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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  27,  1023 
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Horticultural  Notes 
True  History  of  the  Elberta  Peach 
Several  times  in  recent  months  you 
have  made  reference  in  “Hope  Farm 
Notes”  to  the  origin  of  the  Elberta  peach, 
and  in  each  instance  you  stated  that  the 
tree  sprang  from  seed  thrown  out  of  t lie 
kitchen  by  the  negro  cook,  and  in  one  in¬ 
stance  you  added  that  the  Elberta  came 
as  a  result  of  laziness.  (In  the  same 
article  you  refer  to  your  seedling  as  com¬ 
ing  from  seed  carelessly  thrown  out. 
Why  laziness  in  the  case  of  the  Southern 
seedling,  and  only  carelessness  in  your 
own  case?) 
I  am  inclosing  letter  from  the  widow 
of  Samuel  H.  Rumph,  and  clipping  from 
the  Atlanta  Journal  which  gives  a  true, 
authentic  history  of  the  Elberta  and 
Georgia  Belle  peaches.  You  will  see  that 
these  great  peaches  came  not  from  lazi¬ 
ness  nor  even  from  carelessness,  but  from 
deliberate,  methodical  planting,  for  the 
very  purpose  of  developing  a  better 
peach.  I  have  read  that  in  the  case  of 
Elberta  10.000  trees  were  planted  and 
only  one  proved  to  be  worth  saving. 
Georgia.  w.  l.  Williamson. 
In  speaking  of  the  Elberta  peach  we 
have  always  stated  that  we  gave  the  story 
as  told  us.  Our  recollection  is  that  we 
had  the  story  originally  from  J.  II.  Hale. 
The  letter  from  Mrs.  Rumph,  which  Mr. 
Williamson  sends  us,  says  that  the  fol¬ 
lowing  statement  is  correct,  and  we  ac¬ 
cept  it  as  true : 
In  the  year  1857,  I.  C.  Plant,  who  was 
engaged  in  private  banking  in  the  city  of 
Macon,  Ga.,  was  called  on  by  a  repre¬ 
sentative  of  a  Delaware  nursery,  from 
whom  Mr.  Plant  purchased  an  assortmenr 
of  selected  varieties  of  budded  peach 
trees,  known  as  Chinese  Cling,  Early 
Crawford,  Eate  Crawford,  Mixon  Free, 
Tillotson  and  Stump  the  World.  Mr. 
Plant  sent  these  trees  to  his  friend,  Col. 
Lewis  Rumph  (father  of  Lewis  A. 
Rumph  and  grandfather  of  Samuel  H. 
Rumph),  whose  farm  and  home  was  three 
miles  east  of  Marsballville,  Ga.  All  of 
these  trees  Colonel  Rumph  set  out  in  his 
family  orchard. 
The  trees  grew  to  be  large  and  fine, 
and  the  Chinese  Cling  produced  especially 
choice  fruit.  Seed  was  saved  from  the 
fruit  of  the  Chinese  Cling  by  the  mother 
and  grandmother  of  Samuel  H.  Rumph, 
in  the  year  1870.  and  to  him  they  gave 
the  seed  and  he  planted  same.  None  of 
the  seed  planted  at  that  time  produced 
any  very  choice  fruit,  save  one  tree, 
which  produced  an  exceptionally  fine  yel¬ 
low  freestone  peach.  (By  way  of  paren¬ 
thesis  again,  family  history  has  to  be 
interwoven  with  die  history  of  the  found¬ 
ing  of  the  peach  industry.  On  October 
20,  1874,  Samuel  II.  Rumph  and  Lewis 
A.  Rumph  (his  uncle)  married  sisters, 
having  a  double  wedding,  Samuel  H.  to 
Clara  Elberta,  and  Lewis  A.  to  Virginia 
Rebecca  Moore.  A  year  or  two  after  his 
marriage,  Samuel  H.  Rumph  named  this 
very  choice  freestone  peach  “Elberta,” 
for  and  as  a  compliment  to  his  wife.) 
