1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
671 
Ruralisms— Continued. 
growers while young, but come to bear¬ 
ing soon; and thereafter, though con¬ 
tinuing healthy, are moderate in their 
growth, and tend toward dwarfishness. 
Try a Sweet Botan (Abundance) plum 
tree ; try one. Try the Burbank. It is 
said to be better in quality. The Sweet 
Botan is an early bearer, as may be 
judged by what is said of it elsewhere in 
this number. Trees in the nursery rows 
are often loaded. 
Usually at this season of the year 
when the nights are cold and a light frost 
or so has occurred, the late ripening to¬ 
matoes crack about the stems. One good 
feature of the Terra Cotta is that it never 
cracks about the stems. Probably the 
reason is that there is not much pressure 
upon it because of the air spaces under¬ 
neath. The best way to prepare them, 
instead of peeling and slicing, is to cut 
them in two at right angles to the stem 
and scoop out the flesh which, a* men¬ 
tioned elsewhere, is always tender and 
melting, leaving the few seeds which 
form outside the flesh instead of being 
scattered throughout as in other kinds. 
An excellent correspondent of Farm 
and Fireside speaks in this way : “ The 
Horticultural Lima bean has been men¬ 
tioned and recommended, even by such 
papers as The Rural New-Yorker, as 
the earliest of all pole Limas, and as 
superior to anything else in point of 
quality.” We have never said much 
about the “quality” as yet, except to 
quote what the catalogues say. The re¬ 
sults of our own trial and observation 
will be given later. 
The agricultural editor of the Vermont 
Watchman says that the Rural New- 
Yorker No. 2 potato is now being very 
extensively planted in his neighborhood 
(Newport) as well as elsewhere in Ver¬ 
mont. “ It is,” he says, “the only variety 
we know of which yields practically no 
unmerchantable tubers. In two barrels 
we did not find a double handful too 
small for shipment.” 
We have had the Barry grape (Rogers 
No. 43) for about five years. It was sent 
to us by Ellwanger & Barry of Rochester, 
N. Y. It was not planted in a favorable 
place, so that transplanting became 
necessary. It is now bearing a full crop 
which ripens almost exactly with Con¬ 
cord. The berries average larger and 
are fully as good in quality while the 
skin is firmer, and it ought to be a better 
keeper and shipper. The bunches are 
broad, generally shouldered, some of 
them long but oftener short though 
always broad. It is a showy, excellent 
grape. The vine is healthy and hardy. 
In several of the fall catalogues we 
find a variety of Polyanthus Narcissus 
(Sacred Lily) offered with the recommen¬ 
dation that if raised in shallow plates of 
water, it will bloom in from three to 
four weeks. The metbod is as follows : 
“ Use a shallow bowl or dish, with about 
one inch of fine gravel in the bottom on 
which place the bulb ; place enough 
pebbles around the bulb to keep it in an 
upright position, then fill with water so 
that about an inch of bottom of bulb is 
covered; place it in a window, on a table, 
mantelpiece, or, in fact, anywhere in the 
sitting-room or parlor. The bulbs will 
at once begin a vigorous growth, and be 
in full bloom three or four weeks after 
they are planted. The water should be 
renewed OLce a week. It is the most 
easily grown and satisfactory bulb for 
house or window culture that we know 
of, flowers freely, and can be planted at 
any time from October until March.” 
Our White Wonder cucumbers (Bur¬ 
pee) wfre started June 1. The vines are 
still green and bearing well. It is cer¬ 
tainly a hardy and prolific variety, as it 
grows at the Rural Grou ids. There is 
no doubt about that. As a pickle a white¬ 
skinned sort may not be desirable ; but 
as a cucumber there is no objection to it 
of course. 
Let us hear from those who have 
raised the Horticultural Lima bean. 
We see it announced in English papers 
that there is a novelty among clematises, 
the result of crossing the large flowering 
kinds with Clematis Coccinea. Tiie R. 
N.-Y. made this cross, using pollen of a 
large white-flowered seedling. The seeds 
were planted in the fall, but failed to 
germinate. Clematis seeds sometimes 
take two years to germinate. 
Who knows anything of the origin of 
the shrubby clematis (C. Davidiana)? A 
cross between it and Coccinea might give 
interesting results. 
A second trial was made to ascertain 
the keeping qualities of the Terra Cotta 
tomato. A dozen tomatoes just ripe 
were placed on a plate in a sunny win¬ 
dow, September 8, in the morning. The 
first decay appeared September 17. 
We have again used the Terra Cotta 
as the mother plant, using pollen from 
the best of our other crossbreeds. 
