1912. 
THE RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
726 
Ruralisms 
FROM THE CENTRAL WEST. 
Bedding Roses. —In selecting the roses 
for the flower beds the purchaser will 
do well to include the blush pink Tea 
rose Wm. R. Smith in the collection. 
This variety, without exception, is the 
best of all the Everblooming roses for 
the amateur gardener. Its rapid and 
robust growth renders it immune from 
the attacks of insects, and its ability to 
withstand drought is remarkable. In 
profusion of bloom this variety is not 
surpassed even by such abundant bloom¬ 
ers as ITermosa, Bon Silene and the 
Cochets and the quality of the flowers 
for cutting is far superior to either. 
Persons fond of choice roses throughout 
the Summer will make no mistake in 
planting a few bushes of this famous 
variety. 
Paeonies. —The paeonies are now 
with us in all their glorious show. This 
flower, the charm of the gardens of the 
past, is growing more popular every day. 
The paeonies of the present represent a 
wonderful advance over the “pineys” of 
our grandmothers, both in quality and 
in number of varieties. Their planting 
is a splendid investment as season after 
season they produce a profusion of 
beautiful flowers at a minimum of care 
and attention. Perhaps the best infor¬ 
mation obtainable upon this plant can be 
procured at Cornell University at which 
place an exhaustive study, with the ob¬ 
ject of eliminating many duplications 
from the list, was made recently. 
American Beauty Rose. —Much as 
the American Beauty is endeared to the 
hearts of lovers of choice roses, this va¬ 
riety should be omitted from the plant¬ 
ing list of the amateur gardener. This 
most famous of all forcing sorts is 
practically a failure in the outdoor gar¬ 
den, and no other rose has given so 
much disappointment to gardeners. Its 
successful cultivation requires the most 
expert care and treatment. Indeed, 
only a few of our leading florists are 
able to make this rose pay commercially. 
Even in the greenhouses many a prom¬ 
ising crop is ruined by black spot in 
November and has to be pulled from 
the benches an utter failure. The plant, 
when forced a couple years for flowers, 
is worthless. Notwithstanding this, many 
retail plant dealers buy large quantities 
of the same plants for their catalogue 
trade. It is the custom to offer them 
as three and four-year-old plants. The 
prospective buyer would better let this 
class of stock alone, and if he buy6 
American Beauty at all, he would bet¬ 
ter select one-year-old plants. In the 
past 10 years the commercial plant busi¬ 
ness, as carried on by our large mail 
order houses, has been doubled. The 
catalogues gotten out by these concerns 
are sent to the remotest parts of the 
country, and from people of every con¬ 
dition in life their business is drawn. 
It is a great business, ably and, on the 
whole, honestly conducted. To a cer¬ 
tain extent this is due to the spirit of 
fair dealing that permeates modern busi¬ 
ness in all its many ramifications. The 
abuses practiced by nurserymen in the 
past will no longer be tolerated by an 
enlightened public. There are, however, 
some ways in which the plant buyer has 
the wool pulled over his eyes. Chief 
among these methods is the practice of 
substituting in filling orders. The de¬ 
mand for varieties featured in the cata¬ 
logues or for novelties, oftentimes is 
greater than the supply and, with orders 
still coming in, there is a strong temp¬ 
tation on the part of some of the less 
scrupulous dealers to substitute cheaper 
sorts. For instance, to send out 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria for the rare 
and beautiful White American Beauty 
or the inferior climbing White Pet for 
the exquisite white climbing rose Mrs. 
Robert Peary. The purchaser, having 
no expert knowledge of varieties, is 
cheated and is unable to detect the de¬ 
ception. It is not claimed that this is 
done by the majority of plant concerns; 
on the contrary their dealing with the 
public is eminently upright and fair. 
But experience has taught many, the 
writer being amongst them, that at least 
some of our large mail order concerns 
wilfully send out plants untrue to label. 
To meet this situation it would be well 
for plant buyers to accompany their 
every order for goods with a strong in¬ 
sistence upon a square deal at the cost 
of the loss of their patronage. 
