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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 24 
Tall Pickers for Columbian Raspberries. 
G. M. F., Lancaster, Ohio. —You ask 
for experiments with the Columbian 
raspberry. 1 have planted it alongside 
the Marlboro, Souhegan and Gregg, and 
find it a very hardy, prolific, exception¬ 
ally thrifty grower. In fact, that is the 
chief objection ; the berries are so high 
that it takes tall pickers or a stool and a 
picker to do the work. 
The Loudon Red Raspberry. 
T. C. Kevitt, New Jersey. —S. E. H., 
on page G24, says that the Loudon rasp¬ 
berry winterkilled. Two years ago, I 
bought from C. A. Green the true Lou¬ 
don, which 1 have fruited now for two 
seasons. I can truthfully say that there 
can be no question of its hardiness in 
northern New Jersey. My field was set 
out in a bleak place on the north side of 
a stone wall, without the slightest pro¬ 
tection. The young sets, as well as the 
old, have endured the past severe winter 
unharmed, the terminal buds breaking 
through with great vigor each spring, 
while Golden Queen and Cuthbert, in the 
same field, winterkilled. The Loudon 
is, beyond all question, the best red 
raspberry ever introduced. 
Pears That Hold Leaves. 
D. D. C., Dayton, O.—I know of only 
four varieties of pears that hold their 
leaves until frost, viz., Keiffer, Garber, 
Lawrence and Forelle; synonym, Trout, 
because of its speckled skin. As no fruit 
can be fully developed as to quality un¬ 
less the leaves remain on until the crop 
has been fully matured, it would seem 
proper for fruit growers to consider this 
leaf-holding characteristic in making 
their selections for orchard planting. 
Who can extend the list ? 
[The Forelle has not been generally 
planted. Ellwanger & Larry have sev¬ 
eral trees in their specimen orchard, 
but it is not in their catalogue.— Eds. | 
Pears and Plums for Western New York. 
J. S. Woodward, Niagara County, 
N. Y.—I cannot agree with the answer 
of The it. N.-Y. to G. S., Niagara Falls, 
N. Y., on page 657. If I were to plant 
1,000 plum trees, I would not put out a 
single Lombard, unless to be used for 
stock to top-work to something better, 
like Reine Claude or Grand Duke. My 
reasons : Of all the plums in the whole 
list of domestica, it is most subject to 
the black knot, and, although a very 
productive sort, it always sells for a low 
price. I have seen Fellenberg sell for 
six cents a pound and Lombard hard to 
peddle off at two by its side. I would 
much rather substitute Quackenboss for 
Lombard in the list. 
And then, who can say what is meant 
when one recommends German Prune? 
Almost every German family that came 
to this country from the fatherland 
brought a few plums, or if at the proper 
time of year, a plum sprout, and each 
was a prune. So we have as many dis¬ 
tinct German prunes as there are colors 
in a Dutchman’s hair, and all German 
Prunes. 
I was amused at a fair I attended this 
fall in Canada, to see the controversy 
that was waged over a half dozen or 
more plates of German Prunes, each un¬ 
like all the others, but the owner of 
each sure that his was the German 
Prune. Fellenberg generally sells for 
German Prune, and for the purpose of 
bringing the profit, is a good enough 
prune to fill the pocket. I would surely 
add to the list given, some one of the 
Damsons; Shropshire is good, but we 
have here a small Damson, which is very 
la^e, and always brings a good price, 
usually the highest price of the season, 
and is a very productive sort. 
As to the list of pears, I would take 
but one or two exceptions. I cannot 
recommend Clairgeau, although a few 
years ago, I thought so much of this 
variety, that I planted quite a number. 
It is handsome and productive, and the 
tree is healthy, but its quality is too 
poor ; we can’t afford to put such pears 
into the market. Each barrel not only 
keeps out a barrel of good ones, but it 
does much worse ; the quality is so poor 
that people won’t eat them, and having 
bought a barrel or keg of them, they 
judge all other pears by these. So the 
Clairgeaus not only take the place of 
better pears, but shut such pears out of 
consumption. 
I would say the same of the Keiifer. 
A few years ago, I sent a few kegs of 
this pear to a western city, and received 
$3 net per bushel crate. I have tried the 
same market each year since, but they 
don’t take at all. It may be that such 
fruits as Clairgeau and Keiifer among 
pears, and the Ben Davis among apples, 
are better than no fruit; but every bar¬ 
rel of either put into the market, is a 
curse to the business of fruit growing. 
It may be that the individual grower 
can make money temporarily by grow¬ 
ing these handsome, worthless fruits, but 
in the end, he is working a great injury 
to the whole fruit-growing class. We 
ought to pay more attention to the qual¬ 
ity of the fruits we put on the market. 
