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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 10, 
Ruralisms • 
VOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Hard Time for Strawberries. —The 
phenomena] heat of July 15-21, with tem¬ 
peratures approaching 100 degrees in the 
shade and 120 in the sun, proved too 
great a strain for many strawberry plants, 
especially on light, dry soil. Thousands 
were killed outright, and growth com 
pletely checked over large areas. The 
rainfall has been all along too scanty to 
encourage root formation, though suffi¬ 
cient at fruiting time to carry through a 
good crop, and the roasting heat, coming 
on at the period of greatest exhaustion, 
gave the finishing touch to the weakened 
plants, though all varieties were not af¬ 
fected alike. President and Gandy suf¬ 
fered most, more plants of the former 
being lost than any other. Sample. De 
Wet and Dornan were also greatly checked 
and weakened. Glen Mary and William 
Belt came through in fine condition, with 
Dunlap as a good third. The last days of 
July were marked by heavy, soaking rains, 
the best we have had since February, and 
surviving plants are likely to make a rapid 
growth where not allowed to be overrun 
with weeds. Runner plants will be late, 
and probably not overstrong. Growers of 
potted strawberry plants are generally be¬ 
hind in their orders, as the season, at its 
best, has not encouraged the early produc¬ 
tion of runners. It has seemed to the 
writer the pot-grown strawberry plant 
propaganda is greatly overdone. Cata 
logues are issued at the beginning of 
July with the implied assurance of quick 
delivery of plants that perhaps cannot be 
grown for several weeks; promises are 
made of full crop the succeeding year, it 
culture is well attended to. Practical 
growers know that plants of choice varie¬ 
ties cannot always be had in quantity be¬ 
fore the middle of August, and that Au¬ 
gust-set plants, no matter how coddled, 
They do not have the size and brilliancy 
>f garden tulips, but are far more graceful 
m form and gay in their rich, soft color¬ 
ing and vivid but refined markings. Some 
of the taller kinds of Mariposa tulip grow 
three feet high, bearing several broad, 
cup-shaped blooms three or four inches 
across, but the foliage is rather thin and 
sparse. Some work- has been done in se¬ 
lecting the best forms for cultivation, but 
we do not yet know how amenable the 
genus may be to the plant breeders’ art. 
With anything like the care and skill that 
has been bestowed on the garden tulip 
we may faintly imagine the transformation 
that perhaps awaits this Californian gem. 
An Earnest Worker. —Carl Purdy, 
Ukiah. California, has probably done more 
to bring the beautiful bulbous plants of 
his native State to public notice than any 
other individual. He began when a boy 
to collect bulbs for others, but soon en¬ 
gaged in the cultivation of the choicest 
kinds, and is now an extensive grower 
and dealer, supplying the home and for¬ 
eign market with the largest share of 
California plants consumed in the trade. 
He was the first to introduce and supply 
nearly all the choicer Californian bulbs 
now cultivated. The particular form of 
Mariposa tulip, Calochortus venustus, El¬ 
dorado strain, best adapted for general 
cultivation, originated with him, and is 
known for its broad, widely-opened 
blooms and great range of colors, from 
white to lilac, salmon purple and even 
deep red, all with conspicuous “eyes” and 
blotches of richly contrasting colors. Fig. 
259, page 614, was photographed from a 
very moderate-sized bloom taken from a 
plant of this type that bore seven flowers. 
