gorticnltural JtoUsi 
tended to pack these boxes in crates. They are 
light, well ventilated, and I think will be found 
the best thing yet. The boxes are made of 
Wbitewood or Linden. 
grapes, the strawberries paying the cost of the 
plantation. 
I do not allow runners to grow on plantations 
intended for fruit; nor do I allow the vines to 
bear the first year; the fruit stems are not 
By this course, I add to the 
Graphs in April.—Oliver C. Ross, of Penfteld, in 
tilts comity, is entitled to n good deal of credit for pre¬ 
serving grapes in excellent condition until hit® in tlie 
spring. To-day, A pril 25th, we have enjoyed a treat—fine 
Dianas and Delawares, as fresh and excellent every way, 
as though just picked fiom the vines—for which Mr. R. 
has our best thanks. 
THE UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINGER. 
allowed to grow, 
quantity and quality of the fruit I get the second 
season, i do not stir the soil after the plantation 
is made. It. is full of fibrous roots, which must 
not be disturbed. I use no implement but the 
hoc, and that but little, in cultivation. It is 
used to chop off weeds. I cultivate by hand. 
If mulching was more thoroughly done in the 
South, this cultivation would succeed there. 
In November, I cover my whole plantation 
with straw. 1 use rye and wheat, straw that has 
been thrasbed with a flail—about two tons to the 
acre. I deem this a necessary and appropriate 
On our first page we give an engraving of tho 
celebrated Universal Clothes Wringer, a domes¬ 
tic “institution ” chartered some time ago, judg¬ 
ing from the approval it has received from the 
inyrinds of persons who have thoroughly tested 
its met its. We have recently given the Wringer 
a trial, and can freely say that it “ tills the bill ” 
in all respects, and hence confidently commend 
it to the attention of housewives. Though it 
may not be the cheapest wringer, counting first 
cost, we believe it to be the cheapest, best, and 
most economical for family use. The fact that 
it was awarded both a Diploma and Silver 
Medal at our last State Fair, is uo slight, evi- 
I dunce that it possesses superiority in some essen¬ 
tial particulars. 
The following “Directions for Using” will be 
understood by referring to the lettering of the 
cut:—“ Set the Wringer on the tub or box when 
you first, commence washing, with the legs of the 
clasping frame outside, toward the basket It 
should be mude to fit, closely to tho tub before 
turning the fastening screws, — then tighten the 
clasping frame to the tub by turning the screw 
D. Adjust the screws C C so as to give the 
desired amount of pressure to the rolls. Let the 
clothes pass ibrnugfi naturally. By loosening 
the thumb-screws of the slotted irons at E, (Fig. 
Propagation ok Rosks.—O nly a word, dear Rural, 
and uo “ charge” for it either. Una any huly a choice rove 
she would hko to raise others from, now is the time to 
dig up roots of some rose that has thrown up shouts from I 
its root, and put in grafts from the choice one. Do it 
carefully, or nut at all. Again, the la»t week in August, 
bud them into other roses, according to rules you will 
find in the last volume of the Rural, (I cannot tell the 
number, as ours urc away to he bound.) I hare tried 
both fora few years past, with good success, and think 
twice os much of them because 1 did the work myself, 
and feel independent to do tho same again. I have uear- 
ly thirty kinds, some having three kinds on tho same 
bush. — M , Cascade, Kent Co., Mich. 
inch thick. It is cut out of cottonwood bettor ( 
than pine; it holds the nails better, and it is ( 
cheaper. The boxes are sold with the strawber¬ 
ries 1 fill them full to ship. I pay two cents 
per quart for picking. On one-fourth of an 
acre picked forty bushels, which averaged mo , 
$4 per bushel in Chicago, or $3 net , 
Qdtnette, of St Louis.—A variety of the , 
strawberry inay do well in one place, and noth- j 
ing in another. A strawberry is of greater 
value in the South than in the North, because, an , 
acid fruit is more needpd. A Btrawberry that 
will bear ten days in Wisconsin, will pick ninety 
days in Louisiana, if it will grow at all. It is 
only safe to plant tested varieties extensively. 
