1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
539 
RURAUSMS— Continued. 
attention, an emphatic distinction be¬ 
tween this and the Shaffer, that the 
bloom on the under side of the latter is 
much more pronounced than that on the 
Columbian. The two varieties could be 
at once distinguished by this marked 
difference. . 
Mr. Arthur J. Coli.ins of Moores- 
town, N. J., on July 8 sent us a specimen 
of Koonce pear. He writes as follows : 
This pear originated in Illinois. The tree is a 
remarkably thrifty and rapid grower, is entirely 
free from blight, and is perfectly hardy. The 
season of the fruit is very early; in size, medium. 
When ripe, the surface is yellow, with bright red 
cheeks, containing brown dots. The quality is 
superior to other early varieties of pears, spicy, 
juicy and sweet. This fruit does not rot at the 
core, a fault which other early sorts mostly de¬ 
velop. The trees bear a full crop every year. 
The Koonce is very hardy both in bud and bloom. 
In the spring of 1894, a heavy late frost killed 
many pears in Illinois, but the Koonce escaped 
with a fair crop. The foliage remained bright 
and green, while that of other varieties was 
turned black. 
The specimen was much the same form 
as a Seckel, though not so large as the 
Seckel is at its best. It was overripe 
when received, and had begun to decay. 
It was sweet, mealy, rather juicy, and 
of good quality-for so early a pear. 
The main points of merit in the new 
Triumph peach are that it is a yellow 
freestone, ripening with the Amsden, 
is of good color and early. 
We have the following note from the 
Enterprise Seed Company, of Newark, 
Wayne County, N. Y. : 
Noting The R. N.-Y.’s criticism on the “report” 
of potato trials at the Michigan Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, as relates to Carman No. 1, we wish to say 
that we raised about 100 bushels last year from 
seed bought of J. M. Thorburn <fc Co., and although 
they were raised on extra rich soil, there was not 
a single potato with prongs. The color was ex¬ 
tremely white, and for yield and quality, they did 
the best for us of any variety among 23 different 
sorts we grew last year. We are very glad to give 
you this testimonial of our estimate of Carman 
No. 1. 
Mr. W. C. Barry writes us that the 
Kansas blackcap has proved very fine 
with him this year. It is almost as early 
as the earliest, fruit large, plant hardy, 
vigorous and productive. 
The Columbus gooseberry is this year 
extra fine ; no mildew and the fruit ex¬ 
tra large. 
Mr. Barry considers Elseagnus lon- 
gipes one of the most valuable shrubs in 
cultivation. His plants are loaded with 
fruit (July 13), which is edible and may 
be used for jams. 
We wish that we might say to our 
readers that the effects of the tornado 
that swept over the Rural Grounds us 
reported last week, were “ grossly exag¬ 
gerated.” No, indeed, they are worse 
than reported. The stricken path of the 
tornado is a wreck. Not only, as pre¬ 
viously stated, are the crops ruined, 
many houses and out-buildings totally 
or partially destroyed, but the beautiful 
groves and woods that so added to the 
attractiveness of this wild and rolling 
country, are gone—no. not gone, the 
wood is all there, but changed from ver¬ 
dure to decay. 
The liberality of the better-to-do peo¬ 
ple towards those who suffered most, and 
who could least afford it, is touching, 
and raises one’s estimate of the goodness 
of the people when dire necessity appeals 
to them. Sympathetic neighbors have 
subscribed a fund of about $000 to aid 
the sufferers in the immediate vicinity 
of the Rural Grounds. 
We walk over to “ Emwood,” our ex¬ 
periment field, and look about as one in 
a dream. We have our note-book as in 
previous seasons ; but there are no notes 
to take. They have all been taken. The 
grove of oaks, chestnuts, beeches, 
maples, birches, tulips, with an under¬ 
growth of thousands of natural flowers 
and over 1,000 introduced shrubs and 
hardy herbaceous plants, so enjoyable 
and restful during the heat of the day, 
is now a mass of broken and splintered 
timber, kindling wood, huge roots, sec¬ 
tions of trees that could not have been 
rendered more suggestive of havoc and 
ruin had they been thrice struck by 
lig-htning. 