The bulbs were planted last October in 
light loamy soil in a dry situation, par¬ 
tially under the shade of trees. They 
were set four inches deep and received 
no protection during the severest Winter 
we have had for many years. Frost pene¬ 
trated two feet or more deep in this part 
of the Rural Grounds. Half the bulbs ot 
these Mariposa tulips failed to come up in 
Spring, but the others bloomed superbly, 
growing over 20 inches high. It is usu- 
seldom yield a full crop until the second 
year. The new-style garden magazines a,ly adv,sed to take t!le bu,bs l1 P after 
of which we have.an endless series, tell the fohage dieS and store tIiem in dr y 
some tall stories of up-to-date .strawberrv 
culture with pot-grown plants as the 
basis, but the less we bother with them 
the better. It is well to disseminate new 
and scarce varieties in this way. but foi 
home or general planting good natural lay¬ 
ers quickly transferred to the beds in 
moist weather are vastly better. The pot 
grown plant well endures transportation 
and handling, but its cramped roots do 
not always take a good hold of the soil, 
and a feeble crown may result. If the 
runner or layer plant “catches on” it 
will always make a good crown, other 
conditions being equal. 
soil or sand until cold weather, before 
planting, to prevent them starting growth 
during warm Fall rains, but we have left 
ours as they grew in order to test the pos¬ 
sibility of permanently naturalizing them. 
No manure is needed and no cultivation 
seems desirable except the clearing away 
of weeds or grass that might hide the 
blooms. Calochortus bulbs are not very 
expensive. They can be had in mixture 
from most seedsmen issuing bulb cata¬ 
logues for 25 to 30 cents the dozen. Mr. 
Purdy retails his Eldorado strain in 
mixture for 25 cents the dozen. Under 
separate shades of color they run from 35 
to 50 cents the dozen. Many novelties 
he Mariposa ^ Fulip. Perhaps the and rare specialties not generally offered 
are to be found in his catalogue. 
w. v. F. 
most attractive and distinct of all native 
California blooms are the large-blossomed 
species of Calochortus, known as Butter¬ 
fly or Mariposa tulip. The genus is a 
large one, comprising many species grow- 
Somh of the 1905 Strawberries.— It is in¬ 
teresting to me to read in your paper the ex- 
. . . perience of others with strawberries grown, 
mg in light, dry soil in the mountain My experience in growing strawberries goes 
ranges of the Pacific slope, from Oregon l>aek over 40 years. This .year strawberries 
to southern California. Some occur as * iave d° ne ver 5' "ell. I picked my first June 
r- „ Tii , , , , 17, last July 21. The Salem was one of the 
‘ ‘ s c a 10, jut ^ ^ ai * be & iej iter first, and has proved to lie in quality and size 
number inhabit the elevated plains and first-class; Gov. Rollins, good size, holding out 
to the last, coloring all over. Aroma, 
medium to late, a first-class berry. North 
Shore, a late berry, large and solid, first-class. 
foothills nearer the coast. One group of 
Calochorti has globular blooms, white, 
pink or yellow in color, edged or filled 
with silky hairs. They are known as 
Globe tulip, and are rather shade-loving 
plants. C. Maweanus has large pure 
white flowers, filled with blue hairs and _ - 
is locally known as cat-ears. Another 
choice white-flowered species is C. albus , on 'be , table took all the prizes. 
Commonwealth, large, late, prolific; quality 
best. President, large, quite late, very slow 
to ripen. The lop of fruit looks as though it 
was ready to pick while underside is white 
1 have tried it two years; do not want it any 
longer. July 8 I took two quarts each of 
President, North Shore and Commonwealth to 
often called Lantern of the Fairies. The 
white hairy-edged blooms are an inch in 
diameter, and hang like pendant bells. 
Very Near the Tulip.— The genus 
Calochortus is botanically quite close to 
T ulipa. in which are contained the old- 
world tulips, probably the longest cultivat¬ 
ed of all florists’ flowers. The Calochorti 
are still in their natural state, most bulbs 
supplied being collected from the woods. 
" ,n ; Belt is another first-class strawberrv. 
As late as July 21 ] picked Commonwealth, 
fine fruit, sold for 25 cents per basket. I 
liavo thrown Oom Paul two years, It boars a 
long time fine large berries, quality good: 
one of the best. Lester Lovett and Gandy no 
later than Commonwealfli. not near as much 
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