Evening journal., 1901-09-23

With the exception of a few late va
rieties, the crop of which is small, the
peach season of 1901 is a thing of the
past, and while growers have not de-
rived such large prices from the sale OF
the fruit as they have in seasons past
the price from beginning to ending OF
the season was fairly regular and there
was an absence Of the great drops in
the market which peach growers have
learned to fear Taken as a whole, the
season has been a fairly prosperous
one, and the fruit paid much better
than it would have done had the yield
been twice as large.
Both growers and buyers have been
able to realize good profits from the
crop and there has been none of the
extensive losses on the parts of the
former, save in the instances where
entire orchards were contracted for at
so much a basket.
This plan proved a disastrous fall
ure for buyers in nearly every in-
stance, and one Of the heaviest losers
was John NJ. Kienzle, a commission
merchant, of Philadelphia, who con-
tracted with Delaware and Maryland
growers for about 10000 baskets OF
peaches at 40 cents a basket.
1t is estimated that he lost on an aver
age of 20 cents a basket on the fruit
he bought, or about $4,000.
Thus it easily can be seen that such
a loss will put an end to all the talk
heard at the beginning of the present
season, that growers universally would
dispose Of their orchards in the above
manner.
The custom Of selling fruit at the
depOts to buyers of firms cOngregated
there bids fair to continue for some
time to come. Growers. so long as they
derive the good results that such a
method warrants, are not likely to
change and the consigning of fruit al
ready is a tiAng of the past.
The desirability of adding to ones
income by growing a few hardy flow
ers, to be disposed of on market days
by the producer has already been ad-
verified to in these columns, declares a
writer in the Practical Farmer. Just
now the matter is called tomind by wit
Messing a workingman receiving S.
from a florist for some flowers of the
Japanese SNOWFALL. The owner had a
large bush of this beautiful shrub
growing in his yard, on which he had
expended a little time now and again
in pruning till he had a well-shaped
vigorous bush. The florist desired the
flowers for funeral work, and received
permission to take every other flower
from the shoot This he did, coming
three times in the course of the
two weeks the shrub was in flower;
and the s. was what he paid tho
owner for them. ! think the rate of
payment was about two flowers for a
cent. Large bushes, as this one was,
being six feet high and bushy, bear
thousands of blossoms. In the neigh
borhoOd of Philadelphia this snowfall
invariably flowers in the last week of
May. In very early springs it is about
over with the month. and when it's a
late season. it is still in flower in early
June. Owing to its beauty and useful
ness for cutting in ,Ong shoots. it is in
much demand by Grand Army Posts.
This SNOWFALL is vastly the superior of
the old kind. which is at home in so
many old gardens. 1t is superior in
every respect. There are many farmers
and dairymen in this vicinity who
make no small sums through the sea-
son selling hardy flowers. The first
thing to be done is to be assured Of
means Of getting the flowers taken to
either by wagon or by cars.
Then the procuring and setting out of
such shrubs as always flower well and
are in demand by florists follows.
Trumpet vines are good for covering
rough walls, but are too coarse for
houses. Their profuse Towering in
July is a great recommendation. This
vine is wild in Southern Pennsylvania
and southwark. A Japanese species.
grandiflora. has a much larger flower
than our native one, and is OF an
orange yellow color.
Dr. John Faust, the well-known vet
erinarian of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, died
there. July 81, after a Tong illness. aged
.66. Born in Hesse-Cassel. Germany.
he came to this country in 1862. learned
the coOper's trade in New York City.
and with two brothers carried on the
business at POughkeepsie from 1860 10
1875, when the firm was dissolved and