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THE RURAL NEW -YORKER 
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Shiawassee Beauty Apple; Perfection Currant. 
IF. IF. M., Amherst, 0. —1. Can you give 
me information in regard to growth, hardi¬ 
ness and bearing qualities of the Shiawassee- 
Beauty apple, for Northern Ohio? It has 
been highly recommended to me. I cannot 
find a description of it in any of the nur¬ 
sery catalogs I have at hand. 2. Give 
growth and bearing habits of the Perfection 
currant. Is it superior in any way to Fay, 
Wilder or Red Cross? 
Ans. —1. I do not know of Shiawassee 
Beauty apple being thoroughly tested 
out in northern Ohio. The trees at the 
Experiment Station are not yet in bear¬ 
ing to the extent that its qualities are 
fully determined. It is of the Fameuse 
and McIntosh type, and is probably in 
no way superior, if as good, as the latter. 
Ripens in mid-autumn. The tree is vig¬ 
orous in growth, upright and comes into 
bearing at a comparatively early age. 
While ripening in the Fall some of the 
fruit may be kept in fair condition until 
early Winter. 2. The Perfection currant 
is the finest variety I have ever seen, as 
it grows at the Station. The plants are 
moderately vigorous and wonderfully 
prolific of very large clusters of large 
berries. While I have not heard expres¬ 
sion from propagators of this variety, it 
does not seem to start as vigorously 
from cuttings, on my own ground, as 
some others. p. h. ballou. 
Fillers in Apple Orchard. 
E. K., Milton, N. Y. —I have three acres 
of light gravel soil set with R. I. Greening 
apple trees, which are now two years old, 
and set 40 feet each way. I would like to 
use some other kind of trees as 'fillers. 
Would Kieffer pears be good, and, if so, 
how far apart should I set them? 
Ans. —I should never set pears of any 
kind between apples as a “filler.” They 
need different treatment from the apple, 
including spraying. Kieffers come 
nearer to.apple treatment than any other, 
but you will not want to take them out 
when you ought, for the good of the 
apples. If you have plenty of land, bet¬ 
ter set the Kieffers in place by them¬ 
selves and grow corn, or potatoes, -be¬ 
tween the trees, until they get to bear¬ 
ing. If you are short of land, and want 
to get something out of it quickly in 
the fruit line, set peaches. They will 
interfere with the apples less, which 
I take it to be are the chief things 
to be considered. Don’t understand me 
to say that this is the best way to grow 
peaches, for it is not. It is open to the 
same objection as the pears, even more 
so as to cultural methods and spraying, 
but they will come into bearing quickly 
and are short-lived, and remove them¬ 
selves, which most people have not the 
grit and grace to do with fillers, before 
they have injured the permanent trees. 
I take it you are in a location where 
peaches do well. You could set Wealthy, 
Duchess or McIntosh apples, if you are 
bound to have fillers. They will come 
into bearing before the Baldwins and 
Greenings, and might stay 20 years, if 
you feed highly. Set only in the centre, 
between four permanent trees. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Best Grafting Stock For Cherries. 
/. A. II., Allentown, Pa. —I would like to 
know which one is right on the stock for 
sweet cherry. H. E. Van Demnn says Maz- 
zard stock. Stark Bros, say Mahaleb, stat¬ 
ing planters should refuse to plant cherry 
grown on Mazzard stock-. Which one is 
right, or are both right, or is there a mis¬ 
print? My cherry trees (sweet) so far 
make slow growth. Leaf spot causes my 
trouble. 
Ans.—T here seems to be some differ¬ 
ence of opinion about the proper stock 
upon which to work the sweet cherries, 
and it may come from different causes. 
