1811 
THE R.UR.A.L> NEW-YORKER 
437- 
ORIENTAL PEAR STOCKS. 
E. S. Black’s advice to “go slow” in 
using Oriental pear stocks for grafting 
our varieties on is well given. In 1888 
I received through the H. H. Berger 
seed house at San Francisco one pound 
of Chinese Sand pear seed, and one 
pound of seed from Japan. Both were 
planted and quite a number of young 
trees resulted. The Chinese Sand were 
the more thrifty; when three years old 
several hundred of these were top- 
grafted about four feet from the ground. 
For two or three years they grew nicely, 
but as stated by Mr. Black, the graft 
grew much larger than the stock. About 
the fifth year the tops began to show 
something wrong, and by the eighth 
year all were gone. Some of the Sand 
pears not grafted are living yet, and 
sunflower seed, which is very oily and 
rich, is relished by poultry and stock, 
and we are told that in eastern Europe 
and Asia the seeds are roasted or 
parched, and eaten just as we eat pea¬ 
nuts. We have no knowledge of sun¬ 
flower seed flour; we judge it would be 
extremely oily. The sunflower commonly- 
used for human food is the Jerusalem 
artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, which 
has escaped from gardens to become a 
weed in many parts of this country. 
The roots, either boiled or pickled, are 
liked by many, but the plant multiplies 
so rapidly that it soon becomes a nui¬ 
sance in the garden. 
GROWING RASPBERRIES. 
Fig. 147 shows a family affair in 
Michigan where raspberries are grown 
as a market crop. These hushes are 
about as they should be at picking time 
after good pruning and clean culture. 
Where one can get good pickers, rasp- 
bear every year. One of them is 
very fair pear for preserving purposes. 
I tried grafting on a few Kieffer trees, 
but with no good results. On the other 
hand I set some hundreds of grafts on 
ou r- -n ative __-stocks (top-grafted) and 
have nice bearing trees. I grafted some 
Sand pear scions on the Garber (a 
hybrid) and these grew well and bear 
every year. Just why the natives will 
not do on the Orientals we cannot tell, 
but our experience w r as on a scale to 
tell. The work was carefully done and 
90 per cent grew right along for several 
years. I used scions of quite a number 
of our better pears, but all were served 
alike. * j. H. haynes. 
Indiana. 
MILKWEED, DAHLIA AND SUNFLOWER 
FOR FOOD. 
E. D. R., Pouyhkecpsie, N. Y .—I am send¬ 
ing you a clipping from a local paper about 
milkweed, sunflower, and Dahlia bulbs be¬ 
ing delicious food. Will you tell me where 
to get the kinds mentioned if possible? 
The common milkweed, Asclepias Cor- 
nuti, plentiful in fields and low grounds, 
is freely eaten as “greens,” the rule be¬ 
ing to break off as much of the stalk as 
will snap, both leaves and stalk being 
cooked. People who like milkweed 
greens continue to eat them through the 
season, gathering the tender growth as 
it is renewed. The inquirer should be 
able to find plenty of this milkweed wild 
in his locality. The Dahlia referred to 
in the newspaper clipping is described 
as “the single red variety.” Practically 
all our garden Dahlias come from one 
original species, D. variabilis, though 
the cactus Dahlias are descended from 
a sub-species, D. Juarezii, but it does 
not seem likely that the quality of the 
root will vary greatly in different gar¬ 
den varieties. However, single Dahlias 
grow very readily from seed, which may 
be procured from any seedsman, and 
would thus be cheaper for a food sup¬ 
ply than the fine named sorts usually 
grown from tubers. We have tasted 
boiled Dahlia roots, and frankly own 
that their sweetish aromatic flavor was 
not agreeable to us, but palates differ. 
We have been told that chemists extract 
a Dahlia sugar from these roots, which 
has some special medical quality, but 
have no exaot knowledge concerning it. 
The newspaper clipping referred to 
speaks of a flour made from sunflower 
seeds, one of the native sunflowers of 
the Western prairies being used. Of 
these we have no knowledge, the sun¬ 
flower ordinarily used in stock feeding 
being the large Russian variety. This 
Fig. 147. 
berries will pay fairly well. In our own 
section we find it hard to get the crop 
picked. People will handle strawber¬ 
ries, but do not like to work among 
"briers.” We should be careful to make 
sure of the pickers before setting heavily 
to raspberries. 
“That man is a fanatic about temper¬ 
ance, isn’t he?” “Yes. I knew him 
once to leave a farm where he was to 
spend the Summer because he met the 
farmer’s son driving the horses to 
drink.”—Baltimore American. 
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