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T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Augrust 4 , 
Ruralisms | 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Automobile Dust.—A new and serious 
menace to horticultural interests every¬ 
where are the dust clouds so freely raised 
on country roads by swift-speeding auto¬ 
mobiles. Hedges, trees and shrubberies 
are so coated as not only to appear un¬ 
sightly, but to suffer in health. Lawns 
and hayfields are crusted to the extent of 
rendering forage from the latter unpalata¬ 
ble, and at times dangerous to animals 
consuming it, as mentioned in the mar¬ 
ket notes on page 544. The effect on 
fruits and vegetables grown near much- 
traveled roads is equally disastrous. Un¬ 
less gathered immediately after heavy 
rains these products are so grimy as to 
disgust users. Complaints of damage are 
becoming numerous. We hear of a de¬ 
mand by a European nurseryman on the 
road authorities for compensation for a 
ruined business. Minor losses and dis¬ 
comforts to householders are so common 
that we may expect an insistent demand 
for the abatement of the automobile 
speeding nuisance or its confinement to 
roads especially watered or oiled for the 
purpose. It needs no prophet to predict 
the days of fast running on ordinary roads 
are numbered. The dust evil, when wide¬ 
ly recognized, will accomplish what the 
physical dangers and inconvenience to le¬ 
gitimate road users have failed to do. It 
is not a question of staying the hand of 
progress, but of utilizing a beneficent in¬ 
vention in a rational manner. The auto¬ 
mobile is yet in its incipient stage, and the 
imagination can scarcely conceive of the 
ultimate possibilities of its usefulness, but 
it is already demonstrated that country 
roads are not proper mediums for the 
development of high speed with any form 
of vehicle whatever. If automobile drivers 
wish to travel over ordinary dirt or stone 
roads they should not be allowed to do so 
at a speed likely to raise destructive dust 
or inconvenience other users. If they desire 
to speed their machines it should only 
be permitted on roads especially prepared 
for the purpose. The automobile nui¬ 
sance is a matter for health boards rather 
than police authorities to deal with, and 
every sufferer should make his demands 
in a forcible manner. 
Greig's Gorgeous Tulip.— Many hand¬ 
some tulip species are known, and new 
ones are quite frequently discovered as 
botanical explorations are pushed to the 
more remote countries of Central Asia. 
They are little cultivated out of botanical 
gardens, though often more worthy of ad¬ 
miration than the showy florists’ varieties 
so universally planted. One of the excep¬ 
tions is 1 ulipa Griegi, a native of Tur¬ 
kestan, which was widely advertised some 
years ago as the “Queen of all tulips.” 
It was prominently offered by mail-trade 
houses and was doubtless well distributed 
among amateurs fond of choice novelties 
in bulbous flowering plants. We do not 
find that general success attended the 
trials, as the bulbs then sent were usually 
collected specimens, too small and weak to 
respond to the cultivator’s efforts, and few 
blooms seem to have been secured. We 
recall a planting of a dozen bulbs, secured 
at no trifling expense, only three of which 
ever made any leaf growth, and from 
which no blooms were ever secured. An¬ 
other dozen of larger bulbs was planted, 
eight of which grew, while three blos¬ 
somed the first season and all bloomed tire 
second and several successive years. At 
sight of these magnificent flowers and the 
beautifully mottled foliage one could read¬ 
ily agree that Grieg’s tulip is the choicest 
gem of a beautiful genus. Since then a 
group of 25 strong cultivated bulbs, bed¬ 
ded in sandy peat brought from a neigh¬ 
boring swamp, have given such exceeding¬ 
ly fine blooms as to confirm the title of 
the sovereign of all tulips in our estima¬ 
tion, and we are content to overlook the 
rather short life of the species under cul¬ 
tivation, for it does not appear well adapt¬ 
ed to garden treatment or artificial prop¬ 
agation, the commercial supply of bulbs 
being kept up by collecting wild speci¬ 
mens. This species blooms early in May, 
sending up several broad green leaves 
crinkled at the edges, blotched with purple 
brown, and crowned with an immense 
bright orange-scarlet flower, as large as 
a coffee cup. When open to the sun they 
are more than five inches across, and are 
very lasting if protected from strong 
winds. Sandy or peaty soil appears to 
suit them best, and though doubtless as 
hardy as other tulips one feels disposed 
to protect the very attractive foliage from 
late frosts by some loose covering put on 
when unusual cold threatens. There is 
a tendency under cultivation for the scar¬ 
let color, the glowing tint of which is 
quite unique among tulips, to “sport” to 
golden yellow. Our planting this year 
had all variations and combinations of 
scarlet and yellow in the form of broad 
central stripes down the petals. While 
the yellow and variegated forms are very 
lovely our preference is for the typical col¬ 
oring of the wild type. Much better bulbs 
are now in commerce than formerly and 
are offered by all dealers at about 15 cents 
each. They are not adapted for pot cul¬ 
ture as often shown in illustrations but 
are well worth trial in the garden. They 
should be planted in early Autumn like 
other tulips, giving them light soil and 
no manure. 
