1912. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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Ruralisms 
FROM THE CENTRAL WEST. 
This is the ideal time for sowing the 
pansy seed. Ours is now coming 
through the ground in the cold frame. 
A mixture of the Giant Trimardeau 
will give a nice variety of colors. When 
the character leaves of the little seed¬ 
lings are well developed, no time should 
be lost in giving them more room. We 
transplant to frames, placing the little 
plants four inches apart each way, and 
cover during the cold Winter with 
sash. This makes it very convenient 
for airing—a very essential thing— 
during the sunny days in the early 
Spring. Pansies, perhaps more than 
any other flowers, are favorites with 
people of every age and condition in 
life. 
The calla lilies, Richardia Africana, 
provided they have been rested for at 
least a month in a dormant condition, 
are now ready for a new period of ac¬ 
tivity. They should be shaken out and 
potted in rich soil. For best results, 
place out (doors till early September, 
when they should be taken into their 
Winter quarters. Plants handled in 
this manner will produce more blooms 
of superior quality. In potting, the 
small bulblets should be removed from 
the large corms. If placed in two-inch 
pots and grown on, they will make 
strong, thrifty plants in a few months. 
Callas are great feeders, and at all, 
times require a copious supply of water. 
The Godfrey sort, by all odds, is the 
best of the white callas. 
The geraniums in the beds and ver¬ 
anda boxes are now 'well developed, 
each plant bearing on long stems a 
generous quantity of brilliant flowers. 
The branches or stalks are soft and in 
proper condition for taking the cuttings 
or "slips” as they are popularly called. 
Cuttings taken now and rooted in light, 
sandy soil—if grown with care—will 
make showy plants by the holidays. By 
that time they should be well branched 
and stocky, bearing many blooms. This 
method is more satisfactory than flower¬ 
ing the old plants through the Winter 
season. The plants bloom more freely 
and the blooms are of better quality. 
Good varieties for pot culture are S. A. 
Nutt, red, Jean Viaud, pink, La Fa¬ 
vorite, white, of the doubles, and Mrs. 
E. G. Hill, salmon, and General Grant, 
scarlet, of the singles. 
The Dahlias—old fashioned but popu¬ 
lar flowers—are beginning to unfold 
their deep-dyed petals. This is a sure 
sign that the Summer is waning and 
that the dawn of Autumn is nearing. 
Besides adorning the rear and side gar¬ 
dens of humble cottages the Dahlia is 
extensively grown for cut flower pur¬ 
poses by many commercial florists. In 
the markets there is a steady demand 
in season for choice blooms of both the 
show and cactus varieties. Their keep¬ 
ing qualities are excellent, it being pos¬ 
sible to keep a bouquet in water, by daily 
shortening the stems, many days. The 
chief charm of the Dahlia lies in the 
brilliant coloring and perfect cell-like 
formation of the bloom. Many persons 
experience difficulty in keeping the 
tubers through the Winter. The best 
place to house them is in a root or 
potato cellar. They should be kept in 
boxes where, most likely, they will be 
dry. 
The Cannas, with their array of gor¬ 
geous flowers, are now with us till 
leveled by the frost. There are few 
plants that require so little care and yet 
fill so important a place in the garden; 
no lawn is set off to its best advantage 
without a bed or two of Cannas. This 
inexpensive tuber is capable of impart¬ 
ing a decidedly tropical touch to the 
work of beautifying the landscape. The 
Canna has been greatly improved dur¬ 
ing the past 10 years by expert grow¬ 
ers. There are not only many more 
varieties in cultivation but the general 
character and value of the plant has 
been wonderfully advanced. In size and 
substance of bloom, breadth of leaf and 
stateliness of growth, as well as in a 
prolonged period of flowering, this work 
is especially evidenced. A trip to the 
trial grounds of a florist who carries 
a side line of good Cannas could not 
but prove interesting and profitable to 
one fond of this plant. Among the red¬ 
leaved sorts it would be well to note 
the sterling qualities of such kinds as 
King Humbert, Brandywine, . Shenan¬ 
doah and David Harum. Of the green¬ 
leaved varieties, Florence Vaughan, 
Austria, Pennsylvania, Venus and Mrs. 
Alfred Conard will speak for them¬ 
selves. j. m’l. 
Propagating Peaches. 
W. E. D., Gosport, N. Y .— If you knew 
of a certain peach that is being planted 
extensively now as a commercial peach and 
the specimens that mature from the stock 
you buy now are not as the original speci¬ 
mens were, and such old trees are nearby 
so you could get scions from them and you 
wanted to keep this particular stock for 
future use, how would you proceed to do it? 
Where would you get the pits for this work? 
I wish you would describe this work thor¬ 
oughly. * At this season is there anything 
you can do in this matter? 
Ans. —It is a very simple matter to 
propagate young trees from the old 
ones mentioned or from the younger 
ones, as may be desired. The first 
thing to do is to save seeds from some 
of the poorest seedlings that can be 
found in the neighborhood, because 
they are nearer the old native type and 
may be of stronger vitality of tree than 
the finer varieties. These seeds should, 
be planted in nursery rows just before 
Winter or stratified in damp earth and 
left out of doors until early Spring and 
planted then. When the little trees 
from these seeds are ready to bud, 
which will be about August first, if 
tliey have been well cared for, they 
should be budded from scions cut from 
the desirable trees. This will require 
skill but it is not a difficult operation 
nor need it be costly if hired done. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
POISONING CUTWORMS. 
In spite of all we have printed questions 
still come about the best way of poisoning 
cutworms. The following notes are taken 
from a Massachusetts crop report: 
Vegetable Bait.—A good way of prepar¬ 
ing a vegetable bait is to spray a patch of 
clover, pigweed or some useless succulent 
plant that grows by the roadside or in 
fence corners, with Paris green, one pound 
to 150 gallons of water; mow it close to 
the ground, and place it while fresh in 
small heaps about the infested plants, at 
intervals of a few feet. The later in the 
day that this can be done the better, as 
the material keeps fresh longer and the 
cutworms feed almost exclusively at night. 
Owing to the wilting of this bait, particu¬ 
larly in dry, sunny weather, it is advisable 
to cover each heap with a chip, shingle or 
bit of bark, for its protection against the 
sun's rays. 
Bran Mash. —What is known as bran 
mash, or bran-arsenic mash, is equal in 
value to a fresh vegetable bait, and, ac¬ 
cording to some, still more efficacious. 
Paris green, arsenoid, white arsenic, or in 
fact any arsenical compound, can be used 
for poisoning this bait, and in its prepara¬ 
tion, on account of the weight of the 
poison and the fact that it soon sinks to 
the bottom of the water when stirred, it 
is best first to mix the bran with water 
and sugar and then add the poison. The 
proportions are two or three ounces of 
sugar or a similar quantity of glucose or 
molasses to one gallon of water, and a 
sufficient) amount of bran (about one pound 
per gallon) to make, when stirred, a mix¬ 
ture that will readily run through the 
fingers. Before planting a crop it is ad¬ 
visable to use such bait, and for its per¬ 
fect success the ground should be bare, 
Which will have the effect of practically 
compelling the cutworms to feed upon it. 
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