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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 23 
The Stayman Apple. 
M. E. 8., Canon dtp, Col.—l. Do you con¬ 
sider the Stayman Wlnesap as reliable In 
every way as the common Winesap, and 
especially have you any reports of it from 
Colorado? Does it blight at all? The com¬ 
mon sort does not blight here, but Para¬ 
gon, a seedling, is absolutely worthless. 2. 
In what respect are budded trees better 
lhan grafted of same grade? 
Ans.— 1. The Stayman is a seedling of 
Winesap, and fully equal to it in every 
respect and superior in some. The 
shape, color, flavor and keeping quali¬ 
ties of the fruit are about identical, but 
the size is larger. The tree has a more 
upright and symmetrical habit, and the 
root system is much better than is the 
case with Winesap in these particulars. 
I believe it will eventually supersede 
that old standard in a large degree. It 
does not blight more than Winesap, 
which is almost not at all, so far as I 
have observed. I am astonished at the 
statement that Paragon blights so bad¬ 
ly at Canon City, Col., for I spent sev¬ 
eral days there recently, looking about 
the orchards, and saw many trees of 
Paragon in most excellent condition 
there. I am inclined to believe that the 
blight as reported may be the result of 
excessive irrigation, at least in part; for 
that is a common fault of many of the 
fruit growers of eastern Colorado. Less 
ditch water and more tillage would be 
better in many cases. 2. I do not believe 
that good root-grafted apple trees are 
worth less than budded trees of the same 
grade. The extra cost of budded trees 
is largely, if not wholly, because of the 
more expensive and troublesome method 
of propagation. 
Fruit Trees on Cleared Land. 
J. n. 8., Hancock, Md.—l. I have a piece 
of high land from which the timber has 
been cleared this Winter, and I thought 
of planting It with peach trees, and per¬ 
haps with apple trees also, with peaches 
half way between. Would It do to plant 
the trees without plowing the land? The 
timber was not very thickly set, and not 
much undergrowth, but the land is some¬ 
what stony. Would you advise planting 
any other kinds of fruit on the land for 
profit? 2. What list of varieties would you 
recommend for 600 apple trees and 600 
peach trees, and the number of each va¬ 
riety, for market? 
Ans.— 1. On newly-cleared forest land 
it often does very well to plant orchard 
trees, but the stumps and roots are often 
quite troublesome in the matter of til¬ 
lage. Where stones are abundant, as in 
this case, cultivation is still more diifl- 
cult. Just what to do In regard to plant¬ 
ing before or after plowing could hardly 
be intelligently determined without see¬ 
ing the ground. If the ground is sus¬ 
ceptible of plowing, why not plow it be¬ 
fore planting rather than after? If it 
cannot be plowed at all, then the system 
of mulching must be followed. This is 
expensive, and must be continued as 
long as the orchard stands, or the roots 
will suffer, and consequently the entire 
trees, from being in hard, dry ground. 
Planting peach trees among apple trees 
is a bad practice in nearly every case, it 
has proved so in my own experience, 
and 1 have heard many others state their 
objections from the same cause, which 
is, that the peach trees rob the apple 
trees, being the stronger growing of the 
two. They should be planted separately 
in all cases, so I think. 2. In planting 
1,000 trees, half peach and half apple, in 
the uplands of Maryland, and entirely 
for market, the following list will prove 
quite good: Peaches, Carman, 100; Bl- 
berta, 200; Chairs, 200. Apples, York 
Imperial, 200; Stayman, 100; Rome 
Beauty, 200. 
Top-Grafting and Varieties in South Carolina 
T. P. P., Wellford 8ta., 8. C.—l. In top¬ 
grafting, which is the better, to cut off the 
limbs and let new sprouts come out, and 
next season put in the grafts, or bud in 
July or August, as the trees are not satis¬ 
factory as to fruit? 2. I have lost a few 
trees, I mean apple trees, and would like 
you to advise me as to resetting in their 
place. I am thinking of trying a few 
trees from New York State. I wish to set 
early and late varieties, good keepers of 
the latter. 
Ans.— 1. I prefer Spring grafting on 
the stumps made by cutting off the 
branches of the tree just as they are, 
and without any preparatory pruning. 
Rather than cut larger branches than 
those two inches in diameter, I would 
go a little higher and cut two smaller 
branches. I always make a sloping cut, 
anu never a square one in grafting. The 
angle should be about 45 degrees, and 
a small place squared on the point 
where one scion is set, and only one on 
each stock. By this method the wound 
heals up much more quickly and safely 
than by the more common plan of two 
grafts on a square stump. The sprouts 
that grow on any stump that fails to 
have a graft growing can and should be 
budded the following August. 2. It 
would be very unwise to plant apple 
trees in South Carolina with the expec¬ 
tation that the varieties would behave 
as they do in New York; but there are 
some kinds that do very well in both 
places, only ripening much earlier in the 
South. Red Astrachan, Fanny and Mal¬ 
den Blush are among the good early 
kinds. None of the standard Winter 
apples of New York are the same in 
South Carolina. Winesap, Genet and 
Shockley are good Winter apples for 
warm sections, especially the latter. 
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