1910. 
Ruralisms 
NOVEMBER FLOWER NOTES. 
The flower I love best to-day, Novem¬ 
ber 1, is the marigold. When the wind 
blows fierce and cold it alone, of all the 
flowers in the garden, holds its own. 
The stocks are so compact and bushy, 
the little rosette-like flowers so firmly 
attached to their stems that, when other 
flowers are moping and wailing and 
trailing around in the wet disconsolately, 
it never flinches. I have the French va¬ 
riety, and the blooms vary from light 
yellow to a warm crimson-brown, with 
very dark green foliage. They have beer 
blooming all Summer and will gleam 
out brightly after a light snow—just as 
Chrysanthemums do. I would like to 
suggest to my country sisters that they 
brighten up their yards and gardens 
with marigolds next year. Plant about 
the same time as sweet peas. I am 
tempted to say leave out the sweet peas 
altogether, having been sorely disap¬ 
pointed in mine this season. After March 
we had a very cold Spring—the grape¬ 
vines scarcely commenced to grow until 
the middle of June! Then, when the 
peas were about ready to blossom, we 
had a long dry spell; the result was that 
I gathered a very small crop of short¬ 
stemmed peas, away below par. The 
vines were pulled out long ago and 
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visit. Success was due, I think, to 
sowing this seed in March in boxes 
which instead of being kept in the warm 
sitting-room, were placed upstairs in a 
sunny window that was opened on mild 
days—and last March was about the 
mildest, loveliest month of the year. The 
result was hardy little seedlings with 
fine roots. They were transplanted once 
before bedding out. I also got many 
thrifty seedlings from last year’s bed. 
Now, with a few leaves for protection, 
these plants will blossom again in the 
Spring, but they will not keep it up dur¬ 
ing the Summer. The early Spring blos¬ 
soms from wintered-over plants are 
usually very fine and large. Children 
are always interested in the German 
legend of the pansy, which is called 
Stiefmiitterchen, “little step-mothers.” 
See, the two larger petals at the back 
are the step-daughters and they are 
dressed alike in plain clothes and have 
to sit together on one stool; the mother 
sits in the middle with her daughters in 
dresses just like her own just behind her, 
and each has a stool of her own to sit 
upon ! c. d. h. 
Middle Bass, Ohio. 
LONG ISLAND APPLE CULTURE. 
When Prof. Van Deman has written, 
it is indeed bold to offer any amplifica¬ 
tions. In my grandfather’s orchard the 
trees are not always in rows, and some 
AN OHIO FARMHOUSE. Fig. 469. 
nasturtiums are growing rampant over 
their territory. 
And don’t the Zinnias hold fast! I 
had a friend visit me last Summer who 
loves them; moreover she likes to see 
all colors growing together in one bed. 
I had saved the seed from a beautiful 
pink variety a year ago and was short¬ 
sighted enough to believe I could obtain 
therefrom a bed all pink, but the flower I 
admired had been growing among other 
colors, and the result was I got a bed of 
the dingiest, faded-out, esthetic tints you 
ever saw—somewhat like an old rag rug 
in effect—anything but what I wanted 
in the front yard. But my friend thought 
even these lovely. She lives in a subur¬ 
ban village and says she often spends 
eight hours a day working in her yard, 
most of her space being devoted to good 
old-fashioned hardy flowers and foliage 
plants. For instance, she has clumps of 
sumach and elderberry bushes for their 
fine decorative effect as a background 
for other plants. I opened my eyes when 
she told me so. Our sumach and elder¬ 
berry grows in the chicken yard and 
when found anywhere else on the place 
is ruthlessly cut out. It’s a fine thing 
though to get another person’s point of 
view. There is no doubt about it, we 
country people are prone to neglect na¬ 
tive decorative shrubs while we hanker 
after Hydrangeas, Hibiscus and other 
high-priced luxuries. 
My pansy bed was my particular pet 
all Summer. During July, August and 
September I was able at any time to 
pick a good-sized bunch of pansies, and, 
with heliotrope, mignonette and sweet 
Alyssum, they made very delightful 
greetings to friends I was too busy to 
are I should think 60 or 70 feet apart; 
the limbs sweeping the ground, a round 
mound of beautiful green, so dense, that 
there is no herbage underneath. The 
apples are easily gathered, being almost 
from the ground up. This kind of a tree 
has many advantages over a crowded 
tree, and should be grown where there 
is plenty of space. The spaces between 
can be used for hay. Cultivate only with 
a Cutaway plow and an Acme harrow; 
the harrow slips under the branches 
without injuring them. The largest bear¬ 
ing surface is thus secured and fruit is 
easily harvested. For this locality I 
recommend Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, 
Fameuse Greening, King (Tompkins), 
Newtown Pippin and Golden Russet. I 
have not fruited Delicious and King 
David yet; the Spitzenburg has curculio, 
the King suffers too somewhat. I sug¬ 
gest a very few early and Fall apples 
for profit. ELBERT WAKEMAN. 
Long Island. 
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