1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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our readers as one of the most reliable kinds in the 
market to-day whether for home use or market. The 
new pea, “Qaeen,” is a wrinkled English variety 
for main crop, growing about feet in height. The 
pods and peas are said to he very large, the latter of a 
deep green color and delicious flavor when cooked. 
The vines are robust and of a branching habit, bear¬ 
ing the pods in pairs from the bottom to the top. The 
Silver Custard squash is said to grow to an 
immense size, often producing squashes 18 
inches in diameter of a white color and flnest 
qualify. The new tomato. Crimson Cushion, 
is portrayed as of perfect form and almost 
seedless The color is a fcarlet crimson with¬ 
out any purple. The advance is in the di¬ 
rection of solid flesh and less acioity. On 
page 18 will be found three collections of 
vegetable seeds, viz , the City Garden, 20 
varieties, for $1; the Suburban Garden, 37 
varieties, weighing 12 pounds, $2 50; and tVe 
Country Gentleman’s Collection, price $5 28 
pounds, 60 oifferent varieties. Henderson's 
Early Snowball cauliflower is regarded as 
the earliest, as the surest header, and alto¬ 
gether the most profitable to raise for mar¬ 
ket or home use. The Hendersons have in¬ 
troduced first and bst mar y excellent new 
varieties. We like their way of giving sensi¬ 
ble, descriptive names to their novelties. 
There are six beautiful co’ored plates of vegetables 
and popular flowers, Henderson & Co. are among the 
largest dealers in ornamental bedding aod conserva¬ 
tory plants in America. Tneir lists of small fruits are 
wisely selected. 
William Pabby. Parry, New Jersey.—An old firm in 
its 56lh year, and 300 acres under small and large 
fruits, ornamentals and nut bearing trees. This cata¬ 
logue rives prominence to nut trees, and we would 
ask our readers to lock it over for that reason if for 
no other. Pjge 24 tells us something of nut culture. 
Then a list of nimed varieties of Japan chestnuts fol¬ 
lows, and others which are grown from selected nuts. 
As we understand it Mr. Parry’s Alpha, Advance, 
Early Reliance, Suicess, Sup^^rb and Giant are all dis¬ 
tinct grafted varieties. They are offered at high 
prices, while the seedlings sell for about $2 50 per 
dozen. Unless we desired to try for superior varieties, 
we would select the named sorts by all means. We 
hive raised about 20 of the Japans from seed and all 
that have fruited bear quite inferior fruit—scarcely 
better than the Spanish, and greatly inferior to the 
Paragon. Mr, Parry presents a colored page of the 
Seneca and Lincoln coreless pears, and also the Japan 
Russet, which is valuable only for cocking. The 
Sineca is an aequisition in that it ripens later than the 
Bartlett, of wh ch it is a seedling. 
W. W. Rawsox & Co , 34 Market Street, Boston, 
Mass —The lame of Mr. Rawson as one of the largest 
market gardeners in the coun¬ 
try has extended from Dan 
to licersheba, and the special 
varieties which he recom¬ 
mends ought to be the best 
of their several kinds. Ho 
commends the following short 
list as the kinds preferred by 
the Arlington market garden¬ 
ers : Crosby’s Improved Egyp¬ 
tian beet. Improved Danvers 
Half-long carrot, Paris Gol¬ 
den Yellow celery, Bay State 
equash, Rawton’s White Spine 
cucumber, Danvers Yellow 
Globe onion, Rawson’s S-arlet 
Globe radish, Rawson’s Pu'i- 
tan tomato. In order to have 
the above thoroughly tested 
the set of eight is offered for 
25 cents. An extended list of 
20 varieties of Arlington seeds 
is offered for 75 cents. Raw- 
son’s Clipper is claimed to be 
the earliest variety of pea 
grown. Tbis firm may be con- 
side red headquarters frr Prin¬ 
gle’s A mericanoats, and Bass’s 
Triumph potato, reepectipg 
both of which we have had 
many irquiries. It will be 
remembered that the Triumph 
is extensively grown on ac¬ 
count of its color and earliness. It is probable that 
Stray Beauty is the same variety. A full page colored 
plate shows the first set of Arlington favorite vege¬ 
tables. Another shows a beautiful collection of sweet 
peas with Emily llendersou as the central figure. 
Edwabd F. Dibble, Honecye Falls, N. Y.—Farm 
seeds are Mr. D oble’s specialty. He fully supports 
all the good that has beep said cf Mammoth Cluster 
oats as elsewhere noted. It is a bro'^ze oat, a rank 
grower. H s prices are low, viz., $l 25 f.rr one bushel, 
$10 for 10 bushels. We would also call attent on to 
the White Maine oat (page 12) of which Mr. D.bble 
has raised with ordinary cultivation 91 bushels to the 
acre. One of Mr. Dibble’s sab specialties is choice 
potato seeds. His list is excellent and he gives per¬ 
sonal attention to seed selection. His list comprises 
26 varieties. He ships them in new barrels, the tubers 
shaken down and the head put on with a press and 
stenfiled. He calls special attention to three new 
potatoes, viz , Clay Rose, Victor Rose and Troy seed¬ 
ling. This, it is claimed, is about the strongest grower 
in cultivation ; the vines are absolutely blight-proof 
and 8“emingly bug proof as well. It is an immense 
yielder, and the limit of its yielding powers is not yet 
known. One farmsr last year raised 714 bushels from 
The EA.BLY Nobtheb Potato. Fig. 45. (See page 135.) 
