RURAUSMS—Continued. 
of the flesh is about that of Cuban Queen, 
but the flesh is more tender—less stringy. 
Seeds black. The white flesh between 
the red and the rind is not more than a 
half-inch. One melon weighed 33% 
pounds. The vines were strong-grow¬ 
ing and very productive. 
Seminole and Homerus failed. 
Now, good friends, this is the best 
melon report we can make. Does it 
teach you anything ? We fear not. 
Until the past season, we have not 
learned much, except in a negative way, 
about melon culture. We experimented 
with flat “hills” and raised hills, and 
with fertilizers in small and large 
amounts, but the vines were rarely 
vigorous, the melons under size and com¬ 
paratively few. Last spring we selected 
a rather sandy plot. A rank growth of 
grass and weeds was plowed under and 
holes dug about two feet in diameter by 
about eight inches deep. These were 
half filled with old stable manure, which 
was then mixed with soil and the holes 
filled and formed so that the surface made 
a little dishing or concave, was a couple 
of inches higher than the soil about 
them. We have never seen a thriftier 
growth of vine, never raised so many 
melons to the vine, or of larger size. 
The Queen Charlotte canna that many 
of the catalogues announce as “the finest 
flower novelty of the year,” it may be 
remembered, was described and illus¬ 
trated in the catalogue number of 1894. 
It is surely a splendid canna. Those of 
• our readers who have not tried the best 
of the recently introduced cannas, should 
do so. As bedding plants, whether for 
wealth of flower or foliage, there are no 
other plants more thoroughly enjoyable. 
Peter Henderson & Co. inform us 
that another fine variety of canna, which 
we have not tried, is Golden Wings or 
the Butterfly canna, because the mark¬ 
ings of brownish-crimson and orauge- 
scarlet on a yellow ground are very sug¬ 
gestive of a butterfly. This gi*ows, as 
(does Charlotte, to a height of about four 
feet (we should always bear in mind the 
height of cannas so that we may place 
them accordingly) and sharply contrast- 
ng to it, makes a most fitting com¬ 
panion. 
Another very valuable plant which 
will be widely introduced this year, is 
the new Double Rose-colored Lychnis 
(Lychnis Flos Cuculi plenissiina semper 
florens). It has so many excellent quali¬ 
ties that it must become popular. The 
beauty of its rose-colored flowers is en¬ 
hanced by the profusion in which they 
are produced, and the graceful way in 
which they are poised on slender stems, 
adapts them for vases of flowers, bou¬ 
quets, etc. A vase of these alone with¬ 
out any addition of leaves or garnishing 
of any kind, is beautiful in itself. It is 
perfectly hardy, and so will live out all 
winter in the open ground; but if brought 
inside in the fall, it can be brought into 
bloom in four weeks in a moderate tem¬ 
perature . 
Spurry". —A friend, L. H. Read, of 
Waupaca, Wis., writes us that “Giant 
Spurry was brought out last spring with 
a great whoop, and many farmers in this 
State bought it only to find it one of the 
most worthless of weeds, and of no value 
whatever. It is precisely the same as 
the common Spurry advertised by seeds¬ 
men. The best thing any farmer can do 
is to let it alone. I visited several fields 
of it the past season, and in no place did 
I see it over 16 inches high, and most of 
it not over six inches high. Animals do 
not care for it.’ 
We are always thankful for informa¬ 
tion of this kind, even though the plant 
condemned has certain merits, because it 
leads to caution on the part of our read¬ 
ers, and to a better understanding of 
just what it is good for. The only infor¬ 
mation we have regarding Spurry is 
what comes to us from the stations. It is 
an annual which prefers sandy soil. On 
the jack pine plains of Michigan, it has 
proved valuable [Michigan bulletin 68]. 
At the Maine Station, it bloomed two 
months after sowing, and made a growth 
of 15 inches. It produces a great quan¬ 
tity of seed, and is difficult to get rid of 
At the Oregon Station, the yield was 
20 tons to the acre of green forage. At 
the Louisiana Station, the growth was 
only 10 to 12 inches. The Pennsylvania 
Station secured 3,403 pounds of dry hay 
per acre. The Station adds: “It is readily 
eaten by cattle.”. 
It appears that the new Logan rasp¬ 
berry-blackberry, illustrated in our cata¬ 
logue number, is merely a supposed 
hybrid discovered by Judge Logan, of 
Santa Cruz, Cal. The flavor is said to 
be partly that of one, partly of the other 
of its supposed parents. The berries 
are said to be even larger than the black¬ 
berry. The Red Antwerp is supposed 
to be one of the parents. If so, we need 
hardly hope that the Logan will prove 
to be very hardy. It is one of those 
novelties that it were more judicious to 
try a plant or so of than a hundred or 
more. 
In so far as the writer is informed, 
The R. N.-Y. was the first publication 
to advocate the use of bone and potash 
for hardy fruits, large and small, and 
we have advocated it for 15 years. Bone 
(raw bone) and potash, whether in the 
form of ashes or muriate, will give to 
fruits all the food they need that the 
soil does not freely supply. We consider 
that nitrogen supplied in soluble forms, 
is a waste of money. The nitrogen of 
bone is slowly soluble, and we may make 
it available by an earlier or later appli¬ 
cation. Experiments by fruit growers 
and experiment stations have shown 
during more recent years, that our 
advocacy of bone and potash for fruit 
plants, has been no mistake. 
Again we may allude to the new Alice 
grape which we have had on trial since 
the spring of 1887. A box was received 
from the originator February 16. Mr. 
Gunn says: “If this grape is carefully 
gathered, so as not to break or bruise 
the berries or stems, and kept in a cool, 
dry place, I see no reason why it should 
not keep indefinitely, and finally raisin 
instead of rotting.” The grapes were 
received in perfect order; the berries 
cling to the stems as well as when picked 
in October. In quality, they are free 
from all foxiness, sweet, without acidity 
about the seeds, which are few. The 
toughness of the skin is the one charac¬ 
teristic which preserves them so well, 
and gives to the Alice its chief value. 
The clusters are small, but the berries 
are crowded and held firmly to the stems 
until the last. Mr. Fred. E. Young, of 
Rochester, N. Y., controls the Alice, 
and will offer it for sale next fall. 
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