1914. 
THE KU H-A. Iv NEW-YORKER. 
109 
The Home Acre. 
Girdling Apple Trees. 
Will you tell me the date to girdle ap¬ 
ple trees that are about 15 years old? 
They set a large crop of fruit, but drop 
it later. These are old dry-land trees, 
that were placed under irrigation four 
years ago, and have grown remarkably 
well, but are not bearing as much fruit 
as they should. The varieties are North¬ 
ern Spy and Bellflower. w. n. E. 
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. 
The trees should be in the full flush 
of their growth to be in fit condition for 
peeling their trunks to induce bearing. 
The month of June is usually about right 
time. There is then forming between the 
bark and wood the annual layers or ad¬ 
ditions to both, which is made from the 
shiny matter that is then very abundant 
there and the reason there is no injury 
from taking off the bark is because of 
this fact. There is a slight checking of 
the growth, and this causes the forma¬ 
tion of more fruit buds than would nat¬ 
urally occur. The quick formation of 
new coat of bark protects the delicate 
tissues from the drying influences of the 
air, and the natural functions of the 
tree go on almost undisturbed. The 
Northern Spy and Yellow Bellflower are 
varieties of the apple that do not al¬ 
ways bear abundantly, but as fruit trees 
in Idaho usually bear too much rather 
than too little fruit it is scarcely neces¬ 
sary to use artificial means there to 
cause trees to bear better that are 15 
years old. However, it will not hurt the 
trees to girdle them in June. H. E. v. D. 
Fruits for the Home Acre. 
1 think it would be a great boon to 
suburbanites like myself with small gar¬ 
den of an acre or so, to publish a chart 
of the various fruit trees, dwarfs and 
standards, showing when they might be 
expected to bear fruit from the time of 
planting. I read of various kinds of ap¬ 
ples, for instance, or cherries, that they 
are earlier bearers, but there is nothing 
to tell me whether I might expect a sam¬ 
ple of fruit in two or six years from 
planting. I put in some dwarf pears two 
years ago, and the Duchess trees have 
given me two pears each year, the Wild¬ 
er and Anjou I haven’t heard from. 
Dunellen, N. J. a. c. 
The suburbanites who have small or¬ 
chards or fruit gardens and who are in¬ 
terested in giving them personal atten¬ 
tion deserve to be helped by information 
that will be of real use to them. They 
may get a great deal of health and pleas¬ 
ure and plants that can be grown on a 
small lot. There are books that will be 
of much assistance in this work, some of 
which give lists of varieties that are suit¬ 
ed to certain climates and soils. Among 
these books there are many that are not 
up-to-date in the matter of varieties, but 
their advice and directions are generally 
good. The catalogues are not always 
edited with the intelligence and accuracy 
that they deserve, and sometimes there 
are exaggerations and overpraising of 
varieties, but there is much in them that 
is of real value to the planter. 
To prepare lists of varieties that are 
in the habit of bearing early and are of 
high quality might be of much benefit 
to the amateur growers of fruits, but to 
cover the whole range of territory where 
these people live there would need to be 
different lists to suit the various condi¬ 
tions of climate and soil. As to the ex¬ 
act age at which the different varieties 
would begin to bear on both standard 
and dwarf stocks would be a most par¬ 
ticular job and would probably lead to 
frequent disappointments. So much de¬ 
pends on the soils, diseases and insects 
to be contended with and the treatment 
the trees get that predictions as to re¬ 
sults might be far from correct. 
In regard to dwarf fruit trees there is 
much difference of opinion but they usu¬ 
ally hasten the bearing of the varieties, 
and they certainly occupy less space than 
standard trees, and are, therefore, val¬ 
uable for small places. Dwarf pear trees 
are usually quite practical and dwarf ap¬ 
ple trees are so to a considerable degree, 
but there are very few other fruits that 
have been successfully dwarfed. The 
average suburban dwellers will learn 
more of a practical nature about fruit 
growing by visiting those of his neigh¬ 
bors who are succeeding and following 
their suggestions than by studying books 
and catalogues. It is all right to study 
them but not to let the other go undone. 
