V* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1689 
RURALISMS 
Fruit Notes from Missouri 
My grocer tells me that Grimes Golden 
apples cost him $12 per barrel, with 
freight charges to be added. Heretofore 
he has made rather a specialty of this 
fine apple, which deserves all the praise 
usually accorded it. It succeeds well in 
this county, some very excellent speci¬ 
mens being exhibited at our local fair, yet 
it is left to growers afar off to receive the 
fine profit there must be in growing this 
variety. He had some fine Jonathan that 
cost him $1 a barrel less and that he was 
retailing at three for a dime. At this 
price he assured me he was making very 
little profit. At other stores I find any 
kind of a dessert apple selling at not less 
than 5c each. Whether prices will ad¬ 
vance a great deal over this in the Winter 
remains to be seen. More and more peo¬ 
ple are taking advantage of our two local 
cold storage rooms to put away a Winter 
supply for family use, and I hear of gro¬ 
cers going out in the country and buying 
apples in the orchards, furnishing bar¬ 
rels and paying extra for the picking. 
None of the old varieties holds a more 
secure position than the Winesap, and 
it may also be truthfully asserted that 
no newer candidate for favor is outstrip¬ 
ping it in the public esteem. There were 
some splendid specimens on the market 
this Fall. With fruit growing in its in¬ 
fancy here there is little thinning prac¬ 
ticed. and thinning is indispensable for a 
heavy crop of Winesap if the fruit is to 
attain a size medium to large. Most of 
the crops of this apple brought to town 
have a large proportion of small apples 
that lowers the price of all. Judicious 
thinning would have eliminated these low 
grades, increased the price by at least a 
third and secured just as many bushels. 
I consider the two best Winter varie¬ 
ties to-be the Winesap and Delicious. The 
latter is not as late a keeper, but. if well 
thinned, will excel Winesap in size and 
satisfy a more fancy trade at a higher 
price. Later on when the Delicious be¬ 
comes as plentiful as the Winesap, as it 
soon promises to be on account of the 
large plantings being made, we shall have 
a truer test of their relative popularity, 
but though it may have to rank second 
in the holidays trade, the Winesap still 
holds an impregnable position as a late 
keeper. 
The Black Twig has been planted ex¬ 
tensively but has failed to reach the emi¬ 
nence of the Winesap. It has the repu¬ 
tation of a tardy bearer and lacks the 
productiveness and regularity of its pa¬ 
rent. It grows to a larger size, but its 
color is duller and its quality inferior, 
though good. The defects of the Stayman 
on my own place I described in my last 
notes, but have had no opportunity to see 
this apple grow under average conditions 
and on soil that was not so stimulating. 
No adverse report of it, however, has ever 
come to my notice. L. B. JOHNSON. 
Gape Girardeau, Mo. 
Begonias from Seed 
Would Prof. Massey tell us the name 
of the Begonias he raises from seed and 
has blossoms all Summer? I cannot find 
anything in the catalogues that seems to 
answer the description. F. H. 
Alfred, Me. 
The Begonias used for bedding are 
known by the general name of everbloom- 
ing Begonias and bedding Begonias. 
There are named varieties, but I grow 
mine from seed that I save every Sum¬ 
mer from the beds, and seldom keep any 
plants over Winter. There are named 
varieties of which you can get the seed 
or the plants from the seedsmen. Theee 
are Erfordia, Prima Donna, Luminosa, 
Vernon and Salmon Queen. My mixed 
seed gives me flowers varying in color from 
pure white to crimson. They are never 
out of bloom Winter or Summer if grown 
in pots. You will find them listed in most 
of the leading catalogues. If you want 
beds of one color it will be necessary to 
buy seed of the named sorts, though the 
mixed seed can be had cheaper. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
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