this season is due in some localities to the ravages 
of the strawberry worm. 
THE KU88KLL STRAWBERRY. 
2. Question. — What is Ihf mult of another year's expc 
ruticc with the. Russell Prolific Strawberry? 
[It is proper to say in the outset that there 
was a large exhibition of thin variety on the 
table—indeed, it was the feature of the exhibi¬ 
tion, so far as display was concerned— Joseph 
Kerch, of Waterloo, and Rk.vssalaerSchuy- 
i.kh, of Seneca Falls, making the bulk of the 
display.] 
K. Schuyler.— The berries I have on exhi¬ 
bition here grew on vines planted out late last 
season and poorly cared for this. The produc¬ 
tiveness of the plant is wonderful. It is very 
hardy, easily fertilized—scarcely needs fertiliz¬ 
ing at all, but produces a good deal better with 
some standnate berry mixed with it. An acre 
of lund, i do not hesitate to say. with good cul¬ 
tivation, will yield 300 to 400 bushels of fruit 
planted with this berry. I would cultivate it 
in hills, keeping ofl' runners, and mulch two or 
three inches deep in winter. 
H. E. Hooker. —I called on both Mr. Schuy¬ 
ler and Mr. Russell last season, to see their 
crop of this fruit. In Russell’S garden the 
pollen of the WILSON’S Albany fertilized it. I 
think it fertilizes easier than its parent^-Mo 
AvOY’B Superior. It is, no doubt, a superior 
fruit. It will produce greatly, if fertilized. 
There can be no doubt, however, as to its sex. 
It is pistillate. 1 thought I never saw larger 
crops, of any variety, than I saw of this last 
year. It has its characteristics—good quality, 
productive; it is not a firm fruit. 
J. J. Thomas.—I have grown this fruit dif¬ 
ferently from any one present, probably—grow 
it more densely. And I think it will prove pro¬ 
ductive. It may be one of the class pistillate 
that develop more pollen in the anthers than 
others. This may be determined by the aid of 
a powerful microscope, and plate glass on which 
to press out the pollen from the anthers. 
JOSEPH Kerch.— 1 have watched the fruit¬ 
ing of this plant five years. Russell thinks it 
fertilizes itself to some extent, but he recom¬ 
mends planting one to twenty-five of Wilson’s, 
so as to secure impregnation and a crop. The 
few Wilson’s cost little. The fact that Rus¬ 
sell’s Prolific is a pistillate berry, ought not 
to be used to depreciate its value; but it should 
i be known that it produces better planted with 
staminate varieties. There is a lesR show of 
> fruit on the vines of this variety this year than 
there lias been any year during the past five 
> years—there are more imperfect berries. I at¬ 
tribute this to the heavy rains about the time 
> of fertilizing. Rut, gentlemen, I never saw 
s such sights of berries, so far as productiveness 
is concerned, as I have seen on the Russell 
7 Prolific vines; and I have tried every variety 
I could get hold of that ever came before the 
public. If the ground is properly prepared, 
1 planted, and the plants cultivated, it will pro- 
1 duce more hulk and more berries than any va- 
- riety 1 ever saw. I regard the treatment of 
. the plants in the fall of the year the most Im- 
f portant of the season. The vines should be 
I lifted, aud a mulch of tine manure, compost, or 
i- even soil, he thrown over the roots. 
PUDDINGS AND PUFFS, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—I send some 
recipes for puddings, which [ think are nice: 
Rice Puddings without Eggs.— Put five 
tablespoonfuls of uncooked rice in three pints 
new r milk, stund in a warm place an hour before 
baking. Add salt, sugar, and nutmeg or cinna¬ 
mon to suit the taste; if jou choose, raisins. 
After it begins to boil, mix thoroughly one 
tablespoonful flour with the same quantity of 
butter; thin with a little of the boiling milk 
and stir slowly into the pudding. Stir occasion¬ 
ally and bake two hours and a half. Or it may 
be made without sugar, and a sauce made of two 
large tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of 
flour rubbed well together; add butter (half the 
size of a hen’s egg,) in small bits, pour on two- 
tbirds of a pint of boiling water, add a little 
salt and boil a minute or two. Flavor with 
grated nutmeg. 
Indian Meal Pudding.— Take one pint of 
new milk, half pint of water, mix aud scald. 
