1914. 
laic* 
Ruralisms 
CHINESE PEACHES. 
B ulletin no. 97 , of the office of 
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 
describes some of the new peaches intro¬ 
duced from China by Mr. Meyer. The 
Fei peach, from Feitcheng, is thus de¬ 
scribed : 
A remarkable variety of clingstone 
peach, considered to be the best in all 
China. Size, large to very large; shape, 
round ; very heavy, often over one pound 
apiece; skin, (piite downy and of pale 
yellowish color, with a slight blush on one 
side.* Flesh very juicy and sweet and of 
excellent aromatic flavor, of white color, 
except near the stone, where it is red¬ 
dish. Stone very large and pointed, flesh 
strongly adhering to it. Ripens in early 
to middle October, and possesses excel¬ 
lent shipping and keeping qualities. The 
trees are of erect growth when young, but 
when older they spread out considerably, 
remaining of open growth. To reach 
their greatest perfection these peaches 
need to be fertilized each Spring, while 
during dry seasons they are irrigated 
from wells. The fruit is also thinned. 
The soil they seem to thrive in best is a 
porous, light clayey loam of reddish color, 
retaining moisture quite well, but not be¬ 
coming too soggy. The local people cal¬ 
culate that on an average a tree supplies 
ten dollars Mexican worth of fruit each 
season, and they consider an orchard of 
these peaches a very valuable asset in¬ 
deed. The climate around Feitcheng is 
of a semi-arid nature and this variety of 
peach may be expected to thrive especially 
well in the regions west of the Rocky 
Mountains. Chinese name, “Fei tao,” 
meaning “Fei peach.” 
Five varieties of peach cuttings have 
been secured from Taianfu, Shantung. 
One of these is said to be very large and 
juicy, weighing up to a pound, and keep¬ 
ing to December, another of medium size, 
ripening late, and keeping well, a third 
very ornamental flowering variety, with 
small, peculiarly-shaped three-pointed, 
rosy-red fruits, and two of the pien tao or 
flat varieties, of good quality. 
THE RUR.A.L, 
raspberries made a rank growth, and at 
blighting time (close of August) shaded 
the vines and I am sure prevented the 
blight spores from being deposited in 
large measure by the wind, and the cool¬ 
er atmosphere hindered development of 
those which were deposited. The vines 
were healthy and bore until frost came in 
October. Gathering the pickles was 
thorny work, but I had the market all to 
myself and those dilatory women who 
always wait to buy cheap had the pleas¬ 
ure of paying (10 cents per hundred or 
doing without. As the frosted leaves 
dropped I found quite a few overgrown 
slieers which had been overlooked, and 
these found a ready sale for chopping. I 
have a friend who plows under a rich 
strawberry field nearly every year and 
plants to sweet corn and cucumbers about 
June 25th. He marks for corn and plants 
two rows of corn and one of cucumbers. 
The ground is marked east and west and 
the cucumbers allowed to grow with two 
plants each two feet. The corn makes a 
rapid growth in the July weather, and 
seems to temper the atmosphere so as to 
prevent blight, and very likely catches 
spores which would otherwise be depos¬ 
ited upon the vines. For a couple of sea¬ 
sons this man has let his September set¬ 
ting grow to slicer size, picked them, and 
laid in loose piles upon the ground and 
NORTHERN OHIO GARDEN NOTES. 
I T is now a little past the middle of 
September, and I am using odd bits of 
time in transplanting strawberry plants 
from the edges of matted rows into the 
middles of late tomato rows which were 
planted between every other row of Alas¬ 
ka peas, and consequently are five feet 
apart. Next Spring I can plant early 
peas or beans where the tomatoes are, and 
can thus utilize the ground while the j 
strawberries are making wide matted 
rows of plants to sell or transplant. The 
weather, barring rain, is much like April, 
with nights almost as long as days; the 
sun is no longer vertical, and with moist 
ground the conditions are very favorable 
to success. Many of the plants have 
some soil adhering to the roots, and being 
dug close by are out of ground less than 
half an hour. The ground is firm, it hav¬ 
ing been six weeks since last cultivated, 
and I do not disturb it. I just scrape it 
with a hoe to kill the young sorrel and 
purslane, and place the plants in small 
holes about as big as a teacup scooped in 
the soil, and press the loosened earth back 
around the roots. No attention is paid to 
straightening the roots, as it is not neces¬ 
sary, and too much fussing with the roots 
loosens the earth adhering and does more 
harm than good. At this writing, 11 a. 
m., very few plants set yesterday are 
wilting, although the sky is clear and 
some wind is blowing. My object in set¬ 
ting now is to save time and utilize plants 
which otherwise would have to be de¬ 
stroyed in plowing. 
Possibly I may get a little fruit. When 
the frost kills the tomato plants I shall 
pull the vines and throw them over the 
berry rows, which will protect them suffi¬ 
ciently until time for Winter mulching 
in December. Where there is a planta¬ 
tion close by the transplanting may be 
done as late as October 10th in the lati¬ 
tude of New York, and later farther 
south, provided the ground is kept from 
freezing by a mulch of short straw or 
coarse manure. A healthy strawberry 
plant set in moist ground with little dis¬ 
turbance or drying of the roots will often 
send out roots six inches, long in a week 
after moving, but these roots are near the 
surface, and too weak in their growth to 
hold against frost. 
Late Cucumbers. —The latest cu¬ 
cumbers I ever grew were planted in the 
row between newly-set raspberries, the 
raspberries being 72 by 30 inches. The 
NRW-YORKER 
covered with cornstalks. In this way 
they keep perfectly for three weeks, and 
last year he got one dollar per dozen, the 
market being bare of cucumbers. Of 
course, it must be guessing on the weath¬ 
er when to begin laying them by, but if 
they commence to rot they can be mar¬ 
keted and in any but abnormal seasons 
find a ready market. L. b. pierce. 
The Brashington Cherry. 
D O you know anything about the Brash¬ 
ington cherry, a sour variety? What 
are its good and bad qualities and 
why is it not catalogued by the nursery¬ 
men. j. f. s. 
Waynesburg, O. 
The Brashington cherry is a variety 
that I never heard of and I think it must 
be either very newly originated or of so 
little value that it has not been brought to 
general notice. There are such good kinds 
of sour cherries now well tested and 
known to be valuable that it seems rather 
needless to introduce new kinds, unless 
they surpass those we have in good qual¬ 
ities. The Richmond is the first to ripen, 
the Montmorency next, and the English 
Morello last, which cover the season fully 
and are almost without fault. 
II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
“No purpose once undertaken should 
be given up,” said the resolute man. 
“Maybe you’re right,” replied Farmer 
Corntossel. “But I know a hen that lost 
a lot o’ chickens by tryin’ to hold out an’ 
hatch a china egg.”—Washington Star. 
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