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much  alleviated  if  not  at  this  height. 
Last  Spring  I  tried  seeding  it  on  my 
wheat,  and  sowed  the  seed  in  April  with 
very  gratifying  results.  On  one  field 
that  had  previously  grown  Alfalfa  the 
stand  was  excellent  and  six  weeks  after 
harvesting  the  wheat  we  cut  a  splendid 
crop  of  as  nice  green  hay  as  one  would 
wish  to  see.  On  another  field  of  10 
acres  it  grew  well  on  the  heavier  soil,  but 
on  the  lighter  soil  it  did  not  show  much. 
Livingston  Co.,  N.  Y.  D.  E.  gray. 
The  Opalescent  Apple 
In  the  discussion  of  the  Opalescent 
apple  on  page  322  I  note  that  the  editor 
‘  does  not  care  for  the  flavor’  and  “does 
not  regard  it  as  a  good  commercial  sort.” 
lie  then  asks  for  facts  about  it.  The 
(Jeneva  Experiment  Station  has  been  re¬ 
commending  Opalescent  for  several  years, 
and  published  a  somewhat  extended  no¬ 
tice  of  it  in  Bulletin  No.  304,  published 
in  July  of  1913.  This  Station,  then,  has 
an  especial  interest  in  this  fruit  and  I 
hasten  to  “give  the  facts  about  it”  as  we 
see  them. 
Opalescent,  in  Western  New  York,  is ' 
one  of  the  most  attractive  apples  grown 
in  the  region.  In  Northern  New  York 
and  ip  New  England  it  is  even  hand¬ 
somer.  The  apples  are  large,  shapely 
and  nearly  all,  or  quite,  covered  with 
brilliant  red  on  a  yellow  background. 
The  quality  is  very  similar  to  that  of 
the  well-known  Twenty  Ounce — not  the 
best  for  dessert,  but  one  of  the  very  host 
for  culinary  purposes,  and  very  accept¬ 
able  to  eat  out  of  hand.  Opalescent  is 
a  late  Fall  and  early  Winter  apple,  its 
season  ending  in  January  or  February, 
though  cold  storage  would  prolong  its 
time  of  keeping. 
The  young  trees,  iu  all  parts  of  West¬ 
ern  New  York  where  T  have  seen  them, 
are  hardy,  vigorous  and  productive.  They 
seem  to  thrive  wherever  Twenty  Ounce 
can  he  grown.  As  we  have  several  times 
pointed  out  in  horticultural  meetings  and 
in  the  article  in  Tiie  JL  N.-Y.  as  well. 
Opalescent  is  probably  a  bud  variation 
of  Twenty  Ounce,  resembling  the.  older 
variety  closely  in  all  characters  except¬ 
ing  color,  in  which  it  is  a  very  great  im¬ 
provement  on  its  probable  parent.  I  feel 
quite  safe  in  saying  that  sooner  or  later 
Opalescent  will  supersede  Twenty  Ounce, 
and  we  unreservedly  recommend  it  for 
all  regions  where  the  older  variety  is 
grown,  and  to  all  who  want  an  apple  of 
the  Twenty  Ounce  type. 
The  following  detailed  description  of 
the  variety  will  give  fruit-growers  a  still 
better  idea  of  it:  Tree  vigorous  and  pro¬ 
ductive.  Fruit  large  to  very  large, 
roundish-conic,  symmetrical,  obscurely 
ribbed;  stem  short,  slender;  cavity  deep, 
broad,  acuminate,  symmetrical,  russeted : 
calyx  large,  open :  basin  deep,  wide,  ob¬ 
tuse,  slightly  furrowed,  symmetrical: 
skin  thick,  tough,  glossy:  color  bright 
pale  yellow  overspread  with  dark,  deep 
red  with  faint,  splashes  of  purplish-car¬ 
mine  :  dots  small,  conspicuous,  yellow  or 
russet,  mingled  with  lines  and  flecks  of 
russet;  core  small;  colls  closed;  seeds 
medium  in  size;  flesh  yellowish,  firm, 
crisp,  tender,  juicy,  pleasant  mild  sub¬ 
acid,  aromatic,  good  to  very  good;  sea¬ 
son  November  to  January. 
V.  P.  HEDRICK. 
Geneva,  X.  Y.,  Exp.  Station. 
You  ask  for  knowledge  or  experience 
in  reference  to  the  Opalescent  apple. 
While  I  have  not  bad  any  experience 
with  this  variety  myself.  I  have  watched 
other  people  grow  it  a  little,  and  find  that 
its  general  characteristics  correspond 
very  favorably  for  this  State,  with  the 
description  given  in  “The  Apples  of  New 
York.”  which  is  as  follows:  When  well 
grown,  it  is  a  very  attractive  apple,  being 
large,  shapely,  clear  yellow,  nearly  or 
quite  covered  with  brilliant  red.  in  highly 
colored  specimens  becoming  deep  pur¬ 
plish-red.  It  does  not  appear  to  be  as 
good  a  keeper  as  Baldwin.  Tree  vigor¬ 
ous,  round  open  form,  fruit  varying  from 
large  to  very  large.  Form  roundish 
conic,  sometimes  the  sides  are  unequal. 
Skin  moderately  thick,  rather  tough, 
glossy,  takes  a  bri.lliant  polish;  color 
bright  pale  yellow  nearly,  or  quite,  over¬ 
spread  with  dark  deep  red  with  scarcely 
perceptible  streaks  of  purplish-carmine. 
