THE KUKA.lv NEW-YORKER 
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RURALISMS 
Albino Beans. 
I enclose leaf from pole Lima beau 
nearly milk white, as are the leaves of the 
entire stalk, and the pods are also white. 
Is this a new kind or just a freak of na¬ 
ture? F. E. N. 
Cases of this kind are not uncommon. 
The leaf enclosed was a pure white. 
When placed under a microscope it 
showed no'disease or fungi wnatever. The 
absence of coloring matter was due to a 
freak of nature, a break down in the life 
of the plant. It may possibly be due to 
the lack of some fertilizing element in the 
soil. There is no fear that this condi¬ 
tion will spread through the rest of the 
vines, as it is not a disease but simply a 
freak. 
The Toughina Peach. 
Our old friend J. W. Stubenrauch of 
Mexia, Texas, recently sent by parcel 
post, specimens of his new peach “Tough¬ 
ina.” The fruit arrived in fine condition, 
without a bruise or blemish. It surely 
is a fine shipping variety, and with the 
coming of parcel post there seems an in¬ 
creased demand for a peach of high quali 
ty which can be sent by mail. The 
“Toughina” seems to us of better quality 
than .T. II. Hale, and it surely seems 
a real acquisition. Pictures of the peach 
are shown at Fig. 45.1, and Mr. Stuben¬ 
rauch sends us the following note about 
it: 
This name was given this peach be¬ 
cause of its very tough skin, which 
makes it an ideal, long distance ship¬ 
per. When mentioning in a letter to 
your readers a ycai or more ago, that the 
near future would give us peaches 
that could be safely shipped to Europe 
I had this peach in mind. It came 
from an Elberta seed cross-pollin¬ 
ated by the fine peach we call Bell's Oc¬ 
tober. Owing to bud variation or in¬ 
fluence of stock (I cannot tell which) the 
Elberta parent in this case was of a 
very superior strain, the tree much 
larger and fruit finer than any we over 
had. Bell’s October the other parent, is 
also a valuable large yellow freestone, 
ripening about the time of Salway. 
Toughina begins to ripen as Elberta, 
goes out. Tree in habit of growth 
somewhat resembles Elberta, though it 
blooms later, blossoms being the same 
size as Bell’s, showing it to be a per¬ 
fect cross between the two parents. 
In size, this new peach is very large, 
had some specimens weighing 12 ounces. 
The color is a bright yellow, nearly 
covered with a beautiful red. Fuzz, 
what there is of it, is very short, many 
specimens being entirely free from it. 
Quality is far better than Elberta, 01 - 
even Ilale, which I had also growing 
close by. Owing to its blooming very 
late, it has several times escaped injury 
from cold when Elbertas were killed. I 
have a good young orchard of them 
started and some day I expect to ship 
them in bushel baskets or crates to our 
distant West Texas towns, where but 
very little fruit is produced and where 
money is plentiful enough to pay good 
prices for what they get. 
Speaking of the Ilale, it is certainly 
ahead of Elberta, and side by ,side 
I oughina is yet decidedly ahead of Hale. 
I hus, how much use ought we to have 
for Elberta hereafter? 
J. W. STUBENRAUCH. 
The Travels of a Peach. 
To continue the story of the journeys 
of those Early Elberta peaches which 
were mentioned last week. You remem- 
l er that the peaches were started from 
^ tali, one package by parcel post, the 
other by express. They reached us in 
New York, the parcel post package a 
short time ahead of the other. We imme¬ 
diately opened the packages, took out one 
from each lot, and promptly shipped the 
others, one by parcel post and the other 
by express, to Berkeley, Cal. The peaches 
arrived in California still in excellent 
condition. They were repacked and sent 
in the same way back to Missouri. They 
opened up well in Missouri, and one of 
them was then put into a smaller package, 
carefully wrapped in cotton and mailed 
once more to us. It arrived by parcel 
post on September 20, still in good con¬ 
dition. A photograph of this peach was 
hastily made, and it was then packed once 
more and mailed back to Missouri. At 
the time of mailing it had begun to shrivel 
a little, but there was not a speck of rot 
about it, and the odor was still excellent. 
We did not, of course, cut the peach open 
and taste its quality. 
