The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-08-15
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Bellingham. y We had some of this
variety on exhibition from Yakima
county, and, some were shown from
Chelan county, but SO far as size and
color, are concerned those, grown at
Bellingham lead all the others. Now
where Hale's Early peach can be rails
ed other varieties can AN be, 1t would
be worth while for some enterprising
man in that, part of the state to try
the raising of ya different kinds of
peaches and especially those that rip
en- early IL have, been surprised in
reading the statistics of the rainfall
in Washington to find that there is
such variation, west of the Cascade
range. Seattle, according to these re
ports, has ten inches less rain fall
than Tacima while Bellingham has
several inches less than Seattle. Why
this is SO I do not know. 1t seems
that as we go down the Sound the
annual rainfall decreases so that Bel
lingham has the lightest precipitation
in western Washington. This fact
may account for the fine peaches
spoken of above. 1t is not my purpose
to exploit one part of the state at
the expense of another, but I give the
facts as they come TO me and each can
draw his own conclusions. oH sat
Judging by the, remarks we hear
at the fair in. Portland the Prunus
SimOni must be a rare production in
the northwest, A box of them were
sent to us from Yakima county and
were put on exhibition, The number
of people who have asked what kind
of fruit this is has astonished me- 1t
is safe to say that fifty persons each
day have made inquiry about this fruit.
Prof Van Deman says it is a Chinese
plum and what cross produced it is
not known He says it is almost
worthless, but the common people that
have sampled the ones We have do not
bear him out in this statement Very
many people pronounce it fine in
flavor and express a desire to raise it.
| confess that my own taste harmOn.
ICES with the common people in this
case. 1t may be that when our tastes
are educated more we will coincide
in judgment with, this noted pomOloi
gist. n But till. then some of us will
want an, occasional dish, +, of Prunuss
Simoni This is another case where no
common name exists for, a. fruit. Il
is true that we can easily translate
this Latin name and then it will be
nothing more than Simon's plum, but
this name has never come into gen
eral use. .-.
Will apples color after they are
picked? They certainly will, My sons
sent me a box of Early Pennock ap,
pies from our ranch for our exhibit
here at Portland, but they were green,
too green, still we put them up, for
we wanted to exhibit some of this
years apples as we'll as those kept
over from last year in cold storage.
They have been standing there for
three weeks and now they have the
beautiful stripes SO well known on that
variety of apples. All kinds of fruit
will color more or less after it is
picked. 81 It. should be mature for if 1t
is not it will wither. 1t is true that
the coloring may not be so fine for
natures own way is the best. but 1t
will amount to good deal and help
in the sale of the fruit. h9rIt.et --uta
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