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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
The Chinese Peonies are now the pride of the 
garden, and they truly make a most brilliant dis¬ 
play. The Paftony deserves a place in every col¬ 
lection. By a little care in selecting varieties they 
can be made to adorn the garden for at least two 
months, from the middle of May to the middle of 
July. The class known as Officinalis begins to show 
their flowers in this latitude the latter part of May, 
and continues several weeks. The Chinese class are 
in flower from about the middle of June to the 
middle of July. They are now in perfection, and 
we describe a few of the best varieties. 
Anemoneflora Striata is a fine flower, the Outer 
petals are large and of a rosy violet color, and the 
inner petals are small and of a rose and salmon 
color. 
Victoria Tri-color is one of the finest, with outer 
petals laTge and of a pale rose color with a deli¬ 
cate pink shading. The inner petals are of a very 
delicate yellow with a few red marks, showing 
three colors very distinctly. 
Fe.iti.va is large and fine every way, pure white 
with a most beautiful red centre. 
GLobosa is a pure while, large, fall and globular. 
Truly a most elegant flower. 
Claptcmiana ia of a creamy white with yellow 
center. 
Comte de Paris ia of a purplish rose, very full 
and fine; an excellent flower. 
Pottsi is of a dark purplish crimson and very 
fine. This is the darkest of the Chinese varieties. 
Delicatissima is of a very delicate rose color very 
large and sweet. We will notice a few other varie¬ 
ties next week. 
The Rosea arc just coming into flower, and we 
have taken notes which we shall complete and 
give in the next number. 
That most beautiful of all climbing shrubs, the 
Chinese Wistaria, is now in flower here, and we 
give an engraving of the flower and leaf. More 
than a month since we saw it in bloom In New 
York city, one plant covering several houses, and 
we then thought it one of the most beautiful ob¬ 
jects we ever beheld in the floral world, and deter¬ 
mined to present our readers with a plate sb soon 
as we could procure the drawing and engraving.— 
When young it sometimes makes a slow growth, 
but when once it takes a start, nothing grows more 
rapidly. Bkeck says he has seen it make a growth 
of twenty-two feet in one season. In this climate 
it needs no protection, though in sections much 
colder than this it would be well to cover the 
young plants in winter for a season or two. With 
us it commences blooming early in June, and a 
large plant will be literally loaded with thousands 
of rich clusters or pendulous racemes of delicate, 
pale blue blossoms, so numerous that the whole 
plant seems to he a floral wreath. The racemes 
are from ten to twelve inches long, and well filled 
with delicate and sweetly perfumod flowers. The 
foliage is abundant, and of a pleasant, lively green. 
It succeeds best in a rich, deep loam. It doeB not 
flower until the plant gets strong, and the older 
the plant the more freely it seems to flower. 
and even then, we often fail. Ice Cream is one of 
those aids,—it is one of the luxuries of the season, 
and can be had without much cost or trouble._ 
There are various recipes for its preparation, and 
we give two of them: 
One quart milk, the yolks of four eggs, and the 
white of one; one teaspoonfnl butter, one teaspoon¬ 
ful arrowroot, sugar and flavoring to taste. Put 
the milk on the fire; then take the arrowroot and 
butter, and make a smooth paste with cold milk; 
as soon as the milk boils, stir in the arrowroot and 
butter, and let it boil until it thickens; then take 
it ofF the fire, add the sngar, and slowly stir in the 
eggs, which should be well beaten; flavor to the 
taste. 
If pine-apple is nsed to flavor, grate as much as 
is wanted, and add sngar enough to make it quite 
sweet, and add to your cream when half frozen. 
In boiling cream, a milk kettle or farina boiler 
should be used to prevent burning. 
Another very simple method is the following:— 
To every quart of milk put half a pound of pow¬ 
dered sugar and three eggs well beaten. Mix all 
together, and flour with vanilla bean or lemon peel, 
and put the vessel containing it into a kettle of 
boiling water, and keep it stirring all the time 
until it thickens. Then allow it to cool, and it is 
ready to freeze. 
The freezing has usually been a very tedious 
matter, but with 
acsyin's patbnt freezer, 
as manufacture# by Cheney & Co., the work is 
done in six minutes, and often even less; and the 
whole operation is so simple that it can be done by 
a child. We would describe this freezer and i** 
itaUj 1 , *11 -.ho purchase them get 
full directions. 