This is probably the champion travel¬ 
ing performance of the peach. From Utah 
to New York is about 2.100 miles, from 
New York to California is 3.250 miles, 
back again to New York by way of Mis¬ 
souri means as many miles more and then 
from New Y’ork to Missouri 1.300, making, 
a total of about 0,000. While we doubt 
if peach shipping by parcel post will ever 
have great commercial importance this is 
certainly an interesting performance as 
showing the possibilities of the peach to 
stand shipment. 
Meeting of Northern Nut Growers’ 
Association. 
Our object in holding our meeting at 
Rochester was attained. This was to see 
the many English walnut trees in and 
about that city. When they told us that 
there were hundreds of these trees there it 
seemed hardly believable, like a Board 
of Trade trumpeting. But the trees are 
there and we saw them, many of them 
bearing abundant crops of what looked 
like good nuts; some trees of great size 
and age, comparing favorably with those 
of other parts of the world where these 
nuts are raised commercially, and one 
orchard of 225 bearing trees 29 years old, 
healthy and vigorous. But all these trees 
are seedlings, not a grafted one was seen 
or heard from, and have the usual defects 
of seedling fruit trees. 
A committee was appointed consisting 
of C. A. Reed, Nut Culturist of the 
United States Department of Agriculture; 
Prof. F. N. Fagan, professor of horticul¬ 
ture at State College, Pa., who has this 
year been making a survey of the walnut 
trees of Pennsylvania; J. F. .Tones of 
Lancaster, and T. P. Littlepage of Wash¬ 
ington, to study these and other seedling 
walnut trees of the East to determine 
those best for propagation. Prof. Fagan 
has already had reported about 2,000 
trees in Pennsylvania, and believes there 
are as many more unreported. The fol¬ 
lowing resolution in regard to seedling 
trees was passed : 
“Seedling nut trees may and do come 
fairly true to type, but they do not come 
true to variety. Consequently our asso¬ 
ciation does not approve of the sale of 
seedling trees under variety names; and 
this association further recommends to all 
journals that they take no advertisements 
for nut trees if such trees are not sold 
under conditions that clearly comply with 
the provisions of this resolution.” 
A second notable event of this meeting 
was the Statement by Dr. Robert T. Mor¬ 
ris of New York in his paper entitled, 
“Notes on the Hazels,” that we can grow 
the imported hazel, or filbert, successfully 
and probably profitably, in this country, 
if care is taken to look occasionally for 
the hazel blight, that sooner or later is 
almost certain to appear, and to cut out 
the first evidences of it. Dr. Morris 
showed some good filberts of his own rais¬ 
ing, others were brought in from Penn¬ 
sylvania and from Rochester, and visits 
were made to several plantings of hazels 
of various ages. This included the col¬ 
lection of hazels in the remarkable park 
system of Rochester. The tree hazel of 
Constantinople, seen in fruit among other 
unusual nut trees in one of these parks, 
has the advantages of the tree, form with¬ 
out the stolon-spreading habit of other 
hazels, hardiness, fruitfulness and beauty, 
and is a variety very promising for breed¬ 
ing purposes. This encouragement for 
growing the hazel or filberts is a matter 
of very great importance to nut growers. 
A third notable act was the passage of 
the following resolution, apropos of the 
decision of the Federal Government not 
to quarantine chestnut nursery stock : 
“No chestnut stock should go out un¬ 
less it is thoroughly sterilized by some 
satisfactory method and tagged by proper 
authority to show that tact. 
“States that are still clear of the blight 
are advised that effective quarantine is de¬ 
sirable to delay, for a time at least, the 
spread of the blight. Four infestations of 
chestnut blight have been found in TivM- 
ana in July and August, 1915. This 
fact, and the continued spread of th ; s 
fatal fungus, are some of the reasons for 
this recommendation.” 
The last notable thing that I wish to 
chronicle here is the encouragement that 
has been given to nut growing, and to the 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, by 
the official survey that is being made by 
the authorities of the State of Pennsyl¬ 
vania of the English walnut trees growing 
in the State; and by the presence at our 
meeting of Dr. Hugh P. Baker, Dean of 
the State College of Forestry., and Prof. 
U. P. Hedrick, Horticulturist of the State 
Agricultural College at Geneva. Dean 
Baker read a paper on “The Relation of 
Forestry Conditions in New York to the 
Possibilities in Nu't Growing.” Prof. Hed¬ 
rick was present on Doth days of the 
meeting and intimated that before long 
the State of New York might take a 
hand in the investigation of nut growing. 
It is probable that the next annual 
meeting will be at Washington, I). C. 
w. c. ». 
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