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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
KEEP THEM IN MIND. 
Do not forget that the following members 
of the New York Senate voted against Gov¬ 
ernor Hughes in his efforts to remove the 
Superintendent of Insurance. Let it be a 
part of your political duty to remember them 
and vote against them whenever you have the 
chance: 
JOTHAM P. ALLDS.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. FANCHER.Salamanca, N. Y. 
S. P. FRANCHOT.Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
S. PERCY* HOOKER.LeRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES.Canandaigua. N. Y. 
SANFORD W. SMITH.Chatham, N. Y. 
WM. J. TULLY.Corning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BENJ. M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD.Utica, N. Y. 
FRANK M. BOYCE.East Schodack, N. Y. 
MORE ABOUT DIVINING RODS. 
There are two holes in the backyard of 
my old home over in Adams Co., Pa. A 
well was to be dug and two neighbors who 
divined the presence of water by the aid of 
the usual peach stick kindly volunteered 
their services. They agreed that water was 
at a certain place, 45 feet below the surface, 
which place being convenient to the door, was 
chosen to test their skill. A well-driller, who 
guaranteed water or no pay, drilled one hole 
C4 feet deep. Finding no water he drilled 
another, about 32 inches away from the first 
one. This one was driven 90 feet and also 
given up. We then got another man and 
selected a suitable place on the top of a hill 
higher than the buildings and about 100 yards 
away, where a well was drilled 46 feet to an 
almost inexhaustible supply of water, which 
is now used at the buildings after being 
pumped into a reservoir. I do not know how 
the people would take to this divining busi¬ 
ness elsewhere, and I do not profess to con¬ 
demn it wholly; but I know that the fellow 
from “out West,” who occupied your front 
page some issues back, can make an inde¬ 
pendent fortune in southern Pennsylvania if 
he will come here and show us where our 
minerals are and where to dig our wells. I 
have yet to find the first man who has made 
any money at this business, and there are 
many occupations followed nowadays which 
are far less creditable to the men in them 
than this would be, if it held out as well in 
practice as it does in the story. But maybe, 
since electricity and temperament have to do 
with it, an absolutely unselfish character is 
also one of the requisites. If so, then one 
would naturally think it portends a fore¬ 
runner of the millennium. earl peters. 
Pennsylvania . 
MATTHEWS BEAUTY PEACH. 
In reply to A. H. P. concerning the Mat¬ 
thews Beauty peach, I would advise him to 
leave It severely alone. The fewer trees he 
plants of it the better he will be off. I base 
this opinion wholly upon my own experience, 
after giving it good culture. I have fruited 
it for three years, and the more I know of 
it the less I like it. There are so many much 
better varieties that ripen about the same 
time that I see no reason why it should be 
planted; however, it may do well elsewhere. 
Every fruit grower of experience knows that 
the habits of most fruits are greatly af¬ 
fected and ofttimes radically changed by their 
conditions and surroundings. I don’t think 
A. H. P. made a wise selection of varieties 
(as a whole), when he planted his orchard 
of 900 trees; however, if it suits it is all 
right (for him). I would advise this in¬ 
quirer not to place too much confidence in 
descriptions given in catalogues, as they are 
often misleading. The writer has never be¬ 
fore heard of the Lamont peach. As to the 
Fitzgerald peach, I had this year a few spec¬ 
imens on well cultivated, three-year-old trees, 
and they were very disappointing. The fruit 
was golden yellow in color, and very good in 
quality, but very small in size and an abso¬ 
lute clingstone. This was as it grew for 
me this year under unfavorable weather con¬ 
ditions. I think I have full plenty of them 
planted. w - s> 
New Jersey. 
We have never planted the Lamont, and the 
Matthews Beauty only in an experimental 
way with a few trees, and they have never 
proved satisfactory at any time. There al¬ 
ways seems to be something the matter with 
them. In six years’ fruiting they have never 
had one nice crop on. We don’t set any 
peach trees now commercially unless we try 
them in an experimental way first. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. t. h. king. 
A few trees of the Matthews Beauty were 
received in the Spring of 1901, and made a 
very good growth up to the Winter of 1906- 
07, at which time they were killed in a 
spraying experiment. I am pleased to report, 
however, that some fruit was produced in 
1904-05 and 1906. It is a peach of the El- 
iiot-tn tvnp. rineninv after midseason. The 
trees come into bearing early and appear to 
produce large annual crops. The fruit seems to 
be of higher quality than the Elberta. In 
regard to the Lamont, we have fruited this 
variety at this Station for several years. It 
is a chance seedling which originated on the 
grounds of Charles Lamont, Geneva, N. Y., 
about 25 years ago. It ripens about with the 
late Crawford and is of the Crawford type. 
The fruit does not ripen well, and the trees 
are not productive on the cold, heavy clay 
soil at this Station; on lighter soils, however, 
in certain localities, it is being grown commer¬ 
cially, and is proving satisfactory as a market 
sort on account of good size and attractive 
color. O. M. TAYLOR, 
Geneva Exp. Station. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
The Garber Pear. —A. L. W. asks about 
the Garber pear. I have the Garber planted 
as a pollenizer among a block of Kieffer trees, 
and find it one of the very best for that pur¬ 
pose ; it is a good grower, resists the blight, 
but does not resist the scale; it is an early 
and prolific bearer, of large yellow fruit that 
is attractive in appearance, but the quality 
is extremely poor, in fact, worthless as a 
dessert fruit. I would not advise the plant¬ 
ing of it except for pollenizing purposes. 
