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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 21 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS. 
Starved Peach Trees. —Neither ro¬ 
sette nor true Peach yellows have yet 
appeared near the Rural G-rounds, but 
many trees in a marked state of “yellow 
decline” can be seen at any time. The 
characteristics of rosetted foliage and 
premature ripening of fruits are always 
absent, but the general sickly appear¬ 
ance gives one the impression of one 
or the other of these related diseases, 
when viewed in a cursory manner. In 
most cases these trees are simply starv¬ 
ing for lack of nutriment, though occa¬ 
sionally a few borers may cause the 
trouble. Peaches demand an abundant 
supply of soluble nutriment, and fail 
quickly when it is exhausted, but on the 
other hand, recuperate with great 
promptness when the proper conditions 
are restored. We have a fefw trees 
planted on a dry, stony slope, the site of 
an old stone quarry, where it is impos¬ 
sible to cultivate. These trees are des¬ 
tined to have a hard time at best, but a 
little attention in the way of irrigation 
with kitchen slop and other nitrogenous 
liquids is quickly followed by a darken¬ 
ing of the foliage and a perceptibly in¬ 
creased growth. We will get some nice 
fruits from these trees this season, and 
expect them to pay in future yeans for 
the space they are now occupying as 
“fillers” to a cluster of 'improved chest¬ 
nut trees which, <in time, will monopo¬ 
lize the whole space. Practical fruit¬ 
growers are expected to know how to 
feed their trees, but many amateurs do 
not seem to realize what gross feeders 
peach trees are, and attribute their yel¬ 
low foliage and forlorn appearance to 
disease and parasites, when the applica¬ 
tion of liquid household wastes would 
soon restore them to vigor and produc¬ 
tiveness. A careful watch should be 
kept up for pests and obvious diseases, 
but fertilization and culture, where pos¬ 
sible, through the growing iseason, will 
always give most satisfactory results. 
Finely-ground bone and wood ashes are 
always acceptable to supplement the 
liquid fertilizers, and may be applied 
separately at any time during the grow¬ 
ing season. 
A Fine Gooseberry. —There seems to 
be some confusion regarding the 
Triumph gooseberry, a portrait of which 
appears on our first page, Fig. 163. The 
late Mr. Carman, and we believe some 
others, regarded it as identical with 
Columbus, as sent out by EllWanger & 
Barry, of Rochester, N. Y. We believe 
■this misapprehension arose from the 
fact that comparatively few plants of 
the true Triumph have ever been dis¬ 
seminated. The Triumph originated in 
West Chester, Pa., about 17 years ago, 
as a seedling from some European va¬ 
riety, and was first propagated by Geo. 
Achelis, a nurseryman of that place. 
Mr. Achelis died before many plants 
were sold, and the stock soon became 
locally scattered. It succeeds better in 
Chester Co., Pa., than any other large- 
fruited variety, and is especially liked 
for its free growth and erect, compact 
habit, as well as the resistant character 
of its foliage, which seems almost to 
equal that of our native varieties. As 
compared with the Columbus, on the 
Rural Grounds, it has a better habit, and 
is more productive, though quite similar 
in other respects. The berries ishown in 
Fig. 163 were just at the market stage 
of development, and would get consider¬ 
ably larger when ripened. The plant 
from which the branch was cut stands 
on the north side of a dwelling, where 
it gets only a few hours’ sunshine, and 
has a moist and deep root run. No rea¬ 
sonable gooseberry could ask for a bet¬ 
ter situation. We have been familiar 
with the Triumph gooseberry for nearly 
10 years, and prefer it to any of its class 
for this latitude, though Columbus 
would be our next choice, and possibly 
may excel Triumph in the North. Dike 
all the gooseberries of the European 
type, the eating quality is rather low, but 
for cooking purposes it ranks with the 
betst. We can recommend it for south- 
era localities, provided the true stock is 
secured. 
Kerosene as a Bug-Killer. —The 
workers on the Rural Grounds have 
made many trials of kerosene spray for 
various insect pests, and have been sur¬ 
prised at the tolerance of most culti¬ 
vated plants of this energetic insecticide. 
We find the double kero-water spray 
preferable to any emulsion we have been 
able to prepare. Most spray pumps are 
now being fitted with a container for 
kerosene as well as for the watery solu¬ 
tion, and a mechanical mixture of the 
oil and water is forced out at will by 
simply turning a valve. If an eight to 
12-per-cent spray is used, practically no 
injurious effect is noticed on the foliage 
of moist plants, and all insects reached 
are at once destroyed. Above 12 per 
cent, young rose and cabbage leaves are 
browned somewhat. Pure kerosene may 
be sprayed lightly on the leaves of many 
plants with trifling injury, if the day is 
dry and clear, so that quick evaporation 
of the oil results. It is, however, very 
destructive to the roots of all plants, 
and care should be taken that it does not 
reach them. 
The Passing of the Loganberry.— 
When the Loganberry, that curious hy¬ 
brid between the European red raspberry 
and the California dewberry, was first 
disseminated in the East, high hopes 
were entertained that it would prove a 
most desirable market and home berry. 
The strong first growth of the plants, 
and the large size, handsome color, easi¬ 
ness, and good quality of the fruits, 
seemed to confirm this hope, to the 
writer, at least, but the productiveness 
of the novelty, even under good culture, 
could never be made satisfactory. After 
six years' trial we are compelled to ad¬ 
mit that this most distinct berry is not 
adapted to our conditions. The plants 
show a disposition to die out before they 
get strong enough to bear a good crop, 
if they are capable of doing iso, and are 
very susceptible to attacks of Orange 
rust and anthracnose. Most of the plants 
about the Rural Grounds are now too 
feeble to produce berries, though they 
continue to send up new shoots. It is 
possible that a good blackberry-rasp- 
berry hybrid may yet be produced, 
though very limited success has been se¬ 
cured up to the present trials. 
