MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: VN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
AMERICAN FRUIT IN ENGLAND, 
FRUIT CAKE, CRACKERS, &e. 
Eds. Rural:— Often being benefited by the 
recipes of others l trust the following are worthy 
of publication and will find a place in your 
columns: 
Rich Fruit Cake.— One pound of flour, 1 ft. 
sugar, f lb. butter, 10 egg®, beat the yolks and sugar 
together, then add the flonr and bnt'er beaten to a 
cream, then inis in lightly the whites of the eggs 
beaten to a froth, 1 lb. raisins cat in pieces, 2 ft?, 
onrrants well washed and dried, f ft. citron cut in 
slips, mace and cinnamon of each a tublespoonffil, 
1 gUl of brandy. Strew a quarter of a ponnd of 
flonr over the currants and raisins, sMr all toge ther 
into a cake, Pat in tin dishes lined with buttered 
paper—fill 2 inches thick — bake in a quick oven 
an hour. 
Better Crackers.— Rub 4 ounces of butter In 
a ponnd of floor; add salt. When it is fine put in 
cold water sufficient to dampen it and keep it to¬ 
gether, then beat It with a rolling pin until smooth. 
Roll thin, cut In small cakes, the Bize of a dollar 
piece, and nearly an inch thick, bake in a quick 
oven fifteen minutes. 
Cep (Jasst,— 2 eggs, 2 cups cream, 2 cups sugar, 
4 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls soda. 
Fruit Pudding,— 1 bowlful of nice thick cream, 
2 eggs, 1 teaBpoonful saleratus; mix and roll it 
nearly an inch thick, then spread with fruit —roll 
up and boil in a sack for two hoars. Sat with 
sauce. Maple sugar and cream preferable, 
Attica, Seneca Co., Ohio, 1857. 
On the 24th of October, the English Horticultu¬ 
ral Society held its Fall Exhibition, and the display 
of frnit is reported to have exceeded anything 
ever before seen in the country. Messrs. Hovby 
& Co. sent on a collection of apples and pears, 
which were exhibited. The pears it seems were 
inferior to both English and French collections, 
but the apples are well spoken of. We give the 
remarks of the Florist and Fruitist, (London): 
“A collection of pears of French growth came 
from Nante 1 , but with the exception, perhaps, of 
some large Buerre Diels few of the fruits contain¬ 
ed in it were first r<ite. Inferior to these, however, 
was a display of pears of American growth, from 
Messrs. Hcivgy, of Boston. They were bruised 
and injured from traveling, but independently of 
that, they were individually sm; 11 and poor, espe¬ 
cially when compared wi'h the fine English frnit 
which everywhere surrounded them, and with 
which they formed a soriy contrast This, how¬ 
ever, has, we believe, been a bad year for frnit in 
America. Of trans-nt'antic apples, furnished by 
the Bame growers, we can, however, speak in more 
favorable terms, The Rhode Island Greening and 
the Baldwin, upon being cut, were found to be 
first rate. The former, especially, though Bome- 
what unpromising in appearance, is crisp, juicy, 
and most agreeable to the taste, and the same may 
also be Bald of the Baldwin.” 
The Gardener's Chronicle says the Greening and 
Baldwins were by far the best apples in the Ameri¬ 
can collection, though the Porter, Northern 3weet, 
Cogswell and Roxbury Russet were worthy of fa¬ 
vorable mention. 
old Burfmun, of large experience on the Atlantio 
coast. In form, its bow and stern are alike sharp 
at each end, like a whale-boat, with a very high 
sheer. Each end Is filled with cork cuttings and 
sealed up thoroughly. The boat is 23 feet long, 6 
feet 9 inches wide, and 2 feet 9 Inches deep. Like 
the famous Long Branch boats, which it somewhat 
resemblee, it is clinker built, of wood, and ex¬ 
ceedingly buoyant; the weight of the one on ex¬ 
hibition was 1,200 fta. It was propelled through 
the water with much ease. To teat its buoyancy 
and self righting qualities when capsize' seven 
of the Battery boatmen stripped and got into it 
By standing on the gunwale and throwing ail their 
weigth on one aide, they were able to brio git upon 
its beam; then by holding the man r -pes ant. 
