Horticulture 



Great Strides Which Have Been Made 

 in Montana in the Growing of 

 Fruits of All Kinds, and the Excep- 

 tionally High Class of People Who 

 Have Taken to This Industry in 

 This State. 



By M. L. DEAN, 

 State Horticulturist. 



Horticulture in jMontana, like many other enterprises, began in a small 

 way, and its history, when written, will read like the true account of the 

 growth of many other industries in this great state. It will be full of excit- 

 ing accounts of the horticultural doings of the men and wom- 

 Planting en of the State. It will tell how many batches of seed, scions, 

 the Early grafts, or trees were carted across the plains in the early six- 

 Seeds on ties, or sent around the Horn, some to meet with accidents, 

 Montana to be lost in river fords, others to perish for want of congenial 

 Soil. soil, and the remaining few to become guiding signs for the 



.'.ater prospective growers. 



The names of men who, in the early sixties, planted the few trees, 

 should go down into history as public benefactors of this State, because on 

 every hand we can now see the fruits of their labors. John G. Pickering, 

 by planting apple trees tributary to the ATissouri canyon; Cyrus McWhirk, in 

 bringing from Wallace, tied to the pummel of his saddle, trees which he 

 planted in Hell Gate canyon ; T. W. Harris, by planting apple trees at Three 



— Once in a ivhile, not often, one hears of a man tvho kicks about Montana's climate. 



