. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. KANSAS KAULFUSSIA 855 surauce that they would gather fruit therefrom. Since then, rapid progress in tree-plantiug has been made. Apple trees do not bear heavy crops every year, but there has not been a total failure a
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. KANSAS KAULFUSSIA 855 surauce that they would gather fruit therefrom. Since then, rapid progress in tree-plantiug has been made. Apple trees do not bear heavy crops every year, but there has not been a total failure any year since the trees commenced bearing, some forty years ago. Feaches bear in some parts of the state every year, the south having few failures. Pears succeed throughout the state, although some varieties blight in some localities. ^Ar""^::^^—. "^ ( -v.,,^j^AVi:(moRTilL^ ^'^^^^^-i-^-^T/^ \ / VvfWICH .\.,J K.\ \l 'C, N 1206. Climatolosical 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 crac
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