Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 42The Society, 1903 |
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... better when planted in larger Cultivation would porbably be better done in the case of the large orchard , for tools adapted to the business would be purchased . Perhaps one of the best arguments for extensive planting is in the matter ...
... better when planted in larger Cultivation would porbably be better done in the case of the large orchard , for tools adapted to the business would be purchased . Perhaps one of the best arguments for extensive planting is in the matter ...
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... better method of production . The commercial grower has found that better method , and will grow the commercial apples of northern Indiana , unless the private growers adopt the methods which give success to the commercial grower . The ...
... better method of production . The commercial grower has found that better method , and will grow the commercial apples of northern Indiana , unless the private growers adopt the methods which give success to the commercial grower . The ...
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... better advan- · tages for apple growing than most of Indiana , and why is it that the fruit industry along the apple growing line is more thoroughly tested , and the apples are larger than we are growing ? W. B. Flick : It appears they ...
... better advan- · tages for apple growing than most of Indiana , and why is it that the fruit industry along the apple growing line is more thoroughly tested , and the apples are larger than we are growing ? W. B. Flick : It appears they ...
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... better kinds , but our people don't do it . I don't know how to explain . You will have to make them understand the fun and the profit of apple growing . Prof. Troop : I have tried for a good many years to make the people believe that ...
... better kinds , but our people don't do it . I don't know how to explain . You will have to make them understand the fun and the profit of apple growing . Prof. Troop : I have tried for a good many years to make the people believe that ...
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... better informed on apple growing . I think that a great many of the Hoosiers , especially in the southern part of the State , lack enterprise . Mr. Little : I think we all ought to be very well satisfied with the apple crop this year ...
... better informed on apple growing . I think that a great many of the Hoosiers , especially in the southern part of the State , lack enterprise . Mr. Little : I think we all ought to be very well satisfied with the apple crop this year ...
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acres in nursery acres small fruits apple growing apple trees barrel bearing beautiful Ben Davis apples berries better blight branches buds Burton bushels C. M. Hobbs cent Central Indiana cold storage color County crop cultivation Daniel Cox Davis apples disease E. Y. Teas early farm farmers flowers forest fruit growers grapes green Greene County ground grown growth H. H. Swaim Hale Henry Ward Beecher Horticultural Indianapolis insects Jay County Keiffer Lagrange land lawn limbs Location locust Madison Marion Northern Indiana nursery stock orchard orchardist Osage orange package packing peach pear Pendleton picked plant plum President Stevens profitable pruning Ratliff ripen roots San Jose scale season Secretary shade trees shrubs soil South Bend spraying spring strawberry summer Sylvester Johnson things trim varieties vines W. B. Flick W. C. Reed W. W. Stevens Winesap winter Wolcottville
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Page 4 - Received by the Governor, examined and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statement. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE, INDIANAPOLIS, December 22, 1905.
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Page 128 - HE who plants a tree Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free. So man's life must climb From the clods of time Unto heavens sublime. Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be? He who plants a tree Plants a...
Page 259 - ... reputation with us ; the Rhode Island Greening is eaten for the sake of " auld lang syne;" the Roxbury russet is not yet in bearing — instead of it several false varieties have been presented at our exhibitions. All the classic apples of your orchards are planted here, but are yet on probation. Nothing can exhibit better the folly of trusting to seedling orchards for fruit, for a main supply, than our experience in this matter. The early settlers could not bring trees from Kentucky, Virginia...
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Page 260 - Of all the number presented, not six have vindicated their claims to a name or a place — and not more than three will probably be known ten years hence. While, then, we encourage cultivators to raise seedlings experimentally, it is the clearest folly to reject the established varieties and trust to inferior seedling orchards. From facts which I have collected there has been planted, during the past year, in this State, at least one hundred thousand apple trees.
Page 259 - Doyenne) more nearly than any apple in our orchards, an enormous bearer — some limbs exhibited were clustered with fruit more like bunches of grapes than apples; Milam, favorite early winter; Rambo, the same. But the apple most universally cultivated is the Vandervere Pippin, only a second or third rate table apple, but having other qualities which quite ravish the hearts of our farmers. The tree is remarkably vigorous and healthy; It almost never fails in a crop. When others miss, the Vandervere...