1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1077 
Ruralisms 
COMMERCIAL CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Discussing the marketing of Chrysan¬ 
themum flowers recently, a florist who 
supplies some of the finest blooms sold 
in the New York markets, tells us that 
his Chrysanthemums are cut and placed 
in water for about 18 hours before ship¬ 
ping. It is very necessary that they 
should be “filled up,” so to speak, be¬ 
fore shipping, to insure their keeping. 
Big show chrysanthemums are cut with 
five-foot stems; as soon as cut they are 
stood up in a barrel of water for sev¬ 
eral hours, then transferred to tall jars 
in the cool dark “flower room,” where 
they remain until shipped. It is a far 
cry from these huge shock-headed 
blooms to the little “artemisias” of old- 
fashioned gardens, and it is pleasant to 
find that the little button-like pompon 
Chrysanthemums are now having a 
vogue among cut flowers, as well as in 
the garden. _ 
AN INFANT INDUSTRY IN BLUEBERRIES. 
I read an article c i blueberry culture 
by Prof. Coville, of Washington, D. C. 
We have in this vicinity several marshes 
or patches of fruit in bearing; one has 
been in bearing about 10 years and 
others that arc not so old. The plants 
were dug in the Winter from marshes 
near here, and set about six feet apart 
to work both ways. They are what we 
call high-bush huckleberry here, and 
may not be the same that Prof. Coville 
is experimenting with. These grow 
from three to six feet high, and bear 
very heavily. The owner of one marsh, 
of not more than two acres, has cleared 
over $500 in one season. Plants do not 
do well except on marshes underlaid 
with white sand. Berries sell for from 
$2.50 to $3 per crate in Elkhart, and a 
good demand at that. They are picked 
and packed very neatly, and the pickers 
receive five cents per quart. The 
marshes are a very pretty sight, and 
require very little attention, except cul¬ 
tivating. Great improvement can be 
made in the size and quality of the 
berry, and those setting out late patches 
have selected only the best, as there 
seem to be several distinct types. 
Elkhart, Ind. P. I. f. 
Behavior of Boston Ivy. 
J, B. B., Michigan .—I am thinking of 
covering the outside walls of my residence, 
which is now covered with cement veneer, 
put on metal lath in the usual manner. The 
cement has become broken and the lath 
rusted to such a degree that the house 
will have to be recovered, and 1 plan using 
some form of shingle made from roofing 
materials. Do you know whether Ampelop- 
sis or Boston ivy, if planted so as to run 
over the walls of my house, would be apt 
to run under the shingles mentioned? I 
believe woodbine has this trait to a marked 
degree, but I do not know about Ampelop- 
sis. I would be glad to learn for the rea¬ 
son that I now have a vine on two sides of 
my house, well started, and desire if pos¬ 
sible to keep them growing. 
Ans. —The woodbine or Lonicera, 
better known as climbing honeysuckle, 
in common with such woody climbing 
shrubs as the Tecoma or trumpet clim¬ 
ber, the Actinidia and others, has the 
bad habit of creeping under clap-boards 
and shingles and wrenching them from 
their fastenings as the stems increase in 
thickness. The Boston ivy, catalogued 
as Ampelopsis Veitchii, but now known 
to botanists as Vitis inconstans, how¬ 
ever, is not addicted to running under 
shingles or boards, but creeps over them, 
clinging even to painted surfaces with its 
innumerable sucker-like disks. The 
writer for many years occupied a shingle 
finished cottage entirely overrun with 
Boston ivy, but the shingles were rather 
preserved and kept in place than harmed 
by the vines. The Ampelopsis, however, 
does not cling well to substances con¬ 
taining tar, such as enter into the com¬ 
position of certain roof and wall cover¬ 
ings. _ w. v. F. 
An Orchard Problem. 
C. A. C., Ilollis, X. II .—Last year I or¬ 
dered some McIntosh Hod apple trees, and 
when they came this Spring they were a 
mixed lot, no McIntosh, but Northwestern 
Greening, Fourth of July, Alexander and 
Red Astrachan. I took them and heeled 
them out in furrows about one foot apart. 
Will it do to set them out where I want 
them and top-graft them after one year? 
Will you get as red fruit as you would if 
they were budded first with McIntosh Red, 
and if I top-work the Astrachan will the 
trees be short-lived, as the Astrachans are? 
Ans. —The nurseryman that you bought 
the trees from took undue liberty in sub¬ 
stituting such a mixed lot for the variety 
purchased; I suggest that growers in 
buying trees should insist that there be 
no substitution of varieties without the 
consent of the buyer. Relative to the 
question of top-grafting, I believe the 
Alexander might prove a profitable va¬ 
riety, and I would not top-work them. 
The Northwestern Greening makes an 
excellent hardy stock, and is often 
planted for the purpose of top-working 
to other more tender varieties. I doubt 
whether Fourth of July and Red As¬ 
trachan would prove profitable market 
sorts in New Hampshire, and believe 
that they should be top-grafted as the 
writer suggests. I do not believe that 
the stock will influence the color of the 
fruit to a noticeable degree. In one in¬ 
stance I have observed a large number 
of Red Astrachans top-worked to Bald¬ 
wins, where practically the only influence 
upon the varieties seemed to be a slight 
tendency to ripen early. b. d. v. b. 
High-Colored Apples.—A correspond¬ 
ent of the London “Gardening Illus¬ 
trated” asks for a list of 12 high-colored 
apples, to be grown as dwarfs on Para¬ 
dise stock, trained against a wall. The 
following sorts are given: Devonshire 
Quarrenden (dessert), William’s Favor¬ 
ite (dessert), American Mother (des¬ 
sert), Baumann’s Red Winter Reinette 
(kitchen and dessert), Gascoigne’s Seed¬ 
ling (kitchen, dessert), Lewis’ Incom¬ 
parable (kitchen, dessert), Winter Quar¬ 
renden (dessert), Ben’s Red (dessert), 
Tyler’s Kernel (kitchen), Miller’s Red 
Victoria (kitchen), Worcester Pearmain 
(dessert), Fearn’s Pippin (dessert). 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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“I had drank coffee for about twenty 
years, and finally had what the doctor 
called 'coffee heart.’ I was nervous and 
extremely despondent; had little mental 
or physical strength left, had kidney 
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“The first noticeable benefit derived 
ftom the change from coffee to Postum 
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nerves steady. 
"Thtn 1 became less despondent, and 
the desire to be active again showed 
pi oof of renewed physical and mental 
strength. 
“I am steadily gaining in physical 
strength and brain power. I formerly 
did mental work and had to give it up 
on account of coffee, but since using 
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with less fatigue than ever before.” 
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