Feuixs For Home Gardens.—A r¬ 
ranged, approximately, in order of ripen¬ 
ing : 
Apples.—Yellow Transparent, Red 
June, Williams, Fanny, Golden Sweet, 
Primate, Jefferis, Fall Pippin, Graven- 
stein, Melon, Grimes, Jonathan. Delici- 
our, Hubbardston, Stayman, McIntosh, 
Akin, Stark. 
Pears.—Wilder, Madeline, Tyson, 
Howell, Boussock, Bartlett, Seckel, Shel¬ 
don, Dana’s Ilovey, Lawrence, Easter. 
Peaches.—Sneed, Red Bird, Greens¬ 
boro, Mamie Ross, Carman, Alton. Early 
Elberta, Ililey, Elberta, Reeves, Illinois, 
Sea Eagle, Heath Cling, Salway, Krum- 
mel. 
Plums.—America, Omaha, Abundance, 
Wickson, Gold, York State Prune, French 
Damson. 
Cherries.—Richmond, Dyehouse, Pur¬ 
ple Gean, Tartarian, Late Duke, Mont¬ 
morency, English Morello. 
Quinces.—Orange, Meech, Van Deman, 
Champion. 
Grapes.—Campbell, Winchell, Dela¬ 
ware, Concord, Brighton, Lutie, Niagara, 
Eclipse. 
Strawberries.—Climax, Warfield. Ches¬ 
apeake, Aroma, Ilaverland, Dunlap, 
Gandy. 
Raspberries.—King, Plum Farmer, 
Cuthbert, Cumberland. 
Blackberries.—Early Harvest, Blow¬ 
ers, Eldorado, Agawam. 
Gooseberries.—Downing, Pearl. Cham¬ 
pion. 
CurrantsJ—Perfection, Diploma, Red 
Cross. 
Dewberries.—Mayes (Austin), Lu- 
cretia. n. r. van deman. 
FLORAL NOTES. 
If you have the space, now is the time 
to get geraniums from your florist for use 
on Decoration Day. The price now will 
be just about one-half. They will not be 
in bloom now and will be in small pots 
and if you get them they must be kept 
in a cool, light window, washed and 
turned frequently and along in March 
put into four-inch pots. On calm warm 
days in April get them out of doors a 
little to become hardened, as they will 
drop their leaves if put • out from the 
house with no previous hardening. 
If you want to take slips of any of 
your house plants, now is a good time to 
do it, but as most cuttings require a good 
temperature to throw out roots, a ^few 
expedients will have to be resorted to 
to induce growth. At this season I use 
either a glass of water or a saucer of 
slushy sand. Nearly any common house 
plant that will root at all from slips 
will root in a glass of water. Take slips 
that break from the old plant sharply; 
if they bend clear over without breaking 
the slip is not in the right condition to 
make growth. Place all your cuttings 
in tepid water and set high up in a sun¬ 
ny window. If possible, in each glass 
put a few slips of wandering Jew. These 
root in a very few days and their growth 
has a tendency to keep the water pure 
until the other cuttings are rooted. At 
night set the glasses out of the window 
to a place near the stove, preferably on 
a shelf, but not lower than a chair. In 
the morning pour out a little of the 
water and replace with warm. Cuttings 
from the rose and walnut geranium root 
very slowly, taking as much as two 
months often. Do not give them up un¬ 
less you see signs of decay. In potting 
such cuttings, see that the earth is warm 
and kept warm until well established. 
It is best to use small pots first, as 
flowers are induced by limited root space. 
This applies especially to geraniums. 
The single varieties of bedding Petu¬ 
nias make fine house plants. Seed can be 
planted now or any time in warm earth. 
It will germinate quickly and the plants 
make astonishing growth. When a few 
inches high pinch out the top so branches 
will start. Allow about three branches 
to a plant and train these on a neat 
trellis in the window. I have seen such 
Petunias in windows in bloom for months, 
one or two plants filling the entire space 
and bearing dozens of flowers at a time. 
The common morning-glory makes an¬ 
other novel and charming window plant, 
coming into bloom after the first few 
leaves have formed. In this respect its 
blooming habit is entirely different from 
outdoors, where tin* vine is many feet 
high before blooming. j>. l. w. 
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