TShe RURAL N E W-V O R K E R 
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RURALISMS 
Planting Fall Bulbs 
Pkeparixg for Spuixg. —October is a 
desirable time for planting Spring flower¬ 
ing bulbs, both in pots and in the open 
border. While the trade in Dutch bulbs 
is vei'y seriously interrupted by war con¬ 
ditions, American dealers are able to sup¬ 
ply many varieties still, and there is an 
organized effort to produce bulbs grown 
in America, w’hich may in time become a 
great industry. The ease with which 
these bulbs are grown, their beautiful 
display early in the season, and their per¬ 
manence, make them exactly suited to a 
farm garden. 
TirE Outdoor Border. —Bulbs are very 
often used to fill a place occupied by ten¬ 
der bedding plants late in the season; 
they are also desirable along the edges of 
shrubbery, and in open spaces among 
hardy herbaceous plants. They are easily 
satisfied as to soil, but their situation 
should be well drained, and where there 
will not be a late-melting sheet of ice 
over them in Winter. A longer succession 
of bloom is secured by planting them in 
different locations; some in a sheltered 
place with a southern exposui'e, where 
they will be very early ; others ^yhere the 
soil warms more slowly. Almost every 
Spring we have early bulbs in bloom at 
the time of the last snowfall, such vari¬ 
eties as hyacinths. Crocuses, Siberian 
squills and glory-of-the-snow (Chiono- 
doxa). 
Varieties. —^Tulips and hyacinths will 
make the greatest show wherever the 
bulbs are to be removed for other plants; 
Narcissi may be regarded as permanent 
tenants, while Crocuses, squills, Chiono- 
doxas, grape hyacinths and dog-tooth vio¬ 
lets are small bulbs to be tucked in odd 
corners where desired. Where expense is 
an object, tulips will be found cheap and 
showy; there are plenty of good old 
sorts moderately priced. The mixed bulbs, 
which are the cheapest, are excellent 
where they are to be dotted about, but 
solid beds are most attractive where 
known named varieties are used, unlei3S 
one desires the mixed effect. Hyacinths 
are higher in price, as a rule, than tulips. 
The little Roman hyacinths are not suit- 
abls for outdoor planting in the North. 
Pr.AXTixG Tui.irs.—Bulbs should not 
I)e planted in soil sticky from recent rain. 
Set early tulips five inches deep, and the 
same distance apart. The large late flow¬ 
ering or May tulips, which are very 
showy, need more room and should be set 
six inches deep and the same distance 
apart. No fresh manure should be used 
near the bulbs. When the ground be¬ 
comes frozen to the depth of two or three 
inches it may have a light covering of 
marsh hay, shredded cornstalks or ever¬ 
green boughs. The mulch much be re¬ 
moved in early Spring, as soon as growth 
shows, but if there is a hard freeze fol¬ 
lowed by snow or rain the plants must 
be covered again or the bud may be de¬ 
stroyed. Uncovered hyacinths are often 
injured in this way, in an early spot. On 
large places, or public parks, it is a com¬ 
mon plan to lift the soil from a tulip bed 
to the proper depth for planting, set the 
bulbs the right distance apart on this un¬ 
covered floor, and then return the soil, 
spreading it over the bulbs. 
Other Bulbs. —Hyacinths are set six 
inches deep. • Narcissi vary according to 
size; the common rule is to cover them 
one and one-half times their own depth, 
measuring from the bottom .of the bulb to 
the begining of the “neck.” This puts 
most of them about six inches deep; the 
small ones are set four or five inches 
apart, the large ones six or eight inches. 
Crocuses are set two inches deep, and 
prefer a sunny situation. SquHls, though 
small, are deeply set, about five inches, 
and do well in partial shade. Snowdrops, 
grape hyacinths and glory-of-the-snow are 
covered three to four times the depth of 
the bulb. A common rule for bulb plant¬ 
ing is to set as soon as all the leaves are 
off the maples. 
Standard Sorts. — Among familiar 
tulips the following are excellent bedders: 
B>elle Alliance, scarlet; Chrysolora, pure 
yellow; Queen Victoria, white suffused 
blush; Couleiir Cardinal, crimson; Cot¬ 
tage Maid, carmine pink feathered white; 
Wouverman, claret purple. Good bedding 
hyacinths include LTnnocence, pure 
white; Queen of Blues, light blue; King 
of Blues, dark blue; Gertrude, carmine; 
King of the Belgians, bright red; I/Or¬ 
nament, flesh pink. Narcissi deserv'e a 
separate article, but if we were choosing 
a small selection of hardy sorts we should 
prefer the following: Boeticus, the old 
Poet’s Nai'ci.ssus; Emperor, the most 
beautiful of old trumpet sorts, deep yel¬ 
low; Emi)ress, yellow trumi)et, creamy 
perianth; Horsfieldii, yellow trumpet, 
paler perianth, chea]). hardy and beauti¬ 
ful; Sir Watkin, the Welsh daffodil, shal¬ 
low crown of deep yellow, paler perianth; 
Mrs. Langtry, chalice cup variety, broad 
white perianth, pale yellow cup. 
How SCALECIDE Was 
"Discovered’* 
As tlie Remedy for Canker and Collar Bligbt 
“Let me cut do’wn that tree, it’s not 
worth saving,” said our superintendent in 
looking at an eighteen-year-old apple tree in a 
newly acquired orchard. It is cankered two- 
thirds around the trunk and from the ground well 
up to the crotch,” he continued. 
“No,” we responded, ‘‘we’ll give it another 
chance. Next spring we will cut out the canker, 
disinfect and paint it. There are about four hun¬ 
dred other trees that need the same treatment.” 
But ‘‘next spring” we were busy planting a young 
orchard, and did not have the labor or time to cut 
out the canker, disinfect and paint the infected parts. 
It was summer when we got ready to treat colla 
blight and canker in a wholesale way. And then to 
our astonishment every canker and collar blight spot 
was healing up and new cambium forming around 
the diseased parts. 
One dormant or scale spray with “SCALECIDE' 
that spring had already done the work 
That was the discovery of ‘‘Scalecide” as the rem¬ 
edy for canker and collar blight. The illustrations 
to the right are from photographs taken four years later of the 
exact tree our superintendent wanted to cut down. There it 
stands today, a specimen of health and productivity, yielding 
six to eight barrels of high grade apples as its normal crop. 
Have you any valuable trees going as that tree was going? 
Don’t bother cutting out and painting. Use “Scalecide” as 
a dormant or scale spray, wetting thoroughly the cankered spots. 
Tyson Brothers, Flora Dale, Pa., have used “Scalecide” for 
fourteen years. They claim to lose less than one tree out of a 
*/iousan<f from collar blight and root rot in their 325 acres of 
orchards, yet the Pennsylvania Experiment Station states that 
two apple trees out of every hundred in Pennsylvania die an¬ 
nually from collar blight alone. Thousands of apple growers 
save money, save time and save their trees by using “Scale¬ 
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In the circle above la 
shown the tree four 
yean after our luper- 
intendent wanted to cut 
it down. To the left 
you will tee the trunk, 
freeof diteate, with new 
cambium rapidly grow¬ 
ing over. Thit tree was 
safer/and made prof¬ 
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