1911. 
71 
Rural isms 
THE PASSION FRUIT. 
Many southern readers are familiar 
with the native American passion-flower, 
Passiflora incarnata, the fruit of which 
is known as May-pops. Fig. 27, shows 
another species, P. edulis, as grown in 
Australia, the photograph being fur¬ 
nished to the Plant Introduction Bureau 
by H. D. Baker, Vice Consul-general, 
Sydney. This passion-flower is a na¬ 
tive of Brazil, now widely distributed 
in tropical countries. In Australia this 
can be grown like a grape on trellises, 
and may be grown from seed or cut¬ 
tings. It grows well in any ordinary 
open soil if well manured. Prolits are 
reported to run from $100 to nearly 
$300 per acre annually, and the cultiva¬ 
tion is very simple. The vines should 
be renewed after five years. Hence it is 
often used as a catch crop in young or¬ 
chards, being removed as the fruit trees 
come into bearing. It might be used 
thus to advantage in southern Florida 
and California. The fruits are as large 
as a large hen’s egg, of a rich purple 
color, and the pulp is much used in 
Australia for flavoring ices, in the prepa¬ 
ration of fruit salads, for confectioner}', 
for icing cakes and other dishes, for 
"trifle,” an Australian dish composed 
of sponge cake, fruits, cream and white 
end of September or. beginning of October. 
Shelter young plants until they get started. 
Some- fruit will be obtained the first sea¬ 
son, full crop the second season. Vines are 
about done in four years. The passion 
fruit does wonderfully well in the sand¬ 
stone country around Sydney, yet it grows 
almost wild in the semi-tropical climate of 
the Northern Rivers, N. S. W. 
Another passion-fruit familiar in 
tropical countries is the granadilla, 
Passiflora quadrangularis, which is 
freely sold in South American markets, 
and in other countries where climatic 
conditions are favorable. A variegated 
form of the granadilla makes a hand¬ 
some greenhouse climber. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
When you write advertisers mention The 
THE GIANT HIMALAYA BERRY. 
Several Readers .—What is the “Giant 
Himalaya Berry” advertised by several 
firms? There is a picture of a bush about 
the size of a house and carrying some 100 
crates of berries. The advertisement says 
that "no description can do justice to this 
great berry.” 
A ns.— The “Himalaya” berry is an 
Asiatic form of the Old World Rubus 
fruticosus, or European bramble. It 
is a trailing blackberry or rather dew¬ 
berry, of vigorous growth, with rather 
finely divided foliage and pinkish blooms. 
In deep rich soils with liberal culture 
and ample irrigation it is highly produc¬ 
tive, thriving best in the milder Pacific 
coast climates. It has been little tested 
in the East, but could scarcely be ex¬ 
pected to prove hardy where severe 
frosts occur. The berries are borne in 
large clusters, are of fair size, black 
PASSIFLORA EDULIS, THE PASSION FRUIT. Fig. 27 . 
of eggs mixed [An English dainty 
originally. Eds.], for jams, and other 
table purposes. It may also be eaten in 
the natural state, the pulp being re¬ 
moved with a spoon and eaten seeds 
and all, but the seeds are removed when 
used in syrups, ice cream, etc. It may 
prove of value for the manufacture of 
syrups, for soft drinks, although the 
small amount of juice in each fruit 
may be objectionable. It has proven a 
very interesting and profitable green¬ 
house fruit in England. 
The following statement about passion 
fruit culture is made by James Moody, 
a Melbourne orchardist: : 
Passion fruit will grow in tlae States; 
they prefer a loose, sandy soil, but must 
be high enough up to be out of reach of 
rrosts, near the sea for preference, within, 
say, 10 miles. They require plenty of 
manure and to be grown on a wire trellis, 
that is, an ordinary fence with posts 15 
teet apart and in place of having the wire 
as in the fence, nail a cross-piece about 18 
Inches long on the top of each post and 
run two wires along this cross-piece. Train 
the vine up by main stem until the wires 
are reached, then run an arm out each side 
alone the wires. The lateral growth will 
hang down like a curtain and the fruit is 
borne on this lateral growth. Plant vines 
lo feet apart, one between each post; 
tram vine up a stick, until it reaches the 
wire. Rows to be 15 feet apart: the best 
manure for them, 1500 pounds to the acre, 
<00 bone dust, 500 superphosphate, 300 
potash, if the Winter be fairly warm, a 
winter crop can be grown by pruning in 
A* *P ri , n g or early Summer by cutting 
on the lateral growth a foot below the 
wires and then manuring, but if the Win¬ 
ter is not mild I would simply go in for 
tne natural Summer crop, prune as above 
me in winter and manure early in Spring, 
ine vines are raised in seed boxes from 
5???: s i“Ply wash the pulp out of the 
rruit and dry the ■ seed; plant out when 
about six inches high. Do not allow any 
lateral growth until the wires are reached, 
we plant out here in Australia about the 
when fully ripe and of excellent flavor, 
but so soft in texture as to be of little 
value except for home use. The “Hima¬ 
laya” is well liked and widely grown in 
California gardens, but the fruit is rarely 
seen in market. The blackberries most 
profitably grown in the Pacific States are 
the Evergreen, probably a form of the 
Old World Rubus laciniatus, which 
thrives well in the Oregon and Wash¬ 
ington coast levels, the Loganberry, 
Phenomenal, Mammoth, Lucretia and 
Gardena. All are of the trailing or dew¬ 
berry type, and are of doubtful hardiness 
in cold climates except the last two, 
which were probably derived from the 
common eastern dewberry, Rubus tri— 
vialis. Gardena is one of the earliest of 
bramble berries, but is rated as poor in 
quality. Lucretia is everywhere favor¬ 
ably known. The Mammoth is the larg¬ 
est fruited of Judge Logan’s seedlings. 
The glossy blackberries grow nearly two 
inches long and are of pleasant flavor, 
but plants are not always productive. 
The Loganberry and Phenomenal are 
plainly hybrids of the European red 
raspberry and native Pacific dewberry, 
R. vitifolius, the latter by Burbank. 
Both bear long purplish berries having a 
firm receptacle or core like ordinary 
blackberries, but with tart raspberry 
flavor. Both are successfully grown in 
California, but the Loganberry finds 
greatest favor abroad, and has been made 
to thrive, with slight protection, in the 
neighborhood of Washington, D. G. 
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