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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1915 



Delicious apple has been so well received generally that 

 though new it is hardly thought of in the novelty class 



stance has a honey-like flavor and juice 

 that is incomparable. They are all very 

 sweet. In general the clings are intended 

 for canning. In addition to Red Bird, 

 Golden Sweet and Red Indian Clings, 

 Yates Early Red Heath is a fourth cling 

 in the list. All the others are free. Some 

 people prefer the flavor of white peaches. 

 They claim it is not as rank, though just 

 as rich, as the flavor of yellows. There are 

 plenty of white sorts among the new- 

 comers. Illinois and Luttichon are two, 

 the latter at home particularly in the far 

 south, Ray is another, Eureka, Alton, 

 Yates and Late Queen others. Late Queen 

 ripens in October, and should appeal to 

 the housewife who wants to do her canning 

 in the fall, after the hot weather is over. 

 The early peaches in the list are Luttichon, 

 Eureka, Summer Heath, Red Bird, which 

 ripen in July — some of them almost in 

 June. August peaches are Yates Early 

 Red, J. H. Hale, which is a little coarse in 

 quality, Ray, Billmeyer, and Illinois. The 

 September varieties are Superior, Lizzie, 

 Golden Sweet. Krummel and Late Queen 

 are ripe the last thing before frost arrives. 



Brackett has been recommended highly, 

 but at the present writing no details about 

 its home garden value are available. Mat- 

 corn Everbearing is a novelty, included here 

 just to show the general trend toward 

 this class of bearing. 



New peach varieties are shelled out by 

 propagators at the rate of about two a day, 

 it would seem, especially in the last few 

 years and more especially in the South. 

 But few of them ever gain wide promi- 

 nence. One thing that is accomplished 

 is to extend the regions of successful peach 

 culture. If none of the standard sorts 

 will thrive at your location and in your soil, 

 you have limitless means of experimenting 

 with untried varieties, and with a good 

 chance of finding something that will thrive. 



There are fewer varieties of cherries 

 •than of any of the other standard tree 



fruits, and the number of new varieties is 

 limited. In fact, the only really new one 

 sufficient of general merit to be mentioned 

 is Koonz's Mammoth, a sour cherry of 

 large size and early ripening. Its quality, 

 while not of the highest, is good. It may 

 not be out of place to mention Mont- 

 morency Stark here. This is not a very 

 recent arrival, but it is not widely known, 

 and its large size, deep red color and brisk 

 acidity certainly give it merit enough to 

 justify planting it. Aside from these acid 

 varieties, attention should be called to the 

 semi-new sorts of the sweet types, such as 

 Bing, Lambert, and Royal Anne, as they 

 are grown in the Pacific Northwest. They 

 are as big as hulled walnuts, and no less 

 desirable for their flavor and quality. 

 They should be planted in gardens all over 

 the cherry-growing country. Kindall is a 

 new variety of the Royal Anne type, which 

 means very large, red, and sweet, for which 

 no data are available to base a recommend- 

 ation. 



Pear propagating activity also has been 

 at a low ebb. Lincoln is a sort which was 

 developed by the Illinois Experiment 

 Station, and has much merit. It is very 

 large, and of very fine quality. Its season 

 is August, or early September. This Lin- 

 coln is not Lincoln Coreless — not by about 

 eighty per cent, of its merit. Gold Nugget 

 is a winter pear from California which is 

 said to keep all winter. Its greenish skin 

 with plenty of yellow and 

 russet, is handsome. 



There are five plums that 

 can be classed as new. The 

 names are Duarte, Mammoth 

 Gold, Gold, Omaha and Shiro. 

 Of these, Shiro and Gold have 

 been planted extensively for 

 several years. Omaha is of 

 extreme hardiness, and will do 

 well as far north as you may 

 want to plant it. It is big, red, 

 and meaty. Duarte also is big, 

 but is crimson and blue. Gold 

 and Shiro are little fellows, the 

 former with a blush on one 

 side, over its clear yellow skin, 

 the latter almost translucent 

 and clear yellow. Both of 

 them are very beautiful, and 

 their flavor is such that you 

 wonder if the Harvest Gods 

 were not in a candy-making 

 mood when they mixed their 

 chemicals. Mammoth is only slightly less 

 rich in flavor, and its color is yellow under 

 a heavy coat of dark red. 



The most conspicuous new grape variety 

 is Caco, which I know to be deliriously 

 sweet, high flavored, and melting textured, 

 and which is said to be very hardy in vine. 

 The fruit is wine-red. Eclipse is black, 

 early, sweet, and high flavored; Banner 

 red and excellent in quality; purity very 

 white, and probably will prove to be of 

 splendid quality; and Hillis Everbearing 

 is the oncoming specimen of the ever-bear- 

 ing or continued ripening tendency, though 

 no data for its recommendation is available. 



Except the last mentioned, these sorts are 

 thoroughly tested and proved to be right. 



Joy Blackberry has been planted in 

 eastern states for a few years, and has a 

 reputation as a great bearer. The plants 

 are very hardy and apparently are little 

 troubled with diseases, and the fruit is 

 meaty and good. Gregg raspberry used to 

 be the standard black sort, but of late 

 years the plants seemed to blight and win- 

 terkill a good deal. An improved strain 

 of Gregg — Scharff — is available. Its fruit 

 is a little larger than the old Gregg fruit 

 and it does not seem to have the plant 

 faults of the parent. The one new rasp- 

 berry of prominence is a red one, St. Regis, 

 which belongs to the everbearing class. 

 The fruit ripens first very early in the sea- 

 son, and a second crop comes along later. 



More activity, as may be expected, 

 characterizes the field of new strawberry 

 varieties. Everyone knows the general 

 nature of the fall bearing strawberries. 

 Many of the varieties of that type have 

 been small, or of inferior quality, but what- 

 ever the older sorts have been like, two 

 new ones, Peerless and Progressive, are 

 just about as fine as strawberries grow. 

 They have the size, the color, the flavor 

 and the bearing habits desired. 



Premier is an extra early sort, not fall- 

 bearing, of really high quality and with the 

 delicious flavor of the later ripening sorts. 

 Magic Gem is a new sort from Idaho whose 



Liveland Raspberry is a new summer 

 apple that has "made good" 



most conspicuous feature is heavy yielding. 

 Chesapeake is a strictly fancy variety 

 very late, of very high quality. Huttler is 

 tender, delicious. Orem is a very late 

 sort. Big Joe is marked by heavy fruit- 

 ing plus size and what might be called 

 "heavy" flavor. Wild wood, in keeping 

 with its name, has that concentrated essence 

 of strawberry, mellowed by sunshine, which 

 we are in the habit of calling the wild- 

 strawberry flavor. J. H. Cook is a mid- 

 season sort of exquisite quality. Edmund 

 Wilson, with the last named a Van Fleet 

 hybrid, has very tall and big stalks and 

 large leaves, with very dark red fruit. 



