ADOBE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
RASPBERRIES AND THEIR CULTURE. 
WITH NOTES ON SOME NEW VARIETIES. 
Some improvement has been noticeable, of 
late years, in the quality of the raspberries in 
our city markets, us well as an increase in 
quantity. This is partly owing to the growth 
of our cities in population and wealth, and 
the increased intelligence of the people re¬ 
specting the qualities of fruit, so that they 
are willing to pay higher prices for the liner 
kinds than for the poorer ones. This, of 
course, stimulates growers to plant the best 
varieties and give them good culture ; and 
hence wo And more of the improved Reds, 
and what are called Antwerp varieties, in 
place of native Red* and Black Cap*. 
Around Cleveland, and in all this lake-shore 
region, the Franconia and its congener, Na¬ 
omi, have withstood the Winters perfectly 
for many years past; but it is possible the 
extraordinary cold of this present Whiter 
may have damaged them. I am not able to 
decide a* to this at present. Then 
the Clarke and tlA? Kirtland have 
succeeded well in nearly all parts of 
the State. All these are excellent 
both for home use and for market; 
but none of the Red varieties are 
really suitable for shipping to distant 
markets. They should be grown near 
enough to the cities to be carried to 
market In spring wagons. The 
Black-Caps are the only raspberries 
that bear shipping; and the price of 
these is commonly too low to afford 
a fair compensation to the grower, 
after paying for picking, packing, 
transportation and commission. If 
the iiuer kinds are generally killed by 
the Winter this season, the Black¬ 
caps may bring a sufficient price to 
make their culture prolitable—espe¬ 
cially if the blackberry and cherry 
crop* also fail, as they are likelv 
to do. 
ped a great distance ; in our Cincinnatti mar¬ 
ket it sells well, but dealers will not buy it 
for re-shipment, and prefer for that purpose 
the common Miami. 
Our CMUicothe friends spoke last Winter 
very highly of a new variety called the Chap¬ 
man ; and it bus all the good qualities of the 
Mammoth Cluster, without this defect, it 
should be planted in preference. 
I received sometime ago, from Kentucky, 
the Kentucky Mammoth, which if not identi¬ 
cal with toe Chapman, may prove its equal, 
being a strong grower, large, firm and very 
productive. 
The above varieties will do equally well for 
the garden, where also the Miller or any of 
grounds did I make my notes of her. The 
origin of this pear is said to be from a seed of 
the Marie Louise crossed or fertilized with 
Gausel’s Bergamot, by Rev. John TIuyshe, 
Clythedon, England. Its value here is, of 
course, yet questionable ; but its first fruiting 
shows so well that I hope, and doubt not, 
many an amateur will procure and test it. 
The growth of the tree is of a vigorous, 
rather spreading habit, the young wood 
brownish or brownish-red. The fruit is of 
full medium size, not large, a roundish, blunt, 
oval form ; the color of the skin a greenish 
lemon-yellow, with blotches of einnainon- 
russet and an abundance of minute russet, 
dots. The stem js set in a broad, abrupt, yet 
if hi' jJoitliri) Har d. 
ROUP REMEDY. 
J A correspondent of the Homestead hav- 
j hog purchased a roupy Houdau cock which 
was put among his other fowls, he treated 
them all as followsI separated the Hon- 
dans from the others, putting them intoclean, 
warm and dry quarters, and fed first on raw 
onions chopped fine and mixed with scalded 
meal in the morning ; pulverized sulphur and 
pepper at night, with now and then a little 
newly burnt charcoal finely pulverized mixed 
with the sulphur and scalded meal. If t hey 
refused to cat, I put down two or thr o pel¬ 
lets about the size of a walnut, eorap<«ed of 
charcoal three parts, sulphur two parts, with 
a little pepper, and four parts .scalded meal. 
I sprinkled finely pulverized asafetida in their 
water, which I gave u lit,tie warm. When 
their head* and eyes were badly swollen, I 
washed with soap suds made of Castile soap 
or warm milk and water. The feathers 
mostly fell from their heads, but returned in 
the Spring. The first, of April the 
three iloudnn pullets began to lay 
and gave us three eggs each day 
(except ten days) until July, and t vs o 
egg* a day nearly all of those, nore 
of them offering to set. One dozen 
of their eggs would weigh twenty- 
nine ounces, They have been very 
healthy from that time to this, and 
their decendants also. We fed our 
other fowls freely on onions chopped 
fine and mixed with their meal, daily, 
and most of them escaped, or with 
very slight attacks. We think much 
of onions for fowls to keep them in 
a healthy state during Winter. We 
give them a few once or twice a week 
in their meal. 
lTUVfcsIIE’S D*RlIsrCK OB’ 
It is possible that such improvement may | the Ohio Everbearing species would be ap- 
yet be made in the Black-Cap raspberries as * 
will iuereasu the demand for this fruit, aud 
render its culture more profitable. 
