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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 26, 
Ruralisms 
How Varieties Are Duplicated.— 
The following confidential letter from 
a berry grower, shows how easily plant 
varieties may be duplicated, or rather 
how several commercial names may be 
given the same variety with no appar¬ 
ent intention on the part of anyone to 
deceive the public. 
I was the first that got plants of the 
Corsican strawberry from the originator, 
who lived in Monroe County, N. Y. lie 
told mo they were from a cross of Trl- 
omphe de Gand on Sharpless, but as a bluff 
gave out that he got the seed from Ger¬ 
many. I was getting plants from Mr. 
P-, a neighbor of his. Mr. P-• told 
me of the new berry he saw fruiting the 
previous year, about 1894, 1 think. He 
went over with me and I got 3,000 plants. 
The next year 1 got 10,000 plants more 
from a new bed. The originator did not 
let any of his neighbors have plants for 
iwo or three years afterward. About the 
originator’s home they now call the va¬ 
riety Armstrong; Mr. Charles A. Green 
• alls it Corsican; I called it Morgan's Fa¬ 
vorite, as it was not named then. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. j. a. m. 
Thus we have the four names, Ger¬ 
man Seedling, Corsican, Armstrong 
and Morgan’s Favorite, standing for 
the same strawberry variety. One 
might buy 100 plants of each at vary¬ 
ing prices and have the order correctly 
filled with 400 plants from a single bed. 
The plant registration bureau of the 
Society of American Florists and the 
nomenclature committee of the Ameri¬ 
can Pomological Society are doing 
good work in preventing such tangles 
in the future. 
Hardiness of Paragon Chestnut.— 
The Ridgely chestnut has the reputa¬ 
tion of being the hardiest of well- 
known European varieties, especially 
in the Middle West, but this note from 
central Vermont indicates it can stand 
quite severe cold in the hill regions of 
the Atlantic coast. 
In recent R. N.-Y. I note inquiry if 
Paragon chestnut is hardy in western New 
York. I have had Paragon here for six 
.years and have fruited it for the last three 
and have not seen any Winter injury as 
yet. The Winter of 1904-5 was the most 
severe for many years, killing many Bald¬ 
win and King apple trees. The Boston 
and Maine station thermometer recorded 
44 degrees below zero, but here at my 
place on the hill 20 degrees was the lowest. 
Enfield, N. H. fourest l. colby. 
The Chestnut-Bark Disease con¬ 
tinues its destructive course; thousands 
of new infections becoming apparent in 
localities where it has never before 
been noticed. As yet it is chiefly con¬ 
fined to the native forest chest¬ 
nut, killing the most vigorous trees in 
two or three years, but is also work¬ 
ing havoc in Paragon seedling, stocks in 
chestnut orchards. Little infection of 
actual Paragon wood is yet reported, 
though many inquiries have been made. 
One small branch of Paragon, on the 
Rural Grounds, shows the disease, and 
a grafted Japan chestnut has died from 
the effects of the disease on the stock, 
which is probably a native seedling. 
Most Paragon seedlings that have 
fruited bear nuts quite like natives and 
are probably hybrids, the Paragon graft 
on which they were grown being set on 
native woodland sprouts, and receiving 
pollen from near-by native trees. Who 
will report a true Paragon tree on 
Japan stock as killed by the new dis¬ 
ease? 
Success with Arbutus.—H ere is a 
note on transplanting trailing arbutus, 
by one who evidently knows how to get 
favorable results. It would be an un¬ 
grateful plant that should refuse to 
grow when its needs were so carefully 
considered. 
In a late number of The R. N.-Y. I read 
an article on arbutus and the difficulty of 
domesticating it. I transplanted a lot of 
it 25 years ago. It lives and thrives and 
spreads in my field. My method is simple 
common sense. Find your vines; cut the 
sod carefully and deep, of good circum¬ 
ference; put these sods in tlie right place. 
I put them in the shade under birches, 
pines, beeches and maples. They don't 
stop growing or living, because the roots 
were never disturbed, and they have a nest 
superior to the one they left. I have 
moved lots of mountain laurel. 
Boston, Mass. h. k. w, H* 
Gi-adiouds Not Blooming ; Stones in 
Soil.—I wish information as to treatment 
of Gladioli for blooms. I have grown the 
Gladiolus a long time and think it a beau¬ 
tiful flower. I set only large bulbs, but 
find that only half blossom. Do the bulbs 
only bloom every other year? They multi¬ 
ply fast. What can I do to make all iny 
bulbs blossom? The ground I plant in is 
spread with horse stable manure and 
plowed. I think tlie soli is rich enough. 
Do stones really grow? Some of our 
ground is stony and we pick out all that 
will not go between the tines of a potato 
fork. The next year there seem to he 
just as many or more. I have picked them 
for five years, and there seems still a good 
supply. H. K. 
Huntington. Pa. 
Every good-sized Gladiolus bulb 
should bloom if given a fair chance. 
The small and medium ones, deep or 
long in form, usually flower better than 
the large flat ones. After blooming the 
old bulb or corm dies and new ones, 
often larger, form above it, sometimes 
with a great number of little offsets or 
cormels, to continue growth next year. 
