1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’ 
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How to Kill Horse Nettle. 
G. E. W., Goshen, Pa.— 1. Will you give 
some thorough and convenient method for 
killing Horse nettle or Sodom apple in 
small patches? 2. Would it be expedient to 
plow sod as soon as grass is cut off and 
plant with cow peas for corn the following 
year? Would the peas sufficiently mature 
till frost? 
Ans. —1. The Horse nettle or Solanum 
Carolinense is a perennial belonging to 
the same order of plants as the common 
potato. If it occurs only in small com¬ 
pact patches salt may be used freely on 
these patches, and the plants destroyed. 
They may be exterminated by persis¬ 
tent cutting oft with a narrow spade at 
some few inches below the ground level. 
If the fields in which the Horse nettles 
grow could be planted to some crop 
which could be given intro-culture, as 
corn, then by persistent tillage during 
the season the nettles could be killed. 
2. If the grass land is seeded to a mix¬ 
ture of clover and Timothy then it will 
be better to let the aftermath remain 
on the land. The second-growth clover 
and grass plowed under would be cer¬ 
tain of giving good results. If the mea¬ 
dow is largely Timothy or mixed grasses 
with no clover it may be a good plan to 
plow directly after the hay has been cut 
off. The conditions which prevail must 
largely determine the course to be pur¬ 
sued. If an old meadow in which the 
grass has become run out by moss and 
son-el then we would not hesitate to 
plow at once and sow to some cover 
crop. From experience during the pres¬ 
ent season we would sow a mixture of 
cow peas, rye, rape and buckwneat. The 
amount to sow per acre being about 
one-half bushel of cow peas, one-half 
bushel of rye, two pounds of rape seed 
and one-half bushel of buckwheat. We 
have found during the present very dry 
season that a mixture similar to the 
above has given good results l. a. c. 
Various Fruit Questions. 
F. P. B., Ayer, Mass.— 1. Is there any nur¬ 
sery that sends out fruit trees grafted or 
budded to two or more varieties? It seems 
as though these would be just the trees 
for a small garden. 2. Will “Paradise- 
stock” apples amount to anything on a 
small place? 3. Will the Rathbun black¬ 
berry spread or can it be conilned to a 
small place? 4. How high do Japan maples 
grow? Are they suitable for a Jsmall 
place? 6. Are there any good eating plums 
that curculio will not hurt? 
1. There is no nursery that prepares 
or deals in trees that have more than 
one kind of fruit on the same tree. They 
would probably meet with some sale, but 
it might be very limited. Here is an 
idea for some enterprising nurseryman 
to carry out. Peach, pear, plum, apple, 
or any kind of fruit trees might be bud¬ 
ded or grafted in the main branches, 
just above where they start out, and 
there might be not only two out three 
or four or any desired number of varie¬ 
ties. This would be a novelty, indeed, 
and might be very desirable for those 
who have very small places on which 
they wish to grow as many varieties as 
possible. If the varieties were so se¬ 
lected as to form a nice head there would 
be nothing to hinder them making 
good, serviceable trees. They could be 
sold at $1 each, and no one be hum¬ 
bugged. Such trees could easily be 
made after an ordinary tree had been 
set where it is to stand. This would 
be fun for one who knows how to graft 
or bud. I have often done it myself, and 
have heard of others doing the same. 
2. Paradise stocks are very serviceable 
in a small place when grafted or bud¬ 
ded to good apples. 3. The Rathbun is 
said by some to be a true blackberry 
while others claim that it is part dew¬ 
berry. It is not so vigorous or so prone 
to throw up suckers as some others, 
but it oears abundantly, and the fruit 
is of very high quality. It can easily be 
kept on a small place. 4. Japan maples 
rarely exceed 10 feet high and many of 
the oldest ones in America are not that 
high. It is one of the most appropriate 
trees for a small place. There are many 
varieties varying in shape and color of 
foliage. Those with delicately-cut leaves 
are quite common. They produce seed 
in abundance, but the identity of the 
varieties is preserved by budding and 
grafting. 5. The curculio attacks all 
classes of plums, but the Japans, the 
damsons and many of our native kinds 
are nractically resistant. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Value of Cling Peaches. 
