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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 30. 
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; Ruralisms 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
A Fine Old-fashioned Shrub. —Fig. 
Sll represents in natural size a bloom of 
the double-flowering variety of Kerria or 
Corehorus Japonica, sometimes called 
Yellow Japanese rose or globe flower, and 
One of the most desirable of all Oriental 
shrubs. Though it is really native to 
China it will always be associated with 
Japan as one of the very earliest horti¬ 
cultural introductions from that country, 
having been brought to Europe as early 
as the year 1700. It was formerly much 
grown in this country, and fine specimens 
are to be seen about many old farm¬ 
houses, but it does not find the prominent 
place in new plantings its merits so plainly 
deserve. It is a most refined plant at any 
season of the year, forming clumps five 
to eight feet high and on rich soil often 
eight to 10 feet through. The slender, 
arching, light green branches have a 
graceful Winter effect. The toothed foli¬ 
age is attractive throughout the growing 
season, turning clear yellow in Autumn, 
but it is in early June when loaded with 
rich yellow blooms that it is most appre¬ 
ciated. The double form shown in the il¬ 
lustration is most popular, as the plant is 
of especially vigorous growth, but the sin¬ 
gle form is very beautiful, and in the vari- 
etv known as grandiflora both flowers and 
leaves are larger, but the blossoms are 
scarcely as enduring. There are also vari¬ 
eties with variegated foliage and branches. 
The one known as argenteo-variegata, 
with small foliage, edged with creamy 
white is very desirable, though not a vig¬ 
orous grower. The Kerria is not alto¬ 
gether hardy in northern situations, 
though winter-killing seldom extends fur¬ 
ther than the tips of the branches. It 
thrives in almost any situation, but at its 
best in rich, well-drained soils. If given 
partial shade the bloom is more enduring. 
Plants are offered at a moderate price by 
all nurseries dealing in ornamental shrubs. 
It is easily propagated by suckers and 
division, an old clump frequently being 
sufficient to stock a neighborhood. 
No Cure for Rose Beetles. —Can you tell 
ine what to do for rose bugs which eat our 
raspberry and grape blossoms? J. B. s. 
Amagansett, N. Y. 
This is one of scores of similar in¬ 
quiries sure to reach The R. N.-Y. at this 
season. More has probably been published 
about this persistent pest than about any 
other destructive insect, and the interest 
seems likely to continue long after the 
San Jose scale is relegated to the class 
of controllable pests like the Currant 
worm and Potato beetle. We have ad¬ 
vanced far enough in the warfare against 
scale to discover practicable means in 
lime-sulphur and soluble oils for its 
wholesale destruction, but we are still 
helpless in the face of an invasion of rose 
beetles. Hand picking of the adults each 
successive day during their flight, which 
may extend -from the last days of May 
throughout the entire month of June, ap¬ 
pears the only measure promising even 
partial relief. The most effective way is 
to use a pan of water and kerosene, hold¬ 
ing it under the infested blooms or foli¬ 
age while the awkward insects are 
knocked into it with a brush or other con¬ 
venient means. They 'are quite sluggish 
in early morning and though active are 
seldom shv, even in the heat of the day, 
so that astonishing numbers may be de¬ 
stroyed by perseverance in this method. 
The insect resists emulsions, oily sprays 
and poisons to a most disappointing degree, 
and as it feeds largely on buds and open¬ 
ing flowers it d<J>es not appear possible to 
get an insecticide where it would be. or 
could be, made effective even if the beetle 
were sensitive to its action. About every¬ 
thing has been tried, and The R. N,-Y. 
has reported experiments with almost 
every insect remedy from Pyretheum to 
hot water. It seems to be agreed that 
Bordeaux Mixture is fairly obnoxious to 
it and that the foliage of grapes, shrubs 
and nursery trees may to some extent be 
rendered distasteful to the beetle by 
spraying with this fungicide. 
A Serious Oubbreak.— After several 
seasons of minimum damage from Rose 
beetles the eastern counties of New Jer¬ 
sey are now suffering from one of the 
most discouraging invasions ever known. 
Cool, dry weather throughout April and 
May appeared to retard insect develop¬ 
ment more than plant growth. Scotch 
ar>-l Rugosa roses—of which latter class 
there are now many magnificent hybrids— 
bloomed to perfection unmarred by the 
pests and the Hybrid Perpetuals and 
hardy teas were just unfolding when the 
intense heat wave of June 9-11 brought 
out the beetles by uncounted thousands. 
All that was dainty and attractive in num¬ 
berless gardens was devoured in a few 
hours. Women wept over their vanished 
floral treasures, while their husbands de¬ 
plored the damage to the vineyards and 
fruit gardens. The blooming grapes were 
swept clean of buds and flowers and the 
foliage riddled. The leaves on young 
cherry and plum trees were quickly con¬ 
verted to ragged lacework, and even the 
fruits so crusted and bitten that great 
loss must ensue. Even apples and straw¬ 
berries, seldom attacked by the pest, did 
not escape. Foliage and fruits in many 
localities are seriously eaten. No experi¬ 
enced bird will touch this beetle with his 
horrible spiny legs, though he is not ob¬ 
viously offensive in other ways, but a 
considerable loss of ducklings is reported 
from eating the all-pervading nuisance, 
and it is probable the sudden decease of 
many chicks is due to the same cause. 
So numerous were the beetles and so 
eagerly did they fly towarej any white or 
light-colored object that laundry opera¬ 
tions were interfered with, as during a 
grasshopper plague. They quickly covered 
and marred white clothing exposed to 
bleach or dry. 
What to do? —The Rose beetle is a 
moral as well as economic pest. The fi¬ 
nancial loss in fruits such as grapes and 
cherries and the stunting of trees in or¬ 
chard and nursery is considerable, but the 
widespread disgust and disappointment 
at the destruction of floral treasures is 
more serious, as it has in many instances 
turned the tide of preference for rural 
life toward the city home. The amateur 
reasons that if he cannot enjoy the result 
of his horticultural endeavors he might as 
well give up the work. We are told by 
entomologists and we know by observa¬ 
tion, that the pest appears in cycles. While 
always with us in Spring, it is only at 
intervals that it becomes so overpowering- 
ly destructive. The eggs are laid in sandy 
meadows, and the larvae live for a sea¬ 
son on grass roots, appearing to cause 
lttle harm, but emerge the following year 
in beetle form to devastate our gardens, 
vineyards and nurseries. It has been pro¬ 
posed to plow up and cultivate all grass 
lands to reduce their numbers, but that is 
obviously impossible. As the Rose beetle 
appears to have no effective natural para¬ 
site or enemy, it seems as if the only 
effectual way to reduce its numbers is to 
vigilantly destroy the adults whenever 
found. Owing to its sluggish movements 
this is practicable, but the efforts of the 
occasional individual can have little effect. 
Sooner or later the public must campaign 
against the Rose beetle as it is now doing 
against the mosquito and as the New 
England States have been compelled to 
war against the Gypsy and Brown-tail 
moths. Possibly a solution of the diffi¬ 
culty might be found in arming all school 
children with brush and kerosene pan at 
the first appearance of the beetle and 
march them on the common enemy with 
the stimulus of suitable compensation for 
effective w.ork. A general onslaught one 
season would greatly reduce annoyance 
and damage and possibly diminish num¬ 
bers in following years. w. v. F. 
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SAN JOSE SCALE 
and other INSECT8 killed by 
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