1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
GREENHOUSE WORK IN JUNE. 
Rose Planting. —The month of June 
brings an important period in the green¬ 
house, from the fact that it is at that time 
that those who force roses for the Winter 
production of flowers begin the operation 
by planting out the young stock on the 
benches. The first part of this operation 
consists of clearing out all the old soil 
from the benches in question and giving 
the house a thorough cleansing by the re¬ 
moval of any dead leaves or other rubbish 
that may have been allowed to accumu¬ 
late in any part of the same. If the house 
or houses are detached, or properly sepa¬ 
rated from any other greenhouse in which 
plants are growing, it is also a good plan 
to give a thorough fumigation with sul¬ 
phur at this time in order to destroy all 
insects. Any rotten boards in the benches 
should also be removed and repaired, and 
the entire benching and side walls be 
given a good coat of hot whitewash, this 
being the cheapest and most satisfactory 
purifier for this purpose. The soil having 
been prepared beforehand in the propor¬ 
tion of four parts of rotted sod or good 
top soil to one part of good, short stable 
manure, and turned over twice in order to 
be thoroughly mixed, may now be brought 
into the house, and the benches filled to 
a depth of five or six inches. The soil 
need not be packed down in the benches 
at this time, but simply leveled with a 
rake, and the young plants from three or 
four-inch pots should be planted out at 
once, being spaced about 15 inches apart. 
Give each plant a good watering, but do 
not saturate the whole of the bed, simply 
giving a syringing to the remainder of the 
soil in order to keep it damp. Do not 
shade the young roses, but give an abund¬ 
ance of fresh air, and syringe them lightly 
twice a day in hot weather. In about a 
month the plants will have taken hold of 
the soil, and the latter may then be 
pressed down firmly with a brick or block 
of wood, afterward stirring the surface 
with a short-toothed rake or weeder. 
Keep the soil free from weeds, and in a 
few weeks more the first mulching of 
short manure may be put on, but do not 
put on too much at once, a, coating half 
an inch thick being enough now. The 
plants will be strengthened for the work 
of the Winter by pinching out all flower 
buds as they show until September, and 
the growth will become more sturdy by 
free ventilation both day and night at this 
season, while vigorous syringing will be 
required to discourage the attacks of red 
spiders and other insects. 
Carnations that are still kept in for 
Summer flowers, a practice that is not un¬ 
common among growers who do a retail 
trade, will need an abundance of water 
now, and all the ventilation that can be 
given them, and the flowers will be larger 
and better colored by having a partial 
shade on the glass over them, some grow¬ 
ers sprinkling thin whitewash on the glass 
with a syringe, or else putting a broad 
streak of whitewash down the glass with a 
brush. The light-colored carnations are 
the ones that sufTer most from the strong 
sunshine of the Summer, some of the deli¬ 
cate pink shades becoming very washy 
from this cause. 
Smilax. —The latter part of this month 
is also a proper time to plant a smilax 
bed, and just here it may be said that the 
most profitable way to grow this useful 
plant for cutting is to replant the bed each 
year with young stock, from which may 
be cut two or three crops of smilax in a 
season, though good results are also had 
by careful growers who cultivate the same 
bed for two years before replanting. A 
smilax bed should be made upon, the 
ground, that is, with the natural earth for 
a bottom, and using a six-inch board for 
sides, this bed being filled with similar 
soil to that suggested for roses, the young 
plants being planted in rows 12 to 15 
inches apart and about eight inches be¬ 
tween plants in the row. Galvanized wire 
should be stretched across the bed at the 
surface of the soil and also overhead, both 
wires to run parallel to the rows of plants, 
this forming a framework to which the 
vertical strings are attached for the sup¬ 
port of the growing vines. There is a 
thin green twine offered for the purpose 
of training smilax, this being the best for 
such use from the fact that the twine does 
not show, and thus need not be removed 
when the cut vine is used in a decoration. 
The kind of smilax plants that one should 
use for planting out are healthy and vig¬ 
orous seedling stock from three-inch pots, 
such as should be had from seed sown 
last January or February, it being useless 
to waste valuable time and space by plant¬ 
ing old plants or divisions of the roots. 
After planting the smilax should be given 
a light shading, and kept moist by fre¬ 
quent syringings, and as it is somewhat 
subject to the attacks of thrips during the 
Summer, it is a good plan to fumigate 
each week or ten days with one of the 
nicotine preparations. Ordinary tobacco 
stems may also be used for this purpose, 
but need more care in the application, for 
when used in too great quantity the to¬ 
bacco smoke is liable to cripple the tender 
young shoots of the smilax. 
Asparagus. —Two or three ornamental 
species of asparagus are also much used 
for cutting, the species in question being 
A. plumosus nanus, A. Sprengeri and A. 
tenuissimus, the two first being the great¬ 
est favorites at the present time. These 
also are planted out in beds at this season, 
but in the case of A. plumosus a high 
greenhouse is required to accommodate its 
full growth, strings 12 to 15 feet long be¬ 
ing grown by those expert in its culture. 
But there is also a large demand for short 
sprays of both this species and Asparagus 
Sprengeri, such immense quantities of 
this material being used in arranging fu¬ 
neral flowers and other decorations. For 
this purpose the asparagus may be grown 
on the side benches of a greenhouse in 
which the center is occupied by a smilax 
bed, the treatment required being very 
similar in each case, though the asparagus 
will probably utilize a greater quantity of 
manure than the smilax. Both plants are 
gross feeders, and both require a night 
temperature of about 60 degrees during 
the Winter, and abundant moisture at all 
times. w. h. taplin. 
NOTES ON DUST SPRAYING. 
Report From Delaware.— The Delaware 
Experiment Station, in Bulletin 09, gives an 
account of various experiments with the dust 
spray, and the conclusion is that the Codling 
moth and Apple scab were controlled by dust 
spraying, using Paris-green for poison. These 
experiments were conducted on Nero and Red 
Astrachan apple trees. The great advantage 
of the dust method is that it avoids a mixing 
house and storage tanks and the heavy work 
of handling liquid sprays. Prof. Close thinks 
that if tlie dusting method continues to give 
the favorable results given in this first trial, 
it will replace, in part, the liquid method, ex¬ 
cept where insects such as the San Jos6 scale 
are present, which must be fought during the 
growing period. lie suggests the following 
formula. One pound of pulverized copper 
sulphate, one pound Paris-green or green arse- 
noid, one pound of ground sulphur and 50 
nounds of llmoid, or other hydrated lime, 
lie would mix the copper sulphate and lime 
together a day or two before spraying, as this 
hastens chemical acfion between the two. As 
is pretty well known by this time, this mix¬ 
ture is blown out of a powerful bellows upon 
the foliage of the trees. The dust settles 
upon the tree, and especially when the foliage 
is damp, sticks there, and is expected to do 
the work of the liquids. 
Likes Dust Spray. —I like the dust spray 
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to bother with, and no barrel standing around 
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tatoes. gooseberries, currants, all grapevines, 
everything except trees. On the trees I use 
a bucket pump, with liquid spray: I find it 
very convenient to spray a few rose bushes, 
or to go over currant bushes for Currant 
worms. I use i’aris-greeu and Bordeaux 
mixed for Currant worms. c. 
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