Iowa Horticultural Report, 1870

Contains 140 pages, with following list of topics: Fruit Reports from District Committees; Care of Orchards, by H. C. Raymond; Early Richmond Cherry, by J. L. Budd; Iowa Hedge Growing Apples, E. H. Calkins; Insects, D. Kriddelbaugh; Forest Trees, by Suel Foster; List of Fruits for General Cultivation; Revision of Apple List; The Effect of Soils upon Fruit-Trees, by R. P. Speer; Landscape Gardening for Farmers, by D. W. Adams. The officers are: President, James Matthews, Knoxville, Iowa; Vice-President, Suel Foster, Muscatine, Iowa; Secretary. D. W. Adams, Wankon, Iowa; Treasurer, David Leonard, Burlington, Iowa.

Iowa Monster Productions

We at the East shall have to give up. Im-mediatly on hearing the above from California, we took up the Iowa Farmer, and read as follows:

"The productions of the West are rather of a wonder to those who have been accustomed to see large vegetables or fine fruits only as the result of the highest cultivation. We take from western papers some notices of monster vegetables. At Eddy-ville a tomato was raised 16 inches in circumference and weighing two pounds; at Oskaloosa, a watermelon weighing 46 pounds; at Ottumwa, a radish weighing 5 1/4 pounds; at Burlington, also, a beet 26 1/4 inches in circumference. We ourselves saw upon the tables at the late meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association, a peach, raised near there, 12 inches in circumference, also a pear, weighing 1 1/2 pounds, another, Beurre Diel, raised by J. F. Tallant of Burlington, weighing 1 1/4 pounds, and last though not least a pear raised by John R. Tull of Pontoosue, Ills., weighing 1 1/4 pounds.

Ipomaea Ccerulea

The following statement may perhaps be interesting to some readers. Mr. Glover, of Smedley, Manchester, has an Ipomcea earulea (which grows in one of his fern-houses), that has produced, during the past season, 13,000 blooms. Strange to say, these blooms were weighed, the weight of them being 25 lbs. Now this said plant must have received a deal of nourishment from some quarter or other. It clearly proves Mr. Beaton's assertion that any vigorous climber must exhaust the soil in a bed in the course of about three years. The above statement respecting the Ipomsea I had from Mr. Glover. It was a splendid sight to see the blooms as they came forth. - S. Tattersall.

Ipomea Hederacea, Superba Grandiflora

A splendid addition to the genus Ipomea. Flowers very large, light blue, with a beautiful white border. This beautiful variety is well adapted for summer duration in the conservatory, or upon trellis in the open air. Annual.

Iponuea Leptophylla

This species, a new introduction, is described from Dr. Tor-rcy as a beautiful perennial tuberous-rooted climbing species, making very vigorous growth, and producing numerous racemes or trusses of large red Convolvulus-like flowers. The species of Ipomoea are generally well known as amongst the neatest and most effective of all climbing plants, and often sought for their easy culture and extensive growth. The scarcity of red flowered species in the tribe will render the present plant a desirable acquisition. The seed will be readily raised in a cucumber or melon frame, and after the plants are well established in the same position, they may be planted out for bloom into the border of a warm conservatory or forcing-house, and trained along the rafters.

This is the plant that we saw on the plains of Colorado. It is very beautiful. Our own saving of seeds failed to grow.