Why are cling peaches ever desirable? 
To our notion they are about the worst 
things to attempt to eat that a man can 
ever get hold of, especially a fellow with 
poor teeth. The freestones are certainly 
much handier and neater. Why are clings 
superior in any way? 
Cling peaches are usually very firm in 
flesh ana excellent for canning when it 
is desirable to have the halves retain 
their natural form. They also bear 
handling with very little injury. House¬ 
keepers always want clings for making 
pickles because they do not mash easily. 
I know of no peach that is quite equal 
to Ringgold or its parent, the Heath 
Cling, for canning or drying. We used 
to reject ail others and wait until these 
got ripe at the last of the season. In 
California some of the canneries prefer 
the clings to freestones. They have an 
easy way to cut them off the seeds. 1 
have cut off many bushels with a point¬ 
ed knife and do not consider it very diffi¬ 
cult. After a cut is made around the 
peach a twist will remove one half very 
easily and the seed is then cut out very 
readily from tne other half. I think the 
canners have a machine for the work. To 
eat from the hand the freestones are the 
most convenient, but I do not mind 
using a knife if I have a good cling 
peach. h. e. v. d. 
Tile akctic Peach. —I send you sam¬ 
ple of the new seedling peach Arctic. 
This peach has proved much hardier 
than any other known in this section. 
It has not failed to bear a full crop every 
year since it was three years old, and 
during that time we have had four years 
that we failed to grow any peaches in 
this section, except the Arctic, and these 
trees hung full of nice large fruit. The 
pit that produced the original tree was 
brought to this country by a native of 
the Isle of Man, who stated that he 
brought the pit with him because it was 
from a peach that was very hardy, and 
this pit produced a tree that did not fail 
to bear a full crop each year after it 
was four years old. The tree that pro¬ 
duced these peaches is a budded tree 
from this seedling and it is as hardy as 
its parent. s. w. call. 
Perry, Ohio. 
R. N.-Y.—The specimens were badly 
decayed when they reached us, so that 
it was impossible to give a fair estimate 
of the flavor. The peach is certainly 
large and fine-looking. 
The Pacific Rural Press makes the 
following pointed remarks about talking 
and doing: “For years the male residents of 
Healdsburg talked of certain improvements 
which the town needed. Nothing came of 
the talk, and then the women took the 
matter up and formed a Ladies’ Improve¬ 
ment Club. This organization has trans¬ 
formed the place, having by their active 
influence and organized labors procured for 
the town a municipal electric light plant, 
comfortable seats in the plaza, an intelli¬ 
gent name system for the streets, sign¬ 
boards with street names at all corners, a 
drinking fountain costing $600. These im¬ 
provements were brought about without 
increasing taxes, except for the two pur¬ 
poses first named.” 
A Long Lake.— In his report, Gen. Mer- 
riam, of the Biological Survey, gives some 
interesting facts regarding Lake Chelan, in 
northern Washington. On each side of the 
lake are numerous cliffs, towering in some 
places to the height of 1,500 feet. The 
water, which is clear and blue, has been 
found by actual soundings to have an aver¬ 
age depth of 3,000 feet. The lake is only 
two miles wide, but the length is very de¬ 
ceptive. At first the party thought it was 
about three miles, but after going that dis¬ 
tance they came to a bend and found that 
the lake stretched on a long distance fur¬ 
ther. When night came they found the 
banks so steep that no landing could be 
made, so they had to stay in their four- 
oared boat. After three days of hard row¬ 
ing they came to the end of the lake. On 
the return trip careful measurements were 
taken, and the distance was found to be 65 
miles. 
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