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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHAT OTHERS SAY. 
( Continued .) 
of this potato, if it has any. But the singu¬ 
lar thing about it was that there were not 
in the whole lot two dozen tubers below 
merchantable size. In quality, or beauty, 
there can be no finer potato; but they truly 
surprised us by the way they rolled out. 
We never dug potatoes before where the 
whole crop was merchantable.”—T. H. Hos¬ 
kins M. D.; Agricultural Editor of the 
Vermont Watchman. 
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. 
In 1886 a dozen plants of the Enhance 
Strawberry were sent to us by the origin¬ 
ator, Henry Young, of Ada, Ohio. The R. 
N.-Y.’s reports have regularly appeared 
since to the effect that it was one of the 
most productive varieties ever tried. The 
plants, too, were very hardy and long-lived; 
the berries very large and firm for their 
size. Extreme irregularity and acidity were 
the striking faults. In J. T. Lovett’s cata¬ 
logue it is spoken of as follows: “ A cross 
between Sharpless and Windsor Chief, orig¬ 
inated at Ada, Ohio. Plant very vigor¬ 
ous, a strong grower, and productive. 
Fruit large, rather Irregular, dark crimson 
calor, and firm; quality good, slightly 
acid. It gives indications of being a very 
profitable market berry for shipment”. 
A new late strawberry, said to be of fine 
flavor, very productive, and of large size, 
is named E. P. Roe It Is of the Kentucky 
type with splendid foliage. 
Dr. T. H. Hoskins, of Newport, Vermont, 
says in Garden and Forest, that the Green 
Mountain Grape has fruited finely for him 
for the first time, this year. He saw it 
when shown for the first time at the meet¬ 
ing of the American Pomological Society, 
in Boston, four years ago, and was much 
struck with it. He sets it down as being 
as early as Tolman and as good as Dela¬ 
ware, with a much larger berry and cluster. 
For home use he puts it at the head for the 
“Cold North,” but he fears it will not be a 
success as a market grape, except, perhaps, 
for a near market, because of its tender 
skin and weak attachment to the stem. 
Otherwise it Is as near perfection as he ex¬ 
pects to see in so early a grape. 
P. C. Reynolds, in the New York Trib¬ 
une, says that two grape vines pruned in 
the spring, after the buds had pushed an 
inch or more, bore more grapes than the 
same varieties pruned the previous fall. 
The last year’s canes were cut back to two 
or three buds, leaving as the leading buds 
those that had made the strongest growth. 
The canes bled very little, much less than 
when pruned in March. They made as 
rank a growth of wood as usual. 
The success of the Agricultural College 
of Kansas (It had 593 students last year) is 
due to two causes according to the Indus¬ 
trialist—the excellence of the school and 
the peculiar spirit of the Kansas people. 
The course of instruction is so complete 
that students may not only become pro¬ 
ficient in the branches of an ordinary and 
agricultural education, but may also ac¬ 
quire a knowledge of the mechanical arts, 
and the duties pertaining to the manage¬ 
ment of a household. The boys have the 
opportunity of learning trades, and the 
girls are taught cooking and sewing, and 
become skilled in domestic work of all 
kinds. 
At the Rural Grounds a leaf of Caladium 
esculentum (Colocasia) or Elephant’s Ear, 
as it is sometimes called, measures 40 inches 
from the apex to the base. Is not this about 
as large as the leaves can be induced to 
grow out-of doors ? The bulb was planted, 
on the bank of the lake, six inches deep so 
as to be in water always. This seems to be 
what the caladium likes. 
The Reeder (Dr. Reeder) Pear is well 
worthy of a place in every home orchard. It 
is later than the Seckel with which it may 
otherwise well be compared. It ripens at 
the Rural Grounds November 1, or a trifle 
before. In shape it resembles the Seckel, 
being russeted, of medium size and round¬ 
ish-ovate. While it has not quite the del¬ 
icacy of flavor and fineness of flesh of the 
Seckel, it has a refreshing flavor that the 
Seckel has not. We can eat more Reeders 
with a relish than we cm Seckels and that 
is high praise. 
Mr. Lovett, its introducer, says that 
Early King Blackberry is of superior qual¬ 
ity and very hardy. It ripens, he says, in 
advance of the Early Harvest and with the 
Lucretia Dswberry. It seems strange to 
him that a variety so desirable in many 
ways should be so long in becoming popu¬ 
lar. At the Rural GroundsEarly King doe3 
not ripen before Early Harvest, but after 
Neither does Lucretia ripen as early as 
Early Harvest, by a long way. 
