made a million different crosses of ber¬ 
ries—the different species and varieties 
of blackberries, raspberries, etc., and the 
claim is made that he has made more and 
greater improvements in them during 
“ the last 14 years than have otherwise 
been made during all the past 18 cen¬ 
turies.” The control of several of these 
crosses between the raspberry and black¬ 
berry is offered for from $200 to $800 each. 
Add to the above hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of seedling roses, half a million 
hybrid lilies, six hundred thousand hy¬ 
brid and crossbred berry plants, which 
Mr. Burbank has raised, and the reader 
may have some idea of the amount of 
work which one man is conducting. 
The very same conditions which injure 
certain so-called hardy plants may not, 
in exceptional seasons, injure olher 
plants which are usually less hardy. For 
instance, the Japan Umbrella pine (Seia- 
dopitys verticillata) has been growirg 
in the Rural Grounds for a dozen years 
at any rate. Until the past season it wss 
never injured by the winters. This dis 
tinct and beautiful conifer is, -we are 
told, hardy in Boston and probably fur¬ 
ther north. Nevertheless our specimen 
has been so harmed by the past winter 
that it can never recover a good shape, 
and may die. Near it are Nordmann’s 
fir, Golden retinisporas, a Pendulous 
Norway spruce, a Pendulous bilver fir 
and many different forms of Arbor-vita;, 
all of which have been regarded as less 
hardy than the Umbrella pine, that were 
not at all harmed. 
In other years, too, when the tempera¬ 
ture has-fallen to 20 degrees below zero, 
as it did the past season, raspberries, 
blackberries and grapes were severely 
cut back. This spring we find that they 
have sustained no material injury. 
What surprises us most is that the 
Japan Dwarf maple, known familiarly 
as the Cut-leaved Purple Japan maple, 
and botanically as Acer polymorpbum 
dissectum atropurpureum, has never be¬ 
fore since it was planted—about 15 years 
ago—wholly escaped injury. This spring 
even the terminal buds are alive. Near 
it grows the beautiful Golden-leaved oak, 
Quercus robur concordia. This during 
its l : fe of 18 years, as we remember, has 
never been killed back during the severest 
winter. We find that the entire top is 
dead, as well as many of the lower 
branches. 
Wk were a little hasty in saying that 
the blackberries at the Rural Grounds 
were injured the past winter less than 
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will it take for a $50 share to 
be worth $500 ? 
We guess three years; and 
this is how we reason. 
We shall have land to sell 
for 100 times its cost as soon 
as water is on it. That runs 
free, except the canal has got 
to be paid for and managed. 
The water sells by the acre, 
just like land ; and brings, 
besides, an annual revenue. 
These items amount-to too 
much to talk about. They are 
in the future, however, now. 
If that future is present in 2 or 
3 years, $500 a share is cheap. 
When the shares pay $50 a 
year, they are worth perhaps 
$1,000. We guess ten years 
for that. 
Let us send you prospectus. 
THE COLORADO RIVER IRRIGATION CO., 
66 Broad Street, New York. 
It is a pretty sight to see different col¬ 
ored and shaped flowers blooming on 
the same bush or tree, though few seem 
to regard such beauty as worth the trou¬ 
ble of grafting or buddiDg different va¬ 
rieties upon a common stock. But Rural- 
isms is not among them. One of the 
prettiest shrubs in the Rural Grounds is 
to-day (May 10) a Japanese quince. It is 
in full bloom and the blossoms are white, 
pink and dark red, about equally di¬ 
vided. The Japan quince is easily grafted 
or budded. 
Why is it that many nurserymen prefer 
the Common privet for a stock for lilacs 
to the lilac itself ? 
The beautiful little shrub Magnolia 
stellata (llalleana) is one of the hardiest 
of the genus. A plant at the Rural 
Grounds (10 years old) fully exposed to 
the winds of the east, west and south, 
has stood the past winter without harm 
to twig or bud. 
HORSE POWER, 
Tread Power and Saw Frame, 
SWINGING STACKER, 
Band Cutter and Self-Feeder, 
The R. N.-Y., in its recent review of 
the catalogues as well as under Rural- 
isms, has taken occasion to praise the 
Horticultural Pole Lima bean, not, how¬ 
ever from personal knowledge, but as 
the say-so of several of its friends who 
have tried it. We gave credit to J. L. 
