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and has there grown luxuriantly. It is 
six feet in height and ten in diameter, 
being nearly as broad at the top as at the 
base, while the top is so wavy and level 
as to invite one to lie upon it as upon a 
mattress. No other tree in the Rural 
Grounds is more admired and, indeed, it 
may be doubted if there is a more sym¬ 
metrical specimen anywhere to be found. 
■Mr. S. H. Parsons has a specimen in his 
home grounds (Flashing, N. Y.) that is 
2 () years old, being one of the first to be 
grafted and grown after its discovery in 
the grounds of W. II. Sargent (FLshkill, 
N. Y.) in 18()1. This specimen is about 
II feet high and 13 in diameter at the 
base. In marked contrast with the grace¬ 
ful fountain-like Weeping hemlock is the 
Weeping Norway Spruce, which is 
as remarkable for its irregular, lawless, 
erratic growth among evergreens as the 
Weeping beech among deciduous trees. 
As a striking example of coarseness, 
rigidity and deformity, this tree may be 
permitted to .stand at the head of coni¬ 
fers, and yet a single specimen is desir¬ 
able for the very faults which would 
render its employment in numbers pain¬ 
fully objectionable. 
Nordmann’s Fir. —A little specimen of 
this splendid fir was planted 1(5 years 
ago. It is now 10 feet high, luxuriant in 
foliage from the ground to the very tip, 
without a sign of having sustained in¬ 
jury from any cau.se whatever. It is 
said to be hardy in Rochester, and may 
endure still more trying climates. The 
leaves are from 1 to 1% inch in length, 
broader than those of the Ralsam Fir 
ji-ibe, of a dark, very glossy green on the 
upper surface, while the under surface 
is, like the blue spruce, covered with a 
light bloom which botanists call glau¬ 
cous. Our actual experience with this 
noble tree is confined to this one speci¬ 
men, and if judged by that we should 
pronounce it for this soil and climate the 
queen of the fir family, Abies (Picea) 
Concolor, with which our experience is 
confined to a dozen Colorado seedlings 
planted five years ago, may prove to be 
hardier, of faster growth and in other 
ways more desirable. A lifetime is re¬ 
quired to judge with a becoming posi¬ 
tiveness the comparative merits of the 
Nordmann’s Fir from the Adshar and 
Crimean Mountains and our own Con- 
color, as they may deport themselves in 
middle and older age in the Middle and 
Eastern States. Rut sure it is, that, were 
we striving to plant our home grounds 
with the choicest of evergreen trees, we 
should not omit either the Nordmann or 
the Concolor. 
The Oriental spruce growing in our 
experiment grounds was planted there 
14 years ago. It is now about 12 feet 
high and six feet in diameter at the 
ground. It has never been injured by 
insects, heat, cold or drought. Those 
who have not made a study of trees 
might easily take it to be a Norway 
spruce, but an examination shows dis¬ 
tinctive parts and a beauty all its own. 
Its dark green masses of foliage break 
into irregular growths and there is little 
of the separated layers of horizontal 
branches seen in the Norway. The 
thickly clothed branches near the base 
are here and there pendulous, while 
again they extend out beyond a sym- 
me\rical, forming bays and making the 
light and shadow well defined. 
The Oriental spruce Abies (Picea) ori- 
entalis, is a native of the region about the 
Black Sea and is said to grow to a height 
of 75 feet. It will be seen that our 
specimen is of rather slow growth. Nor- 
ways set out at the same time are at 
least one-third taller. 
We shall speak of other choice ever¬ 
greens next week. 
The Miller Red raspberry is a new va¬ 
riety, introduced by Slaymaker & Son, 
Dover, Del. It has been fruited in the 
vicinity of Dover for some 10 years, con¬ 
trolled by a few growers who saw more 
profit in marketing the fruit than in sell¬ 
ing plants. The claims made for the Mil¬ 
ler Red are (1) that it ripens with the 
earliest ; (3) that the plants equal any 
other variety in productiveness ; (3) that 
it has no equal as a shipper ; (4) that the 
variety is perfectly hardy ; (5) that the 
quality of the berries is unsurpassed ; 
(6) that the color is bright; (7) that the 
berry is as large as Cuthbert, holding its 
size to the end of the season, round in 
shape and, last, that it holds its bright 
red color after shipment longer than any 
other variety. These are sweeping 
claims, the soundness of which 35 plants, 
sent to the Rural Grounds, may enable 
us to verify in due time. 