Other lees, besides Cream, are very refreshing 
these warm days, and we recommend the ladies :o 
try the following after they get the freezer: 
Orange Ice.—O ne orange, (Havana is best,) One 
quart water, quarter pound sugar, grate outside 
skin of orange, squeeze out juice of orange, tar¬ 
taric acid, (equal to two or three grains coflee,) 
strain through muslin cloth, and freeze as cream. 
Lemon Ice.— One lemon, one quart water, quar¬ 
ter pound sugar. Same process, omitting tartaric 
acid. 
Strawberry Ice, —One quart strawberries, or 
three ordinary baskets—mashed, quart water, quar¬ 
ter pound sugar, tartaric acid as for orange; pro¬ 
cess as above. 
'Unescnr.sr. 
’anrerr Aho ihe Weather. — Muring XLc past 
week wo have had a warm day or two, and a good 
deal of rain. Strawberries are beginning to 
ripen, hut the only sorts we Bee in market are 
Early Scarlet and Burris New Pine. The earlier 
Cherries, such as Bauman's May and Early Pur¬ 
ple Guigne are coloring and will be ripe in a few 
days. In consequence of the extensive circulation 
of the Rural it is necessary to put it to press 
several days before the date of the paper. All 
our notes of fruits and flowers are taken on the 
Monday previous to the day of publication. 
. “ u Uu S tl s * irginia Crab. Pears generally in¬ 
jured. Those yet living are Pennock, Early Har¬ 
vest, Red Aj,traohan, Sailor’s Sweet, Twenty Ounce 
Pippin, (which sometimes weighs thirty ounces,! 
Neverfail, Fall Wine, Yellow Belleflower, Michael 
Henry Pippin, Canil on Pearmain, Fallen Walder, 
Cilhflowers,(brk and red,) Mamma Beau and Grind¬ 
stone 1 ippin. This orchard is in sandy barrens, 
open on all sides—soil dry. 
In Gordon s orchard, in the timber, ten miles 
north-west Irom this place, the soil is sandy loam, 
with day subsoil, I thmk. The following kinds 
were killed:—Rambo, Vandevere Pippin and Gol¬ 
den Russet. Those not yet dead but badly injured, 
are Newtown Pippin, Michael Henry Pippin, Rhode 
Island Greening, Seeknofuriher, Fall Pippin, Wine 
Sap and Wine Apple. Not hurt, were Early Har¬ 
vest, MaidenBlush, Gilliflower, (bPk and red,)Belle- 
flowers, white and yellow, Gate's Mamma Bean 
Apple, Summer Queen and Romanite. Plums, all 
killed. All cherries buj May Duke and common 
Red Sour. Peara, all but Sugar Pear. (The Ro¬ 
manite above is a medium sized red winter apple.) 
This orchard cultivated, and trees thrifty. 
In Nixon's orchard on the contrary the Rambo 
is least killed, hot in other respects is like mine, as 
to varieties killed ouh Soil sandy barrens with 
heavy timber on north, east and south —open to 
barrens on the west This orchard is well culti¬ 
vated, „ 
In Kendall’s orchard, comprising nearly the 
same varieties, none were killed but three Vande¬ 
vere Pippins. Soil, rich loamy sand, mixed with 
clay. Not cultivated,but in grass for years. Trees 
all straight ,—headed low. Trees iu these orchards 
grafted some in root, some stem and some in top. 
Some are seedlings. There is no difference in 
hardihood so far as I can see. Some varieties ol 
seedlings being equally teuder with the tenderest 
varieties or improved fruit, such as Vandevere 
Pippin, or Rambo. 
Goulds orchard is sandy barrens, containing 
sixty graded trees aud twenty seedlings. The 
grafts ate all dead but four, aud all the seedlings 
are living. I cannot say what treatment they have 
received as to cultivation. The seedlings probably 
standing in sod, and the grafts cultivated. Of 
these the Belleflower and Monstrous Pippin are 
Siberian Crab. A few, perhaps, of other varieties, 
have been winter killed, (as the peach, apricot and, 
nectarine often are by extreme cold,) and but very 
few. My opinion is that high heading, too deep 
planting and the borer are to be looked upon as the 
principle causes of the loss of our trees. 
