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If you name The Kuual New-Yorker to our 
advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment 
The quality of these case, the inhabitants of the older coun¬ 
tries would have been starved to death 
When fully long ago. But as a well-known fact, the 
The llesh is productiveness of the well-tilled parts of 
the old continents is increasing.” 
-Du. Peabody : “As the most fertile 
soil may produce before tillage the rank¬ 
est weeds, so in the soul most capable 
of good there may be, prior to culture, a 
noisome crop of evil, and yet God may 
spare the sinner for the good that is in 
him, and for the signal service, which, 
We have two connecting beds, one wken reclaimed, he will render to man- 
filled with gladioli, the other with can- kind> „ 
nas. They do not prove to be congenial 
... ... „ ^ .• -President Society of American 
neighbors in all ways. Both seem satis- ... , ,, 
x. j ... ,, .. , . . Florists: “ An erudite and extra well- 
fied with the same kind of a house to live ...... . T , . ... 
. ... . . -r.,,* read friend of mine says: It is written 
in and the same environment. But the . / . ,, . .. 
Disappointment.—T he Gladiolus gladioli are a trifle jealous of the cannas 111 . e 00 8 a n ^ x ° ? ns ian 
Childsi coes not mean a single variety, but because their colors are not so vivid. On ^ ^.,1^ 
a strain comprising many different varie¬ 
ties, described in most of the leading cat¬ 
alogues as stronger and more vigorous 
as to plant, and bearing spikes of flowers 
two feet in length, 
right, but the description of the flowers 
and their remarkable colors is certainly 
all wrong. To give the Childsi strain a 
fair trial, we procured a dozen bulbs 
from several different firms, Childs, 
Dreer and Thorburn. Many of the 
flowers were ordinary enough, inferior, 
in fact, to scores of old sorts which nay 
be bought for a dollar or so a dozen, 
few were large, fine flowers that spread 
open the petals wide, losing entirely the 
tubular form. But we waited in vain for 
the colors “never before seen in the 
gladiolus; ” for the “nearly black 
“grays” and “smoky grays.” the “blues” 
and “ purple-blacks.” How many of our 
readers were similarly disappointed ? Or 
did they succeed in raising plants which 
actually bore such colors ? 
Cole’s Early (Peter Henderson & Co.) 
is, as claimed, a very early water-melon. 
How much the dry season has had to do 
with it, we cannot say. But it gives us 
ripe melons earlier than we have ever 
had them before. The quality, too, is 
good ; as good as Cuban Queen, and not 
so stringy. The flesh is of a medium red 
color, the white rind thin—not over half 
an inch—the seeds black, 
melons were ripe August 20, 
Tiie old variegated currant, Gloire des 
Sablons, has one thing to commend it 
besides its pretty berries, which are a 
transparent yellowish-white distinctly 
striped with red, viz., the berries hang 
on the bushes until nearly September. 
This year we have an immense quan¬ 
tity of blackberry canes, but scarcely 
any fruit. 
Ruralisms— Continued. tree by the wind. 
is more of the real Peachblow flavor. We P lums - as the writer and his famil y esti ‘ 
have raised Blush potatoes, as our older mat * them, is excellent, 
readers well know for many years- ripe they are full of juice, 
about 15, as we remember-but have tender and there is mingled with the 
never before used them early, assuming P lum a P each flavor that 18 ^freshing 
that the best of the earlies fully ma- and agreeable. 
tured would be better in quality than Our musk-melons began to ripen Aug- 
the Blush, which will not mature yet for U st 10. Emerald Gem was the first this 
two wei ks. The Blush is a grand potato year. In our opinion there is not another 
for home use, and it would not take long variety that will equal this in quality, 
to educate the market up to the same 
way of thinking, for market gardeners 
tell us that while the variety is at first 
objected to on account of its forbidding 
shape, special customers, after eating it 
once, demand it always. 
VOLUMES COULD BE WRITTEN, 
filled with the testi- 
mony of women who 
((•''Jy have been made well 
*t and strong by Dr. 
