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THE RURAL NBW-YORKBH 
November 2. 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Plant Diseases; Outdoor Mushrooms. 
C. Ji., Jlir (labor <>, Pa.— 1. What strength 
would you use of potassium sulphate on 
Chrysanthemums for leaf blight or a kind 
of rust-like disease that causes the lower 
leaves to fall off, in greenhouse culture? 
2. Could mushroom spawn be put in the 
open ground? They grow wild in our 
lawn, and I thought that I might plant the 
edible varieties that grow naturally. Would 
it be too late for this season? 3. My egg¬ 
plants have a disease that causes the leaves 
to wither and dry up and the fruit to 
rot. The fruit starts with a small brown 
spot that gets larger until it falls off the 
plant. 4. What could be done for Lima 
beans when the pods get coated with a kind 
of white mildew that causes them to rot 
and fall off, and seems to spread very fast? 
Ans. —It is the sulphide, not sulphate, 
of potassium that is used for Chrysan¬ 
themum rust, liver of sulphur, one- 
half ounce to one gallon of water. This 
is much better than Bordeaux, as it 
does not stain the foliage. This is used 
by florists for both “big” and “little” 
rust of Chrysanthemums, and also has 
some effect on mildew. A stronger so¬ 
lution burns the leaves. But a florist 
often finds it commercially profitable 
to tear out and burn rusty Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, rather than to spray them. 
2. In Europe outdoor mushroom cul¬ 
ture is practised, in regular beds rather 
than in lawns, though the latter are, we 
believe, spawned also. We have made 
several efforts to spawn lawns in North¬ 
ern New Jersey, while a friend tried the 
same plan in Westchester Co., N. Y., 
but in neither place were there any 
tangible results. Field mushrooms grew 
wild in the locality, while our imported 
spawn failed to show any results. We 
should like to hear from anyone who 
has succeeded with this sort of mush¬ 
room culture. 
3. The eggplant is subject to a wilt 
similar to that affecting tobacco, in 
which the leaves will wilt and dry up. 
The root is the seat of infection, and 
no remedy is known. It is believed 
that this disease is largely transmitted 
by insects. Rotation of crops and in¬ 
sect control are advised. However, the 
trouble in this case is probably leaf- 
spot, which begins with large irregular 
brown or gray patches on fruit and 
foliage, the spots being sunken upon 
the fruits. Bordeaux mixture or am- 
moniacal carbonate of copper should be 
used as a spray, both before transplant¬ 
ing and in the field, and clean culture 
given. 
4. Downy mildew, as described, is 
one of the most serious diseases affect¬ 
ing Lima beans in the North. The 
spores are carried by wind and insects. 
Three sprayings of Bordeaus, 4-4-50, 
Starting about August 1 and continuing 
at intervals of 10 days or two weeks, 
will control the trouble. 
MILKWEED FIBRE. 
A Brooklyn man has been praising 
and promoting a variety of the milk¬ 
weed family which he calls “a new 
silken fibre.” lie claims that this milk¬ 
weed 
“Is pronounced as fine as silk by textile 
operators and supposed to be silk until told 
to the contrary. 'It is just the new staple 
In demand for the great variety of new 
mixed fabrics of underwear of silk and 
linen,’ was the reply to the results of some 
mixing and combing of the new fibre with 
silk for spinning. This fibre is now wanted 
and will be balled with good prices. It 
can be produced and much cheaper than any 
other fibre.” 
Here is another sample: 
As there are some 44.000 square feet in 
an acre and as these plants may be set out 
on plots not over six inches square, it fol¬ 
lows that a closely set acre would hold some 
175,000 plants. The bast from 20 large 
stalks weighs one pound. Could such a 
condition be maintained, the yield would 
bo over four tons of raw fibre per acre. A 
yield of at least one ton would seem to be 
practicable. The value of this raw fibre 
is at least $500 per ton. When harvested 
the stalks are housed until a favorable 
time when they are run through fluted 
rollers and the boon shaken out, the raw 
fibre baled and shipped to market. The 
manufacturers know what to do with it. 
Such weeds certainly make good 
sucker bait. What are the facts? 