You may cut your stems too low, re¬ 
moving too much foliage to permit the 
formation of sound new corms, or your 
soil may have been made too rich with 
stable manure to favor healthy root 
growth. Do not cut away more than 
one or two leaves with your flower 
stems, and try growing some of your 
bulbs in good ordinary soil without 
animal manure, but with a slight ap¬ 
plication of a chemical potato fertilizer, 
such as all dealers offer. The Gladi¬ 
olus does not require much nitrogen, 
but needs the potash and phosphoric 
acid which is contained in good, ready- 
mixed fertilizers. Stones do not grow, 
but in some soils they have a most 
provoking way of working to the sur¬ 
face about as fast as they are removed. 
Persistent efforts, however, will rid the 
top layer of soil to a great extent. 
Stones do not appear to interfere great¬ 
ly with the growth of Gladioli, except 
by occasionally preventing the sprouts 
from coming directly to the surface. 
A Mighty Lemon. —Some time ago I 
handed you a pretty good sized lemon story. 
(See page 2S, Jan. 9, 1909.) Last week 
the same party clipped one from her tree 
which weighed 51 ounces, 7(4 x 7*4 inches 
diameter, which was disposed of' to a 
northern man for the half of 30 cents, and 
enough juice to build a round dozen of ro¬ 
bust pies. This tree was planted in the 
open, frozen to the ground in 1905, sprout¬ 
ed from roots same Summer, and is now in 
fourth crop. The tree is growing to beat 
Jonah’s gourd. I expect a “four pounder” 
this year if Summer proves not too dry. 
I have just been to measure the tree. Its 
top rises fully 12 feet from the ground and 
the spread is 10 feet, with lemons from 
flowers to over goose-egg size, promising a 
full crop. How is that for high? Great 
lemons ! j. w. minnich. 
Grand Isle, La. 
California growers say the Ponder- 
osa lemon is interesting, but worthless 
for commercial purposes. It may be 
so in the golden West, but we can 
imagine this monstrous variety as of 
considerable local value in the Gulf 
States, if all trees thrive as well as the 
one Mr. Minnich describes. w. v. F. 
The village schoolmaster looked 
anxious and worried. “What’s the 
matter ?”asked the vicar. “I’m wor¬ 
ried about the boys in the upper class, 
sir,” replied the master. “I’ve been 
teaching them how to revive the ap¬ 
parently drowned.” “Well, why should 
that worry you ? You could not teach 
them anything more useful.” “Yes, sir, 
I know that, but I’ve already caught 
several of them trying to drown one 
another in order to practise what 
they’ve been taught.”—Tit-Bits. 
To kill potato bugs and to check 
blight, use Bowker’s rvrox early. 
Sticks like paint. Cost 50c. to $1 per 
acre. Mail orders to Bowker Insecti¬ 
cide Co., Boston.— Adv. 
Time to buy land is this year; 
Place to buy is Pecos Valley. 
Sample 
Crop Yields 
Hagerman Ranch: 
Apples, 450 acres, 
Parker Earle Ranch; 
Pears, 10 acres, - 
Crouch Ranch : 
Alfalfa, 40 acres, 
$100,000 
- 15,000 
- 3,200 
Are you looking for a new home Southwest? 
Let me recommend the Pecos Valley. 
I don’t own an acre there, and have no land 
to sell. What follows is an unbiased statement, 
as exact and careful as I can make it. 
Pecos Valley is in the eastern New Mexico 
plains country. It is watered by mountain 
streams and underlaid by a vast water sheet 
from which spout artesian wells. 
The United States Government has just fin¬ 
ished, at a cost of many million dollars, two 
great reclamation projects. These assure ade¬ 
quate water supply for irrigation. 
Soil is rich and deep. Climate is mild in 
winter, cool in summer, and healthful. Plenty 
of sunshine. 
Prosperous towns await you, and a fine rail¬ 
road — the Santa Fe — thus guaranteeing good 
markets. 
I can cite you hundreds of cases where 
farmers have come to the Pecos Valley with 
practically nothing, and after a few years’ 
steady work have well-stocked farms, clear of 
debt, with money in bank. 
I can tell you of wonderful crops of alfalfa 
and fruit, regularly grown on irrigated land. 
I can prove to you that this is the ideal 
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Here are bred the best beef animals in the 
world, bar none; it’s the home of the Here¬ 
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bring extra prices. Well-grassed stock ranges 
of wide extent arc close at hand. 
I can convince you that there is no finer 
land lying outdoors, which can be bought so 
cheaply and which is so sure a money-maker. 
The Pecos Valley is not an experiment. In 
1908 there was shipped over the Santa Fe 
from that section to outside markets 2 , 335,373 
pounds of grain. 
Same year shipments of baled hay amounted 
to 26,217 tons, as against 4,174 tons in 1905 , 
an increase of more than 600 per cent in three 
years. 
Fruit thrives here. No blight, no insect 
pests. Pecos Valley apples are known from 
Texas to London. 
There are 500,000 acres in the ditch and 
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Unimproved lands in artesian belt may be 
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