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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 23 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Van Deman’s Fruit Notes. 
ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Stayman Apple; German Millet. 
II. S., Lynchburg, Vu. —1. Would you advise 
l)lanting 500 Stayman apples instead of 
Winesap? Winesap does well here, but 
has so many small apples not fit for mar¬ 
ket; if the Stayman is larger I think it 
would take its place. 2. How many times 
can German millet be cut in one season, 
sown on good bottom land, if sown about 
June? 
An.s. —1. Yes, I would not fear to plant 
Stayman instead of Winesap anywhere 
that the latter is a good variety, because 
there seems to have been sufficient ex¬ 
perience with the two, side by side, in 
various places, to prove that the Stay- 
man has all the good points of Winesap, 
and is larger in size of fruit, although 
some think the color is not quite so deep 
a red, and the tree is much better in 
style of growth. 2. Millet will make 
only one crop from the same seeding. It 
is strictly an annual plant. 
Grafting English Walnuts. 
II. B. S., Ohio.—Which of the native nut 
trees that are hardy in Ohio would make a 
suitable stock for grafting the English 
walnut? Is there a way of keeping nuts 
more than one year, so that they will taste 
fresh? Has the cold-storage plan been 
t ried? 
Ans.—N one of them, unless it might 
be Black walnut or butternut. The Per¬ 
sian (English) walnut is quite tender in 
Ohio, and should a graft be made to 
grow it would probably soon die. The 
planting of nuts of some of the more 
hardy varieties of this species might 
prove somewhat successful. A few bear¬ 
ing trees are to be found in the Eastern 
States where these nuts might be ob¬ 
tained in the proper season. Yes, the 
cold-storage plan has been tried and 
found to work very well. The only ob¬ 
jection is the cost of holding them so 
long. The eggs of the Chestnut weevil 
will not develop into worms under such 
I'onditions, and nuts of any kind will not 
become rancid if kept cold. 
Fruits for Massachusetts. 
0. U. P., Stockbridge, Mass.—l would like 
a select list of the best varieties of fruits 
for this section, for home use, to cover 
the. season. Apples, six Summer, six Fall, 
12 Winter; cherries, three sour, three 
sweet; plums, eight varieties; pears, six 
Summer and Pall, three Winter; grapes, 
two black, two white, two red; currants, 
two red, early and late, one white, one 
black; gooseberries, three varieties; 
peaches, two or three varieties; raspber¬ 
ries, three red, succession, three black, 
succession; blackberries, three succession; 
strawberries, three to six. 
Ans, —The following will probably be 
a good list of apples for family use in 
Massachusetts: Summer, Early Harvest, 
Williams, Primate, Benoni, Fanny, Gol¬ 
den Sweet; Fall, Jefferis, Lowell, Fall 
Wine, Ramsdell, Ortley and Fall Pippin; 
Winter, Grimes, Jonathan, Sutton, 
Swaar, Esopus, Huntsman, R. I. Green¬ 
ing, Roxbury, Hubbardston, Tolman, 
Romanstem and Newtown Spitzenberg. 
Cherries: Sour, Richmond, Montmor¬ 
ency and English Morello; sweet, 
Choisey, Tartarian and Windsor. 
Peaches: Early Rivers, Elberta and 
Reeves. Plums: Clyman, Bradshaw, 
Imperial Gage, Golden Drop, Abund¬ 
ance, Burbank, Wickson and Hale. 
Pears: Tyson, Madeleine, Howell, Belle 
Lucrative, Bartlett, Sheldon, Lawrence, 
Easter and Nelis. Grapes: Black, Camp¬ 
bell, Concord; white, Winchell, Niagara; 
red, Delaware, Brighton. Currants: 
Fay, Wilder, White Imperial, Black 
Naples. Gooseberries: Houghton, Down¬ 
ing, Raspberries: Red, Miller, Loudon 
and Columbian; black, Conrath, Kan¬ 
sas and Cumberland. Blackberries: Early 
Harvest, Eldorado and Minnewaska. 
