cd ill tills country. It is certainly worth try- 
f rmmlrrrrmrl Ing to introduce its culture into Florida. 
* There must he places where it could be 
_ grown successfully—along the coast south 
POMOLOGIOAL GOSSIP. of St ’ ^”gystine. It would, of course have 
_ to be propagated by roots, slips or buds. 
“ Sytvnn sweet Crab,” And these could lie procured through the 
Is the name of a new Siberian, said to have agency of the steamers winch ply between 
originated with C. P. A li.ing of Wisconsin New York and Brazil every month.” 
—locality not named, It is reported sweeter - 
than the Tallman Sweet, and the fruit is Kipenlnsr Pears. 
POMOLOGICJAL GOSSIP. 
“Sylvan Sweet Crab,” 
Ripeniii? I’enrs. 
A correspondent of the Germantown 
fttobes anti Manners. 
^ _ 
MINTWOOD’S CONVERSAZIONE. 
Needlework. 
Bayard Taylor says:—“A woman is 
never so much at home with her own heart 
as when at work with her needle.” But this 
does not refer to the poor creatures whom 
Hood sang about so dolorously; but to the 
braiding or stitching, suitable for children’s 
dresses, skirts, sacques, etc. A pretty effect 
is often produced by stitching two shades 
or colors of silk closely parallel. 
Fig.4 gives a roouogramiu buckle setting, USEFUL AND SOEENTITIO ITEMS, 
pretty for handkerchiefs and napkins. Any 
initials may be used for the center, and the Pnint for Hoof, 
embroidery done in white or colored floss. I have a tin roof that leaks in some places 
Fig. 5 is in the fashionable guipure de- although it is not very old. I have had a 
6 tinner stop all the places lie can find. I 
sign, easily worked and very showy u 1 would now like to paint it with something 
Fig. G is a design for insertion in a cor- Umt would make a better coat than white 
responding pattern. lead. What can l use to tho best advantage? 
—,). 15. Jones. 
We have had no experience painting tin 
roofs, and must allow some one who Inis to 
reply to our correspondent. 
The Use ot Red Ink. 
Bio so kind as to inform me through the 
Rural New Yorker if it is in good taste to 
use red ink for ail writing; if not, for what 
may it he used?—A. A. Saning. 
There is no ink better, or that looks belter 
for correspondence, book-keeping, bill mak¬ 
ing, &c., than black or hlue-hluck ink. Red 
ink is chiefly used in book-keeping for foot¬ 
ings, corrections, ruling, counter signing,&e. 
It is not in good taste to use. it for all writ¬ 
ing. It. is sometimes used by correspondents 
tor cross-lining or writing across letters that 
have been written with black ink. 
Oxidisation ol' Iron. 
Dr. F. C. Calvert describes, in a paper 
read before the Manchester Literary and 
Philosophical Society, a. scries of experi 
ments for the purpose of ascertaining the 
Fig. 7 is a bright, graceful design for a conditions under which iron is most, rapidly 
handkerchief corner, the wheat heads to he 0 X kli*ed. One of the important points nr- 
>mutrfic antr Staffttl* 
Early Strawberry Apple in t lie South. 
This apple is highly commended by Dr. 
Swasey in his Southern Gardener, as being 
very productive. The season of ripening in 
the latitude of Jackson, Miss., is from June 
20 to July 15, Urns overlapping the Julian, 
which Dr. S. says “ is the best striped apple 
to succeed it.”_ 
California Raising. 
I WOULD like to know liow to make Cali¬ 
fornia raisins. If jpott can give tlie recipe, 
please do so. — Franklin Daubach, Bucks 
Co ., Pit. 
Go to California, grow the kind of grapes 
of which raisins are made in that climate, 
mid that’s all. _ 
Siberian Apples. 
