The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06
7ansnese Fruit Trees.

TananGS6 FI0ls AC~Ss
.,,lowing letter to the editor of the
iI News from Mr.. w. II. Amoore
-, francisco. CAL, who is now in ia
d 90 III he read with interest by those who
pau; .--astsd in fruit culture in this local
lily: lam hacL AGAIN
| !, Ienan. feeling quite at none' put now l
. a. ms tie fruits OF CalIornid! Noe Inal
~ us. ,rs not plenty of peaches and plums,
U. -, are all picked so hard and green
uI .noJ q hen stewed there is little taste to
ula '.. and 7 pity people who do not like
le'1 I,,H rich flavor of a fruit ripened in the
ho w Won ace. they pickle them extensively
uI' - ,bem as condiments to help down
W ~ tasteless rice, and in addition they
l1S ..,,,1e with the same object lots of salted
us 6Sb .'daikon" Ia kind of radish that
80 "a use the mildest term, and veg
,ablej wilted in the sun.
II ,s impossible to judge from the trult In
- stores how il will taste If picked ripe,
10 So So i n drawback to the introduction
- America of some desirable kinds they
AZ n letting the right name Of fruit
n, Won do like it, or think you might
aata a success Of it, it seems Impossible,
i-.I low Of the dealers agree as TO the name,
VA er,,its of decidedly different flavor are
80 nv the same name, while the same
SnJ If fruits is called by different name
= 5ltferent places, and in places not far
;-on each other, either. | refer mainly to
.hms l have been trying 60 fad out
rbpther the Botanklo mot Botankln, as l
Ssce sometimes seen it spelt in horticultural
Frs and the Hattankio mot Hattankin)
~ the same. Some fruit dealers at the
-foesale markets insisted that they were.
0,bers at another market said they were
CFarent. but my opinion, until see reason
nrbange. is that there is no plum known in
Is1an as the Botan-that there is d Botankio
tsat turns to q beautiful golden color, is
rppdish. with slight pimple-like point
tFcs skin that enables the fruit to be kept
tTo or three weeks or longer till it ripens,
y,ten it possesses a very rich favor and that
bssa cngstone not as small as the Haitian
kin, aud no vacant space IN 1t similar TO that.
Then there is a plum like 1t In shape and
others of different shape picked off the same
trees that taper TO point like the Hattaukio,
but not so prominent, that have a thinner
skin. that do not keep SO long, that ripen a
reddish purple, have a small pit and richer
flavor than the yellow Botankio. Then
there is now in the stalls a pointed plum,
such as we know in California as the Kel-
sew. but at present small, and hard and
green. This is the true Hattankio (gener-
allv pronounced as if the u was ID on &C
count of the two coming together). The Boon
90 is considered by the japanese fine plum,
and had strong hopes OF it. but it Is too
sour 1t has a skin of the nature and color
Of an apricot but the pit is a clingstone, and
the shape at once decides it to be plum.
lam constantly seeing articles in the home
papers stating that the Oonshiu seedless
orange of Japan (of which we have sold so
many during the past four years. is grown
IN toe province # Satsuma, and that that
is reason, if not the reason, for its being
called the Satsuma in Florida. Nothing
could 9 much farther from the truth. The
large nurseries are not far from Kobe, and
few Of the trees fnd their way all over
Japan, and, of course, to Satsuma but they
are not cultivated there. As | have fire.
quently stated they grow almost exclusively
in Kishiu (or as we should pronounce it
Keshioo), where the foot hills are covered
with the trees, from four feet to ten feet
high, and covering a surface occasionally of
seventy feet rouad or twenty-three feet
through AS to the cold that it has stood in
Japan, and which interested parties have
stated that the lowest temperature where
hey grow is recorded at 90 through the
winter, although the thermometer may at
/ very rare intervals for short space of time
/ WUp w ~ VI even 10 WOulQ say UuaG
1 ia recent interview with Prof. Tamari of
the Toxic agricultural department., he said
BE- knew of It's not being injured by 220 of
frost, or l09 above zero (Fabr.) in the neigh
bOrhood of the Hakone mountains. An
other statement easily refuted ap-
peared in the Florida Dispatch IN
which the writer speaks of the
Oonshiu orange on trees on Nagasaki being
covered to protect from frost in May.
FIRSTLY, no o. anges grow On Nagasaki worth
eating only the Bushin, Kan, Dzabon and
Dai-Dai, and these in very limited guam
titles; and, secondly, the idea of frost there
In May Is simply ridiculous
Ia the winter it is rarely known to snow.
and then it has melted as it fell, and such a
thing as protecting the trees is unheard of.
donot wish to take up your time in read
ing that may not be interesting to YOU. Int
think that as there are so many Japanese
now in America to be consulted such state
ments should not be made on ''hearsav ,,
or, If am not mistaken as they are cal
cuated to do much harm, and to retard the
cultivator of many new fruits that must
prove of immense benefit.
II. E. AMooRR,