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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
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We  find  that  the  foliage  of  The  R. 
N.-Y.  Rugosa  hybrids  must  not  he  judged 
the  first  year  from  seed.  Indeed  it  should 
not  be  judged  the  second  year,  either  on 
its  own  roots  or  tvorked  on  Manetti  or 
other  stocks.  It  is  not  until  the  third 
year  that  the  foliage  develops  to  the  full 
size  and  this,  in  many  of  the  seedlings, 
is  often  twice  as  large  as  that  of  the 
mother  plant  Rugosa.  A  florist  of  long 
experience  saw  some  of  the  leaves  of  one 
of  these  hybrids  a  few  days  ago  and  said 
the  leaflets  were  larger  than  those  of  any 
other  rose  he  had  ever  seen.  The  R. 
N.-Y.,  the  first  admittedly  and  by  printed 
record,  to  make  valuable  crosses  with 
the  Ramanas  Rose,  regrets  exceedingly 
t  hat  some  of  these  hybrids  were  not  in¬ 
troduced  years  ago.  But  we  were  slow 
to  place  them  in  the  hands  of  experienced 
propagators  and  we  have  neither  time, 
skill  nor  suitable  land  to  propagate  such 
plants  on  a  large  scale  ourselves.  Many 
of  our  readers  will  be  glad  to  learn  that 
the  first  of  this  lot  of  hybrids,  raised 
some  six  years  ago  from  seeds  of  Rugosa 
crossed  with  Harrison’s  Yellow,  will  be 
offered  to  the  public  in  a  few  months. . . . 
The  London  Garden  calls  the  Alke- 
kengi  (Strawberry  Tomato)  a  “singularly 
handsome  plant  extremely  useful  in  the 
mixed  border” . 
The  editor  of  an  esteemed  conte mpo- 
weakly  plants.  The  variety  thus  propa¬ 
gated  will  “  run  out.”  This  is  known. 
The  grape-vine  raised  from  green  cut¬ 
tings  gives  a  good  example.  It  is  not 
known,  however,  that  small  cuttings 
from  mature  wood  or  mature  roots  will 
tend  to  impair  the  vitality  of  the  plants 
so  propagated . 
Learn  to  take  it  Easy — This  is  a 
lesson  that  many  seem  to  know  in¬ 
tuitively  from  infancy — those  who  are 
“  constitutionally  tired.”  There  is  an¬ 
other  kind  of  “  taking  it  easy  ”  that  it 
is  hard  to  get  the  knack  of.  It  requires 
a  level  head,  a  good  digestion  and  an 
energy  that  is  well  directed.  We  occa¬ 
sionally  meet  a  farmer  that  never  seems 
to  be  in  a  hurry,  that  is  ever  good-natured 
and  happy,  whose  farm  and  home  are  as 
neat  aDd  trim  as  a  new  buggy,  whose 
hired  help  is  well  contented,  whose  work 
never  lags,  who  has  money  in  the  bank, 
whose  family  is  full  of  life  and  kindly 
greeting.  He  has  learned  the  true  way 
of  taking  things  easy;  of  making  life  a 
continuous  joy:  of  turning  work  into  a 
joyful  pastime.  Life  is  never  a  “  grind  ” 
to  him  and  farming  pays . 
July  13,  we  received  a  small  box  of 
seedling  peaches — four  different  vari¬ 
eties — raised  by  A.  W.  Smith  of  Ameri- 
cus,  Ga.  They  were  large,  beautiful, 
high-colored  and  excellent  specimens, 
though  fine  peaches  were  not  at  the  time 
for  sale  in  the  market.  Last  year  the 
market  was  flooded  during  the  entire 
season  with  beautiful  California  peaches 
— beautiful  as  to  size  and  appearance, 
but  tough  and  of  low  quality . 
shod  becomes  sooner  or  later  a  cripple. 
This  being  the  case,  it  is  worth  while  to 
take  a  “let  up  ”  in  horse  shoeing  when 
this  can  be  done.  It  would  surprise  most 
horse  owners  to  know  how  much  feet 
that  have  never  known  shoes  can  endure 
when  put  to  service . 
