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This can contains the 
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can into 100 gallons of 
Bordeaux mixture or 
freshly slaked lime water. 
remains long In suspension—be- 
cause it is the lightest insecticide 
ever manufactured. It sticks 
well, even through a heavy rain. 
Arsite is quick death to potato 
bugs and all other leaf-eatiug in¬ 
sects. It can not burn foliage be¬ 
cause it contains no free arsenic. 
Arsite keeps indefinitely. 
Herrmann's Arsite is put up in 
65c pint and 35c half-pint cans, 
and Herrmann’s Calite in 30c pint 
and 50c quart cans. If yourdealer 
hasn’t these inseoticides, we can 
supply you direct. 
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Bordeaux or freshly slaked lime. 
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fifth Avenue Building, NewYork 
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Ab Potato 
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3918. 
Ruralisms 
Apple on Pear Stock. 
W. N. Waterville, Me .—About 10 
years ago a Porter apple scion was grafted 
into a Sugar pear tree. This scion grew 
and there is a crop of Porter apples on 
this scion almost every year. The fruit is 
of very good quality. The apple wood has 
grown to three times the size of the stock 
where it was inserted. This tree can be 
found in Oakland, Maine, on the Foster 
estate, near Salmon Lake. 
Ans. —This is a case of grafting the 
apple on the pear about which people 
ask occasionally. It is possible and even 
quite easy to do, but the union is not 
good and durable because of the differ¬ 
ence in the character of the wood and 
after some years of apparent or tempor¬ 
ary success the apple part will break off 
or become feeble. The same is the case 
if the pear is grafted on the apple. It 
is not a practical way to do. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Grafting Cherry Trees. 
&. R .—Will Chas. W. Fish, who spoke 
some weeks ago of grafting cherry trees, 
tell us more about it? 
Ans. —In grafting wild cherry trees 
and seedlings I use the ordinary cleft 
graft that I do with my apple trees. I 
have never tried to bud one, and don’t 
see where it would be any great advan¬ 
tage, at least in my case. I expect to 
put in a few more this Spring, mostly 
sweet, and hope they will prove hardier 
than some of the nursery stock, as I 
have lost a number of sweet cherry 
trees, while the sour varieties are hardier 
as a rule. I have been told that the 
wild trees by the wa would affect the 
flavor, but my experience has not been 
large or varied enough for me to judge. 
I have not noticed the difference as yet. 
chas. w. FISH. 
Paragon Seedlings. 
D. J. M., Millersburg, O .—Can you tell 
me whether the Paragon chestnut will come 
true and produce the same grade of nuts 
on seedling trees grown from the nuts? 
Ans. —The Paragon chestnut will not 
reproduce the exactly same kind of 
nuts on its seedling trees. They will 
vary considerably from the original, but 
all of them will be valuable and some 
might be even better than those on the 
parent trees. This has been tried many 
times. Grafted Paragon chestnut trees 
would be far better to plant than seed¬ 
lings and they can be bought of a few 
nurseries. The greatest care should be 
used to get only such chestnut trees of 
any kind as were grown where there is 
none of the dreadful chestnut fungus 
disease that is ravaging the trees frorn 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey north¬ 
ward. However, it has not yet appeared 
west of the Allegany mountains, so far 
as I know. The nuts do not carry the 
disease. h. e. van deman. 
The Ensee Apple. 
F. IF., Philipsburg, Pa.—Will Prof. Van 
Deman tell us what be knows about the 
Ensee apple, said to be a sprout from the 
Home Beauty from Ohio? 1 saw the apples 
at Pennsylvania State College farmers’ 
week. They resembled Rome Beauty but 
were much larger. 
