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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 24, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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THE YORK IMPERIAL APPLE. 
The excellent picture of York Imperial 
apples on first page, Fig. 106, was fur¬ 
nished by Prof. John Craig, who also gave 
us the picture of orchard drainage on 
page 207. This excellent apple is of great 
commercial importance in the Middle At¬ 
lantic States, and in sections westward to 
Missouri and Kansas. It seems to be 
about at its best in the rough mountain 
lands from central Pennsylvania through 
Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and 
North Carolina. In that section the York 
Imperial grows large, high-colored and 
well-flavored fruit. Orchardists there do 
well to plant this variety heavily as is done 
with Baldwin in New England. The 
fruit is easily recognized by its peculiar 
shape. It looks somewhat as if a round 
apple had been held between the hands 
and crushed into a square or blocky form. 
In some places this lop-sided appearance 
is more marked than in others. The 
variety originated near York, Pa., and the 
name was suggested by Chas. Downing, 
who called it “the imperial of keepers.” 
The tree is thrifty and strong, and does 
best on heavy clay soils. The fruit is ex¬ 
cellent for storage when grown within its 
true section. It is not an apple suitable 
for planting north of central Pennsyl¬ 
vania. _ 
BRIEF APPLE NOTES. 
Evening Party. —I have written of the 
apple Evening Party before, but it is a 
favorite with me, and I think that nursery¬ 
men of the Middle West, where it is not 
too cold, would do well to drop some 
other varieties—as Bismarck, Lawver (or 
Delaware Red Winter), Main, Lowell or 
others that might be named—and substi¬ 
tute Evening Farty for one of them. They 
can recommend it certainly for home use, 
and it is not without value as a market ap¬ 
ple in the rich black corn land of central 
Illinois. In size it lies between Roinanite 
and Jonathan and right here is its great¬ 
est fault. Were it as large as Spy it 
would be our best December apple for 
dessert market but it has not enough acid 
for cooking. Downing has candidly de¬ 
scribed it as of “Brisk saccharine some¬ 
what vinous aromatic flavor, an excel¬ 
lent dessert fruit” and “very good.” The 
color is fine red yet scarcely so polished 
and bright as Jonathan. It is at its best 
in December; later than this the “brisk¬ 
ness” gives way and the saccharine pre¬ 
dominates so much so that it might be 
judged as a sweet apple. It is neither 
an early nor a tardy bearer but gives good, 
regular crops when once it has arrived at 
the bearing age, and, what is very impor¬ 
tant to planters, it is there on the tree at 
apple picking time, in place of on the 
ground rotting—as with Jonathan, Dom¬ 
inie, and many others you all know of. 
The tree is vigorous and rather free 
from blight. Head upright, spreading and 
regular, but a little down at the base after 
years of fruiting, and needs a four-foot 
stem with fully two rods of room in the 
orchard. The limbs are not large, but 
stiff and rather spurry. Did you ever 
notice that spurs and stiffness of limb 
usually go together? 
Letorey is a rather large, oblate, red 
apple that hails from Tennessee, with a 
season from February until in April, that 
promises fairly well, as it seems to bear 
earlv and is a nice-looking apple. The 
tree is quite vigorous and so far has 
shown but very light blight. It will need 
35 feet of room and a three-foot stem. It 
is somewhat larger than Baldwin, but 
perhaps scarcely so showy, although the 
color is good enough. The flesh is yellow, 
quite tender, rather juicy and rich, 
pleasant subacid and good to very good. 
We here cannot succeed with the Spy, 
Baldwin, Esopus, Tompkins King, R. I. 
Greening or Newtown Pippin that you 
raise in the East, but the list of varieties 
of good quality will increase until per¬ 
haps we may be sending “coals to New¬ 
castle” some time. benj. buckman. 
Sangamon Co., Ill. 
Late Keeping Onions. 
ft. L. M’C., Vincennes, Ind .—What good 
onion will keep the best? I prefer the Globe 
or thick variety. Prizetaker keeps poorly 
here; have tried Southport Yellow and White 
Globe, but the white is hard to manage in wet 
weather. I thought of trying Gibraltar. 
Ans. —The best keeping onions are the 
Yellow Globe Danvers and Large Red 
Wethersfield. The Red Globe, however, 
has excellent keeping qualities, and is per¬ 
haps more extensively grown than any 
other variety. All the Italian varieties are 
quick growers, large size, mild flavor, but 
poor keepers; the Gibraltar is of this 
type. t. m. white. 
Apples for Oklahoma. 
E. T. D., Palace, Okla .—Wil you give a 
list of good sweet apples covering season 
from early to late for northern Oklahoma? 
We have good sub-irrigated soil, suitable for 
such trees. 
Ans. —A list of sweet apples that are 
suitable to Oklahoma and a large part of 
the country is as follows: They are ar¬ 
ranged in order of ripening, from the 
very earliest to the next Spring. High- 
top (or Sweet June), Sweet Bough, 
Golden Sweet, Ramsdell, Bailey, Munson, 
Tolman, Ladies Sweeting, and Bentley. 
There are many other good sweet apples, 
but it would be difficult or impossible to 
get trees of them from the nurseries. 
No one should plant many trees of any 
kind of sweet apnle but for use in the 
family. On the farm it is very well to 
have a constant succession of them, if 
there be only a tree or two of each. 
h. e. v. D. 
When and How to Dig Parsnips. 
F. M., Joliet, III .—Do you know of any 
implement to dig parsnips out, or can you 
tell me the way the men who raise a lot get 
them out of the ground? 
Ans. —The parsnips should be left in 
the ground until late in the season; their 
flavor is very much improved by frost 
and freezing weather. Where parsnips are 
wanted for supplying a regular demand, 
a quantity should be dug before the ground 
freezes solid and stored in a root cellar. 
It is also a good plan to leave at least one- 
half of the crop in the ground as they will 
carry through the Winter without loss, 
and come out in fine condition in the 
Spring. There will be times during the 
Winter when they can be dug to advan¬ 
tage, and they will be in better condition 
than those that are stored in cellars. 
When parsnips are to be dug in large 
quantities plow down the side of the row 
as deep and as close as you can run 
the plow to them without injury; they 
can then be taken out with little difficulty. 
T. M. WHITE. 
Transplanting Evergreen Trees. 
I. B., Coblcskill, N. Y. —We would like to 
plant a half dozen ot more pine trees, from 
our own neighborhood, along the eastern edge 
of a hemlock and beech grove. We are told 
it is a difficult thing to transplant a pine, 
and so I ask for any information I can get as 
to time of year, size of tree, condition of 
soil, etc. Will you help us as usual? 
Ans. —Nursery-grown pine trees are 
not specially difficult to move, as they 
usually have an abundance of small roots 
that are able to support the tree until 
established in the new home, but wild 
trees are not always equally well pro¬ 
vided. Probably the best sizes are from 
three to six feet high. Specimens grow¬ 
ing in the open should be selected, and 
carefully dug, securing as large a ball 
of roots and earth as possible. This 
should at once be covered with burlap 
or bagging and kept moist until planted. 
The roots should never be allowed to 
dry in the slightest degree. The safest 
time to transplant is probably just as new 
growth starts in May. The trees should 
be replanted without delay, setting them 
at the same level, and packing the earth 
very firmly about the freshly pruned roots. 
A thick mulch of straw or old manure 
about the newly set trees will greatly 
assist them by keeping the soil moist. 
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