1912. 
THE: RURAT NEW-YORKER 
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Winter Celery; Pollenizing Strawberries. 
L. M., Sheldon, Tt. —1. What kind of 
Winter celery will after blanched leave a 
decent or fair-sized bunch, and not all 
wither away, which is the case with Winter 
Queen and Giant Rascal, of which there is 
nothing left but the heart. I would like to 
have you name varieties that will leave a 
larger bunch than the above named. 2. 
What staminate varieties of strawberries do 
experienced strawberry growers use to pol- 
lenize Sample? I have tried many different 
varieties, but have never been able to find 
anything that will throw out as many dif¬ 
ferent sets of blossoms as Sample, and con¬ 
sequently these later blossoms of Sample 
would never be pollenized. 
Ans. —1. The Giant White celery is a 
coarser and tougher variety than the 
sorts you have mentioned and I think 
would withstand the cold of your cli¬ 
mate better than those sorts. 2. Win. 
Belt is used by experienced strawberry 
growers to pollenize Sample. Win. Belt 
is one of the most delicious strawber¬ 
ries grown, and is planted more exten¬ 
sively- than any other one berry. It 
ripens at the same time as Sample, 
which is very important, t. m. white. 
Fruits for the Mountain. 
Care of Cherry Trees. 
F. M., Gasport, X. Y .—Give me your opin¬ 
ion as to the cultivation of sour cherry 
trees. Some say the ideal place is a lawn, 
which would mean no cultivation. I have 
only cut weeds and grass and top-dressed 
with barnyard manure. I have had good 
crops, but thought I might get better ones 
by cultivation. 
Ans. —If your cherry trees are an 
ornament to the lawn, and circumstances 
are such that you value them more for 
ornament than you do for fruit, you 
need not plow your lawn. If you will 
give stable fertilizer in the Spring and 
Fall—about a small wheelbarrow load to 
each tree, you will get a creditable crop 
of cherries and have a good lawn com¬ 
bined. If you are planting cherries com¬ 
mercially, take no stock in the mulch 
theory of cultivation. Once in a while 
you will have a dry year or a hot one, 
and you will need the moisture influence 
that cultivation can give you. Mulching 
may not result in the annihilation of 
your, crop, but the curtailment for the 
off year may be expensive. We must 
take all the pains we fcan to make our 
farming a sure thing. We will find many 
inevitable risks after doing the best we 
know how to do. uncle John. 
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T. S. Q., Clarksburg, IF. Fa.—What kind 
of soil and exposure is best for plums, 
cherries (sweet and sour), pears and 
grapes? I have a well-drained piece of 
ground sloping slightly to the southwest, 
almost entirely surrounded by large timber, 
trees well scattered. The land lies about 
7f> feet above a watercourse. Soil origin¬ 
ally grew White, Red and Black oak, beech, 
maple, hickory and walnut. Will this 
piece of ground be suitable for the above 
named fruits? I wish to plant for home 
use and local market. For a variety of 
each kind for all the season please tell me 
what to plant of cherry (sweet and sour), 
plum, pears (standard and dwarf) and 
grapes. Would you advise me to plant 
dwarf pears that I may get fruit before the 
standards come into bearing? 
Ans. —From the description of the 
location, soil and natural growth that 
once covered the land it would seem 
that this place would be well adapted to 
the growing of the fruits mentioned. 
The elevation above the water course 
ought to afford good air drainage and 
prevent serious frost damage in Spring¬ 
time. Cherries of both the sweet and 
sour classes should succeed there. Of 
the sweet varieties the Napoleon, 
Schmidt and Olivet would be good, and 
it would be well to try the new Western 
varieties, Bing and Lambert. All these 
should be grown on Mazzard stocks and 
not on Mahaleb. But for the sour va¬ 
rieties the Mahaleb is a good stock. Of 
this class the Montmorency is the most 
profitable variety, although Richmond 
and English Morello are very good for 
all purposes. 
As to plums, there is more money in 
the Damsons than in the other classes 
for that region, and the French is the 
best of all the varieties. It is not only 
the largest, but one of the very latest 
in ripening and excellent in quality. 
There are a number more of good va¬ 
rieties among which are the Shropshire 
and the old Winter or common Blue or 
Black Damson as it is variously called. 
