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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September ill 
; Ruralisms ; 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Kaki.y Bearing Fruits. —The picture 
shown at Fig. 232 represents a cluster of 
four perfectly developed Yellow Trans¬ 
parent apples taken from a thrifty young 
tree planted live years ago, just out¬ 
side a poultry yard on the Rural 
Grounds. Blossoms were first produced 
last year. Although bloom was very 
scanty this season about 30 apples were 
carried through to edible ripeness. The 
fruits shown one-half natural size in the 
cut were as fair and smooth as if model¬ 
ed in yellow wax. Such a cluster should 
be thinned to one or at most two apples 
in a bearing tree, but Nature developed 
these specimens as perfectly as if there 
had been no crowding. The quality of 
Yellow Transparent apples is quite simi¬ 
lar to the Early Harvest, so great a fa¬ 
vorite of the farmer’s boy. There is the 
same spicy pleasant acidity and mellow 
fiesh, but the latter variety here leads 
a few days in earliness. The cooking 
quality is all that can be desired. Yel¬ 
low Transparent makes a handsome 
smooth-barked tree, with branches less 
divergent than Early Harvest, and bids 
fair to be longer-lived and more produc¬ 
tive than that old favorite, which needs 
close attention and high culture to pro¬ 
duce satisfactory crops. These apples 
would probably sell well in local mar¬ 
kets when known, as they are usually 
fair and of good size. Occasionally 
specimens are seen with a fine red 
cheek, but the color is usually an almost 
uniform transparent, waxy yellow. The 
Yellow Transparent was imported by 
the National Department of Agriculture 
from northern Russia in 1870, and after 
thorough testing was introduced to gen¬ 
eral cultivation by the late Dr. T. H. 
Hoskins, of Vermont. It is now gener¬ 
ally offered by nurserymen as the most 
promising early light-colored apple, but 
no considerable number of trees have 
yet come into commercial bearing. 
Bismarck was sent out several years 
ago as a very precocious bearer, but our 
trees, planted three years, have borne no 
fruit, although a few bloom clusters 
have been produced. The only Bismarck 
apples grown in this locality are borne 
on trees planted five or six years ago. 
They are large and handsome, yellow, 
more or less flushed with red. They 
ripen in late Fall and are quite showy, 
but the quality is very ordinary. They 
cook well and will be appreciated for 
culinary purposes if grown in commer¬ 
cial quantities. From our observation 
Bismarck is not as likely to bear soon 
after planting as either Oldenburg or 
Rome Beauty. 
Harris Apricot. —About a dozen fine 
apricots ripeneu on a tree of the well- 
known Harris variety planted three 
years ago against the west wall of a 
building. This apricot blooms later than 
other varieties on trial, and is regarded 
as more reliable than any other in this 
climate. The fruits are of good size and 
much better in quality than the Califor¬ 
nia apricots so freely shipped east in 
their season. 
Peaches. —Carman is the first variety 
to produce a satisfactory crop on a 
three-year tree, though several others 
are bearing a limited number of good 
fruits. We picked 168 perfect peaches 
from the trial tree August 4. They 
more than filled an ordinary 18-quart 
peach basket and made a fine show with 
their rich and tasteful coloring. The 
quality was very agreeable, the texture 
of the flesh being quite melting. Ripen¬ 
ing during a wet season they would be 
considered as clingstones, but are said 
to be quite free if developed in dry 
weather. The Carman seems to be of 
great promise as an early variety from 
its size, beauty and productiveness. More 
than half of the fruits set were thinned 
out, but as usual rather too many were 
left to ripen. There was no indication 
of rot at any time. 
Waddell came in 12 days after Car¬ 
man, with a good sprinkling of large, 
handsome, creamy white peaches, flush¬ 
ed with bright red on the sunny side. 
The eating quality is somewhat better 
than Carman. Though called a free¬ 
stone variety the flesh adhered quite 
firmly this rainy season. Waddell makes 
a Very stocky tree and is reputed very 
hardy in bud. It is a fine peach and evi¬ 
dently well adapted to this locality. The 
trees of Waddell and Carman were re¬ 
ceived for trial from J. H. Hale, South 
Glastonbury, Conn., in the Spring of 
1900. They have made a very healthy 
and compact growth. 
