1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
57 
Fruit for the Adirondacks. 
II. .1/. IK., Potter8ViIle , N. Y .—Please give 
me the names of half a dozen good apples, 
three early Summer and three good keeping 
Winter, for the region of Schroon Lake in 
the Adirondacks. Also one or two pears and 
grapes if there are any hardy enough for this 
climate. Could quinces be raised here? The 
soil is very light and sandy, and the season 
is short. Can blueberries be domesticated? 
Ans. —Yellow Transparent, Red Astra- 
chan and Williams will be good for the 
early apples, and McIntosh, Bethel and 
Sutton will do for the late ones. Flemish 
Beauty and Seckel are about the hardiest 
of the really good pears. Winchell (also 
called Green Mountain), Delaware and 
Concord will all endure the climate of the 
Adirondacks, unless it be in the very cold¬ 
est parts. The shortness of the warm sea¬ 
son may not always allow them fully to 
ripen their fruit. Quince trees are about 
as hardy as those of the apple, but the 
fruit will rarely ripen there before freez¬ 
ing weather. Blueberries have been rarely 
domesticated, and it is a question that 
some of our most careful experimenters 
are now trying to solve, as to how they 
can be grown in gardens successfully. 
H. e. v. D. 
Apples in the Alleghenies. 
J. R. C., Tclama, IK. Va .—How far south 
on the eastern slope of the Allegheny Moun¬ 
tains in Virginia and North Carolina would 
the conditions or surroundings be ideal for 
the culture of choice grade, first-class Albe¬ 
marle Pippins and other choice market apples, 
and what nature of soil is best adapted to 
apple culture? 
Ans. —Having traveled the entire length 
of the Blue Ridge, observing the condi¬ 
tions for fruit growing, it is my opinion 
that the Yellow Newtown apple, which is 
there usually called Albemarle Pippin, will 
certainly grow to perfection as far as the 
southern border of North Carolina; but 
only in the higher elevations. By this I do 
not mean the peaks of the mountains, but 
from 2,000 to 4,000 feet altitude above sea 
level. This variety is one of the most 
choice of its location, for the climate and 
soil must both be ideal for apple culture 
for it to attain its proper development and 
long-keeping qualities. Where it does 
well nearly all other varieties are almost 
sure to succeed, except a few of the 
northern standard Winter kinds, such as 
Baldwin, Northern Spy and R. I. Green¬ 
ing, which ripen too early. The soil for 
the Newtown must be rich clay loam and 
well underdrained naturally. The “moun¬ 
tain coves’’ of the Blue Ridge, especially 
those with eastern or southern exposures, 
seem to be the best for this apple, and are 
also excellent for others. These “coves” 
are nooks or secluded little valleys and 
adjacent slopes. They arc often very nar¬ 
row, crooked and steep. One who has 
never seen the fine orchards in these 
places can have but a poor idea of their 
character and their peculiar adaptability 
to the production of choice apples. Some¬ 
times the land is so steep that the fruit 
has to be carried down by hand or the 
barrels rolled or let down by ropes to 
where it can be loaded into wagons. 
H. E. V. D. 
Codling Moth; Insects In Sod Orchards. 
G. IK. G.j Gcrardstoicn, If. Va .—We see a 
good deal about San Jose, rabbits, mice, etc. 
1 believe our worst enemies here are Woolly 
or Root apbis and Codling moth. Please give 
us something practical as to how we can best 
fight these things. Is Mr. Ilitchings troubled 
much with aphis in sod? 
Ans. —It has been demonstrated over 
and over again by nearly every experiment 
station in the country that the Codling 
moth can be largely controlled by thor¬ 
ough spraying of the trees with a poison. 
