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water, thus avoiding late spring and early autumn frosts. As 

 you go north your difiSiculties will increase, yet you have no such 

 difficulties to cope with as they have on the western prairies." 



He recommends for colder climates a short list of varieties, 

 and in doing so says: " I give this with a good deal of hesita- 

 tion, from unripe experience, but give it in part from their be- 

 havior in my own orchard, and in part from trees I have seen in 

 fruiting in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the United States; in 

 order of ripening, either Yellow Transparent, or Thaler; rasp- 

 berry, Titovka, Golden White, Lougfield and Arabka." 



Hon. H. E. Van Deman, chief of the division of pomology in 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, has kindly for- 

 warded for distribution at this meeting, a number of his bulle- 

 tins, No. 2, being a report on "The adaptation ofEussian and 

 other fruits to the extreme northern portion of the United States." 

 It contains much interesting and valuable information upon this 

 subject, which is therein exhaustively considered. This pam- 

 phlet was, we understand, mainly prepared by T. T. Lyon, of 

 Michigan, who is no doubt one of the ablest living pomologists 

 of the land, and we bespeak for it a careful perusal. Mr. Lyon 

 is of the opinion that "these Eussian fruits have been brought 

 to an adaption to a climate not originally inherent in the species, 

 and their introduction to the trying climate of our central prai- 

 rie region affords an advanced starting point from which desir- 

 able results may be soon reached." And as to Russian apples, 

 he believes that "actual trial" will alone demonstrate their 

 merits and value. 



INTENSIVE HORTICULTURE. 



Prof. Taft, now in the chair of horticulture in the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, in a recent paper on this subject, says: 

 " We may liken horticulture to a broad field, at one side of which 

 the various flowers, fruits and vegetables are growing in almost 

 their wild condition, with slight care and training. As we pass 

 along we notice that more attention has been given to the selec- 

 tion of soil and varieties, to training, pruning and cultivating, 

 and these evidences of care increase until, at the farther side, 

 we find that every method known to benefit or render the de- 

 velopment of the crops more perfect, has been employed." 



It will not be disputed that horticultural science within the 

 past ten years has made most wonderful advancement. Intensive 

 methods are steadily gaining ground in public estimation. All 



