Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...make an accurate estimate difficult, but I will make a wide margin and say from five to ten dollars. Do you know of any other so cheap? In an economic way does it not compete with the meat and flour, the " hog and hominy." If every family in the land would annually produce and use this amount of fruit, would it not be pleasant and profitable for us all, though perhaps bad for the business interests of our physicians. Strawberries, the first fruit of the season, easy of culture, abundantly productive and deliciously good, naturally command a large share of attention. The multitude of varieties, each having its friends, renders it unsafe to commend or censure with much decision. I will therefore only tay that in searching for something that should pay better and give better satisfaction than the Wilson, among those pretty well tested, Green Prolific has done most for us; Boyden nearly as well; among those more recently introduced, Prouty's Seedling, from two years' observation and one season's actual fruiting, seems a long step in advance of anything since the introduction of the Wilson. Specimens on your tables will give an idea of its quality and.general appearance, though not a fair showing of its capabilities as to size. Neither is our brief trial any sure guide to its real value as a field or market berry. The points claimed by its introducer are large production, good quality, vigor and hardiness, and long season; also that it will bear high culture, not growing too much to vines, but bringing out and fully maturing all the iruit it sets. It has perfect blossoms, and for the two seasons we have had it, has set a heavier crop than Wilson. I recently saw, at the Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Florists Convention, in Chicago, twenty baskets of...