TV RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Asters with Yellows 
I planted asters last year, which after 
I transplanted them, also those that I did 
not transplant, got a cream color in the 
heart of the plant (or a light green). 
This year I see there are some going just 
the same way. They did not bloom. Can 
you tell me what it is. and what to do 
for it? .T. K. 
Bloomfield. N. J. 
From the description of the aster 
plants’ color the disease is what is com¬ 
monly called yellows. Ht may be possible 
under very favorable circumstances to 
grow asters without being affected in this 
manner, but it appears to be increasingly 
difficult each season. Some authorities 
think either too much or too little rain 
the cause; others have advanced the 
theory that the sting of the tarnished 
plant bug causes it. Whatever the cause, 
there has never been found a remedy; 
even pulling up the plants that first show 
the disease and burning them will have 
no effect on the abatement of the disease. 
Within the past week I have looked over 
a dozen different plantings of astei’s in 
our county, including quite a large block 
on our own place, and with one exception 
every lot will be almost a complete fail¬ 
ure. The weather has been exceedingly 
dry, and to try to offset this we have been 
irrigating, and will barely harvest enough 
astei’s to pay for the water. This is our 
first venture into aster growing after a 
lapse of about six years, and the results 
are the same as they were at the time 
.that we gave up trying to make expenses 
with this crop. E. .T. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
Beautifying a Cemetery Wall 
In our town we have a cemetery ou 
an elevation higher than the highway 
upon which it abuts, and a stone re¬ 
taining wall about 5 ft. high has been 
built for a distance of 300 or 400 ft. 
along the line of the highway. The wall 
is strong and substantial, and in a fair 
state of repair, but rather unsightly. 
The ground at the bottom of the wall is 
sloping, and is of a light sandy forma¬ 
tion. The level of the highway is below 
the bottom of the wall. In company with 
several others I am engaged in the work 
of improving and beautifying the condi¬ 
tion of the cemetery, and there is a very 
pronounced desire on the part of all of 
us to do something to cover up said stone 
wall by planting some vines or rose 
bushes or something of the sort that not 
only will cover up the wall, but help to 
beautifjfc it. Now what I would like 
very n^rch to know is what you would 
advise us to plant. o. f. d. 
Massachusetts. 
Treatment will depend on whether the 
top of the wall is at the ground level on 
the cemetery side, or whether it rises 
above ground both inside and out. Ref- 
erence to it as a retaining wall suggests 
that the cemetery forms a terrace above 
the l-oad. In this case a most satisfactory 
treatment would be to plant the little 
trailing Memorial rose, Rosa Wielxurai- 
ana, all along inside the wall. It would 
trail over the top and hang down the 
wall, and as it grew would trail down 
over the sandy slope at the base of the 
wall, where it would root and grow with 
still greater luxuriance. This rose is 
hardy, strong-growing and beautiful. Its 
clean, glossy foliage turns a bronzy tint [ 
in the Autumn, while the abundant single 
white flowers are followed by red heps, 
which persist through the Winter. The 
Wichuraiana rose is naturally trailing in 
habit, and thoroughly at home in such a 
position. If, however, the ground on the 
cemetery side does not rise to the top of 
the wall, it will be necessary to plant on 
the outside. If a clinging vine is desired, 
either the Ampelopsis, commonly called 
Boston ivy, or the evergreen bittersweet, 
Euonymus radicans vegetus, would be de¬ 
sirable. The latter is very attractive, 
forming showy red berries. If some sort 
of trellis could be provided against the 
wall, it could easily be covered with Dor¬ 
othy Perkins rose, which would give a 
beautiful effect. It grows so rapidly and 
luxuriantly that it is well suited for such 
use. As a shrub to plant in such a place you 
would probably find Rosa rugosa very sat¬ 
isfactory ; the foliage is very handsome 
and the red heps very showy late in the 
season, while the single flowers are at¬ 
tractive. It would not be so readily 
broken or injured as some of our other 
flowering shrubs, in a roadside position. 
Arbor vitae would be quite desirable if an 
evergreen is preferred, but such flowering 
shrubs as syringa or mock orange and 
Rose of Sharon would be attractive. How¬ 
ever, if the formation of the ground per¬ 
mits it, the trailing rose falling down 
from the top of the wall would be the 
most attractive treatment for this loca¬ 
tion. 
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