<Ih' RURAL NEW-YORKER 
155V 
“Halleluiah ! Halleluiah! Oh, happy clay ! 
Every thought of sin and sorrow 
Chase, chase away ! 
Hear ye not the angels’ telling, 
Christ the Lord of love excelling, 
On the earth with man is dwelling, 
Clad in our clay!” 
Frank could not hear it, but who could 
fail to be moved by those fresh, eager 
young faces? lie had seen the hired 
man’s children running about, ragged and 
dirty-faced, and he had spanked one of 
them well when he caught the little scamp 
throwing stones at the chickens. But 
now they seemed like little cherubs, and a 
great pang of envy shot through the 
man’s heart when these little < creatures 
came down the aisle and their mother 
gathered them into her arms as if to 
tell the world that the proudest queen on 
earth had nothing to compare with her 
treasures. When it was over Frank and 
Mary walked down the .aisle through the 
great crowd of happy children. Close by 
the door stood Abram, the black man. 
Frank remembered that here was a man 
carrying a trouble like his own, and he 
went over and shook hands, for both joy 
and trouble brings us together. But 
Abram’s face was glowing. _ . 
“I had a vision, Mr. Henry. I visioned 
a child, a little brown baby what is com¬ 
ing to me. You might laugh, Mr. Henry, 
but in that vision the angel of the Lord 
was just such a complected man as you 
are!” 
AYhen it was explained to him, Frank 
smiled and walked on. Tlaying the part 
of angel of the Lord had never been con¬ 
sidered in his philosophy. 
As they walked down the church steps 
Frank saw the dog wagging his tail and 
shaking his head as he always did when 
there was something important to say. 
The dog would shake his head, start a 
few steps toward the rear of the church, 
and look back to see if his master was 
coming. He repeated this action several 
times, nntil Frank knew there was some¬ 
thing he must look into. 
“Wait a moment, Mary,” he said. 
■‘Dick has something to show me !” and lie 
followed the dog with the confidence that 
one will always feel in a trusted friend 
who could not lead us astray. H. w. c. 
(Continued next week) 
Propagating Roses; Late 
Fruiting of Raspberries 
1 One of my blackcaps has a this 
year’s shoot that was in Autumn loaded 
with ripening berries. Is this an unusual 
occurrence or of any value i 2. How are 
the monthly or Hybrid roses propagated. 
Can it be done by cuttings? 
Wellsboro, Fa. mrs. c. J. c. 
1 It is not common for black rasp¬ 
berries to fruit on the current season’s 
growth but it can be done. The essentials 
seem to be a dry spell or something else 
which checks growth and then conditions 
which induce renewed growth later in the 
season. Nature does a lot of funny 
things, and the world is helped along by 
those who keep their eyes open to her 
antics and try to perpetuate any abnor¬ 
malities that may appear desirable.. If this 
seems to be a habit of the plant, it might 
be well to watch it for a year or two to 
see how it behaves. 
2. Hoses are propagated under glass 
by green wood cuttings for the most 
part. They are also propagated by bud¬ 
ding or grafting, the Hybrid roses doing 
w-ell on Multiflora stock. Layering is 
sometimes employed wdiere just a plant 
or two is desired. 11 • B - T - 
Grafting Nut Trees 
We have about 25 young bearing hick¬ 
ory trees, but the nuts are small and in¬ 
ferior in size and shape, although well 
flavored. It would seem that these trees 
may be grafted to bear good nuts. Could 
yoii tell me how this can be done? How 
inanv grafts to each tree? 
Wellsboro, Pa. MRS. J. c. C. 
Nut trees may be worked over by the 
ordinary method of cleft-grafting or by 
bark grafting. The first mentioned needs 
no description, consisting simply of cut¬ 
ting off the larger branches and splitting 
the resulting stubs to receive the wedge- 
shaped scions placed so that the cambium 
layer of the scions comes into contact 
with the cambium layer of the stub. 
Bark-grafting is the same in principle as 
the cleft graft, excepting that in this 
case no cleft is made in the stub. In¬ 
stead, a slit is made in the bark parallel 
with the branch, and the scion is much 
flattened on one side and inserted under 
the bark through the slit much as a bud 
is inserted in ordinarv shield budding. 
A small brad helps to hold the scion in 
place and the scion and stub should be 
covered with grafting wax. Patch-bud¬ 
ding is practiced with some success. To 
do this one merely cuts out a little square 
of bark along with the bud that is to be 
inplanted and removes a corresponding 
piece of bark from the limb that is to re¬ 
ceive the bud. Tight wrapping and cov¬ 
ering with grafting wax completes the 
job. h. b. T. 
