1893 
383 
Rurallsms — Continued. 
We are pleased to be able to inform 
our readers that the Good peach has 
stood the past winter without harm 
either to the leaf or blossom buds. The 
temperature, as stated several times, fell 
to 20, 18 and 15 degrees on the coldest 
days, while the mean temperature has 
been far below the average winter’s. This 
speaks well for the hardiness of the 
Good. It is a late white peach of excel¬ 
lent quality—a little too late for this 
climate. The tree was received from H. 
M. Engle & Son, Marietta, Pa., in Novem¬ 
ber of 1888. 
And now we may begin to make re¬ 
ports as to the behavior of our collection 
of Munson’s grapes. It consists of the 
Rommel, Early Market, Hilgard, Beagle, 
Brilliant, Conelva, Carman, Jaeger, 
President Lyon, Campbell, Nimalba, and 
one the name of which is lost. All have 
passed the winter without harm, except 
Jaeger, Campbell, Brilliant, Hilgard and 
Rommel, which were but slightly in¬ 
jured. Of the two vines of Carman, one 
was injured slightly, the other not at all. 
The earliest to break into leaf are Early 
Market, Beagle, Conelva and Nimalba. 
We are in hopes some of them may fruit 
this season. 
When friends take the trouble to send 
us seeds, tubers or plants for trial, and 
for any reason we are unable to plant 
them, we feel that an apology in every 
case is due. But such mishaps occur when 
explanatory letter-writing is rendered 
next to impossible by the stress of work 
which always attends the planting sea¬ 
son, aggravated by scarcity of help, a 
special aggravation in the vicinity of 
the Rural Grounds. There there is no 
floating, special help. Each farmer has 
his hired man or men, and beyond the 
individual farm accommodations there 
are no tenement houses to speak of 
within a mile. Hence it is that there is 
no surplus help in case of special need, 
such as invariably occurs during early 
spring. The R. N.-Y. is therefore 
obliged year after year to lay out its 
work and to stick to the schedule strictly. 
Our plot for trial potatoes was laid out 
and planted by April 24. Since that 
time we have received 15 different varie¬ 
ties from almost as many sources with 
the request that we try them and report. 
The object of such trials is, of course, 
to determine the relative value of the 
kinds tried, and to this end the condi¬ 
tions of soil, preparation, fertilizing and 
time of planting must be the same. As 
these could not be furnished to the late 
arrivals they were thrown aside, and 
those who were kind enough to send 
them will next fall look in vain for The 
Rural’s report. 
All the k’nds of asparagus at the Rural 
Grounds are growing side by side in one 
bed, and all parts of the bed have re¬ 
ceived the same kinds and amounts of 
manure and fertilizer. The said-to-be 
new variety called Palmetto has received 
praise from many quarters as a really 
distinct and superior variety. We have 
carefully compared it with the old Con¬ 
over’s Colossal, and in no respect can any 
difference be detected. The shoots are 
of the same color and average the same 
size. 
P. J. Bekckman8 (Augusta, Ga ,) the 
President of the American Pomological 
Society, offers for the first time in this 
country, a small evergreen tree known 
as Myrica rubra. It is a native of the 
mountains of Japan, where it is called 
Mountain Peach. The blossoms appear 
in early spring and the fruit ripens dur¬ 
ing vTuly. The fruit resembles in shape 
a firm blackberry, and contains a single 
hard seed. When fully ripe, it is pleas¬ 
antly acidulated and juicy. It is used as 
a dessert fruit or for jellies. This is a 
highly ornamental little tree extensively 
raised in Japan, both for ornament and 
fruit, and President Berckmans thinks 
it will prove a desirable addition to our 
hardy evergreens. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
It is again time to remind our friends 
that The Rural’s way of destroying the 
asparagus beetle seems to be the simplest 
and the best. Rub the eggs off the shoots. 
We need not bother about the beetle it¬ 
self. That is harmless enough. It is the 
grubs that do the damage, and, if the 
eggs are rubbed off, there will be no 
grubs. The eggs are black, stand out 
straight from the stems, are usually de¬ 
posited in lines, and are therefore readily 
seen and rubbed off. It does not pay to 
apply insecticides either to the shoots or 
to the plants in leaf. 
Direct. 
- Georoe William Curtis : “ An en¬ 
gine of one-cat power running all the 
time is more effective than one of 40 
horse-power standing idle.” 
-London (Eng.) Agricultural Ga¬ 
zette: “■ We have to record a drought 
almost unprecedented during the present 
century for this or probably any other 
season of the year.” 
