Last year a Western firm advertised it as 
the Bohemian oat; of course, recommend¬ 
ing it as a very superior variety. When 
these oats are threshed, they drop from the 
chaff, the same as wheat and rye; hence the 
name “skinless or naked” oats. They are 
not considered equal to our common sorts 
for feeding, unless ground into meal, and 
used upon cut hay or straw; neither do 
“ Last season I kept in fine order Columbia 
pears till the middle of January; .Jarnii- 
nettes till February, and Easter Beurres 
till May. In no other way have I been able 
to keep them so well.” M. B. Bateham. 
Painesville, 0. 
DAILY RURAL LIFE 
KEEPING WINTER PEARS OUT DOORS 
Most growers of winter apples and pears 
in northern climates, have no doubt occa¬ 
sionally found specimens of these fruits 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP 
Bedding Rosea.— Avyust 6.—Early last 
Spring I struck a large number of rose cut¬ 
tings off the various sorts of Teas, Bour¬ 
bons, and Noisettes, and as soon as they 
were well rooted, planted them out in the 
garden. Of course they were very small at 
the time of planting, very few being more 
than four or five inches high, and quite 
slender; but at this time they are neat, 
compact little plants, loaded with flowers, 
and will cont inue to give me an abundance 
of roses unt il checked by frost. J confess 
to be quite partial to these monthly roses, 
which I treat as bedding plants, not trying 
to keep any considerable number in my con¬ 
servatory during the Winter, but dig them 
up every Fall and bury in a t rench, taking 
up and planting again in the Spring. Cut¬ 
tings made in t he Spring, as well as t he old 
plants, bloom freely during the Hummer 
and Autumn, or just when roses are usually 
scarce in gardens where only the most hardy 
sorts are cultivated. It is not too late to 
strike cuttings now; for the little plants 
can be carefully protected during Winter, 
and then planted out in Spring. Those 
who have no greenhouses will succeed bet¬ 
ter with green cuttings taken off in August 
than at almost any other season, because 
the high temperature is just, what is needed 
for this purpose. The little half-ripened 
twigs should be taken and cut into lengths 
of two or three Inches, the lowermost, leaves 
removed, and then stuck into pots or boxes 
filled with pure sand, set in a shady place. 
Keep the sand constantly wet, and roots 
will usually be produced in t wo or three 
weeks, when the plants may be potted off 
singly, or transplanted into boxes of good 
soil. Leave the plants out ot doors until 
the cool weather of autumn has hardened 
or ripened t he wood, and then remove to a 
cool cellar, or protect with a covering of 
straw or leaves. 
There is no good reason why those who 
desire choice roses should not have them in 
abundance, provided they are able to pur¬ 
chase a few stock plants to begin with. A 
very little practice will enable almost any 
one to propagate these tender sorts suc¬ 
cessfully. us they grow much more freely 
from cuttings than the hardy June roses or 
even what are called Hybrid Porpctualw. I 
have at this moment several hundred plants 
in full bloom, all grown from cutt ings taken 
off from a few r stock plants last Spring. 
Seedling Verbenas. — August ?’. — 1 
think I said something about sowing verbe¬ 
na seed in my Diary early in the Spring, 
and of course 1 endeavor to practice what 
I preach. The verbena seed were sown and 
now they are in bloom, and really there are 
some as good varieties among them as any 
of the much praised named sorts sent out 
by our llorists. It is not half as much 
trouble to save a few verbena seeds as it is 
to send to a distance ever} Spring and pur¬ 
chase plants; and for my own part I prefer 
the seedlings, because they are always new, 
no two plants producing exactly the same 
colored Jlowcrs. Then again 1 find that the 
seedlings grow more vigorously than the 
majority of the plants that have been 
Beecher's Pear List. —In answer to 
an inquiry from a correspondent, Henry 
Ward Beecher gives the following as his 
list of pears: 
For early pears we should select Bcurre 
Oiffard , Tynan* HosUczcr. 
For early Autumn, Bartlett , Belle Lucra¬ 
tive, Sect:cl, Louise Bonne de Jersey. 
For late Autumn, Bcurre Bose , Bcurre 
D'A njna. Sheldon, DuchesneD' Anyouleme. 