10 bushels of seed. Attention is especially called to 
Mr. Dibble’s Eight-rowed Early flint corn which Mr. 
Dibble and his father have grown for 38 years. Ears 
are shown 15 inches long. 
Northrup, Braslax, Goodwix Company, Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn.—A large-sized, highly illustrated cata¬ 
logue of 80 pages, with the usual lists of farm and 
garden seeds. We may call special attention to the 
Lincoln oat which for the benefit of Eastern readers 
has been alluded to also as offered by Mr. Gregory. 
Northrup & Co., were the introducers of this oat last 
year. Five hundred dollars in cash were offered in 
seven amounts for the best yields from one bushel of 
seed. The first prize taker ^$200) raised 174 bushels ; 
the seventh winner (lowest) raised 75 bushels. These 
amounts seem ahmst incredible from one bushel of 
seed and must show either that the variety 
is, as claimed, “an agricultural wonder,” or 
that thin seeding and special cultivation will 
do wonders where tbe crops were raised. The 
names and addresses are given and the 
awards were made by a committee of four 
editors of well-known journals. The entire 
account with illustrations appears on page 39 
of the catalogue. This firm makes a specialty 
of grain and forage crops for the cold north. 
Minnesota King corn, the firm claims, is the 
most valuable early dent ever sent out They 
introduced it in 1889. The ear is eight-rowed 
and of fair size and the cob small. The Early 
Mastodon was sent to us for trial last year, 
but it was received not until The Rural’s 
experiment field was filled. The o-iginator 
claims that it will mature in 100 days or less. 
The ear is immense, as shown, and it is further 
claimed to yield the deepest, longest grains 
and the la^^gest number c f rows of any other 
variety. Gilden Wonder millet, introduced by this 
firm in 1888. it is said, yields three times as much seed 
and twice as much fodder par acre as other millets. 
It is claimed that it is a flae ensilage plant especially 
in high latitudes where corn will not mature. It 
should be sown about Jane 1. Then it may be har¬ 
vested after the wheat crop has been secured. 
The Good & Reese Company, Soriagfifid, O —A hand¬ 
some catalogue of all kinds of seeds, but tne general 
specialty of this firm is plants for the window, green¬ 
house or garden, and its specific specialty is roses, of 
which the firm claims to “lead the world.” Gen. Rob¬ 
ert E Lee is a brand new Tea rose of wonderfal 
properties. Its color “ is a soft, natt irtium yellow or 
coppery bronze,” and the colored portrait shows the 
buds to be perfect in form and the full flower to be 
perfectly double and oval in form—that is, not cup 
shaped, or inclined to be concave in the middle. It is 
a constant bloomer, and the foliage is dark green and 
leathery. This firm deals extensively in such pep alar 
plants as geraniums, cannas, chrysanthemums, bego¬ 
nias, dahlias, coleus, and the like. 
Johnson & Stokes, 217 Market Street. Philadelphia. 
Pa.—This is to us one of th^ most interesting cata¬ 
logues received this year—there are indeed, few to 
equal it. The illustrations (ohoto engravings) are be¬ 
yond criticism. Of Donald’s Elmira asparagusit is said 
that whole crops will average four pounds in weight 
to the bunch of 12 stalks of 16 inches in length. The 
new celery Perle le Grand, it 
is claimed, is the best variety 
as a winter keeper. Burbank’s 
Early Maine corn is three days 
earlier than Cory, the ears 
larger and the cob white. 
Ssnsation lettuce forms solid 
heads even before half grown. 
Winter Luxury is a new pump¬ 
kin that grows uniformly to 
a diameter of 10 to 12 inches. 
It is netted like a muskmelon 
and is said to be the best 
pumpkin for pies ever intro¬ 
duced. In Brlnton’s Best 
tomato perfection seems to 
have been reached if the photo¬ 
portrait does not lie. It is 
five imhes in its wide diam¬ 
eter, without a lobe or un¬ 
evenness and the stalk is set 
in a cavity so slight that none 
is noticeable in the picture. 
The new bronze oats Mam¬ 
moth Cluster seem worthy of 
trial. Twenty farmers of 
V esiern New York grew, each, 
ooe acre of them. The three 
largest yields were 114, 105 
and 104 bushels to the acre. 
The straw is said to be long, 
strong and stiff. This firm 
deals in thoroughbred poul¬ 
try and collie dogs as well as in seeds. A picture 
of the Scoth collie “Sheriff” is a study. 
R. II Shumway, Rockford, Ill,—In this catalogue of 
all sorts of seeds, we have a new departure. Tnough 
there are less chan 50 pages, the pages are 10x15 
inches in size and the illustrations are so numerous 
that they take up far more space than does the printed 
matter. Mr. Snumway, who is over 50 yeara of age 