Turn the mixture gradually on six tablespoon¬ 
fuls meal; put in a bit of butter the size of an 
egg; a little salt; three tablespoonfuls of sugar, 
two of molasses, and one egg. Beat all together 
and hake two hours. 
Puffs. —Take half pint new milk; half pint 
sifted flour; four eggs; ft little salt, and a spoon¬ 
ful of melted butter. Beat the eggs and flour 
well together, turn the milk on gradually, and 
add the salt and butter. Rutter teacups, half fill 
them with the mixture, and bake twenty min¬ 
utes in a hot oven; serve instantly with cream 
and sugar. Mrs. J. A. S. GaSicill. 
Columbia Co., Wis., 1864. 
SUMMER MEETING. 
The Society met at the City Hall in this city, 
•Wednesday, the 2*2d inst. There was a full at¬ 
tendance. The meeting was called to order by 
president Barry. The Secretary read the 
minutes of the last meeting, which were ap- 
proved. Additions were made to the Commit¬ 
tee on Programme, and they retired to prepare 
a report. 
growing strawberries. 
During the absence of the Committee on 
programme, a gentlemen said that nearly half 
the crop of strawberries had been lost the pres¬ 
ent season in consequence of the drouth, and 
asked if there was any preventive of such a 
result, which could be adopted practically. 
Ciias. Downio.— 1 know of none except to 
mulch and irrigate. 
Question ,—Will it pay to cart water to irri¬ 
gate? 
Downing.— I have had no experience, but 
should think not unless the water is very con¬ 
venient. 
The best preventive is 
Geo. Ellwanger. 
to plant in hills, keep runners off, and cultivate 
thoroughly during the season. Mulch before 
the berries begin to ripen. 
The President. —We find that vines culti¬ 
vated in hills, the ground kept pulverized,— 
mulched with hoe and rake,—stand the drouth 
well. Too much water without culture is 
likely to cause the earth to crust. 
Herendeen.— I would mulch and apply the 
water on the mulch, which would, I think, pre¬ 
vent a crust forming. 
The President.— In the market gardens 
around Paris the arrangements are most com¬ 
plete for irrigating- Each garden is supplied 
with water from a large well, from which it is 
elevated to a tank by a horse-pump, and thence 
carried to all parts of the garden by pipes. 
Smith, of Geneva.—I have used line manure, 
muck, and tine grass, for mulching, with suc¬ 
cess, as a preventive of the effects of drouth. 
Moore.—I s the short crop this season to be 
double sweet Rocket 
dition. Some insert three or four cuttings in a 
hole made with a dibble, the four — if all grow 
— making the hill. But the first named mode 
of planting is preferred. If the soil is clean, 
plant close so that the vines will quickly over¬ 
run and cover the whole surface, 
DOUBLE SWEET ROCKET. 
All of your readers who have ever lived in 
Europe, or traveled there during the flowering 
season, will remember the Double Sweet Rocket, 
one of the sweetest of flowers, rivaling, in this 
respect, the popular Mignonette. It is a peren¬ 
nial plant, perfectly hardy in this country, and 
bearing long spikes of double flowers, that at 
flrst sight would be mistaken for the Double 
stock. The single variety iH quite common in 
all our gardens, but all my efforts to obtain the 
datable were unavailing until, through the kind¬ 
ness of a friend who made a trip to Europe, the 
true double sort was procured. With this suc¬ 
cess I was much pleased, as all my attempts to 
grow it from seed had failed. In every case 
the plants earue single and worthless. 
The Sweet Rocket is easily propagated from 
cuttings, and can be increased very rapidly, and 
is in all respects a most desirable plant. The 
flowers appear early in June, and continue to 
bloom during the month—just following the 
Tulips, and at a season when flowers are scarce. 
—j. v. 
Remarks.— The above communication and 
illustration we find on our table, from our friend 
James Vick, with whom most of our readers 
are acquainted. The testimony of Mr. V. to 
the beauty and value of this flower will need no 
endorsement from us. 
If the soil is £ 
not clean, you had better not plant until it is. ( 
You will get a satisfactory crop quite as quick 
and with less labor than when planted on a 
weedy and unsubdued field. 
