1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
687 
Farmers' Club Discussion. 
Continued. 
Do Strawberries Need Nitroeen? 
J. G , Ohio. —I am not a professional 
strawberry grower, as I raise only ber¬ 
ries for myself, and two other families, 
and so I’m not competent to give advice, 
but I have the greatest of success in 
berry gro vth by ft rtilizing the berry 
beds with hen manure. As soon as the 
berries are all picked we at once mow 
off the tops, clean up the beds, thin out 
the older plants, and then sprinkle on a 
liberal dressing of hen manure. My hens 
are fed all the oat dust they will eat, so 
that the manure quickly dries out, and 
is broken down easily. When the beds 
are frozen in early winter, they are fairly 
well mulched with straw ; a good many 
forest leaves handy by being first 
worked in and among the hills, and the 
thrift of the strawberries the next sum¬ 
mer is a “sight to behold,” not only in 
growth, but in fine, well-developed ber¬ 
ries; and that it is possible to raise finer 
Haverlands and Wilsons is hard for me to 
believe. By using this form of fertilizer 
and clean straw for mulch, which is not 
removed until after fruiting, the labor 
of attending the berries is but a trifle in 
compar son to the “ benefits received.” 
Variety In Peach Varieties. 
W. F. Massey, North Carolina Ex- 
pebimknt Station. —I was rather sur¬ 
prised at the opinions expressed by 
Messrs. Campbell and Lyon on the peach 
question. If these gentlemen had been 
accustomed to eating ripe peaches—thor¬ 
oughly ripened on the trees—in the great 
peach sections of Maryland and Dela¬ 
ware, I think they would have expressed 
a different opinion. Yellow peaches as 
a rule always outsell—or did when I 
knew the market—the white-fleshed ones 
in Baltimo. e. The best of the yellow- 
fleshed peaches have a sprightly, mincy, 
j nicy character that most white fleshed 
peaches of the freestone sorts lack. Any 
one eating a well-grown and perfectly 
ripe Crawford’s Late, Reeves’s Favorite, 
or Susquehanna, it seems to me, would 
soon decide in favor of yellow fruit, while 
a Smock would be set down as far inferior, 
though its dry, firm flesh makes it popu¬ 
lar with canners. Then, too, a thor¬ 
oughly well ripened Wilkins Heath 
peach or an Oldmixon cling is finer than 
a freestone peach. Still it is largely a 
matter of individual taste, and some per¬ 
sons like a dry, mealy peach and they 
would take the white freestones and the 
yellow Smock freestone. 
During April of last year we received, 
through a friend, a plant of Childs’s All 
Summer raspberry. Mr. Childs (John 
Ljwis) in his 1893 catalogue, says of 
this : “ We purchased this wonderful 
berry three years ago from Mrs. A. A. 
Stowe, of Idaho. Her plants were sent 
from California, but the stock came 
originally from Mexico. Its points of 
merit are many and startling. It is an 
everbearer, commencing to ripen its 
large berries in July and continuing 
until killed by frost. The plants are 
strong and vigorous * * * standing 
erect without support. In hardiness 
nothing can surpass it. It also endures 
the heat of tropical summers,” etc., etc. 
It has been about 10 years since we 
have grown Belle de Fontenay at the 
Rural Grounds, but, from our remem¬ 
brance of it, there is no material differ¬ 
ence between it and the All Summer of 
Mr. Childs. Belle de Fontenay is re¬ 
garded as the best of the red autumn¬ 
bearing varieties. It is hardy and pro¬ 
ductive (if its overabundance of suckers 
are destroyed), though its late berries 
are usually imperfect and crumbly. It 
originated in France. 
Is The R N.-Y. right or wrong in its 
opinion that the All Summer and Fon¬ 
tenay are the same ? Few things are 
more tantalizing to fruit growers than to 
go to the trouble and expense of buying 
and cultivating high-priced novelties 
only to find out after several years of 
care that the novelty is confined to the 
name. 