swinging back, assisted by others in boats on the 
other side, they succeeded, after many attempts, 
in turning it bottom upward. As it went over 
(he men inside clung to the thwarts, and it in¬ 
stantly roiled over and came right side up, the 
buoyant ends clearing one gunwale of the water 
before the other was Immersed. This experiment, 
oft repeated, elicited much applause. It is said 
that the hoat would curry 50 persons with ease; 
we saw over 30 in her at one rime, and there seem¬ 
ed to be room enough for as many more. This 
boat will be valuable for coast service in render¬ 
ing assistance to the shipwrecked, as it ia obvious 
that she would ride the heaviest ?urf right aide up. 
— N. Y. Tribune. 
Cyrena, 
GINGER SNAPS, CAKES AND CRULLERS. 
Eds. Rural:—W ill yon please publish the fol¬ 
lowing reoipea for the benefit of A. H. H.'a better 
half. 
Ginger Snaps.— 2 cups of molasses, 1 cup lard, 
1 tablespoonful of ginger, 1 do. saleratus; flour; 
roll very thin. 
Another and Better,—1 pound butter, 1 pound 
sugar, 1 pint molasses, 1 cap ginger, 2 teaspoons 
saleratus, 6 eggs; floor; roll thin. a. s. l. 
Lyon?, N. Y , 1857. 
Ens. Rural : —As a subscriber, I take tbe liberty 
of sending yon a “capital recipe” for gtnver 
snaps, observing a request for one in last wc-eVs 
Rural: 
Ginger Snaps. —Take 1 teacup sugar. 1 teacup 
of molasses, 7 of flour, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, J 
tablespoon of saleratns, Balt and seasoning. 
Bus. Rural: —In reply to the request which was 
made in the last Rural for a recipe for “ginger 
snap*,” I will send the following, as they are the 
beat I have ever tried. 
Ginger Snaps.— 1 teacup of boiled molasses, 4 
tible spoon fills of butter, 1 tablespoonful of ginger, 
1 teaspoonful of soda; stir the molasses in fhefiour 
when hot; roll thin and bake quick. 
Lemon Cask— 3 cups of sugar, 1 cup of butter, 
5 eggs — yolks and whites separated — 1 cup sour 
cream, 1 teaspoonful of saleratns, 4 cups of flour; 
the juice and rind of a lemon, grated. 
Cu.rrr.UMUF— l cop or sugar, 1 arrerct milk. 1 
tablespoonfal of Utitter, 1 teaspoonfdl of cream 
CURIOUS INSTANCE OJ? HYBRIDIZATION. 
Ens. Rural:— It is comparatively recent that 
successful attempts have been made, at least to 
any considerable extent, to produce new varieties 
of fruits and flowers, by hybridization, or the 
mingling of one specleB with another. The facts, 
and law of vegetable physiology, on which the 
practice is founded, are, however, not new. It Ims 
been for a long time known that certain plants, 
such as the encumber, and the melon, and many 
others, have different kinds of flowers, and that 
though the one kind are of short duration, and 
drop off, they are yet in some way necessary to the 
fruitfulness of the other. Many who have grown 
these plants near each other, have observed that 
their seeds had in Borne way deteriorated, and 
failed to produce frnit like that from which they 
were taken. 
The difference between staminate and pistillate 
flowers, and between the Btamens and pistils of 
the same flower, and their different office in the 
production of frnit, has long been known. It has 
been known that if the pollen from one of these 
plants should be carried by the wind, or insects, 
and deposited upon the ovnla of the other, the seed 
thus produced would partake in some degree of 
the nature of each of the parent plants. A parti¬ 
cle of the pollen from the corn tassel, on a stalk of 
one kind of com, fulling upon the end of a fibre 
of the silk from the newly formed ear of another 
kind, at a certain stage of its growth, will produce, 
at the other end of that fibre, a kernel, not alto¬ 
gether like either, but what la called a cross of the 
two. This iB every year observed in almost all 
gardens, or fields, where different kinds of corn 
are grown. It is a very common practice, at the 
present day, to plant strawberries of different 
kinds in the Bame bed, that the one may fertilize 
the other. 
