moohe's nm&h hew-yorker. 



247 



conapici 

 that old favorite family, the 



AooKiTt-w, (Monkshood ^ or Tark±-«ip, as we call- 

 ed it in our youthful days. There are several 

 varieties, mostly blue, but there are also white 

 and yellow. The flowers grow in spikes "Inch in 

 some sorts are tbreeor four feet long. Among the 

 prettiest sorts, which we notice io flower now, is 

 a utrticolor, white and blue, a very marked and 

 pretty variety. Varieoatum is much like versi- 

 color, being light blue, edged with white. A small 

 yellow variety called i'ii-n tmum, and a fine white 

 sort, Alba. 



IJELrnisicu or Pmnaiat Larltpur, is another 



and varieties. Like the former, they are mostly 

 blue in color, from three to fire feet in height, and 

 flower most freely. Iodeed, when properly man- 

 aged the whole plant seems like n wreath of blos- 

 soms of the brightest azure colors. Few flowers 



CROWN BOD GOOSE11ERRY. 



readers know what a delicious fruit I cau seedlings are no 



the gooseberry is,— howabundautly it bears,— how I perhaps our only hope 



valuable it is in the hands of the cook, ss well as ; this direction ; yet we 1 



he dessert— and, indeed, we had almost forgot- line collections of Engl 



these important facts, it is so long since we exhibition of the 67. 



give i 



tiful 



: and 



[other showy horde 



: of color, from the 



Slightest tinge to the darkest purple. Among the 



finest wc noticed Barlot-wii, growing fire feel in 



height, with dark blue flowers; Iformaitt^taj deep 



it, light azure blue; Alba, white; 



m, double, deep azure blue ; JfapellU, 



large, dark blue. In addition to these, we noticed 



as very fine, Moortii and Hybridum 



Campanula, or Canterbury 2idU, 



Oldest and most showy of our border plants.— 



These are also mostly blue, Though some arc white, 



while others have but a delicate shade There an 



■' m> ■-, which we will not now describe 



but any of our readers ordering half a dozen snrts 



from a good nurseryman, will not fail to obtain 



Digitalis or Fbzgtove 

 plant of cosy culture, v, 

 shaped tubular flowers, of a variety of colors.— 

 alight purple; Purpca Alba, yellow- 

 ish white; Variegata, striped with white, 



• or Mii/oil.vKy pretty and dcsiiaoN: 

 l 'ili il.Mvns, particularly the white double 

 variety, us it continues to flower most of the season, 

 throwing up its daisy-like flowers in corymbs, on 

 stems about a foot in height. Next to the while, 

 the roua, or rubra, is the best, having the moat 

 delicate rose-colored flowers in large trusses — 

 There are several yellow sorts. 



TiuDgacANTiA or Spidirwort, is very common ■ 

 indeed, is found in almost every garden. We 

 never thought it very desirable, but we observed 

 this season, in the grounds of Ellwam.eh A Barrv, 

 ft most beaulirul double variety, of a vory desirable 

 color, called rubra pit no. 



Tint JncOA, Adam's Wfc-Wii have often 

 wondered why the Yvcca was not more generally 

 planted. It is always admired, and when exhibited 

 in our horticultural shows, looked upon as a great 

 curiosity— a foreign plant— and yet it can be ob- 

 tained at almost any nursery for a few shillings 

 and can bo successfully grown and flowered in any 

 COttOgfl garden. The flower-stem grows to the 

 height of from three to five feet, and is covered 

 with large, bell-sniped, creamy. while flowers. 



have raised a crop, 

 half-formed specime 

 and, indeed, the onl 



gooseberry in this ct 



tasted a few 

 The mildew is the great, 

 nemy of importance to the 

 itry, and could this be over- 

 on be a very important fruit, 

 any of our small fruits. In the 

 y 5th, we gave some facts on this 

 e refer our readers. The Amcri- 



lubject to mildew, .and 

 escape the disease is in 

 e much delighted at the 

 sorts shown at the last 

 Valley Horticultural So- 

 ewty. We have never seen so good au exhibition 

 in this country, of fine sorts, and they were en- 

 tirely free from mildew. May we not hope that a 

 brighter era is dawning? 



