1894 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Rnrallsms — Continued. 
is right in regard to the Improved Rocky 
Mountain cherry. It is with him, both 
in leaf and bush, identical with thousands 
of Sand cherries that grow along the 
lake shores, though somewhat more 
dwarf. Some 22 years ago he bought a 
number of the Utah Hybrid cherry which 
also proved to be the Sand cherry. 
Mr. Fuller said many years ago that 
he did not regard this cherry as of any 
particular value as found in its normal 
condition, but if he could obtain an im¬ 
proved variety of a similar growth and 
as hardy and productive, it would cer¬ 
tainly be a great acquisition. A cross 
might be made between some of the 
Bigarreau or Morello varieties by mak¬ 
ing the Dwarf the mother and hastening 
its blossoming period under glass. 
On August 7, a small plot was sown to 
Bromus inermis (Hungarian or Awnless 
Brome grass.) It is now 10 inches tall. 
It is said that this will thrive upon soils 
too poor and too dry to grow anything else 
but Broom sedge. The roots penetrate 
the soil to a depth that enables the plant 
to defy drought. It has something the 
habit of Bermuda grass, and when fully 
established on suitable soil is said to be 
hard to get rid of. In the moorlands of 
Hungary in Europe this is the chief 
meadow grass. It grows about four feet 
in height and bears leafy culms which 
make a fair quality of hay if cut early. 
It is said to be hardy everywhere. We 
do not find that it has been experimented 
with to any great extent in this country. 
We have a seedling gooseberry (from 
European seed) that holds its leaves 
fresh and green after- those of all other 
varieties in our collection have fallen. 
What does this indicate ? That it is 
more or less hardy ; that it is more or 
less mildew-proof ? 
A FRIEND writes us that Triumph and 
Columbus gooseberries are closely alike 
if not identical. It is important to know 
about this. We have never grown the 
Triumph and have therefore no means 
of comparing them. We request those 
of our readers who have both varieties 
to enlighten us. 
Mr. N. Hallock, of Qaeens, Long Is¬ 
land, sent us samples of blackcaps from 
canes fruiting September 18. They were 
of medium size and fair quality. He says 
they have been ripening jast such berries 
for four or five weeks during the severe 
drought. 
They remind us of the Earhart Ever- 
bearing introduced some 10 years ago by 
the Hales of Connecticut. 
Why don’t you tell us, good readers, 
more than you do—though perhaps we 
ought not to ask it—what trials you have 
made and are making ? We are trying 
to guide you. Isn’t the obligation 
mutual ? Of,does the one dollar paid for 
a yearly subscription absolve the sub¬ 
scriber from all obligation ? It may be 
so ; that depends upon the view that our 
friends may be pleased to take. Our 
own feeling is that, if all of our readers 
who are really trying to progress, to 
succeed; if all who are liberal-minded 
enough to wish to help others in their 
farm life, would write to us even once or 
twice a year, giving a short account of 
their main successes or failures, all would 
be benefited far beyond the little trouble 
it may cost them to write such yearly or 
semi-jearly accounts of just why they 
hit or missed the target. 
All of us that are working for some¬ 
thing more than a mere living—a monot¬ 
onous, lifeless, grind-away, sing-song, 
barely make-ends-meet living, would do 
well to tell the thousands of anxious 
listeners why they come out ahead, why 
they come out behind. This would help 
to make up the ideal farm paper. Each 
one contributes his mite at a trifling cost 
of time and thought Each one is helped 
by the mites of thousands of other ex¬ 
periences that may be helpful to him. 
We are all aiming and firing at a target. 
The R. N.-Y. is most happy when it feels 
that it is helping its readers most effec¬ 
tively to hit the bulls-eye every time. 
And that it has helped its readers well in 
the past to take good aim, or to aim more 
carefully is just the reason why we are 
aiming to help them to take surer aim in 
the year to come. 
Direct. 
-C. M. Depew : “ The difference be¬ 
tween a horse and a hobby is that you 
can get down from one, but you can’t 
from the other.” 
- Bill Nye in N. Y. World : “My own 
stud is free from docked horses and my 
stables from the overdraw check. The 
overdraw check is as injurious to the 
comfort and beauty of the horse as it is 
to one’s equilibrium at the bank.” 
“The tenderest portion of a horse’s 
body is that quarter easily defended by a 
long tail, but entirely out of reach of a 
docked horse. I cannot bear to look at a 
crazed animal beating the air wildly with 
his pathetic stump, while the maddening 
flies are stinging his poor little stomach.” 
“ And how can a docked horse be re¬ 
garded as beautiful ? How would George 
Washington look in marble riding a muti¬ 
lated horse ? Does any great sculptor 
ever put a hero on a bobtailed steed ? 
- Truth; “Citiman: What do you 
think is the hardest thing to raise on a 
farm ? Haysede: The money to work it.’ 
- Puck : “ It is a good plan when you 
get the worst of it to make the best of it.” 
-Bill Nye : “ When the mother tur¬ 
key overtakes a large grasshopper, she 
eats it and gives her little ones the drum¬ 
sticks. Is that any kind of a way to win 
the love of the young ? Not by any means 
whatever.” 
- Farm, Stock and Home : “ There is 
an overproduction of inability to buy the 
necessaries of life.” 
