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Abuttlon striatum. It is a free growing, near¬ 
ly hardy shrub, the leaves three times lobed, 
the center lobe the largest, the two side lobes 
having sub-lobes near the base. The varie¬ 
gation consists of blotches, veins and spots 
of clear lemon-yellow, sulphur and cream 
color on a ground of bright grass green.” 
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intersection of tho finest brooks. In almost 
every case iho waiov-erosa has beau fouud grow¬ 
ing spontaneously, and in no instances have we 
failed to find that, greatest of luxuries, the 
speckled trout. One of the great advantages wo 
enjoy over most other parts of tho country, as 
regards the culture of cranberries, water-cress, 
and trout, Is that what arc called freshet s tiro 
not known. The price of lands usually ranges 
from ten to twenty-five dollars per acre. To 
illustrate the success in Hie use of swamp lands, 
we will briefly describe the operations Of a friend 
of oura hero in Ptttohoguo. lie first selected a 
brook already (as is usually the 
case) stocked with trout. This 
brook, as u type of all the rest, is 
bounded on each side by a gently 
k rising slope of from fifty to one 
hundred feet. Prom the baso of 
thus slope to the margin of the 
brook is an average of from fifty 
to one hundred feet, of muck bol- 
i tom, perfectly adapted to the cut 
jj, turo of cranberries, from ten to 
fifteen acres of which he has al- 
raSx-A ready in successful operation, and 
BB|**k four acres of which he has lately 
sold for $3,300. In a certain part 
^ of this muck bottom ho has cut 
artificial eauala and set out ivutor- 
wHNraijkcresses, which have proved a por- 
foot success. But promiuout in 
* ifekV' his operations is a spawning -race, 
|wB : l two foot wide ami three hmulrod 
and fifty feel In length, built, upon 
vofe' the most approved principles, with 
'Ml a. capacity of spawning half a nill- 
^ \[ lion fish per annum. Now, all 
T ^2. s who have the least knowledge of 
the value of this speckled favorite 
can form some estimate of what 
Iho result must ho in dollars and 
\ \ The learned Entomologist of 
Now Jersey thought something 
viSjlLi ' might be made of the I.tmg Island 
pVW lands if cultivators imported and 
V», fjjftJ sod enough of the New Jersey 
rill marl. Thel'rnffisaor of Early Bis- 
1 fu ing did not accopl and swallow 
iy all that is said of the enormous l'O- 
r sources of Long Island soils, The 
Comtuftuder of the Club prophe¬ 
sied that fifty years hence bong 
3 KENT, THE CHEAPEST 
T1IK MOST UNTHKTA IMMi 
FAMILY MALA/.IN K. 
NEW YORK FARMERS’ CLUB 
SULPHUR FOR GRAPE MILDEW 
Is Published Monthly at $3 a Year 
We oontinue our notes of the sayings and 
doings of this distinguished body of scientific, ag¬ 
riculturists. 
To Render a Cellar Dry.— S. E. Torn) writes tho 
Club that he has seen damp collars made dry 
simply by covering the sides and bottom with a 
heavy coat of the best hydraulic cement, and 
W. J. Flagg, Freestone, Sciota Co., Ohio, 
recently stated at the meeting of the Ohio 
Grape Growers’ Association the following 
reasons why those who have tried sulphur 
as a remedy for mildew on grapes have 
failed, without their failures proving any¬ 
thing against the value of the remedy when 
properly applied: 
1st. The applications may not have been 
timely or sufficiently frequent. They should 
be made either immediately upon the ap¬ 
pearance of the disease, or before it has been 
able to work serious damage, or, if such 
appearance cannot be early enough detected, 
then there should be a sulphuring every 
twenty days, beginning as early as any 
“ mildew ” has ever been observed to show 
itself on the particular vines to be treated, 
and continued till the grapes begin to 
change color. However much sulphur one 
may blow upon bis vines, if lie allows the 
fungus to get the start of him by a few days 
there will be a failure of the experiment. 
2d. The sulphuring may have been care¬ 
lessly done, or, being well done, rains may 
have washed off the powder before it bad 
lime to work its proper effect. 
