The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Success with Orchard Heaters 
The following information is given by 
W. A. Irvin of Springfield. Mo., in reply 
to questions by one of our readers. Some 
of our Eastern fruit growers are inter¬ 
ested in this orchard-heating plan, but 
the conditions are very different here, 
and we doubt if this heating will pay: 
The quotation you send misquotes my 
statement. I use both liquid and dust. 
The first, or cluster-bud spray, is with the 
regular lime-sulphur solution. Then the 
codling moth and two following sprays 
with dust. GO per cent flour of sulphur, 
23 per cent hydrated lime and IT per 
cent powdered arsenate of lead. The last 
spraying is with the regular Bordeaux 
spray. I contend that it is just as neces¬ 
sary to have lime in the dust spray as in 
the liquid. _ I did not say that the dust 
spray was 50 per cent cheaper, but I did 
say that you could use it in half the time 
that you could apply the liquid. Why? 
Because with the liquid you must go on 
both sides of the row of trees, while with 
the dust you can drive beUveen two rows 
and dust thoroughly without stopping the 
+ cnm. When you count the time (which 
a good part of the expense at present ) 
you can do the work one-third cheaper 
with the dust than you can with the 
liquid. I load enough dust on the wagon 
to last half a day. and can spray over 
soft. or rough ground, while with the 
liquid it takes half the time to refill. 
You can mix the dust the same as you 
would with concrete, using shovels. 
Vine for Porch Lattice 
I have a lattice at the side of a porch, 
and I wish to plant a vine to climb on it. 
What vine would you advise? I do not 
care whether it is a flowering vine or 
not. Some friend recommended a vine 
called kudzu. What do you think of it? 
Monroe, N. Y. j. n. m. 
We should not advise the kudzu vine 
for planting near the house, or on a 
porch: it is too coarse for this purpose. 
It is a very hardy vine, and after becom¬ 
ing established it makes a rampant 
growth every year of 20 to 40 feet, but 
we think it better suited for the fence 
around a henyard. or to Screen unsightly 
buildings, than for the porch. The 
foliage is free from insects or disease, 
and the spikes of reddish purple bean¬ 
like flowers are very pretty. Hens are 
very fond of these flowers, and rush to 
devour every blossom that falls in their 
yard. The kudzu is useful for forage 
and green manure, but as an ornamental 
vine we would not use it on a porch. It 
has a place where a dense, rapid growth 
is required as a screen. With us in 
Northern New Jersey it dies down to the 
ground each Winter, and there is a great 
mass of intertwined dead twigs to remove 
in Spring. 
Two of the very best porch vines we 
know are Hall’s Japan honeysuckle and 
Clematis paniculata. The honeysuckle. ! 
named above, is strong, vigorous, and I 
almost evergreen. It blooms from July 
to December, and holds its leaves until 
January. The flowers are fragrant, and 
very freely produced, color white, chang¬ 
ing to yellow after opening. This is a 
very hardy vine, and all things considered 
the best honeysuckle for porch use. 
Clematis paniculata is a luxuriant 
grower, with fine dark green foliage; in 
late Summer it is covered with a mass of 
small white flowers of delicious fragrance. 
It grows about 25 feet in a season, being 
cut back to the ground each Spring. This 
is one of the best vines to grow around 
the house, and cannot be too strongly 
recommended. Both Hall’s honeysuckle 
and Clematis paniculata may be procured 
from any dealer iu nursery stock ; they 
are not expensive. 
The Blue Hydrangea 
Do You Know- 
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The use of Timken Tapered Roller 
Bearings at points of hard service 
in the great majority of motor- 
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the automotive industry. 
that the motor truck has been one of the greatest factors 
in promoting the building of good roads? 
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that in the development of a truck that could meet and 
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of the truck? 
that the remarkable performance of the working parts 
of the modem motor truck depends largely upon 
the bearings installed at points of hard service? 
that the tapered roller bearing—the Timken type—is the 
only type of bearing that will function properly 
under radial load, or thrust load, and all possible 
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I wish to get some blue Hydrangeas. I 
have never seen them listed iu any cata¬ 
logue and have been unable to find out 
where they can be obtained. Thi- is a 
hardy shrub and the flowers are very 
pretty. 1 have heard that some prepara¬ 
tion was put on the pink Hydrangea to 
turn it blue, but I think this is not true. 
Middle Island. N. Y. MRS. E. T. s. 
The blue Hydrangea usually seen is 
Ilydangea Otaksa. belonging to a variety 
with several botanical names, and divided 
into many greenhouse forms. Its color is 
usually pink, but many individual plants 
produce blue flowers. In some soils they 
always come blue, due to the presence of 
certain elements. Iron is said to be a fac¬ 
tor in this. A florist tolls us that the 
blue color may be produced by using lump 
alum, broken into pieces about the size of 
a hickorynut, half a pound to each bushel 
of soil. 
Hydrangea Otaksa is not reliably hardy 
north of Philadelphia. Iu the North it 
gives most satisfaction as a tub or pot 
plant, stored in a light, cool cellar or sim¬ 
ilar place iu Winter, or. if planted out 
given protection by a box or shelter loose¬ 
ly filled with leaves or covered with can¬ 
vas. They thrive in any good garden soil, 
but give best results in a compost com¬ 
posed of two parts turfy loam and one 
part thoroughly rotted manure. They need 
plenty of water to keep their profuse leaf 
surface from flagging, and repay the use 
.J bonemeal or liquid manure when iu ac¬ 
tual growth. 
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