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March 2, 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
AN ATTRACTIVE COUNTRY ROAD. 
Along many of the neglected roadsides 
in the East dense hedgerows of brush 
are growing. Usually when the branches 
have begun to crowd the roadway, the 
owner of the adjoining land cuts down 
every one of the young trees, piles the 
brush and later burns it. The roadside 
then presents an unsightly spectacle of 
charred stumps, among which weeds 
soon spring up, and within a few years 
a new border of brush is growing again. 
The accompanying illustration below 
shows a row of trees along the roadside 
through a farm in northeastern Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Originally, where this row of 
trees is now growing, there was a mix¬ 
ture of young Black birch, maple and 
wild cherry trees. About 15 years ago 
W. H. Evans, the owner of the adjoin¬ 
ing farm, cut out all of the wild cherry 
trees, most of the maples, and left some 
of the Black birch at about uniform dis¬ 
tances apart. The young birches were 
carefully trimmed and headed at a 
height of about six or eight feet above 
the ground. During the next few years 
all brush sprouting from stumps or seed 
was carefully mowed down. As a result 
of the continued mowing, the brush and 
weeds gradually disappeared, and grass 
took its place. 
Along the road on both sides there is 
thirfty growers and, with the exception of 
the last, grapes of quality. 
A Wonderful New Corn. 
There is an agent around this vicinity 
selling Lake Erie dent corn which is a 
cross between Bermuda Sweet and common 
flint, and he claims it contains three times 
as much protein as any other corn and 
that no other grain is needed when it is 
fed. C. B. D. 
Silver Lake, Pa. 
Any man who makes such claims is a 
fraud. Corn has been grown which gave 
nearly 15 per cent of protein under ex¬ 
ceptional conditions. Just imagine corn- 
meal with 45 per cent! This is one of 
those fool stories which are used by fakes 
to catch suckers. We would not patronize 
any man who told such a yarn. 
Lime for Cabbage Diseases. 
Last season I cleared about three acres 
of muck soil of willows, poplar, etc., plowed 
and planted to cabbage. The soil was well 
drained. The crop was light and affected 
with a disease which closely followed the 
description of black rot. I noticed that the 
growth of cabbage was much better where 
a brush pile had been burned, and much 
less diseased. If I used about 200 pounds 
of muriate of potash per acre on this soil 
next season, do you think it possible to get 
a successful crop of cabbage? Would this 
hold the black rot in check? M. w. d. 
Grand Ledge, Mich. 
The fact that the cabbage was best 
where that brush pile was burned indicates 
a benefit from* lime. Wood ashes contain 
about one-third lime, and it is well known 
that lime helps prevent the club-foot dis¬ 
ease in cabbage and also the rot diseases 
AN ATTRACTIVE COUNTRY ROADSIDE. 
now a row of thrifty birches that already 
cast a considerable amount of shade 
during the Summer days. This is the 
only place where the writer knows of 
birch trees being used for shade or or¬ 
nament along country roads, and it is 
also one of the most attractive and 
graceful rows of shade trees he has ever 
seen. There are hundreds of miles of 
roads in the Eastern States, now bor¬ 
dered by unsightly hedgerows, that 
could be converted into as beautiful 
driveways as that just described, at a 
very small expenditure of labor. 
M. W. EVANS. 
Watermelon and Citron Mixing. 
Will watermelon and citron “mix” if 
planted close together? x. s. H. 
Corydon, Pa. 
The watermelon and citron are so closely 
related that they will “mix” if interplanted, 
as the citron melon is really a bard-fleshed 
form of the same original stock, Citrullus 
vulgaris. There is little or no change in 
the fruit the same season, but the seed is 
not likely to come true another year. For 
this reason there is little harm in growing 
the plants near together, so long as the 
seed is not used for the next crop; still 
there is no advantage, as surely a water¬ 
melon would not gain in sweetness or qual¬ 
ity by such pollination. Watermelons do 
not mix with pumpkins, squashes, cucum¬ 
bers or muskmelons, which belong to a 
different branch of the family. 
Grapes for Long Island. 
Would you inform me the best grapevines 
for a southern exposure, and the best time 
to plant, also the best age, as Lwould like to 
get about four different kinds and have 
them about eight feet tall if advisable. 
Long Island. G. w. 
We would send to some reliable nursery¬ 
man and get one Duchess, one Brighton, one 
Catawba and one Concord. These are good, 
to some extent. The potash will help, but 
your best plan will be to use at least one 
ton per acre of burned lime harrowed in 
after plowing. We often use a handful of 
lime scattered around the plants after set¬ 
ting. 
The Menagere Apple. 
The largest apple exhibited at the New 
England Fruit Show was the Menagere. Can 
7 /ou tell me anything about this apple? Does 
it possess any desirable qualities other than 
its size? r. L. c. 
Maine. 
This apple that your correspondent re¬ 
fers to, the Menagere, is a French apple of 
very large size and is a splendid cooking 
apple. The particular specimens shown at 
the New England Fruit Show were grown 
at the Boston Consumptives Hospital 
grounds, and this orchard contains a great 
many very interesting varieties of apples 
as the place formerly was owned by an 
apple enthusiast who collected varieties 
from all over the world. I do not think 
that the variety referred to would be any 
addition to our list of varieties unless some 
one wants to grow some large apples. 
WILFRID WHEELER. 
Blood Peaches. 
We have here on the Eastern Shore a 
deep blood red loose seed peach of excellent 
flavor, and very juicy, medium size, and 
ripens about August. It does not seem to 
be very well known and only by the name 
of “Blood peach.” Is it a new peach and 
what is the correct name for it? 
Rehoboth, Md. c. F. F. 
The peach you describe is variously known 
as Chinese Blood peach and Indian peach. 
The largest and best Blood peach is the 
Blood Clingstone. The Freestone Blood is 
similar and hardly as good as the Cling. 
In the South a variety of the Blood cling 
has been developed of an ever-bearing na¬ 
ture. I have seen this from the Berckmans 
nursery at Augusta, Ga., with ripe fruit and 
green fruit of various sizes and blossoms 
all at same time, and the fruit ripens in 
succession from June till frost. The blood 
peaches have never been grown for market, 
and their rather dull color outside would 
be against them. w. F. massey. 
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