The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15

as if the experiment might prove TO
be a great success.
Some one may say: why don't
YOU tell us the name of this promis-
ing parasite? Well, to be candid with
you, it has no name, that is, no COM
mon name. It's Latin name is Ephial-
ties Carbonarius Now, carbonarius
means black, but I don't know just
how to get that rest of the name into
English So we will have to content
ourselves by calling this valuable par
asite the black Ephialtes till some
body gives it common name as has
been done with many other insects.
Think how troublesome it would be
if every time we wanted to refer to
the cooling moth we had to call it
Carpocapsa Pomonella, or if we had
to say Aspidiiotus perniciosus every
time we wanted to refer to what we
call the San Jose scale! So be pa
tent, and if our new friend, the Ephi-
altes Carbonarius, proves to be sue
cess we will throw his latin name
overheard so far as common use is
concerned and call him something for
short. Don't get out of patience now
and say we better throw these latin
names overheard in the first place.
These latin names are definite and
Interchangeable and prevent confusion
among scientific men but are not
suited to the common people. Hence,
we have these common names, such
as cooling moth, San Jose scale,
woolly aphis and so on down the line.
The horticultural editor has had his
say about the Spencer seedless apple
and is satisfied to let the matter rest
there. That his criticisms are fair
is evidenced by what has just ap-
peared in the Rural New Yorker.
This paper deservedly stands at the
head of farm papers in the United
States and is noted for it's cOnserva-
tiveneSS and fairness in dealing with
such matters as this. 1t seems that
Mr. w. G. Scheu, the general manager
of the Seedless Apple Company,
called upon the editors of the Rural
New Yorker and made complaint that
his company had not been fairly dealt
with He was asked to point out the
abuse that he referred to and he OBJ
jected to having the apple styled the
'so-called seedless apple" The very
apple he presented was split open
and a seed was found in it. The
Rural New Yorker says: 1--WE now
understand that perhaps 10 per cent
of the apples show seeds or indica-
tons of them-some located at the
top of the fruit as shown in the pic
ture." The apples were sampled by
a number present and the report is
made that "all pronounced it inferior,
ranking with Ben Davis in flavor"
The review of the whole matter con-
cludes as follows: "Our object is to
give the facts, but we cannot con-
ceive how any one who knows the
taste of a good apple could be in
duced to buy more than one speci-
men of the 'seedless in any market
where other apples are sold" The
following statement Of DR.. Van Fleet
is fair and conservative:
GAS will be seen in the illustration
Gin Rural New Yorker), a single seed
was found in one specimen in an extra
or adventurous core near the blossom
end of the fruit The others were en-
tirely free from seeds, though the usual
woody carpets or core divisions, as
shown in the sectional views, were not
only present, but strongly developed.
The apples are rather small in size,
round and smooth in form, dull red in