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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
{September 21 
juices of the corn make the straw more palatable ? 
That portable hog fence asked for on page 571, is 
best made by having a set of short posts and some 
hemlock fencing. It need be but three boards high, 
and the panels are wired to the posts. Two of us put 
the fence around a hog lot large enough to pasture 
six hogs all summer, in half a day. If the panels are 
made of wire, they are still lighter to handle. 
If Prof. Slingerland will drive about the country 
east of Ithaca, he can find plenty of potatoes showing 
the same disease as Subscriber from Missouri describes, 
only it began here later—August 10 being the first 
noticed. I have examined many fields, and cannot 
find any injury to root or stalk by grub or borer. 
Many of the leaves seem to have fine holes eaten in 
them or, rather, the soft, green parts are gone, leaving 
the tissue or thread. The edges of some leaves are 
brown, and crumble in the hand. I fail to find any 
stalks beginning new growth. The disease works 
slowly, attacks early varieties first, and seems to come 
on all varieties in the order of their ripening, or, per¬ 
haps, at a certain period of growth. c. K. c. 
A SUCCESSION OF APPLES AND PEARS. 
WHAT VARIETIES WILT, FOLLOW IN FRUITING ? 
Will you be kind enough to give us a list of the best varieties of 
apples and pears for a succession in ripening—beginning with 
the early summer varieties ? 
A List By W. C. Barry. 
Apples. —Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Primate, 
Oldenburgh, Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, Fameuse, 
Twenty Ounce, King of Tompkins County, Greening, 
Baldwin, Jonathan, Northern Spy, Sutton Beauty, 
ltoxbury Russet. 
Peaks. —Doyenne d’Et<$, Andre Desportes, Giffard, 
Tyson, Clapp’s Favorite, Bartlett, Hardy, Sheldon, 
Superfin, Bose, Frederick Clapp, Angouleme, Reeder, 
Anjou, Winter Nelis, P Barry. 
A List for the West. 
In giving a list of best varieties, I always take into 
account the productiveness and hardiness of the 
variety, as well as its quality. The list would be 
much different if for market, than if for family use ; 
but I give the list of the best succession for all pur¬ 
poses, and if one wish commercial varieties, he can 
select from this list and not be disappointed : 
Apples. —Yellow Transparent, Early Harvest, Be- 
noni, Lowell, Oldenburgh, Maiden’s Blush, Mother, 
Pennsylvania Red Streak, Fulton, Grimes’s Golden, 
Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Winesap, Willow Twig, Mink- 
ler, Mammoth Black Twig, Clayton, York Imperial, 
Huntsman Favorite, W. W. Pippin, Gano, Ben Davis. 
Peaks. —Doyenne d’Et6, Howell, Bartlett, Buffurn, 
Louise Bonne, Seckel, Clairgeau, Keiffer, Sheldon, 
Anjou, Lawrence, Winter Nelis. l. a. Goodman. 
Sec. Mo. Ilort. Society. 
What H. E. Han Deman Says. 
General list in order of ripening : 
Apples. —Summer Rose, Early Harvest, Fanny, 
Primate, Benoni, Summer Pearmain, Jefferis, Chen¬ 
ango, Fall Wine, Mother, Grimes’s Golden, Jonathan, 
Rome Beauty, Huntsman, York Imperial, Ben Davis, 
Paragon, Gano. 
Pears. —Koonce, Wilder Early, Tyson, Clapp’s Favor¬ 
ite, Howell, Boussock, Seckel, Flemish Beauty, Louise 
Bonne, Bartlett, Sheldon, Angouleme, Anjou, 
Lawrence, Krull. 
A Michigan Fruit Veteran Suggests. 
There is such a wealth of really excellent dessert 
varieties of both apples and pears, that the chief diffi- 
cultj' is to determine which not to select. The follow¬ 
ing will afford a good succession of superior dessert 
varieties with a few culinary varieties of apples 
thrown in and the whole arranged, as nearly as 
practicable, in the order of ripening : 
Apples. —Primate, Red Astrachan, Early Straw¬ 
berry, Sweet Bough, Summer Rose, Maiden’s Blush, 
Early Joe, Jefferis, Garden Royal, Chenango, Fall 
Pippin, Shiawassee, Melon, Hubbardston, Rhode 
Island Greening, Red Canada. 
Peaks. —Summer Doyenn6, Margaret, Bloodgood, 
Rostiezer, Tyson, Giffard, Bartlett, Lucrative, Seckel, 
Superfin, Anjou, Winter Nelis, Dana’s Hovey. 
T. T. LYON. 
Geo. T. Powell's Choice. 
