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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3o7 
Topping Budded Peach Trees. 
M. (No Address ).—When is the best time 
to cut off the tops of budded peach trees, 
viz., before buds have started at all, or just 
as buds begin to start in Spring? 
Ans.— I always cut off the tops of 
budded peach trees before they start 
growth, or just as they do so. This causes 
the inserted buds to make as early a start 
as any, and by carefully watching and 
rubbing off the robber sprouts there is 
almost no chance for failure of the buds 
to grow. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Red Ears and Four-Rowed Corn. 
O. W. B., Iloosick Falls, N. Y .—Can you 
tell me why we find, in husking field corn, 
ears with but four rows of corn on the ear. 
and also red ears? I found in husking my 
corn this Fall a number of red ears and 
a good many with but four rows of corn to 
the ear. I asked these questions at the 
farmers’ institute and they said they could 
not answer me. 
Ans.— The dropping of four rows of 
kernels from ears of eight-rowed flint va¬ 
rieties is probably due in great measure to 
poor nutrition of the mother plant, which 
shows itself in this abnormal manner, in¬ 
stead of the usual small ear with eight 
rows. An ear of corn is formed by the 
growing together of four or more spikes, 
each bearing two spikelets. These axes 
of inflorescence usually grow straight from 
butt to tip, and by growing together lat¬ 
erally form the cob. The fact that each 
axis of inflorescence is branched is the 
reason that there is always an even num¬ 
ber of rows, and when from any reason an 
axis is added or lost, two rows of corn are 
affected. Red colored ears in varieties 
of corn which usually breed true to an¬ 
other color, that is, not recent hybrids 
with one red parent, may be regarded as 
variations which show the persistence of 
a character which had been possessed by 
some previous ancestor. Such reversions 
may occur after an entire absence for 
many generations. Our earlier types of 
corn from South America, its original 
home, were generally red or dark colored. 
Careful attention to seed selection, culti¬ 
vation and the needs of the soil in regard 
to the essential elements of fertility will 
reduce both troubles to a negligible per 
cent of the crop. e. m. east. 
CROWN GALL AND IMPORTED 
SEEDLINGS. 
Have nurserymen noticed that imported 
apple seedlings are as likely to develop crown 
gall as seedlings grown in the United States, 
or more especially in western Nebraska and 
Kansas? 
We have not observed any difference in 
French and American-grown apple stocks as 
to their being affected with crown gall. We 
use principally American stock, and have 
crown gall a-plenty. c. M. iiobbs. 
Indiana. 
We use a great many more western-grown 
apple seedlings than the imported French, 
but use some French seedlings every year. 
We have never seen any difference so far as 
the development of what is called crown gall 
is concerned. the storrs & harrison co. 
Ohio. 
We have never used the imported apple 
stocks. We have found that the so-called 
root-gall is much more prevalent on grafted 
apples than on budded trees. We are troubled 
very little with it, and when any shows at 
all it is always on the grafted stock. 
New Jersey. jos. h. black, son & co. 
We have used the imported apple seedlings 
quite largely on several occasions when the 
American grown were scarce. We have never 
noted any difference between the imported 
and the American-grown seedlings so far as 
development of crown gall is concerned, ex¬ 
cept that seedlings we are growing in Iowa 
are undoubtedly less subject to this disease 
than the imported. stark bros. 
Missouri. 
. We have never used French stock for grow¬ 
ing our apple trees but once, and this was 
two years ago. We have not dug any of 
these trees yet, and cannot say anything 
about it. W’e have seen but very little crown 
gall in our nursery. I am inclined to think, 
however, the seedlings have but little to do 
with it, but that the soil has more, or some 
insect in the soil. edwin hoyt. 
Connecticut. 
Me have had crown gall from France on 
Doth pear and apple stock, and while I have 
nu £serymen say there was not so much 
?.? hairy root or crown gall on the 
r rench roots, and others say that stock 
grown in Iowa or Nebraska had less crown 
gan tnan that grown In Kansas, I have thus 
r,?. 1 ’ o ee .n unable to find it so in actual fact, 
i here is a great deal of difference in apple 
stock from different growers in Kansas, and 
other sections of the West, and the same 
may be true from France. Isaac c. Rogers. 
New York. 
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