THE RURAL NEW-YORKER'. 
March 2, 
182 
HORTICULTURAL SHORT CUTS. 
The Stark Apple. —I noted recently an 
inquiry about the Stark apple. This variety 
hears very well every other year. The ap¬ 
ples are medium, but rot good cooking apples 
and are of poor flavor, not good sellers. They 
mav do better In other localities. a. l. 
Sycamore, Ill. 
Stoke Mulch for Trees. —I notice the 
comment in Hope Farm Notes of the issue 
of December 22 on the mulching of fruit 
trees with stones. We are bothered greatly 
here with the pocket gopher which will make 
its home under a pile of stones in prefer¬ 
ence to any other place, but I get the better 
of him by spading into the ground about each 
tree a half barrel of broken glass and old 
fruit cans, then place the stones on top of 
ground. Horace f. wilcox. 
California. 
Scott’s Winter Apple. —On page 928 S. 
B. Ilatheway asks for information about 
apples. I would recommend him to /try 
Scott’s Winter; we find it an early and 
annual bearer, the fruit of good size, if the 
trees are well trimmed and fertilized; a 
good color, being dark red. A grand culinary 
fruit, and fair for dessert; late in, season, 
when good apples are scarce; a good keeper. 
The tree is recommended as being very hardy 
and succeeding where the climate Is very 
severe. C. L 
Nova Scotia. 
Tiie New Grape. —I am anxious to try 
the new grape. Grapes are the most reliable 
fruit crop we can raise here. I still have 
the old vine that The It. N.-Y. sent me 
years ago of the Carman grape, and have a 
number of young vines also, propagated from 
the old one. I like the Carman; it is the 
best keeper I raise; it is later in ripening 
than anything else that I have, and I like 
the flavor, though some persons who try it 
complain of its thick, tough skin, but that 
is a good protection against wasps and other 
insects. c. e. b. 
Peavine, Tenn. 
Shavings for Mulch. —There is one ad¬ 
vantage in the use of shingle shavings for 
strawberries. They do not mildew, and the 
fruit is in perfect condition. If one wishes 
to propagate from the parent plants, he 
should remove the shavings as soon as the 
fruit is gathered, as the runners coming up 
all through the mulch makes It impossible 
to dig the new plants with any soil 
about the roots. We neglected to do this 
one season until it was too late, and then 
all we could do was to take the cultivator 
and drag the mulch, plants and all, out of 
the bed, and obtain new plants. F. c. c. 
Maine. 
Peach Beetles. —I saw an inquiry by two 
different persons about gum oozing from 
their peach and plum trees. You told them 
“gummosis.” Mine all were in same condi¬ 
tion a year or so back. I asked you about 
it, and reply was “gummosis.” Not being 
satisfied. I inquired of the entomologist of 
the Mississippi College at Starkville. He 
told me it was the “Bark beetle,” attacking 
the trees, and ! f I would look closely I would 
find him in Spring and Summer. Sure enough. 
I found him; a black, sometimes gray, flat 
bug, nearly round, one-half to five-eighths of 
an inch across; mash one and it smells worse 
than I imagine the Augean stables did. They 
sting the tree from the ground way up into 
the limbs. By scraping away the gum, and 
with a magnifying glass and sharp-pointed 
knife the little worm, if hatched, can be seen. 
I hunted the bugs last Summer and killed 
hundreds of them, but it did no good. They 
have killed all my trees. # o. h. b. 
Raspberries and Cherries. —Raspberries 
should not be checked in their growth by 
pinching their tops when two or three feet 
high, neither should cultivation lie stopped 
at midsummer, but they should be encour¬ 
aged to grow the entire season. By so doing 
the Cnthbert becomes hardy, and the fruit 
is larger. An amateur set his plants seven 
feet apart and allowed but one cane to grow. 
Such canes become more like trees. The 
ground was mulched nearly a foot deep by 
leaves and litter of all sorts. People want 
cherries ; sweet cherries were formerly abund¬ 
ant; now there are none. What is the cause? 
The reason given was that cherries were 
formerly budded on the Mazzard roots; now 
the Mahaleb stock is used almost exclusive¬ 
ly, which is true. But is that the sole reason? 
Does not the little black aphis, which be¬ 
gins its work the moment the tiny leaves ap¬ 
pear in Spring, form the chief cause of the 
loss of each sweet cherry crop and the 
early decay of the trees? Duke and Morello 
cherry trees bear bountiful crops every year; 
but these classes are not infested by pestifer¬ 
ous black beetles. So important is this sub¬ 
ject to the New England States that all of 
the causes of failure ought to be brought to 
light. J. w. ADAMS. 
Massachusetts. 
