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October 13 
Van Deman’s Fruit Notes. 
AM. SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Peaches for Southern Connecticut. 
C. P. A., Woodbridge, Conn .—I am putting 
in a trial orchard of peaches. Will you 
suggest some large late var'etics. yellow 
and white, that will ripen in southern 
Connecticut not later than October JO? 
Ans. —Among the best large late yel¬ 
low freestone peaches are Chairr, Great 
Western and Geary. There are several 
late yellow clings of good quality, and 
among them are Henrietta and Lonoke. 
Of the late white-fleshed freestone varie¬ 
ties Walker, Crothers and Bonanza are 
the best I know. All of these are de¬ 
pendable kinds and good in quality, 
therefore are suitable for either market 
or home use. 
Worm-eaten Quinces. 
M. D. M., Wallingford, Conn .—My quince 
trees set full every year and hang on as 
at present, but are absolutely worthless, 
because so worm-eaten; not a spot as big 
as a quarter of a dollar that is free from 
worm effects. Possibly you know of a 
remedy. If so, will you give it? 
Ans. —It is quite probable that this is 
the work of the Quince curculio. It is 
a mean little enemy to fight. It cannot 
be poisoned, nor is it easily driven away. 
The only remedy of which I know is 
jarring the trees and catching che adult 
beetles. This must be begun soon after 
the fruit gets well to growing, and kept 
up as long as there are any curculios to 
be caught. It is easy to tell by the 
catch whether they are present or not. 
The jarring should be done every day 
or two, that the bugs do not have time 
to get in their work. 
Cherries and Plums for Connecticut. 
C. D. S., Stepney, Conn .—Give a list of two 
or three varieties each of early, medium 
and late cherries for family use, suitable 
for climate of southwest Connecticut; also 
same of plums. Would you advise set¬ 
ting out these trees this Fall, or wait till 
Spring? 
Ans. —In selecting cherries for family 
use in Connecticut it would be well to 
plant both sweet and sour varieties. Of 
the former, if we may be allowed to in¬ 
clude with the sweet kinds some that 
are of the same style of growth but a 
little tart in flavor, some of the best are 
May Duke, Tartarian, Choisey, Hor- 
tense, Mercer and Windsor. The sour 
or Morello type are very dependable, and 
of these Richmond, Montmorency and 
English Morello are the very test. Both 
these lists are arranged in order of 
ripening. In general it is best to set 
stone fruits of all kinds in the Spring 
in all climates; but where the Winters 
are mild it will do to plant in the Fall. 
Questions About Peaches. 
A. S. B., Waynesboro, Pa .—What would you 
advise doing with three and four-year-old 
peach trees affected with San Jos6 scale? 
Would you advise plowing or cultivating a 
peach orchard in the Fall? Is fertilizing 
and pruning an orchard proper in the Fall? 
Ans. —No matter how few scales may 
be seen on these trees, there may be 
many more tnan is supposed, and the 
greatest alarm should be taken at their 
presence. The trees should be cut back 
severely as soon as the leaves are off, 
and that sprayed thoroughly with crude 
petroleum. If they die from tne effects 
the scales will surely die, and if they 
survive the ordeal, which they probably 
will, then they should be critically 
watched for signs of the dreaded pest 
when the new growth is well started. 
If it is there then I should burn them at 
once and start with new trees that had 
been well fumigated with hydrocyanic 
acid gas. In fact, I would buy trees of 
no nurseryman who did not so fumigate 
every tree and plant he sent out. Fall 
culture of peach orchards is generally 
disapproved, and I think wisely in most 
cases. By that I mean late Fall, when 
a very late growth of the trees would 
be induced. A good plan is to sow a 
Fall seeding of oats in peach orchards 
about September, and let the soil alone 
until the next Spring. This will check 
late growth of the trees, form a green 
coating for the soil until the frost kills 
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it, and then protect it in a measure from 
the changes of the Winter. Manuring 
orchards with farm manures or those 
bought in the markets is very wise for 
Fall treatment. They dissolve and be¬ 
come incorporated with the soil much 
more perfectly than if applied in the 
Spring, except nitrate of soda, which is 
very quickly soluble and never should 
be applied more than a few weeks be¬ 
fore it is expected to take effect upon 
the crop. During the growing season is 
usually the best time to use this special 
fertilizer. 
