THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 
168 
Now, it is up to the express company to make good the 
loss, but after the expiration of one month the company 
has not yet beatified the shipper with a check. These 
plants were thoroughly packed in the most approved 
manner, were well addressed, and carefully marked to 
indicate the contents of the box, besides being plainly 
stenciled with warnings to agents to protect from cold, 
but all this was of no avail. 
So great has been the difficulty in getting careful 
transportation from the express companies that some 
of our prominent retail florists do not attempt to for¬ 
ward a valuable lot of cut flowers to. an out-of-town 
point without sending it by a special messenger, even 
though the cost may be three, or four times the express 
rate. 
It may also be remarked that the fact that express 
companies have been declared to be common carriers, 
does not appear to have been sufficiently impressed 
upon them, when the following quotation from the rate 
book of the Adams Express Co. is carefully digested. 
“To large or regular shippers all responsible compe¬ 
tition zvill be met.” 
I his statement is. found in connection with the rates 
A GASOLINE HOUSE AND POTATO DIGGER. Fig. 76. 
to foreign points, there being no serious competition 
among the companies in United States, as any trifling 
differences of opinion as to how much the traffic will 
stand are speedily adjusted by “a meeting of gentlemen.” 
w. H. TAPLIN. 
SHALL WE MIX VARIETIES OF APPLES? 
There is quite a rage on for planting fruit trees in this 
neck of the woods, and, of course, it naturally arouses some 
discussion and inquiry as to the best method of planting 
them and the varieties to plant. The problem seeming to 
be uppermost just now is the effect of pollenization by plant¬ 
ing different varieties in adjoining rows. Will this affect 
the quality and color of the fruit? The majority of our 
fruit growers claim that it will. They claim that light- 
colored apples will be higher colored by being grown by the 
side of dark-colored varieties. Many are planting Arkan¬ 
sas Black and Spitzenburg ip alternate rows, claiming that 
they will thus secure high color in the Spitzenburg that 
the fastidious market, demands, and they can cite innumer¬ 
able instances to prove the truth of their claim. I have 
always thought that such cross pollenization affected only 
the seed, and the trees grown from such seed. it. j. 
Oregon. 
I have never observed any effect of cross polleniza¬ 
tion on color or otherwise. Wealthy and Yellow Trans¬ 
parent grown side by side, are not influenced by each 
other in color. 1 have rows of other red apples between 
or beside rows of yellow ones, and no red appears on 
the yellow or lack of color in the red. It would require 
much affirmative evidence to make me believe there 
was any appreciable effect. w. b. harlan. 
Montana. 
I think I may safely say that the quality and color 
of fruit are not affected through cross-pollination. The 
supposed direct effect of pollen upon the character of 
TRAIN UP A TOMATO VINE. Fig. 77. 
fruit and seeds is a phenomenon which has puzzled 
horticulturists and botanists for years. Many experi¬ 
ments have been carried on, both in the laboratory 
and in the field, in studying the question, and the 
results very generally agree that in orchard plants at 
least, there is no effect upon the fruit from cross-pol¬ 
lination. Very rarely fruits are described, which are 
supposed to show this unusual phenomeon, but there 
are few, if any such cases on record, that are not open 
to doubt. The effects of cross-pollination are not to 
be seen unless the seeds of the crossed fruit are planted 
and the resulting generations examined. One may use 
red and green apples of varying quality for inter-pol¬ 
lination without any fear that the color or quality of 
cither will be in the least changed. u. p. hedrick. 
I do not think I would better attempt to give our 
Pacific coast friend any advice as to what varieties 
of apples to plant; that is always a local question that 
a man 3,000' miles away would better not meddle with. 
I am sure that the interplanting of varieties of apples 
in an orchard is helpful to fruitage, but 1 do not believe 
that the color or quality of any particular variety of 
fruit is in any way changed by such interplanting. The 
cross-pollenization, I believe, makes a stronger and 
surer “set” of fruit and, of course, the cross-breed¬ 
ing would show in the seeds of the fruit, but in no 
other way. I am confident that it is only a fanciful 
GRAPEVINE AS A PORCH CLIMBER. Fig. 78. 
theory that leads some of our Pacific coast friends to 
think that planting the Arkansas Black in adjoining 
rows to Spitzenburg will in any way heighten the color 
of the latter variety. j. h. hale. 
Connecticut. 
My experience as a fruit grower is that cross-pol¬ 
linated apples are more abundant in yield and fre¬ 
quently larger in size and better in shape. The type 
of the apple is not changed unless we plant the seed, 
that is, a Ben Davis remains a Ben Davis, and so of 
all other varieties. But many apples are self-sterile to 
a much greater degree than we would suppose. By 
tying bags over certain branches at blooming time and 
thus restricting the bloom to its own pollen, we find 
that some trees will produce no apples, some but few, 
while some seem to be self-fertile. The experiment 
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