To remedy this trouble, (or rather prevent it,) I 
look to new trees, headed low, (no matter how low,) 
keeping the plow away from pruning the roots, and 
to supplying, rather than taking away, food from 
the trees, and to a more sparing use of the knife 
and saw tn pruning. 
1 have lost no trees planted by myself during the 
past three winters, though my new orchard of 700 
trees, contains all of the above-named apples, 
hardy and tender —and it is planted so far as possi¬ 
ble according to the ideas above set forth, and 1 
have no doubt but that in sixyears the youngtrees 
will have larger tranks than those planted more 
than twelve years before them. The mercury last 
winter for January, ranged from four to twenty de¬ 
grees below zero. Yet peach trees are not ail 
killed, showing that some varieties will survive 
oven twenty below, and even peach buds were not 
killed, many being in blossom immediately about 
me—tbua demonstrating to the contrary of what 
many assort, that the peach bud will not survive a 
cold lower than about ten or twelve, while others 
think or write that twelve or fourteen will kill even 
the tree itself. 
On June 7th, ’57, I visited the site of old Fort 
Wayne, aud while there examined the old apple 
tree on which one ot Mad Anthony's men shot ar 
Indian some time after Habmak's defeat there.— 
The tree must be considerably more than eighty 
rods from the site of the Fort (whence the Boldier 
shot,) showing that in those days they had rifles 
not much, if any, inferior to the improved rifles of 
the present day. It measures, two feet from the 
ground, four feet in diameter. It branches from 
the surface, and covers an area whose diameters 
are sixty and sixty.tbree feet. It appears healthy, 
and probably would produce a hundred bushels of 
frnit a b. 
Rochester, Indiana, June, 1S57. 
Having a larger stock of Lima Beans on hand 
than I required for my own planting, I distributed 
several packages among my neighbors. Most of 
them, however, anticipating the return of our 
strangely laggard spring weather planted before 
the soil became warm enough to insure a speedy 
germination. The result Es that most of the rich 
but delicately organized seeds have “died with¬ 
out issue.” Partly from choice, but more through 
a press of other work I delayed my planting until 
the 25th and 26th of May. I had carefully pre¬ 
pared the ground and planted above two score of 
hills, and when in a little more than a week I noted 
the rapid upheaval of the surface crust, and the 
quick outspreading of tiny leaflet^ I will own that 
1 felt proud of my success—but, “pride must have 
a falL” In a few days their numbers began to 
grow less. Here a reclining bean stalk showed a 
weakness in the side. There a denuded stem stood 
mourning its wilted leaflets. It was a plain case, 
the cut-worms had entered on their destructive 
mission. Plowing np the mellow earth with my 
fingers I soon captured a half dozen of the drows¬ 
ing vermin on which I inflicted summary justice. 
The other morning I chanced to awake .as the 
clock was striking three, and quickly rising and 
donning my garments I lighted a lantern and pro¬ 
ceeded to the garden. There I surprised a select 
party of cat-worms upreared against the ill-fated 
beau plants and greedily battening on the tender 
foliage. Certain others had finished their mid¬ 
night meal and prudently gone to bed. A goodly 
number of them unwillingly paid the debt of na¬ 
ture, albeit, I extended my researches among the 
Japan Teas, of which I have planted over one- 
fourth of an acre. These look quite flourishing 
except on the side next the Limas where the creep¬ 
ing marauders have made a tolerably clean sweep. 
This year I planted from six to eight Llmus in a 
hill, and next season I think of increasing the 
number to 15 or 20, so aa if possible to get a final 
stand ot at least four plants to each hill in spite of 
cut-worms and all other casualties combined. 
At tne close of the foray aforesaid, the “streaky 
fingers of the dawn” having appeared in the east, 
l dispensed with caudle light and proceeded to 
the setting out of a quantity of Early York and 
Wimiingstadt cabbage plants. These I placed in 
rows as “ straight as a chalk-line,” first stretching 
said tine where I wished to set the plants. 
