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Efce  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
1561 
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Garden  and  Farm  Notes 
“  Sun  Printed  ”  Apples 
I  have  seen  at  fruit  shows,  specimens 
of  apples  with  names  or  letters  “printed" 
on  them,  evidently  by  the  sun.  How  is 
this  done  and  is  it  difficult?  J.  s. 
The  method  is  a  very  simple  one,  being 
based  entirely  upon  the  principle  that  any 
substance,  such  as  the  leaf  or  limb,  which 
may  cut  off  the  light  from  falling  on  an 
apple,  prevents  the  coloring  of  that  por¬ 
tion  of  the  apple.  The  ordinary  method 
is  to  cut  out  of  non-transparent  paper, 
the  letters  or  images  to  be  reproduced, 
and  then  attach  them  to  the  sides  of  the 
apple  The  manner  of  attaching  these 
stencils  is  the  most  difficult  operation,  re¬ 
quiring  some  adhesive  substance  which 
will  be  proof  against  being  washed  off  and 
not  being  of  such  a  nature  as  to  cause  de¬ 
cay.  Some  pei'sons  have  made  use  of 
rubber  bands  to  hold  the  stencils  in  place. 
It  is  also  important  to  Select  fruits  that 
have  approximately  reached  their  full 
growth  in  size,  hut  which  have  not  com¬ 
menced  to  color  These  may  be  selected 
from  under  the  foliage,  and  it  is  especial¬ 
ly  desirable  to  select  such  varieties  as 
Wagoner,  etc.,  which  have  more  or  less 
flat  faces.  Foreign  growers  have  carried 
this  practice  to  the  finest  degree,  one 
grower  having  made  use  of  an  ordinary 
photograph  film  of  a  portrait  of  the  king, 
the  lines  of  which  were  so  sharply  cut 
that  it  was  possible  to  photograph  the  pic¬ 
ture  on  the.  side  of  an  apple.  Anyone 
trying  this  plan  will  meet  with  a  good 
many  failures  before  they  become  experts 
in  the  work.  c.  e.  bassett. 
Small  Potatoes  for  Seed 
I  note  the  inquiry  of  R.  W.,  on  page 
1408,  in  relation  to  the  size  of  potatoes 
for  seed,  and  think  the  experience  of  sev¬ 
eral  years  at  The  Pines,  and  a  few  words 
about,  the  rules  for  sorting  staid  stock  by 
the  growers  of  potatoes  solely  for  seed 
purposes  may  he  a  help  to  him. 
In  sorting,  or  grading,  seed  potatoes  in 
Maine,  they  are  usually  divided  into 
three  grades,  colled  firsts,  seconds  and 
thirds  The  firsts  are  the  larger  pota¬ 
toes,  such  as  would  pass  as  first-class 
market,  stock.  The  seconds  are  potatoes 
that  are  large  enough  to  cut  into  two 
pieces  for  the  usual  planting  size.  The 
thirds  are  potatoes  that  will  go  through 
the  planter  whole.  The  seconds  will  gen¬ 
erally  run  as  small  in  size  as  2^  ounces, 
and  from  that  up  to  the  smaller  table  size. 
The  thirds  will  run  from  1  %  ounces  up 
to  2i/j  ounces  and  average  about  two 
ounces  in  weight.  We  have  used  thirds 
several  times  with  good  results,  but  never 
for  consecutive  years  with  the  same  va¬ 
riety  of  potatoes.  We  shall  use  them 
next  year,  and  have  some  that  are  par¬ 
ticularly  -smooth  and  uniform  in  size  and 
shape,  but  none  for  sale.  Several  years 
ago  a  representative  of  the  Johnson  Seed 
Potato  Company  gave  my  boy  six  bushels 
of  Nor emss  thirds,  and  from  those  six 
bushels  of  seed  the  potato  has  grown  to 
ho  a  standard  variety  in  the  community, 
and  is  proving  wonderfully  well  adapted 
to  our  soil  and  conditions. 
