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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 16 , 
BRIEF GARDEN ANSWERS. 
Planting Grapevines. —April is alto¬ 
gether the best month to plant grapevines. 
If planted in the Fall they do not get hold 
of the soil and sometimes winter-kill. We 
would use good two-year vines. Dig wide 
holes and work in a handful or two of 
ground bone for each vine. Plant firmly, 
spreading the roots out naturally, and cut the 
top back so that not. more than two buds 
show above the soil. Furnish support as 
soon as they begin to climb. 
Hardiest Blackberry. —Snyder, Taylor, 
Eldorado and Ancient Briton seem to be the 
hardiest blackberries that have been thor¬ 
oughly tested in Northern States. Mersereao 
and Ward are newer kinds, but appear very 
hardy. Erie is often winter-killed. We 
have had no experience with Missouri Mam¬ 
moth. Ward, Minnewaski and Mersereau are 
good shippers, and should carry some dis¬ 
tance if well packed. Snyder is too soft. 
Erie is best for home markets. The Premo 
dewberry ripens about with Guthbert rasp¬ 
berry. All dewberries bear best when trellised 
or fixed to stakes. None is particularly 
hardy except when the canes are buried in 
soil or covered with snow. 
Insects on Hou.se Plants. —Probably the 
h st handy remedy for aphids or green lice on 
carnations and other house planls, where 
they cannot be regularly fumigated by tobacco 
smoke, is a solution of Sulpho-tobacco soap 
and water, about two ounces of the soap 
to a gallon of water. This should be thor¬ 
oughly sprayed all over the plants, and the 
application repeated once a week until en¬ 
tirely clear. Plants in pots may be dipped 
in this solution, wthout harm to the plants, 
but certain destruction to the insects. This 
soap may be had from seedsmen advertising 
in The R. N.-Y., in boxes costing from 10 
to 20 cents, according to size. The Carna¬ 
tion stem-rot is a well-known disease, caused 
by fungus germs attacking the stem of the 
carnation plant as it grows in the open 
ground. When taken inside In the Fall this 
fungus develops and soon kills the plant by 
causing decay of the stem. Little can be 
done for a plant once affected. The safest 
method is to grow the plants on rather light, 
dry soil, and only take in plants in the Fall 
that seem perfectly healthy at the collar, 
v here the stem comes out of the soil. 
Saving I'otato Seeds.— Probably the easi¬ 
est way is to cut off the balls when ripe, 
scrape out the seeds and pulp, spread on 
h otting or other absorbent paper until dry. 
then keep in a dry, warm place in paper 
envelopes until March or April, when the 
seeds can be rubbed apart and sown just 
like tomato seeds in pots or boxes in the 
window garden, hotbed or greenhouse. When 
the young plants have made one or two 
pairs of rough leaves they should he trans¬ 
planted about two inches apart in similar 
pots or boxes, and kept outside during pleas¬ 
ant weather until hardened off. About the 
middle of May they may be set in the garden 
like tomato plants, putting them in rich 
ground, about two feet apart each way. 
When the tops are ripe in the Fall the 
potatoes should be dug. Keep those grown 
by each plant separate from the others. 
They should run in size from a large pea 
to that of a walnut. The next Spring these 
little seedling potatoes are planted in the 
garden or field in the usual manner, and 
should produce full-sized tubers the coming 
Fall. Something of the value of the new 
varieties may be determined the second sea¬ 
son. but it is well to plant them, keeping 
each kind separate, for several successive 
years, selecting out the most promising kinds 
and throwing the others away. 
Bulbs and Seeds. —Tuberose bulbs should 
be dry and warm during Winter. If kept 
cool and moist, or even in a dry place below 
45 degrees, they will likely be injured, so 
that the bloom buds will not push, though 
the bulbs themselves may produce leaves and 
roots and grow vigorously. After lifting in 
the Fall they should be carefully cured and 
dried in a light warm place before storing. 
