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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 26 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Good Plums; Bose Pears. 
W. J. D., Medina, N. Y.—1. I have about 90 
Niagara plum trees, but the fruit rots so 
badly that I get no profit from them. 
Would prunes do well If grafted on them? 
If so, what variety would be best? 2. I 
wish to graft some Angouleme (dwarf) 
pear trees to some good late variety. IS 
Bose a good one, or is there some better 
kind for profit? 
Ajms. —1. Fellenberg is one of tbe best 
of the prunes, and is much less liable 
to rot than the Niagara plum, which is 
properly called Bradshaw, This makes 
a very fair stock for the Fellenberg or 
any of the other prunes. 2. Bose is one 
of the very best of the late Fall pears, 
but it is a poor grower and does much 
better when grafted on some thrifty 
stock. Although I have never seen it 
grafted on the Angouleme I believe it 
will do well> and the fruit will surely 
bring a better price. It is one of the 
best of market pears. It also has the 
good point of hanging well to the tree. 
All things considered, I know of none 
that would be better grown in New 
York. H. E. V. D. 
Fruit Questions. 
U. B., Clyde, 0.—1. I have some Wragg 
cherries set among European plum trees 
that are badly affected by leaf spot as 
well as the plums. They have all been 
sprayed several times according to direc¬ 
tions for leaf spot, and yet are badly af¬ 
fected. The plums are in their fifth sea¬ 
son, and have made a very stunted growth 
on good soil. The leaf spot has held them 
back so every year that parts of some of 
them begin to die in spite of spraying. 
Other kinds of cherries than Wragg, not 
among the plums, are not much affected 
by leaf spot. Is the Wragg more liable 
to leaf rot than other cherries? 2. The 
Wragg cherries are also knotty. Does the 
fungous affect the cherry, or what is the 
probable cause of this trouble? 3. I have 
had no fruit on any of 200 plum trees of 
different varieties of European type, so I 
tried grafting a lot of them early last 
Spring to Burbank, but did not get a scion 
to live. A neighbor had the same experi¬ 
ence. Where I grafted Japans on Japans 
they grew nicely. The Japans are not af¬ 
fected much by leaf spot, and if I could 
work the tops of those Europeans over 
some way to Japans, I could get some¬ 
thing out of them perhaps. Do you think 
I could bud them in the top, and if so, a,t 
what time? 4. Should I bud on to last 
year’s wood? 5. Should I cut buds from 
this year’s wood? 6. Do you think that 
the Burbank is the best “business” plum? 
7. I would like to set an orchard of Wind¬ 
sor and Dikeman cherries for commercial 
purposes. Do you think that advisable on 
land worth $150 per acre? 
Ans. —1. Yes, this variety is very 
easily affected by leaf spot and other 
fungus diseases, and perhaps more so 
than any other variety with which I am 
well acquainted. There is difference of 
opinion among fruit growers regarding 
the name of this variety, most of them 
claiming that the true name is English 
Morello, and Wragg only a synonym. 
2. Knotty cherries are usually caused 
by the Plum curculio. It is a very diffi¬ 
cult thing to contend with, and no kind 
of spray seems to stop its ravages. 3. I 
can see no good reason for the failure 
of the grafts of Japan plums on Euro¬ 
pean plum stocks. It has been done fre¬ 
quently with good success. The scions 
should be cut very early, and put in a 
cool place, where the buds cannot start 
until time to do the grafting, because 
the Japan plums start very early, and if 
the scions are not held back they are 
likely to be damaged from this cause. 
Budding can be done to change the 
trees, but it would be more tedious than 
grafting, because the work would have 
to be done on smaller branches, and more 
of them. The time to bud is in August 
and early September. 4. Buds are near¬ 
ly always set under the bark of wood 
that is in its first year’s growth, but 
they will grow on older branches. 6. 
