1892 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
83 1 
Ruralisms. — Continued. 
Wall’s  Orange,  whether  on  the  apex 
(seed  end),  base  (stem  end),  or  middle, 
will  grow.  This  is  easily  ascertained  by 
placing  tubers  in  a  warm,  light  room  for 
a  couple  of  weeks.  On  the  other  hand,  if 
R.  N.-Y.  No.  2  tubers  be  so  treated,  it 
will  be  found  that  only  the  apex  buds 
will  grow.  The  others  will  remain  dor¬ 
mant. 
Morsels. 
The  derivation  of  the  adjective  “nice” 
is  from  the  Latin  nescius,  meaning  igno¬ 
rant  or  “  not  knowing.”  It  was  used  to 
signify  foolish  or  daft.  Later  it  grew  to 
mean  fooFshly  precise,  fastidious.  Still 
later  it  lost  its  meaning  of  foolishness 
retaining  the  significance  of  precision. 
We  now  hear  the  expression  “  awfully 
nice.”  As  “awful”  means  almost  the 
reverse  of  “  nice,”  the  expression  is 
absurd  enough.  The  disregard  of  the 
true  meaning  of  “  nice  ”  is  shown  when 
we  speak  of  nice  apples,  potatoes,  walks, 
rides,  houses  and  so  on. 
The  above  reminds  us  of  a  bit  of  dia¬ 
logue  between  an  Englishman  and  an 
American  girl.  “I  think,”  said  he, 
“  your  word  nice  is  such  a  nawsty  word.” 
“  I  hope  you  don’t  think  nasty  is  a  nice 
word,”  quoth  she. 
Edmund  Hersey,  who  is  connected 
with  the  agricultural  department  of  Har¬ 
vard,  thinks  that  the  White  pine  is  al¬ 
ready  a  profitable  tree  to  grow  on  much 
of  the  light  soil  of  New  England.  It 
will  also  do  well  on  peat  meadows.  It 
is  easily  reproduced  from  seed,  readily 
transplanted,  and  with  a  little  attention 
grows  quite  rapidly.  Seeds  of  this  tree, 
Pinus  Strobus,  may  be  bought  of  seeds¬ 
men  for  20  cents  an  ounce  or  $2  a  pound. 
Or,  little  trees  easily  sent  by  mail,  may 
be  bought  for  a  few  cents  each.  These 
little  trees  only  a  foot  long,  may  be 
trusted  to  grow  just  as  surely  as  the 
larger  trees  purchased  of  nurseries  at 
50  cents  each ;  and  they  will  overtake 
them  in  size  and  surpass  them  in  sym¬ 
metry  in  five  or  six  years.  The  Wey¬ 
mouth  pine  easily  stands  at  the  head  of 
our  native  pines  and  compares  favorably 
as  an  ornamental  tree,  with  any  conifers 
whatever. 
Mr.  Hersey  says  that  in  from  25  to  35 
years  the  White  pine  will  reach  a  size 
suitable  for  coarse  lumber  ;  and  in  60  or 
70  years,  with  proper  care  and  pruning, 
it  grows  large  enough  and  in  proper 
form  for  clear  lumber.  Dr.  T.  H.  Hos¬ 
kins  says  that  the  above  is  in  accord 
with  his  experience. 
Mr.  Hersey  further  says  that  four 
White  pine  trees  set  31  years  ago  now 
measure,  three  feet  from  the  ground,  as 
follows  :  One  60  inches  in  circumference, 
one  65  inches  and  two  66  inches  ;  the  65- 
inch  tree  grows  in  a  wet  soil,  the  re¬ 
maining  three  are  in  a  gravelly  loam  not 
rich  enough  to  produce  more  than  800 
pounds  of  hay  to  the  acre.  These  trees 
when  transplanted  were  not  over  six 
inches  in  height,  and  they  have  grown 
with  other  trees  set  at  the  same  time,  so 
near  each  other  that  they  now  com¬ 
pletely  shade  the  land. 
According  to  the  experience  of  J.  D. 
Lyman,  of  New  Hampshire,  as  he  in¬ 
forms  the  New  England  Farmer,  the 
6ize  which  pines  will  attain  in  25,  35,  45, 
60  or  any  other  number  of  years  till  they 
stop  growing,  depends  very  much  upon 
the  nearness  with  which  they  stand  to 
each  other.  He  has  a  section  from  a 
pine  about  90  years  in  growing  and  only 
about  three  inches  in  diameter  on  ac¬ 
count  of  being  crowded,  and  a  section 
from  another  26  inches  in  diameter,  at 
about  43  years  of  growth  in  open  ground. 
He  has  never  seen  a  pine  lot  fit  to  cut 
for  box  boards  at  25  years  of  age.  He 
has  a  pine  lot  38  or  40  years  of  age  which 
has  been  from  time  to  time  thinned  out 
till  there  are  about  178  trees  to  an  acre 
and  they  now  average  about  13  inches  in 
diameter,  four  feet  from  the  ground. 
He  does  not  think  that  these  have  been 
thinned  rapidly  enough.  Perhaps  about 
125  to  the  acre  at  the  present  stage  of 
their  growth  would  be  about  right. 