Iron Mountain. —Tree received from 
J. H. Black, Son & Co., Hightstown, N. 
J., at the same time as above, is very 
well set with fruit, which looks as if it 
would fully develop. 
Emperor. —Of the same age, also from 
J. H. Black, Son & Co., has grown into 
a fine symmetrical tree. It bloomed 
sparingly this Spring and is carrying a 
few large fruits. The following varie¬ 
ties were home-propagated from bud3 
obtained from reliable nurseries on se¬ 
lected Tennessee stocks, four years ago, 
and set in present position in 1900. Tri¬ 
umph and Sneed bore each a fair num¬ 
ber of good fruits, ripening by July 20. 
There was little rot, and the quality in 
both cases was good for such early 
peaches. Sneed is white-fleshed while 
Triumph is yellow. The latter is very 
attractive externally, having a rich, dark 
red cheek contrasting finely with the 
yellow skin. These new early kinds are 
sure to be useful for home planting if 
not needed in the market. 
Holderbaum comes from the moun¬ 
tains of southwestern Pennsylvania, 
where the original tree had been exposed 
to the locally severe Winters without 
missing a crop for nearly 20 years. It 
was described as immense in size, 12 to 
14 inches in circumference, light cream 
yellow in color with a pronounced red 
cheek; firm in texture, freestone; light 
yellow flesh streaked with red and of 
extra good flavor. Our tree has borne a 
number of fair-sized peaches, with faint 
yellow skins and nearly white flesh, 
semi-cling, pit small. The quality is 
above the average for Summer peaches. 
There is no indication of great size in 
fruit, which ripened the third week in 
August. The tree grows in a vigorous 
and sturdy manner. There is as yet no 
real test of bud hardiness, though the 
young peaches are so heavily covered 
with down that they would be likely to 
resist a considerable frost. 
Champion bore a few large, hand¬ 
some white-fleshed freestone peaches. 
The coloring is a pleasing mixture of 
creamy white and deep red. A meritor¬ 
ious fruit growing on a sturdy well- 
formed tree. 
Tyiiurst bears 50 to 60 rather large, 
depp yellow, yellow-fleshed, freestone 
peaches of a rich and pleasant flavor, 
ripening just at the beginning of Sep¬ 
tember. The tree has firm wood with a 
tendency to grow tall. This variety 
came from J. H. Hale with no comment 
as to its characteristics. We know lit¬ 
tle about it, not having met with a pub¬ 
lished description, but are inclined to 
regard it with favor for home use. The 
present fruits would scarcely be showy 
enough for market. 
Plums. —A few plums have borne this 
third Summer after planting, but with 
the exception of the Hale, which is rip¬ 
ening a fair crop, the setting was very 
light. 
Wyant, from the Huntsville Nurser¬ 
ies, Huntsville, Ala., bore a few round 
dark-red plums with rich, meaty, high- 
flavored pulp. It is a freestone and one 
of the best natives in quality. 
Klondyke, from the Huntsville Nur¬ 
series, and Golden Beauty, our own pro¬ 
pagation, both bore sparingly. The 
plums are very much alike and ripened 
at the same time in late August. Both 
are deep yellow in color with sweet yel¬ 
low flesh clinging to a rather large 
stone. The size averaged smaller than 
Wild Goose as grown here. Klondyke 
has a more upright growth than Golden 
Beauty, but the foliage is less glossy and 
vigorous. 
The Hale, as above noted, is bearing 
heavily for such young trees. The tree 
is a very rapid and vigorous grower. 
Although the young plums were freely 
stung by the curculio but little damage 
was done. This is claimed to be best in 
quality among the Japan plums, but we 
have not yet had opportunity to test the 
flavor. w. v. f. 
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The benefits that will undoubtedly re¬ 
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Company which took over the business 
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community. 
The economical necessity of a consoli¬ 
dation of the interests of manufacturers 
and those of their farmer customers 
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The increased and increasing cost of 
material, manufacturing and selling— 
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