1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
523 
The Overland 
The King' of Cars 
No other car has so large a sale—none has 
made such amazing records. Price, $1,000 up. 
Ruralisms 
A BULB FLOWER BED. 
G. 8., New York .—Flease suggest some 
way to make a bulb bed beautiful during 
Summer months without hurting my bulbs. 
I’ve followed you in rose planting. 
Axs.—The inquirer does not specify 
the bulbs referred to; we imagine that 
tulips and hyacinths are meant, as the 
various Narcissi remain masses of heavy 
foliage the greater part of the season. 
Many gardeners dig up the tulips and 
hyacinths as soon as the leaves yellow, 
dry them off carefully and store them 
away for Fall planting, replacing them 
with Summer bedding plants. This 
practice is carried out by many.city park 
departments, where there is bedding of 
this character. Our own plan, and that 
of many public and private gardeners, 
is to leave the bulbs in the ground, lift¬ 
ing* and replanting them every third 
year in the Fall. As soon as flowering 
is over bedding plants are set. which 
may be done without interfering with 
the bulbs, or seed of annual plants is 
sown. The foliage of the bulbs is not 
interfered with until brown and with¬ 
ered, when it is cut with shears. Salvia 
is good for such planting, so are Asters, 
heliotrope, Verbenas, Petunias, or any 
other tender plants that are not set un¬ 
til danger of frost is over. Seed of 
Petunias, cornflowers, mignonette, Zin¬ 
nias, Eschscholtzias, or a variety of oth¬ 
er annuals may be sown as early as the 
season permits, instead of setting plants, 
if desired. Sometimes Cannas are set in 
the bulb beds, but this requires careful 
setting to avoid interfering with the 
bulbs. 
BRIEF CHAPTER ON QUINCES. 
JI. T. II., Kennett Square, l'a .—I am 
planting 100 quince trees. Wliat is the 
best way to keep the trees healthy? The 
blight and borers seem to be the worst 
enemies. 1 planted Champion and Orange 
quince. My ground and location is all 
right. What should I spray with for 
blight, and at about what time? I planted 
this Spring. Ought I to spray this year or 
next, and how often ? I wish to keep them 
healthy until they come into bearing. For 
borers I shall try white lead and linseed 
oil on some and sediment of lime and sul¬ 
phur on some, which 1 use on apples and 
peaches. Is this the proper way, or is 
there anything better? Is salt in moderate 
quantities placed around the trunks of trees 
of any benefit to the quince tree as a 
fertilizer or as a preventive to the borers? 
Ans.—Q uince trees flourish in a rich 
soil, and yet they should not be stimu¬ 
lated into a rank and succulent growth. 
That would induce blight to take hold 
more than if they only make a normal 
growth. The blight that affects the 
quince is the same that is prevalent on 
pear trees, also on apple trees, in which 
case it is called “apple twig blight.” 
It affects the quince in about the same 
way. The germs are carried about by 
bees and other insects very generally, 
and find lodgment in new locations on 
very tender growth, or where there has 
been some breaking of the tissues of the 
bark. They also enter through the deli¬ 
cate floral organs. There is no way to 
spray as a cure for this blight, but as a 
preventive measure Bordeaux Mixture 
is of some benefit, but not much, by 
killing the germs that may happen to 
come in contact with it before they can 
reach the interior parts of the tissue. 
Once there they are beyond the reach 
of any outward injury and will do their 
deadly work unhindered. The spray¬ 
ing should be done soon after the 
growth starts in Spring, and again a 
month later. This will leave a coating 
of the copper sulphate on the trees that 
will be of material help against several 
fungus diseases that prey on the foliage 
of the quince, and be there to destroy 
some of the blight germs as well. 
The borers that attack quince trees 
are the same that injure apple trees. 
The one that is worst in Pennsylvania 
is commonly called the Round-headed 
Apple-tree borer, and does its work in 
the body of the tree near the ground. 
V bite lead paint may have some de¬ 
terring effect on the laying of eggs by 
the beetles, but I have little faith in it. 
The sediment of the lime-sulphur wash 
may be better. I have never tried either, 
and they may be better than I think. 
Common salt will not be of any benefit 
as a preventive to the borers, is not of 
any value as a fertilizer, but will kill 
the trees if much is applied. Keep salt 
out of an orchard of any kind. 
_ H. E. VA N DEMAN. 
THE HARDY ORANGE IN THE NORTH. 
On page 257 L. R. Johnson, of Mis¬ 
souri, gave his experience with the hardy 
orange, Citrus trifoliata, in Missouri. 
He suggests, as a result of his trials, 
that it may surely be used as far north 
hardy orange—citrus trifoliata. 
Fig. 208. 
as St. Louis. This is not by any means 
the limit of hardiness of this ornamental 
tree. Bailey’s “Cyclopedia of Horticul¬ 
ture says it is hardy as far north as 
New York and Philadelphia, and we are 
informed that it grows well and fruits 
freely in Monmouth County, N. J. A 
well-grown tree of this orange makes a 
very ornamental and unusual feature in 
a Northern garden. A fruit, a little less 
than natural size, is shown in Fig. 208. 
The vivid green of twigs and foliage 
forms an effective contrast. 
It requires four factories, employing 
4,000 men — turning out 140 Over¬ 
lands daily — to meet the flood-like 
demand for these cars. Yet two years 
ago a hundred rivals had a larger sale. 
The reason lies largely in the car’s 
utter simplicity. Its able designer 
made it almost trouble-proof. 
He created an engine which, for 
endurance, is the marvel of engi¬ 
neering. 
He designed the pedal control. One 
goes forward or backward, slow or 
fast, by merely pushing pedals. The 
hands have nothing to do but steer. 
A child can master the car in ten 
minutes. A novice can drive it a 
thousand miles without any thought 
of trouble. 
The Overland always keeps going, 
and almost cares for itself. All the 
usual complexities have been elimi¬ 
nated. 
That is why each car sells others, 
and our orders for this year’s Over¬ 
lands amount to 824,000,000. 
Another fact is that no other car 
gives nearly so much for the money. 
This is due to our enormous output, 
and the forthnes invested in our auto¬ 
matic machinery. It would bankrupt 
a smaller maker to try to compete 
with us. 
A ou can get a 25-horsepower Over¬ 
land, with a 102-inch w’heel base, for 
81,000. You can get a 40-horsepower 
Overland, with a 112-inch wheel base, 
for 81.250. The prices include lamps 
and magneto. 
This car, which has captured the 
country, is the car you will want when 
you know it. 
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Were introduced in 1861 and have become the best and most favorably 
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Massachusetts their rise has become general from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific. They are now manufactured in California. 
In the practice of general farming two things are often over¬ 
looked: 1st, the proper cultivation of the soil; 2nd, attention to the 
maintenance of soil fertility. Preparation of a good seed bed requires 
good plowing and thorough harrowing. 
The compounds containing the valuable elements of plant food 
are often changed by proper cultivation from forms which are insol¬ 
uble to other forms which are more or less available. 
The better the condition of the soil, the better will be tlv esults from the 
use of commercial fertilizers. 
A small acreage well cultivated and well fertilized will pay better than a 
large acreage only half cared for. A fruit grower recently wrote “I am getting 
a nice living from two and one-half acres of small fruit, and every year ! save 
something for a rainy day.” 
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to be largely lost by heavy rains, and they mature crops before the 
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