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Ruralisms 
Propagating Roses ; Hydrangea from Seed. 
M. D. TEau Claire, Mich .—1. How do 
you get a start from a Paul Neyron month¬ 
ly rose bush? 2. When Hydrangeas are 
started from the seed, do they winter-kill? 
Ans. —The Hybrid Remontant roses, 
such as Paul Neyron, may be propa¬ 
gated by cuttings of green wood under 
glass, by layers, and by cuttings of ripe 
wood. Layering, repeatedly described 
in The R. N.-Y., is very easy, and we 
have no trouble in rooting the hard 
wood. We usually take ripe shoots 
after flowering, making cuttings about 
eight inches long, and plant them with 
about one-half the cutting under 
ground, in a sheltered place in the 
garden. A bell glass is then put over 
several cuttings grouped close together, 
or individual cuttings are each covered 
with a glass jar. Left undisturbed, by 
the next season we have nice plants. 
They may also be rooted in a frame. 
2. Hydrangeas are so rarely grown 
from seed that we can offer no personal 
experience. The seeds, which are very 
small, are sown in the Fall in pans or 
boxes, being very lightly covered with 
soil; they are started in a greenhouse, 
and set out in a frame or open ground 
the following season. Layers, cuttings 
and suckers offer such an easy and 
reliable way of increasing Hydrangeas 
that there seems no reason to bother 
with seeds, unless variation of type 
through selection is sought. The hardy 
Hydrangea is usually increased by 
green cuttings under glass in early 
Summer; where glass is unavailable 
layers are desirable. 
A Calabash Pipe Industry. 
On page 403 Is an article on growing the 
calabash gourd. In the main this is of 
value, but there are several points upon 
which we desire to submit additional data. 
The largest pipe interests in America of¬ 
fered to buy our crop of gourds, and the 
A-l shells were sold to a Chicago firm at 
25 cents each. The seconds and thirds 
were sold to the same company at five 
cents each. We could have sold thousands 
of A-l shells at the above price, had we 
been in position to supply them. An offi¬ 
cial of the Tobacco Trust stated that he 
paid GO cents each for A-l shells and as 
high as 42 cents each for inferior shells 
(African growth) In the London market, 
and was in the market at that time for a 
practically unlimited number of shells. We 
could not supply him. We have letters from 
the largest pipe manufacturers in the United 
States to the effect that shells produced in 
Michigan are equal to or superior to the im¬ 
ported article. It is true that seed houses 
sell calabash seeds at 15 to 25 cents per 
packet, but they fail to tell the purchaser 
how he can produce A-l shells. Growing 
calabash gourds on a commercial basis on 
Information contained in the Government 
bulletin would bankrupt any person who at¬ 
tempted it. It goes against the grain to 
have an enterprise of this type criticized, 
as a great deal of time and money has been 
expended in finding out what little we do 
know about it. R. H. izok. 
It. N.-Y.—If anyone can show us an indus¬ 
try that grew to success without showing the 
ability to rub “against the grain” we would 
like to have Mr. Izor name it. Promoters 
of new schemes or plants must “show” our 
readers before they get the money. The 
African calabash certainly makes good pipe 
material, but it is absurd to think that any 
considerable number of growers are likely 
to make a profit out of growing them. It 
will doubtless become a limited specialty, 
like pipe corncob culture and we would not 
advise beginners to pay the fancy prices 
now asked for their seeds and “instruc¬ 
tions.” 
Ornamental Weeds. 
According to the London Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, one of the most troublesome 
weeds in Coorg, a province of British India, 
is the Lantana, which we know here as 
a very attractive greenhouse and Summer 
bedding plant. We have been told that this 
plant is a nuisance in the Hawaiian Islands, 
where it forms immense thickets, very hard 
to clear away because of the tough fibrous 
stems. In Coorg, however, the Lantana 
has reached its maximum growth, forming 
“excellent cover for elephants.” In spite 
of energetic action, many parts have been 
completely overrun by the pest, and it has 
become a serious question whether forest 
conservancy can be continued unless the 
Lantana be destroyed. Recently a scare 
has been created by the rapid increase of 
the Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica). This 
comparatively humble plant is provided 
with excellent means of reproduction. It 
readily shoots when cut down, and has 
enormous seeding powers, the seeds having 
been noted as keeping good for so long as 
GO years. The pods are lomentaceous, that 
Is, they break up into separate pieces, each 
with one seed, and are armed with hooked 
prickles, which render it very easy for the 
plant to be scattered over the country by 
straying cattle. It is feared that the lim¬ 
ited natural grazing will soon be complete¬ 
ly destroyed by the Sensitive plant. Be¬ 
side these pests, there are several species of 
Loranthus (mistletoe), which infest the for¬ 
est trees, especially the shade trees in the 
coffee estates. The Red cedar, for instance, 
Is always selected by a particular species 
of Loranthus and heavily parasitised. On 
looking over the forest it can he readily 
picked out at great distance by the masses 
of yellowish parasite on its upner branches. 
