138 HORTICULTURE BY IRRIGATION. 



And with money and energy I think this would become a fruit-growing 

 country. ELISHA BENNETT. 



APPLES FOR WELD COUNTY. 

 .BY O. H. GALLUP, ESQ., GREELEY, COLORADO. 



The Wealthy, Gideon, and Excelsior of the Minnesota kinds have 

 fruited on my place, but with me the Wealthy lacks in hardiness a little 

 and is a shy bearer ; the Excelsior is also slow to fruit. I have trees that 

 are of good size, but have never had but three or four apples form 

 thereon. The Gideon bears early and abundantly and is U A No. 1." 



The Eussian Yellow Transparent is the only foreign apple I have, 

 fruited, and I think the best apple on my grounds. 



The Oldenburg seems to be hardy and productive. Gideon's Flor- 

 ence (crab) will fruit the earliest and fullest and dodge the late spring 

 frosts better than any other apple I have, and for cooking, it almost 

 equals a good standard. I have growing, but not fruiting yet, Mann, and 

 the Haas, that are promising trees. I find that trees on crab roots stand 

 much better than those grafted on common stock. 



As to soil best adapted for apples, my trees here in town are on a 

 stony soil ; on my old farm it is a coarse, sandy soil ; on my West farm 

 the soil is finer sand, with a little adobe added, and on this the trees seem 

 to do best in their growth, and also fruit more freely. 



As to frequency of irrigating, this will depend on the soil, but I am 

 inclined to the opinion that after trees are well established, (say after the 

 first year,) they need less water than we have been in the habit of giving 

 them. A good, thorough wetting about once a month I think about 

 right for established trees. 



