1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
335 
Roralisms— Continued. 
Mr. W. T. Clucas, of Albion, Ind., 
writes us, under date of April 12, that the 
R. N.-Y. No 2 is the largest yielding 
potato he has ever raised. He says : “We 
mulch our potatoes with wheat straw, 
aiming to have the straw five or six 
inches thick when weighted down. We 
get a yield of about 200 bushels of mar¬ 
ketable tubers per acre. I am selling the 
R. N.-Y. No. 2 at $1.50 per bushel. We 
think this pays better than to burn our 
straw stacks as some of our neighbors 
do. Our potatoes grow large and smooth 
Those weighing one pound each are 
common and the quality is equal, if not 
superior to those that are cultivated.” 
Ellwanger& Barry regard Mrs. John 
Laing as “ the most beautiful rose of 
recent introduction.” It is a seedling of 
Francois Michelon and therefore a hardy 
hybrid perpetual. 
Some 20 years ago we imported from 
England two clematises (then novelties) 
called Henryi and Lawsoniana. They 
are now offered in this country, and 
justly so in our opinion, as the best of 
their kind. Henryi bears large white 
flowers six inches in diameter; Law¬ 
soniana bears flowers of a feeble lilac 
sometimes seven inches in diameter. 
W. H. Pope of Portland, Oregon, writes 
Ruralisms that the Dwarf Rocky Moun¬ 
tain cherry * is a delicious reality.” 
A recent bulletin of the Massachu¬ 
setts Experiment Station (Amherst) gives 
seven analyses of wood ashes sent to the 
station from various places. The aver¬ 
age of the seven analyses is as follows : 
Potash, 5 23 per cent ; phosphoric acid, 
1.14; lime,37 .66 The poorest of the 
samples contained but 2 J£ per cent of 
potash and 0.61 of phosphate. It pays 
farmers to know what ashes are really 
worth before they buy them. 
In answer to a number of questions 
received during the past year as to where 
Prickly Comfrey roots may be obtained, 
we have replied that we did not know. 
We find them offered in Ellwanger & 
Barry’s (Rochester, N. Y.) catalogue, 
page 127. 
We see, too, that the above firm offers 
a variety of Comfrey (Symphytum offic¬ 
inale) which is described as one of the 
finest variegated-leaved plants in culti¬ 
vation, enduring the hottest suns. 
Apropos of the Mapledale Pop-corn, 
we have received the following note 
from H. M. Earl, the manager of W. A. 
Burpee’s Fordhook Farm: 
I notice on page 286 of current number Rukai. 
NEW-YORKER Mr. Woodward’s remarks on the 
Mapledale Prolific Pop-corn, and would say that 1 
think he really must have had a very poor stock of 
this variety, for several years ago (1888) we had at 
our Fordhook Farm quite a large sowing of this 
variety, and It fell to me to select specimens for 
Illustrating, and In making this selection 1 bad no 
difficulty in finding many with six ears to a stalk, 
and all ranged lour and over and some had 8 and lb. 
If Mr. Woodward will turn to pa?e 59 of our Farm 
Annual lor 1893, he will find there an exact repro¬ 
duction, of course, reduced In size, of a stalk selected 
by me In 1888. 
In 1889 the firm offered a sum of money In com¬ 
petition for the most prolific stalks, and received 
many specimens, Including the suckers, having as 
many as 20 ears, while the stalk taking first prize 
had 18 ears on It. 
“ With me the ears of this variety have averaged 
over eight Inches In length. As to Its lateness, 
would say that It has ripened always only a trifle 
later than other sorts. It Is one of the best poppers, 
and while the old Rice Is also a good one, 1 think 
this equally as good and more prolific. 
Chas. E Pennock, of Fort Collins, 
Colo., sends us two plants of what be 
calls the Improved Dwarf Rocky Moun¬ 
tain cherry. They are one-year-old 
plants, about 15 inches high and have 
several fruit buds formed that would 
perhaps have borne fruit this season 
had the plants not been disturbed. Mr. 
Pennock has sent plants to Prof. L. H. 
Bailey, of Cornell, to Mr. Van Deman, 
United States Pomologist, “and other 
prominent botanists, to learn to which 
species this cherry belongs,” and as yet 
none has been able to classify it. 
A friend from Oregon writes to Rural- 
isms that there is one thing he par¬ 
ticularly likes about The R. N.-Y.: 
“ Every one may have his say. I never see 
a copy in which there is not something— 
usually many things—about which I 
would like to talk.” That is just what 
we want our friends to do. Yes, “every¬ 
one may have his say,” and we want 
them to say it. 
Where potash and phosphate or even 
“ complete ” fertilizers are used upon 
potatoes, it is The R. N.-Y.’s advice to 
sow a small quantity of nitrate of soda 
just as the vines are breaking through 
the soil and to give another application 
in about three weeks thereafter. The 
amount need not exceed at the rate of 
75 or 100 pounds to the acre for each 
dressing. It is not necessary that the 
soda should be harrowed in. It is so 
soluble that the first rain will dissolve 
and carry it into the soil, so that the 
plants may feed upon it. 
The word Cerinthe is derived from two 
Greek words meaning “wax” and a 
“ flower” in allusion to the flowers which 
the plant bears of which bees are fond. 
Hence we have the common name Honey- 
wort or Waxflower. Thei-e are annual 
and perennial Cerinthes both hardy and 
well known in Europe. Cerinthe retorta 
(annual) is the showiest species of the 
genus and of the easiest cultivation. 
Why it is not listed in American cata 
logues or generally known in our gardens 
we cannot conjecture. Why some of our 
enterprising florists and seedsmen have 
not offered it as a wonderful novelty is 
likewise surprising. Our attention was 
first called to the plant by a colored 
picture in the London Garden. Thorburn 
& Co., were kind enough to import a few 
seeds for us and a dozen plants were 
raised last year. The seeds are as large 
as buckwheat and something of the same 
shape and they germinate as freely. The 
plants grow rapidly to a height of about 
two feet. The stems are thick, widely 
spreading, succulent and of a light green 
color. The leaves clasp the stems and 
are from six to eight inches long, two 
inches broad and of nearly the same 
width throughout, rounding at the end 
in an obcordate manner. From the axils 
of these leaves secondary branches grow 
from two inches to a foot in length and 
then again in the axils of the leaves of 
these stems, tertiary branches grow 
which bear flowers from several to a 
dozen in number. The flowers are about 
an inch long by a quarter of an inch in 
diameter, tubular, purple and white or 
green outside, nearly white within. The 
five conspicuous stamens are inserted on 
the corolla tube and do not extend be¬ 
yond the tube. The flowers are not 
showy, though numerous ; the prettiest 
part of the plant is really the terminal 
leaves which turn to a dark bluish 
metallic color. Exposed to the mid-day 
sun these colored leaves scald and 
wither. But in cool, shady positions the 
leaves retain this showy color fairly well. 
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