THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2 
144 
Mr. E. T. Ingram, the introducer of 
the Brandywine strawberry, has this to 
say: “On Tiik It. N.-Y.’s recommenda¬ 
tion, we tried Nott’s Excelsior pea and 
desire to thank it for telling of so great 
a prize ; no support, but plenty of peas 
of the tirst quality.”. 
From one peck of Carman No. 1 pota¬ 
toes, Mr. Ingram raised bushels of 
fine tubers, “clear of scab, by The R. 
N.-Y.’s Trench System.” lie adds : 
The R. N.-Y. is responsible for another experi¬ 
ment, that of sowing Crimson clover in the grow¬ 
ing corn, four acres and an acre of strawberries 
plowed down the last of July. On some of the 
strawberry ground iheclovcr was a foot high and 
thick enough to smother the lower leaves. The 
corn had three stalks in a hill, four feet apart 
each way, and some of the stalk growth was very 
large; yet the clover was largest where the corn 
growth was heaviest. The clover looks nearly as 
fresh now (January 18) as when the ground first 
froze in the fall. I hope to have a tale to tell of 
this five acres when the potatoes are dug from 
them next fall... 
Not all the reports as to the Timbrell 
strawberry that The 11. N.-Y. has praised 
most unqualifiedly from its own trials, 
are favorable. A late strawberry bulletin 
from the New York Experiment Station 
says: “Plants only moderately produc¬ 
tive ; fruit rounded, sometimes irregular, 
medium to large, crimson, Julr to good 
quality, soft .” It is difficult to believe 
that the real Timbrell at Geneva is a 
fruit so different from what it has been 
at the Rural Grounds. The plants are 
unusually productive; the berries are 
not “rounded” but angular, without 
being irregular, as is the Sharpless or 
Enhance. The color is always mottled, 
and of this no mention is made in the 
Geneva report. The quality instead of 
being “ fair to good” is best. The berry, 
too. is solid and firm instead of being 
“soft.” So, too, of the Brandywine, an¬ 
other of The R. N.-Y.’s favorites ; it is 
reported as but “moderately” productive, 
the quality being “ fair” only. This, too, 
is “ soft.” It is one of the most produc¬ 
tive kinds we have ever tried. In quality 
it is excellent, though not best. It is 
firmer than the Sharpless, more produc¬ 
tive, and of better quality. So, it must 
appear, our friends should try these new, 
promising varieties in a trial way. 
That Saghalin, as it ought to be 
called, or Sacaline, as it is called, is 
given a page or more (with an illustra¬ 
tion) in most of the 1895 catalogues, 
cracking it up as one of the most valu¬ 
able fodder plants, both as to yield and 
nutritive qualities, is a good reason why 
we should warn our readers against 
an unguarded faith in this seemingly 
unanimous estimate of its value. As a 
fact, it has not been tried in this coun¬ 
try, in so far as at present appears, in a 
way that would justify any one in speak¬ 
ing authoritatively as to its merits. The 
R. N.-Y. believes it to be so close to 
Polygonum cuspidatum that it is hard, 
at a little distance, to distinguish one 
from the other in leaf, in manner of 
growth or in size of growth. Both start 
up in early spring as does asparagus, 
and these shoots, as with asparagus, 
may be cut separately. The stems in 
midseason get hard and stringy, and we 
do not believe that farm stock would 
care for them. The same may be said 
of the “Mountain Fleece,” Polygonum 
amplexicaule, var. oxyphillum. This has 
been offered as a novelty during re¬ 
cent years. It differs from Cuspidatum 
chiefly in blooming during the fall ; 
the stems do not grow so tall. We 
may say for Polygonum cuspidatum 
that it will grow anywhere, having 
had an experience of ”0 years with 
it. It will grow in moist or dry 
soil, in clay or sand, in high or low 
ground, and it will grow " like a weed.” 
Whether an analysis would show it to be 
as nutritious as Saghalin, we can not 
say. But the plants look and grow so 
alike that one would be willing to wager 
that the one is as nutritious as the other. 
It seems to the writer of these notes, 
that cither plant may have a special 
value in that it will thrive in both wet 
and dry situations where other fodder 
plants would fail, and for this reason 
we would deem it worthy of trial. 
Here we have just what we want— 
just what we have been begging for, 
viz., a comparison of Saghalin and the 
old Polygonum cuspidatum. Wherein is 
the new forage plant superior to the old 
Cuspidatum, which has been growing 
like the rankest weed at the Rural 
Grounds for 20 years? Dr. Van Fleet 
tells us, and he writes from actual expe¬ 
rience. The shoots of Saghalin. it is 
claimed in many of the catalogues boom¬ 
ing the novelty, are as toothsome and 
tender as those of asparagus. Dr. Van 
Fleet does not think so. Here is his 
letter : 
Editor Ruralisms : 
Having had some opportunity to compare 
Saghalin (Polygonum saghalinense) with P. cus¬ 
pidatum during the past summer, I can easily 
imagine the former to have much the greater 
prospective value as a forage plant. The growth 
of Saghalin is many times stronger than Cuspida¬ 
tum, during the first year at least; the foliage is 
broad, and the young stems succulent. Cuspida¬ 
tum, on the other hand, is somewhat slender and 
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