Melon Blight. —In regard to the Melon 
blight, which has been under discussion, we 
had the new blight or rust-resisting strain 
of the Netted Gem from Colorado, and the 
vines stayed green longer than any vines we 
ever had, sprayed or unsprayed. But as some¬ 
one has already written, it is later, and not 
quite so productive as the old strain, and 
with us it develops a very peculiar, un¬ 
desirable flavor, though it is very sweet. The 
disease appears on the vines of the new 
strain about as soon as on the old, but it 
does not make much progress. The melons 
of the new strain ripen very slowly. W e 
have never made much of a success using 
Bordeaux Mixture for blight, though we be¬ 
lieve if it was done exactly right it would 
do good. We found the 4-4-50 formula a 
little too strong when used frequently. We 
used dust Bordeaux also, and hurt some vines 
with it. The formula was three pounds fine- 
lv pulverized copper sulphate, five pounds 
sulphur and 100 pounds dry slaked lime. We 
think that 2-5-100 would be about right. 
and believe it will prove better than liquid. 
After all that has been written about Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture, the beginner has a great deal 
to learn that will come only by experience. 
We believe that the two most important steps 
'to success are very finely slaked lime and 
mixture well applied. 
North Carolina. R. B. bailey & SONS. 
Crows and Corn. —Some time ago I saw 
in The R. N.-Y. several plans to keep the 
crows from pulling corn, but none as simple 
as one I tried some years ago. The crows 
were very bad, and had taken the corn sev¬ 
eral times, and would even dig it out after 
being covered with a plow. I scattered some 
loose corn around on the ground after set¬ 
ting several steel traps in small holes; after 
being set as light as possible, covered lightly 
with fine dirt, so none of the iron showed, 
placed a few grains on the pan, and the 
crows did the rest. We caught two, and 
when the second one was caught it seemed 
as if hundreds came, after circling around 
for 15 or 20 minutes trying to find out the 
trouble (they were caught by the bill so 
could not squall), they left to shun the field 
the rest of that year; in fact, we never saw 
another in the field, while surrounding fields 
were badly damaged. e. t. d. 
New Matamoras, Ohio. 
Holland Pippin Apple. — I was especially 
Interested in your description of Holland Pip¬ 
pin, because of having a tree on a place I 
formerly owned, since died or destroyed. I 
have agreeable recollections of the fruit as 
being a most excellent cooking apple, and 
more than an ordinary eating apple out of 
hand. The local name of it was Harrison 
apple, probably beginning to bear about the 
time President Harrison was in office. At 
least that was the tradition in my father- 
in-law’s family. But I was convinced from 
getting the opinion of the wise heads of our 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society that its 
real name was Holland Pippin. I have been 
trying for 10 years to get trees or grafts of 
it, but have been unable to find it. Several 
of the nurserymen’s catalogues. offer it, but 
when I ask for it get reply that they have 
s-old out.. Will you give me the name of some 
reliable nurseryman who would have either 
the trees or grafts for sale? If so, you will 
greatly oblige. I need not say I am par¬ 
ticularly anxious to get from some one whose 
stock would be free from San .Tos6 scale. 
Massachusetts. Horace eaton. 
Red and Russet Apples. —I send you two 
apples which grew upon a Russet tree set 
by G. H. Randall, of North Rochester, Mass.. 
about 15 years ago. There were several 
bushels of Russets like the sample, and at 
the extreme end of one branch grew a cluster 
of six like the red one sent, apparently Bald¬ 
wins. No grafting or budding was done, and 
I can give no cause for the freak. The red 
ones were so crowded that they touched each 
other, and upon the very end of a twig they 
have been kept too dry and have withered. 
Will you test the quality of the two so as to 
see if they are unlike in taste as well as in 
color and' general appearance? ’Hie owner 
knew nothing of this novelty until some one 
passing saw it and called his attention to It. 
> GEO. W. HUMPHREY. 
R. N.-Y.—The apples were not in first- 
class condition when received, but we were 
able to make a fair test. The red one had 
the appearance of a Baldwin, although flatter 
in shape. The color was very distinct from 
that of the russet, and there was a percepti¬ 
ble difference in flavor. 
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I know vhat my Sap Spouts will do, bo I can afford to 
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The old-fashioned, gal¬ 
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Soil and Flavor. —One of the many things 
of Interest in The R. N.-Y. for December 22 
was the article on page 943, concerning the 
cause of variation in the flavor of a McIntosh 
Red apple sent from this State. Your sug¬ 
gestion as to cause I think has solved the 
mystery of the variation in the flavor of 
the apples on a Yellow Bellflower which 
has been a puzzle to me for many years 
They have a rich, spicy taste, quite different 
from the apples on all the other trees of the 
same variety. When I read the article above 
referred to and your suggestion, that it must 
or might be something in the soil, the fact 
came to my mind that our tree stands where 
a large old house was pulled down, over (50 
years ago. The tree had been growing there 
between 40 and 50 years. 
Connecticut. d. i. ellswortii. 
A 
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SCALE 
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