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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 22 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS. 
Some Potato Trials— The season of 
1901 will long be remembered in this 
locality for its violent fluctuations of 
temperature and humidity, affecting 
most crops unfavorably at some period 
of their growth. Potatoes were no ex¬ 
ception, A sharp drought, with exces¬ 
sive heat in early July, was preceded 
and followed by an unusual amount of 
rain, accompanied also at times with ab¬ 
normal high temperature. Under such 
conditions a maximum crop of potatoes 
could hardly be expected, yet some of 
the best yields ever harvested in Mon¬ 
mouth County, N. J., where potatoes 
have been a staple product for genera¬ 
tions, were secured. As detailed in a 
previous issue (page 787, volume for 
1901) individual crops near Freehold, in 
another portion of the county, were sold 
for a price several times the value of 
the land on which they were grown, but 
taken as a whole the returns for pota¬ 
toes throughout eastern New Jersey in 
most instances failed to pay the cost of 
production. In the immediate vicinity 
of the Rural Grounds potatoes brought 
a moderate profit when well fertilized 
and cared for by experienced growers. 
Our trial plot, including check varie¬ 
ties, gave us the best yield we have yet 
secured. The growth throughout the 
season was good, though at times check¬ 
ed by extreme heat. There was very 
little leaf-blight, and the beetles were 
kept under thorough control. The plant¬ 
ing and cultivation was done with hand 
tools, and the only iertilizer used was 
composted hen manure in the drill at 
the rate of one bushel to about 150 feet 
of row. Half tubers were dropped at in¬ 
tervals of 20 inches in rows three feet 
apart. The soil is medium sandy loam 
in fair condition, but nas had no humus 
crop for at least 12 years. About six 
hills of each variety were planted. 
Pat’s Choice; W. H. Heald, Letcher, 
S. D. Planted April 30, dug September 
3. Vines weak; died before the middle 
of August. Very moderate yield. Long, 
smooth tubers with shallow eyes, faint 
blush in color. Excellent quality. 
Heath’s Late Beauty; T. C. Heath, 
Tidal, Pa. Dug September 18. Large, 
smooth, white, slightly russeted; best 
yield of the re-trials of last season. A 
vigorous grower and a promising late 
variety. 
Munn’s Earliest; name of sender 
lost. Dug August 8. Fair yield of scat¬ 
tering tubers, round, white and of fine 
quality. Fair grower with good foliage. 
New Queen; G. W. P. Jerrard Co., 
Caribou, Me. Dug September 8. Yield 
very good, large, white, russeted. Vig¬ 
orous upright grower; few small tubers; 
fine quality. 
Whiton’s White; W. W. Whiton, 
Wakeman, O. Very fine yield of large, 
white, round potatoes with shallow eyes. 
Grows close together in hill; best qual¬ 
ity, especially for baking. One of the 
most satisfactory varieties tested in two 
years. 
The following numbered seedlings 
were received from Marion Bovee, 
Northville, Mich.: 
No. 5; dug September 21. Upright, 
healthy growth. Moderate yield, rather 
long, smoothly netted, very fair quality; 
promising. 
No. 8; dug August 10. Weak growth, 
smooth, oblong, brownish skin, darker 
eye. Indifferent yield. 
No. 36; dug September 3. Weak and 
spindling grower; vine died in late July; 
moderate yield; white russeted, oblong 
shape. 
No. 42; dug September 3. Vigorous, 
dark green foliage, lasting until late 
August; good yield of large white, 
round, russeted potatoes; very promis¬ 
ing. 
Nos. 32. 34 and 43 proved poor grow¬ 
ers, yielding small crops of white pota¬ 
toes of good quality. Sir Walter 
Raleigh, Carman No. _ and Bovee plant¬ 
ed as check varieties all made good 
yields of good-sized smooth tubers. 
Whiton’s White was apparently the only 
variety likely to suit our conditions bet¬ 
ter. 