While all of our friends know of the 
merits of the old verbena as a bedding 
plant, all of them may not know of the 
improved strains that have of late years 
been introduced by seedsmen : 
One of these improved strains origi¬ 
nated with Peter Henderson & Co., who 
were kind enough to send 125 plants to 
the Rural Grounds last spring. All grew 
thriftily, and the bed—15 by 10 feet—has 
been a mass of the most brilliant colored 
bloom. The “trusses” are very large 
and the individual flowers nearly an inch 
in diameter, though the soil of the bed is 
not rich and the drought has been of 
rare severity. The bed was watered by 
hand but twice. The foliage has re¬ 
mained green and healthy, and the bril¬ 
liant colors—in great variety—have been 
a beautiful and refreshing sight without 
any rest or let up. Even now (Septem 
ber 27) after several light frosts, they are 
as vivid as in early summer. There is no 
appearance of that weakness or disease 
in these plants that 20 years ago brought 
to a premature close the verbena rage 
of those days, The strain is known as 
“ Henderson’s Mammoth.” 
Prof. Bailey, in his correspondence 
with Garden and Forest, writing from 
the World’s Fair, says it is evident from 
a general study of the plum exhibits that 
Lombard is more commonly grown in 
the East than any other variety. Con¬ 
sidering the poor quality of this plum, 
this popularity is to be regretted. The 
fruit is liable to rot, though the tree 
bears well. 
The R. N.-Y. was among the first in this 
country to try Simon’s plum. There was 
nothing in the tree to make it valuable 
ornamentally considered, and the fruit 
was undersized and of a rank, peachy 
flavor as objectionable as foxiness in a 
grape. Prof. Bailey says that these 
plums have been sent to the Fair from a 
wide range of country—from Canada to 
Oregon. He sayg that while this plum is 
often bitter and acerb, most of the speci¬ 
mens on exhibition have been nearly 
free from these qualities, and enormous 
and bright-colored samples from Oregon 
were “perfectly delicious.” 
We are glad to have so good a straw¬ 
berry authority as Matthew Crawford 
confirm The R. N.-Y.’s opinion of the 
Timbrell. He regards it as entitled to 
the first place among the lists of to-day. 
He says it has no weak points. “ It is 
very large, fine, firm and of excellent 
quality.” 
P. P Deherain concludes from experi¬ 
ments he has made that autumn cultiva¬ 
tion of the soil may be prejudicial on 
account of its promoting the active for¬ 
mation of nitrates which will be largely 
washed out of the soil by the winter 
rains. On the other hand, thorough pul¬ 
verization of the soil at seeding time will 
tend to increase the supply of nitrates so 
essential to the growing plants. 
Buy a few plants of the Columbus 
gooseberry. Taken all in all, it is the 
best variety yet offered in this country, 
or for those parts of it where the goose¬ 
berry thrives. Industry mildews where 
the Columbus is mildew-proof. 
Mr. J. T. Lovett, who has popularized 
the Sweet Botan under the name of 
Abundance, says that the Burbank, an¬ 
other Japan plum, is superior to the 
Abundance in quality and color. 
The Carman Potato. —We have been 
shown a letter from Edward L. Coy, the 
distinguished potato grower and origin¬ 
ator, of West Hebron. N. Y., to the seeds¬ 
man for whom he is growing the Carman 
potato (R. N.-Y. No. 1) which is exceed¬ 
ingly gratifying to the Rural Grounds 
people with whom the variety originated. 
He says: 
In order to make the seed go Just as far as possible, 
I cut to single eyes. They made the most luxuriant 
growth I ever saw from so little Beed. This variety 
Is proving to be an enormous producer of very hand¬ 
some tubers. Its table quality cannot be excelled. They 
grow very large. In fact there are scarcely any 
small ones among those I shall have this year. In 
my opinion this new potato will make a great sensation 
among growers as soon as its enormous productiveness, 
as well as its superior table qualities are known. 
The italics are ours. It will be seen 
that'Mr. Coy’s estimate of this variety 
fully supports all that The R. N.-Y. 
claimed for it as raised at the Rural 
Grounds. 
The Crimson clover (T. incarnatum), 
sown August 28, is now about two inches 
high, entirely covering the ground with 
its bright intensely green leaves. The 
experiment is : Will this clover, sown so 
late, stand the winter ? 