We have received from Herendkkn & 
Jones, Geneva, N. Y., samples of four varie¬ 
ties of what are called Marengo Winter Sibe¬ 
rian apples. They are beautiful in color, of 
good flavor, (for Siberians,) and of great 
utility and desirability in Northern latitudes 
—where varieties of the Pyrus malus species Telegraph, who has succeeded to his own 
Figure 1. 
maidens and matrons who fill in the leisure- 
will not grow. These specimens are very satisfaction in ripening pears, says:—“ As it ly afternoons with needlework and sing 
dainty dessert, apples; hut the value of this j s important to get an even and cool tern- snatches of ballads and “ think.” Embroid- 
class of apples for cultivation in the warmer peralure for that purpose, the cellar is about ery is so eminently womanly—although the 
latitudes is depreciated by their liability to u, c most proper, hut the great difficulty has dwarfish llindostanees sit cross-legged day 
attacks from the apple curculio. In this re becu owing to too much moisture. To over- after day and embroider dreams, fairly, on 
attacks from the apple curculio. In this re i, ecll owing to too much moisture. Toovcr- 
spect they are almost as uncertain a crop come that, have your tables to suit the quan- 
as the plum. J_ lity of fruit to ripen; for example, one of my 
Strawberries on noshes. tables is forty-five feet long oy three feet 
The editor of the St. Paul Press still wide, made of strips of hoards covered with 
maintains the existence of hushes at Pern- wall paper, at a very low price, suitable for 
bina, hearing strawberries thereon. He says: the purpose; then cover the paper withsaw- 
“ The berry in question has not only the full gag jgg pg§ af 
flavor and form, hut the stalk of the straw- I , ' - - 
, and has nothing whatever of the rasp- - ,v ’ - - 
berry about it. It. is a misnomer to defer so f 
far to popular parlance as to cull it a hush - - 
strawberry, for it, docs not grow on a bush, 
but on an upright, sialic; the only difference, : > * 
-. for as we can recollect, between the stalk 
and the creeping vine, being that the former . _ I - 
is upright and terminates in a group of stems • . P 
supporting a cluster of berries. The stalk ______ 
is in all respects a straw, like that of clover I . JgB - 
or the vine of the ordinary strawberry, and ; f 
lias no resemblance whatever to the woody 
fiber and bark of the stalk of the raspberry ,. __ : 
Pears lu Vermont. ■ c__— ^ - ~ 
Trios. F. Butterfield writes the Rural 
New-Yorker:—“A fter twenty-one years’ . ... — J — 
experience in the nursery business and graft¬ 
ing in a great many parts of Vermont, I have r 
succeeded in finding eight or ton varieties of g , ^ 
pears that will do better than the apple, and _n _.. 
give move certain crops. I have one tree of 
the Bit (Turn, twelve years old from Setting, < I- -- - - - __ ' _ 
that. hOVCfull six bushels last year, and l can ! 4 
say with 6 afety the pear culture will he a 1 — 
success in a short time in Vermont, as many fj 
arc beginning to testify. We have too long ; - 
neglected pear and grape culture. Our farm- f 
era are fast learning the great advantage of a ■ i Ij 1 J 
fruit crop. It costs hut little compared with 
other crops. I set over 35,000 cions last f§ feisi 
spring, mover fifteen different towns: Hu- : 
twenty-one years of my experience. The 
Flemish Beauty pear stands at the head of all 
pears in Vermont-is perfectly hardy. It is P la <* the fruit evenly over tl.e surface 
like the Rural— a blessing to every house- an ^ covei ' with the wall papei at night, ant 
lj 0 j ( l » close your cellar windows. If the weatlie 
is clear, remove the paper audopen the will 
Tli® Navel or llnnin Oraiiec. tmwril. n 
peralure for that purpose, the cellar is about ery is so eminently womanly—although the 
tlm most proper, hut the great difficulty has dwarfish llindostanees sit cross-logged day 
been owing to too much moisture. To over- after day and embroider dreams, fairly, on 
come that, have your tables to suit ttie quan- India muslin, the prettiest, of all goods in 
lity of fruit to ripen; for example, one of my the shops—yet it is supremely womanly and 
tables is forty-five feet long by three feet ladylike. Queens have beguiled, and con- 
wide, made of strips of hoards covered with Lintic to beguile, their happy and unhappy 
wall paper, at a very low price, suitable for hours at their embroidery frames, anti lium- 
the purpose; then cover the paper with saw- hie little housewives enchant themselves 
^ ^ fashioning dainty things for Ihe little 
IgJ' ijj 1-—- - -- ones. And now Unit everything is em- 
_I broidered in one fusbioil or another, 
-— I our r> will he glad of some new 
worked “ heavy.” This for modest “folk” 
w ho do not long for full dress elaborateness. 
