NEW YORK, SEPT. 30, 1882 
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[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1882, by the Rural New Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
fruit too8tnall for market; should be in every 
farmer’s and amateur’s list for home use. 
New Jersey Harvest: I have written too 
much in favor of this apple. It bears early and 
well, but is apt to be small, and the quality is 
not more than good. [Is this a local name op 
a local variety I Eds.] 
Red Astrachan: the dry weather has 
killed the last tree; rots too much. 
This is all of the first early that we have 
fruited. 
Early Strawberry, a good grower and 
quality of fruit good; with us very unpro¬ 
ductive. 
Garrettson's Early, a good grower; fruit 
of fair size; color yellow; origin New Jersey— 
an old apple chat probably ought to be more 
cultivated; not bearing this year. 
Keswick Codling, a good grower and 
eaily bearer of medium-sized fruit; good for 
cooking. 
Swekt Bough, a well known sweet apple 
that will sell better in a few years; too many 
grown now. 
BExo.M.a strong grower,productive,but just 
a size too small, lam not prepared to call thi* 
a good market fruit until further trial; doing 
Well this year, Peachdk now rule the market 
aod apples must come up nice to be worth 
growing. 
Townsend, a good grower, and every 
second year it bears an enormous crop of 
good sized, handsome, striped fruit, that will 
generally hardly pay for gatherings little 
too late for market; should be iu for a suc¬ 
cession. 
Summer Hagloe, a good grower; produc¬ 
tive of handsome red fruit that sells as well 
as the best; ought to be in every orchard. 
Williams' a Favorite, a good grower; pro¬ 
ductive of fruit of good quality and large size; 
needed iu every orchard. 
Wambok, a good grower; fruit of fair size; 
yellow; of medium quality; very productive 
and fair. Tais is one of the best bearers, but I 
presume it is rather a local apple. [The name 
certainly is a local one. Eds.] 
Alexander, a good grower, fruit large, 
but that is all the good that can be said of it. 
It ought to have died out years ago, unless it 
has some favored locality where it ripens; it 
is a sour fruit. [The American Pom. Soo. 
does not re omoieud it strongly for any State- 
It does wtU on Paradise stock with u% Eds.] 
Quhkn’s Delight is very productive, and 
all that; but it is so imtil that usually it won’t 
bring the co9t of picking. [Must be another 
local apple or name. Eds ] 
Jkffkris has not tag to recommend it; a 
tmall fiuit, aud tardy bearer. 
Holland Pippin looks like an enormous 
Fall Pippin; both are uncertain bearers other¬ 
wise good. 
Maiden s Blusii, a good grower of salable 
fruit; not very productive, nor is it a table 
variety. 
Twenty Ounce is in every way the equal of 
Maideu’s Bmsh, and decidedly more produc¬ 
tive; ripe s right in the rush of peaches. 
Monson Sweet, a good grower; productive; 
nearly or quite an annual oearer of fair-sized, 
sweet apples, good to bake, and sometime 
they will pay for gathering; but one can easily 
have too mauy trees. [Another local sort 
or is it Munson Sweeting! Eds.] 
American Summer Pearmain: the quality 
of this fruit places it among the most profitable 
of its season, and it is about as productive as 
any. It should be indispensable in every list; 
tnat is, there should be a few trees; one can 
have too many of the beat of apples at this 
seasou, for profit. 
Porter, the same can be said of this as of 
the Pearmain—it ii one of the best, 
Dutch Migxonnk is productive and a 
stroug grower; fruit large aud excellent for 
cooking, but it will not hang long on the tree. 
Thi3 should be a Winter apple according to 
of a better quality than the Yellow Trans¬ 
parent. But now that both are in full bear¬ 
ing we see no difference at all. About that 
time I received specimens and cions of Cbar- 
lottenhaler from Mr Aaron Webster of Eist 
Roxbury, Vt., with a letter asking if they 
were not the same as Yellow Transparent. 
I replied that his specimen of Charlottenhaler 
was double the size of my Transparents. But 
now I have trees of the Charlottenhale'r iu 
bearing, and find no difference between the 
fruit and that of Grand Sultan and Yellow 
Transparent trees growing under the same 
conditions. 
fruit of either bud or root. Is there anything 
in their theory ? [We cannot say what in¬ 
fluence the stock tiMS upon the seed; but it is 
evident that all of the sap is supplied by the 
roots. The graft supplies no sap—it merely 
changes the raw sap to food which it receives 
from the stock upon which it is worked.— 
Eds ] 
About freezing seed I have to say to those 
who desire to raise peach trees, by all means 
freeze the seed if you can do so. I once saved 
a lot of peach seed which I placed in a box 
of damp sand in the cellar, intending to beep 
the seed moist until freezing time. I forgot 
to freeze the seed and in the Spiing took it 
from the damp sand and planted it; but the 
frost was not severe enough after planting to 
freeze it. Not a single tree came up that sea¬ 
son; but the next year I think every seed pro¬ 
duced a tree. Did the freezing caus9 the seed 
to germinate? [It hastened it, no doubt.— 
Eds ] Lysander W. Babbitt. 
White Co., Arkansas. 
0 w o io nic 
THE WALBURTON ADMIRABLE 
PEACH. 
This week we present to onr readers an 
illustration of the Waiburton Admirable 
Peach which is a great favorite at Newport, 
R. I., where it is raised under glass, os de¬ 
scribed by "Leon” in tli* Rural of September 
16, Mr Robert Caristie, one of the most ex¬ 
tensive growers of tbisand other Rhode Island 
favorites, says: "These peaches are retailing 
for five and six dollars per dozen. The seasou 
for high prices here for yoocl fruit is from the 
second we-k in August till after the middle of 
September. During that period first-class 
peaches and nectarines bring from five to 
eight dollars per d< z a. the prices being, of 
course, much regulated by Ihe relation of sup 
ply aud deman I.” These peaches are green¬ 
house grown, but they are hardly forced at 
all beyond giving them merely glass pro¬ 
tection. The Waiburton is a late peach. 