In regard to all these cases, the generally re¬ 
ceived theory, I believe, is, that the mingling of 
cucum- 
In order to insure the healthful operation of hot 
air furnaces in honses, the gases produced by com¬ 
bustion of the fuel must not be suffered to mingle, 
even in minute proportions, with the air which is 
to be inbalec. Of these tbe most r-oxions are the 
carbonic oxyd and sulphurous acid gases. The 
fonmr, when ’be action n: the furnace is perfect, 
undergoes a further combustion, converting it Into 
earicnio acid—a ?e?s noxicu? product;*but the 
latter, or sulphurous- gas, ia ea htly Incombustible. 
It ia evolved In considerable quantity from even 
the purest varieriea of av -acUe, ia especially 
prone to escape, und ia eminently deleterious when 
breathed hahltrully even m small .amount. To 
guard against such a result, to stove moat be con¬ 
structed vtith as lew junctures as possible; and 
those must he so formed and so connected as to 
remain air-tight, in spite of the warping, and the 
alternate expansion and contraction of the mate¬ 
rials due to changing temperature. The air of the 
air chamber most be warmed evenly and adeqnate- 
ly, without bringing it into contact with surfaces 
30 highly heated as to cause the organic matters 
contained in it to be burned or otherwise chemi¬ 
cally altered; and in order to fulfill this condition, 
the arrangement must be such aa to present to the 
iooiuA^a passing air a large warming surface heat¬ 
ed to a moderate vin^r-i-nre. Ti, [; being 
supplied with an increase of heat In the air cham¬ 
ber, must also be supplied with a corresponding 
increase of moisture. Tbis is requisite to maintain, 
its natural degree of humidity; or that appropriate 
to the temperature, without which it is felt to be 
unpleasantly dry, and when habitually breathed, 
proves highly detrimental to the health. Since 
the first introduction of the hot-air furnace, in the 
shape of the Cockle or BeTper stove, constructed 
by Mr. Strutt, In 1792, nearly all the newly invent¬ 
ed articles in this line have retained the same gene¬ 
ral plan. 
THE DOUBLE FLOWERED PETUNIAS 
All our readers are acquainted with that com¬ 
mon and pretty beddlDg plant, the Petunia, which 
we have before described in the Rural. Though 
very showy, and constant, free bloomers, makiDg 
the garden look gay and bright from May until 
the frosts of Autumn, no doubla flower was pro¬ 
duced nu'il recently. This we have never much 
regretted, as the effect of ibe bc‘. m m W 
any better, even if all the flowers flotih’e—3onn- 
dance of flowers and a flue arrangement of colors 
are matters of ranch more consequence For this 
reason, although we were pleased with tbe new 
double white Petunia, called the Impertalu, which 
WA3 raised in France, yet we did not feel as much 
elated over it as some of onr friends. The appear¬ 
ance and character of this flower is shown in the 
engraving. 
An Englishman, by the name of Grieves, has 
hybridized t: e Impertulis with Borne of the best 
dirk 9ingle sorts, snd the result Is said to be a 
number of very fine doable flowers of all colors 
from crimson to white. The dark flower In the 
engraving exhibits one of these varieties. 
The Imperial can now be obtained at almost 
of > l! : noxA?-- -a 1 ^reenboufos a very 
small price, but we have 7 ?v Earned of the 
importation of thf d irk, dr able ^or's. Tn view of 
the enterprise of oar nurserymen, we can say it 
will not be long before they are offered for sale.— 
But, whether this is so or not, we know f some 
very flee new single American sorts that may sat¬ 
isfy tbe lover cf flowers for a yesr or so at least 
and of some of these we shall speak In a future 
number. 
THE WAY TO MAKE PUMPKIN PIES. 
