1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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What  Others  Say. 
( Continued .) 
Twenty-seven  kinds  of  sweet  corn 
were  tried  and  the  results  were  essential¬ 
ly  the  same  as  those  arrived  at  during 
many  years  of  trial  at  the  Rural  Grounds. 
Cory,  or  some  strain  of  it,  for  earliest, 
and  follow  with  Northern  Pedigree, 
Perry.  Crosby,  Concord,  Mammoth  and 
Evergreen . 
Among  new  varieties  the  Michigan  Sta¬ 
tion  praises  Red  Evergreen  (J.  L.  Childs) 
as  a  valuable  late  variety  with  dark  red 
kernels,  differing  from  Evergreen  only  in 
color.  That  agrees  with  the  variety  as 
grown  at  the  Rural  Grounds  last  summer, 
except  that  the  average  of  ears  was 
smaller  while  the  kernels  and  rows  were 
more  regular . 
The  R.  N.-Y.  also  tried  the  improved 
Ruby  Sweet  Corn  (Burpee).  It  matured 
with  Stowell’s  Evergreen  ;  stalks  about 
same  height,  seven  to  eight  feet.  Main 
stalk  and  husk  dark  purple,  often  nearly 
black.  Leaves  dark  green  with  purple 
midvein  and  lines  of  purple.  One  and 
two  ears  to  a  stalk.  Ears  seven  to  nine 
inches  long,  tapering  from  butt  to  tip — 14 
to  1 6  rows.  Kernel  not  deep,  rows  straight 
and  close  together.  Cob  deep  purple 
which  colors  the  kernels  while  cooking. 
The  kernels  are  white  when  first  fit  for 
use.  The  plants  sucker  sparinglv  The 
quality  seems  nearly  that  of  Evergreen. 
Rut  there  seems  little  reason  why  we 
should  use  this  instead  of  Evergreen  ex¬ 
cept  as  a  curiosity.  Resides,  the  market 
does  not  care  either  for  red  husks  or  red 
varieties . 
Much  has  been  said  of  late  about  the 
advantages  of  transplanting  onions.  In 
order  to  test  the  claims  made  for  this 
method  of  growing  onions,  seeds  of  seven 
varieties  were  sown  in  a  hot-bed  April  10 
and  on  May  10  they  were  transplanted  to 
the  field,  and  seeds  of  the  same  sorts  were 
on  the  same  day  sown  in  a  parallel  plot 
for  comparison. 
The  transplanted  onions  were  placed  in 
rows  ir>  inches  apart  and  at  intervals  of 
four  inches  in  the  rows.  The  soil  was  a 
rich  sandy  loam  and  received  the  same 
care  as  was  given  the  adjoining  tract 
containing  a  field  crop  of  onions. 
The  result  in  every  case  was  in  favor  of 
the  transplanted  onions  ;  the  results  from 
the  three  best  kinds  being  as  follows  : 
Bushels  per  acre. 
Not 
Prizetaker . 
Transplanted 
transplanted. 
210 
Southport . 
.  2% 
172 
Bocca . 
.  55(1 
110 
The  four  weeks  following  the  sowing 
of  the  seed  in  the  open  ground  were  quite 
dry,  and  the  plants  made  a  slow  start. 
The  transplanted  ones  received  a  copious 
watering  when  set  out  and  did  not  suffer. 
The  results  were  certainly  in  favor  of 
transplanting,  but  although  it  will  prob¬ 
ably  pay  for  home  use  and  for  truckers,  it 
is  doubtful  if  it  would  for  large  crops. 
In  the  South  the  method  would  be  more 
desirable . 
Edson  Gaylobd  (Floyd  County,  Iowa, 
in  the  Farmers’  Review,  speaks  of  a  most 
►  valuable  apple,  the  Malinda,  having  sud¬ 
denly  been  brought  to  the  front.  The 
trees  were  taken  to  his  county  some  20 
years  ago  from  Minnesota  and  peddled 
out  by  a  fraudulent  agent  who  sold  them 
under  different  names . 
The  apples  are  of  fair  size  and  un¬ 
usually  free  from  insects,  smooth,  and 
excellent  for  shipping  any  time  till  May  ; 
with  good  care  they  keep  till  June.  rlhe 
apple  in  the  fall  is  green,  hard  and  tough; 
many  call  it  sour.  From  January  till  May 
it  turns  to  an  unusually  rich  golden  yellow 
with  slight  blush  on  the  sunny  side,  and 
all  there  pronounce  it  a  fine,  sweet,  rich 
wintergreen  flavor.  Its  worst  and  only 
fault  is  its  tardiness  in  coming  into  bear¬ 
ing  ;  then,  it  is,  as  a  rule,  a  great  annual 
bearer.  The  trees  have  been  found  in  11 
different  orchards  side  by  side  by  the 
Duchess ;  and  without  an  exception  Mr. 
Gaylord  does  not  hesitate,  after  a  large 
and  most  careful  investigation  of  each 
and  every  tree,  to  pronounce  it  fully  as 
hardy  as  the  Duchess,  and,  what  is  more, 
it  has  not  shown  the  first  dead  or  injured 
mark  on  any  tree  by  sun  killing . 
