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RURALISMS 
Propagating Privet 
What is the best way to start to grow 
a hedge for fence around a lot? Can it 
be started by slips or cuttings, or would 
roots be better? j. 8 8. 
Mansfield, O. 
California privet is almost entirely 
propagated from hardw'ood cuttings. 
These cuttings are made eight or nine 
Inches long from matured wood of the 
previous years’ growth, generally during 
the latter half of Winter. They are tied 
in bundles of 100 with tarred rope or 
willow twigs, and buried in the open 
ground, or in damp sand or sawdust in 
boxes in a cool cellar until April or May, 
when they are planted out. They may 
be planted where the hedge is to stand, 
but, as some fail to grow, it is better to 
plant the cuttings in nursery rows and 
cultivate them thus for a year or two. 
They are usually planted about four 
Inches apart in the row, inserting them 
into the soil so that but two or three 
of the top buds are exposed. If it is 
Intended to plant them to hedge at one 
year old, the rows may be as close as 
two feet apart, but if they are to be cul¬ 
tivated two years in the nursery, the 
rows should be about three feet apart. A 
good way to plant the cuttings is to 
stretch a line and with a garden spade 
open a narrow trench along the line, into 
which insert the cuttings the proper 
depth, and pack the soil firmly on each 
side of the row with the feet, following 
with the steel rake to level and smooth 
the soil around the cuttings. 
Amur privet' will not strike readily 
from hardwood cutting, and is therefore 
mostly propagated from soft-wood cutting 
under glass in the cold frame during 
July or early August. The cuttings are 
made five or six inches long, and then 
planted in rows in sand in the frame 
about three inches apart in the row, and 
the rows six or eight inches apart. The 
sand should be not less than four inches 
deep, and the cuttings should be inserted 
the depth of the sand. As each section 
is filled the cuttings should have a good 
soaking, the sash placed over them and 
heavily whitewashed. Keep the sash 
down until the cuttings strike root, when 
air should be given gradually, and finally 
after a week or ten days, the sash should 
be removed entirely. The cuttings will 
require sprinkling a couple of times a day 
until they are rooted, after which a good 
soaking once or twice a week will be 
sufficient. The young plants are allowed 
to remain in the frame until the follow¬ 
ing Spring, when they are planted in nur¬ 
sery rows in the open ground. California 
privet may be propagated from soft-wood 
cuttings in the same way. K. 
Notes From a Maryland Garden 
r.ast Fall my Cannas were buried as 
usual, but both the Cannas and the Dah¬ 
lias buried in the garden Avere destroyed, 
the Cannas entirely and most of the 
Dahlias. And yet the odd thing about 
them was that some seedling Cannas 
that I did not consider worth keeping, 
and hence left to their fate, are now the 
most massive plants in the garden. And 
this while the soil froze deeper than I 
have ever known here. Why carefully 
covered and protected rhizomes should 
perish and those left unprotected live is 
a puzzle. , , . , ^ 
The pe-tsai (I hoi>e that is the right 
name), the Chinese cabbage, about gave 
up the ghost in the heat and drought, and 
I thought the plants were too far gone to 
amount to anything. But since the rains 
came they have started and grown like 
the green bay tree, and are now fine, large 
plants. We have been stripping the leaf 
midrib and stalk, and using these like 
celery, and boiling the remainder of the 
leaf. Both are good. AVe have also been 
boiling the big Chinese radishes. They 
resemble turnips, but to my taste are 
rather too strong. Raw they do fairly 
well, though personally I rarely eat any 
iTRdislics* 
The August sowing of spinach was a 
long time getting above ground, but is 
now strong and ready for the kitchen. 
The first of October the last sowing of 
spinach will be made. This for plants to 
winter over for Spring cutting. I do 
not sow in Spring unless the Fall-sown 
is killed, and it was not all killed even 
last Winter, for I find that it lasts just as 
long from the Fall sowing as from the 
Spring, both bolting the bloom as soon 
as the weather gets A\ arm. 
The pansy seedlings have been potted 
in 214 -inch pots and will be transferred, 
some to a frame for early blooming and 
some set in the beds outside. Of course^ 
I could have sown them outside, hut 1 
am always more sure of my plants from 
sowing in flats in the shaded greenhouse 
with full ventilation day and night. With 
plants well established in small pots, 
they can be put in tTie frame here any 
time up to December. 
Phlox Drummondii sow'n now will win¬ 
ter all right and give earlier and better 
bloom than that sown in Spring. 
