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May 9, 
Ruralisms 
A Fine Bermuda Lily. —The fine twin- 
stemmed Easter lily in Fig. 183, page 
4 19, is the product of a bulb forced three 
successive Winters in the Rural 
Grounds’ glasshouse. When first 
bloomed four blooms were borne on a 
very short stem, and the foliage showed 
the yellow mottlings of the prevailing 
lily disease, but next year came green 
and healthy in appearance, while the 
flowers, seven in number, were produced 
on a fine tall stem. This season two 
stems, each carrying six fine trumpets, 
were thrown up to a height of four 
feet, making a very satisfactory show. 
It is generally advised to throw away 
Bermuda lily bulbs after blooming, and 
start fresh each season with imported 
ones, yet it is often demonstrated that 
with sufficient attention reasonably 
healthy plants that have bloomed well 
can be so thoroughly matured that they 
may give better results the second and 
succeeding seasons than at first. For 
this purpose the plants should have 
abundance of sunlight and be regularly 
watered throughout their growing sea¬ 
son. Applications of much diluted liquid 
manure about every week during Sum¬ 
mer greatly assist in building up the 
bulbs for the coming season’s growth. 
It will not do to turn the plants out 
into the border when the soil outside 
becomes warm, unless the same care in 
applying water is taken as if retained in 
the pots, as the roots at this quiescent 
stage of development will not take hold 
of the surrounding soil, and the balls are 
eventually sure to dry out. The pots 
may, however, be plunged into moss, old 
tanbark or cinders, and will thus need 
less attention than if exposed to the air. 
Some time in August the leaves begin 
to yellow, and the supply of moisture 
may gradually be lessened. When the 
stems*are dead the pots may be stored 
in a cellar or other cool place where the 
contained soil will not entirely dry out. 
For early bloom they may be repotted in 
October, using clean pots of the five or 
six-inch sizes and fresh clean compost 
made up of two-thirds light garden 
soil to one part fine rotted manure. The 
bulb should be bedded in and covered 
with sand, and should occupy the center 
of the pot, allowing at least two inches 
of space above for the stem roots to 
develop in. The bulb should be little 
more than covered at this time, as the 
additional soil may be added as a mulch 
after growth begins. Keep the pots in a 
cool cellar or plunged in a frame out¬ 
side until roots are well formed, when 
they may be brought into heat. If 
grown in a temperature of about 65 
degrees they should bloom in March, 
but in carnation temperature (average 
of 55 degrees) blooms could not be ex¬ 
pected until April. Only firm, sound 
bulbs are worth this treatment. Weak 
or flabby ones should be discarded. 
Florists and commercial growers do not 
bother with old bulbs, claiming it is 
economy in the long run to buy im¬ 
ported ones each year. In view of the 
very satisfactory results occasionally to 
be had, however, amateurs should be en¬ 
couraged to attempt the saving of their 
best bulbs. 
Lilies from Formosa. —No forcing 
lily has yet given as good results as 
the true Bermuda variety, known to 
botanists as Lilium longiflorum ex- 
imium, and to florists as Lilium Harrisii, 
but true healthy stock is now difficult to 
obtain. Its advantages are taller and 
more robust growth than most varieties 
of the species, larger flowers, more 
abundantly produced, and especially the 
comparative ease with which it may be 
forced into early bloom. These good 
qualities are not found to the same 
extent in the Longiflorum lilies im¬ 
ported from Japan, which, however, are 
less infected with disease, but a new 
source of supply, it is claimed, has been 
-T HI E- RURAL NEW-VORKER 
found in the Island of Formosa, where 
stocks of a superior variety flowering 
naturally in February have been worked 
up. Bulbs ripen by the first of June 
and can be delivered in this country in 
July or August, giving them a long rest, 
which should be greatly in their favor, 
before they are prepared for forcing. A 
few thousands of these Formosa bulbs 
have been tested here with exceedingly 
satisfactory results. The growers an¬ 
ticipate a crop of 2,000 cases, or 450,000 
bulbs, the coming season, so that the 
variety is likely to have an extensive 
trial in the near future. 
T he Destructive Mistletoe. —The 
parasitic mistletoe of the Southern 
States has not been generally consid¬ 
ered a serious menace to the trees on 
which it grows, but late observations 
show that it has undoubted deleterious 
effects on its hosts, many trees dying 
within a few years after becoming in¬ 
fested with it. It is common in forests 
everywhere south of Delaware, affecting 
many species of deciduous trees, but is 
especially abundant in the warmer Gulf 
States, where it particularly preys on the 
hackberry, prized as one of the most 
popular city shade trees. It is said to 
have killed 25 per cent of the hack- 
berries already planted, and to be in¬ 
juring about all of the remainder. In 
the forests injury is not so noticeable, 
but many fine trees of many species may 
be noticed in every locality that are fail¬ 
ing from its effects. The only cure ap¬ 
pears to be cutting off the limb on 
which it appears, as if the parasite only 
is removed it sooner or later reappears. 
An effort was made in Congress to in¬ 
clude in the present Agricultural Appro¬ 
priation bill a provision for means of 
exterminating mistletoe as a parasite 
harmful to trees, but it was voted down, 
chiefly by a group of representatives 
that are always so insistent about keep¬ 
ing up the free seed distribution. Ap¬ 
parently the forests of the future are 
not to be considered in comparison with 
the vote-getting powers of the free seed 
“graft.” 
The Southern mistletoe, like the re¬ 
lated European species, is valued as a 
holiday decoration, and possesses much 
beauty in its leathery evergreen leaves 
and white, translucent berries. An oc¬ 
casional growth on shade or forest tree 
makes an ornamental and attractive con¬ 
trast in Winter to the bare and leafless 
branches of the host; but when it is 
realized that its unchecked abundance 
means destruction to the choicest trees 
one’s admiration vanishes. If it is really 
as destructive as it is claimed to be some 
effective means of controlling it will 
doubtless be worked out. 
The Southern mistletoe is named by 
botanists Phoradcndron flavescens, hav¬ 
ing been placed in a different genus 
from its European relative, Viscum 
album. The latter has long ceased to 
be a menace to forestry interests, if it 
ever was, being held in check by the 
large demand for it for Winter holiday 
decoration. It is even cultivated to 
some extent by artificially planting the 
glutinous seeds on the branches of its 
favorite host trees. European mistletoe 
is exported in some quantity to this 
country, as it is preferred by many for 
sentimental reasons as well as its gen¬ 
erally superior beauty in the way of 
greener foliage and whiter berries than 
the American kind. Some specimens of 
the latter, however, from the warmer 
Gulf coast localities, rival in perfection 
the best importations. w. v. F. 
Marjorie had never been in close 
touch with a dog and when the family 
moved to the suburbs in the Spring she 
found Fido a source of profound study. 
In a short time they were boon compan¬ 
ions, but on the first warm day Fido 
gave Marjorie a fright that almost de¬ 
prived her of speech. “Oh, mother,” she 
gasped, running into the house. “Come 
quick. Fido’s tongue is falling out!”— 
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