A WALK AMONG THE APPLE 
TREES. 
The first thing I notice in the orchard is that 
the trees bear marks of last Summer’s 
drought: many of the old trees are dead, and 
nearly all show dead limbs. The early varie¬ 
ties that had ripened their fruit before the 
drought had fairly set in, are not so much 
injured. Though not speaking now on the 
subject of evergreens, it is my opinion tint 
dry weather kills more than cold in this 
section. Trees of all varieties ihat root near 
the surface may be expected to winter-kill 
whenever the ground freezes up dry and con¬ 
tinues several weeks in thatconditi in. During 
the dry spell of last Summer, i noticed the 
same appearance of leaf and bark that pre¬ 
cedes wbat we are in the habit of calling 
•’winter-kill.” There is no doubt but that the 
dry weather con kill trees when i here is ORly 
one-and-a-half inch of rain for 90 days. Trees 
started well thisSpring and considerable fruit 
set. This has been and is falling off rather 
CHARLOTTFNHALFR, GRAND SUL¬ 
TAN, AND YELLOW TRANSPARENT. 
T. H. HOSKINS, M. D. 
SEEDLING PEACHES, 
These three fine, early Russian apples, 
which as market appies will, I think, take 
the place of the E irly Harvest (though in¬ 
ferior In quality) have this year all fruited 
together in my orchard. The Yellow Trans¬ 
parent and Charlottenhaler are numbers 834 
and 343 on the list of Russian.apples imported 
by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 
18T0. The Grand Sultan was sent to mein 1873 
by Mr. D. W. Adams, then of Waukon, Iowa, 
I notice in the Rural of July 15 a com¬ 
munication from Jos. Hubbard, of Mason 
Co., Mich., in which be gives his experience 
in an attempt to raise seedling peaches, which 
is entinly different from my own; yet he 
may be correct. 
For many years I have not attempted to 
c .ltivate peach trees, for the reason that 
where I resided they were almost invariably 
winter-killed, and when the trees did not kill 
down to the ground the fruit buds were kd ed; 
hence 1 may conclude that things have 
greatly changed ’’since I was in my teens.” 
I believe that a seedling makes a better tree 
than one from budding, for the reason that 
the seedling may be planted where it is to 
stand in the orchard, while it is more conveni¬ 
ent to raise budded trees in a nursery. I 
think it highly beneficial to a peach tree 
to have a lung tap root—aud a seedling 
will have this root, But, says one, "You 
may plaut the seed where it is to staud, aud 
when the tree is one year old you can bud it 
and have the advantage of the taproot.’ 
This would answer, if we would do it; but 
when a tree is in its place where it is to grow 
most persons, through uegligeuce or disin¬ 
clination. fail to attend to budding it, end it 
grows up to bearing a seedling tree. 
"When I was a boy my father had an 
orchard of peach trees containing over 100 
trees. In the center of the orehaid were two 
trees which were known as the “Old aud 
Young Rireripe.” All of the other trees 
were later—some yellow and some white. 
Now, if there is such a thing as the crossing 
of peaches, one would suppose the seed of 
these two trees would have been crossed, but 
such wa3 not the case. The young Rareripe 
wua a seedling from the old tree, and iu its 
fruit there was no perceivable difference 
from that of the parent tree. Around my 
father’s apple orchard was an old-fashioned 
crooked rail fence. In order to have the 
corners kept clean from weeds and briars, my 
father said 1 might have and market all the 
peaches I could raise In the fence corners. 1 
planted and ruised 60 peach trees from seed 
taken from the old and young Rareripes, and 
every tree produced fruit in every respect like 
the parent tree. 
The people here in “ Arkansaw,” who are 
largely engaged in peach growing, say that 
the seed from budded trees will not reproduce 
the same variety, but the seedllug will repro¬ 
duce itself. They argue that the sap of the 
root and that of the bud combine and change, 
or cross the seed, so that it aoes not reproduce 
TIIE PEACH, WALBURTON ADMIRABLE 
From Nature.—Fig. 324 
with the Dommesta of Bessarabia and several 
other kinds not on the Department list, aud 
probably belonging to another importation. 
For several years after these apples began 
to bear I believed them to be distinct, al¬ 
though greatly resembling each other, both 
in tree and fruit. But as more aud more 
trees of these kinds came into bearing (l have 
about 40 of them) I have gradually been con¬ 
vinced that they are identical At least there 
are no perceptible differences in the trees, 
nor in the fruit when grown under the same 
conditions. At first I had only Yellow 
Transparent and Grand Sultan, the former 
being considerably the older tree and bear¬ 
ing full, while the latter gave only a few 
specimens, which were larger and apparently 
more than common. The early apples that 
have fruited are: 
Pkince’8 Early Harvest, [better known 
as Early Harvest. Eds.] About half last 
year’s crop; in quality best; productive and 
for suitable localities good; a little uncertain; 
a deep soil and rolling surface I believe the 
right conditions for this variety. 
Fourth of July: quality poor, and tree 
unthrifty; of no value here. 
Primate appears as Though it will be pro¬ 
ductive; quality best; tree grows crooked 
when youug; a nice grower in the orchard: at 
the present time it is the best early apnle that 
I know of; color a pale yellow and, like the 
Prince’s Harvest, every bruise shows. 
Summer Rose: a slow grower, quality best 
