1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
6i9 
Editor Chamberlain’s judgment, as 
expressed in the Ohio Farmer of August 
22, is that his Sir William potatoes will 
yield fully 50 per cent more than an 
average of all his other varieties, includ¬ 
ing It. N.-Y. No. 2, Empire State, State 
of Maine, Morning Star, Monroe Seed¬ 
ling, Beauty of Ilebron, Freeman, Burr’s 
No. 1, Vaughan, Golden Wonder, etc. 
The tubers are white, oval; eyes few and 
not sunken ; mealy, of good quality, and 
an ideal market potato. We tried this 
potato in 1891 and 1892. It gave us a 
heavy yield both seasons. Mr. It. D. 
Burr, of 23 State Street, Gloversville, N. 
Y., wrote us that “itis a sport of the 
White Elephant,” but it has little in 
common with it as to shape. The flesh 
is white and nearly of the best. 
J. W. Kerr, of Denton, Md., sends us 
a perfect specimen of a summer apple 
which, after a deal of investigation, has 
been identified by W. A. Taylor, United 
States Pomologist, as the same variety 
described in Downing’s First Appendix 
as Summer King. It was first called, as 
noted a few weeks ago by the Wash¬ 
ington Division of Pomology, Bounty. 
Scions were sent to Mr. Kerr in 1884, 
under the name of Kentucky Summer 
Queen, but he was unable to find any 
work or catalogue containing that name, 
and there being entirely too many Sum¬ 
mer Queens already, the division sug¬ 
gested a change of name and re-christened 
it Bounty. 
The Summer King is a magnificent 
apple, if we may judge it from this 
specimen. A dark, rich color, striped in 
part with lighter red, and well covered 
with distinct, whitish dots. It meas¬ 
ures just 10% inches in circumference 
one way, and 10 inches the other, being 
somewhat oblate. The stem cavity and 
the calyx basin are medium as to depth, 
and perfectly regular. The flesh is 
nearly white, juicy and so nearly be¬ 
tween the two that it can be called 
neither sweet nor acid. Both the flesh 
and skin are very firm, and we would 
say that the Summer King might well 
control the market at this season. 
We have had the Green Mountain 
grape since 1889. Vines were sent to us 
by Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, 
Conn. The more we see of it, the more 
we like it. We do not hesitate to say 
now that it is the earliest, and for the 
earliest, the best white grape of which 
we have any knowledge. The berries 
were ripe at the Rural Grounds this sea¬ 
son August 20. It is not at its best 
there. The berries do not grow so large, 
the vine itself is not so vigorous as else¬ 
where. This may be because the vines 
were set in places where other kinds 
had grown for years A little fertilizer 
or manure might have increased both 
the size of the berry and the vigor of the 
vine. The quality is pure, refreshing ; 
there is no pulp, the seeds are small, the 
skin thin, yet firm. Of what other grape 
ripening so early, may this fairly be 
said ? 
We have, as our readers know, the 
Early Ohio, which ripens about the same 
time. But the berries are sour, the flesh 
tough. It is an absolutely worthless 
variety, and in parallel columns we would 
like to have repeated what was claimed 
for it when introduced, and a consensus 
of opinion from those who have fruited it. 
Well, we said that the Green Moun¬ 
tain ripened August 20. That is true. A 
few imperfect bunches ripened. The 
rest were destroyed by the tornado 
itself, and by the immense hailstones 
that battered the bunches. We have 87 
different kinds of grapes at present. 
Before the tornado, they were more 
heavily laden than during any other sea¬ 
son during our 20 years of vineyard ex¬ 
perience. This seemed to be due to two 
causes : First, the frosts which usually 
occur while the vines are in bloom, did 
no harm. Second, and chiefly, to the 
fact, as hitherto mentioned, the rose 
bugs, though fully as numerous as dur¬ 
ing other seasons, seemed to get all the 
food they needed from other plants, such 
as spiraeas, viburnums, magnolias, etc., 
until the grapes were well set. The 
rose chafer cares only for the pollen 
and the flowers, and never attacks grapes 
of any size. Now there is really, so far 
as yet known, no way of economically 
fighting the rose chafer. If one has but 
a few vines, hand-picking or buliach 
may be resorted to, even though the 
time and trouble cost more than the 
prospective crop may be worth. But in 
larger vineyards, there is really no prac¬ 
tical remedy when the low present price 
of grapes is considered. 
If, then, we were setting a new vine¬ 
yard, or if we desired to protect the old 
vineyard, we would try surrounding it 
and intermingling with the vines, plants 
that bloom with the grape that bear 
flowers which the chafer prefers to those 
of the grape. The rose chafer has very 
decided preferences, so that it will de¬ 
vour all the food that it most relishes 
before it will attack less palatable food. 
This is seen even among different kinds 
of grapes. For example, it will destroy 
every flower of the Berckmans, and even 
eat the thin, smooth leaves before it will 
take up with the pure Labruscas. So, 
too, they prefer the early-blooming 
spiraeas, viburnums (especially Lanta- 
noides) and early-blooming magnolias... 
On June 29, the Stubenraneh Fruit 
Company of Mexia, Tex., forwarded us 
by express, a small box of the new Car¬ 
man peach. The Company remarked at 
the time that they could not hope that 
these peaches would reach us in good 
condition, owing to the excessively wet 
weather they had had for two months 
previously. The peaches were received, 
however, in perfect condition, the qual¬ 
ity being far better than any peaches in 
the market at that time ; indeed, we 
have not seen any up to the present, 
August 28, that seemed to us in all ways 
so enjoyable. The time of ripening, the 
Company inform us, is precisely the 
same as that of Early Rivers. The 
latter, however, were all of them rot¬ 
ting. The original tree, for the second 
year, was so loaded with fruit that it re¬ 
quired props to prevent the branches 
from breaking. We were favored with 
a photograph of the tree showing the 
immense quantity of fruit it was carry¬ 
ing, but it is somewhat indistinct 
for reproduction. Fig. 195, page 61(5 
shows 15 peaches to a fraction over one 
foot of branch. Several of the speci¬ 
mens showed severe hail marks, but in 
spite of this breaking of the skin while 
the peaches were growing, and an enor¬ 
mous amount of rain for the previous two 
months and during the time of ripening, 
no rot whatever appeared on any of the 
fruit. The Carman is a large peach, and 
of very distinct form, growing conical 
towards the tip, giving it quite the shape 
of the Abundance plum. The company 
is propagating this peach as fast as pos¬ 
sible for introduction, the method of in¬ 
troduction not yet having been fully 
determined upon. We, of course, know 
nothing of how it will thrive away from 
its native home. Judging, however, 
from its remarkable shipping qualities, 
by the delicacy of the coloring of the 
skin, by its size and earliness, it would 
be well worthy of trial in any part of 
the country where the peach thrives. ... 
We have received three quarts of The 
R. N.-Y. winter oats which weigh just 
47 pounds to the bushel. Mr. Taylor 
writes us that he thinks that, mixed with 
Crimson clover for green food, they 
would prove a success if the oats were 
sown thinly. He has found common 
Red clover and oats to make an excellent 
hay. The hay would have been better 
except that the oats grew too ripe before 
the clover was ready to cut. 
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