GRAFTING PEARS ON THORN APPLE 
There are quite a number of wild crab 
trees and thorn apples growing by the 
roadside near me, and in the Spring I 
grafted two crabs and one thorn. The 
trees were about five feet high, and I 
spliced long scions with terminal bud's 
on the center ishoots. The yellow Trans¬ 
parent and Florence crab never leafed 
out, biu the Kieffer in the top of the 
thorn started sooner than the original 
trees, and has grown nearly twice as 
fast, branching out as though perfectly 
at home. I do not trim off the limbs of 
the thorn, but head them back, so they 
may not crowd the pear. I want thorn 
leaves to make thorn roots and thorn 
wood, so as to prevent the overgrowth 
of the stock by the pear. My own im¬ 
pression is that all grafts or buds on 
wood that is dissimilar, should be treat¬ 
ed as parasites, leaving the original tree 
to produce its own roots and wood, 
while the graft utilizes as much of the 
sap as is adapted to its growth. In the 
Sierras of California I have seen more 
than a dozen mistletoes growing on an 
oak not over six or eight inches in di¬ 
ameter, and the oak, with this brood of 
chickens, seemed to thrive as well as 
the others. I think that some of the 
sap of the mistletoe is assimilated by the 
oak, and makes oak wood, for in the 
older ones the wood seems to be united. 
When I came back from the mountains 
to my place in Stockton, I made an ex¬ 
periment that was not only successful, 
but so remarkable that few would be¬ 
lieve it without seeing. Mr. Vaughan, of 
Chicago, had sent me a climbing Tea 
rose the rraiserin Friedrich, but after 
two years’ trial it failed to climb over 
three feet, and refused to open its large 
globular buds. I had at the corner of 
my shop a slip of the white Banksia, 
grown from a cutting as large as my 
little finger, over 12 feet high. I put 
in two buds of the Kaiserin, about three 
or four feet from the ground, and the 
next year they grew across the end of 
my shop, with branches that reached to 
the top of the windows, and all Summer 
they were covered with clusters of the 
largest pink roses I ever saw, and so 
fragrant that they scented* the whole 
backyard. I trimmed up the Banksia 
and confined it to the cornice, from 
which it drooped its slender sprays with 
■small, willow-like leaves, which deco¬ 
rated the roof, and the ventilator at the 
peak, with a transient cloud of small, 
white blossoms in early Spring. It was 
the finest thing in rose decoration that 
I ever saw, and crowds of people came 
all through the Summer to view it and 
to gather the Kaiserin blossoms. The 
stem of the Banksia swelled to over two 
inches in diameter where the Kaiserin 
bud grew—I had removed one of the 
buds—but above and below it was only 
about an inch through. It was evident 
to me that the Kaiserin was, at least 
partially, a parasite, and that it was de¬ 
ficient on its own roots to gather nour¬ 
ishment from the soil, while the Banksia 
is remarkable for its growth in sandy 
soil or adobe. lit seems to me that here 
is a chance for study and experiment, 
not in roses alone, but in fine varieties 
of fruit trees that are lacking 'in their 
power of root development. The EaTly 
Harvest and other varieties of hardy but 
ishort-lived apples may, perhaps, be 
more profitable if top-grafted into 
stronger, long-lived trees. But the limbs 
of the original tree should be permitted 
to grow and furnish leaves to make their 
own sap. • Q- w. 
R. N.-Y.—The general facts noted 
above are known and utilized by most 
practical nurserymen. Many fine varie¬ 
ties of fruit and ornamental plants have 
been found to succeed better when 
grafted or budded on strong-growing 
stocks of a similar or closely-related 
ispecies. Graft hybrids, or a permanent 
variation of a given variety, caused by 
the union of two dissimilar varieties, are 
not unknown, but are extremely rare. 
The change of the bright red Kaiserin 
Friedrich rose to pink by budding on a 
white Banksia is very unusual. 
I like the Glen Mary strawberry. Clyde 
is light in color and poor in quality. I 
bought a lot of plants last Spring foi 
Parker Earle Improved. They were a 
worthless lot, not over 25 per cent were 
worth setting. They may not have been 
true to name. Nick Ohmer was by far the 
best variety I had this year. c. v. G. 
Westboro, Mass. 
Rose Crimson Rambler.— Concerning a 
photograph of a comparatively young spec¬ 
imen of the Crimson Rambler rose, grow¬ 
ing by the porch of the residence of Mr. 
John G. Bullock, of Germantown, Phila¬ 
delphia, Meehan’s Monthly says that we 
may alw'ays look for the greatest line of 
improvement by the introduction of wholly 
new species from tneir native wilds. When 
once improved, nature holds the lines more 
tightly, and but little more improvement 
can be made on that which has been al¬ 
ready improved. Here we have a grand 
improvement on the wild Rosa multiflora, 
of Japan, which has been known to botan¬ 
ists ever since the time of the great botan¬ 
ist Thunberg; but as Rosa polyantha, it 
has recently been introduced into gardens. 
The numerous white flowers of the latter, 
and subsequent crimson fruit, is attractive. 
But when the colored plate of the improve¬ 
ment. in the form of Crimson Rambler, 
was first widely distributed by Ellwanger 
& Barry, it was only the high standing for 
accuracy which this great firm enjoys that 
secured full credit for it. It has the beau¬ 
tiful red flowers in large clusters, as their 
picture represented, and that is a good 
rambler or climbing rose. It is proving 
one of the most popular of the new intro¬ 
ductions of late years. 
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18, 1895. 
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