The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-01

The hing OIL I0mpkinS tountfs large,
| brilliant scarlet apple Of first quality, Of
which there was an enormous yield this
rear, bringing from 81 to SIS net, and
those held 10 Christmas this year will prob
ably bring nearly double: the Canada
| geinette; the BIenheim Enormously
called the Dutch Mignonne); the Failawa-
ter; the Paradise Winter sweet; the Ben
Davis; the Jersey Black: the Rhode Is
land Greening; the GiIpin Enormously
called vandevere); the Monstrous or Clio
ria Mundi, fine cooking apple; the Fall
Pippin Enormously called the Golden
BaIl), and the Yellow Bcllefower, q fine
and most profitable apple. After these
come the longest keepers. The Lansing
burg, small green inferior apple, which
yields prolificiy, and as it keeps till April,
a very profitable variety; Peck's Pleasant;
Monmouth; English Russet; Golden Rus
set; Ortley, small medium sweet-green
apple similar to the Lansingburg and io-
cally called the Imperial, which yields
heavily every year and keeps till April ;
the Belmont, good apple, but not as val
liable as Monmouth or Peck's Pleasant.
Several other varieties are grown in
smaller quantities and are doing well.
Coles Ounce, an early variety; American
Golden, and Grimes Golden, fall
varieties aud very valuable fthese
two varieties will probably be grown
in great numbers); the Baldwin
the Esopus spitzenberg, Jonathan, Yellow
Sewtovn, Fameuse tfall), Maiden's Blush
and the Ribston. Other varieties are being
tried, such as the Mcintosh Red, Roman
ite, Autumn Strawberry and Northern
Spy.
The best apple orchards on the island
win yield this year about $500 TO the acre.
An average income can be obtained of
about $3.50 to ten-year-old orchards. But
this amount could be doubled and trebled
if fruit-growers would follow Barry's adj
vice, which is pTacticed all through Europe,
Of growing dwarf and semi-dvarf trees
among the standards for the first twelve
years. Dwarf on Paradise and Doncain
stock viii begin to yield in the second and
third years, and for the first few years viii
increase the yield Of the orchard q
hundredfold. II costs no more 10 properly
cultivate and manure such an orchard /;
the only extra cost being the first cost Of
the trees and digging the extra holes.
Pears are very profitable, but require a
more thorough culture than has yet been
given. Good soil, excellent location, and a
natural paradise, while yielding wonders,
need the addition of constant and intel
hgent culture. And If this fruit we're
grown in pyramids, as well as standards,
every acre would yield one hundred times
as much as at present. The Bartlett,
whilst not as large as the Bartlett of Cali
fornia, is much more luscious and more
highly favored The Sickle, Onondaga,
Gray Doyenne, Vicar of WINFIELD, Beurre
d'Anjou, Beurre Giffard, Flemish Beauty,
Louise Bonnie de Jersey, and many other
varities are grown with great success, but
perhaps the Bartlett and the winter pears
pay best. They bring from 81 TO 81 per
bushel, and are sold in half bushel boxes.
The prune industry gives promise of
rivalling, If not Of outstripping, the apple
culture. The Fellenberg, commonly called
Italian, gives promise of being the most
valuable variety. The yield is simply
enormous, averaging 800 per acre in 4
year-old plantations. The German prune,
which, on good black loan, also yields
very largely and is a most valuable variety
for drying, seems not 10 have grown into
favor so far. The Prune d'Agen is left to
Californian growers, being considered too
small. The Silver prune in this locality is
often COMPOUNDED with Goes Golden Drop,
which it only resembles in color. The
true Silver prune, the ST. Catherine plum,
is very valuable variety and it is extern
sively grown in Belgium. it is smaller than
Goes Golden Drop, slightly larger than the
Prune d'Agen, broad at the base, and upon
turning the plum so that the suture is hid
den, it is seen that the right lobe is long
est. There are about 10000 acres suitable
for prune and pear culture on the island.
Cherries are an excellent and paying
crop. But of the varieties grown, the
Black Republican, the proper name of
which is Lllewellyn ian Oregon seedling),
the Napoleon Bigarrean Enormously
called the Royal ARM, the Murilia, the
Sparhawk, Governor Wood and the
Bigarrean are the most valuable varieties.
The Moorpark is the only apricot in bear
ing, but other varieties arc being grown.
This fruit, if well cultivated and severely
pruned, will be one of the best paving
fruits grown. Peaches are a proved sue
cess, the early and late Crawfords taking
the lead. The Fidalgo, Waterloo, Troth s
early and the Alexander all yield abun-
dant crops. Strawberries are extensively
grown. and do exceedingly well, yielding
from $500 10 81 900 per acre. The principal
varieties are the Sharpless, Crescent,
Tucunda, Wilson and Manchester Black
berries, of which fruit only the Lawton is
grown, yield rs high as $500 per acre.
The apple orchard that would rank first
for beauty of trees, for bright and clean
trunks, for carefully selected varieties and
for yield would undoubtedly be that OF Mr..
James Tulloeh. This orchard is grown on
the principle of standard dwarhng, the
trees being only eighteen feet apart and
kept in place by root and top pruning.
Root pruning consists of digging trench
eighteen inches deep, about eight or nine
feet from the tree, cutting off all the roots
in sight with sharp pruning knife, and
then rehlling the trenches with well-rotted
manure and new soil. This orchard also
ranks the highest for value of yield. Mr..
Tulloch has also young prune orchard.
The B and p orchard ranks high also, but
has more early varieties of apples and was
not cultivated and cared for until il came
into the hands of the present owners, who
are spending large sums in renovating and
improving the old orchard and in planting
new orchards of prunes, apricots. apples
and pears. On this farm also the first irri-
CATION system has been arranged by which
liquid manure will be conveyed TO the
young orchards according 70 the necess-
titles of the season, and by which the straw
berry and blackberry patches can be held
in longer bearing when the season is more
dry than usual. Mr.. Tulloch is arranging
a system of irrigation by gravitation
with his neighbor, Mr.. King, by
which both farms can be thor