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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The season has been good for tobacco, 
corn and vegetables. Melons, too, were 
abundant; our first were shipped May 20 
The yield of strawberries was good and 
long continued, from February 1 to Juno 
20. Berries covered with pine-tree straw 
were gathered the day after the hard freeze 
in February, and the vines looked beauti¬ 
ful with red berries interspersed, on Feb¬ 
ruary 14, with snow almost covering the 
ground. Prices were good through March 
and April; $1.25 per quart in February. 
Dade City, Fla. w. e. e. 
We have had a very good growing sea¬ 
son this year, and all kinds of crops are 
extra good, except potatoes. The early 
potatoes are small, but lots of them in a 
hill, but not a third of them marketable. 
Late potatoes were the reverse; they were 
good size, but very few; altogether not 
one-third of an average crop. The reason 
is not apparent, as the season was the 
best we ever saw. We had from six to 12 
rains every month, and all other crops 
were very good. The only time without 
rain was from August 11 to 23. Wheat, 
oats, corn and grass were one-fourth 
above an average. There is a half-crop of 
apples, and we had about half a crop of 
other fruit, except peaches and quinces. 
Last Winter’s cold froze some of my 
quince down to the roots, and hurt all the 
rest a good deal more than the peaches. 
Of 30 different gx-dpes none stood the freeze 
except the Woiden and Concoi'd. The Ni¬ 
agara was hurt the worst. b. r. 
Broad Ford, Pa. 
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4. The Ribston is another old English 
apple that is very dull in color, being 
greenish yellow with some smoky red 
and mixed russet. The flavor is rather 
sharp acid. It is not so popular in the 
foreign markets as either Tompkins 
King or Baldwin. Across the water 
they are getting to prefer our apples to 
their own. 
5. Wagener is one of the very first to 
begin to bear, and is very suitable as 
a filler. It is excellent in quality, hand¬ 
some red, of good size, and keeps well. 
It has the defect of not having a good 
root system, but for this purpose it is 
not especially objectionable. Wealthy 
would be a good filler, but it would not 
keep la'.e even so far north as Nova 
Scotia. Sutton would be a good variety 
to try, and Arctic, which is much newer, 
but very attractive and good otherwise, 
is worthy of trial. I would also advise 
that York Imperial be tested there. 
1899 
Van Deman’s Fruit Notes. 
ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Apples for Southern Texas. 
I wish to set an orchard of three or more 
acres to apples, pears and prunes for mar¬ 
ket. What varieties would you recom¬ 
mend as being adapted to that portion of 
Texas along the Colorado, 25 miles south 
of Austin? The considerations are quality, 
productiveness, keeping and healthfulness, 
and Include, for apples and pears, Fall and 
Winter varieties. t. t. h. 
Lysander, N. Y. 
Southern Texas is not a good section 
for the apple and prune, although a few 
kinds are grown there with moderate 
success. I would not advise attempting 
to grow Winter apples there. It cannot 
be done. Some of the most adaptable 
kinds are Yellow Transparent, Olden¬ 
burg, Ben Davis and Shockley. Even 
the Shockley, which is a very late apple 
for the South, ripens in central Texas 
in the Fall. Ben Davis does the same. 
The other two are Summer varieties, 
and endure the heat better than most 
kinds. I would not plant prune trees 
there at all, except as a matter of 
doubtful experiment. 
Pears do much better, some kinds 
being eminently successful. Those of 
•the Chinese type do the best. Kieffer, 
Garber and Le Conte all pay very well, 
although they are poor in quality. The 
better kinds are less certain of success, 
but Bartlett, Seckel, Angouleme, Alamo 
and a few others do fairly well. 
Winter Apples for Kentucky. 
1. What are the best six varieties of 
Winter apples for the central part of Ken¬ 
tucky, for market, principally? 2. The best 
three varieties for Summer and Fall-, home 
or market? 3. Name the best varieties of 
peaches. 4. Also give the best American 
plums. Late frosts are the rule here of 
late years, and they often damage small 
fruits as well as peaches and plums. Ap¬ 
ples are seldom an entire failure here. 
Paynes, Ky. J - w - H - 
1. For central Kentucky, among the 
best Winter apples for a market orchard 
are: Ben Davis, Jonathan, York Im¬ 
perial, Stayman, Rome Beauty and Mis¬ 
souri. The latter is a very precocious 
bearer, and especially good for a filler. 
By this, I mean, a variety to plant be¬ 
tween the others, as a temporary tree, 
to use the space for 15 years or so, and 
then to be cut out to make room for the 
longer-lived trees. It is a very profit¬ 
able variety. All of the six just named 
are red apples, and keep quite well, ex¬ 
cept Jonathan, which is an early Winter 
yariety in the climate of Kentucky. 
2. Three varieties are not enough 
Summer and Fall kinds for general use 
What is wanted is a succession, and not 
many of any one variety. I would ad¬ 
vise about two trees each of the follow¬ 
ing for an ordinary orchard: Summer 
Rose, Red June, Primate, Fanny, Sum¬ 
mer Pearmain, Jefferis, Melon and 
Grimes. These varieties will make an 
unbroken succession from the time the 
earliest Summer kinds begin to ripen 
until the late Fall or early Winter va¬ 
rieties come in. 
