1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
667 
Mr. D. S. Marvin, the veteran grape 
grower of Watertown, N. Y., sends us a 
bunch of his Shelby (white) grape. He 
says that the fruit was all marketed in 
August before grapes from Penn Yan 
were ripe. The berries are of medium 
size, pulp tender, juicy, very sweet, yet 
sprightly. The skin is tender, but quite 
firm. He says that it is a cross between 
Labrusca and Riparia. 
Generally varieties of the Rose of 
Sharon (Hibiscus Syriacus) are chosen 
which bear double flowers. We need 
not question the good taste of the choice. 
In giviug a decided preference to the 
single-flowered varieties, as we do, our 
taste by others may be questioned as 
well. And what is good taste, after all, 
but the beauty recognized by the many? 
Still it may be that our readers, or many 
of them, have not had just the chance 
that we have had to see a combination 
of three of the later varieties of this 
popular fall-blooming shrub, or little 
tree as it is when permitted to grow 
just where all its needs are supplied. 
We allude to a single white, a single 
blue and a single purple variety growing 
in a group. The white is pure white, 
the flowers nearly twice the size of the 
double flowers. The blue flowers are 
really blue ; the purple flowers of a 
brilliant light purple, and as large as 
the others. We really can think of no 
more impressive group of shrubs which 
are now (September 15) in full bloom. 
In truth they began to bloom a month 
ago and more. There are many double 
flowers which are improved for the 
doubling, the best example of which is, 
perhaps, the rose ; but the flowers of 
the Rose of Sharon, no matter whether 
semi or fully double, are not symmet¬ 
rical. It is as if the stamens had been 
changed to petals much against their 
will, and in spite had done their best to 
give the flowers as ragged an appearance 
as possible. 
Teosinte.-— September 16.—Yesterday 
a frost occurred severe enough to kill 
corn, melon vines, tomato vines, etc. 
Teosinte, though apparently less injured 
than corn, will probably not recover. 
The plants have made a wonderful 
growth. The seed was planted in mid 
May. July 8, the plants were three feet 
high, with an average of nine stems, 
small and large, to a seed. Several 
plants were cut back to the ground. 
July 29 the plants were four feet tall, 
with an average of 12 stems to a seed 
about the size of sweet corn at the same 
age. The cut-back plants were two feet 
high. Cutting back the stalks does not 
seem to check the growth at all. August 
19, the plants were six feet high—the 
cut-back plants five feet. The stalks 
were all tender. The longest leaves 
were four feet and in width 2 % inches. 
The joints grow so close together that 
the plants are one mass of leaves. The 
stems were still small and succulent. 
We found the number of stems of one 
plant to be 17, of another 26. On Sep¬ 
tember 2, the plants not cut back were 
seven feet high, a mass of leaves three 
to four feet long and two to three inches 
wide ; those cut back were five feet 
high. On September 17, the plants were 
nine feet high, the cut-back plants seven 
to eight. Still the stalks were quite 
tender and succulent, the leaves three to 
four feet long. There were no hard, 
tough, woody stalks as we fiDd in the 
corn plant at and before maturity. 
Again, the plants no not lose their lower 
leaves ; they remain as green as do those 
above. 
Except that it bears no grain in this 
climate, it would seem that Teosinte 
should prove more valuable as a fodder 
plant than any kind of corn. Still the 
fact remains that there seems little more 
demand for it to-day than there was 20 | 
years ago when we first tried it. 
The “ Oregon Evergreen” blackberry, 
as it has been recently named, is not 
hardy enough to bear fruit at the Rural 
Grounds, unless the plants are protected. 
We have a plant growing in a closely 
protected position, which this year has 
fruited freely. The berries are under 
the medium size, sweet, but not of high 
quality. We can readily believe that 
where this species is hardy, it would 
bear a prodigious amount of fruit. Some 
of the canes have made a growth of 12 
feet, the canes being slender and beset 
with the sharpest of spines. The leaves 
are so prettily cut that the vine is worth 
something for ornament, whether it 
bear fruit or not. 
The pear, Dr. Hoskins, ripens on the 
tree this year, September 15. It is a 
good deal of the Sheldon shape, though 
rather more pyriform. It is just about 
the size of the Sheldon, ripening before 
the Seckel. The skin is a dull yellow, 
partly russeted with a bright crimson 
cheek. The flesh is coarse grained, juicy, 
sweet and agreeable. This pear does 
not rot. it would appear, as do Sheldon, 
Clapp’s Favorite and Flemish Reauty, at 
the core if left to ripen on the tree. The 
pears average over nine inches in cir¬ 
cumference. 
Now this little tree ripened a dozen 
pears, though standing directly in the 
course of the tornado. All were dis¬ 
figured by the hail stones ; still they 
grew to maturity without rot, while 
Seckels, Sheldons and Roses were de¬ 
stroyed. We are not aware that this 
pear is in the market. Rut it ought to 
be, we think ; not because of its quality 
—though it is of a sort that does not 
cloy—but because it seems to be a heavy 
annual bearer; because the pears cling 
tenaciously to the branches, and because 
they do not rot if left to ripen on the 
tree. That the fruit is not blown from 
the tree in gales, is probably due to the 
short, thick stems. Our tree was re¬ 
ceived from J. T. Macomber, of Grand 
Isle, Vt., in 1886. Its home is a little 
piece of soil not over five feet wide, 
bounded on the south by a hard wagon 
lane, and on the north, by a wide, gravel¬ 
ly path. It is only about nine feet high, 
and has made an annual growth of but 
from two to six inches. In a less im¬ 
poverished home, we would look for 
larger fruit of finer grain and better 
quality. 
UNDER date of August 19, Mr. C. O. 
Mercer, of Richardson, N. C., sends us a 
couple of bunches of the Carman grape, 
one weighing seven ounces, the other 
twelve. The vine was planted out two 
years ago last spring. Last year, it bore 
eight bunches, and late in the fall, two 
bunches as a second crop. This year, 
Mr. Mercer says that the vine has at 
least 50 bunches on it. He adds: ; ‘I never 
saw grapes more thickly set on the 
bunch.” 
We, too, have never seen grapes more 
thickly crowded on the stem. It is 
common enough for one berry to rest 
upon another underneath, and some¬ 
times there are three tiers, so to say. 
A peculiarity of this grape is that the 
berry clings so closely to the peduncle, 
that one is liable to break the skin while 
pulling it off. The skin, though not 
thick, is very firm. There is not a trace 
of foxiness about it—the flesh is sweet 
to the very seeds. 
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