With me, on light. dry, lime soil, Wilson's 
Albany is worthless; while on my friend Cod- 
man’s soil, three or four miles distant—a rich 
loam-it does well. Let each man get a few 
varieties and test them, and with his mode of 
culture, on his soil, select and cultivate only 
such as succeed. In New Orleans we do not get 
strawberries before the first of March—the fur¬ 
ther sou th you go the longer wo pick. Me A voy's 
Superior is the best berry I have for this market, 
though it is soft- I employ boys at five to ten 
cents per gallon. Our season continues about 
six weeks. The Iowa Male and Jenny Lind are 
earliest — only three or four days ahead of 
Me A my's Superior. Hudson’s Hay is the latest 
berry. It. is rather small, and ought not to be 
recommended. Long worth's Prolific is next to 
Me A voy's for homo market For shipping a 
longdistance, I would take FFi/son’s Albany and 
Longworth's Prolific. If I was going to raise 
show berries on tho American Bottom, I would 
plant Wilson's Albany; on high clay soil, would 
plant McAvoy's. Wilson’s is an excellent can¬ 
ning fruit 
I cultivate in alternate strips; cultivate shal¬ 
low; mulch and weed and thin out with the hoe 
after picking. In spring I stretch a line along, 
and with a large tobacco hoe, cut out, walks fif¬ 
teen inches wide, leaving beds three foot wide. 
T aim to get the roots o' tho plants as near the 
surface as possible, and kill tho woods. My 
manure is lhne, wood ashes, and ft little salt. I 
think it an excellent manure. Would not put 
on more than two or three bushels per acre—of 
salt, I mean. I cover the ground, nearly, with 
lime and ashes. The salt is sown broadcast. I 
have gathered one hundred and eighty bushels 
per acre. L think fifty bushels per acre, would 
be an average crop with ordinary cultivation. 
My plantations are in tho orchard. I apply the 
manures as above, in the winter, whon tho 
ground is cultivated, preparatory to planting. 
When I want to renew, I back-furrow deeply in 
the walks, leaving about one foot, of space occu¬ 
pied by plants, which [ allow to spread over tho 
plowed surface, and in spring I cut out the old 
vines, and use that space for walks. On large 
plantations, it is not necessary to mix pistillate 
and 8taminatc varieties. I use Wilson’s Albany 
and Iowa Male, for fertilizing. Unless prices are 
better than they have been the past three years, 
in this market, the strawberry will pay Iosr than 
any other fruit Last year my crop did not 
average over ten cents per quart I have sold aB 
high as $1,080 worth from a single acre. I 
would plant in spring rather than in the fall—in 
this latitude, from the first of March to the first 
of April. They may be planted whenever all 
daDger of the frost lifting them is over. 
J. J. Knox, Pittsburg, Pa.—I do not think 
Flower Markets.— It is very surprising to us that, in 
our large eitiea, there are no distinctive “flower markets.” 
As it is now, most of the timo the public-the whole 
public—does not know where to find the florist, or thu 
tioriat where to sell his (lower*. '1 ho consequence Is tho 
florist suffers. Ho has his regular few score of customers 
who have learned where to find him by time and experi 
enco; and with little competition for his plants, Ilia sales 
arc uncertain and bis profits small. With one regular 
market, the Whole public know where to get the beet 
tilings, and demand for them is thus kept alive. Tho 
public taste becomes idnested,— flower sales increase,— 
and the Horiet knows just what the whole pub lic want s, 
Gardener's Monthly, 
A FINE MARIGOLD FOR BEDDING, 
furnishes manure—not to any great extent, how¬ 
ever. 
Question —How about wiuds? 
Knox— I cover the whole ground; and usually 
put on just before a rain or snow; after one 
storm on it, there is no trouble from the winds. 
Oat straw is light and short; i like wheat and 
straw better. 
I speak with caution with regard to 
and how to anticipate it. 
rye 
Varieties. 
varieties. It is true that a variety may be 
excellent in one locality, and very indifferent in 
another—belli in respect to quality and produc¬ 
tiveness. Greater attention should be paid to 
the selection of varieties adapted, llovcy’s 
Seedling does well in Boston and other localities, 
but has never done well in Pittsburg. Again, a 
variety that docs well in one locality at one time, 
may run out and not do well thereafter. Grave 
instances, illustrative of this position, have come 
within my uotice. 