Flesh  distinctly  tinged  with  yellow,  rath¬ 
er  firm,  moderately  tender,  a  little  coarse, 
juicy  or  moderately  juicy,  agreeable  mild 
sub-acid,  aromatic,  good  to  very  good. 
Season  November  to  February  or  March. 
Introduced  about  1S99  by  McNay  and 
Games.  Ohio.  syi/vanus  van  aken. 
Ulster  Co,.  N.  Y. 
Louis  II.  Buckshorn  asks  about  the 
Opalescent  apple.  While  I  do  not  feel 
qualified  to  offer  a  very  positive  opinion 
as  yet,  I  can  give  him  the  result  of  four 
or  five  years’  experience  with  it  in  bear¬ 
ing.  I  have  about  40  trees  planted  11 
years  ago.  The  Opalescent  is  supposed  to 
be  a  strain  or  sport  of  the  Twenty  Ounce, 
but  is  a  most  decided  improvement  upon 
that  variety.  The  Twenty  Ounce.  I 
should  state,  I  would  be  inclined  to  con¬ 
sider  a  failure  in  this  locality.  While 
the  Opalescent  with  me  is  a  fairly  sat¬ 
isfactory  grower,  yet  it  is  not  so  thrifty 
as  the  great  majority  of  our  standard 
sorts.  It  bears  rather  young  along  about 
the  fifth  or  sixth  year.  The  set.  from  my 
experience.  I  would  call  excellent ;  that 
is  I  do  not  believe  j,t  will  have  a  great 
tendency  to  overbear  and  require  exten¬ 
sive  thinning.  The  fruit  is  extremely 
large  and  beautiful.  I  did  not  see  any¬ 
where  this  year,  not  even  from  the  Pa¬ 
cific,  any  fruit  that  could  compare  in 
beauty  with  my  OpaleSpents.  But  the 
quality  of  the  apple  is  quite  low,  and  I 
would  not  think  of  using  it  to  supply  pri¬ 
vate  trade.  I  am  sorry  that  I  can  say 
nothing  about  its  keeping  qualities,  but 
as  I  have  never  cared  to  keep  it  myself  I 
have  never  put  it  to  the  test,  but  I  have 
always  understood  it  was  a  fairly  good 
keeper.  The  flesh  is  very  firm  and  skin 
tough  so  that  it  is  an  excellent  shipper 
and  reaches  market  in  the  best  of  condi¬ 
tions.  As  I  stated,  I  have  not  had  a 
long  enough  experience  with  it  to  be  too 
decided  in  my  views,  but  I  have  decided 
to  eradicate  it  from  my  own  orchards  be¬ 
cause  I  consider  it  decidedly  lacking  in 
quality.  For  the  purpose  which  Mr. 
Buckshorn  wants,  I  am  using  a  top- 
worked  King.  I  have  great  confid'-nce  in 
the  King  where  it  grows  well.  The  King 
and  the  McIntosh  are  the  only  two  va¬ 
rieties  I  know  of  that  have  never  failed 
to  sell  at  a  profit.  harvey  LOSEE. 
Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y. 
Tomato  Wilt  in  Alabama 
The  tomato  wilt  is  severe  in  this  sec¬ 
tion,  Last  year  the  only  plants  that 
seemed  largely  resistant  were  from  a 
package  of  government  seeds  marked 
“Stone,”  which  came  to  me  through  a 
person  who  did  not  want  them,  and  I 
planted  them  as  a  joke,  but  they  made 
good.  This  only  to  show  bow  the  dis¬ 
ease  runs;  maybe  the  disease  was  dis¬ 
criminating  and  fastidious  after  taking 
Ponderosa,  Bonny  Best,  and  a  couple  of 
other  aristocrats.  Would  it  Vie  of  any 
avail  to  sprinkle  a  little  dry  Bordeaux 
mixture  or  flowers  of  sulphur  on  the  soil 
when  having  it  turned  over  and  prepared 
for  seed-bed  to  set  the  plants? 
Mobile,  Ala.  M.  A.  P. 
Years  ago,  when  I  was  horticulturist 
of  the  North  Carolina  Experiment.  Sta¬ 
tion  I  had  a  piece  of  ground  on  which 
the  wi.lt  killed  every  tomato  plant.  The 
next  Winter  I  limed  that  plot  and  plant¬ 
ed  tomatoes  again;  had  a  fine  crop  and 
no  wilt.  Then  I  thought  that  I  had  dis¬ 
covered  something;  planted  the  same 
plot  the  third  season,  and  every  plant 
died  as  soon  as  well  loaded  with  green 
fruit.  Why  the  lime  seemed  to  have  a 
good  effect  that  one  season  I  cannot  say, 
for  I  have  never  found  it  effective  since. 
As  you  suggest  some  dry  Bordeaux  mix¬ 
ture  mixed  in  the  soil  may  have  a  good 
effect.  But  the  best  thing  i,s  to  breed 
resistant  plants.  Take  seed  from  plants 
that  live  and  fruit  where  others  die,  and  in 
this  way  breed  a  strain  that  will  resist 
wilt.  Years  ago  I  got  a  tomato  called 
Texas  Bell.  This  is  a  small  biscuit¬ 
shaped  tomato  that  is  perfectly  immune 
to  every  tomato,  disease.  I  never  knew 
them  to  wilt,  nor  rot,  and  the  ripe  fruit 
kept  for  a  month.  I  believe  that  where 
the  wilt  prevails  it  would  be  well  to 
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