THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURAUSMS — Continued. 
his Double white, though older than the 
Red, has never fruited. We have never 
heard that the Double white bears fruit. 
The flowers are so double that they have 
neither stamens nor pistils. That it 
does not fruit makes the tree in our 
opinion the best of the horsechestnuts 
for the lawn. 
About three years ago W. Atlee Bur¬ 
pee & Co., introduced the New Black 
Lima. It was at once tried at the Rural 
Grounds and found to be early and pro- 
liflc. We, however, objected to the color 
of the beans when cooked and found 
them inferior to the later white Limas. 
It was illustrated in The R. N.-Y. of 
February 25, 1893. 
A subscriber, 11. A. Terry, of Crescent, 
Iowa, writes us as follows : “ Some 20 or 
more years ago I grew the Black Lima 
bean that came out as a novelty a year 
or so ago. I bought it from J. M. Thor- 
burn »& Co., as Speckled Lima.” We 
submitted Mr. Terry’s statement to Thor- 
burn & Co., inquiring whether it could 
have been so. The emphatic and laconic 
reply came back, “ Yes.” 
There is some probability, therefore, 
that the enterprising Arm of Burpee & 
Co., were, for the once, mistaken in in¬ 
troducing the Black Lima as a novelty.. 
A Surprise. —Now comes to us a little 
box of chestnuts wh'ch will average—if 
this sample may be taken as the average 
of the tree’s product—nearly as large as 
the Paragon, of quality fully equal to 
any of our American chestnuts if eaten 
with the skins on. We are not told 
whether it is of American or foreign 
origin. It doesn’t matter. Here we have 
a chestnut as large as it is needful the 
nut should grow, of excellent quality. 
That is, we have size and quality com¬ 
bined, and that is just what The Rurau 
has been hoping for—expecting indeed, 
as the result of the chestnut celebration 
The Rural inaugurated years ago. These 
nuts come to us from a stranger, P. 
Emerson, Wyoming, Kent County, Del. 
His nurseries are known as “ The Cam¬ 
den and Wyoming Avenue Nurseries,” 
three miles south of Dover. Mr. Emer¬ 
son writes : “It oT-igin'ated with a Mr. 
Du Pont of Wilmington, Del., who sent 
a sprouted nut to a Mr. Ridgely who 
planted it on his farm near here some 
60 years ago. The tree is of tremendous 
height and other proportions, and still 
very productive. One year it produced 
53^ bushels of nuts which were sold ^’or 
$11 per bushel. The tree is an early and 
annual bearer and makes tremendous 
growth.” Mr. Emerson does not state 
whether this is a native or foreign seed¬ 
ling, or whether he has trees for sale or 
not. But it will prove, undoubtedly, a 
great acquisition and should be intro¬ 
duced as soon as possible. 
It is a great pity that many farmers 
regard the so-called chemical fertilizers 
as something that they cannot under¬ 
stand ; something that needs a knowl¬ 
edge of chemistry, the result of long- 
continued study. Let us put the subject 
in this way : Give up all consideration of 
ammoniates, nitrates, sulphates, muri¬ 
ates, organic nitrogen, tankage, mag¬ 
nesia, iron, complete fertilizers, phos¬ 
phates, ammoniated phosphates, etc., 
etc. We all know what Ixme is ; we all 
know what unleached wood ashes are. 
That is the most that we really need to 
know. These two substances will fur¬ 
nish all the elements for plant growth 
that any of the “commercial” or “chem¬ 
ical” fertilizers will furnish, not already 
abundantly supplied by most soils. In the 
bone flour and ashes we have every essen¬ 
tial food constituent that the “chemical” 
and “ phosphates” furnish—every one. 
The bone gives us the nitrogen, ammonia, 
phosphate, ammoniated phosphate, tank¬ 
age that our fertilizer firms advertise as 
their Special for peas, beans, cabbages, 
grain, grass, potatoes; as the Acme* 
Swift-sure, A. A. Farmers’ Friend, Stan¬ 
dard, Royal, Climax, Alkaline bon,e 
Eclipse, Sure ■Crop,’^and so on without 
end. Not only that, but we have the 
plant food in the very best form. There 
is no potash more acceptable to plants 
than that of unleached wood ashes ; no 
phosphate or nitrogen more acceptable 
than those of raw bone flour. Here we 
have the three, the “complete” fertilizer, 
better or more effective than which no 
fertilizer Arm can possibly furnish. 
Divested of all technical terms, herein 
we have the whole story. Other sub¬ 
stances contain the potash of wood 
ashes ; other substances contain the 
phosphoric acid and nitrogen of bone, 
but there is no substance that contains 
these elements in a form more acceptable 
to plants. Bone dissolved in sulphuric 
acid (superphosphate) will give the plants 
phosphate at mice; nitrate of soda or 
sulphate of ammonia will give them 
nitrogen sooner than will the bone. It 
is merely a question of solubility. Pot¬ 
ash may be cheaper in the form of muri¬ 
ate of potash—but no other fertilizer 
will give plants the foods they need in a 
more palatable form than will unleached 
ashes and bone. Bearing this in mind, 
our friends would find the perplexities 
with which “chemical” fertilizing and 
fertilizers are needlessly enveloped, a 
comparatively simple matter. Remember 
this: potash and bone will give plants all’ 
that the best proprietary fertilizers can 
give. 
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