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grown ; and it is an important study to determine what 

 varieties are the best pollenizers for a given kind. Evi- 

 dently the two varieties in any case must bloom at the 

 same time, and the pollenizer must produce an abun- 

 dance of pollen. Thus the Newman is a good pollenizer 

 for the Wild Goose, but it blooms too early for the Amer- 

 icana varieties. In some of the western states Forest 

 Garden is considered a good pollenizer for Miner. It is 

 a common opinion among good plum-growers that the 

 common or domestica plums, the peach and even the 

 cherry will fertilize the Wild Goose. 



Many advise planting in hedge-like rows, the trees 

 standing not more than 4 or 8 feet apart, every fourth or 

 fifth tree, or every alternate row, being a self-fertile and 

 extra polleniferous variety. Others set the trees from g to 

 12 feet apart each way, with the impotent varieties in al- 

 ternate rows. In this way Forest Garden is made to fertil- 

 ize both Miner and Wild Goose. This treatment is com- 



monly known as "close planting," and has many able 

 advocates. It is said, also, that this close planting shades 

 the ground so completely as to make it too cool for the 

 rapid development of the curculio, Such planting, un- 

 less the trees are heroically trimmed, soon results in an 

 unmanageable tangle. I have seen a Wild Goose tree 

 36 feet across and still growing and bearing, and Miner, 

 Leptune and Langsdon trees but little smaller. 



Another important difficulty is that relating to the 

 selection of stocks. The native species work well upon 

 each other, but the permanency and strength of the dif- 

 ferent unions are still moot points. The varieties unite 

 readily with Mariana ; and domestica plum-stocks, myro- 

 balan and peach are also used. In general, it may be 

 said that a variety prefers a stock of its own species, but 

 the true Chickasaws sprout or sucker so badly as to make 

 them undesirable. — Z. //. Baiicy, Bulletin jS of the 

 Cornell Uui-c'ersity Experiment Station. 



Fig. 7.— iNEWiWAN Plums (Cliickabaw Group) 



FRUIT AND GARDEN NOTES. 



PRACTICAL POINTS BROUGH 



HE MOST serious problem await- 

 ing solution by the fruit and 

 vegetable grower is how to mar- 

 ket products in a way that will 

 secure profitable returns for 

 labor. The increased ease and 

 certainty with which many crops 

 are now produced, and the largely 

 increased supply, make it a matter 

 of great importance that means be 

 found to prevent bunglers from demoralizing the mar- 

 kets. Never miss an opportunity to induce your neigh- 

 bor, by example and advice, to sell only good products, 

 and to ask for them the full price that the real state of 

 the market warrants. Prevent him at all hazards, if you 

 can, from breaking down your market. 



SELLING PRODUCE. 



An instance of the. bungling manner in which some 

 people try to dispose of their products, is instructively 



T OUT BY PRACTICAL MEN. 



told in Clcaninffs : A young farmer and his wife drove 

 into Medina, Ohio, with h ilf a bushel of green goose- 

 berries. They went to all the groceries, but could not 

 get an offer for them. Finally they came to Mr. Root, 

 and asked him to take these gooseberries off their hands 

 at some price. 



Mr. Root, in telling this instance, says : "I could not 

 help smiling at the wife's simplicity in offering to almost 

 give the goods away before she had sounded the pur- 

 chaser a little. When she first took them out of the 

 buggy and showed them to me, I meditated giving her 

 something like 6 or 7 cents a quart for them ; but her 

 discouragement over failure in not finding a buyer 

 actually infected me a little, for I began to think that 

 nobody wanted green gooseberries. Yet, as fruit was 

 very scarce, I could not quite understand it either. 

 There is a moral right here : The seller, if unwise in 

 trying to dispose of his crop, may easily spoil the faith of 

 the would-be purchaser. These gooseberries were very 

 fine, and had been carefully picked and sorted. To be 



