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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
February  13 
Wm.  Falconer,  Queen  County,  N.  Y. — 
In  answer  to  Mr.  Isaac  llicks,  who  writes 
on  page  38,  I  would  say  :  The  Elaeagnus 
you  bought  under  the  name  Elaeagnus 
longipes  is,  I  presume,  Elaeagnus  umbel  - 
lata.  It  fruits  later  than  the  other 
species,  so  far  as  I  know  them,  and  also 
more  abundantly  ;  but  its  fruit  is  of  little 
use  in  a  culinary  sense.  As  an  ornamental 
shrub,  however,  it  has  a  place  ;  in  parks 
and  large  gardens  it  is  worth  planting, 
not  only  as  a  very  healthy  bush,  but  in 
company  with  Indian  currant,  climbing 
waxwort,  callicarpa,  and  some  others, 
for  its  ornamental  fruit.  More  than  that, 
isn’t  is  worth  growing  for  the  birds’  sake  ? 
Every  bird  in  the  parks  adds  pleasure  to 
them  ;  then  feed  the  birds. 
Before  I  came  here  Elaeagnus  umbel- 
lata  (of  which  there  was  a  fine,  large 
specimen)  was  grown  on  this  place  under 
the  name  of  Elaeagnus  longipes,  and  not 
only  was  this  the  case  here,  but  the  one 
generally  grown  in  American  nurseries 
as  Longipes  was  this  Umbellata.  I  believe 
Meehan  had  it  true.  Ellwanger&  Barry 
also  had  it,  but  as  they  told  me  when  I 
was  there  a  few  years  ago',  they  hadn’t 
propagated  or  sold  it.  And  when  I  began 
to  direct  people’s  attention  to  the  genu¬ 
ine  Longipes,  a  few  years  ago,  some  nur¬ 
serymen  discovered  that  they  did  not  have 
the  true  article  imported  from  Europe, 
and  found  that  what  some  others  had  im¬ 
ported  for  Longipes  was  the  old  Umbel¬ 
lata.  Others  who  imported  it,  not  being 
familiar  with  Elasagnuses,  believed  in 
what  they  got,  and  sent  it  out  in  full  con¬ 
fidence  that  they  were  distributing  the 
genuine  article.  But  Umbellata  is  not 
the  only  sort  that  has  been  sent  here  as 
Longipes.  I  will  say,  however,  for  our 
American  nurserymen,  that  I  am  not 
aware  of  a  single  case  where  any  spurious 
Elaeagnus  has  been  sold  for  Longipes,  by 
parties  who  knew  at  the  time  that  it  was 
not  Longipes. 
Now,  about  Longipes  as  a  fruit :  it  is 
not  a  dessert  fruit,  as  strawberries  or 
cherries  are — that  is,  a  fruit  to  be  eaten 
dry — any  more  than  barberries  are  ;  its 
value  is  for  preserve  or  sauce  as  a  relish 
with  meat,  like  red  currant  or  cranberry; 
and  for  this  purpose  it  is  a  very  welcome 
addition  to  our  fruits.  This  is  no  theo¬ 
retical  supposition  at  all,  but  a  practical 
fact ;  we  use  all  of  our  fruit  in  this  way, 
and  so  far  we  have  not  yet  had  enough. 
Tomato  Crosses. 
E.  S.  Goff,  Wisconsin  Experiment 
Station. — The  sample  of  seed  of  the 
Station  Tomato  sent  to  The  Rural  in 
1888,  seems  to  have  been  of  a  peculiarly 
unsettled  strain.  I  do  not  now  recall 
another  instance  since  the  crop  of  1887, 
in  which  seed  from  a  plant  of  the  upright 
type  produced  plants  of  the  recumbent 
habit.  During  the  first  few  years  suc¬ 
ceeding  the  cross,  however,  such  occur- 
i*ences  were  very  common. 
