SoYtintlixrftl. 
WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES 
SUNDRY ITEMS FROM MY NOTE - BOOK. 
The Delaware Grape in the West.— It 
will be remembered by your readers who saw 
the discussions of the Illinois State Hort. So¬ 
ciety last winter, that the validity of the claim 
that, the Delaware is adapted to Western culture, 
climate and sail, was seriously questioned by 
prominent members. Mr. Dunlap objected to 
it because it did not "walk up to the Captain's 
office and settle.” Tie called it Ihe “least valua¬ 
ble of any of the grapes." He asserted that, 
“the Concord, Catawba and Isabella are belter." 
lie affirmed that it did nuthing at all “off the 
limestone soil.” And he urged “that, it be 
stricken from the list for general culture.” I see 
that, a Missouri man, writing to the Horticulturist, 
is much of the same way of thinking. 
Some time after this meeting of the State 
Hort. Society. I was talking with Chas. H. Ro- 
senhtikl, of Freeport, III. He did not like the 
position of Mr. D. relative to this grape. He 
knew better in regard to its character for pro¬ 
duction. He had vines that did hear abundantly 
and that did not at all. lie had Delaware vines 
that were and had always been strong growers; 
and others that bad only a feeble, sickly exist¬ 
ence. He had been puzzled as to the cause of 
this difference; but experiment? and observation 
had satisfied him that he had discovered the 
cause. He says if the Delaware is propagated 
by cuttings from the hearing wood, it will grow 
strong and fruit early and abundantly Invaria¬ 
bly. If propagated from barren wood, it will 
make a feeble growth and never fruit. 
Mr. R. is not a man who jumps at conclusions. 
He is one of the most skillful and successful hor¬ 
ticulturists in the West; and such an assertion 
by him will command the confidence of all who 
know him. But since last. January, when I had 
this interview with Mr. R., I have taken pains to 
learn what I could of the origin of the Delaware 
vines in the State that have fruited; and whether 
they were propagated from productive wood. 
The result, of my inquiries confirms the state- 
ment of Mr. R. I)r. Sohrceder, of Blooming¬ 
ton, confirms it. And to-day Dr. J. Asa Kknni- 
COTT, of Chicago, ha? given further testimony in 
this direction. He has two year old vines loaded 
with fruit. He nsserts that he I,mows they were 
propagated from bearing wood by Charles 
Downing. He lias other vines propagated from 
bearing wood, obtained from the late “Old Doc¬ 
tor” Kennicott, which are also giving fruit 
and growing strongly. But vines which he has 
himself propagated from barren wood, yield no 
fruit, and sustain the sickly, weakly character so 
often given the Delaware vine. 
Let the Name Accompany the Fruit.— 
There are plenty of people who believe a 
peach to be a peach, and that names are of 
no consequence. So of other fruits. Market 
orchardists do not attach enough importance 
to this matter of educating the consuming 
public in pomologlcnl nomenclature, I have 
passed through the Chicago market a half-dozen 
times during the present season, inquiring 
the names of the different varieties of fruit ex¬ 
hibited for sale. In the absence of any knowl¬ 
edge of the names of the different fruits for sale, 
these fruit-dealers, in their zeal to accommodate 
me with a name, have astonished themselves 
with their pomological knowledge, and me with 
their inventive genius by supplying the demand! 
And such a supply! Downing never dreamed 
of such names. Elliott and Thomas would 
have sworn they had been taking a Rip Van 
Winkle nap! And except in one or two cases, 
I have found no correct answers to my questions. 
During the past five years 1 have scarcely seen 
a fruit in market here correctly labeled, except 
some of the commoner varieties of apples, grapes 
and pears. 
All this is wrong. The fruit-grower should 
label each box of fruit with its name and his 
own. Let the people learu to distinguish fruit 
by name—to associate with the name it? true 
character, and they will soon learn to discrimi¬ 
nate in favor of the best varieties, and pay for 
the privilege. This is matter of economical and 
commercial importance to the fruit-grower. It 
is a matter of great importance to the intelligent 
consumer. It is not rare to hear a gentleman or 
lady ask, “ What is the name of that apple,” pear 
or peach, as the case may be. And no reliable 
answer can be made by the fruit-dealer, as a 
rule; because he is not informed. 