The most successful way of handling Gladi¬ 
olus seeds is to sow them after rubbing in 
a cloth to break up the chaff, thickly in 
boxes or pots of light, rich soil about five 
Inches deep. They should be covered very 
lightly, well watered and kept in a warm 
place until germination takes place, which 
should be in three or four weeks. The little 
seedlings should be very carefully watered 
and kept free from weeds. When warm 
weather comes they may be placed in a frame 
or sheltered place in the garden, taking care 
they are not exposed to beating rains, as 
the slender leaves are easily broken and 
corms do not form if injured the first sea¬ 
son. In four or five months the leaves will 
begin to turn vellow, and the pots or boxes 
should be gradually dried off. The bulblets 
or little corms can be removed by passing 
the soil through a sieve, and stored in dry 
sand in a cool, dry place, free from frost, 
until Spring, when they may be planted 
in drills like peas, in good garden soil, mak¬ 
ing the drills 12 inches apart and covering 
about three inches deep. Fair-sized bulbs 
should form by Fall, and may be wintered 
over as before and planted out next Spring 
two or three inches apart, in rows 18 to 20 
Inches apart. Many will probably bloom the 
third year, and all should come into bloom 
the fourth year under this treatment. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
Raising Fall Strawberries. — I set Fall¬ 
bearing varieties in the early Spring, setting 
them about one foot apart in the row ; rows 
30 Inches apart. I remove all fruit stems 
up to July 20, also all runners if any appear. 
The reason I prefer setting in the Spring is 
most of the plants will send out new roots 
from the crown, which will not die in August 
and September, as is the case with Fall-set 
plants. This is very important, as the plants 
need good, strong roots to mature the large 
crops they produce. Again, Spring-set plants 
do not have so manv leaves as when Fall-set, 
which are apt to get so large and bushy 
that it Interferes with pollenization of the 
blossoms. As to quality of fruit it is of 
better flavor than Summer berries. 
SAMUEL COOPER. 
A Sweet Apple.— Noticing your corre¬ 
spondent’s query on page 808 in regard to a 
sweet apple which was truly sweet, let me 
say that there is a large green apple raised 
in western New York, the juice of which 
produces a rich syrup of great sweetness, 
it is known as Sweet Greening or Green 
Sweeting. It is an early Winter variety or 
possibly late Fall, larger than any Green¬ 
ing I ever saw; not at all firm in flesh, hut 
quite unexcelled for baking. Eaten with 
cream it is “a dish fit for the gods.” 
SARA A. LITTLE. 
Peaches for Rockland Co., N. Y. — Your 
correspondent “N. H.,” page 824. got twisted 
up in the time of peach ripening. Some of 
the varieties are placed four or five weeks 
out of the way, notably the Ray, which 
ripens just ahead of the Mountain Rose, in¬ 
stead of later than the Salwa.v. Taken on 
the basis of Connecticut and Georgia ripen¬ 
ing for many years past, to get that list in 
proper order of ripening, it should read 
Waddell. Carman, Ray, Mountain Rose, 
Champion, Reeve's Favorite, Elberta, Willett, 
Stevens and Salway. J. h. hale. 
Connecticut. 
Belle Bonne Apple. — I am quite certain 
that 1 know the apple S. C. B., page 80S, is 
looking for. We knew it as the “Billy 
Bound.” I should say that it answered your 
description of the “Billy Bond." It was 
sweet without any acidity and was con¬ 
sidered the very best apple on the farm for 
baking. The old tree was over two feet in 
diameter 50 years ago: scions from it were 
grafted into a young tree on the farm. 
Canaan, Conn. J. a. s. 
The Belle Bonne apple that S. C. B. in¬ 
quires for has been grown in central Connecti¬ 
cut for a great many years, but always so far 
as I know by grafting, and never by propaga¬ 
ting in a commercial nursery. It was exhibited 
and a premium awarded on it at the annual 
exhibit of Connecticut Bornological Society 
in September last. It has the quality ascribed 
to it by S. C. B. of being very sweet, a 
dry sweet juice almost like honey before it 
is latked. This quality does not suit all 
people, particularly to .eat out of hand, and 
I think it has never been grown in any 
quantity. norman s. platt. 
Another "Seedless" Apple. —No doubt 
you have had all the seedless apples you care 
for. We in this vicinity have more than 
an average crop of apples, including those 
from an old tree on a nearby farm, which is 
a tree having a seedless apple, samples of 
which I send you with this; two apples that 
I would like you to examine and see if you 
find any seeds in them. The tree I think 
must be more than a hundred years old. for 
I do not think there has been an apple 
tree planted on that farm in that time, and 
this is nearly the only left except some 
scattering ones beside the old stone walls 
in the pastures. Apples here are mostly 
Baldwins, selling at 81.25 per barrel for 
No. 1 and $1 for No. 2. the purchaser 
finding barrels, putting up and carting them. 
Shrewsbury, Mass. s. d. w. 
R.. N.-Y.—The apple was of fair quality, 
though too ripe for its best. In shape it 
is somewhat like Bellflower. There is a 
fair-sized cavity at the center with tiny 
undeveloped seeds at the core. 
For the land's sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
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