1910. 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Ruralisms 
A Cross-Bred Sweet Corn. 
C. B. D., Wantagh, N. Y. —I send yon one 
ear of sweet corn, a cross between Golden 
Bantam and Late Mammoth. The first ear 
was pure white; it was planted the nest 
year. It split true to Mendel's law into 
white, yellow and mongrel cars like sample. 
I rejected the yellow ears, kept the white 
and the mongrel ears. Unluckily during 
Winter, mice cleaned out every kernel of 
white corn and left only one mongrel ear, 
which was planted this Spring, with results 
like sample ear. How long will it take, if 
only the white kernels are planted, to make 
a thoroughbred white corn? 
Ans. —According to Mendel’s theory 
(which has so many exceptions that it 
can scarcely be termed a law) when 
nearly-related plant varieties are crossed 
a hybrid is likely to follow having char¬ 
acters common to both parents, but some 
of these characters, such as the color of 
the seed coats of one parents, may so 
dominate in the hybrid that the other 
cannot appear, though the tendency to 
reproduce it in a certain proportion of 
the future offspring may be retained. 
This is termed a dominant factor, and 
may never yield even to years of careful 
selection. The covered-up color, which 
would appear to be yellow in C. B. D.’s 
hybrid corn, as the first ear was all white, 
may in this instance prove a recessive 
character likely to breed true if supplied 
with no other pollen than its own. Ex¬ 
periment alone can settle the matter. As 
white is the desired color in this case 
nothing remains but to plant the white 
kernels from the second-generation mon¬ 
grel ears next year in an isolated situa¬ 
tion so that the silks will receive no 
other pollen, and follow this plan from 
year to year, selecting seed from all- 
white ears if any are produced. Maize 
is quite amenable to selective treatment 
and in three or four seasons the variety 
may be sufficiently fixed for practical 
purposes, though if white is really the 
dominant coloring yellow ears or kernels 
may reappear at diminishing intervals. 
w. v. F. 
Fruits For Idaho. 
J. P. T., Taunton, Mass. —I have just 
bought a ranch of 40 acres of irrigable 
land at Richfield, Idaho, elevation is about 
4,000 feet, and I wish eventually to put 
most of it in fruits. Will you name two 
or three varieties of each kind of apples, 
pears, peaches, cherries, plums and quinces 
for fancy commercial varieties, that you 
think will be best for that section, also 
a few kinds of each for our own home use, 
covering entire season? Also two or three 
varieties of raspberries, blackberries and 
strawberries for commercial use. 
Ans. —Almost any ordinary variety of 
fruit suitable to the temperate zone will 
flourish in Idaho. I have been there re¬ 
peatedly, and was much pleased with 
what I saw there, and have also seen 
many exhibits of Idaho fruits at the 
fairs and expositions. There are many 
varieties of apples and other fruits that 
are good, both for commercial and home 
use. But for sale there should not be 
many varieties and they should be at¬ 
tractive and the trees should be produc¬ 
tive. For home use there should be a 
greater number of varieties, covering the 
entire season and only a few trees of 
each. 
A Commercial List. —Apples: Jona¬ 
than, Rome Beauty and Yellow Newtown. 
Pears : Bartlett and Comice. Peaches : 
Elberta, Champion and Salway. Cher¬ 
ries: Bing, Lambert, Richmond, Mont¬ 
morency and Napoleon. The latter is 
generally called Royal Ann on the Pa¬ 
cific Coast. Plums: Fellenberg (which 
is better known in the West as Italian 
Prune). Quinces: Orange and Cham¬ 
pion. Raspberries : Cuthbert and Cum¬ 
berland. Blackberries: Lawton, Kitta- 
tinny and Eldorado. Strawberries: Ha- 
verland, Warfield, Glen Mary and 
Goodell. 
Family List. —Two trees each of 
apples, Early Harvest, Liveland Rasp¬ 
berry, Fanny, Jefferis, Chenango, Fall 
Pippin and Hubbardston. Five trees each 
of Grimes, Jonathan, Delicious, King 
David and Esopus Spitzenberg. Pears: 
Two each of Wilder Early, Tyson, 
Howell, Seckel, Bartlett, Hovey, Shel¬ 
don, Bose, Anjou, Comice and Law¬ 
rence. The lists of the other fruits given 
for commercial purposes are suitable for 
home use as well. h. e. van deman. 
Cultivated Blueberries. 
There will soon be published by the Bu¬ 
reau of Plant Industry at Washington, 
D. C., a bulletin on “Experiments in Blue¬ 
berry Culture,” by Prof. F. V. Coville. It 
has long been assumed that the blueberry 
cannot be grown as a cultivated plant but 
the following statement from Prof. Coville 
shows that this idea is erroneous. 
When after much experimentation I 
found out how to handle these plants, 
their culture presented no special diffi¬ 
culties. My pot cultures have succeeded 
beyond all my early expectations. Some 
of the seedlings of the high-bush blue¬ 
berry (Vaccinium corymbosum) that will 
be two years old in September, are now j 
over three feet high. A large percentage 
of these plants fruited, sparingly, in June 
and July. I have propagated desirable 
varieties (especially one from Green¬ 
field, New Hampshire, bearing berries a 
little over half an inch in diameter) by 
budding, grafting and layering, as well 
as by twig cuttings and root cuttings. 
Propagation by cuttings was difficult, 
but a system has now been worked out 
which promises to give a large percent¬ 
age of rooted plants. It is useless to at¬ 
tempt the cultivation of the blueberry on 
lands of the sort commonly designated 
as “fertile,” such as ordinary garden 
soils. The best promise of success in 
field culture is on bogs treated essen¬ 
tially as for cranberry culture, except 
that no special provision need be made 
for flooding; or on sandy soils treated 
with natural upland peat or with an arti¬ 
ficial peat composed of partially rotted 
oak leaves. Frederick v. coville. 
Diseases of Economic Plants, by F. L. 
Stevens and J. G. Ilal!. This is a very 
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plants, giving the distinctive characters of 
destructive plant diseases caused by bac¬ 
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chapters on fungicides and spraying con¬ 
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convenient form, the relative cost and 
profits of spraying being carefully consid¬ 
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considered under separate heads, iu form 
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