McCoy, J. E., Bourbon, Marshall County. Location, one-half mile south One acre apples and pears, ten acres small fruits. Dealer. McElldery, W. E., Boonville, Warrick County. Location, in town and one-half mile south. Six acres in nursery. McGinnis, D. A., R. F. D. No. 1, Andrews, Huntington County. Location, ten miles south and two west of Andrews. Small fruit. McIntosh, George W., Rego, Orange County. Location, one-half mile southwest. One-half acre. Martindale & Hostetter, Doans, Greene County. Location, near town. Mason, B. F., Martinsville, Morgan County. Location, seven miles south. Location, in town. Two acres Mercer, T. J., Dillman, Wells County. Location, seven miles south of Warren. One acre of nursery stock. Meredith & Son, Koleen, Greene County. Location, two and one-half miles southeast. Forty acres in nursery stock; one acre small fruits. Miller, Thad, Tulip, Greene County. Small stock. Milhouse, Jesse G., Ezra, Jennings County. Location, four and one-half miles southeast of Butlerville. Two acres. Milhouse, Frank, Hyde, Jennings County. Location, five miles southeast of Butlerville and one and one-half miles east of Hyde. Three acres nursery. Minnick, Henry, Converse, Miami County. Location, three and one-half miles northeast. Three acres apples, cherries and pears. Moore, C. B., Monticello, White County. Location, two miles west of Monticello. Two acres. Morris, Thomas M., Clinton, Vermillion County. Small stock. Dealer. Moyer, G. N., Laketon, Wabash County. Location, one and one-half miles south. oFrty-five acres nursery stock, thirty acres of fruit Morris, Thomas B., Richmond, Wayne County. Location, one mile east. Morrison, O. A. J., Middle Fork, Clinton County. Location, six miles One acre in trees. Patterson, P. T., Bloomfield, Greene County. Small stock. Location, three miles north. Location, one mile south of town. Two acres in trees and three in small fruits. Paxson & Son, George, Pennville, Jay County. Location, three miles northwest. Two acres tree fruits, one-half acre small fruits. Peffley, T. J., Dora, Wabash County. Twenty acres small fruits and sixty acres in orchard. Pennington, Mary, Vernon, Jennings County. Location, one and one-half miles southwest. Two acres, mostly small fruits. Perry, Alex., McCutcheanville, Vanderburgh County. Small stock. Phelps, William, Noblesville, Hamilton County. Location, two miles southeast. Five acres trees, ten acres small fruits. Phillips Bros., Hobbieville, Greene County. Location, one-half mile north. Twenty-eight acres in tree fruits. Polk, W. R., Tobinsport, Perry County. Location, one-half mile west. Small stock. Potter, E., Redkey, Jay County. Location, five and one-half miles north. Two acres small fruits. Preble, A. C., Marion, Grant County. Location, 212 South Adams street. One acre in nursery stock. Dealer. Ragle, Amos, Elnora, Daviess County. Location, south side of Elnora. Twenty-five acres trees, four acres small fruits. Randolph Bros., Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. Location, three miles southeast. Fifty acres. Reed Nursery Co., Harrell, Jefferson County. Location, two and one-half miles southeast of Harrell. Five acres in nursery. Reed, W. C., Vincennes, Knox County. Location, four miles southeast. Fifty acres nursery stock. Twenty-five acres small fruits. Rogers, Hugh, Knox, Starke County. Location, one mile south. Three acres small fruits. Dealer. Rogers, R. S., Bloomfield, Greene County. Location, two miles northwest of town. Three acres small fruits. Roth, Daniel, Boonville, Warrick County. Small stock. Scott, Charles H., Winamac, Pulaski County. Location, one and one half miles southeast of town. One acre trees, fruits and ornamentals, Sanders, Mrs. Jane, Westville, Hamilton County. Small stock. Semon, H. C., Benville, Jennings County. Location, one and one-half miles east in Ripley County. One and one-half acres stock. Sharp, G. H., Linton, Greene County. Small stock. Simpson & Sons, H. M.. Vincennes, Knox County. Location, two miles east. Fifty acres in nursery stock. Twenty-five acres small fruits. Sleeper Bros., Fowler, Benton County. Four acres. Smith, W. F., Battleground, Tippecanoe County. Five acres near town. Smith, Al. B., Garfield, Montgomery County. Location, five miles northeast of Crawfordsville. Two acres small fruits. Smith, W. H., Medaryville, Pulaski County. Dealer. Smith, W. T., Grandview, Spencer County. Location, near town. miles from Rockport. One-half acre. Six Snoddy Nursery Co., Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. Dealers. Stineman, Jonas, Wawpecong, Miami County. Location, six miles east of Stinger, B. F., Charlottesville, Hancock County. Location, residence in Swaim, H. H., South Bend, St. Joseph County. southwest. Six acres small fruits. Dealer. Teas, E. Y., Centreville, Wayne County. Location, three miles northeast. One and one-half acres, mostly ornamentals. Terrell, W. T., Bloomfield, Greene County. Location, one-half mile north of town. Thirty acres in trees and two acres small fruits. Trook, John N., Converse, Miami County. and jobber. Location, in town. Dealer Truex, G. W., Lockman, Brown County. Location, seven miles north of Freetown. One acre. Vernia, Mrs. Elizabeth, New Albany, Floyd County. Location, three miles southwest of city. Two acres in nursery. Wabash Valley Nursery Co. (J. B. Evans), Bluffton, Wells