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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 15 
Questions About Blackberries. 
Which would you prefer for planting— 
sprouts from the old blackberry patch or 
root cuttings? Is it likely that the Mer- 
sereau will displace Snyder? 
Everything being equal the root cut¬ 
ting plants are certainly the safest to 
piant, but if 1 had plenty of good strong 
young sucker plants from a healthy 
plantation to select from 1 would not 
buy root cutting plants from a nur¬ 
sery. On no condition would I take 
plants from an old run-out or diseaseu 
patch. w. A. FREED. 
Pennsylvania. 
in planting a blackberry patch I would 
not use sprouts from my bearing planta¬ 
tion because the mother bush cannot 
produce a paying crop of fruit when the 
roots needed to supply moisture and nu¬ 
trition have been broken or removed, 
and a sucker plant without a portion of 
the main root attached is practically 
worthless. The result is that the dollar 
saved by using your plants is lost, or 
more than lost, in the decreased value 
ul' your crop of fruit. I have fruited 
Snyder blackberry for 17 years and al¬ 
though not my favorite 1 am of the opin¬ 
ion that Mersereau will never displace 
it in this part of Illinois. s. e. hall. 
1 llinois. 
I should advise the use of sprouts 
from the old blackberry patch, provided 
there is no troublesome disease there. 
This is practically what one will get 
from a nursery anyway, unless he buys 
root cuttings. As yet 1 have never been 
able to discover any advantage in root 
cuttings over sucker plants, and should 
nut attempt to get them for my own use. 
1 should say that it is altogether too 
early yet to predict that the Mersereau 
blackberry will displace the Snyder, even 
if it should possess desirable qualities. 
We have not had it long enougn to speak 
intelligently of its value, but 1 note that 
it was severely injured by the Winter 
last year. So far as my own observa¬ 
tions go, 1 prefer Taylor to Snyder in 
the four States where 1 have had oppor¬ 
tunity to see them growing together. 
I''. W. CAUL). 
In the Spring of 1899 I got a lot of 
one-year-old Western Triumph black¬ 
berry plants grown from root cuttings. 
The same Spring 1 sei a lot of sprouts 
or suckers of the same variety in the 
same field, and with precisely the same 
care the former have made four times 
the growth of the latter. As the whole 
field was winterkilled last Winter, i have 
never fruited them, but as good growth 
is necessary for a large crop of fruit the 
chances are greatly in favor of root cut¬ 
tings. I have not yet fruited Mersereau, 
so cannot say as to its merits. We nave 
Snyder, Western Triumph, Erie, Tay¬ 
lor’s Prolific, and Ancient Briton grow¬ 
ing side by side, and Snyder has proved 
so much inferior to the other four 
named varieties that I consider it a back 
number. It has two good qualities, earii- 
ness and hardiness, but is small com¬ 
pared with the others, and the fruit 
changes to a reddish color shortly after 
it is picked, which spoils it for market. 
Williamstown, Mass. a. o. w. 
Apples for Maryland. 
U. O. 8., Collington, Md.— Would you plant 
the Stayman apple instead of Winesap, or 
advise planting half of each? In what is 
the Stayman superior? I have 60 trees of 
Winesap that have done well, though they 
were 10 years planted before bearing. Is 
the Wagener a late Winter and good keep¬ 
ing apple for this section (20 miles east of 
Washington, D. C.)? Is the quality and 
appearance equal to Winesap? I intend 
in use it as a filler. 
Ans.—Y es, I would plant Stayman in¬ 
stead of Winesap, wherever the latter is 
a success, and I would substitute it en¬ 
tirely. The reason is that Stayman is 
larger, of as good quality, nearly as dark 
red, keeps as late, bears as well and be¬ 
gins as early and is very much better in 
habit of tree. Wagener is an apple of 
larger size than Winesap, good red color, 
and as good flavor, but I fear it may not 
be a late keeper when grown near Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., and would prefer Missouri 
for that section as a filler between other 
and more permanent trees, n. e. v. d. 
Winter Apples for Southern Ohio. 
J. a., Uervaie, O.-We wish to set some 
trees for Winter apples in southern Ohio. 
What do you think about Stayman, Jona¬ 
than, Greenville and Boiken, and do these 
varieties bear annually? 
Ans. —Among the best of the Winter 
apples for southern Ohio is Rome 
Beauty. Ben Davis is also profitable 
there, but it is too poor in quality for 
anything but market purposes, and some 
think it too poor for that. Stayman will 
undoubtedly do wen there, and 1 would 
advise planting it. Jonathan is a very 
good apple, but it will ripen rather too 
early to make a Winter variety there. 
Boiken may prove a valuable apple in 
southern Ohio, but i doubt it, and as it 
and Greenville are both yellow in color 
i would not advise planting them in a 
commercial orchard in that region. 
H. E. V. D. 
Peaches, Currants and Cherries. 
C. P. B., Moberly, Mo.— 1. Which in your 
opinion are the best two late cling peaches? 
Are there any better than Heath and Gen¬ 
eral Lee? 2. Which is the best currant to 
plant here? The Fay is a complete failure. 
The bushes will not thrive at all. How are 
Red Cross and Pomona? North Star does 
well and bears heavily, but is too small. 
3. What difference is there outside of the 
name between -Montmorency and Late Duke 
cherries ? 
Ans. —1. The old Heath Cling is yet 
one of the best of the very late clings 
and is only excelled by one of its seed¬ 
lings that is properly called Ringgold 
and is also often called Wilkins. It is 
larger and a sure bearer and otherwise 
veiy desirable. General Dee is not a 
late peach, but a seedling of Chinese 
Cling, and ripens about with Elberta. It 
is large and of good quality, but is not 
a heavy bearer. 2. Red Cross is one of 
the most dependable of all the red cur¬ 
rants, and Pomona is of mild flavor but 
rather small. The old Red Dutch is a 
good variety. 1 do not wonder that Fay 
fails in northern Missouri, for the prai¬ 
rie regions of the West arc very unfa¬ 
vorable to the growth of any kind of 
currant, and Fay is not a very rugged 
kind. It is a good variety where the 
climate is favorable to this fruit. If 
North Star will flourish there 1 would 
feel satisfied, for, althougn it is small 
in fruit, it will perhaps be better than 
some of the larger fruited kinds. 3. 
Montmorency is a red, sour cherry ripen¬ 
ing soon after Richmond is gone, and is 
smaller in fruit and much more hardy 
in tree than Late Duke or any of that 
class. The latter is very good where 
sweet or heart cherries succeed, but that 
is not anywhere in Missouri, except un¬ 
der very favorable conditions, and 
usually only for a few years. Montmor¬ 
ency I have fruited successfully on the 
prairies of Kansas, and this is far the 
better of the two for all that region. 
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