The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01

commercial world and will suffer for
it. Sometimes where there is a dis
pute about the identity of two differ
ent fruits, as in the case Of the Fos-
ter and Early Crawford peach, they
may be very properly sold as the
same. 1t is an unsettled question
whether these two peaches are not
one and the same fruit. Then no in
justice is done to mark them both
Early Crawford. The English Morello
and the Wrag cherries may be sold
under one name, for many claim that
they are identical. Many other cases
like these might be mentioned. In
case like the one named by friend
Bush, he would certainly be honest in
selling his peach referred to under
either name-Wonderful or Fitzger-
aid. What man wants to be exceed
ingly careful never to do is to sell an
inferior fruit under the name of a
much better one. The offense Is as bad
as lying and stealing both, and Amos
Bush is about the last man in the
world to do either. I never worry
about these things. I aim never to
deceive anyone unless I am deceived
myself and don't know any better.
y
A subscriber sends in the following
request: "Would you kindly have Mr..
Walden print in The Ranch number
of late blooming commercial apples,
peaches and pears?" In complying
with this request wish to call atten-
ton to fact overlooked by a good
many people, and that is that the fruit
that blooms latest is not necessarily
the latest in getting ripe. Among rs
varieties of the peach that we have
tested on our fruit ranch the Alex
ander is the earliest in ripening and
the latest in blooming. So if / should
be able to give the latest blooming
peach it would not mean a late peach
in ripening. The latest peach in rip
ening on our ranch is the SalWay, but
it blooms before the Alexander. 1t
would be quite unsafe to say that ear
ly blooming or late blooming has any
thing to do with the earliness or late.
ness of fruit in ripening. This gener-
al deduction from my observation will
apply to all fruits named by our sub
scriber. The only advantage I can
see in knowing that any fruit blooms
late is that by growing such fruit we
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at blooming time. l suppose that this
is what our subscriber wants to do
rather than to know what apples,
peaches and pears ripen the latest.
There is not much difference in the
blooming OF peaches and pears-not
nearly so much as in the case of ap-
pies. Among the apples that bloom
late the GenitOn, now catalogued as
Rails, is the best-known, and is quite
good apple. A Seeding of the Rails,
known as the Ingram, is also a late
bloomer and ranks with the Rails in
quality. The Rome Beauty is late
bloomer, though not quite so late as
the Rails and Ingram, is an enormous
bearer, a good apple, though not
long keeper in common storage, but
keeps well in cold storage. One thing
that helps out the Rome sometimes
is the fact that it's bloom strings along,
that is, does not all come out at the
same time, and the later bloom may
escape the frost when the earlier is
killed. This habit of stringing the
bloom along belongs to other varie-
ties. The Jonathan sometimes bears
good crop after the earlier bloom is
all killed. Last April we had a frost,
the morning of the 25th, which killed
every bloom on some Jonathan trees
that are fourteen years old in the
orchard. At the time this occurred we
thought everything on these trees was
killed. Passing through the orchard a
few days later, noticed quite num-
Der of "red heads" on these trees. On
recent visit to the ranch found as
fine a crop of Jonathans on these trees
as anyone could wish.
Some writer's have foolishly conclud-
ed that when the bloom is all killed
by frost new buds are formed. That