. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 610 The American Florist. Aj-ril Koses in Colorado. A paper read J. A. Vjilc-Dtine. Denvoi-. Colo., at the ninth annual meeting of the Aiupv- Ican Rose Society, held at Chicago, March 2j- 27, 190S. The state of Coloi'ado, situated a little to the west of the geographical center of the United States, is about miles long from east to west, about 275 miles wide, and has a total population of about 000. I)en\'er. the iirin- cipal and capital of Colorado, with a population of about 200,000, is
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 610 The American Florist. Aj-ril Koses in Colorado. A paper read J. A. Vjilc-Dtine. Denvoi-. Colo., at the ninth annual meeting of the Aiupv- Ican Rose Society, held at Chicago, March 2j- 27, 190S. The state of Coloi'ado, situated a little to the west of the geographical center of the United States, is about miles long from east to west, about 275 miles wide, and has a total population of about 000. I)en\'er. the iirin- cipal and capital of Colorado, with a population of about 200,000, is situated a little to the east and north of the center of the state. In traveling from Chicago to Denver, your journey would be a little longer than from Chicago to New York. In going west from here by rail, you reach the Missouri river at Omaha in about 500 miles. From there for more than 500 miles you cross an immense plain, with an average rise of about seven feet to the mile, so that by the time you reach Denver you will bo a mile above sea level. You will have traversed the state of Nebraska from east to west, and a large part of this state is now fertile and pro- ductive farms, although within the memory of some of those here today it was a portion of the Great American Desert, and considered sterile and un- productive. own personal knowledge of this region only e.\tends back about 25 years, but I can very well remember when the meridian of 100° was spoken of as a dead line, beyond which it was absolutely impossible to conduct any farming. enterprise without irrigatioii. the situation is so far that a great many people are contending that profitable farming without irriga- tion is possible e\en as far west as Den- ver, and more than that they are showing a good many substantial results to jus- tify the faith within them. EASTERN COLOR.\DO. The eastern half of Colorado is part of the immense plain already mentioned, and the western half is mountainous.
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