_ I have planted several rows of the Early Rachel 
Horticultural Society of the Valley of 
the Genesee. —The Annual Spring Exhibition of 
this Society, which, on account of the backward¬ 
ness of the season, has been deferred two weeks, 
will be held at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, on 
Thursday and Friday, the 9th and 10th days of 
July. It is earnestly desired that amateur culti¬ 
vators, not only among our citizens but in the ad¬ 
jacent villages and surrounding country, as well 
as Gardeners and Nurserymen, should interest 
themselves in this exhibition. The shows of this 
society last year were superior to any ever before 
made by it, and were largely attended by the pub¬ 
lic ; and by new arrangements, and the co-opera¬ 
tion of those interested, it is confidently hoped 
that the exhibitions this season will far surpass 
those of the past. Premium Lists may be had on 
application to C. YV. Bee dye, Secretary. 
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FBUIT CULT DUE IN INDIANA. 
Eds. Rural:— I promised you a few facts in re¬ 
gard to Fruit Trees, and will now give you the 
results of my experience aud observation in this 
section. I bought an orchard December, lssj, 0 f 
five hundred trees, which were put out about, the 
year 1840. All were planted too deep, but made u 
rapid growth under good cultivation, and a liberal 
feeding with manure from barn-yard, swamp, stove, 
aud the charcoal pit Three hundred of the trees 
are now dead. They first appeared to be hurt dur¬ 
ing the winter of 1851-2, and were finished by the 
two past winters, so we generally think. 
I found on taking out the dead trees that all but 
four were planted with the collar roots from eight 
to thirty inches below the surface; that all were 
more or less injured by the borer which works 
anywhere from the surface of the ground to the 
fork above, to the height of eight or nine feet. 
How much higher they may go I can’t say. 1 ob- 
Borved that those most injured by the borer were 
leaning trees, leaning at a greater or less angle 
We clip from the Ohio Cultivator the following 
recipes for preserving the Strawberry, which, to 
our friends who are to have a surplus, will prove 
timely, and enable them to artificially prolong the 
“strawberry season:” 
Strawberry Preserves. — Seleot the largest 
and handsomest berries, weigh them and spread 
on platters. For each pound of fruit allow a pound 
of powdered white sugar. Sprinkle halt this 
amount over the berries, and let them stand seve¬ 
ral hours in a cool place, to harden and to form 
liquor. Put them in a porcelain-lined kettle, and 
and by degrees strew on the rest of the sugar. Boil 
them slowly fifteen minutes, skimming thoroughly, 
then take thegi from the syrup and spread again 
on platters to cool and harden into shape. Then 
put them into wide-mouthed glass bottles, pour the 
syrup on boiling hot and seal the jars. 
Strawberry Jelly. — Take the berries when 
first ripe aud fresh, mash and drain them through 
a tiannel bag. To each pint of juice put a pound 
of white sugar, and one-third of the white of an 
egg. Boil slowly about tea minutes, skimming 
thoroughly, then dip it into tumblers and cups, and 
set it into a sunny window uncovered till it jellies, 
then seal them over. It will never form a very 
Arm jelly, but tt ia delicious and beautiful. 
Strawberry Jam. —Small and poor berries will 
answer, if clean and tYee from decay. Mash with 
a wooden pestle, add to each pound one-fourth of 
a pound of brown sugar, boil about fifteen min¬ 
utes, and seal up in earthen, glass aud stone jars. 
Canned Strawberries.— Put the berries over 
the fire without sugar and with almost no water 
A New Grape, Perhaps. — J. C. Kilborn. of 
BetunsN ille, Canada Y\ est, writes us of a new wine 
grape growing at that place, which he thinks 
“likely to prove the best native wiue grape yet 
Introduced to the American public.” It is a 
very vigorous grower, and one of them covers a 
space four rods square, running over the trees. 
From this vine last year three barrels of wino 
were made. No description ia given of this grape, 
and it may prove to bo some old variety ; Mr. K. 
however, promises us a full description, and per¬ 
haps some specimens, when the fruit is ripe. 
Bean, side by side, with the China Red-eyes, the 
result of which, together with certain potato ex¬ 
periments I am making, I may perhaps report next 
fall for the benefit of others, I intend however, 
to continue my experiments through several sea¬ 
sons, as I am aware that one experiment alone does 
not amount to much. Frank Fielding. 
Burr Oak, St. Joseph Co, Mich., June 14, 1857. 
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Cucumbers for pickling may yet be planted. 
To Correspondents. —Several in 
other favors from correspondents will 
tention in the next number. 
