The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-31
NEW FRUITS.

You can scarcely pick up an agri-
cultural paper but yon see flaming
advertisements of some new kind
of fruit; highly colored pictures
of new neutrality-suspicious. and
fine on paper-which the owner
asks big price for, and being properly
advertised and pulled up, brings him
in Il good deal Of money for the first
few years, but gradually dies out and
YOU hear no more Of his wonderful
high priced plants.
We saw an advertisement a few
years ago giving a fine description
of what we thought most wonderful
strawberry, and through the influence
of a friend paid big price fora few of
the plants.
We watched our strawberry plants
with more than usual care and at
tention. They were advertised to
yield $4,000 quarts to the acre, which
at twenty cents per quart would
amount to $1,000 Such wonderful,
productive, prolific berry deserved
careful nursing as such figures seemed
like Bonanza of wealth. But we
were sadly disappointed-it came and
went; after we saw the fruit the I'M
profitable plants were plucked up.
The splendid cuts dwindled down into
an insignificant fruit too soft to ship
100 miles
This does not apply alone to straw
berries, but also to the large number
of peaches which are advertised rs
splendid new vatieties, earlier and |
better than any Of those before the
public.
Since the Introduction of those adj
mirable early peaches, the Amsden
and Alexander, there has been no end |
to the list of peaches purpOrting to be
better and earlier, but we have seen
none to equal them in color, size and
earliness.
The following gives some idea of the
number of new peaches before the
public:
"Singularly enough, Il long list of these
extra early varieties followed in the wake
of Amsden and misunderstanding
saunders, Wilder and Musser, from South
ern Pennsylvania; Honeywell, from North
ern OHIO; Waterloo, from Western New
York; Briggs Early May. from California:
(IOVgrOpr Garland from 'HnNpS. hnSiIas
others, some of which will doubtless prove
valuable for general cultivation.
About the same time the late Thomas
Rivers, OF SabridgewOrth, England. long
one Of the most eminent truit-growers, in
PRODUCED Il dozen or more of his Seeding
peaches, produced by the most careful
crOss-tertiliZatiOn under glass; and among
these are several very early ones Early
Beatrice ripens with Alexander. but is not
quite equal to it; Early Louise soon after
and is desirable, being tri1e larger and of
very good quality. Early Rivers ripens
week later, and is excellent III every way,
except its lack of color, which for home use I
would be no objection 1t is Il light creamy
yellow, with faint blush.
Several years ago an early variety called
PlOwden Seeding, from the neghborhood
OF Washington city, made considerable
stir, but it has dropped out of notice. {
There is probably DO such peach. Apron
inent frut-grower of Delaware states that
his pIOwden turns out to be "IIale's Early" 1
Thousands of dollars are spent by I
our people every year for new fruits, .
mostly of Northern origin, which turn !
out in the end to be humbugs.
There are nearly 100 varieties of {
and out Of that large :
number only small number answer E
ourpurposes for shipment to Northern 9
The same applies to peaches, and 1
rom the long list of early peaches
here are very few will stand the test. L
We hope that our Southern people d
will soon learn not to be carried away v
With every well advertised new va t
iety of fruit, and throw away their
money for nothing. Ii