5. Culture .—The weeds must be kept down, 
or rather pulled out if you have planted close, 
which is pretty much all the culture required, if 
you have selected locality and soil, and planted 
as above described. If you have chosen a stirfer 
soil, lacking moisture, hoeing will be needed to 
supply moisture, and of course with this view 
you will not have planted as closely. The vines 
should be flooded in the fall—whore practicable 
— and the water kept on in the spring until it is 
too late for the frost to injure the fruit blossoms. 
The plant is hardy, but the fruit blossoms are 
easily injured by frost— heuce the water should 
I not be drained from the yard too early in the 
spring. 
Curing Hams.— Here is a valuable recipe 
for curing hams and keeping them through the 
summer:—Weigh the hams, and make a brine, 
allowing one ounce of salt to every pound of 
meat, and one ounce of saltpetre to every 2 o IBs. 
Pack the hams closely, sprinkling a little salt on 
the bottom of the tub, and fill the chinks with 
stones. Have just brine enough to cover them 
well, and let them lie four or five weeks. Then 
take them up, dry, and smoke them, wrap them 
in papers and pack them down m ashes in a 
cool, dry cellar. This will keep the flies from 
them and prevent them from getting dry and 
hard. We have used this recipe for 20 years; 
never had any hams spoil, and they are not too 
salt. They will keep the year round.—E. M. 
W., Plymouth Rock, Iowa, 1864. 
It may be 
done by running a light plow along each side of 
the row, and throwing a furrow over the roots. 
The roots require this protection in this climate. 
Schuyler.— Last season this variety began 
to ripen about the 18th of June, ami I had line 
berries from the plants the middle of July. It 
develops all its fruit, and thus its season is 
longer than the Wilson’s Albany and some 
other varieties. Last year, Wilson’s, right 
along side it, dried up and did not develop its 
fruit when this did. 
I have counted 210 and 280 berries 
ftorUrultural 
Baked Indian Pudding.-—P ut to boiling 
one quart of sweet milk, add two agga, well 
beaten, with three tablespoonfuls of 
one of flour. Bake three-fourths of an hour. 
8erve with sugar and cream. Sweeten a little 
before baking. You will have a cheap and ex¬ 
cellent puddiug.—F. M. P., No. Onon,, X. T. 
Another.—B oil one quart of sweet milk, 
stir in seven tablespoons heaping full of fine 
meal: add one quart of cold milk, one cup of 
nice molasses or sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, 
spice, three tablespoons sour cream to make it 
wheyey,) and bake one born*.— Mrs. C. H. W., 
Nile, X. Y. 
To Keep Bugs from Vines.— Early in the morning, 
while the dew is on, with a tine salve, sift lime over 
vines. 1 have complete success with this remedy.— 
I. U. il. 
Hoag 
on single plants of it. 
BraGdon. —How does it carry? It is im¬ 
portant that it should carry well. 
SCHUYLER.— I sent some to New York city 
last year. They were thirty-six hours en route, 
and arrived in good condition. The third day 
they were pronounced good. 
The President.— Did you send them to 
market ? 
Schuyler.—N o, sir. 
Smith, of Geneva.—I have uot had much 
experience in fruiting this variety. I visited 
Russell’s grounds two seasons, and saw it in 
boariug. 1 never saw such crops of strawber¬ 
ries. It is superior to the Wilson in flavor, 
but not as good as the Trtomphe de Gaud. I 
did not give the plants good care, and had no 
staminate plants near It, as 1 ought to have had. 
I would plant It in rows four feet apart, and let 
them run. We got double the quantity of fruit 
to the acre that we do by hill culture. We get 
larger fruit by hill culture, but not half as 
much. 
IIoag.— My plants were adjoining Gutter’s 
S eedling, which is a good fertilizer. 
Moody.— I think there is a little exaggera¬ 
tion as to the product of a single plant. In 
other words, if the runners are kept oil', the 
plant multiplies itself by increasing its crowns. 
And the plants produced by runners from a 
plant, as much belong to it, and may lie called a 
single plant with as great propriety, as these 
associated crowns. It should not be under- 
CRANBERRY culture. 
