1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Mr. Fred. E. Young, of Rochester, 
N. Y., writes us that there is a new pear 
in his section not generally known, 
called the Bartlett-Seckel, which orig¬ 
inated with Jacob Moore. It combines 
the size of the Bartlett with very nearly 
the Seckel flavor. 
Prof. Sargent while in Japan came 
across Magnolia salicifolia on Mount 
Hakkoda over 2,000 feet above the sea. 
This magnolia is new to cultivation, and 
Prof. Sargent was fortunate in obtaining 
a supply of seeds, s© that we may hope 
that it will be disseminated in a few years. 
Mr. Jack during a European journey 
saw in the nurseries of Anthony Waterer 
near London, a specimen of Koelreuteria 
paniculata with a stem 20 inches in diam¬ 
eter and over 30 feet high, as stated in 
Garden and Forest. We have never seen 
much to admire in this small tree as it 
grows at the Rural Grounds. There 
is no symmetry in its form, and the 
branches are scantily clothed with foli¬ 
age. The flowers are a dull yellow in 
open panicles resembling those of the 
yellow-flowering horse chestnut to which 
it is related as being in the Soapberry 
family. 
Philip D. Armour —the man who has 
made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. 
How much good have agricultural 
dilettanti done for agriculture ? 
□ Mr. J. J. H. Gregory says that where 
clover is winter-killed its place as a 
nitrogen collector can be filled by sub¬ 
stituting the cow pea. He says it can¬ 
not be relied upon to give a crop of ripe 
peas in Massachusetts. In our trials a 
dozen years ago of different varieties of 
the cow pea, several were raised that 
yielded an immense amount of vine which 
easily ripened seeds some weeks before 
frost. 
A supplement of “new and rare 
plants ” issued by a leading Eastern nur¬ 
sery firm mentions Rosa rugosi in its 
list. It takes some plants a long time to 
reach the “ novelty ” eminence. 
David B. Woodbury, of Paris, Me., 
who has tested it thoroughly, pronounces 
the Horticultural Pole Lima as “fine.” 
That is what we believe it to be. 
Native hazelnuts are too small to have 
any market value, a”d until they are in- 
creised in size by reedling cultivation, 
we must look to the English filbert it we 
would engage in profitable work. A. S. 
Fuller, who owns a small farm near the 
Rural Grounds, details his disastrous ex 
perience in the New York Tribune in the 
matter of cultivating in quantity the 
English filbert. His trees grew finely for 
a few year?, but, before they bore many 
nuts, were killed by blight. This has 
been tbe experience of others. 
Where in this country, we would ask, 
are there successful growers of the Eng¬ 
lish h-zelnut? 
The Mississippi Experiment Station 
Bulletin No. 22 is about grapes. It mtkes 
the following report of the Carman: 
“ This is a new variety which, we under¬ 
stand will not be offered for sale until 
next year. The vine is a very strong 
grower, bunches large and compact, fruit 
medium sized, nearly black, skin thin, 
pulp tender and highly flavored. Ripens 
August 1, and, so far, has been free from 
rot.” 
Of the Brilliant, another of Prof. Mun¬ 
son’s hybrids, it says : “ We regard this 
as the best red grape we have ever grown. 
The vine is a good grower, perfectly 
healthy, and bears well. The bunches 
are or good size, fruit red, nearly as 
large as Concord, and of the very best 
quality, ripening July 20, with very little 
rot.” 
E. & J. C. Williams— a most trustwor¬ 
thy firm—consider the Vermont Beauty 
the most desirable of all dessert pears. It 
is said to be hardy in Vermont, where it 
originated, that the quality is best, and 
that it is a good shipper. The fruit ripens 
a little later than the Seckel, much excels 
that variety in size and beauty. In form 
the fruit is of full medium size, obovate, 
yellow, and covered en the sunny side 
with a bright carmine red, making it in¬ 
deed a beauty. The flesh is rich, juicy, 
aromatic. It cannot do otherwise than 
stand at the head of our fall pears. Dr. 
Hoskins says that it is “ the most piquant 
in flavor of any pear known.” 
Abstracts. 
-Vermont Watchman : “ Professor 
Henry, of the Wisconsin Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, is a pretty sound man on the ques¬ 
tions of the farm. He says: ‘ We have 
all beard of the man who hired his boys 
to go to bed at night without their sup¬ 
pers and then stole the pennies from their 
pockets while they were asleep Judging 
from the appearance of the cattle as we 
see them in the barnyards and bleak 
fields in winter time, this man has re¬ 
latives on farms scattered all over our 
land. The Yankee spirit of driving sharp 
bargains and the effort to get something 
from nothing are not confined to the 
traders in our cities, but are found in 
country as well.’” 
