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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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WHICH MAY REMIND YOU. 
Mr. A. M. Smith, of Sb. Catharines, Can¬ 
ada, sent us several branches of the Pearl 
Gooseberry loaded with medium-sized fruit 
of fine quality. He says: “It beats any¬ 
thing we have here and is perfectly free 
from mildew.”. 
A PLANT of the Pearl was sent to us by 
Prof. Wm. Saunders in 1889. It has made 
a wholesome growth and no mildew has 
appeared on the leaves. It has not yet 
fruited. 
It is a cross between the Houghton and a 
large English gooseberry, the Ashton. The 
quality and color are like those of the 
Downing, while it averages much larger in 
size. Its great productiveness may be 
understood by an estimate of the fruit 
borne by a single bush. The average was 
eight berries to the inch of wood and the 
bush bore no less than 2,000 berries. 
On the 17th of August we received a box 
of grapes from Prof. T. V. Munson, of 
Denison, Tex is—his hybrids. They are re¬ 
markable in nuny ways. Most of them 
were of tne variety he has named “Car¬ 
man,” a hybrid between Vitis Llncecumti 
and Campbell’s Triumph. The skin is very 
firm, though thin, the pulp tender and 
somewhat meaty, sweet and rich without 
the slightest acidity about the seeds which 
separate readily. But for this the seeds 
would be an objection to the grape, being 
rather large. The bunches are large and 
long, the berries firmly adhering to the 
stems and closely set in the bunch. It is a 
dark blue grape, of the size of the average 
Concord. It should prove a first rate keep¬ 
er and shipper. 
Herman Jaeger differs from the Car¬ 
man in being more juicy and not so sweet. 
Onderdonk is a small white, sweet, juicy 
grape—a seedling of Herbemont. 
Science is always practical, remarks the 
Philadelphia Weekly Press. Sometimes, 
however, farmers and many other men de¬ 
ceive themselves by juggling with the 
word “practical.” This word is pretty 
often seriously overworked, because it is 
laden with a meaning which it was not 
legitimately designed to carry. 
There is no conflict between true science 
and good practice. Science is onl j organ¬ 
ized, systematic knowledge, and it is not 
knowledge, but ignorance which is the 
basis of bad practice. When practice fol¬ 
lows so-called science and goes astray it is 
because the science is not genuine—it was 
not exact knowledge, but the pretense of 
knowledge, and this is certainly not science, 
but ignorance... 
A correspondent of the Georgia Farmer, 
in order to ascertain whether a water-melon 
is ripe or not draws his thumb nail over the 
melon, scraping off the thin green skin. If 
the edges of the skin on each side of the 
scar are left ragged or granulated, the 
melon is ripe. But if the edges of the scar 
are smooth and even, and the thumb nail 
has dug into the rind in places and the skin 
does not come off cleaD, then the melon is 
green. 
The new dwarf canna, Mad. Crozy, blooms 
incessantly. Its flowers are large, of a 
flame color bordered with yellow. Star of 
’91 is much the same without the yellow 
border. Of the two, Crozy is the better 
and, it may further be said, that it is the 
finest canna in cultivation. 
Chas. A. Green, the introducer of the 
Jessie Strawberry, considers himself some¬ 
what responsible for its conduct through¬ 
out the country. The Jessie has defects he 
admits. One is its utter inadaptability to 
some soils and localities; bat where it finds 
congenial soil it is a very valuable variety. 
It is of large size, larger than he supposed 
when he introduced it. It bears large crops 
with good culture. It endures shipment 
well. 
Years ago The R. N.-Y. set itself the 
task of proving that to buy the “ lawn 
mixtures ” of seedsmen at four dollars or 
so a bushel was throwing money away 
when Blue Grass and Red-top could be 
bought for an average of $1.75 per bushel. 
We also proved that to use a portion of 
Timothy for “protection” was useless 
since Red-top germinates just as soon. Mr. 
E. A. Long, the editor of Popular Garden¬ 
ing, during a recent visit to the Rural 
Grounds, told the writer that his experi¬ 
ments conducted in an ample way, gave the 
same results. 
Mr. Geo. I. Dow says, in our always-re¬ 
spected contemporary, The Country Gen¬ 
tleman, that (1) the Parker Earle Straw¬ 
berry Is “covered with very hard seeds 
which make it firm;’’that (2) “the fruit 
is rich, sweet and very red to the cen¬ 
ter;” that (3) “it is very late.” The R. 
N.-Y. has to reply that (1) it is not covered 
with very hard seeds ; (2) that it is not very 
firm; (3) that the fruit is not particularly 
rich or sweet; (4) that it is not '* very red 
to the center,” and (5) that It is not "very 
late.”. 
Popular Gardening says that experi¬ 
ments with nitrate of soda on tomatoes 
gave entirely negative results. 
Mr. H. M. Engle, the Introducer of the 
Paragon, says that the great progress in 
chestnut culture will be as follows : The 
hill-sides and mountain slopes of chestnut 
timber will be cut, and a proper proportion 
of the sprouts grafted with choice varieties, 
and all the rest of the sprouts and under¬ 
brush destroyed. By such methods chest¬ 
nut groves will be established without 
planting, and by their rapid growth they 
will make bearing trees in a comparatively 
short time. Four or five years of practical 
work of this kind justify him In making 
such statements without reserve, and if he 
is not greatly mistaken, the boom in chest¬ 
nut culture will be by some such methods... 