This  small  seed  stock  should  have  been 
carefully  stored  so  as  to  come  through 
the  Winter  in  firm  condition.  Then  If  it 
is  exposed  for  several  days  in  the  sun  be¬ 
fore  it  is  planted  R.  W.  will  be  surprised 
at  the  uniformity  of  the  stand  he  will  get 
and  the  little  time  it  will  take  for  the  seed 
to  break  the  ground.  Some  plant  breed¬ 
ers  claim  that  potatoes  grown  from  whole 
seed  will  be  from  one  to  two  weeks  earlier 
in  maturing  than  will  the  same  variety 
grown  from  large,  cut  seed. 
Maine.  n.  w alter  mc  keen. 
The  J.  H.  Hale  Peach 
[This  new  peach  has  been  widely  dis¬ 
tributed,  ami  it  is  an  important  thing  to 
know  how  it  lives  up  to  the  claims  made 
for  it.  We  have  called  for  honest  and 
unprejudiced  reports.  Thus  far  they  are 
mostly  favorable  and  we  print  a  few  as 
samples.  If  the  peach  has  proved  unde¬ 
sirable  anvwhere  we  would  like  to  know 
it.] 
Succeeded  in  South  Jersey 
I  bought  100  trees  the  first  year  they 
were  out;  21  of  them  proved  to  be  F.lber- 
tas.  As  I  planted  about  a  hundred  FI 
bertas  the  Fall  before  on  adjoining  land  I 
have  had  a  good  chance  to  compare  them. 
Last  year,  their  third  year,  I  only  had  11 
baskets.  The  Elbertas  cropped  much  bet¬ 
ter.  However  the  Hale  w?re  very  fancy 
fruit.  This  year  the  70  trees  yielded 
219 y2  bushel  baskets  as  follows:  First 
picking.  12(5  boxes  fancy  at  85c,  00c  and 
.$1  ;  18  boxes  prime  at  70c:  1  box  culls 
30c.  Elbertas  sold  at  60c.  Second  pick¬ 
ing.  30  fancy  at  $1*10 ;  32  prime  at  Soc; 
3  culls  at  30c.  Elbertas  sold  at  75c.  For 
convenience  the  21  trees  of  Elberta  scat¬ 
tered  among  the  Ilale  were  only  picked 
once,  at  the  time  the  Hale  were  cleaned 
up.  There  seems  to  be  no  difference  in 
season.  However  the  Ilale  will  get  full 
color  some  time  before  getting  soft.  It 
is  really  in  a  class  all  by  itself  as  to  ap¬ 
pearance-  and  quality.  I  never  saw  hand¬ 
somer  fruit.  I  did  not  keep  a  record  of 
the  yield  of  the  Elbertas,  but  they  were 
set  heavier  and  averaged  much  smaller. 
I  think  the  returns  per  tree  were  greater 
from  the  Ilale  and  I  know  it  was  more 
pleasure  handling  them.  A.  L.  itrcniE. 
Southern  New  Jersey. 
From  Northern  Ohio 
I  planted  500  in  the  Spring  of  1913. 
Trees  were  poor,  being  June  buds,  and 
badly  affected  with  root-gall ;  200  died. 
These  I  replaced  next  Spring,  but  lost  a 
good  many.  All  those  that,  died  were  full 
of  root-gall.  Of  course,  this  is  nothing 
possibly  against  the  variety,  but  may  be 
chargeable  to  the  nursery  growing  the 
stock.  Again  it  may  mean  that  this  va¬ 
riety  is  particularly  susceptible  to  root- 
gall.  The  500  Hales  were  planted  with 
Elbertas  (14  ft.  apart),  llales  and  El- 
bortas  alternately  each  way  in  each  row, 
so  that  the  diagonal  rows  were  all  Hales 
and  all  Elbertas,  alternately.  I  did  this 
figuring  that  if  Hale  was  a  failure  I 
could,  after  it  had  come  iuto  bearing  and 
before  the  trees  began  to  crowd  each  other, 
cut  out  the  diagonal  rows,  leaving  an  El¬ 
berta  orchard  with  trees  19  ft.  6  in.  apart, 
which  is  about  the  right  distance  on  our 
strong  clay  soil,  or  if  the  Hales  were  a 
success  I  would  cut  out  the  Elbertas. 
