1910. 
THIS RURAIv NEW-YORKER 
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Ruralisms 
POTATOES WITHOUT VINES. 
Mr. Chas. R. White, of Ontario Co., 
N. Y., sends us two seed pieces like the 
one pictured at Fig. 323. Mr. White 
says: 
“I mail you this morning a couple of 
pieces of seed potato, each of which 
A VINELESS POTATO. Fig. 323. 
has two small potatoes growing from 
it. These were taken from a neighbor’s 
field, where there are a number of hun¬ 
dred hills where potatoes have made 
no tops, not even having sprouted out 
of the ground, but on digging them up 
we have found from one to live pota¬ 
toes growing. This would do to go 
with the Wonderberry, the vineless 
potato.’ ’ _ 
EARLY ROSE POTATO INTRODUCTION. 
Noting what Mr. Duncan Rliind says 
in regard to potatoes, and the question 
he asks at the close, I will say that Mr. 
Bliss introduced the Early Rose, and at 
first advertised it at $1 per pound. I or¬ 
dered a pound, and in the meantime Mr. 
Bliss raised the price to $3 a pound, and 
my potatoes not coming, I wrote a pro¬ 
test to him. He replied that my package 
had been mailed, but as I failed to get it 
he refilled the order, and I received a 
package, that had been opened in transit 
and every eye cut out carefully. Know¬ 
ing that there were dormant eyes in the 
branches covered by the potato flesh I 
cut and planted the potatoes just as if 
the eyes were there, and every piece 
grew. I made 35 pounds of potatoes. 
The following Winter I put these in the 
propagating bed in my greenhouse and 
made cuttings as fast as the shoots ap¬ 
peared, rooted and potted them in four- 
inch pots, and in Spring I had a green¬ 
house full of plants in pots. With these 
I planted an acre of land, and do not 
now remember how many bushels I 
made, but it was a fair crop and I got 
$15 a barrel for what I had to spare. 
But I do not think that the price at the 
introduction ever was as high as $5 a 
pound; certainly I paid but $1 for mine. 
YV. F. MASSEY. 
Peach Seedlings; Hedge; Poor Apple Crop. 
C. P. C„ Argenta, Ark. —1. What time 
of the year should poach stones be planted 
and how? 2. Would a hedge of fruit trees 
be a success? Would Japanese walnuts be 
good for a hedge? We have 10 trees, but 
they are too young to bear yet. 3. What 
should we do with a 50-year-old apple tree 
that bore fairly well last year, but has only 
two apples ou it this year? 
Ans. — 1. Peach seeds usually come up 
better by planting them in the Fall than 
at any other time, although they do very 
well if bedded down at that time and 
taken up and planted in nursery rows in 
early Spring. The rows should be four 
feet apart and the seeds about six inches 
or less in the row and four inches deep. 
2. Hedges of fruit trees are not good, 
because there can be very little fruit on 
them where they are so close together 
as to form a wind-break. There are 
other trees that are much better for this 
purpose. Of evergreens, the Norway 
spruce, Red cedar and some of the pines 
are very good. Among the best of the 
deciduous trees are the Calalpa speciosa 
and the Yellow (improperly called 
“black”) locust. These both grow quick¬ 
ly and have very durable and useful tim¬ 
ber. The Japanese walnut is a fast grow¬ 
er, and its timber is good, but not so 
dark and valuable as that of our Black 
walnut. The nuts are better than those 
of the Japanese kinds, which are small 
and very hard shelled. 3. An apple tree 
50 years old that bears well one year 
and only has two apples on it the next 
is surely having a rest. The only ways 
that seem practicable are, to let it bear 
according to its own sweet will, or thin 
the fruit when it bears heavily, so as to 
relieve the strain and permit the form¬ 
ing of fruit buds for the next year. 
Otherwise it must be grafted over to 
some other variety that will bear regu¬ 
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BLIGHT ON QUINCE TREES. 
E. V. II., Oleelum, A'. C. —I have a num¬ 
ber of line quince trees which I value high¬ 
ly. They arc Orange and Champion var¬ 
ieties, I think, mostly. Until a few weeks 
ago they were looking remarkably healthy, 
but the blight struck them. I have cut 
back one of them twice already, Imt 
I notice to-day that there are again some 
limbs affected. Is there anything I can 
do to check the disease before it spreads 
to all the trees? I notice that a few trees 
are entirely free from the disease yet, 
but I fear that it will spread to all of 
them. Is it likely to kill the whole tree 
or bush, or only the limbs, and will it keep 
on spreading to all of them? I fertilized 
these trees last Spring and also the Spring 
before with basic slag, sulphate of potash 
and nitrate of soda. lias that anything 
to do with the blight? 
Ans. —The quince is quite subject to 
blight, but it is not often that the trees 
are killed by it. It is the same disease 
that affects pear trees, and is commonly 
called “pear blight.” It is also called 
“fire blight” because the leaves turn 
black as if they had been killed by fire. 
This same trouble appears on the small 
branches of apple trees just as it does 
on quince trees. For some unknown rea¬ 
son the germs often find entrance to the 
living tissues of pear trees where the 
branches are quite large, and in such 
cases all the parts above are quite sure 
to die. With apple and quince trees 
only the tender growing twigs are apt to 
be affected, and therefore only small 
parts of the tree die from the disease, 
for the disease does not usually work 
downward very far. At the end of the 
growing season the disease usually dies 
out with the death of the affected parts, 
and that which is alive is healthy and 
the trees survive and continue growth 
another year. But some of the branches 
carry over the germs in their sap and 
the same trouble comes on for several 
succeeding years and more and more of 
the tree is killed until death becomes 
complete. The more rapid and tender 
the growth, the more likely are the 
branches to take the disease. Hence any¬ 
thing that stimulates a succulent growth 
is dangerous. The fertilizing of the 
quince trees by E. V. H. doubtless had 
much to do with their blighting. Some 
seasons the trouble is much worse than 
others. It is a serious question to know 
what to do to have the trees grow and 
bear well and yet not take the blight. 
There is no way to spray to prevent or 
destroy it in any considerable degree. 
The only effective way to fight it is by 
destroying every twig that has the lurk¬ 
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Agriculture has experts working on this 
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