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Fruit Trees for Central Virginia 
1. Would you specify 100 fruit trees 
suitable for a mountain hollow here in 
Central Virginia, easterly side of Blue 
Ridge, at about 2.200 feet elevation? 
Forest windbreaks to west and north: 
slopes south, southeasterly and southwest¬ 
erly. Brook through center. Soil rich 
loam where not too rocky for planting; 
clay subsoil. Land now cleared, save for 
large cherries left standing; is fenced and 
coming into Blue grass. Is grazed, but 
each small tree set out will he projected. 
Thirty acres. 2. Several varieties of the 
wild cherry (red and black) grow in pro¬ 
fusion. What procedure would you ad¬ 
vise as to building up a cherry orchard 
from young trees taken from the woods? 
1 am informed that young wild cherry 
trees may be transplanted and later bud¬ 
ded to cultivated varieties. This seems 
to be done on a small scale locally, but I 
am in doubt about it on a commercial 
scale because the large orchards here¬ 
abouts stick to the Pippin and Winesap 
apples in spite of all the spraying and 
pruning necessary, although it is alleged 
that the budded cherries on natural roots 
need neither be pruned nor sprayed; in 
fact, “will die if interfered with.” r. F. 
Albemarle Co., Ya. 
1. If you have Pippin soil—that is. 
dark light soil above the red clay of the 
valley—the Pippin is the best apple to 
plant. In the usual red clay soil Wine- 
sap. Stayman and the York Imperial will 
all do well. In planting Pippins, get 
the old Albemarle stock. 2. Cherries will 
do best on an exposed ridge. But get 
good varieties from a first-class nursery 
budded on Mnzzard stock, and do not 
monkey with the wild cherries of the 
mountain. I know that cherries thrive 
finely in your neighborhood. The Yellow 
Spanish, Elton. Governor Wood and 
Black Tartarian are good cherries of the 
heart and Bigarreau classes. Then of the 
sour cherries Richmond and Montmorency 
are good. Of plums, Shropshire Damson 
and German Prune are useful, and many 
of the Japanese varieties are profitable. 
Of these, Abundance. Burbank, Ogon, Red 
Tune and Kelsey. Never plant peaches 
in a hollow, but give them, like cherries, 
an open, high exposure and shelter to 
north and west, as you do not want them 
to bloom untimely. Pears will thrive in 
the mountain hollow with the apples. 
Plant Bartlett, Seekel, Beurre d’Anjou. 
.Madeline. Of these the Bartlett will be 
most liable to blight. Cherries will do 
better in a sod kept mown short and 
mulched. Pears also will blight less in 
sod than cultivated. Of peaches you will 
find the following good: Champion. 
Greensboro, Belle of Georgia, Ray. and 
Crawford Late. If you plant Pippins, as 
I said, get the old Albemarle'stock, for 
while it seems to be the general opinion 
that it is the same as Yellow Newtown. I 
have seen fruit from orchards there plant¬ 
ed with Yellow Newtown and anyone can 
see the difference between them and the 
old Albemarle Pippins. w. F. MASSEY. 
Sprayed Liquid Manure 
Here is the way an Illinois man fertil¬ 
izes the grass plots around his house: 
lie makes use of horse, cow or sheep ma¬ 
nure. from which he prepares a liquid, 
and sprays it on his grass just he would 
spray his trees, lie says that making 
use of the fertilizer in this manner he 
avoids planting weed seed thatVeomes in 
the manure. 11 is “distillery” is located in 
the rear part of his premises, where he 
lias planned to have the whole of it cov¬ 
ered with vines and hidden from view. 
He makes use of a hugli cask holding 16S 
gallons, and two barrels as large as a T 
vinegar barrel. An elevated foundation 
has been provided for the cask, which 
vests on its side at an angle. One of the 
barrels is used to mix the dope; in the 
other he keeps a supply of water. The 
liquid is strained into the big cask, and 
it is drawn through a hose connected with 
a faucet at the lower front end of the 
cask. * 
The plan has been evolved by G. C. G. 
Williamson, who owns and keeps up a 
very pretty suburban place. Along with 
tin' manure he uses a portion of nitrate of 
soda to get a uniform hue . of green 
throughout his swards. He lias been 
giving the plan a thorough test and from 
the appearances of his lawns if seems to 
have been quite successful. He says that 
many lawns are ruined from spreading 
barn fertilizer over the grass. The weed 
seeds are caught in the straining process 
used in “distilling” the liquid. 
.T. L. GRAFF. 
Mamma : “Now, Freddy, mind what I 
say. I don’t want you to go over into the 
next garden to play with that Biuks’ 
boy; lie's very rude." Freddy (heard a 
few moments afterwards calling over the 
wall) : "I say. liinks. ma says I'm not 
to go in your garden because you're rude: 
hut you come into my garden—I ain’t 
rude."—London Farm and Home. 
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