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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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or it will be small and inferior in appear¬ 
ance and quality. If properly thinned, 
it is of goodly size and superior to any 
other yellow-fleshed variety. 
Our friend, E. G. Fowler, explains to 
the readers of our bright contemporary. 
Gardening, how he retarded the bloom¬ 
ing period of his strawberries. When 
the ground was frozen solidly in the fall 
he mulched the patch heavily with stable 
manure. It was a heavy mulch, covering 
the plants entirely. He left them cov¬ 
ered until his neighbors’ patches were 
green with new foliage ; then he uncov¬ 
ered them. The old foliage was all 
rotted away and the patch looked as 
brown as if it had been burned over. 
But they soon began to grow, and June 
11 they were heavily loaded with fruit, 
though there was not a ripe berry on the 
vines, but a trace of color showing, while 
some of his neighbors had been picking 
for 10 days. He believes he could have 
safely left them covered another week 
and thus retarded them a few days more. 
This plan was tried as we remember, by 
the Cornell Station last year. 
Mr Falconer mentions a new straw¬ 
berry which originated with our occa¬ 
sional correspondent Mr. Nicholas Hal- 
lock, of Queens, L. I. Its merits are 
good health and productiveness, and Mr. 
Hallock believes it to be the earliest 
variety in cultivation. 
Stuabtia pentagyna blooms this year 
at the Rural Grounds July 6. The flow¬ 
ers are pure white, four inches in diame¬ 
ter, flve-petaled and crimped at the edges 
like a fimbriated petunia. There are 
perhaps 200 stamens, forming a little 
clump an inch in diameter and the fila¬ 
ments change in color from rose color in 
the bud, to a delicate blue in the open 
flower, again changing to pink in the 
mature flower. The peduncles are short— 
a quarter of an inch—so that this charm¬ 
ing flower is not serviceable for bouquets. 
It blooms when few other hardy shrubs 
brighten the garden, and it is diflicult to 
explain why it is not in the lists of all 
nurserymen’s catalogues. 
The Lucretia dewberry has the merit 
of ripening before the standards—begin¬ 
ning this year July 6. Five years ago 
we received the Windom from Pierce 
Bechtle of Le Mars, Iowa. The berries 
ripen with Lucretia, but are not so large 
or regular. 
Rosa setigera is the Michigan or Prai¬ 
rie rose from which Baltimore Belle 
Queen of the Prairie, etc., originated. It 
is now brought into prominence because 
itJB a single rose—and single roses are 
now appreciated as they never have been 
before—and because it is a very hardy, 
vigorous climber. Our specimen, which 
was sent to the Rural Grounds by Ell- 
wanger &, Barry for trial last April, be¬ 
gan to bloom July 5. The flowers are 
borne in corymbs of from five to twenty. 
The buds are shorter and thicker than 
those of the Japan rugosa, but the open 
flower is about the same size, of a pink 
color—lighter than the pink Rugosa— 
fading almost to white. The leaflets, 
generally five, are of medium size, ovate, 
of good substance, and slightly rough or 
rugose. It is said that “if set in good 
soil and given sufficient room, its arch¬ 
ing stems will form a mass of foliage 10 
to 12 feet in diameter. When planted at 
the top of a bank, it will send its long, 
vigorous, graceful shoots irregularly to 
the bottom. ” • 
Abstracts. 
-Rochester Herald: “Director Col¬ 
lier, of the New York Experiment Sta¬ 
tion states, that there are only 16,000 
out of 380,000 of the farmers of the State 
of New York, who receive its bulletins.” 
“Over 1,000 different varieties of ber¬ 
ries and small fruits are now being ex¬ 
perimented with there, to ascertain their 
productiveness and quality and the profit 
possible in their production. There is at 
the station probably the finest orchard 
of its kind in the whole world. It in¬ 
cludes 450 different varieties.” 
Dr. Collier can demonstrate in a 
minute to any one who understands 
simple arithmetical processes, that the 
farmers of New York State annually 
waste over $50,000,000 of animal ferti¬ 
lizer, mainly liquid, ‘ and yet,’ says a 
member of the staff ‘ farmers talk of 
hard times as though they couldn’t make 
them any better.’ ” 
-N. Y. Herald: “No soul will be 
saved in the future world which has not 
tried to save some other soul besides it¬ 
self in this world.” 
