1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
793 
GREENHOUSE WORK IN NOVEMBER 
Fungus Troubles. —The month of No¬ 
vember not infrequently brings with it a 
number of dark and cloudy days, and it 
is at such times that the greatest care is 
required in watering plants under glass. 
In the first place, the growth of most 
plants is very slow at this season, and 
consequently they do not take up water 
with the same rapidity that has been done 
earlier in the season and that will be done 
4 again after the days grow longer. In the 
second place, the short, dark days are 
especially favorable for the reproduction 
and growth of various fungi that feed 
upon vegetable tissues. 'One of the most 
serious forms of fungus that the rose 
grower under glass has to contend with is 
that commonly known as “black spot,” 
and this trouble very frequently appears 
at this season on American Beauties, and 
also on La Franc? and most of the Hybrid 
Tea class of roses, to which the last 
named, variety belongs. This fungus ap¬ 
pears on the lower leaves of the rose 
plants first, just the reverse of the mildew, 
which shows on the young and tender 
growth first, the affected leaves showing 
the characteristic black spots or blotches 
and ultimately dropping off, the disease 
gradually progressing up the stems until 
they are almost denuded of foliage, the 
growth of the plant being checked or 
stopped in severe cases. Keeping the 
roses somewhat drier and warmer is the 
treatment generally used for this fungus, 
at the same time being very careful to 
pick off and burn all affected leaves, thus 
destroying myriads of the spores of the 
fungus. Thorough cleanliness is the key¬ 
note of the successful rose grower, and 
he therefore keeps a continual watch for 
“black spot,” decayed leaves, mildew and 
aphis, and while doing this he carries 
around with him a ball of string in order 
to tie up any unruly shoots that he may 
meet with while removing all weeds and 
rubbish from the beds. 
Fumigation.— For the aphis there is no 
better remedy than the fumes of nicotine, 
and while nicotine preparations are much 
more costly than the tobacco stems that 
were formerly the specific for these trou¬ 
blesome insects, jet the results are better, 
for the nicotine vapor is practically free 
from ammonia, and consequently does not 
bleach or discolor the delicate flowers of 
the roses, as was the case with tobacco 
smoke. 
Watering. —It is difficult to lay down 
rules for watering, the practice of the 
old gardener being to water a plant when 
it was dry. but the difficulty lies in teach¬ 
ing a person just the condition of dry¬ 
ness that calls for a good watering, it 
being one of the things in which experi¬ 
ence is the best teacher. But the roses 
will need a vigorous syringing over and 
under the foliage almost every bright day, 
and unless the soil is specially retentive 
of moisture, a watering at the roots about 
once a week, the frequency of the latter 
operation depending very much on the 
weather. 
Cutting Bed Fungus. —The cutting 
bed or propagating bench sometimes de¬ 
velops trouble at this season, and, in fact, 
throughout the Winter in dark and damp 
weather, the trouble referred to being an¬ 
other fungus that causes the cuttings to 
rot off in the sand, “damping off" being 
the term generally applied to this trouble. 
This trouble is encouraged by allowing 
the cuttings to wilt from exposure to the 
sun, and then watering too much and 
keeping the atmosphere too close. Fresh 
air is one of the best preventives of this 
fungus, but at the same time avoiding 
direct drafts over the cuttings, and when 
the fungus does appear all the cuttings 
affected by it should be promptly re¬ 
moved, for this fungus spreads very rap¬ 
idly. If a cutting bed becomes badly 
infected by fungus it is a good plan to 
remove the sand from the bench, give the 
latter a good coat of hot whitewash, and 
then refill the bench with fresh bar sand, 
but in case this cannot be done, the next 
best method would be to give the sand a 
good soaking with boiling water before 
putting in another crop of cuttings. 
Pot Bulbs. —The new purchases of 
flowering bulbs for Winter forcing are 
usually received from the dealers during 
this month, among them being the hya¬ 
cinths, tulips and lilies of the valley, most 
of which are either planted in flats or pots 
as soon as received and then stored in a 
cold frame with a covering of old soil 
two or three inches deep to protect them 
from the weather. While it is not, strict¬ 
ly speaking, a part of greenhouse work, 
yet there may be some readers whose cus- 
lirners desire bulb beds for the following 
Spring, and to those it may be remarked 
that the early part of this month is not 
too late to plant the tulips and hyacinths, 
but dig the beds deeply, and then plant 
the bulbs four to five inches beneath the 
surface and a good showing may be ex¬ 
pected next Spring. 
