Category: Horticulture

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 […]

LUTHER E. HALL, IONIA. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen—When your Secretary asked me to .prepare something on this topic, he intimated that he would like to have it very brief and to the point. Now the topic of feeding the apple orchard may be made very brief, and I will try to be brief, but […]

P. L. GRANGER, LEXINGTON. “Michigan as a fruit state is a back number.” Do you believe this? Is that putting it too strong? Anyway that is the essence of a prominent two-column article in a national fruit magazine of over one hundred thousand circulation. And the men who were responsible for that expression are, I […]

A. H. HENDRICKSON, GRAND RAPIDS. Nowhere in the history of American fruit-growing is there a story as romantic or as fascinating as the history of the American Grape. It is a story full of vicissitudes, vain endeavors, and repeated failures which were at last superseded by complete success. From the first America was known as […]

R. E. LOREE, EAST LANSING. The subject of apple breeding should be of interest to every Michigan apple grower, and, I am sure that it is worthy of our serious consideration. A few facts may be of interest to show what has been accomplished in this particular branch of horticulture. In the “Apples of New […]