\ouALirv, 
.Sopsy  Vino,  which  was  a  local  corruption 
of  .Sops  o’  Wine,  the  correct  name  of  the 
apple.  This  apple  is  not  listed  in  any 
catalogue  that  I  have  ever  seen.  It  is 
not  a  good  market  apple,  for  its  keeping 
qualities  are  not  of  the  best.  For  an 
early  home  apple,  it  has  its  merits.  It  is 
very  early  and  can  be  used  for  pies  and 
sauce  long  before  it  is  ripe.  When  ma¬ 
ture  it  has  a  flavor  all  its  own  that  is 
equalled  by  hut  few  varieties.  Although 
at  this  time  it  lacks  acidity  it  can  he  com¬ 
bined  with  other  varieties  that  are  sour 
and  lack  flavor.  It  is  as  a  table  apple 
that  it  excels.  Some  agent,  or  agents, 
must  have  canvassed  my  locality  pretty 
thoroughly  about  75  years  ago,  judging 
by  the  age  of  the  few  trees  that  are  left 
on  my  farm  and  a  few  farms  and  gardens 
nearby.  The  old  varieties  have  been 
crowded  out  by  later  and  more  popular 
market  apples.  It  is  doubtful  if  either 
of  these  two  could  be  obtained  from  nur¬ 
serymen  at  present.  This  is  intended  as 
a  tribute  to  these  two  old  varieties,  and 
not  as  an  advertisement.  I  have  nothing 
to  sell  but  will  gladly  send  scions  to  any 
who  wish  to  try  them  on  receipt  of  suffi¬ 
cient  return  postage.  w.  n.  huse. 
New  Hampshire 
RURALISMS 
Gladiolus  tor  Cut  Flowers 
Will  you  give  some  information  in  re¬ 
gard  to  the  growing  of  Gladioli  for  cut 
flowers  for  sale  in  Florida?  I  would  like 
to  know  what  they  will  bi'ing  and  at  what 
stage  to  Cut  them.  B.  N.  R. 
Cleveland,  Tenn. 
Being  unfamiliar  with  local  conditions 
in  Tennessee,  I  am  unable  to  give  defin¬ 
ite  information  as  to  how  Gladioli  are 
grown  in  that  section,  though  I  should 
think  methods  necessary  to  success  in  the 
North  would  obtain  there  also.  The  first 
essential  would  be  well  ripened  bulbs.  In 
the  North  bulbs  remain  through  the 
Winter  season  in  a  dormant  state.  If 
planted  without  sufficient  period  of  rest 
to  complete  the  ripening  period  a  large 
percentage  will  not  produce  flowers.  Last 
Winter  a  number  of  growers  in  this  sec¬ 
tion  planted  America  and  Mrs.  King 
about  December  15  in  greenhouses,  hop¬ 
ing  to  have  very  early  flowers  on  the 
market.  The  bulbs  used  had  been  har¬ 
vested  about  October  15,  and  the  two 
months  which  elapsed  between  these  two 
dates  were  not  sufficient  to  ripen  the 
bulbs  properly,  and  as  a  result  they  did 
not  come  into  bloom  much  earlier  than 
bulbs  planted  February  1,  and  only 
about  50  per  cent,  of  them  made  flowers. 
In  planting  in  a  warm  country  with  the 
expectation  of  shipping  the  flowers  to  a 
Northern  market  care  should  be  taken  to 
see  that  they  have  bad  sufficient  time  in 
which  to  thoroughly  ripen.  If  procured 
from  the  North  or  Holland  they  could 
safely  be  planted  from  the  1st  to  the  15th 
of  February.  The  flowers  from  bulbs 
planted  at  that  time  would  be  on  the 
market  several  months  before  the  North¬ 
ern-grown  Gladioli. 
The  bulbs  should  be  planted  four  to  six 
inches  deep  in  rows  wide  enough  to  allow 
the  cultivation  to  be  done  with  a  horse, 
and  six  to  eight  inches  apart  in  the  rows, 
using  soil  that  is  well  enriched  and  in  a 
fine  mechanical  condition.  If  the  plants 
make  a  tall  growth  it  is  well  to  support 
them  in  some  way.  or  the  wind  will  blow 
them  over  and  cause  crooked  stems.  In 
cutting  the  spikes  for  market  it  is  im¬ 
portant  that  a  part  of  the  stem  and  sev¬ 
eral  leaves  be  left  on  the  bulb,  or  it  will 
not  mature  properly. 
