Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08
All Around the Place.

damaged thousands of fruit trees in
this section, many of them past help.
In all cases where limbs were broken,
they should be cut off the trees. max
ing the cut as smooth as possible, and
as close to the trunk of the main limb
as the saw can be worked. Then paint
the wound over-after having soaked
it with a 1-to-100 solution of bichloride
Of mercury-with tar or pitch. melted,
to keep disease germs from entering.
Wounds so treated will soon heal over.
leaving a sound. healthy scar. where If
left untreated they will afford breed
ing places for all sorts of rot and
stroy the entire tree.
Corn that was blown down during
the storm may in some cases straighten
up again. provided it was not too
heavily cared. 1t the ears had develop
ed too much, however, the stalks will
not be able to lift the weight, and the
corn will probably be loss. unless the
green fodder can be sold or utilized.
In sections where silos are more freely
used than hereabouts such corn would
be saved by converting 1T into ensilage.
A plan for making rose bed that
has been followed by one amateur
Sol oSACi A0i manly ySoA o. cho Oh a. .
with complete success, is as follows:
Mark out the dimensions of the bed
and remove the soil to the depth OF
eighteen inches or two feet, putting
the bottom of the excavation place a
layer a couple of inches deep of broken
tile, small pieces of stone, fragments
Of bricks, cinders and anything to give
drainage. Fill in the bed with a mix
ture of the top soil, sand. woods loan.
if available, well rotted cow manure.
somewhat strawy, and in the top four
or five inches Of soil use bone dust in
addition to the manure. Fill the ex-
cavation with the prepared soil, firm
and sink into holes during the winter.
Plant the roses. setting them just to
the depth of the original earth marks
on the plants, and firm the soil well
a mulch Of well rotted strawy manure,
and give all a thorough soaking, either
with the hose or by means of the
sprinkler. When the proper time comes,
along late in October. drive stout
stakes down beside each plant and tie
the plants up firmly. wrapping them
with clean straw. which must also be
bound fast with raffia or strips Of
muslin. Do not remove the wrapping
until danger OF frost Is past in the
turned under, the bed given a thorough
cultivation and a fresh mulch applied.
So treated, roses should Withstand any
winter weather that this section is
should bloom early and late, producing
the largest and finest of roses.
Much the same plan as that describ-
ed for making a rose bed may be fol-
lowed in preparing trench for sweet
peas. the work in both cases being
better done in the fall than in the
spring. In the case Of sweet peas.
however. the trench is to be made about
eighteen inches wide, two feet deep
material in the bottom should be at
least four inches deep, covered with a
couple of inches of coarse straw or
grass. The soil should contain. in ad-
dition to the manure, a liberal quantity
of unleached wood ashes. with bone
dust. Sweet peas may be planted in
the fall If the planting is done late in
October and the seeds covered to the
trench prepared as directed here. In
such case the plants will come up at
the usual time in the spring, and be-
ing SO deeply rooted will grow better
and more thriftily than those planted
at the usual depth in the spring.
In regard to the advice sometimes
given in regard to ringing" fruit trees
to induce fruitfulness, the New York
obtained from our experiments are not
favorable to ringing fruit trees as a
general practice. Under some condi-
TONS for limited time. more favor
able outcome might be expected. Hardy,
vigorous, young apple trees may read
lily undergo a single ringing and be
benefited thereby. but subsequent OPP
erations are injurious: Trees lacking
vigor are often seriously injured by the
practice. The deleterious effects of the
treatment have generally been SO mark
ed as to render the operation exceed
ing1y hazardous. There seems to be no
regular or systematic increase in fruit
production. The gains do not Offset the
losses.
It is to be lamented that SO few vege-
tables are shown at the fall and winter
Of the county and state hor-
ticultural societies. Compared with the
splendid showings Of fruit the meager
displays of vegetables usually seen at
these meetings are disgrace to the
great vegetable growing Industry.
Truckers should now lay their plans
for creditable displays at all these
meetings.
From now on to the end of the season
will be an important busi-
ness on every truck farm in the central
and northern sections Growers, espe-
cially those who ship their products,
should remember that crisp clean vege- |
ly. always command top prices. Even In
a glut they usually sell at a profit to
the grower. Common goods are al
ways slow sale, and when the market
Is we'll supplied they are almost I'M
at any price. The buyers who
pay top prices are critical and insist
upon knowing what is inside the pack
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