In making up a list of apples and pears, there are 
many varieties that are very desirable for family use, 
but not for market, as some very choice kinds have 
not good shipping quality, are not highly productive, 
and lack size and color. Those not so desirable in 
market quality, but fine for home consumption, I 
have marked with an asterisk : 
Apples. —Summer : Tetofsky, *Benoni, *Early Har¬ 
vest, *Early Strawberry, *Primate, Red Astrachan, 
Sweet Bough, Williams's Favorite, Yellow Trans¬ 
parent. Autumn: Oldenburgh, Gravenstein, *Porter, 
Chenango oStrawberry, *Munson’s Sweet, Wealthy, 
Fall Pippin, Winter : Twenty Ounce, Pound Sweet, 
Hubbardston, Rome Beauty, Rhode Island Greening, 
Red Canada, Sutton Beauty, Baldwin, Northern Spy. 
Roxbury Russet, Golden Russet, Lady’s Sweet. 
Pears. —Summer : *Madeleine, *Bloodgood, *Dcar- 
born’s Seedling, Margaret, Tyson, Clapp’s Favorite, 
Bartlett. Autumn : Flemish Beauty, Seckel, *Belle 
Lucrative, *Sheldon, Anjou, Bose, *U rbaniste, Clair¬ 
geau. Winter : Lawrence, Winter Nelis, Josephine 
of Malines, Easter Beurr6. 
In many sections, this list will form a very close 
succession in ripening, while in some localities, 
several of the varieties will ripen nearly at the same 
time. Many other varieties might be added that 
would be very desirable, but this comprises standard 
varieties that always command value in any mai’ket. 
A List for Northern New England. 
Apples. —For Massachusetts, southern Maine, New 
Hampshire, and northwestern and southern Vermont. 
Summer and fall : Red Astrachan, Oldenburgh, Porter, 
Gravenstein, Yellow Transparent, Wealthy, Sweet 
Bough, Primate, Munson Sweet, Late Strawberry. 
Winter: Baldwin, Northern Spy, Tompkins County 
King, Westfield Seek-No-Further, Rhode Island Green¬ 
ing, Roxbury Russet, Hubbardston. Add to these, 
for New York, Rhode Island, Conn,, and northern 
New Jersey, the Golden Russet of western New York. 
Pears. —Most generally successful: Seckel, Bartlett, 
Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne, Belle Lucrative, 
Tyson, Winter Nelis, Anjou, Easter Beurr6, Buffurn, 
Summer Doyenn6, Diel, Urbaniste, Vicar of Wink- 
field, Lawrence, Bloodgood, Angoulthne. These cover 
all seasons. t. ii. iioskins. 
Vermont. 
FALL CARE OF STRAWBERRIES FOR PLANTS. 
The glorious rain of this morning (September 5) 
finds our strawberry beds clean and mellow, and 
ready to take full advantage of the much-needed 
water. Cultivating, which has been kept up later 
than usual on account of the drought, will now stop 
except that we shall have to go down the dividing 
row with the cultivator set narrow once every week 
or 10 days until the ground freezes. This is to pre- 
THE NEW IDEAL STRAWBERRY. Fig. 200. 
vent the mixing of the 75 or more varieties which 
grow side by side in our beds. 
The common hoe will give place to a narrow blade 
with which weeds can be removed without disturbing 
the rapidly growing runners, which are quite able to 
take care of themselves if weeds are kept out. The 
hoe will have to be kept going until winter sets in, 
especial care being necessary to remove all winter 
weeds (chick weed, pepper grass, etc.) so that none 
are left to grow during open weather in winter. If 
this be neglected, these winter weeds will so overgrow 
the strawberries as nearly to put them out of sight by 
spring, and greatly interfere with digging and hand¬ 
ling the plants. 
September is the big month for strawberry plants, 
as more plants will make in this month, if the weather 
be favorable than in all the rest of the summer, and 
these plants are the very best for setting next spring, 
better than those grown earlier, and stunted by the 
dry, hot weather of August ; also better than plants 
grown later, though a great many good plants are 
produced in October. A. w. slaymaker. 
Delaware. 
R. N.-Y. —The Ideal strawberry, described in The 
Rural New-Yorker last week, page 615, by A. W. 
Slaymaker, is shown at Fig. 200. 
POTATO NOTES FROM KANSAS. 
One of The R. N.-Y. readers tells of a freak of 
nature in the shape of potatoes on the tops. My 
Early Ohios were all covered with small potatoes on 
the vines this year. No other variety grew thus, 
neither have I ever heard of this before. The top does 
not have to be covered to produce this freak. 
