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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  16 
Garden  Gossip. 
PEAS,  SALSIFY  AND  EGG  PLANT. 
The  ideal  pea  has  not  yet  put  in  an  ap¬ 
pearance.  The  old  Champion  of  England 
leaves  nothing  to  be  desired  in  the  mat¬ 
ter  of  quality,  but  it  is  some  what  trouble¬ 
some  to  grow.  What  we  want  is  a  pea 
that  will  need  no  brushing  and  yet  will 
be  as  productive  as  the  large  sorts  like 
the  Champion,  and  we  see  no  good  rea¬ 
son  why  that  point  cannot  be  reached. 
In  the  meantime,  we  must  go  on  with 
what  we  have.  In  order  to  have  the  full 
benefit  of  this  most  delightful  esculent, 
we  always  plant  a  row  or  two  of  Extra 
Early.  I  have  not  been  able  to  see  much 
difference  in  the  various  strains  of  this 
pea — each  seedsman  has  his  own  “  earliest 
and  best.”  To  follow  this,  I  have  never 
found  anything  better  than  American 
Wonder,  which  I  always  plant  liberally. 
Of  course  I  plant  Champion  and  some¬ 
times  try  the  others,  but  I  have  not 
reached  the  point  where  I  can  dispense 
with  this  old  favorite  for  any  others.  In 
my  garden,  for  many  years,  I  have  used 
the  four-foot  wide  wire  netting,  stretched 
on  stakes,  as  a  substitute  for  brush,  and 
find  it  answers  the  purpose  very  well, 
and  its  use  certainly  involves  less  trouble. 
It  is  sometimes  necessary  to  stretch  a  bit 
of  twine  along  to  draw  up  the  vines  to 
the  trellis,  but  it  is  very  little  trouble 
indeed  to  do  it. 
[The  II.  N.-Y.  is  of  the  opinion  that 
there  are  several  varieties  of  peas  of  re¬ 
cent  introduction  that  are  as  good  as 
Champion  and  as  prolific,  while  the  vines 
grow  not  over  three  feet  high.  As  to  the 
American  Wonder,  Nott’s  Excelsior  is  as 
good  in  quality,  as  early  and  far  more 
prolific. — Eds.] 
Have  any  of  The  Rural  readers  been 
able  to  grow  peas  late  in  the  season, 
without  being  annoyed  by  mildew  ?  I 
have  not,  though  I  have  repeatedly  tried. 
I  think  I  shall  try  it  again  this  season, 
and  give  the  vines  a  spraying  of  ammo- 
niacal  solution  of  copper.  Perhaps  that 
will  help  me  out. 
Last  year  I  planted  the  Mammoth 
Sandwich  Island  Salsify,  instead  of  the 
old  sort.  I  was  disappointed  in  it.  It 
was  no  larger  than  the  old  variety  which 
I  had  grown  all  my  life  and  no  better. 
Perhaps  my  seed  was  not  genuine.  I  will 
try  it  again  and  report.  Have  any  of 
The  Rural  readers  found  it  any  im¬ 
provement  ? 
I  have  never  found  anything  better 
in  egg-plant  than  the  Improved  New 
York  Purple.  By  the  way,  if  one  were 
looking  for  the  “  crankiest  ”  of  all  vege¬ 
tables,  the  egg-plant  would  probably  fill 
the  bill.  It  must  not  go  out  in  the  gar¬ 
den  until  the  weather  has  become  set¬ 
tled  warm.  One  single  cool  night  will 
stunt  it,  so  that  it  will  stand  still,  live, 
but  nothing  more,  not  making  a  leaf  for 
a  month.  One  cannot  well  overdo  the 
matter  of  fertilizing  for  egg-plants  They 
will  flourish  in  a  heap  of  almost  pure 
stable  manure,  and  they  must  have  a 
generous  supply  of  food,  if  we  expect  any 
return.  The  home  gardener  will  find  it 
better  to  buy  his  half  dozen  or  dozen 
plants  for  a  family  supply,  than  to  at¬ 
tempt  to  raise  them.  Their  “crankiness” 
begins  with  their  life  in  the  hot-bed;  and 
oh,  how  fond  of  them  the  potato  .bugs 
are!  I  sprayed  my  plants  twice  last  sea¬ 
son  with  Paris-green  in  solution — it  wras  a 
little  strong  once  and  somewhat  damaged 
the  foliage,  but  killed  the  bugs.  G. 
