Annual Report of the Indiana State Horticultural Society; Proceedings of the Annual Session, Volume 42The Society, 1903 |
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... Ground Topeka .... ..Topeka .Tippecanoe .. Lagrange .. 1902 Lagrange 1902 .Lagrange Low , John W Low , Mrs. John W Lowth , Charles .. Lawth , Mrs. Charles Maish , D. F ..... Maish , Mrs. D. F. Martin , John P McCarty , J. H ...
... Ground Topeka .... ..Topeka .Tippecanoe .. Lagrange .. 1902 Lagrange 1902 .Lagrange Low , John W Low , Mrs. John W Lowth , Charles .. Lawth , Mrs. Charles Maish , D. F ..... Maish , Mrs. D. F. Martin , John P McCarty , J. H ...
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... ground slopes in every direction from his orchard , and he is on the highest point that I know of in Marion County . I attribute his success largely to his location . W. B. Flick : I think Mr. Howland is right in regard to frosts , but ...
... ground slopes in every direction from his orchard , and he is on the highest point that I know of in Marion County . I attribute his success largely to his location . W. B. Flick : I think Mr. Howland is right in regard to frosts , but ...
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... ground or location . His location is no better than in this township , Clark , Pleasant or any other place . I think you can grow apples here and plenty of them . Mr. Clore : I am not a member of the association , but it strikes me ...
... ground or location . His location is no better than in this township , Clark , Pleasant or any other place . I think you can grow apples here and plenty of them . Mr. Clore : I am not a member of the association , but it strikes me ...
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... ground , 135 pear trees , we have a possibility of an acre amounting to $ 7,425 in eighteen years . Now , another neighbor on a tree nine years old last season gathered eleven bushels of pears . His trees began bearing at the age of ...
... ground , 135 pear trees , we have a possibility of an acre amounting to $ 7,425 in eighteen years . Now , another neighbor on a tree nine years old last season gathered eleven bushels of pears . His trees began bearing at the age of ...
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... ground or a farm should have a few peach trees on it , and that is the advise I would give . As far as seedlings are concerned , I have fifteen or twenty seedlings , I could never see any difference in their bearing qualities . When I ...
... ground or a farm should have a few peach trees on it , and that is the advise I would give . As far as seedlings are concerned , I have fifteen or twenty seedlings , I could never see any difference in their bearing qualities . When I ...
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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...