Chas. A. Green calls the following 
pears the “ Big 4 : ” Wilder Early ; Bart¬ 
lett, medium early; Idaho, fall; Anjou, 
winter. He mails Wilder Early for 35 
cents each. 
The Bessemianka pear has stood 40 
degrees below zero. Dr. Hoskins says, 
and what he says may be relied upon : 
“ I have been trying for 23 years every¬ 
thing called hardy among the older va¬ 
rieties of European and American pears 
(including all the Maine and western 
Vermont seedlings) with very little suc¬ 
cess, losing all of them in the two severe 
winters which left the Bessemianka un¬ 
scathed.” The quality is very good, and 
the fruit similar to Flemish Beauty in 
appearance, and nearly seedless. We 
wish Dr. Hoskins would kindly send us 
a specimen. 
Have any of our readers fruited the 
Idaho ? 
The R. N.-Y. is trying the Alaska 
quince, but it will not bear fruit until 
another year. Charles A. Green speaks 
in glowing terms of it as ripening among 
the first; as being unsurpassed in quality; 
as being of large size, a bright golden 
color ; as being the most prolific variety 
of the quince ; as being a good keeper 
and shipper ; as coming into early bear¬ 
ing and as being exceptionally hardy. 
The Champion quince at the Rural 
Grounds is again loaded with fine fruit 
which can scarcely ripen. 
The two varieties of strawberries 
named Jay Gould and Swindle ought to 
be refused admittance to any garden or 
field until the names are changed. 
We have never raised finer celery than 
this year in spite of ti.e intense drought. 
It was effected by never allowing the 
soil to become dry. This involved an 
immense amount of labor, but it gave us 
what cannot this season be purchased in 
the neighborhood of the Rural Grounds— 
fine celery. 
Again the Rural’s little Paragon trees 
are bearing about as many chestnuts as 
they can hold without supporting the 
branches. It is no doubt a mistake to 
permit these trees to bear so heavily, as 
they do not make much growth and the 
gain of to-day entails a greater loss for 
the future. Among new foreign varie¬ 
ties there may be some that are better 
than the Paragon, as claimed by several, 
nurserymen, but we have no proof of it 
as yet. The seedling Japan trees raised 
by The R. N.-Y. bear nuts no larger and. 
the quality is decidedly inferior. 
Prof. Massey, in Garden and Forest, 
advises all who want a really handsome 
plant to add to their bedding of tropical 
foliage, to try cassava. A friend sent 
him a short piece of stem last spring 
which he buried in one of his flower 
borders. It is now five feet high and as 
many broad. Its handsome palmate 
leaves suggest ricinus, but are more 
beautiful. 
Several years ago a Florida friend sent 
us several pieces of cassava stems, which 
were duly planted but failed to grow. 
What notable improvement has been 
made in water-melons during the past 
30 years ? What notable improvement 
has been made in wheat, rye or oats ? 
How would it answer to sow a small 
proportion of Crimson clover with com¬ 
mon Red clover in the spring, with or 
without Timothy ? 
Which will give the larger crop of 
marketable potatoes—many and slender 
stems or few and thick stems to the 
pieces planted ? 
Which will give the larger crop of 
potatoes—dark green or light green 
vines and stems ? Do purple flowers al¬ 
ways give pink or purple tubers ? Do 
white flowers always give buff or white 
tubers ? Is there any special quality of 
tuber that depends upon the color of the 
flower ? Is there any relationship be¬ 
tween color of flowers and earliness of 
maturity ? Why does the market prefer 
a buff or white skin ? 
If you name The Rural New-Yorker to our 
advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment 
ON THE OUTSIDE— 
that is the best place 
to keep the huge,old- 
fashioned pill. Just 
as soon as you get it 
inside, it begins to 
trouble you. What’s 
the use of suffering 
with it, when you 
can get more help 
from Doctor Pierce’s 
Pleasant Pellets ? 
These tiny, sugar- 
coated granules do 
you permanent 
good. They act 
mildly and natur¬ 
ally, and there’s no reaction afterward. Con¬ 
stipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and 
all derangements of the liver, stomach, and 
bowels are prevented, relieved, and perma¬ 
nently cured. 
They’re the smallest, the easiest to take, 
and the cheapest — for they’re guaranteed 
to give satisfaction or your money is re¬ 
turned. 
You pay only for the good you get. 
Nothing else urged by the dealer, though 
they may be better for him to sell, can be 
“just as good” for you to buy. 
The Canadian Horticulturist regards 
Moore’s Arctic plum as of special value 
for the “ Cold North” on account of its 
hardiness. It also commends itself to 
all on account of its productiveness and 
its immunity from curculio stings. Dr. 