Ans. —The Ensee apple is a seedling 
of Rome Beauty that was originated by 
N. C. Cox (now deceased) in southern 
Ohio. The name “Ensee” was made up 
from the pronunciation of the two first 
initials of his name. It is an apple of 
real merit, and has been known in a 
limited way for several years, and long 
enough to prove its worth. It is better 
in quality than its parent, and about as 
attractive in appearance. It also keeps 
well, and the tree is thrifty, well shaped 
and bears abundantly. I think the trees 
will soon be sold extensively. I planted 
some last year and top-grafted scions of 
the variety over 10 years ago. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Hybridizing Strawberries. 
C. O. G., "New Cumberland, Pa .—Will 
you give me full information how to cross 
varieties of strawberries to gTow new va¬ 
rieties ? 
Ans. —The pollination of any flower, 
for the purpose of raising a new vari¬ 
ety, calls for the prevention of any 
chance pollination. Hence the flower 
must be emasculated while still in the 
bud; that is, the anthers are very care- 
fully removed with small pointed scis¬ 
sors, and the flower is tied up in a bag 
to protect it from foreign pollen brought 
by wind or insects. Small inanila bags, 
such as are used by grocers, are desir¬ 
able for this purpose. As soon as the 
stigma is ripe, remove the bag and ap¬ 
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170 
ply the desired pollen, and then place 
the bag over the flower again, where it 
must remain until the seeds begin to 
form. The stigma may be ready to 
receive the pollen within a day or two, 
or it may be a week. The time to pre¬ 
pare the flower is when the bud seems 
fully formed, but not opened; the petals, 
with the stamens, are sheared off just 
above the calyx. A pistillate strawberry 
flower, which has no stamens, does not 
require emasculating, but it should be 
covered with a bag while in bud, to pre¬ 
vent risk of pollination. The pollen¬ 
bearing plant needs no operation, of 
course, but this should be covered while 
yet in bud, so that there is no risk of 
foreign pollen being conveyed and 
dropped by insects. The pollen is se¬ 
cured by picking off a ripe anther and 
crushing it on the thumb-nail, then con¬ 
veying it to the receptive stigma by the 
end of a fine toothpick, or a pin point 
that has been hammered flat. Try to 
cover the stigma entirely with the pol¬ 
len. Some use a fine camel’s-hair brush 
to transfer the pollen, but this is waste¬ 
ful. In some plants pollen is so freely 
produced that it may be shaken out 
upon the flower, or be shaken into a 
receptacle, such as a watch-glass, and 
the flowers that are to be pollinated 
dipped into it; this is a common process 
with greenhouse tomatoes—not for 
cross-pollination, but to secure a setting 
of fruits. You would find much of in¬ 
terest about the different parts of the 
flower, and the process of pollination, 
in a little book by Grant Allen, “The 
Story of the Plants,” while “Plant 
Breeding,” by Bailey, goes more deeply 
into the process. 
Seedling Japanese Walnuts.— Answer¬ 
ing P. P.’s letter on page 1265 about Jap¬ 
anese walnuts producing true bearing but¬ 
ternuts, several other instances are known 
to nut growers and believed to be due to 
cross-fertilizing with the butternut. Im¬ 
ported seed from Japan will bear true. 
New York City. w. C. deming. 
ODD AY TflWFR That holds extension rod. 
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The force of the spray acts on the plants as a heavy wind, 
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SURE CURE FOR SAN JOSE SCALE 
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Profit by Spraying 
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1 65 BROADWAY, Rochester, N. Y. 
ARNES BRASS 
Themost SPRAYFR 
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THE BARNES MFG. CO. 
Dept. 22 Mansfield, Ohio 
Don t grow cider apples. Rid your trees of scale and fungous pests and grow 
number one apples by using ‘‘Scalecide”—the one absolutely sure scale spray. 
“Scalecide” is easy to handle, it will not clog or corrode the no.-zle or injure the 
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is the best spray for San Jose. It kills every scale it reaches. “Scalecide - ’ goes 
further, is cheaper and more effective than lime sulphur. Endorsed by Experi¬ 
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It’S 
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You must have force behind the stream if you want it to reach all the bugs—and 
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