I have concluded a three-years’test with the Polaris, 
Freeman and Irish Daisy, as against our own seedling, 
the Early Kansas, and the results have disgusted me 
with the former varieties, for this climate. The Free¬ 
mans and Polaris are really late varieties here, while 
the Irish ^Daisy is killed by the heat before them. 
Freeman-grows small, yields -only about - 80 bushels 
per acre, and will rot so badly as to be of no value 
here at all. Polaris is better, but also rots badly. 
Irish Daisy covers the whole earth with vines, choking 
out any weeds, and then in the last days of July, the 
heat kills the tops and leaves the ground as bare as a 
floor, and the potatoes must be dug at once. They 
will keep solid, without any sprouts until planting 
time, are a poor table potato, and grow in all shapes 
that are not wanted. The roots are as large as a lead 
pencil, do not go down any, but run out 20 to 30 
inches horizontally, and set tubers just like melons on 
a vine. When dug, the stems or roots must be pulled 
off, and the whole surface must be dug to get them. 
They yielded, beside the Freeman and Polaris, 271 
bushels per acre. 
Side by side with them, were the Early Kansas, 
Early Ohio, Bliss’s Triumph, Early Morn and Carman 
No. 1. The Ohio was dead in GO days from planting, 
and yielded 140 bushels per acre with a very small 
percentage of unmerchantable tubers. By plant¬ 
ing these 12 inches in the row, with the rows 10 inches 
apart, and using the weederonly, a crop of 450 bushels 
per acre can be dug in 60 days, and then a crop of 
millet or clover grown. The Early Kansas took 120 
days to mature, and yielded, at 60 days (while in 
bloom), at the rate of 320 bushels per acre, planted 
14x30 inches, or just like the rest. These potatoes 
cannot be told from the Carman No. 1, either while 
growing, or in the half bushel, except that the Early 
Kansas has a deep, pink eye. The Carman No. 1 is the 
only potato 1 have ever tried that is atall an approach 
to the Early Kansas. 
It takes three years to try a potato here, and it will 
take me two more years to test the Carman No. 1. 
Last spring, I saw The R. N.-Y.’s report of the 
Algoma trial, and immediately wrote L. L. May & 
Co. They wrote me that, if I wanted an early variety, 
they advised the Early Morn, as it was earlier than 
any other known kind. I tried some, and it took 90 
days to ripen, or 30 more than the Early Ohio. It is 
a handsome potato, however, and would make a valu¬ 
able medium variety. I do not doubt May’s report of 
the variety, but write this to show that, in a different 
climate, they act differently. 
The Early Six Weeks is the only variety that can 
produce two crops here in one season. Our season 
forces us to plant early—March 20 to April 1—and the 
potatoes cannot be dug till October or November on 
account of the intense heat, and the lack of storage 
rooms. It is hard to find a variety that will lay dor¬ 
mant all summer while we are having showers and 
hot weather. Fortunately, Crab grass takes possession 
of everything after August 1, and this protects the 
crop after the vines die. It is becoming fashionable 
to sow millet when laying by the crop, raise two tons 
per acre, and then dig the potatoes. The Early Kan¬ 
sas will lie dormant and endure the hot weather. A 
friend wrote me to get some of them to produce a 
second crop. I told him that they could not be 
sprouted. He insisted, and I dug some 60 days after 
planting, while in bloom ; but they never came up. 
I should think that this potato would be grand for the 
South. It is only 12 years from the seed, and was 
originated here. c. j. N. 
Moran, Kan. 
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The “ Live-Forever ” Disease. 
C. T. M., St. Albans, Vt .— I send samples of diseased Live-Forever, 
taken from our meadow and pasture ; at any rate, it is sick 
enough to die, stems, leaves and roots, and nothing of the plant 
remains, where formerly it flourished with all its persistency 
and thriftiness. I had formerly tried to check its spreading in 
different ways, but with no success. It appears on the plant like 
anthacnose on berry bushes, and is an effectual exterminator. 
ANSWERED BY M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Several years ago, our attention was called to this 
peculiar and seemingly almost providential dying off 
of this most persistent and aptly-named pest of the 
farmer—Live-Forever. Two fungi are known to at¬ 
tack the cultivated sedums, one working on the leaves 
and often defoliating the plants ; the other, a kind of 
anthracnose, usually attacks the plants at the inser¬ 
tion of the leaves, and afterwards does its greatest 
damage in the stem. It is doubtless this latter anthrac¬ 
nose (Vermicularia telephii) which is now at work in 
many parts of the country on the sedum known as 
Live-Forever ; it is unfortunate that the fungus seems 
to confine its good work to limited areas. However, 
Prof. Atkinson tells me that some gardeners depend 
upon this fungus to kill out the cultivated sedums 
when they are through growing them; they collect 
