800 



ILLINOIS 



tricts, thus showing the mean annual temperature of the 

 northern district, —which is second to the southern in 

 small-fruit production, and in 1898 produced more grapes 

 than both the other districts put together, -to be practi- 

 cally the same as that of the great grape and small fruit 

 sections of central New York. While spealsing of tem- 

 perature it should also be noted that the mean annual 

 temperature of the famous Santa Clara valley and the 

 Santa Cruz mountain wine grape district of California 

 is 55° P., or about that of Madison and Bond counties, 

 Illinois. 



In 1898 the total annual precipitation at Galena, in the 

 extreme northwest corner of the state, was 30 inches; 

 in Henderson county and from thence along a line a 

 little north of east clear aiross the state. 40 inches: in 

 a circle falsing in Adams. I^ikc, Fnlt..i, T:.-r •vrll, Monard 



and Morgan counties, and aloii- :: In 'iir i -i: _ i h.- state 



in Monroe county, bending' ii'irtli :i: : '' "I'ring- 



fleld, and thence soutlif:ist t.. I. my. 50 



inches; and in the 12 or 14 .•xirn,,, -.„,:li,i, unties 



of the state, 60 inches. The mi-an aniuuil n.infall for 

 10 years up to and including 1898 at the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Urbana, Champaign 

 county, was nearly 33/^ inches. 



Products. — An idea of the extent of the horticultural 

 interests of Illinois can be best gained by reference to 

 the following tables, which give the approximate pro- 

 duction of the various horticultural crops raised in the 

 state for five years, down to and including 1898: 



Otheb Fruits and Berries— .Annual Value of Crop. 

 )4 $28,190 $36,930 $42,364 $107,484 



)5 17,532 30,915 114,560 163,007 



)6 18,196 22 586 80,733 121,515 



)7 21,175 25,775 110,249 157,199 



)8 25,807 26.452 84,186 136,445 



r^'p-^' 



25,408 

 10 003 

 12 633 



328,926 

 298.860 

 303,345 

 192,302 

 360,116 



The large falling off in the apple production of the 

 ' during the season of 1898 was due to a scourge of 

 apple s< ab fungus, which attacked and devastated 

 the apple orchards in all parts of the state. 

 Pear growing in southern Illinois has been 

 more or less kept back by the prevalence of 

 pear blight, which has destroyed many trees 

 before coining into bearing. No comment on 

 essary, as they tell 



other table 



their own story. 



The nur.sery i 



\ eloped in lllinn 



nurseries in tin 



rgel 



14.S 



lanolu's of hortitul- 

 iill developed in the 

 lie Chicago market 

 rtant business in it- 

 ng of vegetables for 



CHARD Fruits— .Innuai Crop in Bushels. 



APPLES. 



southern. T 



state (iaiil 



fonns a lar^ 



self, while 



shipment in certain sections of southern Illi- 

 nois IS assuming large proportions. Cobden, in Union 

 county, IS the largest shipping point for tomatoes in 

 the United States, sending out some 300 car-loads of 

 this single fiuit during the season of 1898. Union 

 countv, exclusive of Cobden, shipped to outside mar- 

 kets about 400 car-loads of tomatoes during the same 

 season. 



Chicago was, according to the census of 1890, the sec- 

 ond largest market in the United States for cut-flowers. 

 The business has grown considerably since that time, 

 although exact figures are not obtainable. The only 

 notaljle examples of landscape horticulture or landscape 

 g.ardcning in the state are found in the Chicago city 

 park svstem, which is the largest and in some respects 

 the finest in the entire < 

 Witli luT sitiintio 



ingi 



the 



older fruit-producing regions of the Union. 



The tables giving crop reports are compiled from 

 figures given in the annual statistical reports of the 

 Illinois State Board of Agriculture. Other figures (ex- 

 cept where noted as being from census report) are from 

 the Report of the Illinois State Farmers' Institute for 

 1898. The climatic and meteorological information is 

 based on reports of the United States Weather Bureau 

 and records of the Illinois Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. j. c. Blaik. 