Among the best and hardiest variclies on exhibi- 

 tion was the Crown B"b. of which wc give a draw- 

 ing, showing the size and form of the fruit, as well 

 as of the leaf and branch. 





elevating 



Why should any family that has four 

 ground, do without fruit* One spray of 

 me-nots, left out of the border of the bonnel 

 olher little self-denial, worth fifty cents 

 purchase the tree, and a few hours stolen f 

 drowsy god of a summer morning, and 

 gymuastic exercise with spade and hoe, are all tb 

 is needed. Try it, girls, try it; and myn 

 it, if there are roses on your cheeks, no 



will mis 

 bonneti 



the sprig of forget- 





No one need take pains to tell me that my pears 

 are bearing loo soon. I have heard so already. 

 Nor do I think they have done anything extraordi- 

 nary ; hut well, considering. I saw, by a McCou- 

 nelsrille paper, the other day, that Miss C. Thomp- 

 son had presenled, at the Morgon County Horticul- 

 tural Meeting, a gooseberry measuring four inches. 

 I suppose I planted that bush, for Miss Thompson 

 lives upon "Mount Airy." and we left some of the 

 finest bushes there, five years ago, that I ever saw 

 —either they or their descendants produced the 

 prodigy. We have a bottieful on the parlor m 



Ornament, thai grew this year from a slip of 

 Id Mount Airy stock. I am glad I planted 



DRYING FBtTTT, WASHING RECIPE, Ac. 





e the in off 



most all civilized countries for hundreds of years, 

 yet no effort was made for its improvement, and it 

 seemed to be entirely discarded both by profes- 

 sional and omateur florists, prized only by the most 

 humble collage gardeners, until withina few years. 

 "Here, and there," in the language of an English 

 Journal, "it has found a discerning patron; but, 

 generally speaking, the floral world baa been influ- 

 enced by a Dahlia excitement, from which it is 

 now subsiding, in sober disposition to judge all 

 flowers by their respective merits. The rose is 

 again the queen, and the hollyhock is again at 

 court." This improvement of the hollyhock was 

 1 by any celebrated personage, c 



the gardens of any of the great horticultural „ 

 cieties. The person entitled to this honor, is 

 shoemaker in England, a lover of flowers, wil 

 whom the hollyhock was a great favorite, and pu 

 suing a course of culture, dictated by his own ol 

 serration and experience, he succeeded in astoi 

 ishing the world by producing flowers far moi 

 beautiful than bod ever before been seen. 



To all lovers of flowers 

 plants of the very best hollyhocks, from 

 nurseryman within your reach. Order the fei 

 regardless of cost, if onlv two or three plants 

 They can be se-' - ' 

 nothing pretti 



i say, obtain a few 



DISEASE OF THE CHERRY. 



Eos. Rural:— Yourarticleon the tV^r//,, in the 

 last Rvhal, suggested Io me the idea of uktn| 

 some information in regard to diseases to which 

 the tree is subject in this section. I have been 

 trying to cultivate the improved varieties for the 

 last eight years, and although they grow very 

 vigorously for a year or two, they soon begin to 

 show signs of decay. Spots of gum appear in the 

 trunk, the bark becomes dead, and the tree either 

 dies or is so stunted as to he entirely worthless. 

 On examining the gum spots. I usually find a white 

 worm or grub in them, but whether that causes 

 the disease or not I am unable to determine. The 

 common red, sour cherry jg entirely free from this 

 disease, but having ta>ted the Elton, Ac, I am un- 

 willing to give them up and fall buck on the com- 

 mon, if a remedy can be found for the above 

 mentioned disease. My soil is gravel loam, with 

 gravel subsoil, so tb*'. -here It no danger orstand- 

 ing waler about the roots. Ifyou, or any cultiva- 

 Cberry, enn furnish a remedy for this 

 groat favor on the rcod- 



A LATE SEEDLINO CHERRY. 



