1913. 
TtiEJ RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1266 
Ruralisms 
CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 
Chrysanthemum shows are the favorite 
Fall diversion of florists and amateur 
gardeners, and the vicinity of New York 
offers plenty of opportunities for indulg¬ 
ing in them. The chief New York show 
was given by the Horticultural Society 
of that city in the Museum of Natural 
History, Central Park. It was visited 
by over 140,000 people, and the exhibits 
varied all the way from the huge um¬ 
brella-shaped specimen plants, bearing 
from 1,000 to 1,500 flowers each, to the 
tiny little pompons that some of our 
friends still call bachelor’s buttons and 
nrtemisias. Everyone admires the great 
shock-headed show blooms, but in the 
farm garden, where hardiness is the 
chief requisite, and where careful cod¬ 
dling is impossible, we get best results 
from the pompons. We are often asked 
whether there is a good market for cut 
blooms of the outdoor Chrysanthemums, 
but we cannot offer much encouragement 
in this line. The great weakness of out¬ 
door Chrysanthemums, as explained to 
us by one large grower, is that the stems 
are so woody that they do not readily 
absorb water in large quantities, hence 
they do not travel and endure market con¬ 
ditions well. Greenhouse Chrysanthe¬ 
mums are well filled with water by long 
immersion before shipment. Of course 
outdoor flowers could not compete with 
choice glass-grown stock in any case, but 
it is this defect in shipping quality that 
gives them such low standing in market, 
and causes so many disappointments to 
amateur growers. Many florists feel 
rather coldly toward Chrysanthemums in 
any case; the public must have them, but 
their effect on other lines of trade is 
discouraging. 
Among show blooms noted this year 
two huge white flowers are preeminent; 
they are Mrs. Gilbert Drabble and Wil¬ 
liam Turner. Both are extra fine, but 
Mrs. Drabble, with whorled petals, does 
not approach the perfect globular sym¬ 
metry of Turner, which is a huge ball of 
l>ure white. Among yellows, F. S. Val- 
lis, which reaches a diameter of 12 inches, 
and Mary Donnellan, an incurved Jap¬ 
anese of deep golden tint, were noticeable. 
Lady Ilopetoun is a very large silvery 
pink, W. Kleinheinz noticeable mahog¬ 
any, red; Ramapo a new yellow of which 
great things are expected; R. F. Felton 
a very deep yellow. 
It must not be understood that all fine 
exhibition sorts are equally good com¬ 
mercially or in the home garden. For 
example, Mary Donnellan is a superb 
flower, but it has a long bare “neck,” and 
this is always a detriment to a market 
flower. Some fine blooms have a weak¬ 
ness of texture, which causes the petals 
to spot or discolor; others ship badly; 
some develop foliage troubles, and others 
some tendency to bud defects. All the 
leading growers “try out” dozens of new 
varieties every year, and many a by-gone 
favorite is now thrown to the scrap heap. 
^ et in spite of this some old standards 
retain favor year after year, like Ivory, 
a white incurved Chrysanthemum intro¬ 
duced 20 years ago, which, no longer in 
the front row at exhibitions, is still 
raised by the thousand as a “bread and 
butter” variety for the less expensive 
trade. 
In studying Chrysanthemum catalogues, 
the amateur is often puzzled by a note 
following description of a variety which 
says, “crown bud after August 15,” or 
“take terminal bud.” This is a refer¬ 
ence to the removal of superfluous flow¬ 
er buds, the plant being thinned to a 
single bud when specimen blooms are 
desired. The crown bud is the apex of 
the plant’s growth, and the bud is the 
first one formed; the terminals are buds 
<m lateral shoots, which form later. Some 
varieties give best results with terminals, 
some with crown buds. 
Single Chrysanthemums were very 
largely exhibited this year, and they are 
often extremely graceful and striking. 
As cut blooms their value is lessened by 
• he fact that they do not pack well as a 
rule; it is difficult to avoid crushing them. 
1 lie following are all good : Ceddie Ma¬ 
son, bright crimson; Merstham Rose, 
rose with white zone, very distinctive; 
Mary Richardson, reddish salmon, very 
good garden sorts; E. Nottell, delicate 
primrose; Belle of Wevbridge. bright 
chestnut; Miss Hilda Wells, light red 
shading to yellow ; Margaret Totty, gold¬ 
en yellow; Cecil Denyer, white, very 
graceful; Metta, deep magenta with white 
zone; Merstham Gem. old rose with yel¬ 
low disk; Golden Star, yellow with 
orange disk; Dorothy Dann, amber. 
