THE KANSAS PEACH. 



11 



Vvles. 



Crawford's Late 2 



Wonderful 2 



Waterloo 1 



Beatrice 1 



Honest John 1 



Governor Briggs 1 



Chair's Choice 1 



Lemon Cling 1 



Votes. 



Indian 1 



White Rose 1 



Cooper's Late 1 



Snow 1 



Governor Garland 1 



Hill's Chili 1 



Early Rivers 1 



Democrat 1 



OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS. 



List of J. C. Evans, ex-president of Missouri State Horticultural Society, of 

 Olden, Mo., fruit farm, south Missouri: Elberta, Picquet's Late, Salway, and 

 Bonanza. 



N. F. Murray, Oregon, Mo., president of Missouri State Horticultural Society: 

 For north Mi.ssouri — Champion, Elberta, Crosjay, and Heath Cling. 



Prof. J. C. Witten, horticulturist at state agricultural college, Columbia, 

 Mo.: For central Missouri — Elberta, Family Favorite, Champion, and Moun- 

 tain Rose. 



Mr. Beekman: Southwest Missouri — Old Mixon Cling, Heath, Elberta, and 

 Bonanza. 



Mr. A. Nelson, Lebanon, Mo.: Old Mixon Cling, Salway, and Elberta: would 

 plant ten per cent, clingstones. 



HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN PEACH TREES. 



Having procured the joits, either by saving them from the kitchen, 

 picking them up from under your own or neighbors' trees, or by pur- 

 chasing them from others, take them out on the garden and spread 

 them out on the earth from one to three inches deep and cover them 

 over with four to six inches of fresh pulverized earth free from trash. 

 If the quantity is small they may be mixed with earth and placed in 

 a box, can, or keg — which must have openings in the bottom to allow 

 water to pass through — and the box, can or keg then buried out any- 

 where that water will not stand on it. 



As soon as land can be worked in the spring, prepare — by plowing 

 and harrowing or spading and raking — a plat of ground: mark ofP 

 rows north and south, three or four inches deep ; open up your seed 

 bed and you will find most of the pits opened, many of the kernels 

 lying loose, some with sprouts starting. Handle them carefully, and 

 drojD one in a place about four or six inches apart, in the furrows made 

 as above ; in a few days the little seedlings will appear and should be 

 cared for as any garden crop, cultivating with hoe and rake. If you 

 have many, make the rows three and one-half feet apart and cultivate 

 with a five-toothed cultivator and hoe until after the 4th of Jiily ; then 

 if the bark will "slip" — peel easily — they may be budded. 