Later,  seed  from  the  same  Chinese 
Cling  peach  which  produced  Elberta  was 
planted,  and  as  a  result  the  lighter  col¬ 
ored  peach.  Belle  of  Georgia,  was  pro¬ 
duced.  Thus  these  great  peaches  are  sis¬ 
ters — seedlings  from  the  same  tree. 
There  may  be  a  distinct  difference  be¬ 
tween  "laziness”  and  “carelessness.”  We 
use  the  last  named  word  in  referring  to 
the  Hope  Farm  seedling  because  that  is 
what  it.  seems  to  be.  We  like  to  save  the 
pits  of  peaches  when  we  can.  Our  belief 
is  that  one  of  the  hoys  ate  a  peach  and 
then  carelessly  threw  the  pit  at  a  cat  or 
some  animal,  so  that  it  rolled  under  a 
shed,  where  it  sprouted  and  grew.  So  far 
as  laziness  goes,  there  are  lazy  cooks  all 
the  way  from  Greenland  to  Patagonia. 
We  have  one  report  of  an  Eskimo  who 
lay  on  his  back  while  his  wife  fed  him 
small  pieces  of  blubber.  Darwin,  in  “The 
Voyage  of  the  Beagle.”  tells  of  the  Fue- 
gians  on  the  Straits  of  Magellan  as  about 
the  laziest  mortals  on  earth.  And  in 
every  line  of  latitude  between  the  two 
may  be  found  lazy  cooks  who  get  rid  of 
kitchen  refuse  in  the  easiest  possible  man¬ 
ner.  They  are  not  confined  to  any  par¬ 
ticular  section,  and  any  one  of  them 
might  produce  a  superior  variety  by 
throwing  seeds  away — so  democratic  is 
nature  in  her  awards  of  prizes. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN— The  appli¬ 
cation  of  W.  F.  Hewlitt  of  Redlands, 
Cal.,  for  30  acres  of  public  domain  near 
Upland  for  use  as  a  butterfly  farm  has 
been  denied  by  the  Department  of  Agri¬ 
culture.  Protests  that  the  propagation 
of  butterflies  would  make  easy  the  in¬ 
troduction  of  gypsy  moths,  browntails  and 
other  injurious  insects  were  sent  to  the 
department  at  the  time  Hewlitt  first  filed 
his  application. 
The  New  Jersey  State  Department  of 
Agriculture  will  not  permit  any  Christ¬ 
mas  trees  from  New  England  to  be 
brought  into  New  Jersey  after  Oct.  1  be¬ 
cause  of  the  danger  of  bringing  the 
gypsy  moth  with  them.  A  statement  by 
the  Department  said  that  almost  $750,000 
has  been  spent  to  rid  New  Jersey  of  the 
moth  and  that  it  would  be  foolish  to  in¬ 
validate  this  expenditure  by  exposing  the 
State  to  additional  danger  by  bringing  in 
Christmas  trees. 
A  large  increase  in  the  fruit  export 
business  between  Canada  and  Great  Brit¬ 
ain  is  expected  as  the  result  of  a  substan¬ 
tial  reduction  in  the  ocean  freight  rate  on 
apples  moving  between  Atlantic  ports  and 
ports  in  Great  Britain.  Apples  will  now 
be  carried  in  ordinary  stowage  at  a  rate 
of  00c  per  barrel  and  30c  per  box,  as 
compared  with  a  former  charge  of  $1.25 
and  45c,  respectively.  The  refrigerated 
stowage  rate  will  now  be  $1.40  per  bar¬ 
rel  and  50c  per  box. 
The  fifth  of  the  egg-laying  contests  con¬ 
ducted  by  the  Canadian  Dominion  Ex¬ 
perimental  Farms  begins  on  Nov.  1.  1023. 
The  contests  will  be  conducted  as  usual 
at  the  Central  Experimental  Farm.  Ot¬ 
tawa,  and  at  one  experimental  farm  or 
station  in  each  of  the  provinces  and  run 
for  52  consecutive  weeks.  Birds  quali¬ 
fying  are  eligible  for  registration  in  the 
Canadian  National  Poultry  Record. 