Strawberries. — If  farmers  only  real¬ 
ized  how  easy  it  is  to  grow  as  large  a 
yield  of  strawberries  to  the  acre  as  of 
potatoes,  by  planting  the  right  kinds  in 
rows  20  rods  long  so  that  they  could  be 
cultivated  with  the  horse,  I  think  very 
many  would  venture  to  pay  82  for  200 
plants  by  mail  and  try  some  of  the  best- 
paying  varieties.  The  great  cause  of  fail¬ 
ure  is  in  planting  all  pistillate  varieties, 
which  make  a  fine  bed  of  plants  with 
plenty  of  bloom,  but  not  a  perfect  berry. 
Set  one  row  of  perfect-flowering  kinds 
and  on  either  or  both  sides  of  a  row  of  pis- 
tillates  and,  properly  tended,  200  plants 
set  in  this  way  in  the  spring  will  bear 
1,000  quarts  of  splendid  fruit  the  follow¬ 
ing  season.  I  had  one  variety  in  matted 
rows,  that  yielded  fully  at  the  rate  of  800 
bushels  per  acre  the  past  season,  g.  j.  k. 
“Chemicals  and  Celery  ”  Not  New. — 
Robert  Niven  is  the  first  person  to  put 
in  print  a  plan  by  which  I  raised  a  small 
plat  of  celery,  20  x  60  feet,  here  in  West- 
field,  Mass.  If  it  had  been  set 
out  early  enough  it  would  have  done 
well.  The  possibilities  of  an  acre  are 
great,  but  it  must  be  marketed  or  hur¬ 
ried  before  frosty  weather.  This  is  some¬ 
what  of  a  drawback,  but  the  result  of 
his  articles  will  probably  be  to  make 
celery  growing  unprofitable,  so  many 
will  go  into  it.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  see  it 
grow,  however.  H.  L.  L. 
Testing  Onion  Drills. — On  page  152, 
E.  E.  S.,  Franklin,  Ohio,  asks  whether 
onions  can  be  grown  from  seed,  and 
several  other  questions  about  onion  cul¬ 
ture.  Let  him  get  a  drill  that  will  sow 
the  exact  amount  of  seed  he  wishes,  that 
is,  one  that  can  be  regulated  to  sow  any 
amount  desired  ;  then  it  should  be  taken 
on  a  floor  or  piece  of  smooth  ground  and 
the  plow  should  be  taken  off  and  the 
drill  gauged  to  sow  10  to  12  seeds  to  the 
foot.  A  good  drill  managed  in  this  way 
will  put  a  crop  in  all  right.  A  beginner 
should  not  try  over  an  eighth  or  a  quarter 
of  an  acre.  L.  A.  e. 
Reflections  While  Plow¬ 
ing  Corn  Stubble. 
A  fall-plowed  com  field  makes  a  full  corn 
house. 
With  good  land;  the  fodder  will  pay  for 
all  the  labor  of  raising  it. 
The  com  planter  is  the  farmer's  friend. 
In  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  a  tile  dram  in  a 
wet  corn  field  will  pay  for  the  tiles  in  one 
season,  and  in  the  tenth  case  it  will  probably 
more  them  pay  for  them. 
With  wheat  at  $1;  hay  at  $10,  and  com  at 
$2.75,  com  is  king.  p.  b.  crosby. 
Some  Fruit  Buds. 