Our Common Native Lily. —Less gar¬ 
den use is made of our handsome native 
lily, Lilium Canadense, than probably 
any other really showy wild plant. This 
is certainly not from lack of apprecia¬ 
tion, as everyone admires a fine speci¬ 
men when found growing in its natural 
locality. It has been much advertised 
by catalogue men under the name of L. 
superbum, and thousands of bulbs col¬ 
lected and sold during late years, but 
with little result in garden decoration. 
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spraying, with tables of costs and formulae. The 
result of actual use at the leading Agricultural 
Experiment Stations, tells of the SPRAMOTOR, 
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The reasons may be looked for in the 
character of the bulbs sent out, and to j 
a less extent in the planting in uncon¬ 
genial situations. The Canadian lily be¬ 
longs to a group having rhizomatous 
bulbs, in which the new bulb or grow¬ 
ing point for each successive year is 
developed at the end of an underground 
shoot, and is retained for several years 
afterward, probably as a storehouse of 
energy to tide the plant over critical 
periods of growth. If these old bulbs, 
which never grow or bloom again, are 
broken away from the new one, the 
bloom of the latter is likely to be feeble 
and the plant often fails to establish 
itself under otherwise favorable condi¬ 
tions. A vigorous rhizome is shown in 
Fig. 51, page 123, with bulbs of three 
successive years’ development. The bud 
for next year’s bloom-spike is plainly 
seen on the youngest bulb at the left of 
the cut, as also the vacancies left by 
the decayed stem in the tops of the old¬ 
er bulbs, the center one having bloomed 
last Summer and the smaller one on 
the right the preceding year. After the 
second year of dormant life the rhizome 
and old bulbs slowly decay, the new bulb 
for the succeeding year pushing on in 
advance, so that the plant slowly moves 
through the soil, growing in one direc¬ 
tion and dying at the other like many 
other plants with roots of an essentially 
rhizomatous nature. The Canadian lily 
and the nearby related L. superbum 
commonly grow in moist meadows and 
damp woods, and are especially abund¬ 
ant along streams in shaded places. 
Sometimes great masses form in favored 
localities and are gloriously conspicu¬ 
ous when in bloom. Both species are 
abundantly distributed from Canada to 
Georgia and west to the Mississippi 
River. Canadense is the smaller spe¬ 
cies, growing from two to five feet high, 
and has fewer flowers, less recurved than 
Superbum, which is also known as the 
American Turk’s-cap lily. Superbum 
grows six or seven feet high in favor¬ 
able places, and often bears a magnifi¬ 
cent pyramidal panicle of flowers from 
six to 18 in number. Thousands of bulbs 
of the two species are collected and sold 
to dealers as Superbum ulies. The price 
received is low, and the count is often 
made up by breaking up the rhizomes 
and reckoning every bulb. Of course the 
old ones never grow at all, and the new 
tip is too feeble to make a good start, 
so there is much resulting disappoint¬ 
ment. Both species will grow well in 
any good light garden soil, but prefer 
partial shade and considerable moisture 
at the blooming season in August. We 
would recommend amateurs to collect 
their own bulbs whenever possible by 
marking them when in bloom and taking 
up after frost, using care not to shatter 
them more than necessary. They may be 
planted in groups a foot or more apart. 
Set if possible in leaf mold or soil simi¬ 
lar to that in which they grew, and 
cover mainly with sand. They should 
be planted much deeper than they grow 
naturally, as the new location is not 
likely to be so well-protected from frost 
as that from which they were taken. No 
manure should be used, but a mulch of 
clean straw or excelsior shavings makes 
a good Winter protection until estab¬ 
lished. The bulbs should be exposed to 
the air as little as possible, as they rap¬ 
idly lose vitality if allowed to shrivel. 
If carefully done plants may be trans¬ 
ferred to the garden when in bloom, but 
it is a great shock to their vitality. 
There are several varieties of the Cana¬ 
dian lily differing in color and a par¬ 
tially double one, but the common 
orange-red spotted variety is as good as 
any. w. v. f. 
Small crops, unsalable veg¬ 
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