THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE 



MARCH, 1843. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Remarks upon the state of Horticulture in Indiana ; 

 The favorableness of its climate for fruits^ the 'produc- 

 tion of Seedling Apples, <^c. By the Rev. H. W. Beecher, 

 Indianapolis, Indiana. 



The arrival of the January No. of your Magazine, has 

 moved me to begin a letter, projected months ago, but hin- 

 dered by numerous professional engagements. Indeed, I 

 began a letter, giving you an account of our October fair, 

 which I have burned. So I will begin, as far back as last 

 summer, and give a brief view of Horticultural operations 

 in this State. Our condition may interest you less and the 

 extent of our operations — than by their progress in so new 

 a State. In this town, the capital of the State, the stumps 

 of the original forests yet remain in many streets : I aided 

 in digging one out of the very centre of the town, close by 

 our church, last summer; — and stumps with us have no 

 such immortality as belong to your pine stumps, but decay 

 in a few years. Our citizens are not wealthy, and still 

 less are they men of leisure. All that is done among us, is 

 done not. by wealth — or as remedy for ennui — but by busy, 

 thriving, hard-working men, who love horticulture. 



In this State we have an area a little more than four 

 times greater than Massachusetts. There are eighteen 

 nurseries, whose proprietors are chiefly supported by their 

 sales. Apple trees sell for te7i, and pear, for twenty, cents. 

 An orchard is to be found upon almost every farm, and 

 lately the pear has been more than ever sought after. At 

 our October fair, was exhibited the greatest variety of 

 fruits and flowers ever exhibited in this State ; perhaps I 

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