Hoskins, who has had 15 years of experi¬ 
ence with it, says he has never seen the 
first mark of the curculio on the fruit, 
although “ the common red plums were 
riddled with it.” 
The tree begins bearing while very 
young, and yields enormously. In size 
it is below medium. In form it is round¬ 
ish oval. The skin is very dark, nearly 
black, with a slight bloom. The flesh 
is greenish yellow, juicy with a pleasant 
but not rich flavor. The season is early 
autumn. 
Direct. 
-N. Y. Herald: “We declare that the 
Parliament of Religions now holding its 
sessions in Chicago, is the grandest spec¬ 
tacle which the exposition furnishes.” 
-N. Y. Times : “The fact is that at 
the present time there is no workman, 
no business man, no capitalist, who is so 
sure of a remunerative income from his 
labor or his capital as the farmer is. Nor 
is there any other man who is so secure 
in his property or the income from it as 
the farmer. His land is everlasting, and, 
under skillfu'. culture, does not wear out 
or require replacing every few years by 
constant repairs.” 
- Vermont Watchman: “A good many 
lexicographers have straggled with the 
word ‘dirt’ more or less ineffectually, 
and it remains to this day a vague ex¬ 
pression, but always incorrect when ap¬ 
plied to the natural soil. All genuine 
* dirt ’ is of organic origin ; and in its 
true sense that word and ‘ filth ’ may be 
regarded as pretty nearly synonymous. 
But it ‘goes against the grain’ with us 
to hear earth, the great sweetener and 
food producer, called ‘ dirt.’ When pare, 
nothing can be more wholesome for 
children to play in. It is the one great 
disinfectant, deodorizer and cleanser.” 
-Nicholas Hallocic in Gardening : 
*' Industry of the large gooseberries is 
very good, but of all the larger varieties 
the Carman, I think, promises the best 
results as to quality, freedom from mil¬ 
dew and prolific nature.” 
- Ram’s Horn: “ It often happens that 
a dog without teeth barks the most.” 
“ No one can have joy to-day who is 
worrying about to-morrow.” 
“ The man who is not honest in his re¬ 
ligion is not to be trusted anywhere.” 
- New England Farmer : “ The best 
educated person is not necessarily the 
one who knows most of what the school 
or college books contain, but it is he 
who, through a system of teaching and 
training, has had his powers and facul¬ 
ties so developed as to enable him to 
make the best use of them possible, not 
for himself alone, but for his fellow men.” 
That? 
That’s the mark by which you 
i can always distinguish the 
good from the bad in Horse 
Blankets. It’s a guarantee of 
quality, durability—absolute 
perfection. The Blankets 
are made with a view to good 
looks as well as good service. 
They make a horse feel better, 
look better and do better. Ask 
the dealer for the 6 /^ Blankets, 
and don’t accept any of the so- 
called “just as good” kind. 
Blankets are made in 250 
styles and you 
can easily get 
one to suit 
1 you. Always 
look for this 
trade mark. 
Made only by 
WM. AYRES & SONS, Philadelphia.] 
The Paragon Chestnut. 
A fine lot of trees for sale this fall, 
Address H. M. ENGLE & SON, 
MARIETTA, PA. 
A NEW ERA IN AMERICAN 
For Descriptive 
List and 
GRAPES 
General Fruit Cat¬ 
alogue, address 
T. V. MUNSON, Denison, Texas. 
Valuable Farm for Sale. 
At Chesterfield Court House Va , 14 mtles south of 
Richmond. 15u acres of land, 100 In tlmner of pine, 
walnut, poplar, cedar, etc., the balance cleared, 
uncer cultivation inciosrd with wire fence. Rood 
oullolnps. fruit trees. pi»ntv of water Good reasons 
lor selling. Address MARY A GUILD, Chesterfield 
Court House, Va.; or A. C. COTTON, Hartstown, Pa. 
Hldiicoln Coreless Pear TREES. 
n —also Japan, Golden Russet, Idaho, 
Vermont Beauty, and others. | 
rQ Japan Mammoth, Success, Advance, 
I D Chestnuts. Japan, Persian, English 
Walnuts. Pecans, etc. 
iniiri Tl CO Eleagnus Longipes, Trifo- 
1UVC.IL I I CD bate Orange, WineDerries, 
1 Juneberries, etc. ; 
W Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Currant, Gooseberry PLANTS. I 
Apple, Peach, Plum, Quince TREES. 
J.S.COLLINS & SON, 
Bead tor Catalogue. _ Moorcatown, N. J, 
I Revolvers, Seines, Nets,Tents,Ammunition, 
I n 1 I i(S \ Tools. B&tJ Send stamp for Catalogue to 
UU1W Great Western Gun Works, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
