1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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even for tv^o weeks, after they are ripe. 
Satsuma is one of the best keepers known 
in the North. The period of ripening of 
the various kinds extends over a long 
season, running, in New York, from the 
middle of July to the middle of Septem¬ 
ber. The same variety does not always 
appear to ripen at the same period in 
successive years. 
Kelsey does not seem to be hardy 
north of North Carolina. 
Pbof. Bailey gives Sweet and True 
Sweet Botan as synonyms of Berckmans. 
Mr. Luther Burbank wrote us some time 
ago, as we remember, that he named 
Abundance the Sweet Botan. Abun¬ 
dance, a name accepted by Prof. Bailey, 
was given it by J. T. Lovett, its intro¬ 
ducer. 
Abundance ripens in Ithaca not until 
“September or late August.” At the 
Rural Grounds it has ripened for two 
years in succession before August 15. 
Of Willard, Prof. Bailey says that it is 
a strong, vigorous and hardy tree, and 
the earliest market Japan plum yet 
tested in the North, ripening in central 
New York late in July. 
Red Nagate (Red June, Shiro-Smomo 
of some) is of a deep purple color, flesh 
firm and meaty, yellow, of good quality, 
very early; extremely productive. It 
ripens from late July to middle of August. 
Ogon, ripening at the same time bears 
fruit of medium size of a tomato shape. 
The flesh is thick, meaty, not juicy, firm, 
second or third quality, entirely free 
from the stone. The tree is but moder¬ 
ately productive. 
Orient is described as large, broadly 
conical: red, very highly colored ; flesh 
yellow, of high quality. Ripens soon 
after Burbank. Introduced in the fall of 
1893 by Stark Bros., Louisiana, Mo. 
Perfection.—The fruit is rather large, 
oblong-conical, bright carmine with 
white bloom ; flesh fine, firm and sugary, 
excellent; pit very small; good keeper 
and very productive. One of Luther 
Burbank’s novelties, 1893, to which we 
have before referred. Cross of Kelsey 
with Burbank. The name has been 
changed to Wickson—see first column. 
Munson is a large, broad-conical fruit, 
purple or purple-red, with a yellow flesh 
of excellent quality ; freestone or nearly 
so ; medium early and prolific. 
Kerr is medium to large, generally 
very strongly conical with a deep suture; 
color orange-yellow, with a creamy 
bloom; flesh juicy and sweet, good in 
quality; cling; early. 
Georgeson is medium or above in size, 
oblong and more or less conical, clear 
golden yellow and somewhat translucent 
in texture, with a good yeliow flesh, 
cling; very early, probably the earliest 
of the yellow varieties. It is closely 
allied to Kerr, but averages somewhat 
larger, is a week or two weeks earlier, 
is less pointed, and the tree is appar¬ 
ently less productive. 
Chabot.—Medium to large, oblong- 
conical ; pink-red in color, with many 
very fine gold dots; flesh yellow and 
juicy, rather acid, of good quality, cling; 
medium to late in season; very produc¬ 
tive. Ripe in central New York early 
in September. 
Berckmans is medium (or slightly 
above if thinned), broadly and obtusely 
conical and somewhat angular in cross- 
section ; deep blood-red if ripened in the 
sun; flesh very sweet, moderately juicy, 
excellent in quality, cling or semi-cling; 
ripens with Abundance or just ahead of 
it. One of the best. 
Bailey is large, nearly globular, with 
only a slight tendency to become coni¬ 
cal ; ground color rich orange, over¬ 
spread with light and bright cherry-red, 
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and showing many minute orange dots ; 
flesh thick and melting, yellow, of ex¬ 
cellent quality, cling. Tree strong and 
upright, productive. Closely related to 
Burbank, but rounder and mostly larger, 
and a week or more later. 
So far as Prof. Bailey has been able to 
learn, none of the varieties is seriously 
attacked by black-knot, although the dis¬ 
ease occurs on them. This circumstance, 
however, should not be dwelt upon too 
strongly, for it is possible that the ex¬ 
emption is largely accidental. He has 
seen perfectly healthy trees on the Hud¬ 
son River where all the common plums 
in the neighborhood were seriously in¬ 
jured. The varieties appear to be nearly 
exempt from leaf-blight, also. The 
Japanese plums are commonly budded 
upon the peach, and so far very few com¬ 
plaints have been reported from failure 
of the union ; but it may be doubted if 
as strong and permanent results come 
from the use of this stock as from the 
use of their own seedlings or Domestica 
stocks. 
Alluding to the confusion as to just 
what the improved Rocky Mountain 
cherry is, we have the following from 
Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal. 
“I send you to-day samples of what 
was received as Prunus Maritima, variety 
Chicagoensis, also Pennock’s Colorado 
Rocky Mountain cherry. The latter 
ripens a week earlier, grows more bushy 
and dwarf, but otherwise I can see no 
specific difference. Chicagoensis grows, 
at four years of age, five feet high, wil¬ 
lowy, drooping branches, abundant fruit. 
