1894 
THE RURAT. NEW-YORKER. 
Rurallsms— Continxicd. 
Rugosa hybrids which are not yet ready 
for distribution. The cost of this distri¬ 
bution to The R. N.-Y. is $400. But we 
are more than ^lad that we have been 
able to please our friends in this way. 
Theke has been this winter an almost 
unprecedented demand for cut violets, 
double varieties, the English double and 
Marie Louise. At present, holiday week, 
small bunches, not over four inches in 
diameter, are selling freely at $1.50. 
During the football contest between 
Princeton and Yale, the same sized 
bunches brought $3. What a charming 
flower these violets are. We have masses 
of the Double English at the Rural 
Grounds, where it spreads rapidly, is per¬ 
fectly hardy and the odor is exquisite. 
It is a most fascinating, delightfful little 
gem, as charming in its lowly beauty as 
is the rose among the more pretentious 
plants The one objection to English 
Double is that the flower stems are short 
and often concealed by the leaves. 
Ale else equal, is a late or an early 
variety of gooseberry to be preferred V 
Which is better for market; which for 
home use, and why ? 
The Columbus gooseberry (Ellwanger 
& Barry) ie, up to this time—in the opin¬ 
ion of Ruralisms—the best variety yet 
introduced. It is the only large berry, 
excep'; the Carman, that seems to bo 
free of mildew. It seems close to a per 
fei:t gooseberry for our climate. The 
bushes are laden with fruit and, though 
growing where they receive the sunshine 
during the entire day, the bcries have 
not as yet rotted ; the leaves have shown 
no trace of mildew. During the past 
season we had the opportunity of com¬ 
paring the variety with the Carman (not 
yet introduced) growing under precisely 
the same conditions. There was this 
marked difference: The berries of the 
Carman were ripe fully 10 days before 
those of the Columbus. Is this desirable 
or not ? 
The Carman plant is probably one year 
older than the Columbus. The berries 
set upon it so closely together that two- 
thirds were cut out, Even then it was 
necessary, later in the season, to prop up 
every branch. We mention this exces¬ 
sive fruitfulness, not as a favorable char¬ 
acteristic, but merely as a fact. It would 
seem that there is a fair promise that the 
Columbus and Carman will supply the 
long-felt demand for a large berry free 
of rot and mildew, 
Mr. Lewis Koesch, the well-known 
nurseryman of Fredonia, N. Y., offers 
another new gooseberry of the large sort, 
which he has named the Chautauqua. 
From its picture it seems about the same 
size as the two kinds above alluded to. It 
Mr. Roesch finds that other varieties 
of the English type, and some said to be 
of American parentage even, mildew 
worse than the Chautauqua. The place 
to plant the Chautauqua is evidently in 
the partial shade afforded by young or¬ 
chards where they are not likely to 
mildew. 
The bush of the Chautauqua is a very 
vigorous, stout, stiff, upright grower, 
having the usual complement of thorns. 
It should not be planted closer than four 
by six feet apart. Its leaves are large, 
glossy and dark green. Its fruitris of a 
beautiful light yellow color, perfectly 
free of spines and hair, veined and trans¬ 
lucent, averaging in size 1 to 1K inch in 
diameter. It is rather thick skinned, but 
very sweet and of exquisite flavor. 
Our o’d friend, the Ohio Farmer, has 
the following from C. G. Williams, of 
Trumbull County, Ohio: -“So far The 
R. N -Y. No. 2 has given me more bushels 
per a'rc of marketable potatoes. To be 
sure it is a later potato—probably six 
weeks later—and as a general thing late 
potatoes will yield heavier than early 
o les. The great trouble with the Free¬ 
man is that it sets altogether too many 
tubers even when care is taken to seed 
light. On the very richest loams it would 
doubtless be a success, and on a great 
many soils I hardly think it will come up 
to expectations. Not that it is an inferior 
potato by any means, but that it has, J 
fear, been overpraised. All in all, I 
count Tne R. N,-Y. No. 2 the beit potato 
I have grown. Good quality, good size, 
fine looking, and few small ones.” 
There seems to be little doubt that 
The R. N.-Y.’s early report of the Free¬ 
man is fully sustained by later reports 
from disinterested farmers, that is as to 
the large proportion of small tubers the 
variety yields in most soils. Still, its fine 
shape and excellent quality ought not to 
be belittled. 
Direct. 
-Fkof. Wm. Tkelease: -“Specialism 
is the only way by which rapid progress 
can be made, and the world now expects 
it; but unless care is taken, it dwarfs the 
individual, rendering him narrow, and at 
the same time opinionated, and to this 
extent lessens his usefulness and defeats 
its own end.” 
-Robert Craig: “Cannas of the 
Crozy type are destined to play a grest 
part in the future of American garden¬ 
ing ; they not only produce a continua¬ 
tion of brilliant bloom, but are als > 
graceful in foliage and growth.”^ 
“The modern trade catalogues must not 
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trations are faithful to nature more than 
at any previous time.” 
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-Proverb : “ Speak fair words and 
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-Buxtok : “ It is astonishing how soon 
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is a chance seedling that attracted atten¬ 
tion on account of “the wonderful beauty 
and size of the fruit and robust habit of 
the bush.” 
The first plants grown were planted on 
a warm gravelly loam in the shade of an 
apple and peach orchard, excepting a 
few which were sent to the New York 
State Experiment Station at Geneva, N. 
Y., for testing. 
So long as the orchard remained, the 
plants were perfectly healthy and bore 
annual crops that were the admiration 
of all beholders. After a few years, how¬ 
ever, the trees were removed, and then 
the bushes commenced to mildew. This 
so discouraged Mr. Roesch that he 
stopped their propagation, supposing all 
varieties subject to mildew worthless. 
However, he soon received encouraging 
reports from the experiment station say¬ 
ing that the variety was very valuable in 
spite of a tendency to mildew. That all 
varieties of the English type mildewed 
more or less, and that the mildew could 
be readily overcome by spraying with 
sulphite of potassium. He tried the 
remedy and found it quite successful. In 
fact, he finds it but little more expensive 
than spraying for the potato bug. 
-E. G. Hill : “ Floriculture has a 
great future in America, from the fact 
that the home is the center and citadel of 
our American civilization.” 
“Contrast the old country burying- 
ground v-ith the modern cemetery, and 
see what landscape art and fioriculture 
have done ; and this work is only in its 
infancy, with a wide outlook for the 
future.” 
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and study solve problems and make rough 
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-The Outlook : “This season a great 
many people find themselves forced to 
scrutinize rigidly the expense account 
and save a dollar at every possible point. 
This is in every way commendable and 
healthful, but it ought not to become a 
new form of temptation. We ought to 
economize on ourselves and not on our 
charities. We ought to be willing to 
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