There are different tastes. One man likes a 
sour, another a sweet berry. Some of tho best 
cultivators prefer Wilsons Albany (o Triomphe 
de (land. A general rule, governing the selec¬ 
tion of varieties for a certain locality, is this:— 
We should select varieties that are hardy, vigor¬ 
ous growers, productive, and make a selection 
that will lengthen the season. The strawberry 
season, with us, at first, lasted only about two 
weeks. It is now seven weeks long, and 1 think 
it can he made to extend two months. I name 
the following list as covering the season: 
Early Varieties .—Jenny Lind, Baltimore .Scar¬ 
let, Burr’s New Pine. 
Medium .—Triomplio de Garni, Wilson’s Alba¬ 
ny, Fillmore, British Queen, Brighton Piue, Cut- 
ter’B Seedling, McAvoy’s Superior, Moyamepsing, 
Scott's Seedling, Vicomptesse fclericartde Thury, 
Due do Brabant, Golden Seed. 
Late.— Trollope's Victoria, Kitley’s Goliah, 
Nimrod. 
The Triomphe de Gand ought to be in 
the last list. I regard it the best strawberry 
Oomii.K Flowers — Double Flowers otten have stamens 
anti no pistils, sometimes pistils ami no stamens, and at 
other times neither. In the former case, double flowers 
are nattily obtained by dusting the pistils of single flow 
ers with the pollen from the double. Double Petunias 
are thus obtained. Hollyhocks also can bo so raised. 
Core for a Felon.— Having been afflicted 
with a couple of felons within a short time past, 
and seeu several recipes in the Rural, I thought 
r would send my method of treatment, for I 
know that it will cure, if applied in season. As 
soon as the part begins to swell, get the Tincture 
of Lobelia, and wrap tho part affected thick 
with a cloth; saturate it thoroughly with the 
Tincture, and keep it wet for forty-eight hours, 
and the fellow is dead. This w as told mo by an 
old physician, who said that he had known it to 
cure scores of them.—W. P. Gaylord, 1‘enn 
Van. N. K., 1KG3. 
Potato Punntxa.—Ingredients: three pounds 
of potatoes, two quarts of milk, two ounces of 
butter, two ounces of sugar, a bit of lemon peel, 
a good pinch of salt, and three eggs. First, bake 
the potatoes, and if you have no means of baking 
them, lot them be either steamed or boiled, and, 
when done, scoop out all of tlioir floury pulp 
without waste into a large saucepan, ami imme¬ 
diately beat it up vigorously with a large fork or 
a spoon; then add all the remainder of the above 
named ingredients, (excepting the eggs.) stir the 
potato batter carefully on the fire till it comes to 
a boil, then add the beaten eggs; pour the batter 
into a greased pie-dish, and bake the pudding 
for an hour in your oven. 
ARTIFICIAL IMPREGNATION OF PLANTS, 
plishment. They act us if gardening were natural lo a 
man, and go into it precisely as young docks take to water 
Hut not being ducks, they find the waters of Horticulture 
too warm lor their delicate knowledge, and they retreat 
dl-gnsted with it. 
Our friends who fail in fruit growing must remember 
these tilings. “ Eternal vigilance is the price,” not only 
of “liberty,” but of fine plums, largo crops, mid big 
pumpkins, 
Do not he deterred by the cry that certain things “do 
not pay;” first succeed at any cost, and you will soon learn 
to reduce the expenses vvilhiu a paying point if you bo 
desire. — Gaudencr's Monthly. 
Sowinu Flower Bkkiik.—S eeds may bo sown in patches 
among the border plants, in rows, or groups, where they 
are to remain, or in a nursery bed, and afterwards trail, 
planted. As a general rule, the surface Soil should be 
rather dry than otherwihu at the moment, of -owing, and 
tlie operation never should he undertaken when the 
gronml is very wet, especially ut an early period of the 
spring. Whenever it may be desirable, for some special 
reason, to sow when tho ground is too dump, the surface 
Khou'd be scraped off to Itiu depth of an inch or two, and 
its place, supplied hy a handful of dry soil, on which tlie 
seeds may he sown. In the case of seeds of ft moderate 
>ixe, the surface noil may bo scraped aside with the edge 
of a trowel to the depth of ft quarter of an inch, and 
around the eireutnlVrenef.id the slight hollow thus made, 
the seeds may be thinly strewn, tho not) being then re¬ 
turned and gently pressed flat with tho hand or trowel. If 
tlie soil should he of un adhesive nature, Uie pressure 
should be very Slight, or the surface will cake; It will he 
better in this case to cover tho needs with a lutlo sandy 
loam, or other friable Boil, instead of that where the bow 
ing Is made. 