There have been some splendid peaches in 
market here from Alton this season—some of the 
finest I ever saw. And some of them I could 
not identify. It would have greatly gratified me 
to have known the name of both the fruit and 
the grower. I should like to have named both 
in these notes. But ihe dealer didn't know. He 
purchased the fruit of a commission house; and 
no label attached to the box. It is both wrong 
and unprofitable. 
Rislixg Grape.—M r. Rosesstiel says this 
is the very best of all the hardy grapes. It is a 
blue grape, growing a little larger bunches than 
the Delaware, is a better fruit, and is as hardy as 
the Catawba. It ripens about the loth of Sep¬ 
tember, is very productive, a pretty good grower, 
but not as strong as the Catawba. 
Laying down Grapes for Winter.—M r. R. 
says grape vines should not be laid down until 
frost comes. If so, they will be likely to decay. 
It is the starting and freezing in spring that is 
dangerous—not the early freezing in the fall, if 
the wood is ripened. I find there is a great dif¬ 
ference in the practice of different grape-grow¬ 
ers, in the depth of covering put over the vine. 
Some only deem it necessary to cover the tips of 
the vines lightly with soil; others cover the 
entire length of vine tightly—say two or three 
inches. Others deeply,—five or six inches. And 
the difference in results is not so definitely 
marked as might be supposed. An exchange of 
experience on this point might be profitable. 
PARKS FOR THE FARMERS. 
The following article is by one of the most 
intelligent agriculturists of t.he day. and con¬ 
tains suggestions that we know to bo of great, 
interest to our readers. We hope its suggestions 
may bo heeded: 
We wish to see the farmer's home—the farmer’s 
life—made more attractive, nitherto, as a gen¬ 
eral thing, the improvements which have been 
made are of the useful kind, having reference 
mainly to the supply of man’* physical wants. 
Most of our farms must be regarded as mere 
manufactories of food and clothing; very little 
has been done to gratify the intellect,, taste, or 
feelings—the higher and nobler attributes of our 
nature. And this is one reason, beyond a doubt, 
why many young persons who have, by means 
of education, reading, and society, acquired a 
certain degree of refinement, become dissatisfied 
with agricultural life, and have sought the city. 
Intelligent, educated men, cannot surely remain 
satisfied with being mere growers of grain and 
breeders of stock,— they must love their homo; 
and to merit their love and attachment, that 
home must possess something of beauty, for the 
love of the beautiful is an instinct of man's 
nature. A large portion of the population is 
continually on the move;—the old home has no 
hold on their affections—or at least not enough 
to overcome the novelty of a new one. Wc see 
the population diminishing in the very heart of 
the finest agricultural district in America, where 
nothing is so much needed as human beings. It 
is at certain seasons impossible to procure labor¬ 
ers enough to do the work. Tills Btate of things 
is unfavorable to the perfect development of the 
country’s resources, and equally unfavorable to 
the attainment of a higher and happier social 
condition. 
It is not unreasonable, we trust, to expect, and 
even to urge, some reform on this point, Make 
homo attractive;—cultivate the taste, and feel¬ 
ings, and affections, as well as yon do your fields, 
Why should a wealthy farmer, with his 50, 100, 
or 200 or 300 acres of land, content himself with 
a rod or two of a door-yard, and a dozen of 
shade trees, shaped and managed after the pre¬ 
cise fashion of a village plot? Why can he not, 
just as well, have a park and pleasure-ground of 
several acres around his house, broad grades of 
lawn, and groups of trees, separated from the 
cultivated portions of the farm by green hedges? 
This, with a well-stocked orchard and good, 
ample kitchen-garden, would come up to our 
ideas of a country home; and it would he impos¬ 
sible for children to grow tip in such a home 
without becoming attached to it, and having 
their tastes expanded, their feelings refined, or 
without, appreciating the comforts and blessings 
of a country life. A rod or two of a door-yard 
for a farm-house!—what a mockery! There is 
something incongruous in the very look of it 
that cannot fail to strike every observing person; 
it wants what the lamented Downing called 
“local truth" in architecture. 
