THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
D91 
RURALISMS 
Naming a Cherry. 
I want to toll you of a little experience 
I have had recently in trying to find out 
the name of a cherry. Eleven years ago 
we set out a few trees on our place in the 
city and one of them proved to be the 
finest cherry I have ever seen, and every 
one who has seen or tasted them say. the 
same. They are a very large, almost 
black cherry, good annual cropper, tree a 
beauty, thick, heavy, glossy foliage, and 
the best part of it, the fruit does not rot. 
With all our wet, muggy, hot weather 
they have simply refused to go down and 
today. July 20, you could pick a few good 
ones and we have been nibbling them for 
four weeks. Possibly this looks fishy, 
but a friend of ours in the hospital went 
there four weeks ago yesterday, and we 
took her some beautiful fruit from this 
tree the first week she was there, so we 
are sure we are not mistaken about the 
length of time they have been fit to eat. 
Well, we lost the list of our trees, and 
so we sent samples to State Farm, Gen¬ 
eva. Cornell University and the Agricul¬ 
tural Department, Washington ; now 
'he replies are in from all of them and 
Washington calls them the “Bing,” Cor¬ 
nell calls them “Windsor.” and State 
Farm calls them “Schmidt.” Who shall 
decide when doctors disagree? Say. are 
the three names all synonymous? It 
amused me, and yet I would really like 
to know what the cherry is. We think 
it is the best for eating out of hand or 
for dessert uses we have ever seen. 
Thick solid meat, rich and juicy, with 
just acid enough to take away any ten¬ 
dency to a sweet sidkty taste, small 
stone and best of all large size. C. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Gum on Peach Trees. 
What ails my peach trees? On several 
of them the sap forms in gum balls out¬ 
side at the joints, and along the limbs, 
and the trees appear to be dying. 
New Jersey. , M. N. G. 
The exudation of gum may take place 
upon peach trees from a variety of 
causes, but in most instances in this 
State it is due to the attacks of the bark 
beetle and since you state that your trees 
appear to be dying I think that this in¬ 
sect is the cause of the gumming. How¬ 
ever, the bark beetle does not attack 
peach trees severely unless they have been 
greatly injured or checked by some factor 
such as Winter injury, borers or peach 
yellows. If you will make an examina¬ 
tion below the spots of gum on your 
trees you can determine whether there is 
a small black beetle in the bark. If so, 
you may know that it is the so-called 
“bark beetle.” I would suggest that you 
dig tin* soil away from the trees and ex¬ 
amine the bark at and just below the sur¬ 
face of the soil. I think you will find it 
greatly injured by borers, or spongy and 
decaying due to Winter injury. Peach 
trees that are badly attacked by the 1 bark 
beetle are generally in such a weakened 
condition that they are not likely to re¬ 
cover from any treatment that might be 
applied. If they are only slightly in¬ 
jured at the base, and if bark beetles are 
i resent you may be able to save the trees 
by cutting them back severely next Win¬ 
ter. To prevent injury to the trees 'n 
Winter the soil should be well mounded up 
about the trunks just before freezing 
weather occurs. m. a. blake. 
New Jersey Ex. Station. 
Propagating Roses and Shrubs. 
Florists and nurserymen propagate 
roses, grapes, currants and other shrubs 
by cuttings. Will you tell when and 
how to do it? E. it. T. 
Glastonbury, Conn. 
Can you tell me how and when to bud 
a wild rose so as to have a high stem and 
a bushy top? Can I insert three or four 
buds about three feet from the ground? 
These bushes are grown in the old coun¬ 
tries. but have never seen any in this 
country. u. t,. p. 
Northboro, Mass. 
I have seen roses budded, but I think if 
the person wishes a tree rose it would be 
much better to graft than to bud. They 
generally use Manetti stock to bud on. 
and secure the bud from rose they wish to 
bud with. If you want a Jacqueminot 
rose budded on Manetti secure a good live 
bud trom a Jacqueminot. You must have 
stock to bud on and a rose eye or bud to 
insert in the bark of the Manetti stock. 
