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January  8,  191G. 
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Fruit  Notes  from  Missouri 
Apples  wore  a  good  crop  this  year,  the 
best  for  several  seasons-  There  was  a 
fine  fruit  display  at  our  county  fair. 
Winesaps  were  unusually  fine ;  specimens 
large  enough  for  Black  Twigs  were 
shown.  Our  soil  here  is  a  clay  underlaid 
by  limestone,  a  soil  congenial  to  all  va¬ 
rieties. 
Our  Jcfforis  trees,  which  had  been  dila¬ 
tory  in  fruiting,  owing,  no  doubt,  to  too 
rich  a  soil  heavily  fertilized  for  small 
fruits,  bore  a  small  crop  which  afforded 
an  opportunity  of  proving  that  good  qual¬ 
ity  is,  after  all,  the  most  important  fac¬ 
tor.  at  least,  on  a  local  market  where 
fruit  is  sold  direct  to  the  consumer. 
These  Jefferis  were  sold  nearly  altogether 
in  small  baskets,  at  10  and  125  cents,  net¬ 
ting  about  $1.75  per  bushel.  In  fact  they 
TRAWBERRIES 
»nly  two  va-  linois  man  still  tells  you  that  he  lives  in 
ber.  These  "the  American  bottom" — a  name  given  a 
ough  by  no  century  ago  to  distinguish  that  side  of  the 
rikiug  siini-  stream  from  the  low  land  on  this  side, 
,'arieties  in  which  was  the  "Spanish  bottom.”  Since 
in  from  the  this  weed  especially  flourishes  in  all  that 
fruit  differs  territory  once  held  by  the  Spaniards, 
i or  is  earlier  known  later  as  "Louisiana,”  the  Ameri- 
and  equally  cans  have  called  It  "Spanish  ueedle.” 
make  excel-  There  are  two  awns  or  needles  that 
planted  to-  project  from  the  ends  of  the  seed  which 
r,  will  not  very  properly  give  it  the  name  of  Bidens : 
it  blighting,  and  the  idea  is  continued  in  the  addition- 
he  planted  &1  specific  title  of  "bipinunta,”  though 
il  enough  to  “pinna"  means  a  feather.  If  properly 
ber  checked  plowed  under  in  the  Fall  Bidens  makes  a 
i,  lot  of  humus,  and  clothes  the  oat  stubble 
m  the  pear  fields  with  gold  till  the  frost  comes.  Grow- 
trees  during  ing  in  the  “draws”  on  lower  land  is  the 
ly  and  with  latter’s  big  brother  known  popularly  in 
the  East  as  "tickweed,"  hut  in  the  West 
it  is  often  called  "big  Spanish  needle.”  It 
is  in  every  way  a  more  beautiful  and 
stately  plant,  and  does  not  seem  to  lesire 
to  stalk  over  the  hills  and  take  the  earth. 
It  is  one  of  the  weeds  which  often  gets 
its  Latin  name,  for  many  call  it.  prop¬ 
erly.  Coreopsis.  I  began  this  article  to 
speak  of  it  merely  incidentally,  but  it  id 
really  worth  knowing  for  itself  at  that 
time  of  year  when  the  season  seems  to 
smile  like  a  dying  saint,  just  as  the  life- 
light  leaves  her  face;  but  it  is  doubly  in¬ 
teresting  in  my  region,  because  I  find  the 
dodder  on  it  more  frequently  than  on  any 
other  plant.  In  other  places  this  pest  hag 
gone  out  from  the  swales,  and  is  now  in¬ 
juring  Alfalfa  and  other  useful  plants. 
