“8. The Wine, Hay’s Winter, or, as I best 
know it, Pennsylvania Red Streak, is a most 
productive tree, and bears fine fruit. The tree 
is not so hardy as I could wish, and the fruit is a 
little tender for shipping. Would rate it eight 
on the market scale, 
“9. The Yellow Belleflower, with me, has 
been late in bearing, and drops its fruit unless 
picked early. It is a little tender for carriage. 
I would mark it eight on my soil. 
“10. The Pryor’s Red I have seen a good deal 
of. It is rather too upright a growth for good 
picking. The fruit does not hang well on the 
tree, and is not very productive. I mark it 
seven as a market fruit, although to my own 
taste, it is perhaps the best apple in my knowl¬ 
edge. 
“H» The Newtown Pippin I have tried ex¬ 
tensively. It is late in coming into bearing, not 
very productive, much of the fruit is small, and 
it drops unless picked early. Perhaps it may 
rate seven as a marketapple, thoughsixisnearer 
my convictions. 
“12. Rallies’ Janet has no positive faults, and 
many virtues. It makes one of the best shaped 
trees I know of. It will not blossom until the 
late frosts are over. It bears large crops year 
after year. In 1856 I gathered COO bushels of 
HOW TO SWEEP A CARPET. 
Let me toll Rural readers a good mode of 
sweeping carpets. Take a common wash-tub, or 
some vessel largo enough to admit a broom 
freely, and put in clean cold water to the depth 
of a foot or more. Then take a broom, (ono 
partly worn so as to be a little still' is the best,) 
dip it in six inches or so, and hold over the tub, 
or go out of doors, and knock off all the drops of 
water. This can be done most effectually by 
holding it in one hand, and rapping it with the 
Other on the broom corn above where it is wet. 
Commence brushing lightly at, first, going over 
with it the second time, or more, and if your 
carpet is very dusty, do not sweep more than a 
square yard or two before dipping your broom 
into the water again; this will rinse of all the 
particles of dust adhering lo the broom. Hap 
off the drops of water, us before, and begin 
again, continuing to do so till the whole is 
cleaned. Should the water get very dirty before 
| completing the room, it can lie changed. One 
who has never tried the experiment, will proba¬ 
bly be surprised at the quantity of dirt which 
will be washed from the broom into the water. 
A carpet cau be cleaned move effectually in this 
way than it can possibly be done with a dry 
broom, as the particles of dust adhere to the 
broom instead of rising to fall back on the car¬ 
pet. I have dusted my table and chairs before 
sweeping in this way, and could discover but a 
mere trifle ol dust on them after getting through. 
There is no danger of injuring even a fancy car¬ 
pet, if the drops of water are thoroughly re¬ 
moved from the broom. Let no one try it who 
has not lime and patience. s. u. m. 
annual MEETING OF TUB mjs.suuki 
CUXTURAL SOCIETY. 
This Society met in St. Louis January 13th. 
The first topic discussed was the apple varieties. 
W. C. Flagg, of Moro, 111., read a paper on Ihe 
apple, from which I copy his recommendations 
of a 
LIST OP APPLES FOR PROFIT. 
Mr. Flagg says:—“ In the selection of market 
fruits, we must regard—1. The demands of the 
market; 2. The means of transportation; 3. The 
competition to be mot. 
“Considering the matter more in detail, we 
must look for good qualities for market purposes 
in the trees and in the fruit The trees should 
be—1. Hardy; 2. Early in coming into bearing; 
3 . Productive; 4. Of good shape for packing. 
“The fruit should be —1. Bright in color; 
2. Of good size; 3. Of fair quality; 4. Even in 
ripening; 5. Hanging well to the tree; 6. Firm 
for car riage. 
“ These ten good qualities of the tree and fruit 
Ve difficult to find in one variety. We can at 
most approximate by choosing as many good 
qualities as possible. Supposing each of these 
qualities to be equally valuable, a perfect apple 
on this scale would be marked ten. I think 
Rallies’ Janet could be almost placed there. 