Whereas the Sensitive plant takes up the 
roadsides and scrambles up the hanks to 
five feet. Lautana clambers up the trees to 
25 or 30 feet, and the Loranthus has its 
home in the sunlit topmost branches. Some 
attempts at destroying the Sensitive plant 
have led to curious results. For instance, 1 
THE? RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
when the plant is dug up and burnt, the 
immediate effect is an enormous growth of 
seedlings, which cover the ground to the ex¬ 
clusion of all other vegetation. Probably 
the best means for getting rid of it will 
turn out to be spraying with sodium arsen- 
ite, as the leaves are very sensitive to this 
poison, and close up and wither in a very 
short time after an application. 
Propagating Lilac. 
Tell me just how to grow lilacs from cut¬ 
tings, and also is the method applicable to 
most kind of garden flowering shrubs? 
New York. c. c. d. 
For an amateur gardener without glass, 
layering is the easiest way to propagate 
lilac. Bend down a convenient branch, 
making an incision on the under side, split¬ 
ting it to form a heel just below a bud. 
Fasten it down with a wooden peg, cover 
the incision with earth, and let the tip 
stand up like a cutting. By the following 
season it will be well rooted, when it may 
be cut off, and treated as a separate plant. 
This work is done in Spring, and is an ex¬ 
cellent method of propagating for most gar¬ 
den shrubs and vines. June-struck cuttings 
of green wood may be rooted under glass, 
or hard-wood cuttings made when the wood 
is mature in Summer; cut with two or four 
buds; and set in shaded frames. In a 
small way we have rooted a good many 
such cuttings under a bell glass, or even a 
single cutting under a quart preserve jar, 
leaving them untouched until the following 
season. 
Dividing Narcissus and Rhubarb. 
When is the best time to separate and 
replant Narcissus bulbs, also rhubarb roots? 
I have a rhubarb that makes a lot of 
small growth on the outer part. Should I 
cut those off and transplant now or in the 
Fa U? o. H. T. 
Springfield, Mass. 
1. The Narcissus bulbs should be lifted 
and separated after active growth is over 
and the foliage has yellowed and died down, 
usually in September, or sometimes a little 
earlier. When the growth becomes weak 
and the flowers few it is evident that the 
roots are crowded to the starvation point, 
but so long as they do well we do not care 
to lift them ; however, it is usually neces¬ 
sary the third or fourth year. 2. Rhubarb 
is lifted and divided in early Spring or 
Fall, not at this season. We think Spring 
preferable in your latitude, but gardeners 
who force the crop often lift the plants 
from old plantations in the Fall, remove a 
sufficient number of eyes to start the new 
bed in the Spring, and force the large old 
roots during the Winter. It is quite pos¬ 
sible that your plants need lifting and di¬ 
vision ; be sure that you separate into 
pieces with good strong eyes, and that the 
ground is well prepared and liberally en¬ 
riched for them. 
Gasoline for Dandelions. 
I wonder if any of The R. N.-Y. readers 
are bothered with dandelions. I; they are 
toll them to take an ordinary oil can, fill It 
with gasoline and squirt about one-half tea¬ 
spoonful of the liquid right into the crown 
of the plant, and you can assure them that 
they will not have ever to look after that 
nuisance again. More plants can be killed 
In an hour with a gallon of material than 
can be cut out with a knife in half a day, 
and a sure job is done; for with the knife 
many will grow again unless you cut very 
deep. It will also fix plantain, but you 
must be much more thorough. I have 
tried it on dock and the plants are dead in 
two or three days. Recently I noticed an 
nrticle in a paper about spraying with iron 
sulphate, but if I read the bulletins from 
the experiment station at Geneva correctly 
they have had poor results from spraying. 
Of course on a big lawn of one-half acre 
°r more where the dandelions were very 
thick it would be a big task to use gaso¬ 
line, but for the ordinary lawn it is the 
cheapest, quickest and most effectual meth¬ 
od I have ever seen tried, citas. irwin. 
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DIFFERENT NOW 
Since the Slugger, Coffee. Was Abandoned. 
Coffee probably causes more bilious¬ 
ness and so-called malaria than any one 
other thing—even bad climate. (Tea is 
just as harmful as coffee because it con¬ 
tains caffeine, the drug in coffee.) 
A Ft. Worth man says: 
I have always been of a bilious tem¬ 
perament, subject to malaria, and up to 
one year ago a perfect slave to coffee. 
At times I would be covered with boils 
and full of malarial poison, was very 
nervous and had swimming in the head. 
“I don’t know how it happened, but I 
finally became convinced that my sick¬ 
ness was due to the use of coffee, and 
a little less than a year ago I stopped 
coffee and began drinking Postum. 
“From that time I have not had a 
boil, not had malaria at all, have gained 
15 pounds good solid weight, and know 
beyond all doubt this is due to the use 
of Postum in place of coffee, as 1 have 
taken no medicine at all. 
“Postum has certainly made healthy, 
red blood for me in place of the blood 
that coffee drinking impoverished and 
made unhealthy.” Name given by 
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 
Postum makes red blood. 
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