THE) RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
January 27, 
02 
VANDEMAN’S FRUIT NOTES. 
Rome Beauty as Filler. 
IF. A. B., Orleans Co. 3 N. Y,—How is the 
Home Beauty apple as a filler, compared 
with the Wealthy and Gano? 
Ans. —Rome Beauty is by no means 
as early a bearer as Wealthy, but is 
about like Gano in this respect, which is 
at least three years later than Wealthy. 
1 would much prefer Black Ben to Gano 
because of its redder color, if I con¬ 
templated planting any of the Ben Davis 
type. Rome Beauty is a better apple 
than any of them. 
English Walnut in Ohio. 
F. IF., Northern Ohio. —Will English wal¬ 
nuts bear true to parent nuts as bought 
at stores? ('an they be grown in north¬ 
ern Ohio, with success? 
Ans. —While it is true that there is 
no certainty of getting trees true to the 
variety from nuts of the walnut that 
may be bought from the stores or se¬ 
cured in any other way, they do not vary 
greatly from the originals. But it would 
not be wise to plant ordinary nuts found 
for sale for two reasons. They would 
rarely grow because of them having been 
dried too much for good germination, 
and the trees that might be produced 
would probably be too tender for north¬ 
ern Ohio. A better way would be to 
get fresh nuts from some of the bear¬ 
ing trees that are growing in some of 
the Northern States and plant them. A 
still better way would be to get grafted 
trees of known and tested hardy varie¬ 
ties that have been grown on native 
Black walnut seedlings. These are rare¬ 
ly to be found, but there are nurseries 
that have a few for sale. 
Captain Ede Peach. 
F. IF., Philipshurg , Fa .—How does the 
Captain Ede peach compare with the El- 
berta as a profitable market peach in the 
North? Captain Ede has been recom¬ 
mended to me to take the place of Elberta, 
which has skipped too many seasons for 
me, but is all right when it bears. I have 
Carman, which is all right in its season, 
and Champion, which is not quite so sure a 
bearer, and Lemon Free, which is quite 
hardy for a late variety, but I want a 
sure bearer to come in about Elberta sea¬ 
son. 
Ans. —Captain Ede is a yellow, free¬ 
stone peach of medium to large size and 
about the same season as Elberta, but is 
sometimes a very little earlier. But I 
have never known it or any other variety 
to excel Elberta in productiveness or 
dependable bearing. It would be well to 
plant some trees of Captain Ede, but I 
would not discard Elberta. There is a 
new peach called Early Elberta that is 
said by some who have tried it to be 
more profitable than the true Elberta, 
while others do not think it is any im¬ 
provement. Emma is another variety of 
the same character and season that is 
worthy of trial. 
Top-Lofty Apple Trees. 
R. Y., Benton Ifarbor, Mich.— We have a 
number of apple trees that are between 40 
and 50 feet high, and in some cases 20 to 
30 feet to the first limb. Would it be 
all right to cut them back 15 or 20 feet 
from the ground, and graft them to some 
good variety, as those trees are useless at 
that height? 
Ans. —My advice in this case is to 
spend one of these wintry days, when 
it is not too cold and blustery, with an 
ax and a good cross-cut saw, cutting 
down these trees and making them into 
fire wood. Apple trees that have trunks 
“20 to 30 feet to the first limb” are no 
longer orchard trees, but aspiring forest 
trees, their tops only having a few 
straggling branches that are reaching up- , 
wards for light. To cut them off at a 
height that would be suitable for good 
orchard trees, which is about 3 or 4 
feet, would kill them, or nearly so, and 
it would be better to get rid of them 
entirely and start anew. Trees that have 
such trunks as are described must have 
been planted very close together and 
thus been allowed to grow and crowd 
out and finally kill their lower and most- 
needed branches. Such treatment of an 
orchard is a species of folly that we see 
far too often. 
Nuts in Idaho. 
L. M. Ij.j Coeur dAlene, Idaho. —I am 
located five miles from a city on sub¬ 
irrigated land, good air drainage, elevation 
about 2.200 feet; no winds or bad storms, 
some zero weather but not near as much 
as in New York. Peaches and all fruits 
do well. Can you tell me if English wal¬ 
nuts, pecans, hazelnuts, chestnuts, etc., 
should do well here? I would like to grow 
some for home use, but do not care'to try 
ii if there is no chance of success. 
Ans. —There is no doubt that Per¬ 
sian (English) walnut trees will thrive 
and bear well at the home of the in¬ 
quirer, and there are many fine young 
orchards now in that general region, but 
farther west. So will the European 
hazels or filberts succeed, for there is 
none of the disease there that affects 
them in the Eastern States. I have seen 
them bearing very well somewhat far¬ 
ther west than the Coeur d’Alene coun¬ 
try, and there are millions of wild hazel 
bushes in the coast country, which goes 
to prove that the soil and climate are 
suitable to the genus Corylus. The chest¬ 
nut will flourish there, too, although it 
is not native to any of the regions west 
of the continental divide, but there is a 
closely allied genus, Castenopsis, that 1 
have seen growing in the forests about 
Mount Hood. I have seen very thrifty 
chestnut trees in many places on the 
Pacific Coast. The climate would not 
suit the southern Pecans well, but the 
northern type would succeed. Trees of 
all three of these nuts can be had from 
some of the western nurseries. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
We arc having the worst cold in a gen¬ 
eration down here, after an uncommonly 
hot Summer and warm Fall. Before this 
cold struck us I was pulling green onions 
from sets planted in September that are 
as large as my thumb, the earliest date 
I have ever had green onions. We usually 
get them in late February. But they are 
frozen up tight now, and I do not know 
what the result will be, for we have had it 
as low as four above zero and this morning 
it was six above. This is something un¬ 
known heretofore in this warm corner of 
Maryland. w. f. masset. 
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