Wit RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1239 
RURALISMS 
About the Gardens 
I wae profoundly interested in Mr. 
Wind’s article regarding the farm women 
of t(iday and their lack of interest in gar¬ 
dening as compared to those of a genera¬ 
tion ago. The same conditions which he 
describes exist in the immediate vicinity 
here, but in noting them I feel no sense of 
discouragement, no disappointment even in 
the farm woman developed by the present 
day, because I feel the two real reasons 
for the change are entirely outside the 
character and almost the control of the 
women. 
The first reason is found, I think, in the 
inevitable periodicity of history. The 
middle-aged women of Mr. Wing’s boy¬ 
hood whom he mentioned with affectionate 
memory had of necessity to give their 
places to young women with young fam¬ 
ilies. Though these latter women may be 
entirely unable to spare time for flower 
culture today, the years in their march j 
must bring to them ultimately the leisure ' 
of later life, and I think he will see again 
the old conditions duplicated. The dear 
old-fashioned gardens I remember in my 
childhood are Connected inseparably with 
women whose children were grown tip, 
women of 40 or over. But they are most¬ 
ly gone now, and their homes are occupied 
by women of 20 or 30, good women, 
charming women, some of them ; but busy 
with farm work and the care of children, 
and unable to give hours of care each 
week to gardens and flowers. 
The old-time “neighboring and visiting” 
will come back, too. Mr. Wing, when 
some of these small children on the farms 
near you are grown. I think it will take 
the pleasure out of almost any call if the 
caller has to dress and carry or wheel a 
baby half a mile or so. perhaps with other 
small children clinging to her dress, espe¬ 
cially if the mother was tired before she 
started. In a few years the children will 
be less care; and the farm women can 
visit so much more comfortably. 
The second reason for the decline of 
the old-time gardens will be found, I 
think, in the fact that farm girls no 
longer live at home until they marry. In 
the 20 or 30 years just gone it was not 
uncommon to see.from one to half a dozen 
grown-up girls living at home, helping 
with the work, and with leisure and to 
fgmre for gardening. But today the farm 
girls arc away at school, at college, and, 
more’s the pity, in city employment, in¬ 
stead of home work. This fact, of course, 
makes more work and care fall upon the 
farm mother. But here, too. I verily be¬ 
lieve we shall see a return to old-time 
leisurely living as improvements in house¬ 
hold apparatus, electricity, power churns, 
tireless cookers and (dare I whisper it?) 
even community bakeries and laundries 
lighten the burden of the overworked farm 
women. At any rate, all your readers of 
The R. N. Y., don’t you honestly believe 
that all things work together for good, 
and that some day we shall know the rea¬ 
son for the things thxy; perplex and trouble 
us now? M. C. B. 
Grape Rot 
I have a nice lot of Concord grape¬ 
vines. which bore well for four yeai’S. 
They are set 16 feet apart each way. and 
for the last four years they bore well, but 
have all rotted. I had the County Demon¬ 
strator down here two years ago. and he 
said he never saw grapes so full. He 
said spray them, as he thought that would 
save them, so we sprayed, but they rotted 
just the same. One year ago last Spring 
I moved several of these vines to another 
field, and they are full and growing well, 
and they are not rotting and have not 
been sprayed. What is the remedy? J. 
There is the possibility that the trouble 
in this instance is due to the black rot 
fungus, although it is impossible to judge 
this without specimens in hand. Whether 
the trouble is due to this fungus or that 
causing mildew, the treatment in either 
case is the same, at least sex far as the 
fungicide is concerned. The only dif¬ 
ference is in the number of applications. 
Bordeaux mixture made to the 4-4-50 
formula, that is, 4 lbs. of stone lime, 4 
lbs. of copper sulphate, in 50 gallons of 
water, to which is added 3 lbs. of arsenate 
of lead, will effectively control the above 
diseases, as well as the leaf-chewing in¬ 
sects of the vine. The first application 
should be made at the time the shoots 
are out, showing three or four of the new 
leaves, a second treatment when the 
shoots are showing about a foot of growth, 
a third is made directly after the fall of 
the blossoms, while a fourth may prove 
necessary two or three weeks later. It 
is necessary that in each instance all the 
green parts of the vine sluxll be covei’ed, 
else the spores will gain access and ger¬ 
minate. The success of rot or mildew 
control is in timeliness and thoroughness. 
The fact that vines are affected with 
rot in one location and not another is due 
to the fact largely of different air drain¬ 
age. Vines located in depressions or 
sheltered from the pi-evailing winds rot 
more readily than those situated high 
and exposed to air cuiTents. Ilumid soils, 
through affecting the amount of moisture 
held on the foliage, favor the diseases of 
rot and mildew. Spraying, however, 
should not be done so late in the season 
that the fruit will be stained thereby. 
Some growers obtain at least partial free¬ 
dom from rot by bagging the clusters with 
paper sacks as soon as the blossoms have 
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