Nebraska advertiser., 1870-03-03

What Eastern POmOlOgists think Of
Nebraska Fruits.-F. R. ELLIOT, Sec
rotary Of the American Pathological
Society, and editor of the Fruit De-
partment Of the Rural Nc1U Yorker,
has recently, under the head Fruits
Received" furnished that paper with
an article of considerable length, de-
scribing some fruits the editor Of the
AdUcrtiser sent him last fall. We
have not room for the whole article,
but make some extracts to show what
is thought by Mr.. Elliot, and what
we have heretofore contended for,
some superior characteristics Nebras-
ka isthoughtt to possess as a fruit grow
ing region.
My fruit loving friends, all over the
country will please accept thanks
for their kindncssin supplying me
with specimens of the new as we'll as
the old varieties Of fruits for exam
ination and comparison. OF all l
cannot write, but when there is any
thing new or distinct, 1 shall try to
let the public know it.
Among others to whom I am indebt-
ed comes a box of varieties from Col.
r. w. Furnas, BrownviIle, Nebraska,
a gentleman who is now, perhaps, do
ing a much or more than any other
man toward increasing the extent Of
orchards and planting them with har-
Hdy as well as superior varieties. The
first fruit, marked unknown" is
Detroit Black, though larger than
usual.
SWEET ROMANTIC.
This has the bloom and the shad-
ing Of red according to the variety, as
l described in 1916, and afterward in
my fruit book bat il is more oblique
In form and from this oblique form,
which L so often find i'm the variety as
grown west Of Ohio, Ihave sometimes
querried if there might not be a dis.
tinct variety, a Seeding partaking of
the original, but changed in form.
DETROIT RED.
Correct; but when the readers of
the Rural learn that this specimens
measured thirteen and one-halfinches
around, they cOncede Nebraska has
as q good name for producing fruits of
large size as has ever been credited to
California.
MONA RICH.
Correct, but more cOnical, or round
ish cOnical than usual at the East. 1t
also has more and deeper color. Why
1t should ever have obtained a sy-
nOnym Of Monarch Sweet, I know
not, for the flesh is a pleasant subacid,
tender and very good.
DONNIE.
Correct, but so large that u valu-
ed Charles Downing, who looked over
the specimens hastily with me cfuld
hardly believe it true. On specimen
measured twelve inches in circumfer-
ence.
WINE.
This was labelled "EngIish Red
Streak, " and its size almost dfspelled
belief in its being simply the Wine
Apple but a taste of its flesh proved
conclusive. Thirteen inches around
IS, however, a little ahead In size of
those we Eastern men are in the habit
of growing.
GABRIEL.
This is unquestionably correct. but
the fruit is so enlarged, and so much
deeper cOlored than we have been
accustomed to see, it Is to be at first
unrecogniZable. The specimen. of
which We present a drawing, is large.
Foundish, Oblate, greenish-yellow
ground, mostly covered, marble and
splashed with red, and dotted with
large acrole dots. Stem rather slender.
set in a broad, open cavity: calyx
with erect, half-clOsed segments, set
In a rather deep basin flesh yellow
lsh, tender, juicy, rich, subacid
The extra soil here gives more depth
to the basin than appears in ordinary
grown specimen, but the flesh is all
unchanged, unless it may be perhaps.
a little more coarse. The character,
however, remains, and judging from
this It must prove a valuable variety
for Nebraska,
oTOE REDsTREAK
A new seeding variety, originated
IN Otoe county, Nebraska, and is
named from a tribe of Indians. The
fruit is of a medium size and of great
beauty. In form it is a roundish, OBJ
long, Oblate, %truncated. The color is
rich, warm, yellow ground, mostly
covered with shades, markings and
short broken stripes of clear light and
deep dark red also many large, light
gray and apparently rough russell dots.
stem slender, equal lengthy, set in a
broad, open and deep, sometimes rus
setted cavity; cslyX with closed or
double segments, set in a very deep
and wide, open, regular, smooth basin.
flesh yelioWish, breaking, crisp, ten
der, sPrightly, rich, pleasant, aTomat-
&c, sub-acid. Best. Core medium.
Seeds large. plump, full, occupying
the entire capsule. Season, October
to January.
The appearance and quality of this
new apple is superior. 1t remains
only to have the tree exhibited like
good qualities, to cause it to be uni
versally sought after.