BOOTING HARDY SHRUBS, 
pens.i rrom me mco y* the earth; and 
patents so caielcss or uarlless, deserve 
what many of them are suro fo receive, the 
sight of little dead faces beforuijQ w ini'cr is 
over. So in advance of fushion ,. gt y| 0 | ct ( 
me put iu a pica for comfort am 
without which the former is a sh m ( 
shameful for a Christian civilization. L a ] t i,. , 
ful dressing of children in cold wcathW-^ , t 
matter of labor rather than of expense \. 
der garments can ho fashioned from svicli'^. 
have become unfit for longer weaving oV 
adults, and if the little forms are well put 
up in flannel from throat to ankles, it mat¬ 
ters little whether the gown be of calico or 
merino. But more of this anon; only don’t 
the addition of extra fullness at the hack, 
which fullness consists of plaits laid under 
t he back seams at a distance of three or four 
inches below the waist lino. At the head of 
each plait—one at each of the three hack 
seams—is placed a how of gros grain ribbon 
or gimp ornament. The skirt of the hack is 
somewhat draped, when cut in this stylo, 
which is popular, and goes by the name of 
“Marguerite.” Velvot and cashmere look 
well cut in this style. 
TriiiimiiiKN. 
v Cloak trimmings consist, of fringes, passc- 
’Wcrie folds of gros grain silk, and cm- 
\5°ry' ll and braid to an almost un- 
1 imlwu extent. Imported suits are embroid¬ 
ered iraicleil to a marked degree, the em- 
broiuci V^n t, u j,)g wrought upon bias folds 
ot velvetV,. ( j Jlfl trimming, 
Mlllli, Etc. 
In dress "Serials plain colors have the 
preference, vc <\AiU‘k green, blue and plum 
color (prune) uW,» fashionable. Merino, 
wool delaine, satK)u, serge, empress oloth, 
velours and a variety <>f poplins line the 
shelves and counter^. lhu |,-siding shops, 
k or children k ronclV Min’inos in polka 
spot are shown. For \W U1 , 0 f U u U g eft , 
black is most worn. ImlcuU,i or tho street, 
one hardly fuels so condor table in any other 
suit as in black. Next to blnty silk or Irish 
poplin it would be well for pbieUasers, 
examine the Beaver Brand Mohaira adver¬ 
tised in Rural New-Yorker of Oci u_ 
goods combining a fine appearance with l;X . 
i.ellenl service, and always prove most sup,, 
factory to the wearer. 
No new styles for dresses have yet bech 
announced, although the foreign journals 
lead us to regard plain underskirts as being 
quite iu the mode. At this moment New 
York modistes are exerting their powers in 
constructing costumes for the belles who arc 
enthusiastic over the arrival of the Grand 
Duke Alexis. No visitor since the Prince 
of Wales has created such a furore among 
the fashionables, and stories are afloat of 
costumes morn splendid than the creations 
of the wildest dream. At Loru> & Taylor's 
two very pretty evening dresses were on ex¬ 
hibition. Both were of Tavletnn ; one of 
blue and wlilfo, pull's of the one color alter¬ 
nating witli side plaiting of the other. In 
, the second costume the colors used were 
cherry and white. 
Vacation duties—which arc rest and rec- 
I realion- have somewhat prevented a prompt 
reply to all letters received. Being at home 
again, promptness is guaranteed. 
Your Sot in Skirt. 
Charlotte, — Face the bottom of your 
satin skirt with velvet to match the trim¬ 
ming, or cover the frayed portion with a 
flounce of silk, adding frills to match to 
waist and sleeves. Skirls that are worn at 
the bottom may he cut olT, let down at llte 
top and worn with a polonaise of other ma¬ 
terial. There is no bettor way to make a 
waterproof than I ho long sacquo, just escap¬ 
ing the floor, with sleeves, round capo and 
collar or hood. Some ladies aflirai that a 
cape even for protecting the hat in case of 
a storm, is more desirable than a hood, which 
many have reason lo dissent from. 
(»iil vii iii/.fil Iliiii'. 
