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The rural new-yorker 
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RURAUSMS — Continued. 
when all others failed. Being a Russian 
variety, it will, no doubt, prove hardy in 
the North, where it will ripen later, 
probably in early winter. The tree is 
an early bearer. All other Russian kinds 
which Mr. Griesa has grown, are of 
slower growth, and most of them, 
planted at the same time, have not yet 
fruited. The apple sent to us was of 
perfect shape, being nearly round, 
though flattened at each end. It meas¬ 
ured 9X inches lengthwise and 10 inches 
around. The ground color is green, and 
one-third is covered with light crimson. 
The flesh is nearly white, tender, juicy, 
sub-acid. Our judgment is that it will 
be prized chiefly for cooking. 
The Japan plums are prodigious grow¬ 
ers. Of our own collection set last 
spring. Hale (the “ J ” of the originator, 
Mr. Luther Burbank), has made a growth 
of three feet—not one branch, but most 
of the branches, we mean, have grown 
three feet—a little more or a little less. 
Satsuma and Burbank are close upon 
the Hale. And this, too, in spite of the 
tornado which riddled the leaves. 
We have no other roses that are bloom¬ 
ing so freely at this time as Clothilde 
Soupert. It is, in truth, a constant 
bloomer. 
We have had the Minuewaski black¬ 
berry since its introduction. The late 
A. J. Cay wood, with whom it originated, 
said, and no doubt believed, as he judged 
the plants upon his own place, that it 
would prove the grandest variety ever 
introduced. As it behaves at the Rural 
Grounds, it by no means realizes Mr. 
Caywood’s high estimate. The canes 
are quite hardy, that is hardier than 
those of Lawton, Ivittatinny, Wilson Jr., 
Erie, Eaily Cluster, etc., but they are 
not prolific. The berries are of the 
largest size, jet black, never becoming 
reddish. The quality is no better than 
that of the Lawton; the berry is not 
sweet, even when dead ripe. If we could 
have a thoroughly hardy Kittatinny 
without its readiness to rust, we would 
ask for nothing more among blackber¬ 
ries, except, possibly, fewer thorns. 
A plant of the new spiraea, Anthony 
Waterer, was sent to us by A. Blanc, of 
Philadelphia, Pa. It is but a foot high and 
is yet blooming freely, the umbels of 
flowers being of a magenta or purplish 
red, which we have never seen in any 
other variety. For this reason alone, 
it is a choice acquisition. It is, except 
as to color, almost identical with Bum- 
aldi, except that the color of the flowers 
of the latter is not so dark. Could we 
have but two spiraeas, we know of none 
we would choose in preference to An¬ 
thony Waterer and Bumaldi, though the 
former is said to be only a sport of the 
latter. 
September 4. —We find that our Green 
Mountain grape vine is bearing a second 
crop of about six perfect bunches of 
grapes. The berries average the size of 
No. 5 shot. They are growing upon the 
laterals of canes of this season’s growth. 
The injury sustained by the tornado is, 
no doubt, the cause of this second effort 
to produce fruit, which otherwise would 
not have been made until next spring. .. 
Luther Burbank sends us (September 
4, received September 11) a plum, the 
fruit of a seedling of the Satsuma Japan 
plum. It is of a rich, dark purple color. 
It is nearly round, and a little over six 
inches in circumference. The flesh is 
yellow—purplish near the skin—juicy, 
almost too juicy, very melting and ten¬ 
der, and of a mild, pleasant flavor. He 
calls this October Purple which, he com¬ 
ments, is remarkable in being in good 
condition to eat from the tree from Aug¬ 
ust 10 to October 1. Mr. Burbank sends 
us another seedling of the Satsuma, the 
pollen parent of which was the Robin¬ 
son, a variety of the Chickasaw group. 
This is but a little over one inch in 
diameter, of an orange red and crimson 
color, yellow flesh and of nearly the 
same quality as the October Purple. 
If the Wilder currant is less acid, as 
large as, and more productive than, the 
Fay, as Mr. Willard claims, then we 
want it. 
Mr. E. G. Packard of Dover, Del., 
sends us a sample of his “True Dela¬ 
ware” winter oats to try beside other 
so-called winter oats. His crop the past 
season was 1,800 bushels, by measure , 
from a field of 27 acres, weighing 40 
pounds to the measured bushel. The 
yield by weight was 2,250 bushels, or 
about 83 bushels to the acre. The win¬ 
ter was unusually severe, the mercury 
falling nearly to zero several times, but 
the oats were not hurt in the least. 
Finally. —The first year the Colum¬ 
bian raspberry plants fruited, we ex¬ 
pressed the opinion that they were so 
nearly like the Shaffer that the one 
would well serve for the other ; and 
this opinion was not materially changed 
the second year it fruited, except in the 
one respect—an important one certainly 
—that the Columbian bid fair to prove 
hardier than the Shaffer. The Colum¬ 
bian did not show its full merits until 
the past season. We now believe the 
variety to be not only hardier, but more 
productive and, in every other way, at 
least the equal of the Shaffer. And so 
we change our advice in this wise : . If 
you have Shaffer, you should try the 
Columbian. If you have neither, and 
would like one or the other, then select 
the Columbian. 
We shall certainly have occasion to 
feel exceedingly glad should The R. 
N.-Y.’s agitation of the question end in 
showing that there is such a thing as a 
variety of oats reliably hardy as far 
north as New York, or even farther 
north. There may be varieties hardier 
than the kind which passed last winter 
in perfect safety at the Rural Grounds, 
and which has been named by the farmer 
who sent us the sample, the Rural New- 
Yorker winter oats. To test this, we 
have received small quantities from the 
following individuals or firms : 
1. Winter Turf from J. C. Vaughan, 
of Chicago, Ill. 
2. Winter oats from T. W. Wood & Sons, 
Richmond, Va. 
3. Winter oats from Malilon Sager, 
Orangeville, Pa. 
4. True Winter Delaware from E. G. 
Packard, Dover, Del. 
5. Winter oats from W. II. Maule, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
We have received notification that two 
other samples were sent, one from the 
Huntington Seed Company, of Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind., the other from the Brown 
Seed Company, of Wyoming, Del. ; but 
these have failed to reach us (September 
9). The others were sown upon rather 
poor sandy-loam soil, the plots selected 
being without any protection from any 
quarter. 
We have also (August 27) sown R. N.-Y. 
winter oats and Crimson clover together, 
and for the fourth year Crimson clover 
alone. 
Could we have all the good qualities 
of the best kinds of gooseberries with 
spineless branches, the popular varieties 
of to-day would soon be discarded. 
Letellier & Son, of Caen, France, are 
advertising a “ New Spineless Goose¬ 
berry” in the English papers. In the 
London Garden, the advertisement claims 
that it is “ spineless, of robust growth, 
large red fruit of the best quality, and 
the bushes are extremely prolific.” Wm. 
Rushborth, of Hunslet, Leeds, England, 
will supply a colored plate, complete 
history, etc., of this new spineless goose¬ 
berry.. 
Sagiialin began to bloom August 25, 
the plants having been spring set. The 
flowers are small, white and borne in 
panicles. There is not much odor to 
them, and we have not observed that 
bees are fond of them. 
Cuspidatum began to bear its second 
crop of flowers about August 25. These 
are borne more in clusters of spike-like 
racemes, the individual flower smaller. 
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