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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Oct«ber 26, 
Ruralisms 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Big Leaves on Little Trees. —Land¬ 
scape gardeners occasionally obtain lux¬ 
uriant foliage effects by the use of Ailan- 
thus and Paulovvnia trees that are cut 
down every season after being estab¬ 
lished several years. Immense leaves are 
produced on the young shoots that grow 
up rapidly in Spring. Ailanthus treated 
in this way makes an excellent screen, 
the verdurous shoots often bearing leaves 
more than two feet long. The effect is 
tropically luxuriant, but the leaves di¬ 
minish in size when the growths are al¬ 
lowed to remain the succeeding year. 
Young Paulownias are not very hardy in 
the North, so that the shoots are occa¬ 
sionally killed to the ground or snow line. 
The Catalpa-like leaves are immense, 
sometimes quite two feet long and near¬ 
ly as broad. Sumachs, basswoods and 
mulberries may also be used in the same 
way. The Japan walnuts, Juglans Sie- 
boldiana and J. cordiformis, are ex¬ 
tremely effective when young, the great 
compound leaves on thrifty young trees 
reaching nearly a yard in length. As 
with all the others named, the leaves di¬ 
minish in size as the trees gain in age 
until a balance is maintained at maturity. 
These walnuts sucker well when cut, but 
would not likely grow fast enough to 
preserve the screen effect so practicable 
with the Ailanthus, but readily spring 
again. Paulownia imperialis, where suffi¬ 
ciently hardy, is a noble ornamental tree, 
30 feet or more high, bearing in Spring 
before the leaves come out great panicles 
of fragrant violet flowers, resembling in 
form and appearance those of the Amer¬ 
ican Catalpas. The conspicuous Winter 
flower buds occasionally succumb to hard 
frosts north of Long Island Sound, and 
the woody seed capsules, looking like 
clusters of large nuts, hang on at times 
for years. This habit of retaining dry 
pods is the only objectionable feature. 
Paulownias are sparingly naturalized 
through the Eastern States. Volunteer 
seedlings are not uncommon near the Ru¬ 
ral Grounds. 
The Lily-leaved Sunflower. —A most 
distinct and stately hardy plant, too sel¬ 
dom seen in gardens, is the Lily-leaved or 
Fountain sunflower, Helianthus orgyalis, 
native of the drier portions of the Mid¬ 
dle West from Texas to Nebraska and 
Colorado. It forms in good soil a mag¬ 
nificent clump of innumerable tall leafy 
stems, often rising 30 feet high, bearing 
in late Summer great masses of single 
yellow blooms, of the ordinary sunflower 
type. The floriferous portion of the 
stems varies from two to four feet in 
length, and makes a showy decoration 
when cut and placed in water in tall con¬ 
tainers. They are fairly lasting when 
used for such purposes, keeping fresh in 
cool rooms until the third day after cut¬ 
ting. The foliage is, however, the most 
distinct feature, differing from all other 
sunflowers in being narrow, lance-shaped 
and thickly set about the stems like that 
of most familiar lilies. The towering as¬ 
pect of the stems and the slightly droop¬ 
ing habit of the leaves has suggested the 
name of Fountain sunflower, which is 
occasionally used to designate the plant. 
There are some good wood cuts of the 
Lily-leaved sunflower in existence, notice¬ 
ably the one in Bailey’s Cyclopaedia of 
American Horticulture, but we have 
never been able to secure a photograph of 
a clump suitable for illustration. There 
seems always too much motion and too 
great confusion in the garden back¬ 
grounds of accessible plants for clear re¬ 
production. Fig. 391, page 783, however, 
shows the forms of flower and foliage 
quite well. Helianthus orgyalis is very 
hardy, but the clumps are benefited by the 
protection of a thin covering of litter in 
northern localities. It is a long-lived 
plant, and if well placed in the back¬ 
ground, may be depended on for a strik¬ 
ing and brilliant show of bloom for an 
indefinite number of years. It is not as 
overpowering in color effect as “Golden 
Glow” (Rudbeckia laciniata flore pleno), 
nor does it tend to become a like nuisance 
by spreading all over the border to the 
exclusion of other prized plants. It is 
usually propagated by division, as rais¬ 
ing from seeds requires two or three 
years of time to produce flowering plants. 
Dealers offer strong divisions that are 
likely to bloom the same season as plant¬ 
ed for 35 cents each. 
