keeps longer in usable condition; if a turnip 
radish Extra Early Red Turnip and French 
Breakfast are capital kinds. The white, yel¬ 
low ami black sorts are not appreciated. 
THE JEWEL?. STRAWBERRY, 
A late Rural gives the Jewell Strawberry 
a very poor recommendation for last, year’s 
growth. My experience is decidedly better. 
I set 515 plants, which had the finest roots I 
ever saw. Twenty-one grew and made about 
3 UU plants, most of which were very strong, 
although 1 cut the runners off the main plants 
as soon as the first of them had taken root. 
VVe had the severest drought after harvest we 
ha 1 experienced for many years. By cutting 
the. runners the main plants made a tine stand 
for fruit. They had only good field culture; 
soil, a heavy loam, well manured. My pros¬ 
pects so far are promising. I did not pet 
them, as no pets are wanted by me. If good 
cultivation doesn’t suit any new variety, it 
must make room for something better. I try 
the newer sorts on a small scale. 
Dauphin Co., Pa. e. c. brinser. 
"White Pippin is about perfect for its season, 
except that it keeps rather solid for a table 
apple, being remarkably crisp and brown. 
Tree a good bearer, fruit of fairsize; October. 
Nickajack is a right fair apple, bearing im¬ 
mense crops every other year. 
The list of long keepers for Southern New 
Jersey is almost too long. Roman Stem keeps, 
but is almost too small. Mead’s Keeper is too 
small to be of auy account. London Pippin, 
Ewall, Oglesby, McMurray, Green Cheese, 
"White Winter Pearman, Mountain Pippin, 
and Hancock are all worthy of a trial, but I 
doubt il'auy of them keeps as well as the Ci¬ 
der. We are looking for a fine apple that will 
keep. The Willow Twig will keep until May, 
without much loss, but its quality is not high. 
If this was o good table apple we would be 
satisfied with it. Jersey Russet keeps well 
in some situations, but will not do for South 
Jersey, nor is it hardy in a cold situation. 
Mercer C'o., N. J. ira j. blackwell. 
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link 1881. 
Mr. R. G. Chase, of Geneva, N. Y., 
writes: “In the Iowa Horticultural Report 
for 1884 you mention Chinese peaches in a 
way that leads us to hope they have proven 
worthy of cultivation north of the present 
peach belt. Can you still speak 
favorably of them after the three 
recent severe winters?” 
Wo received small trees of va¬ 
rieties of the peach from Nor 
China near Pekin, in I think 
We put them out with Hill’s Chili 
and Wager, with a view to testing 
their relative hardiness. During 
the roccut hard winters tbe latter 
sorts have died, root and branch, 
while some of the Chinese sorts 
have not killed hack at any time 
to the snow line. They will do us 
no good here, where nothing less 
hardy than the Duchess Apple will 
stand perfectly, but some of 
them have proven hardy in Southern 
Iowa and Northern Missouri where the com¬ 
mon peach killed down in 1884-5. I will add 
that, so far as I know, the hardiest peach in 
the United States was imported by Prof. Sar¬ 
gent, of the Arnold Arboretum. He sent us 
a plant two years ago marked “Peach from 
mountains of Pekin.” So far it has seemed 
about as hardy as Catalpu speeiosa, where the 
hitter was grown on the same rich garden soil 
as that on which the peach stands. If the 
fruit does not prove valuable, this canuot fail 
to he useful as a stock for crossing. 
Again, we received from H. Goeggener, 
Riga, Russia, three years ago, some peach pits 
said to have come from North Bokhara in 
Asia. These all grew and the seedlings have 
large, firm leaves, with peculiar glands at the 
base of the petioles. Last fall many visitors 
were interested in noting the stiffness and rip¬ 
ened firmness of the points of growth at a time 
when the common peach, of the same age, 
would be soft and unripe. 