The Winesap fails only in size, and might, be 
marked ten. The Red Juno fails in size and 
ripens unevenly, and might, be marked eight. 
The Gilpin fails in size, the shape of the tree, 
and perhaps, in quality, which would reduce it 
to seven. 
“This method of selecting varieties, when you 
have sufficient reliable data, is necessarily the 
best. If you know what qualities are wanted, 
and what apples have them, the question is set¬ 
tled. 
“In want of sufficient data, a good method is 
to collect the suffrages of fruit-growers of expe¬ 
rience. Get A to make out, a list, that he believes 
best; also B and C. With care in the selection 
. of your admirers, you can make out a very good 
list I have here the suffrages of fifteen fruit¬ 
growers. I give the result of the vote, premising 
that two are from St. Louis, six from the region 
of Alton, III., two from Central Illinois, three 
from North Illinois, one from Cincinnati, and 
one from Indianapolis. 
“Of these fifteen, eleven vote for the Early 
Harvest and Rallies'Janet; nine for the Wine- 
sap; seven for the Carolina Red. June, Maiden’s 
Blush and Rambo; six for the Keswick Codlin, 
Red AatraehftU, Willow Twig and Gilpin. 
“An orchard, therefore, selected oil strictly 
mathematical principles, (multiplying the rates 
on each apple by ten ) would contain, of Early 
Harvests, 110; Carolina Red June, 70; Red 
Astrachan, GO; Keswick Codlin, 60; total of 
Summer, 300. Maiden’s Blush, 70; Rambo, 70; 
total of Autumn, 140. Winesap, 00; Rallies’ 
Janet, 110; Willow Twig, GO; Gilpin, GO; total of 
Winter, 320. Total number of trees in the 
orchard, 7G0. 
“ In my own experience, I have found the fol¬ 
lowing apples good for market: 
“ 1. The Early Harvest, which, though a shy 
bearer and not a healthy tree, will always sell, 
by virtue of its eadiness, at remunerative prices. 
It has been ready for market with me at the fol¬ 
lowing dates:—In 1857, July 15th; 1858, June 
26th; 1859, July 2d; I860, June 28tb; 1801, July 
12th; 1862, July 8th. Another peculiar virtue is 
its evenness in ripening. Nearly all the apples 
I am acquainted with, will fail In this respect. 
This apple has about eight points in its favor. 
“2. The Carolina Red June, which succeeds 
the Early Harvest and extends through the sea¬ 
son of the two succeeding—an appleof fine color 
and of good quality for an early apple, but 
rather small, and of late years in this region, not 
so fair as it used to be. I rate this fruit at eight. 
“3. The Early Strawberry—a fine-colored 
fruit, a most vigorous tree, with long, slender 
branches, which are quite inconvenient to pick 
from, and very productive. The fruit does not 
hang well to the tree. Would rank about seven 
on the scale. • 
“4. The Sine-qua-non has proved with me a 
good market fruit. It excels other early apples 
in size, although not in color; is productive, a 
healthy tree, and fair fruit. It is rather too ten¬ 
der for shipping, and not of good color at the 
time it must be packed. Would rate it about 
eight in the scale of ten. 
“5. The Kirk bridge White is notable aa a very 
early bearer, and very hardy and productive 
free. Its size and color are against it as a market 
fruit; but it covers a few sins by its productive¬ 
ness. It is a summer * Dollars and Cents.” It 
has seven of the ten good points. 
“6. The Summer Queen, which I find recom¬ 
mended by nearly every one as a market fruit, 
has not proved a hardy tree with me. It bears 
well and produces very beautiful and showy 
fruit, of a fiavor loo coarse and rank for my own 
liking. Would give it about eight points. After 
the Summer Queen comes a void in my list of 
market apples, which I have not yet seen satis¬ 
factorily filled. I am trying the American Sum¬ 
mer Pearmain, the Porter and the Benoni. Dr. 
