THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1383 
VAN DEMAN’S FRUIT NOTES. 
Harvesting Black Walnuts. 
O N harvesting Black walnuts for home 
use should the hull he removed? 
North Clarendon, Yt. a. n, h. 
It is very desirable to hull the walnuts 
as soon as gathered, and dry them, for 
otherwise there would be a lot of trash to 
bother when cracking them. When I was 
a boy my hands were brown every Fall 
with the stain from hulling walnuts. The 
easiest way to get off the hulls is by 
running them through a cornsheller. 
Pruning Young Peach Trees. 
C OULD young apple and peach trees 
that were planted last Spring, and 
have made a rapid growth, be clipped 
this Fall to ripen their wood for Winter? 
Northville, Mich. e. j. k. 
It sometimes occurs that the growth of 
fruit trees, and especially those that are 
very young and not yet in bearing, con¬ 
tinues so late in the Fall that, in some 
sections it is hurt by early freezing. This 
is apt to be the case in northern Michi¬ 
gan, where the Springs are late, and hard 
frosts come early. If the young growth 
is very late in ripening it would be well 
to clip it back to hasten maturity. At 
this time, however, the season is so far 
advanced that it may be too late to do so 
with benefit to the trees. 
The Clairgeau Pear. 
W ILL you give me some information 
about the Clairgeau pear, as I ex¬ 
pect to set out a commercial orchard 
next Spring, and am undecided between 
this variety and the Kieffer? Is the 
Clairgeau tree a thrifty grower? Is it as 
healthy a tree as Kieffer? E. K. 
New York. 
The Clairgeau pear is one that has 
long been grown all over the world where 
pears succeed, and yet it is not very pop¬ 
ular either as a market variety or for 
home use, unless it is in California, 
where it is grown to some extent and 
sent to the Eastern markets. The tree 
is a good grower and bears well, but it is 
about as subject to blight as any variety. 
It is not nearly so healthy as the Kieffer, 
but the fruit is of better quality. How¬ 
ever, it is far from being the rich flavor 
of most of the good pears, and is not es¬ 
teemed for eating in the fresh state, nor 
for canning. The Bartlett is far better, 
and so are the Sheldon, Anjou and Bose. 
It would be a good plan to plant 
Kieffer instead of Clairgeau if the design 
is to cater to the low grade markets, but 
it would seem to me better to plant the 
better kinds for the better class of trade. 
Bose top-worked on Clapp or some very 
strong grower would be a good one, and 
there is no pear that sells better in the 
fancy markets nor that is better to eat. 
Pronunciation of Kieffer and Van Deman. 
H OW do you pronounce the name Kief¬ 
fer? Is it Ko-for, long e, accent on 
Ke, or Ki-fer, long i, accent on Ki? 
Also pronounce Van Deman correctly. It 
is Van Deman, accent on Van, or Van De 
man. accent on De? N. B. 
New Cumberland, Pa. 
N. B. has made the mistake of spell¬ 
ing the name Kieffer with the e first, 
Keiffer. The old German, after whom 
the pear was named, had been reported, 
on good authority, to have spelled his 
name Kieffer, and said it should be pro¬ 
nounced according to German rules, 
which would be Kefer. If this i came 
last it would be Kifer. As to the pro¬ 
nunciation of my own name it is properly 
Van firman, for it is an old German 
name and the Van (or Fon or Von, as it 
is in the native language), is a prefix to 
the real name. In the original German 
family manuscripts which our family 
possesses, there are differences in the 
spelling, but the name as translated into 
English on our grandfather’s Revolu¬ 
tionary war records was first “Vande- 
ment” and later it is “Van Deman.” The 
family is not unanimous in the accentu¬ 
ation but the majority say it should be 
Van 7)e-man. H. E. van deman. 
Growth of Graft. —Three feet growth 
from a graft in a season, page 1178, But 
that is nothing; I had five feet growth 
last Summer from a Belleflower, bud set 
the previous August. It is still in evi¬ 
dence. w. l. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
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NOTES FROM A PRODUCE SELLER. 
S UCCESSFUL market gardening re¬ 
quires more work than any other line 
of agriculture, and when one sells his 
produce direct to consumers on a regular 
route from a wagon, this fact is espe¬ 
cially brought home to him. We have 
been engaged in this business for some 
years and know something of its hard¬ 
ships and drawbacks. We are somewhat 
inclined to warn the indolent, and also 
those who have not plenty of strength and 
help, not to begin as they would be cer¬ 
tain to make a failure. In selling pro¬ 
duce direct to consumer, the grower has 
the advantage of getting the consumer’s 
entire dollar. It is not easy to get such 
a trade, and after it has once been ob¬ 
tained, it requires a constant effort to re¬ 
tain it. 
Take, for example, my trip, made on 
Friday, September 18, on which I made 
the heaviest delivery of the week. As I 
make it a point to supply my customers 
early in the day, I am obliged to rise 
early so as to reach my first customer by 
six o’clock in the morning, the city being 
four miles distant. The greater part of 
my load had been ordered on a previous 
trip, while some of it had been ordered 
by ’phone. The complete delivery was 
finished before 10 o’clock, and I was able 
to reach home by 11 a. m., the entire 
load bringing nearly .$17. 
Part of the afternoon was spent in 
work around the garden, and towards 
evening a load of produce was made 
ready for delivery Saturday morning. 
There is a good deal of work connected 
with the proper preparation of the va¬ 
rious vegetables, as customers as a rule 
are quite particular, and I am therefore 
required to attend to details in this mat¬ 
ter. I carry scales and sell by weight, 
excepting beets, radishes, onions, and cel¬ 
ery, these vegetables being sold in bunches 
of from four to five early in the season, 
increasing the size of the bunches as the 
season advances, until eight to ten are 
put in a bunch. The well-to-do generally 
object to culls, and so these are sold in 
the foreign quarters of the city, the prices 
obtained usually being enough to pay for 
the handling. 
It is my constant aim to have a full 
line of such produce as my customers re¬ 
quire, and to build up such a reputation 
for honesty and fair dealing that they 
will not hesitate to buy anything from 
me on my recommendation. I also make 
it a special point to make good such 
losses as my customers may lay to my 
charge, and in some cases those for which 
I have not been responsible. By doing so, 
I retain the good will of my customers, j 
and this pays greatly in the end. Also, 
if through oversight any stale stuff was 
delivered to any customer, I replace it 
with fresh stuff. 
While ringing a hand bell does well 
enough to call out my customers as I 
approach their houses, I do not use this 
in soliciting the new customers. To get 
these, I fill a market basket with samples 
of the vegetables most in demand at the 
time, and go from house to house, calling 
at the kitchen doors, leaving the wagon 
as near to the side of the street as pos¬ 
sible. 
There is considerable aversion to the 
house to house canvass by most market 
gardeners, as they feel that the house¬ 
wife might consider them in much the 
same light as they do the book or medi¬ 
cine peddler. In this they are greatly 
mistaken, however, as the average house¬ 
wife is very much pleased to have fresh 
vegetables offered at her own door. She 
can see almost at a glance that the pro¬ 
duce is fresh and attractive, and this 
alone often brings a customer without 
any other argument. City people readily 
know the difference between vegetables 
that are fresh from the garden and those 
that have lain around in the stores for 
three or four days. The house-to-house 
canvass takes time and patience, but thus 
far I have yet to learn of a better method 
in soliciting new trade. D. L. 
Indiana. 
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once walked six miles to a printing office 
to have a comma iff one of his poems 
changed to a semicolon. Why did he 
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