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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 9 
Ruralisms 
A GRAPE FOR NORTHERN LATITUDES. 
Among the best fruits of this north¬ 
ern country, about latitude 45 degrees, 
is the Green Mountain or Winched 
grape. I have now fruited it for several 
years. This year it did not blossom till 
about July 1, but was ripe by the mid¬ 
dle of September and often ripens much 
earlier. It is in size midway I should 
say between the Concord and Delaware, 
white, or rather a delicate light green 
in color, and very sweet, and palatable^ 
much better than most of the grapes 
in the market. As it falls from the 
stem readily when ripe, it will not an¬ 
swer for a market grape. It can be 
grown wherever it can be trained upon 
the south wall of barn or shed, not 
shaded by trees, and there are few 
farms where an abundance of this de¬ 
licious fruit could not be provided at 
little expense of time or trouble. I have 
a method of training the vine which I 
think is new. I take mine down from a 
shed and barn wall, and lay it flat upon 
the ground where 1 trim it into fan 
shape, and lay pieces of board upon it 
so that the snow will cover it. No straw 
is needed. As it lies with its branches 
extended, I place upon it a strip of 
board, J J /2 or 2 inches wide, and long 
enough to reach from side to side in 
the widest part. At each crossing of 
GRAPE TRAINING IN MAINE. Fig. 495. 
the arms I tie the vine securely to the 
strip. When the buds have swollen 
some, and danger from late frost is 
over, the whole thing is raised with a 
forked stick or piece of joist, and held 
against the wall until the strip can be 
nailed there, and further fastenings are 
made to the wall if the vine is heavy. A 
large wall can he covered in this way, 
as shown in the diagram, and the whole 
readily taken down again in the Fall. 
The vine is ornamental as well, and a 
few bushels of delicious grapes help 
out wonderfully when other fruit is 
scarce. Our best apples are almost equal 
to peaches, but there is no substitute 
for the grape. G. s. paine. 
Maine. _ 
FLOWERS FOR NORTH EXPOSURE. 
IF. IF. 71., Morris, N. Y.—What flowers 
or vinos can I plant on the north side of 
the house, where the grass is killed out, to 
take away that hare look, something easy 
to grow and hardy. 
Ans.—H and sodding with good sod, 
free from noxious seed and growth, 
early in Spring is probably one of the 
surest ways of obtaining satisfactory, 
or permanent grass growth for such a 
place as mentioned. New sod could be 
placed directly on top of old soil, which 
should be well raked up fresh, with a 
steel garden rake, or the old soil could 
be removed down as deep as new sod 
is thick, that the new sod will be just 
at the old lawn grade. However, the 
new sod should be rolled or patted 
down firmly and evenly and watered 
daily if weather is dry, until sod is 
safely rooted. There are no flowers or 
vines we have tried, that do their best 
exclusively in the shade. Sunlight is 
invariably one of the great essentials 
in any kind of plant-growing. But if 
flowers are the preference, perhaps 
Golden Glow would please. One of our 
friends says: “It will grow as well bot¬ 
tom side up as right side up, and will 
grow anywhere.” It spreads fast. The 
double hollyhocks, all colors, make 
quite a show. Larkspur, blue and yel¬ 
low are nice. The three above men¬ 
tioned flowers grow from four to six 
feet in height. Hardy perennial Phlox 
is a fine plant, of which there are many 
varieties, covering a wide range of col¬ 
or. These grow two to three feet high. 
Japanese Iris (fleur de lis or flags) 
grow two to three feet high and bloom 
well. Double Sweet Williams are great 
favorites, growing one to one and a 
half foot high. All these plants are per¬ 
fectly hardy and free bloomers during 
their season. The high-growing ones 
should be placed next the house, with 
others set according to height, to form 
a sloping flower bank. Three semi-cir¬ 
cular, parallel rows would give a good 
effect. Neither the flowers nor plan 
is recommended, but is simply sug¬ 
gestive that may dead to something 
better. t. e. martin. 
A New White Gladiolus. —We have 
received from M. Crawford, Cuyahoga 
3‘alls, O., a specimen of a new white 
Gladiolus, which in its purity of hue 
excels anything we have seen before 
It is. entirely free from the faint suf¬ 
fusion of pink or mauve seen in most 
white Gladioli, the throat having a 
creamy tinge, but nothing more, while 
the body of the flower is pearly white. 
