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Cleaning a Well. 
E. R. T., Cape Vincent, N. Y.—On the 
place I have just bought are two old wells 
with water in them. I want to clean out 
one and put in a windmill. The well is 
walled up with stone. How shall I go to 
work to clean it so the water, will be safe 
to use? 
Ans. —If the M’cll has been contam¬ 
inated by the deadly cesspool or barn¬ 
yard I would be disposed to make a 
new well, but if the water is merely 
stagnant from not being used, it would 
seem that pumping it out a few times 
and washing the walls thoroughly each 
time would put it in good shape. In 
localities where good water can be 
found by drilling in the rock, they make 
the most, sanitary wells, if the driller 
does a good job of casing off every¬ 
thing above the rock formation. 
J. f. v. s. 
Lucretia Dewberry in Massachusetts. 
E. IF. G., Boston, Mass .—I have a Lucre- 
tia dewberry vine whicn has been in my 
garden for four years; it grows luxuriantly 
with strong canes and this year blossomed 
fully, but hardly any berries set, and only a 
dozen or so of very inferior berries rip¬ 
ened It is not worth the space I give it, 
and I must pull it up unless you can tell 
me what is the trouble and how I can 
remedy it. 
Ans.' —The Lucretia dewberry is a 
native of West Virginia, and does not 
seem to be well suited to northern 
climates. I know some bushes in 
Northern Michigan that have been act¬ 
ing much like those complained of by 
E. W. G. It is my opinion that the 
blossoms do not pollinate well. It may 
be that they need the benefit of the 
pollen from other varieties. However, 
I have seen many large patches and 
fields of that variety in several of the 
Eastern States that were bearing well. 
I would suggest getting a plant of some 
other dewberry and setting it next to the 
Lucretia and await results. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Trouble with English Walnuts. 
H. S., St. Catherines, Out. —1. Can some 
authority tell me why my English walnuts 
(Juglans regia) do not succeed? I planted 
nuts last Spring and they made a growth 
of about eight inches only, and three-year- 
cld trees have only made about six inches 
of wood this year. They survive the Win¬ 
ter well, though some trees kill back a. few 
inches. Soil is three feet deep, of good 
loam, clay bottom and underdrained. Every 
Spring these trees start well until in full 
leaf which is about July 1 ; then the 
foliage blackens or blights from the outer 
edges and the trees make practically no 
more growth the remainder of season. This 
is a natural nut country and English wal¬ 
nuts do well on all sides of my location, 
some trees being about 40 years old, and 
as many feet high, producing annual crops 
of fine nuts. 1 have read that they are 
very capricious about soil. If so would 
grafting on the native stock overcome this 
weakness? 
Ans.— There must be some peculiar- I 
ity about the soil or situation why these 
English walnuts do not thrive. The 
fact of these trees being affected last 
year in the same way would indicate 
some disease or some unfavorable con¬ 
dition in the soil or surroundings. If 
these are only affected while same va¬ 
riety do well all about, would indicate 
some local trouble. It is a fact that 
the English walnut is of very slow 
growth for a few years until it gets 
well established, after which it is a 
strong .grower and remarkably healthy. 
I know trees 30 feet in spread of top 
and 40 or more feet high that bear good 
crops of nuts annually. I hardly think 
grafting on such stock would make 
much difference with the result. The 
only sure way to tell is to try. 
j. s. WOODWARD. 
THE K.U RAL NEW-YORKER 
November li 
New Plums from Dakota. 
Much work has been done by Professor 
Ilansen of the South Dakota Experiment 
Station (Brookings) in the production of 
hybrid plums, the native sand cherry- of the 
being used to work upon. Bulletin 
by the Station, gives a very in- 
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130, issued 
a 
teresting discussion of these fruits. The 
work was begun in 1S95, a great number of 
wild plants being collected from the West¬ 
ern States and Canadian Northwest, while 
cultivated fruits were obtained from Amer¬ 
ica, Asia and Europe. 
A cross of the native plum, Prunus 
Americana, with Prunus Simoni. the Chi¬ 
nese apricot plum, gave hardy trees of 
early productiveness, with large fruit, bright 
colored and very fragrant. The fruit of one 
variety is bright red with heavy blue bloom, 
size about 1% inch in diameter, shape flat, 
flavor when cooked strongly like the apricot. 
This variety, which has been named Banska, 
was introduced in 1008. Banska is a Sioux 
Indian word meaning tall, in reference to 
the rapid growth of the tree. Inkpa (Sioux 
for “acme”), and Kaga (Sioux for “pitch a 
tent”), and Toka (Sioux for “adversary”) 
are of the same parentage and similar type. 
It is believed that they all possess market 
value, because of their vigorous growth, 
early bearing and large, handsome fruit. 
Another set of hybrids resulted from 
crossing the Dakota sand cherry with the 
Japan plum Gold. The best of these has 
been named Opata (Sioux Indian for bou¬ 
quet). This is a dark purplish red fruit 
with blue bloom, flesh green ; the quality is 
excellent. This is expected to prove a val¬ 
uable market plum; it is a strong grower 
and an early and heavy bearer. Trees sent 
out from the Station one ybar from bud 
bore the following season in many places. 
Its season is the middle of August. 
Another cross was a seedling of the West¬ 
ern sand cherry (Prunus Besse.vi) with the 
Japan plum Sultan. One of the hybrids, 
called Sapa (Sioux Indian for "black”) took 
first prize for a seedling plum at the Minne¬ 
sota State Fair in 1009. The fruit is a 
rich dark purple; season extremely early. 
Another of the same pedigree, Ezaptan 
(Sioux Indian for “fifth”) is a dark purple 
plum remarkable for its early and heavy 
bearing. 
Some very attractive purple-leaved plums, 
which appear to have decided value for orna¬ 
mental planting, are the result of crossing 
the sand cherry witli the Persian purple¬ 
leaved plum, Prunus I’issardi. There are 
also some interesting crosses between the 
sand cherry and the native plum De Soto, of 
which the varieties Sansoto and Chercsoto 
are characteristic. 
Regarding the Sioux Indian names given 
to a number of these plums, Professor Ilan¬ 
sen remarks that since these new fruits were 
partly or wholly derived from the native 
fruits, it seemed fitting to give some indica¬ 
tion of the region in which they originated, 
and also to show that there are many pleas¬ 
ant sounding words in the Sioux language. 
The. use of these purely American names for 
American fruits seems to us highly com¬ 
mendable. and they certainly will not dupli¬ 
cate existing names. 
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Thinning Varnish. 
Wliat will thin varnish so it can be used 
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