1914. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
667 
“CORONA DRY” 
Arsenate of Lead 
Patented June 10th, 1913 
Eliminates guesswork. Standardizes the strength 
of the spray mixture. Saves work in 
mixing—no straining needed. 
AM-. !.>///✓ ' s P ra y 
^,1/7/ /with a mixture 
1/ that a ^ njua y s h as the 
’ same strength. You cannot 
use a paste arsenate and be sure of 
uniform strength. Large and practical 
usage in all sections, for all purposes, 
has proved that in “Corona Dry” you 
do get this very thing plus highest 
poisoning power, and absolute safety 
from “burning.” 
Largest and Most 
Progressive Growers Everywhere 
say that “Corona Dry” has proved efficient— 
has always the same high efficiency—is more 
simple, cleaner and easier to handle than a 
paste material—is easily mixed and needs no 
straining—can be measured easily and cor¬ 
rectly. “Corona Dry” positively kills and 
exterminates Coddling Moth, Ctirculio and 
all leaf- rating insects of both trait and shade 
trees. One pound of “Corona Dry” will 
do the work of three pounds of paste and 
doit better. Write for booklet. Ask for 
Corona‘‘TreeInsurance” Policy. Address 
CORONA CHEMICAL CO. 
Dept. O, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
HAMILTON-MADE 
SPRAYING HOSE 
will spray your trees for several years for oue 
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Either grade will stand GOO pounds test and 
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Cash with order 
Freight paid to your station. Shipped direct 
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TRENTON, N. J. 
Sprays 4 rows with 12 nozzles, 3 on each. 8 are low- 
down nozzles for still more thorough spraying of sides I 
and underside of vines. Spraying saves your crop and 
increases the yield. 
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Fine for 
blight. 
Use in any 
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Box 1029 I 
\Grenloch 
N.J. . “ 
We make 
Sprayers 
for every 
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Power Sprayers $68.00, Barrel Sprayers $11.00. 
Spray Hose eight cents per foot. Catalogue free. 
PALMER BROS., Coscob, Conn. 
Write for our 
Special Commission 
on balance of the 
year subscriptions 
—new or renewal. 
Department “M” 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 West 30th Street 
New York City 
Ruralisms 
Grafting Questions. 
I have a few native plum and cherry 
trees which have grown very well. When 
they bore the fruit was poor, and a friend 
grafted them; every graft grew. Some 
of the plum trees include six different 
kinds. The trees were grafted about 
March 26, before the sap began 
to run, and the scions were taken from 
the trees and grafted immediately. 
Would you tell me whether the same 
thing can be done to apples, pears, or 
grapevines? w. d. k. 
It is easier to graft apple and pear 
•trees successfully than plum and cherry 
trees. Grapevines are more difficult to 
get to live. They must be grafted very 
early and below the ground and then 
banked up with earth to nearly the 
uppermost bud on the scion. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Grafting the Kieffer Pear. 
I have about 50 Kieffer pear trees 
just commencing to fruit. Which would 
be best to do—graft them (if so what 
to), bud them or cut them down? 
Auburndale, Mass. c. b. c. 
The Kieffer pear may be readily 
worked over with other and more desir¬ 
able varieties, either by grafting or bud¬ 
ding, the size of the trees determining 
the method of graftage to be employed. 
Cleft-grafting is the most common and 
successful method in general use, and 
should be employed when the body or 
main branches are an inch or more in 
diameter. When the body of the tree 
is not over two inches in diameter above 
the first set of limbs, it is a good plan to 
remove all the top above them, leaving 
a stub four to eight inches long, in 
which insert two scions by the cleft 
method, and when they have made some 
growth remove the remaining branches 
so that the entire strength of the tree 
may go to the growth and development of 
the grafts. When the trees are large 
the main branches must be worked at 
points that seem most suitable, but the 
work should be done in such a manner 
that when the new top has developed the 
tree will not be out of general balance, 
but that the original outline of the top 
be preserved as nearly as possible. Small 
trees will have to be whip-grafted or 
budded. The best time for grafting is 
in Spring, when the leaves are pushing 
forth, and if the work is properly done 
at this time very few of the scions will 
fail to grow. Budding is done in August, 
when the second flow of sap is running 
freely. 
The Bartlett is the standard market 
variety, but when a number of sorts are 
desired the following list of varieties will 
be found very good, and covers the en¬ 
tire pear season: Summer pears, Bart¬ 
lett, Clapp’s Favorite, Autumn, Beurre 
d’ Anjou Beurre Bose, Buffum, Seckel, 
Winter, Lawrence, Vicar of Wakefield. 
For description of the above sorts see 
nursery catalogues. K. 
Scale on Ivy. 
Enclosed is a leaf from my English 
ivy plant that has been in the house all 
Winter. Lately I have found this scale 
on the leaf. Toll me what it is and how 
to deal with it. T. m. p. 
Sponge the leaves with soapsuds, thus 
removing the scale insects. Whale-oil 
soap dissolved in hot water and diluted 
so as to give one pound of soap to six 
or seven gallons of water, is excellent, 
but rather unpleasant to use. Fir-tree 
oil and several other preparations sold 
by seedsmen, are excellent for use in 
such cases, but careful sponging with 
ordinary soapsuds is usually efficient. 
The trouble is not uncommon with house 
plants. 
Long Island Apples. 
In the interesting notes on apples for 
Long Island (page 403) I was surprised 
to find so few of the old standard vari¬ 
eties mentioned in Mr. Nostrand’s list, 
also to see that out of the 24 named only 
five passed as desirable and one of them 
Ben Davis. That seems rough on the 
apples or the soil of Long Island. Here 
on the north shore the soil has produced 
for me some No. 1 fruit of Red Astra- 
eham King, Lady Sweet, Hubbardston, 
Rhode Island Greening, Spy, Newtown 
Pippin, Flory or Winter Banana. Peck’s 
Pleasant. Roxbury Russet, Wealthy, Yel¬ 
low Transparent, Dominie and a few 
other varieties and did the same in pears, 
plums and peaches, and that too at the 
time when the San Jose scale was getting 
in its fine work, and we had not struck 
just the right sure way to handle it. 
No, Long Island is all right for almost 
anything you want to do right. 
JAMES UALLOWAY. 
Spray with In-sect-ine—It is an insecticide 
and fungicide 
IN-SECT-INE 
Contains 21 Ingredients 
and Is Compounded 
— With -= 
Bordeaux Mixture 
i 
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r Spray your shade trees, fruit 
trees, flowers, and everything that 
grows with In-sect-ine. 
One pint of In-sect-ine will make 
fifty gallons of spraying liquid. 
One gallon of In-sect-ine will 
make four hundred gallons of 
spraying liquid. 
Remember you need nothing 
else but In-sect-ine for all kinds of 
spraying. 
In-sect-ine answers all purposes. 
50 cents per pint. 
$4.00 per gallon. 
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1202 General Electric Building 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
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The oneabsolute- 
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cleanandhealthy andmake them 
yield number one fruit. Better 
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