As it is now “ Pumpkin time,” I take the liberty 
to send a new recipe, (or new at least to ns,) which 
we think is far superior to the old method of 
"stewing” the pumpkin—which you will please 
insert for the benefit of those of your readers who 
love good pumpkin pie. It ia this:—Take a good 
ripe pnmpkin, pare, and ent into good sized pieces, 
then grate it, and put into the milk, the same as in 
the ordinary way; put in your eggs, allowing one 
to a pie, one tablespoon of ginger, one of cinna¬ 
mon or allspice, according to your taste, and you 
will have a delicious pie. 
Good Gingerbread.—’ Take two teacups of rich 
cream, one cf molasses, one tablespoon of ginger 
a little salt; mix soft as you can conveniently roll 
It, and bake in a quick oven. This will make two 
large loaves.—C- W. C., Greece, At K, 1S57. 
BFST FBU1T FOB MARKET 
speoies Is in the seed alone;—that is, that the 
ber this year is not at all different, from its flowers 
having been fertilized by a neighboring squash, or 
any variety of pistillate strawberries at all differ¬ 
ent, in color, size, or flavor, whether fertilized by 
the Early Scarlet, or the Black Prince. But if 
seeds of this cucamber, or of these strawberries 
are sown, the frnit produced by the new plants 
will be hybrids, or creases, of the different species. 
All the facte, which I have observed, favor this 
theory unleea it may be tbe one which I now oom- 
municateto your readers, and upon which I should 
like the opinion of some one who ia wise in these 
matters. The fact is this. Upon a grape-vine, 
growing in this town, and having for its support 
a hickory tree, was fonnd, some weeks ago, a fruit 
of this description: The outside huBk, and general 
appearance, that cf the hickory nnt, though not 
quite so large as tbe cuts upon the tree, com¬ 
pletely filled with a hard, sour, grape palp, and in 
the centre, what appeared like several grape Eeeds 
orowded, and joined together. This specimen was 
examined by several persona Ukely to be interest¬ 
ed in Bach matters, but so far ah I can learn, no 
one of them has commaolcated the fact to the 
public. 
Aother query, besides tbe one relating to the 
theory of hybridization, suggested itself to my 
mind or seeing this queer mt ngrel, viz., if there is 
such aftioity betweeu the agents which go to form 
the fruit in these diflerent species, of so widely 
difl'dreut genera of plant?, may it not be that a like 
aflilnity exists betweeu the plants themselves, and 
that the grape can be worked upon the hickory? 
I assert no such probability, but suggest the query 
for the curious. n, 
Hutbon, Ohio, 1S67. 
In the Rural of Nov. 7th, your reply in answer 
to the “ Best Fruit for Market u does not caution 
against planting pistillate strawberry plums by 
themselves Vast numbers of persons have her ti 
disappointed in their hopes of a strawberry er p 
by not understanding that staminate plants are 
necessary to a good crop of strawberriea This 
caution may seem superfluous to you who have 
heard the matter so often; bat is by no meaus un¬ 
necessary to a great many of yonr readers. Of 
staminate plant?,the “Large Early Scarlet” and 
the “ Hooker ” are two of the finest varieties. 
As to the New Rochelle Blackberry, you say 
they “should bo planted at frouiBix to right feet,” 
Permit me to say that the rotes ahon’ i be eight 
feet apart; but that in the rows ihe plants 
need only to be four feet apart, which d -rides the 
number of hills to the acre, and with good cultiva¬ 
tion nv re than doubles the crop. The tabit 
the plant is drooping; and by ending and tjiug 
them in the direction or the rows, the space of 
eight feet between is left, comparatively clear, aud 
instead of 680 plants you can set ont 1,360 to the 
acre—160 more than when planted six feet apart 
each way. This also allows a much greater free¬ 
dom for cultivation of the plants and the gather¬ 
ing of the fruit The rows should, if possible, be 
planted from west to east, so that the plants bend¬ 
ing in the same direction will feet the prevailing 
winds less than in any other way, 
I have an acre of these plants under cultivation, 
and take great pleasure in -.bowing to visitors 
their mode of cultivation, habit and growth, some 
of mine being ten feet in height. PLuits are sold 
In quantities at $125 per thousand_ O. P. Bisskll, 
Rochester, N. ¥., Nov., 1857. 
