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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
FRUIT GROWNING IN PENNSYLVANIA 
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APPLES 
Baldwin —The most popular apple in the state. Grown 
in every county, but succeeds, best at high altitudes and in 
soils where the chestnut thrives. On account of its ten¬ 
dency to bear every other year andoof the fruit to drop 
before harvested, the variety is not a general favorite among 
commercial growers. It is a profitable apple, however, 
when properly handled, and adapted to location where 
planted. 
York Imperial —This'is the leading commercial apple 
in. the Southeastern part of the state. Perhaps 75 per cent, 
of the trees in the Adams County district are York Imperial. 
The lack of quality is about the only point raised against 
this variety. 
Northern Spy —No better apple is grown in this state. 
It is popular in northern sections and a few growers are 
considering handling it in boxes in the Eastern markets. 
Rome Beauty —Possesses many good points. Loses 
quality soon after mid-winter. 
Summer Rambo —A superb summer apple, and profit¬ 
able with several growers. 
PEARS 
There are very few large orchards in the state. Best and 
leading varieties are Bartlett, Seckel, Lawrence and Clair- 
geau. Bose is also good. Blight makes the crop very 
uncertain and generally unsatisfactory. 
PEACHES 
Elberta is probably the most largely planted. Many 
other varieties are grown, as Iron Mountain, Smock, Stump, 
Sneed, Crosby, Ray, Late Crawford, Old Mixon, Champion 
and Fox. 
PLUMS 
The Japanese plums are not popular. The York State 
prune is probably our greatest commercial variety, it suc¬ 
ceeds wherever the German prune thrives. It is a highly 
profitable variety in Erie County. Other desirable varieties 
are Lombard, Abundance and Bavay. Trees of many other 
varieties are found here and there, but the ones mentioned 
are most extensively planted. 
CHERRIES 
Early Richmond is the most popular sour cherry, but 
Montmorency is better and w r ill probably take its place in 
commercial orchards. All of the sweet varieties may be 
found. Windsor does remarkably well in the mountainous 
districts. 
GRAPES 
Concord —Probably ninety-five per cent, of the grapes 
in the Erie grape belt are Concord. Other varieties' of 
importance are Moore’s Early, Delaware, Niagara and 
Worden. 
STRAWBERRIES 
Sample, Wm. Belt, Gandy, Brandywine, Champion, 
Bubach and Clyde, do well, but there are probably hundreds 
of varieties planted in this state. 
RASPBERRIES 
Cuthbert is the leading red raspberry. Gregg. Cumber¬ 
land and Kansas most popular black caps. 
I BLACKBERRIES 
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Snyder leads as a commercial variety. Other varieties 
planted are Kittatinny, Eldorado, Erie, Rathbun, Wilson 
and Early Harvest. 
GOOSEBERRIES 
Downing is far in the lead. 
CURRANTS 
Fay most largely planted. Wilder and Eclipse are 
profitable. 
No special informationJon| insects and plant diseases. 
The leading orchardists control the scale, codling moth and 
other destructive insects and diseases, while these enemies 
play havoc in the hundreds of orenards owned by general 
farmers. 
Nursery and Orchard inspection work is in charge of 
Prof. H. A. Surface, State Economic Zoologist, and splendid 
service is being rendered for nurserymen as well as fruit 
growers. 
Very little progress has been made in storage for fruits 
outside of cities. 
NURSERYMEN HAVE RESPONSIBLE TASK 
Orchard planting is somewhat like life insurance, in more ways 
than one, says a writer in California Fruit Grower. It has an 
investment that brings a great deal of satisfaction, and it usually 
pays its annual dividends, but the most decided similarity is the fact 
that a great deal of talking must be done by some one on the subject 
before the policy is ever written, or the orchard planted. In the 
case of the orchard this talking usually falls to the nurseryman or 
the salesman. There is scarcely a home that is provided with fine 
fruits through the season, but its owner was talked into it by a tree 
man. Go further and you will find that a large percentage of the 
commercial fruit growers were also originally argued into the busi¬ 
ness by energetic tree men. Study the history of the prominent 
fruit sections where peaches are shipped by the hundred carloads, 
and if you will trace the business back to its infancy you will find 
almost invariably that it was started through the work of some 
nurseryman or tree salesman. The credit which the state has made 
for production of the finest peaches in the world, therefore, may well 
be divided between the nurseryman and the orchardist. This is a 
big responsibility which the nurseryman carries, and therefore he 
should exercise care that he grow only the best varieties of fruit and 
see to it that all orders are filled with good stock. The nurseryman 
should be an intelligent guide to the fruit grower. The average 
planter looks to him to be well posted as to what, when and how to 
plant, and the nurseryman should aim high in his business and try 
to post himself so thoroughly that he may not have to turn any 
customer or seeker for information away unsatisfied. The position 
of the nurseryman is one of great importance to the country. It is a 
calling that one cannot just drop into and succeed at. He must go 
into it with earnestness and enthusiasm and make it a life study as 
well as a life business in order to be of any value to the country, or 
make anything out of it for himself. The nurseryman can only 
serve his part properly in the business by making it his permanent 
occupation, and he cannot give his customers satisfaction unless he 
is competent to advise a tree planter as to the proper trees for 
planting under all conditions. 