Douule Portulaccas. — Sncli beauties ns James 
Vick, the Florist and Seedsman, placed on onr table 
this 24th day of June, we never saw before' We easily 
passed them off for roses until our friends held them 
to their noses I 
Book on Sweet Potato Culture. — Junius,’’ 
Pleasant Bill, Iowa.) We know of no publication ex¬ 
tant devoted to sweet potato culture J. W. Tenbrook, 
Nansemond, Ind., published a small hand-book which 
ho circulated among his customers. It is not in the 
market here 
Grasses for Frames.— In answer to Mrs. 
A. M. M., I would say I use green leaves. She 
should have her frame painted before she begins 
to ornament it, as it may be difficult to varnish 
it all over with the leaves on it. They will not 
shrink enough to disfigure the leaves, if her glue 
is thick enough. 8ke should prepare her glue 
with as little water -is possible; and varnish as 
soon as they are hard, or in a few days, i. e., as 
soon as it is dry.— Bell. 
Peaches on the Trees.— Hereabouts, so far as we 
have been able to learn by inquiry, a bearing peach 
orchard is the exception. From New Jersey we have 
good tidings of great Joy to peach consumers. The 
crop is said to be all right. From Ohio and Illinois 
—especially the latter State, we receive no hopeful 
notes—except greenbacks—concerning this crop. And 
will not our Michigan friends on the edge of the lake 
tell us whether their crop is “ developing?” 
Sulphur and the Caterpillars.— A correspondent 
of the New York Herald suggests that persons owning 
shade trees that are infested with worms will at once 
bore a hole in the trunk or each tree, extending to the 
center or heart of the tree, and then till the hole up 
with pulverized sulphur and ping it up tight. In a 
short time the sulphur will spread through ail the 
branches, and the worms will soon disappear. 
Bread Cake.— One pint of bread dough; 
ono pint of warm milk; one cup butter; two 
cups of sugar, three eggs; two cups of raisins, 
one half teaspoonful of soda, oue nutmeg. Mix 
thoroughly, put it in two two-quart pans, let it 
rise, then bake one hour. Warranted to suit 
the taste of the most fastidious.— Mrs. J. C. R., 
Sterling, III., 1864, 
To Save Melons and Cucumbers from Bugs.— A. 
Blodgett writes:—“Take two pieces of Inch board 
14 inches in length, and two 42 inches in length; nail 
together and you have a box 12 Inches square, which is 
large enough to cover any ordinary hill. At any time 
after planting, before the appearance of the plant, 
place the box on the hill. This will not only effectually 
keep off the hugs, but hasten the growth of the plants. 
U this should not succeed, cover the top of the box 
with nillliuot." 
Fried Cakes.— Three eggs, one cup of sugar 
or molasses, oue cup of buttermilk, five table¬ 
spoons of lard, one teaspoon of salt, one of sal- 
eratus; season to suit the taste; knead rather 
stiff,—M. M. C., Independence, Iowa. 
Pb H. K. Hooker.— Some years since I planted 
p; ki bills, kept runners oil', and the severe winter 
R killed the vines, while those allowed to run 
R-J were much less injured. The runners afford 
T protection. Dili Mr. Moody’s friend allow bis 
(l :<0 to run? 
S Moody.—H e allows the runners to make a 
row eighteen iuches wide. Beyond that they 
were not permitted to take root, 
jTV Bknj. Fjsii, —The. destruction of the crop 
[SPECIAL NOTICE.! 
An Apology Declined.— A lady apologized to aer 
visitors ihe othor day at tho tea table, for .inferior bis¬ 
cuits. A lady who was a guest accepted tbo apology 
only upon condition that her friend would promise ever 
sifter to use only De Land & Co.’s Chemical Saleratus, 
assuring her that with that article she would have no 
occasion to apologi se. Few housewives areiguorant 
or the value of this article, and none need be, for all 
the best grocers sell it. 
Buying Sugar to put with Uuubaru Juice.— (It. 
N F, Oneida Co., N Y I No, Sir; we would not ad 
viso you to buy sugar at present prices for the purpose 
of manufacturing your rhubarb into “wlno'' Wo 
caunot positively assert that there are not foolish poop' o 
enough left who will buy it at rates that will pay you; 
but, personally, wo should dislike to risk it. And we 
think the sugar of more value alone, than in combina¬ 
tion with rhubarb juice and water- It would be to us. 
Gather up the fruit under the cherry and 
plum trees daily, and give it to the hogs. By 
this means you will destroy certain insects that 
make fruit “ wormy.” 
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