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more fruit in weight, and of a much better quality 

 than if they are all allowed to mature, and the 

 strain will be less upon the trees. 



The best ground for this orchard will be the 

 highest practicable location that the place affords, 

 and the ground should not be very rich . In time, 

 if fruit is not up to size the ground can be fertilized 

 by a liberal top dressing of well rotted stable 

 manure. 



The hardiest and most successful varieties for 

 this system will be the Alexander, Wager, Hill's 

 Chili, Tong-Pa, Kilbourn and Salway. The Pop- 

 lar is a very hardy peach, but small and of only 

 fair quality. 



The trees may be planted in this manner 6 to 8 

 feet apart, and if in course of time they become too 

 much crowded, each alternate one may be cut 

 away, but they will bear several good crops at this 

 distance. 



It is believed that the peach will, in the near 

 future, be grown successfully and profitably as far 

 north as 42, and without protection of any kind, 

 giving a crop once in two or three years. They 

 have been grown here at times, and a few specimens 

 of the Poplar were grown in 1890 after the intense 

 cold of January in that year, in which the mercury 

 sank to 34 below, and at several times in the same 

 winter it was more than 20 below. It is a singular 

 fact that the same cold wave that gave that very 

 low temperature here gave the same at Wymore, 

 Nebraska, which is nearly to the Kansas line. The 



