THE RURAi. NEW-YORKKR- 
March 31 
Rurallsms— Continued, 
the Rural Grounds last August 28, has 
sustained no injury whatever during the 
past winter. The lowest mercury has 
been six below zero. Herein our readers 
have two ascertained data to work upon, 
viz., (1) sown about September 1; (2) it 
stands without harm six degrees below 
zero. 
It will further be remembered that an¬ 
other plot was sown May 19; that on 
August 6 a part was cut while in bloom. 
The Crimson clover on both portions is 
now dead. It appears then that, not only 
is it an annual, but that it will not sur¬ 
vive the winter after it has reached 
nearly the blooming period. 
The pressing work now closely upon 
us at the Rural Grounds will make it 
necessary to omit Ruralisms occasionally 
during the next two months. Nearly all 
the work done there, nearly everything 
planted—seeds, plants, trees or shrubs— 
are in the nature of experiments. We 
have never planned more work, designed 
to interest and instruct our readers, than 
during the past winter. While then our 
readers may miss these and similar notes 
for a time (we sincerely hope that every 
reader will miss them), they may feel 
assured that we are but striving to sup¬ 
ply more interesting and instructive mat¬ 
ter for thei future. 
Why is it that plums and apricots 
grown against houses or walls are not 
attacked by the curculio as are those 
grown in the open orchard or garden ? 
We would suggest to our readers that 
they prepare a little plot—say 33 feet 
square, or one-fortieth of an acre, and 
sow one pound of Crimson clover there¬ 
on. It is a very interesting plant, vigor¬ 
ous, fresh, wholesome. The flowers, too, 
which will average two inches long by 
half an inch in diameter, are of a bright 
crimson color, and make a durable, odd 
bouquet. Spade the clover under in the 
fall and, adding bone and potash in the 
spring, plant potatoes on the plot. 
Inquiries come to us every day as to 
where the Carman No. 1 potato can be 
purchased. We would save our friends 
the trouble of making further inquiries. 
There is not a barrel or a peck or a pound 
or a single tuber for sale. We know of 
those who would gladly pay 85 a pound 
for this new variety. In fact, the stock 
reserved for seed is so limited 'that the 
price is sure to be very high another 
year. There is no doubt of it whatever. 
Abstracts. 
_j, H. Hare, via American Garden¬ 
ing : “ Trees and plants nowadays are 
cheap. People, as a rule, do not appre¬ 
ciate them. If one tree dies, another can 
be had for a few cents. Nurserymen 
should charge higher prices for their 
stock, and people would appreciate it 
more and care for it better.” 
“As to overproduction, I have heard 
this talk all my life, yet I can sell fruit 
more easily, at better prices, and more of 
it than 30 years ago. Intelligent apple 
culture is not keeping up with the con¬ 
sumptive power of the country. The 
markets are full of good oranges and bare 
of good apples. Yet apples can be pro¬ 
duced more cheaply than oranges. The 
future of the apple industry is promis¬ 
ing.” 
-Gardening: “I And Challenger a 
fairly early Lima bean of flrst-class 
quality, and very productive. King of 
the Garden is 10 days later, but it is a 
large bean of the finest quality. To in¬ 
sure getting some early Limas I sow 
some Challenger beans in a warm frame 
or greenhouse.” 
“ Sow a box of Prizetaker onions in a 
box in the greenhouse for transplanting 
out of doors in April.” 
“ By raising Prizetaker onions in the 
hot-bed and thence transplanting them 
to the open ground I grow them to a 
size rivaling the Bermuda onions.” 
Masoott 2:10. 
The owner of Mascott 2:10 Is Frank Drake of 
Debanon, Ohio, who writes: “I KOt three barren 
mares In foal with the Perfect Impresrnator, boaght 
of Spec. Mfg. Co., Carrollton, Mo.”-Adti. 
It will, perhaps, require a little stretch of the imagination on the 
part of the reader to recognize the fact that the two portraits at 
the head of this article are of the same individual; and yet they 
are truthful sketches made from photographs, taken only a few 
months apart, of a very much esti^med citizen of Illinois—Mr. C. 
H. Harris, who.se address is No. 1,G22 Second Avenue, Rock Island, 
111. The following extract from a letter written by Mr. Harris 
explains the marvelous change in his iiersonal appearance. He 
writes : “ Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery saved my life 
and has made me a man. My home physician says I am good for 
forty years yet. You will remember that I was just between life 
and death, and all of my friends were sure it was a case of death, 
until I commenced taking a second bottle of ‘ Golden Medical Dis¬ 
covery,’ when I became able to sit up and the cough was very 
much better, and the bleeding f roin my lungs stojjped, and before I 
had taken six bottles of the ‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ iny cough 
ceased and I was a new man and ready for business. 
1 now feel that it is a duty that I owe to my fellow-men to 
recommend to them the ‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ which saved 
my life when doctors and all other medicines failed to dome any 
good. 
I send to you with this letter two of my iDhotogra])hs; one taken 
a few weeks before I was taken down sick in bed, and the other was 
taken after I was well.” 
Mr. Harris’s experience in the use of “ Golden Medical Discovery” 
is not an exceptional one. Thousands of eminent people in all 
parts of the world testify, in just as emphatic language, to its mar¬ 
velous curative powers over all chronic bronchial, throat and lung 
diseases, chronic nasal catarrh, asthma, and kindred disea.ses. 
Eminent physicians prescribe “ Golden Medical Discovery” when 
any of their dejir ones’ lives are imperilled by that dread disease, 
Consumi)tion. Under such circumstances only the most reliable 
remedy would bo depended ui)on. The following letter is to the 
point. It is from an eminent physician of Stamps, Lafayette Co., 
Ark. Ho says : “ Consumption is hereditary in my wife’s family ; 
some have already died ■with the disease. My wife has a sister, 
Ml'S. E. A. Cleary, that was taken with consumjition. She used 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, and, to the surprise of her 
many friends, she got well. My wife has also had hemorrhages 
from the lungs, and her sister insisted on her using the ‘ Golden 
Medical Discovery.’ I consented to her using it, and it cured her. 
She has had no symptoms of consumption for the past six .years. 
People having this disease can take no better remedy.” 
Yours very truly, 
A lady residing in the far West writes as follows ; “ I had been 
confined to my bed four months, had tried the skill of four doctors 
and all the patent medicines that were recommended for my case, 
which was an abscess on the lung. My physicians and friends had 
given me up to die ; I was reduced to a perfect skeleton ; my 
strength was gone ; my eyesight was so dim I could scarcely see at 
all, and I had no appetite—could not eat anything at all when I 
commenced using Dr. Pierce’s Family Medicines. I have taken 
sixteen bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discover;^ twelve 
bottles of his ‘ Pellets,’ and three bottles of his ‘ Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion ’ and to-day I am well and strong and weigh 128 pounds—two 
pounds more than I ever before weighed in my life.” 
Your true friend, 
Mrs. Kelly’s address is Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. 
From the Buckeye State comes the following : “ I was pro¬ 
nounced to have consumption by two of our best doctors. I spent 
nearly 8:100, and was no better. I concluded to try Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Meflical Discovery. I bought and used eight bottles and I 
can now say with truth that I feel just as well to-day as I did at 
twenty-five, and can do just as good a day’s work on the farm, 
although I had not done any work for several years.” 
Truly, your friend, 
Mr. Dulaney's address is Campbell, Ohio. 
If it would l)e any more convincing, we could easily fill the 
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of those cured, with their full addresses, which are of a most con¬ 
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