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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
735 
Ruraltsms— Continued. 
from the street below and flies and mos¬ 
quitoes are few and far between. 
One Hundred and Five dollars per 
month—$1,260 a year—may seem a high 
rental for such apartments to some of 
our provident farmer friends. We may 
ass ire them, however, that we visited 
many other flats which seemed to be in¬ 
ferior in almost every way, except, per¬ 
haps gilt and gaudy finery, for which 
$2,000 and $3,000 per annum were asked. 
It makes no difference whether one lives 
in the first or sixth or tenth floor if there 
are elevators in the building promptly 
run by courteous attendants. The higher 
and h'ghest floors, indeed, of fireproof 
buildings are growing more and more in 
demand and the price is rarely less than 
that of the lower floors and oftentimes 
greater. 
The flat consists of eight rooms, a bath¬ 
room and ample closets. The eight rooms 
are a large parlor—say 22x18 feet—a 
sitting-room, four sleeping rooms, a din¬ 
ing room and kitchen. The kitchen is 
well furnished with stationary tubs, 
range, etc., while handy-by is a sort of 
side hall, between the kitchen and din¬ 
ing-room provided with a sink, closet, 
shelves, drawers, and a stationary ice 
closet extending from floor to ceiling. 
The water supply (hot and cold) is ample. 
Every room has a radiator heated by 
steam and the desired degree of heat is 
readily secured. In two of the rooms are 
fireplaces and grates in which bituminous 
coal, which is almost as pleasant and 
sociable as wood, may be burned. Elec¬ 
tric calls and speaking tubes save many 
steps and give direct communication 
with the janitor below. All provisions, 
kindling wood and the like are delivered 
at the kitchen door. The best and purest 
of bottled milk is delivered daily at eight 
cents per quart. 
The competition between tradesmen is 
so keen that cash customers do not seem 
to be duly valued. It is assumed that 
families will buy more and oftener if 
they have an account at the store than if 
they pay cash for every item. There 
will be less thought of or care for shop¬ 
ping, and the prices charged will be less 
carefully considered by the buyer. As 
for obligingness, there is no end of it. 
One can hardly restrain a feeling of 
sympathy or compassion when he sees 
politeness carried to obsequiousness in 
the grocer or baker’s endeavors to se¬ 
cure a regular custom. Single loaves of 
bread are sent twice and thrice a day 
long distances that the bread may be 
fresh and warm when received. It is 
the same with the butcher and fish¬ 
monger. They can not do enough for 
their patrons. Manufactured ice 
(Hygeia), seemingly as pure as crystal, is 
delivered as often as desired and in any 
quantity, at 40 cents ner 100 pounds. 
It is a truth that one does not need to 
leave his fiat from one year’s end to 
another. Business of all descriptions 
may be carried on through the janitor, 
and the clerks and agents of firms of 
every description of merchandise are 
prompt in obeying almost any demand 
that may be made upon them. Competi¬ 
tion is indeed the soul of trade, but it 
seems to us that the soul is belittled by 
a competition that, more and more every 
year, makes such excruciating exactions 
on the one hand, and such servile conde¬ 
scension on the other hand, necessary or 
desirable. 
From the above account it is easily 
seen that people who care for show, 
fashion and so-called society would by 
no means be satisfied with the plain, un¬ 
assuming life the Rural Grounds people 
are satisfied to lead for the greater por¬ 
tion of the year in their New York flat. 
More than that, they are thankful for 
this plain, airy home; grateful for the 
opportunity of educating their children; 
grateful that, meanwhile, the family 
is kept together and not obliged to en¬ 
dure the anxiety of separation and the 
weary waiting for months of precious 
life to hasten on. 
David Bundy, of Colerain, O., whose 
death was announced last week, was the 
originator of the Colerain, an early white 
grape of value. Vines were sent to the 
Rural Grounds in May of 1885, and we 
were the first to bring it before the pub¬ 
lic. In April of 1892, Mr. Bundy sent us 
two vines which he described as follows: 
“ Black Concord seedlings, ripening be¬ 
fore Moore’s Early. Bunches larger, 
berries not so large. They hang on the 
vines until frost, then shriveling up and 
retaining their sweetness. The vine is 
very hardy and an abundant bearer.” 
The editor of The R. N.-Y. was re¬ 
quested to name it. One of the vines 
bore a small cluster the past season and 
from what we could judge, the claims of 
Mr. Bundy as above set forth were well 
founded. We shall call it the Bundy. 
Dk. Hoskins writes us that the Besse- 
mianka, or seedless Russian pear, does 
not keep well beyond the last of Septem¬ 
ber. He has another variety from Russia 
which has been called the Russian Flem¬ 
ish Beauty. It has the shape and color 
of, but in size it is not much above the 
Bessemianka, a photograph-illustration 
of which appeared on the first page of 
The R. N.-Y. about two years ago. 
Dr. Hoskins has some 10 varieties of 
Russian pears, including the wild pear of 
the Russian forests. This is used as a 
street tree in Russian cities. He promises 
The Rural an article on these pears in 
the near future. 
We have several times in as many years 
alluded to the new strawberry, “ Mary.” 
It has twice been sent to us by the origi¬ 
nator, H. H. Alley, of Hilton, N. J. 
Finer, more uniformly large and fairly- 
shaped berries we have never seen than 
those sent to us from year to year of this 
variety by Mr. Alley. With him, it is an 
immense yielder, and the berries average 
as large as, if not larger than, those of 
any other variety whatever. But the 
vines do not thrive at the Rural Grounds 
at all. 
J. T. Lovett, who introduces the Mary, 
says : “ It is the largest strawberry yet 
produced ; the most prolific, the most 
beautiful and the firmest yet offered.” 
