1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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'■jmTmmi' «af ^ S>. feiJiifc 
Is a late bloomer, later by three or four weeks than 
others In my collection and to claim that It will bloom 
the first year from seeds sown In open ground Is not 
a true statement as It Is grown In New England. 
The following which I clip from Bul¬ 
letin No. 22 of the Massachusetts Experi¬ 
ment Station coincides with my own ex¬ 
perience after a three years’ trial of the 
Japanese Wineberry; 
JAPANESE WiNEBEBRT.—This variety should be 
mentioned for Us want of merit, rather than for anv 
value whatever that we have been able to discover 
In It. It produces but little fruit and that of very 
poor qua'ltT, Judged by the standard of our red 
raspberry. As a curiosity or from a prospective 
value of Its use In crossing with our red or black-cap 
varieties it Is of some Interest, but It never should 
ha^e been sent out as a fruit for either home use or 
market. 
Direct. 
-Db. Talmage : “ The price of the 
newspapers is too low. Earth, heaven 
and hell for two cents—that’s too cheap.” 
-Life : “It isn’t the amount of talk¬ 
ing a man does that makes him a bore ; 
it’s the amount he doesn’t say while he 
{Continued on page 178.) 
Rurallsms— Continued. 
that retained their form, color and shape 
when canned as this berry does, and we 
know that we have never eaten canned 
berries that retained the flavor and 
aroma of those freshly picked to such an 
extent. The fruit makes a Arm, spark¬ 
ling jam. 
It will he remembered that we have 
the Columbian and Shaffer growing at 
the Rural Grounds. A careful compari¬ 
son of the two varieties was made in 
these columns last fall. They resemble 
each other in many ways. Which would 
turn the scales in the merit balance, we 
may not state positively until another 
season’s trial. 
We have been told that the Shaffer 
shrinks 25 per cent more than the Colum¬ 
bian in the process of canning. 
Mammoth 
African 
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We wish to call our readers’ attention 
to a few plants that EUwanger & Barry talks. 
“ strongly recommend” in their cata¬ 
logue recently issued. A “strong” recom¬ 
mendation from this firm which is almost 
too careful not to over-praise, carries 
scarcely less weight with it than a trial 
of them in our own grounds. Some of 
them we have alluded to before during 
last year and perhaps the year before. 
Still they are comparatively new and 
rare. 
The B S. Fox pear is considered one 
of the most valuable introductions of 
recent years. It is much like Anjou 
in texture and quality, but ripens in 
October. 
The Col. Wilder is a delicious pear, 
keeping until March. 
The P. Barry is another of Fox’s seed¬ 
lings, resembling Winter Nelis in color 
and jaiciness and Anjou in texture. It 
is pronounced ' ‘ the best late winter 
pear.” 
The Youngken’s Golden Cherry plum 
is the earliest plum to ripen in Rochester. 
Everything we have said in regard to 
the Crosbey and Elberta peaches is con¬ 
firmed. 
The Columbus gooseberry does not mil¬ 
dew, though it is as large as the Industry 
and in every way as desirable. 
The Champion (yellow) raspberry is 
better in quality than Golden Queen or 
Caroline and very hardy. 
.(Esculus Hippocastanum rubicunda 
pendula is a pendulous variety of the 
Red-flowered horsechestnut, as its Latin 
name tells us. 
.^sculus Schirenhaferi produces double 
red flowers and ought to be a good mate 
for the Double White. 
No drooping tree of recent introduc¬ 
tion merits more than the Japan Weep¬ 
ing Rose-flowered cherry. 
Then we have a Weeping Red Scarlet 
thorn, a Rose-margined Purple-leaved 
beech—a distinct, charming novelty—a 
new Rose of Sharon which bears pure 
white double flowers, valuable for flor¬ 
ists’ work, a new clematis. Mad. Edward 
Andre which bears large flowers of a 
bright velvety red and blooming all 
summer. 
Margaret Dickson is a hybrid remon¬ 
tant which bears white flowers. The 
petals are large, shell shaped, and of 
great substance and fragrant. It is 
“ probably the coming white hardy 
rose.” Small plants of the Agnes Emily 
Carman rose are offered at 31 50 each. 
A LETTER from H. N. Smith of South 
Sudbury, Mass., goes to confirm two 
important statements which The R. 
N.-Y. has made: 
Mention was made In The R. N.-Y. of February 17 
under Rurallsms of the new “Crimson Bye” hibiscus. 
Four years ago I received two small one-year roots 
of this variety from the originator, and set them In 
rich soil near a bed of the common hibiscus or 
Swamp Rose msllow. It Is evidently a seedling and 
differs very little from the common variety which 
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