3. For general use a good list of 
peaches would be: Triumph, Mountain 
Rose, Elberta, Reeves Favorite, Old- 
mixon Free, Crothers, Salway and 
Heath Cling. 
4. Of the native American plums 
there are many excellent kinds from 
which to make choice. Wild Goose, 
Newman, Moreman, Milton, Smiley, 
Stoddard, Rockford and Golden Beauty, 
are among the very best of this class. 
They are arranged in order of ripening, 
or nearly so, as is the case with the 
peaches and early apple list. 
Rabbits and Fruit. 
How can I cheaply and effectively keep 
rabbits and mice from gnawing the bark 
from young apple ti’ees during Winter? 
Waukesha, Wis. R- K - 
With the return of each Fall this 
question comes up, and very properly, 
too. The only sure way to prevent the 
rabbits from eating the bark off young 
apple trees is to put some wrapping 
about them that will remain on during 
the entire Winter. I have had a long 
and sad experience with rabbits in the 
West, where they are much more nu¬ 
merous and destructive than in the 
eastern States. Do not depend on 
washes of any kind, no matter what is 
said by those who have tried them. 
We sometimes have Winters when al¬ 
most anything will keep them safely, 
or when nothing is needed. But the 
time will come, sooner or later, when all 
else will fail but the wrapping. A tree 
does not need killing but once; and one 
injured by rabbits is about as good as 
dead. 
The cheapest sure preventive is a 
wooden veneer, about two feet long, 
and wide enough to go around the tree; 
which is usually about 10 or 12 inches. 
In Missouri they use such material, 20 
inches long and 10 wide. These pieces, 
1-12-inch thick, cost $3 per 1,000 in 
St. Louis or Kansas City. In the regions 
where the snows are deeper, 24 inches 
would be a better length. Such wrap¬ 
pers are very easily put on, and may 
be left on Winter and Summer, as they 
are serviceable in preventing sunscald 
in some measure. They will last for sev¬ 
eral years, even if made of quite perish¬ 
able wood. 
For the prevention of gnawing by 
mice this same wood veneer band is 
quite good. However, mice sometimes 
work just at the surface of, or under the 
ground, eating off the bark below where 
these wrappers would come. The re¬ 
moval of all grass and other trash is a 
necessity, and the farther from the tree 
the better. If there is none in the or¬ 
chard, so much the better; for mice will 
be harbored by it wherever it may be; 
and it is an easy matter to plow it un¬ 
der. Mice also work under soft snow. 
To tramp the snow hard about the base 
of each tree, soon after each heavy fall, 
is a good plan, for they do not like to 
dig through hard snow. It is none too 
soon to attend to these preventive 
measures at once; because rabbits and 
mice both begin their depredations 
much earlier than we are often aware. 
Apples for Nova Scotia. 
1. What do you think of planting an 
orchard of three acres with the following- 
varieties for the English markets: Graven- 
stein, Tompkins King, Ribston and Non¬ 
pareil? The soil is a deep loam, running off 
to a gravelly loam subsoil, with clay about 
two to three feet below the surface. 2. I 
would like another hard red Winter apple 
besides the King, or to take its place. 3. Is the 
Nonpareil known in the States by another 
name, as I cannot find it in Barry’s Fruit 
Garden? It is a small flattish russet apple, 
greenish white flesh, and keeps until very 
late. It is counted here as the standard 
late apple, and sells for the highest price 
in the English market. 4. How does the 
Ribston compare with the Tompkins King 
and Baldwin in price in English markets? 
Is it considered a standard sort in that 
market? 5. Does the Wagener come into 
bearing early, and could it be used as a 
filler to be removed when crowding be¬ 
gins? Has it any defects? s. mc. c. 
Bridgetown, N. S. 
1 and 2. Gravenstein is one of the 
most delicious and acceptable apples 
that goes to the European markets. It 
is also a very good variety in the or¬ 
chard, and is one of the kinds that it 
W: uld be advisable to plant in Nova 
Scotia. Tompkins King is a large, 
beautiful and good apple every way, 
except that the tree is tender, and not 
as sure a bearer as it should be. I 
would prefer Hubbardston. It is fully 
as good in quality, is large enough, is a 
good keeper in that region, and the 
color is good, but not so brilliant as 
Tompkins King. As an orchard tree it 
is far better. 
3. Nonpareil is the true name of an 
old English apple that is small and 
usually quite well covered with russet. 
It has long been a favorite in the Eng¬ 
lish markets, and may be one of the 
profitable kinds to grow for that trade, 
but I ha' e never grown it. Local ex¬ 
perience ought to be the best guide as 
to whether it should be planted or not. 
It has many other names in England, 
but is rarely grown in America. 
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Pain or dull ache in the back. 
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Inexplaiuable irritability. 
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