Pierce's Favorite 
( Prescription. 
m \ It’s a medicine 
W JBw2gg?( \ that’s made especially 
f -to build up women’s 
strength and to cure 
^ women’s ailments — 
an invigorating, re¬ 
storative tonic, soothing cordial, and 
bracing nervine; purely vegetable, non¬ 
alcoholic, and perfectly harmless. For 
all the functional derangements, pain¬ 
ful disorders, and chronic weaknesses 
that afflict womankind, the “ Favorite 
Prescription” is the only guaranteed 
remedy. 
It must have been the medicine for 
most women, or it couldn’t be sold on 
any such terms. 
Isn’t it likely to be the medicine for 
you ? Sold by druggists everywhere. 
, ., _„ uom nas uone mure nuu is cnu;ui*icu w 
the other hand, the cannas do not quite .. .. . , . . 
... , . „ , do more for the civilization of mankind 
like it because their markings are less .. . . . , , 
.... than any other pursuit of knowledge, 
varied than those of their neighbors. J * . 
T , , ,, . . 0 By a little use of the imagination, view- 
But their colors are displayed through a J ...... . ... 
. ._ing the subject in its various correlations, 
That may be all longer period, so that the cannas are, as ° J . , 
, .. . . ., „ we can better appreciate the value of 
a family, less envious than the gladioli. , . 
Mr. Shaw’s great gift to the people of 
A NEW strain of Sieva was sent to us Missouri _ and to the wor i d for that mat- 
by A. W. Smith of Americus, Ga. Ihe ^ „ 
pods are rather wider and larger than . x , 
Henderson’s Sieva Hash and the seeds “ Long Wl “ d ’ “ thd slate oI New 
are speckled and striped with purple. Y » rk ’ saw ’ tw ° weeks ago on one 
The bushes grow in a moderately fertile estate alone, 00 acres ol fine, healthy 
soil-made so by the use of fertilizers glad.oli-m. lions of bulbs To the 
A only-are about a foot high, but they are Long Island flonsts, we are told, is due 
line producers. Pods began to mature 10 <* edit th<! e ladloluB kas been 
days ago (it is now August 28); about changed *«>■» ™ “ ex P ort 
, ,, , , , , tVl - item of trade. Ten years ago they were 
half are now brown and dry, while the “ _/ . 8 , 
rest are in every stage of greenness, all imported. Their price has been re- 
" tbo The strain is a pure bush. Neat to the duced to »10 per 1,00(1. 
Wonder, grows a row of Burpee’s Bush, - Life : “ How long will it be before 
which give at this early date—early as we have organized societies devoted to 
compared with past seasons—the first newspaper reform? Almost every one 
pickings of green Limas. The beans seems to agree that newspapers are 
(seeds) are very large—some of the pods dreadfully demoralizing and objection- 
are immense for Limas, but not always able.” 
well filled. The bushes are about twice “Other persons have been satisfied 
as large as the Wonder, well laden with that s i n would be easily manageable ex¬ 
beans. There is no disposition on the 
part of the bushes to run to vines. This 
is, in our opinion, far and away, the best 
of the bush Limas. 
Reference has been made to our col¬ 
lection of Munson’s grapes. It is made 
The first up of President Lyon, Secretary Camp¬ 
bell, Carman, Hilgara, Rommel, Nirnal- 
ba, .Jaeger, Conelva, Brilliant, Beagle 
and Eany Market. 
Early Market seems to be the earliest 
of those which bear fruit. The berries 
are now (August 21) all more or less 
colored and they will be fully ripe about 
with Moore’s Early. President Lyon 
and Beagle are also coloring. The ber¬ 
ries of all the others are still green. 
The foliage of all is thick and healthy. 
Never before, in our experience, have Several of the vines blossomed, but the 
bees and wasps been so destructive of flowers were destroyed by the rose bug. 
grapes. In fact, they are destroying This P est has preferences to the extent 
plums and pears. of destroying the blossoms of one vine 
while those of a near neighbor may be 
All who raise tomatoes have observed unmolested. The Berckmans is one of 
that the tomato worm it is the same as S p ec i a l favorites. They destroy not 
the tobacco worm is eften covered with only the blossoms, but feed upon the 
what seem to be long white eggs fastened i eaves 
to the body of the tomato worm at right _ . . .. « , ,, ,_, 
, . 8 Does foreign pollen affect the shape w ith two 
angles. These are the cocoons of a fly , . ,, , . „ TO _ 
,, , , .. ., . ,, , , . ,, and appearance of the tomato? We can- i au ndryir 
that deposits its eggs m the body of the x ,, .. , , « J 
86 , A not answer the question, but may offer q>h e Q ii ( 
worm. These eggs hatch and become .. 
