79b 
though offered at $5 each last spring, they are 
now, in Mr. Childs’s fall catalogue, offered at a 
great reduction, viz., $1 each, or four for $3. Noth¬ 
ing is said as to how this new berry is propagated. 
I suppose by suckers or i-oot cuttings. 
Ye.s, judging from the habit of our own 
plant, it will best be propagated by 
suckers or root cuttings, the same as the 
ordinary red raspberry is propagated. 
Mr. Gregory continues : 
Do you know anything of the “Oregon Ever¬ 
green blackberry,” offered for sale at 50 and 60 
cents each by a nurseryman in Ohio, and by an¬ 
other in Bucks County, Pa. ? One testimonial 
given as to its productiveness, contains this mod¬ 
est (?) statement; “From one plant this year, I 
grew fully five bushels of fine berries.” This won¬ 
der of wonders is represented as growing to from 
18 to 25 feet in length, and as being everbearing as 
well as evergreen. The same Pennsylvania nur¬ 
seryman has been offering for, I think, two or 
three years past, an enormous tree gooseberry, 
from Utah. Have you ever seen it growing ? The 
Ohio nurseryman, this year, offers another won¬ 
der that would, one would think, far outdo all the 
rest. It is catalogtied as the “ DeWitt Seedling 
Tree currant,” a native of Dakota. It is described 
as being a i)erfect tree, loaded with splendid 
amber-colored fruit, “as large as Concord grapes, 
and as uniform in size,” the trees attaining, in 
three or four years, the height of eight to nine 
feet. 
Yes, we kuow, or think we know, all 
about this Everbearing, Evergreen” 
blackberry. We have had it for upwards 
of 20 years. The vines are killed to the 
ground—or nearly so—every winter. 
Therefore it is not “ evergreen” at the 
Rural Grounds. The vines, as claimed, 
make an immense growth yearly, and in 
climates where they are hardy the plant 
produces an immense quantity of fruit. 
There is no doubt about it. Naturally 
the vines are trailing. Rut they may 
be trained, the same as a grape vine, to 
cover arbors, the sides of houses, or any 
other upright object. The leaves are 
pretty, being much lobed and divided. 
The stems are beset with many short, 
sharp thorns. They are not ‘‘everbearing” 
any more than the ordinary blackberry 
is everbearing. The berries are under¬ 
size, not so good as the ordinary black¬ 
berry, but still of fair quality—sweet 
and enjoyable. Where it proves hardy, 
we would have a vine or so for its fruit 
as well as for ornament. J udging it in 
its entirety, we would value it as more of 
an ornament, than for its fruit. It is a 
European blackberry, known botanic- 
ally as Rubus fruticosus. Some cata¬ 
logues have it as R. laciniatus. It is 
sometimes called the Parsley or Cut¬ 
leaved blackberry. 
The Utah Tree gooseberry we have 
found no more a “tree” gooseberry than 
any other. This is a matter of pruning 
or grafting. We may graft the goose¬ 
berry on stems of the Missouri currant 
five feet high, removing all sprouts of 
the currant, and keeping a head of the 
goo.seberry which may be supported by 
a stake. The berry of the Utah is small 
and the variety has no particular merit. 
The DeWitt seedling Tree currant is 
probably the Missouri, Ribes aureum, or 
a seedling of it. This is of little value, 
for its fruit which, though about the 
size of a Delaware grape, is too acid and 
slightly bitter. 
Here is an abstract from the Platts- 
burg (N. Y.) Advocate : 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 is the name of a new 
and popular brand of potato, and many have 
been grown in this locality, probably more than 
will be another year. The buyers purchase them 
reluctantly if at all, as so many of them g^row 
large, but are like a pumpkin, hollow on the 
inside. 
A friend, quoting the above, says that he 
raised 25 bushels the past year, and in¬ 
tended to plant them next year, but, he 
adds, “If the Advocate’s estimate is cor¬ 
rect, I would better plant some other 
kind.” 