“ On pagre 776,” writes Mr. H. O. Mead, “ under 
the heading, ‘Some Truths About Japan Plums,’ I 
think you are in error when you say that they do 
not bear on last season’s wood the same as the 
peach. I send you samples of both Satsuma and 
Burbank growth of this season. If you fail to 
find any buds, put in shallow water in a warm 
room, and report results. L.ast season, you pub¬ 
lished an article of mine which referred to two 
buds of Burbank set in a peach, showing the dif¬ 
ference of growth of each. Those buds grew about 
six feet during the season of 1893, were cut back 
to about three feet, and were white with blos¬ 
soms last spring. I also set and grew a number 
of plums this season, with only dormant buds to 
start from in the spring of 1893. To those living 
where the cold goes to 20 degrees or below, I 
would advise caution in setting the Burbank. Sat¬ 
suma will stand a number of degrees colder than 
Burbank, and is very easily affected with the 
black knot, and is also damaged by the curculio 
more easily than Burbank; but its keeping quali¬ 
ties and lateness are very much in its favor.” 
We are thankful for such notes of ex¬ 
perience. We do not know enough of the 
Japan plums. Every reader, who writes 
from his own experience, helps every 
other reader. The R. N.-Y. wants to 
help all. Our friend is wrong as to what 
we said as to the age of the bearing wood 
of the plum. What we did say was that 
“the plum produces its fruit on the 
small spurs formed on the sides and upon 
the very ends of branches of from rme 
to three years’ growth.” 
Among the muskmelons not tried be¬ 
fore, grown the past season at the Rural 
Grounds were: Anne Arundel, Cosmo¬ 
politan, Large Black Paris, Long Island 
Beauty, Irondequoit, Bay View and 
Beck’s Columbus. At pre.seut, we want 
to speak of the Large Black Paris. The 
seed came from D. Landreth & Sons, of 
Philadelphia, Pa. Their catalogue de¬ 
scribes it ask “a show melon, so large and 
distinct is it . . . and yet it possesses 
qualities of the first order. It weighs 
from 10 to 15 pounds. Flesh deep orange 
and excellent in flavor.” 
The largest Hackensack gi*own last 
season in the neighborhood of the Rural 
Grounds, famous for this variety,weighed 
pounds. The largest Black Paris 
raised at the Rural Grounds weighed 14 
pounds, and there were many that 
weighed nearly as much. There were 
no small melons. The lobes or ribs (nine 
in number) are more prominent than 
those of any other kind we have ever 
tried; that is the “seams” between the 
divisions or lobes are deeper. The larg¬ 
est wei*e about 13 inches long and 10 
inches through the short diameter, or 
two feet six inches in the short circum¬ 
ference and about three feet in the long 
circumference. In quality these immense 
muskmelons, or cantaloupes, were a sur¬ 
prise. The quality was fully as good as 
that of the Ilaekensack, the flesh being 
tender almost to the rind. The flesh is 
light green near the rind, growing yel¬ 
lowish towards the inner surface. One 
vine bore 10 of these immense fruits. 
Being a surprise to us in that we had 
raised nothing to approach it in size dur¬ 
ing all our years of muskmelon trial, \ve 
wrote the Landreths for further informa¬ 
tion. The reply follows : 
The Large Black Paris cantaloupe we have been 
selling for about 20 years. But upon its merits it 
has never become very popniar, being too big for 
market gardeners to handie. If, like the sensa¬ 
tional seedsmen, we should devote a page t() it in 
our catalogue claiming for it merits beyond what 
it possesses, no doubt we could make it a go. 
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gooseberries will ever prove a permanent 
success south of Canada and New Eng¬ 
land. There will be occasional excep¬ 
tions where a, plant is growing in a cool 
city yard, or in some other favorite lo¬ 
cality, but the rule will be against suc¬ 
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