qually applicable to apples. Why not?

Fruits and premium awards are my best advertisers. I have succeeded in
carrying off most of the awards in every show I exhibited at, and have
premiums on file to show for some. All my fruits are set for
cross-fertilization, and I shall continue to set that way. Many have
said and will say they see no difference; perhaps they are not close
observers, and have given the subject little study. I have given the
subject twenty-five years' study and experience, and think I am not
mistaken. I think there is more money to be made on our high upland in
pears, small fruits, and stone fruits. They pay me better than apples.
The Grimes's Golden Pippin would be a good apple to grow if the trees
did not die after two or three crops. The Lawver apples fail to hang on
the trees. The Missouri Pippin will not stand up on our high land unless
surrounded by windbreaks; they look here like a Kansas cyclone had
passed through them--the limbs all blew off last fall. Winesaps fall off
badly, and are affected with bitter rot. For trial purposes, I recommend
Mammoth Black Twig, Gano, and York Imperial.

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Dr. J. STAYMAN, Leavenworth, Leavenworth county: We came to Kansas
thirty-nine years ago, and traveling over the eastern portion of the
state selected Leavenworth as the most desirable point to commence tree
and fruit-growing. We were then engaged in that business in Illinois,
and had collected over 1000 varieties of apples, which we brought to
Kansas; among them were nearly all the leading varieties then grown and
many new and rare kinds of local reputation. Our object in making this
collection was to grow them side by side, under the same conditions, to
ascertain their value. In 1860 we set an orchard of a few hundred trees,
consisting of about seventy varieties, two years old. Among them were
Ben Davis, Winesap, York Imperial, Willow Twig, Rambo, Rawle's Janet,
White Pippin, and Jonathan, and the leading apples generally grown,
including summer and fall varieties. At the same time we set out about
1000 root grafts in a nursery. We then collected over 1000 more [scions]
and top-grafted them [into standard trees], to get the fruit sooner.
Over 1000 of these were received from the late Charles Downing. From
this collection, and from specimens of fruit received, we have been able
to accurately describe over 2200 varieties, with an outline cut of each,
with seeds and