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write to the B. G. Pratt Company, 50 Church Street, New 
York, for copies of the booklet. The senior member of this 
firm presses a vigorous campaign, and his methods are 
characterized by a desire to deal fairly and generously by 
the public. 
“While in the East last year the editor 
ORCHARDING visited a large apple orchard which pro- 
EAST AND duced its first crop at twelve years of age, 
WEST and was told that generally apple orchards 
in the Eastern States, with the exception 
of some few varieties, do not begin to bear until they are 
twelve years old. 
This gives a little opportunity for mental arithmetic. If 
land in the East costs ^?ioo per acre and it costs $25 per acre 
per year to care for an orchard, expenses being about the 
same in the East as in the West, and you have had to care 
for it for eleven years before it begins to bear, it would cost a 
man $375 per acre at bearing. This would not include liv¬ 
ing expenses, taxes or interest. Good fruit land in the 
Northwest can be bought for $200 and less per acre. Care 
for six years at $25 per acre would be $150, making a cost of 
$350 at the end of six years. Net profit has been on an 
average, and will be in the future, in all probability, in good 
fruit districts: 
Net profit at 6 years of age . $100 
Net profit at 7 years of age.. 200 
Net profit at 8 years of age . 300 
Net profit at 9 years of age. 400 
Net profit at 10 and 11 years of age . 500 
The writer of the article above ought to make another 
visit for the purpose of discovering the modern orchardist, 
and noting up-to-date methods. If this were done, he 
would have no difficulty in discovering data which would 
enable him to very completely and radically revise his 
preconceived notions, as set forth in the article above. 
personal jVIcntlon 
MR. E. F. COE IN THE ORIENT 
Mr. Ernest P. Coe and Mrs. Coe of New Haven, Connec¬ 
ticut, are making a tour of Japan and the Orient this 
winter. Mr. Coe is taking occasion to study Japanese horti¬ 
culture with special reference to those native plants of 
probable value to this country. 
A post card from San Paulo, Brazil, under date of 
February 8th, informs the editorial office that Mr. J. 
McHutchison of McHutchison & Company, Importers, 17 
Murray Street, New York, is heading south on a winter tour. 
He reports a good time and godd weather, and expects to 
stop at Montevideo, Uruguay, a few days later. 
Our Sxebanges 
Total profit at beginning of twelfth year . $1500 
Less the cost of the land and caring. 350 
Leaving a profit for the eleven years of .. $1150 
On the other hand, in the East at the beginning of the 
twelfth year you would be out on your investment and care 
$375, whereas in the West, at the beginning of the twelfth 
year, you would have all the money invested out, and $1150 
to the good per acre. 
Which is the best place to engage in fruit growing. East 
or West?” Better Fruit. 
In answer to the foregoing, we would say that our worthy 
contemporary was badly informed. It is approximately 
true that on heavy clay soils and under old and now practi¬ 
cally obsolete methods of orcharding, and with the slower 
bearing varieties, such as Spy and Baldwin, orchardists 
were not seriously disappointed if they had to wait ten or 
twelve years for a commercial crop of fruit. But methods 
have changed, and view points have changed, and this is not 
» the modern eastern expectation. A properly cared for 
S orchard of Greening, Hubbardston, and Baldwin, in 
^ Western New York is known to produce practically as freely 
and as early as the recognized precocious types like Ben 
7 Davis and Winesap, extensively grown in the West. The 
k notion that one must wait ten or twelve years for a crop 
^ belongs to past experience and former methods, and our 
worthy editor was evidently in the hands of a well inten- 
^tioned and easy “has-been,” while studying methods of 
fruit growing in the East. The man who sets permanent 
J, trees of the slower bearing types, such as Spy and King, is 
wise enough to interplant these with early bearing varieties, 
' and his ground becomes dividend-bearing by reason of its 
apple erops after the fourth or fifth year. 
Highlands, Calif.—W.alter S. Corwin, pioneer fruit 
grower of Highlands, is the originator of the pecan industry 
here. He recently purchased 100 acres of land near Lanker- 
shim and has a large consignment of pecan trees on the way 
from Texas. The entire 100 acres will be set out to pecans 
at once.—New York Packer. 
THE RASPBERRY-STRAWBERRY 
A new berry is being grown in Logan County, Ill., which 
it is said bids fair to revolutionize the berry industry in that 
state. The new production is called the Yankee Prince 
raspberry-strawberry, and is, as its name indicates, a cross 
between the red raspberry and the strawberry. The origin 
of the berry was accidental, no effort having been made to 
produce a cross. The new berry is said to be very large, 
resembles the red raspberry in surface, but has the shape 
and size of a large strawberry, though the center is hollow 
like the raspberry. It grows on a thorny bush and is 
declared to require no cultivation. The vines are mowed 
close to the ground either late in the fall or early in the 
spring and the new shoots that come up bear the same 
season. Weeds do not seem to bother, as the shoots grow 
so rapidly as to kill them out. The plants begin to bear 
about the same time as the strawberry and continue to fruit 
until late in the fall.— California Fruit Grower. 
Note—This has a suspiciously familiar sound. We 
would not be taking serious chances if we wager that it was 
the old strawberry-raspberry masquerading under a new 
guise. This northern Japanese form of Rubus rosefolius 
bears beautiful, large-sized berries, absolutely worthless 
from the eating standpoint, but the plant is quite worthy 
of a place in the garden as an ornamental. We are fear¬ 
ful that it is the old humbug making another round. 