But some careful farmer will ask us, “ flow 
can we afford to lay out parks and pleasure- 
grounds, and keep them in fine condition? It 
would cost us more than the whole labor of our 
farms. Only think of what an expenditure of 
money and labor this hedging, and planting, and 
mowing this pleasure-ground would involve. It 
would bo all very well if we could afford It; but 
that we'eannot, and wo must leave it to retired 
gentlemen who have made their fortunes in 
town, and come out into the country to spend 
them.” 
But wo reply, You can carry out our plan 
without incurring a heavy expense. Hundreds 
of farmers in our own county of Monroe can 
make such a park as we propose without feeling 
the cost. Fence off' five to ten acres of land 
immediately aronnd your dwelling. Seed it, 
down, and It will produce good crops of hay. 
You can get, plenty of young Maples, Elms, 
Tulip trees, Basswoods, Ash, and other native 
trees, in the woods, which can be taken up and 
planted at leisure intervals in the fall, when 
farm labor Is over, and early iu spring, before it 
commences, and even during winter, in mild 
weather. Until the trees are well-established, it 
will be necessary to cultivate the soil around 
them. It will not be necessary to cover the 
whole ground with trees, but merely to scatter 
them here and there in groups, and singly, to 
give it a park-like character, which will distin¬ 
guish it at once from the cultivated fields. A 
little can be done now, and a little again, a? 
leisure affords; and in a few years the work 
will show. Meantime the land is cropped profit¬ 
ably; for hay is always a paying crop, and an 
indispensable one. The ground nearest the 
house may be planted with some rarer trees—a 
portion of them evergreens. A small portion of 
the ground near the house might be separated 
from the main body of the park by a wire fence, 
or moveable hurdle fence, and kept mowed; and 
if embellished with a few flowering shrubs, and 
a few beds of flowers, all the better. But these* 
for economy's sake, can very well be dispensed 
with. When the planting is finished, and the 
trees fairly established, the park might be pas¬ 
tured with Sheep, as many parks are in Europe; 
and thus it would always have a closely cu sur¬ 
face without the expense of mowing, and the 
sheep would be an interesting feature in its 
scenery. When forest trees are not within reach, 
we would recommend the raising of them from 
seed, or small plant? can be purchased at the 
nurseries for §2 or §3 per hundred, which, with 
a couple of years’ growth In nursery rows, will 
will be fit for final planting out Only go about 
it, and the means will not be wanting. 
SUN-FLOWERS AND MORNING-GLORIES. 
Flower of the sun ! Glory of the morning 1 
Poetical as the language of Persian lover, their 
very names ought to draw the hearts of all wor¬ 
shipers of the beautiful aud euphonious toward 
them ! 
“Them sun-flowers!” said old Mejck, the 
gardener, giving one a patriotic stall with his hoe. 
a la Charlotte Corday, lidding the world of a 
monster. “Hold,” I interposed, “thesun-flowers 
are all right, hut like mauy very good sort of 
people they have pitched their tents in the wrong 
place. There, spado up some of these stout, fel¬ 
lows and follow me.” Mejuk obeyed, but with 
a look that said, “ Wonder if burdock and pig¬ 
weed won't havo to bo transplanted next.” 
The sun-flowers were carefully set along some 
unshaded paths in the back yard. How they 
grew! The drouth might wither the corn, 
striped bugH spoil the squash and melon, and 
cut-worms nip off the young beets, beans and 
tomatoes, and make the flower-bed a place of 
desolation, but these undaunted sun-flowers kept 
straight on adding node to node, while every 
new leaf seemed a banner with the “strange 
device " Excelsior! And now, with theirgolden- 
riturned heads cupping a pyramid of glossy 
leaves, wide enough to wrap a baby in, or make 
a sun umbrella, they strike all beholders with a 
deep sense of their magnificence, while I, in my 
admiration, am only kept hack by tv slight, 
thought of •• propriety ’’ from kneeling to them 
even as Linn.-eus is said to have done when he 
first beheld a tree fern; and even old Mejuk, 
who has a little sublimity away down at the bot¬ 
tom of his rough soul, mutters, “ Well, them sun¬ 
flowers aint so bad after all.” 
