1909. 
THE RUKAt NEW-YORKER 
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Ruralisms 
LATE CHERRY FOR NORTHERN OHIO. 
C. //., Lima, O .—I desire to plant at 
least 50 late cherry trees this Fall, a 
variety that ripens later than Montmor¬ 
ency. I have tried the Wragg; they bore 
too heavily while young, and then died. 
Ans.— As a variety to succeed the 
Montmorency in season of ripening I 
do not know of a more popular one 
than English Morello. It is largely 
grown in various parts of our State by 
those who make a feature of cherry pro¬ 
duction for market. The Wragg cherry, 
with which the correspondent has failed 
because of the trees dying from sup¬ 
posed overbearing, is so nearly like the 
English Morello that they are hard in¬ 
deed to distinguish. The Wragg is 
supposed to be even more hardy in tree 
than Morello, though I do not know that 
the matter of comparative hardiness has 
been fully demonstrated in Ohio. My 
advice to the correspondent would be to 
try again—either the English Morello or 
the Wragg. I am inclined to believe that 
some accidental, unusual influence had 
some part in causing his trees to bear 
so heavily and die so young If his soil 
conditions are at all suitable for cherry 
culture I believe that he can yet suc¬ 
cessfully grow either or both of the 
above-named varieties. F. H. ballou. 
DISEASE AMONG GLADIOLI. 
The matter of injury or disease to 
Gladiolus that has recently been refer¬ 
red to in your columns by Mr. Craw¬ 
ford and L. Merton Gage, in connection 
with the letter of inquiry from a Chi¬ 
cago correspondent who complained of 
a yellow blight, or disease, that affect¬ 
ed his Gladioli, prompts me to add a 
mite to what has already been published 
on the same subject. I never had any 
trouble with Gladioli until this year, 
when I found that a good portion of 
the stock I obtained from the East (and 
this includes the “West” as far as Colo¬ 
rado, for they are all east of us), either 
entirely failed to start growth, or else 
died before reaching the blooming stage. 
I found that some succumbed even dur¬ 
ing the period of inflorescence. Where 
the plants were above ground, I noticed 
that the leaves or stalks, or both, would 
turn yellow and soon rot near the 
ground. Investigation below the sur¬ 
face of the soil revealed the fact that 
the bulb or corm, as the Gladiolus root 
is called, was decayed, or in a bad state 
of decay. I am told that this is the “black 
rot,” though I think it should be called 
the brown rot, as the color is more 
brown than black. 
In one grower’s stock I bought, I no¬ 
ticed that there were many corms more 
or less decayed; I did not think much 
of it at the time, though I discarded all 
corms that showed much deterioration. 
If I knew as much about the disease 
then as I do now, I should never have 
accepted the consignment. This was not 
the only lot I received in such condition; 
some of another lot were slightly af¬ 
fected, too. The large corm shown in 
Fig. 550 I photographed from this stock— 
it is not the original corm, but one of 
the two corms that grew as increase of 
such original. The corm seemed so bad 
when I received it that I at once planted 
it in a select situation, in hopes that I 
would save it. It grew well and 
flowered; toward the end it showed 
some yellow, but not enough to show 
that it was badly diseased. The fact 
is that it seemed to be affected in a dif¬ 
ferent way from almost any other Glad¬ 
ioli I ever saw. The white spots do not 
occur in the others. It is probable that 
some white fungus growth developed. 
Whether this is beneficial or not I know 
not. Otherwise, the inroad of the dis¬ 
ease is similar to those I found in all 
other corms. In Fig. 651 I show how 
the disease appears in a cross-section of 
a corm; while Fig. 552 shows such a 
section cut vertically. I don’t know the 
name of this Gladiolus—it came in a I 
mixture—but it is very much like Wm. ! 
Falconer, though not quite so light- 
colored. I find that the light-colored 
varieties are more susceptible to this 
peculiar disease than are the red or dark 
sorts. 
Some state that it is best to refrain 
from planting Gladioli in land that has 
been recently manured with fresh 
manure. Mine were not so planted; 
RUST-INFECTED GLADIOLUS CORM. 
Fig. 550. 
neither were they fertilized in any way. 
One eastern grower wrote me that he 
attributed the prevalence of this disease 
to the large amount of commercial fer¬ 
tilizers some growers use to produce 
large corms. I found that the large 
corms seemed to fare the worst. It is 
for this reason, and the further one of 
beating the outrageously high express 
charges we of this coast have to pay on 
goods we get from the East, that I am 
now getting nothing but very small-sized 
stock from the eastern growers. Then, 
it is easier to try to stamp out disease 
germs in small stuff than in the larger 
CROSS SECTION OF DISEASED CORM. 
Fig. 551. 
stock. We are told that the same solu¬ 
tion that is used to destroy potato 
scab will kill the black-rot microbe, or 
whatever it is. I have not yet tried it, 
but I shall see that all stock hereafter 
is so treated before it goes into the 
ground. Last year some of my high- 
priced stock that I purchased in New 
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and else¬ 
where. never reached the blooming stage 
on account of the inroads of this scourge 
to the Gladiolus grower. 
I understand that the U. S. Bureau of 
Plant Industry, at the station maintained 
in connection with the Experiment Sta- 
VERTICAL SECTION OF DISEASED 
CORM. Fig. 552. 
tion at Cornell University, your State, 
is investigating the diseases of the plant 
in question, and I hope it will not be 
long before a means is discovered to 
combat easily and successfully the fur¬ 
ther inroads of this enemy. I am send¬ 
ing the corm from which the Fig. 550 
was photographed to that Station, with 
a request that, if agreeable, they send 
a report on the same to The Rural 
New-Yorker. w. a. pryal. 
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