Decumaria Barbara. —Most of us have 
heard by this time of the climbing hy¬ 
drangea from Japan. Its botanical name 
is Hydrangea scandens. It Is of that class 
of climbing vines which attach themselves 
to walls or trees, and are known as self- 
climbers. It is coming into great demand 
as an ornamental vine. It is strange that 
a close ally, native of Virginia and south¬ 
wardly, having precisely the same self- 
climbing habit and general appearance, 
should have been so long overlooked, 
namely Decumaria barbara. The editor of 
Meehan’s Monthly says that he has a plant 
growing on a large post, planted alongside 
of its relative, and it is by all odds much 
the prettier plant The flowers are pure 
white and of a feathery app9arance, very 
pleasing to look at. 
The R. N.-Y. has had occasion to regret 
that the beautiful Lawson’s Cypress, one 
of the most rapid-growing and graceful of 
evergreen trees, is not hardy at its experi¬ 
ment grounds—not even in protected situ¬ 
ations. There is now a Weeping Lawson’s 
Cypress introduced by a nurseryman of 
Hanover, that assumes a remarkably beau¬ 
tiful pendulous form. 
Of the hundreds of hybrid grapes which 
T. V. Munson, of Dsni&on, Texas, has orig¬ 
inated, only the following, as we under¬ 
stand it, are offered for sale: Brilliant, 
G W. Campbell, Rommel, and Hermann 
Jaeger. These should be tried by all nurn. 
serymen and by all amateurs who can af¬ 
ford to experiment with new varieties. 
ABS TRACTS. 
- Burdette in N. Y. Herald : “ Now, 
my boy, you have never tasted liquor. 
Well then, if you go to imbibing beer and 
light wines In order to acquire a ‘ habit of 
resistance ’ so that you will be able to re¬ 
fuse whisky, you had better prepare for all 
possible evils on the same plan. You should 
go out and let a man shoot you full of bird 
shot, and by and by, when you acquire the 
proper habit of resistance, he couldn’t kill 
you with a cannon. Ana if you will just 
accustom yourself to drowning in a shallow 
creek, after a while you can wade across 
the Atlantic Ocean with your mouth 
open.” 
“ You’ve heard of coarse, the venerable 
story of the man who cut off his dog’s tail t 
The man was very tender hearted, and the 
tail was very exceeding long and tough. 
So to spare the dog—who was extremely 
sensitive—the agony of having all that 
great tail cut off at one cruel blow, the 
philanthropist cut it off gradually, ampu¬ 
tating an inch of it every morning. It took 
about two weeks to cut it all off, and two 
days before the last operation the dog 
howled himself to death.” 
“I tell you my boy, this theory of forming 
a habit of resistance is a great thing. Still 
you had better do like the philanthropist- 
form the habit on some other dog. It won’t 
make you howl so loud.” 
“ The fact is, my boy, we try to make 
people good by law, because that makes It 
so much easier for us. We are too mean 
and lazy to work with people an I so we say: 
* You’ll either be good or I’ll kill you.’ 
It’s ten times—a thousand times less trouble 
and expense to kill a bad man than it is to 
make a good man of him.” 
“ Persons who are thankfal don’t have 
much trouble about being cheerful.” 
- Christian Union: “Poverty is not a 
virtue, and wealth is not a sin.” 
“ Where there Is one man in America 
ruined by covetousness, there are 10 men 
ruined by spendthrift habits. Accumula 
tion involves self-denial; extravagance, 
self indulgence.” 
“A wise accumulation of money is as 
Christian an art as its wise expenditure, and 
precedes it. One must learn how to get be 
fore he has to give.” 
-P. B. Mead in Orchard and Garden : 
“ Now is the time to plant bulbs of Freesia 
refracta alba, purchased at the seed stores. 
They can be bought for about 30 cents a 
dozen, and are among the least trouble¬ 
some of all the bulbs to grow, either in the 
greenhouse or the sitting room. Their de¬ 
licious fragrance once enjoyed will always 
be longed for.” 
-Life : “ A rolling stone never gets 
there.” 
“The changing of the name of a plant is 
a crime, and he who practices it a criminal, 
because he takes for himself that which be¬ 
longs to another.” 
—^-Ex President Andrew D. White, of 
Cornell, in Youth’s Companion: “I 
am thankful to say that If among my class¬ 
mates I cannot count any of the colossal 
millionaires of the country, I can at least 
rejoice that there is not one who has dis¬ 
graced himself and his country In accumu¬ 
lating a vast fortune by questionable 
means.” 
