1911 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
987 
Ruralisms 
Late Yellow Peach Wanted. 
E. V., Essex Co., N. J. — What late yellow 
peach can you recommend that will come in 
with such late white varieties as Iron 
Mountain and Stevens Rareripe? There are 
several now listed in the different nursery 
catalogues, such as Matthews, Banner, 
Frances, Lamont, Willet, McKays, and 
Clairs. We need a good late yellow 
peach, a good yielder, too, that will come 
in after the Elbcrta is gone. Who can 
name it? 
Ans. —If I had to name one variety 
of late yellow freestone peach that is 
my preference above all others for gen¬ 
eral use, including market, I would say 
the Salway. There are others that may 
prove to be better, but they have not 
been tried out well yet. Chairs has 
been tested quite well but it is not a re¬ 
liable bearer. Matthews and Frances I 
have also seen in bearing. The other 
varieties named I have not seen tested 
but I do not think any of them have 
yet been well enough tested to warrant 
taking a first place on the list of late 
peaches. There are several other new 
candidates for public favor, but none of 
them is equal to Salway, so far as I 
know. If anyone does know such a 
peach as is wanted I hope they will name 
it. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Coboea and Passion Flower. 
A. D. O Scotch Plums, N. J. — Will you 
tell me what I must do to have a Coboea 
vine and passionflower vine bloom early in 
the season? I have to buy them each season 
because I do not know how to find the 
seeds nor how to slip the vines, nor how to 
treat the vines during the Winter, so that 
in the Spring I do not have to buy them. 
Ans.— Coboea scandens is quite easily 
grown from seeds; fill two-inch pots 
with soil, moisten it, and put a seed in 
each pot, merely pressing the seed into 
the soil edgewise, without other cover¬ 
ing. Start in the house in February and 
the plants will grow quite quickly; the 
advantage of putting in the small pot is 
that pricking off is not so soon neces¬ 
sary. We have had some trouble from 
damping off where there had been some 
carelessness in watering. We would not 
try to carry Coboeas over Winter. 2. 
We have never tried to carry passion 
flowers over Winter in the house. Pas- 
siflora coerulea and its hybrids can be 
propagated from cuttings of ripe wood 
late in Summer. We have carried them 
over Winter with very little care in a 
cool greenhouse, and we are told that 
they will pass the Winter in a frame 
where the back wall is against a warm 
greenhouse. The difficulty in carrying 
these vines over Winter in the house is 
that they take up a good deal of room, 
and offer a refuge for mealy bug and 
similar pests; then they are apt to grow 
shabby in fluctuating temperature, 
though they grow freely in a green¬ 
house. The native Passiflora incarnata 
seeds abundantly, and is also grown 
from cuttings. The cuttings are sure 
with bottom heat; under house condi¬ 
tions we would start in moist sand in a 
window, inserting the cutting and per¬ 
mitting the leaves to lie flat on the sand, 
under side down. Do this in late Sum¬ 
mer so that the little plants get a good 
start. 
Curing Sunflower Seeds. 
G. B., Akron, O .— At what stage is it 
best to harvest sunflower seed, and how 
should it be treated to avoid moulding 
and worms? Sunflowers grow luxuriantly 
on my place and my poultry like it, but 
I am greatly pestered by the English spar¬ 
rows, and therefore desire to know how 
early I can harvest it in order to avoid 
them. I have covered the seed witli canvas 
bags ripped open, but that has a tendency 
to produce a mouldy condition which ruins 
the seed, in fact I believe that the sun¬ 
flower has a natural tendency to mould 
while curing. 
Ans. —Commercial growers of sun¬ 
flower seeds allow the flower heads to 
ripen on the plants until ttie seed begins 
to shatter, when they are cut in early 
morning and hauled in wagons, with as 
little disturbance as possible, to an airy 
loft having a tight floor, and spread 
rather thinly until cured sufficiently for 
thrashing, which may be done by ma¬ 
chine or hand, as circumstances war¬ 
rant. The aim is to have the seed as 
thoroughly ripened and dried as possible 
before cutting, just as does the corn 
and grain grower. There appears to 
be no very effectual way to avoid loss 
by sparrows and other pilfering birds 
except to drive away or exterminate the 
pests. This loss, however, is relatively 
much less with large plantings than 
with small ones, and is so great in thick¬ 
ly settled localities as to render sun¬ 
flower seed culture impracticable. Choice 
heads may be protected until ripe with 
loose-textured burlap by keeping the 
fabric away from the seeds by a forked 
stick, eight inches long, embedded in the 
center of the head, but any attempt to 
cover the seed heads -with material as 
close as muslin or canvas is likely to 
favor molding. Under favorable condi¬ 
tions sunflower seeds can be grown in 
quantity at a less cost than two cents 
the pound, but the sparrow nuisance is 
rapidly restricting the area of profitable 
culture. The secret of curing is to al¬ 
low the seeds to ripen fully before cut¬ 
ting. v. 