Warder recommends the Trenton Early and 
Maiden's Blush. I think it should be the aim of 
the owner of a commercial orchard to furnish a 
succession of fruit through the season. This 
keeps him before the public without a break— 
which is quite a consideration with the business 
man, and keeps the labor and utensils invested 
in constant or partial employment. 
“7. The Rambo is the next apple I have to 
notice. My own experience has not led me to 
rate it very high as a market fruit. It is not 
hardy, nor of good shape for picking. Its pro¬ 
ductiveness and size are not first-rate. I would 
: not rate it higher than six or seven. 
trees. It will freeze on the tree, thaw out, and 
be rather improved than otherwise by the opera¬ 
tion. It will not taste badly in early winter, or 
even in the fall, as an eating apple, and will 
keep until June. 
“13. The Gilpin is strong in its hardiness, 
productiveness, and in the firmness of its fruit. 
The free is of bad shape for picking, and the 
fruit is decidedly too small. It will rate about 
eight upon my list.” 
LIST OF APPLES FOR FLAVOR. 
Mr. Flagg recommends the following list of 
apples, covering the season, “which,” he says, 
“in my own experience, which is limited in 
varieties, 1 have found best:—1. Early Harvest; 
2. Large Yellow Bough; 3. Carolina Red June; 
4. American Summer Pearmain; 5. Porter; 6. 
Fall Wine; 7. Rambo; 8. Y'ellow Belleflower; 
9. Pryor's Red; 10. Winesap; 11. Newtown Pip¬ 
pin; 12. Raules’ Janet 
“ i name the last because I know of no better 
late keeper, not because 1 reckon it a first class 
apple.” 
The Society recommended the following list: 
Klrkbridge White. American Summer Pearmain, 
Yellow Belleflower, Jonathan, Yellow Newtown 
Pippin, Large Yollowbougb. 
LIST FOR PROFIT RECOMMEND FI) BY THE 
SOCIETY. 
The Society discussed varieties of the apple at 
great length. We have a full report of this dis¬ 
cussion before us, from our Western Editor, but 
have only space for the list recommended by the 
Society. It. is as follows: 
Early Harvest, Red June, Red Astrachan, 
High Top Sweet, Fall Queen, Rambo, Wine, 
Newtown, SpUzen berg, Fullenwalder, Rome 
Beauty, Pryor's Red, .Michael Henry Pippin, 
Yellow Newtown Pippin, New York Pippin, 
Smith’s Cider, Winesap, Raules’ Janet, Willow 
Twig, Gilpin. 
THE EVENING PRIMROSE — (Oenothera Laniarkiaua.) 
The Evening Primroses are a very interesting 
and showy class of flowers, and are beginning to 
attract a good deal of attention. The best variety 
that we have ever grown is Oenothera Lamar - 
feiana, which wo flowered for the first time last 
season. So well pleased were we with its fine, 
strong habit, and the abundance of very large 
and beautiful flowers that it produces through 
the whole season, that we had a drawing taken 
of the plant in flower which we intended to pre¬ 
sent our readers; but a few days since we re¬ 
ceived an engraving of this flower in a French 
journal which is so truthful and life-like in all 
respects that we determined to adopt it in pref¬ 
erence to our own. Lamarfciana is a vigor¬ 
ous growing Oenothera, branching very freely, 
as may be seen by the engraving, and 
reaches a height of about three feet. The 
flowers are very abundant, bright yellow, aud 
from three to four inches in diameter, and often 
more. In the heat of summer it does not open 
its flowers till quite late in the evening, often not 
until quite dark, and then it is really a morning 
(lower, us the blossoms remain expanded until 
nearly noon, but towards autumn, when the 
weallior becomes cooler, the flowers expand late 
in the afternoon, ami the plant is in full (lower at 
all times except a few hours at mid-day. 
A Delicate Dessert. 