Mounding Trees in Late Fall. 
B. F. C., Kansas City, Mo .—What objec¬ 
tions, If any, are there to mounding fruit 
trees in the late Fall? What benefits 
would be derived by this practice? The 
orchard I am especially interested in is in 
central Michigan. 
Ans. —I can see no special objection to 
mounding orchard trees in the Fall, but 
several benefits. If the earth was 
mounded and tramped hard about base 
of the trees there would be little danger 
of mice gnawing them in Winter, for 
they work under trash and loose snow. 
The mound would give them less oppor¬ 
tunity than if the ground were level. It 
would also help to hold young trees in 
position until their roots were firmly es¬ 
tablished. In the case of peach trees, 
the borers should be most careiully dug 
out before mounding. This is a good 
plan to follow in a peach orchard in 
Spring, thus compelling the insect to 
lay its eggs where the grubs that hatch 
and go into the tree may be more easily 
found than if they were beneath the 
level of the ground. 
Plums and Peaches for Virginia. 
A. F. A., Claremont, Vo.—I have fruited 
Burbank, Satsuma, Red June, Cnabot and 
Abundance plums, and am well pleased 
with the last three, they being free from 
rot and surer bearers than the hardiest 
peaches. Satsuma and Burbank would be 
valuable except for the rot. We never get 
ripe Satsuma, and some years no Burbank. 
All are proof against the curculio, and 
must be thinned for best results. I have 
some of the Hale, but fear to set more till 
I know whether it rots in the South. I also 
have some trees two years set, of Shipper, 
Juicy and Delaware procured of a New 
Jersey nursery. They were highly recom¬ 
mended by them a few years ago, but I see 
they do not catalogue them now, so I sup¬ 
pose they have found them worthless. 
Who knows anything about them? Should 
I graft them over while they are young 
and easily grafted? I want to set 25 peach 
trees for home use, and home market. All 
the early kinds except Sneed, and many of 
the late ones, rot. Mountain Rose is the 
earliest that partly escapes rot. Champion 
nearly all rotted this season, and it has 
been a favorable season, too. Elberta, 
Stump and Late Crawford do very well. I 
shall plant some of the Carman, but should 
like some rot-proof variety to come be¬ 
tween Sneed and Carman; also some late 
after Crawford Late. I can use red and 
white as well as yellow varieties. Triumph 
all rots, if I have it true to name. I have 
tried spraying with Bordeaux, but it has 
always burned the foliage even when used 
as weak as our station recommends. I 
have sprayed my young orchard, now six 
years old, from the start, and have given 
my trees good care, but my apple trees 
blighted the worst of any I have ever seen 
here. York Imperial blighted the worst, 
and Winesap and Arkansas Black the least. 
Apples are all rotting on the trees in spite 
of Bordeaux. I saved all my grapes, even 
the tender kinds, but cannot save the ap¬ 
ples and peaches. 
Ans. —Here are some plum questions 
for our experimenters and growers to 
answer. Who can tell this man and the 
rest of us what he wants to know about 
these new Jai an plums? It would hard¬ 
ly be advisable to top-graft the trees 
until more is known of them. As to 
peaches for “home use and home mar¬ 
ket,” there are many of good quality, 
but those that are free from liability to 
rot are not easy to select. One that will 
“come between Sneed and Carman” may 
he found in Greensboro or Mamie Ross. 
Both these are very good, and of south¬ 
ern origin, and seem to meet the require¬ 
ments there. Chairs is a very little later 
than Late Crawford and fully its equal 
in every way. Gold Drop is still later, 
Geary is of the Smock type, and better 
than that old standard in almost every 
way. The very warm weather this year 
has had much to do with the rotting of 
all fruits. The fungus diseases need heat 
to propagate their germs. 
