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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 30, 
ADVICE ABOUT A PEAR ORCHARD. 
W. F. U., Broclcport, N. Y .—I want your 
advice regarding a block of 700 ninc-year- 
oid pear trees, 500 Bartlett and 200 Seckel. 
The trees are thrifty and have shown some 
fruit for the past two seasons, also a little 
blight the past year. They are very full of 
wood, having never pruned them a great 
deal, but would like to cut out quite a few 
water sprouts and cross limbs, also head 
back this Winter. Do you think this treat¬ 
ment would bo likely to cause them to put 
on such an extra growth as to make them 
more susceptible to the blight another Sum¬ 
mer? Some of the trees are so very thick 
and are running so high it seems something 
will have to be done, although some of 
my neighboring fruit growers who are some¬ 
what versed in pear culture advise leaving 
them as they are. I have always kept these 
trees under cultivation during the growing 
season, having Fall-plowed last December. 
Some of my friends say sow o^ts the first 
thing in the Spring and check the growth 
for one season, having in mind the control 
of the blight -when advising thus. What 
say you to this? 
Ans. —You apparently have a very 
and King of Tompkins County. Ben Davis 
and Baldwin do not seem to flourish under 
old-world skies, and even the past sunny 
Summer failed to bring them to perfection. 
Rhode Island Greening, however, did mod¬ 
erately well, and Wealthy throve amaz¬ 
ingly. Samples of the latter were grown 
that would rival any of the choicest im¬ 
ported samples in appearance. Of the va¬ 
rieties that do well in most years, Ontario 
and Wagener are most promising, and will 
probably take a foremost place in time. 
Beitigheimer has long been grown in this 
country, and is of German origin. Its won¬ 
derful color and waxlike appearance, re¬ 
sembling the Swedish Akeroe, are its only 
recommendation. 
Grafting Wax. —Four pounds rosin, half 
pint linseed oil, boiled, half pound beeswax. 
Boil over slow fire for 2% hours. Pour la 
water to cool, work with greased hands. I 
have used this for all purposes, working a 
little when using. I make in small plugs 
four inches long. I am a successful or- 
chardist, raising my own trees from seed 
and wild seedlings from pasture lots, and 
setting in nursery, grafting and removing 
in cultivated fields. When removing I leave 
a lump of earth on roots as large as a bushel 
basket. e. b. 
Top-Working Seedlings. —On page 278 
J. W. G. says “the seedlings that grow 
about the farm may all be changed into 
varieties that have the greatest commercial 
value, or what is better, are liked for home 
use.” This may be very good practice for 
the dairyman or the general farmer who 
^ i i , ■>- , , does not make a practice of growing apples 
Valuable orchard, and if you put enough for market, but merely wants a few for the 
Care on it in the wav of Inokino* after of the family and to replenish the 
care on it in tne way oi looking alter vme gar barrel. But for the fruit grower 
blight and cutting out and sterilizing ac- Jt , wi11 usually prove more profitable to 
n . ,, , .. , , make firewood of these hedgerow seedlings, 
cording to the C-ornell bulletin on blight, It is seldom that these trees along the edges 
you may expect verv lame returns T 0I " 1** cor ucrs of meadow, grain field or 
rL \i •„ y ge remrns - 1 pasture can be conveniently or thoroughly 
believe Dartletts will continue to be very sprayed, and they become the propagating 
high-priced, and perhaps higher than , bcd of insects and fungi to reseed the regu- 
now on account of lack of care, of blight. ^^arTniaily^iil!?^ on any 
out it may take a number of men at or farm that has its regular orchard, 
about blossoming time, and the more 
promptly and thoroughly you do this 
New York. 
GEO. R. SCIIADBER. 
cutting the less it wilUost. ' In my opin'- ’ R yo " wrl £ ad I ertIse f s i mention The 
ion you have an excellent idea of the I !£ N - Y - and11 get a quick reply and a 
care your orchard should receive, but I square ea ' ,ec guarantee editorial page, 
would not seed to oats this Spring. Oats 
take more moisture than any other grain 
and the trees would not have proper 
nourishment to develop buds and fruit. 
I would cultivate until June and then 
seed down to vetch, barley, Cow-horn 
turnips and a little clover, according to 
the Geneva Station cover crop, only I 
would use five pounds of best clover 
seed instead of 10 pounds, because of 
high price of clover seed. The vetch 
and barley may be sown together in one 
operation, and the turnip and clover seed 
together in another. Your method of 
pruning is all right; thin out the smaller 
limbs a very little so as not to make 
suckers grow, and do not cut any of the 
limbs that make the framework of the 
tree. I would not cut back the ends 
very much, for that would tend to make 
the tree thicker, and it is too thick al¬ 
ready. If the suckers that are grow¬ 
ing now are very large cut them out 
after the leaves appear. I would also 
try spreading the main limbs with light 
sticks like lath. This checks excessive 
growth, develops fruit spurs and buds, 
thus inducing early fruit bearing, makes 
the tree more stocky and shapes the 
tree more as you want it when it begins 
to bear. Do not prune much. Unless 
the Seckels are blighting I would fer¬ 
tilize in the Spring early and not seed 
down until July. ira pease. 
New York. 
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Standard Apple Varieties. 
If I was going to plant an orchard for 
commercial purposes here in Western New 
lork, after my more than 50 years experi- 
enee and observation, I should plant largely 
of the old established and proven varieties. 
Of course the kind of soil and exposure 
would have a good deal to do with it For 
instance, if I was planting on a light soil, 
gravelly or sandy, I would never think of 
.using Maiden Blush ; on the other hand, if 
I was planting on a heavy soil, either stony 
or clayey, I would plant for a Fall variety 
this very fine apple. For light soils Olden¬ 
burg is at present very popular and profit¬ 
able, but I think it unsafe to expect the 
demand for them to grow in proportion to 
the planting of same. Twenty Ounce is an¬ 
other standard variety which I should plant 
largely, but by the way I would not plant 
these, but nursery-grown trees of some 
more hardy kind, top-worked, either in the 
nursery or after planted. But for the main 
orchard I should hold to those reliable 
stand-bys, Baldwin and Greening. There 
is no green apple that is so largely used or 
which is so well adapted to fill all the 
wants of the family as this. If a Greening 
is well grown and allowed to come to full 
maturity before picked there is no better 
apple grown. Following comes the Baldwin. 
The Baldwin is healthy, makes a capital 
stock on which to top-work such varieties 
as do not succeed well on their own bodies. 
It is productive, a good keeper and is al¬ 
ways and will be always wanted in all mar¬ 
kets. But both Baldwin and Greening should 
not be allowed to get so thick in the top 
and to overbear so as to be undersized 
and not get sunlight, to bring out best 
qualities, as a half-grown unripened speci¬ 
men of Greening or Baldwin is but little 
better than a well-grown Ben Davis. 
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