Lay half a dozen 
crackers in a tureen, pour oil enough boiling 
water to cover them. In a few minutes they 
will be swollen to three or four times their origi¬ 
nal size. Now grate loaf sugar and a little nut- 
mug over them, and dip on enough sweet cream 
to make a nice Ranee, and you will have a simple 
and delicious dessert that will rest lightly on the 
stomach—and it is easily prepared. Leave out 
the cream, aud it is a valuable recipe for “ sick 
room cookery.” 
the seed, is a light, rich, loamy soil. As soon as the plants 
are up, the ground must lie well worked. Asparagus may 
be grown in almost any soil, if well drained, yet the most 
suitable is a light, deep, sandy loam. This should he dug 
deeply, about, two feet, und plenty of manure Incorporated 
with the soil A piece of ground fifteen feet by twenty, 
will produce enough (hr almost any family, This should bo 
divided Into three beds, four feet wide, leaving an alley 18 
inches wide between each bed, and making three beds 4 
feet wide and 120 feet long. Two such beds will be ample 
for a small family. At this binge it would be well to sow 
on the beds about halt an inch of salt., and rake it in. The 
Asparagus is naturally a marine plant, aud is very fund of 
salt. Now draw 
Light. —The ordinary flat kerosene lampwick 
is usually trimmed so as to take the convex form. 
This causes the flame to assume the shape of a 
cone. It. has been demonstrated that If the wick 
is made concave, or lowest at the center, the 
flume will take a forked shape, similar to that 
produced by gas, and the amount of light is 
nearly doubled by the same quantity of kero¬ 
sene.— Huff. Democrat. 
where they had grown, After lining the walks, 
I put rows between my rows of cucumbers and 
melons, and they were all out of the way before 
the vines occupied the ground. 
As for beans, 1 have had as many as eight or 
ten kinds in the garden the same season. I have 
reduced my assortment to two, and think I shall 
never plant more, and these need no poles. For 
early varieties, I plant the Early Red-Eyed 
China. The next that 1 have is kuown as the 
Neapolitan, brought from Italy to this country 
more than thirty years since. I think It is the 
same bean that the wise man at the Patent Office 
called the Indian Chief. He called it the best 
bean known, and so do I. The bean is dark- 
purple when ripe, and when fit for use the pods 
first turn to a light straw color, and then semi¬ 
transparent aud boil to a periect pulp. These, 
when mixed with sweet corn, form the ne plus 
ultra of that ambrosial mixture called succotash. 
Now, this term, succotash, implies corn as well as 
beans, and on the ehoicu of this depends the 
superiority of the dish. I raise two varieties, the 
early eight-rowed Hweet corn and the “Old Col¬ 
ony.” The first small, and early, the last, a large 
variety, ears having twelve to sixteen rows of 
gourd-seed shaped kernels, keeps as late in win¬ 
ter as the Evergreen, and this is my favorite for 
suc.cotash. 0. 
Wh commend the above to the attention of all 
lovers of good living, and this we claim no one 
can enjoy, no matter what may be their means, 
without a good vegetable garden. To make the 
matter complete, however, to this must bo added 
•a good assortment of the small fruits that will 
give a succession from strawberries to bluckbcr- 
ries. The dwarf peas are preferable to the old tall- 
growing kinds, but iu our opinion not to be com¬ 
pared to several of the new sorts that grow 
about thirty inches in height, and require but few 
aud short sticks, and these, if taken euro of, will 
last two or three years. We suggest that our 
correspondent try V•■itch's Perfection, Napoleon , 
Eugenic, or Lord Raglan. If the ground is kept 
in proper condition, lie will need no crowbar or 
sharpened stick. The bean called Indian Chief, 
<&c., is here known as the California bean. It is 
good, but must be picked in the right time, and 
does not last long, so that several sowings are 
necessary. But we cannot get along without the 
Lima Bean. This is a luxury and a necessity, 
and requires sticking, and if properly done is 
but little trouble. Let the poles be only about 
five or six feet in length, and as fast as the beans 
reach the top, pinch off the ends. By this method 
they will ripen better and bear more abundantly 
than if allowed to grow higher. By a little man¬ 
agement, peas may be so arranged that they will 
not occupy space in the garden. A row between 
eueh celery trench will be rather an advantage 
than an injury. The rows, if possible, should 
always run north and south. 