No  longer  will  any  one,  Mr.  Gaylord 
says,  get  up  in  our  meetings  anywhere 
in  the  Northwest  and  repeat  the  old 
story:  “  We  have  good  summer  apples 
but  no  winter  apples.”  It  is  surely  a  god¬ 
send  to  all  lovers  of  home-grown  apples 
in  the  Northwest.  Rut  the  story  does 
not  end  here.  In  three  days  after  the 
meeting  at  Eagle  Grove,  every  known 
Malinda  tree  was  trimmed  of  every  scion 
that  could  be  spared . 
Probably  as  much  work  was  put  upon 
the  late  tomato  number  as  upon  any 
other  special  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  But  tastes 
and  wants  and  appreciations  differ  as  will 
be  seen  by  the  two  following  notes  from 
different  individuals: 
Kendall,  N  Y. 
Please  give  us  a  rest  on  tomatoes. 
Yours  truly  O.  V. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Your  tomato  number  is  a  valuable  contribution  to 
our  horticultural  literature.  f.  M.  hexamek. 
Joseph  Harris,  alluding  to  our  fertil¬ 
izer  experiments,  writes:  “People  are  in¬ 
terested  in  such  discussions.  I  think  a 
busy  editor  is  hardly  aware  how  care¬ 
fully  a  farmer  who  is  personally  and 
pecuniarily  interested  in  the  question  of 
fertilizers,  studies  and  ponders  over  such 
experiments  as  yours.  If  the  results  are 
conflicting  he  is  sure  to  find  it  out.” 
Abstracts. 
- New  York  Herald  :  “  Where  there’s 
room  at  the  top  you’ll  seldom  find  an 
elevator.” 
Rev.  Plink  Plunk  on  Grumblers  :  “  De 
people  dat  are  always  a-growlin’  dat  dis 
am  a  mighty  poor  world  to  lib  in,  deah 
breddern,  will  fine  out  wen  dey  leave  it 
dat,  compared  wid  de  place  dey  go  to,  dis 
world  am  a  perfec’  paradise.” 
Priceless  :  “You  cannot  buy  the  milk 
of  human  kindness  at  so  much  per  can.”. . 
- Ohio  Farmer:  “The  old  proverb 
says,  “hell  is  paved  with  good  resolu¬ 
tions.’  Broken  ones,  the  meaning  is.  We 
might  add,  heaven’s  pavements  of  sap¬ 
phire  and  jasper  are  formed  of  good  reso¬ 
lutions  carried  into  effect.  And  on  earth 
the  model  farms  are  those  whose  owners 
have  made  good  resolutions  and  kept 
than." 
“  Last  year  half  of  your  wheat  on  your 
clayey  land  died  of  consumption  caused 
by  wet  feet.  That  sort  of  consumption 
is  not  incurable.  Tile  drainage  will  cure 
it,  or  at  least  prevent  it.  You  resolved 
last  year  to  begin  tiling.  This  year  keep 
that  good  resolution.” 
- Jackson:  “A  depreciation  of  the 
currency  is  always  attended  by  a  loss  to 
the  laboring  class.  This  portion  of  the 
community  have  neither  time  nor  oppor¬ 
tunity  to  watch  the  ebbs  and  flows  of 
the  money  market.” 
- Stockman  and  Farmer:  “  A  great 
many  reasons  have  been  given  by  writers 
and  politicians  for  the  depressed  condi¬ 
tion  of  the  agricultural  classes.  The 
favorite  one  with  politicians  during  all 
last  year  was  the  over-production  theory, 
but  this  past  fall  they  have  embraced 
every  possible  opportunity  to  congratu¬ 
late  the  farmer  on  the  abundance  of  the 
harvest,  very  kindly  informing  him  that 
a  few  more  such  bountiful  crops  will  re¬ 
lieve  all  stringency.  Most  logicians  would 
conclude  that  if  over-production  was  the 
cause  of  depression  an  abundant  crop 
would  increase  the  trouble.  The  fact  is 
these  clever  men  do  not  know  any  more 
about  it  than  the  farmer  himself.” 
- Harper’s  Weekly  :  “  The  prominent 
issues  of  the  time — tariff  reform,  an 
honest  currency,  civil  service  reform — are 
all  measures  to  arrest  corruption.” 
- Industrialist:  “The  men  who  are 
still  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  are  not 
those  whose  lives  were  given  to  money¬ 
getting  ;  and,  though  a  millionaire  may 
be  praised  of  the  people  while  living, 
when  he  dies  his  praise  dies  with  him.” 
“  It  is  excruciating  to  watch  the  efforts 
of  a  man  with  a  young  family  and  a  $.'>00 
salary  trying  to  live  up  to  the  style  of  his 
rich  neighbors.” 
♦  (9)  HEN  you  want  a  new  coat  with 
Vv  some  style  about  it,  you  go  to 
a  large  establishment  where  they 
are  made  by  the  thousand,  and  get 
a  better  fit,  a  better  finish,  a  much 
better  cut  all  around  than  the  aver¬ 
age  country  merchant  tailor  can 
possibly  produce,  and  at  a  consider¬ 
able  saving  in  first  cost. 
