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THE RURAL NhiW'-VURKER 
January 1J, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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TREATMENT OF CHINESE LILY, 
B. IF. B., Kirkwood, X. Y. —My Chinese 
lily bulb was put in a dish of water about 
six weeks ago, propped up with stones. 
It grew finely and had two very fragrant 
blossoms. The bloom is now dying. What 
shall I do with it now to make it bloom 
again? What care does it require? 
Ans.—W e have never had any suc¬ 
cess in trying to bloom the Chinese 
sacred lily a second time. This belongs 
to the Tazetta or Polyanthus section 
of Narcissi, and is *not hardy out of 
doors in the North, so one cannot plant 
it outside to recuperate as we do with 
hardy forced bulbs, which usually give 
us flowers the second year after plant¬ 
ing out. We can only advise the in¬ 
quirer to discard the bulb after flower¬ 
ing is over. 
THERMAL BELT OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
M. It., 1 Vest Chests, Pa. —On page 1911 
I note a remark in an article on “English 
Walnuts” as follows: “Two 20-year-old 
trees in thermal belt of North Carolina, 
where they never have frost,” etc. Can you 
inform me where this warm belt i,s? I was 
under the impression that the only frost¬ 
less spots in Uncle Sams domains were Key 
West and some of the Florida Keys. They 
have occasional frosts at Miami, Fla., and 
San Diego, Cal. I am interested in finding 
a warm spot in the United States with 
slight changes of temperature. 
Ans. —There is not a foot of terri¬ 
tory in North Carolina where it does 
not frost at least some every Winter 
and usually freezes everything that is 
not really hardy. The writer of the 
statement referred to evidently meant to 
say that the “thermal belt” was not 
severely cold. There are regions in that 
State and many others along the Atlan¬ 
tic coast where the climate is very mild 
compared with the average of the same 
latitude. Where these conditions exist 
the Persian (English) walnut is likely 
to succeed. h. e. van deman. 
SCIONS OR BUDS FROM MATURE TREES. 
There is much interest in this sub¬ 
ject, and more or less discussion, but 
there has been so little work done, that 
there is not much data to be had upon 
it. Having been asked for an opinion 
upon the question asked in The R. N.-Y. 
by R. B. T. of Ednor, Md., on cutting 
scions from apple trees, and on the 
reply made by M. K., will say that I 
believe in the selection of buds or scions 
in propagating trees. All of the im¬ 
provements that have been made in 
animal or in vegetable life have been 
through the principle of selection. For 
more than 20 years we have been se- 
. lecting scions from King apple trees 
that for more than 30 years have shown 
no trace of canker, a disease that is 
very common with the King, and have 
a perfectly healthy orchard 23 years of 
age, when the trees usually begin to 
fill at 12 to 15 years. We have four 
generations of Sutton Beauty, grown 
from the selection of buds from mature 
trees, all showing improvement and 
marked characteristics. 
For several years we have planted a 
large number of Northern Spy trees, 
and have top-worked some from buds of 
ideal productive trees. While the Spy 
will usually grow as propagated from 
the nursery trees, for 15 or more years 
before it will bear much fruit, we have 
obtained apples freely in six and seven 
years. Trees have individuality which 
cannot be known in the nursery, but 
may be discovered after a few years. 
We have recently been pruning a large 
number of Spy trees that have been 
planted seven years, and much differ¬ 
ence is discovered in them. Some throw 
out branches with a horizontal tendency, 
while many send their branches up 
straight from their trunks. The former 
are bearing freely, from 50 to 60 perfect 
apples to a tree, while the other type 
show no indication of bearing. In tak¬ 
ing buds, we should chose from those 
showing the spreading form of growth 
and bearing quality, rather than from 
the other, which has a strong vegetative 
tendency, and will produce wood for 
years before developing fruit and spurs. 
In propagating nursery trees, at some 
time buds may be taken from early 
bearing trees, and this will explain why 
some trees come into bearing several 
years sooner than others taken from 
the same rows. 
We have also a large number of 
top-worked McIntosh trees, the buds 
being taken from ideal bearing trees. 
In the sixth year from planting and 
the fifth from the budding, a few trees 
produced one barrel of apples each, 
while the past season the same trees 
bore two barrels, and one three barrels 
of picked apples. The nursery-grown 
trees were more uneven in bearing and 
in the quality of fruit. It is a fact that 
some nurserymen are advertising pedi¬ 
gree trees, when that must be had from 
crossing, which nursery men cannot do, 
or do not, as so much time is required, 
but nursery trees are grown from care-! 
fully selected buds from good bearing 
trees, and such trees are worth more, 
CO 
UNLOADING TABLES 
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PACKING TABLES 
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FRUIT PACKING SHED. 
See article of L. A. Goodman, next page. 
for it costs more to grow them, as buds 
taken from mature trees, will not grow 
so readily, and hence there are more 
misses in budding. While trees are ad¬ 
vertised as grown from selected buds an 
extra price should pot be paid for them 
unless some evidence may be given that 
they are thus grown. If the trees are 
making 10 or more inches of annual 
growth, it will not injure then to cut 
scions freely. In fact, the more trees 
may be kept in check and not allowed to 
grow high, the more readily spraying 
may be done, while the fruit may be 
much more economically picked from 
low than from high trees. 
GEORGE T. POWELL. 
LIME FROM TANNERY. 
How does lime that has been used in a 
tannery compare in value, for agricultural 
purpose, with fresh lime? Is such tannery 
waste (used lime and hair), worth hauling 
five miles to be used on land that needs 
liming, or would it be cheaper to buy new 
quicklime at $5 per ton? The quicklime 
is to be hauled about 1% miles. 
Noxen, Pa. g. a. s. 
Such lime would have about the same 
power as ground limestone. In addition 
the tannery waste contains nitrogen and 
phosphoric acid, though not very available. 
The amount of lime and other fertility will 
depend on how wet the waste is. The drier 
the greater value. We should haul this 
waste. 
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