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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 24 
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*07£S FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS. 
OXE EVIDENCE OE REAE CTVTT.TZATTON. 
—The growing respect for Arbor Day 
and its increasingly widespread observ¬ 
ance are perhaps the most tangible and 
gratifying evidences we have of progress 
towards better civilization. Planting 
the waste places and barren roadsides 
with useful and ornamental trees is 
surely better than coercing distant and 
unwilling aliens into sullen obedience 
by military force. The desire to plant 
something that may inure to the benefit 
of our successors, while giving much 
contemporary pleasure, is taking pos¬ 
session of many individuals accustomed 
to look for immediate commercial re¬ 
turns for all efforts. There is a general 
impression that the Arbor Days of the 
various States were this year more 
heartily observed than ever before. The 
thousands of additional trees, the plant¬ 
ing of which is inspired by the senti¬ 
ment connected with Arbor Day form 
a fitting memento to its founder, ex- 
Secretary Morton, whose life has just 
closed. The general observance of these 
tree-planting festivals by the public 
schools is of incalculable value in fos¬ 
tering a taste and appreciation for na¬ 
ture among millions of children, and 
greater results may be anticipated in 
the future. In a nearby town of less 
than 6,000 population the Arbor Day 
idea resulted in greatly extended plant¬ 
ings among which was the bordering of 
a new street with nearly a hundi’ed Ja¬ 
pan walnut trees. The planters were 
successful men not greatly given to sen¬ 
timent, but they surely have some reali¬ 
zation of the pleasant possibilities like¬ 
ly to follow for the town children when 
these handsome nut trees come into 
bearing. As an instance of what may be 
accomplished in the way of Arbor Day 
celebration through the influence of an 
able and appreciative school principal 
we append the summary of plantings 
just accomplished by the school children 
of this progressive town: There were 
planted altogether by the different 
grades 32 apple trees, 69 peaches, 42 
cherries, 10 plums, one quince, 92 
maples, 20 English walnuts, 22 butter¬ 
nuts, four oaks, six elms, two Japanese 
walnuts, five wild cherries, three wil¬ 
lows, two hickorynuts, one cedar, one 
ash, 36 rose bushes, 13 lilacs, four Caly- 
canthuses, six honeysuckles, two snow¬ 
balls, one blackberry vine, one grape¬ 
vine, three lemon trees, one orange, two 
currant bushes, cotton seeds, 136 flower 
beds and 86 vegetable gardens. If this 
rate of planting should be maintained in 
future years, even making allowance for 
inevitable failures, this particular school 
district will soon become a bower of 
horticultural beauty. 
Trouble With Asters. —The very 
popular and beautiful China aster is de¬ 
veloping great difficulties of culture 
along with increased perfection in 
bloom and habit. Botanically this fa¬ 
miliar annual is Callistephus hortensis, 
the generic name of Aster being reserv¬ 
ed for the various hardy, perennial star- 
worts common throughout the north 
temperate zone, but the Callistephus 
will always be commonly known as 
China aster. It has been so transform¬ 
ed by attentive cultivation that the orig¬ 
inal single pale purple, daisy-like flower 
from China can scarcely be identified as 
a progenitor. With this profound al¬ 
teration in form and coloring has come 
the dreaded yellow disease, a form of 
assimilation blight that ruins a large 
percentage of the plants when grown 
outside even under the best conditions. 
The Hatch Experiment Station at Am¬ 
herst, Mass., has been studying the va¬ 
rious Aster troubles and the conclusions 
are embodied in the recently-issued Bul¬ 
letin No. 79. There is a bacterial dis¬ 
ease known as stem-rot, which kills 
many plants every year, especially those 
started under glass. It results from in¬ 
fection by a germ, generally attacking 
the plants in the seed bed under condi¬ 
tions which favor ordinary “damping 
off,” that is, excessive moisture and in¬ 
sufficient ventilation. This affection 
kills many young plants ana so unfavor¬ 
ably affects others that apparently sur¬ 
vive that they suddenly wilt and die off 
just as they are coming into bloom. The 
most logical way of avoiding the trouble 
is to sow in seed bed outside in May, 
as the plants will come on in ample 
time for a good bloom and are much 
more likely to escape infection. The 
Blue or Aster root-louse is also very 
troublesome and causes many fine plants 
to fail after making a good growth. This 
pest is best avoided by planting in new 
soil yearly. The Aster bed may be en¬ 
tirely free the first season and overrun 
the coming year. Nothing of practical 
value can be done to rid the plants of 
lice when once affected, so the only pre¬ 
ventive seems to be uninfested soil. The 
Aster “bug” is well known as a lively 
little black beetle, suddenly attacking 
the plants when in full bloom and 
quickly destroying every flower. Hand 
picking is the best remedy and is not as 
big a job as it seems if attended to daily. 
The really dangerous malady, as no ef¬ 
fective treatment is known, is the mys¬ 
terious Yellow blight which appears as 
a weak and spindling growth of portions 
and often of the whole plant, accom¬ 
panied with abnormal development of 
the flowers. The affected parts are of 
a sickly yellow, regardless of the nat¬ 
ural color of flower or leaf. The blooms 
develop into strange and unattractive 
monstrosities, sometimes retaining their 
normal appearance on one side while 
deformed and discolored on the other. 
No cure is known for this prevalent 
trouble; it seems to be one of a growing 
list of maladies such as peach yellows 
and the spotted or “Calico” disease of 
tobacco, and is due to some internal 
failure of nutrition rather than infection 
from without. No germ or microbe of 
disease can be detected but the chemical 
constitution of the diseased plants is 
altered and the result seems to be par¬ 
tial starvation to certain tissues of the 
growing plant. About the only bit of 
practical information thus far evolved 
is that plants grown in pots or boxes on 
a greenhouse bench or other elevated 
situations are not likely to be affected. 
This is small consolation but further 
research may lead to something more 
tangible. 
Asparagus Still Profitable. —Not¬ 
withstanding the terrors of Asparagus 
rust careful Jersey growers are able to 
get a reasonable profit from their plant¬ 
ings. The unusually cool weather since 
early April has reduced the average cut 
at this season fully one-half and only 
two carloads daily are being shipped 
from the Middletown district instead of 
three or four. The good quality seems 
to be the direct result of increased care 
and cultivation, and $4.50 to $5 a dozen 
bunches have been received for prime 
shipments, which is in excess of current 
market quotations. The southern 
“grass” has been scarce and of poor 
quality, selling at comparatively low 
prices. New Jersey asparagus is as 
good as any received in the metropoli¬ 
tan market and usually brings prices 
pretty near the top. Last Summer was 
very rainy and favored the development 
of the plants, generally holding off top¬ 
killing from rust until late September, 
so the roots were well stored with en¬ 
ergy. Thorough cultivation, heavy ma¬ 
nuring and a shortened cutting season, 
however, appear to account largely for 
the continued fair yield. New plantings 
are almost exclusively made of the Pal¬ 
metto variety with increasing trials of 
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Corn 
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The fertilizer ap¬ 
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land will lose its pro¬ 
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