County. Location, adjoining the town on west. Thirty acres mixed stock. Walker & Son, F., New Albany, Floyd County. Location, two miles northeast. Five acres in nursery. Ward, J. O., Huntington, Huntington County. Location, edge of city. Two acres of trees. Ward, T. J., St. Marys, Vigo County. Location, two and one-half miles northeast of St. Marys and six miles northwest of Terre Haute. Ten acres of nursery and twenty-five in orchard. Warren, D., Nora, Marion County. Lives near Carmel. Wason, Charles, Westfield, Hamilton County. Location, two miles east. One and one-half acres Carolina poplars, one acre small fruit. White, Harry, New Holland, Wabash County. Location, ten miles south- east of Wabash. Eight acres small fruits. Wickinzer, James M., Plymouth, Marshall County. south. Eight acres small fruits. Dealer. Location, two miles Williams, John J., Warren, Huntington County. Location, near town. Dealer. Wilson, J. M., North Judson, Starke County. Location, near town. Small fruits. Winchell, G. W., Tobinsport, Perry County. Polk. Small stock. Location, west of W. R. Witwer, J. B., South Bend, St. Joseph County. Location, one mile east. One acre tree fruits and ornamentals. Wright Nursery Co., J. M. T., Portland, Jay County. Resides one mile west. Thirty-eight acres fruits and shade trees. Location, one mile Young, George C., Greensburg, Decatur County. southeast. One acre nursery and one acre small fruits. REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL ORCHARD. BY JOE A. BURTON. The The orchard, as a whole, has made fair growth. Several trees have died from root-rot and some from depredations of groundhogs. growth of the seedlings is very irregular. Some grow very fine and seem in every way healthy. Some grow very slow. Some seem almost killed by mildew. So far as producing valuable new varieties is concerned, I think many had as well be grubbed out now. But as we have no precedence to grow by, it seems preferable to let them grow. One hundred and twenty selected trees were taken by L. P. Motsinger to grow in a private orchard. No doubt the Committee of Control would gladly give out trees to other responsible parties for private use. It is a relief, so far, for the Experimental Orchard. Only about sixty of the 1,000 pedigreed seeds planted in the fall of 1901 grew. The failure to grow was probably due to the impacting of the clay over the seeds. The seeds planted were Rome Beauty, pollenized by Ben Davis. Rome Beauty, pollenized by Grimes. Ben Davis, pollenized by Rome Beauty. Ben Davis, pollenized by Grimes. Winesap, pollenized by Rome Beauty. Winesap, pollenized by Grimes. Winesap, pollenized by Ben Davis. Grimes, pollenized by Benoni. Grimes, pollenized by Inbred. Benoni, pollenized by Early Harvest. Benoni, pollenized by Chenango. Benoni, pollenized by Trenton Early. Benoni, pollenized by Benoni, pollenized by Yellow Transparent. Yellow Transparent, pollenized by Benoni. This year we have about 1,000 pedigreed seeds. We expect to cover them with coarse sand. Our private orchard has been freed from all undesirable varieties, so any crops that may be made naturally will be good crops. Therefore, we will plant freely from this orchard in the future. By direction of the committee, some very important experiments, in addition to what were already under way, have been commenced. One to determine whether the custom of nurserymen, to propagate from nursery stock, mitigates against the bearing qualities of the tree. Another, to determine whether trees propagated from water sprouts are inferior to those propagated from bearing wood of same tree. On this line we insert a clipping from the pen of R. M. Kellogg, of Michigan. PROPAGATING FROM BEARING TREES. "To the Farmers' Review: The editor of the Review desires reasons why nurserymen should propagate only from bearing trees of known fruiting ability. A careful study of a bud will show that the objection to propagating through a long series of years from young and untested buds from nursery rows is well founded. A bud contains the life germ and a perfect embryo tree possessing the same vascular system of the tree or plant upon which it grows, and before modern investigation proved the contrary it was thought no variation ever took place. But we now know that a tree changes its organism and becomes weak in some parts and strong in other parts, and that when these changes are effected they are as permanent as any of its characteristics. "When a tree becomes unfruitful, its fruit producing or seed organism is weak in its buds, and the tree growing out of these buds will possess these weaknesses, as repeated experiments have shown. Take buds from a well developed and very fruitful tree and another from the nursery row, where it has been propagated through a dozen or more years from the young nonbearing wood. In the first case you will see a marked difference in the wood growth. The tree will not look so smooth and straight as the other, but under good treatment it will come into bearing much earlier and be more fruitful afterwards. The second tree will grow smooth and straight and look much nicer, but its growth will be wood until late in its life or until something is done to bring it into bearing. Many nurserymen have experimented and proven the correctness of the principle, but people want cheap, large, straight, smooth-barked 13-Hort. |