1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
APPLES ON LONG ISLAND. 
Part IV. 
Pound Sweet: trees vigorous, fruit yel¬ 
low, russet, sweet, fair quality, large, not 
productive; not desirable. 
Red Astrachan: trees good growers, 
fruit red, small to medium, fine quality, 
productive good for local supply; sea¬ 
son Summer, not desirable for shipping. 
Rambo: trees fair growers, fruit red, 
medium to small, good quality, season 
Fall; fairly productive, not desirable. 
Red Bietigheimer: trees good growers, 
fruit very large, red, poor flavor, not pro¬ 
ductive, not desirable. 
Red June: trees poor to fair grower, 
fruit red, small, fair quality, not desir¬ 
able. 
Rome Beauty : trees good growers, fruit 
red, medium to large, fair quality, pro¬ 
ductive, desirable. 
Golden Russet: trees fair growers, 
fruit yellow russet, medium fair quality, 
productive, not desirable. 
English Golden Russet: trees poor 
growers, fruit russet, small, poor quality, 
productive, not desirable. 
Roxbury Russet: trees good growers, 
fruit yellow ruaset, large, fair quality, 
productive, desirable as a russet only. 
Sweet June: trees fair growers, fruit 
red, small, sweet, prolific, not desirable. 
Early Strawberry: tree fair grower, 
fruit red, small, fair quality, productive; 
not desirable; season Summer. 
Autumn or Hale Strawberry: trees 
fair growers, fruit red, large to medium, 
fine quality, prolific, season early Fall, 
desirable. 
Early Ripe: tree good grower, fruit 
yellow, medium to large, fair quality, 
productive biennially; not desirable. 
Seek-No-Further: tree fair growers, 
fruit yellow, small to medium, poor 
quality, not desirable. 
Senator same as Oliver, not desirable. 
Scott’s Winter: tree good grower, 
fruit red, small, acid, poor quality; pro¬ 
ductive, not desirable. 
Stark: tree good grower, fruit red, 
large, good quality, early Winter, proli¬ 
fic, desirable. 
Shackelford: trees good grower, fruit 
light red, poor quality, medium, Ben 
Davis type, not so good; productive, not 
desirable. 
Smith Cider: trees good growers, fruit 
small, irregular, poor quality, prolific, 
not desirable. 
Sutton: trees fair growers, fruit 
medium to large, red, good quality, pro¬ 
lific, desii’able for main trees. 
Stayman: trees good growers, fruit 
red, medium to large, fine quality, pro¬ 
ductive, desirable either as main trees 
or fillers; good Winter apple, keeps well. 
Twenty Ounce: trees fair to poor 
growers, fruit red, large, fine quality, 
productive; season late Fall, desirable. 
Tallman: trees good growers, fruit 
small, yellow, fair quality, prolific, not 
desirable. 
Tetofski: trees fair growers, fruit red, 
large, fine quality, season Summer, pro¬ 
ductive, desirable. 
Wagener: trees fair growers, fruit red, 
large, good quality, productive, season 
late Fall and early Winter, desirable as 
main tree or filler. 
Winesap: trees good growers, fruit 
red, small, fine quality, productive, not 
desirable. 
Wolf River: trees fair growers, fruit 
yellow and red, large, poor quality, shy 
bearer, not desirable. 
Wealthy: trees good growers, fruit 
red, medium to large, fair quality, pro¬ 
lific,. season Fall, desirable as a filler 
only. 
Walbridge: tree good growers, fruit 
yellow, large to medium, poor quality, 
prolific, not desii’able. 
Wisner’s Dessert: trees poor growers, 
fruit medium, fair quality, nL. desirable. 
Williams: trees fair growers, fruit red, 
large to medium, good quality, prolific, 
season Fall, desirable. 
Yellow Transparent: trees fair grow¬ 
ers, fruit yellow, good quality, small to 
medium, prolific; season early Summer, 
desirable, best of its season. 
Yellow Bellflower: trees good grow¬ 
ers, fruit yellow, medium to large, irreg¬ 
ular; good quality, prolific, not desir¬ 
able. 
York Imperial: trees good growers, 
fruit red, medium to large, fair quality, 
productive as trees get large and older; 
fair Winter keeper; desirable for main 
trees only. 
Winter Banana: trees fair growers, 
fruit yellow, large to small, irregular, 
fair quality; prolific as grown by my 
neighbor Mr. Moses B. Grilling; not sat¬ 
isfactory as he is regrafting to Stayman. 
I have grouped my apples as to varie¬ 
ties as follows for this section of country. 