A Sweet Omelet.— Mix a tablespoonf'ul of 
fine (lour in one pint of new milk, whisk together 
tlie yolks ami whites of four eggs, and add them 
to the milk. But asmuch fresh butter as will fry 
tho omelet into the frying pan, make it hot over 
a clear tire, and pour In half the mixture. When 
this is a little set, put four teaspoonfuis nf cur¬ 
rant jelly, or any other preserve, in the center, 
and the remainder of the mixture over the top. 
As soon as the upper portion is fixed send it to 
table; or the omelet being fried, spread the pre¬ 
serve on it and roll it. 
good for nothing.” Now, it is very easy to pre¬ 
vent this, when you are sure that you have 
planted good seed. When the plants have 
arrived at that stage that they begin to set their 
fruit, go out in llie morning as soon as it is light, 
before the insects begin to stir, select a fine, 
promising fruit, where Iho female flower upon 
the end of it has opened during the night, pick a 
male flower from the same vine that opened 
during the night, dust the pollen from the male 
flower upon tho pistil of the female (lower; then 
gather the points of the female flower together, 
and tie them so that no insect ca n enter the flower, 
and the process is completed. In order to de¬ 
signate the fruit so impregnated, take 3 large 
string arid tie loosely around tho stern, that you 
may know it when ripo. Seeds when thus im¬ 
pregnated will uot vary from the original type, 
and may be kept good for five or six years. 
Cucumbers and melons may be kept pure in the 
same way, although other varieties are growing 
near them. Where you wish to produce a cross 
between any two diettnet varieties, the same rule 
is to he observed as to tying up the female flower 
alter tho cross impregnation. o. 
New Haven, Oswego Co , N. V., 1863. 
[special notice.] 
Unanimous Verdict —The most rigid analysis by good 
chemists has failed to discover anything in tho Chemical 
SuUratus which can, when properly n*od, lie in the least 
degree detrimental to heultli. While the women of our 
country entertain sentiments widely different upon other 
rrutters, all concur in a verdict that the Chemical Salera- 
tus is the only infallible article in use for light and Hweet 
bread. 
Kitchen Slops and Tomatoes.—N. K. 
Mkriam, of 
Grafton Station, Mass., has adopted a simple and cheap 
expedient for growing early tomatoes and disposing of the 
slops from the kitchen at one operation. The kitchen yard 
is in a warm, sheltered plai n, with a Southern exposure. 
Barrels arc placed near the wall, nearly filled with rich 
earth. In these, tomato plants are placed early in tho 
season and may lie cosily covered up oil cold nights, As 
the plants grow and increase in foliage, and thus throw off 
large quantities of moisture, the kitchen dops are poured 
into the barrels for watering the plants. The warmth, 
moisture, atnl elements of fertility thus supplied, produce 
aneaily growth; while the confinement of the roots in 
the barrel prevents too much running to stein at the ex¬ 
pense of fruit. Tlie barrels should not he water tight, hut 
admit of drainage. Any number of barrel. may be thus 
placed In a row, and he planted with i ucumher* and oth¬ 
er vegetables. If properly trained, they present a neat 
and ornamental appearance, and the barrels servo as res 
crvolra to get rid of kitchen dops, so often a nuisance 
about kitchen doom. - Annual Register. 
u guMisltn* to tlw IguMir 
JVKW' U /f TH ft - /* /, EJ18E JYOTICMS ! 
THE JAPAN QUINCE, 
or we will send from April to January next for Si. 12”* per 
copy, if ordered by atiy one who lias formed a club Tor 
iiresunt Volume We have added several thousand to our 
edition in order to supply new subscribers from April 1st 
— Thanks to Agents and others for continued elforts in 
behalf of Ritual. This morrilne's mail (16th) hrougbt as 
e.lobs from Canada, California, Missouri, and several of the 
Rustem, Middle and Western States - und tho remittances 
were Bornmpunicil with very encouraging remarks in a 
numberorinstanc.es. For nil which wo bend In grateful 
acknowledgment, and shall endeavor to render the Rural 
more and more worthy its wide and increasing popularity. 
