1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
363 
RURAUSMS—Continued. 
ever. That cattle and horses may be 
“educated” to relish this plant, is well- 
known. That the leaves and stems are 
nutritious is also well-known. The 
plants will thrive anywhere in so far as 
we may judge from an experience of 20 
years. Were we to bid for the control 
of Prickly Comfrey and the new Saghalin, 
we would pay more for the former than 
the latter. The variegated Prickly Com¬ 
frey is very decidedly yellow and green 
— mostly yellow — and is not to be 
despised as an ornamental plant for 
mixed herbaceous borders or even as 
isolated specimens. It is just as hardy, 
though somewhat less vigorous, than the 
solid green Prickly Comfrey. 
We regret to say that our first plant of 
the new Japan Mayberry, purchased 
of J. L. Childs last spring, was killed to 
the ground, though carefully mulched. 
This is the first report that has appeared 
as to its hardiness in the East. Possibly 
older plants will prove hardier. As it 
blooms and fruits so early in the season, 
unless its canes, which are perennial, 
prove quite hardy it will be worthless.. 
Our respected friend, Prof. J. L. Budd 
of the Iowa Station, describes his way of 
treating the pits of the stone fruits so as 
to insure early sprouting and a full 
stand. First the pits are washed and 
thoroughly cleaned, and mixed with 
eight times their bulk of sand, and put 
away in the cellar until the advent of 
cold weather. The sand is then wet 
thoroughly and the boxes are buried 
just below the surface outside where the 
whole mass will freeze solidly. In the 
spring he drills in the sand and seed 
together. With this treatment and very 
early planting, he always gets a full 
stand of plants. From experiments 
made, Prof. Budd finds that pits of the 
cherry, plum, etc., when thoroughly dry, 
will not sprout the Urst season, but if 
soaked for a week, frozen and planted in 
early spring, they will germinate vigor¬ 
ously the second spring. He often plants 
the pits when only two inches of the 
surface of the fall plowing is thawed out. 
The first little mess of asparagus was 
gathered (broken) May 2, this year, as 
compared with April 23 last year. We 
are ready to assert positively—as we 
have intimated in past years—that there 
is no difference as to the earliness of the 
different kinds. Neither is there any 
difference as to the tenderness or qual¬ 
ity. The new Columbian shoots, as we 
have previously twice reported, are more 
nearly white than those of any other 
so-called variety. The color is just about 
that of the seeds of the first early peas. 
Up to May 4, we had planted (in trial 
quantities) 79 kinds of potatoes sent us 
by correspondents, and ordered from 
various dealers. Now comes the usual 
trouble, more serious this year than 
ever before. In order to give new kinds 
of potatoes an even chance, the condi¬ 
tions must, of course, be as nearly even 
as possible. It is of the first importance 
that all should be planted the same day. 
Since planting the 79 kinds, we have 
received from correspondents and deal¬ 
ers not less than 20 additional varieties, 
with the usual request that we “give 
them a fair trial and report.” We dis¬ 
like to disappoint those who would help 
to make the old Rural Experiment 
Grounds helpful to our readers, but it 
will appear that unless we can make Uie 
conditions of the trial as nearly equal as 
possible, there is no use in making the 
trial at all. 
Again, we have never received so 
many plants and seeds of all kinds for 
trial as during the present spring. We 
can not do all of them justice as we 
would gladly do, were the planting sea¬ 
son longer, and had we more assistance. 
The best that we can do is to select for 
trial those which seem to be of most im¬ 
portance, and throw the rest aside. 
One of the most annoying things that 
occur to us, is that so many plants 
(strawberries and raspberries, for in¬ 
stance) are sent that we can not place 
with the explanatory letters that should 
accompany them. We have received 
certainly not less than a dozen different 
kinds of strawberries alone, without 
any means of knowing whence or from 
whom they came. It is natural enough 
that those sending them should reproach 
us as being indifferent or neglectful. ... 
One day last week, we potted 125 
different plants of our tomato hybrids 
and crosses. There is more work in this 
little job than might appear to the un¬ 
thinking reader. Each pot must be 
numbered to correspond to the same 
number in our record book. 
The Crimson clover seed sown upon 
our two-acre field, was grown in France. 
Thorburn & Co. believe this seed to be 
hardier than that grown in Virginia.... 
Have any of our friends specific in¬ 
formation as to the relative hardiness of 
Crimson clover seed grown in different 
climates ?. 
The interest which city folk take 
in plants is greater than many country 
folk give them credit for. We have just 
(May 0) been looking out of our city 
home back window, counting 50 “back 
yards,” all of them about 18x50 feet in 
size. Every one has a grass plot, most 
of them in fine order. All but six have 
plants set in the narrow borders about 
the central grass plots—roses, spiraeas, 
mock oranges, lilacs, barberries, pelar¬ 
goniums, palms, etc., while many of the 
fences are more or less covered with 
honeysuckles, wistarias, ampelopsis or 
other vines. 
Our friend J. W. Kerr, Denton, Md., 
sends a blooming branch of a double¬ 
flowering white plum of the Americana 
group, doubtless the only double-flower¬ 
ing Americana in existence.. The tree 
is dwarfish, branchy and of good form, 
blooming with him April 27. The 
flowers being perfectly “ double ” are, 
of course, sterile. It must prove a valu¬ 
able addition to our early blooming 
hardy shrubs. 
Hardiness of the Rose, Crimson 
Rambler. —Ellwanger and Barry send 
us the following note from one of their 
customers: 
It may interest you to know that the small 
plants (2J4-inch pots) I got from you last fall, 
have stood the severe winter and are making a 
nice growth. I planted them out in the open 
border, without any mulching or care of any 
sort. The thermometer has been as low as six 
degrees below zero, and with the alternate freez¬ 
ing and thawing, it shows well for the hardiness 
of Crimson Rambler. 
Magnolia stellata —the bush mag¬ 
nolia—is always the first of the mag¬ 
nolias to bloom at the Rural Grounds. 
As showing the backwardness of the sea¬ 
son, it may be said that the first bloom 
did not appear until April 19. 
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New York. 
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Pittsburgh. 
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New York. 
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Buffalo. 
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Pittsburgh. 
ECKSTEIN, 
Cincinnati. 
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Pittsburgh. 
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New York. 
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Philadelphia. 
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Cleveland. 
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St. Louis. 
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SALEM, 
Salem, Mass. 
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Chicago. 
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St. Louis and Chicago. 
ULSTER, 
New York. 
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