THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 13 
176 
Sweet and Sour Mixed Apple. 
L. (S'. Clear Lake, Iowa .—Has there ever been 
grown an apple, one side sweet and the other 
sour ? If so, I would like to know how it was 
accomplished ? 
Ans. —There is really no such thing' as 
a variety of apple, or other fruit, so far 
as I know, that is sweet on one side and 
sour on the other. However, there are 
some apples that are rather sour when 
not fully ripe, that, afteiwards, become 
very mild in flavor or decidedly sweet. 
Bentley is one of this character, for it is 
mild subacid at gathering' time, and 
quite sweet before it gets mellow. Rhode 
Island Greening has the peculiarity of 
ripening rather unevenly in some rare 
cases—one part or side getting ripe be¬ 
fore the other—hence, having different 
flavors in the same specimen. Other 
varieties may do the same. This has, 
perhaps, led to the somewhat misguided 
belief by some as suggested by the above 
question. H. e. v. d. 
Tar Paper on Peaches ; Pruning. 
V. L. P., Pittsburgh, Pa. —1. Is tar paper in¬ 
jurious to young peach trees to protect them 
against borers ? 2. Should two-year-old peach 
trees in the second year after being set out, be 
pruned, and if so, to what extent? 3. Could 
native chestnut sprouts, two or three inches in 
diameter, be successfully grafted with scions of 
Paragon or Japan chestnut? 
Ans. —1. Yes ! I have tried it to my 
own loss. It will injure apple or any 
other kind of tree that I ever tried it 
upon. 2. There is wide variation as to 
the methods of pruning peach trees, but 
all good peach orchardists agree that 
they should be kept headed back quite 
well. Trees set two years ought to be 
headed back one-third to one-half their 
last year’s growth, and in uniform style, 
so that the tree will be found headed 
and not with long, bare branches near 
the trunk. 3. Yes. There are many 
acres of wild chestnut sprouts now 
grafted to Paragon, and growing well, 
in Pennsylvania. The Japan chest¬ 
nuts, will, also, grow very well grafted 
on our wild species. h. e. v. d. 
THE R. N.-Y.’S REVIEW OF THE 
CATALOGUES OF 1897. 
(Continued from February 27.) 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, 
Conn.—A catalogue of ornamental trees, 
shrubs, vines, etc., of 64 pages. This 
old firm keeps a very large assortment 
of almost everything in the nursery line, 
and can fill orders as promptly and satis¬ 
factorily as any firm in the country. No 
other nursery has a larger stock of apple 
and forest trees. 
Ellis Brothers, Keene, N. H.—A cat¬ 
alogue of 76 pages. An engraving is 
presented which shows the beautiful 
hybrids with Wichuraiana produced by 
Mr. Manda. Many of these are as double 
as Clothilde Soupert. The firm deals in 
ferns, geraniums, palms, fuchsias, ver¬ 
benas, roses, basket plants, hardy per¬ 
ennials and flower seeds. 
C. H. Joosten, 193 Greenwich Street, 
N. Y.—Trade price list of bulbs, roots 
and plants. The prices are very low. 
Cannas are offered for $1 per dozen, 
Gladioli for $1 and upwards per hundred, 
mixed varieties. The prices for roses, 
rhododendrons, Azaleas and Clematis 
are proportionately low. Attention is 
directed to the prices of Holland-grown 
cabbage seed. 
Charles Wright, Seaford, Del.—A 
descriptive catalogue of the Peachland 
Nurseries—340 acres in fruits. The claim 
is made that it contains the largest trial 
peach orchard in the world. Every 
scion, it is said, is cut from those trees 
which show the greatest vigor and pro¬ 
ductiveness combined with fruit of the 
largest size, highest color and finest 
quality. The Mamie Ross pe*ch is de¬ 
scribed as twice as large as, and finer in 
every way than Rivers, with which it 
ripens. Connet Early is described as a 
sister of the Elberta, ripening nearly a 
week before Mountain Rose. Cannon 
(Continued on next page.) 
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