- J.J.H. Gregory in Country Gentle¬ 
man: “As surely as a constant subtraction 
will ultimately annihilate the biggest 
array of figures, just so surely is a farm 
which depends on clover only as a fer¬ 
tilizer on the road to impoverishment, to 
be handed down as a ‘ squeezed lemon’ 
to an unfortunate posterity.” 
- Ram’s Horn : “ A wicked old man is 
the devil’s masterpiece.” 
-Walter Besant : “ Money would be 
of no use if people were not made to 
work for those who have it. Never be 
ashamed of your wealth. Rather rejoice 
that your forefathers were prudent and 
wise.” 
-Beekeepers’ Review : “ Would you 
deprive your children of the keen enjoy¬ 
ment you have experienced in building 
up a home of your own, by giving them 
one already built ? ” 
- New Orleans Advocate : “ The true 
joy of reward is in the labor which wins 
it.” 
-The Horseman : “ Wise men live on 
fools, just like big fish live on little fish. 
Brethren, let us be wise.” 
-G. E. Morrow : “ More than 100 
pounds of turnips are sometimes given to 
a fatting ox in Great Britain.” 
“ It has been found that a ton of air- 
dry Pig-weed (Amarantus retrofexm) 
would contain as much phosphoric acid, 
twice as much nitrogen, and nearly five 
times as much potash as a ton of ordi¬ 
nary manure.” 
- New York Tribune: “I am ac¬ 
quainted with men who walked two, 
three, four and occasinally five miles to 
school fifty years ago. All my seven 
children had to go one and a half mile : 
but I know those who are keeping their 
children at home because of this dis¬ 
tance. Dear fellow-farmers and workers, 
if it is five miles to school—and such a 
case nowadays is hardly to be found, I 
think—have your successors taught to 
read, write and cipher, at least! Prob¬ 
ably not more than one or two in a thou¬ 
sand learn to read and write after 18 or 
20—the task is too herculean to be ac¬ 
complished then without a stern task¬ 
master. Once more, let me entreat all 
parents to avoid cursing their children 
with the intolerable burden of ignorance 
of letters, and all literature, and of all 
business equipment.” 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after you 
have read it and written your name 
on the corner. 
HENDERSONS 7 
curl£ I) cbe sTED 
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64XT/HAT are they?’ 
V V So asked hun- 
Jdreds last Summer, who saw 
' for the first time flowers of 
this horticultural pheno¬ 
menon. There is no better 
known annual plant than 
the Zinnia, or, as It is popu- 
, lariy called, “Youth and 
Old Age.” So if this new floral claimant 
is so distinct as to puzzlo both professional 
and amateur horticulturists, we can scarcely 
hope to present an engraving which will 
convey any adeouato idea of its unique 
and wonderful neauty. Our Catalogue, 
mentioned below, contains a beautiful col¬ 
ored plate, on which is shown eight full-sized 
flowers of as many distinct types, hut the 
seed offered will produce dozens of varieties, 
not only entirely different from the types 
portrayed in colors, but of equal, and, in 
many cases, of much greater beauty. At 
first glance the flowers suggest a 
ROSETTE OF RIBBONS. 
The flowers are large, full and double; the pe¬ 
tals being twisted, curled and crested into the 
most fantastic forms, entirely free from 
the stiffness characteristic of all other 
varieties in this family of plants. A remark¬ 
able feature in this novelty is that it should 
present in so short a time such an over¬ 
whelming variety of colors, every possible 
shade and color found in Zinnias, and, in 
many classes, only attained after years of 
culture and hybridization, this new comer 
has reached at a single bound. It is less than 
four years ago that wo detected, in a large bed 
of Zinnias at our Trial Grounds, a single 
plant, from which sprang this marvellous new 
race—marvellous not only in its distinctive¬ 
ness, but in the myriad variety of colors with 
which it has already adorned our gardens. 
A full history of HENDERSON’S 
CURLED and CRESTED ZINNIAS 
will be found in our Catalogue offered below. 
1 Price of Seeds (mixed colors! 25 cts. per 
Pkt. 3 pkts for 60 cts. 6 pkts for $1.00. 
Postago stamps accepted as cash. 
BESIDES 
with every order for a single packet or more 
will be sent, gratis, our Catalogue of 
‘EVERYTHING FOR THE GAR¬ 
DEN” (the price of which alone is 26 cents), 
on condition that you will say in what 
paper you saw this advertisement. 
Hie 160 pages of this grand Catalogue are 
strewn with hundreds of new engravings and 
embellished with eight beautiful colored plates, 
I all of which truthfully portray the “Cream” 
of everything in SEEDS and PLANTS. 
If the Catalogue alone is wanted, it will be 
mailed on receipt of 25 cents, which can be 
I deducted from first order. 
Peter Henderson & Go. 
35 & 37 Cortlandt St., New York. 
Order Early, 
‘Bicycle’ Potato Cultivator. 
