1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
427 
what we would call conservative, very 
conservative ; he frequently lets a thing 
go without repair when he knows a 
remedy, because, “ he hates to see a 
thing toggled up.” This article was not 
written for such, but for those wishing 
to get good service out of an old machine, 
such as Mr. Macomber describes. 
ROB 
Columbus and Hallihan are two new 
early strawberries which are said to give 
great promise of merited popularity. 
So good an authority as T. J. Dwyer 
praises the new strawberry Marshall as 
“ the finest sort ever grown in this coun¬ 
try.” He considers it as surpassing in 
size any other variety, as of the richest 
quality, as a “iremarkably fine keeper 
and carrier.” 
Mr. E, W. Wood, of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, regards it as “the 
most promising variety grown, the larg¬ 
est measuring over seven inches in cir¬ 
cumference.” 
The Marshall was sent to us in May 
of last year by M. F. Ewell, of Marsh¬ 
field Hills, Mass. The vines are healthy, 
but not unusually vigorous. Berries be¬ 
gan to ripen June 1. These were of the 
largest size, fairly regular, scarlet, red 
flesh, mild flavor, and about as firm as 
Sharpless. They are still ripening, 
though the berries now (June 20) are of 
ordinary size. 
The Greenville is getting much praise 
as well as the Marshall. W. J. Green 
ranks it “ among the best; as a first-class 
market berry and good enough for home 
use.” 
Plants were sent to the Rural Grounds 
by E. M. Buechly, of Greenville, O., the 
past spring. It is a promising variety, 
though we may not judge it critically 
from spring-set plants. The berries are 
large, broad heart-shape, pointed at tip, 
red flesh, quite firm, and apparently pro¬ 
ductive as judged June 10. June 20, the 
vines were still ripening a few of fair 
quality, though the weather was very wet. 
We are disappointed in Mr. Alley’s 
new variety, Henry Ward Beecher. The 
vines are as thrifty as can be; the plants 
are large, bushy and fine. They are, 
however, not productive, and the berries 
are of almost every shape. We have 
tried many of Mr. Alley’s seedlings and, 
with the exception of Hilton, they are 
not valuable at the Rural Grounds. His 
Mary is magnificent in many places, but 
worthless here. Hilton, tried in 1887, 
1888 and 1889, bore berries of the largest 
size—larger than Sharpless, larger than 
Bubach and more productive than either. 
But we have not heard of it elsewhere. 
A MOST interesting and instructive ex¬ 
periment was made at the Massachusetts 
Station (Amherst) to ascertain whether 
potatoes would yield more when the pot¬ 
ash was supplied as sulphate worth 
cents per pound than with potash as 
muriate worth 43^ cents per pound. The 
varieties of potatoes were Clark’s, New 
Queen and Beauty of Hebron. The same 
amount of potash and bone was used to 
the acre, viz., 400 pounds of potash and 
600 of bone. The bone analyzed four 
per cent of nitrogen and 23 per cent of 
phosphoric acid. The sulphate of potash 
analyzed 50 per cent actual potash and 
the muriate 46—four per cent, it will be 
^ seen less than the sulphate. There were 
six plots, two to each variety of potato. 
The yield was in every instance larger 
when sulphate of potash furnished the 
potash than when muriate furnished it, 
the average increase being 16 bushels to 
the acre. 
In the above experiments it is further 
worthy of note that the Beauty of Hebi on 
outyielded the New Queen by 54 bushels 
to the acre and Clark’s by 83 bushels. 
June 16 the Hardy catalpa (Speciosa) 
was in full bloom. The common catalpa 
(Bignonioides) was merely in bud. Ex¬ 
cept one desires to prolong the season 
of catalpa bloom, there is no reason for 
planting the common catalpa. 
Our respected friend Luther Burbank 
says that his J apanese Mayberry was a 
seedling of what was first pronounced by 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture to be Rubus palmatus of Japan, 
but Mr. Burbank now considers it, the 
female parent, to be Rubus incisus. He 
was kind enough to send us some plants 
of the Salmon berry, which is closely 
allied, as we guessed, to his Mayberry, 
on the mother side, and we hope to be 
able to raise these plants and to com¬ 
pare the two. 
Probably our respected friend Mr. J. 
