30 THE KANSAS PEACH. 



a few rods of the outer row. Pack securely. A half-bushel basket 

 will hold four tiers and will bruise if hauled. The basket for gather- 

 ing is the half bushel ; renail [tacking around the rim and the handle]; 

 pack in excelsior, and sacking for lining, making a pad three-quarters 

 of an inch thick, and thus avoid bruising. 



President Murray : Nearly every variety requires a different 

 time for the pickings. 



Mr. Moseley : A Family Favorite tree is stripped in two pickings, 

 three-fourths on the first time. Salway, picked every other day, takes 

 fourteen days. Elberta requires three pickings ; the second takes one- 

 half of them. 



A LIST OF PREFERRED VARIETIES. 



In answer for the call for lists of best varieties for market, the fol- 

 lowing were given : 



F. H. Speakman (Newton county): Elberta, Heath Cling, Family Favorite, 

 Mixon Cling. 



W. A. Gardner (West Plains) : Family Favorite, Elberta, Salway, Mt. Rose, 

 Bonanza. 



T. W. Wade (Greene county): Heath Cling. 



H. S. Wayman (Mercer county): Elberta, Champion. 



Louis Erb (Cedar Gap): Mt. Rose, Elberta, Salway, Heath Cling, Bonanza, 

 Picquet's Late. 



H. E. Moseley (Olden): Reeve's Favorite, Family Favorite, Elberta, Pic- 

 quet's Late, Salway. 



F. C. Whitten (Columbia;: Family Favorite, Elberta, Salway. 



C. H. DuTCHER (Johnson county): Elberta, Champion, Heath Cling. 



G. T. TiPPiN (Springfield): Champion, Mt. Rose, Elberta, Picquet's Late, 

 Chinese Cling, Henrietta. 



N.F.Murray Holt county): Champion, Elberta, Family Favorite, Mixon 

 Free, Heath Cling. 



F. HoLsiNGER (Rosedale, Kan.): Rivers, Champion, Crawford, Elberta, 

 Crosby, Mt. Rose, Family Favorite, Reeve's Favorite, Salway, Mixon Free. 



A. Nelson (Laclede county): Elberta, Early Crawford, Salway, Champion, 

 Family Favorite, Old Mixon Free and Cling. 



W. H. LooMis (Wright county): Elberta, Salway. 



J. C. Evans (Howell county): Mt. Rose, Reeve's Favorite, Family Favorite, 

 Elberta, Picquet's Late, Salway, Bonanza. 



G. L. Sessen (West Plains): Mt. Rose, Family Favorite, Elberta, Salway, 

 Bonanza. 



J. E. Thompson (Johnson): Heath Cling, Stump the World, Elberta. 



On a vote of varieties, Elberta received 36, Salway 21, Family 

 Favorite 13, Old Mixon Free 4, Reeve's Favorite 5, Champion 6. 



G. L. Sessen : Matthews Beauty has not been fruited in Missouri, 

 but is reported as prolific as Elberta and ten days later, and it carries 

 well. 



J. E. Thompson : June buds on Triumph trees two years old are 

 full of peaches. 