Pears in Oklahoma. 
A. D., Blackxcell, O. T.—I am about to set 
out 300 pear trees and wish your advice as 
to kinds (50 of each) for this climate. Our 
soil is perfect for all kinds of trees, being 
a rich clay with a fair mixture of sand and 
plenty of humus; drains well and is 30 feet 
deep. Climate same as southern Kansas, 
this being northeastern Oklahoma. Our 
experience here with nurseries is the worst 
on record. There is not a lot of trees now 
in bearing in this township that is true to 
the kinds bought. I’ll just give you an 
example, and it applies to all this northern 
Oklahoma: After the setting out in 1893 the 
nurseries of Kansas overran the country 
with agents. Thousands of trees were sold 
and paid for. Now I have to cut down 125 
peach trees out of 150, there being only 25 
good ones in the lot. The rest are worth¬ 
less little seedlings such as grow along the 
hedgerows all over western Kansas. My 
neighbor bought a duplicate of this bill, 
and he has all clings and only one kind. 
Ans. —Almost any of the pears will 
succeed in northeastern Oklahoma as 
well as elsewhere in that part of the 
country. If six kinds are to be selected 
and 50 trees of each, a market orchard 
is evidently desired. Six good commer¬ 
cial varieties for that section are Kief- 
fer, Bartlett, Seckel, Flemish, Sheldon 
and Lawrence. I do not think it would 
be wise to plant an equal number of 
each, out instead 100 Kieffer and 100 
Bartlett, and 25 of each of the other four 
kinds. There are honest nurserymen in 
Kansas and elsewhere, but somehow the 
scamps in the tree business are among 
the first to invade a new country. Nor 
do they confine their game to the pio¬ 
neers in newly-settled territories, where 
all are more or less at a loss to know 
what to plant, but they work their little 
schemes at the very doors of the Mecca 
of the nursery business, as we have been 
told in these columns within die past 
few months. It is well to know who is 
who oefore buying of tree agents, and 
then have a guarantee of the reliability 
of the varieties. A nurseryman who 
cannot guarantee the truth of the labels 
on his trees should not be patronized. 
Fall is the Best Time 
TO PLANT all the Trees, Plants, Vines and 
Shrubs, both Fruit and Ornamental, that are 
listed. See our Autumn Catalogue. Send for it 
at once. The prices are right. 
T. J. DWYER & SON, 
Orange County Nurseries. Box 1, Cornwall, N.Y. 
200,000 Peach Trees. 
We offer a choice lot of Peach trees, grown from 
Tennessee pits. These trees are healthy and fine. 
Address STEPHEN HOYT'S SONS. New Canaan. Ct. 
' Our Fruit Trees Grow 
We have thousands of all the best varie¬ 
ties of TREES and PLANTS. Full descrip¬ 
tion in our Catalogue—it’s free. Send for 
it to-day. We can save yon money, 
Address 
HIGHLAND NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y. 
Time. 
Those readers who have not yet se¬ 
cured their Fruit Trees for Fall Plant¬ 
ing, should do so at once. Write to some 
responsible Nursery for price list, and 
send your order direct to them, and you 
will get better stock, and at less than 
half the price charged by tree agents. 
A large number of our leading Fruit 
Growers say the finest fruit trees they 
ever received came from Call’s Nurseries, 
Perry, O. They make a specialty of 
dealing direct with the farmers, and 
their prices are always low. 
■peach Trees —One year from bud, 2 to 4c each 
17 It. S. JOHNSTON. Box 4, Stockley, Del. 
BALDWIN 
York Imperial. 3 years, fine. List 
Free. C. D. Wkxgeh, Dayton. Va. 
at Wholesale prices. Apple, Plum 
| nCCd and Pears at $8 per 100. Don’t buy any 
kind of stock until you get our prices. Catalogue 
Free. RELIANCE NURSERY, Box 10. Geneva, N. Y. 
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STAI 
K TREES SUCCEED WHERE 
Largest Nursery. OTHERS FAIL. 
