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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 12 
Some New Fruits. 
S. G., Emmitsbubg, Md. —I have dis¬ 
carded the Parker Earle strawberry be¬ 
cause it does not mature all the fruit 
set. Timbrell matures nearly every 
berry, is immensely productive, and, if 
it would color up all right, would be the 
best late berry on my place. I fruited 
the Older raspberry this year for the first 
time, and am well pleased with it; it is 
as large as Shaffer, and ripens up rap¬ 
idly so that there are not many pickings, 
but it is very productive. Some of the 
canes that grew this year had immense 
berries after the others were all gone. 
Its season is after llilborn, which is not 
superior to Palmer, and the season of the 
two is too near together to grow both. 
Kansas is much like Gregg, but ripens 
with Older, or a little before, and is not 
so liable to winterkill as Gregg. Ten 
years ago, 1 bought liansell and Cuth- 
bert, and the nurseryman sent me free 
one dozen marked Miller’s Woodland. I 
planted them at the ends of two rows, 
but as they ripened between the first 
Iiansells and Cuthberts, and as I thought 
them not quite so good as those varieties, 
I did not increase them any. liansell 
took a late growth and winterkilled a 
few years ago, and Cuthbertlast winter, 
while Miller’s Woodland made the usual 
crop, and has produced more than Cuth- 
bert three years prior to this; so it must 
be hardy. 
Red Raspberries in Connecticut. 
C. P. A., Woodbbidgk, Conn. —In this 
latitude and soil, no variety of red rasp¬ 
berry except the Turner, gets through 
the winter entirely unhurt, every sea¬ 
son. There may be another just as 
hardy, but I have been unable to find 
it. The Cuthbert is ruined four winters 
out of five, and though it sometimes puts 
out apparently all right in the spring, 
its outer surface is so injured that it dies 
before the fruit forms. The Turner is a 
little notional with me, and will not 
always do its best; when it does, it is 
a grand early berry for a nearby market. 
I have raised hundreds of seedlings, both 
black and red, but, except a chance 
Gregg seedling, I have found none of 
superior merit. 
The Caroline (yellow or fiesh pink) is 
our favorite berry, as hardy as an oak, 
and of superior vigor and flavor ; but a 
yellow berry has little chance in the 
market. I have taken great care to ripen 
my Cuthbert canes, and those of other 
tender kinds, but I am convinced that it 
is the ripest and strongest canes that 
suffer most from freezing. I cut out all 
the young canes from a row I intended 
to destroy after the fruit was gathered, 
and the only canes left standing through 
the winter, started after July 20. Most 
of these canes came through last winter 
all right, while the riper and older canes 
that started early in the spring, were 
killed or badly injured without excep¬ 
tion. Moreover, these late, immature 
canes ripened their fruit several days 
earlier than the others this season, and 
every fruit grower has, probably, noticed 
that the late summer growth on all rasp¬ 
berries starts the first in the spring. Here¬ 
after, I shall work the other end first 
with my tender raspberries, and save my 
latest and tenderest canes. I haven’t 
any theory about it, but facts beat theo¬ 
ries, and these are the facts as they have 
occurred here. 
Beware of the Fruit-Tree Jobber. 
J. C. H., Grass Lake, Mich. —Having 
had some experience in buying nursery 
stock, for the past eight years, from six 
different firms, I have about come to the 
conclusion that it is impossible to get 
just what you order from any of them. 
Not that they don’t wish to furnish what 
you order, but they make mistakes. In 
my case more especially, mistakes are 
made with tne apple, than with any¬ 
thing else. My trees are just coming 
into bearing, and if I am any judge, 
there is not one such as I ordered ; still, 
they are all good fruit. Most of the 
plums (with the exception of the order 
I received the spring of 1894), have been 
true to name. This 1894 order was a 
caution ; I ordered 50 plum trees, and 
500 Cherry currants. Of the currants, 
perhaps 200 are Cherry, the rest White 
Grape and an inferior grade of some 
kind. Of the plums, 12 were to be 
Abundance and six Burbank ; they have 
borne fruit as near alike as two peas. 
The bark of the trees is like the bark of 
Abundance, the leaf is rather long, 
tough and glossy. They are abundant 
in one way, and that is growth. I he 
rest of the trees in the order have not 
borne as yet. I ordered through a fel¬ 
low townsman who had been soliciting 
orders through the winter, and wishing 
me to club my order with his, he doing 
all of the correspondence. I learned 
afterwards that he had corresponded 
with about 20 different jobbers, and one 
man’s prices seemed to suit him. So you 
see the amount of evil resulting from 
one unprincipled jobber selling to an¬ 
other of the same kind. All of the 
orders that he solicited turned out just 
as mine did. My advice to all who wish 
to order nursery stock, is to select a 
man who has a reputation for honest 
dealing. 
Thinning the Apple Crop. 
Chas. A. Green, Rochester, N. Y.—I 
have been considering the question how 
to thin out the apple crop at least ex¬ 
pense, the trees being in danger of 
being broken down by the weight of 
fruit. My man is now (August 12), 
engaged in raking off from one-third to 
one-half the apples with an ordinary 
steel garden rake. Ten or fifteen min¬ 
utes’ time will accomplish wonders in 
thinning out the fruit of an ordinary¬ 
sized apple tree, if the man is active and 
understands his business. After a few 
lower branches are thinned out with the 
rake, a step ladder may be used in reach¬ 
ing some of the upper branches. My 
man rakes out where the apples lie 
most closely together, or where they 
happen to be smallest, being careful not 
to remove any from a branch without 
necessity, and he has to remove quite 
largely from the a branches that are 
attainable, since there are some branches 
which he cannot reach. Surely one 
would not set a blundering man at this 
work, neither should any one be em¬ 
ployed without supervision at the start. 
It is, certainly, a novel way of thinning, 
and in the experience I have had, I judge 
a good way. 
Orchardists, as a rule, dislike the idea 
of thinning fruit, fearing that insects or 
winds may continue the work of thin¬ 
ning to excess, or that the time spent in 
thinning may never be made up by the 
increased size of the fruit remaining. 
But it has been proved that the time 
spent in judicious thinning is actually 
saved in gathering fruit each fall, since 
the fruits are far less in number and 
larger in size after the thinning ; but 
the main benefit is in securing larger 
and finer specimens, and in preserving 
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