Remarks. —In our answer to a correspondent 
noticed above, we did not attempt to give the 
method of culture, but simply to answer the ques¬ 
tions uskod. We have given thorough informal ion 
on the subject in tbe present volume of the Rcral. 
The distance for Blackberries recommended by 
Mr. Bi88Et. may be the best, though at the last 
meeting uf the Fruit Growers of Western New 
York, eight feet each way was recommended by 
some cultivators. 
Last spring, in a communication upon the effect 
of the Fevere winter upon my cherry trees, I al¬ 
luded to tbeir first promising appearance and then 
to tbeir apparent injury by the previous winter.— 
f regret to say the result was the loss of BOite of 
my best tree?. Upon examination I foand the 
roots and body close to the ground entirely vigor¬ 
ous and alive. The limbs and main branches were 
also uninjured; but the body was entirely dead, 
the rapid growth having opened seams in the bark 
to the wood, and by such exposure was in fact 
frozen to death, and for that reason the bottom 
and top failed to connect, and because of this the 
trees died. 
It has occurred to me lhat by winding straw or 
some other like protection around the body of the 
trees, they might have been saved. I give this 
suggestion, as some of your nnm- rous leaders may 
have already tried or may try the experiment, and 
if proved a successful reme,ly.it might contribute 
to the happiness and luxuries of man. 
Syiacuse, N. Y., 1857. S. .N. HotMSS. 
People have often said that no difference can 
be detected in the analyzation of pure and Im¬ 
pure air. This i3 one of the vulgar errors diffi¬ 
cult to dislodge from the ordinary brain. The 
faot is that the condensed air of a crowded room 
gives a deposit* which, if allowed to remain a few 
days, forms a solid, thick glutinous mass, having 
a strong odor of animat matter. If examined by 
the microscope, it is seen to undergo a remarka¬ 
ble change. First of all, It is converted into a 
vegetable growth, and this is followed by the pro¬ 
duction of multitudes of animalcules—a decisive 
proof that it must contain certain organic matter, 
otherwise it could not nourish organic beings. A 
writer in Dickens’ Household Words, in remark¬ 
ing upon this sut jeot, »ays that this was the result 
arrived at by Dr. Angus Smith, in his beautiful 
experiment on the air and water of towns, where¬ 
in he showed how the lungs and skin gave out or¬ 
ganic matter, which is, in itself, a deadly poison, 
producing headache, sickness, disease or epidemic- 
according to its strength. Why. if a few drops 
of the liquid matter, obtained by the condensa¬ 
tion of the air of a foal locality, introduced into 
the vein of a dog, can produce death by the usual 
phenomena of typhus fever, what incalculable 
evils must not it produce on those human beings 
who breath it again and again, rendered fouler 
and lees capable of sustaining life with every 
breath drawn! Such contamination of the air, 
and consequent hot-bed of fever and epidemic, it 
is easily within the power of man to remove._ 
Ventilation and cleanliness will do all, so far as 
the abolition of this evil goes; and ventilation 
and cleanliness are not miracles to be prayed for 
bat certaia results of common obedience to the 
laws of God.— Scientific American. 
HOW TO KEEP EGGS FRESH, &o. 
Eds. Rural:— Reading In a late number of yonr 
paper that you wish to know how to keep eggs 
fresh during winter, I will give yon »iy plan and 
you can publish it if you choose. Be snre to have 
the eggs ftet-h; put two or three dozen iu a colan¬ 
der. pour boiling wafer over them, and as soon as 
they are dry, roll each one la a paper, as lemc-ns 
are pet up, and stand them on the small end. I 
kept eggs last winter this way, without freezing, iu 
the cellar way, when every thing in the cellar froze 
solid. I have them now, that I pat down in July, 
as fresh as new ones. To be kept In a cool, dry 
place. 
Fresh Beep can be kept from spoiling, a few 
days, by putting in sour milk. 
