mm 
will it yield less each year iintil it be¬ 
comes worthless ? Dealers here say that 
such is the case, but from my experience, 
I do not think they do. What do Rukai. 
readers think.” 
This question of potatoes running' out 
is one we have had occasion to consider 
for 25 years. Our opinion is that any 
plant whatever will ‘ ‘ run out” if abused 
long enough, and that no plant whatever 
will “run out” if given the favorable 
conditions in which it thrives. We know 
of one farmer who has I’aised the Early 
Ohio potato since it was inti-oduced by 
Mr. (Iregory. He has used only selected, 
perfect seed. His crops are larger to-day 
than when he began raising them. If 
we were to set to work to “run out” a 
variety, we would propagate it from 
sprouts forced under glass ; we would 
select ‘ ‘ seed” from the weakest plants 
and those which gave the smallest yield; 
from hills having rotten tubers; from the 
tubers of blighted plants, etc. Home 
years ago, we raised a potato—our own 
seedling—that yielded at the rate of 
1,500 bushels to the acre. There were 
but a few hills. 
Japan plums and enable us to write 
about them from experience. 
Tiik vines of half the plot of Blush 
potatoes were thoroughly dusted with 
Fungiroid June 18, again June 26, and 
finally July 17. This is the dry Bordeaux, 
the process of making which was de¬ 
scribed some months ago. It is as read¬ 
ily applied by the Leggett gun as is 
Buhach or Paris-green and plaster. The 
vines dusted died at the same time as 
those not dusted. There was no blight 
on either. 
Ann of the Japan and vSpanish chest¬ 
nuts, excepting the Paragon, are of in- 
RURALISMS — Continued. 
might well be added “all mineral food” 
as well. “ Manure” is a general and well- 
understood word for all or any plant food. 
But “ phosphate” is not. This has a well- 
defined specific meaning. It means, ac¬ 
cording to Webster, “ a salt formed by a 
combination of phosphoric acid with a 
salifiable base.” Prof. 8. W. Johnson 
says: “ Phosphates are phosphoric acid 
whose hydrogen has been partly or 
wholly replaced by metals.” It is a 
thoroughly definite word—meaning one 
of the chief plant food constituents that 
most soils need. We might just as 
reasonably call fertilizers limes, ammo- 
niates, nitrates or potashes, as to call 
them phosphates. Mr. Rice will admit 
that South Carolina rock is a phosphate, 
that the ash of bone is a phosphate. That 
is precisely what it is. But raw bone is 
not a phosphate, because it contains 
nitrogen as well as phosphoric acid. 
Bone is the proper word for it. Any fer¬ 
tilizer that contains potash, phosphoric 
acid and nitrogen, or any two, may not 
fairly be called a phosphate, and to call 
it so is merely to favor a confusion of 
words that ought to have a definite sig¬ 
nification. Salt enters into most ferti¬ 
lizers. Would Mr. Rice call fertilizers 
“salt?” Sulphuric acid forms a part of 
most fertilizers, a greater part, perhaps, 
than phosphates. Would he call ferti¬ 
lizers “sulphates” as a common, general 
name ? Let us endeavor to simplify the 
study of commercial fertilizers, and 
avoid making a difiicult study unneces¬ 
sarily complicated. 
Pkiis. Campuki.i. sent us October 15 
additional bunches of his Campbell’s 
Early grape. This was to show how 
well the grapes cling to the vines and 
that it may answer for a late as well as 
for an early variety. 
Thk R. N.-Y. ’s opinion of the Columbian 
purple-cap raspberry has been given in 
these columns during two or three years 
past. It is that it closely resembles the 
Shaffer in all ways. That is not the 
opinion of some others. Px*of. S. A. 
Beach found it in 1892, “the most pro¬ 
ductive of all the raspberries fruited on 
the Station Grounds—somewhat darker 
in color than the Shaffer, sweeter and 
better flavored, growth rather more vig¬ 
orous, but somewhat more subject to 
injury by winter than Shaffer.” At the 
Michigan Agricultural College, “it is 
more vigorous and hardy than Shaffer”. . 
J. M. Tuokburn & Co., write us, re¬ 
garding the question whether or not 
potatoes will be weakened by being 
grown under glass by the sprouting sys¬ 
tem, that Mr. Wm. C. Wilson of Astoria, 
grew potatoes for them in this way some 
years ago and “the product was found to 
be weak and feeble to a degree”. 
Mr. E. G. Grinurod, Ellensburgh, 
Wash., has this to say of the R. N.-Y. 
Rugosa hybrid : 
“ I am very much pleased with the 
Carman rose sent by you last fall. It 
has made a good growth and commenced 
to bloom the early part of August, and cherries, 
has continued in bloom most of the time peaches, and before apples 
since. The buds are borne, always, 
three in a cluster and blossom one at a reaching nearly to the flower, 
time, followed in a few days by another, 
so that by the time the first bloom is crimson. The petals, when ex¬ 
falling the second is opening, followed Ponded, are a rosy-purple, and the flower 
at about the same interval by the third. illustra- 
The color is-well, not pink, as one of ^rations. Figs. 185 and 186, were taken 
your subscribers reported. Its fragrance J^^ne 1, before the nuts were ripe. The 
is delightful ” shell is hard and corrugated. Prof. Budd 
thinks that something valuable might 
The color may best be described by result from crossing this very hardy 
saying that it is the color of Jacqueminot almond with the tall-growing, 
a purplish crimson, as nearly as we more tender varieties. The bushes are 
can describe it. We would again remind about three feet high. 
our friends that the fine foliage of this 
rose does not fully show itself until the Potatoes Running Out. —Mr. J. P. 
second or third season after transplant- Bartles, of Flemington, N. J., asks the 
ing. .. following questions : 
‘ ‘ Do potatoes run out ? That is, if 
Wm. Parry, Parry, N. J., kindly sends well-ripened seed, such as one would buy 
us a tree each of Burbank, Satsuma and of a seedsman, of the same variety be 
Willard for trial. We have ordered continuously planted on the same farm 
others to complete our collection of year after year for a number of years, 
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yield was comparatively light. The best 
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There were so many small potatoes, and 
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died prematurely, and the crop was half 
The Paragon itself is less nutty decayed, worm-eaten and scabby. This, 
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