Fruit Book Free. Result of 76 years’ experience. 
STARK BROS., Louisiana, Mo.; Dansville, N.Y. 
A Is ike Clover with Orchard Grass 
D. TV. M., Spring Garden, Pa.— Can Alsike 
clover be sown in early Spring without a 
cover crop? In this section all clover and 
Timothy are sown with wheat or rye, in 
YORK IMPERIAL - KIEFFER. 
One tree to a carload. 
Business trees at business prices. (They are bear¬ 
ers.) Inducements to Peach buyers Let us 
quote you on your want list. 
WOODVIEW NURSERIES, Box 100, Uriah, Pa. 
order to shelter the young plants. I see 
that Mr. Clark sows grass without any 
cover crop, and would like to know 
whether clover can be treated in the same 
way. 
Ans. —Alsike can well be sown with¬ 
out cover crop, but weeds should be cut 
close the first season to enable it to get 
a start. Ten pounds of Alsike and 12 
pounds of Orchard grass per acre go 
well together. Both may be sown in 
Spring. 
AULIFLOWER seed 
High grade Danish seed by mail, direct from the 
grower in Denmark, to your address, postpaid. 
Danish Snowball, % nz - 50c 1 oz. tl.60 1 lb. 118.00 
Dwarf Erfurt. H oz. 05c ioz.tl.8ft lib. 822.00 
KARL NOLLE, 840 E. Fullerton Av. Chicago, Ill. 
ForestTrees. ForestTrees. 
Sugar. Norway. Sycamore. Silverleaf, and other 
Maples by the 1,000 or 10,000. Also Lindens, Poplars, 
Elms, Willows, Mountain Ash, Birch, etc.. In large 
quantities, and Shrubbery by the acre. We can fur¬ 
nish trees from one to three inches in diameter. 
Address STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, New Canaan, Ct. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
SEED POTATOES. 
tilizers. They enrich the earth .—Adv 
ONION SEED.—Perfectly hardy in this country. 
Lb., $2.50; oz., 20c. Size and shape same as Portu¬ 
gal. Sow it now. Pansy Madame Perret. pkt., 25c 
BEAULIEU, Woodhaven, N. Y. 
October Purple Plum Trees. 
The best of all of Mr. Burbank’s Plums. We offer 
a large stock of fine trees, one and two years old 
Address STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS. New Canaan. Ct. 
FULL LIST. PURE STOCK. 
We want good reliable Agents to take orders. 
LIBERAL COMMISSIONS. Address 
LECLARE & MANNING, Farm Seeds, Brighton, N.Y. 
SEED RYE 
k —Very fine, extra 
heavy, well ma¬ 
tured. Will guar¬ 
antee 99 per cent to germinate. While stock lasts 
will fill all orders, bags included, for 90 cents per 
bushel, or 80 cents per bushel In 10-bushel lots, or 
over. A rare chance to get good seed cheap. Quan 
tity limited. Order quick. 
W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 
Labeling trees before digging at the Rogers Nurseries.^Photofshows one-year old Stay man Apples. 
The name on the label is the name of the tree when it’s from 
THE TREE BREEDERS. THE ROGERS NURSERIES, DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
I will send, by express or freight, 1 Paragon, 1 Alpha, 1 Parry’s 
r* O A Giant, 1 Early Reliance, 1 English Walnut, 1 Japan Walnut 
1 Pecan, 1 Bismarck Apple, 1 Dwarf Rocky Mt. Cherry, worth $8.20. Full line of 
Nursery Stock. Certificate. ARTHUR J. COLLINS, Moorestown, Burlington Co., N. J. 
etc., advertise themselves. The best always 
cheapest. Have hundreds of car loads of 
Fruits and Ornamentals. 
40 acres of Hardy Roses. 44 greenhouses of Palms, 
Ficus, Ferns, Roses, etc. Correspondence solicited. 
Catalogue free. 47th year. 1000 acres. 
--* VcttdlU^, UO 11 CU. tltli J Cell • JVW OVIOO. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Painesville, O. 
