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THE RURAL, NSW-YORKKR 
March 28, 
Window Flowers for Easter. 
Would you toll me how I can raise 
flowers for the Easter markets? I have 
plenty of time to work at them, I have 
a nice sunny room I can raise them in, 
as I do not want to spend much money 
to get a start. Tell me where I can get 
a market for them, and if you think it 
would pay. M. G. 
New Jersey. 
M. G. would very likely meet with dis¬ 
appointment in trying to grow Easter 
flow'ers in a sunny room. To grow tulips, 
hyacinths and other bulbous stock to sell 
in competition with the florists’ stock 
would require a hotbed or preferably 
greenhouse. Is there no demand in your 
borne town for cabbage, tomato, pepper, 
eggplant, and similar vegetable plants? 
Vegetable plants could be grown much 
more satisfactorily than flowers, by 
planting in shallow boxes containing 
about two inches of soil and transplant¬ 
ing about two inches apart each way. 
Cabbage seed could be sown January 1 
to 15, transplanted soon as large enough, 
and put under a sash outside March 1 
to 15, when tomato, eggplant, and pep¬ 
per could he ready to transplant. The 
cabbage in frames should he protected at 
night for nrst week to 10 days if weather 
should be cold. To grow flowers try to 
build a small greenhouse, but the room 
to start them and a few sash to narden 
and hold for sale would make a good 
combination for vegetable plants. Boxes 
would have to be turned every few days, 
or plants would draw crooked and spind¬ 
ling. Keep temperature 50 nights, 60 to 
65, days. elmer j. weaver. 
Mixing Lime and Fertilizer. 
I have a large lawn here and am going 
to lime and fertilize it with pulverized 
sheep manure as soon as I can. Would 
it be right to mix the fertilizer and lime 
together and apply, and when is the best 
time to do it? The lime is the regular 
agricultural lime. w. J. K. 
Pittsford, N. Y. 
On general principles we would not 
advise mixing the lime with any form of 
organic manure, like sheep manure or 
hen manure. It is true that ground lime¬ 
stone would not be likely to cause any 
loss of ammonia through such a mixing, 
but we do not know just what form of 
lime you have. It may contain a quan¬ 
tity of burnt lime, and if it does mixing 
with the sheep manure would cause the 
loss of some of the ammonia. You will 
gain nothing by mixing except the time 
spent in applying the lime, and we would 
rather put them on separately. An ap¬ 
plication of lime to a lawn, without 
working it into the ground in some way, 
is not usually very effective, for lime to 
give its best results should be worked 
thoroughly into the soil. We would use 
the lime and manure as soon as the 
ground is thawed out. 
Ground Limestone or Burned Lime. 
I expect to sow seven acres of oats 
on corn stubble. Before it was plowed 
for corn it was old meadow land. Which 
would you prefer to sow, ground lime¬ 
stone or burnt lime? If the ground lime 
is used in a drill with the grain, how 
much would you sow to the acre so as 
not to injure the grain? If the burnt 
lime is used, how much of that to the 
acre? a. e. m. 
It depends largely upon the soil. A 
stiff, hard clay soil will do better on 
slaked lime—one ton to the acre. A 
lighter and more open soil will generally 
be bette- suited with ground limestone— 
two tons to the acre. The usual rule is 
to apply twice as much of the limestone 
as of the burned or slaked lime. 
Greening Trees and “Pollenizers.” 
I am planting orchards of Greening 
apple trees 20 feet apart each way. In 
order to make sure that the flowers are 
properly fertilized I think of planting 
Baldwins every fifth row, which would 
give four rows of Greenings to one of 
Baldwins. Would this be enough, and 
will this interplanting be necessary? B. 
It is our judgment that in some sec¬ 
tions R. I. Greening is assisted by having 
another variety with it to act as a pol- 
lenizer. For this reason we have planted 
four rows of Greening, four of Baldwin, 
alternately. I do not like single rows 
of any variety, because there is too much 
work attending picking in single rows. 
Also, if there is any difference in spray¬ 
ing developments it involves extra work. 
I should make the block of Baldwins at 
least three rows wide. The Greening 
block may be left five or even six rows 
wide. SAMUEL ERASER. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. 
In my experience I have found that 
weather conditions during blooming time, 
late frosts, rain and continued cold have 
more to do with the setting of fruit than 
cross-pollination. Yet in order to take 
advantage of possible cross-pollinating I 
have planted the permanent varieties in 
blocks of four to six acres. This is more 
convenient in picking time than alternate 
rows. I would not advise planting 
Greenings 25 feet apart, as they are 
large-growing trees and in a few years 
would be too close together to admit sun¬ 
light. My plan has been to use a filler 
with the permanent trees, this filler to 
be a smaller-growing, early-bearing var¬ 
iety, blossoming at the same time. The 
permanent trees are 56 feet apart, with 
one in the center of the square; the fil¬ 
lers make the rows 28 feet apart. The 
rows run north and south and after tak¬ 
ing out fillers, each tree gets the same 
amount of sunlight, f. w. Cornwall. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
Greening orchards of considerable size, 
so far as my knowledge goes, have not 
shown the need of cross-pollination. It 
is possible, however, that in years when 
the pollination is poor anyway the Green¬ 
ings would set a better crop with some 
other varieties adjacent to furnish pol¬ 
lination. I have reason to think that 
some years at least this is true with 
Ben Davis. I am sure that I am safe 
in saying, however, that every fifth row 
would be enough Baldwins to pollinate 
the Greenings. Unless the soil is very 
different from any with which I am ac¬ 
quainted, I would suggest that the in¬ 
quirer is planting his Greenings much 
too close. It would be better to have his 
Greenings 40 feet apart or more with 
some early-bearing varieties like Rome 
Beauty as fillers. w. h. chandler. 
Cornell Agricultural College. 
My experience with the Greening apple 
for 30 years past is that it is practically 
self-fertile. That is to say that it needs 
no other variety to fertilize its bloom. 
We have a solid block of five acres of 
Greenings, and joining these on the south 
are some mixed varieties, including Bald¬ 
win and King. The Greenings on the 
extreme north side of the orchard seem 
to bear just as well as those on the south 
side. Our prevailing winds are north¬ 
west and south-east, so I think there are 
portions of these Greenings that are nev¬ 
er fertilized by any other variety, and all 
seem to bear equally well. I should not 
set an orchard in the way mentioned by 
your reader. I should leave out the 
Baldwins entirely if cross-pollination 
were the only reason for setting them. 
But if I wanted the Baldwins for the 
Baldwins’ sake I should set them all to¬ 
gether say in the center of the orchard 
with the Greenings on either side. Our 
Greenings are set 30 by 32 feet and they 
began to crowd when 20 years old. I 
would never set them again less than 40 
feet. w. A. BASSETT. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Ashes With Fertilizer. 
I have a quantity of tie-wood ashes, 
which I wish to use for fertilizer. What 
quantity of nitrate of soda, and phos¬ 
phoric acid should I add to make a fer¬ 
tilizer for general use, such as potato, 
corn and garden truck? c. A. H. 
Derby, N. Y. 
These ashes from railroad ties will 
vary considerably, as they are usually 
exposed more or less to rain and snow. 
As a general rule, however, for one ton 
of the ashes you can use for garden truck 
300 pounds of nitrate of soda, and 500 
pounds of acid phosphate. For corn we 
should use 200 pounds of nitrate, and 500 
of the phosphate. Ashes do not make a 
good fertilizer for potato, owing to the 
lime which they contain. Do not try to 
mix the chemicals with the ashes. 
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