a line longtlivvi.se along one of the bets, 
nine indies from the edge, :uid cut a trench on the outside 
ot the line, six indies deep, and in tins trench »et the 
plants, nine or ten Inches apart, aud so deep that when the 
trendi is covered, the crowns of the plants will ho atiout 
two indies below the surface of the bed As the plants 
are put in, draw a little earth over them, so us to secure 
them |u their places, Having finished one row, cover 
them aud rake off evenly, and proceed to make another 
furrow one foot from the first, aud plant as before. Tiffs 
tdau will give four rows to the bed. The beds will require 
no care the first summer, lint, simply to destroy tbo weeds, 
aud this must be done carefully, so os uot to injuro the 
plauts. If sail, was sown pretty freely before planting, the 
weeds will not be troublesome; if not, salt cun he sown 
over the beds any time during tbo summer. Enough satt 
to kill every weed will be only a nice relish to tho Aspara¬ 
gus. In November cover the beds with three Inches of 
rotted manure. In the spring this may lie lightly dug in 
with a fork, care being had not to go deep enough to injure 
the crowns. 
Ihe second spring, if tho cultivator Is very anxious for 
Asparagus, the strongest can be cut, though most garden 
ers recommend leaving them untouched until the third 
year. We should not hesitate, however, to cut moderate- 
ly the second season, if we had no other way to get this 
delicious vegetable. All the rare tho beds will require 
after this, is to cut dowu the. old stalks, pull up tho weeds 
and cover witti manure every lal], which should be forked 
in in tho spring. After the manure Is forked in, rake all 
loose stones, rough manure, No., into the alleys. Give 
every season, hi the spring, a dressing of satt. An Aspar¬ 
agus bed, if properly treated, will keep in good condition 
a long lime. Wo have seen them fourteen or fifteen y oars 
old, producing bountifully. It should he cut dose to tho 
ground, before the head becomes loose, and will generally 
he about six inches tiigh. 
1 wish to inquire of yourself, or some of your numerous 
correspondents, concerning the host method of preparing 
an Asparagus bed V Is it best to procure root* or seeds 
Preparing Rennet for Cheese —Take a 
good rennet and put it in a gallon jar, fill it with 
water, put in a hail’ pint of salt, and lot. it stand 
ono week before use. Use a tablespoonful to 
one gallon of nlilk, and keep filling up the jar.— 
A Rural Reader, Ohio, 1863. 
Johnny Cake. —Wilt some of tho Rural’s 
roadera please inform the public through its 
columns how to make tip-top Johnny cake, and 
oblige—A Subscriber. 
PEAS, BEANS AND SWEET CORN. 
Ens. Rural New-Y’orker:—F rom my boy¬ 
hood I have been extravagantly fond of a good 
garden, fond of working in it, and fond of most 
of the vegetables produced; yet in my early days 
I imbibed an unconquerable dislike to certain 
tasks, imposed upon me by my father, which I 
have never been able to overcome. The first 
was bushing Ihe peas. To accomplish this I was 
ordered to take an ax and go to the nearest 
woods, there cut a suitable quantity of bushes of 
suitable length for the variety planted, say from 
four to eight feet long, back them to the garden, 
get a crowbar or sharpened stick, muku holes, 
and stick down the brush, making an unsightly 
hedge across the garden, and when this hedge 
was covered with the vines, shading a goodly 
strip upon the north side, on which nothing could 
grow, and after the peas were gathered there lay 
the bushes, and pea haulm, more unsightly still. 