Marketing Cut Flowers. —The pick¬ 
ing and preparation of flowers for market 
f 
is one of the parts of the work in which 
much skill and discretion should be exer¬ 
cised, good judgment being needed in or¬ 
der to know just what condition a flower 
should be at the time it is cut. Some 
roses open out much quicker than others, 
and these things must be taken into con¬ 
sideration if one would get the best re¬ 
sults. There is also a certain limit to the 
development of a carnation upon the 
plant, after which the Bower may be im¬ 
proved by cutting and placing in water 
for a few hours. In fact, all flowers that 
are to be packed and sent away to a dis¬ 
tance should be given a few hours in 
water after cutting, this treatment not 
only allowing them to absorb a sufficient 
quantity of water to keep the flowers in 
good condition during the journey, but 
also improving them greatly in size. 
Chrysanthemums, carnations and roses are 
all greatly improved by being placed in 
water in a cool cellar for about 12 hours 
before they are shipped to a distance, a 
temperature of 45 degrees being a good 
one for the storage of flowers. Violets 
also should be _ put in water for a few 
hours before shipping, though these flow¬ 
ers must be sold as fresh as possible to 
retain their delightful odor. Never sprin¬ 
kle violet, carnation or Chrysanthemum 
flowers after cutting, but simply place 
their stems in water and allow them to 
drink in all the pure water they will, and 
thus to swell out their petals to the full 
size. Roses may be dipped or sprinkled 
after cutting, and seem to like it. but the 
carnations and violets are much better 
without it. 
The Easter lilies that were potted about 
a month ago may still remain in the cold 
frame, unless there is promise of severe 
weather, for a little frost will not hurt 
them, and Easter of ]90f> will be ajate 
one. w. H. TAPLIN. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES, AND TRADE . 
Potatoes have advanced 25 cents per 
barrel and the market Is firm. A fair sized 
shipment of German grown tubers has 
arrived. The price is now at a figure to 
encourage imports. Ordinarily great quanti¬ 
ties of German potatoes are used in making 
alcohol, but a figure much above $2 per 
barrel will divert part of the surplus ordi¬ 
narily used in alcohol and starch factories. 
Except in years of absolute crop failure in 
large potato sections, there is little prob¬ 
ability of the excessive prices obtained in 
former years. 
“Why are such odd figures as $1.12. $1.62, 
etc., given in market quotations? I never 
see $1.13 or $1.63. Why these odd 2s?" 
asks a reader. In many cases, and probably 
in those referred to, this is a relic of the 
old shilling of 12% cents; $1.12 would be 
nine shillings, lacking the half-cent, which 
the the seller would “throw-off" in an effort 
to appear generous. In bargaining the shil¬ 
ling is often used, though there is now no 
such denomination of American money. The 
even numbers, such as two, four, six or 10 
shillings, do not seem unusual, as they 
amount to multiples of our decimal currency. 
Another advance of one cent in prime 
creamery and State dairy butter is noted, and 
a fractional rise in other grades. The scar¬ 
city of really fancy creamery is not so much 
due to light receipts as to the scanty pro¬ 
portion that will score high. Rutter making, 
though greatly improved of late years, is still 
far from an exact science. Probably there 
is no one feature so troublesome to the 
ereameryman as the dirt in the milk fur¬ 
nished by many patrons; it is an impossi¬ 
bility to make uniformly prime butter from 
milk of this class, no matter how much caie 
is taken in feeding the cows and handling the 
cream. And here is the difficulty under 
which hundreds of farm women labor. They 
seem unable to make good butter, and the 
man of the house lays it all to the woman, 
when it is the filthy carelessness of the milk¬ 
ers that is discounting every pound of butter 
three to five cents. It is some bother to milk 
cows properly even when cleanly kept, but to 
get clean milk from animals kept in a filthy 
stable is an impossibility unless a milking 
machine is used, so that the milk vessel is 
not open to the stable air. From a sani¬ 
tary standpoint there is more need of legisla¬ 
tion against dirty milk than watered milk. 
H. 
Maple Sugar Makers 
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Evaporator Works, 
Warren, Ohio. 
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There is an average saving of *11 on stoves, 
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