Pines  need  to  stand  thick  at  first  and  to 
be  thinned  out  often,  the  thinnings  at 
first  being  so  small  as  to  be  worthless, 
then  good  for  bean  poles,  then  fence 
slats,  then  fence  poles,  then  shingle 
stuff,  then  box  boards  and  then  larger 
timber. 
About  20  years  ago  we  planted  a  belt 
of  about  a  dozen  White  pines  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Rural  Grounds,  the 
trees  then  being  about  two  to  three  feet 
high.  They  were  planted  less  than  20 
feet  apart  and  are  now  over  40  feet  tall 
and  about  one  foot  in  diameter  at  or 
near  the  base.  These  figures  are  from 
memory. 
Twenty-five  years  ago  or  more,  two 
little  specimens  of  the  Big  Tree  of  Cali¬ 
fornia  (Sequoia  gigantea)  were  planted 
in  Central  Park  on  a  hill-side,  not  over 
50  feet  apart.  They  are  now  less  than 
30  feet  high  and  about  a  foot  in  diameter. 
Though  they  have  made  so  slow  a  growth, 
the  trees  seem  healthy  and  hardy.  They 
are  not  considered  hardy  on  Long  Is¬ 
land,  and,  though  catalogued  by  Ell- 
wanger  &  Barry  some  years  ago,  they 
have  since  been  rejected  as  too  tender 
for  the  climate  of  Rochester.  In  England, 
where  this  noble  evergreen  is  known  as 
Wellingtonia  gigantea,  there  are  speci¬ 
mens  over  50  feet  in  height. 
The  evergreens  of  Central  Park,  for 
the  most  part,  present  a  sorrowful  sight. 
This  is  due  to  crowding  primarily.  Of 
late  years  some  attempt  to  help  them  has 
been  made  by  thinning  out.  But  it  came 
too  late.  The  damage  done  was  irrepar¬ 
able,  and  the  thinning  out  served  only  to 
expose  the  damage  wrought  by  crowd¬ 
ing.  Deformed,  half-dead,  one-sided  speci¬ 
mens  now  take  the  place  of  the  denser 
clumps,  which,  concealing  each  other’s 
deformities,  were  less  unsightly.  The 
only  rational  remedy  would  have  been  to 
dig  them  all  up  and  plant  smaller  trees 
in  their  places. 
It  is  a  safe  rule  to  follow,  whether  for 
public  or  private  grounds,  that  of  destroy¬ 
ing  the  less  valuable  specimens  as  soon  as 
they  touch  one  another  ;  for  the  inter¬ 
mingling  of  the  branches  of  trees  means 
the  death  of  those  branches  sooner  or 
later,  and  the  impairment  or  ultimate 
destruction  of  their  beauty  as  individuals. 
Experiments  made  by  the  University 
of  Minnesota  Experiment  Station  go  to 
show  that  when  pigs  are  shut  up  in  close 
quarters  some  food,  perhaps  condimental 
in  its  nature,  like  charcoal  or  mixtures  of 
charcoal,  ashes,  salt  and  other  ingred¬ 
ients  is  highly  relished  by  them  and  is  a 
source  of  profit  to  the  farmer. 
It  is  not  in  human  nature  to  see  other 
people  enjoying  luxuries  and%not  desire 
to  share  in  them.  In  these  days  of  rail¬ 
roads  and  newspapers  it  is  impossible  to 
keep  the  dweller  in  the  country  ignorant 
of  the  pleasures  to  be  had  by  the  dwellers 
in  cities,  and  hence  the  well-known  and 
often  deplored  tendency  of  the  popula¬ 
tion  of  civilized  countries  to  leave  the 
country  and  flock  to  the  cities.  The  work 
of  agriculture  is  thus  more  and  more  left 
to  those  who  are  not  lucky  enough  or  not 
fitted  by  Nature  to  succeed  in  more  lucra¬ 
tive  occupations,  and  the  inequality  of 
their  condition  is  perpetuated. 
judges  of  the  late  New  York  Horse  Show 
than  to  the  richly-caparisoned  women 
who  occupied  the  boxes.” 
- New  York  Tribune  :  “  An  instance 
of  truth  inadvertently  expressed  through 
a  ‘  slip  of  the  pen,’  appeared  in  a  recent 
Irish  daily  paper  :  ‘  Wanted — A  gentle¬ 
man  to  undertake  the  sale  of  a  patent 
medicine  ;  the  advertiser  guarantees  it 
will  be  profitable  to  the  undertaker.’  ” 
- Orange  County  Farmer  :  “You  hear 
more  whistling  and  singing  from  the 
farm  laborer  in  England  in  one  week 
than  you  do  in  America  in  a  month.” 
- Omaha  Cultivator:  “The  anti¬ 
trust  agitation  should  be  directed  against 
the  *  trust  to  luck.’  ” 
- Century  ;  “In  these  times  there  are 
no  unappreciated  geniuses ;  but  there 
are  a  great  many  over-appreciated 
mediocrities.” 
“  You  can  always  get  on  with  people 
who  don’t  care  a  straw  for  you  ;  but  in¬ 
tercourse  with  those  who  love  you  has 
its  difficulties.” 
“No  concise,  unqualified  assertion  is 
ever  entirely  true — not  even  this  one.” 
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