Meehan’s Free-blooming Variegated 
Leaved Rose of Sharon.— Probably many 
readers have the old Buist variegated¬ 
leaved Althaea, or Rose of Sharon, estab¬ 
lished on their grounds. This shrub is 
always neat and attractive in its Summer 
dress, but the profuse, burnished, black- 
purple buds that never open are rather 
trying. Meehan’s new variety has the 
same richly variegated foliage, green 
margined and mottled with cream-white, 
and is similar in habit of growth, but 
the buds open into good-sized purple 
flowers. Little plants scarcely a foot 
high are covered with open blooms. We 
could wish them of a more pleasing 
shade, but the effect, on the whole, is 
very satisfactory. Those who wish a 
neat variegated flowering shrub of iron¬ 
clad hardiness and free from insect at¬ 
tacks or fungus diseases will do well to 
plant this novelty. It is now offered at 
about 50 cents each. The original plant, 
perhaps a bud sport of the Buist variety, 
appeared among a lot of seedlings bought 
in the North by a southern nurseryman 
and was named in honor of the late 
Thomas Meehan, of Philadelphia, Pa. 
California Privet Still in High Fa¬ 
vor. —The oval-leaved or “California” 
privet, Ligustrum ovalifolium, is still in 
high favor for ornamental hedge uses in 
the coast districts where it succeeds so 
well. It is being tried everywhere, but is 
generally found unreliable except in the 
narrow coast belt from Boston to Cape 
May, N. J., where it exceeds in beauty 
and manageability all competitors in the 
way of hedge shrubs. There was some 
winter-killing two or three years ago in 
the more exposed places, which, together 
with reports of its infection with San 
Jose scale in Pennsylvania, caused nur¬ 
serymen to reduce its propagation, sub¬ 
stituting for it in part Ligustrum Ibota 
and Berberis Thunbergii as more reliable 
plants. The gardening public, however, 
did not respond to these very meritorious 
innovations, but continued to demand 
“California” privet, until there is now a 
decided shortage in the larger sizes. Not¬ 
withstanding the beauty of its glossy fol¬ 
iage and its exceeding trimness when reg¬ 
ularly clipped, we think it is too exclu¬ 
sively planted even where it best suc¬ 
ceeds. Nothing surpasses this privet for 
ornamental division lines or for road¬ 
side hedging, but for dooryards and gar¬ 
den plots we have the very desirable Al¬ 
thaea or Rose of Sharon, Berberis Thun¬ 
bergii and Spiraea Van Houttei, all having 
their especial beauties at one season or 
another. The Ibota privet is a graceful 
and quite hardy species, forming a hand¬ 
some clump or specimen. The foliage is 
neat and attractive but not as glossy as 
that of the Oval-leaved kind. The white 
flowers are attractive in Summer. They 
are abundantly produced in small lilac- 
formed panicles, and are not as strongly 
scented as those of other species. Its full 
possibilities as a hedge plant have not 
been worked out. No one appears to care 
to plant it in quantity for the purpose. 
The scale scare as regards California pri¬ 
vet was short-lived. A few rows of 
plants in a Pennsylvania nursery became 
infected from near-by fruit trees, but ob¬ 
servation appears to show that San Jose 
scale cannot long thrive or perpetuate it¬ 
self on any known privet. w. v. f. 
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Seedling Asparagus Plants Are Weeds. 
In The R. N.-Y. some months ago there 
was a paper about asparagus in which it 
said the greatest enemy of asparagus is as¬ 
paragus itself; that seeds should not he al¬ 
lowed to develop in soil of old bed. How 
can we prevent it? We are told to let the 
asparagus grow up after July 15, and how 
can we help Its going to seed and the seed 
dropping down? a. r. 
Axs.—Asparagus stalks m 
after the berries ripen and 
Hoe up the young seedlings 
weeds. 
he cut in Fall 
ffore they fall, 
like any other 
Handling Seedling Peach Trees. 
Tn 1900 a seedling peach tree came up in 
our garden; “just growed.” In 1906 it bore 
three bushels of fine peaches; then we 
trimmed it back after the fashion advocated 
by Mr. Hale of Connecticut. This year it 
has put out a luxuriant new growth, and 
we hope will bear again next year. Around 
this tree where peach pits were thrown on 
the ground, ten or a dozen new trees have 
started. How can I protect these little trees 
through the Winter, and when is the best 
time to transplant? Is it better to take them 
up with as much earth as possible around 
them so as not to disturb the roots? g. b. 
Ans.—S eedling peach trees should need no 
protection in Central Illinois. Severe cold 
may weed out the weak and unfit ones to 
your advantage. They are best transplanted 
in early Spring before the growth starts. 
Take them up without earth so that roots 
and collar may be examined for borers, which 
should be destroyed. Cut the top hack to a 
straight switch not over one foot high. Trim 
roots with a sharp knife and set where they 
are to fruit, packing soil well around root. 
before it destroys^ your trees. The 
one absolutely sure way to eradicate 
? ntlr , e] y is by using SA LI¬ 
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Recognized by all experimental sta¬ 
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Dept. A. SHREWSBURY, N. J. 
✓-SAN JOSE SCALE'S 
KILLER 
KIL-O-SCALE is the most reliable remedy 
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THE ECLIPSE 
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Kill San Jose Seale and other destructive ’ 
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