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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
at the rate of 168 pounds per acre, worth 
$25.50. The plant at maturity showed 
nitrogen at the rate of 200 pounds per 
acre, or an amount equivalent to that 
contained in 20 tons of city manure, 
which would cost in that form $10. 
Good crops of this clover can be ob¬ 
tained on naturally poor or worn-out 
lands when fertilized with the mineral 
constituents only. 
This plant provides a good pasture be¬ 
fore other crops are available. An early 
pasture is not only valuable for the food 
contained in it, but also because it helps 
to insure proper feeding and to prevent 
too early use of other and later pastures. 
It was pastured this year in central New 
Jersey as early as April 10. The crop 
when six inches high contained over 
1,300 pounds of digestible food per acre, 
sufficient to properly nourish 12 cows for 
one week. 
Crimson clover in average seasons pro¬ 
vides a soiling crop excellent both in 
yield and quality of product; it is satis¬ 
factory for the purpose for about 20 days, 
and at a time when other forage crops 
are not abundant. 
We would not advise our friends who 
live in a climate about like that of New 
York to sow Crimson clover before Au¬ 
gust 20. 
" It is with ever so much satisfaction 
that we are enabled to tell our readers 
that we have at length found a perfect 
mole trap ; one that is set without the 
least trouble ; one that is durable, light, 
one that will catch every time ; one that 
is sold for less than half the price of 
other good traps. This is what we have 
been hoping—yes, praying for—for 22 
years. We shall tell our readers all 
about it in due time. 
The London Garden mentions a grove 
of Spanish chestnuts in Kent, Ireland, 
which is supposed to have been planted 
about the time of Queen Elizabeth. The 
largest is 27 feet in circumference. We 
were not aware that the Spanish or 
Japan chestnut ever grew to so large a 
size. 
The strawberry reports of the Ohio 
Station are always interesting to us, be¬ 
cause careful attention to the growing 
of new varieties is given and because 
they usually agree fairly well with our 
own. We regret exceedingly that a 
“newspaper bulletin,” No. 141, condemns 
theTimbrell. It says: “The berries color 
poorly, often in patches, giving them 
an unsightly appearance. From 50 plants, 
not a single quart of marketable berries 
were picked during the season. The 
same complaint is heard from other quar¬ 
ters, hence as a market berry the Tim- 
brell is probably of little value ” 
Of the Enhance, the bulletin says this: 
“ In many respects a desirable variety, 
being prolific and having perfect blos¬ 
soms. The berries are ill shaped and 
quite acid. For canning and distant mar¬ 
ket it can be recommended.” 
We received plants from the originator, 
Henry Young, of Ada, O., August 15, 
1886. The next year (1887), we reported, 
much to the disgust of Mr. Young, as fol¬ 
lows : “ Vines tall and thrifty, very pro¬ 
ductive of ill-shapen berries of inferior 
quality. It is one of the heaviest pro¬ 
ducers, bears many of the largest berries 
of the most irregular shape and poorest 
quality.” 
The Ohio Station considers the Green¬ 
ville not firm enough for long shipments, 
but it has all other merits which would 
commend it for home use. 
Lovett is regarded as “healthy and pro¬ 
lific, the berries averaging above medium 
size—a good companion for Crescent and 
Haverland.” 
Parker Earle is considered one of the 
most prolific varieties in existence—but 
it must have favorable conditions. Swin¬ 
dle and Shuckless are not considered de¬ 
sirable. 
The potato fertilizers put up by our 
best firms are guaranteed to contain 
about three to four per cent nitrogen, 
eight per cent phosphoric acid and six 
per cent potash. Dr. Peter Collier gives 
reasons in The Cultivator why he does 
not consider such a fertilizer the most 
economical. It does not closely enough 
approximate to the demands of the po¬ 
tato crop. He considers that “ a good 
crop of potatoes ” requires for an acre 
about 55 pounds of phosphoric acid, 119 
pounds of nitrogen and 192 pounds of 
potash. A fertilizer which would give 
such amounts should contain less phos¬ 
phate and more nitrogen and potash. 
His figures, which are founded upon the 
analysis of the potato plant, are : phos¬ 
phoric acid three per cent, nitrogen six 
per cent, and potasb 10 per cent. 
