1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
127 
Apples for British Columbia. 
,/ IV'. /’•. Proctor , B. G. — I Save the fol¬ 
lowing apples planted in my orchard, 35 of 
each variety: Northern Spy; Baldwin; 
King; Wealthy (Fall); Salome; Peter; 
Stark’; Walbridge; Ben Davis. I think of 
keping the first four named varieties, and 
top-working the last three over to one or 
more of the first four. About Salome and 
peter, I will ask your opinion as to whether 
to top-work or keep them? Please advise 
me as to the best unions in this list; that is, 
which varieties to work on which, giving due 
consideration to those kinds that I propose to 
adopt. 
A NS .—It seems to me a wise move on 
the part of the owner of this orchard to 
do about what he is contemplating, except 
that I believe that Yellow Newtown and 
Esopus Spitzenburg might be better to 
use in top-grafting a part of the undesira¬ 
ble varieties than to graft them all to 
those already mentioned by him as being 
valuable. These two kinds, Newtown and 
Esopus, are very choice apples, and suc¬ 
ceed well in several parts of British 
America, as I know from observation 
there within the past year. Unless it is 
positively known that they are not profit¬ 
able there I would surely set a good many 
grafts of them. Sutton is another variety 
that I would use for grafting on some 
the disease. It is known that some vari¬ 
eties are more exempt than others, just 
as is true of the resistant qualities of 
some kinds of grapes against phylloxera. 
As to the affection of the tops of the 
trees, there is some fire-blight, no doubt, 
. and there may be canker, too. This case 
really deserves the attention of the officials 
of the State Experiment Station, and I 
would advise applying for it. There are 
other orchards in the same vicinity af¬ 
fected in a similar way, in all probability. 
Planting healthy trees in soil that is free 
from the germs of disease should be done 
as a matter of prevention. 
H. E. VAN DEiMAN. 
Gathering Leaves. —I have been inter¬ 
ested in what has been written about gather¬ 
ing leaves. Our method is to take a piece 
of plank 18 inches square, nail a piece of 
board on each of the four corners about 
three feet long, with a sharpened nail in the 
end, on which to catch the bag. Take this, a 
bundle of large bags, and a rake, and you 
can fill them quicker than in any other way 
I have ever heard of. This Fall two persons 
filled 1G bags in 1% hour, ready to be 
brought to the barn when the team was har¬ 
nessed for some other work. They can be 
pressed down very close in this way. 
Danbury, Conn. mrs. n. l. f. 
of the trees Salome and Peter are not 
very desirable, and I would top-graft the 
trees of these two kinds, in addition to 
the Stark, Walbridge and Ben Davis. It 
would be impossible to name, with cer¬ 
tainty, just which varieties would inter¬ 
graft with the best results, but it is safe 
to act on the principle of putting those 
of equal vigor together, and not the con¬ 
trary. H. E - VAN deman. 
Diseased Apple Trees. 
R. N. P., Brooklyn, Mil .—Niue years ago 
last Fall I planted an apple orchard of 375 
trees. The first three years they did well 
but during the third and fourth years I 
noticed some twig blight on some varieties, 
especiallj the Gravensteln. I also noticed 
the bark on quite a number of trees had a 
sooty appearance half way around the body 
of tree. The fifth year it took 15 trees to 
replant with, as some of the 15 taken out 
were entirely dead and the remainder barely 
living. I have replanteTT the orchard three 
times, and I am sure 15 to 18 dead trees 
and probably as many doubtful ones are in 
the orchard to-day. The orchard is on a high 
piece of land. The soil is heavy at one 
end and tolerably gravelly and light at the 
other end. Some trees have grown very 
fast, in fact they all have grown fast enough 
but nine out of ten that are living of the 
first planting have dead bark on one side of 
trunk, and twig blight badly every year, and 
some have knots on trunk from first lower 
limb to ground. I would like to know if 
any of your readers- have had any such ex¬ 
perience, and whether they think it would 
pay me to keep on replanting my orchard, 
or would it be best to abandon the idea 
and grow something else in the same land? 
I replanted this orchard mostly with Ben 
Davis and York Imperial All of the Ben 
Davis are just as healthy and pretty as they 
can be, not one has any sign of disease, but 
the York Imperial are twig-blighted very 
little, none to hurt. 
Ans. —This seems to be a case of dis¬ 
eased trees as a result of a combina¬ 
tion of causes. In all probability one of 
the troubles is root-gall or root-rot in 
some form or forms. If the soil is perme¬ 
ated with the germs of disease they may 
have come from planting diseased trees, 
for many of the nursery trees have been 
badly affected, and for a long time, with¬ 
out the knowledge of the nurserymen who 
propagated and sent them out. Now there 
is much more known about these terrible 
root diseases and the nurserymen who 
sends out trees or plants affected with 
them is justly liable to censure, if not to 
prosecution. There seems to be almost 
no remedy for these maladies, but the 
most strenuous efforts are being made 
to discover some way to overcome the 
trouble. When the germs are once in the 
ground it seems impossible to destroy 
them. If a tree dies from root-gall or 
root-rot it is folly to plant another in the 
same place, for no matter how healthy it 
is it will soon take the disease. That is 
probably just what has occurred in this 
case under discussion, and if so, it will 
probably continue indefinitely. The fact 
that some varieties, and notably, the Ben 
Davis, has shown no signs of disease is 
merely an evidence of its ability to resist 
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