It is 23 years since we built and laid 
out the Rural Grounds, and it is but 
natural that we should feel attached to 
the place and the surrounding country 
by all sorts of endearing associations. 
But the tornado has so changed all that 
it seems hard to realize that it is the 
same country and the same home. 
Mr. J. E. Emerson, of Cheswold, Del., 
sends us several specimens of the Char- 
lotten Thaler apple. They were received 
July 16 ; were each about nine inches in 
circumference around the middle, and 
of a solid yellow color. The tree that 
produced these apples is but four years 
old. They ripen 10 days earlier than the 
Yellow Transparent, averaging some¬ 
what larger and decidedly less acid. The 
tree was laden with fruit when Mr. Emer¬ 
son sent us the specimens. 
W. N. Scarff, of New Carlisle, O., on 
June 28, sent us a box of the new red 
currant, North Star. He finds that the 
variety has no equal, both as to vigor 
and productiveness, and he is trying it 
among all the leading kinds. The branch 
was as heavily laden with currants as it 
could be, the individual berries being 
not larger than those of the old Red 
Dutch. They are not quite so good in 
quality. Is not the old Red Dutch vig¬ 
orous enough and productive enough? 
A single bush of North Star was sent to 
us last April, and it bore a few bunches. 
Judging by these, as well as by the fruit 
sent by Mr. Scarff, we would just as soon 
have the Red Dutch as this. 
Sagiialin Tea. —On July 9, we cut off 
a lot of the leaves and cured them in a 
gentle heat for about 24 hours. These 
were then steeped in hot water for about 
five minutes, and the tea served to six 
persons. All agreed that the tea so made 
had something of the flavor of ordinary 
tea—green tea of poor quality. 
How should the leaves of Saghalin be 
cured to make the best tea ?. 
Some Strawberry Tools. —Mr. A. I. 
Root in his Gleanings, tells what he saw 
being done at Mr. Crawford’s place : 
My eyes soon caught a glimpse of the new Z. 
Breed’s weeder. With this machine, one of the 
boys had actually gone over two acres of straw¬ 
berries newly set, fined the earth in the most 
beautiful manner, and had not, so far as I could 
see, torn up a single plant. Why, if a couple of 
men with cultivators and hoes—yes, and rakes 
too—had worked two or three days on that two 
acres of strawberries, they could not have fixed 
them any better than young Crawford did in, 
perhaps, two hours. And then the boys had got 
hold of some new-fashioned hoes which I greatly 
admired. You can make one by taking a common 
hoe and cutting off a portion of the steel in a line 
from one of the corners back toward the shank. 
It leaves an acute angle of steel at the corner, 
that will go in between the plants, and mellow up 
the soil, or yank out a little weed. The hoe is just 
as good for all ordinary purposes as ever, and 
has a sharp corner like a trowel, to get in where 
a common hoe could not. 
In order most perfectly to fertilize 
pistillate varieties of strawberries, Mr. 
E. K. Phoenix asks why not set a bisexual 
plant between the pistillates in the row. 
This season a Timbrell row four feet 
from the “ blessed Parker Earle” gave 
him nearly all buttons. The only objec¬ 
tion that occurs to us is, that it would in¬ 
crease the trouble of picking the berries 
if only one variety were desired. It 
would also be difficult to keep the run¬ 
ners of both plants separate. Mr. Phoenix 
adds : 
Is not the strawberry the most unreliable, 
crotchety, variabl* of all fruits? Six miles dis¬ 
tant, our strawberry expert, after trying Parker 
Earle three years, threw it out as worthless. 
Haverland and Lovett are his favorites. 
The trial grounds of Peter Henderson 
& Co. are something less than three miles 
from the Rural Grounds. A plot was 
sown, late last August, to Crimson clover, 
and every plant came through the win¬ 
ter unharmed. The soil is a sandy loam 
that never heaves. The plot was ex¬ 
posed on all sides except the east. It 
will be remembered that our two acres, 
sown September 10, were utterly killed, 
and that a small patch, sown September 
1, in which the clover had passed two 
winters in safety, was also killed. We 
have abundant proof that the Crimson 
clover experience of one season must not 
be accepted as an infallible guide for 
another. 
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