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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 25, 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Carry medicines or chemicals not needed The yield is very moderate, five or six 
in the usual vital processes of the plants, fair-sized prongy tubers to the hill—no 
but the idea will not down. Many tree- small ones. They are dark violet in 
growers cannot rid themselves of the color, with rather deep-set eyes and 
conviction that there is something tan- greenish yellow flesh. They boil quickly, 
gible in the idea of inoculating or vac- bursting their jackets and showing some 
dilating plants to control disease or en- fiouriness of flesh. The table quality 
Now for the Rust-proof Melon.—A hance vigor, and in the absence of direct and flavor is very good indeed. Both 
pleasing tale comes from the Far West P ro °f of its possibility see only faulty skin and flesh bleach or lose color con- 
that a veritable rust-proof melon has technique. Now comes a consular re- siderably when boiled, and come to the 
been developed by the simple process of P ort from Germany to the effect that a table in acceptable condition. The yield 
planting seeds from the fruits of the Russian experimenter with the difficult was no, better than Irish Cobbler grown 
only unaffected vine found in a Colorado name of Monrjetzki reports success in in same plot under similar conditions, 
field after a particularly severe visita- combating the chlorosis or yellow disease The market appearance is much infe- 
tion of rust, which is presumably the <&f European grapevines by injecting so- rior, but the quality is far better. As 
same as the destructive disease known as lutions of iron sulphate (ordinary green we have had a decidedly dripping sea- 
leaf-blight in the East. The leaves had copperas) in the roots. He claims the son it would appear that the new variety 
withered on all other plants, and the iron follows the roots to the depth of had fairly favorable conditions, 
prematurely ripened melons showed large more than a yard, following only the The True Commersonii. —Tubers of 
seed cavities and thin flesh of indifferent uew growth, and not penetrating the old the species were kindly contributed for 
or actually low quality. The selected wood. He thinks this method not only trial by J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, 
plant maintained its healthy foliage until introduces a positively nutritious sub- Mass., but received so late they could 
all its fruit had ripened up with small stance, but has its effect in controlling no t be planted until June 4. They were 
cavities, solidly .filled with seeds and disease germs. All this has a far-off small, round, yellow in color, with bitter 
thick flesh of high, rich quality. These sound, but is not without the possibility yellowish flesh. They have made a dwarf 
seeds produced plants having the same °f useful development. If it can be but luxuriant growth with neat light- 
characteristics. I hey remain unaffected, shown that plant sap really carries medi- green foliage and many erect branching 
while others are destroyed by the dread cina l solutions and brings them in vital stems constantly covered with highly 
disease, and bear melons of the finest contract with diseased or' weakened cells perfumed light lavender-colored flowers, 
flavor. It is to be hoped these state- a l°ng stride toward intelligent treat- The plants form neat clumps 15 to 18 
ments are true. There is nothing im- ment of obscure diseases will be made, inches high, and about the same across, 
probable in the idea, but the facts re- Botanical Potatoes. —Interest in wild Pollen is freely produced, but no fruits 
main to be verified. Radical improve- or natural species of potatoes as means have yet formed. There is little resem- 
ment in cultivated plants often starts with of breeding vigor and productiveness in blance in habit, leaf or bloom to the 
an individual showing desirable qualities, commercial varieties in unabated. About Violet variety. Mr. Gregory thinks S. 
'I lie Iron cow pea, resistant to eelworm all known tuberous-bearing Solanums Commersonii has merit as a flowering 
and blight where all others fail, origi- are being worked on by experimenters plant and at this stage of its development 
nated by the selection of a healthy plant here and abroad. The Uruguayan wild we are disposed to agree with him. It 
from an infested field, but it had the ad- potato S. Commersonii, has received most ' s c | a i me d that Commersonii will not 
vantage of thorough experiment station attention on account of the introduction SSaWe' V ; t r?als l,e i,a 0 ve d ' ! K/made, and 
tests before ^cncrsl dissemination. J lie to cultivation of \1. Lcibergcne s violet - though nicinv seed bcills resulted tlie seeds 
Melon rust or blight is so horribly de- colored variety with the claims that it were not viable. We have secured 
structive over such an extremely wide is practically disease-proof, thrives in some of commercial varieties pol- 
range of territory and fungicides even wet lands, is far more productive than 
when most faithfully applied, give so market kinds and is of excellent table Though Solatium Commersonii appears 
little relief, that a resistant variety, suf- quality. English and other growers, so reluctant to blend with the ordinary 
ficiently productive and of good quality however, say it can scarcely be a S. Maglia,. a promising species 
would be heartily welcomed Claims sport or hybrid of Commersonii as it is H^blid^ErprodVeTIran “"t^tfave 
and realities, however, are so frequently exactly similar if not identical in every been exhibited in England, and Luther 
at variance as regards horticultural prob- respect with Blue Giant, a German vari- Burbank claims to have bred it success¬ 
ions, that trials of melons claimed to be ety of the ordinary potato. The simi- 
disease proof should be most cautiously larity is said to cover every point of 
made. plant, flower, leaf, tuber and quality. 
Dissolution of the Joilnson-Stokes They do not in the least question the 
Seed Firm. —The partnership of Johnson good faith of the raiser, but think a 
& Stokes, Philadelphia, Pa., recently ex- .stray tuber of the German potato got 
pired by limitation. The business, so into his experimental field, 
successfully conducted for the past 25 We are not acquainted with Blue 
years, will be continued separately by the Giant, but have made trial of the Violet 
former members of the firm, Herbert W. Commersonii from tubers supplied by J. 
Johnson and Walter P. Stokes, doing M. Thorburn & Co., New York. Single 
business respectively from Nos. 217 and eyes, each with a generous slice of tu- 
219 Market street. The Johnson & Stokes ber, were planted April 20 in moist 
.catalogue was among the first to adopt loamy soil enriched with high-grade fer- 
truthful photographic reproductions for tilizer at the rate of 600 pounds to the 
illustration and has always been a model acre. The plants grew with consider- 
for neatness and reliability. The firm in- able vigor, were untroubled with blight, 
troduced many sterling novelties, per- as were all other varieties in the same 
haps the best known of which is the plot, but were equally affected by the 
Earliana tomato. flea beetle and Potato beetle larvae which 
Inoculating Trees. —The idea of dos- were controlled as usual by repeated ap¬ 
ing trees to drive out disease and renew plications of Paris-green. The foliage 
vigor by introducing tonics or medicines was ^ ar k S reen > stems and flower purple, 
into the sap circulation is doubtless as s ’ ni ^ ar to many commercial varieties, 
old as horticulture, and has been and ^ T ° l )err i es or seed balls were produced, 
still is the foundation of innumerable ^ i' e t°P s began to die in late July, and 
fakish claims and practices. The way- ^ le potatoes were dug August 8. 
back orchardist drove nails into his ==^==^====z=: 
trees to get iron in the circulation, and 
his modern prototype, at the behest of a 
glib-tongued agent, packs sulphur and 
secret chemicals away in holes previously 
bored in his failing trees, or smears them 
on the denuded bark in the hope of 
restoring pristine vigor, and most 
roundly pays for the privilege of doing 
so. The' practice has been time and 
again denounced by rural newspapers 
and by experiment station workers as 
futile where not absolutely harmful. 
f Scientists say the sap of plants will not 
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