1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
106© 
Ruralisms 
MORE ABOUT GLADIOLUS RUST. 
Treatment to Avoid Disease. 
Regarding the Gladiolus rust question 
which has been discussed in The R. N.- 
Y., I wish to add a little more. It is 
true, as Mr. Crawford observes, that a 
vitiated atmosphere will cause the foli¬ 
age of Gladioli to turn yellow, but it is 
also true that a diseased Gladiolus conn 
will produce the same effect. The Chi¬ 
cago correspondent particularly men¬ 
tioned the variety “1900”, and knowing 
from personal observation and reports 
from several other growers that this 
sort had become badly diseased and ex¬ 
tremely susceptible to black rot of late, 
I am convinced that the rusting of this 
variety cannot be caused by a vitiated 
atmosphere excepting in such localities 
as Mr. Crawford refers to. I planted 
this season about 150 apparently sound 
bulbs of “1900,” and by the time they 
commenced blooming fully nine-tenths 
of them were showing yellow stalks and 
foliage, and the corms are nearly all 
more or less affected with black rot. A 
very effective remedy for this disease is 
two ounces of bichloride of mercury, dis¬ 
solved in seven gallons of water. Slight¬ 
ly affected corms soaked in this solution 
for a few hours will usually come out 
all right, yet it is better to destroy by 
burning, those bulbs that are badly dis¬ 
eased. I note in Mr. Pryal’s communi- 
ease, some of them I now recall, viz: 
America, Mrs. Frances King, Shakes¬ 
peare and Augusta. At least I have nev¬ 
er found a diseased corm among these 
varieties. l. merton gage. 
MAKE THE HOME MORE BEAUTIFUL 
I am glad to see the articles on the 
culture of roses, in The R. N.-Y., by 
T. E. Martin. It is, indeed, good to see 
these beautiful flowers about the country 
home. I am sufficiently optimistic to be¬ 
lieve that the time is coming when the 
busy farmer will give more thought to 
beautifying the grounds about his home. 
In the past too many of our farmers 
have considered it “small business” to 
assume the leading part in planting a 
rose or vine, or to piant a tree or shrub 
for the purpose of ornament. Conse¬ 
quently just in proportion to their 
“averseness” along these lines, unless 
the women take a hand, are their home 
grounds barren of the elements essen¬ 
tial in making a home really homelike. 
In my work, which takes me much 
among the country people of our State 
(Ohio), I have observed various de¬ 
grees of effort on the part of home- 
owners, to make their grounds and 
dwellings attractive. It must be admitted 
that the major part of this effort has 
been on the side of the wife, mother or 
daughters of the household, although a 
number of the husbands, fathers and 
brothers “take a hand” with wonder¬ 
fully pleasing results. It is not strange 
THE LOWN PEACH. Fig. 582. 
cation, page 1009, that an Eastern grow¬ 
er attributes the prevalence of the dis¬ 
ease to the large amount of commercial 
fertilizers some growers use to produce 
large bulbs. I am quite sure that the 
Eastern grower is wrong, for since I 
have discarded stable manures, and hen 
manure, which is still worse, I have had 
very little trouble with black rot except¬ 
ing with those varieties that are very 
susceptible to the disease. The hand¬ 
somest and healthiest lot of bulbs I ever 
received were purchased from P. O. 
Coblentz, of Ohio, last Spring, and he 
uses only a high-grade potato fertilizer, 
and it was by his advice that I discarded 
manures. 
I have noted a soft rot disease that 
appears in small brown spots when I 
am cleaning the bulbs and as I have 
never observed this in the field, I think 
it may originate in the cellar where the 
bulbs are stored too densely, so as to 
not allow them to dry out properly. 
This may be something like the brown 
rot that Mr. Pryal refers to. I have 
mailed some diseased specimens to Prof. 