It  is  just  so  in  Seeds.  When  we 
put  them  up  in  Collections  by  the  thousands  they  can  be 
sold  for  less,  though  the  quality  is  just  the  same,  the  style  of 
the  package  as  fine  in  every  respect,  as  if  you  selected  them 
one  by  one  from  our  Catalogue. 
We  have  these  Collections  in  variety.  We  know  they 
will  please ;  your  money  is  welcome  back  again  if  on  receipt 
they  do  not.  by  mail. 
COLLECTION  A — An  assortment  of  15  Varieties  of)  /T/L. 
choice  Vegetable  Seeds.  Just  the  kinds  you  want.  {  • 
C (>L LE C TI ON  1$  —  Is  a  complete  Vegetable  Garden ,)  .  .... 
being  33  packets  of  choice  varieties,  making  all  you  fp 
need  for  the  summer’s  planting.  Many  novelties.  ) 
C  OLLE  C  TI  ON  C — Contains  10  choice  Annual  Flower 1 
Seeds.  Includes  Asters,  Petunias,  Verbenas,  Pansies,  etc.  / 
COLLECTION  I)  — Is  10  choice  Floral  Novelties:  Crozy’s)  r* 
new  Can nas,  Margaret  Carnations,  Shirley  Poppies,  Fck-  a  OUC. 
ford’s  Newest  Sweet  Peas,  the  new  Tuberous  Begonias,  etc.) 
COLLECTION  1% — S  exquisite  Summer  Flowering ) 
Bulbs  the  White  Spider  lily,  Cal  la  lily,  Giant  Canna,  - 
Gladiolus,  etc.  ) 
(§  COLLECTION  E — Includes  Collection  F,  and  adds  to  it)  ^  f  /,/. 
the  exquisite  Montbretias,  the  Iris,  Spotted  Callus,  Tri-  >  J 
gj  toma,  or  Red  Hot  Poker  Plant,  Tigridias,  etc.  ) 
^  COLLECTION  G—IO  curious  and  wonderful  Cacti.  }$1.00 
With  each  Collection  we  send  our  Seed  Manual  for  1892.  Our  friends 
tell  us  it  is  beautiful.  We  know  it  is  full  of  business.  It  is  largely  illustrated 
by  the  new  photographic  process,  and  printed  on  plate  paper.  If  you  would 
like  to  see  it  before  ordering  the  Collections,  send  for  it,  enclosing  two  2-cent 
stamps  to  pay  postage,  and  mention  The  Rural  New-Yorker. 
JOHNSON  &  STOKES,  Philadelphia) pa. 
*  WE  supply  the  Seeds,  1 
YOU  gather  the  Crops. 
IT  WILL  SOON  BE  SEED  TIME;  we  have 
GOOD  SEEDS,  ready  for  planting,— and  we  know  that  at 
harvest  you  will  report  that  they  have  yielded  good  crops. 
This  WE  GUARANTEE,  unless  failure  should  result  from 
|  some  natural  causes  beyond  human  control.  You  can  rely  a 
lately  that  no  failure  will  result  from  any  fault  of  the  seed  if 
plant  ours,  for 
BURPEE’S  SEEDS  GROW 
Write  to-day  for  BURPEE’S  FARM  ANNUAL  for 
i  it  is  a  very  complete  book  of  160  pages,  with  numerous  eng 
ings  from  photographs,  and  colored  plates  painted  from  nature  ; 
it  describes  all  the  best  seeds,  including  Rare  Novelties  of1 
|  surpassing  merit  which  cannot  be  had  elsewhere. 
if)  '  W  Atlpp  Rill 
W.  Atlee  Rurnee  &  Co..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
1892. 
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For  Over  Thirty  Years 
have  always  had  very  pleasant  dealings  together,  the 
public  and  myself,  and  I  again  have  the  pleasure  of 
presenting  to  them  my  Annual  Vcgetab.o  and 
Flower  Seed  Catalogue.  .  It  contains  the  usual 
A  immense  variety  of  seed,  with  such  new  kinds  added 
las  have  proved  to  be  real  acquisitions.  Raising  many 
'of  these  varieties  myself,  on  my  four  seed  farms, 
and  testing  others,  1  am  able  to  warrant  their  fresh¬ 
ness  and  purity,  under  such  reasonable  conditionsas  are  con¬ 
tained  in  my  Catalogue.  Having  been  their  original  mtro- 
r'  ducer,  I  am  headquarters  for  choice  Cory  <3-or?h  «  er  MelonJ 
Eclipse  Beet,  Hubbard  Squash,  Deep  Head,  All  Seasons  and 
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Catalogue  Free  inosUiomplete  stocks  iu  the  U.  S. 
55  YEARS.  700  ACRES.  25  GREENHOUSES. 
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Are  safe  for  Northern  Latitudes,  and  for  Very  Early  Vegetables  or  Large  , 
Standard  Crops  everywhere  they  are  not  surpassed. 
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