1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
655 
A FEW GRAPE NOTES. 
September 11 —Notwithstanding the 
seventy of las winter (20 degrees below 
zero) none of the 75 different kinds in 
The Rural’s collection sustained any 
serious injury. The rosebugs were as 
numerous as ever, but t ey came later 
by a few days than usual, so that those 
vines which bloomed and set berries the 
earliest were not molested, while the 
later blooms were entirely destroyed. 
Purity (from Geo. W Campbell, May, 
1888,) bears a large, round, green beriy, 
ripening now. Pulp tender, seeds medium 
in size and number, juicy, but rather too 
sour. The berries do not cling firmly 
to the stem. 
E »rly Victor ripened in late August, 
but the berr es were destroyed by the 
bees and wasps. 
Pockiington is this season too late. 
Niagara has never before borne so well 
or borne so heavily of splendid, perfect 
bunches. 
Concord is nearly a failure this season. 
The bunches are loose and the berries do 
not ripen at the same time. 
Cariotta (Miner), is a medium-sized 
green grape witn considerable bloom. It 
may fairly rark with the best white 
grapes of Labrusca origin—fully as good 
as Colerain, Hayes, Diamond, Esther or 
Empire State. 
Victoria as usual bears a heavy crop. 
It usually ripens witn Concord, but, like 
Pockiington this seabon, is too late. 
Geneva bears a full crop, but though 
the flavor is pure it is not of high quality. 
Wnite’s Northern Muscat bears neavily 
and the berries are about ripe now. They 
are part green and part lignt dull red. 
They are large, round and showy; 
the pulp is tough and the quality foxy 
and inferior. 
Cottage ripens later than usual and 
unevenly, there being many green or 
redcush berries in most of tne bunches. 
It is a wonderfully vigorous variety and 
is never harmed by the severest winters. 
Bees are destroying the ripe berries so 
that there will be no perfect bunches. 
Antoinette (Miner) bears green ber¬ 
ries not yet ripe. They are large and 
sweet and the pulp is tender. 
Empire State is a failure at the Rural 
Grounds. Tne vine is not hardy. 
Worden is this year earlier than Con¬ 
cord, the berries larger, the bunches 
larger and ripening well. 
Esther is a green grape with white 
bloom. Berry and bunch medium size, 
quality fair. 
fully ripe. It is green with bloom, good 
quality, a little foxy. Pulp tender and 
somewhat meaty. 
We have never suffered much loss in 
previous years from bees or wasps This 
season scarcely a perfect bunch of red or 
black grapes has been gathered. They 
leave only the skin, and sometimes a part 
of that is eaten. Not so the white grapes. 
They are rarely attacked ; at aDy rate 
they have not yet been attacked. Per¬ 
haps their time will come later when the 
blacks have been gathered or destroyed. 
We cannot account for this in any otner 
way than by assuming that the bees do 
not see the bunches, or. seeing them, do 
not recognize them as grapes of just as 
good quality as the blaeks Or is it that 
the insect or bird which first punctures 
the berry is not attracted by a green 
color ? Or do these birds or insects as¬ 
sume that “white” grapes are always 
green and sour ? 
The new variegated Japan hop vine 
is now a striking object. It his densely 
covered the ground for a space of six 
feet in diameter and the variegation is 
fine and distinct. 
It will be remembered that some dif¬ 
ference of opinion was shown in these 
columns regarding the value of Maple- 
dale Prolific pop-corn by several of our 
contributors who have raised it. The 
R. N-Y. wanted an opinion of its own, 
and accordingly included it in its trials 
at the Rural Grounds. It is claimed in 
the catalogues—among them those of 
several of the leading seeds firms—that 
it is the most prolific of all the pops; 
that the ears are 8 to 10 inches long ; 
that 10 ears to a single stalk are not un¬ 
common ; that the plant is of remark¬ 
ably vigorous growth, the stalks often 
growing six feet high. 
Our Mapledale was planted May 12. 
It was ready to harvest September 8 It 
was planted in a friable loam after re¬ 
ceiving at the rate of 1,000 pounds to 
the acre of Mapes potato fertilizer the 
analysis of wnich does not differ mater¬ 
ially from fertilizers expressly put up 
for corn. It averaged six feet high— 
generally without suckers. The cata¬ 
logue pictures of Mapledale show an ear 
at every node. Instead of that, the ears 
are often borne in clusters and too near 
the tops, so tnat the plants lodge readily. 
On many of the plants there were as 
many as eight sets, but there were few 
bitterness of the skin alluded to several 
weeks ago in R iralisms might be due to 
excessive drought. 