This promotion scheme is well known 
to the Agricultural Department. The 
promotor is regarded ?.s a well meaning 
man rather crazed over milkweed fibre 
as all one-idea men find it necessary to 
be. He has experimented with milk¬ 
weed and spent some of his own money 
in good faith as he has a full right to 
do. Our advice is to let him continue 
experimenting but for our readers to 
keep their money and not invest it in 
milkweed fibre. 
NOTES FROM A CITY GARDEN. 
On the limited space allowed for garden 
purposes within the borders of my city lot 
I have to economize room to a degree hard 
for country dwellers to realize. By so do¬ 
ing it is really astonishing to see the 
amount of produce possible to be grown. I 
raise for tomatoes the l'onderosa only. I 
grow my own plants in the window and set 
half a dozen of them in the garden about 
May 20. I train them inside barrel hoops 
supported by stakes. I trim all growth to 
three stalks. They reach a height of five 
feet and set large numbers of fruit which 
grows to a very large size, and with the 
finest quality we think. I save my own 
seed, as it is not easy to get reliable seed 
of a superior strain. 
The old-fashioned Cranberry bean is in¬ 
dispensable to us. We think it the best of 
all beans to go with corn in succotash. If 
any get ripe they can be saved and added 
to canned corn in the Winter when they 
seem as good as though fresh picked. A 
half dozen hills do, as they yield well. They 
require poles about five feet high. 
The best all-round raspberry for us is 
the Shaffer. It is much better flavored 
than the Columbian, though perhaps not so 
firm which would make a difference if we 
were growing for market, but for home use, 
plant Shaffers. Half a dozen plants yield 
over 75 quarts each year. 
To our taste no inuskmelon equals the 
Irondcquoit. It is a variety not cata¬ 
logued by any of the great seed firms, but 
is grown in the melon region near Roches¬ 
ter to the entire exclusion of other kinds, 
and sells for high prices. For the home 
garden it is a heavy yielder of large, solid 
and high flavored fruit. It is almost as 
early as the earliest and continues as long 
as weather will permit. It seems to re¬ 
quire just the right soil and possibly that 
is why it is not more widely distributed. 
This year my grapes bore for the first 
time. I grow them on the fence. Green 
Mountain was the first to ripen and was 
very good. The berry is, it sems to me, too 
small to be generally acceptable in mar¬ 
ket. It yields well and the vine grows 
well. Worden followed it closely and for 
the home garden there seems to he nothing 
like it. It was earlier and better than 
Campbell’s Early, and the vine grows so 
much better than the latter that it yields 
four times as much. Worden and Dela¬ 
ware ripened this year at the same time. 
Brighton comes at about the same time 
and for a table grape it is unexcelled, if 
is a vigorous grower and heavy bearer. 
Niagara is better, we think, than Green 
Mountain, though about 10 days later. 
Campbell’s Early is very good, and if the 
vine only grew better would be worth a 
place in my small garden, but as it is I 
think I will replace it with a Worden. 
The latter drops too much to handle well 
and so would not be a good shipper. 
I have 13 hills of Fall-bearing strawber¬ 
ries of the kind named “Superb.” This is 
their first bearing year, and they are in 
some respects a great success. They grow 
well and have borne a fine crop of good 
sized berries of the best flavor. I think 
though. I cannot afford them space and 
will dig them out. While they bear well, 
the snails and bugs eat into them so much 
as to ruin about three-fourths of them. 
In September all insects are very numer¬ 
ous, and I should expect them to destroy 
a good share of the crop every year. 
Then, strawberries in late Summer and 
Fall are not worth as much as in .Tune. 
At the time Fall-bearing strawberries are 
at their best, we can get peaches, pears, 
plums, apricots, apples and other fruits as 
well as many vegetables and hence do not 
value strawberries only for their novelty 
at this season. It may be that in sections 
not so well fruited as this they have a 
place and if I had plenty of room I 
should continue them here but small space 
demands economies and I would rather 
have the room for, say, Irondcquoit melons. 
Small as my space is. I have profited by 
The It. N.-Y.’s instructions and sow 
vetches in every corner where possible. I 
use manure as well and ground hone but 
believe the vetches are great helps to main¬ 
tain fertility. I would like to use potash 
but so far have not found where I can get 
a small quantity suitable to my needs. 
Rochester, N. Y. w. l. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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