Clematis Paniculata.— Perhaps the 
most popular of the hardy vines for 
porch decoration here is the Clematis 
peniculata. Although the Jackmanii 
and Henryii varieties are frequently 
noticed the former is the favorite. It 
has won a place in the heart of the gar¬ 
dener by its abundance of flowers and 
by its shade giving qualities. Beginning 
to bloom in the late Summer it bears a 
delicately scented mass of white cross- 
shaped blooms until Killed bv the early 
frosts. A goodly quantity of seed is 
borne by each vine which is costly when 
purchased by the seedsman. As a strik¬ 
ing evidence of the popularity ot this 
vine it might be said that in Ohio oue 
firm alone annually sells over 60,000 
plants. 
Dorothy Perkins Rose. —Every true 
lover of choice roses pays his homage 
to that queen of climbing roses, Dorothy 
Perkins. Crimson Rambler has its ad¬ 
mirers as has the Prairie Queen, Balti¬ 
more Belle, Leuchstern and Trier, but, 
with the possible exceptions of the va¬ 
rieties, Lady Gay and Farquhar, this 
rose occupies a position all its own. Be¬ 
sides bearing many clusters of exquisite 
pink blooms its foliage is always bright 
and green, forming a striking contrast 
to such sorts as Climbing Soupert and 
Crimson Rambler, the leaves of which 
become rusty after the flowers are gone, 
making these plants very unsightly ob¬ 
jects in the garden. In Indiana Dorothy 
Perkins is by far the most popular of all 
the rambler roses. 
Indiana Flower Trade. —New Castle, 
Indiana, produces more cut flowers than 
any other place of its size in America— 
if not the world. The annual shipment 
of cut roses, carnations, lilies, sweet- 
peas, Chrysanthemums and violets from 
this great center of production is heavy 
indeed. Doubtless the greatest factor 
entering into the success of the florists 
here is the richness of the soil at their 
disposal. The Blue River Valley 
abounds in soil that has been washing 
off the hills since times immemorial 
and possesses still the fertility of vir¬ 
gin land. It appears peculiarly adapted 
to the growing of roses, such varieties 
as American Beauty, Killarney, My 
Maryland, Mrs. Jardine, Bride, and 
Perle des Jardines being forced for 
commercial purposes very successfully. 
There is but one variety that does not 
do well here and that is the famous red 
rose Richmond, originated by E. G. 
Hill, Chicago growers taking the laurels 
with this sort. This immense output of 
flowers is marketed in Chicago, Cin¬ 
cinnati and St. Louis. 
Hedge Plants. —As a hedge plant the 
California privet is growing in popular¬ 
ity every year. Its many uses, coupled 
with its comparative inexpensiveness, 
makes it par excellence, the hedge plant 
of the multitude. Second in popularity 
to this famous shrub comes the Jap¬ 
anese barberry which makes a nice 
hedge, its red berries being very at¬ 
tractive long after the leaves have fal¬ 
len. Spirea von Houtteii is preferred 
by some gardeners, who place a high 
value upon a profusion of fragrant 
white flowers. This shrub in an eminent 
degree provides utility as well as at¬ 
tractiveness. During the past Winter 
the severe cold was extremely hard on 
shrubs and perenials in the Middle 
shrubs and perennials in the Middle 
West, many of the hedges being killed 
to the ground. Perhaps the California 
privet suffered most. J. M. 
COLORS IN CORN. 
Its Relation to Yield. 
In an address before the Society for 
the Promotion of Agricultural Science 
Prof. S. M. Tracy gave the facts re¬ 
garding yields of white and yellow 
corn. It seems that more than 13,000 
tests have been made in this country 
as the following summary will show: 
Averages 
(Bush, per Acre) 
State 
No. Tests 
White Colored 
Alabama . 
857 
24.7 
24.3 
Arkansas . 
36 
38.4 
35 
Connecticut . . . 
80 
52.6 
61.8 
Georgia . 
187 
34.4 
28 
Illinois . 