Jennie Page, Lee Go., III., writes as fol¬ 
lows:—“Last week I received a periodical 
called “ The Journal of Beauty,” which con¬ 
tains a variety of advertisements relating to 
the toilet, among which is the Magnetic Curl¬ 
ing Comb, warranted to curl straight locks, 
to be used with some bottled liquid, etc., 
which makes me afraid to use it. The whole 
list of articles may be some new dodge for 
coining money from “ country greet lies.” If 
the special article referred to is 
so widely known as it claims to 
he, you must have heard of it. 
If it is a good thing, tell its, 
please, for we straight haired 
girls sigh for curls, and are tired 
<>f enduring Lho torture of curling 
papers and irons.” 
I’nmsie I'll* to ill. 
** Carrie Brown, Pcekskill.— 
"V Design lor ornamental work will 
be given as often us practicable. 
Passe Pur tout, is pronounced as 
f i if spelt pr/ji pai'tou, A passe par- 
tout picture frame Consists of stiff 
pasteboard for the hack, against 
SfeJ which the picture is placed, mat- 
< ting which really frames the pic¬ 
ture, a glass and binding paper 
which secures the edges, all of 
which can lie purchased at hook 
or picture stores. Ask to he 
shown a passe purtout frame, 
when you go to “town” and 
you will see at once vmir oppor- 
inlyn little tmiily for economizing. More 
er. Reside* , 
m be taken, explicit directions will he given 
if desired. 
ClenuHliiir Swim’s Down. 
M. K. Janes, Leroy, asks for directions 
for cleansing swan’s down. Cun any one 
give them? 
rbrrrxcirltnrr 
inenartr 
It may not be generally known that slips 
from most shrubs or trees can be rooted like 
thegeranium or other house plants. Cut slips 
near the root, if convenient, set in a pot, 
keep quite moist, through the Benson. In 
the fall, if the cellar is good for plants, sot 
them there, as they will not bear the frost 
the first winter. In the spring, after they 
have well started, they can be set in the 
ground, but must be well cared far. One 
can increase choice shrubs in this way and 
often the young plant will outgrow the old 
one in a few years.— a. r. r. 
OSAGE ORANGE NORTH OF 41 
GRAPE BUNCHES, SHOULDERED. 
W. G. R., Boone Co., Ky., asks what is 
meant by grapes being shouldered. This is 
a very natural question, which any one not 
acquainted with the nomenclature of the 
vine would be likely to ask Grape vines 
have upon their stems appendages usually 
termed tendrils; these are but the tortuous 
elongation of the woody’ fiber of the stem. 
They are usually forked at the end, one di¬ 
vision being longer than the other, and both 
I notice in the Rural New-Yorker of 
Sept. 30, that Jo. Watson, writing from 
Clyde, N. Y., considers the leading Agricul¬ 
tural Journal of the world “naughty,” “as 
it never was before,” iu an article over my 
signature upon the above subject, in the 
number of August 19. His intellectual effu¬ 
sion gives no fact to show conclusively that 
the general cultivation of Osage Orange 
north of 41° is practicable; neither do the 
opinions of the erudite gentleman show 
that they are fouuded on much experience 
in growing Osage hedges. He instances 
alone the fact that iu 1870 (last year) he 
" put out half," and “ in 1871” (this year) 
" the remaining distance along the road 
side” of his home farm. And he gives the 
public to understand that this is a flourish¬ 
ing Osage hedge two degrees beyond 41° 
north. His enterprise is admirable, hut 
would value his experience more if it had 
been longer than last year and this. New 
sets of Unit age can hardly be called “ Osage 
Hedges” “flourishing” "extensively,” ami 
should they live in a protected spot even as 
far north as 50’, it should not be concluded 
that they will endure universally in the 
climate of 4r north. 
“ There are almost always to be found ex¬ 
ceptions to general assertions," hut for the 
truth of my assertion that Osage Orange can 
not be successfully cultivated universally 
North of the locality named, I refer to the 
article in the Rural New-Yorker of Aug. 
19th. The remarks to he found therein are 
deduced not alone from observation made 
during extensive travels, hut also from my 
experience of ten years. 
