1910. 
PLANTS FOR A BLOOMING HEDGE. 
J. II. B., Boonton, N. J .—I wish to have 
a hedge for a screen set out. Because the 
yard slopes (to the northeast) the bushes 
must be about eight feet high. I would 
like a blossoming hedge, blossoming succes¬ 
sively ; also bushes that retain the leaves 
late. Would a Colorado Blue spruce injure 
bushes that might be set near it? Do you 
tbink an amateur could raise successfully, 
barberry bushes, from seed? Will you name 
some shrubs that will meet the requirements 
as to height, flowering and retaining leaves? 
Ans. —\ ou can have an ideal hedge 
from many different shrubs, that will 
give you flowers as well as foliage for 
a screen. The Althaea or Rose of 
Sharon makes a beautiful flowering 
hedge, either the single or double flower¬ 
ing varieties. The flowers range in 
color from white to dark purple, and by 
planting the different colors they are al¬ 
most dazzling in their beauty when in 
full bloom. They come into bloom from 
July to September, and are the most 
satisfactory blooming hedge plant that 
is grown. They are easy and fast grow¬ 
ing shrubs. The lilac is another satis¬ 
factory plant for a screen hedge as well 
as a single specimen. Nurserymen now 
catalogue a long list of varieties, some 
single and some double flowering, and 
the colors range through many differ¬ 
ent shades. The Hydrangea paniculata 
would make a good hedge, and is one of 
the most beautiful shrubs listed by the 
nurserymen. No garden or lawn is com¬ 
plete without a clump of this beautiful 
shrub. The large showy flowers that 
change from nearly white to pink, and 
finally to a greenish color, hang on until 
frost. The one plant that is without 
an equal for a deciduous hedge or screen 
is the California privet. It can be kept 
in any desired shape or height by prun¬ 
ing, and then pruning does not injure it. 
The bright green glossy foliage hangs 
on until early Winter. If let grow to 
a height of. eight to 12 feet it will bloom 
profusely. The flowers are white in 
terminal spikes, fragrant and beautiful 
during July and August.' This is the 
best, the cheapest, the easiest grown, the 
most beautiful and all around satisfac¬ 
tory hedge plant, that I could recom¬ 
mend. 
The barberry is very easy to grow. 
Gather the seed any time during the 
Winter, clean off the hull or skin, and 
mix the seed in moist (not wet) sand. 
Keep in a tight box in a cool cellar until 
early Spring. As soon as ground is fit 
to work in Spring prepare it as for peas 
or any garden seed, and plant about as 
thick in rows as peas; cover about three- 
quarters-inch deep. The following 
Spring these little seedlings should be 
transplanted either where they are to 
stand, or into nursery rows. If in the 
latter plant six inches apart in row. 
E. S. BLACK. 
Self-fertile Apples and Pears. 
C. R. O.j Auburn, R. I .—What apples and 
pears of the list given below are self fer¬ 
tile? Apples: McIntosh, Hubbardston, 
Wagener, Wealthy, Slayman, Senator, King 
David, Black Ben, Delicious. Pears: Cornice, 
Duhamel du Monceau, Col. Wilder, Hardy. 
Ans. —There is a scarcity of real in¬ 
formation about the self-fertility and 
sterility of the common varieties of the 
apple and other fruits. Not one of those 
mentioned in the list has been tested 
out on these points, so far as I know. 
There are a few kinds that have been 
tested in some measure, so that we know 
a little, but it is only a little that is avail¬ 
able as a guide to our planting. How¬ 
ever, the principle of the good effects of 
cross-pollination by planting varieties in 
alternate strips of from two to five rows 
is quite well established. No variety is 
injured by it and some are certainly ben¬ 
efited. But just what varieties to plant 
next each other is as yet largely a matter 
of guesswork. It is said that “one guess 
is as good as another” but it is not so in 
this case. What we want is light on the 
subject and it can only come from care¬ 
ful and continued experimentation. The 
scientists of the State experiment sta- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
tions are better fitted to do this work 
than anyone else and it would seem to 
be their duty to do it. h. e. van dejian. 
4131 
Killing Locust Stumps. 
E. TF. (No Address ).—I have some locust 
stumps and roots which I wish to eradicate. 
Will someone tell me how to get them out 
for good? I have dug some of them out, 
but it is no small job battling with the 
tap roots of locust trees. Is there a way 
to kill them and thus stop growth? 
Ans. —From earliest boyhood I have 
known the difficulty of getting rid of the 
sprouts of locust trees, for we had them 
on our farm in Ohio and I have had 
much trouble with them elsewhere. The 
tree is not especially difficult ‘to get rid 
of because of tap roots, for they are not 
especially deep, but there are numerous 
branch roots, and they send up sprouts 
in multitudes. The best way that I know 
to kill them out is by cutting down every 
living thing about the first of August. 
It is better still to do this two or three 
times during the course of the Summer. 
If goats were kept in the enclosure where 
the sprouts are they would keep them 
nipped off constantly and this will kill 
almost any sort of vegetable growth. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Cutting Back Large Apple Trees. 
TF. E. TNew York .—I have about 25 
Baldwin apple trees that are very high 
and have no lower limbs. I would like to 
cut them back. I have read in The R. 
N.-Y. of trees cut back to stubs. What I 
would like to know is how long a stub I 
should leave and would it be better to 
paint the wounds, and also how long would 
I have to wait before the trees would begin 
to boar again? 
Ans. —No definite rule can be given. 
It will depend on the trees, how they 
have grown and the shape of the main 
crotch, also whether the suckers have 
been permitted to grow. We have some 
trees that will be cut back to within 
three feet of the crotch while others will 
be cut 10 feet above. We are taking 
two and three years to cut these large 
trees back. Paint the stub over. You 
may get a little fruit three years after 
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