1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
791 
yjMoRE Light Upon the Champion 
Peach. —Assistant Pomologist William 
A. Taylor writes us that in 1886 and 
1887, a Mr. Gibson, then living at New 
Richmond, Allegan County, Mich., had 
a few thousand trees budded by a local 
nurseryman from an Alexander tree on 
his place. These trees Mr. Gibson sold 
in small lots to orchardists in the sur¬ 
rounding region under the name of 
Champion, claiming it to be a valuable 
market peach, ripening earlier than 
Alexander or Amsden. It was found to 
be a semi-cling of the Amsden type, 
ripening at the same time, and was soon 
discarded because of its susceptibility 
to mildew, it being a serrated-leafed 
variety. Its flowers are large. The 
nurseryman, Mr. Alexander Hamilton, 
now of Bangor, who grew the Michigan 
trees on contract for Mr. Gibson, told 
Mr. Taylor that he stopped propagating 
the variety because of its susceptibility 
to mildew; but Mr. Taylor has been 
told that it was afterwards grown and 
sold by Cole & Janes, of Painesville, O. 
The variety which has been most 
widely advertised and sold as Champion 
is, undoubtedly, that which originated 
with I. G. Hubbard, Nokomis, Ill., of 
which he issued a descriptive circular 
in 1890 or 1891. According to his state¬ 
ment, the Champion is a seedling of 
Oldmixon. It is a white freestone, 
ripening before Hale’s Early, having 
small flowers and leaves with globose 
glands. It was widely advertised, and 
sold by the Dayton Star Company in 
1890 and subsequent years. 
Mb. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, 
Conn., favors us with a note which 
nearly coincides with that of Assistant 
Pomologist Taylor. He agrees that the 
true Champion was introduced to the 
public by the Hover & Gaines Com¬ 
pany, of Dayton, O., though it originated 
in Illinois. The trees have been in 
strong demand for a number of years 
past, and Mr. Hale thinks that it is 
among the possibilities that unscrupu¬ 
lous dealers have sent out spurious 
varieties under the name of Champion. 
The early claims made for it were that 
it was a large-sized, freestone peach, 
white flesh, with rosy cheek ripening a 
week or 10 days earlier than the Moun¬ 
tain Rose, and extremely hardy in fruit 
bud. Mr. Hale says that it has proved 
to be all this except that, instead of 
ripening earlier than the Mountain Rose, 
it is a few days later, somewhat larger 
in size, having a rosy cheek on the 
sunny side, and creamy white over the 
rest. It is a rich, juicy peach of fine 
flavor and, for its season, one of the very 
best. It fruited extensively in Con¬ 
necticut during the past season, for the 
first time, and with such satisfactory 
results that Mr. Hale is confident that 
it will be largely planted in the future 
to supplement Mountain Rose and, in a 
measure, take the place of Oldmixon, 
which follows a little later. Owing to 
the habit of the Champion, however, of 
dropping its fruit from the tree, it may 
be abandoned, to some extent, by lead¬ 
ing planters. 
Pbunus Simoni. —We planted our first 
Simon’s plum tree, received from Ell- 
wanger & Barry, in October, 1884. It 
bore a single plum in 1886, and there¬ 
after was moderately fruitful. This 
single plum was illustrated in The R. 
N.-Y. of October 16, 1886. The tree, at 
that time, was 10 feet high with a stem 
2 % inches in diameter. At that time, 
we said of this plum : “ The shape and 
appearance were more those of a good- 
sized crab apple than of a plum. The 
color was a dull, dark red, with lighter 
shades here and there. The suture was 
obscure, the skin hard. It was eaten 
August 12 . The flesh, which clings to 
the stone somewhat, is thick and of the 
consistency of a firm plum, with a dis¬ 
tinct peach-pit flavor, though by no 
means disagreeable. The pit is corru¬ 
gated like that of the peach.” The 
plums, however, were of such poor 
quality that after giving them a fair 
trial from year to year, the tree was de¬ 
stroyed. From the following interesting 
letter from Charles A. Green, of Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., it would seem that our trial 
as to the quality of fruit was not a fair 
trial by any means : 
“ Leonabd Coates, a California au¬ 
thority, and others, say that this Japan 
plum is one of the finest in quality of 
any of that class. This has led me to 
investigations, since, as usually grown 
in western New York, and as usually 
ripened, Prunus Simoni has not been 
good enough to eat out of hand, and has 
been found valuable only for cooking. 
I find that the secret of success with 
this plum has been in picking it from 
the tree before it has colored, or when 
of a green color ; placing it in a cool 
room, where it will turn to the brightest 
red color, the handsomest known, and 
become so fragrant as to scent a room 
from one or more specimens. When 
ripened in this manner, Prunus Simoni 
is said to be one of the finest in quality 
of all known plums. This is the result 
of experience in California, Oregon, and 
other similarly located States. I do not 
know why we should not meet with the 
same success. I am told that all the 
Japan plums should be picked much 
earlier than ordinary varieties, and 
when picked thus early, they will ripen 
and perfect the finest quality. This is 
a point greatly in favor of the Japan 
plums, since they can be picked when 
hard, and shipped to the ends of the 
world in perfect condition.”. 
Mb. F. A. Waugh, the horticulturist 
of the Vermont Experiment Station, is 
certainly correct in his observation that 
the Satsuma plum is self-sterile. Mr. 
Waugh has found it so, and every one 
whom he has consulted seems to have 
had the same experience. Mr. J. W. 
Kerr and he were also able to demon¬ 
strate the self-sterility of Chabot and 
Maru... 
If the Keiffer pear had been intro¬ 
duced as a cross between the quince and 
the pear, it would, certainly, have been 
regarded, and would now be regarded 
as a decided advance in scientific po¬ 
mology. Had any one deliberately set 
about to make such a cross with the 
Keiffer as the result, he would, with 
excellent reason, have regarded the re¬ 
sult as remarkable ; as all, indeed, he 
could have hoped for. Certain it is that 
however its quality at its worst or best 
may be regarded, as a canned fruit it 
has no superior. 
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