1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
367 
Rurallsms— Continued. 
usual. Some varieties, it is true, were 
not harmed while others were killed to 
the soil. The winter was one of the 
coldest—next to the coldest, indeed—that 
has been experienced during the past 25 
years. On one day the temperature fell 
to 20 degrees below zero ; on another to 
18, and on a third to 15 degrees. We 
now find after a careful inspection that 
the several kinds have been affected as 
follows : Kittatinny, Bagnard, Topsy 
(Everbearing Tree), Erie,Bonanza, Early 
Cluster, Hilborn, Wilson Jr., Early King, 
Nevada were all so badly injured that 
they will not bear fruit. 
Bangor, Bruce’s No. 1, Agawam, 
Thornless, Taylor, Gaynor, Red Cluster 
(W. W. Hilborn, Ontario), Lovett’s Best 
were not harmed at all or very slightly. 
So, too, a white blackberry from W. C. 
Raymond, another white from Macomber 
of Vermont were but slightly injured. 
Tnese albiaos are usually tender. The 
Minnewaski was cut back somewhat, but 
will probably bear fruit 
Very few grape vines were injured 
materially. They seem to start with 
unusual vigor. Those which were harm¬ 
ed we shall allude to later. 
Nkxt to asparagus, and scarcely next, 
as a deliciously tender, palatable vege¬ 
table, are young beets. Pull them when 
no larger than radishes. Use the tops 
for greens and boil the juicy sweet roots, 
rub off the slippery skins and eat them 
with vinegar, pepper, salt and butter. 
They are indeed delicious. Seeds should 
be sown every week or so until August 
if we would have this delicacy until fall. 
The effects of the past cold winter, we 
find are no tess deplorable than partial. 
The beautiful Hall’s Japan honeysuckle, 
which hitherto has never been suspected 
of fearing winter’s cold, is alive only at 
the roots, or, in places a foot or so above 
the soil. For upwards of 20yea r s a large 
rustic arbor has been covered with this 
queen of vines, every year well covered 
with its white and buff fragrant flowers. 
The vines extended from the arbor to 
the tops of near-by mock oranges and 
lilacs. They are quite dead now. Within 
25 feet are two magnolias, the buds of 
which often in ordinary winters are 
blackened by the frost. Now they are 
in full bloom and the flowers seem larger 
and more numerous than ever before. 
One is Lenn6’s magnolia, the other 
Soulange’s—both being regarded as some¬ 
what tender in this and similar climates. 
Surely hardiness is a relative term and 
the relations are but imperfectly under¬ 
stood. 
We are told by those who have learned 
the fact by experience that weevils do 
far less harm if the infested peas be kept 
in a cold place. The larvae probably re¬ 
main in a dormant condition. The best 
thing to do, however, is to treat the peas 
to bi-sulphide of carbon so soon as gath¬ 
ered. This may be done without much 
of either cost or trouble and it kills the 
grubs at once. 
We have carefully read a book of 200 
pages entitled “ Manures. Uow to Make 
ard to Use Them.” By Frank W. Sem- 
pers. Published by W. Atlee Burpee & 
Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. The price is 
but 50 cents. It is just one of those 
books that we take delight in commend¬ 
ing to every reader who us<=s fertilizers 
and desires to use them rationally, that 
is economically. We do not know of 
any other book of this class that answers 
so well and in such a simple manner the 
questions which every season arise in 
the minds of farmers; questions that 
come to The R. N.-Y. by the scores every 
week and which for years past we have 
endeavored to answer to the best of our 
ability. But in this work we have all 
such questions answered with a compen¬ 
dious index that enables one to turn to 
just what he wants to find. There is 
nothing new about it as to research, but 
there is much that is new about it in 
that it presents the most recent informa¬ 
tion from all sources, German, English, 
French and American, upon the practi¬ 
cal topics treated—the painstaking re¬ 
sults of a study of manure and fertilizer 
literature which piece-meal can not be 
found except by an examination of the 
bulky bulletins, and agricultural and 
scientific publications which few possess 
and which, if possessed, could not be 
turned to without a waste of time and 
patience for specific information that is 
needed just at the moment. The author 
is, we should judge, well versed in agri¬ 
cultural chemistry, else he could never 
have written a book which so supplies 
the needs, and supplies them in language 
so easily understood by the average 
farmer who in so many instances needs 
the fact without caring for its scientific 
explanation. And yet there is a deal 
of explanation, too, for those who, in 
leisure moments, may care to study what 
during busy days they have no time to 
do; when, in short, they need trusty 
rules to guide them in selection, appli¬ 
cation or purchase. Even farmers wl o 
have studied such works as Johnson’s 
How Plants Grow and IIow Plants Feed; 
Storer’s Agriculture, the writings of 
Lawes and Gilbert, Boussingault, Wolff, 
Voelcker and others need this book as a 
ready reference to almost every topic 
which is likely to concern them in con¬ 
nection with every-day fertilizer prob¬ 
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Abstracts. 
-Dr. Peabody : “ Punctuality as to 
one’s engagements is to be regarded as 
an essential part of honesty. What 
right have I to steal other men’s time 
that is often worth more than money, 
which would not permit me to steal their 
money too ? ” 
“ That neutral border-ground on the 
confines of the Right and the Wrong is 
Satan’s chief hunting-ground.” 
-The Century: “When poverty comes 
in at the door, love takes the pattern of 
her garment, and thinks it will not be so 
unbecoming, after all.” 
“ Sweet are the uses of adversity ; but 
a superfluity of sweets is unwholesome.” 
“The wisest of us do a great deal more 
grieving over vanished joys than we do 
of rejoicing over vanished griefs.” 
“ In this world we shall have tribula¬ 
tion ; in the next world we shall have 
opportunities for wondering why we 
gave it a seat at the head of the table.” 
-Prof. L. H. Bailey: “It is strange 
that it has required centuries of stum¬ 
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value of the grass upon which we tread ; 
but it is always true that the simplest 
things are perceived last, and often after 
generations of inquiry. Landscape gar¬ 
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with painting and whatever art impulse 
broadens the conceptions of life.” 
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