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Grafting Walnuts. 
I HAVE several Japan walnut trees 
planted the Spring of 1912, in fine 
thrifty condition. Several of them 
bore a few nuts last year, and I do not 
like them much: they are small size in 
nut and kernel. Can I graft English wal¬ 
nuts on them? If so, is it done in the 
same way and time as grafting apples, 
cherries, etc., or would it be all right or 
better to wait until August and bud 
them. I had good success in budding 
other fruit trees; never had much exper¬ 
ience in grafting. R. a. k. 
Yoe, Pa. 
The Japanese walnuts are confused 
and confusing. Juglans Sieboldiana is a 
handsome tree that bears a nut that is 
practically worthless, except for squirrels. 
J. cordiformis is a similar tree that bears 
a nut esteemed in Japan and by good 
judges here. These trees evidently cross 
freely, for there are all shapes of nuts 
between the two. But they evidently also 
cross freely with the butternut, so that 
the man who plants Japanese walnut 
trees, or even the nuts, as in a case re¬ 
cently reported in these columns, may 
raise nuts that are almost exactly like 
butternuts. It seems to be impossible 
similar to rust of apple. With this the 
fruits will be affected in Summer. This 
rests over Winter on the red cedar in 
what is known as the cedar apple. In 
Spring these soften and then the spores 
are given off, are carried to the quince 
again and reproduce. When the long 
mucilaginous appendages are seen on the 
cedar, the quinces should be sprayed with 
Bordeaux mixture. It would be well to 
repeat these sprayings once in 10 days 
for at least three times. All the ex¬ 
pansions of limb should be cut away and 
burned as another precaution. There 
may also be associated with this rust, 
twig blight, in which case the cutting 
back beyond all dead portions as be¬ 
fore stated will aid in control of both 
troubles. All cedars bearing these Win¬ 
ter spores, or all red cedars nearby 
should be destroyed as further preven¬ 
tives. a. T. S. 
August Giant and Muscatine Grapes. 
I WOULD like to know where the Au¬ 
gust Giant grape can be obtained; I 
do not find it in catalogues. 2. Does 
the name Muscadine apply to the same 
variety of grape as Muscatine or Scup¬ 
per non g? E. P. 
Troutdale, Ore. 
1. The August Giant grape while not 
listed by nurserymen generally can be ob- 
PE-TSAI OR CHINESE 
CABBAGE AFTER FIRST FROST IN 
MARYLAND. 
in this country to be sure of getting the 
true Cordiformis, which is the only Jap¬ 
anese walnut worth growing for the nut. 
But these trees make good stocks for the 
English walnut. They may be top-worked 
by the method described in the issue of 
this paper for Dec. 12 for grafting the 
hickory. They may be also budded in 
Summer by the patch method, which is 
easy when you know how. Both these 
methods will be described later. 
AV. C. DEMING. 
Pe-tsai, or Chinese Cabbage. 
E have referred to this cabbage a 
number of time and in the cut above 
reproduced from the annual list of the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Intro¬ 
duction, wo show a patch of pe-tsai after 
a first frost in Maryland. The variety, 
or more properly strain, is one from 
Tientsin, which forms long heads, and 
has little cabbage odor when cooked. 
This is a Fall cabbage, not suitable for 
Spring planting, as it goes to seed. It 
should be sown in rows in July; begin 
heavy manuring when four inches high. 
Harvest after first light frost. The long 
cylindrical heads are not \ T ery firm ; if all 
green leaf tips are cut off it can be cooked 
without penetrating cabbage odor. 
Quince Rust. 
HERE is a fungus growth on the 
twigs of my quinces, after the quince 
bushes are well leaved out. On close 
'xamination some of the twigs seem to 
nlarge in sections. The enlargements 
become more prominent as time goes on ; 
when they apparently cease growing, the 
;pores are freed and generally the twig 
f rom the point of attack dies. What can 
ve do to prevent the occurrence next year? 
Guilford, Conn. T. J. B. 
You probably have quince rust (Gym- 
uosporangium clavipes), which is very 
tained from some few of them by per¬ 
sonal inquiry. 2. The variety of grapes 
grown in the North with the term Mus¬ 
cadine annexed, does not belong to the 
same species as does the Scuppernong of 
the South, though both are termed fox 
grapes, the one Northern, the other South¬ 
ern, the specific name of the Northern be¬ 
ing Labrusea, while that of the Southern 
is the Muscadine. F. E. o. 
Lime-Sulphur for Tree Wash. 
N page 0, J. B. asks about using 
lime-sulphur wash on trees. My ex¬ 
perience in using lime-sulphur is that if 
the commercial form is used and diluted 
as used for spraying for San Jose scale, 
it washes off in a short time. If home- 
boiled lime-sulphur is used, and after 
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working of it. In a young orchard last 
Winter, I followed a rabbit track 
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years old—and tree after tree the tracks 
indicated that the rabbit had come up to 
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Harrisburg has used it in his orchard 
with no deleterious results. In another 
orchard in which the trees were not given 
as good cultivation and the trees of which 
had not made as much growth, the white 
lead seemed to cause the trees to become 
hide-bound. I believe it is not safe to 
use it. r. T. B. 
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