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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER- 
December 23, 
uralisms 
Persimmons, Native and Japan. —Fig. 
418, page 910, well represents the differ¬ 
ence between fruits of our wild persim¬ 
mons and of the long-cultivated Japan 
species. There are plenty of larger and 
better natives, the illustration having been 
made from fruits taken from an ordi¬ 
nary roadside tree, while the Japan spec¬ 
imen is a seedling of the larger Hyakume, 
two varieties having been distributed un¬ 
der this name, raised by J. L. Breese, 
Fayetteville. N. C. Hyakume is an early 
ripening and very popular type, bearing 
large round or flattened fruits; flesh dark, 
sweet and solid, without astringency. The 
seedling, shown in natural size, is large 
and elongated in form, brilliant scarlet in 
color, with solid, dark flesh; sweet, richly 
flavored and entirely free from astrin¬ 
gency when received November 2. The 
fruits contained only one or two slender 
seeds each. This seedling was more at¬ 
tractive in appearance and of better qual¬ 
ity than any we could find in the city fruit 
stores at the time. Mr. Breese has other 
seedlings, among which is one ripening 
later than any of the imported varieties, 
with the advantage of being borne on a 
particularly vigorous and healthy tree. The 
Japan persimmon is now firmly established 
as a desirable home and market fruit 
where sufficiently hardy, and it is inter¬ 
esting to note the coming of seedlings ap¬ 
parently belter adapted for our purposes 
than the parent kinds. In its oriental home 
the Japan persimmon is the favorite fruit, 
being valued more highly than the apple, 
pear, peach or plum, and the original 
species, Diospyros Kaki, which does not 
appear to bear highly edible fruit in its 
wild state, has been so worked on for un¬ 
told centuries that it has been brought to 
great perfection, but is evidently destined 
to further advances under the diversified 
conditions of soil, climate and culture in 
the New World. Many trials since the 
first importation of seeds in 1863 have 
conclusively shown that Japan persimmons 
are not reliably hardy north of the Caro- 
linas, but are entirely at home in the Gulf 
and South Atlantic coast regions, and in 
the milder portions of California. Trees 
can be grown to fruiting age in southern 
New Jersey and at intermediate points to 
Washington, D. C., but are always sooner 
or later killed by severe frosts, and usually 
suffer injury from the mildest Winters. 
The range of adaptability is likely to be 
extended far northward by hybridizing 
with our native persimmon or date plum, 
D. Virginiana, wild fruits of which are 
shown in the illustration, and which is 
known to grow naturally north to Con¬ 
necticut and Massachusetts, as well as 
nearly to the lake region in the Middle 
West. The first of these hybrids to meet 
our notice is Kawakami, produced in the 
nurseries of T. V. Munson & Son, Deni¬ 
son, Texas. The tree is said to be hardy 
as far north as IHinois, and the fruits of 
best quality, two to two and one-half 
inches in diameter. 
Interest in the Native Persimmon.— 
There is considerable interest in our na¬ 
tive species as it bears, on the whole, the 
best flavored fruits, but progress in devel¬ 
oping better varieties is slow. Thus far 
about all that has been done is to prop¬ 
agate from selected wildlings with a 
marked effort to secure seedless fruits. 
This has not seemed to the writer to be 
the most important end to be obtained. A 
reduction in the usual number of large 
seeds is desirable, even necessary, but the 
feature most urgently needed, other qual¬ 
ities being equal, is increased firmness of 
^ flesh, when ripe, so that the fruits may be 
shipped like other horticultural merchan¬ 
dise. The fruits at the edible stage are 
now as soft as uncured dates, and the 
elimination of seeds, in the specimens we 
have examined, rather increases the gen¬ 
eral flabbiness. Seedless fruits of any 
kind are often low in quality—the Japan 
persimmons having the fewest seeds are 
not all of the best flavor, and we think the 
rule extends to our native kind. Under 
cultivation the best of our natives bear 
fruits quite two inches in diameter. We 
have naturally varieties of the sweetest 
and best quality, ripening without frost as 
early as August to the latest kinds, not 
agreeable until far into the new year, and 
after they have been repeatedly frozen. 
Poor shipping quality and dull coloring 
are really greater defects of our natives 
than the present small size and seediness. 
The latter faults show ready tendency to 
diminish under selection and cultivation, 
but it is possible that color and consist¬ 
ency can only be satisfactorily developed 
by crossing with the Japans, which are 
naturally firm before maturity, and ripen 
after picking like pears. They are also 
of several attractive shades of yellow, 
scarlet and russet when in marketable con¬ 
dition. Our natives are often very pret¬ 
tily flushed with red and yellow while 
hard and astringent, but usually turn 
brown with purple bloom before soften¬ 
ing. The native is markedly dioecious in 
flowering. Many trees never fruit when 
standing alone, but bear freely if pollen- 
ized from another tree. Others produce 
such an excess of male blooms that they 
always remain sterile. Japan seedlings, 
we are told, never fail to bear, and us¬ 
ually produce good fruits. Varieties are 
propagated by grafting on native stocks. 
Grafting the persimmons is considered 
rather uncertain, but a good workman 
should secure a fair percentage of suc¬ 
cess. Young nursery grown stocks with 
the scions inserted in the collar by the 
cleft method in early Spring appears most 
suitable. 
The Market for Persimmons. —The 
taste for persimmons must to a certain 
extent be acquired, but rapidly grows with 
indulgence. Fancy Japans are in limited 
but steady demand in. the high-class fruit 
trade in the North, which is quite sure 
to increase as supplies become more cer¬ 
tain. They are always popular locally 
where grown. Natives are rarely seen in 
markets north of Washington, but are 
freely offered in the South. While de¬ 
licious in flavor, they usually make such 
a mussy appearance as to be anything but 
inviting. The natural supply is so large 
in localities where the species thrives that 
no profit can be expected from their cul¬ 
ture until marked improvement in shipping 
quality is gained. We hope much from 
the coming hybrids. 
Little-known Persimmons. —There are 
said to be 150 species of the genus Dios¬ 
pyros, natives of various tropical and tem¬ 
perate countries, many bearing edible 
fruits from the size of a cherry to that of 
a quince. The Texas persimmon, D. 
Texana, is round and dark, borne on a 
low tree that ranges far south into Mex¬ 
ico, while in the Isle of France a species, 
D. Mabola, bearing richly flavored fruits 
as large as an apple, is cultivated. Quite 
similar species are found in the Philippine 
Islands. There are many kinds native to 
India. The ebony wood of commerce 
comes from one of the East Indian per¬ 
simmons, D. Ebenus. The wood of our 
common species is dark and handsome 
when polished, but is seldom used, as it 
is quite brittle._ w. v. f. 
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