We have so many 

 is little use of adding 

 didates for public favor excel all 



valuable quality 



able Cherries that there 





rsof tbcRr- 

 Smyrna, Jul) 



, tins 



W. i 



,-* u „, I for- 

 ward it for insertion ; 



Dnm-G Cosnint, Touatobs, Ac. - To ten 

 pounds of currant*, picked clean from the stems, 

 addapoundcf sugar and aVittltwiter. I'utlhem 

 into your kettle and let them boll g, 

 or so. When they all seem broken, t 

 and dip into plater pans. Ac. There will n 

 pear to be much but juice, but in three or four 

 days, if kept in the sun and wind, and stirred and 

 turned over two or three times a day. this will bo 

 a mass of jelly, sufficiently dry to be placed in a 

 separate dish to finish hardening, which will take 

 a few dnys longer. When dry, so as not to feel 

 put into paper bags ond keep in a dry, dark 



They i 

 nillera will get i 

 is a better way tl 





'•"j, 



1 ei],LT;lvll'- 



present our readers with ai 

 of a Seedling Cherry, grown by Mathj 



:, of this city, and supposed to be from seed 



of the American Amber. The flesh is rather firm, 



cy, sweet and rich. Color amber in the shade, 



very dark red in the most exposed parts. Stem 



slender, nearly two inches in length. It is valua- 



■i'.'uess. btinjj ripe this season about 



the 25th of July. 



-The evil of which you complain is 

 very common at the South nnd West. A partial 

 remedy, we believe, has been found in sheathing 

 the trunks with straw or moss. On this subject, 

 however, information is needed. The Duke and 

 Ifordlo varieties would, no doubt, succeed well 

 with vou. 



AN EXAMPLE FOR LADIES. 



t. F. D. Gage, of St. Louis, Mo., w 

 follows of her success in horticulture tot 

 Farmer. We commend her example 

 mothers, and daughters, and 

 Rural; 



■ iTLid the 



U massive plumes of c ! ""' 



k *Wcr, ki 

 h «* BMOD 



of the Roul or itTreftderT'Fe""' 



how beauliful a (lower the Ij, ( || v .' 



under proper care and culture - 



■-"Mtue btnttfel tall spLkes of flowers s howu 



,,.,,' JjJSWriOftii double and beautiful as the 



Thete are far different from the poor single 



£* Jj -i robte kinds generally seen.and there are 



them" °n '"^ Bnd show . T flowers that excel 



lauded Dahlia, that has been an 



<■ ■>!.,■„ 



i Ih.ri 



iiiny yeui >, 



Although CnuT" ," d beoatT ' 

 *" "• Hollyhock has been g 



Any of our reader.-, u ho have tine Carnati 

 Picottcs that they wish to preserve or increas 

 do so very easily by layering, and it should be done 

 immediately. Procure a quantity of small hooked 

 pegs; then take a trowel nnd remove the ea 

 the depth of an inch or so directly under the shoot 

 to be layered. Take the shoot in one hand, and 

 With the finger and thumb of (he other hand re- 

 move the leaves from the body of the shoot, and 

 shorten those at the top an inch or so. With a 

 thin, sharp knife, cut through the strongest joint 

 on the body of the shoot, cutting upwards until 

 within a short distance of the next joint, and if the 

 juints lire close it may he nece33ury to Cut through 

 more than one. The slit may be from one to two 

 inches in length. Then press the center of the 

 shoot down to the earth, being at the same time 

 careful to keep the slit open and the top in an up- 

 nght position; take one of the pegs and secure it 

 ■ situation. A little clean sand placed around 

 at, will aid in the formation of roots. In 

 September or October the shoots thus layered will 

 be rooted suffciently to separate from the parent 

 plant, when they may be cut away aud removed to 

 r quarters. The operation is pretty pluinlv 

 illustrated in the engraring. 



I procured some pear trees of Mr. L. Burtis, of 

 Rochester, N. Y., which I superintended the set- 

 ling of on a rainy day a year ago last fall. Spring 

 come, nnd but three out of forty died. Some of 

 them blossomed, but the flowers were removed 



They grew wonderfully through 



GENESEE VALLEY HORT. SOCIETY. 