As for my much loved convolvulus, the morn¬ 
ing glories, to bo seen in their supremest stab 1 , 
one must he up with the sun and catch a full 
view of them when first tinged with her golden 
light, for if 
“ Thu roic i* brightest washed with morninK dew,” 
doubly so are these flowers of the dew and shade 
that so soon wither under the sun’s direct rays. 
Such a bundle of bloom and miracle of color us 1 
found stowed away in a cracked tea-cup in mother 
Bridget’s closet this spring in the shape of morn¬ 
ing-glory seed ! And now how they trail their 
glories—pink, blue, red and white, over unsightly 
posts, along grey walls, and up to the very tops 
of trees, that look every morning as if the “angol 
of flowers” had breathed on them in the night 
and wreathed their branches with her choicest 
gifts ! 1 watch the humming birds diving their 
long bills into the spicy tubes, laugh at the burly 
bees breaking through their delicate corolla?, see 
little children clapping their hands at the sight 
of so much twining and trailing loveliness, and 
thank God for the morning-glories. The bigno- 
nia, honeysuckles and charming roses are all 
well enough, but they are a little aristocratic and 
best befit the fluted column or ornamental trellis, 
but our simple morning-glories, like charity, love 
to fling a veil of beauty over deformity, and any 
one with a slight bit of ingenuity, a few old barrel 
hoops and knotty stakes can havo arches, and 
arbors, and pyramids, covered with these “trail¬ 
ing glories,” that will give an air of artistic grace 
to the humblest home in the land. Though not 
one of those who, like Victor Hugo’s Father 
Markup, believe that plants have souls, yet 
should I over reach that 
“ Lund beyond the flood 
Where joy* immortal bloom,” 
such is my love for these old-fashioned flowers, I 
might even thero have a secret yearning to meet 
the spirits of some of these broad-leaved sun¬ 
flowers and graceful morning-glories that I had 
so worshiped when I sojourned in a land made 
brighter by their blooming. o. e. s. 
Furuesaville, tnd., Aujj, 15,180.1. 
The sun-flowers are useful when in the right 
place. We have now a square devoted to this 
flower in the back part of the flower garden a 
kind of division between the flowers aud vegeta¬ 
bles—and it attracts the attention and affords 
much pleasure. At, the back is a row of the tall 
growing kinds, while those in front are dwarfish, 
only about two feet in height. But there is a dif¬ 
ference in sun-flowers, us in most other flowers. 
The Double Oreen-Centered is excellent, double 
and line every way. The Double ArgophUluu 
grows only jabout two feet in height, branches and 
flowers freely. The leaves are covered with 
long, silky, white down, giving them a very 
pretty appearance. There is a variety of the 
same with striped flowers, though the stripes are 
not very conspicuous. 
aua 
Stkawhkhihic* Axil Rahpbkrkiks,—W ishing to apt ont 
three acres esoli of strawberries and raspberries, I should 
be very much obliged if you would answer a few one* 
tions through the Rural, which f think will be of general 
Interest, How many varieties, and which varieties would 
you advise me to net ont ? How far should the row* he 
apart, and how far apart the plants in the row* ? The 
same questions to apply to both strawberries and raspber¬ 
ries. A reply at an early date, if convenient, will be a 
({rent favor —J,, Erie Go. 
For the opinion* of the host fruit growers in this section 
on these question* wo refer our correspondent to the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Frutt Growers’ Society of Western New 
York, published in Rural of July -1. 
Stnk-Water, RAar-BKitKiKS, ,Sic.—As the Rural seems 
to know everything, will you allow me, as well as other 
subscriber*, to ask a few questions I* sink-water good for 
young strawberry plants, or is It good for overgreens or 
recently transplanted fruit frees? In June I «et out two 
nice young Norway Spruces, and am afraid I have killed 
them by putting on ink water too freely. |* the fail <j\ 
spriog the best tune to set out raspberries, and should 
they he cut down when they arc planted out ? I de*|/e to 
transplant some grape vine*: should they be cut hack to 
two or three eyes ?— A. It, Caledonia, O. \V. 