Galvanized Hair. 
Jessie Page, Lee Co., Ill, writes ns fol¬ 
lows:—“Last week l received n periodical 
How to Triimsfev the Pnttevn*. 
Arrange the Rural New-Yorker 
as for sewing ami cut, the leaves. Take 
out tho sheet containing the patterns, 
place a clear boUb .lumlerneuth the 
design ; over this place a. sheet of soft 
white paper, and with a pencil—blue is 
best—trace the pattern. This pattern 
may then be re traced with pen and 
ink, and used for all subsequent dupli¬ 
cating. Restore the original sheet to 
FIGURE 'l. 
called 1 The Journal of Beauty,’ which con¬ 
tains a variety of adverlisemcuts 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 
fist of articles limy he some now dodge for 
r • 
mm 
Figure 5. 
coining money from ‘ country green lea.’ 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 us, 
please, for we straight haired girls sigh for 
wnajf-uiiB ycaia ui my experience. jluc FIGURES. 
’’lemisb Beauty pear stands at the head of all . . „ w»,» v^mro «n,i 
tears in Vermont-is perfectly hardy. It is cll,st > P lace lhe fruit evenl y over lllC sur,ace ’ f P lace m the RuilAL Ne Y 
ike the Rural— a blessing to every house- an ^ cover ^Ith the wall paper at night, and asten. _ , « , i kpt , 
10 j ( j >» close your cellar windows. If the weather Fig. 1 is suitable for ladies jacke s, 
is clear, remove the paper audopen the win- sacques, and also skirts. It is also a pietty 
The Navel or llnnin Orange. dow.s, have a wire extended the length of fashion, when brightness and variety are dc- 
Our readers in the orange producing dis- . |lU) , L . H) iind u , row lhe paper over the sired, to work on colored stuff for the leaves; 
iicts will be in teies ted in the following, w j|. e ko d ,y ^ a3 there will be considerable lor instance, in the border of a gentlemans 
joncerning this fruit, which we find in the damp ness condensed upon it. We have lost housecap or turban, or trimming for a dress- 
concerning this fruit, which we find in tl.e dampness condensed upon it. We have lost 
Rural Carolinian :-“ The Navel orange is nex t to nothing in specked fruit; by all oil, er 
siil to be a hybiid accidentally piodticed at modes ue lost about 20 per cent., as the fruit 
■diia, Biazil. Large quantities ot them a i wft y 3 so moist, causing it to rot Gl¬ 
are seen in the market of Bahia, where they 
are sold at two or three cents each. Their 
average weight is about one pound, the slctn 
a bright yellow and of moderate thickness, 
the meat crisp, juicy, sweet and of delicious I 
flavor. Their great peculiarity lies in the | 
fact that they are seedless, and that each has 
within it—as in a womb—a smaller orange. 
The blossom end of the 1 Nivella’ (navel) 
orange is formed into small protuberances 
such as characterize the Belie Fleur apple. 
In some, the smaller orange seems lobe try¬ 
ing to break its way out of its mother. On 
removing the skin and separating the lobes 
of the large one the small one is found in size 
as large as a hen’s egg and skinless, except 
on the projecting end. The lobes of the 
small one can then he separated, and in them 
there are the rudiments of seeds, small, soft Figure 3. 
and tasteless. In the lobes of the large one speck before ripening; we have given it a fair 
there is no appearance of a seed. There is trial. 1 have ripened this year about 300 
ing gown. 
Fig. 2 —a la Orecqne—G reek pattern—is 
especially suitable for bordering table 
spreads, piano 
covers, window, 
lounge and chair 
curtains. House- 
wives whose 
good taste leads 
them to have 
sets of browu 
Holland covers 
for cushioned 
chairs, lounges, 
Figure o. 
curls, and are tired of enduring the torture 
of curling papers and irons." 