Childs as the introducer of this novelty, 
adding that he did not give the name of 
the originator. It appears now that The 
R. N.-Y. was the first to speak of this 
hybrid, as those having files may s§e by 
turning to page 229 of the volume for 
1890, where it is described by Luther 
Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Cal., as his own 
production. 
We were led to this discovery while ex¬ 
amining a catalogue ju6t received of Mr. 
Burbank, which he calls “New Creations 
in Fruits and Flowers,” in which the fol¬ 
lowing quotation from The R N.-Y of 
the above date occurs : 
After repeated experiments, Mr. Burbank had al¬ 
most concluded that the common garden bean would 
not cross with the Lima; but at last success crowned 
his efforts, and he obtained a pod of four beans by 
fertilizing the old Horticultural Pole bean with 
Lima pollen, though the form and color of the variety 
were not changed. When the cotyledons appeared, 
however, from one-third to two-thirds of the upper 
end of each of the beans bore the markings charac¬ 
teristic of Limas, while the lower parts had the pecu¬ 
liar markings of the Horticultural Pole. The edges 
of the divisions, like those of uncongenial grafts In 
trees, were rough and serrated. As the plants grew, 
they were naturally watched with great Interest. 
After a week or more the separation became com¬ 
plete, the upper or Lima parts dropping off, the 
plants bearing the usual form of Horticultural Poles. 
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KRAUS SULKY CULTIVATOR 
PIVOT AXLE. 
Entire Machine controlled with the Foot Levers. 
Wheels and Shovels guided at the same 
time and with the same movement. 
Mr. Burbank is doing a stupendous, 
unequaled work. That any one man can 
do the work—nay, the tenth of it—that 
he seems to have done, passeth the under¬ 
standing. He has produced many hybrid 
walnuts, also a self-seedling chestnut 
which he calls the New Japan Mammoth. 
This, he says, is the best of more than 
10,000 seedlings—a tree which each sea¬ 
son bears all it can hold of fat, glossy 
nuts of the very largest size and as sweet 
as an American chestnut. Now the price 
for the entire stock and control of this 
wonderful production is offered for the 
pittance of $300. It ought to be worth at 
least $5,000. 
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DON’T HUY A CULTIVATOR until you have 
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Mrs. Mary E. O’Fallon, 
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was poisoned while as¬ 
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soon terrible ulcers 
broke out on her head, 
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Mrs. M. E. O’Fallon. She wei 8 hed but 78 lbs - 
and saw no prospect of 
help. At last she began to take IIOOII’N 
8AK§APAKILLA and at once improved; 
could soon get out of bed and walk. She is now 
perfectly well, weighs 128 pounds, eats well, 
and does the work for a large family. 
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do work oflO men with hand hoes. T? Crops Increased, Ask Your Dodlor For It, 
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The Universal Weeder Co, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
Of quinces he has originated the Van 
Deman and Santa Rosa ; of the first he 
says: “It produces more big, fine-flavored 
fruit than any other. All are of the most 
superior flavor, texture and quality for 
all purposes for which quinces are used, 
and in addition are as tender and as good 
as apples when baked,” For the control of 
the Van Deman he charges $800. 
Of the Santa Rosa quince he says: 
“ The fruit is so fine-grained and tender 
and free from the harsh acid of the old 
quinces that it is as good as some popular 
apples for eating raw, and fully equal to 
the best apples or pears when baked, 
stewed or canned. 
Mr. Burbank has already originated 
several plums known to he of excellence. 
He offers many more. He claims to have 
“While my man was hoeing one 
row, my son, with Breed's Univer¬ 
sal Weeder cultivated 36 
rows, and more thorough- _ - 
ly.” T. B. TERRY. 
Hood’s Pills should be in every family 
medicine chest. Once used, always preferred. 
Farmers YOUR Prod uce 
To F. I. SAGE & SON, 183 Reade St., N. Y., 
Receivers of all kinds of Country Produce, in 
eluding Game, Live and Dressed Poultry and Dressed 
Calves. Specialties— Berries, Grapes, Apples, Pears, 
Honey, Ontpns aud Potatoes. Correspondence and 
Consignments solicited. Steneils furnished. Ref¬ 
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to be found at any bank. 
Ensilage Cutters, 
Horse Powers, Grinding 
Mills, Wood Saws, 
Root Cutters 
And Acme Engines. 
New Patents, New Designs 
and New Prices. 
DON’T BUY until you have heard from us. 
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