ILLINOIS APPLES. 
ims variety originated with Charles 
Arnold, Paris, Ontario, Canada, and was 
originally sent by the originator to several 
amateur lYuit growers for trial and report, as 
“Arnold’s No. 1 White or Yellow.” In 
1 White or Yellow.” In 
Rural for May 22, we replied to a corre¬ 
spondent, that we knew nothing of it per¬ 
sonally. Turning back to the volume of 
Rural for 1808, wc find on page 351, a fig¬ 
ure and description sent us by Mr. F. R. El¬ 
liott, which we re-produce, as being new to 
a great many of our present readers. Mr. 
Elliott now writes us that the fruit found 
in the figure is not quite as conical as per¬ 
haps tull and well grown specimens would 
be, but that it is a fair average of the variety 
in ordinary cultivation. Mr. Elliott also 
adds that the canes have again stood the 
winter unprotected, and are now full of fruit 
promise. 
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THE DICENTRA SPECTABILIS. 
The Dicta tra Spectabilis is one of the most 
charming ol the herbaceous plants, ranking 
with the Pffiony, just as^hardy, and requiring 
the same treatment every way. It was sent 
from China to England, I think, in 1844, by 
Mr. Fortune, when collecting rare plants 
in that country for the London Hort icultural 
Society. About lour or five years after it 
was introduced into lids country. The first 
really fine specimen 1 ever saw in this coun¬ 
try was in the garden of that venerable and 
true-hearted lover of flowers, Ajuijah Reed 
of Hulburton, N. Y. 
At first it was supposed to be tender, and 
was confined to green-bouse culture. It 
seems strange now to read the announce¬ 
ment made in Ilovey’s Magazine and the 
horticultural journals along from 1851 to 
1853 that, the Dielylra was believed to be 
hardy, as a plant accidentally left out had 
survived the winter. But it was only a few 
years ago that the Japan Lily was thus 
treated. In fact all new comers receive the 
same petting, because no one i 3 willing to 
country, has devoted his attention entirely 
to the propagation and planting of fruits: 
Ben Davis, Rambo, Grimes, Golden Pippin, 
Red Astrachan, Red June, Maiden’s Blush, 
Jonathan, Willow Twig. 
By thk Secretary, (name not given.) 
For making money, believe the Ben Davis 
is the apple; but for market and for home 
use, would want to plant as follows, viz: 
20 Summer —4 sorts, Red June, 10; Early 
Harvest -1; Rod Astrachan, 3, Sweet Jtine, 3. 
10 Fall —3 sorts—Fall Wine, 4 ; Raillbo, 3; 
Maiden’s Blush, 3. 70 QVintrr— 8 sorts: 
Ben Davis, 40; Winesap, 10; llawle’s Janet, 
10; Jonathan, 3; Willow Twig, 2; West- 
field Si‘ck-no-further, 2; Danver’s Winter 
Sweet, 2, Ladies’ Sweeting, 1—100. For an 
orchard not convenient to a good market, a 
less proportion of Summer sorts would be 
advisable ; but good early apples near a mar¬ 
ket, will bn found generally profitable. 
the Adirondac, and perhaps Israelis, may 
also be found useful; and for white varieties, 
Robena, and Maxatawney are both desirable. 
For red wine, Norton’s Virginia is probably 
yut unsurpassed. In many places where 
these last named varieties would ent irely fail 
in open vineyard culture, they may be suc¬ 
cessfully grown ill Sheltered gardens, and 
upon walls of buildings on southern or 
eastern exposures. 
In sclectin 
the man ever originate the grapes by hybrid¬ 
ization, as he claims ? Does he know his 
own bantlings? We all believe him an hon¬ 
est man, and with good intentions; but this 
blunder, added to previous ones, quells all 
confidence in anything lie may write. 
Addi. 
MAMMOTH CLUSTER RASPBERRY. 
We clip the following from the Rural 
New-Yorker, credited to 31. L. Dunlap of 
Illinois; 
” I have not as yet fruited the true Miami, hut 
have ordi.'i’ed n lot i lutt I suppose will prove l rut*. 
I lie family of Black t’up Raspberries have been 
sauly iin.vf.t up, sold and re-sold under now 
names. Jt Is now u grave question with many 
i the new Mammoth Cluster is anything more 
than thi! Doolittle or Miami." 
Here is one very strange inconsistency m 
the published statement of M. L. Dunlap. 
Two years ago, through the Prairie Farmer 
of Illinois, be denounced the Miami as no 
better than the common Black Cap of the 
woods—while in an article to the Journal 
of Horticulture, of that same season, he 
admitted the Miami to be a superior berry, 
WHAT GRAPES TO PLANT, 
varieties for vineyard or gar¬ 
den, always choose the bent that will succeed 
in your locality. If Delaware, Iona, Allen’s 
White Hybrid, Groveling, and such varieties, 
succeed, I would plant them almost exclu- 
si vely. If' they even partially or occasionally 
succeed, 1 would plant them pretty freely, 
but more largely of Concord, Martha, Hart¬ 
ford Prolific, I ves’, and their kindred. When 
the finer kinds, from any cause, will not do, 
plant the next best, or the best that will 
grow and bear well, and eat your fruit with 
thankfulness, even though it, may not have 
the flavor of that ripened under an Italian 
sun. 
Touch new, and especially untried varie¬ 
ties, cautiously. It is well, however, to try 
and test personally a few vines of any new 
kind that comes with respectable recommen¬ 
dations. If found good, it will undoubtedly 
be worth all it costs. And if partially 
valueless, unless bought at too great cost, 
Ibc knowledge of its true character will 
usually be regarded by the amateur or profes¬ 
sional grape grower as sufficient compensa¬ 
tion for its loss. 
