1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
479 
Rurallsms— Continued. 
Mr. Joseph Meehan says in the Prac¬ 
tical Farmer that “ the Hardy Orange 
Limonia (or Citrus) trifoliata, though 
but little known in general cultivation, 
has been in some collections for many 
years. There are two plants of it in the 
Philadelphia Zoological garden which 
have been growing there since 1875. and 
which are now large bushes, 15 feet or 
more in height. The beauty of its flow¬ 
ers and fruit has attracted much atten¬ 
tion to it. It is quite hardy as far north 
as New York city, and would doubtless 
prove so much further north than that.” 
We should like to know of instances in 
which this orange proved hardy in or 
near New York or north of New York 
the past winter. One oi our two plants 
was killed root and branch; the other 
is making a growth from the main stem 
an inch or so above ground. Both plants 
were fully exposed without any mulch 
over the roots. 
Mr. Meehan says that some have 
planted the Hardy Orange and been dis¬ 
appointed because they expected to get 
a fruit for table use, which it is not fit 
for. But it is for all a great acquisition, 
not only for its ornamental character, 
but also for its adaptability for hedging. 
Whoever has seen these shrubs when full 
of their sweet-scented flowers in spring, 
or loaded with their lemon-colored fruit 
in the fall, has had much praise to give 
them. The plants in the Zoological gar¬ 
den are every year full of their odd-look¬ 
ing, lemon-colored fruit. The leaves 
are trifoliate and deciduous. Before the 
new ones come in the spring, the flowers 
appear. These are white and sweet- 
scented. The fruit is very nearly round. 
This season it was about 4)^ inches in 
circumference, but it is often the case 
that there is larger fruit than this. As 
there is no other fruiting shrub of this 
character, it will be very much sought 
for ornamental planting. As a hedge 
plant this orange will be in good demand 
where it proves thoroughly hardy. 
It was a surprise to us that a plant of 
the new rose Wooton, though wholly 
unprotected, lived through the past ter¬ 
rible winter. The plant was hurt, it is 
true, but there was enough not hurt to 
give U3 several beautiful flowers which 
were among the earliest of the season. 
A subscrirer from Delaware, Ohio, 
writes as follows : 
“If the farmers of central Ohio had 
paid heed to the warnings you gave last 
winter about certain parties who were 
sending out new (?) potatoes at exor¬ 
bitant prices, it would have saved them 
thousands of dollars. These potatoes 
were sold through here in five and ten- 
pound lots at &1 for the former and $1 50 
for the latter, when the very same kinds 
could have been purchased of reliable 
seedsmen of this State for from 81.50 to 
82 per bushel.” 
“The farmers of central Ohio,” the 
letter goes on to say, “ are, as a rule, 
honest, stiaightforward, hard-working 
men; but many of them do not read 
agricultural papers, and I am sorry to 
say also that the agricultural press are 
not so ready to show up frauds, or as 
careful as they might be to exclude 
advertisements of a doubtful character 
from their columns.” 
We beg our flower-loving friends to 
seek or to avail themselves of opportuni¬ 
ties to see and to study the improved 
cannas. Let them go to the gardens of 
friends, to nurserymen and florists or to 
the World’s Fair. The best varieties of 
cannas are now nearly everything that 
can be desired for bedding plants. The 
fresh, large leaves are of every shade of 
green and purple, while others are beau¬ 
tifully variegated green and purple. In 
length the plants vary from only two 
feet to six feet, so that when the height 
is known beds may readily be planted 
with the tallest kinds in the middle and 
the dwarfs outside. The flowers of these 
latest cannas are nearly as large as those 
of gladioli and fully as brilliant, though 
the range of color is more restricted. In 
yellows, crimsons and scarlets, however, 
the intensity of color is unsurpassed. 
These cannas have two emphatic advan¬ 
tages over the finest gladioli: The first 
is that young plants begin to bloom in 
June and continue to bloom until frost. 
The second is that for a tropical, charm¬ 
ing foliage effect, no other plant what¬ 
ever surpasses them. But our friends 
mast bear in mind that we are writing 
only of the later cannas. They cannot 
trust catalogues fortrustwortliy descrip¬ 
tions as to height, size of flower, free¬ 
dom of bloom. All this must be found 
out by seeing and studying choice collec¬ 
tions. 
The R N.-Y. has this year, as for the 
past two years, a choice collection of 
cannas which we shall carefully describe 
in due time. Let our friends note these 
descriptions, that they may next spring 
be prepared to order those which will be 
sure not to disappoint them. 
The heaviest bearing strawberry plants 
are those which are sure to suffer most 
during a fruiting season of great drought. 
Our readers will remember that we 
spoke of a hybrid Moss rose, the offspring 
of Rosa rugosa fertilized with a Moss 
rose. The foliage is that of Rugosa, the 
buds are densely covered with moss—but 
these blessed buds do not open at all. The 
petals do not develop ; they are mere 
rudiments, scarcely a half inch in length 
or breadth. The plant is interesting, 
therefore, only as showing that it is 
among the possibilities to produce a Moss 
rose with the beautiful leaves of Rosa 
rugosa. 