Whetzel 6f Ithaca, who has charge of 
the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Cornell University, and with whom I 
have had some correspondence. David 
Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., is at present experimenting 
with hybridizing certain wild species of 
Gladioli. No doubt this may be accom¬ 
plished, as there are many varieties al- 
, ready that seem to be immune from dis- 
that in the home of the latter class of 
men we usually find good books, papers, 
magazines, music, geniality, comrade¬ 
ship and hospitality; for an interest in, 
liking for and mingling with Nature’s 
wealth of foliage, flowers and fruits 
develops the finer sensibilities of the 
human mind and heart and renders life 
vastly more happy and full of content¬ 
ment. Therefore I sincerely trust that 
Mr. Martin’s articles have been care¬ 
fully read, and that they will be the 
means of causing many thousands of 
beautiful roses and other flowers and 
ornamentals to be carefully planted and 
cared for in all our farming sections. 
The “Hardy Perpetual” varieties will 
succeed almost anywhere, while in 
many places—especially in the hilly sec¬ 
tions, there may be found sunny, pro¬ 
tected little nooks where the finer, more 
delicate, more persistent blooming but 
less hardy Teas and Hybrid Teas will 
succeed with reasonable protection by 
mulching and “binding-in” with straw, 
as Winter approaches. Let not our 
farmers be ashamed to “lend a hand” 
in brightening their homes and making 
life more worth the living. 
F. H. BALLOU. 
The Lown Peach. —The cut (Fig. 
582), shows a fair specimen of the Lown 
peach, natural size. This peach is a 
seedling grown in Orange County. N. Y., 
by Mr. R. Lown. The quality of the 
fruit shown was very good, and it would 
seem worthy of propagation. 
Read Whai Cornell University Has to Say About the 
NIAGARA GRAND LIME-SULPHUR SOLUTION: 
The following is a copy of a letter written to us, under date of Nov. 6, 
1909, by Prof. H. H. Whetzel, of the Department of Plant Pathology, New 
York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.: 
I beg to say in reply to your inquiry of October 29. that the report on the summer's work, 
with the Lime Sulphur for the control of Apple Scab, will bo ready for you within a week Mr. 
Wallace is now preparing the photographs and the last draft of the report. An examination of 
his summarized data shows that, for this season in the particular orchard where the work was 
carried on. Greenings sprayed with Lime Sulphur and Bordeaux, with Arsenate of Lead used in 
each case, gave results very much in favor of the Lime Sulphur. The Lime Sulphur was used at 
the rate of 1 gallon to GO of water, and the Bordeaux was made at the rate of 8-4-50. Arsenate of 
Lead was added in each case, 0 pounds to 100 gallons of the mixture. Careful counts of the fruit 
at the time of picking show that on the unsprayed trees 42 per cent of the fruit was more or less 
affected with the scab. On the trees sprayed with Bordeaux this was reduced to 8 per cent: on 
those sprayed with .Niagara Lime Sulphur to 3.0 per cent. It is evident from this that the Lime 
Sulphur is just as effective as the Bordeaux, the slight difference of .0 of 1 per cent being within 
the range of variation that would be expected In comparing any two plats treated alike. On the 
other hand, trees sprayed with the Bordeaux showed 82 per cent of the apples russeted, many of 
these so badly defaced and distorted in form as to seriously harm the appearance of the truit. 
The Codling Moth was just as effectively controlled by the Arsenate of Lead in the Lime Sul¬ 
phur as in the Bordeaux. The wormy fruit was reduced from 25 per cent on the ut.sprayed, to 
3.3 per cent on those sprayed with Bordeaux; and on the trees sprayed with Lime Sulphur and 
Arsenate of Lead tho Codling Moth injury was reduced to 1.3 per cent. The full details of the 
experiments and the results obtained will of course be included in the report. It remains to be 
seen whether the results of the present season will be borne out by those of following years. 
While there was no burning of the foliage in our experiments on the apples this season. It is 
safe to assume that the best dilution for this purpose must range somewhere between 1 (of the 
Niagara brand) to 20 to 40 of water, since Mr. Wallace has found that the spores of the apple 
scab fungus may germinate to a considerable extent In a dilution of 1-50. This point, as well as 
many others in connection with the problem, is yet to be worked out. However, the general 
principle of the value of Lime Sulphur as a summer spray seems to be pretty well established 
by Mr. Wallace’s experiments. Very sincerely yours, H. H. WHETZEL. 
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