A dense gray netting on a dark green 
ground ; a flesh that is green just under¬ 
neath the rind and of a pumpkin yellow 
may be said of the new Banquet musk- 
melon, introduced by Peter Henderson 
& Co , of this city. We did not allude 
to it In connection with our remarks re¬ 
garding the new Melrose for the reason 
that the first to ripen were overlooked 
until they were decayed. It seems, how¬ 
ever, to ripen its main crop later than 
the Melrose. The shape is round. It is 
a heavy hard me’on that would endure 
any amount of shipping roughage. It is 
nearly round, without the deep sutures 
marking the sections of ordinary melons, 
end the average diameter is about six 
inches. The seed cavity is small and 
the flesh thick. One melon that measured 
5% inches in diameter had a seed cavity 
of but 2% inches. It is rather late 
(Sep ember 15) to look for melons of high J 
quality, for the nights are cold almost to 
frostiness. But the quality is excellent 
even now, as good perhaps as, or even 
better than, any other muskmelon we 
have ever eaten so late in tbe season. 
Other melons in the neighborhood (even 
tin* best in appearance), are worthless 
because the true musk-melon flivor has 
departed. The Banquet vines are hardy 
and prolific. There is nothing showy 
about either the Banquet or Melrose, but 
we commend both varieties for family 
use. 
A plate of Terra Cotta tomatoes was 
placed in a sunny window August 29. 
They began to rot not until September 
7. The apparent softness, sponginess, 
of this queer tomato is due to the fact* 
that the chief seed cavities are just be¬ 
neath the skin, the fleshy portions being 
more central. But the skin is tough. 
While, therefore, it would seem to be a 
poor keeper because it is not hard and 
fimas are other tomatoes, it is in reality 
an excellent keeper. 
Mr. F. C Kevitt, of Athenia, New 
Jersey, kindly sends us a photograph of 
a D amond grape vine four years old and 
bearing 40 perfect bunches. Mr. Kevitt 
does not say whether these bunches 
were bagged or not, or whether any¬ 
thing was done to prevent rot or injuries 
from rosebugs, etc. He says that the 
I) amond is “ the best flavored and most 
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Eaton bears the largest bunches and 
berries of any variety in The R. N -Y. 
collection, and the vine is loaded. It 
ripens just with Worden. But for the 
bees a crop of wonderfully showy fruit 
would be gathered. Bat the berrries 
are attacked by the bees as they ripen. 
Tne quality of Eaton is, as we have 
often stated, not high, but the great ber¬ 
ries are full of juice and a tender pulp 
which releases tne seeds readily. It is 
not fair to call the Eaton “a diluted 
Concord,” because the Eaton is nearly, 
if not quite, free of fuxint ss. 
Delaware and Berckmans bloomed 
freely, but the nlossoms were destroyed 
by tne rosebugs, which invariably seek 
these two varieties as their special favor¬ 
ites. 
Witt this year bears well, though the 
berries ripen late. They are from large 
to very large in size, green with some 
bloom. An objection to tbe variety is 
that the berries vary in size. 
Moore s Early ripened and were gath¬ 
ered (mainly by the bees) a week ago. 
Diamond bears heavily. Not yet ripe. 
Berries large, bunches medium. It is a 
green grape with some bloom. 
Alice, a red grape, is ripening. Most 
of tne buds and blossoms were destroyed 
by rosebugs. The same may be said of 
Brighton and Wilder. 
Hayes is an early white grape now 
The ears average from seven to eiyht 
inches in length and from 1 M to l 1 -* inch 
in diameter. The rows average 14, 
straight and close together. 
The following letter, which we are 
glad to publish, needs no comment: 
Editor Rural New-Yorker: 
In a late issue of The Rural New-Yorker I 
could not help notlcl g among the Ruralisms woat 
the editor has to say regarding the White Wo der 
cucuinoer, whicn was introduced by this house. I 
have been acquainted witn this variety fur four 
years, having Urst noticed it in our trial grounds In 
1890, and 1 must say that 1 have never found It to be 
the least bitter to the taste, and. in lact, one of Us 
strong points with ns Is that it has not so muen of 
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Wonder and wnlte Spine cucumoers was brongut 
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then he sliced them and ha- aed the s Ices to several 
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Spine best, aDd when asked why, they replied that 
there was something lacking about the Wmte Won¬ 
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that they could not taste tne least signs ol any bit¬ 
terness in It. The man wno seemed to like It best, 
upon being asked why, said that K had not the green 
taste to oe foupd In the green varieties, ana the 
others, upon hearing this, remarked tnat that was 
what they missed when tasting the two varieties. 
The White Wonder has •* neld up ” better tuan any 
other variety we nave ever grown here at Fordhook, 
and is one that we can always depend on even when 
others fall. Yours ver? truly, 
HOWARD M EARL, 
Doylestown, Pa., Sept. 24. Mgr. Fordnook Farm. 
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