1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1IUO 
VAN DEMAN’S FRUIT NOTES. 
Dying Apple Trees. 
W ILL you toll me what ails my apple 
trees? They are old Bellflower 
trees; the leaves turn yellow and 
drop off and the limbs seem to be dead. 
I have sawed a lot of limbs out but more 
are going the same way. l. f. 
Eastport, Me. 
There might be one or more of many 
troubles affecting these apple trees. It 
may be old age and starvation. There 
may be canker on the branches or borers 
at the base of the trunks. It would be a 
mere guess to say what is the real cause 
of the trouble. The surest way to know 
is to look over the trees carefully for 
borers and canker and if there are any 
of the former there, dig them out at once. 
If there are diseased places on the branch¬ 
es, cut out sections and send to the ex¬ 
periment station at Orono for examin¬ 
ation by the experts there. It will cost 
nothing but the mailing charges. There 
is far too little use made of these ad¬ 
vantages that are afforded by the experi¬ 
ment stations. 
Walnut Blight. 
I HAVE charge of English walnut grove 
of 11 acres, IS years old. It has 
borne a few nuts. Trees are affected 
with some kind of blight, leaves turning 
yellow and edges curling, and about this 
time of year dropping and leaving about 
one to two feet of dead wood. I would 
like some information in regard to treat¬ 
ment. Situated one-lialf mile from Lake 
Erie, gravel soil and very fertile, culti¬ 
vated up to August 1. w. M. j. 
North East, Pa. 
Walnut blight is a disease similar to 
pear blight and has a distinct bacterial 
germ that is the cause. It is very pre¬ 
valent in many of the walnut orchards of 
California and has done a great deal of 
damage, not only to the foliage and young 
wood, but to the nuts. There is great 
difficulty in stopping this disease. Spray¬ 
ing in the most thorough manner has 
proved about useless in the California or¬ 
chards. Cutting out every sign of it as 
soon as seen is the way to fight the dis¬ 
ease. It may be that it is not blight in 
this case, but the description is quite 
clear to me of the truth of its presence. 
I would send specimens to the State Ex¬ 
periment Station and to the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture for examination. 
Fall Pruning of Peaches. 
I HAVE a lot of peach trees planted in 
the Spring of 1012. They have made 
a fine growth this Summer, and are in 
a very thrifty condition. I have been ad¬ 
vised to cut back this year’s growth some¬ 
what to encourage fruit buds. Would it 
be good practive, and would September 
be the proper time? j. K. 
Detroit, Mich. 
It is very likely that some cutting back 
of these peach trees would be a benefit to 
them but this should not be done until 
next Spring after all the severe freezing 
is over. To cut them back or prune them 
in any way this Fall would be wrong. It 
is too late to have any effect whatever in 
the formation of fruit buds, for they were 
set in the early part of the Summer, and 
are now all ready to develop next Spring 
into bloom. They are always on the new 
growth, and are usually very abundant on 
trees three years from time of planting. 
It will be well to cut back the branches 
that are very strong and show a tendency 
to make the trees too tall and spreading 
for convenient gathering of the fruit. 
Some of the branches may need to be 
taken out entirely to prevent too dense a 
growth. An evenly balanced and rather 
compact head open enough for good light 
on all parts of it is the ideal, in my opinion. 
Do not remove the small interior branches 
for they will bear good fruit. Don’t 
prune to clean shanky main branches. 
Barren Plum Trees. 
1 IIAVE about 50 Burbank plum trees 
that do not bear. Most of them are in 
lienyards. They are eight years old 
and have never borne a full crop. They 
are all handsome spreading trees, and I 
keep them sprayed and looking fine. They 
are loaded with masses of fruit buds 
every Winter, but drop off in the Spring. 
The other plums, such as Red June and 
Abundance, that are planted beside them, 
bear very heavily. Is there anything I 
can do to make them bear? I have never 
pruned them much. They grow so hand¬ 
some they don’t seem to need it. 
Billerica, Mass. F. s. M. 
It is not a common failing of the Bur¬ 
bank plum to be unproductive from fail¬ 
ing to set its fruit or dropping it after¬ 
wards, except in cases where rot is very 
bad. The flowers are generally considered 
self-fertile. It is possible that the in¬ 
quirer is mistaken in the trees that he 
has, and that they are some other va¬ 
riety than Burbank. It is quite easy to 
distinguish the trees of the Burbank plum 
from about all others that I know because 
of the peculiar spreading habit. The 
branches are very vigorous and grow hor¬ 
izontally to a considerable degree, making 
a tree of distinct shape. Most of the trees 
of the Japanese species are quite up¬ 
right in habit and some of them are re¬ 
markably so. I know of nothing to ad¬ 
vise for making these trees productive un¬ 
less it is to top-graft them to some va¬ 
riety of the same class that is known to 
bear well in that region. 
II. E. VAN DEMAN. 
THE WAR AND SEEDS AND BULBS. 
I T may seem strange at this time to 
learn that even one commodity is not 
going up on account of the existing 
chaos in Europe, but on the contrary has 
taken a big drop in price, about 25%. 
Holland produces a large share of the 
Winter flowering bulbs, tulips, hyacinths, 
Narcissi, etc., and the crop is now har¬ 
vested and ready for export. The warring 
countries of Europe are looked to by Hol¬ 
land to consume two-thirds at least of the 
annual output, and this market is now 
closed. United States takes one-sixth 
and other countries one-sixth. Holland 
must now look to us and the other neutral 
countries to care for the two-thirds now 
in her warerooms. The effect of this was 
shown last week in a florist trade paper 
where prices on all such bulbs were 
quoted from 25% to 50% below ordinary 
rates—if deliveries can be made, which 
remains to be seen. Florists hope the 
bulbs will come through all right, as it 
will work something of a hardship on 
them not to have this staple flowering 
article for Winter sales, as potted, bloom¬ 
ing bulbs are one of the good sources of 
income to them in the Winter and Spring 
months. 
Seed harvests of European countries 
either ripe or nearly so. Most of the 
great seed producing countries are those 
now at war, Germany being one of the 
greatest, what is known as the Quedlin- 
burg and Erfurt districts producing al¬ 
most unbelievable quantities of seed an¬ 
nually. Only women, children and men 
above 45 years : re left to harvest, sort, 
pack and ship this crop, and when ready 
it is doubtful if it can be gotten out of 
the country. 
The United States is said to produce 
about $1,500,000 of the annual consump¬ 
tion of some $1S,000,000 worth of seed, 
the balance coming from abroad, and some 
$15,000,000 from the countries now closed 
to commerce. If the war should continue 
four months and over, the seed proposi¬ 
tion for farmer and gardener would as¬ 
sume a very serious aspect, not only on 
account of price, but extreme scarcity. 
Some of the kinds coming from Europe 
in large amounts are beet, carrot, cucum¬ 
ber. cabbage, cauliflower, chard, mangel 
and flower seeds, with praetieallv every¬ 
thing else in more or less large amounts. 
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