;;d. After properly dosing bis plants, the 
vine-dresser may have been frightened by 
the appearance of “black rot,* (which sul¬ 
phur will not cure,) and confounding that 
with the fungus disease for which alone 
sulphur is prescribed, abandons the remedy 
in despair. That is not the malady that 
some call the oidiurn, which, however named, 
is, I insist, perfectly curable with sulphur; 
if we can control it, the black rot will 
scarcely hinder our progress. And yet, with 
certain varieties, on low lands, on compact 
and nndraiued grounds, badly aired and 
subject to fogs, the black rot alone, in a very 
wet season, may nearly destroy the entire 
crop. 
Balsams—Error Corrected.— Observing a mis¬ 
take iu the Rural of Oct. 16, concerning the 
Giant Balsam, we thought that it ought to be 
corrected. It was forty-two inches in height in¬ 
stead of thirteen. The branches varied from 
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GRAPE ROT 
The Alton, Ill., Hort. Society have been 
discussing this subject. Crab. Y. Riley, 
State Entomologist of Missouri, thinks the 
rot ui the berry may be attributed to some 
constitutional defect in the vine. Mr. Stare, 
of Alton, does not believe it due to any con¬ 
stitutional defect in the vine, nor to the mode 
of preparing the soil, as some believe. J. 
JI. Jordan of St. Louis, a successful culti¬ 
vator, said: — “I have lost all confidence in 
tho statements of our scientific men. I have 
seen grapes grow where our scientific men 
say they can’t be grown. I do not disap¬ 
prove of scientific investigation, but I do 
disapprove of stating as facts what are merely 
suppositions. 1 have grapes growing this 
year where you could not, pick a handful of 
rotten grapes. I believe I can take any vine 
and make iL produce rotten grapes, or I can 
make it produce sound fruit, free from rot. 
Close pinching is the main thing. Keep the 
foliage in check. The soil should be well 
underdraiued, as I don’t think one can grow 
fruit or vegetables with the feet of the plants 
in water. The rot this year is extensive, 
but on underdrained soil, where a careful 
system of close pinching I us been followed, 
we find the grape nearly exempt, as com¬ 
pared with those vineyards where a different 
system has been followed.” 
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ABUTILON a'TTOMrSOINri. 
after it had dried applying an overcoating of 
plastic slate material. The plastic slate should 
be spread on, while warm, with ft plastering 
trowel, Just as a wall is made inadwelling-house. 
Any collar that cannot bo drained may bo ren¬ 
dered perfectly dry by cementing tho sides and 
the bottom, mid covering tho commit with tho 
plastic, made of coal tar and slate flour, both of 
which can be obtained at a trifling expense. If 
tho correct proportion of tar and slate flour bo 
mingled together, the material will reconstruct 
Into OXCOllent, slate, which will bo as impervious 
to water as one unbroken piece of Vermont slate 
sufficiently large to extend over tho entire cellar 
bottom. Il‘ tho work be properly done, the bot¬ 
tom and sides of tho cellar will bo as water-tight 
us a jug. 
Will Potatoes Mix I— Mrs. L. U. CARTER, South- 
field, Mich., asks whether different varieties of 
potatoes, planted sido by side, nix. One mem¬ 
ber said no, except by the pollen, and it is shown 
in future generations resulting from seed balls. 
Another member said yes, for ho hail known 
them to do so. Thus tho question was left. 
To I’m Up Beer. -E. Foi.SOM, Bloomington, 
Ill,, recommends tho following mode of packing 
beef:—For one hundred pounds of moat use 
three buckets of water, or enough to cover (lie 
moat, four pounds brown sugar, with as much 
salt as will dissolve. Boil and skim. Put in tho 
moat while boiling; boil thirty minutes; take 
util and coo); pack in barrel and turn on pickle 
when cold. Beef packed after this recipe may 
need a little more salt after the month of March. 
How to Clean Cucumber anil Tomato Heed.— 
A correspondent of the Club asks how thus is 
best done. It is replied to spread them on a 
piece of paper in the sun to dry. They will he 
clean enough for use; but for commercial pur¬ 
poses it la necessary to wash out the pulp and 
dry them. The modus operand! was nut given. 
Drenching Faille.— G. H. NELSON, Alba, Pa., 
eighteen to thirty inches. Another stands in tho 
same border that measures four feet from the 
ground; Is straight us an arrow, with seven 
branches us erect with the main stalk. It is now 
In Its secoud bloom, from top to root; but the 
Mowers are single, of a bright red, which renders 
it au object of great beauty.—B. L. Phelps. 
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of tho summer flowering or bedding varieties 
should be kept dry and cool during winter, but 
not allowed to freeze. They may bo planted out 
In May, and will produce abundance of bloom 
during the summer and full. 
