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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September C, 1910 
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Hogs Gnaw Orchard Trees 
We have four large shotee which we 
would like to turn in our apple orchard to 
give them more room to stir in, and to 
eat down the clover. But every time they 
are turned in the orchard they will gnaw 
the trunks of the trees up just as high as 
they can reach. The trees are large ap¬ 
ple trees. They do not do it because they 
are hungry, as they have plenty of milk 
and grain. Is there anything we could 
I put on the trunks of the trees that would 
keep them from gnawing the bark? We 
never had hogs do so before. We would 
like to have them in the orchard, but do 
not know how to manage it so they will 
leave the trees alone. a. b. 
Ontario, N. Y. 
We have had the same trouble. There 
seems to be something in the fresh bark 
which the hogs crave. They are worse 
when fed on corn alone, or some food 
lacking in lime and phosphates. They 
do not trouble us much when we keep a 
box of wood ashes, charcoal and a little 
sulphur before them where they can help 
themselves. The only remedy seems to be 
“prohibition.” Drive three stout stakes 
around each tree and put wire netting or 
a few turns of barbed wire around them. 
That will keep the hogs away. We do 
not know of any paint or smear that will 
do it. 
The Father David’s Peach 
Recently some interesting statements 
have been made about a new stock for 
I working stone fruits. This stock came 
from China, and it is claimed that trees 
[worked on it will thrive on alkali land 
or in locations too dry for most fruits. 
[The following facts about this interesting 
peacli will answer many questions about 
it: 
This is what is known as the Ainyg- 
dalus davidiana, or Father David’s peach, 
a wild peach that was found in China by 
A KalaiKazoe 
TYade Mark 
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Direct to You 
Pits of Father David's Peach 
our late agricultural explorer, Mr. Frank 
N. Meyer, seeds of which he sent us in 
llarge quantities, and from which we have 
liaised and distributed many thousands of 
young plants for stock purposes. It lias 
proven to be an excellent stock for the 
peach, apricot, plum and in fact, for all 
of the stone fruits with the exception of 
the cherry. 
We have at our Chico Plant Introduc¬ 
tion Field Station, Chico, Cal., a large 
number of the commercial varieties of 
poaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and 
almonds budded on this stock, which have 
commanded very favorable attention from 
the fruit growers of the Sacramento Val¬ 
ley. The growth of this stock lias been 
very rapid and we believe superior to 
[that on the stocks commonly used. After 
seeing this test orchard growers got in¬ 
terested, and we had many requests for 
the young seedlings to be tried as a 
stock. After we had made a general dis¬ 
tribution of this stock throughout our 
country, the California growers noted 
that when this stock was planted on 
ground that contained too much alkali 
for the ordinary peach the trees lived and 
thrived. This is especially true of many 
of the orchards in the neighborhood of 
Yuba City in the 'Sacramento Valley, and 
there are a number ot orchards that had 
these so calif 1 icd sue ♦aat have been 
replanted »”i:r truit trees, on the Davi 
liana that are now in the i fifth year, and 
bearing profusely, and evidently all are 
in the best of health. This wild peach 
is a very hardy one, ensuring heavy frosts 
—frosts, in fact, that have killed back 
severely the very hardiest ot the peaches, 
while it left the Davidiana uninjured. 
We have now got trees established of 
|this peach at one of the Department Sta¬ 
tions at Mandan, North Dakota ; and it 
has been tried by Prof. S. A. Beach of 
the Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 
where it passed through Winters without 
injury that killed back such well-known 
hardy varieties as Hill’s Chili. We have 
distributed trees to many of the nursery¬ 
men in the Eastern States, but here it 
does not seem to command the attention 
of fruit growers as it has done in the 
West. I am inclined to think, however, 
that the stock has not been given a fair 
test. 