A  recent  development  in  connection 
with  Canada’s  export  seed  trade  is  the 
shipment  to  Argentina  of  500  bushels  of 
registered  Marquis  wheat.  This  wheat 
was  the  product  of  Saskatchewan  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Canadian  Seed  Growers’  As¬ 
sociation,  and  the  shipment  was  the  first 
of  its  kind  to  go  to  South  America  in 
commercial  quantity. 
Seedsmen  and  their  customers  througn- 
out  the  country  were  considerably 
alarmed  by  the  suggestion  that  the  Sec¬ 
retary  of  Agriculture,  upon  recommenda¬ 
tion  of  the  Federal  Horticultural  Board, 
might  issue  a  quarantine  prohibiting  or 
restricting  the  movement  of  various  com¬ 
modities,  including  clover  and  Alfalfa 
seed  and  bulbs  from  the  States  of  Oregon, 
California.  Colorado,  Washington  and 
Idaho.  AVhile  the  evidence  produced  at 
the  public  hearing  on  Oct.  2  showed  that 
there  was  considerable  trouble  in  certain 
sections  of  the  States  above  named  be¬ 
cause  of  the  activities  of  particular  spe¬ 
cies  of  eelworm,  it  also  very  clearly 
showed  that  any  quarantine,  either  in 
the  nature  of  a  prohibition  or  a  restric¬ 
tion  of  the  movement  of  these  seeds  or 
bulbs,  was  unnecessary.  The  Press 
Service  of  the  Department  promptly  is¬ 
sued  a  notice  that  no  quarantine  was 
recommended  by  the  Federal  Horticul¬ 
tural  Board.  Consequently,  it  is  not  ex¬ 
pected  that  any  action  along  a  quaran¬ 
tine  line  will  be  undertaken,  at  least  at 
the  present  time. 
Killing  Locust  Sprouts 
On  page  1145  W.  E.  J.  wants  to  get 
rid  of  locust  sprouts  (suckers).  They 
are  easily  pulled  when  about  18  in.  high. 
It  will  be  necessary  to  wear  gloves.  Some 
sprouts  will  come  for  a  second  pulling, 
very  few  for  the  third,  but  I  have  known 
them  to  sprout  for  20  years  when  cut 
with  a  scythe.  a.  e.  ritteniiouse. 
Delaware, 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  OCT.  27,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
Moles  Are  Potato  Consumers  .  1332 
A  Freak  Potato  .  1332 
Hope  Farm  Notes  . .  1340,  1341 
A  Corn  Crop  on  Shares  . .  1341 
Sudan  Grass  on  Long  Island  . . . .  1350 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
A  Comparison  of  Milk  Prices  .  1343 
The  Railroads  and  Milk  . . . .  1343 
Apple  Sauce  for  Pigs  .  1348 
Dairy  Butter  Coming  Back  . . .  1348 
HORTICULTURE 
Trimming  Currants  . 1332 
Large  Orcharding  in  Vermont  .  1333 
Caring  for  Young  Vineyard  .  1333 
Spruce  from  Seed  . . . .  1341 
The  Big  New  York  Apple  Show  . . .  1343 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
The  Pastoral  Parson  . 1339,  1341 
Boys  and  Girls  . . 1344,  1345 
The  Home  Dressmaker  .  1346 
A  Farm  Woman’s  Notes  . . . . . .  1347 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  in  Persia,  Part  L 
1331  1332 
Right  of  Way  by  Necessity  .  1332 
Removing  Rust  from  Saw  .  1335 
Removing  Kerosene  Odor  from  Tank.. .  1335 
Purifying  Well;  Rotting  Tree  Stumps...  1335 
Excess  of  “Mother”  in  Vinegar  .  1335 
Softening  Old  Coonskin  . 1335 
Ivy  Poisoning  .  1341 
Editorials  . I34.' 
You  Must  Tell  Them  What .  1343 
Another  View  of  the  School  Problem  .  1343 
Improve  the  Present  School  .  1343 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation  .  1352 
The  Ox-team  Express  .  1^2 
Publishsr’s  Desk  ,  . .  1^54 
