Category: Horticulture

L. M. HUTCHINS, FENNVILLE. (Third Prize Address.) The place of cover crops in soil improvement has long been recognized. The immense importance of the legumes in this connection is of more recent development. The legumes themselves, that is the individual vetch, clover and alfalfa plants are not in themselves so superior to other cover crops. […]

G. F. LEONARD, HART. In a consideration of the three kinds of apple trees, viz., the standard or common variety and the two kinds of dwarfs, Paradise and Doucin ; I will discuss at some length the dwarfs as compared with the standards. The question of growing dwarf apples in the commercial orchard is one […]

T. F. BAKER, GRAND HAVEN. The top working of orchard trees is becoming more widely practiced by up-to-date scientific orchardists every year. Many orchards, especially those planted before the era of scientific horticulture in Michigan, are found unsuitable to the climate and other environmental conditions about them. To take out these old orchards and rejuvenate […]

L. C. CAREY, CHARLEVOIX. Shall the box supplant the barrel as the standard apple package? This question has confronted the eastern apple growers almost continuously since western apples in boxes began to compete with eastern barrel-packed apples some fifteen years ago. It has nettled the easterner to see a bushel box of Washington apples sell […]

C. C. CARSTENS, MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA. “Breed is more than feed.” This expression applies to all domesticated animals, and a horse, a cow, a pig, or a dog is valued according to its pedigree. By the term pedigree we refer to the genealogy, the descent or in simpler terms, a pedigree is the record of […]

W. S. FIELDS, BUFFALO, N. Y. The Baldwin Fruit Spot is a disease, so-called perhaps because it occurs on this variety more than on any other. But the specimens which I have in my hand are Northern Spies affected with this disease. This fruit spot is called by various names and is confused with “Sooty […]