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is unsurpassed; it is truly superb. The trees in nursery row are 

 strong, well branched, and are one foot taller than other kinds. 



Others si^eak of it in high terms, as follows : 



"Superb is a hardy seedling from Lawrence, Kan., where we saw 

 it two years in full fruit ; has produced more fruit, of larger size, and 

 better — most superb quality — than any other, native or foreign. It 

 is a better and more constant bearer than any hundred others. Ex- 

 hibited at the Western nurser>' men's convention, where its exquisite 

 ([uality, in comparison with several others, was conceded by all. Su- 

 perb raises the average in quality and size of this excellent fruit ; is 

 worthy of extensive cultivation.'" 



The Superb was introduced a few years since by a well-known 

 Kansas nurseryman who has not pushed it out into the public view 

 as it should have been, for it certainly is a splendid fruit, a heavy 

 bearer, and an apricot that can be grown to perfection. The price is 

 nominal for such a new and splendid fruit. The gentleman who origi- 

 nated the Kansas raspberry, A. H. Griesa, Lawrence, Kan., also did 

 the Superb apricot. Knowing it to be a good thing we have been 

 growing a few, and now have some to sell. They bear young. Try a 

 few. 



IRRIGATED FRUIT IN CURING. 



In a paper read before the Southern California Pomological So- 

 ciety, at Riverside, J. H. Reed, speaking on irrigation matters, said (in 

 part): It is claimed that there is a larger percentage of shrinkage in 

 drying irrigated fruit, and I must confess this was my own supposition 

 till my experience convinced me otherwise. You perhaps will pardon 

 reference to this experience, as it seems to the point. Our first apricot 

 orchard was interi^lanted among young lemons. The lemons were to 

 make the permanent orchard, and all treatment was especially with 

 reference to them. We had i^lenty of water and applied it generously 

 throughout the year, except when winter rains made it unnecessary. 

 The season after the 'cots had been planted two years we took from 

 twenty-five to seventy-five pounds of extra fine fruit per tree. The 

 next season, third year, they returned from 100 to 300 pounds per tree. 

 The present year, the fourth, they promise double these amounts. So 

 much for quantity. 



The first season we kept careful account of results in drying, as we 

 were drying for other parties apricots grown without irrigation. Very 

 much to my surprise, we found that of the unirrigated it had taken 

 5.6 pounds of green fruit to make one of dried, while of our irri- 

 gated apricots it had taken but 4.9. A little thought should have 