Somewhere  in  the  remote  past  dodder 
was  a  respectable  plant  earning  its  own 
living,  and  being  an  independent  weed 
among  other  respectable  weeds.  But 
some  unlucky  day  it  began  pushing  its 
suckers  (which  many  plants  have  along 
the  stem)  into  the  stalks  of  its  neigh¬ 
bors.  It  had  its  favorites  in  this  matter, 
has  result-  «nfl  Coreopsis  is  one  of  them  now.  Even 
1  group  of  now  ^  starts  from  a  seed,  sends  up  a 
nne  experi-  stalk,  and  grows  for  a  while  like  any 
uit  growers  other  normal  weed  ;  hut  soon  its  suckers 
;  disease  bv  become  rooted  in  the  neighboring  stalk  on 
•cs.  It  was  t°  which  it  climbs,  and  the  part  of  its 
mid  this  in-  own  vine  which  is  below  the  point;  of 
Science  does  union  dies,  and  it  remains  growing  solely 
ie  study  on  frora  b°-st-  Iu  army  terms,  we  would 
J  to  be  in-  say  that  it  has  cut  loose  from  its  own 
indents  are  communications  and  was  living  off  the 
ted  through  country.  Away  above,  it  still  puts  forth 
.  insects  to  if 8  flower  and  drops  its  seed  to  begin  next 
thence  the  year  the  same  procedure. 
P,  but  as  a  As  noted,  it  has  its  favorites,  because 
m  of  wood  perhaps  there  is  some  peculiar  condition 
•ortant  fac-  about  them.  They  may  be  easier  to  suck, 
or  to  lodge  the  false  roots  in;  or,  perhaps, 
their  juice  is  more  like  the  dodder's  own. 
Dodder  is  frequently  called  “love  vine"  in 
some  regions  because  of  the  belief  that  by 
it  one  may  know  whether  "he  loves  me  or 
loves  me  not.”  Swains  and  maidens 
sometimes  tear  off  a  certain  portion  of 
the  yellow  threadlike  plant,  carry  it  home 
and  throw  it  on  some  weed  or  shrub ;  and 
if  it  flourish  "lie  loves";  if  not,  there  ere 
damp  pillows  iu  "the  stilly  night."  Of 
course,  there  is  nothing  in  the  sign;  and 
I  do  not  know  that  dodder  will  grow  in 
this  disconnected  way.  My  girl  was 
either  always  chronically  in  the  "not” 
stage,  else  I  chose  an  unsuitable  host. 
For  these  reasons  the  dodder  does  not 
have  to  he  green.  It  is  the  green  part  of 
the  juice  in  the  leaf  which  prepares  the 
food  of  plants;  hut  sucking  the  sap  from 
its  host,  the  dodder  can  do  without  thia 
unnecessary  chlorophyl,  ns  it  is  called, 
and  hence  is  usually  an  orange  brown 
color  or  golden  yellow.  For  this  reason 
this  plant  has  degenerated.  It  was  once, 
doubtless,  a  beautiful  morning  glory, 
which  has  gone  to  a  mere  lazy  thread 
tor.  Then  again  there  is  such  a  great  with  small  flowers.  In  becoming  a  rob- 
differunce  in  the  degree  of  immunity  of  her  and  a  parasite  its  own  beauty  lias  de¬ 
various  varieties  that  a  systematic  breed-  parted  in  one  respect,  but  it  may  have 
ing  for  blight  resistance  offers  a  field  of  acquired  another.  To  me  it  is  very 
great  promise.  i..  k-  Johnson.  pretty.  To  any  man  it  should  make  some 
Cape  Girardeau  Co.,  Mo.  appeal,  since  ho  is  the  parasite  of  all  ths 
_  parasites.  No  other  living  thing  appro¬ 
priates  so  much  that  has  been  elaborated 
“The  Love  Vine ”  bv  other  creatures.  Iu  his  cose  the  dod- 
T  half  come  out  to  enjoy  the  glow  of  der  is  no  worse  in  its  present  state  than 
Autumn,  exhibited  by  the  various  sun-  it  would  he  if  it  were  normal  ;  for  then  it 
flowers,  golden-rods,  “black-eyed  Susans,”  would  he  a  bindweed-  Maybe  some  hoy 
C'oreopses,  etc.  The  latter  belong  to  th«  who  reads  this  has  tried  to  exterminate 
marigolds.  They  have  a  smaller  cousin  bindweed  from  the  bottom  field.  If  so  he 
which  through  the  Middle  West  is  called  would  gladly  exchange  it  for  a  plant 
Spanish  needle,  but  in  the  East  it  i»  which  was  already  cut  loose  from  the 
known  as  bur-marigold,  "tick-seed,”  etc.  earth,  and  is  living  in  the  second  story 
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