THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 1 
144 
Farmers’ Club. 
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Mildew on Roses; Currant Worms; Green¬ 
house Book. 
Fj. R., Ouray, Col.— 1. What will prevent or 
kill mildew on roses? 2. What is the pre¬ 
ventive for wormy currants? The fruit 
seems to have been stung on one side, 
ripens before mature, and drops off or 
hangs on the bushes and dries up. Some¬ 
times I can break the currant open and 
see a worm In it. Two-thirds of my crop 
every year goes that way. 3. Where can 
I get a book on hothouse work; building, 
heating and tending same? 
Ans. —1. Precipitated sulphur, or 
powdered sulphur and Fungiroid, equal 
quantities, blown on the leaves of roses, 
especially when wet with dew, are the 
best preventives of mildew. It must 
often be repeated in a season. 2. Paris- 
green or fresh powdered hellebore, one 
ounce to four gallons of water, sprayed 
over the currants before they are half 
grown, would be a hopeful remedy for 
the worms in the currants. They are 
produced by little flies which are hard 
to manage. 3. Greenhouse Construction 
(Taft), price, $1.50; Greenhouse Man¬ 
agement (Taft), price, $1.50; and the 
Forcing Book (Bailey), price, $1, are 
all excellent works. They may be ob¬ 
tained from this office. 
The Cultivation of Rhubarb. 
TV. M. II., Loci,-port, N. 7.-Will you give 
method of raising rhubarb from seed? How 
many years’ cultivation must be given the 
plant before it will produce good market¬ 
able stalks? What variety is considered 
best for general use? What variety of 
rhubarb is known as wine plant? 
Ans. —Rhubarb seeds may be sown as 
early as the ground can be worked. The 
soil should be well fined and in good 
condition as regards fertility. The seed 
is rather light, and should be thinly 
sown and well trodden down after cov¬ 
ering an inch deep. The rows need not 
be more than a foot apart. The seeds 
are always somewhat slow to germinate, 
and it is essential to keep the soil clear 
of weeds, which would soon strangle 
the little plants. Clean and careful culti¬ 
vation should be given the seedling 
throughout the whole growing season. 
The roots may be transplanted to per¬ 
manent bed either in Fall or Spring, 
setting them about four feet apart each 
way. The soil should be heavily ma¬ 
nured and plowed, or spaded as deeply 
as possible. The same thorough cultiva¬ 
tion should be kept up during growth. 
No stalks should be pulled the first 
season after planting, so that no return 
should be expected until the third year 
from seeds, after which full crops are 
due. Victoria comes more true to type 
from seed than other varieties, and is 
usually preferred, though Linnaeus is 
earlier in growth. No one variety of 
rhubarb is known exclusively as wine 
plant; like pie plant, the name is applied 
indiscriminately to any sort. 
Treatment of Apple Seedlings. 
J. F. T., Patton, Pa .—In the Fall of 1900 I 
planted a few rows of apple seeds across 
my truck patch. They did not come uni¬ 
formly, and were neglected the following 
Summer. They received indifferent culti¬ 
vation last Summer and made more growtn. 
Some of them are three feet high, others 
six inches. I took them all up last Fall 
and heeled them in to be planted about 
eight inches apart in rows in the Spring. 
I intend to give them careful cultivation. 
Should they be budded or grafted, and when 
should this be done? How far from the 
ground? There are about 300 of the seed¬ 
lings. 
Ans. —These seedlings are in just the 
right condition for root-grafting this 
Winter, except that they might better 
have been packed in damp sawdust or 
earth in the cellar; but they can be dug 
up and put in such a place at once, pro¬ 
vided it is decided to graft them. If 
budding is preferred they should be left 
right where they are until Spring, and 
then set out six inches apart in nursery 
rows that are four feet apart. But the 
larger ones would be too large for con¬ 
venient budding and these would be 
much better root-grafted in almost any 
case. This work should be done in the 
house by the middle of March, at the 
latest. The scions should be cut as soon 
as possible and packed in damp sawdust 
ready for use at any time. The roots 
should be cut into pieces about four 
inches long, having first been trimmed 
of all branch roots. The scions should 
be cut into six-inch lengths. By trim¬ 
ming the top end of each piece of root 
to a long point, making a very smooth 
cut, all from one side, and then cutting 
a slit in the middle of this flat surface, 
and in the same manner preparing the 
butt end of each scion, they will be 
ready for grafting together with a 
tongue splice. Each splice should then 
be bound fast with light cotton thread. 
These grafts are then to be packed away 
in moist sawdust, before they have time 
to dry out in any degree, and kept in a 
cool place until the ground can be got 
in good condition for planting. They 
should be set firmly in the soil, leaving 
only about two inches of their tips stick¬ 
ing out. The rows should be four feet 
apart and the grafts eight inches apart 
in the row. With good cultivation they 
should make nice nursery trees, which 
can be planted in the orchard at one or 
two years old. H. e. v. d. 
Malaga Grapes 
W. L. B., Stockbridge, N. 7.—Can Malaga 
grapes be raised in Madison Co., N. Y.? 
What grapes are nearest to Malaga for 
keeping qualities? 
Ans. —Malaga grapes are varieties of 
the European Vitis vinifera, and have 
never succeeded in North America ex¬ 
cept in limited areas in the Southwest 
and in California. They are fairly 
hardy as regards cold, but the foliage 
and root system cannot endure our cli¬ 
matic conditions without the protection 
of glass. It would be useless to plant 
them in New York except in a green¬ 
house. Worden, Concord, Niagara and 
Delaware are all fairly good keepers. 
The red variety Alice comes close to the 
foreign kinds in keeping quality. We 
do not know where it may be procured 
now. 
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More Ferry’s Seeds sold 
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