118 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



New York, and one ought to know whether they will hold or not — 

 low heads (six inches) makes one-half difference. 



Are you raising any Newtown Pippins in orchards over there, 

 and how the result ? How long does it take Northern Spy to come 

 into full crop bearing? I have but one tree and it stands where an 

 old nursery stood twelve years, and has had no apples yet. My Wil- 

 low Twigs mostly went the life with blight the last two years. We 

 have to skip those trees given to blight. I am raising a few thousand 

 of trees for my own use, but it is evident I will want five hun- 

 dred to a thousand of some other kind. I have feared that future 

 possibilities will develop the fact that there will at times or seasons be 

 too many Ben Davis apples to be profitable. My apple crop is 2,000 

 bushels. Yours, J. R. Kinnan. 



PEACHES. 



BY J. M. RUSSELL, WYMORE, NEBRASKA. 



My experience in peach growing in Gage county, Nebraska. In 

 the spring of 1880 I planted 5,000 budded trees; in 1881, planted 

 3,000 ; in 1883, 6,000 ; and in 1884, 1,300 ; but since my trees have 

 been old enough to bear we had a series of extreme cold winters, or at 

 least some extremely cold days in each winter, until last winter. Yet 

 in the summer of ? 87 I had about 140 bushels of peaches and last 

 summer I had 1,600, of which about 300 bushels were seedlings. I 

 probably have near 500 seedling trees, being sprouts from roots of 

 budded trees that were killed by a hail storm the next year after 

 planting. 



Now, the question is, does all this pay in Nebraska? I will say 

 I have not made as much money out of it as I expected, although it 

 has paid out and a little more, but the information I have gained 

 about varieties best adapted to my locality has more than paid me for 

 all trouble. 



I will now explain why it has not paid better. Instead of planting 

 only four to six varieties of the following list, I planted the thirty-five 

 varieties : Wilder, Alexander, Waterloo, Amsden June, Early Riv- 



