1911 . 
^THtC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1117 
Ruralisms 
A Question in Budding. 
1. W. B., Rodeo, N. M .—I have a lot of 
seedling peach trees that I failed to get 
budded last Summer. Can I save buds 
next Spring before they have started, keep 
them a little moist, but not wet enough to 
swell the buds, and so bud those trees as 
soon as the bark will slip? 
Ans. —This is done extensively through 
the South. The scions are cut in the 
Winter and kept dormant in a cool 
cellar until such time in the Spring as 
the seedlings have grown large enough 
to bud. They cut the tops off the seed¬ 
lings in eight or 10 days after budding, 
and the peach buds make fine yearling 
buds in tbe one season. In northern 
latitudes the nurserymen never have 
any success with peach trees that are 
not budded late in the Summer, the 
same year that the seed was sown. 
Sometimes they sow the seed in the 
Fall and the same rule applies. They 
are budded in August and September 
of the next year. Oftentimes the buds 
do not live through the Winter, and in 
that case the seedlings are simply chop¬ 
ped out the next Spring. It would 
be a great saving if they could cut 
scions in the Winter, keep them dor¬ 
mant in the Spring, and bud these 
failures in May, rather than destroy 
them. However, it has been tried often, 
and the results never justify a continu¬ 
ance of the practice. This is the prin¬ 
cipal reason why Northern nurserymen 
cannot raise peach trees as cheaply as 
the growers in the South. m. k. 
That New Hale Peach. 
In my personal note to The R. N.-Y. 
early in September I closed by saying, 
“I call it the million dollar peach,’’ 
never dreaming the note would be 
printed in full, or if it were printed no 
one who knew me would think for a 
moment I would attach such a name as 
that to any fruit, much less to what I 
consider the finest fruit in the world. 
What I meant and intended to convey 
was that it was a money-maker beyond 
all others I had ever known, and there 
are millions in it for myself and others 
who would plant it on a large scale. 
Hundreds of your readers, however, ab¬ 
sorbed the idea that “Million Dollar” 
was to be the name, and now in your 
issue of October 28 my good friend, S. 
C. Bowen, of western New York, takes 
a drive at it and renews his suggestion 
of two years ago that it be named 
“Haleberta.” Just why the “berta” 
should be tacked on to Hale I cannot 
fully comprehend, except that as the El- 
berta is the greatest market yellow 
peach of to-day, it might emphasize the 
color and market name of this peach 
of mine to tack the “berta” on to Hale. 
I certainly like the sound of it better 
than “J. H. Hale” as is rather insisted 
upon by my friend Mr. William P. 
Stark, who will probably have the pro¬ 
pagation, advertising and sale of this 
peach when the right time comes. I 
fully agree with Mr. Bowen that a 
single word name is the only one that 
will stick, and “Million Dollar” or 
“J. FI.” would very quickly be dropped 
and for good reasons, too, while the 
peach itself will live long after most 
No Harm from Eating Grapes. 
O. II. M., Neiv York. —There is a feeling 
among members of my family that the Con¬ 
cord grape has an acid (that is the 
sour part) that will dry up the blood. 
I have eaten them seeds and all for years 
with no ill effects. Will you send me the 
government analysis? 
Ans. —The juice and pulp of ripe 
grapes contain on the average about 80 
per cent water, 15 per cent sugar, rarely 
more than one-half of one per cent pro- 
teid or albuminoid material* and rather 
less than one per cent of acid, chiefly 
in the form of tartaric and malic acids. 
The small remainder is made up of 
potash and lime in combination with 
the acids and other minerals, including 
iron and extractive matters. The skins 
and seeds, which are often quite irri¬ 
tating when swallowed, contain abun¬ 
dance of tannin, the latter yielding in 
addition 15 to 18 per cent of a fatty oil. 
Grape varieties differ chiefly from a 
chemical standpoint in their relative 
proportion of sugar and free acids, the 
Concord analyzing when fully ripened 
quite close to the average quoted above. 
The sugar of grapes is the true or na¬ 
tural glucose, and principally differs 
from saccharose or cane sugar in being 
less sweet to the taste and not crys¬ 
tallizing as readily, but it is fully as 
nourishing and digestible. The organic 
acids, tartaric and malic, and the acid 
salts of lime and potassa contained in 
ripe grapes have always been consid¬ 
ered highly acceptable to the blood, 
rendering it in the ordinary course of 
digestive decomposition alkaline rather 
than acid, and enriching it with very 
necessary mineral compounds. Unfer¬ 
mented grape juice is regarded as a 
blood-maker instead of an impoverisher. 
The “grape-cure” of central Europe, 
consisting of the unlimited consumption 
of ripe grapes and fresh must or grape 
juice, has been used with advantage in 
cases of anaemia and other wasting 
diseases. If one avoids the indigestion 
caused by excessive quantities of grape 
skins and seeds, and eats only sound, 
thoroughly ripened fruits of the Con¬ 
cord or any other good variety, the 
chances of dying of comfortable old 
age are vastly greater than of having 
the blood “dried up” by the consump¬ 
tion of grape acids. v. 
other varieties now listed are forgotten. 
To save answering hundreds of letters 
that are coming to me from R. N.-Y. 
readers, will you say that not a single 
tree of this peach has yet been propa¬ 
gated for sale, but in due season it will 
be liberally advertised to your readers? 
j. H. HALE. 
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