1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
683 
RURAUSMS — Continued. 
A companion to everbearing black¬ 
caps, is the Belle de Fontenay, a red 
variety which is now offered under the 
name of Childs’s All Summer. At any 
rate, they are very closely alike. Be 
this as it may, it is the best of the per¬ 
petual reds, ripeniqg clusters of berries 
from mid-season until after light frosts. 
The berries are of excellent flavor—but 
so crumbly and imperfect that one cares 
for them chiefly as a curiosity, or to be 
able to offer “company” red raspberries 
quite out of season. 
We have dug the potatoes of the seed¬ 
ling potato plot, the plants of which 
made so remarkable a growth after the 
tornado, while those of the field did not 
recover. How much, if any, of this 
second luxuriant growth was due to the 
Fungiroid (dry Bordeaux) may only be 
conjectured. Certain it is that we have 
never seen vines of so bright a green 
color, nor of so bushy a growth, and 
the vigor of growth and freshness 
of color continued until they were 
attacked by the army of potato beetles 
so great in number that they killed the 
vines in spite of the constant use of 
Paris-green and assiduous hand-picking. 
The dead beetles under the vines were 
so thick as for the most part to cover 
the soil completely. Most of the seed¬ 
ling tubers showed a second growth, 
though not all. The seedlings of the 
R. N.-Y. No. 2 were shapely though 
small. Those of the Rural Blush gave a 
heavy yield of large tubers of various 
shapes. The vines of the seedling of 
No. 2, one hill of which last year yielded 
157 small tubers, grew to be fully six 
feet in length. The yield, however, was 
not remarkable, few of the tubers being 
of marketable size. In the best yielding 
hills, there were about 14 potatoes, 
weighing about three pounds,. 
The difference of temperature between 
lower and higher land, the latter being 
from 50 to 75 feet higher than the former, 
was forcibly illustrated by the late frost 
which occurred at the Rural Grounds 
September 15. The corn, tomato vines, 
melon vines, etc., of the lower lands, 
were frozen to death, while those of the 
higher lands—even 25 feet higher—were 
not injured. It is now (September 23) 
a surprising sight, as one passes from 
higher areas where the corn is still 
green and growing, to lower areas, not 
an eighth of a mile distant, to find the 
corn as it usually appears in November. 
Two plants of the Alaska quince were 
sent to us in April of 1891, by C. A. 
Green, of Rochester, N. Y. One of them 
would have borne a fair crop this season, 
but for the tornado which injured the 
leaves so that many died, and but three 
quinces were left to ripen. They were 
ripe September 25, of medium size, and 
of pear shape. No doubt, they would 
have grown to a larger size had not the 
tornado occurred. The special claims 
made for the Alaska are early bearing, 
productiveness, early ripening and hardi¬ 
ness of plant. 
The reward of raising seedling fruits 
on a large scale with the view of obtain¬ 
ing, by selection and crossing, better 
varieties than any others known, is so 
uncertain that very few can afford to 
engage in it except from a love of the 
pursuit. Probably Luther Burbank has 
done more of this work than any one else 
in this counti-y or, perhaps, in the world. 
We would like to know just how much 
his work has cost him up to date, and 
just how much his sales have amounted 
to. Our friend, T. V. Munson, has raised, 
we are told, as many as 100,000 seedling 
grapes during the past 15 years. How 
much have you made, Prof. Munson ?... 
When we are asked the question—it 
is one that comes numerously every 
early spring and fall—when it is best to 
transplant, our answer is in the fall for 
more southern States ; in the spring for 
colder climates. We dare say that this 
is as trustworthy an answer as can be 
made iu a general way. The fact is, 
however, that it is not so much a ques¬ 
tion of when to transplant as how to 
transplant. We do not hesitate to trans¬ 
plant in June, July, August or Septem¬ 
ber, no matter what the weather may ] 
be, and this, too, without cutting back 
or removing a leaf. We must preserve 
the roots without exposing them for any 
length of time to the air or sunlight; j 
we must supply the roots with all needed 
moisture until they “take hold” of the 
soil of their new home. That is all. 
The difficulty of transplantation in¬ 
creases, of course, with the size of the 
plant to be removed. The increased 
difficulty must be met by preserving 
more of the roots, or soil about the 
roots, by cutting back or defoliation, so 
that the plant shall not require more 
moisture and food than the remaining 
roots can supply. Defoliation necessar¬ 
ily weakens the removed plant. Dor¬ 
mant buds must push at once, and the 
new growth may not be sufficiently 
matured to stand the winter. We do not 
any more hesitate to transplant young 
vines, shrubs or trees, whether ever¬ 
green or deciduous, during the summer, 
if we so desire, than we would in early 
spring or fall. But we would see to it 
that the roots were carefully preserved 
from injury, and that they secured all 
the water and shade required until the 
removed plant had evidently taken to its 
new home.. 
We are often instructed to wait until 
the fall of the leaf before transplanting. 
It is often far better to transplant before 
the fall of the leaf, so that the shrub or 
tree may have more time to send out 
fibrous roots before freezing weather. 
Most leaves are really dead to the plant 
before they fall, or even while still more 
or less green. They have fulfilled every 
requii’ement, and there is really no cir¬ 
culation of sap between the leaves and 
stems. Hence it is, as is well known, 
that the dying leaf of many plants 
assumes brilliant colors—not due at all 
to frosts, but merely to the natural 
transition of color from green to the 
dried, dead leaf, which, modified by ele¬ 
vation and temperature, assumes in cer¬ 
tain climates, far more varied and bril¬ 
liant hues than in others. 
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