Protecting Pansy Plants. 
1. Will you tell mo how to protect pansy 
plants through the Winter? I am now 
transplanting into cold frames. 2. Do you 
know anything of the Grand Pacific tomato? 
Massachusetts. a. w. l. 
1. Tansies in cold frames need nothing 
more than a light mulch of spent manure 
or fine litter. Many are wintered in open 
beds in this latitude, merely covered with a 
mulch. They should begin to bloom quite 
early in the frame. The lights should be 
raised for ventilation whenever weather 
permits. If early flowers are sought and 
there is little snow, some litter or mats 
may be put over the lights when the 
weather is exceptionally severe. 2. We do 
not know anything of the Grand Pacific 
tomato. Perhaps some Western reader can 
supply information about it. 
Shade Trees and Lawns, 
Our lawn is bordered with great maple 
trees, planted 50 years ago. They shade a 
large proportion of the lawn and their 
roots extend afar, like their shade. We 
have no grass. People tell me that it is 
impossible for us to have grass for two 
reasons; on account of the shade and be¬ 
cause maple trees sap the ground of mois¬ 
ture and also of plant food. Is this true? 
Must we be content with our beautiful 
trees and give up all hope of. having green 
grass also? Or can you suggest some kind 
of cultivation of the soil and the proper use 
of fertilizer, with, perhaps, a special kind 
of seed, which would be likely to improve 
the lawn? H. L. M. 
New York. 
It is not easy to have a good lawn 
where large trees both shade the ground 
and abstract moisture. There are, how¬ 
ever, special grasses, or grass mixtures, 
suited to these conditions which can be pur¬ 
chased from any seedsman. Probably the 
best mixture of this sort for a shaded 
lawn is Wood meadow grass, Poa nemoralis, 
and Rough-stalked meadow-grass, Poa 
trivialis. Fertility should be applied in 
the form of prepared lawn dressing, or of 
manure. The latter is very valuable for 
the lawn, but has the disadvantage of 
bringing in a great many weeds. Bone 
dust will be found useful also. 
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SOUND SLEEP 
Can Easily Be Secured, 
“Up to 2 years ago,” a woman writes, 
“I was in the habit of using both tea and 
coffee regularly. 
“I found that my health was beginning 
to fail, strange nervous attacks would 
come suddenly upon me, making me 
tremble so excessively that I could not 
do my work while they lasted; my sleep 
left me and I passed long nights in rest¬ 
less discomfort. I was filled with a 
nervous dread as to the future. 
“A friend suggested that possibly tea 
and coffee were t- blame, and I decided 
to give them up, and in casting about for 
a hot table beverage, which I felt was 
an absolute necessity, I was led by good 
fortune to try Postum. 
“For more than a year I have used it 
three time a day and expect, so much 
good has it done me, to continue its use 
during the rest of my life. 
“Soon after beginning the use of 
Posum, I found, to my surprise, that, in¬ 
stead of tossing on a sleepless bed 
through the long, dreary night, I dropped 
into a sound, dreamless sleep the mo¬ 
ment my head touched the nillow. 
“Then I suddenly realized that all my 
nervousness had left me, and my appetite, 
which had fallen off before, had all at 
once been restored so that I ate my food 
with a keen relish. 
“All the nervous dread has gone. I 
walk a mile and a half each way to my 
work every day and enjoy it. I find an 
interest in everything that goes on about 
me that makes life a pleasure. All this 
I owe to leaving off tea and coffee and 
the use of Postum, for I have taken no 
medicine.” Name given by Postum Co., 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
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fhe 
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San Jose Scale Killer 
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I 2 with “Fuma Carbon Bisulphide” are doing. 
I EDWARD R. TAYLOR, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
FUMA 
800 GALLONS 
1500 GALLONS? 
it to any R. R. Station 
$16.00; 10-gal. cans. 
A few years ago the N. Y. Experiment Station started out to prove that “Scalecide” was too expensive, but they 
found that in orchard work 9 gals, of “Scalecide” went as far as 17 gals, of Lime-Sulfur. This being the case, a barrel 
of “Scalecide” which makes 800 gals, of spray at the strongest strength, will go as far and do better work than 1500 
gals, of Lime-Sulfur spray, which will require^ barrelsof the best Lime-Sulfur. TheMissouri Experiment Station 
reports that, “Scalecide” killed 100# of scale in 5 out of 7 tests. Lime Sulfur did not do it once in 10 tests in the same 
orchard* “Scalecide’’has greater fungicidal properties than Lime-Sulfur as a Winter wash. A postal request to 
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and new booklet, “ Scalecide—the Tree-Saver.” I f your dealer cannot supply you with “Scalecide,” we will deliver 
tion in the U. S. east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio Rivers on receipt of price. 50-gal. bbls., $25.00; 30-gal. bbls., 
, $6.75; 5-gal cans, $3.75. Address, B. G. Pratt Company, 50 Chui’ch Street, New York City. 