Where  Gladioli  are  to  be  shipped  a  long 
distance  they  should  he  cut  with  the  two 
lower  buds  just  showing  color,  and  packed 
in  corrugated  pasteboard  boxes  in  thin 
layers  with  wax  paper  between  each 
layer.  Cai-c  should  be  exercised  in  pack¬ 
ing  that  too  much  pressure  is  not  put  on 
the  flowering  end  of  the  st«-m.  Prices  of 
these  Southern-grown  Gladioli  on  the 
Northern  markets  vary  considerably  from 
season  to  season,  and  according  to  qual¬ 
ity,  though  the  average  is  from  three 
cents  to  six  cents  each. 
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Our  experience  has  led  to  the  idea  that 
it  is  not  so  much  the  ample  supply  of  soil 
moisture  as  the  proper  distribution  of  it 
that  induces  annual  hearing.  Last  sea¬ 
son  and  the  season  before  we  had  a 
rather  severe  dry  spell  in  early  Summer, 
followed  by  more  frequent  rains.  In  1014 
this  condition  of  dry  weather  with  its 
stoppage  of  tree  growth  came  in  July, 
aud  many  trees,  especially  Baldwin, 
which  bore  heavily  that  year,  had  some 
fruit  in  1015.  Part  of  this  may  he  laid 
to  the  fact  that  these  trees  were  thinned 
rather  severely  in  101  1.  In  1015  the  dry 
weather  came  in  June,  and  was  severe 
enough  to  check  growth  even  on  trees  in 
cultivated  land.  This  was  followed  by 
moist  weather  which  started  the  trees 
into  greater  vigor  hut  was  not  enough  to 
make  a  great  deal  of  new  leaf  aud  stem 
growth.  As  a  result  we  had  a  full  blos¬ 
soming  on  Baldwin  trees  which  had  borne 
fairly  large  crops  last  year  after  a  heavy 
crop  of  the  year  before.  We  believe  that 
a  rather  severe  drying  of  the  soil  not 
later  than  the  first  of  July,  followed  by 
as  much  water,  regularly  supplied,  as  can 
he  given  without  starting  new  growth  of 
the  twigs,  will  bring  annual  crops  in  most 
varieties.  'The  point  is,  not  so  much  to 
give  a  copious  supply  of  water  as  to  give 
it  after  the  ground  has  dried  out  enough 
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Two  Old  Apples 
The  title  refers  to  the  trees  rather  than 
the  apples,  although  one  of  the  apples 
was  of  more  than  the  average  age  when  I 
ate  it  on  July  8,  after  remaining  in  an 
open  barrel  in  the  cellar  since  last  Fall. 
It  was  not  the  only  one  in  sound  condi¬ 
tion.  In  this  locality  this  apple  is  known 
as  Sweet  Greening,  Winter  Greening  and 
Winter  Sweet.  I  don’t  know  its  legal 
name.  It  is  not  an  apple  for  the  general 
market,  for  the  demand  for  it  is  very  lim¬ 
ited,  but  a  tree  or  two  in  the  orchard  for 
home  consumption  is  worth  while.  The 
color  is  green,  changing  to  yellow.  The 
size  is  small,  but  this  may  be  increased 
by  thinning.  There  are  two  uses  of  this 
tipple  in  which  it  excels.  Baked  it  is, 
perhaps,  no  hotter  than  other  sweet 
apples,  but  its  keeping  qualities  make  it 
available  through  a  long  season.  As  the 
main  ingredient  of  boiled  cider  apple 
sauce  it  is  at  its  host.  With  me  boiled 
cider  sauce  made  of  sour  apples  is  not 
the  genuine  article,  but  I  suppose  that  is 
a  matter  of  early  experience. 
The  other  apple  included  in  the  title 
will  soon  bo  eatable.  Almost  as  soon  as 
one  cheek  turns  red  it  has  an  apple  flavor. 
As  a  boy  I  eagerly  consumed  them  as  soon 
as  they  were  big  enough  to  give  me  a 
mouthful,  and  now  that  I  am  on  the  other 
side  of  fifty  I  am  just  as  eager  to  get  the 
first  taste  of  a  Sopsy  as  I  was  then. 
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