The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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feet long. At the end of the string two 
gray kittens were playing wuth a fray 
of corn husk, while their mother, Malty, 
the gray cat, looked on from her perch 
above the wood box. Kittens and chil¬ 
dren in our family were not held in high 
esteem until they were large enough to 
catch mice or do chores. The old folks 
softened quite a little at the thought of 
my accident, though they were evidently 
disappointed at the way I had “believed'’ 
during the operation. Both of them told 
me of the painful things they had en¬ 
dured without a murmur when they were 
children. I did not envy them their 
Spartan fortitude. I confess it did me 
good to let out a yell when that sharp 
steel came across my little foot. But the 
old folks were kind. My uncle brought 
in the wood and sawed three big sticks 
ahead for me to split when my foot 
healed. As her contribution my aunt de¬ 
cided to have fish balls and baked In¬ 
dian pudding for dinner, and she was one 
of these rare humans who can actually 
transform codfish into angel food. Per¬ 
haps I am prejudiced both by birth and 
training, but that forenoon beside the 
kitchen stove, watching my aunt striding 
about in her angel food laboratory, will 
ever shine forth like a gastronomic star. 
You see Dr. Dean had prescribed a per¬ 
iod of starvation for my case, and I had 
no supper, and one piece of bread and an 
apple for breakfast, so of course, it is 
possible that this vision of angel food 
comes partly from an empty stomach. 
H. W. C. 
(To Be Continued) 
Starting Apple Trees in China 
I am interested in starting an apple 
orchard in China—in a section where 
there are at present no apples. . The 
problem is how to get nursery trees 
there in living condition, or to get scions 
to be used on seedlings. The journey to 
China will require about six weeks. What 
is the best way to proceed? c. c. 
New York. 
It would take a little time, but there 
ought to be no difficulties. If seedling 
apples are not available, and I suppose 
they are not (although if the man had 
botanical skill it would be easy to find 
a good many crab-apples in China that 
would grow seedlings) seeds could be 
sent from this country at, say, this time 
of the year to be planted in the Spring. 
A year later scions could be sent from 
here, or possibly better, from Califor¬ 
nia, to be grafted upon these seedlings. 
Scions can be waxed over with paraffin, 
so that they will carry for two months 
or even longer in good condition. 
Of course, a much better way would 
be to buy trees in Japan, where they are 
now grown rather commonly. Many of 
the agricultural colleges, the names of 
which I could give, would probably sup¬ 
ply trees, and there are also two or 
three nursery companies in Japan selling 
apple trees. If I am not mistaken, in 
times past we have sent scions to two 
or three missionary institutions in China, 
and I am of the opinion that a little 
study of the matter would develop the 
fact that there are apple trees to be ob- 
trained in China. u. P. hedkick. 
Geneva, N. Y. 
While it might be possible so to pack 
nursery trees that they would withstand 
the long shipment to the interior of 
China, I suspect that a safer, and in the 
end a more effective way, of accomplish¬ 
ing this would be to secure a quantity of 
apple seeds, ship these to the desired lo¬ 
cation in China and grow them for the 
purpose of getting a supply of seedling 
apple stocks to be used in propagation. 
In this country one-year-old seedlings, 
that is, those that have made one sea¬ 
son’s growth from the seed, are usually 
large enough to use for stock purposes. 
By sending dormant scions of the desired 
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varieties and making root or crown-grafts 
of them on the seedling stocks, I see no 
reason why a reasonable degree of success 
should not be attained. Of course this 
would delay the actual securing of trees 
large enough for planting permanently 
as compared with shipping nursery trees 
that were already large enough to plant 
out, but I am very much inclined to be¬ 
lieve that in the end the method sug¬ 
gested would prove more satisfactory and 
more effective. Without doubt the scions 
would be handled very much more ef¬ 
fectively and safely than could nursery 
trees. h. p. gould. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Teacher: “If you were getting din¬ 
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toes, how would you divide them to give 
each one an equal share?” Small Sadie: 
“I’d mash ’em.”—Credit Lost. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St. New York City 
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