1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
563 
The Lincoln Plum. 
J. L. EL, Sparta, Pa. —I got a small 
tree of the Lincoln plum by mail about 
1890. I grafted one-balf of a Lombard 
plum tree in the spring of 1893. The 
Lincoln grafts are now full of plums 
measuring 1% inch long by four inches 
around, and are the nicest looking plums 
I have. The original tree is about nine 
feet high, and has a tendency to grow 
low and bushy. It bloomed the first 
time this past spring, but the sets all 
fell off. I do not think that it is cur- 
culio-proof any more than other plums. 
To Grow Large Melons. 
D. D. C., Dayton, O. —Pinch off the 
tip end of the vine 2}£ to 3% feet beyond 
the melon for watermelons, shorter 
for other melons, turn the end of the 
vine towards the root and fasten in that 
position by a clod or stone on a leaf ; 
the bend in the vine should be beyond 
the melon. In practice, I have found 
that the melon should be as large in 
diameter as a hen’s egg or larger, before 
being operated on, if the vine is very 
thrifty in growth. If done when small, 
they seem, from some cause, to fail to set 
a melon. 
Budding Time. 
W., Blair County, Pa. —It is the 
season for budding fruit trees. In damp 
weather and when the buds used are 
not fully ripe and dry, they will some¬ 
times decay when set in very soft stocks 
full of the moisture of rapid growth as 
the stocks should be for successful bud¬ 
ding. I have noticed that, in such cases, 
success was certain when the buds were 
set just above where an interfering side 
shoot was cut out—this wound seeming 
to serve as an outlet for the too redund¬ 
ant watery sap of the stock. When fully 
ripe and firm buds can be used, they re¬ 
sist the tendency to decay, and very 
rarely fail, unless the bud used happen 
to be a fruit bud. The wood buds are 
usually sharp pointed. All terminal 
buds, and most buds on stout shoots, are 
usually wood buds. 
Buds and Bugs. 
Fred Grundy, Ii.linois.— On page 481, 
I notice that Prof. Slingerland advises 
the use of poisoned bran mash for de¬ 
stroying cutworms. I must enter a vigor¬ 
ous protest against the use of such ma¬ 
terial as poisoned bran. I long ago 
learned that all kinds of song and tree 
sparrows, meadow, shore and field larks, 
blackbirds, quails, in fact, almost all of 
our best insectivorous birds, will eat bran, 
corn meal and other like substances, 
especially when swollen and softened 
by water. In scattering these materials, 
laden with poison, over our fields and 
gardens for the purpose of destroying 
a single pest, we are more than likely to 
sacrifice many of our most efficient 
assistants in the destruction of not only 
these, but hundreds of other equally 
pernicious pests. Prof. Slingerland, 
and all others interested in the welfare 
of the tiller of the soil, should use their 
influence in discouraging the employ¬ 
ment of any substance for destroying 
insects that will endanger the lives of 
our most effective allies—the birds. Feed 
the enemies all the poisoned clover, 
mullein, etc., they will eat, but don’t 
use baits that will kill off our feathered 
songsters. 
I said last fall that, unless we had an 
abundance of rain during the winter or 
this summer, chinch bugs would sweep 
the country. Well, we had the neces¬ 
sary quantity this summer, and the bugs 
are not. Billions were ready for busi¬ 
ness when spring opened, and they 
started in to do up the husbandman in 
great shape ; but the overplus of fluid 
was too much for them. They were 
soaked and resoaked, and the sap of 
their favorite plants was attenuated 
until it was no better than water, and 
so they died—soaked, chilled and starved 
to death. Potato beetles tried hard to 
get sustenance enough out of the water- 
soaked vines to multiply properly ; but 
the effort was vain, and we shall harvest 
a good crop of tubers—if they don’t rot. 
Certain Raspberries in Iowa. 
M. J. G., Adel, Iowa. —In the spring 
of 1895, I planted 50 Columbian rasp¬ 
berry tips, which made a vigorous 
growth, but owing to extreme drought 
during the summer, no attempt was 
made to root the tips, as the hot soil 
would have burned them off at once. 
Eain came late in August, and as soon 
thereafter as practicable, the soil was 
stirred, and the tips—more than 1,000 
—were buried. Severe freezing occurred 
last fall about a month earlier than 
usual, and caught the plants in full 
growth, the result of late cultivation 
and warm, wet weather. As a natural 
result, most of the lateral canes were 
killed from where they entered the 
ground, back to the main canes; yet 
the roots of the tips were uninjured, 
although the soil was unprotected and 
alternately froze and thawed a number 
of times during the winter. The unin¬ 
jured portion of the canes gave a good 
crop of fruit, while from the crowns 
sprang strong, bearing shoots, which 
produced as many as 275 berries each. 
The first ripe berries were gathered July 
2, and now (July 29), there are yet a few 
good specimens, thus prolonging the 
season three weeks beyond that of the 
Gregg. Presuming that, under normal 
conditions, the Columbian will prove 
hardy in Iowa, it now promises to sus¬ 
tain all claims made for it by the intx-o- 
ducers. 
The Redfield raspberry originated in 
this county, and, if I have the history 
straight, is a cross between the Turner 
and Mammoth Cluster. The foliage re¬ 
sembles that of the Turner, yet the plant 
propagates by tips, and is entirely hardy. 
The fruit resembles the Columbian in 
color, is not quite so large, but slightly 
better in quality. 
Ruralisms of July 18, notes that most 
plants of the Gault have one or more 
broadly fasciated stems. Out of 25 plants 
set in the fall of 1895, but one exhibits 
this peculiarity here. The old wood 
bore a few clusters of fruit which 
ripened the last of June ; it was very 
large and of high quality. The young 
growth was pinched off when about 18 
inches high, and blossoms are now ap¬ 
pearing on the laterals, which indicates 
that it will bear in fall, as represented. 
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