At least two applications are necessary, 
the first just after the petals of the blos¬ 
soms have fallen and the second a week 
or 10 days later. Use either Paris-green 
at the rate of one pound in 100 gallons of 
Bordeaux Mixture, or the arsenate of lead 
at the rate of one pound in 50 gallons of 
the fungicide. It is largely a question of 
thoroughness of the application, and all 
depends upon the man who holds the noz¬ 
zle. The Woolly aphis is not a serious 
pest in New York on bearing apple trees, 
but it does often render nursery stock un¬ 
salable. I doubt if Mr. Hitchings is trou¬ 
bled with this aphis in his orchard, but I 
do not think this is due to his method of 
sod culture. We have much to learn re¬ 
garding the effect upon insect life of al¬ 
lowing orchards to remain in sod, or of 
keeping them cultivated. It has been dem¬ 
onstrated at least in the case of canker- 
worms, and recently in the West in the 
case of the Plum curculio, which is there 
a serious pest in apple orchards, that cul¬ 
tivated orchards suffer much less from 
these pests. It is my belief that, as a 
general rule, most orchard insect pests 
will not thrive as readily in cultivated as 
in uncultivated orchards. Possibly culti¬ 
vation will affect but little the Woolly 
aphis working on the roots, but in most 
cases it certainly will help the trees to 
flourish in spite of the aphis. Not every 
one can grow apples successfully by prac¬ 
ticing the sod-culture method. It is an 
easy matter to control the branch-feeding 
form of the Woolly aphis by simply sprr.y- 
ing the masses of woolly lice with a strong 
kerosene emulsion or whale-oil soap solu¬ 
tion, but it is a difficult matter to reach 
the root-feeding forms. Some have re¬ 
ported good results from the use of to¬ 
bacco dust applied freely beneath the trees 
by first removing a few inches of the soil, 
then applying the dust and returning the 
soil. M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Use for Persimmons. 
K. .1. I'.. Houston iStation. Del .—Would you 
give recipes for using persimmons, as this 
fruit is new to us, having just moved here 
a short time ago from Canada. Fruit being 
scarce, and a tree of persimmons standing in j 
uie yard, I wondered if some use could not 
lie made of the fruit, as it is delicious to ear 
from the hand, sweet, juicy and meaty, equal 
to any raisin or tig. The people here make 
no use of them whatever; in fact, make fun i 
of them and call them “dog apples.” So the | 
thought came to me to go to headquarters for 
information. Will you please tell me how to 
dry, preserve or can the fruit to keep it; also 
recipes for using it? Will the fruit spoil 
to hang on tree until Spring, and when is the 
fruit properly ripe? 
Ans. —The American persimmon is a 
really good fruit, except some of the very 
seedy varieties, and the flesh of these is 
good as far as it goes. Some of the best 
varieties have been named and propagated 
by grafting, and are being grown as other 
cultivated fruits. There is a great differ¬ 
ence in the size, shape, seediness and time 
of ripening of the endless number of wild 
varieties. It is the common belief that 
they all require frost to finish ripening the 
fruit, but this is a mistake, for some of 
them are so early that they ripen fully be¬ 
fore any frost appears. Others are so 
late as to hang on the trees until Spring. 
I have gathered wild persimmons in sev¬ 
eral parts of the country, from Virginia to 
Kansas, that were soft and in delicious 
eating condition in early September. The 
variety called Early Golden is one of the 
best. 1 saw trees of it loaded with fruit 
at the farm of E. A. Riehl, near Alton, 
Ill., last Fall, and have seen the same years 
ago on the premises of J. W. Killen, Fel¬ 
ton, Del. Miller is another very large va¬ 
riety, but is not so bright in color as 
Early Golden. There are seedless varie¬ 
ties, but none of them that I have seen 
is large. Crosses with the Japanese per- j 
simmons, which are very large, have been 
attempted, and it is reasonable to expect 
that we shall get choice kinds in this way, 
that will be very large and as hardy in 
tree as our natives. 
The fruit is generally eaten in the fresh 
state, but it can lie used otherwise. The 
large proportion of seeds is a decided dis¬ 
advantage, but they can be removed by 
rubbing the fruit, when very soft, in a 
colander. The pulp may then be spread 
on buttered plates or boards and dried, 
with or without sugar, when it will be in 
condition to keep for future use. It is 
similar to the preparation called peach 
“leather,” only richer in flavor. Tt is made 
into rolls, and these cut into rings and 
eaten as a confection. The pulp may be 
made into a delicious marmalade. Persim¬ 
mons are also dried whole, seeds and all, 
packed with sugar and eaten like rai-ins 
or dried figs. We have stewed dried Jap¬ 
anese persimmons and eaten them as we 
would other fruit, and thought them de¬ 
licious, but never tried our native kinds in 
this way. The pulp of the native persim¬ 
mon makes a nice custard, along with 
milk, sugar and eggs, as raisins and other 
dried fruits are sometimes used. A sort 
of beer is made from persimmons by 
mashing them, mixing with water and 
leaving to ferment slightly. It is then 
strained or drawn off ready for immediate 
use. II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
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