H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn., 
knows as much about strawberries from 
experience as any one does. And yet his 
list of the six best market varieties for 
market contains only one that we would 
choose and that one (Greenville) we have 
not yet fully tried. His list is—naming 
them as they ripen—Leader, Bubach, 
Lovett, Windsor, Greenville and Swindle. 
For family use he mentions Dayton, 
Haverland, Princess, Sharpless, Green¬ 
ville and Windsor. Of this home list we 
choose Sharpless alone. 
We may now report as to the time re¬ 
quired to dust an acre of potato vines at 
this time when the vines average about 
15 inches high and have not yet begun to 
fall, and also how much plaster and 
Paris-green are required to the acre when 
the Leggett gun is used. We mixed 
three pounds of Paris-green with a barrel 
of plaster and found this sufficient to 
kill the insects. It required just 90 min¬ 
utes to dust the acre and 20 quarts of 
the plaster were sufficient. 
We have received the following note 
from our respected friend D. S. Marvin, 
of Watertown, Conn. : “ Noticing what 
you say on page 365 of The Rural about 
Prof. Snow of Kansas, killing Chinch 
bugs by introducing among them a spo¬ 
radic disease, I desire to say that I feel in 
a measure vindicated. A good many 
years ago I wrote an article and you 
published it in The Rural, advocating 
the same thing, and I remember you 
showed it to some of your scientific 
friends, and they condemned the whole 
thing as a humbug. I still take The 
Rural and am keeping up my line of 
hybridizing and experimenting with 
seedling fruits. I have now the earliest 
high-toned seedling grape I know of, 
and the best seedling currant in the 
world.” 
The rose beetle or chafer, though proof 
against all sorts of insecticides, has a 
fastidious taste. Two or three years 
ago we purchased a new viburnum 
from the Parsons’ Nurseries, viz., V. dila- 
tatum. This variety was worked upon 
our native V. dentatum. The stock had 
grown to form just about half of the 
bush, and both were in bloom at the 
same time. Nearly every flower of the 
stock (Dentatum) was alive with rose 
beetles, though none were to be found 
upon the flowers of Dilatatum, until 
those of the former were destroyed. 
Of all the spiraeas they seem to choose 
Sorbifolia first. No flowers are more 
acceptable to them than those of the 
Umbrella and Sweet Bay magnolias. 
We have never had a better opportunity 
or been better equipped than the present 
season to experiment upon these invul¬ 
nerable pests. But we have made no 
progress towards the discovery of any 
effective means of exterminating them. 
Hydrangea vestita is a new variety 
that blooms about June 10. It is for a 
shrub what the Climbing hydrangea is 
for a vine ; that is, the flower is nearly 
the same. It has the advantage of bloom¬ 
ing one month before hydrangea pani- 
culata grandiflora and somewhat after 
the popular spring-blooming shrubs. 
The showiness of the flower is due to the 
calyx of the radiant flowers, which are a 
full inch in diameter and nearly white. 
The corymb is often eight inches in diam¬ 
eter with perhaps 20 or 30 of these ster¬ 
ile flowers and innumerable little flow¬ 
ers—an eighth of an inch in diameter— 
which, though having a pistil and 10 
stamens, do not form seeds. The perfect 
flowers have five sepals and 10 stamens; 
the large sterile blossoms have but four 
sepals. The perfect little flowers are 
borne upon short peduncles ; those of 
the large sterile flowers upon long pe¬ 
duncles that grow from the axils of the 
little perfect flowers. 
This hydrangea is of rapid growth and 
of perfect hardiness at the Rural 
Grounds. The foliage is a good deal like 
that of the Great Panicled hydrangea 
(Paniculata) which bears its flowers in 
panicles instead of corymbs. 
The flowers of H. quereifolia are much 
like those of Vestita, with the additional 
attraction of very large, oak-shaped 
leaves, but it is not quite hardy. 
Direct. 
-New England Homestead: “After 
lunch, served by the faculty of the Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural College at the re¬ 
cent commencement, to the trustees and 
to those visitors who could be accommo¬ 
dated in the dining hall, H. W. Colling- 
wood, managing editor of The Rural 
New-Yorker, delivered a masterly ad¬ 
dress on What is the outlook for the 
New England agricultural college grad¬ 
uate ? The delivery occupied an hour 
and a half, but held the attention of the 
audience throughout. The speaker was 
frequently interrupted with applause, 
and when he sat down a unanimous vote 
of thanks was extended.” 
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