'he June Exhibition of the Genesee Valley 

 LTort. Society was held on the 22d iust. The she 

 was not large, hut the attendance of members and 

 citizens interested in Horticulture quite good. 

 The next exhibition will be made August 19th. 

 The following are the reports of Committees : 



The Committee on Flowers regret io slate lhal their 



jo, ofpicol«es, hoUyhocl 

 I. E. K. Blythe and Mrs 



hud fiill.-n, I 



., AshUihula, Co., Ohio, 



the summer, and when 



their usual height. After the 



had them pruned, and they c 



the past spring more vigorously than 



pears on a single branch, another nine. I think 

 they are the Flemish Beauty. 



One year ago last May I purchased of Ellwutiger 

 A Barry's agent, three varieties of currants, in all, 

 eight roots, and this season they have borne a few 

 clusters of magnificent fruit. Fine gooseberries, 

 two years from setting. 



Now. I have said / all through this story, be- 

 cause I was /that did it, and if\, (an old woman, 

 I was going to say, but I'm not old ;) if I who am 

 fifty, (and have gray hairs,) can set out pear trees, 

 and gooseberries, and strawberries, and raspber- 

 ries, what is the use of young women, just enter- 

 ing upon the threshold of lire's usefulness, shrink- 

 ing from such work, and waiting for husbands, or 

 fathers aud brothers to do it for them? 



Oh! there is a joy in gathering the fruit that 

 one's own hands have planted — in knowing that 

 her work has helped the world so much. I never 

 dropped u seed, or set u slip iu the ground, in my 

 life, that prospered, that I was not made happier 

 for tho work. And us I sit by my window, to-day, 

 e my laden little pear trees waving to and 

 ook buck upon that hard day's work in the 

 ilh as much complacency as upon any day's 

 work lbrmuny years, 

 I have seen many chapters about pears, ond 

 ad much discussion on the comparative merits 

 of the dwarfs and standards; and if my dwarfs 

 prosper, (and about half are dwarfs,) they wdl 

 s fruit each year for four or five years, or 

 :o me into bearing; then 

 wo can afford to let thm die, \fthq must. I have 

 seen pears sell here, in the basket, for ten cents 

 apiece, and my tree, that bears thirteen, would 

 more than pay for itself in one year at I hat rate 

 and I am aure I have had pleasure enough in | 

 watching the growth, to 



preserving fruit in the 

 usual mode, as it will not fermeut. When wanted 

 for use, put into a tin dish with boiling water and 

 sogar, stew a short time and serve. I have now 

 currants that were dried in this way ten years ago, 

 aud they are. to all appearance, as good as when 

 first djied. The millers havenot offered to trouble 

 them since the first year. When I stew dried 

 apples for pies, I stew with it a spoonful or two to 

 a pie. This so much improves the flavor, that 

 we hardly think dried apple pie is fit to eat with- 



Raspberries, blackberries, Ac , can be preserved 

 in the same manner. Last year I preserved a 

 great many quarts of blackberries in this way, 

 and had them occasionally all winter and spring, 

 they are not all used yet. Such fruit is very 

 dy for pies in spring and early summer, when 

 s so difficult to furnish a variety of palatable 

 food. Raspberries and blackberries should be put 

 away in covered earthern ware or tin, as they can- 

 not be dried so as not to stick to paper. Toma- 

 toes must beskinnedbyfirst pouring boiling water 

 on them, then cut io slices aud cooked slightly, then 

 spread and dried on tins and plales. 



I also send awasbiug recipe which I think the 



beat of any. To one pound bar soap, or its equii a- 



lent in sofj-soap, add two ounces of pulverized 



borax and one pint of water. Put it into a kettle 



and keep it hot till dissolved. It must not boil, as 



it will not be properly combined. When going to 



-■wb, wet the clothes in cold water, rub well the 



led parts with the mixture, and pour on hot or 



iling water, cover the tub and let them remain 



till m orning, then wring out and boil in clean 



suds. The clothes, unless badly soiled, will need 



' 'ittle rubbing. Rinse and hang out. Try it, 



r, and I hope you will find it as great a bless- 



REMEDY FOR BURNS.-NO HUMBUG. 



