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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 12, 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Success With the Lime-Sulphur 
Wash. —The lime-sulphur washes have so 
generally failed fo control the San Jose 
scale in our locality this season that we 
gladly give space to the following favor¬ 
able report from W. H. Skillman, Belle 
Mead, N. J.: 
I am really surprised at your failure with 
the lime-sulphur wash. As you know, I have 
a good many fruit trees (about 12,000; and 
I assure you i have had the scale In great 
numbers; I lost several thousand trees by this 
pest. I first used crude oil, and killed lots 
of trees with it, so I had to discontinue using 
it. I then used the lime and sulphur solu¬ 
tion with excellent effect. While I do not 
claim (or think) I can entirely eradicate it 
/ know I can keep it in control so it will 
practically do me no Injury; I have proved 
this beyond any doubt. Of course you know 
how to make the solution, and how to apply 
it, and why it Is not as effective for you as 
I know it is for me I cannot understand. I 
believe this wash is very beneficial fo (he 
trees, beside the effect on the scale, and as to 
killing the scale, there is surely no doubt of 
it if solution is properly made and the scale 
is hit with it. I have cleared hundreds of 
trees from the scale that were very badly in¬ 
fested with it, so I could not find a scale on 
either the tree or fruit. I shall certainly 
continue the use of the lime and sulphur 
wash, for I know it is efficacious for me; 
without it I feel that I would have to stop fruit 
growing. I have implicit faith in the lime 
and sulphur solution, and propose to go on 
planting trees with the positive knowledge 
that I can grow fruit in spite of the scale; 
the fact is, the scale has no more terrors for 
me, for I know I am master of the situation, 
but I cannot understand why you have not 
had the same results. You say on page 730 
that this wash seems to be effective on some 
kinds of trees and not on others. Will you 
explain why it kills the scale on one kind of 
tree and not on another? Is it your idea 
that the sap of some trees makes the scale 
Immune to the sulphur wash? 
We used on the Rural Grounds a wash 
containing one-half pound each potassium 
sulphide or liver of sulphur and stone 
lime to each gallon of hot water, most 
thoroughly sprayed on while warm. This 
formula was claimed by several exper¬ 
iment stations to be as efficient as the 
boiled lime, salt and sulphur mixture. It 
undoubtedly controlled Peach leaf-curl to 
a great extent on the sprayed trees, but 
entirely failed to clear apple, pear, Do- 
mestica plum, cherry and smooth-barked 
ornamentals like the Scarlet quince and 
Weeping Japan cherry of the scale. Bet¬ 
ter work was done on peaches and Japan 
plums, but on only one tree was the scale 
really cleared for the season. This is 
about the gist of the reports that have 
reached us from all parts of New Jersey, 
regardless of the particular lime-sulphur 
preparation used. We are glad to hear of 
Mr. Skillman’s success, and hope his con¬ 
fidence in lime and sulphur may never 
grow less. Why these preparations suc¬ 
ceed on some trees and not on others may 
be difficult to determine, but until the mat¬ 
ter is settled the lime-sulphur combina¬ 
tion must be considered generally unrelia¬ 
ble in this locality. 
Do They Stick Long Enough? —We 
are told the lime-sulphur washes kill great 
numbers of the scales, when fairly hit. by 
their caustic action, and that where the 
trunk and branches are well-coated by the 
wash, sulphur gases are released for a con¬ 
siderable time if the wash sticks, because 
of absorption by the lime of carbonic acid 
from the air, and the consequent decompo¬ 
sition of the lime sulphide, as it exists in 
the fresh combination. These sulphurous 
gases are supposed to suffocate the re¬ 
maining scales, and prevent the young or 
larval scales from getting a foothold. This 
is good theory, and appears to work out 
in dry climates, where the coating is not 
quickly washed off by rains, but in our 
humid coast region, with its frequent 
dashing showers, it appears that the prep¬ 
arations now advocated do not stick long 
enough to do thorough work on smooth- 
barked trees at least. We cannot again 
take chances of failure on the Rural 
Grounds, and shall return to the two- 
pound-to-the-gallon solution of whale-oil 
soap that has not failed us in many years. 
We hope to spray in early November 
every tree or shrub on which scales can be 
detected with this soap solution, and next 
March go over them again, using pe¬ 
troleum or kerosene-limoid mixture on 
apple, pear, cherry and smooth plum trees, 
and the soap solution on much-branched 
shrubs and rough-barked trees with the | 
exception of peach, which we expect to 
spray with a lime-sulphur wash, especially 
to control the leaf-curl. No good effect 
on any fungus troubles except Peach leaf 
curl and Plum pocket could be attributed 
to the lime-sulphur wash this Summer. 
I he Monilia or brown rot of stone fruits 
was surely as rampant as ever. w. v. F. 
Various Garden Questions. 
It. K., Xcw York .—How shall I keep the 
following plants over Winter; have only a 
cellar with little light and one room with 
two windows facing south? 1. Cannas, 
hollyhocks, Tigridias, Dahlia, Tuberous Be¬ 
gonia, Lillum rubrum, Hybrid Tea roses. 2. 
I have heard that inoonflower plants can he 
kept over Winter. Can they? 3. I shall plant 
Bismarck apple trees this year. How should 
they he planted? Are they good for indoors 
and outdoors? 4. Can you name a collection 
of lilies for Spring and Summer blooming? 
Ans. —1. There is little use in trying to 
winter over Tea roses, lilies or holly¬ 
hocks in an ordinary cellar. Lilium lan- 
cifolium rubrum and most hollyhocks are 
hardy, and should be planted outside in 
some fairly well protected place. Plant 
the lily about six inches deep, where 
water does not stand in Winter. The 
hollyhocks should be set about 18 inches 
apart, and covered lightly with straw or 
stable litter when the ground first freezes 
Cannas and Dahlias should be lifted on a 
dry day, the tops cut off and the clumps 
placed loosely in boxes, which should be 
placed in a dry, cool part of the cellar. 
Tigridia bulbs should be well dried, 
dusted with tobacco dust or snuff to keep 
off insects and stored in paper bags or 
baskets, hung to the ceiling in such a 
manner that mice cannot get at them. 
Tuberous Begonias should be well dried 
and packed in boxes of perfectly dry 
sand or sawdust. They should be stored 
in’ the warmest part of the cellar. The 
Tea roses would better remain in the 
garden, protecting them with litter and 
old boxes, in the sides of which a num¬ 
ber of holes have been bored for ventila¬ 
tion. Should you decide to try to winter 
the lily, hollyhocks and roses in the cel¬ 
lar, plant them in boxes of moist soil. 
Let them remain outside until freezing 
weather, and then place them in the cool¬ 
est part of the cellar. They should be 
examined from time to time and the soil 
watered if in danger of drying out. 2. 
Moonfiowers may be wintered over in a 
box of earth in the window garden, but 
they seldom live long in the cellar. They 
are easily grown from seed each season. 
3. The Bismarck apple is not suitable for 
indoor culture, except in large, roomy 
greenhouses. It may be planted outside 
in late Autumn, or Spring, setting the 
trees about 25 feet apart in the usual 
manner of orchard trees. The fruits are 
large but of poor quality. 4. The best 
lilies are L. candidum, L. tigrinnm, L. 
parviflorum, L. tenuifolium, I.. Henryii 
and L. speciosum. 
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