We have reason to believe that the R. 
N.-Y. No. 2 is variable as to quality. At 
the Rural Grounds, the quality was all 
that could be desired in dry seasons, but 
in wet seasons, it was rather heavy and 
soggy. Our friend should have observed 
from the many reports that have ap¬ 
peared in our columns, that some pro- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
nounce it of the very first quality, others 
as inferior. Now that is about all the 
light we can throw upon the question. 
As to its being hollow hearted, we know 
nothing whatever. All potatoes that 
grow to a lax‘ge size are liable to this de 
feet. The remedy is to plant larger 
pieces closer together. 
Mr. W. R. Fueton, of Kirkwood, 
kShelby County, O., says: “Don’t you 
think you are recommending the .lapan 
plums too highly ? Although I have 
good sized trees (six kinds), I never have 
seen a fruit. Last year peaches bore a 
good crop ; plums were all killed ; this 
year no peaches, no plums.” 
No, we do not, Mr. Fulton, think that 
we are recommending the Japan pluths 
too highly — at least those we hiwe 
praised. We do not think we have 
praised them half enough. Rut we want 
our friends to understand our position. 
We, from (Wtiuil trial, know nothing about 
the Japan plums except the Abundance 
(Rurbank’s Sweet Rotan). This for three 
years in succession, has given us, the 
first year, a few plums and the second 
and thii’d year nearly three bushels each. 
Old files of The R. N.-Y. will tell the 
story of our utter failure to get fruit 
from any of perhaps 15 or 20 different 
kinds which were introduced as curculio- 
proof. True, we might have jarred the 
trees, destroyed the small Turk, and 
thus secured crops. Rut our object was 
purely experimental in growing these 
trees. We wanted to know whether they 
were curculio-proof. When we ordered 
the Abundance, we had little, if any, 
faith that the plums would mature. The 
early bearing of the tree was the first 
surprise, the maturity of an unusual 
crop—twice aS much as the tree ought to 
have been allowed to mature—was the 
second. The Abundance was tried simply 
as one of hundreds of experiments that 
we had no faith in. Rut it has proved— 
what we delight to prove—that the 
hundredth experiment pays us for the 
ninety-nine failures. It is an early and 
an abundant bearer ; the plums are of 
good size and of fair quality. Although 
every plum has borne the crescent mark 
of the curculio, not one seems to have 
rotted and dropped from the injury so 
sustained. These are the facts. We 
have given them to our readers. We do 
not say, or intimate, that the Abund¬ 
ance will behave for others as for us. 
Causes, unknown to us, may have oper¬ 
ated to permit this one tree to mature 
two immense crops of plums. Possibly 
other varieties would have done as well 
—the tried and rejected varieties. Pos¬ 
sibly a longer trial will reveal the fact 
that the two years of its abundant fruit¬ 
ing gave climatic immunities from dis¬ 
abilities rather than proving any special 
disability-proof virtues. We merely state 
the facts. Now we have received many 
reports from different States that the 
Abundance has been just as fruitful and 
has, to the same extent, resisted the cur¬ 
culio as at the Rural Grounds. So, too, 
we hear that the Satsuma Rlood, the 
Rurbank, the Willetts, the Rotan, not to 
mention the “ J” and Wickson—not yet 
introduced—-will, as thoroughly as the 
Abundance, I’esist the curculio, and give 
us plums from July to fi-ost. We have 
told our readers what othcr.s say as to 
these varieties. Now they have been 
selected for trial in our experiment 
grounds, which in a year or so will 
enable us to talk to our readers from ex¬ 
perience, as now we speak of the Abund¬ 
ance from experience. That the Abund¬ 
ance should have failed to bear fruit 
with our friend, is not for us to explain. 
It is the Jimt instance of such failure of 
which we have heard. If other friends 
have had a similar experience, we would 
be only too glad to guard our readers 
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