“ Of course there is a great difference 
with regard to the maintenance of disci¬ 
pline between various institutions for ad¬ 
vanced instruction. Colleges which are 
so dependent upon students’ instruction 
fees that they cannot afford to maintain 
discipline are dangerous. I regard as the 
epoch in my own life when I was in the 
most danger, the year spent in such a feeble 
college; but the three years spent after¬ 
ward In a large, strong institution, which 
could and did maintain thorough disci¬ 
pline, were years of safety.” 
“ There were in my class at this larger 
institution 107 men ; not one of them, so 
far as I can learn, has turned out badly. 
Now take 107 men in any sort of life; take 
107 clerks on any street, In any city, and see 
whether they make a record approaching 
this.” 
“I know that much has been said re¬ 
cently about our system of advanced edu¬ 
cation in the United States not furnishing 
business men to the country. Now the 
fact is that our greater colleges and uni¬ 
versities do supply far more than their pro¬ 
portion. A recent investigation shows that 
college graduates form only about one-half 
of one per cent of the population, while 
they hold 60 per cent of the Important and 
influential positions.” 
-N. Y. Herald: “Many a man in the 
swim feels like a fish out of water.” 
-Ram’s Horn: “Everyman who smokes, 
chews or drinks is giving the devil a mort¬ 
gage on his children.” 
-Boston Globe : “ There is no surer 
breeder of dishonesty and deceit than flnan- 
ciil meanness, pecuniary smallness in a 
husband to a wife.” 
-Meehans’ Monthly : “ Destruction 
of Insects. —It takes a long while for good 
ideas to travel over the world. It is nearly 
half a century since it was discovered that 
water heated to 126 to 130 degrees would 
destroy the scale insect on the pine apples. 
In the earlier volumes of Gardeners’ Month¬ 
ly this good idea was extended to all plants. 
It was found that fuchsias and similar ten¬ 
der leaved plants might be safely dipped 
for a second or so in water at 120 degrees, 
without the least injury to the foliage, but 
with certain death to the red spider. Water, 
however, is bulky to handle in a regular 
garden, but the editor of The Rural New- 
Yorker has employed hot water very 
effectually in destroying rose-bugs. With 
Improved implements by which the hot 
water would not be wasted, so that every 
drop might do good, there is yet room for 
valuable application of this principle.” 
If you name The R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment. 
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FOR SALE 
TO CLOSE AN ESTATE. 
A FARM OF 300 ACRES 
Under high cultivation at present, on which are lo¬ 
cated a three story brick homestead, two carriage 
houses, hart s. sheds, a brick ice■’ouse, a blacksmith 
shop, scale house with scales, carpenter shop and 
three tenement houses, all in good repair. 
The farm is half a mile from Aurora with an excel¬ 
lent turnpike road good the year round. 
Aurora oas three express tralr s each way dally on 
the Lehigh Valley Kailway between Auburn and 
Ithaca, ann it Is the site of Wells College and the 
Cayuga Lake Military Academy. 
The homestead and buildings adjacent will be soli 
with all or a part of the farm as the purchaser may 
desire. 
The property Is admirably adapted to farming pur¬ 
poses, consisting of toe richest clay loam soil In 
western New York, well watered, or It would make 
a splendid stock farm, for cal tie or horse breeding. 
It has an excellent half-mile track, which could 
easily he enlarged to a mile track if desired. Pastur¬ 
age superb. 
The above property will be sold on easy terms. 
For particulars, address 
MRS. D. A. WOODRUEF, Executrix, Auburn, N. Y. 
A Red River Valley, North Dakota, Farm. 
Immedla’ely adjoining the celebrated Dalrvmple 
Farm, fully and iplendialy equipped. 1,600 acres in 
wheat this year. Commodious and substantial but d- 
Intts, and product of farm will sell for $ t i.utio or more 
than half the price asked for the property. Nothing 
more productive In tue entire Northwest: unp-ece- 
dented opportunity for a good fatnier. Present owner 
will retite from active pursuits, and also offers at 
great bargains five other smaller furms ranging In 
area from Kin to 800 acres. No exchange, no trade of 
any sort will b i considered, but liberal terms of low 
Interest will be granted. 
Address CH AS. A. MORTON, Fargo, N. D. 
SUNNYSIDEr 1 " 
Farm, near large city ; 737 acres-30o In cultivation, 
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absolutely Inexhaustible; uplands rich; farm well 
fenced and watered : nice residence on commanding 
situation; eminently healthy ; ample outbul'dlngs ; 
everything in good repair. Aver'>ge, 20 per cent net 
profit annually. $w,O0J. W. G. SI’EVs.NS, Houston,Va. 
CLAREMONT Land Association, s™"«5? n va. 
Offers liOll choice farms; H.OOO handsome town 
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