Strawberries: Tennessee, Carrie, War- 
field, Clyde, Glen Mary and Gandy. The 
above lists are not declared to be per¬ 
fect ill every respect, but the varieties 
named are among the very good ones 
for both quality and reliable bearing, 
although not the heaviest bearers in all 
cases. 
Lime Spray for Peach Trees. 
P. B., Covington, /«(/.—Will you give the 
formula for lime spray for retarding the 
bloom on peach tree.s; also, when to apply 
it for best results? 
Ans. —Five to 10 pounds of good fresh 
lime to a barrel of water will make a 
mixture of sufficient strength to whiten 
the branches. About March is the time 
to do the spraying, as the whitewash is 
likely to be washed off by rains, and the 
later it can be done to prevent the 
starting of the buds the better. 
Peach Questions. 
<1. y. 11., lto7milu8, N. Y .—Will peaches 
grow on persimmon stock with good suc¬ 
cess? Are the quality and color of the 
Arctic peach good? Do you know any¬ 
thing about the Markham peach? 
Ans. —No, there is not the slightest 
possibility of peach buds or grafts grow¬ 
ing on persimmon stocks. The Arctic 
peach is a variety I never saw, and do 
not know of the existence of it. Nor do 
I know anything of a variety called 
Markham. It would be well to look very 
carefully into any statements that may 
be made by anyone who may be offer¬ 
ing to sell varieties of the peach under 
these names. 
Trellised Fruit Trees. 
A. L. J., Idaho.—Ca.n jmu tell me whether, 
in Idaho, apples and pears can be grown 
on each side of a path, to form a hedge, 
trelli.sed to grow horizontally? High winds 
and late frosts make fruit growing very 
difficult on the plains. Is it likely to be 
more successful if the branches are trained 
horizontally? 
Ans. —I do not know where the writer 
lives in Idaho, but as I have been about 
all over that State within the last month 
and in many orchards of the apple, pear, 
peach, plum, etc., I have failed to see 
where they could not be grown with as 
much success in the ordinary way as 
elsewhere in the United States. On the 
plains of the great Snake River Valley 
there are many orchards near the mid¬ 
dle of it, and I have not seen one that 
was not successful, except that I have 
been told that late frosts sometimes in¬ 
jure the blooms. The winds are some¬ 
times strong in the Summer, but not to 
a destructive extent. An arbor of trees 
as suggested would be of little value, I 
believe, and usually needless. But one 
might be made by careful training if it 
was desired, by simply tying the young 
branches to a trellis. 
Budded or Grafted Apple Trees. 
O. H. J., Dover, Del .—Will you give us 
the truth about grafted and budded apple 
trees? The itinerant tree peddler is mak¬ 
ing his rounds, seeking whom he may de¬ 
vour. In trying to hook the writer he 
made the statement that he would rather 
pay $1 per tree for budded trees than take 
grafted trees as a gift. We contended that 
there was no material difference, and if 
both were well grown would as soon plant 
one as the other. Who is right, and why? 
Ans. —So far as I have ever tried, or 
seen others try both budded and grafted 
apple trees I know of no material differ¬ 
ence in favor of either. There are too 
many millions of root-grafted trees in 
successful bearing to warrant the state¬ 
ment that they are not good. The ar¬ 
gument has been advanced that in the 
central and western States there are 
very many of the young trees w'hich 
have been propagated by grafting that 
are now failing while yet quite young. 
This is true, and it is from climatic 
causes. They bear earlier and much 
more heavily than in the East. Budded 
trees are doing the same, and show equal 
signs of early death or failure. I am at 
this time in western Washington, and 
have just been in Idaho and Oregon, 
where these conditions prevail, and 
know from observation on the ground, 
and 1 have often seen the same else¬ 
where. 
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Seed. This variety of asparagus Is tbe earliest, 
largest and most prolific asparagus grown on the 
Amerloan continent. Price. $I per fb. Address 
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Sweet Potato without vine. All other Vegetable 
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Pjk— Clover Seed @ $6to$7 per 
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