Easy. Fast Fine. No more of horso 
snatching, cart steering, and tram 
'-pling down crops. No more hold¬ 
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day. Half tho labon ,Vny boy can 
‘hoe’ potatoes, com, cotton, truck, 
fest as team can walk. T. B. Ten s 
lays * Perfect.’ Dr. Colyer’s repo, i 
s “Nearest Ideal Cultivation." 
Agl. Works, RiverHead, N.Y 
Fast Fertilizer Drill#, Potato Harrows, Diggers, eto 
lire You a Fruit or Flower Raiser? 
For Market or Pleasure— | 
If so, send for onr Ctrcnlar on Fungicides and 
Insecticides, which are cheap and rellable.i 
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Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables. Agricultural] 
Chemicals. w . g. POWF.LL <fc CO., 
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PETER. I1EN DElf SON <fc HONS, Agent*, I 
New York, N. Y. j 
LUCIEN SANDERSON, 
importer and Dealer In 
Fertilizers and Feriiliiifl? Material i 
SELLING DIRECT TO FARMERS. 
Send for circular giving valuable Information abou , 
fertilization. 
LUCIEN SANDERSON, 
87 Long Wharf, New Haven, Conn. 
Complete Fertilizers 
FOB 
CORN and VEGETABLES. 
Also Dissolved S. C. Phosphate and Fertiliz¬ 
ing; Chemicals. 
WM. DAVISON A CO., Baltimore, M<J. 
169 
of 1st quality can ever 
____ be sent by mail. May¬ 
hap you know it. By freight, prepaid if 
preferred, we ship safely 4,5 or 6-ft. trees; 
2-yr. Roses of rare excellence—everything! 
You actually pay less than for the puny 
stuff. 1,000 acres Nurseries. 20,000 acres 
Orchards. Exact information about treeB 
and fruits. Stark Bros., Louisiana, Mo. 
FRUIT 
TREES 
VINES, 
PLANTS, Roses. 
Ornamentals, etc., 
at half Agents' prices. 
See our offer of 
$9 collection 
for $4.00. 
JAY GOULD, 
Bill Nye. and 40,000 others are our patrons. Deal di¬ 
rect with the producer. Established 1876. See Dun'* 
Commercial Reports. Send for free Catalogue and 
copy of Green's Frxtit Grower (100,000 readers) with 
new story: “ Honeymoon on a Fruit Farm.” 
GREEN’S NURSERY CO., ROCHESTER, N. I. 
AND PLANTS 
Phcenix NurseryCompany 
Hue.fK.nm to ttUUlKY TL'TTLK A COt, BLOOMINGTON, ILL. 
ia TREES; 
£ Some very fine Trees for spring planting, in large, 
> or small lots. Straight, healthy, vigorous stock ; < 
< best varieties for orchard or garden. Goods deliv < 
^ *?r®d at any R.R. Station in Eastern States, I’a., or v 
* UUio, charges paid. Can supply other stock at low- £ 
^ " 8 iPT lc «"- Illustrated list free. Mention this paper. 2 
* FRED. E. YOUNG, Nurseryman, Rochester, N. Y. S 
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NEW PRICE LIST 
of Trees, Vines, Small Fruit plants, Flowering 
Shrubs, Border Plants, etc., for spring, mailed to any 
address. EDWIN ALLEN A SON, 
New Rrunswtck (Nurseries), N. J 
Kansas Home Nursery 
Say—The Kansas Is tho largest and best Blackcap. 
Made the best record, approved by high authorities 
over a large area of country and climate. Send for 
Price Catalogue. 
A. H. GRIESA, Box .1, Lawrence, Kan. 
UNIUR HAND WHEEL HOES and 
SEED DRILLS, Meeker’s Smoothing; Harrow 
Send for Catalogue. C. O. Jelllff A Co., 8outbport, Ct. 
OLDS’ SEED POTATOES 
have won a reputation. 40-pag;e Catalogue of all 
best varieties, with pointers for potato-growers, free. 
WORLD’S FAIR, 
has more good points than any other. Better than 
Freeman. L. L. OLDS, Clinton, WU r. 
SEED POTATOES 
JOHOWK IW 
AROOSTOOK COUNTY, ME. 
If you want pure seed, send for our seed circular. 
WM. S. SWEET &. SON, 
89 to 95 Canal St., Providence, R. I. 
WANTED 
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is intended 
to ssnd for my U b74WU8XT163 
32-page Illustrated and it 
icriptive Strawberry Catalogue, mi. «*-Send new, it 
will pay you. w. F. ALLEN, JR.. BALIS2UB?, 1(1). 
1 FINE DOSE 
SURE to Grow, Sure 
to Bloom—and a packet 
of Beautiful Flowed Seeds. 
__- - — With Catalogue for 10c. 
WM. B. REED, Box 78, Chambersburg, Pa. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANT8 - Largest Stock and 
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orbs on either Standing Timber or Stumps. Palls 
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cerning our New IXL Grubber. Address the Manufacturers, 
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