If Mr. Jo. Watson desires me to visit 
Clyde to buy Osage sets—as I think his note 
indirectly indicates that business (?)—he 
should give his true name, as acquaintance 
there causes mo to infer that he was too 
modest to do.* I should he happy indeed 
at any time to witness at the North, in places 
where it may he salubrious enough for its 
cultivation, a growth of the beautiful and 
wonderful Osage Orange, which is only a 
spontaneous production in the Sunny South. 
Gai.en Oderkikk. 
Newark, Wayne Co., N. Y., Out., 1871. 
[• As Mr. WATSON lias ln«K been well and favor¬ 
ably known, espaomlly us a jirunilntmt friend of 
Runil I in pro von tpi, i fwo remember Ito wau President 
of tli<> Union Ag. Socloty of hi , togb.n many years 
ajto), this remark argues that G. O. must himself bo 
unknown, or ltuvo been In a BlP Vav Wrvm.t: sleep 
during the pout, uuarter of :i century. Wn arc con¬ 
strained to say tills much ip Justice in Jo -Watson . 
wheni 1 ' true name’’ ta w> widely knoj»nIn Wwtoni 
New York that most residents Of Wayne Co., at least, 
must recognize it as that of an old and honored citi¬ 
zen.—E ds.] 
P0M0L0GI0AL GOSSIP. 
Two New Apples. 
I send you a specimen of seedling apples, 
grown on lwo trees, raised from iheseedsof 
one apple. The red ones are at least, t wo 
weeks Urn earliest, and the best specimens 
of those i:u ripe and gone.—A. P. Knox, 
Niks, Michigan. 
The apples are certainly very fine, uml 
we do not. know of anything batter at this 
season of the year. It. is a question, how¬ 
ever, whether any more varieties of apples 
should he added lo the already far too long 
list, unless sorts appear possessing extraor¬ 
dinary merits. If these two seedlings suc¬ 
ceed in Michigan or elsewhere, they are 
worthy of cultivation,and it. is possible that 
for certain localities they will prove invalu¬ 
able; hut to determine this will require lime. 
Second Crop of Strawberries iu Maryliind. 
A STRAWBERRY grower in Arundel coun¬ 
ty, Md., has recently been sending a second 
Ci'op from his vines to market, this year. As 
soon as the spring crop was gathered the 
ground was again worked over and cultiva¬ 
ted, and with favoring showers this second 
crop of “Agriculturist” strawberries was 
raised. It is believed by this cultivator that, 
with irrigation, a regular and paying second 
crop of strawberries can bo raised every year 
in Maryland. 
A North Carolina Apple Received. 
A, Chatham sent us an apple which he 
says is a seedling grown upon the farm of R. 
George, Surrey Co., N. C. It ripens from 
first to middle of August, is an excellent dry¬ 
ing and cooking apple—no better early apple 
in that locality. Asks if we can tell the 
name. Wedkl not know the apple. Itwas 
too much decayed to judge of its quality 
when it reached us. It is certainly a hand¬ 
some apple. 
-A. SHOULDERED JJTJJNTCli OF 1 T> liJLAWARES 
have the power of contracting and clasping postpone the day of warm clotl 
anything that happens to he within reach, snow falls. 
It is plainly the office of tendrils t.o support New style*, 
the vine and aid it in climbing. But there I know of hut one absolutely no 
are really two kinds of tendrils—a product- record, ancl that is the revival of a 
ive and unproductive one; or, to make it It is an outside garment, supersedii 
more plain, the first two or more of the first sacqtte and jacket, all of which wt 
tendrils on a young shoot of a grapevine imported,largely purchased and c< 
often becomes buuches of fruit— i. e., the ly will he largely worn, so the po 
tendril becomes productive, and in doing so them will have plenty of cornpan 
its longest branch of the forked end forms un fash ion ableness. This new g: 
the main portion of the hunch, and the simply a round cape, in length ter 
shortest one what is usually termed the inches below the waist, cut with c 
shoulder—merely a small hunch at the side seams on the shoulders, and snbje 
of the main one—as shown in the accompa- versifies.” The regulation model 
liying illustration of a bunch of the Dela- appearance of two capes, one i 
ware grape. There ure varieties which scl- other, the lower cape being in real 
dom have shouldered hunches, and the ten- sleeveless sacquo, with scams on 
drils on such vines show similar character- shoulders and under each arm li 
istics, in having undivided tendrils. The upper cape is usually open at the I 
Diana is one of those sorts which, if not in far as the waist, and trimmed iq 
a favorable soil and climate, seldom hns to the neck, which is finished wit 
shouldered bunches. When vines are forced round collar of the goods. At th 
to make an extra growth, as for instance some are long, pointed hoods; at 
foreign varieties under glass, several shoul- Watteau fold. For extra warmt 
ders will he produced on the same bunch ; £. 