-Henry Stewart: “ It is known that 
one gram or 15 grains’ weight of butter, 
not nearly so strong as it frequently is, 
contains from 25,000,000 to 50,000,000 mi¬ 
crobes, and the gram is only as much as 
would balance one of the old-fashioned 
three-cent silver pieces.” 
“ Not less than 40 different kinds are 
known to affect milk, and this is one 
reason why the management of milk in 
the dairy is subject to so many ineompre 
hensible difficulties. It becomes sour, 
slimy, blue, curdles or it becomes bitter; 
and as to the cream, it is frequently 
found to be virulently poisonous, as is so 
often experienced with the popular sum¬ 
mer ice cream. The cream foams in the 
churn, or it refuses to give up its butter. 
The butter has a disagreeable taste or 
odor, it loses its proper color, and is white 
and salvy. All these results are caused 
by the multitude of germs that are always 
lying in wait to mar the happiness of the 
dairyman.” 
- Dr. Peabody : “ Prosperity, never 
unwelcome, is perhaps more perilous 
than adversity ; and when it does not 
make a man better, it is sure to make 
him worse.” 
- The Century : “He is perfectly 
harmless as an enemy, but very danger¬ 
ous as a friend.” 
“ Learn to forgive your neighbor as 
easily as you forgive yourself.” 
“ Happiness has-been defined as hav¬ 
ing things; better still, as having what 
you want; still better, as being able to 
do without what you want.” • 
“ Some people with faults are like the 
robins Lowell speaks of : they destroy 
your cherries, but, on the whole, you 
would rather have the robins than the 
cherries.” 
“The provoking part of housekeeping 
care is that no one notices if the right 
thing is done; they only notice when it 
is left undone.” 
“Heaven on earth? It is doing work 
that you like to do, and being well paid 
for it.” 
- New York Tribune : “ When every¬ 
body becomes careful as well as honest, 
we may perhaps safely remove the fences 
and leave the front door unlocked. But 
even then there will still be the danger 
of cattle breaking out of their yards and 
fields ; I have had a dozen cows pranc¬ 
ing down across my lawn and through 
shrubbery and flower beds, carrying 
destruction with every footprint, all the 
result of leaving my front gate open 
just at the time a neighbor’s hired man 
had been equally careless with a gate 
into a pasture.” 
- Christian Union : “It is a striking 
comment on the character of the present 
European peace that every appeal for a 
larger army is professedly based on an 
unselfish desire to maintain peace.” 
-John J. Dillon : “While many pa¬ 
pers make considerable pretensions about 
excluding objectionable fidvertiseipents, 
I am sorry to say that few papers really 
make a practice of refusing dishonest 
business.” 
“ The appearance of an advertisement 
ought to be a guarantee on the part of 
the publisher that the house advertising 
is a safe one to deal with. This is clearly 
as much the duty of the publisher as it 
is to give reliable information on the 
breeding of stock and the raising of 
^turnips.” 
-American Gardening : “ The largest 
crop which the 50-acre apple orchard of 
T. C. Maxwell & Brothers (Geneva, N. Y.) 
has ever produced is 9,000 bushels. The 
Maxwells put the Bavay (Reine Claude) 
at the head of the plum lists. Following 
Bavay are Hudson River, Purple Egg, 
Fellemberg, Quackenbos, Bradshaw, 
Field and Guii.” 
“ There is no doubt that the Delaware 
Winter apple and Lawver are identical.” 
inside, outside, and all tlio way through, 
by drinking 
HIRES’*1° 
t This great Temperance 
* id ad healthful, as it i 
drink 
is pleasant. 
Try it. 
“ The Marianna was the only plum on 
my grounds (C. A. Miller, Maine) that 
escaped the ravages of the curculio last 
season.” 
In writing to advertisers please always mention 
Th* Rural. 
SIX POINTS , 
out of many, 
where Doctor 
Pierce’s Pellets 
are better than 
other pills: 
1. They’re the 
smallest, and 
easiest to take— 
little, sugar- 
coated granules 
that every child takes readily. 
2. They’re perfectly easy in their 
action — no griping, no disturbance. 
3. Their effects last. There’s no 
reaction afterwards. They regulate or 
cleanse the aystem, according to size 
of dose. 
4. They’re the cheapest, for they’re 
guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your 
money is returned. You pay only for 
the good you get. 
5. Put up in glass—are always fresh. 
6. They cure Constipation, Indiges¬ 
tion, Bilious Attacks, Sick or Bilious 
Headaches, and all derangements of the 
liver, stomach and bowels. 
Morgan Grape and Berry 
HOES. 
Great Labor Saver. You cannot afford to wore 
Vineyards or Berries without one. Send for special 
circular with testimonials. 
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