All nurserymen would prefer the Ma¬ 
haleb if they consulted their own profits 
in the business of producing the trees, 
for the stocks can be bought from 
Fiance very cheaply and they are easily 
grown and budded. Perhaps the most 
of the cherry trees of the sweet varie¬ 
ties sold are grown in this way. But 
from the practical orchardist a very dif¬ 
ferent opinion will generally come, be¬ 
cause of the behavior of the trees: They 
will bear earlier on the Mahaleb stocks 
for the same reason that dwarf pear 
trees bear earlier than standards; that 
is, the checking of wood growth, which 
tends to fruit bearing. This really comes 
from the uncongeniality of the stock and 
scion, and yet this is not so great as to 
prevent fairly good union and growth. 
But the time will come when the lack of 
proper congeniality will have its final 
effect, which will be gradual decline and 
premature death. This is the case with 
dwarf pear trees and with the sweet 
cherries on Mahaleb and other uncon¬ 
genial roots. When I was looking over 
the orchards of the Northwest last year 
(for the third time) I saw thousands 
of cherry trees, for that is the best of 
all parts of North America for cherry 
growing. The greater part of the trees 
planted there are of the sweet varieties, 
and by this is meant all except the Amar- 
elles, Morello and other really sour 
cherries, such as Richmond, Montmo¬ 
rency and all that class. I also visited 
several nurseries where cherry trees 
were grown for sale to those who ex¬ 
pected to get permanent good from 
them. It was almost the universal opin¬ 
ion that the Mazzard stocks are far the 
best, except for the sour varieties. I 
remember very well one nurseryman 
near Seattle, Wash., to whom I had 
taken some Japanese gentlemen who 
wished to get some cherry trees for 
trial in their country under the care of 
their Department of Commerce and Ag¬ 
riculture, and he was very emphatic in 
explaining that all his sweet cherry 
trees were on Mazzard stocks. Another 
nursery that I visited at Hood River, 
Ore., had nothing but Mazzard stocks 
for their sweet cherries, and the pro¬ 
prietor talked very plainly on the sub¬ 
ject, and of the great mistake many 
nurserymen make in using Mahaleb 
stocks for this class of cherry trees. 
Every year I am in northern Michi¬ 
gan, where there is considerable done 
in cherry growing, and one orchard of 
some 3,000 trees that is now in full 
bearing is a living (and dying) example 
of the mistaken idea of sweet cherry 
trees on Mahaleb roots. The trees are 
not all on this stock, but most of them 
arc and some of them have broken off 
at the place of union between stock and 
bud and others are failing in growth 
from lack of the vigor that should be 
natural if they were on their own roots— 
that is, on the same species as their 
own. It may be claimed by some nur¬ 
serymen and fruit growers that the Maz¬ 
zard stocks are not so hardy as the Ma¬ 
haleb, and I believe this is true, but 
where the Mazzards do not prove hardy 
is a poor place to gro\V sweet cherries. 
II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Peaches in Raspberries.— I noticed 
on page 22, “Kfeep berries out of a peach 
orchard. ’ I’ve no doubt from the stand¬ 
point of the peach orchard, that P. A. O. 
D. is right; but I would like to reverse 
his heading, looking at it from the side 
of the raspberries, Cuthbert, and say, 
“Plant peach trees in your Cuthbert 
patch.” For 14 years duration of my 
last Cuthbert plantation, about half an 
acre of the nearly five acres, had a Hill’s 
Chili row in every other row of berries. 
For the entire history of that planting, 
the berries were larger, finer in every 
way, and under drought conditions held 
their own when a greater or less per cent 
of berries in other parts dried up. I 
think the yield was fully as large; cer¬ 
tainly it was the most valuable part of 
the entire planting. The plants were 
stronger, lasted longer and showed to a 
striking degree the benefit of the shade 
afforded by the peach trees. Then what 
a relief on hot days to the pickers! A 
recent planting of about four acres more 
on our farm, planted in rows seven feet 
apart, has a peach orchard 21 x 21 feet 
all through it, the trees to be trimmed 
high, the peach crop of course being en¬ 
tirely secondary to the production of a 
fine, large, spreading tree planted solely 
for shade. w. l. mYcay. 
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