“If the rich man who spends his 
money on himself is deserving of cen¬ 
sure, so also is the religious man who 
hopes to get to heaven whether other 
people get there or not.” 
- The Outlook : “A wise man, in giv¬ 
ing advice to a young married friend, 
said : ‘ I want to warn you against one 
thing; and that is, do not eat your 
specked apples.’ The hearer looked at 
him in astonishment, not understanding 
the remark. The man of experience 
continued : ‘ When I was a boy I lived 
on a farm, and we had an orchard. 
Whenever I asked for an apple, my 
mother always said, yes, but she always 
gave me strict injunctions to pick out 
the specked apples; and I made up my 
mind when I was a very small boy that 
when I grew big enough I never would 
eat a specked apple. I look back now 
from my manhood of prosperity and 
wealth with an aching heart when I 
think of my mother’s life. She went 
through life eating specked apples, not 
because she had to, but because that rep¬ 
resented her idea of economy.’ ” 
“No person ever showed economy by 
the things he went without. Economy 
is shown in the things that one has, the 
things that one uses, the things that one 
demands in the immediate present.” 
-A Herai.d Symposium. —Austin 
Flint, M. D : “ Alcohol is a good ser¬ 
vant in the hands of an intelligent 
physician, but a bad master for the fool¬ 
ish man who uses it as a beverage. It 
follows, therefore, as a natural and 
logical sequence, that alcoholic liquor of 
any kind, description or character what¬ 
soever, should never be used except when 
prescribed by an able and conscientious 
physician in cases where sickness makes 
it absolutely necessary that it should be 
given as a medicine.” 
W. A. Hammond, M. D. : “The great 
curse of alcoholic liquors is that their use 
creates a morbid appetite—a constantly 
increasing desire for more—in many 
cases. Many men who begin to use 
alcoholic liquors in great moderation, find 
themselves gradually craving larger and 
larger quantities. Liquor drinking is one 
of those things of which it may truly be 
said that, ‘ Increase of appetite grows by 
what it feeds on.’ ” 
N. S. Davis, M. D., LLD.: “Any 
form of alcoholic drink must inevitably 
and infallibly be injurious. There is 
scarcely a tissue in the body that is not 
affected deleteriously by alcohol.” 
F. H. Wade, M. D.: “The more con¬ 
stantly alcohol is present in the system, 
the more quickly does it ruin the ner¬ 
vous system, the liver, kidneys, bladder, 
blood vessels and heart. The man who 
drinks two or three quarts of beer or 
wine a day, but is never “ under the in¬ 
fluence of liquor ” in his whole life, is 
much more certain to feel the evil in¬ 
fluence of alcohol upon his system than 
he who does not touch liquor for two or 
three months, and then gets upon a 
‘ whisky drunk ’ which lasts for several 
days or a week. Occasional excess in 
anything injurious is not so detrimental 
as constant indulgence. . . . It is a 
statement frequently made that it is not 
the moderate use of alcohol which does 
harm, but the abuse of it. This is as 
foolish an error as it is an unfortunate 
one. . . . Alcoholic liquor of any 
kind, even at its best and purest, cannot 
fail to be injurious to any one in health. 
It destroys the brightest intellect, it de¬ 
grades the purest woman, it corrupts 
the judicial ermine, it undermines the 
very foundations of government. It is 
the devil’s best friend and instrument.” 
-W. D. Howells in Ladies’ Home 
Journal: “When Thackeray made a 
mock of snobbishness, I did not know 
but snobbishness was something that 
might be reached and cured by ridicule. 
Now I know that so long as we have 
social inequality we shall have snobs ; 
we shall have men who bully and truckle, 
and women who snub and crawl. I know 
that it is futile to spurn them, or lash 
them for trying to get on in the world, 
and that the world is what it must be 
from the selfish motives which underlie 
our economic life.” 
In wTltlng to advertisers, please always mention 
Thb Rural Nhw-Yobkkb. 
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The Tubular Dash Lamp No. 1.3 of the S. 
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rnn oil r -400busbel8 crimson CLOVEItSeed. 
run uALl. This seed was grown by me, and Is 
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