Then select your bud. make a straight cut 
in bark of Manetti by taking hold of 
stock and pulling up say an inch. Then 
make a cross cut in bark. This will 
looseu bark at upper end of cut, permit¬ 
ting you to insert bud under bark, allow¬ 
ing the eye to protrude from interstice. 
Then take raffia and bind below and above 
the bud. Do not cover bud. Use any bud 
or buds that you may wish as to variety 
on the three-foot stem or tree roses, but 
on such “tree roses” they generally graft 
b.v using a tongued graft or a wedge 
graft. With wedge graft the branch rs 
shaped V-shape, then it is waxed around, 
cut and tied securely. The tongued graft 
is made by cutting the scion a slanting 
cut, and then split it about an inch, doing 
the same with stock to be grafted. This, 
of course, must be done on top of stock 
to be grafted by cutting top off, permit¬ 
ting you to make the slanting cut, making 
a tongue in the scion and also the three- 
foot stock. 
Currants are generally propagated 
from hard-wood cuttings in Fall and 
planted in open ground or made in Win¬ 
ter. hard wood put in sand and planted 
in Spring; they can be made from green 
wood rooted in sand. They can Id so bo 
layered by taking the branches and nick¬ 
ing the wood to allow sap to flow, then 
pin them down in the earth. Roses can 
be rooted very successfully in hotbeds or 
frames in August by placng manure 
about one foot deep and covered with four 
to five inches of sand. The cutting must 
be shaded with muslin, say four to fiv<> 
feet above sash, to allow free circulation 
of air over sash. Tree roses are grafted 
on dog-rose, and this stock must be in 
proper condition as to sap, etc., to insure 
results, so also with graft or scion. 
Pennsylvania. j. b. 
Value of a Backyard Tree. 
On page 892 appears an article on the 
value of an apple tree for 25 years. I 
have a Montmorency cherry tree planted 
12 years ago, from which I picked last 
week 297 pounds of cherries, receiving 
six cents per pound, or $17.02 for them. 
Had I made two pickings of a week apart 
this tree would have netted $20 or more. 
This tree has never failed to bear a full 
crop for the last seven years, of which no 
account has been kept, and $50 would not 
buy this little tree. 
The same year I planted a Burbank 
plum tree that had 224 quarts of choice 
plums last year, bringing seven cents, or 
$15.08, and this same tree will have as 
many or more this year. This tree has a 
spread of 20 feet and barely 10 feet high, 
is planted in the poultry yard, hence no 
ground rent, and bears the interest of 
$800. I have no bearing apple trees, but 
should think a tree well cared for for 12 
to 15 years would be worth at least $500 
to me. It pays to plant trees if only in 
the back yard or city lot. and give them 
the best of care, and it pays to subscribe 
for The It. N.Y. r. a. knisely. 
Pennsylvania. 
Propagating Tomatoes and Cabbage. 
What is the method used for rooting 
tomatoes, cabbage and other plants? 
Wolf boro, N. II. g. i*. g. 
Cabbage is never propagated from cut¬ 
tings. but may be rooted (in cases of the 
original roots being destroyed by mag¬ 
gots) by drawing the soil up around the 
stem slightly and keeping well supplied 
with water. By this treatment a new 
root system will be formed in about two 
weeks. Tomatoes may be rooted from 
cuttings kept in moist sand in a warm 
shady place, or may be propagated by 
laying the plant down and covering a 
small section of the branch some distance 
back of the terminal with a couple of 
inches of soil, using a forked stick over 
the branch to hold it in place. The prop¬ 
agation of plants by layerage and cut¬ 
tings is too large a question to cover in an 
article. The Nursery Book, by Prof. I,. 
II. Bailey, will be found a great aid in 
the propagation of all kinds of plants. K. 
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