Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . to lay us down to sleep. And what, in connectionwith the surroundings, is most prominent in the mind? A cold,pretentious marble monument or a tree that will lean lovingly oerthe departed one, yielding protection and sweetly if vaguely hintingconsolation to the living? And in our dreams of the hereafter, can we not echo these senti-ments ?— Lord of the world to be. Build me no jasper palace. But the young leaf on the tree, And the vouns: bloom on the trellis! THE SUCCESSFUL APPLE ORCHAED OF THE FUTURE. 455 THE SUCCESSFUL APPLE ORCHARD OF THE FUTURE. H.
Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . to lay us down to sleep. And what, in connectionwith the surroundings, is most prominent in the mind? A cold,pretentious marble monument or a tree that will lean lovingly oerthe departed one, yielding protection and sweetly if vaguely hintingconsolation to the living? And in our dreams of the hereafter, can we not echo these senti-ments ?— Lord of the world to be. Build me no jasper palace. But the young leaf on the tree, And the vouns: bloom on the trellis! THE SUCCESSFUL APPLE ORCHAED OF THE FUTURE. 455 THE SUCCESSFUL APPLE ORCHARD OF THE FUTURE. H. V. POORE, BIRD ISLAND. The too often dying out of apple trees before fruiting, and thevery few years of fruiting of those trees that Hve long enough tobear fruit, has convinced me that something is wrong and that Ineed not look for success upon lines that I have been following forthe past twenty years. My experience with apple trees has been such that the differenttunes which tree agents harp upon have no more charms for me. -^.X^*^/*^. Mr. Hamlin V Toore and seven-year old Plumb Cider apple tree. At one time it sounded nice to hear of the long-scion graftingprocess, the short-grafting process and the budding process; of thewide leaf immunity from blight, etc.: but the charm is broken, andI have come to where I shall depend upon my experience and com-mon sense to guide me in producing a successful apple orchard. Where I am located the soil is deep, rich and porous, whichapplies also to the subsoil to a depth of twenty feet or more, giving-all the promise I could ask for successful and healthy , I must look to other causes and conditions to account forthe short life of my apple trees. I find that in some seasons, owingto drouth, the soil becomes extremely dry to a depth of four to six 456 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. feet; also in winter if there is no snow to protect the ground fromfreezing deeply it becomes frozen to the depth of three and fourfeet.
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