The  men  who  pride  themselves  on  be¬ 
ing  practical  farmers  are  often  the  most 
impractical,  says  I’rof.  Massey,  after 
vainly  endeavoring  to  prove  to  a  farmer 
that  wheat  never  turns  to  che&s.  Utterly 
unacquainted  with  correct  methods  of  in¬ 
vestigation,  they  jump  at  conclusions 
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when  cornered,  fallback  on  what  is  pure 
ignorance,  as  a  reason  for  knowing  more 
about  these  things  than  men  whose  lives 
have  been  spent  in  the  study  of  Nature's 
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rary  sends  us  the  following  letter,  re¬ 
questing  us  as  wheat  hybrid  experts  to 
answer  it : 
By  the  side  of  our  canal  line  there  Is  growing  a 
small  patch  of  rye.  In  It  I  found  one  stand  of  wheat; 
on  pulling  up  the  wheat  I  found  one  stalk  that  had 
evidently  been  fertilized  by  the  rye.  Inclosed  I  send 
you  one  of  the  wheat  heads,  one  of  rye  and  the 
mongrel.  By  comparing  them,  especially  the  ker¬ 
nels,  the  hybrid  character  of  the  cross  is  manifest. 
This  may  be  nothing  new  to  others,  but  It  Is  so  to 
me,  and  thinking  it  might  possibly  be  to  you,  I  send 
the  heads. 
The  wheat  head  sent  was  a  velvet 
chaff  variety  ;  the  rye  head  one  of  ordin¬ 
ary  rye  ;  the  supposed  hybrid  a  head  of 
so-called  six-rowed  barley,  now  easy  it 
is  to  be  mistaken! . 
Mr.  T.  Greiner  says,  in  the  Practical 
Farmer,  that  “  it  is  a  fact  above  denial 
that  most  growers  misuse  and  weaken 
their  potatoes  by  too  close  cutting,  and 
thus  we  hear  the  frequent  complaint  that 
*  varieties  run  out  ’  so  quickly.  This  is 
really  a  self-evident,  natural  and  neces¬ 
sary  consequence  of  injudicious  treat¬ 
ment  and  ignorance  of  the  principle  in¬ 
volved.”  By  “  too  close  cutting  ”  is  meant 
cutting  the  seed  to  one  eye  or  to  small 
pieces.  What  evidence  have  we  that  pota¬ 
toes  from  such  seed  will  soon  “  run  out  ?” 
Is  it  not  absurd  to  infer  that  a  given  va¬ 
riety,  if  raised  from  one-eye  pieces,  will 
“  soon  run  out.”  But  we  ask  for  proof. 
Suppose  we  select  mature,  sound  pota¬ 
toes  and  raise  crops  year  after  from  them 
cut  to  single  eyes,  every  year  being  careful 
to  select  only  mature,  sound  seed  tubers; 
will  the  variety  “run  out”  sooner  than 
if  sound,  mature  whole  seed  be  used? 
The  experiment  is  one  that  our  experi¬ 
ment  stations  might  take  up . 
As  a  result  of  many  years  of  experi¬ 
mentation,  The  R.  N.-Y.  prefers  large 
seed  tubers  cut  to  two  or  three  eyes, 
because  such  seed  will  give,  one  season 
with  another,  the  most  profitable  crops. 
Larger  seed  pieces  give  too  many  sprouts, 
need  to  be  planted  further  apart  and, 
even  then,  yield  a  larger  quantity  of 
small  tubers.  It  has  never  been  proved 
that  small  potatoes,  used  as  seed  year 
after  year,  will  tend  to  deteriorate  a  va¬ 
riety  sooner  than  large  potatoes,  if  the 
small  potatoes  were  as  mature  and  sound 
as  the  larger  size.  The  fact  may  be  that 
small  potatoes  are  usually  those  which 
form  late,  and  are  consequently  imma¬ 
ture.  As  seed  potatoes,  theref  ore,  they 
are  not  fit  for  use . 
Immature  seed  or  immature  cuttings 
of  any  kind  will  sooner  or  later  produce 
If  we  would  get  rid  of  the  pea  weevil, 
a  simple  way  to  do  it  is  to  keep  the  seed 
peas  until  they  are  two  years  old.  Insect 
Life  says  that  many  of  the  beetles  will 
sometimes  issue  in  the  fall  of  the  year, 
but  as  a  general  rule  they  remain  in  the 
peas  through  the  following  winter,  and 
many  are  planted  with  seed  peas.  As 
far  as  is  known  the  insects  on  issuing  will 
not  oviposit  upon  the  dried  peas,  and  a 
sure  remedy  will,  therefore,  be  found 
in  keeping  seed  peas  in  a  close  recepta¬ 
cle  over  two  seasons  before  planting.  The 
beetles  will  all  issue  at  the  customary 
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and  destroyed,  sound  ones  only  being  - " - 
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