The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15


to in the fruit journals and in the
commercial circles as the Black Twig.
But the society caused no end of con-
fusion in naming this apple the car
Kansas" because there is another and
better apple, called the Arkansas
Black. If a person should ask in our
markets for the Arkansas he would,
in ninety-nine cases in a hundred, be
understood as asking for the Arkan-
sas Black.
The American Pathological Society
has recommended that the name
Spitzenburg be dropped and the apple
be called the Esopus. AS the true
name of the apple has long been ESQ
pus Spitzenburg this step was taken
to shorten the name. This shorten
ing of names is to be commended but
in this case it will not work. Let a
RAN go among the apple growers OF
New York and Pennsylvania and ask
for the Esopus and most of them
would look at him with wonder writ
ten on their countenances and when
he informed them that he wanted the
Spitzenburg they would think that
somehow the man had escaped from
the asylum for the insane. In the valu-
able book entitled apples of New
York" we find the following remark
about dropping Spitzenburg from this
we'll known apple: New York fruit
growers and fruit dealers commonly
use the simple name Spitzenburg, or
it's colloquial abbreviatiOn Spitz, in
referring to the variety known to
pomologists as Esopus Spitzenburg.
Pomologists are now publishing this
name with Spitzenburg in italics as
the first step toward shortening the
name to Esopus, but comparatively
few New York fruit growers would
recognize it by the name Esopus and
it will doubtless continue to be called
Spitzenburg as long as it remains in
cultivation" Perhaps it might be well
just here to make further quotation
from the above named book, as ii
seems to settle the question how the
name of this apple should be spelled:
'"This word has been variously spell
ed by different pomologists as, Spitz-
enberg, Spitzemberg, Spitzenbergh,
Spitzenburgh, Spitszenburgh, but
Spitzenburg is now the commonly &C
cepted spelling"
Winter pears are one of the delic-
ious fruits that we are now enjoying
In shipping my winter supply of fruit
from my Yakima fruit ranch to my
home in Seattle, l did not forget to
lay in a plentiful supply OF winter
pears, the Winter Nelis and the
Peurre Easter. The Nelis is small
pear and the tree is an i'll shaped
thing and for these reasons some
PEOPLE do not grow this delicious va
riety. But once they learn the excel
lent quality of this pear they will
change their practice. When we want
feast of rich fruit we bring up from
the cellar some Winter Nelis.
The Easter is large pear and
while not equal to the Nelis in quail
ity, it is by no means an inferior fruit
1t is more juicy than the Nelis. just
low they are both in prime condition
and we are feasting on them. Both
these pears bear well and especially
| the Nelis. | do not call to mind that
we have ever had a failure of either
since they came into bearing. Here
in the soft muggy climate of Seattle
these pears do not keep nearly sc
we'll as they do in the Yakima valley
1t is difficult to have any. pears left
after the middle of the winter.
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l want to say something about the
defeat of J. w. Wadsworth of the
thirty-fourth congressional district
in the state of New York. But before
doing so l want to tell a little story
1t was once related of very wicked
and worldly minded man that he was
accustomed to frequently go to heal
a very eloquent preacher. Some one
asked him WHY he so often went tt