1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
475 
RURAUSMS—Continued. 
privet, we have had for three seasons. 
It is now (June 20) in full bloom, and it 
also bloomed last year, going to show 
that it will stand our winters. The 
pure white tubular flowers are borne in 
short, close panicles two inches long. 
These are terminal upon almost every 
lateral stem. These flowering laterals 
are about three inches long, and being 
“opposite,” we have about a dozen pani¬ 
cles to the foot of main branch. The 
individual flowers are half an inch long, 
resembling little white lilacs, and there 
are about 50 to a panicle. The leaves 
are much like those of the California 
privet, only narrower—more elliptical. 
The plant is now about three feet high, 
and as many wide, the branches some¬ 
what pendulous. 
We stopped cutting (breaking) aspara¬ 
gus June 22. In seasons of drought, 
like this, no doubt a bed of asparagus 
may be permanently weakened by cut¬ 
ting the maximum period. The season 
of cutting should, we fancy, be deter¬ 
mined by the rainfall. 
Our last planting of sweet corn was 
made June 25. Usually this is made as 
late as July 5. We read of earlier kinds 
being planted for succession. We want 
a full supply up to the time that the 
best kinds come in, such as Ne Plus 
Ultra (Country Gentleman), Mammoth, 
Zig-zag, Black Mexican, and Stowell’s 
Evergreen. After these, we want only 
the best, since there is no reason for 
planting the earlier and inferior varie¬ 
ties. The earlier kinds are valuable 
simply because they are earlier, and we 
want sweet corn to follow peas closely. 
It is the same with peas. Why plant 
smooth kinds for succession ? The best 
of the wrinkled peas follow the “ first 
earlies” in three days. 
Have you sown any strawberry seeds? 
Or did you forget to save seeds of your 
largest and best berries ?. 
The Michigan Small Fruit (Bulletin 
122) Report says that the Columbian 
raspberry was the latest of their varie¬ 
ties to ripen fruit. “The canes are of 
strong growth, and healthy. The berry 
closely resembles Shaffer, but is firmer 
and of better quality. The bushes were 
productive. A promising variety.” The 
report confirms our report, made two 
years ago, regarding the new raspberry, 
Royal Church, viz., that the berries 
crumble... 
DIRECT. 
- Gardening : “ Four score years. — 
‘ Although four scores have been written 
on the dial of life, love for trees, flowers 
and fruit, knows little abatement. 
‘Thy cordial friend,’ Isaac Hicks. 
“ So writes our esteemed neighbor, the 
veteran nurseryman df Westbury. What 
a pure and beautiful, and deep-seated 
love that is. Aye, and we admire, and 
honor, and love the four-score veterans.” 
“Agnes Emily Carman Rose. — We 
have two nice bushes of it in full bloom, 
and they are distinct and pretty. It is 
a rugosa hybrid, with strong rugosa 
marks as regards foliage and earliness ; 
the blossoms are semi-double, Jacque¬ 
minot crimson and pretty in the bud, 
but not so attractive when open. It 
must be a very hardy rose, for it sur¬ 
vived last winter entirely unprotected, 
and without the least injury so far as we 
can see.” 
Bulletin 120 of the Michigan Sta¬ 
tion: “Terra Cotta tomato.—This unique 
variety is especially valuable for its very 
high quality. It is moderately produc¬ 
tive. It should have a place in the home 
garden.” 
“Lemon Blush.—If one desire a yellow¬ 
skinned variety, no sort would give bet¬ 
ter satisfaction than Lemon Blush.” 
-Dr. T. H. Hoskins in Garden and 
Forest : “ Not until since the return of 
the Budd-Gibb expedition from Russia 
in 1882, did American fruit growers reach 
any adequate appreciation of the pomo- 
logical wealth of that portion of the 
world, and still less did we realize the 
benefits to arise to so large a section of 
northern America from the introduction 
of these fruits to this continent. The 
apple, it is true, is our most important 
tree fruit ; but very clearly is it a boon 
of no small importance that the cold 
North should have added to its posses¬ 
sions the pears, the plums and the cher¬ 
ries of Russia, proving, as they have now 
ARMSTRONG * McKELVT 
Pittsburgh 
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Cincinnati. 
ATLANTIC, 
New York. 
BEYMER-BAUMAN, 
Pittsburgh. 
BRADLEY, 
New York. 
BROOKLYN, 
New York. 
COLLIER, 
St. Louis. 
CORNELL, 
Buffalo. 
DAVIS-CHAMBER8, 
Pittsburgh. 
Customers 
are attracted and their trade held by deal¬ 
ers and painters who know their business. 
Neither can afford to be ignorant. They 
done, beyond a doubt, perfectly adapted 
to its climatic conditions, and that they 
are in no way inferior to the older stand¬ 
ards as regards vigor, productiveness 
and quality. 
“Now that my trees[Newport,Vt.]have 
come into nearly full bearing, and have 
by so many years’ test shown their qual¬ 
ity and their evident market value, I 
stand amazed at the change which must 
quickly follow in so large an area of ter¬ 
ritory, where there has heretofore existed 
not so much as a feeble hope that we 
should ever find ourselves free from dc 
ECKSTEIN, 
Cincinnati. 
FAHNESTOCK, 
Pittsburgh. 
JEWETT, 
New York. 
KENTUCKY, 
Louisville. 
JOHN T.LEWIS * BROS.CO 
Philadelphia. 
MORLEY, 
Cleveland. 
MISSOURI, 
St. Louis. 
RED SEAL, 
St. Louis. 
SALEM, 
Salem, Mass. 
SHIPMAN. 
Chicago. 
SOUTHERN, 
St. Louis and Chicago. 
ULSTER, 
New York, 
UNION, 
know these brands of White Lead (see list) 
are genuine, and reputable dealers sell and 
practical painters everywhere use and re¬ 
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For colors, use the National Lead Co.’s Pure White Lead tint¬ 
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pendence in this respect upon lower lati¬ 
tudes. My own delight and astonish¬ 
ment, reflected in the eyes of my neigh¬ 
bors, when they begin to realize that 
these fruits may be so easily home 
grown, might by strangers be regarded 
as almost pathetic. Living so long with¬ 
out expectation of any great advance in 
this direction, it seems as though we had 
been transported to a new country. But 
this time the mountain has truly come 
to the prophet. There is clearly nothing 
to hinder the free and unbounded pro¬ 
duction of these pears and these stone 
fruits throughout a belt of some 300 
miles in width of country where hitherto 
it has been doubtful whether the apple 
could he made a real and permanent 
success. It is as though a race of orange 
and lemon trees could be found which 
could he successfully grown in Virginia. 
“ And these fruits are not of any 
stinted or inferior growth or quality— 
mere makeshifts for something better. 
Each season reveals, as variety after 
variety comes into full bearing, the un¬ 
mistakable fact that our section has 
been provided with a race of orchard 
fruits which may not only reasonably 
be expected well to supply our home 
markets, but also to find their way into 
all markets in rivalry with anything 
known in the same line.” 
-Ex. Station Record: “Evaporation 
of water is greatest from a southern ex¬ 
posure, next greatest from an eastern, 
next from a western, and least from a 
northern exposure. The quantity of 
water evaporated increases on a south¬ 
erly and decreases on a northerly expos¬ 
ure with the inclination. For easterly 
and westerly exposures, the influence of 
inclination on evaporation is hardly 
perceptible. When very wet, dark soils 
lose more water by evaporation than 
light colored ones, but for drier soils 
the reverse is the case.” 
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