1911. 
THE RURAL* NEW-YORKEH 
1031 
Ruralisms 
THE WHITE SAPOTA. 
Among plants recently figured by the 
Bureau of Plant Introduction of the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture is the 
white sapota, Casimiroa edulis, shown 
in Fig. 413. Seeds have been received 
from Honduras. Professor Popenoe 
thus describes it: 
The tree is handsome, having large, pal¬ 
mate leaves, glossy green on the upper sur¬ 
face, and with age forms a dense dome¬ 
shaped head of foliage. As an ornamental 
alone it is of value, and possesses good 
gathered from the trees, with the re 
suit, in public places, of injury to the 
trees and gathering before they are 
ripe. Moreover, few fruits do well 
without care. But nuts care for them¬ 
selves and gather themselves. Let us 
make “Nut Johnnies” of ourselves and 
plant nuts wherever we go. 
WM. C. DEMING, 
Secretary Northern Nut Growers’ As¬ 
sociation. _ 
Praise for the Carman Peach. 
I notice in a recent issue of The R. N.-Y. 
that the Hope Farm man speaks well of 
the Carman peach. Here in the South it is 
also proving to be a good variety. In our 
first commercial planting of 1000 trees— 
five varieties—750 being Elbertas, 50 Car¬ 
mans paid nearly as much as the other 950 
trees the first year the orchard bloomed. 
FRUIT OF THE WHITE SAPOTA. Fig. 413. 
possibilities as a street and avenue tree. 
The fruits greatly resemble in appearance 
an apple or a quince, and the better varie¬ 
ties are as large as a good-sized apple. 
When fully ripe the pulp becomes quite soft, 
and has been described as of a delicious, 
melting, peach-like flavor. The normal sea¬ 
son of ripening is October and November, 
but as soon as the fruit is fully developed 
It may be picked and ripened in the house, 
and is then quite as good as though ripened 
on the tree. 
The Bureau of Plant Introduction 
says that this hitherto almost neglected 
sub-tropical tree, with greenish-yellow 
fruit sometimes three inches in diam¬ 
eter, is well adapted to Southern Cali¬ 
fornia and Southern Florida, and pos¬ 
sibly will succeed in protected areas in 
Southern Texas and Louisiana. The 
pulp has a rich sub-acid taste and is 
most palatable when somewhat overripe. 
The thick skin will probably make long 
shipments possible. The tree is said not 
to root well from cuttings, but to grow 
well from seeds. Trees in Southern 
California have attained the age of 80 
years, and though neglected, have borne 
fruit regularly for years. The illustra¬ 
tion is much reduced in size. Baron 
Von Mueller says this tree succeeds in 
Mexico up to the cool heights of 7,000 
feet, the tree coining into bearing in 10 
years. The kernel is said to be dele¬ 
terious. _ 
A Plea For Nut Planting. 
About planting roadside shade trees: 
That good man, the late Andrew S. 
Fuller, pleaded earnestly for the plant¬ 
ing of roadside trees, useful as well as 
ornamental, and especially for nut 
trees. The importance of nuts as a 
source of food supply in the future is 
just beginning to have consideration. 
Picture *our miles of roadside lined 
with bearing nut trees, needing no care 
and yielding abundant crops free to all. 
How much will the earth’s bounty be 
increased when the majority of our 
shade trees are food and timber pro¬ 
ducing as well? A few specimens of 
purely ornamental trees may be here 
and there permitted. 
_ To have such useful trees is the 
simplest thing in the world. Take a 
lot of Black walnuts and hickory nuts, 
walk along the roadsides and stick in 
a nut every little way. Poke them in 
tvith a stick or stamp them in with the 
heel. A majority will grow. Butter- 
huts, Japanese walnuts, perhaps the Co- 
rean chestnut, may be used in the same 
way, but it is useless to plant our 
native _ chestnuts while the chestnut 
blight is so certain to destroy the trees, 
bruit trees along roadsides are not so 
£ood, for most fruits have to be 
The tree is a good grower, blooms two to 
three weeks later than Elberta. One could 
almost afford to plant it for the beauty of 
its blossoms, and in this latitude (Central 
Arkansas) it is nearly frost-proof. This 
year I received $1 net per four-basket crate, 
some of my trees paying $4 to $5, second 
year of bearing. Elbertas and most other 
varieties were killed by frost March 16. 
We have “horticultural wonders’’ and 
“Wizard” trees, for which we paid from 50 
cents to $1 each, with circulars and guff 
galore thrown in, yet at picking time Car¬ 
man has never failed to pay more than any 
other variety we have, bar none. Planted 
to the extent of Elberta it might not keep 
up this record, but up to the capacity of 
our market and for express shipments 200 
to 400 miles we find nothing in this lati¬ 
tude to surpass it. We do not think anyone 
can go far wrong in planting Carman. 
Arkansas. john h. pekriman. 
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