1914. 
THE RURAL X H, W ^OKKKR 
031 
Pluralisms 
THE CHINESE WILD PEACH. 
The illustration below is reproduced 
from Bulletin No. 91, issued by the Office 
of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction. 
F. N. Meyer, botanical explorer for the 
Department of Agriculture, who sends 
Ibis picture, says of the variety, botani¬ 
c-ally Amygdalus Davidiana: 
A very vigorously growing form of the 
wild peach found in the well-trampled 
courtyard of a Chinese inn at Peking. It 
is said to be a hybrid. The trunk, five 
feet above the ground, measures 5 feet 
<1 inches in curcumference. The Chinese 
name is “Mau tail shu,” meaning “Hairy 
peach tree.” This very vigorous growth 
under decidedly adverse conditions shows 
the resistance of the species, and indicates 
a wider range of usefulness for stock pur¬ 
poses than had been suspected. 
Mr. Meyer has sent the Department 
1.500 pounds of these peach stones, with 
this comment: 
As there is a great deal of variation 
among these seeds, they may be graded 
according to size, the larger ones to be 
used as stocks for vigorously growing 
stone fruits, like peaches, apricots, cer¬ 
tain plums, etc., while the smaller ones 
may be used as stocks for small or slow- 
growing stone fruits, such as bush-cher- 
Suggestions About Shrub*. 
Can you print suggestions on the cul¬ 
ture and care of shrubs in general, which 
will be helpful to their best development 
in the hands of an amateur? Is there 
any book on shrubs, or do most shrubs 
take care of themselves when finally es¬ 
tablished? Can a person produce < more 
flowers by any system of feeding? 
Boston, Mass. G. A. n. 
The two points that have most to do 
with the beauty and thrift of shrubs are 
planting and pruning. The ground should 
be prepared for them in advance, giving it 
as good culture as a cornfield, or, in the 
case of a single shrub, digging a hole that 
will insure good drainage, and filling with 
well pulverized soil. Unfermented ma¬ 
nure or fertilizers should never come in 
contact with the roots of shrubs or trees. 
As the roots receive some injury when 
the shrub is lifted, the top should be cut 
back in proportion when it is set. Plant 
with care, working fine soil well in 
among the roots, firm the soil well, and 
tin'll leave the top two or three inches 
loose for a mulch. A light mulch of old 
manure or other litter is an advantage, 
especially with conifers, but a heavy 
mulch is undesirable, as it is likely to 
cause roots to start too near the sur¬ 
face. A mulch of well-rotted manure 
spread around shrubs in the Fall, the 
remains lightly raked into the soil in 
ries, sand-cherries, dwarf plums, almonds, 
etc. A goodly portion of these seeds 
should also be devoted to testing against 
various diseases our stone fruits are suf¬ 
fering from, with the object of finding 
whether they will be less susceptible to 
such diseases when grafted on this re¬ 
markably healthy wild peach. 
Chinese Grafted Chrysanthemums. 
Bulletin 92 of the Office of Foreign 
Seed and Plant Introduction reports jon 
a species of Artemisia (wormwood) from 
Peking, China, which is thus described: 
A biennial wormwood, occurring as a 
weed on all sorts oc dry, waste places. 
The Chinese utilize this plant as a stock 
to graft Chrysanthemums upon, and claim 
that “mums” thus grafted are earlier, 
need less water and no manure, are more 
easily lifted and transplanted, and in gen¬ 
eral require far less care than when on 
their own roots. To obtain the best re¬ 
sults the Chinese sow the seed in late 
Summer, in well-drained beds. The seeds 
germinate quickly, but the little plants 
make but very small growth during the 
Autumn and Winter. When Spring is 
there, however, they develop with great 
vigor, and in .Tune they have well-formed 
stems. Now the Chinese cut off the main 
stem an inch or so from the ground and 
graft a Chrysanthemum scion upon it by 
the ordinary cleft-graft method; no wax 
is used, but only a small strip of fiber, 
while the plants are shaded during the 
first days. The stock and the scion soon 
unite and continue to grow vigorously. 
< hi very strongly developed specimens of 
stock the main branches are often used to 
insert on every one a different variety of 
Chrysanthemum or to train a beautiful 
“standard” tree of it. and some of such 
specimens are fully as good as the plants 
seen at home exhibitions of “mums.” The 
above described method of grafting Chrys¬ 
anthemums might prove to be valuable for 
the sections of the United States where 
the Summers are somewhat too short or 
tlie nights too cool to rear the plants suc¬ 
cessfully out of doors, as, for instance, in 
the more elevated parts of the Rocky 
Mountain States. Care has to be taken 
in watering the plants sparingly when 
lifted and planted in flower pots. 
Spring, is usually all the fertilizing need¬ 
ed. unless in a very sterile place. 
A general rule for pruning shrubs is that 
early Spring bloomers be trimmed as soon 
as flowering is over, while those that bloom 
later should be pruned in Fall or late 
Winter. We often see Forsythias and early 
Spineas neatly trimmed in Spring, the 
result being that most of the flowering 
wood is cut away. The flower-buds on 
early-blooming shrubs are formed the 
year before; those flowering in Summer 
or Autumn bloom on the current year’s 
wood, hence the distinction. 
A useful book, giving much informa¬ 
tion about shrubs and 'outdoor planting 
in general is “Landscape Gardening as 
Applied to Home Decoration,” by S. T. 
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