- New York Herald : “ No mortal 
can have a better starting point than a 
pious and soul-satisfying home. It is a 
thousand times better to have an honest 
father and a true hearted mother than 
to inherit riches or social position. An 
empty wallet and a father’s blessing, a 
gingham gown and a mother’s love are a 
safer equipment for the attainment of 
happiness than millions of money with¬ 
out the blessing and the love.” 
“ There is no other foundation for a 
true home than the union of two souls 
by the bonds of holy affection. Other 
experiments have been tried, but no sub¬ 
stitute for that affection has yet been 
found, or is it likely that it will be.” 
“Of two lovers, a good poor man is 
better than a bad rich man. Pictures 
and furniture and rugs and footmen are 
desirable in their way, but you cannot 
afford to give a human heart for them. 
It may be unpleasant to live in a side 
street, but a side street with peace is 
better than the avenue with misery. 
Your acquaintances may shrug their 
shoulders—it is their privilege to do so if 
they choose—but if the home is bright 
and cheerful what care you ?” 
-Ex-Mayor (N. Y.) Abram S. Hewitt: 
“ The condition of mankind to-day is 
better than it has ever been. Labor re¬ 
ceives higher wages, and that wage buys 
more. The world produces more to-day 
than ever, and its products are more 
equally divided. The financial and in¬ 
dustrial depression through which the 
United States and Europe have been 
passing is yielding gradually, I think, to 
an improvement, which of necessity 
must be slow.” 
“The farmers complain of the low 
prices of wheat and corn, and crops in 
general to-day. Those prices are not so 
low as they were 50 years ago, and the 
money the farmer gets for his crop buys 
more luxuries foi him. His wants have 
increased, so that he feels more need 
while enjoying more prosperity. Fifty 
years ago a man worth $100,000 was 
thought to have all he could need. Now¬ 
adays a man worth a million has more 
needs, and is not so well off.” 
651 
TIMBRELL 
STRAWBERRY. 
FRUIT TREES, 
SMALL FRUITS, VINES, ROSES, 
ORNAMENTALS, Crates & Baskets. 
ELDORADO 
“They 8URPA.S9 nil others” 
says E. S. Carman, R. N. Y., and 
H. E. Vandkman, U. S. Dept. 
NEW FRUITS A SPECIALTY. Buy dlrccU 
Don’t pay double prices. Illustrated Catalogue FREE 
BLACKBERRY. 
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We Grow^J’/rM?inonof Roses Annually 
Many other things as largely. Are headquarters for the choicest 
Fruit and Ornamental Troe8,Shrub8,Vlnos, Roses, Plants, 
No finer a.ssortment of Largo or Small Fruits, Shrubs oi 
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stock. FALL PKICE LIST AND IfITL.;! CATALOOUIC FUFF. 
29 GREENHOUSES. 
BULBS. 
41st YEAR. 1,000 ACRES. 
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Painesville, Ohio. 
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GREEN Introducer of LOUOON RtO RASPBERRY. 
E. S. CARflAN, and others, recommend it for Market. 
Fall is the Time to Plant. 
|W" Send for free Catalogue and Creen’s Fruit Grower. 
DON’T FAIL to submit a list of your wants and get our 
prices before placing your orders elsewhere for any kind or 
grade of Nursery Stock. Apples, Pear, Cherry, Pimm 
Quince, Grape, Small F'ruits and Ornamentals. W^E HAVE 
a general line of Nursery Ctock of the very best quality, on 
which surprisingly low prices will be given upon application. 
Surplus Price List:—V\ums, Sc.; Standard Pears, 8 c.; Dwarf 
Pears, 6 c, and loc.; Apples, 5 c.; Royal Church Raspberry, 
at 4 cts., all from stock not catalogued. 
CIIEEN’S NURSERY COMPANY. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
P L A N to Plant this Fall 
I I V tlon required on ordinary farm crops, a 
I prices, 
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at least 10 per cent of your farm In 
fruit. Give It 10 per cent of the atten- 
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Seventy pages, with accurate descrip¬ 
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have perfect faclllilcs for handling them In proper 
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Analysis to 
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Write for Price-List and particulars, Uow to get 
One Hundred 'I'reeH FUKK. 
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T 
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WHEAT 
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Increase yield. 
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EGYPTIAN OR WINTER ONION SETS. 
For fall planting. Sold at Wholesale prices, II per 
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For ‘Zti cents we will 
send to any address 
free by mall 8 choice 
HYACii^TH BULBS, 
suitable for House 
or Garden flowering. 
Ahso a copy of our 
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of Hyacinths, Tu¬ 
lips, Narcissus, 
Crocus, &c. 
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Kochester, N, Y. 
POTATO BOYERS, ATTENTION! 
Carman No. 1, 112 per barrel; Maggie Murphy, 
Freeman. NewQueeu, Rochester, Peachblow, 13 25; 
Rural New-yorker No. 2, Green Mountain, Monroe 
SeedllDg. Early Puritan, $2.25. >:5,UUU bushels 
ADOve prices lor October. Cash must accompany 
all orders. References: irst National Bank. Newark, 
N. Y. F. U. Burnette, Professor of Hortlcultnre 
State University, Baton Rouge, La. 
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Sorts faster than 10 men 
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1 Circulars and testimo¬ 
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Manufactured by 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE 
SEKD CO., 
IJoneoye Falls, N. V. 
POTATO DIGGER 
HOOVER, PROUT & CO., Avery, O. 