The new clematis, Madame Edward 
Andre, was offered, for the first in this 
country in several of the 1894 spring 
catalogues as a grand novelty. The de¬ 
scription given is : “ Flowers large, of 
a beautiful, bright, velvety red, very free 
flowering, continuing all summer.” An 
illustration in one catalogue shows the 
petals to be six, and the flowers four inches 
in diameter. Our one plant was set in 
the ground not until last May. The vine, 
though but two feet high, is now (July 
24) in bloom. The flower has five petals 
about one inch long by three-fourths 
broad. The color is a medium shade of 
purple, just such a shade as claret would 
give if diluted a little. The leaves are 
rather small, heart-shape, acute, about 
1K inch broad at the base and two inches 
long. Were we to judge of this clematis 
by its first bloom, it would be with the 
feeling that it is one of those novelties 
that might better have remained in the 
originator’s hands. But we do not so 
judge it. Let us wait another year. It 
is a merit that it blooms while so young. 
Aqaix our Abundance (Sweet Botan) 
plum tree is loaded with fruit—this for 
the third season. It seems wonderful 
that so many plums can be supported on 
a single branch. This season as last, it 
has been necessary to support nearly 
every branch by cords running to a stake 
sunk firmly near the body of the tree. 
Why not have thinned them out earlier 
our prudent readers will ask ? Simply 
because we are permitting the tree to 
tax its energies as it will. We want to 
see just what it will do when left to it¬ 
self ; how long it will continue to bear in 
this way. Evidently the Abundance is 
self-fertilizing. We do not know of an¬ 
other plum tree within an eighth of a 
mile. Evidently it does not much mind 
the curculio. Every plum, so far as was 
observed was “ stung,” yet nearly all are 
plump and fair now. They will ripen in 
early August. It is a grand variety as it 
conducts itself at the Rural Grounds. 
Is there a worse lawn pest than Velvet 
grass—Holcos lanatus ? Fortunately it 
is readily distinguished by its light color 
and velvety softness. 
Mr. J. T. Lovett's (Little Silver, N. 
J.), summer and autumn catalogue of 
strawberry plants is interesting. It has 
colored portraits of Eleanor (first an¬ 
nounced), Dayton, Mary, Henry Ward 
Beecher and Timbrell. If Eleanor is all 
that Mr. Lovett describes it as being, it 
will meet with a grand welcome. His 
claim is that the Eleanor, taken all in 
all, is the earliest large berry and most 
productive early berry yet introduced. 
The blossoms are perfect. Earliness, 
large size, productiveness. It “ripens 
before Michel’s Early.” In size the berry 
“ranks with Sharpless and Gandy. It 
retains its size well to the last picking. 
It colors evenly, is of a scarlet color, 
flesh firm and of good quality.” Mr. 
Lovett gives a list of 50 varieties. 
Amokg our Crimson clover we have 
found a number of plants that bore a 
scarlet rather than a crimson blossom. 
The leaves of'these were larger, but they 
blossomed about a week later. There 
were also a number of white-flowering 
plants. The leaves of these were smaller, 
the plants not so tall and they were the 
latest to bloom. 
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On the Canada Experiment Farm, 12 
kinds of winter wheats were tried. 
Manchester yielded most—24 bushels per 
acre; Early Red Clawson, next—20 
bushels. The R. N.-Y. crosses Roberts, 
Willets, Johnson and Stewart yielded 
from 17 to 18 bushels per acre—Roberts 
being the highest, viz., 18.33. 
Elliott’s (or Elliot’s) pear which 
originated with the late James Dougal 
of Canada, ripened its last fruit (on the 
tree) July 23. This pear is of perfect 
obovate form, the long stem (IX inch) 
set obliquely. These pears averaged 2X 
inches from stem to calyx and 2X inches 
through the widest portion. The color 
is greenish yellow, with a mottled, dull- 
red cheek. Juicy, tender, melting, vinous, 
subacid, aromatic—core tender, few and 
small seeds. 
Direct. 
-J. H. Hale in Courant : “I am now 
ready to say, don’t let anyone tempt you 
into planting any of the Russian apri¬ 
cots. Those who have the trees already 
planted would better cut them down, or 
in August or September, bud them over 
to some of the most reliable European 
varieties. The Harris apricot, a native 
seedling of central New York, is being 
quite largely grown there for commercial 
purposes and is a marked success, fully 
as large as the best grown in California, 
but not quite so clear in color, but so 
much better in quality as to make and 
hold a place in the market against the 
very best from California. If New Eng¬ 
land people want to grow apricots lor 
home use or market it would appear that 
the Harris variety was the one best 
suited to the situation here.” 
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