Best apples to plant: Baldwin, Ben 
Davis, Esopus Spitzenburg, Gravenstein, 
Grimes, Rhode Island Greening, Ilub- 
bardston, Jonathan, King, McIntosh, 
Rome Beauty, Sutton, Stayman, Twenty 
Ounce, Tetofski, Wagener, Williams, 
Yellow Transparent, York Imperial. 
Good apples to plant: Black Ben 
Davis, Bismarck, Duchess, Delicious, 
Fameuse, Fall Pippin, Florence Crab, 
Fanny, Gano, Northwestern Greening, 
Jefferis, Maiden Blush, Missouri Pippin, 
Martha Crab, Northern Spy, Red Astra- 
chau, Roxbury Russet, Late Strawberry, 
Stark, Winesap, Wealthy. 
Fair apples to plant: Alexander, 
Champion, Detroit Red, Ingram, Long- 
field, Newtown Pippin, Pewaukee, Por¬ 
ter, Shackelford, Yellow Bellflower. 
Poor apples to plant: Akin, Arkansas 
Black, Benoni, Beach, Boiken, Coffelt, 
Chicago, Red Canada, Charlamoff, Early 
Melon, Early Harvard, Fallawater, New¬ 
town Spitzenburg, Long Stem, Lawver, 
Lord Suffield, Mammoth Blacktwig, 
Monmouth Pippin, Mann, Oliver, Ohio 
Nonpareil, Primate, Rambo, Red Bie¬ 
tigheimer, Red June, Golden Rus¬ 
set, English Golden Russet, Sweet 
June, Early Strawberry, Early 
Ripe, Seek-No-Further, Senator, Scott’s 
Winter, Smith’s Cider, Tallman, Wolf 
River, Walbridge, Wisner’s Dessert, 
Winter Banana. 
My opinion of the varieties as tested 
is based not upon single tres but upon 
plantings of 20 or more trees of the 
varieties mentioned. 
Best apples for Summer: Yellow 
Transparent, Tetofski, Gravenstein, Wil¬ 
liams. Best apples for Fall: Twenty 
Ounce, Grimes, Wagener. Best apples 
for late Fall and early Winter: Jona¬ 
than, Hubbardston, McIntosh. Best ap¬ 
ples for Winter: Baldwin, Ben Davis, 
Esopus Spitzenburg, Rhode Island 
Greening, King, Rome Beauty, Sutton, 
Stayman, York Imperial. Best apples 
for fillers: Yellow Transparent, Tetof¬ 
ski, Twenty Ounce, Wagener, Jonathan. 
Prizes At State Fair. —In addition 
to the first prize for general collection of 
apples, the following list of prizes ob¬ 
tained in 1012 and 101.2 at the State 
Fair shows to some extent the adapt¬ 
ability of varieties mentioned for this 
section : First premiums 1012: Hubbard¬ 
ston, Longfield, Mammoth Blacktwig, 
Wagener, Scott’s Winter, Stayman. Second 
premium 1012: Baldwin. Third premium 
on Baldwins this year was also taken by 
my neighbor Mr. Moses B. Griffing. Ben 
Davis, Bismarck, Delicious, Grimes, Mc¬ 
Intosh, Pewaukee. Third premiums 
1012: Fameuse, Gano, Northwestern, 
Greening, Primate, Twenty Ounce. First 
premiums 1013: Benoni, Bismarck, 
Esopus Spitzenburg, Fall Pippin, Fanny, 
Hubbardston, McIntosh, Porter, Rome 
Beauty, Stayman, Yellow Bellflower, 
York Imperial. Second premiums 1013: 
Delicious, Fameuse, Northwestern, Green¬ 
ing. Third premiums, 1013: Baldwin, 
Grimes, Williams Favorite. 
Yield And Profits. —Previous to 
1010 the yield of the orchard was very 
small: 1010, 800 bushels; 1011, 1,700 
bushels; 1012, 1,100 bushels; 1013, 
2,200; divided about as follows: one- 
sixth Stayman, one-sixth Jonathan, one- 
quarter Ben Davis, one-quarter Missouri 
Pippin, one-sixth other varieties, which 
gives a good idea of comparative yields. 
For this section the orchard is too young 
to make a profit as yet. Expenditures 
have much exceeded receipts each year; 
the fillers have not yet come to the front 
and paid for themselves and their care, 
and I question whether they will ever do 
so. I have boxed most of my apples, all 
that were suitable each year, and have 
received more than they would have sold 
for in barrels, but when the greater ex¬ 
pense of handling and packing is consid¬ 
ered, the barrel is probably as good a 
package for shipment as the box. 
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Tires 34x4 
Also Roadster 