I  cannot  therefore  agree  with  the  Ed¬ 
itor  of  The  Rural  in  his  opinion  that  the 
Station  is  no  more  nearly  fixed  now  than 
at  the  beginning.  The  first  fruit  from 
which  it  was  derived  was  from  a  plant 
having  the  recumbent  habit  of  the  Alpha, 
no  plants  of  the  upright  type  maturing 
any  fruits  in  the  first  planting. 
The  Station  Tomato  is  still  variable 
with  me;  but  the  variations  are  almost 
entirely  confined  to  the  fruit,  the  plants 
being  uniformly  of  the  upright  type,  and 
with  a  characteristic  dark  green  and 
crinkled  foliage.  The  past  season, 
marked  differences  were  noticeable  in 
the  productiveness  of  the  plants,  some 
bearing  nearly  or  quite  a  peck  of  fine 
fruit ;  while  others  were  literally  bar¬ 
ren,  produced  flowers  in  abundance  but 
set  no  fruit. 
The  remarkable  variations  that  have 
resulted  from  this  cross  of  the  French 
Upright  and  the  Alpha,  many  of  which 
have  been  so  widely  different  from  either 
parent,  if  they  suggest  anything  that  we 
are  able  to  interpret,  suggest  that  our 
cultivated  tomato  has  a  composite  origin. 
I  have  often  wondered  if  it  is  not  the  re¬ 
sult  of  a  cross  between  two  very  distinct 
varieties — or  species  ? — one  of  which  is  of 
the  type  of  the  Cherry  Tomato,  with 
small,  two-celled  fruits  borne  in  racemes, 
and  a  variety  having  the  large  and  strong¬ 
ly  corrugated  fruits  of  the  old  Great 
Chihuahua  or  President  Garfield  type.  It 
seems  to  me  that  the  well-known  fact  that 
the  selection  of  the  larger  fruits  tends  to 
roughness,  and  of  the  smaller  to  smooth¬ 
ness,  as  well  as  the  extreme  variability 
resulting  from  crosses,  strengthens  such 
an  hypothesis.  Botanists  to  whom  I  have 
referred  the  question,  however,  have 
flippantly  disposed  of  it  by  saying  that 
the  roughness  of  the  fruit  is  due  to  a  mul¬ 
tiplication  of  carpels  resulting  from  cul¬ 
ture.  But  I  am  unable  to  understand 
why  such  a  result  should  not  have  oc¬ 
curred  in  other  fruits.  My  own  experi¬ 
ence  in  crossing  the  Currant  Tomato  with 
larger  varieties  was  almost  exactly  sim¬ 
ilar  to  that  of  Prof.  Bailey. 
Our  respected  friend,  Geo.  W.  Campbell, 
who  has  long  been  considered  our  best 
grape  authority,  passed  his  75th  mile¬ 
stone  on  the  journey  of  life  on  the  12th 
of  January . 
Bulletin  No.  79  from  the  Michigan 
Experiment  Station,  tells  us  about  “  vege¬ 
table  tests.”  Of  wax  beans  Cylinder 
Black  Wax  (Henderson)  is  in  color  light 
yellow,  almost  white,  flesh  of  excellent 
quality,  solid  and  tender.  Productive, 
matures  its  pods  in  succession,  and  they 
remain  long  in  edible  condition.  A  most 
valuable  variety  for  family  use.  Y osemite 
(Gregory)  is  yellow,  tender,  thick  and 
solid,  productive  and  good.  Pods  round 
and  four  to  five  inches  long . '. . 
Detroit  Wax  (Ferry)  is  early,  a  strong 
grower.  Pods  long,  broad,  tender  and 
good.  An  excellent  variety . 
Of  green  bush  beans  Dakota  Soup  (Bur¬ 
pee)  bears  pods  three  to  four  inches  long, 
narrow,  tender,  excellent  quality . 
Of  new  varieties  of  green  bush,  the 
Shah  (Thorburn)  is  vigorous  and  erect. 
Pods  five  to  six  inches  long,  narrow, 
straight,  tender  and  of  fine  quality.  Pro¬ 
ductive,  medium  as  to  season.  Excel¬ 
lent  for  succession. 
