. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1206. Climatoloeical regions of Kansas. Plums and cherries are successful throughout the state, if the curculio is destroyed. Grapes bear heavy crops nearly every year. Strawberries yield good crops. Raspberries and blackberries also do well. Market-gardening is profitably carried on around Kansas City, Leavenw
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1206. Climatoloeical regions of Kansas. Plums and cherries are successful throughout the state, if the curculio is destroyed. Grapes bear heavy crops nearly every year. Strawberries yield good crops. Raspberries and blackberries also do well. Market-gardening is profitably carried on around Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchison, Lawrence, To- peka, Ft. Scott, Wichita, and many other towns. Sweet potatoes are at home here and are grown in large quan- tities. They are on the market from early in Septem- ber to March and sometimes in May. Irish potatoes are not a sure crop on the uplands, but immense quantities are grown on the bottom-lands. Hundreds of car-loads are grown and shipped from the Kansas river bottom, between Topeka and Kansas City, every year. The uplands are rolling prairies, with a deep, alluvial soil, with enough clay and sand intermixed to make it an ideal soil for fruit-growing. The subsoil is red clay, with some sand. This is underlaid with limestone from one to forty feet below the surface. This limestone is full of seams or cracks which afford a good subdrainage, so that little of the land needs artificial drainage. These lands, as above described, embrace a very large percentage of the entire state. The bottom-lands are wide, ranging from one to ten miles in width. These bottom-lands are composed largely of sand, with enough humus intermixed to make them very productive. They support some of the finest orchards. Kansas City is the lowest point in the state, and is about 750 feet above the sea level. It gradually gets higher west, until it is-over 4,000 feet on the western border. The rainfall is of the usual amount on the east- ern border, but gradually decreases as
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