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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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phate of copper, usingf one pound of cop¬ 
per to 25 gallons of water. He also 
recommends spraying (if necessary) two 
or three times during the summer with 
the Bordeaux. “ Very little damage,” 
he says, “ is then to be feared from the 
anthracnose.” 
■Well, it is easy to give such instruc¬ 
tions, and to those who have lots of time 
and assistance, it is no doubt desirable 
to follow them. But those who have in¬ 
sufficient help and are always pressed 
with seemingly more important work— 
and this is ever the dilemma of the Rural 
Grounds people—are apt to regard them 
with a feeling of helpless discouragement. 
We are glad to say that the new red 
raspberry Loudon has thus far resisted 
this fungus. The plants are growing 
near young seedling peach and magnolia 
trees, and the protection thus afforded 
may account for the fungous exemption. 
Probably, had we powdered our grape 
vines with Buhach twice a day or sprayed 
them with hot water at 124 degrees, we 
might now have a perfect bunch or so of 
grapes. We did not do either, and there 
is not one full bunch upon any one of our 
100 ex-periment vines. 
The world moves. Pomology and hor¬ 
ticulture grow apace every year, and the 
developments of a decade are positively 
astounding. The procession moves on 
rapidly ; but it is becoming manifest that 
it takes a mighty industrious, hopeful, 
persistent man to keep up with it. 
We are growing to have more and more 
patience and sympathy for those weak, 
unprogressive, narrow-minded people 
who meekly conclude that it is wiser not 
to join the procession at all. 
It is perhaps 18 years ago that we im¬ 
ported from England the three then- 
new clematises Henryi, Lawsoniana and 
Smythiana. We gave cuttings to several 
nurserymen two or three years later for 
grafts, and they have since become popu¬ 
lar—and justly so—here. Henryi which 
bears flowers often seven inches in 
diameter, of a silvery white color, is 
perhaps the best. 
Henry A. Dreer, of Philadelphia, an¬ 
nounces in his latest catalogue (perhaps 
others offer it) a new red clematis Mad. 
Edouard Andr6. It is described as like 
Jackmanni except as to color of flower, 
which is of “ a distinct carmine-red, 
entirely different from other varieties.” 
Since writing the above, we find not 
only that Ellwanger & Barry offer Mad. 
Edward (as they prefer to spell it) 
Andr6, but that they were kind enough 
to send us a vine for trial, which in the 
hurry and multiplicity of our annual 
work with new plants, had been over¬ 
looked. They describe it as a “grand 
novelty with flowers of a bright, velvety 
red, very free flowering, continuing all 
summer.” 
According to analyses ot large and 
small fruits, we ought to furnish in fer¬ 
tilizers from two to three per cent more 
potash than phosphoric acid. If raw 
bone be used for the phosphate, that will 
furnish nitrogen enough. 
Evidently the great Timbrell straw¬ 
berry does not act as well for some as for 
others. That enterprising pomological 
worker, J. H. Hale, of South Glaston¬ 
bury, Conn., says: “ Strawberries are 
fickle things. I have noted what you 
have said from time to time of the Tim¬ 
brell ; here the plants made a very poor 
growth last season, rusted considerably, 
and, in our trial beds, it has been the 
most unsatisfactory of 68 varieties in 
fruiting this year. I have also seen it in 
one or two other places, where it is 
practically of no value whatever. Judg¬ 
ing from what I have seen of it during 
this year and last, 1 should say that it 
was utterly unworthy of planting.” 
Bulletin No. 21 of the New Hamp¬ 
shire Station contains some valuable in¬ 
formation as to manures and fertilizers. 
One conclusion arrived at is that manure 
applied in the fall to the surface, either 
of plowed or grass land, will, by the 
action of frost and rain, become so 
thoroughly pulverized and distributed 
through the soil that it acts more quickly, 
and is in better condition for plants to 
assimilate, than the same manure would 
be if applied in the spring. On mcst 
soils, and for most crops, surface appli¬ 
cation is better than plo>ving in, and 
especially if manure is applied m the 
fall, but in any case, except for manure 
that is so coarse that it cannot be mixed 
with the soil by cultivation, it is a safe 
rule to keep the manure as near the sur¬ 
face as possible, and to have it as thor¬ 
oughly mixed with the seed bed as can 
be done. 
