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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 13 
Mk. T. C. Wheatj.,EY of Blackwell, 
Ontario, Canada, favors us with the fol¬ 
lowing-information regarding the Elli¬ 
ot’s pear : “ It is undoubtedly (at least 
for the amateur) the best early pear 
in existence ; but unfortunately, here 
orioles destroy it so completely that we 
are deterred from growing it. Mr. 
Dougal told me some years ago, that 
that was his invariable experience, and 
it is mine after a trial of 15 years.” 
Eliot’s (as Mr. Dougal gave us the name) 
Early is the earliest and for the earliest, 
the best pear of which we know. 
The new and greatly advertised canna, 
Queen Charlotte, was sent to us by II. A. 
Dreer of Philadelphia, and the Storrs & 
Harrison Co., of Painesville, 0. The 
plants were checked in growth, and the 
leaves harmed by frost about a week 
after they were planted—June 1. The 
first blooms appeared June 23. We guess 
that the flower is just as showy as our 
seedsmen and florists represented it to 
be. The one plant in bloom June 23 
was but 18 inches high. The ground of 
the petals is a pure lemon yellow with a 
broad band or tongue of blood-red color 
—something between scarlet and crim¬ 
son. The petal is about equally shared 
by these two colors. The contrast is as 
decided and brilliant as it can be. A 
peculiarity we note is this : When the 
flower is past its best, the lemon margin 
fades to a creamy-white color, while the 
red becomes intensely crimson. The 
leaves are light green. We shall speak 
again of this splendid canna later in the 
season, when we shall have had a chance 
to note its vigor, habit, size of raceme, 
etc. 
Mr. Jas. Pennell visited Mr. E. T. 
Ingram’s farm June 18. He saw about 
four acres of the new Brandywine straw¬ 
berry. The foliage Mr. Pennell describes 
as the finest he ever saw, though the 
plants had evidently received good cul¬ 
ture. They were “ loaded with fruit of 
large size and fine appearance.” Among 
many seedling varieties raised by Mr. 
Ingram, Mr. Pennell regarded Glen Mary 
as the most promising. We have this in 
seemingly full bearing this season, and 
shall soon make our report. 
A Notable and Striking Character¬ 
istic ok the European Pendulous 
Beech. —The branches of this peculiar 
but grand tree, as our readers have ob¬ 
served, fall almost perpendicularly 
down. In fine specimens, the branches 
fall to the ground and trail upon it as 
if they were large-leaved vines. The 
specimen now before us was planted 20 
years ago. It is close upon 40 feet in 
height, and the diameter of the foliage 
upon the ground is about 25 feet. Layers 
upon layers of branches “ fall ” from a 
height of at least 20 feet, the one upon 
the other until the very trunk is reached. 
The shade from this mass of foliage is so 
dense about the trunk that one can scarce¬ 
ly see to read at midday, yet—herein we 
have the “ notable and striking charac¬ 
teristic ”—the leaves are just as fresh 
about the trunk ; just as dark in color 
as those outside, or as those between 
the trunk and outside. It seems to show 
not only the wonderful vigor of this ec¬ 
centric tree, but a characteristic all its 
own, viz., that of elaborating its chloro- 
phyl, the green of the leaves, as well in 
the dark as in the sunshine. 
The Pendulous beech \vhen not well 
grown, seems merely an abortion, a mon¬ 
strosity, a freak ; and one is likely so to 
judge it while young, whether well 
grown or not, so likely is it in its youth¬ 
ful erratic tendencies, to tie itself up 
into knots, and then to grow on as 
though the knots were a necessary part 
of its growth. Our own specimen lost 
its leader after it had been received from 
the nursery the third year. All that re¬ 
mained was a pendulous bush three feet 
high, every branch growing directly 
downwards. We assumed that a leader 
must come from a new bud to push 
from the top of the tree. Not so ; one 
of the pendulous branches began to 
go up. This was continued year after 
year, until the previously pendulous 
branch became upright, and all growth 
has since proceeded from that. Illustra¬ 
tions of this singular change were given 
in these columns 18 years ago. The tree 
is now as symmetrical in its tortuosity 
as any we have ever seen. It is simply a 
perfect specimen of an eccentric, erratic 
growth, not approached by any other 
tree whatever. Visitors linger over this 
tree longer than any other tree in our 
collection, and the more they think about 
its freakiness, the more they are set to 
thinking. That any branch of a nor¬ 
mally upright tree, as the European 
beech is, should grow directly down¬ 
ward while the leader grows upwards, 
sending out shoots all of which grow 
towards the soil, is itself sufficiently in¬ 
explicable ; but that a branch, after 
growing directly downwards for two or 
three years, should, as is often the case 
with this beech, conclude to grow up¬ 
wards, and then horizontally and again 
downwards, seems to antagonize all the 
laws of tree growth. 
This majestic beech is not one to be 
planted in contracted grounds. It is too 
peculiar, too monumental. It is too much 
like an Egyptian pyramid or Cleopatra's 
Needle — strange and interesting in 
themselves, but possessed of too much 
individuality. The tree needs relief. It 
is intensely interesting and lovable in 
itself, but it must have companions to 
relieve it of its individuality. One speci¬ 
men is enough ; and let that not be in¬ 
terfered with by any other tree. Let it 
stand out as a specimen of weird, freaky, 
picturesque, ungainly, straggling beauty 
—the embodiment of the most healthful 
vigor and erratic habit. And do not 
forget that one of its chiefest charms is 
that it holds its inner foliage fresh and 
green, just as long and as perfectly as 
it does the portions exposed to the full 
air, light and sun. 
Mr. C. M. Taylor of Barboursville, 
Va., writes us that his father raised 
Crimson ciover early in the Seventies 
under the name of German clover. ‘‘Why 
is it,” he asks, “that it has just been in¬ 
troduced North ?” The clover was raised 
near Richmond while in sections 75 miles 
distant “it is almost unknown.”. 
June 21. —Rose bugs are more plenti¬ 
ful this year than they usually are— 
more numerous than ever before, we 
were about to say. A new wrinkle—one 
at least that we observe this season for 
the first—is that they have taken a liking 
to strawberries. About one in every 
four berries picked to-day was injured 
by the chafers—enough in every instance 
to render them unfit for market, and in 
most cases for the home table. The 
grape buds escaped this season, more 
than the average of previous seasons, 
from this irrepressible pest. The way 
we are explaining this is that more than 
ever before a large amount of the food 
they prefer to grape blossoms, was pro¬ 
vided just as the grape buds opened. 
This additional food was in the form of 
roses (crossbred seedlings blooming for 
the first), several new viburnums, the 
blossoms of which were eaten up com¬ 
pletely. Meanwhile the grape blossoms 
set and the little grapes are never 
harmed. The chafer prefers the leaves. 
The New Japan Privet, Iuota. —The 
objection to the so-called California 
privet is that it is not hardy. At the 
Rural Grounds, it is so killed back dur¬ 
ing the cold season, that the flowering 
wood is destroyed, and it never blooms. 
It is valuable, however, for its hand¬ 
some foliage, quick growth, and because 
it will grow close up to houses in the 
driest soil. 
Ibota (Ligustrum), the new Japan 
(Contimied on next page.) 
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
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For prices address the originator, 
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Crimson Clover Seed ™r<5 
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weed seeds. CLARENCE W. HAZEL, 
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PPIM9HN CLOVER SEED.—Home grown; new 
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quantity wanted. R. S. JOHNSTON, Stockley, Del. 
Crimson Clover Seed "S; N ™“ 
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SEED THAT GROWS. 
New crop. American grown. Tested Seed, 
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