Osborn  Forcing  bears  pods  five  to  six 
inches  long,  nearly  all  mature  at  the  same 
time.  It  was  the  most  productive  variety 
grown . 
Of  pole  beans,  Challenger  (Thorburn) 
is  considered  one  of  the  best.  Plant  con¬ 
tinues  to  form  pods  until  frost.  Beans 
are  late  in  becoming  edible.  Pods  three 
inches  long,  broad  ;  beans  large,  thick, 
good  quality . 
Golden  Champion  (Henderson)  was 
pronounced  the  earliest  wax  pole  bean 
grown.  Plants  three  to  four  feet  high, 
pods  five  inches  long,  thick,  tender  and  of 
good  quality.  Golden  Cluster  grows  eight 
to  ten  feet  high,  pods  six  to  nine  inches 
long,  best  quality  ;  vines  very  productive, 
bearing  pods  from  bottom  to  top  of  poles. 
Horticultural  Lima  (Hicks)  is  pro¬ 
nounced  good  as  a  string  bean  and  the 
earliest  of  the  Limas . 
Of  beets,  Bassano  is  desirable  for  home 
use.  Tops  large  and  fine  for  greens. 
Blood  turnip  is  one  of  the  best  for  family 
use.  Eclipse  is  of  excellent  quality  and 
early.  Long-  Blood  is  a  good  late  kind. 
Salzer  Beauty  has  highly-colored  flesh, 
roots  three  inches  long*  and  also  three 
inches  in  diameter.  A  valuable  variety. 
Landreth’s  Early  is  an  excellent  kind  for 
forcing  or  early  garden  use.  Tops  small, 
roots  good  size  and  regular,  flesh  light, 
but  firm  and  brittle . 
Golden  Dwarf  is  the  kind  of  celery 
generally  grown  in  the  Kalamazoo  dis¬ 
trict.  Solid,  fine  flavor  and  one  of  the 
best  keepers.  Golden  Self -blanching 
requires  (like  the  White  Plume)  little 
banking  up  and  is  one  of  the  best  kinds 
grown.  Pascal  is  said  to  be  a  promising 
new  variety.  Blanches  well,  bunch 
large,  stalks  thick  and  solid  and  of  fine 
quality . 
Among  cucumbers  the  following  are 
commended  :  For  pickling — Green  Pro¬ 
lific,  Long  Green,  Russian,  Parisian  and 
Everbearing.  For  table  use — Hill’s  White 
Spine,  Pera  and  White  Japan . 
The  following  varieties  of  radishes  are 
recommended  for  the  purposes  named : 
Early  radishes — Ne  Plus  Ultra,  French 
Breakfast,  Wood  Frame,  Rapid  Forcing 
and  Long  Bright  Scarlet.  Summer  rad¬ 
ishes — Chartier,  Scarlet  Short  Top,  Sur¬ 
prise  and  White  Summer . 
The  Earliest  Tomato  (J,  C.  Vaughan) 
was  pronounced,  on  account  of  its  ex¬ 
treme  earliness  and  productiveness,  one 
of  the  most  valuable  tomatoes  ever  grown. 
Following  it  were  Atlantic  and  Early 
Ruby.  Thorburn’s  Long-Keeper  (R.  N.- 
Y.)  was  pronounced  very  productive,  med¬ 
ium  to  large  in  size,  quite  regular  and 
likely  to  take  the  place  of  Beauty  which 
it  resembles . 
As  to  cabbages  the  Etampes  in  general 
are  best  for  early  as  they  are  solid,  even 
and  mature  quickly.  Some  selected  strain 
of  Wakefield  should  follow.  All  Seasons 
is  the  best  second  early,  maturing  in  Aug¬ 
ust.  Flat  Dutch  and  Diamond  Winter 
are  the  best  for  September.  Marblehead 
and  Vandergaw  were  the  best  October 
cabbages.  The  new  kinds  tried  were  in¬ 
ferior  to  those  above  mentioned . 
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