Other New Tulips. —We have grown 
some recently discovered tulip species with 
fair success, and find Tulipa Tubergeniana 
from Bokhara, the most showy. It has a 
large bulb and is a strong ^nd thrifty 
grower, with unspotted green, pointed 
foliage and immense scarlet flowers with 
a black and yellow basal blotch, the point¬ 
ed petals spreading nearly seven inches 
when fully’- opened. A noticeable feature 
is the abundance of pollen, the large an¬ 
thers shedding nearly a teaspoonful soon 
after the flower opens. It is a lasting, 
brilliant and decorative flower, worthy of 
a place in any garden, and apparently well 
adapted for cultivation. 
Tulipa Micheliana is another new 
Asiatic species allied to Grieg’s tulip and 
having brown-marked foliage of the same 
character, but scarcely as attractive. It 
is a very early bloomer, the flower being 
quite large, deep red in color, with a very 
black blotch. It grows here about eight 
inches high and is very showy, but the 
bulbs do not renew themselves after 
blooming. 
Tulipa Fosteriana is a rate novelty 
something like T. Tubergeniana, but with 
narrower flowers that do not appear to en¬ 
dure the sun well. The basal blotch is 
brown rather than black. It is, however, 
a handsome species. Unfortunately these 
new kinds are not offered in this country. 
They cost from 18 to 50 cents each in Hol¬ 
land. _ w. v. F. 
FAN FOR CLEANING GRAPES 
G. Baltimore, Md .—We have been 
asked for a fan to clean grapes; party in 
question has a large vineyard, and when 
he gathers the fruit, there are lots of leaves 
and trash that he wants to blow out. Do 
you know of a manufacturer making such 
a machine? 
There is for certain no such a thing 
as a fan for cleaning grapes used in this 
section. Nor can I conceive a way of 
gathering grapes that would make the 
use of a fan necessary. Grapes come to 
us by the ton, in all sorts of packages, 
but never a need of a fan to clean them. 
A little hot air to the pickers is all that 
he needs. N. H. 
Ulster Co.. N. Y. 
I have never heard of such a machine. 
I cannot understand why one would want 
to use such a thing. A. I. LOOP. 
Pennsylvania. 
All of the grapes that I have ever seen 
picked are picked by hand into baskets 
or crates, and are entirely free from 
leaves or trash of of any kind. If your 
reader is a southern man, and is growing 
Scupperong grapes, it is possible he might 
experience the difficulty he mentions. 
These grapes, as you probably know, are 
usually grown on an arbor, and produce 
fruit more like plums than grapes. The 
clusters seldom have more than three or 
four berries, and more often only one. 
The grapes are usually gathered either by 
shaking them off the vines or knocking 
them off with a pole. He says, however, 
that he has a large vineyard. I have 
never known the Scuppernong grown in 
vineyards, but think they are quite gen¬ 
erally grown in some portions of the 
South. Certainly a machine of the kind 
he asks for would be of no use whatever 
in gathering grapes in any of the North¬ 
ern States and I have never heard of one 
being used anywhere. e. h. p. I 
Pennsylvania Alfalfa.— Two years ago 
I gave a description of a trial patch of 
Alfalfa. I plowed up a part of It, but have 
just 2G rods now; it is a wonder to every¬ 
one, and scarcely a day but I must answer 
some question about it. June 12 I cut 13 
large cocks of hay from it and now it is 
nearly two feet high and just beginning to 
blossom. w. b. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
IVh fix j’oti write advertisers mention The 
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process of its manufacture, the As¬ 
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Roofing, undergoes a secret chem¬ 
ical treatment, which renders it ab¬ 
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Hence 
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