The Cold Emulsion of Oil 
Noting inquiry on page 1148, in regard 
to machine oil emulsion for spraying, w T e 
have used tbi homemade cold emulsion, 
and found it highly satisfactory. But 
we used “Kayso” as the emulsifying 
agent, instead of copperas and lime or 
Bordeaux, as it is much cheaper and 
more convenient, and no need for haste 
when working with it. The formula for 
200 gallons of spraying solution is four 
gallons of cheap red engine oil with 
paraffin base, two gallons of water and 
eight ounces of “Kayso.” Mix the “Ivay- 
so“ smoothly with the water, pour into 
the oil, mix and pump twice, from one 
container to another. The way it emul¬ 
sifies with this simple treatment is mar¬ 
velous. The work of preparing it is 
nothing, as compared witli the fuss of 
cooking lime-sulphur, and it does not 
burn the skin or put the eyes out of 
commission in spraying with it. It is 
far cheaper than any other dormant 
spray. 
It is also more effective than lime- 
sulphur. I had one tree badly infested 
with scale, which I gave particularly 
heavy spraying with lime-sulphur two 
Winters, without succeeding in cleaning 
it up. The oil emulsion killed every 
scale, so far as we could find, layer upon 
layer of them, clear down to the bark. 
The lime-sulphur spray kills only those 
it strikes, so that upper layers protect 
those below. The oil spray creeps and 
penetrates, and gets them all. 
New Mexico. c. E. T.OCKE. 
Poor Bearing of Grapevines 
I have been told by an authority on 
grapevines that grapes do not do well 
on a metal trellis. We have four vines, 
two Concord, and two Brighton. They 
are 10 years old at least. They always 
look healthy, and have lots of grapes, 
but on two vines they all fall off be¬ 
fore time to ripen. The grapes on the 
other vines are never right; they do not 
all ripen at the same time. Those four 
vines are on a different trellis, with the 
posts and top rail of wood, and the three 
cross bars are lightning rods. Do you 
think this would have any effect on the 
vines not bearing as they should? We 
have an old Hartford vine, 40 years old 
we know, on an all-wood trellis which 
has never failed to have a wonderful crop 
of grapes until this year, and for some 
reason it almost died last Winter. 
Newfoundland, N. J. G. T. 
It is very doubtful that the kind of 
trellis, metal or wood, would or does 
affect these vines in New Jersey. In 
very hot latitudes it has been claimed 
that metal wires and other supports of 
metal do cause a burning of the shoot 
and tendrils, but no report has been noted 
that would indicate injury from this 
cause to the fruit. In New York latitudes 
practically all commercial vineyards are 
trained to trellises of wires strung on 
wood posts. Many home-growers use 
wire on steel posts with no injury. 
The Brighton variety is known to be 
imperfect; that is pollen from other va¬ 
rieties is necessary to set enough berries 
to produce a fairly well filled cluster. In 
many seasons this foreign pollen, be¬ 
cause of climatic conditions, does not 
get to blossom of the variety requiring it, 
and in consequence very poorly formed 
clusters are the result. Prolonged rains 
at blooming are fatal to grape pollen. 
That this cross fertilization may occur, 
varieties that normally set full clusters 
are set in proximity to the imperfect 
sort. It is further necessary that the 
varieties involved bloom at the same time. 
It is possible that downy mildew or 
black rot may be taking some toll of 
the fruit from these vines. It is sug¬ 
gested that the vines be sprayed just be¬ 
fore blooming with Bordeaux mixture. 
F. E. G. 
Grafting Crabapple Trees 
I have a Siberian crabapple tree. We 
do not care for the crabapple and think 
that we will cut off some of the large 
branches about fi ft. from the ground 
and graft some scions from young trees. 
Will the grafts grow and produce good 
fruit of the varieties grafted? How 
many years will it take for the grafts to 
fruit? ' R. W. W. 
Punxsutawney, Pa. 
The common commercial varieties of 
apples unite fairly well with the crab¬ 
apple, so that you should have no diffi¬ 
culty in grafting the tree over to the va¬ 
riety you choose. It will be found ad¬ 
visable to graft the center of the tree 
first, and then take the outer branches 
next year. This affords the trunk and 
main branches enough shade to keep the 
tree from becoming afflicted wdth sun- 
scald. The stock will not affect the qual¬ 
ity of the fruit. You may expect some 
fruit the third season, and certainly by 
the fourth. h. b. t. 
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