1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
249 
Ruralisms— Continued. 
a matter of surprise toTHK R. N.-Y. that 
many of the reports of to day character¬ 
ize the Enhance as “of the largest size, 
fine form and excellent quality.” 
During several years past requests 
have appeared in these columns from 
time to time that any of our readers 
having seed balls of the R. N.-Y. No. 2 
potato would send us a few. Many kind 
friends have responded, one of whom sent 
us as many as 200. We have received 
them from the East, Northwest, Canada, 
West and Far West, but not one contained 
a true seed ; that is, a viable seed. A 
short time ago, however, we received a 
small packet of true, sound seeds of this 
potato from a subscriber in Belgium, Mr. 
Ph. A. Lippens, which are already sown 
in boxes. As soon as the young plants 
become two or three inches high, they 
will be transplanted to little pots, and, 
in late May, thumped out into well-pre¬ 
pared soil of the open ground. We had 
despaired of ever procuring seeds of the 
No. 2, believing it to be a sterile variety. 
Evidently there are conditions of the soil 
or climate of Belgium which have re¬ 
stored to the plants a sexual virility that 
they are not possessed of in this country. 
We are in hopes that Mr. Lippens will 
inform our readers whether other varie¬ 
ties of potatoes seed more freely in Bel¬ 
gium than in other countries. 
Rocky Mountain Cherry.—As throw¬ 
ing some light upon our recent notice of 
an alleged new fruit, we have the follow¬ 
ing valuable note from a subscriber, Wm. 
C. Cusick, of Union, Ore.: 
I think the “Dwarf Itocky Mountain Cherry,” no¬ 
ticed In The Rural on pages 121 and 138, Flu. 40, Is 
Prunes demlssa, known hero as the “ choke cherry.” 
It Is found on this coast from Washington to Cali¬ 
fornia and eastward to the Rocky Mountains. As 
we have It here In eastern Oregon, It Is a shrub or 
small tree In rich alluvial soils; while on rocky hill¬ 
sides It is a small shrub, often bearing fruit when 
only two feet In height. The white flowers are pretty, 
but have a disagreeable odor, and are produced In 
the greatest prolusion In May or June, on the new 
growth, on racemes three or four Inches In length. 
The fruit Is ripe In September; black, sometimes 
with a purplish tinge: about a quarter of an Inch In 
the mean diameter, being longer than It Is broad. 
The skin Is thick and tough; the stone large, and 
there Is very little pulp. Ills barely edible, being 
commonly very astringent. Those found on the 
stony hills have much sweeter fruit than the more 
thrifty specimens; and all Improve by remaining 
long on the bush, which they will always do, If let 
alone, often till the leaves fall. The plant produces 
fruit In great abundance. I find that on a dried 
specimen In my herbarium, on a space of five Inches 
there are 18 racemes with over 100 cherries. The claim 
that the “ Dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry ” Is a “ new 
species not botanlcally known," is most Improbable. 
I think that It may be a form of our Prunus demlssa. 
wm. c. CUSICK. 
Mr. L. L. Oldh, the potato specialist 
of Clinton, Wis , pronounces the R. 
N.-Y. No. 2 the most popular potato in 
the United States. He describes it as 
‘ Quite distinct in appearance ; skin and 
flesh, white ; quality, excellent; shape, 
nearly round, somewhat flattened ; 
tubers large, very large , but not rough or 
irregular ; eyes, quite shallow, and gen¬ 
eral form symmetrical. In season, med¬ 
ium late. Very strong and vigorous in 
growth, and an immense yielder. Last 
year in yield it stood first among all our 
varieties (nearly 100). Indeed, it was 
quite away ahead of everything else. 
The great, fine potatoes rolled out at 
digging time in a way that made our 
pickers laugh all over. We hired them 
by the bushel, and they wanted to pick 
up Rural New-Yorker all the time.” 
Here is a strong, good sentiment from 
J. Sterling Morton, the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, which we take the liberty of 
quoting from a private letter : “My 
strenuous effort will be to administer 
the affairs under my charge so as to 
render the most efficient service to my 
countrymen, and with the least possible 
waste of the money which is raised from 
them by taxation.” 
We sincerly hope that Secretary Mor¬ 
ton will regard it as an essential part of 
his policy, as above indicated, to oppose 
the indiscriminate selection, purchase 
and distribution of seeds by the Govern¬ 
ment. 
To state principles, problems, facts 
with scientific accuracy in a popular 
form should be the constant aim of our 
agricultural station teachers. We have 
just been reading a long, labored, 
“ learned” production of an officer of one 
of the stations that makes us wish to 
give him a good spanking with his own 
book. 
