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Rural Notes and Gleanings. 
Few papers published have so large a num¬ 
ber of Horticultural correspondents as the 
Rural New Yorker and of course they give 
the world some new ideas through it. From 
recent issues we cull the following notes: 
In laying tile drains it pays to cover each 
joint with a collar So fitted that the soil will 
not work in and fill the tile. If the bottom 
of the ditch is cut down to a point exactly 
the size of the tile, the latter will never move 
laterally and cause trouble. 
A granary may be made mouse proof by 
building its walls and floor of maple lum¬ 
ber with tight fitting joints. 
A Montana correspondent has frequently 
counted 100 stems and well filled heads of 
oats grown from one seed, while 200 to 300 
grains to the head are common. Therefore 
it is possible to grow 10000 grains or more 
from one. This would be 15 bushels from 
one ounce of seed. 
Among the new Red Raspberries, the 
Marlboro, Crimson Beauty, Hansell and 
Superb, are each strong claimants for the 
highest seat of honor. No doubt all are 
worthy. 
Of Black Raspberries, the Hoosier Mam¬ 
moth, Soughegan, Gregg and Nemaha are 
most highly spoken of. 
The Caroline Raspberry is a jewel. On 
the table it looks like pure gold, and you 
can easily imagine you are eating Brincklis 
* Orange. It is hardy, and may be propagated 
either by tips or suckers. It is rather soft 
for market but splendid for home use. 
It is good advice to plant small fruits on 
upland or near large bodies of water. Lake 
Ontario kept the severe late spring frost 
away for four miles distant from its shore. 
William Falconer, of Long Island, says 
that of 18 kinds of Lettuce tested, the Royal 
Summer Cabbage is best for summer use. 
“Stratagem” and “Pride of the Market” 
are two new Peas of great merit. Vines are 
medium sized, very stocky and prolific. 
Pods solidly filled with exceptionally large 
peas. Of the two new Peas, “Abundance” 
and “Everbearing” he says; Sown April 25, 
Abundance was fit for use July 1st; Ever- 
bearing a week later. Both produce bushy 
vines, about two feet high, and bear stout 
solidly filled pods, containing three to six 
very large peas of fine quality. But the 
name “Everbearing” is very misleading. 
It is not a whit more everbearing than Lax- 
ton’s Long Pod, Champion of England, or 
several other common peas. 
O. H. Alexander much prefers the Ever- 
bearing to the Abundance Peas. Considers 
Pride of the Market one of the very best 
Peas. Has found 21 pods on a vine, which 
will average four inches each in length and 
all well filled. Height of vine feet. 
The Rural Editor says Stratagem is the 
best intermediate pea, all things considered 
he has ever tested. It also grows about IS 
inches in height. 
The Cornelia Strawberry is extolled for its 
extreme lateness, the first picking being 
eleven days later than some early sorts. 
The subject of “Insecticides” was discuss¬ 
ed before the Ohio Horticultural Society. 
Geo. M. Campbell recommended a mixture 
of kerosene and common soft soap, equal 
parts. To be diluted to any extent desired 
with cold water. Mr Barrows said he had 
found that a single pound of London purple 
thoroughly mixed with a whole barrel of 
land plaster, had proved destructive to 
potato beetles. Hammond’s Slug Shot is 
destructive to potato beetles, but of no effect 
upon plant lice. 
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion calls attention to the fact that in its ex¬ 
periments potatoes raised from large, whole 
seed ripened nine days earlier than those 
from seed cut to single eyes. 
A. R. Whitney of Franklin Grove, Ill. 
has the largest apple orchard in the north¬ 
west, and among many varieties Red Asrta- 
chan, Maiden’s Blush, Willow Twig and 
Domino have paid him best. 
The N. Y. Experiment Station is trying 
to decide what are really the best of each 
class of vegetables. It particularly recom¬ 
mends Large White Summer Lettuce, Strat¬ 
agem and Pride of the Market Peas, and 
the Egyptian Beet. 
Remember the term “Hybrid” is properly 
applied only to designate the intermixture 
of two species', when two varieties are inter¬ 
mixed it forms only a cross, not a hybrid. 
The Monarch Potato Digger is said by 