For Winter, Vica r of Winhficld, Law¬ 
rence, Winter Nells. 
This list will do to begin on. Experience 
has shown that these sorts flourish well 
very generally throughout the North, and 
upon all tolerably good soils. 
Wc do not believe that pears on quince 
will succeed well in ordinary hands, except 
in a garden. They require petting, and in 
orchard culture are apt to die out. We 
have found the following varieties to do 
when on their own roots: Louise Bonne dc 
Jersey, iJuehesse D'AUymdeme, Vicar of 
WinkJUld, Bcurre, 1)'Anjou. 
But any pear may be grown upon quince 
by double worldnij. The Seekcl, Bartlett, 
and many others, will not grow well on 
quince, but graft the quince with a kind of 
pear that flourishes vigorously, say Louise 
Bonne, or the Duchesne, and then upon 
these, the next season, graft the Seckcl or 
any other sort that does not take easily to 
the quince. In this way any pear may be 
dwarfed. 
Chambers' Fear 
;wwwm 
W. H. Cox, Anchor¬ 
age Ky. writes the Gardeners Monthly, Ju¬ 
ly 15:—“This fruit has been soiling in our 
market this season for six (0) dollars per 
bushel, which is more than we can get in 
our (Louisville) market for any pears during 
the whole season. Our first, ripened about 
the 10th Inst., and we will ship our last the 
middle of this week. Their beauty makes 
them eagerly sought for, and they are of 
much larger size than any other pear of Its 
season; the tree is a alow grower, long com¬ 
ing into bearing; when it does it is general¬ 
ly sure and abundant.” Is this a new fruit, 
or is it Pope’s Scarlet Major of Downing. 
Let us know more about it? 
SANCHEZIA NOBLIS VARIEGATA 
TO TRAP WOODCHUCKS 
1 they yield as well. Somebody may make a 
lit tle money by introducing this grain from 
Japan, but it is neither a novelty nor of any 
great value. 
Saving Materials for Mulching.— 
A ny. 10.—There are always more or less 
weeds and coarse grasses about a Farm that, 
are of l itt le value except as a mulch for trees 
and plants, or to scatter in the baru-yard 
for manure, l have hud my men clean up 
all the odd places, including some low, wet, 
uncultivatable land, and from all we have 
obtained several good loads of coarse ma¬ 
terials that will come in very convenient ly 
next Fall to cover my strawberry beds, as 
well as ot her plants which will be benefited 
byaslight protection during Winter. There 
are many thousands of tons nf such materi¬ 
al wasted every year in localities where il 
could be used to advantage for various pur¬ 
poses. It is not altogether such inferior 
material as 1 have gathered to-day that is 
allowed to ge to waste, but thousands of 
tons of pretty good hay are allowed to re¬ 
main ungathered, and in neighborhoods 
where cattle next Spring will show the 
want of sufficient food. A stack of poor 
hay or straw is far better than a snowbank 
for cows to sleep in, and now is the time to 
provide this if no better is at hand. There 
is. every year, enough low meadow and 
prairie grass allowed to waste, to feed one- 
half the stock in the country; aud I am not 
sure but one-half of the farm stock will 
be glad to get it before next Spring. I’er- 
haps 1 am wrong in making this assertion 
for other portions of the country, but I 
know 1 am right so far as it applies to the 
region around New York; for here we have 
many small streams and large ones, with 
wide bottom lands adjoining, whichjyield a 
mixture of both good and inferior grasses, 
out of which cattle would select, if afforded 
the opportunity. 
Best Breecli - Loading Shot Gun.— 
Will some of your readers tell which is the 
best breech-loading shot-gun at prices rang¬ 
ing from «d0 to SCO, for hunting foxes, rab¬ 
bits, ducks, etc.? What success have (hey 
had with Colt's five-shot revolving shot¬ 
gun? 1 should also like the address of the 
manufacturers of the Whitney breech¬ 
loading double shot-gun, and of Rooper’s 
repeating shot-gun.—n. m. 
, much good, wholesome 
food. It is a pity, if no worse, to permit 
fodder of any kind to waste. 
