1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
7i 
this end all my later efforts have been 
directed. I think I have produced, in the 
first crossing between foreign and native 
grapes, using the native for the mother 
or seed-bearing parent, many varieties of 
excellence quite as “startling” as that of 
Minnehaha, and of far better habits of 
growth and foliage; but I have not felt 
like introducing any of them as valuable 
improvements above other existing varie¬ 
ties already in use. Of the hundreds 
which I have grown within the past 30 
years, I have scarcely a dozen that I re¬ 
gard as worthy of retaining even on trial. 
I will send you one of these, a cross be¬ 
tween Muscat-Hamburg and llelvidere, 
(a Librusca, of the Hartford type) which 
seems as hardy, and as healthy in foliage 
as the Rogers grapes, and which endured 
the past winter unprotected, but which 
on account of small size, I have never 
propagated beyond the original seedling. 
As compared with the Niagara, for hard¬ 
iness in winter it seemed quite uninjured, 
and bore a good crop, where Niagaras 
were all winter-killed in the fruit-buds 
and bore nothing. I have others of the 
same cross, both black and white, some 
of even higher flavor than I send you, 
but which I do not consider of sufficient 
excellence to use for any other purpose 
than to re-cross upon pure native varie¬ 
ties. In this, I have reason to believe 
really useful results may be achieved; 
and I have a few such under trial which 
I now think may be fairly regarded as 
very promising, having all the hardiness 
of the native varieties and something of 
the higher excellence of the best foreign 
kinds. 
Growing New Jersey Potatoes. 
•I have seen in 
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F. R. F., Plainville, O,— We raise 
dewberries by the acre for the Cincinnati 
market and find that they pay better than 
raspberries. We stake or wire them the 
same as blackcap raspberries ; the most 
prefer stakes. We set six by four feet, 
cultivate both ways where stakes are 
used, trim to about three feet, and leave 
from four to six canes to a hill, being 
careful to select those which are free 
from the knots made by insects, as nearly 
all will die that have these knots. It 
makes no difference how small the cane, 
it will bear. We tie at the top and mid¬ 
dle to hold it close to the stake, and then 
the berries will hang outside and be easy 
to pick. We let the new growth of wood 
run over the ground and pay no attention 
to it until we trim the next spring, ex¬ 
cept to keep it from climbing the stakes 
and getting mixed with the bearing 
wood. The pickers tramping it will do 
no harm ; we often tramp it down to get 
it out of the way of picking. The variety 
raised is the Lucretia, and the berries 
are immense. We cultivate early and 
often, sometimes plow and cultivate six 
to ten times, first throwing the soil away 
from the rows, then hoe and harrow, 
then use Planet Jr. cultivator several 
times, the last time throwing the furrow 
to the row, and harrow as long as we can 
get between the rows without destroying 
too many vine s, as the new wood will soon 
cover the ground. This is the plan gen¬ 
erally followed here ; is there a better 
way ? Last season I used 200 pounds of 
bone meal per acre, and could see j ast 
where it was used by the berries being 
larger. I shall use more per acre this 
year. I believe it is hard to get our clay 
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The R. N.-Y. from time to time various 
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tooth harrow, and pick them up again. 
Some use different diggers and, when 
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The “ Minnehaha” Guapk. — I was in¬ 
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“Ruralisms” of August 26, mentioning 
the receipt from the late President Mar¬ 
shall P Wilder of the grape named above, 
produced by crossing Muscat of Alex¬ 
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Wilder, and was also experimenting in 
the same line of further crossing hybrids, 
Rogers and others, a second time, upon 
foreign varieties, hoping for still greater 
improvements. I found, however, that 
useful improvement did not lie in this 
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native blood were wholly unsuited to our 
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