Usssn 



n and heard of so 

 of the right 



through 



much suffering from 

 kind of salve, that I am induced 

 the RuitAL, my recipe— one tbat has beet 

 thoroughly. From thirty years experience, I be- 

 lieve there can be nothing better, never having 

 kuown, in one single instance, a bum or scald, 

 when dressed with this and followed up, that did 

 not soon get well. There are no slicking plasters 

 to be removed, causingdoublesuffering— no proud 



flesh- 

 fort 



in the hou 



-enty varieties, to Mr. 



I'ulvli I 



-iris, to o. W.Seeley. 



1 Varieties, lo A. Frost A Co. 



I Victoria. Ditto, Best one 



r While Grape. 



varieties, to H- E. Hooker ,t 



or Hudson River Red Autwerp, 



specimens of New Rocliclto Blackberry were 

 by S. Matthews. 



Harvest Apples from J. 0. Bless. 



iff joints or contracted cords — butt 

 restored. Now, if those that read this 

 and make the salve, and keep it 

 instantly — we hope they may not 

 to make a test— it will prove its 

 cation. I do not suppose there 

 auspired since we have known its 

 have been without it, and, although 

 3 fortunate as not to need it, some 

 of our friends or neighbors have been less favored. 



appl 



> tber 



:ipe : 



ndy, 



teacupful lard. Stir wbile simmering together, 

 then pour from the dregs into earthen or glass lo 

 preventrust. The first dressingnot to 

 until the third day— afterwards change dressing 

 every day. Clarissa Colvix. 



h N. Y., 



Goosebcrr 



go late for competition, and have not there- 



without e 



i la the awards — tho specimens were fine 

 ceplloo, and showed skill In eultlvntioi 



finiirkul 

 Brm<kU 



H. E. Hooked, Chairman. 



nips.— We have seen nothing new or 

 e in the way of Raspberries this season. 

 Oran.jr maintains its reputation as the 



hardiest and beslof the light sorts. Rut Antwerp, 

 F-i-tohr, and Biidvm Hirer Bed Antwerp are the 

 best of the red sorts. The Catuieiaa and some of 



he other 



new varieties are fruiting well, The 



■ltt-nwehave seen in two places and it appears 



o poasei 



but little merit, 



«.— Please answer tliniugh jour paper, ollher 



'.'.Ml,' 1 '!"'!-! 



nr 9IIIU- o.rr. ■■i">ii'l'" 1 . " nn y person In the 



111! II..pT 



ce, anJ wltli wliatHUcceM? — Obed HowiLt, 





,11,,] I 



Ice Cubau— Lehon Cake, Ac— Three quarts ol 

 milk; 'jvf pounds of powdered sugar; !■'■ )'"lks, 

 well beaten and strained, mix altogether in ii tin 

 pail, (do not use the whites of the eggs at all,) 

 the pail into a kettle of boiling water, and stir 

 the custard all the time until it is quite thick. 



the flavoring, then freeze. For an adult a large 

 saucerful, a bright silver spoooD, aud a slice of 

 1 Cult, made thus. 

 One pound of sugar; Meggs; % pound of 

 flour; 2 lemons. Beat the sugar and yolks well 

 together, add the juice of the lemons— Hie whites 

 must be whisked to slond— then sift in the flour, 

 drop in buttered lins, and bake a light brown. 

 Can some one scud us a recipe for canning corn, 

 —<„„ well ft^rf.— M -i Fort Wayne, Ind., ISM. 



Packing Eggs.— Having read in theRmuL ODe 

 cipe for packing eggs, and also an inquiry for 

 inlher, I send one that I have tried and k now to 

 good. Take the barrel, or tub, and put a layer 

 Cayuga plaster in the bottom, then take thu- 

 gs, set them up on the end— don't have them so 

 they will hit each other— then add more plaster, 

 then another layer of eggs, and so on until the 

 vessel is full. Set them where they will keep dry, 

 and in the spring you will have plenty of "<"•" 

 eggs on baud. Will some one send a recipe for 

 making Wine Crackers 7— M. E. Root, Daaivith, 

 ■iV: T., 185fl. 



