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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 7 
Items of interest, criticisms, or corres¬ 
pondence of any kind intended for, or sug¬ 
gested by, this column, should be addressed 
to liuralisins. 
One of the satisfactions that the old 
editor that writes these notes enjoys is 
that The R. N.-Y., besides its own pro¬ 
ductions, has through its trial grounds, 
been instrumental in introducing many 
new varieties of seeds and plants. In 
what other way can a rural journal bet¬ 
ter serve the public ? 
We find the following note in the cata¬ 
logue of Green’s Nursery Co., page 63 : 
The editor of The R. N.-Y. Joins me In the opinion 
that we have a new fruit that will mark an epoch In 
fruit culture. I will not state now what It Is, but In¬ 
vite all to visit me July 20 next, to see It In bearlrK. 
This excels all the valuable new fruits which I have 
heretofore introduced. chas. a. gkkkn. 
Attentive readers of Ruralisms and Notes 
from the Rural Grounds will readily 
guess what this remarkable new fruit is. 
We do not feel at liberty to divulge the 
secret further than to say that its intro¬ 
duction will be owing to the favorable 
reports which have appeared in these 
columns regarding it. 
We hope that our contemporaries will 
join The R. N.-Y. in condemning the use 
of the word “ phosphate ” as a name for 
any fertilizer that contains either potash 
or nitrogen. As well call a fertilizer 
‘ ‘ nitrate ” that contains phosphate or 
potash or both. The name of “ phos¬ 
phate” or “phosphates” should not be 
given to any fertilizers except those 
whose chief plant food is phosphoric acid. 
South Carolina rock, bone-black and 
bone-ash are such fertilizers. 
The use of the word superphosphate is 
equally o’;jectionable as applied to any 
fertilizer that contains either nitrogen, 
potash or both. The only difference be¬ 
tween a phosphate and a superphosphate 
is that the first contains phosphoric acid 
not soluble in water, as South Carolina 
rock and bone-ash, the second phosphoric 
acid rendered soluble by being treated 
to sulphuric acid. The word phosphate 
ought not to be applied to bone, since it 
contains nitrogen as well as phosphoric 
acid. 
We have received many letters similar 
to the following: 
I have just f1n<8hed reading tbe Catalogue Number 
of The U. N.-Y. and have been very much Interested 
and delighted with this review. Your descriptions 
and remarks about the many novelties with which I 
am acquainted are to the point, and should be a 
valuable aid to those who want the beet fruits and 
vegetables. I cannot well conceive bow even the 
novice can make any serious mistakes If be be guided 
by your descriptions of the varieties mentioned. 
T. J. DWYER. 
Direct. 
-New York World : “ Don’t believe 
there’s any permanent relief in alcohol 
for ‘ that tired feeling.’ ” 
“ Don’t wear violets in your coat while 
anybody is suffering for bread.” 
“Don’t put off your dress-suit man¬ 
ners when you get into your business 
clothes.” 
- Irving: “It was the policy of the 
good old gentleman to make his children 
feel that home was the happiest place in 
the world; and I value this delicious 
home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts 
a parent could bestow.” 
-Stark Brothers : “ For dollars and 
bushels, Garber and Keiffer are the pears 
to plant in all the great Mississippi 
Valley region. Both are practically ex¬ 
empt from blight, and wonderful he&rers. 
All things considered, for large orchards, 
we cannot too strongly recommend these 
two sorts. For a beautiful and grand 
effect plant Garber and Keiffer to border 
a drive or avenue—10 or 12 feet apart. 
Besides their fruit, you will be more 
than repaid with their splendid columns water power next to Niagara. 
GREATEST COAL Helds In the West. 
MOUNTAINS of precious and base metals 
lilG pay-roll, enterprising people, healthful climate 
SMELiTEKS, Refineries. Concentrators. Flour Mills 
ELECTRIC power get crated by waterfalls. 
CENTER of Industry, Mining, Stock-growlng, Agri¬ 
culture. 
INVESTORS and Home-seekers look here 
Write ERNEST CRUTCHER, Loans and Realty. 
And conditions in life, are liable at times, to need an Invigorating Tonic; a Regulator of 
the natural, periodical functions, and a Soothing and Bracing Nervine. For this purpose 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription 
^ is the only medicine so certain in its curative action that it can Ije guaranteed. Your 
^ money is returned if it does not cure. 
In Maidenhood, Womanhood and Motherhood, it invigorates and braces up the ex- 
W hausted, run-down, overworked and delicate; allays and banishes all Nervous Weakness, 
Spasms, Hysteria, Fits, Chorea, or St. Vitus’s Dance ; corrects all unnatural irregularities 
ijj) of monthly function and cures Periodical Pains, ’Weaknesses, Bearing Down Sensations, 
P Backache, Catarrhal Inllammation, Ulceration and Kindred Maladies. 