The canning crop of tomatoes holds out 
well, and the crop is far larger than was 
expected when the plants seemed to be 
concluding that life was hardly worth 
living. The growers Avill get very good 
returns from the crop. 
The dry weather prevented the planting 
of the usual area in late Irish potatoes, 
’.rhose who did plant are going to reap a 
good price for their spuds. The_ sweet 
potato crop is simply tremendous in area 
and yield, and the prices have been very 
satisfactory to growers. The storage 
houses are all ready for the final digging, 
but the question seems to be the doubt 
about the getting of coal. If coal cannot 
be had in time the crop Avill be largely 
rushed to market. In fact, when the 
great shrinkage in curing and storing is 
considered, it takes a large price in the 
Spring to equal a moderate one in the 
Fall. 
Tulips, Narcissi and hyacinths are in 
the ground Avith the exception of the 
Roman hyacinths and the Paper AATiite 
Narcissi. These I plant about the first 
of December, when the soil is cold enough 
to keep them dormant. Planted now they 
will grow at once and get injured by the 
later cold, and hence are considered 
tender. , 
Strawberry shortcake for our breakfast 
on the last day of September seemed in¬ 
congruous with the corn in the shock 
Avhen one looked out of the window, and 
one remembers that AA'^inter is coming on 
with the boys “oA-er there,” and we must 
squeeze out a little more money for the 
Liberty bonds. av. F. massey. 
Disaster To a Prune Crop 
I am inclosing a clipping in regard to 
the disaster to the prune crop in bic val¬ 
ley. AVe sometimes heretofore ha^/e had 
light rains during prune-drying season, 
but never anything serious. This rain 
started AVednesday evening, September 
11, a light sprinkle; no one thought much 
of it. But it gradually increased and 
continued to rain for nearly three days, 
0.1.3 inches falling. This has been fol¬ 
lowed by a week of foggy mornings and 
more or less cloudy days, causing the 
greatest calamity to the people of this 
valley that they have ever experienced. 
Not only is it a loss to the orchardists, 
but to the Government as AV'ell, as nearly 
one-half of the crop was contracted for 
by the Government for the arnay. The 
crop was a fairly good one and prices very 
good. Growers were expecting to buy 
largely of the coming bond issue, and 
many have subscribed to the limit for 
AVar Savings Stamps, depending on what 
they thought to be a sure income from 
their prunes. Only a very small propor¬ 
tion of the crop had been cured and put 
in storage. Very feAV on the drying 
grounds will be saved. All on the ground 
in the orchards are spoiled, and there 
arc few on the trees but what are cracked 
and molding. A large orchardist told me 
if he got enough to pay for the expenses 
of harvesting he Avould be thankful. He 
had a $12,000 crop, and he is no Avorse 
off than others. 
This is a rather dark picture, but there 
is a brighter side. AA-'hile the prune is the 
great crop of this valley—the estimated 
crop this year was 60,000,000 to 70,000,000 
pounds—there was a good crop of apri¬ 
cots, cherries, peaches, apples, walnuts, 
etc., with very remunerative prices, and 
orchards will undoubtedly be greatly ben¬ 
efited by the thorough soaking, as the 
last two AVinters have been very dry, and 
orchards on light soil were suffering for 
the want of water. Many irrigating wells 
were very low or dry. The hills and 
mountains are already getting green, and 
pasturage will soon be abundant. Gram 
lands and gardens Avill also be greatly ben¬ 
efited. *’• 
Campbell, Cal. 
Super* AVithout Divi»ion of Comb 
I would like to hear from experienced 
bee men regarding the >ise of supers with¬ 
out dividers (that is, tin between the sec¬ 
tions). Last Summer I put in two supers 
without divisions. Q’hat honey came out 
better than all the rest, so I do not think 
it is necessary to use divisions. I shall 
try it again next Summer. o. F. 
AVaynesfield, O. 
Occasionally one can get very nice 
comb honey without the use of separators 
or dividers between the rows of sections, 
but it is the exception rather than the 
rule. Practically the whole of the bee¬ 
keeping fraternity that produce comb 
honey now use some sort of separator. 
AVithoiit them the sections will vary too 
much in weight, and moreover it is a 
little difficult to crate them because some 
sections will be too full and others too 
light. AVe would advise you, if you wish 
to get the best price for your honey, to 
use separators. e. b. 
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peas. Half the time she can’t tell them 
apart. Naturally, that is A'ery annoying, 
so she won’t eat them at all.”—Kansas 
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