. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . HORTICULTURE IN KANSAS. »V HON. HKNRY In the early settlement of Kausas, foity years ago, it was thought by many of the settlers that apples audmany other kimls of fruits coukl not be successfully raised here unless it might be along the creek and riverbottoms and other sheltered places, because of excessive heat, drouths and high wind
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . HORTICULTURE IN KANSAS. »V HON. HKNRY In the early settlement of Kausas, foity years ago, it was thought by many of the settlers that apples audmany other kimls of fruits coukl not be successfully raised here unless it might be along the creek and riverbottoms and other sheltered places, because of excessive heat, drouths and high winds. Some said, Evenif you do succeed in raising good trees, the fruit can never hang on and mature, on account of the severe windsthat sweep over these prairies. Consequently, not nearly as many fruit trees were planted as ought to havebeen by the lirst settlers, and there are not as many old orchards in the State as there should be. But howmuch they were mistaken in their woeful predictions, let the great successes Kansas has had in carryingaway the first prizes for apples, etc., at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, at Boston and New Or-leans fairs, testify. The fact is, Kausas has developed into one of the greatest fruit States in the Union ; andthis industry is .still in its infan
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