Water from the sink Is usually beneficial to trees and 
plants of all kinds. Of course it is possible to give the 
roots of tree* and plauta too much water. Occasionally a 
large quantity of salt, or something of the kind may be 
iu the water from the sink and prove Injurious. Rasp¬ 
berries will do well planted either in the fall or spring. 
If planted in the spring we would cut the canes to within 
two feet of the ground. In the fall lay the canes down 
and cover with a little -earth, and cut back when taken 
up in the spring. Cut grapes well back—two years old 
vines to two or three eyes. If the three year old vines 
were well pruned the last spring they would not need to 
be cut back so far. Make up your mind just what kind 
•of a form you want your vine to assume, and then prune 
so as to secure it. 
M.Uitvo Oathuok Hrad, &c. — Will breaking off the 
town- leaves of cabbage throw the growth in the head and 
make it head ? Should salt or any other substance he 
epritikled on the heads to make t hem hard and firm, if so, 
how much, and what time iu the senmn ? 1 Imvc nlmut 
three thousand cabbage* growing that look fine They arc 
just beginning to form head*. Will tomatoes keep good 
put up in oyster runs, If they are well sealed ? Will you 
or sonic of the readers of the Rural answer the above 
and oblige—E. C, B , Corning, .V. F 
If you have good plantain a suitable rich soil there will 
he no difficulty about t.ho formation of heads wo think. 
Wc have never found any advantage in breaking off the 
lower leaves, indeed, it injures the growth. Salt, is of no 
advantage on the plant—a little may be of use sprinkled 
on the ground, though it is a dangerous experiment- 
Sometimes we give our ground a little salt very early in 
the spring Tomatoes will keep in any air-tight vessel. 
Flowkr for M i mr. — 1 have seen this summer a little 
flower, very pretty, scarlet, growiug on slender, tall stems, 
«ome eighteen inches in height. It i* very tine for small 
bouquet*. Can you tell mo its namef l inclose you a 
faded, damaged flower which I have pulled from an old 
boquet for the purpose. - Miss N. O. 
The flower when received was much damaged, but wo 
have no doubt it is Caccalia coccinea, sometimes called 
Flora's Paint Brush. 
in 
We give a figure of this flower that we had taken last 
seasou. it is a pretty thing, easily transplanted, flowers 
freely, and is unsurpassed for small boquets. 
lUvtintltural 
Dsutzia Crknata flork plrno.— Thi* Is the name of 
one of Mr. FORTUNE'S novelties from Japan, recently ex¬ 
hibited by Mr. Stavish. “ It looked like a fine addition 
to hardy shrubs. It lias opposite, shortly stalked ovate 
accumlnato finely serrated leaves, anil copious terminal 
racemes of dellexed double white llowors, deeply tinged 
externally witli rose.” As the l). Ortnaia la quite hardy 
this will undoubtedly prove a fine acquisition 
I, ilium Buow.vn —This very splendid lily is yet but 
little cultivated, and but little known. It ia decidedly the 
best of the trumpet-shaped group, the flowera being longer 
than I ongifiorum, wider at. tho mouth, and better shaped; 
the color is a creamy white ou the inside, and brownish 
on the outside, tho contrast adding to thu beauty of the 
(lower; tho habit Is vigorous, and the foliage more abuu 
dant than the other species. It i* perfectly hardy, and 
should ho in every collection. It flower* just before the 
Lougifiorum, in the early part of J uiy, — Iluvey's Mug. 
MR. Richard Fettkkb, of Camden, New Jersey, died 
recently iu his 73d year. Mr. F. was widely known as a 
propagator of Roses, Camellias, Magnolia*, and other 
“stock” things; and, as a liberal, high-minded and gen¬ 
erous man, was as widely esteemed as known. Ho was a 
native of Now Jersey, and commenced his career In what 
is called •‘humble life. When near his 50th year, death 
had about claimed him ns hi* victim; aud from motives 
of health he entered the nursery business, in which, for 
ono who had no practical knowledge of tho business, ho 
wax remarkably successful. Ho died vyurtii, probably, 
11)0,000.— Gardener's Monthly. 