Fanny Apple in Illinois. 
B. B., Farmingdale, III.—I notice 
Mr. Green’s description of the Fanny 
apple, and now 1 am wondering whether 
mine is true ; whether my eyes and taste 
differ so much from his ; or yet, whether 
the soil and climate can make such a 
wide change in the character of the fruit. 
I know that Downing says, “Flesh 
white, a little stained next the skin.” 
But he also says of Winter Sweet Par¬ 
adise, “ Core rather small,” while here 
it is quite, or very, large and open, when 
the fruit assumes the oblong conical, 
shape—which it usually does here. But 
it is decidedly smaller when the apple is 
fiat, or short cylindrical in shape. So 
that one must not take every item, of 
even so painstaking a man as Mr. Down¬ 
ing, too literally. 
Here, Fanny has always shown a de¬ 
cidedly reddish-yellow color in flesh, 
when fully ripe. Further, I cannot un¬ 
derstand how anybody can compare it 
with Fameuse in quality, as I cannot see 
any resemblance whatever. Fanny is 
very rich in flavor, while, I think, the 
Snow (as we call it here), is nearly in¬ 
sipid, in comparison. The only fault I 
could find with the eating quality of 
Fanny is that it lacks in juice, especially 
when fully mellowed. Mr. Green got his 
wood from Mr. Downing, so, of course, 
he has the variety true. I got mine of 
Mr. Green, and, of course, mine is true. 
This eliminates the first doubt, and 
makes the difference either personal or 
sectional. I will not have a personal 
difference with him, so let us call it 
sectional. I have in my notes regard¬ 
ing the tree, “ Slow, but healthy growth. 
Head rather compact, roundish pyram¬ 
idal. Limbs plenty, regular, of me¬ 
dium size, out and upreaching. Bark 
very dark, with very many kernels. 
Young wood brown. Leaves medium. 
Blooms rather late.” Is this Fanny ? 
Keiffer Pears in England. 
Charles Forster, New York City.— 
In my judgment, Keiffer pears would 
not sell well in England, as the quality 
is not good enough to command the 
price necessary to cover the expense 
attending European shipment. The 
French pears, as a rule, dominate the 
London market, and the London market 
distributes them. They are not, usually, 
sent to any other of the markets of the 
United Kingdom direct. These pears are, 
usually, of very fine character. Attempts 
have been made to ship the California 
Bartlett pears, which are superior to 
the French William pears. These ship¬ 
ments of Bartlett pears have been 
made in the cold chambers of the Ameri¬ 
can Line running from here to South¬ 
ampton, and, taking the business right 
through, it has not been successful. The 
California winter pears are shipped 
regularly from here in ordinary storage, 
no ice being used. These varieties con¬ 
sist of the Easter Beurre, Winter Nelis, 
Comice, P. Barry, and one or two others. 
Attempts have been made to ship the 
Clairgeau, but have not been generally 
satisfactory; occasionally a parcel would 
go in good shape. 
The winter pears mentioned above 
usually arrive in very good condition, 
and if the market be not over-supplied 
from France, the sales are satisfactory. 
The business being regularly followed 
up for a number of years by some of the 
most enterprising California handlers 
here in New York, makes it probable 
that there has been more or less success 
attending it. The Keiffer pear would, 
undoubtedly, ship all right, and in my 
judgment, it should be shipped within a 
week or two after being picked unless it 
were decided to carry the pears in cold 
storage until spring, when they should 
be taken out like the California winter 
pears and exported. In exporting them, 
1 should use boxes like the California 
box. These can be procured here in 
New York for about 12 cents each. It 
would be quite unnecessary to bind them 
with hoop iron. 
I should like to see the experiment of 
shipping Keiffer pears tried, but this is 
not the season to do it as they are too 
high priced. Another year, with a heav¬ 
ier crop and fewer apples going, will be 
the time to inaugurate experiments of 
this kind. The English market would 
take them better than other markets 
and the fruit business in the United 
Kingdom is handled by experienced and 
very reliable people. 
“ Cow Dung for Paint.” 
E. H. A., Ithaca, Mich. —Let A. A. 
K., page 626, use what he likes, I say 
that one coat of summer black oil, price 
and expense of spreading considered, is 
better than white lead and oil. My new 
barn looks well, and the material and 
work cost me about $15. The hired 
man’s son did the job, and any boy can 
put this paint on. My instructions were 
not to kill time trying to spread it; put 
it on, and if it pulls, use a little gasoline. 
I don’t care to argue or contradict, but 
it is a condition, not a theory, that con¬ 
fronts A. A. K. I inclose you a sliver 
taken from the south side of an old barn 
that has faced sun, rain and storm for 
years, and this sliver and barn say to 
me, “ It is a good, cheap barn paint.” 
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