1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
4o9 
THE SEEDLESS APPLE AT HOME. 
Regarding the “Seedless” apple, I know 
of no one in this part of the Arkansas 
Valley who is in any way interested in 
planting it, and what strikes me as a lit¬ 
tle peculiar is that no representative of 
this “Seedless Apple Co.” appeared be¬ 
fore the meetings of the United Fruit 
Growers’ Association at Denver at any 
session. Delegates representing some 
$3,000,000 output were present for three 
days, but not one word about “Seedless.” 
Session held on April 3, 6, 7 and 8 at 
Albany Hotel. As these sessions were 
the subject of much notice in the daily 
press at the time, and for some time 
previous, and as we were entertained by 
the Chamber of Commerce, wholesale 
fruit and commission dealers, general 
freight and express agents, Denver Fruit 
Growers’ Association, the Governor by a 
reception, also the mayor, we certainly 
appeared to be known. The only speci¬ 
men I ever saw was not strictly seedless, 
there were embryo seeds and a core; 
there may, of course, be better specimens. 
Unless the core is eliminated I cannot see 
any great acquisition. Canners must pare 
and slice by machinery, so all have ma¬ 
chine paring and it does not look that a 
coreless would give as good a hold to the 
forks, and the part pierced would be usu¬ 
ally not used as best product. And be¬ 
sides it will be long years before we are 
going to lay aside our Jonathans, Bald¬ 
wins, Spys and many others for any seed¬ 
less unless it be of supreme excellence. 
Manzanola, Col. t. lytle. 
CULTURE OF ASTERS. 
I notice on page 30G an inquiry about 
Asters. The large late-blooming kinds are 
the best, like Semple’s Branching, Perfec¬ 
tion and Victoria, and should not be set out 
too early, as to get best flowers and a long 
season of bloom they should not begin to 
flower before September 1 to 10. Any 
good ordinary soil that will raise a good 
crop of cabbage is suitable for Asters. 
Set 10 to 12 inches in row, with rows far 
enough apart to cultivate between, and 
give very thorough cultivation. Among 
the troubles of Aster culture are those of 
snails and cutworms eating the plants off 
soon after setting. The worst trouble of 
all, however, is blight just as blooming 
begins—Yellow blight or yellows. From 
1900 to 1.904 the losses here run from 10 
to 80 per cent. The season of 1905 was 
better, with very little blight. The only 
good bulletin I have seen on the subject 
is from the Massachusetts Agricultural 
Station, Amherst, Mass. F. H. b. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
MELONS UNDER CLASS. 
One of our readers in Michigan wishes us 
to state the proper temperature at which 
melons should be grown either for the whole 
season under glass or when the plants are 
started in glass houses for transplanting 
later. Also, how can damping oft' he pre¬ 
vented? Do you think that spraying with 
Bordeaux Mixture while the plants are young 
would prevent this trouble, and if so should 
It be used at the usual strength? 
We have had no experience in raising 
nniskmelons in hothouses or under glass. 
We raise plants under glass for trans¬ 
planting to open ground, but do not at¬ 
tempt to raise the crop under glass. In 
raising plants we keep the temperature 
at about 80 degrees, allowing it to run 
down to GO or a little lower at night. The 
best way to prevent “damping off” is to 
use sterilized earth, which can be done by 
heating the earth with steam pipes or in 
an oven. We do not think it would be 
practicable to spray with Bordeaux Mix¬ 
ture for this disease. If the Bordeaux 
Mixture is used it should be reduced in 
strength about one-quarter. It is an ex¬ 
cellent plan to spray the vines after they 
are set out in the open ground, as it pro¬ 
tects them from blight, which is often 
very destructive to melon vines. 
New York. Joseph Harris co. 
I have had no experience in growing 
melons under glass the whole season. I 
have found that to grow good plants for 
transplanting in the hotbed the bottom 
heat for the first week or 10 days after 
sowing should be strong, then rapidly 
lessening until there is little or no heat 
at transplanting time, which end is best 
attained by making a thin bed of fresh 
horse manure, which will be hot for a 
short time but soon gone. We have had 
very little trouble with “damping off 
when the bottom heat was good and the 
bed kept cool and not too damp. We try 
to keep the beds cooler than the heating 
manure, and the soil rather dry. Our 
experience with Bordeaux upon melons is 
that it must be used in a very weak solu¬ 
tion, not more than three pounds to 50 
gallons water, and then not on young 
tender plants. We have had trouble with 
it if used before the plants began to run. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. f. g. tice. 
Melons grown under glass are one of 
the most exacting crops that are thus 
cultivated, requiring much care and a 
high temperature. The seeds should be 
sown in small pots, placing two seeds in 
a pot. the stronger of the two seedlings 
being retained, and the other removed 
just as soon as the distinction may be 
made. A night temperature of 70 to 75 
degrees is the best for the germination 
of the seeds, and 65 to 70 degrees is a 
proper temperature for the young plants. 
It is essential that the young plants shall 
be planted out in their permanent posi¬ 
tions on the bench before they become 
starved, or root-bound in the small pots, 
for stunted plants seldom fully recover. 
Damping off is usually considered to be 
due to too moist and close an atmosphere, 
and the sprinkling of a little powdered 
charcoal or slaked lime right around the 
collar of the young plant will frequently 
obviate this difficulty. I do not know of 
the use of Bordeaux Mixture for this 
purpose, but am inclined to think the 
foliage would suffer from such treat¬ 
ment, the leaves of the young melons 
being, very tender. One of the most seri¬ 
ous pests to contend with when growing 
melons under glass is red spider, but 
careful syringing will do much to avoid 
this trouble, while frequent fumigations 
with nicotine vapor will also help in 
disposing of this pest and the aphis. If 
fumigation is performed with tobacco 
stems there is danger of scorching the 
tender young leaves, and although it 
would be effective for the aphis yet it 
would have little effect upon the red 
spider. The young melons may be 
syringed freely until such time as the 
flowers begin to open, but then the at¬ 
mosphere should be kept rather drier for 
a short time until the fruits are set. 
The melons are trained up to wires that 
are stretched from end to end of the 
roof of the greenhouse, the wires being 
kept a sufficient distance from the glass 
by being passed th rough long screw 
eyes, and as the fruits swell it becomes 
necessary to suspend them in slings of 
twine or some similar contrivance in or¬ 
der to prevent them from breaking from 
the vine by their own weight. Full sun¬ 
shine is required by the young melons, 
and ventilation on all days that the 
weather is fit, but it is best that these ten¬ 
der plants should not be exposed to cold 
draughts, and that the temperature 
should not at any time go lower than 
60 degrees. Artificial pollination is fre¬ 
quently practiced in the Winter culture 
of melons, being performed in the same 
manner as would be done with cucum¬ 
bers. W. H. TAPLIN. 
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