A variety 
from Ross Ounty, in this State, recently 
brought into notice, called there Chapman, 
seems to be quite a step in that direction. We 
also hope for something valuable from the 
numerous seedling* of the finer class of rasp¬ 
berries now being produced and tested in our 
State. Prominent among those who are de¬ 
voting themselves to the improvement of 
small fruits is Mi-. Louis Rjtz of Hamilton 
Co. Mi-. R. has given much attention, for 
ten or twelve years post, to collecting and 
testing ail the best varieties of raspberries 
and strawberries that he could find in this 
country and Europe, and also to raising new 
varieties from seed. His best seedling st raw¬ 
berry has been tested around Cincinnati for 
four or five years past, and is very highly 
commended by good judges. It lias been 
named Dr. Warder, in honor of the worthy 
President of our State Horticultural Society. 
We think it will prove better, for our State 
at least, than the famous President Wilder 
of Boston. But experience has taught us 
that no new strawberry can safely be recom¬ 
mended for general planting until after it. has 
been well tested iu various parts of the coun¬ 
try. At the late annual meeting of our State 
Horticultural Society, Mr. Rrrz was called ou 
to tell us what lie knows about small fruits, 
aud the following is the portion of his re¬ 
marks relating to raspberries : 
OUR VARIETIES OF RASPBERRIES. 
Raspberries. —Towards the end of the 
strawberry season raspberries commence to 
ripen, and if the best and most productive 
kinds arc selected, an abundance of delicious 
fruit will Ik- on hand. Some growers seem 
to think t he Black- ap more profitable than 
either the Purple or Antwerp family ; with 
little or no attention, this may be true, but 
when the latter at e raised in hilla, the num¬ 
ber of cones limited to three or lour, the so.l 
kept well worked, or oetter still, mulched, 
the suckers hoed off, the yield of both is about 
the same, aud the difference in price about 
double. 
Of all the Black-Cap varieties grown for 
market, the Doolittle for early, to be followed 
by the Mammoth Cluster or large Miami are 
the best; the difference in earliness between 
the Davison’s, Thornless and Doolittle is so 
slight, and the production of the latter so 
much larger, that 1 hold it to be more profit¬ 
able of the two. The Mammoth Cluster I 
would consider the queen of Black-Caps, as 
it stands unsurpassed for size, flavor or pro¬ 
ductiveness, if it was not too soft to be ship- 
preniated. 
Of red raspberries t he Philadelphia, is cer¬ 
tainly the most productive in rich soil ; of 
good size, but rather soft and deficient in 
Mavor; its greatest defect, however, is its 
d trie, dull, color. In Borne markets color may 
not be so much of an object, but in Cincin¬ 
nati the Philadelphia sells well only if no 
lighter colored berries are in market, other¬ 
wise it will bring no more than Block-Caps, 
The hardiest of the Antwerp# Avith me is 
the Clarke, which stood even t he extremes 
of la: t Winter without being injured, while 
the Philadelphia suffered severely for the first 
time. It is a strong, rampant grower, and on 
that account should be cut back during the 
Summer, very large and productive, of fine 
color and high flavored. In light soils the 
Clarke does not seem to be as reliable as in 
strong ones. Then Ave have the Parnell, not 
quite as hardy, but does well with a slight 
lielti r ; and I may here state that both rasp¬ 
berries and blackberries seem to do better in 
young orchards, the shade being beneficial 
and trees protecting the more tender kinds in 
the Winter. 
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WALES HEAR AIST30 OUTLINE. 
shallow depression or cavity; is curved, 
about one inch long, and largest at the end 
with which it is attached to the tree. The 
calyx lias corrugated segments, short, and 
half-open in a broad, shallow basin. The 
flesh is white or whitish, buttery, melting, 
juicy, line grained, slightly vinous, and really 
delicious. The core is distinctly marked as 
unique in its form (see outline). It is small, 
Avith its outer line of a coarse fiber, show¬ 
ing the character of the Bergamot in its 
parentage, 
In “ Hogg’* British Pomology of Fruits,” 
this pear is classed as ripening from Novem¬ 
ber to January; but our specimens were fully 
ripe the last of October. F. R. Elliott. 
POINTS OF PILE GAME BANTAMS. 
An English journal enumerates them 
thus : — Weight of cocks under ‘M ozs., hons 
under 30 ozr. Shape, the exact miniature ol 
the (lame fowl. As to colors, they should be 
us distinct ns possible in the cock*. .Saddle 
and Aving heavily splashed with the darkest 
shade of color. The last should be mixed, 
all the rest of (ho body should bo white. 
This of cock birds. The hens must have less 
white, nearly the whole plumage should be 
covered with a rich deep, cream, color, white 
nowhere predominating. Legs, yellow, white 
or willoAV. 