To establish a chestnut grove or orchard 
by the method just stated, however, is no 
child’s play. To make the grafting of 
sprouts a success requires an expert in the 
business. Then comes the labor of destroy¬ 
ing and keeping down all the sprouts and 
other growth that may interfere with the 
growth of nut trees, and removal of brush 
and rubbish which would invite fires. The 
proper training of the trees will also be an 
important matter, as they should be headed 
in and branched low and spreading, which 
will be quite an item in the gathering of 
nuts. Many tracts of chestnut timber exist 
which could be tilled and turned into pas¬ 
ture for sheep, thus bringing nut and wool 
growing under one enterprise, either of 
which would pay better than common 
farming. 
Our advertising columns will show that 
Joneb’s Winter Fife Wheat is at least 
worthy of a trial. 
The prices for hardy hyacinths, tulips, 
etc., have greatly decreased of late years. 
Nothing so gladdens one in early spring as 
these beautiful, bright-colored flowers 
Beds should now be prepared. 
Mr. M. Crawford, the careful straw¬ 
berry specialist of Ohio, continues to think 
well of the Parker Earle. His last (July) 
report is as follows : 
“ Parker Earle. —This was by far the 
most productive variety on the place. It 
was quite late in blooming, and was but 
little in j ured by the frost. The color and 
shape are beautiful, and the quality is bet¬ 
ter than the average. I have heard a good 
many reports of this variety, and all are 
very favorable. It seems to do well 
everywhere. It sends out but a moderate 
number of runners, and will not be cheap 
and common for some time.”. 
The Missouri Agricultural Experiment 
Station tried 55 diff rent kinds of wheats, 
among them The R. N.-Y. hybrids. Wil¬ 
letts yielded 39 bushels to the acre,-which 
was exceeded by butoneotherkind, vJz., Ex¬ 
tra Early Oakley. But at harvest 90 per cent 
of the straw of the Oakley was down, and 
but five per cent of the Willett*, the lowest 
per cent of all. Fultz is the best yielder in 
Missouri, sometimes giving over 40 bushels 
to the acre. In the above trial it yielded 
31, 35 and 35 in three different trials. The 
R. N.-Y.’s “Johnson” yielded 34, and 
“ Bailey ”33. 
DIRECT. 
-Century : “Bread cast upon the water 
purely as a business speculation is liable to 
sink before reaching port.” 
“ Don’t worry your brain about the man 
in the moon, but study the man in your 
own overcoat.” 
“There are plenty of good fish always 
In the se8, but thousands of worthy inland 
people can never get to the seashore.” 
“The dog that bays the moon is wiser 
than the one that bays a bigger dog that is 
viciously inclined.” 
“ Tact can afford to smile when genius 
and talent are quarreling.” 
“ Both courage and fear owe much to the 
armed neutrality of prudence.” 
“ It is expensive economy to make a pare 
of the truth suffice for the whole.” 
“A man cannot be truly eloquent if he 
knows not how to listen.” 
-N. Y. Herald : 
DEDICATED TO JONES. 
(Freight Prepaid) 
Sowing the seeds in the noondav glare, 
Sowing the see^s in his flowing hair. 
Sowing the seeds at the county fa’r, 
Oh, what shall the harvest bee-e e, 
Oh, what shall the havvest be! 
EQUALITY. 
Since time began some fool has taught 
That doctrine by desire wrought— 
The equality of men. 
Eq’ality ? No such thiug exists ; 
False, false (he sage who thus insist*. 
No blade of grass find* other blade 
Of exact length and thickness made— 
It cannot be. 
Each grain of sand each drop of dew 
By God is made from patterns new. 
And man—one high of purpose and design, 
One groveling in mire with swine— 
’Tis this we see. 
Equality ? No such thing exists ; 
False, false the sago who thus insists. 
- Rev Sam Jonhs; “ We’ll never make 
gambling disreputable in this country uu 
til we put down the card playing elders 
and the progressive euchre playing dea 
cons, and stop those home card parties 
where somebody wins and somebody else 
loses, and it is all no different from black 
leg gambling. (Loud applause, especially 
from the ladies.) And we shall never put 
down shameless women in this country 
until the decent women refuse to let men 
put their arms around them to music when 
they know they would let no fellow handle 
them like that if there was no music. 
(Faint applause, in which the ladies did not 
join.)” 
“It isn’t the sins of the Five Points 
and the Bowery that are corrupting our 
youth, but the gilded sins in our homes.” 
“A man isn’t considered much of a sin 
ner in this country if he pays his bills and 
wears good clothes. That’s a fact. A 
man’s money and his clothes will take him 
anywhere, when his character won’t take 
him ten feet.” 
- Farm and Fireside : “ The business 
men of this country are too apt to forget 
the soundness of America’s vast progress. 
The United States is, to-day, almost the 
only great country in the world whose 
future is brighter than its past.” 
-Country Gentleman: “A fruit man 
once sent us some scions in summer for 
budding a particular kind of peach; and to 
keep them from drying up, he left the 
leaves on, as he thought, to shade them. 
These leaves sent a great deal of watery 
vapor off int > the dry summer air, and in a 
few hours the shoots were withered and 
spoiled. If he had cut all the leaves off, 
and left small stumps of leaf-stalks, they 
would have remained plump and fresh. 
Again, in cutting timber and garden poles 
in summer, cut the trees down and leave 
all the leaves on ; these will pump the sap 
out of them faster than the air can dry 
them, and will aid in giving seasoned wood 
where otherwise they would become sap 
rotten.” 
-Ruskin: “All political economy, as 
well as all higher viitue, depends first on 
sound work.” 
— Christian Union : “ Children must be 
accorded some position in the social life of 
the home, and treated like little ladies and 
gentlemen if they are ever to become wor¬ 
thy of the name. This can be done in per¬ 
fectly simple, natural ways, which will not 
force them too early out of the nursery, or 
develop the unpleasant traits which make 
some American children terrors to all well- 
bred persons.” 
-Puck : “ The man who is master of 
himself always has‘help’he can depend 
upon.” 
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