. 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. nd mayalso account, in part, at least, for its comparative free-dom from many of the fungous diseases which areknown to thrive best in a moist, cloudy atmosphere. The topography and soil of the state are both favor-able to fruit-growing. The undulating areas, intersectedby the Missi
. 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. nd mayalso account, in part, at least, for its comparative free-dom from many of the fungous diseases which areknown to thrive best in a moist, cloudy atmosphere. The topography and soil of the state are both favor-able to fruit-growing. The undulating areas, intersectedby the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tribu-taries, are amply provided with both soil and atmos- 1024 MISSOURI pheric drainage. The soil vaiios from the light, deepflinty soil of the Ozarks, and the drift of the loessformation (see/oMJa), to the ricdi soil of the prairie open-ings and still heavier soils of the river bottoms, and theswamp lands to the southeast, affording choiee for dif-ferent purposes. The immense crops of corn and gar-den vegetables, sometimes grown in young orchards,and the clcvir and cow peas, grown to prevent washingof the in |i hillside orchards, jtrove (perhapstoo frc(|nriiily ). ili;it even the so-calleil fruit landsare capable uf yielding a great variety of i-rolii-ts. In. 1411. Ben Davis (>One of thelii{i red apples if tlie Ozarks. fact, one great reason why Missouri has not earliertaken front rank as a fruit state is because natural con-ditions for general agriculture are too favorable. It re-quires too great an effort to exclude the encroachingblue grass and live stock from orchard areas wherethrifty young trees fruit themselves to death in theunequal struggle for existence and the reproduction oftheir kind. The last report of the Missouri State HorticulturalSociety (1897) contains Secretary Goodmans estimateof the quantity and value of fruit produced in the statethat year, as follows: Apples —north Missouri, 2,500,000barrels; central
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