^5^4 For those about to become mothers, it is a priceless boon, for it lessens the pains and 
perils of childbirth, shortens “labor” and the period of confinement, and promotes the 
m secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. 
Wliat Otliers Say of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription 
IRREGULARITY AND UTERINE 
DEBILITY. 
Miss L. M. HENDKUSON, of Springfield, So: 
Dakota, says: “ I cannot say enough for 
my physician to die, besides spending almost all we 
liad. After live months’ treatment with your Dr. 
I’ien^e’s Favorite Prescription, 1 now enjoy most 
excellent health. I would, to-day, have been in my 
grave, and my little children motherless, hatl it not 
been for vou and your medicine. I will recommeiul 
your medicines as long as I live. If any one doubts 
tiiis, give my name and address.” 
FAINTED AWAY. 
Miss LIZZIE 11. MUItPlIY,of Aerr Dorp, Staten 
Jx., Richmond Co., N. V.,writes: “ Aliout two years 
ago I was so sick wilh womb trouble lliat I could 
not cross the room witliout fainting away. Tlie doc¬ 
tors could do me no good and told me I must die, but 
my mother got me ‘ Favorite Prescription,’ and in 
one week I began to feel stronger. After taking a 
dozen bottles I am as well as I ever was; free from 
all iiains and aches and all due to Dr. Pierce’s Fa¬ 
vorite Prescription.” 
i THE'“ CHANGE OF LIFE.” 
% Mrs. HATTIE M. RHODES, of Rath Alum. 
® Bath Co., Va., aged 48, sullered from rusli of blood 
^ to head, dizziness, hot Hushes, palpitation of heart, 
^ and otlier distressing symptoms incident to llie 
ri “ change of life.” Site writes : “ I am truly glad lo 
W say that I feel mvself cured. I have used your ‘ Fa- 
^ vo'rite Prescription’ and‘Golden Medical Discov- 
ery,’ as you directed, and to tliem, witli the aid of 
N God, my cure is due.” 
“WAS THE PICTURE OF DEATH.” 
Mrs. M. .T. LOY^D, of Wes.xon, Copiah Co., 3/m., 
says: “My daughter lias been sick all her life, and 
the older she grew, the worse site was until she was 
the picture or death: the physicians could not do 
her any good. I gave her tlirec bottles of ‘ Favorite 
Prescription,’ and now she is a perfectly healtliy 
girl. 
Have recommended it to a great many sufferers 
from ‘ female complaints,’ and it luis cured them. 
I think it is tlie greatest medicine in the world, 
and I have never found anything to compare 
with it.” 
Mrs. CORA CUMMINGS, of No. 74 K. Yates St., 
Ithaca, N. Y., writt's: “ I took your Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription when I was run down and 
through the warm weather. It worked like a 
cliarm on my system and I am a good deal 
heavier in flesh now. It is the best ni(‘dicine in 
tlie world for ‘female troubles,’ for I took almost 
all kinds of Patent Medieiues, and doctors’ pre¬ 
scriptions without bcnclit.” 
A COLD CAUSED TROUBLE. 
Miss MAMIE BT^RK, of Everett, Bedford Co., 
Penna., writes : “ Wlien I was fourteen years old 
I took a bad cold and there resulted internal 
troubles. I was a gri'at sufferer for four years. 
1 had tried two Physicians but neither gave me 
any relief. After taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 
Prescription I can’t say enough for it. It cured 
me BO I have no moro pains. I am »ow nineteeu 
years of age.” 
SUFFERED FOR TWELVE YEARS. 
Mrs. MALVINA WILSON, of Oreide (formerly 
Enterprise), Taylor Co., 11'. T'a., writes: “A heart 
overflowing with gratitude jirompts me to write 
you. Twelve long weary years I sufl'ered greatly 
from Uterine Disease, arid at last was given up by 
CUREMONT land Issoclatlon, 
Offers 600 choice farms; 3,000 handsome town lots 
on James River, with terms to suit purchasers. 
Free circular 
of living green in summer and gorgeous 
autumn coloring ‘in purple and red.’ ” 
-Emerson : “ With bitterness the 
cynic moans : ‘ Our life is like an ass led 
to market by a bundle of hay being 
carried before him. He sees nothing but 
the bundle of hay.’ ” 
“No recipe can be given for the mak¬ 
ing of a Shakespeare.” 
-L. H. Bailey: “There are persons 
who hold tenaciously to both dogmas— 
that varieties run out and that novelties 
do not pay—without seeing that such 
opinion, if true, would drive the culti¬ 
vated flora from the face of the earth.” 
-W. D. Howells ; “ To this day I have 
no patience with that code of the world 
which relaxes itself in behalf of the bril¬ 
liant and gifted offender ; rather he 
should suffer more blame.” 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New York. 
Piieic^ttatte0UiSi 
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