THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURALISMS 
Clematis Wilt. 
Something like a year and a half 
or two years ago I wrote you ask¬ 
ing for a cure for that mysterious Cle¬ 
matis disease, which I call “wilt,” for its 
first appearance is a wilted look at the 
top of the new growth which gradually 
goes lower down and the shoot finally 
dies, sometimes and often followed by the 
death of the root. You could give me 
no remedy. I have experimented since 
and have found air-slaked lime used free¬ 
ly in soil about roots and stem keeps them 
alive, though the leaves, shoots and flow¬ 
ers are stunted. L E. R. 
Champaign, Ill. 
Propagating Lilium Auratum. 
Will you tell me how to propagate 
Lilium auratum? l. E. B. 
Champaign, Ill. 
Lilium auratum is propagated by seed, 
by scales and by offsets. Growing from 
seed is very tedious; it does not usually 
germinate until the second Summer after 
planting, and grows rather deliberately. 
The offsets will be found under ground 
along the stems and down to the bulb; 
they are carefully separated and planted 
out in rows. They require clean culture, 
and make good bulbs in about three years. 
In growing from scales these are removed 
—the outside scales—from strong bulbs, 
and planted where they can be kept 
warm and moist. This is done under 
greenhouse conditions when the bulbs are 
fully ripe in the Fall or in Spring. 
Winter Protection for Roses. 
Is there any simple method of saving 
Tea roses that are planted in open 
ground, over the Winter in this latitude? 
The thermometer drops from 10 to 15 
deg. below zero at times, and with or¬ 
dinary covering of leaves or hay they 
would freeze. Would they live over Win¬ 
ter if taken up, ground shaken off roots 
and heeled in, in a tub or box in damp 
soil and kept in a cool cellar until 
Spring? They would be in the dark with 
no fire heat in the cellar, or could they 
be kept by covering root and branch, 
stripping off the leaves, in a box of sand 
or damp earth in the same manner? Not 
having greenhouse facilities I could not 
house a couple of hundred plants in a 
room in the dwelling but would like to 
save them for another year if there is 
any practical way for an amateur to do 
so. J. v. c. 
Sparkill, N. Y. 
The Tea roses are not very hardy, and 
would certainly need protection. The 
method of protection advised by Admiral 
Ward in the American Rose Society’s 
bulletin for 1013 is to heap up the earth 
of the beds in cones about the base of 
the plants. A coating of fairly rotted 
manure is then laid over the beds where 
the earth has been removed. This is 
done about the end of November. About 
a month later, after hard frost, when the 
field mice have selected quarters else¬ 
where, the beds are covered with 18 inch¬ 
es of leaves, held in place by sedge or 
other light material, not stones or boards. 
If the covering is put on too early, before 
hard freezing, there is much risk of dam¬ 
age by mice, which will take up Winter 
under this shelter. This protection car¬ 
ries Tea roses through the Winter on the 
eastern end of Long Island, and we 
should expect it to be entirely satisfac¬ 
tory with the inquirer. 
Lawn Dying Out. 
Last September I spaded and seeded 
my lawn, having first put on one inch of 
old rotten horse manure. The seed was 
a mixture of Blue grass, Red-top, etc. 
It grew beyond all expectations and I 
had to cut it twice last year. It con¬ 
tinued the same this Spring until latter 
part of June, when it began to die out 
in large spots, not even weeds growing 
on the barren spots. Last February I 
put on an extremely small amount of 
hen manure on one side, on other the 
straw litter; and let it leach out before 
removing. There was some lime in drop¬ 
ping, so it freed part of the ammonia. 
Tests show the barren spots acid. I 
thought I would figure out how much 
lime to add and put it on as lime water. 
What is your opinion? What do you 
recommend? M. A. A. 
Toledo, O. 
This appears very much like the work 
of grubs, which were no doubt in the 
old manure that was applied at the time 
the lawn was made. The hen manure 
when applied in moderate quantity would 
do no injury, neither would the hen ma¬ 
nure and lime combination, nor would a 
moderate amount of acid in the soil kill 
out the grass in this way, but grubs 
would be likely to do so, and if an exam¬ 
ination is made two inches under the 
surface, it will no doubt reveal the pres¬ 
ence of grubs in large numbers. Air- 
slaked lime applied in early Spring at the 
rate of one-half ton to the acre, will neu¬ 
tralize the acid in the soil, and be of 
considerable benefit to the grass, and to 
some extent discourage any grubs that 
may be present. K. 
Winter Protection for Raspberries. 
Several of our readers who live in the 
northern part of the country ask us how 
to carry raspberries safely through the 
Winter. The country is cold and consid¬ 
erable injury is frequently done to tender 
vines and shrubs. What can be done to 
carry Cuthbert raspberry vines through 
the Winter? The following reply repre¬ 
sents the experience of small fruit grow¬ 
ers in the northern part of New York. 
A hardy strain of this variety needs no 
Winter protection. Many people in the 
northern part of St. Lawrence County, 
New Y'ork, are growing the Cuthbert 
raspberry without Winter protection. 
