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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 29 
HORTICULTURE IN 1993. 
AS SHOWN BY A SEED CATALOGUE. 
( Concluded .) 
The turnip, too, has been greatly im¬ 
proved, and the Matchless Gigantic is 
surely a wonder, growing often to a 
weight of 250 pounds, and yielding over 
20 carloads per acre. Field grains have 
a separate department of 200 pages 
and I find some great improvements 
in all kinds, but the greatest wonder 
seems to be among potatoes, of which 
there is a list of 1,400 different varieties 
headed by the celebrated Early Gigantic 
Mastodon, which yields 3,000 bushels per 
acre—single tubers weighing six to eight 
pounds, and they are fit for the table in 
37 days from planting. About 250 pages 
are devoted to nursery stock and fruits 
of all kinds, among which I note Jules 
Verne’s Royal Everbearing Columbian 
blackberry, which grows to the size of a 
tree 10 feet high, perfectly hardy, and 
bears fruit for years. Many of the ber¬ 
ries are five inches long and three in 
diameter and are ripe from June 1 until 
frost. The new Arctic King Tree goose¬ 
berry is another new fruit reaching eight 
feet in height and bearing berries the 
,, size of large apples. A single tree will 
yield from 10 to 12 bushels per year. The 
Icelandic Mammoth raspberry is another 
valuable novelty. The fruit is often 
three inches in diameter and a single 
bush will provide a large family bounti¬ 
fully from June 1 until the snow covers 
it. It is also a wonderfully prolific ever- 
bearing variety. The greatest wonder 
of all, however, is their Mammoth Colum¬ 
bian strawberries, which grow mons¬ 
trous plants from three to four feet high 
and the fruit grows on strong stems over 
three inches in diameter. The berries 
are so large that they are sold like cheese, 
being cut up and weighed out to cus¬ 
tomers. Single berries often weigh 10 
to 15 pounds and the yield per acre is 
something immense, as each plant will 
produce from 1,000 to 2,000 berries and 
they are everbearing, yielding fruit from 
May 1 until winter closes in upon them. 
Another new plant of merit is the Mani¬ 
toban banana ; perfectly hardy as far 
north as Hudson Bay and very produc¬ 
tive. The concern also has a new hardy 
orange that will grow anywhere south 
of the Arctic Circle, and a new race of 
Alaskan grapes that will put to shame 
even those found growing in the Prom¬ 
ised Land by the men that were sent to 
spy out the country. 
One hundred and fifty pages are devoted 
to shade and ornamental plants, many 
of which are entirely new and exceed¬ 
ingly rare. Among them is the new race 
of hardy arctic palms which are perfectly 
hardy in all of the cold Northern States. 
Roses have a separate department of 200 
pages and there are 20 colored plates. 
Among the new varieties is the African 
Wonder Tree rose making a tree 20 feet 
high and bearing thousands of blossoms 
laden with the most delicate odors. The 
colors range from pure snow white 
through yellow, pink, red, purple to jet 
black, all on one tree and the blossoms 
are 8 to 10 inches in diameter. They are 
often cooked and eaten like cabbage, 
being greatly superior to that vegetable 
on account of their fine flavor. There 
are descriptions of about 2,000 varieties 
of the rose, among which are few of the 
varieties that were popular in 1893. Two 
hundred and fifty pages are devoted to 
aquatic plants and here we find many 
wonders from Africa, Asia and South 
America. 
Three hundred pages are devoted to 
flower seeds for the garden, among which 
are so many brilliant flowers that I can 
hardly select one for special mention; 
but perhaps the new Peruvian Monstrous 
Tree primrose is worthy of a notice. It 
is a rapid grower, attaining a length of 
eight feet in a few weeks and from July 
to October is covered with large rainbow- 
colored flowers measuring eight inches 
in diameter. About 350 pages are devoted 
to greenhouse plants and the varieties 
reach far into the thousands and are so 
fine that it is impossible for me to select 
any special varieties for mention. Fol¬ 
lowing this, are 300 pages devoted to the 
more common varieties of vegetable 
seeds, but there are many varieties that 
would have been considered wonderful 
if we could have had them in 1893. 
Next follow separate departments for 
farm and garden tools, poultry, rabbits, 
dogs, etc., etc., consisting of 500 pages in 
all. Among the new varieties of poultry 
is one now first offered. It is the Caesar’s 
Gigantic African Zulu. The birds are 
black, stand 4% feet high and weigh 30 
pounds each, if well fatted. They are 
sure death to rats, woodchucks, and all 
other kinds of small animals, which they 
kill and devour. 
There is also a special bulb catalogue, 
issued in the fall, of 1,000 pages, which 
the company hopes to make even more 
beautiful than this mammoth volume. 
In again looking over the letter to cus¬ 
tomers in the first 150 pages, I find that 
they have branch establishments in every 
State and country in the world, and 
large farms of thousands of acres in 
the States of Manitoba and Aurora Bore¬ 
alis which lies several hundred miles 
north of Manitoba. These two States 
are now two of the most prosperous in 
the Union, and a large part of their farm 
grains and seeds are grown on their large 
farms in those cold Northern States. 
Moreover, they have large farms for trial 
grounds and for growing special crops 
in every country of the world. 
I feel a shaking and a voice exclaims, 
“ Wake up ! Are you going to sit here 
and sleep all night ? ” and I stand up 
and find that it is still 1893, and the 
wonders I have seen are a long way in 
the future. Well, I have always been 
told to rejoice that I am permitted to live 
in this enlightened and prosperous age, 
but I am thinking it was a sad mistake 
and I most heartily wish I had not seen 
the light of day so soon by a century and 
then I could have had some things to be 
happy for. Oh for just a slice out of one 
of those strawberries ! 
CHRISTOPHER CABBAGE. 
Cooperation Again a Failure. —The 
National Union is an anti-middleman, 
anti-capitalistic organization which, in 
connection with the Farmers’ Alliance, 
some time ago established a large num¬ 
ber of retail stores in Kansas and some 
of the other Western States in order to 
relieve their patrons of the burden of 
the “middleman’s share.” The stores 
were supplied with stock purchased at 
wholesale, and sold goods at prices only 
enough above cost to leave a margin just 
sufficient to pay the expenses of hand¬ 
ling. Then they issued checks against 
deposits of farm produce, and these 
checks were received as money at the 
organization’s stores. According to the 
Kansas papers, all the stores in the Sun¬ 
flower State are now in the hands of re¬ 
ceivers. In many cases the stockholders 
have not only lost their original invest¬ 
ments, but have had to pay an assess¬ 
ment equal to twice the amount. It is 
charged that the stores made very little 
reduction in prices or improvement in 
goods as compared with those obtainable 
elsewhere. Some of the managers, it is 
claimed, were either dishonest or culpa¬ 
bly careless, while the best of them were 
ignorant of the business, and incapable 
of competing with rivals who had years 
of experience. How is it that as a rule 
cooperative enterprises are rarely man¬ 
aged as cheaply or successfully as private 
undertakings ? 
It is but Wretched Policy to allow yourself to 
drift into an incurable disease, by neglecting the 
earliest and most tractable symptoms. By content¬ 
edly waiting for a Cold to get well of Itself, many a 
one has so damaged the structure of his Lungs, as to 
put himself beyond the reach of medicines, be¬ 
fore being conscious of danger. How much safer on 
the flrst Indications of a Cold, to resort to Dr. Jayne’s 
Expectorant, an efficacious remedy for Coughs, 
Asthma and all Bronchial Affections, and sure to 
exert a beneficial Influence on the organs of the 
Chest.— Adv. 
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