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ARBORICULTURAL NOTES 
Southern Black Oak Bark.—It has been found 
that Southern black oak bark makes one of tho 
most useful and Important dye stuffs now in use, 
forgiving the ground colors to the finest and 
most costly fabrics mad in colors in European 
print works. The most expensive colors are 
made from ffdrim, which is made from the extract 
of the black oak bark in the South. This ll/vrini 
is worth a dollar per pound. 1 ue ton of quercit¬ 
ron, that Is, black oak bark, y bolds one hundred 
and fifty pounds otjtcirtni. A cord of black oak 
bark will yield a ton of ground quercitron, which, 
when properly ground and prepared is worth $35 
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per ton. 
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Dwarf Pear*.—On pages 7 and 15, (I think it is,) 
vol. of Rural for 1850,1 see a description by 
the Editor of a dwarf pear orchard, planted by 
himself. It would bo Interest ing to myself and 
many other readers of your paper to hear from 
that pear orchard again, and also of the success 
standard pears are having. Which would be 
preferable for an extensive orchard? —E. B., 
Damon I, Mich. 
Will not the editor who wrote the article re¬ 
ferred to respond ? 
X 1115 
BOOK OF THE SEASON! 
NOW READY. 
Worden’* Seedling Grape. This is the name of 
a new vineyard candidate, said to be a black 
grape, clusters and berries good size, seeds few 
and small, but little and very sweet pulp. 
Sprightly, rich, ripening with Hartford Prolifio, 
and never mildews. It is said to be a seedling of 
the Concord, and " has a native aroma like its 
parent.’’ We know nothing of the leaf and vine; 
but we regard it slightly presumptuous to assert 
that “it never mildews," until it has been tested 
elsewhere than in Oswego couuty. 
Price. $1.23. 
By Simon Kerl, author of the English Grammars 
In which the study of Grammar is made a most inter¬ 
esting pursuit. 
ABUTILON THOMPSONI. 
The Abutiloit is an old class of plants, to 
be found iu nearly every old green-house, 
and, as an in-door or room plant, almost as 
common as the geranium. It grows freely 
and blooms abundantly in the ordinary beat 
of living rooms, all during the latter months 
of winter and spring. The variety most 
commonly grown lias orange and red flow¬ 
ers. It is easily propagated from cuttings 
during the summer. 
The London Gardeners’ Magazine figures 
and describes a new variegated-leaved va¬ 
riety. which wc copy as an item of special 
interest to those of our readers who grow 
more or less of flowering plants in their liv¬ 
ing rooms. “ The Abut'don Tlwmipsoni was 
introduced by Messrs. Vustoii & Sox. It is 
a valuable acquisition, on account of its rich 
variegation; but the leaves are so elegantly 
formed that if it bad not this great recom¬ 
mendation il would be acceptable, especially 
as when mature in growth, it will afford 
welcome flowers, for it is a sport from 
Three-Thorncd Acacia. — By the advice of 
Eli.wangbr & Barry of Rochester, I was in¬ 
duced, last spring, to set. out some fifty rods of 
these bodge plants, it being a new thing in this 
vicinity. I must say that it has far excelled my 
expectations; It has scut out shoots from one to 
turee feet in length, while its glossy, deep green 
foliage, with its formidable thorns, bid fair to 
make a beautiful as well as strong hedge. Those 
who see it speak highly iu its praise.—’.V. Doo¬ 
little, Borodino, N. Y. 
Hedge* About Fair Ground*. One of the best 
suggestions wo have seen is that made by M- L. 
Dunlap of Illinois, that since one great expense 
of fair grounds is the Cost of making anil keep¬ 
ing llm outside fence in repair, the first thing 
that should be done by Associations is to plant- a 
hedge for u fence; then a close bolt of trees, at 
least four rods wide, inside the hedge, both for 
shelter and picnic purposes. 
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Young Orchards.— Our Michigan correspond¬ 
ent who inquires whether he shall seed a young 
orchard to clover or plan I to corn, is informed 
that it should not be seeded; that com is better 
than clover to crop with, but that potatoes are 
better still. 
capital, are cranberry culture, water-cress cul¬ 
ture, and more especially the culture of brook 
trout. Fortunately, as regards these three last 
Plaining u Pear Orchard.— E. B., Dam on t, 
Mich. We advise you to plant standard pears. 
They are succeeding wherever taken care of. 
