1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
747 
FARMERS’ CLUB ; DISCUSSION. 
(CONTINUED.) 
Valley, who had a crop of peaches valued 
at $3,500, for which he was offered 
$900 by a traveling buyer. The owner 
thought the price offered too low, but 
his wife, being a sensible woman, argued 
the matter with him in this way : “Now, 
John, you know that you owe $000 on 
the place. This man offers to pay you 
for the picking, packing, delivering, etc., 
you and I and the children can do it all 
and get paid for our work. There will 
be $300 cash after paying what you owe, 
besides what we get for our work, and 
whether the fruit is good or bad, we get 
clear of all risk, enough to pay us well. 
Go to the bank to be sure the money is 
there, and close the trade before the 
man backs out.” The advice was fol¬ 
lowed, and later the man was envied for 
his good sale. 
To Cure a Sick Lawn. 
VV. C. N., Aldenville, Pa.—T o bring 
grass back into a lawn, I would make a 
heavy application of unleached hard¬ 
wood ashes. Put them on in October or 
November, and then in April sow grass 
seed. This will bring in grass, and kill 
out weeds. I have never seen anything 
such natural grass food as ashes. A 
heavy application of fine, well-rotted 
stable manure, put on in October or 
November, and grass seed sown in March 
or April, will bring in grass, but will 
not do it as quickly as ashes. 
Shrubby verbena will be more fully 
appreciated. 
Its botanical name is Caryopteris Mas- 
tacanlhus, the generic name meaning a 
winged nut, and the specific name mous¬ 
tache. Some authorities say that it is but 
a half-hardy herbaceous plant. As to 
this we may not speak until next spring. 
Our illustration, Fig. 334, is from nature. 
The Crimson clover sown alone and 
with the it. N.-Y. Hardy oats, upon poor 
soil fertilized with at the rate of (500 
pounds of the Mapes potato fertilizer 
per acre, has made a feeble growth 
owing, apparently, to the dry weather, 
previous to severe frosts. The oats, 
clover and oats, and oats were sown 
August 27. Should the clover staud the 
coming winter and spring, we shall con¬ 
sider it proof that, one season with an¬ 
other, it will pay to sow the seeds. 
And just the same may be said as to the 
oats, the trying conditions being a dry 
seed bed, poor soil, a low amount of fer¬ 
tilizer, and a growth of plant that could 
not well stand the effects of the eoming 
of delicate- blue 1 and-rose equaled by the 
flowers of few other vines. We are 
tempted to pluck the pretty flowers for 
bouquets, but they are as perishable as 
they are chaste and lovely, wilting under 
the touch. Plumbago capensis is an old 
plant, and so it is that we have written 
about it at some length, for, old as it is, 
we dare say that it is unknown to many, 
if not most, of our readers. Among other 
Plumbagos, there are P. eoerulea, 
micrantha, scandens, pulehella and Lar- 
pentm. This last will stand our winters 
out of doors with careful protection. The 
flowers are a deep blue. 
There arc few shrubs which delight 
us with such rich colorings at (his sea¬ 
son of the year (October 25) as do the 
barberries. They are especially beauti¬ 
ful in hedges or masses, where the 
leaves, varying from yellow to various 
shades of copper color and bronze, and 
the long, brilliant scarlet, coral-litce 
berries, borne in immense quantities, 
make them exceedingly attractive and 
pleasing objects. 
Among the small-fruit novelties to 
winter’s frosts and thaws. which we have already called attention, 
the Logan raspberry-blackberry and the 
THE HARDY BLUE CHINESE SHRUBBY 
VERBENA. 
Now we may tell our friends all we 
know of this novelty — a novelty, at 
least, to this country, though known in 
England and France since 1850. Two 
plants were sent to us for trial, the oue 
from A. Plane, of Philadelphia, the 
other from P. Henderson & Co., of New 
York. When received in early June, 
they were scarcely six inches in height. 
September 10, they were 2% feet high 
and about the same in breadth, forming 
a pretty little shrub, with leaves enough 
like those of the well-known verbena to 
suggest the name of Shrubby verbena, 
though, in fact, it belongs to the order 
Verbenacese. The plants began to bloom 
about September 1, and were in full 
bloom September 10, continuing so until 
after two hard frosts, during one of 
which the mercury fell to 22 degrees. 
