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Show I A mt llrpiirttirr. I Horticultural science Is progresilng The horticultural socletlea of tho different differ-ent atatrs are doing a great deal to clear the way for n more comprehensive comprehen-sive view of all horticultural truths. Among tho progresle societies of tho West Is that of Indiana This society baa begun a worl fiat promises to partly aeltle the long continued conflict con-flict otcr fruit varieties as to their adaptability lo different localities. Hitherto It baa been a ilimnilt task to make up a fruit lltt that wou d bo valuablo to the people of an entire state. In Illlnola they tried to get oter tho difficulty by dividing the a ate Into threo parts nnd making n Hit for the varletlea of frulla best adapted to each 1 section. Hut In Indiana they hive tone 1 much further They lime derided to recommend fruit lists by count s Tbo work Is already under way nnd In the Indiana report for 1897 la gltcn tettn-tv-ulaht nages of report from the counties aa to frulta best adapted to their localities Theae count) reports ' are carefully an 1 simply arrangid A I separate part of each report ' "'v,n to each of tho fruits, apples pears, peaches, plums cherries quint m grapes, currants gooseberries black berrlea, raapbcrrles and ttrawberrlee. In each caao tho qutatlan Is aske 1 and anawered, on what lilnd of toll are theae being groan In your countv' A ttudy of theso reports will retell much of Interest It will probabl be J found that certain varletlea do mil on clay and certain other nrlttles n ' sandy loam, nnd to forth Tho work will certainly bavo tho effect of tak ing away much of the uncertainty from fruit growing operations Little by Uttlo the fruit lUt for each county will be reviled, till It will bo certainly found what varieties will do the best In each county It may bo found that some ot tha varieties or fruit that we E bavo dlacarded will do beat In tomo D of tha countlca where the common va il rletlea will fall, In other words that n we may bavo dlacarded valuable varle- ft tlea for the simple reason that we had fi not tried them In enough localities This new departure by the Indiana H Horticultural anclety will make It poi flt albls to begin tha testing ot varletlea 13 In all ot theae countlea It will alio H have the effect ot Inducing other stale U societies lo take up a like work In H addition we may expect that the plant- B in. r mnrn fruit br amateurs will be H stimulated alraply because the knowl- M edge gained by the county reports will ft make the percentage of succeates In 111 fruit growing greater and the greater i the number of auccesses tho gr! M the number that will go Into It The B Farmers' Ilevlow believe that 'he in- t dlana aoclety haa taken a decided step In advance, and expects to bear good H reports from the now departure. |