it is then called clustered instead of shoul- 
tiered. JiSttk 
arbmng 
MOUNTAIN ASH SEED, 
ITow can I prepare mountain ash ancl 
hawthorn seeds to secure their germination, 
and at what lime, and how planted V — Sub¬ 
scriber. 
Mountain ash seed should be gathered 
Aviien ripe in autumn, and thrown into a 
vessel and allowed to remain there a few 
days until the pulp softens. If water 
is put on them, it will hasten decay 
and prevent heating. As soon as the 
pulp is soft enough to permit the sepa¬ 
ration of the seed, wash it off. The 
seeds, if good, will sink to the bottom 
and the pulp rise, therefore they are 
readily separated by using water plen¬ 
tifully. After the seeds have been 
freed from the pulp, mix with pure 
sand and then bury in the open 
ground. If the soil in which they 
are to be grown is light loam or sand, 
the seeds may be sown in the fall; 
but in heavy soils spring is the better 
time. Mountain ash seed should al¬ 
ways he sown in a half shady place, 
either on the north side of a hoard 
fence, or in any place where the 
young seedlings can be shaded for a 
Jew weeks after they first appear above 
ground,else the sun will burn them off. 
This shading of the young seedlings is 
very important, and few persons will 
be successful if they omit it. The seed 
may be sown in drills or broadcast, but 
should not be covered more than a 
half an inch deep at most, and with 
very light and friable soil. 
IIawtlioru from Seed. 
Hawthorn seed must he treated quite 
differently from the Mountain Ash, as .1 
they are covered with a very hard, m ■ 
horn-like shell. They will seldom ger- tupil 
ininale the first season alter gathering, 
and the fruit as it comes from the trees 
should he mixed with sandy peat or 
leaf mold and fine sand, multiug what 
the nurserymen call a rot heap. The fruit 
and seed are allowed to remain in this posi¬ 
tion until the autumn of the year following 
the one in which they are gathered. The 
pulp surrounding the seed will have rotted 
away and the mass may be pulverized 
sufficient to separate the seed, then sow 
all in drills, covering about two inches 
deep. 
A PORTA BLE F OUNTAIN. 
Herewith we give an illustration of a 
portable fountain which may he used, where 
water can be had, in place of the usual cost¬ 
ly, stiff and often ugly devices called fouu- 
xxxms 
MINTWOOD’S CONVERSAZIONE, 
Some of the Rural New-Yorker’s fair 
readers may be “ dying” lo know about the 
fashions; but as more are dying from lack 
of suitable clothing, 1 can only satisfy my 
conscience by first alluding to actual bodily 
needs. Adult women folk who go shiver¬ 
ing about with but one or iwo layers of 
calico or cotton cloth over their perishable 
bodies, deserve to perish for their foolhardi¬ 
ness. But (lie poor children, who go about 
this autumn weather in such clothing, ex¬ 
cite both commiseration and indignation. 
Up in the country, a Sunday or two ago, in 
a village where l chanced to spend the Sab¬ 
bath, little girls, daughters of well-to-do 
parents, were sent to Sunday-school in book 
muslin dresses, in gowns of chambre, ging¬ 
ham and lawn, with no wraps outside, or 
wrappers inside. The day was bright and 
sunny, but with an autumnal chillness in 
the air which required warm clothing. A 
man dressed as thinly as were the children, 
would have been taken for a lunatic, or taken 
with chills. A religion that sends children 
to Sabbath-school in that fashion ought to 
The new style of black lace harbos has 
quure ends, with a large medallion in the 
center, and made much wider than formerly. 