After planting our pole Horticultural 
Limas, a few beans were left. These were 
cooked. The quality is rich and excel¬ 
lent, but the color is dark—nearly black. 
We hope that our friends did not fail 
to sow the R. N.-Y. cross-bred tomato 
seeds, and we further hope that the 
plants are growing thriftily in at least 
10,000 gardens, and that we may receive 
reports next fall that will prove we did 
not overestimate the probabilities that 
they would yield fruits variable and pe¬ 
culiar, if not valuable in themselves as 
superior to the best kinds already in the 
market. 
The Delaware (Newark) college offers 
a winter course of 13 weeks of agricul¬ 
ture to all who would like a better pre¬ 
paration for farm life, but who cannot 
afford the time necessary for a full col¬ 
lege course. There are no charges for 
tuition, the only expenses being for 
board (83 to 83 50 a week) and books 
which may cost 85 or so. Those inter¬ 
ested may obtain full information as to 
the courses of study pursued by address¬ 
ing Prof. W. H. Bishop, Newark, Del. 
Rocky Mountain Cherry. —Prof. Mee¬ 
han says—and he is a cautious, trust¬ 
worthy authority—that under this name 
Cerasus pumila, the ordinary Sand cherry 
was formerly distributed. More re¬ 
cently, the Cerasus demissa, a species 
scarcely distinct from the ordinary Choke 
cherry—Cerasus Virginiana—is being cir¬ 
culated under the same name. 
According to C. E. Pennock, Prof. 
Van Deman (ex-United States Pomolo- 
gist) is of the opinion that the “Improved 
Dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry ” belongs 
to a new species—Prunus Besseyi. Prof. 
Bailey, of Cornell, speaks of it as be¬ 
longing to some unclassified species. C. 
S. Crandall, of the Colorado Agricultural 
College, says that it is closely related to 
the Eastern Sand cherry(Prunus pumila), 
but differs from it in a degree that 
would seem to warrant the opinion that 
it is a distinct species. Several contrib¬ 
utors to these columns, it will be remem¬ 
bered, seemed confident enough that the 
cherry in question is not Prunus demissa. 
Torrey considered Demissa a variety 
of P. Virginiana, and the Botany of Cal¬ 
ifornia, Vol. I, page 167, says that a 
form somewhat similar to Prunus Vir¬ 
giniana and distinct from P. demissa, 
with conspicuous linear stipules and 
bracts in the early stage, is found in the 
West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and 
is to be looked for in the northeastern 
part of the State. 
Seeds of the Terra Cotta tomato, 
which originated at the Rural Grounds, 
were sent, as we are informed, to all the 
stations. No doubt a consensus of opin¬ 
ions from them will give a pretty trust¬ 
worthy estimate of the value of this en¬ 
tirely new departure in tomato culture. 
Again we have a favorable report to 
make of the Columbus gooseberry, which 
originated with J T. Thompson, Oneiia, 
N. Y., (a chance seedling) and was intro¬ 
duced by Ellwanger & Barry, of Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. No doubt it comes from the 
European species, but as yet neither the 
berries, which are smooth and of large 
size, nor the leaves have shown a trace 
of mildew. 
One swallow doesn’t make a dinner. 
A little boy of 13 and a woman of 50 
left the Rural Grounds at 1:30 p. m. June 
12. They walked less than a mile, and 
returned at 5 p. m. with 11 quarts of wild 
strawberries. There are thousands of 
acres just back of the Rural Grounds— 
woods, hills, valleys, streams, and 
scarcely a house to be seen—and all this 
within eight miles, as the crow flies, of 
the great city of New York. 
Abstracts. 
- Harper’s Bazar: “ ‘ We acquire the 
strength of the obstacles we overcome.’ 
When we overcome them v\e acquire their 
strength. If we allow them to overcome 
us, they take away ours. Therefore our 
mission, our destiny, is to overcome 
them. So obstacles were not intended 
to stop us, to make us give up, or faint, 
or turn back. Ah no ! They were meant 
solely for us to overcome, and the power 
to do it waits only upon our will. Seen 
in this light, the obstacle which seemed 
formidable to me yesterday possesses no 
terrors to-day. ‘ You are but a little 
thing for me to overcome,’ cries my will, 
and its shout of triumph is but the fore¬ 
runner of its victory.” 
-Meehan’s Monthly : “ It is not 
generally known that the Wistaria grows 
from root cuttings. Layering, however, 
is a very good method where there is 
room for it. The trailing shoots root by 
being buried in the earth a little—but 
root better if a slit is first made in the 
shoot. 
- Dr. Peabody : “ Envy, hostile riv¬ 
alry, the desire to excel, not by outrun¬ 
ning others, but by tripping them up in 
the race, makes ambition hideous and 
hateful.” 
-T. H. Hoskins : “ Mr. T. T. Lyon of 
Michigan is to-day easily the leading 
pomologist of America—standing in the 
place of Charles Downing as the best- 
informed man on American tree-fruits 
we possess.” 
If you name The Rubai, New-Yorker to our 
advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment 
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