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THE GEM STATE RURAL
NUMBER
VOLUME x.
CALDWELL, IDAHO, JULY
1896.
11
REPORTS & fAPERS
Read at the Annual fleeting of
the State Horticultural Asso
ciation, Boise City, Jan
uary 22nd, 1896.
Extract From the Annual Report of
Secretary Milliken.
b\ which the experience
Believing that one of the mis
sions of this society is to give the
future planter the benefit of the
of those who have
experience
planted before him, by opening up
a
of all may be made available to
all.
To this end the following circu
lar letter w'as prepared and sent
to all fruit growers and others
'hose address could be procured,
bout 200 in all.
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I would ask you t© give upon
the enclosed card, the names o
those varieties of the follow in &
fruits w hich you now r regaid as
the most desii able, all things con |
sidered, for general cultivation,
placing the best variety of each
class at the head of its respective
list, and in the order of their com- j
Apples,
value.
five fall, ten winter.
parative
summer,
, pears, plums, cherries,
prunes
peaches five for each class.
Please furnish this office with
as complete a list as practicable of
all the varieties planted in } oui
section of apples, prunes, pears,
plums, cherries and peaches.
Please also furnish a list of the
varieties of the same, failing or
neighborhood.
O
worthless in your
If you have any knowledge of
r seedling fruit, worthy
f cultivation, of any of the classes
fur
any new
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named in
nish this office wfith a lull state
ment of the kind, origin, charac
and locality, together with
postoffice address of the ongina
ter
Your careful and prompt atten
tion to the contents of this circu
and a concise and careful re
port on vonr observations and ic
searches, it is believed will be
alue and importance in the
lor.
ar
great i
future developement of the hor
ticultural interests of the state of
Idaho.
Please furnish this office with
the postoffice address of residents
„
! of your vicinity practically engag
I ed in fruit growing, gardening,
and nursery business.
I desire your report upon this
circular, w r ith any suggestion.of a
1 practical nature, not later than
! January 10, 1896.
Respectfully submitted,
Robert Milliken,
Secretary.
j
Votes have been received from
fifteen persons in different parts
of the state, the results of which
are shown in the following con
densed table.
These votes have in several in
j
gtanceg h ce n accompanied by val
liable suggestions and facts in re
gard to different varieties and
modes of treatment w'hich will de
mand the further consideration of
The inquiry, as w ill
the society,
be observed, asked for a list of 20
apples, 5 summer, 5 fall and 10
and the entire list vote d
^ reaches 77 varieties,
q^he 20 receiving the greatest
num ^ er 0 f vo t es are placed on the
0 f recommend sorts, subject
^
to modifications in some respects
with reference to different parts
of the state, different localcondi
In addi
tions, as well as soil,
tion to the number called for the
others are retained so as to indi
cate how many thought ary of
them worthy of a place among
the original 20.
of this offic to submit this list for
revision and correction, not only
'ith regard to the list here report
ed upon, but also to include small
fruits, shade and ornamental trees
well.
It is the purpose
w
and vegetables as
The following is the list of var
ieties of each kind receiving the
in their
highest number of votes i
order.
2 Jonathan, 3
Baldwin, 4 White Winter Pear
, 5 Northern Spy, 6 Wine
Rome Beauty, 8 Wal
WINTER
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i Ben Davis,
j sap, 7
j bridge, 9 yellow Belleflower, 10
1 Pearmain .
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2 Red June,
rl. Yellow Transparent, 4 Early j
C Duchess of Olden- |
SUMMER APPLES.
i Red Astracan,
Harvest,
berg.
fall APPLES. -
i Maiden Blush, 2 Gravenstein,
4 Earnue se,
5 Fall
3 Wealthy,
Pippin.
PRUNES.
i Italian, 2 French, 3 Hun
garian, 4 German, 5 Bulgarian.
PEARS.
i Bartlett, 2 Winter Nelis, 3
Beurre d'Anjon,
Beauty, 5 Idaho.
Flemish
4
PLUMS.
2 Peach Plum,
4 Green Gage,
i Bradshaw,
3 Yellow' Egg,
5 Lombard.
CHERRIES.
i Early Richmond, 3 Black
Republican, 2 English Morello,
4 May Duke, 5 BPk Tartarian.
PEACHES.
i Early Crawford, 2 Alexander,
3 Late Crawford, 4 Elberta, 5
Foster.
In reply to the request for in
formation as to valuable new seed
lings the following replies have
been received ;
John F. Grooms of Star, 18
miles below r Boise on the river,
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reports a seedling pear as follow's :
A seedling pear in Mr. Lang
maids orchard in this neighbor
hood is worth}' of note,
summer fruit about the size of the
Winter Nelis, the same color but
It is a fine
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A
different shape,
grained well flavored pear.
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w'rites :
Washington
count}',
Seedling prune, a
new variety orginated by Mr.
Dawson,of Weiser, ripens in Au
It
Dawson's
t .
superb quality.
gust and is a
is the finest prune I ever
S. Murphy,. of Mann's
Weiser has a seedling
peach that is far superior to many
peaches sold from nurseries. It
'ellow' freestone of fine
I
? 5
saw,
Mrs.
Creek near
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is a large }
flavor, ripening in Sept, and re
producing itself from seed.
have a peach that is certainly the
good peach I know of,
5 >
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latest
»diuni, yellow, quality good."
R c f e ring to our fruit interest
£ on g ressman Wilson in a
bearing date January 8th 1896
me
letter
has this to say :
I want to sav to you and the
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society that we have the- most
miserable apples here ( Washing
ton D.C.) that I have ever seen,
Most of the apples placed on sale
i n the markets here would not be
gathered in Idaho. While in
Chicago and other cities, I took
occasion to visit the wholesale
houses when fruit was bought and
sold, and as a result of the inves
tigation I am thoroughly convin
ced that Idaho can compete with
all the world in the production of
fruit. We certainly can compete
with anything there in the east.
I have been impressed with the
fact that winter apples would un
questionably find a market at this
season of'the year in the east I
believe if some of our fruit grow
ers who grow standard winter ap
ples, would hold them until Janu
ary they could sell them at a de
cided profit, for they would find
a ready market in Chicago or
some other eastern cities at that
time.
Report of Prof. J. M. Aldrich from the
Standing Committee on
Entomology.
To the State Horticultural Soci
ety, Boise, Idaho.
Gentleman—As you have done
me the honor to make me a mern
ber of your standing committee
on Entomology, I will report to
the best of m3' ability on the pre
sent status of the various insects
injurious to fruits and shade trees
in North Idaho,
stances under which our experi
ment station w'ork has been done
thus far have combined to prevent
The circum
my making a visit to the southern
part of the state, I therefoie lea\ e
that section to my colleagues on
the committee and confine myself
to Kootenai, Shoshone, Latah,
Nez Perces, and Idaho counties.
The pest which has been most
talked about of all is the San Jose
scale, although I am satisfied that
several others have each done
more damage, on account of their
being so much more widly spread.
We have no evidence that the
found in this se
San Jose scale is
ction, except on the Snake River,
At Lew'iston m city
a few' miles up the Clearwater on
i both sides, this was a very serious
At
pest about tw'o years ago.
that time a general campaign
spraying with sulphur, lime and
salt was inauguraeed, w'ith most
While there
7 few of the insects still
of
are a ver}
present in several, if not mam
| orchards, the proprietors do not
| view them with any great alarm,
as they are satisfied that they can
be controlled by this method so
spraying. . Probably this con
dition of things tends to increase
satisfactory result.