Minute Pudding made in tbe usual way; only 
not quite as thick, by adding three or four eggs, 
weil beaten, and put iu after the flonr, will be 
much better. mrs. l. d’p. 
Coldspring-, Oct., 1857. 
Tug Vintage op Missouri. — From the Ger- 
ni iU colony of Hermann, in Missouri, we leurn 
to at i he vintage has ecu in progress for several 
week®, and is almost ended, Tbe yield unpre¬ 
cedentedly large—the vintners are reaping a 
larger crop than they usd provided for, and in 
o sequence there is a scarcity of barrels and 
cellar room. The St. Louis Weatliche Post says 
the xrapes are uncannily laige and juicy, and 
if u inary oare ia taken m the vintage, the yield 
of wine will bo better, aa well as larger than ever 
before, as they must contain a greater prevent ige 
of sugar than has been the esse in uny year since 
1848. l’be wine this year grown in Hermann and 
vicinity will amount to about 100,000 gallons._£7. 
Louis Democrat. 
A Simple Remedy for Bronchitis. 
■A writer 
iu f he Baltimore Sun who has been afflicted se¬ 
verely tn his family by that appalling disease, 
bronchitis, has found relief from tho following 
remedy:—' Take honey in the comb, squeeze it out 
and dilute with ft little water, and wet the lipa and 
mouth occasionally with it.” It had never been 
known to fail, in cases where children had throats 
so swollen as to be unable to swallow. It is cer¬ 
tainly a simple remedy, and may be a very effica¬ 
cious one. 
Hugh Miller says:— “As another family of 
plants, the Rosace® was created in order that the 
gardens which it would be one of man’s vocations 
to keep and to dress, should havo their trees ‘good 
for food, and pleasant to ihe taste;’ so flowers, in 
general, were profusely produced ju9t ere ho ap¬ 
peared, to minister to that sense of beauly which 
distinguishes him from all the lower creatures, and 
to which he owes not a few of his most exquisite 
enjoyments. The poet accepted the bee us a sign 
of high significance; the geologist also accepts 
her as a sign. Her entombed remains testify to 
the gradual fitting-up of oar earth as a place of 
habitation for a creature destined to seek delight 
for the mind and the eye as certainly aa tor the 
grosser sense?, and in especial, marks tho intro¬ 
duction of the stately forest-trees, and tho arrival 
of delicious flowera.” 
Cukcuuo. — a remedy for this pest is proposed 
Iu the Ohio Valley Farmer, by Mr. Walker, of 
Kentucky. As soon ;,s tho fruit is attacked, take 
a tin pan into which soapsuds has been placed to 
the depth ot an inch or so; place it in the tree, 
and place a sin all glass globe lamp in tho middle 
of the pao, which permit to burn all night In 
darting towards the light the enreulios strike the 
glass, and are precipitated into the liquid, from 
which they are unable to extricate themselves. 
Grape Growbrs.— The grape growers of the 
West, arc receiving large accessions to their nnm- 
bets from Europe. A ship arrived at Philadelphia 
a few days since from Genoa, bringing oue hun 
dred and twenfy-flvo passengers, who all come to 
this country with the intention of proceeding west, 
and engaging in the culture of the grape, with a 
view to the production of wine. 
For Chapped Hands, —Take five drachms of 
camphor gum, 3 do. white beeswax, 2 do. sper¬ 
maceti, 2 oz. olive oil—put them together in acnp 
upon the stove where they will melt slowly, and 
form a white ointment in a few minutes. If the 
hands be affected, anoint them on going to bed, 
aud put on a pair of gloves. A day or two will 
suffice to heal them. 
degree of heat The way to do this, is to steep 
the clay for some hoars, (from six to twenty-four, 
iu dilute muriatic acid, according to the quantity 
of these substances in ft) then washing it with 
water, and drying it afterwards. The muriatic 
aeid takes up and dissolves the substances named, 
which are removed with the washing. 
Never plant air e with small roots and large 
top—when the roots have been made small by tho 
spade in digging—without making the latter small 
also. There must be some ballast in the hold to 
carry so much Bail on the mast* 