EGGS OF IMPROVED FOWLS. 
For the garden, the Surpasse Fastolff, Ken- 
rvei s Giant and litile de Pontenay are valua¬ 
ble the latter yielded, the past s umm er, ber¬ 
ries from June to the end of October. 
Unsurpassed for home use is the Surprise 
d' A ulomne, bearing two crops, each equal 
to. if not excelling in quantity, the Philadel¬ 
phia ; it is of very large size, of the most del¬ 
icate yellowish-wliite tint, and in flavor the 
superior of Brinkle’s Orange or Arnold’s 
seedling. 
The Hcrstine is the only new variety of 
great promise ; it is a seedling of the Phila¬ 
delphia, and will be the berry for profit, if 
only one-half the praise awarded to it is de- 
Ben-ed. It is a strong, healthy grower, thus 
far hardy aud quite productive. I would not 
say more from my own observation, as 1 have 
not. tried it long enough. 
From actual measurement I found the fol¬ 
lowing varieties to yield per stool in 1871 and 
1873 as follows : 
BITTER ROT IN APPLES. 
There are hundreds of apple orchards in 
this part of Indiana that are almost ruined 
by the apples taking the bitter or dry rot 
when about two-thirds grown; and it is 
growing worse every year. What is the 
cause of it, and what is the cure if any ?—H. 
Fairbanks, Terre Haute, Ind. 
Entire renovation of the soil by ploAving, 
manuring, and applications of lime and ashes 
should be the first step, followed by pruning 
the trees, scraping the old bark from the 
stems, and any other means of restoring 
health and vigor. This is the only remedy ox- 
preventive that we know for bitter rot. If 
any of our readers know of a better one, let 
them speak. 
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SOUTHERN SEEDLING RASPBERRY 
WANTED. 
Naoinl. 
1871. 
1872. 
Franconia. 
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Belle de Fontenny,..._ 
Clarke. 
Parnell. 
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IX •• 
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l'litludelj.Ma .. 
Surprise d’Autoamo. 
Palnesville, Ohio. 
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M. B. B. 
HUYSHE’S PRINCE OF WALES. 
To my knowledge the first fruiting of this 
variety was in the grounds of Ellwanqer & 
Barry, Rochester, N. Y., in 1871, and from 
them came my specimens, and in their 
A southern paper say6 scarcely any of the 
raspberries “ cultivated and sold in the Nort h, 
give satisfaction South for more than a few 
seasons, wlxile moat of them disappoint from 
the outset.’’ Will not those that give satis- I 
faction a few seasons continue to do so if re¬ 
newed—just as plantations are the better for ’ 
renewing in the North ? But the editor above | 
quoted calls for a Southern seedling raspberry 
and we advertise the fact. 
We do not advise our correspondent at Co¬ 
lumbus, Wis,, to eend t o Europe for eggs of 
improved fowl*. We have just as good fowls 
here as thex-e. But since he does not name 
the breeds he wants, we cannot advise him 
of whom to purchase, if he had named 
them, Ave should have referred him to our 
advei-tising columns ; for it is to the interest 
of our ad\ r ertisers to send out just what they 
represent they will. If they do not do so, 
Ave shall be glad to know it. 
(Entomological. 
BALDWIN APPLES IN MAINE. 
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Maine Farmer, 
who grow* most of the noted apples raised in 
Maine, says that among all the Winter varie¬ 
ties, the Baldwin stands at the head. The tree ! 
is hardy and prolific, the apple fair and hand¬ 
some and of the right size ; fine-grained and 
solid, and no buyer in market objects to No. 1 
Baldwins. He gets more dollars fi-om a Bald- 
win tree than from anv other kind. 
TO GUARD AGAINST CUT-WORMS. 
As it is now drawing toward* Spring, I will 
tell you how I guard against the ravages of 
cut-woniis and chipmunks, ox- ground squir¬ 
rels. I take one-quaiter pound of fine cut 
cheAving tobacco, make tea of it, aud soak 
one bushel of seed coni fox- twelve or twenty- 
four hours, as it suits best. I have done so for 
the last ten years, and have been annoyed but 
vex-y little, xvhen the pests Avere plenty. 
6. C. Richards. 
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WIRE WORM REMEDY. 
A correspondent of the Western Rux-al 
has practiced the following for eight years : 
“I take good, sound seed, put it in a tub or 
some othei- convenient vessel, take one and 
one-half pounds of saltpeter per bushel, dis¬ 
solve it and pour it over the coin ; let it soak 
until the com is swelled ready to sprout, and 
then plant. The worms will not trouble it.” 
DESTROYING CANKER WORMS. 
Suel Foster of Iowa, says he destroys 
canker Avoi-ms by placing stx-aw under the 
trees, shaking the worms down into the sti-aw 
and then burning it. 