Ahopt Club Terms, 4o.~ We endeavor to adhere strictly 
to our Club rates, which require a cer tain nnmhor of sub¬ 
scribers to get the paper at a specified price - say ton to 
get it ftt 11,so per copy. &e Hot, In answer to frequent 
Inquiries, we would state that, in coses where Irom four to 
d< copies are ordered at *1,50 each, with a reasonable pros- 
neo.t of tilling up a eJohofteu, we will send them — and 
when the club Is completed shall send extra copy. 4c This 
will accommodate those who do not wish to wait (or others. 
Any person who Is not an agent, sending the club rate 
(51.dor for a single copy fthe price of which Is *2.) will only 
receive the paper the length nf time tlie monuy pays for at 
full single copy price. The <»dv wav to get the Rural for 
less than *2 a year. Is to form or join a club. 
Back VolumRS. ■ Bound copies nf Volume XHT, for 1862, 
are now resdv tor delivery — price, *3. We would again 
.tuts that neither of the lirst five volumes of the Rural 
can He famished by us at. auy price. The subsequent vol¬ 
umes will he supplied, bouud, «t <8 each — or if several are 
Token, at IB-60 each. The only volumes we cun furnish, 
unbound, are those nf 1862, 'HU, '61 and '62—price, *2 each. 
8m.rare Vijuk PKKMieMK.— If those forming clubs will 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—I n your paper 
of March ‘2Sth, page 103, you have given your 
readers a plate of the Japan Quince, accom¬ 
panied with a short description and recommen¬ 
dation as a flowering shrub, desirable for the 
“shrubbery or lawn.” 
Having long been acquainted with the growth 
and hardiness of this shrub, I have thought that 
if there was any shrub or tree grown in America, 
that would make a neat and durable hedge, Ibis 
was the one. In this locality, at the east end of' 
Lake Ontario, it endures our winters without 
injury. Its habit is to send up many suckers or 
sprouts, about tho crown, which are long and 
slender, well calculated for weaving in to make 
a hedge, impenetrable by small animals, and as 
the branches arc armed with a profusion of very 
sharp spines, no domestic animal would care to 
Tbu roots are fine, and do not 
•Cut down the stems atoncc, 
Hollyhock Fropaoation 
and manure tlie ground round the plants liberally, Hol¬ 
lyhocks may he propagated from huds, slid although 
July is the proper dine for doing so, yet wo should try it 
now with some of the greenc*t of the stems. In July the 
fiiUowing is the mode of proceeding;— When tlio holly¬ 
hocks are tied up to the stakes for the last time, all the 
Inferior stalk., or those that are likely to hide tlie r«-t too 
muck from the sun, or, indeed, any that are too much 
crowded or ill placed, wero cut away as useless formerly, 
hut m»«v they are nude into cuttings lo increase good so, te, 
or save One the trouble of sowing seeds of them every 
year. Every leaf on a shoot will make a cutting If you 
take a part of the stern sml the eye at the bottom along 
with It; hut the easiest way is first of all to cut the shoots 
into as many pieces as there are leaves or joints, then to 
: split tlie pieces down the middle, so that overy half has its 
own bud and leafstalk; the Marfa of the leaf is not neces¬ 
sary, but it is bc-t to keep two inches of the baf tulk; the 
•oft pith In tho oen'er of Uie split ports should be scraped 
press upon them, 
extend far, horizontally, from the main stalk, 
which is one great recommendation for a hedge 
plant. 1 wish the experiment might he fairly 
tried on our Western Prairi|g. As the shrub, 
like other species of tlie Quince, growB readily 
from cuttingB, the experiment would not be 
attended with a very great expense, and should 
it succeed, as I think it will, imagination can 
scarcely paint anything more beautiful than a 
well-sheared hedge of this shmb would he, in 
the month of May, when it would ho one perfect 
shout of eoarlet blossoms from bottom to top. 
N. G«ods*ll. 
Hew Bw«, Orrreg* Co., It T., 1863. 
