in horticulture, and think perhaps I have something that 

 may benefit some of you. 



Our worthy secretary in giving me "Orchard Notes" has made it 

 possible for me to mention several topics. One of greatest interest 

 to me has been to find how to grow the standard commercial 

 apples in Minnesota. My first attempt was twenty-six years ago 

 in Lemhi county, Idaho, where the themometer has gone fifty de- 

 grees below zero, on a tree called the Gould crab, introduced by a 

 Mr. Gould, of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Nearly fifty years ago I 

 grafted on it a variety known as the Pewaukee, introduced by a 

 Mr. Peffer, of Wisconsin, that has stood that hard climate twenty- 

 six years. 



About thirteen years ago in buying nursery stock of the Jewell 

 Nursery Company of this state they sent me some grafts they 

 called "Thompson's Seedlings." I grafted these on the Gould crab. 

 It is a lower limb and is a large limb, and the variety is profitable 

 and a good winter keeper. Five years ago I grafted Missing Link 

 on the Gould crab and on the Virginia crab. On this last named 

 crab all the Missing Link died. When I grafted this variety on other 

 trees I lost the grafts, but I did not lose any grafts on the Gould 

 crab. Of nearly fifty Missing Link trees, set five years ago, all died. 

 This experience, added to my past experience, convinced me that 

 the Gould crab would impart enough vitality to the grafts so I 

 could in this way safely grow commercial apples. 



Last fall, in company with Jas. O. Weld, we visited our former 

 home in Massachusetts and secured from there and Vermont grafts 