•The demand for plants of this wild 
peach lias been so great that it has* in¬ 
duced the Yokohama Nursery Company 
of Yokohama, Japan, to send their agents 
to China to collect seeds from the wild 
trees and they, I understand, are now 
offering seeds to the growers. In fact. I 
have had the pleasure of seeing a number 
of seeds of this wild peach that had been 
obtained from this company, within the 
past few days, and they seem to be identi¬ 
cal with the seeds that we have that were 
collected by our Mr. Meyer in China. The 
fruit, I might state, is small and not 
considered edible, as there is practically 
no flesh surrounding the stone. So that 
you might get an idea of the seed charac¬ 
ter, I am sending you herewith three of 
the seeds. They are shown, original size, 
on this page. i>eter bisskt, 
Plant Introducer in Charge of For¬ 
eign Plant Distributions. 
Propagating Boxwood 
Do you know whether the old-fashioned 
boxwood can be propagated from cuttings 
—that is, small branches taken from top 
of bush and stuck in the ground, where 
they are wanted, either with or without 
being covered with a glass jar? -If so. 
what is the best time of the year to do 
this? I have had good success with rose 
cuttings set in October and covered with 
a glass jar. b. c . q. 
Nesliauie, N. J. 
Summer propagation of boxwood, as 
well as most other kinds of shrubs, both 
evergreen and deciduous, can be success¬ 
fully accomplished under glass in the cold 
frame if put in at the proper time and 
given proper attention until rooted. The 
cuttings of boxwood are made from the 
terminals of the branches and are cut to 
a heel, or diagonally, just under a bud, 
and in length about three or four inches. 
Deciduous shrubs should have cuttings 
made from wood of the current year’s 
growth, and may be made in like manner 
as the boxwood except the soft terminals 
should be discarded and only the firm 
wood used. These cuttings may be made 
in lengths of four to six inches. Latter 
half of July is probably the best time for 
the work. 
In preparing propagating bed, the 
ground in the frame should be cleaned of 
all weeds, etc., made perfectly level and 
smooth, and filled in to a depth of three 
or four inches with clean, sharp sand, 
which should be made firm with anv in¬ 
strument that may be handy and suitable 
for patting it down and leveling it. A 
piece of board 12x12 with a piece of 2x4 
nailed to it the four-inch way for a hand 
hold serves the purposes admirably. After 
the sand has been put in proper shape, 
take an old table knife or a narrow piece 
of shingle, using the thin end, and open a 
slot in the sand, into which insert the 
cutting to a depth of about two inches, 
and two to three inches apart, after which 
take a short piece of 2x4 and gently firm 
flic sand along one side of the row of 
cuttings to settle it in around the lower 
or inserted ends. The rows are usually 
made four or five inches apart. After 
the frame is filled (which should be in¬ 
closed all around the cutting bed), water 
thoroughly, put the sash on and heavily 
whitewash the glass to exclude the direct 
rays of the sun. Keep the sash down 
tight day and night until the cuttings are 
well rooted. The matter of watering dare 
not he neglected, or the operation will 
be a failure. At first the cuttings should 
be sprinkled three or four times a day, 
particularly if weather is bright and 
warm. On dull days less watering will 
he required. After cuttings are calloused, 
watering at noon and evening will prob¬ 
ably suffice. After cuttings are rooted, 
air may he given by raising sash, and by 
and by the sash should be be removed al¬ 
together, choosing a cloudy day for it. 
The cuttings, or more properly speaking 
>i them as they now are, “plants,” should 
oe allowed to remain in the frame until 
the following Spring, when they should he 
planted in the open ground in nursery 
rows, two to three feet apart, according 
to the method of cultivation to be em¬ 
ployed, whether horse or hand, and five 
or six inches apart in the row, and be 
thus grown on until large enough to plant 
to permanent quarters. K. 
Destroying Burdocks 
Recently The It. N.-Y. had something 
about killing burdocks by cutting them off 
and pouring kerosene on them. Some 
years ago I cleaned up a filthy corner one 
not day in July by cutting the burdocks 
off some four inches from the ground and 
then some hours later easily pulling them 
up, securing the long tap root almost to 
its very point. There is a time after the 
burdocks are cut off when the tap-root 
shrinks so as to be easily pulled out. If 
left too long it becomes firm in the ground 
again. wesuey webb. 
Delaware. 