Possibly uot one of these will bear satisfac¬ 
tory fruit, yet they are interesting in the way 
of showing that the more trying portions of 
Central Asia have hardier forms of the poach 
thau that coming to us originally from Persia. 
At, the great oriental fair atNishiny Novgorod 
in East Europe we were told by a merchant of 
North Bokhara that they grew in great quan- 
til.v varieties of the jieaeh quite as desirable in 
size and quality us uny he had seen from Per¬ 
sia. If so, it is quite possible that some of our 
seedlings may briug fairly good fruit. 
Ag'l College, Ames, la. 
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APPLES FOR SOI'THWESTERN NEW JERSEY 
Mr. John Raab, of Rockland Co.,N.Y., 
on whose lawn the tree from which the Eng¬ 
lish walnuts shown at Fig. 124 stands, writes 
us that it was planted about 52 years ago. and 
was, until several years since, surrounded by 
numerous large fruit and shade trees. About 
10 years ago it begau to bear a few nuts each 
year, and increased the yield gradually until 
three years ago, when it produced nearly a 
barrelful. The next two years it bore less 
7Z.A/-T 
Fig. 124. 
thau a bushel, and the past season it increased 
again to four peach basketfuls. It is a magni¬ 
ficent tree, about 50 feet high, the trunk meas¬ 
uring about two feet in diameter and the 
spread of the limbs covering a circle over 50 
feet across. The soil in which it stands is 
poor and of a reddish color. A noticeable 
fact was that the limbs on the east side of the 
tree bore more nuts than the other parts, 
which was probably due to the rich soil of the 
vegetable garden, which is on that side and 
within 20 feet of the trunk. A year ago last 
fall a few of the nuts were planted and they 
grew nicely. 
The shells of these nuts are so thin that they 
might lie cracked with the teeth, while the 
nuts, as shown, are as full of “meat" as they 
can be. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
In a late Rural F. A., Jefferson, New Jer 
sey, inquired for winter apples that will keep 
longer than the * Baldwin. Probably the 
Smith’s Cider would be most productive and 
profitable. It is a peculiar habit of this apple 
that it will not keep well from young trees, 
hilt utter the trees have made, say, ten years’ 
growth in the orchard, the fruit keeps about 
as well as that of any variety we have, the 
Willow Twig, Banana, and a few others ex¬ 
cepted. York Imperial is not a bad keejier, 
and is a l ight good bearer, but I doubt of its 
bring a very fair apple. Cooper’s Market 
does not promise well with us—too lung getting 
ready to bear and does not keep as well as the 
Cider. Barnesly we find one of the best keep¬ 
ers, This variety is supposed to have origin¬ 
ated near Newtown, Rueks Co., Pa. Lavvver 
is a beautiful apple here. Rome Beauty is a 
fine fruit; tree, a slow grower and the fruit 
keeps perhaps through December 
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ARBORICULTURE 
NUT-BEARING TREE FOR THE SOUTHWEST. 
IF. P., Stuttgart , Ark. —1. What kind of 
nuts are adapted to this climate? 2. Would the 
Japan Chestnut be likely to do well? 8. Is it 
best to plant the nuts where the trees are to 
grow? 4. How old should the trees lie? 
ANSWERED BY T. V. MUNSON (TEXAS). 
The nuts adapted to the climate are, pecan, 
hickory, walnut, English walnut (in very rich 
soil and a somewhat protected place), filbert, 
hazlenut and chestnut. 2. No chestnut suc¬ 
ceeds so well in the Southwest as further east 
where there is more moisture, but on rich, 
limestone soil, sloping northward, nut trees do 
fairly well—better iu Arkansas thau in Texas. 
The hilly country of Northern Arkansas and 
Southern Missouri would grow chestnuts ad¬ 
mirably. 5, Better to set the nuts where the 
trees are to grow, provided the spot is pro¬ 
tected till the tender plnut is well up. But to 
hasten fruit-bearing the tap-root should be cut 
when a year old. Transplanted trees will bear 
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