We think this will be very valuable to 
the florists, where a white flower is 
needed in design work. 
b ire Blight on Pears.— This is an 
exceedingly difficult disease to manage, 
and no really satisfactory method of 
controlling it is known. However, there 
are two things which should be done, 
hirst, the diseased branches should be 
cut out and destroyed as soon as they 
appear, the object being to prevent the 
spread of the disease from one tree to 
another; and also to prevent it from 
running down into the larger branches 
and ruining the trees, as it will fre¬ 
quently do if left to itself. In cutting 
out the diseased branches cut several 
inches below the lowest point of discol¬ 
oration in order to make sure that all 
of the disease is removed. The second 
thing to be done is to avoid over-stimu¬ 
lating the growth of the tree, because 
it is a well-known fact that trees which 
are making rapid growth are more in¬ 
jured by blight than slow-growing trees. 
Of course, even trees standing in sod 
will be injured sometimes by blight, 
but it is not so destructive as it is on 
rapid growing trees. There are also 
differences in varieties. Some varie¬ 
ties are much more affected than others. 
Clapp’s Favorite and Bartlett are very 
susceptible. f. c. stewart. 
Geneva, N. Y., Exp. Station. 
Everbearing Strawberries. —Eight or 
10 years ago I received from the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture plants of an 
everbearing strawberry found in Mex¬ 
ico. It was entirely different from the 
old “Mexican Everbearing” which I 
had about 40 years ago. It was much 
like the Wilson, but not as large. It 
was apt to rust and was discarded. We 
now have on our place 12 everbearing 
varieties - originated and owned by Ii. 
Rockhill, of Iowa. We are testing them 
and growing the plants for him. We 
grew three varieties last year and they 
fruited from June till hard frost came, 
besides making a good number of plants. 
These plants were sent from Iowa in 
the Spring and heeled in until they were 
in full bloom. Before they were planted 
the blossoms were cut off. They have 
been cut off four times since—all but 
one row—and now they are in bloom. 
One day last week I picked three quarts 
from the single row, and they are 
sampled nearly every day. I have often 
seen berries and blossoms on runners 
that had scarcely begun to root. Plants 
will be furnished from here to the trade 
next Spring, and introduced in 1911. 
Mr. Rockhill owns every plant in ex¬ 
istence. M. CRAWFORD. 
Ohio. 
SHORT STORIES. 
Second-hand Tinfoil. 
Do you know if there is any use made 
of the second-hand tinfoil that has been 
used to wrap up yeast, tobacco, etc., so I 
could sell it? I have a few pounds that I 
have saved up, wrapped up in solid balls. 
L. C- F. 
We understand that this “tinfoil” is largely 
lead, worth about the same as other forms 
of refuse lead. It is doubtful if it would 
bring more than five cents a pound now, 
and would hardly pay to ship. 
Nightshade Questions. 
We have a perennial plant hearing a red 
berry, found growing around old wall's, that 
is supposed to he deadly nightshade or bella¬ 
donna, and regarded as extremely poisonous. 
We also have an annual plant found in 
cultivated land bearing a black berry. Will 
you inform me which is the nightshade, and 
what the other plant is? f. ii. 
Essex, Mass. 
The perennial plant with red berries is 
no doubt Solanum Dulcamara, the European 
bittersweet, which is naturalized in this 
country. According to the United States 
Dispensatory, its berries have caused death, 
but it is not the true deadly nightshade 
or belladonna, which is a distinct plant, 
Atropa Belladonna. The Atropa is not nat¬ 
uralized in America. The names belladonna, 
or deadly nightshade, belong only to the 
Atropa. As we have already given the 
name bittersweet to a native plant, Celas- 
trus seandens, it would he better to call 
the European plant woody nightshade, a 
name which is given it in the United States 
Dispensatory. The annual plant with black 
berries will he the black nightshade, So¬ 
lanum nigrum. 
Forest Leaves for Humus. 
Having purchased a farm in Dutchess 
County with a five-acre wood lot. and know¬ 
ing that all the tillable land is lacking in 
humus, I would like to get some advice 
as to the best way to make use of all the 
leaves my children could gather together 
this Fall. c. H. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The children may get a Jfair quantity of 
leaves, but it is doubtful if it will pay 
grown workmen to gather them. We should 
keep them in a dry place and use for bed¬ 
ding the stock. Mix them with the manure 
and haul out when ready and spread. These 
leaves contain considerable plant food, hut 
it is hard to gather any great weight of 
them. 
A 50-cent bottle of 
Scott’s Emulsion 
given in half-teaspoon 
doses four times a day, 
mixed in its bottle, will 
last a year-old baby near¬ 
ly a month, and four bot¬ 
tles over three months, 
and will make the baby 
strong and well and will 
lay the foundation for a 
healthy, robust boy or girl. 
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