I his class of plums is always in demand 
for making preserves, and the trees 
are hardy and usually quite productive. 
There are other classes of plums that 
succeed in the climate and soil under 
consideration. There are some of the 
European type, such as Lombard, Grand 
Duke, Monarch and Green Gage, that 
will do well if the curculio is kept from 
destroying them. The Japanese varieties 
are not much affected by this enemy, and 
their liability to rot is the greatest ob¬ 
jection to them. Abundance. Burbank 
and Wickson are among the best. The 
American plums are also good bearers, 
little affected by curculio or rot and sell 
at fair prices. . Brittlewood, Wyant and 
Stoddard are among the best of them. 
There are many excellent pears, and 
for home use there should be a con¬ 
stant succession of varieties, from earlv 
until late. Madeline, Tyson, Howeli, 
Boussock, Bartlett, Seckel, Bose, Law¬ 
rence and Easter make up a good list. 
Ba y tlett is the most popular market sort, 
incl should be planted more extensively 
than the others, but it should have other 
varieties planted not far away that their 
pollen may be carried by bees to fer¬ 
tilize the Bartlett flowers. 
Of grapes, there are many good varie- 
ties. The Campbell, Niagara, Delaware, 
uncord, Brighton and Salem are suffi¬ 
cient to cover the season. It will be 
necessary to faithfully spray grapes to 
PJ event them from being injured by 
■flack rot, but this is a sure and cheap 
preventive. h. e. van deman. 
J lie office of Foreign Seed and Plant In¬ 
troduction of tile Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, iu Bulletin No. <0, refers to the wax 
gourd, Benlncasa cerifcra, seeds of which 
have been received from Trichinopoli, India. 
It Is large, cylindrical, 12 to 18 inches long 
by six to eight inches in diameter. Very 
white and waxy fruit. This vegetable is 
commonly used by the Chinese for vege¬ 
table soups, and also candied as a sweet¬ 
meat wherever it grows, is recommended to 
amateurs who are experimenting with new 
vegetables. It has been grown successfully 
near Washington. In an unripe state it en¬ 
ters into many curries. It is grown in 
India, China, Polynesia and the Philippines. 
Another introduction is the Moreton Bay 
chestnut, Castanospermum australe, from 
Queensland, Australia. Regarding it, the 
Colonial Botanist says: “In the scrub near 
Ivuranda we noticed trees bearing pods 
about the size and shape of a banana, but 
at least twice the diameter. Upon open¬ 
ing the pods they were found to contain 
huge beans that look very much like chest¬ 
nuts. They have a leathery skin and the 
interior is white and not very hard, about 
the consistency of a nut I tasted one of 
the beans, although I was told that it was 
poisonous. It tasted very much like a nut, 
but had no distinctive flavor. In spite of 
the poisonous nature of the bean the ‘black 
fellows’ have learned to use it as food. 
I hey first roast the beans in hot ashes, 
then skin them and pound the white flesh 
into coarse flour. They fill a basket with 
this flour and place it in running water 
over night. In this way the poisonous 
principle is washed out.” 
An interesting introduction, to be dis¬ 
tributed later, is seeds of sunflower called 
“Pantsernara,” meaning armor plated, orig¬ 
inated by Mr. Ivarsin in Russia. The seeds 
of this remarkable variety are provided 
with an extremely hard shell, being coated 
with silicic acid, and the weevils which 
have been playing such havoc heretofore 
with the sunflower seed crop in Russia, And 
it beyond their powers to penetrate the 
hulls of this variety. Obtained from Prof. 
M. Tulaikoff, Director of the Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station at Bezcnshook. 
Seeds of durum wheat have been secured 
by Dr. Meyer from Bezenshook, Samara 
Govt., Russia. “A large-grained uncommon 
Summer variety of durum wheat, apparentlv 
originating in these regions,” and “a now 
and valuable Winter variety of blaek- 
bearded durum wheat, having very lon°- 
open ears, and proving extremely 'hardv 
having survived snowless Winters, whore 
other Winter wheats were cither killed out 
or severely injured.” The Siberian grains 
clovers, and fruits introduced by the ex- 
plorers sent out by the Department show 
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