October, 1915 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



83 



are adapted particularly for the extreme 

 northern regions, such as New England and 

 New Brunswick, northern New York, Mich- 

 igan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The pro- 

 bability of their succeeding as far south as 

 the Mason and Dixon line is not great, 

 though one never can tell beforehand. There 

 is the case of Starr, for instance, to break all 

 the rules of climatic adaptation. Starr is a 

 summer apple at home in the north. But 

 someone planted some Starr trees in New 

 Jersey, and others were planted in Maryland 

 and in North Carolina, with the result that 

 the trees went right on producing their big, 

 yellow-green subacid apples in as splendid 

 a quality as ever, and with all the health 

 and thriftiness of tree that characterizes 

 Starr in the North. The only difference 

 made by the more southerly planting was 

 to move the ripening date to a time a few 

 days or weeks earlier. 



The quality of all these varieties is right. 

 Otherwise they would not be named here, 



The Scharff raspberry, an improved strain of the well known Gregg — larger fruit and 



better plant habit 



for a variety of poor quality has no business 

 in a home fruit garden. For general pur- 

 poses, both cooking and eating raw, and 

 the canning, drying, etc., for which apples 

 are used more and more each season, Cor- 

 nell, Mexico, Lord Seedling, Belmont, 

 Wilson's Red June and Starr are well 

 suited. For strictly kitchen use, where 

 apples are cooked in one way or another, 

 or in some way processed before they are 

 offered the eaters, Adirondack, Mont- 

 gomery, Arthur, Arctic, Golden Medal, 

 Nassau, Sekula, Henry Clay and Anis 

 Rose are particularly suited. The most 

 interesting class is made up of those varie- 

 ties that go best raw, right off the trees 

 or from a plate on a table before the fire- 

 place. 



Of these it would be hard to find any- 

 thing finer than Winter Banana and Bethel 

 for eating during November and December 

 and January, or than Opalescent in the 

 fall, or than Liveland Raspberry in the 

 summer. Others very close in quality, 

 which includes texture and flavor, are 

 Starkey, Cortland, Hilaire, McLellan, Nor- 

 ton Red and Windsor. 



In season the varieties named line up into 

 a class ripening in July and August, in- 

 cluding Henry Clay, Liveland Raspberry, 

 Wilson's Red June, Anis Rose, and Starr, 

 and in two other classes. The fall class, 

 ripening in September and October, in- 

 cludes Opalescent, Adirondack, Cornell, 

 Montgomery, Mexico, Lord Seedling, Star- 

 key, and Arthur. The winter class in- 

 cludes Bethel, Winter Banana, Belmont, 

 Cortland, Hilaire, McLellan and the others 

 in the list above. They are mellow enough 

 to use in November or December, and some 

 of them keep on till in May. 



There is some variation in the flavors. 

 Henry Clay, Wilson's Red June, Opale- 

 scent, Montgomery, and Mexico have a 

 brisk subacid flavor. Arthur, Starkey, 

 Starr, McCroskey, Cortland, and Hilaire 

 in flavor come up to the full meaning of 

 "subacid." Golden Medal is sweet, and 

 all the others in the list are mild subacid. 

 The predominating color is yellow. There 

 is a getting away from 

 the dominating solid 

 red of nearly all the 

 old leaders. Norton 

 Red, Nasseau, Cort- 

 land, McCroskey, and 

 Opalescent are the 

 only ones all over red ; 

 the last two are very 

 dark. Anis Rose and 

 Liveland Raspberry 

 are greenish white, 

 with brilliant red or 

 carmine stripes. 

 Others nearly like 

 these, except with 

 more of a yellow cast, 

 are Montgomery, 

 Mexico, McLellan, 

 Sekula and Windsor — 

 thestripesare marked, 

 and very red. Belmont 

 and Winter Banana 

 are yellow- white, or yellow-green, with red 

 blush instead of stripes. They are colored 

 like old Maiden Blush. All the others are 

 yellow with red stripes of more or less depth 

 and extent, in some cases nearly hiding the 

 yellow, in others merely streaking it. 



The everbearing 

 apple, Goal, is a 

 cooking apple, very 

 much striped with 

 red on yellow, like 

 Gravenstein, and has 

 a subacid flavor. It 

 is a novelty so far, 

 and has not been 

 tested for adapta- 

 bility or other feat 

 ures except in Ore- 

 gon. In its habit of 

 ripening fruit from 

 June until frost or 

 over several months, 

 it is like a lemon tree 

 and bids fair to be 

 popular among ama- 

 teurs who have space 

 for only one tree. 



Here is a white fleshed peach (Ray) that has a rich full 

 aromatic flavor. It has grown well over a wide area 



The new varieties of peaches that can 

 be recommended for planting in home gar- 

 dens number about seventeen. 



Golden Sweet Cling 



Eureka 



Ray 



Brackett 



Krummel October 



J. H. Hale 



Lizzie 



Yates Early Red Cling 



Late Queen 



Summer Heath Cling 



Illinois 



Luttichon 



Red Indian Cling 



Billmeyer 



Superior 



Matcom Everbearing 



Red Bird Cling 



As with the apples, some of the sorts 

 named are not exactly children. Krum- 

 mel was first put on the market nearly 

 twenty years ago. Red Bird Cling possibly 

 has been with us longer. Ray has been 

 grown extensively for fifteen years. Also, 

 some of the sorts, as Summer Heath Cling 

 and Yates Early Red Cling are not actually 

 new sorts. They rather are what might be 

 called improvements on old varieties. 



The clings are not as desirable as the 

 freestones, but somehow a few of them seem 

 to possess flavors that never are known in 

 freestones. Golden Sweet Cling, for in- 



Superior peach a September ripening kind that has been well received especially in the 



West 



