leio. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKKI* 
9HO 
Ruralisms 
CRACKING PECANS. 
Referring to G. S. P.’s question on 
page 876, as to how to crack a pecan, 
a pecan should be cracked with a hand- 
cracker. It remained for Prof. W. N. 
Hutt cf the North Carolina Department 
of Agriculture in his September, 1909, 
CRACKING THE PECAN. Fig. 419. 
Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 9, page 39, to sub¬ 
mit a method which is worthy of gen¬ 
eral practice, i. e., cracking the nut 
around about the equator, rotating it on 
its axis between the edge of the jaws of 
the cracker, which will leave the kernel 
in two unbroken halves. A little prac¬ 
tice will demonstrate how much pres¬ 
sure to use without crushing the nut, 
provided the nuts are even running as 
to cracking qualities. Fig. 419 illustrates 
this method. Fig. 420 illustrates the 
method of ninping the ends by revolving 
the nut in the cracker in the same man¬ 
ner; the ends can be easily removed 
from the kernel and the middle portion 
THE ENDS NIPPED OFF. FiG. 420. 
then split at the separation of the ker¬ 
nel. In the absence of a hand-cracker 
the teeth can be used with the same re¬ 
sult, provided the nut is of a thin- 
shelled variety. There is a cracker which 
fastens to a table that accomplishes this 
result, the pressure being applied to the 
ends of the nut, crushing the shell at 
the middle, but this cracker is expen¬ 
sive. VICTOR LABADIE. 
Texas. 
The Propagation of the Mango. 
On page 861 is an article by Prof. 
Webster of Washington, on shield bud¬ 
ding of the mango, probably the most 
delicious of all fruits. lie mentions 
instances where the Government experts 1 
have succeeded in budding a few trees 
successfully, and calls attention to the 
feat of Mr. Pound of Cocoanut Grove, 
who produced 250 budded trees, and 
calls the feat a “remarkable success.” 
He omits to mention, however, the 
operations of George B. Cel low, who 
is by far the most successful and ex¬ 
tensive budder of mangoes in the world. 
Mr. Cellow commenced budding man¬ 
goes in 1898, and since then has been 
producing these trees each season in in¬ 
creasing quantities; his yearly produc¬ 
tion is numbered not by hundreds but 
by thousands, and during the present 
Summer of 1910, he has budded and 
now has grown many thousands of 
thrifty, healthy young mango trees of 
Mulgoba, Alphonse and other choice 
varieties of Indian mangoes. It is 
through the skill and enterprise of Mr. 
Cellow that commercial planting of 
mango groves has become possible. 
Heretofore the only trees available 
were inarched ones which were unsat¬ 
isfactory, crooked in shape, uncertain in 
the union of scion and stock, liable to 
blow off, often short lived, and available , 
in single or dozen lots only. The suc¬ 
cess of Mr. Cellow depends upon his 
skill in handling his budding knife, which 
so far no other one has been able to 
equal or even approached. Owing to this 
attainment of Mr. Cellow, commercial 
groves of mangoes are being rapidly 
planted in Dade County, Florida, and in ! 
a few years the markets of the North \ 
will be supplied with this most delicious 
of fruits. The mango grows as large as 
the apple tree in the North, is a heavy 
cropper and sells at three dollars a dozen 
f. o. b. at shipping station. This makes 
the planting of mango groves a very 
attractive proposition, especially as there 
is only a very small portion of the ex¬ 
treme southern point of Florida that can 
grow these trees successfully, so that 
from lack of competition, high prices are 
likely to always prevail. 
CHARLES PARRY. 
Another Seedless Apple. —The latest 
mention of this horticultural freak is 
made in the Wayne Co. (Pa.) Independ¬ 
ent, as follows: 
On Thursday last. W. II. Bullock, horti¬ 
cultural inspector, discovered a tree in the 
orchard of James Stuart, of Berlin, near 
IngleLart. fairly well loaded w.th seedless 
apples. The fruit, which is smooth and 
fair, is yellow in color, not very huge and 
in flavor sour. The tree is of natural 
growth. Mr. Bullock cut open a number 
of the apples, all of which he found to be 
seedless, and has sent a sample to Prof. 
Surface, State zoologist. Neither the own¬ 
er of the orchard nor any of his family had 
discovered the rarity that existed ou the 
place, notwithstanding the tree is prob¬ 
ably between 40 and 50 years old. Nursery¬ 
men and orehardlsts have for many years 
been making efforts to produce seedless 
apples, but so far have not brought out 
a fruit of any special value. While the 
natural apple discovered by Mr. Bullock is 
not really choice fruit, it has a passably 
fair flavor and the meat is white and nice 
in appearance. The only way it could be 
reproduced would be by grafting. 
When the old Spencer Seedless apple 
was being “boomed” we secured reports 
of over 25 such apples. Some of them 
were better than the Spencer, but not 
one was considered worth introducing. 
There are many such apples in New 
England and in the mountains through 
Pennsylvania and Virginia. They are 
interesting as curiosities, but as a rule 
inferior to standard varieties in quality 
and size. There is no use encouraging 
the introduction of any inferior or even 
“fair” fruit. 
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“For years I could not safely eat any 
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Postum is easily digested and never 
produces dyspepsia symptoms.” 
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