Generally speaking, strawberries that 
fail at the Rural Grounds are not worth 
much. But we believe the Mary may 
prove an exception, and we would like to 
have our friends try it in a small way. 
The R. N.-Y. is always glad ;o get ex¬ 
perience notes like the following. It 
helps to make the paper the first experi¬ 
ment station in the land : 
I have found ufter two years’ trial that the Horti¬ 
cultural Lima bean Is a tlrst-class new variety of more 
than ordinary merit. For our New England climate 
it Is particularly valuable on account of its extreme 
earllness, as the seed Is thoroughly ripened by Sep¬ 
tember 1. As a green shell bean, it is much superior 
In quality to the common Horticultural, having 
somewhat of the Lima flavor; besides it Is immensely 
prolltlc and no more dltllcult to shell than other 
beans. It Is well worthy of extensive trial. The 
Japanese Climbing cucumber Is a very poor climber. 
After repeated trials to Induce the vines to climb 
supports, I found It was more naturally Inclined to 
run on the ground than upon supports of any kind. 
It Is a poor bearer, not a vigorous grower, Is inclined 
to disease. In quality It proved good for a cucumber, 
otherwise It Is of no value and not worth growing. 
It Is a Urst class humbug. The much-advertised 
Centrosema grandltlora was also a disappointment. 
The Introducer’s claims so far as the past season's 
trial goes were not well founded. From two pack¬ 
ages of seed I succeeded In growing six plants which 
made a very feeble growth and only one plant came 
Into bloom. The seed was sown In open ground early 
In May, and the plant commenced to bloom early in 
September. I can see nothing in the plant to recom¬ 
mend It as an annual, but It may succeed better as a 
perenolal. h n. smith 
South Sudbury, Mass. 
It is with satisfaction, yes, with de¬ 
light, that we shall be enabled to mail 
to all those who applied for the Rugosa 
set of hybrids a plant of the Emily Car¬ 
man rose, the first hybrid of the kind 
ever produced. It is a grand family rose. 
We mean that it is perfectly hardy; that 
it blooms during a considerable part of 
the summer and fall; that it will flourish 
in any soil or situation where any other 
rose will thrive, and that the foliage is 
unique and beautiful. 
There is one peculiarity of this rose as 
well as cf several of the others of the set 
originally offered to applicant sub¬ 
scribers. The vigor of its growth and 
amplitude of foliage do not appear the 
first year ; they do not fully appear, in¬ 
deed, the second, except it may be under 
glass. But its full beauty may be relied 
upon to assert itself the third year, when, 
we may hope, our friends will be ready 
to agree with us that it will be worthy of 
a first place in any collection of hardy, 
long-.ived roses, besides the advantage 
of being peculiarly and beautifully dis¬ 
tinct from any other. 
It hould it appear that the supply is not 
exhausted by filling the orders already re¬ 
ceived, we shall offer it to other sub¬ 
scribers who have not yet applied. 
Direct. 
- New York Times: “Why does the 
city grow and increase ? Simply 1 o meet 
the wants of the farm. One cannot exist 
without the other. There is no antag¬ 
onism between them. The businessmen 
of the cities and towns are engaged in 
supplying the necessities of the farmeis, 
taking their products and bringing in 
and exchanging for these all sorts of 
materials and products needed by them. 
Thus the city grows and is fed by the 
farm.” 
“ Few can afford the luxuries that a 
farmer enjoys and takes as a matter of 
course, and which he never thinks cost 
him anything.” 
“ Those farmers who are working with 
their heads are making no complaint, 
and whatever is heard of this kind comes 
from the hand workers, and only from 
the least skillful of these What is 
wanted on the farm is contentment with 
the good things we enjoy, enterprise to 
improve the work, perseverance to carry 
it through, economy to make everything 
count, patience under little disappoint¬ 
ments, and thankfulness for all the en¬ 
joyments we possess, over and above the 
generation which has gone before and 
whose labor made for us what we now 
have.” 
- Irving : * • There is in every true 
woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, 
which lies dormant in the broad day¬ 
light of prosperity; but which kindles 
up, and beams and blazes in the dark 
hour of adversity. No man knows what 
the wife of his bosom is—no man knows I 
what a ministering angel she is—until 
he has gone with her through the fiery 
trials of this world.” 
“ It is not poverty so much as pretense 
that harasses a ruined man—the strug¬ 
gle between a proud mind and an empty 
purse—the keeping up a hollow show 
that must soon come to an end. Have 
the courage to appear poor and you dis¬ 
arm poverty of its sharpest sting.” 
-Breeders’ Gazette: “No one that 
can hold on now is giving up his farm 
because of hard times, but holding to it 
closer and more firmly, realizing that it 
is the surest possession held by men.” 
“Country communities are overstocked 
with doctors, but there is a dearth of in¬ 
telligent, cultured farmers—men who 
make a success of their own business and 
who give stamina and character to coun¬ 
try life. Our country communities to-day 
stand greatly in need of well-trained, 
well-prepared young men who will briog 
to them what country life must have in 
America before it shall reach the measure 
set to it by the very nature of things. 
To the young men who will bring to the 
work this training and preparation and 
an earnest desire to be helpful to their 
fellow men, there is every promise of 
success. Under their care the fields will 
grow richer and the homestead a princi¬ 
pality. Each can rule his own domain 
without fear of strikes or suspicion that 
some competitor, a little sharper than 
he, is about to drive him off the field. 
Bank failures will enter little into his 
daily thought or care. In every meeting 
of the community his counsel will be 
sought, and he will be as a light to the 
neighborhood.” 
If you narno Tub Rukal Niw-Torkeii to our 
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