On an average, on New Hampshire 
soils and with general crops, $1 invested 
in the best prepared fertilizers (those 
mixed by fertilizer firms) has given an 
increase of crop valued at §2 34, while $1 
invested in the chemicals—dissolved bone- 
black, muriate of potash and sulphate of 
ammonia—has given an increase valued 
at $3.56—a difference of $1.22 in favor of, 
and due entirely to, the substitution of 
chemicals for prepared fertilizers, at 
equal cost. This difference is due chiefiy. 
Prof. 'Whitcher says, to the wrong prop¬ 
erties of plant food in the prepared fer¬ 
tilizers, and more to the deficiency of 
potash than any other cause. 
The market brands of prepared fertil¬ 
izers used in the series of experiments 
analyzed : 
Per cent. 
Phoepborlo add .. Vi.O 
Potash . 3,0 
NltroKen. 3.0 
The chemicals which gave the best re¬ 
sults analyzed : 
Per cent. 
Phosphoric add. B.(| 
Potash. ILf* 
NltroKen . 2.4 
All the experiments show that the New 
Hampshire fields were deficient in potash 
as additional quantities increased the 
yield more than additions of phosphate 
or nitrogen. We can hardly reconcile 
such results with the fact that leached 
wood ashes gave better results than un¬ 
leached. 
Another conclusion arrived at is that 
chemicals properly mixed and used can 
and do give as good results as farmyard 
manure, and oftentimes better, and this, 
too, in a six years’ rotation. 
Those who enjoy variegated hardy 
plaats should not be without the Tricolor¬ 
leaved Sycamore maple, a variety of 
Acer Pseudo-Piatanus. Most variegated¬ 
leaved trees lose the variegation during 
the summer. This does not. The contrast 
of colors is feebler certainly, but still 
emphatic. The early variegation is a 
rosecolor, cream color and green—hence 
tricolor. The later variegation is cream 
color upon dark green. Every leaf is 
differently marked—speckled, splashed, 
lined and blotched. Some are nearly all 
cream color—others nearly all dark 
green—some half and half—no two ex¬ 
actly alike. If we were obliged to choose 
between any one of the Japan maples 
and this variegated European Sycamore, 
we would choose the latter, even though 
the Japans were fully hardy. Our only 
specimen was purchased of Ellwanger & 
Barry about 21 years ago. It now forms 
a round-headed tree about 25 feet high, 
the trunk being nearly one foot in diam¬ 
eter. 
Again alluding to the fastidious taste 
of the rose chafer, we may say that they 
prefer white fiowers to those of any other 
color. For example, they will destroy 
the flowers of Georges Bruant and Mad, 
Piantier, and those of the white Polyan- 
tha roses, before they will attack those 
of a pink, red or crimson color. 
For the past six months or so, the re¬ 
tail prices of the essential constituents 
of chemical fertilizers have been about 
20 per cent above the wholesale prices. 
Word lor Word. 
-New Hampshire Station : “ The 
drainage water from our fields carries 
fertility away, not rapidly, it is true. 
but apprecia'bly, and it is the brook that 
wanders through our fields, and not the 
winds that blow over them, that rots 
our manured and unmanured fields of 
their fertility. With this view of the 
case, we should so place our farmyard 
manure that it shall have just as much 
soil as possible to filter through.” 
“ Surface manuring is the logical re¬ 
sult of a study of the facts relating to 
fertilizing in general, but by surface 
manuring it is not meant that the manure 
should be allowed to remain on the very 
top of the soil, but rather that it should 
be mixed with the top two or three 
inches of soil, and the more intimately 
it is mixed the better. And right here 
is where fall surface manuring derives 
its chief advantage. As high as 40 loads 
of coarse green manure have repeatedly 
been seen spread on the surface of an 
acre of land in the fall. To have har¬ 
rowed this quantity in so that little or no 
manure should have been left in sight, 
would have been an impossibility with 
any form of harrow that we now have; 
and yet after the fall rains, the winter 
snows and frosts, and the spring rains 
had worked on that manure, an ordinary 
harrowing would completely incorporate 
it with the soil; in fact, the elements 
had themselves mixed the plant food 
with the soil, and the manure had be¬ 
come pulverized and as fine as compost, 
and with none or very little of the loss 
that results from rotting or composting 
as ordinarily practiced.” 
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