Surely the bulletins ought to be 
written for the mass of farmers, garden¬ 
ers, etc., not to show the writer’s famil¬ 
iarity with hard technical words and 
terms which only special students under¬ 
stand without looking them up in dic¬ 
tionaries or encyclopedias. 
Mr John Lewis Ciiilds, of Floral 
Park, Queens County, N. Y., offers this 
year a new rose which he calls Childs’s 
Jewel. He says that “a plant in bloom 
has no two flowers alike. Some will be 
dark yellow ; others light yellow, buff, 
saffron, light and dark crimson, pink, 
blush, apricot, etc., while others will be 
variegated in a most beautiful manner.” 
It is, he says, a pure Tea, the flowers 
large and fragrant. 
The tendency of such sporting plants 
is to become fixed. A certain cutting 
bears flowers tending more towards one 
color than another, and this color asserts 
itself more and more as it may be propa¬ 
gated for future stock. 
Mr. William Robinson, the accom¬ 
plished conductor of the London Gar¬ 
den, is in full accord with The R. N.-Y. 
in its opposition to the flagrantly misrep¬ 
resenting pictures of many catalogues, 
as one may judge from the following in 
Gardening : “ Grow as many beautiful 
flowers as you can, but commit them to 
the artist’s care without a word of com¬ 
ment, and so abolish forever the ridicu¬ 
lous painted lies wh'ch abound in the 
gardening literature. * * * I insist 
that all the flowers should be drawn as 
they are.” The It. N.-Y. has for many 
years insisted that all plants whatsoever 
should be drawn and engraved as they 
are, and the printed descriptions should 
be equally true to life. 
A month or so ago we had occasion to 
allude to the two specimens of Sequoia 
gigantea in Central I ’ark. They are only 
15 feet apart, about 25 feet high and 18 
inches in diameter near the ground. 
Both trees at that time seemed in good 
health. Now the foliage is brown and 
probably both trees are dead. The win¬ 
ter has been hard upon all evergreens. 
Even the southerly exposed portions of 
the White Pine in many cases are 
scorched. 
In Central Park there is one fine spec¬ 
imen of the Maiden-Hair Tree—Salis- 
buria adiantifolia. It appears to be 
about 75 feet in height with a spread of 
branches not less than 00 feet in diam¬ 
eter while the trunk near the ground is 
fully two feet in diameter. The tree is 
pyramidal in shape and well filled out on 
every side with branches and branchlets. 
This tree bore a heavy crop of nuts 
(drupes) last season. Even now the soil 
underneath is almost covered with them, 
though as they are edible one would sup¬ 
pose the squirrels with which the park 
is alive would have disposed of them as 
fast as they dropped. Now this Ginkgo 
Tree, as it is often called, is said to be 
dioecious. But we failed to find any 
other Ginkgo in its vicin ty. 
Word for Word. 
- Dr. T. II. Hoskins : “ It is astonish¬ 
ing how much rascality we all pardon in 
a politician of our own party, and how 
little in one of the other party.” 
“ They think the people fools—and 
the people give them a great deal too 
much reason for that belief.” 
-Like: “ There is no one thing (ex¬ 
cept silver) of which the country has 
quite such a surplus as of bad roads, and 
if it is possible to get any good ideas 
about road making into people’s heads 
by having a suitable road exhibit at 
Chicago, the exhibit should be had.” 
-Prof. W. F. Massey, in Practical 
Farmer : “ Rural New-Yorker No. 2 also 
did well with us, and though not counted 
an early potato, it makes good-sized 
tubers as early as any, though the plants 
keep green late. I first called attention 
to this peculiarity in one of my bulle¬ 
tins.” 
Harper’s Monthly: “Orange culture 
in Florida has returned the interest on 
the sum invested only in one year out of 
every four.” 
Dr. Andrew P. Peabody: “ A man 
may have such native proclivities to evil 
or such a constitutional predisposition to 
right conduct, as in the former case to 
render virtuous living intensely difficult, 
though not impos.ible, and in the lat¬ 
ter case to give a prophecy of goodness 
that is seldom belied. Great is the power 
of heredity.” 
“A shamefully bad man, a drunkard 
or a profligate, often has children of su¬ 
perior excellence, because they are con¬ 
scious of their evil heritage, afraid of 
it, and intensely solicitous that it should 
lapse. But their children inherit the 
taint without the shame; the faultless¬ 
ness of their parents leaves the alarm 
unsounded and they yield to temptations 
from without corresponding to the evil 
proclivities within.” 
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