1893 
THE R U R A L N E W-Y O R K E R. 
87 
Ruralisms.— Continued. 
bearing, is the most profitable apple in 
Dr. Hoskins’s orchard near Newport, Vt. 
Specimens of the tender conifer Arau¬ 
caria excelsa four feet high, are worth 
$25. At any rate, that is what the New 
York florists ask for them. They are ex¬ 
ceedingly popular as window plants, as 
they seem to endure dust and gas as well 
as any of the palms. 
Gooseberry Notes. —We have received 
the following from one of our oldest and 
most valued contributors. He lives in 
Tyrone, Pa., and has always requested 
that his respected name be not used : 
I want to add some remarks to the many Interest¬ 
ing notes on gooseberries which The Rural pub¬ 
lished January 21. Nothing Is said about the use of 
the fruit In Its green state, which Is by far the largest 
and most appreciated use of It In the Old Country. 
The plants like a cool, moist climate, and may be ex¬ 
pected to prove especially successful In Oregon and 
Washington, as they are In the similar climate of 
the British Is'ands. There the Industry Is a favorite 
sort now. and the leading merit attributed to It Is 
that It Is fit for use green at a distinctly earlier date 
than any other kind of equal size. Here It has the 
same merit, and sells very readily at 10 cents per 
quart. But the bushes are exhausted In a few years, 
and sooner than the natives, the fruit becoming 
smaller and drier, although still abundant on every 
shoot. All the sorts of gooseberry require close 
pruning and frequent renewal In order to maintain 
the full size and quality of the fruit. No mildew has 
appeared on the fruit or the leaves of the Industry 
here during eight years, but It Is a refractory sort 
about taking root from cuttings of ripe wood, and 
to Increase It we set cuttings of green wood In 
September, and shelter them from heaving out dur¬ 
ing winter, or we layer a plant In spring pretty 
deeply and gradually earth up the shoots that 
ascend from It, and then add mulch. Dr. Hoskins 
refers to the dry corolla as sometimes being left 
on the green berries when set to cook. We always 
leave them on and have learned to like the appear¬ 
ance of the sauce with these dark but tasteless spots 
In It. If the berries are quite green, even the stems 
dissolve so as to become imperceptible. No fruit is 
more easily grown than the gooseberry, and It Is the 
very earliest our gardens supply for kitchen use, 
and unsurpassed for piquancy of flavor. 
The experiment stations of New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Ken¬ 
tucky, Indiana and Illinois are among 
those which have made field tests with 
the various approved forms of commer¬ 
cial fertilizers for the production of 
wheat. As Prof. G. E. Morrow remarks, 
the general result at these stations has 
been that the increase in yield of wheat 
produced by the application of the va¬ 
rious forms of commercial fertilizers has 
not given a profitable return for the 
money invested, at the price of wheat 
and of fertilizers during the 10 years 
1880 to 1889. 
Word for Word. 
-T. Greiner in The Practical 
Farmer: “I never advise any one to fight 
shy of novelties, unless they are the hor¬ 
ticultural absurdities, horticultural mon¬ 
strosities and horticultural impossibili¬ 
ties which some firms picture in their 
catalogues, for the money that they can 
get out of gullible people. I never ad¬ 
vise any one to put great dependence on 
novelties. But try them.” 
“The Prizetaker has been worth hun¬ 
dreds of dollars to me. It has doubled or 
trebled my profits in onion growing. It 
has pleased the grower and the market- 
men and the consumer.” 
“ I start my onion plants under glass 
in February and March. Middle of Feb¬ 
ruary is none too early to begin.” 
-Bulletin North Dakota Experi¬ 
ment Station : “ The prevailing com¬ 
plaint is that the wheat fields are overrun 
with weeds and the wheat crowded out. 
A system of crop rotation and the intro¬ 
duction of dairying seems most advisable 
to increase the productiveness of the 
farm, and to eradicate the weeds.” 
-Ram’s Horn : “ One of the hardest 
times to love an enemy is when he seems 
to be prospering like a green bay tree.” 
-Ladies’Home Journal: “Women 
are the custodians of the morality of the 
nation, and cannot hold themselves too 
high.” 
“ But I deeply feel that these humbler 
members of our family servants deserve 
more kind and Christian treatment than 
they frequently receive.” 
“ To be popular in society and success¬ 
ful in literature iis a hard role to play in 
any city.” 
“Cream will rise to the surface whether 
the cow is milked in New York or in the 
backwoods of the wildest and farthest 
Western mining town.” 
-Farmers’ Tribune: “If my education 
will aid me in other vocations, why will 
it not serve me as well as a farmer ?” 
P. M. Augur : “ Water occupies the 
least space at 39.2 degrees ; below that 
it expands, but most between 34 and 31, 
so that 12 gallons of water at 34 will fill 
a 13-gallon measure at 31. The power of 
this expansion is equal to that of steam, 
and a drop of water confined in a crevice 
will splinter a rock.” 
-Congregationalist : “ The victims 
of strong drink outnumber a thousand¬ 
fold those that die by hydrophobia and 
their fate is equally terrible. Why not 
recognize the danger? Why not muzzle 
the dramshops?” 
“ Visitor: ‘ How does the land lie out 
this way ? ’ Native : ‘ It ain’t the land 
that lies, sir; it’s the land agents.’ ” 
“Better give a little more taffy dur¬ 
ing life than so much epitaphy after 
death.” 
-Meehan’s Monthly.—“A Large 
Pear. —We have no record of the largest 
pear raised in our country, but English 
papers report a fruit of the Pittmaston 
Duchess which weighed 1% pound, and 
this is regarded as possibly the largest 
ever known in the Old World. It seems 
to us that California might beat this 
weight.” 
“A Large Rose Tree. —At Cologne 
there is a rose tree which is believed to 
be 300 years old, and has a trunk of four 
feet in circumference. California has 
one at Ventura which is now three feet 
in circumference at the ground. It was 
only planted in 1876, and now covers 
2,000 square feet.” 
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Dr. Pierce’a Pleas¬ 
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begin with, they’re 
the smallest, and 
the easiest to take. 
They’re tiny, 
sugar-coated anti- 
bilious granules, 
scarcely larger 
than mustard 
seeds. Every child 
is ready for them. 
Then, after they’re taken, instead of dis¬ 
turbing and shocking the system, they act 
in a mild, easy, and natural way. There’s 
no chance for any reaction afterward. Their 
help lasts. Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious 
Attacks, Sick or Bilious Headaches, and all 
derangements of the liver, stomach, and 
bowels are promptly relieved and perman¬ 
ently cured. 
They’re put up in glass vials, which keeps 
them always fresh and reliable, unlike tne 
ordinary pills in wooden or pasteboard 
boxes. 
And they’re the cheapest pills you can buy, 
for they’re guaranteed to give satisfaction, 
or your money is returned. You pay only 
for the good you get. 
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THE WEEDS, 
Cuts the sod, bears down the 
weeds, clears all rubbish and 
obstructions, impossible to clog, lessens the 
draft, makes work easier for both man and 
team, simple, strong and durable. 
The Lambert Plow Goiter 
can be attached to any plow. Just the thing 
for plowing under green crops. Guaranteed 
to work on any land, no matter how encum¬ 
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Once in a neighborhood every one wants it. 
Its low price brings it within the reach of 
every one who uses a plow. 
C!oIler with Clamp to lit ally Plow, §:{. 
Colter without Clump, $2.30 
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