Knowing that you have the Rocky Moun¬ 
tain cherry, I thought you would be in¬ 
terested, P. M. Chicagoensis was found 
wild near Chicago, on the lake shore. I 
think they must be the same species. At 
least I write to help clear up these mat¬ 
ters. I do not see anything like Prunus 
Maritima in either, and I prefer it to 
either.” 
The North Louisiana Station (Calhoun) 
finds that when Crimson clover is planted 
in October, it grows 12 to 18 inches high 
and yields 1 % ton hay per acre. It proves 
a rapid grower, and furnishes good early 
grazing, and treated like Red, will al¬ 
ways grow a good crop. Ljcern, or Al¬ 
falfa, White clover, Bokhara and Alsike 
clovers have not succeeded well. 
We beg to thank many friends for their 
reply to our inquiry, “ Where does the 
Red-flowering horsechestnut fruit ?” It 
seems that it fruits in many places. We 
have tried to cross this variety with 
others blooming at the same time, with¬ 
out success. 
In the opinion of The R. N,-Y., now is 
just the time to sow Crimson clover in all 
places having about the same climate as 
New York City, 
On the night of August 10 there oc¬ 
curred a light frost at the Rural Grounds. 
During a residence of 22 years, this is 
the first frost that has occurred between 
June 1 and Sept. 1. The frost was the 
more notable in that the weather for two 
weeks previously was hotter than for 
any corresponding period we can remem¬ 
ber. 
In a field near the Rural Grounds is 
about an acre of R. N.-Y. No. 2 potatoes. 
They were planted rather late, May 12, 
About 800 pounds of potato fertilizer were 
used to the acre in the hills. August 13, 
two hills—the vines were as large as 
those of any—were dug. Not a potato, 
or the sign of one, was found. The second 
hill yielded one tuber the size of a small 
hen’s egg. The field had been well culti¬ 
vated and heavily hilled up at the last 
cultivation. It would appear that the 
acre will not yield 25 bushels. To what 
is this failure due ? The drought ? No, 
not wholly. This same variety is yield¬ 
ing fairly well in neighboring fields. 
But the planting was made earlier and 
they were not hilled up so high. 
Some rose growers emphasize the fact 
that all of their roses are grown upon 
their own roots. That is, none is budded 
upon Manetti or other stock. Other rose 
growers raise the vigorous sorts from 
cuttings, and bud the feeble kinds. Pres. 
Berckmans—and we fancy that he is as 
good an authority as any one—says that 
it is impossible to propagate some varie¬ 
ties of roses upon their own roots, and 
unless these are budded upon Manetti 
stocks, their cultivation would have to 
be discontinued. Budded roses in the 
hands of careful culturists will yield 
more perfect flowers than could be ex¬ 
pected from the same varieties if upon 
their own roots ; they are especially 
desirable for the South and all warm 
climates, as their roots penetrate the 
soil to a greater depth. 
It is to the interest of every rose grower 
to propagate roses from cuttings, instead 
of budding them. It is far less trouble 
and expense. The claim, therefore, that 
“ own root” roses have every advantage 
over budded roses, has no foundation in 
fact. 
Propagating Gooseberries. —The fol¬ 
lowing note has been received from 
Green’s Nursery Co.: “We think C. G. 
A. must have misunderstood Chas. A. 
Green concerning propagating gooseber¬ 
ries, as it is well known that gooseber¬ 
ries can be grown from cuttings. But 
we still hold that it is much the safer 
and surer plan to layer the gooseberry 
stools. If it were not so, nine-tenths of 
the propagators would discontinue the 
layering and plant the cuttings the same 
as currants. The advantages of layered 
cuttings are that we have a root to start 
with, the plants are more certain to 
grow, they do not heave out in winter, 
whereas a cutting has few advantages 
and quite a percentage die out, except it 
may be of Houghton. If cuttings are 
used, plant deep in loamy, moist soil.” 
Direct. 
-Prof. L. H. Bailey: “The varie¬ 
ties now known to be hardy in the plum 
regions of New York are Burbank, 
Abundance, Willard, Ogon, Satsuma, 
Chabot, Yosebe and Berger; and others 
give promise of being as hardy as these. 
The period of ripening of the various 
kinds extends over a long season, run¬ 
ning, in New York, from the middle of 
July to the middle of September.” 
“ In New York, the earliest market 
variety which has been tested appears to 
be Willard, followed closely by Ogon, 
then Abundance and Berckmans, and 
Burbank still later. Kelsey is gener 
ally the latest of all the varieties. Most 
of the Japanese plums keep for several 
days, and some of them even for two 
weeks, after they are ripe. Satsuma is 
one of the best keepers known in the 
North.” 
“ The varieties which can be most con¬ 
fidently recommended at the present 
time, are Abundance. Burbank, Willard, 
Kerr, Berckmans, Maru, Red Nagate, 
Chabot, Satsuma, and, perhaps, Ogon. 
Kelsey is recommended for the South.” 
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