La Constant* Stra wiiickiiy.—A writer in the Garden¬ 
ers' Chronicle give* tho following account of thi* magnif¬ 
icent variety, which I* fully borne out by our own experi¬ 
ence with it:—“Too much can hardly be Haid in favor of 
thin comparatively new strawberry. I have four rows of 
it across onn of tho quarters of the garden, and the crop 
on them is something Incredible. Tho color is bright 
Vermillion, tho fruit is largo aud regularly formed, and 
tho (Javor Is excellent. This variety I find hears carriage 
better than any oilier sort with which I am acquainted, 
and instead of the runners creeping along the ground, like 
thoso of other kinds, they grow straight up among the 
leaves, forming supports almost sufficiently strong to carry 
the net with which they are covered.” 
Lilium ahatum.— This beautiful lily has again bios, 
somed with Mr. F. Park,mas, who exhibited It last season, 
aud is truly a grand and beautiful species. Tho plant, 
though small, had two flower*, open at the same time; 
and we understood Mr. P. to say his strongest bulb* had 
four flowers, showing that when they attain their lull »i/.e 
they wili have at least four, and perhaps twice that, num¬ 
ber of blossom*. Dr. Ball, who sent home thc*o bulbs, 
informs us this species is ono of lire most common in 
Japan, and that the buJhs are eaten ax food, a* Indeed arc 
many other lilies. So abundant, it is rather surprising 
Dr. Sikrold did not see it at the time he sent home the 
noble Japan lilies so called, (L. speciosum.J It will prove 
a magnificent addition to our gardens.— Honey's Mag- 
Immense Sthawrbrry Choc— A Handsome Revenue 
—A single fact which baa come to our knowledge relating 
to the strawberry crop of the past season will doubtless 
astonish many of our readers, A prominent fruit grower 
of W< ‘era New York, from a single patch of sixteen acres, 
sent to market thirteen hutulred buslols of strawberries of 
the Wilson Seedling and Tiiomphe do Gaud varieties. Tho 
entire crop was sold at an average price of one milling per 
quart, realizing the snug ‘Uia Of Jive thousand two hundred 
ilnUars as the product of sixteen acres of ground. Wo 
doubt whether any other sixteen acres in Western New 
York liavo yielded the like *ura as the result of a single 
crop. This may be taken as an instance of the profitable¬ 
ness of thoroughly scientific fruit growing .—Rochester 
Daily Union. 
'omtstic touwiM. 
TASTE IN FURNITURE. 
In furnishing your house always select articles 
possessing at least some charm of outline. In 
hook-shelves why not admit a grace M curvature 
in the wood, a little ornamentation of leaf or 
twining tendril, which would greatly add to Iheir 
beauty without materially increasing the price? 
And how far more rich will be the. folds of a doth 
if the table covers be round, rather than those 
square or octagon shapes, which admit no pic¬ 
turesque arrangement either of dishes or dra¬ 
pery. Of course, wo do not wish that delicacy 
of outline should alone besought; first ascertain 
(hat thq workmanship of all you purchase is 
faultless and then allow your good taste to guide 
you into the magic realms of decoration and or¬ 
namentation. Let the legs of your chairs and 
tables ho slightly curved or twisted, your picture 
frame* gracefully molded, your tumblers chaste 
in design, your onps and jug* delicate and sub¬ 
dued in coloring, and your dishes and plates at¬ 
tractive to the eye. Study also truthfulness of 
material. That, is to say do not lavish much 
money upon imitation, loaded with ornament 
when a few more pence would purchase the gen¬ 
uine article. If your purse is too norrow to buy 
reality, do not accept instead a luvishly adorned 
sham — Englishwoman's Journal. 
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HOW TO DRY SWEET CORN. 
When the corn is in good condition for eat- 
ing, the grains being fully grown, boil a quan¬ 
tity of ears just enough to cook the starch, and 
then lot them cool and dry a few hours, and 
then shell or cut off’ the grains and spread them 
in tho sun till dried. Tho best way to dry tho 
corn is to nail a piece of cloth of very open tex¬ 
ture on a frame, which, if two feet wide and fivo 
feet long, will be of a convenient, size to handle. 