Geo. W. Camphell, Delaware O., a cul¬ 
tivator of experience, discusses this subject in 
the Small Fruit Recorder. From his article 
we extract what follows:--In regions, where 
particular varieties have been grown and 
found adapted to the locality, vineyards of 
those mul kindred sorts maybe planted with 
confidence, and with as reasonable prospects 
of success, and with no greater fear of failure 
than from ordinary farm crops. 
There are but few localities in the United 
States where some varieties of 
not he grown 
grapes may 
and as a general rule, any soil 
and location that will produce good and 
regular crops of Indian corn may be con¬ 
sidered suite! to the growth of such varieties 
as Concord, Martha, Hartford Prolific, Ives’ 
Seedling, and they may be planted with con¬ 
fidence of reasonable success. Where these 
cannot be grown, in the Northern or Middle 
States, I doubt the propriety of planting 
vineyards. 
For the thousands who wish to cultivate a 
few vines in gardens, and town lots, or upon 
vacant, walls or buildings, and who have 
neither much knowledge of grape-culture nor 
leisure to devote to their care, the above 
named varieties arc well adapted. They are 
all healthy, hardy, vigorous and productive, 
and though not all of the finest quality, are 
still very acceptable to the great mass of the 
people. 
The Delaware, Creveling, Allen’s White 
Hybrid, Isabella, and several of Rogers’ 
Hybrids, such as Nos. 3, 4, 5, 9,15,19,80 and 
33, ami perhaps Christino, Milos’, and some 
others, will he found reliable and valuable in 
many localities, and most of them superior 
in quality to Concord, Hartford Prolific, or 
1 ves’ Seedling : although it must be confessed 
tlcv vc not been found so universally suc¬ 
cessful as the latter varieties. 
In particularly favored localities, where the 
season is long, and the temperature equable, 
the Catawba, lonn and Diana, ns well as the 
Ilcrbemont, Leuori and their kindred, will 
succeed, and are well worthy of careful atten¬ 
tion. For an early variety, in such locations, 
APPLES FOR CANADA. 
D, W. Beadle, St. Catharines, Ontario, 
Secretary of the Fruit Growers’ Association 
of Ontario, in an essay on the cultivation of 
the Apple in that Province, uses the follow¬ 
ing language concerning vari tics: 
“ There are but a comparatively few sorts 
generally adapted to our soil and varying 
climate. Planting many varieties in one 
orchard is not to be commended. For fam¬ 
ily use along the front, the following will be 
found adapted 
MANAGEMENT OF DAHLIAS 
open air, and are expected to blossom during 
the summer and fall months. Dahlias often¬ 
times are forced into early maturity by a 
long drouth, and a second growth is pro¬ 
duced by late copious showers. 
You should give especial attention to the 
supports of the plants, and add stakes where 
they are needed. If the side branches are 
not well secured in the direction they are 
growing, they will break down. It is a too 
common and detrimental practice to remove 
many of the side branches of dahlias. You 
should bear in mind that the foliage of the 
dahlia is of too much service to lie wantonly 
decreased—hence, if they be treated as fruit 
and other trees, that is, all pruning confined 
to the removal of the weak and useless 
branches, and such as are crowding others, 
the flowers will come even larger than if a 
more severe pruning were practiced. 
If you desire large flowers, remove the 
greater number of small flower buds, leaving 
on the largest and most promising. Many 
growers protect the bloom from the rain anc\ 
sun’s rays, by a covering. This may be use- 
ful in a certain degree, but the petals of cov. 
THE SALEM GRAPE: 
Who Huh If True? 
Early in 1867 the public were invited to 
purchase a new grape, under the name of 
Salem, which 
For summer, Early Har¬ 
vest and Red Astrachan, as sour apples, aud 
the Sweet Bough; for early autumn, the 
Duchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein, Primate, 
and Jersey Sweet; for late autumn and early 
xvinter, the Ribston Pippin, Hubbardston- 
Nonsuch, Fall Pippin, and Snow Apple; for 
mid-winter to March, the R. 1. Greening, 
Northern Spy, Esopus Spitzenberg, Pomme 
Grise, aud Talman Sweet; for spring the 
Golden Russet aud Roxbury Russet. For 
market, the most profitable varieties are Red 
Astrachan, Ducliesss of Oldenburg, Graven- 
stein, and Hubbardston-Nonsuch, ripening 
in the order in which they are named, lor 
near or home market; and for shipping, the 
R. I. Greening, Baldwin, Golden Russet, and 
Roxbury Russet, will yield the largest pecu¬ 
niary returns. For the colder parts of the 
Province, the Red Astrachan, Duchess of 
Oldenburg, Saint Lawrence, Snow Apple, 
Borassa, Pomme Grise, and Golden Russet, 
may be recommended. If there be any spot 
grape was then described by 
its originator as “ bunch large and compact, 
herry large as Hamburg, of a light chestnut 
or Catawba color.'' 
Large sales were made; every grape ama¬ 
teur, almost, bought and planted; and for 
the past two years we have been growing 
and admiring a chestnut nr Catawba colored 
grape as the Salem. But now comes the 
same originator with a new description of 
the Salem, published In a late number oftbe 
Boston Journal of Horticulture, as follows: 
Lunch rather large and broad; berry in¬ 
clining to oval in form; skin thin; 'color 
black." 
Now, please tell us which and what, out of 
Rogers’ confusion of numbers, is Salem; 
and is it chestnut color, or is it black ? Did 
THE CLINTON GRAPE IN IOWA. 
A correspondent of the Department of 
Agriculture, writing from Jackson Co., Iowa, 
says that after ten years’ experience he is 
convinced that the Clinton is the best grape 
for Iowa. This was fully proved last season. 
The preceding winter bad been very dry and 
