November 



THE POMOLOGIST. 



IS3 



Stayman's Summer. 



Fruit medium; -n-eight five to seven ounces ; form round, regular, approacliiug conic; 

 skin smootli, greenish yellow, splashed and striped with red and purple, covered with a 

 white bloom, dots small, grey, 

 scattered ; stem medium, rather 

 slender; aivity narrow, deep, 

 irregular, russeted ; eye very 

 small, clo.-ed ; basin narrow, shal- 

 low, furrowed ; core small, slighl- 

 ty open ; carpels small ; seeds 

 small, short, plump, dark drown ; 

 flesh greenish white, very juicy, 

 brittle, sprightly, high llavorc-d, 

 mi'cl acid ; quality very good ; 

 use kitchen table, and market; 

 season August aad September. 

 Tree hard}', vigorous, spreading, 

 irregular, tough, wiry ; very 

 girl;/ hearer and extrmrdirtiry 

 droduclme, droops like a weep- 

 ing willow, with ropes of fruit, nectr breaking a limb. This tree stands by the side of six 

 hundred varieties, and has come into full bearing at least two years soo:>.er, and has pro- 

 duced more than double the quantity of any other variety at the same age. Flowers vary 

 large in clusters standing wide 

 apart, striptd red, blossom early, 

 perfect, every blossom setting 

 fruit, but soon after all drop that 

 cannot be matured, those remain- 

 ing never drop by the hardest 

 wind until ripe. 



Leaves large, heavy, dark greei: ; 

 bark dark, glossy, some speckelcd. 

 This tree has some extraordinary 

 peculiarities that we never saw 

 in any other tree, and the fruit 

 is very nearly equal to Benoni, 

 and Summer Fcarmaiue, but more 

 handsome, and productive, and 

 a much earlier bearer. 



Original tree standing on my 

 ground h-re, nine years old. 



J. S., Ass't Ed. 



STATMAU'S SUMMER— OUTLINE, 



For the Wcstt rn Pomolosist. 



Pomological Progress— Fruit for Home Use, 



he earth is barren and unfruitful only 

 beciuse fruits are not planted and cared for 

 by man. We see everywhere, and on every 

 side, large sections of our country in which 

 the people, and even the owners of land, do 

 not have half as much fruit as they desire, and 



to be found, except peaches. "Within a few 

 years, however, there has been a great 

 change in this respect. Nearly every garden, 

 whether of shopkeeper, manufacturer or me- 

 chanic, doctor or lawyer, is now stocked with 

 a variety of pears and early apples; and with 

 thesmaller fruits,which the owner personally 

 looks after, and which add largely to the 

 interest and enjoyment of the home. 



But with the majority of the farmers in 

 this section of the country, and with the 



as would be healthful for them. The land is i farmers of the "West generally, the absence 



fertile — there is enough of it to spare — there 

 are good sites for all the fruits of the region, 

 and yet hardly a bush, a vine or a tree, is 

 there to give refreshment and health to the 

 occupier of the soil and his family. 



It is so to a great extent in the older 

 States. Twenty years ago you could there 

 fii'd, perhaps, in one garden in ten, a tree of 

 the English Warden or Pound Pear to yield 

 fruit for cooking and preserving ; and in a 

 few gardens, ia each town, could be seen a 

 few trees of the incomparable St. Michael ; 

 and that was ab lUt the onlv g lod eatincr fruit 



of the good fruits round the homestead is 

 quite surprising. Fruit trees and vines are 

 now cheap ; if nurseries are not near, their 

 agents are almost everywhere, and a little 

 expense in money and attention to the plants 

 a little while each season, would soon add 

 much to the value of the estate and comfort 

 of the family. 



But a little labor and aire in each year, 

 without the expenditure of any money 

 would soon stock each farm and garden in 

 the West with an abundance of the best 

 fruits. How ? Now, in the fall, is the time 



to begin to plant the seed. Wherever you 

 would like to have a tree of the plum, peach, 

 pear, or apple stand, turn over a spit of the 

 sod as large as a water pail, at least, and in 

 that plant a few seeds of the fruit you desire, 

 a few inches apart, about half an inch deep. 

 Choose the ripest seed and put it in the 

 ground soon after it is taken from the fruit. 

 When planted, put a rock, brick, or large 

 chip over the spot, and let it remain until 

 the frost is out of the ground in the spring. 

 Then uncover it and you will soon see the 

 rising plants. Put some brush over the 

 spot when uncovered, to ijrevent the fowls 

 or robins from "pjckii'.g up" the young 

 plants. By mid-summer you will see which 

 plant will be the most thrifty. Pull up the 

 others, unless you wish to save them to 

 transplant in the fall. 



Now this takes but little time to get a. f/ood 

 tree in i!t^ right jjlace, and one that will grow 

 f;ster — in the sod even, as its tap root is not 

 broken or disturbed— than a transplanted 

 tree would in cultivated ground. 



If the men will not do this planting, the 

 m ithcr and daughters can; and they will 

 be more likely to look after and care for the 

 young trees than the former would be. The 

 peaches should be budded the first year, and 

 the others in the second or third year. 

 Any neighbor who has good fruit will give 

 a stick of buds, and every fruit book — one 

 of which should be in every farmer's house 

 — will tell him when and how to put them 

 in. Every farmer's child — boy and girl — 

 ought to know how to plant, bud and graft 

 trees. 



It should be taught by the school teacher, 

 if no one else does it. Such work would 

 interest the coming generation in horticul- 

 ture ; would attach them to the soil and old 

 home, and give them joys and hopes of 

 which the truant children of the city never 

 dream. And what an altered aspect the 

 earth would soon wear, could they be thus 

 interested and induced to plant the seed of 

 all the goed fruit they eat ! 



George Haskell, 



Tpswick, Conn., October, 1870. 



Neglect of Trees. — A writer on the 

 logs resulting from neglect in the proper 

 care of orchard trees in cultivation and 

 otherwise, hits the truth exactly in saying : 

 " If nine- tenths of our orchards should be 

 cut down, and the labor and cultivation 

 which they receive be expended on the 

 remaining tenth, 7nore and better fruit would 

 be raised." We venture the assertion that 

 not one apple, pear, or cherry tree out of 

 ten planted in Iowa for the last ten years, 

 ever have, or ever will produce a solitary 

 specimen of fruit, and all for the want of 

 proper care, and nothing else. 



A Nashua, N. IT., paper says: "In sev- 

 eral towns in Maine applesare offered at ten 

 cents a buslnl at the orchard. In many 

 towns in our vicinity they can be had for 

 nothing." 



