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THE FJYjfeA-IS NfijNfc-YOKKiKbt 
VAN DEMAN’S FRUIT NOTES. 
Pear Varieties. 
T IIE pear which you identify as White 
Doyenne lias been called St. Michael 
-- here, but I never saw the name in 
print or heard it anywhere else. I do not 
understand why they have no place in 
the ordinary home orchard. Can you 
tell me whether this is the same as 
Cornice? Are Louise Bonne and Beurre 
Bose the same variety? L. F. s. 
Winchester, Mass. 
White Doyenne is a very different pear 
from Comice and ripens earlier in the 
Fall. In Massachusetts it has long been 
called St. Michael. It originated in 
France some 250 years ago, and has long 
been known as r standard of excellence 
in flavor. Bose is a very different pear 
in size, a little later in ripening, long in 
shape and russeted. In quality it is un¬ 
surpassed. Louise Bonne is another dis¬ 
tinct variety, and a little earlier in rip¬ 
ening. medium in size and pyramidal and 
slightly lopsided in form. The color is 
greenish yellow with bronzed cheek on 
the sunny side. Flavor good, but not the 
highest quality. It was formerly called 
Louise Bonne de Jersey. 
Blight Resistance of Kieffer Pears. 
I S the Kieffer pear blight resistant? 
Would you consider it advisable to 
plant Kieffer pear trees with the idea 
of top-working them to more desirable 
varieties for the purpose of avoiding the 
fire blight? M. C. 
North Yakima, Wash. 
The Kieffer pear tree is more resistant 
to blight than most varieties, but is not 
wholly proof against it. It does not 
make as good a stock on which to graft 
other varieties as the Clapp and some 
other vigorous growers of the European 
species. The Bose is one of the most 
profitable pears to grow in this way. 
Those who have experience in top-graft¬ 
ing the better varieties of pears on Kief¬ 
fer trees have complained of the uncon- 
geniality of the wood of the two classtc. 
I have had no experience in this kind of 
grafting, and only report unfavorably 
about it from hearsay. 
Apples Untrue to Name. 
N the Spring and Fall of 1010, and 
Spring of 1011, I set out several hun¬ 
dred Baldwin apple trees in perma¬ 
nent rows, and set McIntosh and Wag¬ 
oner trees in the filler rows. The “Bald¬ 
win” trees now prove to be Paragon, and 
the “McIntosh? and “Wagoner” trees 
bear apples of the York Imperial, Black 
Ben Davis, Rome Beauty, Winter Ban¬ 
ana and Wealthy varieties. 
Will you advise me what should be 
done with these trees? H. n. 
Meriden, Conn. 
As several varieties, among which are 
the Paragon, Black Ben and York Impe¬ 
rial, are not suited by the conditions in 
Connecticut it won hi be wise to top-work 
them with such varieties as are suitable 
to the climate. Borne Beauty is ques¬ 
tionable for that region. Baldwin is 
quite suitable and as it was originally 
intended to be planted it would be well 
to use it for top-grafting or budding a 
considerable part of the trees that stand 
in permanent positions. McIntosh is an¬ 
other good variety for that region and so 
is Delicious, and I suggest using them to 
some extent. They would serve very well 
as fillers also, for they come in bearing 
rather early. Wealthy and Wagener are 
eminently fitted for your purpose as was 
intended. Banana is an apple of good 
quality and bears well, and it would be 
well to let the trees of this variety stand 
as they are. 
Seedling Peaches. 
S EVERAL years ago I got seed out of 
some old -fashioned White English 
peaches, grown in an old orchard 
where no other peaches were planted, 
and all the trees 1 got from the seed 
were White English, which is, I under¬ 
stand, always the case when such seeds 
are planted. I have these trees planted 
in an orchard with a number of other 
sorts of peaches, and I would like to 
know whether seed saved from peaches 
grown on these trees near others will 
produce the true White English, or will 
they be mixed? L. p. r. 
Madras, Ga. 
The flowers of peach trees are liable 
to the same conditions as those of other 
fruit trees, but it has been found by ex¬ 
periments that crossing does not occur so 
commonly as with the apple and some 
other fruits. It seems that the pollen of 
the peach is quite apt to be effective on 
the stigmas of its own flowers. This 
would cause self-pollination and of course 
self-reproduction. This is why varieties 
of peaches are more apt to reproduce 
themselves closely from seed than some 
other fruits. But it is not safe to ex¬ 
pect varietal reproduction from trees that 
are near other varieties. The only sure 
way to propagate a variety is by budding 
and this is very easily done, so that it 
would seem wiser than to attempt to 
grow and plant seedlings. 
Seedling Walnuts; Planting’ Peach Trees; 
Brand for Packing. 
I AM sending you a box of English wal¬ 
nuts for identification. A1 o enclose 
a few nuts which I believe are Japan¬ 
ese walnuts, but am not sure. The Eng¬ 
lish walnuts come off young trees here 
at Gypsum and seem to be doing well. 
The Japan walnuts, as I call them, came 
from a tree growing in Dayton, O. It is 
a young tree, and has borne very well, 
but was set out for an English walnut. 
2. What is your opinion about peach 
trees for Spring planting? Would trees 
three to four feet be better than two to 
three feet? 3. I am interested in fruit 
growing and will ship under a brand 
name. I wish to have three labels for 
crates, etc., registered or copyrighted. 
Will you explain how I should proceed? 
Gypsum, O. c. l. a. 
1. There are many chance seedlings of 
English walnut trees scattered over the 
country, and the nuts referred to are no 
doubt from one of this kind. These seed¬ 
lings vary considerably in size, form, 
color and character of the meats. They 
are not to be depended on to come true 
from seed, as only grafted or budded trees 
will do so. The only proper way to grow 
walnuts is by planting grafted or budded 
trees of tested and named varieties of su¬ 
perior excellence. Such trees can now 
be bought of a few nurseries. The com¬ 
mon Black walnut is used as a stock Avith 
good results. It is possible for a person 
skillful in grafting to grow his own trees, 
but unless one is prepared to do it it is 
better to buy them from a reliable nur¬ 
sery. Nuts for planting should never be 
allowed to become dry or there is apt to 
be a failure. Japanese walnut trees are 
fine for shade, and bear well, but the 
nuts are small, and very thick shelled, 
although their meats are of good flavor. 
2. Peach trees three to four feet high 
make a better start for an orchard than 
the smaller sizes. In any case they should 
have strong, thick bodies instead of being 
slender. 3. It seems entirely unnecessary 
to go to the expense and trouble of hiring 
an attorney to take out a patent right for 
a brand or label for fruit packages. The 
best way to sell fruit at a high price is 
to put fruit of a superior quality on the 
market. This will establish the brand 
so that the dealers and consumers will 
seek ofter it and be willing to pay for it. 
There is scarcely a chance that any¬ 
one will attempt to counterfeit a brand. 
But it is possible to get empty packages 
in market with fancy brands and repack 
other fruit of inferior quality in them, 
and I know of one case where this was 
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