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THE RURAL NEW-YORKERi 
April 7 
Cuttings of Kieffer. 
Will Kieffer cuttings ever grow? 
Tyrone, Pa. w. w. w. 
Yes, cuttings of the Kieffer pear will 
strike root and grow under very favor¬ 
able conditions. In the loose sandy 
lands of the southern States they root 
rather readily, hut in the northern 
States they do not. In Pennsylvania it 
is useless to attempt the propagation of 
this or any other variety of pear from 
cuttings set in the ground. 
The Sudduth Pear. 
Do you know anything worth telling 
about the Sudduth pear? I inclose a cir¬ 
cular received, and would like to know 
what there is in it. I like to have the 
best, but hesitate to pay $2 for a pear tree. 
Barnesville, O. w. l. a. 
The Sudduth pear has been so recently 
introduced to the public that there is 
very little known about it outkide of the 
vicinity of its origin in Illinois. The 
nurseryman who has control of the 
stock of young trees is known to me to 
be a man of honor and good judgment 
in regard to fru'its. The tree is said to 
be little subject to blight, and very pro¬ 
ductive. The fruit is of fair size and 
good in quality. 
Best Apples and Pears. 
What are the best three or four kinds of 
Fall and Winter apples and pears for 
family use in this vicinity; also some good 
cherries? As there is prospect of building 
on the land to be set out it would be ad¬ 
visable to have part of the apples bear at 
an early age, to be cut out when the build¬ 
ing would require their removal, w. h. p. 
Summit, N. J. 
Among the early-bearing apples are 
Oldenburg, Wealthy and Wagener. These 
are all abundant bearers, and profitable 
for either home or market use. Wag¬ 
ener is a late keeper. Some of the very 
best in quality, and dependable bearers 
as well, are Grimes, Jonathan and York 
Imperial. Among pears the Bartlett, 
Seckel, Howell and Lawrence are ex¬ 
cellent. By getting dwarf trees and 
setting them so deep that the union be¬ 
tween the root and the bud will be be¬ 
low the surface of the ground, the pear 
wood will strike root and finally cause 
the trees to become standards, and grow 
more thriftily and live much longer 
than if they had only quince roots. 
They would thus serve the double pur¬ 
pose of bearing early as dwarfs do, and 
then becoming standards. As both the 
sweet and sour cherries do well in 
northern New Jersey, some of both 
kinds will 'be mentioned: Richmond, 
Montmorency and English Morello are 
sour, and Napoleon, Tartarian and 
Windsor are sweet. 
Questions About Plums. 
1. What is the proper method of training 
young plum trees? Most of those that 1 
have seen in this vicinity grow up tall and 
narrow. Is that the best form? Is there 
any marked difference between the habit 
of growth of the American and Japan 
plums? What would be the best commer¬ 
cial fertilizer for young plum trees on a 
rather poor clayey soil? 2. How may 
apple-tree lice, which infest the young 
shoots, be destroyed? c. B. c. 
Newton, Mass. 
1. Plum trees that have a very up¬ 
right habit should be headed back so as 
to cause them to spread their branches. 
This may be done by cutting off the 
branches with the terminal buds or 
shoots pointing towards the outside, in¬ 
stead of the centers of the trees. The 
Japan plum trees mostly have an up¬ 
right habit, some of them being remark¬ 
ably so. Red June and Abundance are 
of this character. Burbank and a few 
others are very spreading in habit. 
Nearly all of the American plum trees 
are round-headed or spreading in habit, 
and none of them decidedly upright, so 
far as I have observed them. For a 
plum orchard on poor, clay soil, an ap¬ 
plication of a mixture of 200 pounds of 
muriate or sulphate of potash, 600 
pounds of dissolved phosphate*rock, and 
400 pounds of fish scrap, concentrated 
tankage or dried blood. There is not 
great variation in the proportions of 
nitrogen these materials contain, and 
they yield it up gradually. Nitrate of 
soda is also a very good source of nitro¬ 
gen, but it dissolves as soon as it gets 
into moist soil, and the nitrogen is soon 
gene, if not taken up almost immediate¬ 
ly by the roots. If it is used, 200 pounds 
per acre is sufficient. It is probable that 
stable manure or other coarse material 
that will make humus would be a great 
benefit to a poor, clay soil. 
2. A spray of kerosene emulsion or 
kerowater (kerosene and water sprayed 
from a special machine), will usually 
destroy all forms of plant lice if applied 
according to the directions given in the 
numerous spray calendars and bulletins. 
Nearly all the State experiment stations 
and the United States Department of 
Agriculture have these for free distribu¬ 
tion. 
Apples; Pruning Peaches. 
1. I wish to set a red apple orchard of 100 
trees. Do you think York Imperial a good 
variety for Westchester Co., N. Y.? If not, 
what would you advise? 2. I have an or- 
cnard of peach trees two years old, that 
have made a large growtn. How far back 
should they be pruned? s. l. p. 
Pleasantville, N. Y. 
1. For Westchester County i feel sure 
that the York Imperial would be a good 
Winter apple, although I do not know 
that it has been tested there, I would not 
be afraid to plant it there. Rome Beauty 
is another new variety to that section, 
but it is a very good Winter variety 
wherever it has been tried in New York. 
Sutton has been grown in many parts of 
tue State with good results 'in every 
case. 
2. Peach trees set two years saould be 
cut back a little more than half the 
length of the last year’s growth of the 
leading branches. This plan snould be 
followed with the trees so long as they 
stand. They should be cultivated so 
thoroughly that they will make a good 
growth every year, and cutting them 
back in early Spring will keep them 
stocky and able to hold a good crop. 
Peach trees unpruned soon come to have 
long branches with the bearing wood at 
their extremities, which is very incon¬ 
venient, and endangers the trees to split¬ 
ting at the fork when loaded with fruit. 
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Steuben Potato 
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_ J yielded 726 bu. per acre. 
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trees that are needed. 
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Peach Packages— 
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