They  are  planted  on  first -class  peach  soil 
and  soil  especially  adapted  to  raising 
large  high-colored  Elbertas  and  gives  an 
excellent  chance  of  comparison.  Last 
Summer  both  the  Elbertas  and  Hales  had 
a  light  sprinkling  of  peaches,  the  trees 
being  three  years  old  last  Spring.  The 
Hales  averaged  25  to  50  per  cent,  larger 
than  Elbertas  on  adjoining  trees  and  col¬ 
ored  up  throe  to  eight  days  earlier.  The 
Elbertas  set  more  peaches  than  the  Hale 
and  a  larger  percentage  of  llllberta  bore 
peaches  than  did  the  Hales.  The  El¬ 
berta  trees,  set  at  {lie  same  time,  average 
50  per  cent,  larger  than  the  Hale,  the 
Hale  being  a  stocky  grower  the  new 
shoots  very  heavy  and  shorter  than  an 
Elberta,  and  the  tendency  of  the  tree  be¬ 
ing  to  grow  low  and  spreading.  The  re¬ 
sult.  of  my  experience  so  far  is  that  Hale 
is  a  valuable  peach  commercially,  pro¬ 
vided  it  will  bear.  Its  prolificacy  for 
this  section  remains  to  be  proven,  also 
its  hardiness.  I  do  not  regard  it  as  a  high 
quality  table  peach,  more  acid  than  El¬ 
berta,  very  solid  flesh  and  should  ship 
well.  A  neighboring  fruit  grower  budded 
some  old  trees  with  Hale  four  years  ago, 
and  this  year  cut  them  out,  reporting  it  a 
shy  bearer.  n.  k.  warden. 
Ottawa  Co.,  O. 
At  Vineland,  N.  J. 
Two  years  ago  last  month  I  budded 
some  five-year-old  Rilyou  peaoh  stumps 
that  I  had  removed  the  tops  from  the 
Spring  previou  s  and  this  year  although  it 
was  a  had  year  for  Elbertas,  the  two- 
year-old  buds  bore  very  well.  A  few  of 
the  trees  bad  a  carrier  and  the  others 
from  onc-lialf  to  oue  pencil  basket.  The 
peaches  were  large,  round  and  free  from 
fuzz,  and  when  they  got  sunlight  colored 
up  fine.  In  the  shade  they  got  a  beautiful 
yellow.  The  flesh  is  very  firm  and  juicy, 
but  quite  add ;  flavor  very  fine,  about  as 
rich  as  the  Late  Crawford. 
My  trees  of  the  J.  IT.  Ilale  have 
grown  finely — some  of  them  very  large 
for  their  age.  I  judge  the  tree  is  quite 
particular  about  its  feeding,  as  many  re¬ 
port  a  failure  to  set  fruit.  I  have  no 
complaint  to  make  and  have  put.  in  more 
buds  and  trees.  T.  A.  c. 
In  a  Michigan  Garden 
I  have  two  trees;  the  older  one  fruited 
for  the  first  time  this  season.  Last  year 
it  bloomed  but  set  no  fruit.  This  tree 
bore  this  season  52  peaches,  They  are 
beauties,  a  deep  golden  yellow,  with  a 
trace  of  rod  on  the  sunny  side.  Fp  on 
the  tree  they  look  more  like  oranges 
than  peaches.  This  season  we  had  t he 
worst  drought  in  50  years,  and  yet  wo 
had  quite  a  few  of  these  peaches,  measur¬ 
ing  10%  inches  around.  They  will  aver¬ 
age  one-tlvird  larger  than  any  Elbertas  I 
have  seen  this  season.  The  quality  is  all 
right ;  the  firmest  peach  I  have  ever  seen 
when  ripe.  We  picked  a  few  when  ripe 
enough  for  the  table,  put  same  on  the 
sideboard  in  the  dining-room,  and  kept 
them  10  days  without  any  signs  of  decay. 
It  surely  will  he  a  great  shipper.  I  have 
in  my  garden  the  following  varieties, 
named  in  the  order  of  ripening:  Red 
Bird  Cling,  Carman,  Belle  of  Georgia, 
Fitzgerald,  J.  H.  Hale.  Chairs  Choice. 
Stearns,  Banner.  w.  E.  Thompson. 
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