We have given lists of hardy pompons 
on several occasions; the following are 
all good : Baby, the smallest yellow, very 
hardy and prolific; Eagle d’Or, chrome 
yellow; Baby Margaret, pure white; 
Florence Carr, deep bronze; Nellie Bly, 
blush; Quinolia, deep yellow; Fred 
Peele, reddish lilac; Jeanette, yellow, 
very early; Miss Bateman, chestnut; 
Pygmalion, deep rose; Susquehanna, yel¬ 
low, fine; Rufus, crimson maroon, excel¬ 
lent. Among anemone pompons, which 
are very showy, we may mention Citrinus, 
buff, orange center; Gladys Spaulding, 
amber, large; Mrs. Robert Owen, white; 
Junon, blush pink ; Ernest Carr, an odd 
pink. The anemone sorts have a quilled 
disk surrounded by ray florets, often 
of a contrasting color, and they are very 
showy. Perhaps the best known of the 
larger Japanese anemone Chrysanthe¬ 
mums is Garza, pure white, which is 
a favorite exhibition sort. There is a 
surprising absence of the once much-ad¬ 
vertised hairy or ostrich-plume Chrys¬ 
anthemums at the exhibitions, though 
they still hold a place in the catalogue 
trade. 
PECANS IN VIRGINIA. 
Can pecans be grown successfully in 
Southwest Virginia? The elevation of 
our farm is about 1.100 feet, eastern 
slope of the Blue Ridge mountains, in 
Patrick County. We have bottom lands 
and gradually sloping land of red and 
gray sandy loam. Chestnuts, walnuts 
and hickory grow well. Can you advise 
whether it would be safe to invest in 
pecan trees? e. a. r. 
Portsmouth, Va. 
As I have been about all over Patrick 
County, Virginia, and know of the soil 
and climate from personal examination, 
I may safely say that it is not a good 
regions for pecans, even those of the hardy 
type. There is no doubt that the north¬ 
ern pecan trees, such as those found na¬ 
tive in southern Indiana, will endure the 
Winters of Patrick County, Virginia, but 
the lateness of the ripening of the nuts is 
such that they will often be frosted while 
yet green. I have seen this occur in the 
Neosho River bottoms of Kansas, where 
the growing seasons are much longer. 
The Blue Ridge mountain section is 
splendid for apples and I am interested 
in orchards in Patrick County but I 
would not expect success with a pecan or¬ 
chard, although one might do well on the 
bottom lands of some of the streams 
there. I have seen a vex-y few pecan 
trees in Rappahannock County, Virginia, 
that were bearing nuts but they were 
small and generally not well tilled. A 
few trees of the Indiana, Major or any 
varieties of the northexm type might set 
as a test. 
There is another nut tree that is very 
close kin to the pecan that will succeed 
in the Blue Ridge section very well, that 
is the Little Shell-bark or Shagbark hick¬ 
ory. This tree is as hardy as the native 
hickory of that region and its nuts are 
of the highest flavor, have thin shells and 
the meats ai - e easy to get out. Thex'e are 
varieties that have been selected for the 
productivity of the trees and fine char¬ 
acter of the nuts, and some of the nut 
nurseries are preparing to sell grafted 
trees. Seedlings would be very good, but 
they could not be depended upon to bear 
nuts like those planted. And the Per¬ 
sian walnut will grow in the same re¬ 
gion very well and is well worth planting. 
Good grafted trees of choice varieties can 
be bought of a few eastern nurseries. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Bag Worm on Arbor Vitae. 
A customer suggests that people have 
told her arbor-vita?s were subject to 
moths. Is this idea accurate? v. n. c. 
Purcellville, Va. 
It is probable that this refers to the 
bag-worm, the larva of a small moth, 
which is sometimes extremely destructive 
to arbor-vita*. It is often common in or¬ 
chards, and on shade trees, but is less 
destructive to them than to the arbor 
vita's, which it will sometimes defoliate 
to such an extent as to kill them. On 
deciduous trees the insects may be no¬ 
ticed during the Winter, their refuge be¬ 
ing little cone-shaped bags an inch or 
more in length, studded with bits of sticks 
and leaves. The smaller of these will 
contain an empty pupa shell, the larger 
a mass of eggs enveloped in fluffy yellow 
material. The eggs hatch in the' Spring, 
the larva* constructing cases for them¬ 
selves. which they carry about while feed¬ 
ing. The female never grows to winged 
form. The best way to treat this insect 
is by picking off and destroying the bags 
in Winter. Deciduous trees may be 
sprayed with arsenate of lead in Spring; 
applications for Codling-moth destroy 
bag-worm. Careful picking of the bags 
is best for arbor-vita?. 
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