Buds are taken from wood of the same 
year’s growth in which the work is 
done. 6. Burbank is one of the very 
good kinds of Japan plums, and is 
thought by most of those who have 
tried it to be one of the most profitable 
of that class for market. 7. Dyehouse 
is a cherry of almost if not exactly the 
same character as the Richmond, and 
where one variety is profitable the other 
win be. Windsor is a much later kind 
and of the sweet type. Both are good 
for either market or home use, and will 
probably be as profitable as any others. 
To yield a net profit on land worth $150 
per acre we would first have to know 
what better crop might be got off the 
land. No ordinary farm crop is very 
likely to do it without great labor, nor 
will other fruit crops be more likely to 
do it than the cherry, where the mar¬ 
kets are easy to reach, provided the land 
is suitable. h. e. v. d. 
Spring Budding for Peaches. 
O. n. K., Knoxville, Tewn.—Last Summer 
we had a long dry spell, and my peach 
seedlings did not make much growth. This 
and press of other work prevented me 
from doing all the budding. Can this 
stock be budded next Spring? Describe 
fruit and wood buds, so we can get proper 
buds. How should we save buds for 
Spring budding, if it can be done then? 
Ans. —Spring budding may be done 
on peach stocks, but my experience has 
not been nearly so successful as with 
Fall budding. Scions should be cut as 
soon as the leaves have fallen, and at 
once carefully labeled and tied in bun¬ 
dles with willow twigs, because they 
will not rot, as strings are apt to do. 
Place them in damp cold storage, 
wrapped in moistened cloths or moss. 
Keep them so until the bark will peel 
freely in the Spring, when the budding 
should be done. There need be little 
difficulty in telling the peach buds that 
will grow from those that will only 
bloom. Where there are two buds side 
by side at the base of the leaf one is 
sure to be a growth bud and the other 
a fruit bud. If there are three buds to¬ 
gether the central one is a growth bud 
and the others are fruit buds. Many of 
the single buds are such as will only 
bloom, and they are usually larger and 
plumper than the growth buds, but by 
setting only the double and triple buds 
there is no possibility of making a mis¬ 
take. I always prefer to set them. Sin¬ 
gle buds on scions cut from young nur¬ 
sery trees are much less liable to be 
fruit buds than those on scions cut 
from bearing trees. h. e. v. d. 
Pruning and Feeding Bush Fruits. 
J. II. R., Middle Island, N. Y.—What Is 
the best time to prune raspberries and 
blackberries, and how? What is the best 
fertilizer for above? What fertilizer for 
peach, apple and pear? Is there likelihood 
of profit in the cultivation of the Mam¬ 
moth Japan chestnut and Japan walnut? 
Ans. —Raspberries and blackberries 
are best pruned in early Spring. Cut out 
all dead and weakly canes, allowing one 
to three of the strongest to each plant, 
and top off to about three feet high, 
shortening all branches back to three or 
four buds. Successful pruning can only 
be learned by observation and experi¬ 
ence, as the variety and manner of 
growth has much to do with the amount 
of wood to be cut away. Moderate ap¬ 
plications of stable manure, 10 to 12 
tons per acre, will grow good berries, 
particularly If reinforced by 200 or 300 
pounds muriate of potash, or one ton 
of wood ashes applied separately. Any 
good chemical fertilizer containing 
three to four per cent of nitrogen, eight 
of potash and 10 of phosphoric acid ap¬ 
plied at the rate of 600 to 800 pounds 
per acre should be sufficient. Peach 
trees thrive best when plentifully sup¬ 
plied with potash either in the form of 
wood a^es or muriate of potash, other¬ 
wise stable manure or chemicals as 
above would be suitable. The modern 
plan is to apply manure or fertilizer in 
early Spring, cultivate until July, and 
then sow Crimson clover or other cover 
crops to hold the soil during Winter and 
add fertility when plowed down next 
Spring. There is not much likelihood 
of profit in growing Japan chestnuts 
and walnuts, but they are Interesting 
trees to plant. 
However bad the Cough, relief will come through 
a judicious use of Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant and in 
the great majority of cases, a permanent cure will 
follow.— Adv. 
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