The leaves, w Inch are coarsely serrate 
and somewhat downy, are opposite, and 
from the axil of each grows a cyme of 
light blue flowers, each cyme consisting 
of about 50, about a quarter of an inch 
in diameter, with five blue stamens 
(tipped with a blue anther) twice as long 
as the petals themselves. The lower 
petals are provided with a hair-like 
fringe. The leaves are thick, dark green, 
of an ovate shape and, as we have 
said, coarsely toothed towards the apex, 
but entire (smooth) near the stem. When 
pressed, as one would press the leaves 
of a “Fish” geranium, they emit an 
agreeable resinously aromatic odor. The 
main stem of the plant becomes woody. 
The lateral stems are perfectly smooth, 
round, and of a purplish color. 
The following note was made October 
1 : “ Not until now does this plant show 
its full beauty, though'it has been in 
bloom for a month. The bushes are 
now bushes of feathery blue, though we 
have had frosts that killed corn, toma¬ 
toes, and the like. The lowest umbels 
bloom first, but the flowers do not fade 
until those of the terminal uinbel bloom. 
The flowers of cut stems,-we have found, 
if placed in water, will last for at least 
two weeks.” 
When our friends consider that there 
are few really pretty flowers in bloom 
so late, the delicate beauty of the 
Tiie astounding power of the wind 
was in no case better illustrated, during 
our late tornado, than by the following 
incident, which we have already alluded 
to : A Norway spruce, about 18 years 
old, growing in front of a neighbor’s 
house, was broken in two parts. The 
top portion of about 10 feet, landed near 
the house. The secoud portion, which 
measured 12 feet long by three feet in cir¬ 
cumference with about 25 side branches 
from two to six feet in length, was 
hurled through the air, landing in the 
Rural Experiment Grounds, not less 
than 800 feet away. 
The Japan chestnuts at the Rural 
Grounds, all of them growing in exposed 
situations, bore no fruits, owing to the 
tornado. Several of them were bent 
over nearly to the ground, while the 
leaves and stems were battered and 
bruised by the immense hail stones. 
We began pruning grape vines October 
15. There was not one perfect cane to 
be found. It was necessary to cut away 
nearly all the wood, so that but little 
more than the wood and roots remain. 
Of course there will be no bearing canes 
strawberry-raspberry should be tried b,y 
those who are willing to pay for novel¬ 
ties the real value of which is not yet 
known as grown in the cold North. It 
seems that the strawberry-raspberry i 
herbaceous, the foliage and canes dyin 
every winter. We do not know as yet 
whether the roots are hardy, and there¬ 
fore we shall carefully protect the plant 
the coming winter. Our plant bore sev 
eral berries which were destroyed by the 
tornado. 
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yea 
Pgumragos. —Among the house and 
bedding plants we especially admired 
years ago when we were enabled to give 
more attention to them than in later 
years, was Plumbago capensis. The 
stems, which are rather thick, are lined 
with fine grooves. The true leaf is 
almost sessile and a little stem-clasp¬ 
ing. two to three inches long, ovate- 
lanceolate, tapering towards the stem 
more than towards the apex. They are 
smooth, entire and of a soft green color. 
Where the leaf clasps the stem, are two 
small, kidney-shaped bracts or wings, one 
on either side. The calyx tube is half 
an inch long, and provided on the upper 
half with glandular hairs that give it a 
mossy look. The slender tube of the 
flower is not thicker than a large pin, 
and nearly two inches in length. The 
corolla is salver-shaped, five petals, and 
an inch in diameter. The flowers are 
borne in spicate umbels, 20 or 30 in num¬ 
ber. The color is an azure blue of an 
exquisitely delicate “ baby” tint. Our 
friends will appreciate the delicacy of 
the color only when they see it. The 
plant is not a climber properly, but its 
habit is drooping because of the weight 
of its long, elastic, thickly-foliaged 
branches. Cut back in winter, it is easily 
preserved, being semi-hardy. It will 
then bloom periodically during the sum¬ 
mer as a bedding or rockery plant, for 
which it is admirably adapted, while 
thriving luxuriantly in almost any soil. 
The plant is also valuable as a house or 
conservatory vine, and interminged with 
Plumbago rosea, makes a combination 
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