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Show j HORTICULTURE I HORTICULTURAL INQUIRIES. Editor Deserct Farmer: Please tell us through your valuable paper, the hardiest kinds of fruits best adapted for a high altitude; such as apples, plums and cherries. Also state where same can be purchased. Am desirous of setting out an orchard or-chard and our seasons arc rathef short. Hoping for a continued success for our "Big Farm Paper." L. LcROY PORTER, Hatch, Utah. Answer by Prof. Northrop, A. C. U. The apples which arc best adapted for a high altitude arc Yellow Transparent, Trans-parent, Dutchess, Wealthy, and Northwestern Greening. If you desire de-sire more early kinds for home use the Red Astrackan, the Porter or the. Longfield can be added to the list. I would suggest that some of the native plums such as the Wild Goose, Pottawattamie would be most certain to produce, while Red June, Abundance, and Wickon would give you good quality when they did bear. The Lombard, Golden, and German prune would! also be desirable, but could not be relied upon to fruit as regularly as some of the native sorts when grown at high altitude. For cherries I would suggest the Montmorency, Mont-morency, Early Richmond, and the Knudson while the Rinc Hortensc would be found satisfactory under some conditions. I believe that these can be purchased from local state nurserymen, but if not I would write to them stating the conditions under which they are to be grown and have them substitute those which they have that are best adapted to the conditions they are to be grown under. See nursery ads in this paper. |