The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-24

Z S2aEANM section is the York
w. +. Massey. Imperial. formerly
called in Virginia Johnson's Fine Win
ter. The Albemarle pppin, of course,
thrives in the mountain coves there
as it does nowhere else. Promologists
have decided that this is the same as
the apple known North as yellow New
town pippin. but | have known or
chards planted in the best pippn lands
of Albemarle with trees of the yell
low Newtown pippin, and they are
still yellow Newtowns and differ in
appearance from the old stock of AL
bemarle. Hence / have always ad-
vsed our growers to stick TO the old
stock ] saw exhibited from the Val
ley at Front Royal some OF these yell
low Newtowns, and they called them
fAlbemarle pippins, but any one
familiar with the pippin as it grows
lin Albemaric and Nelson could see the
T difference.
r, Some years ago we made special
7'effort to get out a greats display of
the apples OF the North Carolina noun
tains at the State Fair In Raleigh. I
Stold the managers that l had been
Judging the fruit there for thirteen
years. and wanted some outsiders to
Z see this display They got Professor
lonel Bracket and W. a. Taylor of tho
Department of Agriculture, and they
tall came, and were astonished at the
great display of fine apples Colonel
Bracket declared that such apples
Sonly grew there and in the Ozarks
of Missouri and Arkansas, and that
the North Carolina mountain country
had the advantage of the Ozarks in
3 more fertile soil
Apples have long been grown in the
: North Carolina mountains. and that
section has great many old Seeding
apples grown by the Cherokee Indians,
! some OF which have gotten into the
nurseries. At an institute in Cherokee
County. y. c.. 1 was lecturing on ap-
pie culture When I completed my
falk an old man rose and said: II
suppose what you say is all right. pro-
fessor, but we do not have TO take all
that trouble. We simply stomp some
seed in on the mountain side and get
all the apples want"
In Haywood County, y. c.. meas
Nred an apple tree in full vigor that
Eirthed nearly twelve feet. and there
were many similar ones in the same
old orchard. One of my sons. who is
teaching at the South Carolina Agri-
cultural College, Clemson. sent me n
year or SO ago a box of Paragon APP
pies from mountain orchard In which
q number OF the college men were in
1erested. No liner looking apples ever
came East from Oregon, and in quality
they were far ahead of any Oregon
apples Of that variety.
The apples from the Pacific Coast
are certainly very fine looking. but
when We come to the eating one of
them can compare with the apples of
Virginia. Some years ago a man in
California wrote TO me that he was
growing the Albcnarle pinpin there,
and would like TO see some OF the
same grown in Albemarle, and would
exchange some with me. sent him
some hrst-class pippins. and he sent
mo some of his. His We're the most
beautiful pippins ! ever saw. But
dry, mealy and tasteless. and far in
ferior to the brittle, juicy pippin of
Albemarle
When our growers take the Same
pains in culiins and packing their an
pies as the Pacific Coast growers do
they can compete with these. as peo-
pie discover the difference in eating
quah,y, for none Of tho Western APP
pies can compare in quality with those
grown In the Appalachian region. We
fead IN the papers a great deal abou,
over planning OF apples. and the ruin
OF the business. But NOWADAYS am
z buyer and not n grower as | once
was. and ! find that have to paw a
GOOD price for good apples. whether
n a <
winter / have not been able to get
Sood Stayman apples for less than 60
cents a peck, and if the grower go,
thing.
While In speaking OF. apple growing
we usually refer 10 IN. varieties
crown for winter Keeping Eut in
tne Eastern coast country in Della
ware and Eastern Maryland the f-rov
ers are making good money with the
early summer apples. and these have
become moro ann more profitable every
year. The varieties grown are mainly
The Yellow Transparent, Red Astrakan
and Early Harvest, and have been
.o'o oy beiaware growers that they
winter iHlit that they have TO put into
cold storage
apple growing on large scale has
developed in Western Maryland. in tho
valley around Winchester and in tho
OLD apple section. of Aibemarle. aud
9 great deal OF planting is being done
IN parts of Western North Carolina
Albemarle still grows rannins of
course, but other apples, that viii
thrive In soils whore the pipnin viii
not are coming into use The finest
apple or recent years is tho wincsap
seeding grown ny Or Stavrnan ~
Kansas This is known as Stayman.s
HAHcAap' ana Is q great Improvement
on the old winesap. In fact. to mo
taste, there is no better apple grown
and II is being grown in great ner'
lection out Of the mountain sections
East, for the Staymans grown in Dcl;-
ware are Of as fine quality AS any.
though not SO high coIored ms ,he
poorer Staymans grown In Oregon.
Too many OF the Zen Davis annie
have been grown. city buyers arc
fast fnding out their poor QUALITY
Money has been made in the grovimr.
OF the Ben Davis, but il is destined
to 60 largely out OF use when buv4rs
can get anything else. II IS famou
for regular bearing. and handsome
looking fruit but when once ci,v
buyer tries the Ben Davis he doc,
not care for any more Plant bottcr
apples and let Ben Davis go
The mountain region OF the Soutr
should supply the whole apple de-.
1nand in the lower South and th4t,
best market should be southward and
southeastward, d section still supplied
from the North.
DynamitinE for mn Orchard.
There is no doubt that very choa,
2oosening Of the soil favors the rapir
development of trees. OF late a grea
deal has been written in regard TO IN.