The  Rural  speaks  of  the  “  Wineberry” 
being  tender.  A  neighbor  says  it  is 
not  hardy  here  in  Sangamon  County, 
Illinois  ;  indeed  it  was  winter-killed 
when  the  peach  was  not.  As  it  was  re¬ 
ported  hardy,  I  supposed  the  difficulty 
was  probably  anthracnose,  but  The 
Rural’s  experience  seems  to  confirm  my 
neighbor’s  idea.  As  I  did  not  consider 
the  disseminator  reliable,  I  have  never 
tried  it.  Horticultural  journals,  and  in¬ 
deed  all  honest  papers — yes,  and  people 
— should  join  The  R.  N.-Y.  in  condemn¬ 
ing  fraud.  True,  it  is  hard  to  always 
tell  just  where  error  in  judgment  ends 
and  fraud  begins,  but  if  Mr.  Blank  does 
not  know  that  many  statements  in  his 
catalogue  are  untrue,  then  he  must  be  an 
incapable. 
In  my  experience,  a  small  amount  of 
wood  ashes — from  a  pint  to  two  quarts, 
according  to  the  size  of  the  tree — 
placed  next  to  the  stem,  will  keep 
the  round-headed  borer  from  the  apple 
tree  and  not  damage  the  tree,  but 
such  an  application  has  very  little 
effect  on  the  peach  borer.  But  put  a 
large  quantity  of  strong  ashes  around 
the  stem,  and  away  goes  the  tree.  No 
doubt  it  would  be  better  to  use  leached 
ashes  in  considerable  quantity,  as  the 
vulnerable  part  of  the  tree  could  be  en¬ 
tirely  covered  without  any  danger  of 
damage.  I  have  used  ashes  (mostly  from 
brush  piles)  for  the  past  10  years  for  the 
above  purpose  and  also  to  rid  the  trees  of 
the  root  aphis ;  yet  I  still  think  that  a 
pound  of  dissolved  copperas  to  a  bucket 
of  whitewash,  well  thinned  with  water 
and  applied  to  the  stem  of  the  tree  in 
May  and  October,  the  best  wash  to  guard 
against  apple  borers,  mice  and  rabbits, 
but  it  is  no  remedy  for  the  peach  borer. 
I  am  more  convinced  than  ever  that  the 
Bessemianka  (seedless)  Pear  is  worth¬ 
less  here  on  account  of  blight.  The  same 
can  be  said  of  the  Idaho,  as  three-fourths 
of  my  Idaho  grafts  set  a  year  ago  blighted 
down  to  the  stocks,  which  were  Lawson 
and  Keiffer.  Other  Idaho  trees  in  the 
neighborhood  are  also  blighting.  The 
Lawson  and  Keiffer  are  nearly  blight- 
resisting,  as  are  ilso  Garber,  Early  Har¬ 
vest,  Longworth’s  No.  .  1,  and  probably 
most  of  the  children  of  the  Sand  Pear. 
Japan  Golden  Russet  seems  promising 
also,  as  far  as  blight  and  thriftiness  are 
concerned.  benj.  buckman. 
More  Peaches  for  Farmers. — The 
•past  year  was  marked  by  a  large  crop  of 
fruit  in  this  section  (Ohio),  especially  of 
peaches.  Wherever  there  was  a  tree  or 
even  part  of  one,  there  was  fruit ;  and 
farmers  who  had  been  wise  enough  to 
keep  their  trees  growing  were  well  repaid. 
But  what  about  farmers  who  have  just  a 
few,  and  many  of  them  not  a  peach  tree 
growingon  their  acres?  Quite  likely  they 
will  buy  some  fruit  for  their  families;  but 
such  small  supplies  will  prove  but  an  ag¬ 
gravation  when  bushels  might  be  used. 
In  a  ride  of  15  miles  through  a  splendid 
farming  country,  peach  trees  were  not 
seen  on  more  than  one-third  of  the  farms 
passed.  The  main  reason  appears  to  be 
that  it  is  too  much  trouble  to  raise  them; 
it  is  some  trouble  of  course,  but  “  there 
is  no  excellence  without  labor.”  Think 
of  having  peaches  and  cream  every  day 
for  two  months!  And  they  may  be  had 
stid  longer  if  a  good  assortment  from 
the  earliest  to  the  latest  kinds  is  chosen. 
A  neighbor  once  said,  “If  we  are  going 
to  have  peaches  again,  it  would  pay  to 
set  out  trees;”  but  the  years  have  passed, 
in  succession,  and  still  the  planting  is 
postponed.  Why  not  set  out  some  trees 
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