Most of them make as much as possible 
of the heavy snows which we often have. 
If the vines are not trimmed out until 
Spring the old wood and the new wool 
together will catch and hold a good deal 
of the snow, and if the canes have been 
cut back during August or early in Sep¬ 
tember the wood will be well hardened 
before Winter and will thus be in condi¬ 
tion to withstand the severe cold of the 
North. If the "Snow is not generally 
heavy where the inquirer lives I would 
suggest that he take pains to fill in snow 
about the rows of canes when the first op¬ 
portunity affords, and then have ready 
some boughs of spruce or hemlock, and 
lay these along the rows after the snow 
has been well piled around the canes. Na¬ 
ture’s method of protection is usually the 
best, but sometimes the snow can be held 
in place more uniformly and later into 
the Spring by using the evergreen boughs. 
C. S. PIIELPS. 
Lima Beans in Orchard. 
Is it practical or profitable to grow 
from one to five acres of bush Lima beans 
in a young orchard? My soil is a sandy 
loam, and I am six miles from this town 
of 12,000 people, where it is likely I must 
find my market. What labor-saving de¬ 
vices may be employed to render, if pos¬ 
sible, the growing of several acres of 
Lima beans in an orchard profitable? If 
not Lima beans, then what is the best and 
most profitable pea or bean to be grown 
for seed in a young orchard? J. B. u. 
Bowling Green, Ivy. 
Bush beans may be grown with a rea¬ 
sonable assurance of profit in a peach 
orchard during the first two years of its 
development, or in an apple orchard dur¬ 
ing the first eight to 10 years. The beans 
may be drilled in with a corn planter pro¬ 
vided the proper plates are used in the 
hopper. Use from 400 to 700 pounds fer¬ 
tilizer of a 3-9-2 formula. Fordhook is 
the standard variety. The plants may be 
thinned out to stand at least 10 inches 
apart in the rows, which should be at 
least three feet apart. I)o not plant until 
danger of frost is past. Frequent tillage 
is essential, and the sooner properly filled 
pods are removed from the vines the 
larger the ultimate yield will be. Any 
kind of peas or beans may be grown for 
seed, but you would better contract with 
a seedsman to take your product when 
grown. In that case he may be glad to 
furnish the seed stock at reduced prices, 
so that he may be sure he is getting stock 
true to name and free from inherent dis¬ 
eases, such as blight and anthracnose. 
R. C. I). 
“Well, Tommy, are you a good boy all 
the time?” asked the visitor. “Not me.” 
“And why not?" “’Cause I don’t want 
to die young,” replied Tommy.—Houston 
Post. 
“I can’t find any old clothes to put on 
the scarecrow,” said Farmer Corntossel. 
“You might use some of the fancy duds 
our boy Josh brought home from the 
city.” suggested his wife. “I’m tryin’ 
tryin’ to scare the crows; I’m not tryin’ 
to make ’em laugh.”—Credit Lost. 
Still Better Tires 
Sizes 30 x 3V2 and 30 x 3 
Small Goodyear Tires Enlarged 20% 
Lower Prices, Too 
For a Million Users 
Goodyear started this year—on February 1—with 
another big price reduction. It was our third in two 
years, totaling 45 per cent. 
This last reduction saves Goodyear users about 
$5,000,000 this year. Thus, as output multiplies, we 
give you more for your money. For years Good- 
years have been the largest-selling tires in the world. 
Now a New Design 
But we also found in the past year a new design 
which adds endurance to small-size tires. So we 
changed every mold for sizes 30x3 and 30x3/4. 
The cost was $63,000. 
In making this change we added 20 per cent to 
the air capacity. A larger-size tire means extra 
mileage, you know. 
And we added 30 per cent to the rubber in the 
side walls, just above the bead. That’s to combat as 
never before a common cause of tire ruin—the breaks 
near the rim-top due to constant flexing and chafing. 
These additions will cost us $317,000, Just on 
this year’s small-tire output. 
At least a million cars now use these small-size 
tires. We want those users to find in Goodyears 
the greatest value known in Tiredom. 
They h ave found it for years, as shown by Good¬ 
year’s place. No other tire ever won so many users. 
We h ave given them, even in size 30x3, a sturdy 
four-ply tire. And our anti-skid tread—the Good* 
year All-Weather—h as always been double-thick. 
Now we add 20 per cent to the air capacity. 
We add 30 per cent to the side-wall strength. So this 
year, despite lower prices, you are getting tires that 
are much better. 
Compare these new Goodyears with other small- 
size tires—even with last year’s Goodyears. See for 
yourself the extra mileage they give you. It is bound 
to excel, on the average, any previous records on 
tires of like rated size. 
Every neighborhood has its Goodyear dealer with 
your size in stock, and who renders full Goodyear 
service. For your own sake find him out. 
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AKRON, OHIO 
Makers of Goodyear “Tire Saver” Accessories 
Also Goodyear “Wing” Carriage Tires and Other Types 
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