We have received the following note 
from G. H. & J. H. Hale, of South Glas 
tonbury, Conn. : 
Our strongest claim for the Crosbey peach la the 
frost-proof character of Its fruit buds, which has 
enabled it to fruit for the past 11 successive years In 
New England, many times when all other varieties 
fal ed entirely. In addition to this, we are beginning 
to appreciate the fact that It Is of superior color and 
of extra s *eet and de'lclous flavor for a yellow va¬ 
riety—a contrast to the sour Crawfords and others of 
If you name Thu Rural New-Yorker to our 
advertisers, you may be pretty sure of prompt 
replies and right treatment 
SOMETHING UNUSUAL, 
as a medicine, is 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery. 
And, because of 
that, there’s some¬ 
thing unusual in 
tho way of selling 
it. Where every 
other medicine of 
its kind only prom¬ 
ises, this is guaran¬ 
teed. If it ever 
fails to benefit or cure, you havo your money 
back. 
It’s the only guaranteed remedy for every 
disease caused by a disordered liver or im¬ 
pure blood. Dyspepsia, Biliousness, the 
most stubborn Skin, Scalp and Scrofulous 
affections, even Consumption (or Lung- 
scrofula) in its earlies stages, all are cured 
by it. 
It purifies and enriches the blood, rouses 
every organ into healthful action ; and re¬ 
stores strength and vigor. In building up 
both flesh and strength of pale, puny, Scrof¬ 
ulous children, or to invigorate and brace 
up the system after “ Grippe,” pneumonia, 
fevers, and other prostrating acute diseases, 
nothing can equal the “Discovery.” 
You pay only for the good you get. 
that class. To prove Its s ze, color and quality, we 
send you a few samples by express (September 19.) 
Notice the extremely small pit. To show the com¬ 
parative size of the pit. we lnclcse one taken from 
an average-sized Late Crawford. Just now we are 
busy marketing l 500 baskets of fruit dally. Peaches 
this year are of extra color and quality, but the great 
storms of three weeks ago ruined many trees and 
blew 8,000 or 10 0C0 baskets of fruit down Into the mud, 
a total loss. 
The peaches were received in perfect 
condition. The average size was 2 M 
inches in diameter. The pits are cer¬ 
tainly remarkably small for so large a 
peach, measuring \% inch by 1 inch 
across, while the pit of Late Crawford 
measured 1% in length by 114 in width. 
They were beautifully colored specimens, 
and in quality as stated by the Hales. 
Abstracts. 
-Henry Van Dyke via The Outlook: 
Four things a man must learn to do 
If he would make his record true : 
To think withouttonfuslon clearly; 
To love his fellow-men sincerely; 
To act from honest motives purely; 
To trust In God and Heaven securely. 
-H. W. Mabie, in The Outlook : 
“Wealth is made respectable by the 
tribute it pays to art, literature and edu¬ 
cation, and the growing sense of respon¬ 
sibility on the part of rich men to these 
higher interests of society is one of the 
most encouraging facts of our present 
condition. ” 
-Lawson Valentine : “ All the Lord 
gives us is opportunity ; we are to do the 
rest.” 
-Garden and Forest: “ September 
9 was California Day, and the California 
people gave away about six car-loads of 
fruit. A large platfc rm was erected in 
front of the State building, upon which 
peaches, grapes, plums, pears.and oranges 
were piled in profusion, and were given 
without stint to the crowds. California 
has from the first shown a liberality in 
her displays at the fair which should put 
many of the older States to shame.” 
The beginning and end of the 
Hoise Blanket question is G/p, 
That mark has the same signifi¬ 
cance on a horse blanket that the 
seal of the government has on a 
gold certificate—it’s an absolute 
guarantee of value. &/p Horse 
Blankets are made with a special 
view to strength, durability, and 
comfort for the horse. Once you 
get a E/a Blanket you will not 
need another for many years; per¬ 
haps not for a life time—your 
horse will last longer, too. Ask 
the dealer for a 5 /a and be sure 
the trade mark is in plain sight. 
Made only by 
WM. AYRES & SONS, Philadelphia. 
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