1911. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
841 
Ruralisms 
Propagating Double Crabs. 
IF. H. P., South. Berkeley, Cal .—Will you 
please advise me how to propagate Bechtel's 
double flowering crab? I have a tree of the 
above named crab, and in April of this year 
it was the wonder of the neighborhood. It 
became a common thing for people to stop 
and ask what it was. It is the only one 
that I know of in our part of the city, and 
it certainly was beautiful. I should like to 
know how it is reproduced. It is a great 
pity that it is not better known. It is 
worthy of a wide distribution and should 
be in every garden that has room for a 
small tree. 
Ans.—B echtel’s flowering crab and 
other ornamental crabs are commercially 
propagated by grafting on seedling 
crab and common apple stocks, but 
Paradise or dwarf apple and Doucin 
stocks may also be used if it is de¬ 
sired to restrain growth, which, how¬ 
ever, is rarely too free. The crabs may 
also be worked on Crataegus or haw¬ 
thorn, or even the Service berry 
(Amelanchier) if apple stocks are not 
to be had, but in practice it is found 
best to keep as near the crab or wild 
apple section of the genus Pyrus as 
possible. This beautiful crab—perhaps 
the finest flowering tree of purely na¬ 
tive origin—may readily be increased 
by budding, root or top-grafting on the 
stocks first mentioned, but top-grafting 
by the common cleft or splice methods, 
on well-grown seedling crabs, four or 
five feet high, is likely to prove most 
satisfactory with amateurs. It takes 
several years’ growth to produce a 
blooming tree from either bud or graft. 
v. 
Starting California Privet Plants. 
C. C. T., New Castle, Pa .—Will you tell 
me how and when to start California privet 
plants from cuttings? 
Ans. —California privet may be 
grown from cuttings of either green or 
mature wood. The usual method is to 
take cuttings of young wood the size of 
a lead pencil or smaller, either in the 
Fall, or about the middle of Winter, 
when the leaves have fallen, or can 
easily be stripped off. The cuttings, 
about eight inches long, are tied in bun¬ 
dles of 100, large ends all one way, and 
buried in sandy soil, butt end upwards, 
covered with an inch or two of light 
soil, with litter over this for protection. 
They are protected in this way so that 
they will not start to grow with the first 
warm weather. As soon as the ground 
can be worked it is thoroughly fined, 
Sample, as they would not be likely to 
establish themselves strongly enough to 
bloom well next Spring, but by giving 
good fertilization and thorough culture 
in exclusive rows this Fall, fair bloom¬ 
ing crowns may be induced to form, and 
prove of great benefit to your Sample 
plants next season. If your plot of 
Sample is of no great extent, a planting 
of a perfect variety alongside may be 
sufficient, but it is well to have pollen- 
izers close at hand, especially in a rainy 
blooming season. v. 
Sediment in Gravity Spraying. 
J. R. S., Philadelphia, Pa .—In June Mr. 
Van Deman gave a very interesting and 
suggestive account of piping an orchard to 
spray by gravity. In mentioning this mat¬ 
ter, several persons have spoken of the 
settling of sediments as an insuperable bar¬ 
rier; i. e., the arsenate of lead would set¬ 
tle and stick while you went to dinner, and 
would stop tile pipes up in a short time. 
Is there any experimental evidence at 
hand? 
Ans. —What I wrote about the idea 
of gravity spraying was suggestive 
rather than anything from experience, 
for I do not know that anyone has tried 
it out. I saw the splendid water sys¬ 
tem in the Stuart orchard in Patrick 
County, Virginia, with a great head of 
water, inexhaustible in quantity, with 
spigots every 200 feet (the type made 
me say “2,000 feet"), and I thought of 
the possibility of utilizing it for spray¬ 
ing. No doubt there will be obstacles, 
such as the settling of liquid mixtures 
and the corroding of the interior of the 
pipes, but I believe they can be over¬ 
come. It will take time and skill. If 
the arsenate of lead would settle and 
stick “while we go to dinner” I would 
plan to have no dinner time for the 
work, but have relays of hands to keep 
things moving until all was done. There 
should be plenty of water to flush out 
the pipes at the end of the job. If any¬ 
one has tried the plan of gravity spray¬ 
ing in a practical way they should give 
us the facts. h. e. van deman. 
The Lucile Grape. 
Some time ago I saw an inquiry in your 
paper regarding the Lucile grape. As my 
father originated the grape and has propa¬ 
gated it and fruited it ever since, I have 
had him write something about it. I have 
made a copy below, and hope you will And 
room to publish it for the sake of the one 
inquiring. mbs. e. m. eddy. 
The Lucile grape is a chance seedling, 
color a bright red, like Delaware; clusters 
and berries larger than Concord. A strong 
grower and very hardy and healthy, not 
subject to any disease here (Chautauqua 
county). It ripens with Moore’s Early and 
Concord and Niagara. As tile Lucile does 
not ripen its fruit all at once, there were 
stems on the vines October 25 that were 
good. It never shells. It is a fine grape 
for a variety vineyard, where the owner 
wishes to pack variety baskets of red, white 
and blue. jesse a. putna.m. 
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They root very well, and if given clean 
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