The paper has not been received. I 
know nothing whatever about the Magnetic 
Curling Comb, only that I should invest no 
money in that direction, nor use bottled 
compound on any hair I 
had an affection for. That 
the application of any liqui \ 
whatever to straight hair 
will make it curl without. 
positive injury, is a state- 
rived at is that carbonic acid promotes oxid¬ 
ation of iron. lie also substantiated the cu¬ 
rious fact, first announced by Berzelius, 
and now well known to soup and alkali 
manufacturers, that caustic ulkalies prevent 
the oxidation of iron. Calvert’s researches 
prove that the carbonates and bicarbonates 
of tho alkalies possess the same property as 
their hydrates; and that if an iron blade is 
half immersed in a solution of these carbon¬ 
ates, they exert sucli a preservative influence 
on that portion which is exposed to common 
air that, it does not oxidize even after a pe¬ 
riod of two years. Similar results were ob¬ 
tained with sea water, to which carbonates 
of potash and soda had been added. 
Wtt«te of Brntu. 
According to Dr. Beard, labor of (lie 
brain causes greater waste of tissue than 
labor of the muscles. According to the esti¬ 
mates of Prof. Houghton, three hours of 
hard study produce more important, changes 
of tissue than a whole day of muscular labor. 
Phosphorus, which is a prominent ingre¬ 
dient of the brain, is deposited in the urine 
after mental labor; and recent experiments 
have shown that by chemical examination 
of these phosphates deposited, it is possible 
to determine whether an Individ mil has been 
chiefly using his brain or his muscles. That 
the brain is the organ of the intellect is now 
as well established us any fact of science. 
The brain, being the noblest organ of the 
body, receives a greater proportional amount 
of blood tlian any other part, and is, of 
course, correspondingly affected by the quali¬ 
ty and qimutit.y of the nutrition, it, has 
been estimated that one fifth of the blood 
goes to the brain, though its average weight 
is not more than fifty ounces, or about one- 
fortieth of tho weight of the body. This is 
one of the reasons why brain-workers need 
a better quality and larger quantity of nutri¬ 
tion than mechanics and laborers. 
How to Bind tlio Rural. 
In your issue of April 15th I notice that 
“A Learner" gives his plan for binding 
the Rural New-Yorker, which I like 
very much; but as “ variety is the spice of 
. life," I will give you my way of binding it. 
, Get two strips of hard wood, about twenty 
I inches long and one-fourth of an inch thick 
by three-fourths wide. Make a hole about 
two inches from the end and another three 
and one-third inches further from tlio end, 
and still another the same distance further 
from the last, making in each stick six holes. 
Make the same number of holes in the back 
of the paper corresponding with those in 
Lhe stick. Procure three pieces of wrapping 
twine, each about twelve inches long ; pass 
one end of the string through t.he first hole 
in the stick and the other end through the 
second, so that the ends of the cord or 
string are equal. Arrange the other cords 
in the same manner in the other holes ; then 
pass these six ends through the correspond¬ 
ing holes of the paper, then through the 
other stick and tie in how knots. When 
your next paper comes and is sewed, cut 
and read, untie the cords, puncture the paper 
and tie again. In binding this way a new 
number may easily be added eacli week.—J. 
W. Vaughn, Ilw Grande , O. 
Figure 7. 
ottomans, etc., find this pattern quite the 
one for ornamenting the frills. The braid 
ment too absurd for any intelligent person to 
entertain for one moment. I quite agree with 
no appreciable difference in their quality. 
“This truly excellent fruit would, no 
baskets successfully, they being quite dry 
and luscious; the water being removed there 
generally used is brown or red. To save you as to the possible value of the whole 
trouble in turning “corner a pattern, in¬ 
doubt, soil for three or four times the price is pure saccharine left and the delicious fla- eluding a corner design, is given. 
paid for fruit of the same class usually raised I vor of the pear.” 
Fig. 3 is a graceful and simple design in 
list of articles. But “country greenies” 
seem never to weary of spending money in 
such ways. They like to be humbugged. 
Uwfi.l mid HdonllOc Imjutrle".—Can you in¬ 
form me through the medium of your excellent 
paper how to make Wax Fruit?—A Rural 
Reader .In your answers to correspondents 
please answer tho following quesion : If two 
galvanic batteries be placed at a distance from 
each other, and either the positive or the negn- 
tive poles be placed in communication, through 
rho medium of u Conductor, will there bo any 
electrical Influence?—I. H. Jennings. 