8 , . , .. one bit of evidence in the affirmative, quarts of 
grubs or maggots which live upon the , . . . „ _ .. . , H 
8 , ... , , , , , , „ ,, , The history of our Terra Cotta variety io or 12 Ik 
body of the helpless host and finally mak- . , ^ , 
... A. , is, or ought to be, familiar to all of our rem< 
mg their way through its back, spin the ’ 8 , . , 3 
8 ., ... ., , . readers. It was the result of a cross of and piaci 
white, silken cocoons upon its body. , u p 
„ , , .. a large tomato like Perfection or Acme, over the 
Here they change to pupa) and shortly 8 , . uvc 
,, , ... . ... upon the Peach five years ago, the pro- of water i 
after to flies which escape, to repeat the r . , ... 8 . . .. U1 
_ XT , geny agciin crossed, with, pollen of the rites \ on 
work from year to year. Now it will f J ’ u 
, .... * large kinds. Early during the present 17 m inut< 
appear to our readers that tomato worms 8 ,, . . , 
,. ,,, ... season pollen of one of our own large tatoes an< 
upon which these white cocoons are seen ... . ... „ „ 
Z .. ....... ..... varieties was used on Terra Cotta. One same tin 
should not be killed. They will die any- „ ^ . .. ... h 
. i -n xu of the resulting fruits was perfectly steak in e 
way, and to kill them would be to destroy , . 8 , . 
,, . , , round, of a pink color and smooth, glossy roast eid 
their natural destroyers. , . ’ , , . ., . 8 
skin. It will be remembered that the an eight- 
On August 17 our Abundance plums Terra Cotta tomatoes have a lusterless minutes. 
were attacked by a great number of bees and somewhat downy skin like that of bake or b 
(mainly those commonly known as Yel- an apricot, while in shape it is wavy, not price of s 
low jackets) and their depredations were unlike some kinds of large peppers. a three y 
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SupplltMl l>y Kail «»n Short Not'ce. I can posi¬ 
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from adulteration. For Price, Pamphlet and all 
other Information, address 
CIIAS. STEVENS, Drawer <>, 
Napanee. Ontario, Can. 
Threshing Machines. 
Best Machinery at Lowest Prices. 
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HEEBNERS’7"!t?,I7H( 
With SPEED ItECiUEATOR. 
For 1,2 and 3 Horses. —m 
cept for its alliance with rum.” 
“ But the direful effects of the habi¬ 
tual use of daily journals are very gen¬ 
erally recognized.” 
“ The newspapers print too much gos¬ 
sip ; they invade privacy; they get up 
panics by croaking and circulating bad 
news ; their pictures are bad as art and 
worthless as illustrations; they are so 
big that it takes all day to read them ; 
they are small enough to print the mean¬ 
est items ; they don’t tell the truth, and 
again, they do tell the truth, but tell it 
with too little discrimination.” 
M Send for W I .Jill ^ 
“ Catalogue *- J Ensilage and Dry Eoddor Cut¬ 
ter with Orunlier. Also Thrashers and Oleaners, Food 
Mills, Corn Shellors, Drag Si Oiroular Saw Machines, eto. 
IIELhNEK. tfc HONS, l.uiiHdale, i’u., U. H. A. 
CRIMSON CLOVER 
;u»h. for Sale. Crop of 1893 will be ready 
aent by June 20. Seed guaranteed pure and 
is In every respect. Price $0.00 per bushel, 
Bend check with order. 
WYNKOOP BROS., Milford, Del. 
WB 
Word for Word. 
-Vermont Watchman : “We do not 
believe that any land, once productive, 
can ever be really ‘ run out,’ however 
much ‘run down.’ If this could be the 
