El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-09
TOO MANY EARLY
BLOOMING TREES
Late Blooming Fruit Trees
Are Best for New Mexico
Says Bulletin.


State College n. NJ. March 9.-Fa-
bian Garcia director Of the state COL
lege Agricultural experiment station
in a bulletin says too many early
blooming fruit trees are planted IN
New Mexico.
EVERY spring throughout the South
west" the bulletin says, there IS
large amount of damage done TO fruit
plantations by the late spring trosts
which come after the trees have
bloomed. While practically all of our
different varieties Of fruits are more
or less subject. to spring frost injury
there are some varieties that are
safer than others. This is because they
bloom later i'm the spring.
"As general rule the earliest bloom
ing fruit trees may be found among
the apricots, peaches, almonds ana
japanese plums. The japanese plums
bloom much too early 10 be depenuaple
as an orchard fruit in New Mexico.
Many people plant varieties of Jap
anese plums because they have been
represented 10 them rs being very fine
fruit While this is true as far as the
fruit goes. they bloom too early in the
spring TO be Of much value as an or
chard fruit and should not be planted.
"In the case Of the native or Ameri-
can plums there are a number Of them
that have been found to be late bloom
ers much more so than the Japanese
plums. Some OF these are the Wild
Goose. Wayland, Omaha and Golden
Beauty.
European Group sUrer.
The European group of plums are
the surer bearers in New Mexico. These,
as rule, bloom as late, and some Of
them later, than the apples. A good
list OF late blooming European plums
are the jefferson, Goes Golden Drop
Imperial Gage, Ponds Seeding, Ger
man Prune, yellow Egg and Italian
Prune.
an the peaches. it has been found
that as a rule, the early riDening va
rieties bloom later than the late ripen-
ing peaches i'm most Of the New Mex
leo districts, and for this reason the
early ripening peaches are surer bear
crs than the late ripening varieties.
In the planting Of peaches this feature
should be given consideration IN lne
selection Of varieties. For example,
the liberia peach is one OF the poor
est bearers because it. is one Of the
earliest boomers in the spring. 1t
fails TO produce a fun crop Oftener than
almost any other commercial variety.
on the other hand such varieties as the
Alexander and Haynes's Surprise,
which ripcn about 30 days earlier than
the alberta, bloom from 10 TO Is days
later and consequently are surer
bearers.
AprieOts Early BlOOmers.
Most Of the apricot varieties are
early boomers. A few Of them are
found to bloom about the time that
the liberia peach blooms. Hardly ever
do the apricot varieties produce what
is considered a full commercial crop.
simply because they are killed by the
spring frosts. During recent years some
Of the nursery men have been adverus-
ing the Tilton apricot. which is sup
posed to be a late blooming variety.
This variety is now being tested under
New Mexico conditions and IL IS hoped
that IL win prove 10 be a. fairly safe
apricot.
"The cherries. as a rule, are late
blooming and are pretty sure bearers.
Many OF the varieties bloom as late
and some of them later than the
apples Some Of the late blooming sour
cherries are the Early Richmond, Mont :
morcency English Morello and Os- !
theim. Many of the sweet cherries are |
also late boomers but they are not so |
we'll adapted 10 New Mexico conditions |
as the sour varieties.
TN pears the late lie Conte, kietfer |
Hybrid Eieffcr, Vermont Beauty and I
CARRIER are among the earlier blooming
varieties. while the DAnjou, Bartlett /
Winter Nelis Winter Bartlett and
Duchess are among the later boomers
In the case Of the pear, the blooming |
of the varieties is also Of importance
from the cross poilination feature. For !
best results in cross polination, the (
varieties should bloom at about the
s'Tbe apples bloom late While there !
Is not very much difference between
the varieties. the Red June. early |
Harvest and Yellow Transparent are [
slightly earlier I'm blooming than the
Jonathan, Belleflower and King David /
The Winesap and Mammoth Black
Twig are a little later in blooming !
than the Jonathan, while the Arkansas /
Black and Rome Beauty are still later.
These two varieties are the latest !
blooming apples that have been thor
oughly tested"
The weather may change. but the |
quality OF our coal ever remains the |