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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
FRUITS FOR WISCONSIN. 
E. 8. K., Illinois. What varieties of 
apples, pears, cherries, grapes, plums, 
peaches, also of the cane fruits, for central 
Wisconsin, and will any of the black or 
sweet cherries do well there? Are there 
any varieties of English walnuts or chest¬ 
nuts that you could recommend as hardy 
enough for that region ? The thermometer 
registers 25 to 35 degrees below zero in 
coldest weather. 
Ans. —Only the hardiest of fruits can 
endure the climatic conditions of central 
Wisconsin. There are some apples that 
are usually able to endure the Winters 
safely, and a few kinds of pears, cherries 
and plums, but no peaches. Grapes and 
the bush fruits can be grown very well 
if the tops are laid on the ground and 
covered on the approach of cold weather. 
Of the nut trees there is no use even 
to think of planting Persian (English) 
walnuts, and chestnuts are of doubtful 
character. Possibly it might pay to try 
a few of the nuts of our wild American 
species, which is hardy in the New Eng¬ 
land States. None of the European or 
Japanese chestnuts will live there. Of 
apples the following may be depended 
upon as being among the hardiest of the 
many varieties that have been tested: 
Wealthy, Oldenburg, Patten Greening, 
Okabena, Pewaukee, Liveland Rasp¬ 
berry and Yellow Transparent. The 
Flemish Beauty is the hardiest of the 
good pears, so far as I have seen them 
growing in Wisconsin. The Richmond 
and common Morello cherries have 
sometimes safely passed the Winters. 
There are a number of plums that are 
very hardy, but they are nearly all of 
the wild type of Prunus Americana that 
is safe, and it will help very materially 
in checking the apple scab. It is safe 
to use it up until time blossoms begin 
to show pink. But all should be finished 
by this time, even then some burning 
will be done. However this seems to do 
no harm, as it disappears rapidly and no 
signs of it can be found in a few days. 
The concentrated lime-sulphur is not 
safe to use on peaches and plums as a 
Summer spray of any kind at a less dilu¬ 
tion than one to 100, and one to 150 is 
safer and I believe as efficient in con¬ 
trolling brown rot. 
The self-boiled mixture (which is a 
misnomer, as no boiling should take 
place to be perfectly safe,) is safer, and 
has given better results, in controlling 
brown rot. It is made by putting eight 
pounds stone lime in a barrel; put on 
water enough to cover the lime; as soon 
as the lime begins to slake add eight 
pounds sulphur, preferably put through 
a sieve (a box of any convenient size 
with the bottom knocked out and cov¬ 
ered with ordinary fly screen makes a 
good sieve for this). Keep stirred well, 
and add water to keep from burning. 
As soon as lime is all slaked and lime 
and sulphur has been well stirred to¬ 
gether add water to make 50 gallons. 
Strain out coarse particles of lime, but 
work all lumps of sulphur fine and into 
the mixture when it is ready to use. If 
used for rot alone it should be applied 
three to four weeks after the petals fall, 
and again about one month before fruit 
is expected to ripen. If for curculio too, 
then add two pounds arsenate of lead 
to 50 gallons of mixture, spray when 
shucks are shedding, again about four 
weeks after blossoms have fallen, and 
again four weeks before fruit should 
ripen, omitting arsenate of lead at last 
spraying. w . h. 
NATURAL BRACE FOR GATE POST. 
The. accompanying sketch shows a new 
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NATURAL BRACE FOR A GATE POST. Fig. 120. 
grow in Minnesota and elsewhere in 
the extreme North. Of the choice va¬ 
rieties Hawkeye, Brittlewood, Stoddard, 
Van Deman and DeSoto are some of 
the best. Any of the ordinary grapes 
will succeed, such as Concord, Dela¬ 
ware, Niagara, Brighton, Campbell and 
Salem. Of the bush fruits the red rasp¬ 
berries are among the best. Loudon 
and Cuthbert are two good ones. Briton 
and Snyder are good blackberries.- Red 
Cross, Diploma and Perfection are all 
very good currants. Houghton and 
Downing two of the best gooseberries 
for the far north. h. e. van deman. 
GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT LIME- 
SULPHUR. 
A. B. Holland, Mich .—I have been fol¬ 
lowing with great interest your accounts 
of the use of lime and sulphur spray for 
various purposes. There are two points 
about the use of lime-sulphur on which I 
desire information. Is the lime and sulphur 
equally as good as the Bordeaux when used 
as a preventive of the apple scab, before 
the blossoms open ? Will the commercial 
lime and sulphur, used say one to 40, pre¬ 
vent the rot on peaches and plums as well 
as the self-boiled mixture? I tried it in 
a small way for both purposes last season. 
Before using-it again I would like to know 
what results others have had. I thought 
I sprayed at just the right time and I tried 
to do a good job. The result was a com¬ 
plete failure on the Shiawassee Beauty ; a 
partial success on the Red Astrachan, with 
good results on the Jersey Sweet, Spitzen- 
burg, and R. I. Greening. 1 also sprayed 
ray Barnard peaches to prevent rot. The 
crop of peaches was light, with but little 
rot. My plums w T ere all killed by the Spring 
frosts, so having some solution left I went 
to one of my neighbors who had one Lom¬ 
bard tree heavily loaded. We sprayed it 
thoroughly; result, a fine crop with no rot. 
But there may not have been any rot 
here this season anyway, our March Sum¬ 
mer and May Winter causing such a light 
crop of fruit as to render results doubtful. 
As a remedy for the scale and peach leaf- 
curl, the commercial solution gave good re¬ 
sults, used five gallons solution to 45 of 
water, used at the rate of 1-40. There 
was no damage to foliage on either apple, 
pear, peach, plum or cherry. 
Ans. —If you can see your way clear 
to make an application of Bordeaux 
between yottr first spraying and opening 
of blossoms, undoubtedly that is best. 
If not, then hold back your first appli¬ 
cation of lime-sulphur, on such varieties 
as are most subject to scab, as late as it 
sometime ago. The post is cut with a 
large wide limb, and if this limb, as well 
as the post, has a fork at the lower 
end, it. will be much more substantial. 
This seems to be an improvement over 
the common diagonal bracing from post 
to post, which is difficult to fasten at the 
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