Next came the poling of the beans. Away to 
the woods, ax in hand, 1 was sent, to cut bean¬ 
poles, aud hack them to the garden, make the 
boles, and put down the poles, aud after the 
beans began to grow I was sent with a pocketful 
of strings, ordered to first wind tho young vines 
around the pole, and tie them to keep them in 
“the way they should go.” I will not tell how 
long it took me to perform these tasks, hut. this I 
am sure of, that my father put but a slight value 
upon my lime, or else his peas and beans cost 
him very dear. 
Since I have had direction of my own time 
and gardens, I have avoided those two offensive 
tasks, and I would now sooner see a pig in the 
garden than pea bushes or bean-poles. 1 am as 
fond of green peas with a quarter of lamb as 
most people, but I find 1 can have them without 
those offensive hedges so generally seen in gar¬ 
dens, and 1 am also truly fond of string beans, 
and that renowned dish, “corn and beans,” of 
which every Yankee housewife may justly bp 
proud, but J find 1 cau have these without con¬ 
verting my garden into an unsightly slash. 
When Blsuop, of England, first came out with 
his Dwarf Prolific Pea, I procured some of them, 
and have since continued to raise them in prefer¬ 
ence to all others, for several reasons. 
Firsl —I can raise any quantity sufficient for a 
family in a small garden, without interfering 
with other crops. 
Secondly — l do not like peas when too young 
or too old, and by planting a short row of these 
every week from the time the frost is out of the 
ground until the last of July, a family may have 
peas from June until frost comes. A3 these peas 
do not grow more than about eight inches high 
they make fine borders for walks. I generally 
commence planting by staking them into the 
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It in put up in bright red papers, called “ Chemical Suler- 
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J\'JH W' UliJlUTKH-VLEASE JVOTICJB 
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Ihiw.vi.vo’H Ever-Beabinci Mulberry.— C. W., a sub¬ 
scriber, asks me where Downing’s black ever bearing mul- 
berry trees can be bought, and what is the price 1 Any 
information about the cultivation of this tree will he 
thankfully received. —O. IS. 
Trees of this fruit cau be obbiincd of Dr. Grant, of 
Iona, near Pcckskill, N. Y., and perhaps of Other nursery 
men, It Is rather tender, und will freeze down to the 
ground every winter, as far north as Rochester—at least, 
that is our experience. 
got’tintltuvttl c$ 
Depth to Sow I’ka.-l— F. r. Elliott, of Cleveland, 
gives his experience In sowing peas at different depths as 
follows:—“Some years since, I commenced sowing peas, 
and covering them at different depths, varying fromonc 
inch to one foot. I found those buried eight inches deep 
appeared above the ground only one iloy later than those 
buried only two inches; while those that were covered 12 
inches deep were a little over two days behind. As they 
grew, no perceptible difference was noticed, until they 
commenced blossoming and setting, then the advantage of 
the deep planting exhibited Itself; for those that were eight 
and ten inches deep continued to grow, blossom, and set 
pods long after those only two or four inches commenced 
ripening and decaying. If the soli is light and loamy, I 
will hereafter p’ant my peas eight inches deep; if the soil 
is clayey, I would pla.-.r six Inches. I never earth up, but 
leave tiie ground as level as possible.” 
gmiuiwsi ana gVwsiurm 
Asparagus.—W ill yon please tell me through our pa¬ 
per, the Rural, where 1 can get Asparagus roots, ana at 
what price. Also when they should be set out,—how the 
ground should he prepared,—and how cultivated to grow 
well, and much oblige yourfreud,—M rs. II., Ahoraij.Or¬ 
leans Co., N.7. 
Asparagus roots can be obtained at any of our nurseries 
at about $2 per hundred. To raise plauts from seed it 
mu>.t be sown early in spring, in drills, an inch or so deep, 
and the rows eighteen inches apart. The best ground for 
Naples Horticultural 8 ooikty—O fficers elected for 
1863: President—Ann r.u P. Lyon. Vice-Prest.—C. W. 
Fox. Treasurer— J. B. Johnson Scc'y— S. H. Sutton. 
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