520 
62.3 
61.7 
Indiana . 
4,798 
56.1 
53.7 
Iowa. 
50 
85 
85.6 
Kansas . 
455 
54.9 
54.9 
Kentucky . 
146 
38 
37.9 
Louisiana . 
186 
47.5 
39.7 
Minnesota .... 
212 
51.4 
48 
Mississippi . . .. 
212 
43.8 
33.7 
Missouri . 
2.457 
43.1 
43.1 
Nebraska . 
1.254 
49.4 
45.7 
North Carolina. 
865 
28.5 
24.6 
Ohio . 
744 
48.6 
52 
Total tests .. 
Averages .... 
Prof. Tracy 
13,059 
thinks 
47.1 
this shows 
45.6 
that 
white varieties are as a class more 
productive than yellow. This does not 
imply that all white are superior to any 
colored, but that the average is higher. 
Why is this so? 
Prof. Tracy believes the cause “to 
be some physicological character in¬ 
herent in the constitution or the plant 
itself.” He suggests the following ex¬ 
planation. Dr. Brewer of Yale showed 
that white markings on spotted animals, 
in the majority of cases, are found on 
the left side of the animal. This is 
explained from the fact that the heart 
is on the left side and therefore that 
side is the weaker and thus white color 
is one indication of relative weakness. 
Prof. Tracy then says: 
May not something of this principle be 
found applicable to plants, and there, too, 
whiteness be a manifestation of a certain 
form of weakness? Every plant cultivator 
knows that any cause which tends to check 
the circulation of sap, and so weaken the 
plant to a certain extent, tends to promote 
fruit and seed production. Root pruning, 
boring holes through the trunk or driving 
it full of nails, all methods of checking 
the flow of sap and so weakening the 
tree, are common methods of forcing it into 
early bearing; and the florist uses very 
small pots, not only to economize space, 
but also that the plants may sooner become 
root bound and so forced into quicker bloom. 
Of course this treatment dwarfs and weak¬ 
ens the plant, but the weakening brings 
the desired results—flowers and fruit. 
The roots of white corns are, apparently, 
as free to absorb nourishment as are those 
of the yellow varieties, and the weight of 
the stalk is apparently as great in one as 
is the other, and so the superior grain- 
producing ’ qualities of the white varieties 
cannot be from the same cause, the same 
kind of weakness, which obtains in the 
plant which produces early and abundant 
crops at the expense of being dwarfed and 
mutilated. It is an almost universal opin¬ 
ion among coin growers, and I think a 
well founded opinion, that the stalks of 
the white varieties are less able to stand 
erect in severe storms than are those of 
the yellow; that, as a rule, the grain is 
softer and so more often injured by insect 
pests; and that it absorbs moisture and 
decays more quickly when allowed to lie 
on the ground. May it not be the case 
that these are manifestations of the pe¬ 
culiar weakness which induces the superior 
seed producing character? 
Although the yield is usually larger 
among the white varieties, there are many 
growers who base their choice of color on 
other characters. There is a common be¬ 
lief among feeders that yellow corn is 
“stronger” than white, and they prefer it 
for that reason, although there is less 
chemical difference between the two colors 
as a whole than often obtains between 
two varieties of the same color. When the 
crop is to be used for milling purposes of 
course the white varieties are preferred. 
IIow this relation of color to yield ap¬ 
plies to other grains I cannot say. In a 
few hundreds of tests which I have made 
with wheat and oats the whites have 
shown a decidedly heavier yield, but the 
tests have not been sufficiently numerous 
to serve as a basis for any delinite state¬ 
ment. Some of the station workers who 
have made similar tests have secured like 
results, while others have found the white 
and colored varieties practically the same. 
I have found no one who has made a large 
number of tests who has secured the heavier 
yields from the colored varieties. Among 
other plants which have both white and 
colored varieties, and which are grown for 
their vegetative parts rather than from 
their seeds, as onions and potatoes, the 
colored varieties invariably produce larger 
bulbs and tubers than do the white varie¬ 
ties. 
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