1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
25 
OREGON APPLES IN CHICAGO. 
The Hood River Oregon apples are on 
the fruit stands here, as in New York, 
and are simply immense. They are 
boxed, some running only 40 to 60 to 
the box. Some Wolf River apples we 
saw contained only nine in the top layer, 
or less than 40 to the box. I saw Win¬ 
ter Banana apples selling for 10 cents 
each, Spit/.viibergs at a dollar a dozen. 
Now I believe that in spite of all this 
if New York State growers would 
give attention to the matter, carefully 
grow, thoroughly spray, and select the 
fruit and box in attractive form, they 
would more than hold their own against 
the distant Hood River invaders, under¬ 
selling them and furnishing apples of 
the well-known New York superior 
quality. At this point the western fruit 
fails. J. YATES PEEK. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Peek is right. Superior 
apples can be grown in the East within 
comparatively short distances of the best 
markets. It seems hard to admit it, but 
the Pacific coast people are ahead of our 
eastern people in the business of putting 
fruit on the market. 
PACIFIC COAST APPLES. 
Mr. W. C. Hamilton, of Washington, 
sends us the picture shown at Fig. 13. 
His boy picked the apples, which were 
raised by a neighbor. The squash shown 
was about the only one that might be 
worth while planting. I could not un¬ 
derstand then why they should speak 
so poorly of what I had read so much 
about in all the catalogues as being such 
fine plums. From the whole lot 1 have 
scarcely had a peck of fruit in all these 
eight or nine years—might have had 
more this year if the trees had not al¬ 
ready been nearly all winter-killed and 
superseded with an assortment and ad¬ 
ditional planting of the native plums. 
Mr. Kerr, of Maryland, did much to 
introduce these native varieties, but since 
he is out of the nursery business these 
trees seem to be hard to find and most 
catalogues do not mention them, while 
they are still indiscriminately lauding 
these comparatively worthless Japanese 
sorts. There would seem to be an open¬ 
ing for some nurserymen to proceed 
along the line of introducing into cul¬ 
tivation the choicest of these natives, 
especially in localities they are es¬ 
pecially adapted for and where the 
European varieties under neglect or par¬ 
tial neglect, as they arc generally grown 
on farms and village lots here, are more 
or less of a failure. Even with good 
care these European kinds sometimes 
fail and in such cases these natives 
make easy money by reason of their 
great productiveness, late blooming and 
EXHIBITS FROM A WASHINGTON FARM. Fig. 13. 
weighed 152^2 pounds. The box of 
largest apples (Rome Beauty) was sent 
to Illinois. There were 42 apples in it. 
This is the sort of fruit that is making 
its way into eastern markets. People 
often ask how it is possible to ship 
apples 3000 miles and sell them at a 
profit. It is because the fruit is grown, 
handled and packed in a way to make 
an absolute guarantee possible. The 
spirit of the business is right, and old 
and young study how to produce the 
best. They know they will fail if they 
try to handle medium goods. 
JAPANESE AND NATIVE PLUMS. 
The remarks on page 953 about the 
October Purple plum make one wonder 
why so many nurserymen still persist in | 
pushing the sale of this almost worth¬ 
less class of plums (except in a few 
favored localities). True, they are 
easily-grown, handsome trees, but what 
must anyone’s opinion be of that nur¬ 
seryman’s business, by whose recommen¬ 
dation one planted these trees, and has 
only disappointment year after year, 
and finally grubs out those worthless 
trees and plants something better? 
As an enthusiastic beginner in fruit 
culture, some years ago I was about to 
plant these Japanese plums largely, but 
as I chanced to get into communication 
with our Experiment Station at Woos¬ 
ter on the subject, and they discouraged 
me T finally planted only 50 or 75 trees, 
mostly Red June, as they assured me this 
hardiness and freedom from rot, and 
also fine eating qualities. 
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