Somerset Co., N. J. w. H. s. 
The Idaho Pear. —On page 810 you say 
if there are 100 trees of the Idaho pear out¬ 
side of Idaho you would like to know where 
they are. I have 12 or 15 of them, and do 
not think I have been deceived in them. 
Seven years ago I bought two trees of this 
variety, and as I bought them without any 
high-sounding name or wonderful promise and 
at a fair price I did not consider myself 
“taken in.” Three years ago they bore a 
fair crop of what I considered a promising 
pear, so I grafted them on to about a dozen 
Kieffer, all of which have done well. Two 
years ago the two trees bore again; this time, 
however, it was not the perfect fruit it had 
been the previous year. Shortly before they 
were ready to pick I noticed numerous black 
spots on the fruit which increased in size 
rapidly. These spots began to rot, and be¬ 
fore it was time to pick them they had gone 
down completely. The past season they bore 
again a fair crop, and like the crop three 
years ago without a spot or blemish. Is 
this fungus which attacked it two years ago 
characteristic with the variety, or what is 
the variety’s greatest drawback in Pennsyl¬ 
vania? J- H- 
R. N.-Y.—As The R. N.-Y. tried the Idaho 
some 20 years ago it was peculiarly subject to 
blight. 
Zinc Tree Labels. —Reading in a late 
issue of The R. N.-Y. what Mr. Crawford 
says about using Carbolineum on labels sug¬ 
gests to me that the way I mark my trees 
and shrubbery may be new to some and per¬ 
haps all your readers. I procure from our 
tinsmith strips of sheet zinc cut to the re¬ 
quired width and length according to size of 
tree or shrub to be marked, say 5-16x2% 
inches for rose bushes, and %x4 inches or 
more for fruit trees. A common soft lead 
pencil is used for writing the name. The 
strips are simply bent around a branch form¬ 
ing a ring. The zinc being pliable allows for 
the expanding growth, so there is no danger 
of cutting off the flow of the sap or girdling 
the bark. For such plants as rose bushes 
thin zinc should be used, but when this can¬ 
not be procured, the strips may be cut so as 
to leave one end quite narrow. I have used 
these strips for several years, and find them 
more lasting and convenient than anything 
else I have tried. Zinc stakes are sometimes 
used, but there is the danger of their getting 
displaced, plowed or pulled up. I lost the 
names of several plants the past season in 
this way. Not having the zinc strips I used 
stakes, and a green hand pulled them up and 
failed to replace them properly. G. D. c. 
Plainville, Conn. 
Pollenization.ot Wheat. 
IF. S. J., Holliday , Mo. —If I sow two kinds 
of wheat side by side in the same field, will 
the seed thus raised be pure, or will the two 
kinds mix in fertilization? 
Ans. —Wheat flowers are regarded as 
self-fertilizing, as the pollination takes 
place in nearly every instance just before 
the blooms open. There is, however, a 
small chance for cross-fertilization if two 
or more kinds are planted nearby. Small 
insects may carry pollen of one variety 
to the unopened bloom of others. This, 
however, so seldom occurs that it is not 
generally taken into consideration in grow¬ 
ing seed wheats, and you may quite safely 
plant your varieties near together without 
danger of serious mixture. 
Fruits for Eastern Massachusetts. 
J. P. F., Taunton, Mass. —1. What are the 
best grapes for strictly first-class family trade, 
early, medium and late for this climate, 
white, red and purple? Same of pears, 
peaches, plums, raspberries, blackberries, cur¬ 
rants, gooseberries, apples and quinces. 2. 
What do you think of the pears Fame and 
Triumph, also apples King David and Jona¬ 
than? 3. What do you call a cherry soil? 
Ans.— 1. Best grapes for New England, 
early, medium, late, purple, Worden, Con¬ 
cord, Herbert; white, Green Mountain, 
Diamond, Niagara; red, Delaware, 
Brighton, Salem. Best pears, Bartlett, 
Seckel, Sheldon, Bose, Hovey. Best 
peaches, Champion, Mt. Rose, Early 
Crawford, Oldmixon, Late Crawford. 
Best plums (European), Bradshaw, Lin¬ 
coln, Quackenboss, Green Gage, McLaugh¬ 
lin, (Japanese) Abundance, Burbank, 
Wickson, October Purple. Raspberries, 
Cuthbert, Loudon. Blackberries, Agawam, 
Ancient Briton, Snyder, Taylor’s Prolific, 
Currants, Wilder, Pomona, White Im¬ 
perial. Gooseberries, Downing, Columbus, 
Red Jacket. Quinces, Orange, Reas. 
Apples, for market. Red Astrachan, Early 
Williams, Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, 
Wealthy, McIntosh, I-Iubbardston, Bald¬ 
win. For home use may be added to 
this list Early Strawberry, Sweet Bough, 
Jacobs Sweet, Spitzenburg, Palmer Green¬ 
ing, Roxbury Russet. 2. Fame and 
Triumph pears have not been grown 
enough in New England to prove whether 
they will be valuable or not. King David 
apple has not proved especially valuable 
and Jonathan grows of so small size here 
as to be of little value. 3. A good cherry 
soil is a rather dry sandy or gravelly 
loam. Our best cherry trees are found 
growing upon the lawn or by the road¬ 
side. s. T. MAYNARD. 
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