102 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



E"ow, in the economy of the household, these fall apples occupy a 

 very important position. The early or summer apples, of which you 

 will hear, have filled their mission and have passed off. Their exist- 

 ence has been too limited or too short, on account of their ripening in 

 excessively warm weather, which causes all fruits in this season to soon 

 decay, to be very extensively utilized for future use. But different 

 now. The days are becoming cool and the nights cooler, and on this 

 account our ripening fruits have better keeping or more lasting quali- 

 ties, and the season has arrived when the apple predominates in the 

 economy of the household, and autumn apples are occupying our at- 

 tention in making cider for vinegar and other purposes, and for dry- 

 ing for later use. And I think the autumn apple is better adapted to 

 canning or cider making or drying than either the summer or winter 

 apples ; therefore great importance should be attached to the apple of 

 this season. Still I cannot advise extensive planting of fall apples, 

 no more perhaps than the home demand and local market will require, 

 as winter varieties are more easily managed for the market demand, 

 and generally much more profitable. 



SUMMEE APPLES. 



BY HIRAM CRAIG. 



Mr. President, and Fellow Members of the State Horticultural So- 

 ciety: Being placed on the list for a paper to be read at the annual 

 winter meeting and limited to only the summer apple, I hardly know 

 where to begin and where to end, unless it be in the apple, but I 

 presume the most of us would prefer to have the apple in the mouth, 

 and enjoying its health-producing juices, especially if it be a good 

 one. Now I was about to say — a truce to humorous frivolity and 

 yet it is known to physiologists — that words spoken that are pleas- 

 ing are an aid to digestion. Now what is better to aid digestion than 

 eating the rich, well ripened summer apple in its season, at a time 

 of the year when there is no other fresh fruits on the market, or 

 grown in the state, unless it is the strawberry — a fruit liked and rel- 

 ished by most people. But the strawberry will cloy. But the rich 



