The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-04
ON FRUIT CULTURE.
Advice to Washington and
Idaho Orchardists.
DEMANDS or THE MARKET.
Disessssen Conserving he nsss Varieties
~ Apples asA Pears For
Thfs Ceass-

We could name dozens OF kinds that Ne
would want. / viii deal With those kinds
mostly possessing qualities desirable for
large orchards. In the near future our
crop will be mainly sold 70 dealers, who
viii send their men and pay rs our price
for the fruit on the trees, doing their own
picking in most instances. or else furnish
ing the packages and allowing stipulated
sum for having it done. As handling
fruits of all kinds requires skill and prac-
tee to 50 pack and preserve them that they
viii reach the consumer in the best Of
shape. large dealers generally prefer to
send their own men to supeTintend, ut
least. the handling, and unless one has
seen experienced fruit packers pat up fruit
for transportation, he has bar slight idea
of the proper way 10 handle the different
fruits In the first place. we want an
apple that viii bear transportation. one
that will keep well in varied temperature,
enc that will bear high polish, so that
the apple vender can so polish his fruit
that their red, bright, shining cheeks will
tempt the nickel from the misef's pocket.
While Ben Davis Is not an apple suited
to my taste; while thousands Of others
rail at il, Chicago, ST. Louis and even
London and Liverpool dealers pay rs from
Is to IS cents per barrel more for it than
any other variety. Therefore, il was
planting 800 acres Of apples. would just as
soon plant $50 acres Of Ben Davis as any
other. for it would be for the dollars that
il would bring me that would plant my
orchard
Blue Pearmain is q good-selling apple.
good shipper. good bearer and altogether
a much more desirable apple than Ben
Davis. But it has q trait of failing off
badly early in the fall, which is against it,
and about all that can be said detrimental
to this fine apple King Of Tompkins
county is another very desirable and profit
able. bat 1t is . great temptation to the
codling moth. Roman Beauty is proving
all that could be asked. Northern Spye,
when it has plenty Of moisture, Is in this
Northwestern country, producing such q
fine apple that Eastern visitors can scarcely
imagine it as the Northern Spye of the
Eastern markets. The tree Is very hardy,
an abundant and heavy bearer, and the
fruit is of high color here and one of the
very best to plant. The spitzenbcrg also
seems better adapted to our soil and
climate than back East, and while not
considered an extra hardy apple, it never
fails TO bear in and around Lewiston.
Local markets sell twenty-five barrels Of
spitzenberg and Northern Spye to i've OF
any other kind.
Autumn apples are led BY Rod Bietis-
heimeS. described IS follows: Large and
beautiful, bright rosy red III over. It is
one of the largest, handsomest and best of
all apples. Gravenstein and Duchess of
oldenburg are good, and any one planting
these three have variety choicest of fail
apples.
CT the summer apples. cannot recon-
mend the planting OF any great quantities
OF them. But OF any of the fall or winter
varieties above given. one need not fear to
plant too many, and right here, lest for
get it, let me urge upon any one planting
new orchard not TO plant large mixed
variety; two or three kinds of winter, same
of fall and two Of summer are all that any
one orchard ought to contain. unless it be
few trees for variety for home use. which
would urge all TO have A large number
of varieties cause more expense in storing
and do not return you rs good results az II
your production was only few. Enough
kinds only should be raised so that they
will cover the requirements of furnishing
an apple for the whole season. The winter
varieties are good eating in December and
will last till March, while Ben Davis will
extend away into the summer months.
While hundreds of new and choice (?1
varieties are coming forward each year, it
will not pay US u plant them, simply be-
cause they are not known In the market
Let them be ever so promising, we must
furnish what the people through the mar
ket call for. We cannot afford to advertise
a new fruit of any kind. Red Assrachan
and Red June are good varieties.
OF pears. probably no variety viii ever
beat the Bartlett for profit, unless II be
CIapp's Favorite. This variety, If picked
two or three weeks before ready 10 fall or
as soon as the fruit will part from the
stem when raised or turned up by the
hand. and placed in cool. dark room. viii
color most beautifully, and seldom rot at
the core. as is claimed they do. Being so
high coiored, of good favor and such q
hardy tree, il Is bound to be always profit
able. Bearre d 'Anjou is . luscious pear,
and one OF the finest pears to eat. OF large
size, thrifty tree, OF symmetrical form,
an annual and abundant bearer. but not
coloring as high rs Bartlett or Ciapp. IL is
not so taking in Q market where not
known. but once tasted the pear viii surely
be called for ever afterxard
kiefer Is Of rather poor quality, although
some prefer 1t: ii is very hardy, thrifty and
= good bearer, often bearing At two and
three years old. Being such tine-looking
pear. it Was selling for SIS per box last
season when Bartiett's sold for 50 and IS
cents per box Therefore, il seems that as
long as people viii pay their money for
good-looking fruits, regardless OF quality.
klefer should be a tree for Us 10 plant.
Winter and Duchess d Bordeaux seem to
he the prevailing winter pears Tor this sec
ton. and whoever has . large orchard OF
any or al OF the above has an untold for
tune IN ssore for him in = short period
Undoubtedly. IN referring 70 my apples.
many will say, Why do you leave out
such deserving fruits a. White Winter
Pearnaasa. yellow Newton. Pippin. Gloria
munai. BALDWIN. etc 20 Simply because II
We raise for market we do not want . yell
low or nghs-colored apple. Is small
hruise on such soon discolors and shows;
therefore IL Is rot a. desirable for the
market We have gwen the above apples
equal and superior 70 BALDWIN IN favor.
Neither do we want trees thai are likely 10
&c anyways tender Ss BALDWIN IS While
admitting the worthiness OF many other
varieties. we have given variety enough.
snd selected those which seem after ten or
twelve years triAl 10 Be better adapted 70