The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01

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w. Weydemyer, Moscow, Idaho,
under date of October IL, writes as
follows: 81 have been reader OF
The Ranch for the past five years
and am very much interested in your
department | send you by mail two
apples. We have about $50 boxes of
these apples and no one here is able
to give them a name. Can you tell
us through The Ranch what it is?
1t is a fine favored apple, keeps UNI
til May, very productive, bearing
every year, the tree very vigorous
with spreading, dropping top, the
limbs spreading out upon the ground
almost like vine. We have shown
it to nurserymen and fruit dealers
here and at Spokane and no one is
able to name it but l feel sure you
can do so. We don't like to put it on
the market under false name"
I confess that it is with some trepi-
dation that l undertake to name an
annie that cannot be named by the
nurserymen and dealers of both Mos
cow and Spokane. However, ven
ture to say that from the description
of the tree and it's habits of growth
and from the appearance and flavor
of the apples sent should call it the
Mammoth Black T%ig, the Arkansas
of the American Pathological Society
I am quite familiar with this variety
and the apples sent and the tree as
described fits this variety better than
anything known to me. The Amer
can Pathological Society changed the
name of this apple from Mammoth
Black Twig to Arkansas but it is
known in the markets only by it's old
name.
Under date of October 4, G. D.
Stevens, Route 2, Everett, WASH,
writes as follows: 81 am sending you
two apples which l would like to nave
you name. | wish to know also ii you
think they are fall or winter apples
AS stated in our last issue l was
away from The Ranch office for a
month spending ,-e time on my fruit
ranch in the Yakima valley. When
these two apples were placed in my
hands one was rotten and the other
was dead ripe. So l have no hesl-
fancy in saying that they are fall
apples. l am unable to name these
apples. The one not rotten was OF
good color, good size and quite good
flavor. But | should not want to
plant many fall apples. II persons
sending apples to be named would
describe the trees and their habits OF
growth it would help me not little
in naming them. 1t is difficult thing
to name apples at best, so help all
you can.
Harry G. Brown, Bothell, Wash
wrote me letter October II, and at
the same time sent me a peach with
some inquiries about peach raising
The peach was grown on the high
lands south of Everett. He says that
the tree has been bearing every year
since it was big enough and that it
bore about two bushels the past sum-
mer. He says that there are several
other peach trees in that enighbor-
hood that have big crops of peaches
every year. He wants to know where
he can get peach trees like the one
of which he sent sample; he also
wants to know if he can plant the
pits of this variety and get the same
kind of peaches
The peach sent by friend Brown
was rotten before it came into my
hands and so l cannot tell anything
about it. 1t is not at all likely that
l could have told what kind of peach
it was from this sample. The prob
ability is that the tree is a seeding.
Seeding trees are generally harder
| hn orin
better. Seeding peaches are often
good in flavor but usually too small
to make a good market fruit. There