THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
371 
1896 
RURALISMS — Continued. 
(P. cuspidatum) has heen growing in the 
Rural Grounds for 20 years, more or less. 
It sends out root-stocks in all directions. 
As we have said, shoots, like those of 
asparagus, grow 25 feet from the parent 
plant, the root-stocks forcing themselves 
through a compact lawn. Nowhere, 
perhaps, may we better study its mon¬ 
archical ways, than in Central Park, 
New York. It was liberally planted 
there 25 years ago, and, although single 
plants were set in various places, we 
may now see how it has crowded out 
everything else about it over consider¬ 
able areas. It matters not whether in 
low or high positions, near the lakes or 
in soil scarcely six inches deep underlaid 
by rocks of immense size, it thrives 
everywhere. It grows vigorously in 
fissures and cracks of rocks where there 
is so little soil that it seems as though 
the plant must live upon the rocks them¬ 
selves, or alone upon the air. The writer 
(to-day, May 15) finds the average height 
of these plantations of Polygonum about 
seven feet. 
The severity of the past winter which, 
as we shall show later, has killed many 
supposed-to-be-hardy grape vines, rasp¬ 
berries, etc., has not harmed, in the 
least, the hybrid Rugosa-Ilarison rose, 
Agnes Emily Carman. Permit us to say, 
once more, that this rose does not show 
its wealth of foliage until the third year, 
and it will stand any amount of high cul¬ 
ture . 
We are afraid that our Hypericum 
Moserianium has been killed by the past 
winter. This is to be deplored, since it 
is the showiest of the St. John’s worts, 
and the most prolific of bloom. 
Water Gate of Wire. 
J. C. S , Ore Ranks, Va.—T he water 
gate plan with stone pillars as set forth 
by G. T., page 318, is open to a number 
of serious objections. The cost would 
be unnecessarily great. The pillars 
would act as a partial dam at high water, 
and cause the water to spread over more 
than the customary 100 feet. This spread 
would be still more augmented by the 
heavy gates, as a considerable pressure 
of water would be necessary to move 
gates 30 feet wide, and even then the 
flow of water would be retarded. 
A better plan, 1 think, would be to get 
heavy posts, 10 or 12 feet long, set them, 
at least three feet deep on each bank of 
the stream, after first cutting a tenon on 
the upper end of the posts. Then cut a 
mortice in another piece of timber for a 
cross-piece on top, and also spike a piece 
of timber to the post in the bed of the 
stream. Now you have a substantial 
frame for a water gate. For about 75 
feet on each side, I would run woven 
wire fencing, snugly fitting a stout pole 
or 3x4 scantling between each post near 
the top ; or, if the posts be sawed off, 
they may he spiked on top from middle 
to middle of the posts. 1 would prefer 
fencing 50 inches high made of 12 No. 9 
horizontal wires, and 11 No. 15 mesh 
wires. The breaking strain of such a 
fence is 22,658 pounds, or over 11 tons. 
As to the cost, I need only say that, if I 
were a near neighbor to G. T., I would 
gladly contract to furnish the material 
and do the work for $10. The wire fenc¬ 
ing offers no material resistance to the 
flow of water. Any trash that may accu¬ 
mulate, should be removed to higher 
ground, or else burned after the water 
subsides. 
Sorghum in Virginia. 
J. I., Culpepper, Va. — The severe 
drought of the past few years, has 
caused much inquiry as to the best for¬ 
age to bridge over a drought. After 
testing a couple of acres of sorghum 
myself in 1894, I communicated the 
benefits to some of my neighbors. The 
experience of one of them I herewith 
send as he gave it at my request: 
“The land had been in clover, but all 
had died out. It was broken up the first 
of April, and harrowed twice. The seed 
was clean, and sowed with a drill at the 
rate of one bushel per acre, the first 
week of May. The land was poor and 
500 pounds of homemade guano were 
used. Six acres were sown, and all were 
surprised at the growth. Ry August 1, 
it was from six to eight feet high, aud 
as thick as it could stand on the ground. 
The drought had then set in, and I com¬ 
menced to feed to 50 cows all they would 
eat. It took the place of grass, and the 
flow of milk was about the same as when 
they were turned on grass. I fed my 
cows about two months, and in that 
time, they consumed about two acres. 
“ When the heads began to turn brown 
in September, four acres of the sorghum 
were cut and put in the silo with corn, 
putting in one load of corn aud one of 
sorghum. As well as we could estimate, 
the sorghum made over 20 tons of green 
feed to the acre. As a feed, I think it 
better than ensilage corn, as seeds and 
sugar more than equal the grain, the 
way ensilage corn is usually planted. If 
it always does as well as it did last year, 
it is, by far, the best forage crop that 
can be raised, at least I have never seen 
anything to equal it.” c. li. wine. 
“Fighting Canker Worms.” 
M. V. Slinserland. —On page 338, 1 
find the following note: 
Another way of fighting Canker worms 
which may be used by those that do not 
have spraying machines, is to mix thor¬ 
oughly one part of soft soap and three 
parts of soft water, and apply with a 
swab on a pole to the nests, before they 
spread over the trees. w. e. 
Hector, N. Y. 
W. E. evidently does not understand 
what Canker worms are. He is talking 
about Tent caterpillars. Canker worms 
never make any nests, but always feed 
and live openly from the moment they 
emerge from the egg on the bark. The 
method suggested is all right for the 
Tent caterpillars, but could not be em¬ 
ployed against Canker worms. There 
are so many different kinds of insect 
pests, each working and living in its 
own peculiar manner, that one should 
always be very careful in making recom¬ 
mendations, and especially so when not 
sure which kind of insect is the depre¬ 
dator. 
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