The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
787 
I take a boo and drive it drop beside the 
line and open the hole a little. The Jap¬ 
anese boy slips a seed piece in behind it 
and I gently pull out the hoe and let the 
s<>d fall upon the seed. Then the soil is 
patted down above it. We put the rows 
1!<4 feet apart and the seed pieces a little 
over one foot in the row. That is slow 
work, and will mean hand culture. If 
this variety is really blight-proof, there 
will be a great yield. It was lively work 
for the boy. Little Rose sits at one end 
in the shade, making a line collection of 
mud pies. She mixes her clay and water, 
cuts out the mud, puts a little moss on 
each one for “frosting." and puts them 
in the sun to bake. Of a sudden she 
jumps up and runs across the lawn in 
answer to some call which I do not hear. 
I think the older girl is baking a cake 
and'little Hose has run to lick off the 
spoon! 
* * * * * 
Our job is done, and it is about time ^ 
for dinner. The men are back from the 
cornfield and are fixing up the weeder. 
This afternoon they will scratch over the 
sweet corn and potatoes. Cherry-top has 
been working with the lawn mower. As 
l go to the house I see him rushing out 
to the lawn with unwonted energy. The 
lawn mower never had such attractions 
before. But it isn't the lawn mower; he 
is going to fix up the tennis court—a 
very different thing from running a 
mower, though it involves the expendi¬ 
ture of greater energy. The women have 
been too busy cleaning to prepare any 
elaborate dinner. We have fried meat, 
potato and asparagus, bread and butter 
and milk. Jack has sent us a box of 
grapefruit from Florida. You know it 
never would keep long in this climate, so 
we will substitute it for the usual rhu- | 
barb sauce. The Japanese boy cuts the 
fruit and serves it in proper style. Our 
folks have planned for a shopping trip to 
T’aterson this afternoon, and there seems 
to be a unanimous desire for me to go 
along. Little Hose is particularly insist¬ 
ent. “I’ll need you over there. ’ she 
says. I think T have earned a half hull- j 
day. though I could use it to good ad¬ 
vantage reading and writing. But when 
the time comes I get into the car with the 
rest, and with my daughter at the wheel 
off we go—half a dozen of us in all. Our 
country roads are beautiful at this sea¬ 
son. Except for a mile or so through the 
woods, we drive through what, seems to lie 
a continuous town. It seems as if all the 
people are out in the sun at play or at 
work in gardens. It is beyond question 
that these people are spending less time 
over food and housekeeping and taking 
more of their life outdoors. When we 
reached Paterson T was invited to help 
our folks “shop”—a great privilege until 
you realize fhe meaning of it. Little 
Hose had her eye on a new pair of shoes 
and a little yellow dress. Certainly she 
needed me. We came home in the late 
afternoon, the car well filled with pack¬ 
ages. Cherry-top and the Japanese boy 
were playing tennis. The week’s work 
was ended and old Bruce sat on the lawn, 
his wise head at one side, no doubt won¬ 
dering at the strange antics of these 
crazy humans. For supper we had baked 
beans, pot cheese, bread and butter and 
rhubarb sauce. Then through the twi¬ 
light the girls played croquet, the boys 
went visiting. Mother sat on the porch 
sewing, and I walked about looking at 
the garden and the strawberries. Soon I 
found myself sitting on the porch beside 
Mother. Little Hose came and sat on 
my lap, and one by one the others joined 
us. and thus as the darkness gathers we 
end our perfect day. H. w. c. 
Roster's Blue Spruce 
Recently I ordered a Roster’s blue 
spruce from a supposedly reliable nursery. 
The tree came, atd looks like a plain, or¬ 
dinary Norway spruce; no trace of blue 
in its foliage. Upon my complaining to 
the company about this, they advised me 
that the tree was a genuine Roster's, and 
after being acclimated to my soil would 
undoubtedly become as blue as any. Per¬ 
sonally I doubt this, as I have another 
tree, a genuine Roster’s of blue color, 
and this tree did not change in any color 
after growing for three years. Have any 
of our readers had any experience with 
this tree? Can I expect it to turn blue? 
Tree is about 2 ft. high. C'. n. M. 
Springs, Pa. 
As I understand it. Roster’s blue 
spruce is an extra tine blue selection of 
the Colorado blue spruce, the selection 
being made by a Mr. Roster of Europe, 
and propagated by grafting on to the 
Norway spruce or on to seedlings of the 
Colorado spruce. It is also propagated 
from cuttings, but Ibis selected strain is 
never propagated from seed. Now this 
manner of its propagation would preclude 
the possibility of any green-leaved ones 
being among them, as the young shoots 
used for grafts are blue when they are 
grafted onto the stock, and will always 
remain blue. 
Seedlings of the Colorado blue spruce 
do not come true; they will run from 
green-leaved through many shades and 
combinations of blue and green and blue; 
and some nurserymen, no doubt, are un¬ 
scrupulous enough to substitute these 
seedlings for Roster’s, as the importa¬ 
tions of Roster’s is now quite limited, 
owing to the operations of Quarantine 37. 
I think there is no question that you are 
justified in strongly insisting that this 
green tree be replaced with a genuine 
Roster’s blue. K. 
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