HO HORTICULTURE BY IRRIGATON. 



ern Iowa, Dakota or Minnesota. For such localities, nothing less hardy 

 han the Oldenburg should be planted. 



VARIETIES FROM WHICH TO SELECT FOR GENERAL PLANTING. 



APPLES. 



Summer Oldenburg, Red June, Tetofsky, Yellow Transparent, Red 

 Astrachan. 



Fall Wealthy, Fameuse, Gideon, Haas, September. 



Winter Ben Davis, Walbridge, Talman Sweeting, Scott's Winter, 

 McMahon, Wolf-River, Pewaukee. 



NEW VARIETIES OF SPECIAL MERIT. 



Thaler (Russian), Excelsior (Minnesota), Switzer, Longfield, Anto- 

 novka, Hibernial (Russian), Lou, Sweet Pear, Isham Sweet. 



CRABS AND HYBRIDS. 



Florence, Martha, Whitney, Shields, Brier Sweet, Sweet Russett and 

 Hyslop. 



PEARS. 



Flemish Beauty, Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett. These are probably 

 planted over a wider section of country than any other pears, but the 

 future of pear growing in the extreme Northern portion of Colorado is 

 yet to be determined. Some of the Russian varieties are being tested. 

 Perhaps the most promising of these are the Bessemianka and Gakovaska. 



PLUMS. 



For geneial planting in the West, any one of the following will be 

 found to succeed over a wide range of country : De Soto, Weaver, Forest 

 Garden, Forest Rose, Quaker, Miner and several others of the same type. 

 In favored localities some of the more delicate varieties of the East do 

 well. 



CHERRIES. 



Rocky Mountain Dwarf or Low Bush, Utah Red, Early and Late 

 Richmond, English Morello, and Large Montmorency. 



The new and especially hardy varieties are Ostheim, Valdimir and 

 Wragg. 



