THE WILD PERSIMMON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3605, 2 December 1905, Page 4

THE WILD PERSIMMON.

St liM Fine Fruit Whose men* b Using Urged by Sntaih- , ern Horticulturist*.

If indications are of mine, the persimmon is to receive more attention in the future than it Las in the past. The American wild persimmon has long been well known and talked' and written about, but no systematic attempt. has been made to develop &. The introduction of Japanese persimmons has perhaps stimulated interest in this fruit and has led to an investigation being started .by the Tenneaseo experiment station a® to the possibilities locked up in both the foreign and native persimmons. The persimmon has a wide range of growth. It i* found as far north as southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, as well m in Pennsylvania. It also grows at laMt 60 mile® north of . New York city. Southward it grow® anywhere on American Holl and is raised from Florida to Texas. That the tree is hardy is well known. Within the last ftwo seasons the fruit has begun to appear In the Chicago mark eta and is hot infrequently met with now in the exhibitions of our horticultural societies, and it also appears at,some of onr state fairs. \'The int eresrtjn it is on the increase.—FaYrhers? Revievr. ■ PMiay WlijUom l« Expensive. To run a creamery successfully help sufficient to prevent any man havilHßp do .Rouble duty. When a crenjßß\ys run short-handed soma of are neglected. The man at the nmy be,conscientious, but if heT\|js i .to’leave his position to look after the boilers he will have to take some things for granted in the quality of milk, he is receiving. It is a short-sighted policy to attempt to •ate a few doHars per month on wages and lose it at the selling price