If tho corn is spread thinly upon this cloth, it 
will dry quickly, without souring. It should be 
covered with a piece of mosquito netting (o keep 
off tho (lies. Another person gives the following 
directions for drying sweet corn:— “As soon as 
the corn is fit (or the table, husk and spread the 
ears in an open oven, or some quickly drying 
place. When the grains loosen shell the corn, or 
shell as BOOH as you can. Thou ip read upon a 
cloth to dry in the sun, or on a paper In a warm 
oven; stir often, that it. may dry quickly and not 
overheat. It, more resembles the undried by its 
being whole, is sweeter, and retains more of its 
natural flavor by drying .faster. When wholly 
dried expose it to the wind by turning it, slowly 
from dish to dish—tho wind blows off all the 
troublesome white chaff,”— Exchange. 
Starching Bosoms and Collars.— a “Jer¬ 
sey Farmer’s Daughter” sends to the Agricul¬ 
turist tho following directions;—Pour a pint of 
boiling water upon two ounces of gum arabic, 
cover it, and lot, it, stand over night; in the morn¬ 
ing pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean 
bottle, cork It, and keep it for future use. A 
tablespoonful of this gum arabic water stirred in 
a pint of starch made iu the usual manner, will 
give to lawns, either white or printed, a look of 
newness, when nothing else can restore them 
after they havo been washed. To every pint of 
starch, add a piece of butter, lard, tallow or 
spermaceti candle, the size of a chestnut. 
Friccaseb Chicken.— Cut the chicken ap; 
lot lie in water for au hour; dry them In a towel; 
then put them iu a stewpuu with just water 
enough to cover them, with a little mace, part of 
an ouion cut, up fine aud a little sweet marjoram. 
Boil them until tender. Then take a 1 lb. of but¬ 
ter, and rub some flour with it until perfectly 
smooth, and drop the butter and flour into the 
chicken water, stirring it all the time until it 
boils. Then take a yolk of an egg, beat up with 
a little cream, and pour in when done. 
Indian Cake.— Having noticed in the Rural 
a request for a recipe for making a good Indian 
Cake, 1 will send you ours, which we tbiuk is 
excellent. Take one egg; half a pint of sour 
milk; a teaspoonful of soda; three tablespoon- 
lulu of molasses; and Indian meal to make it 
about thick enough to pour. Wo think it better 
by leaving out the molasses, and adding a spoon¬ 
ful of cream. Try this, and you will have a 
cake fit for the Queen.—A Subscriber, Java, 
iV. Y, 1803. 
♦ —-- 
Tomato Corn Cakes—A Spanish Recipe.— 
Take a dozen ears of green corn; split the rows 
of kernels lengthwise with a knife, then shave off 
and mash with a rolling pin; or grate off the ker¬ 
nels fine; scald a dozen medium-sized tomatoes 
and remove the skins; beat three eggs well, and 
mix the whole with a pint, of milk, and flour 
enough to make a batter; add salt, pepper and 
allspice to the taste; fry on a griddle iri the same 
manner as buckwheat cakes, avoiding excess of 
grease. 
Beef Croqdhtts. — Take cold roast beef or 
veal, aud mince it fine; put an oniou iu cut up 
fine, some sweet marjoram and a little powdered 
cloves, and moisten it with a little beef gravy. 
Make it Into balls like you make for sausages; 
put the yolk of an egg over them, and flour them 
and fry in good sweet lard. This is a good Bide 
dish. 
Irish Rag.— Three cups sugar; 1 of butter; 1 
of sour cream; 6 eggs; 3 cups of flour; 1 table¬ 
spoon cream tartar; 1 teaspoon soda. Stir the 
butter and sugar, then the eggs, beat all together. 
This will make two good-sized cakes.— Sarah, 
Lyons, K. Y. 
Worms in Dried Fruit.— Will some Rural 
reader state the best method of keeping worm 3 
out of dried fruit, and oblige—T. 
