and somewhat inclined to overbear, so that 
it injures itself, or its products rather, when 
left to care for itself instead of being cared 
for sis sensible fruit growers know it should 
be. The original tree at Penn Yan, N. Y., 
is now about twenty-five years old; has 
borne regularly, and is said to be now as 
healthy as when first known. 
The Kentucky Strawberry. 
Among all the new sorts of strawberries— 
and we may almost add the old ones—none 
present such strong, vigorous roots as the 
Kentucky; and if there is anything in the 
list the Bowood Muscat, a large, fine, rich, 
pulpy white grape; bears early and heavy, 
and makes a large and superior raisin. Of 
others we have fruited, we should place in 
the list for raisins—White Malaga, White 
Muscat of Alexandria, White -Muscatel, Griz¬ 
zly Fronlignan, Jarvis (a new Utah seedling,) 
and the Canadian Chief; from all of which 
we have produced very excellent raisins, and 
which we consider good table grapes. 
“ For growing north of the rim of the 
basin, we would recommend, of hardy vari¬ 
eties, Adirondac, Clinton, Iona and Isabella, 
and for early fruiting the Israella; the Con¬ 
cord lacks flavor, and the Delaware is too 
small and slow in growth to please many. 
“ For those who are willing to give pro¬ 
tection to t he vines for the sake of fine fruit, 
we would recommend Royal Muscadine, 
White and Red Okasselas, Bowood Muscat, 
Muscat Hamburg; and in fact the whole 
family of Muscats are superior fruit, and will 
repay the care bestowed. In this locality 
the most tender grapes flourish and fruit 
freely in the open air, and the hardy varie¬ 
ties produce fruit superior to that produced 
in colder localities.” 
Ewalt Apple. 
An apple with this name is figured in 
the Practical Farmer. It is said to have 
originated on a farm belonging to Mr. 
Ewalt, near Bedford, Penn. The tree 
fruits every year, is a prolific bearer, and the 
apples have been kept till June. It is de¬ 
scribed as a beautiful apple, one-half carmine 
or crimson, brighter than Maiden’s Blush, 
and the other half a bright, golden yellow. 
Flesh tender and sub-acid. 
leaved aloe stands between the two, and a 
scarlet verbena fills the rest of the space, 
save where a fringe of grass, a fine sort found 
in the woods, runs round the edge and con¬ 
ceals the ravages of time; for it. was once 
my butter tray, dear matrons, now trans¬ 
formed into a thing of beauty, and conse¬ 
quently a joy forever. This reminds me of 
a defunct chopping bow], which, with a 
sbingle over the worn-out bottom and paint¬ 
ed a dull brown, bears every summer a sweet 
burden of moneywort and geraniums; it has 
for a standard three feet of a tree trunk, cut 
out to thin our shrubbery. .Next summer I 
save this defect; but the root baffles me. It 
creeps, nay, rum while I sleep, crawls into 
the crevices of the cellar wall, and when I 
began to plume myself on its extermination 
it springs with renewed vigor in a score of 
unwonted places. The fabled hydra was 
nothing to this vegetable monster, for Her¬ 
cules had a fair hand-to-hand fight, while 
my enemy lurks in secret places and flour¬ 
ishes most when I molest most. 1 suppose 
its a kind of convolvulus, but I've never 
honored it by an analysis; its root is thick, 
white, and a perfect gypsey in disposition. 
If any Ruralist ever succeeded in vanquish¬ 
ing my foe, be sure to give me 
the modus and I will begin the 
>. campaign at once. 
\ Dork Hamilton. 
NOTES ON SUMMER APPLES, 
BY CHARLES DOWNING, 
IJuzby’fi Early. 
Specimens of tliis summer apple were sent 
me from William Parrv of Cinnaminson, 
N. J,, who informs me the original tree was 
. jwmerly owned by John Buzbv, near 
Moorestown, New Jersey, and is a thrifty 
growing tree, producing 
large crops every other 
year. Fruit small to medi- 
um, roundish, inclining / 
to conic; skin pale yel- / 
low, shaded and splashed / 
with light red ; flesh / 
whitish, crisp, tender, / 
juicy, mild subacid; / 
quality very good. Rip¬ 
ens from the middle to 
the last of August. 
I’arry While — (Synon¬ 
yms. While Apple, Su« \ 
peri or White.) V 
This is also from Wm. \ 
Parry, who introduced \ 
it, and says it was found \ 
on a farm he purchased 
some years since, and is 
undoubtedly a seedling. 
Tree a strong upright 
grower, forming a com¬ 
pact head, a regular and abundant bearer, root, this variety bids fair to grow without 
a pleasant amateur fruit, and one of the much care or trouble, whatever its produc- 
most valuable market apples of its season, tiveness and quality may be in the various 
which is from the middle of August to the localities where it is this year being tested, 
middle of September. Fruit nearly of medi- Ti, e Boat Grape*, 
um size, roundish oblate, slightly conical; The best very early black grape is doubt 
skin smooth, whitish, sometimes with a ] eS9 Eumelan. The second best is Alvey; 
shade ot red in the sun; flesh line, white, p u t, p is too poor a bearer, and the planter 
ciisp, tender, Juicy, sprightly, pleasant sub- will do better to take in its place Telegraph, 
acid ; very good. The best white grape, that is hardy and yet 
[On page ?T(i of Rural, Dec. 4, 1869, we for sale, is Martha. 
printed an Illustration and outline of this iiooniek TUornituw Blackberry, 
inut, with a description by Eluott.-Eds. This ig said t0 have been found jn thc 
Rural ] 0rnnKe pipiJiu town of Rowe, near the Jloosick Mountains, 
. ... ,,. ' T , , in Massachusetts, and is described as almost 
Another apple from fneml Pa*ot, who as loiflc and sweet in its frolt as the Dorcl.es- 
writes me that the ongrn seems to he un- lcr . wUlc „ KJ CMCB „„ sM l0 b( , caUrel 
known. It jvas introduced into that neigh- free from tboms J 
borhood some twenty years since, from Mon¬ 
mouth county, New Jersey, where it was . “Amazon” Sirnwhci-iy. 
considered o' profitable market variety for . ^ str '™i*rTy ‘he name of Amazon 
its time of ripening, September. Tree a » being offeed for sale. It is described as 
good grower, with rather a spreading head, J‘ 11 .caring two crops in a season, 
and bears well. This is distinct l'rmn the We never before heard of it, bnt hope some 
Orange apple of New Jersey. Fruit large, " Massachnse te friends from whoso 
roundish, oblate i skin pale yellow, and, State rt comes, will tell us about U.-E. 
where fully exposed, 1ms a tinge of red on Grape** for Utah, 
the sunny side mid a few brown dots; flesh The Editor of the Utah Pomologist, (pub- 
yellowish, half find, tender, juicy, sprightly lished at St. George, Utah,) in answer to an 
subacid ; quality very good ; core small. inquiry “What Grapes shall we Plant?” 
Smrr Apple, says:—“For early grapes, for our locality 
Received from tbe same source, and which ltc „ Roya ] Musendine is stiperior, and beam 
has been described elsewhere, is a large and we ’ ^ n I lc,,t \ ln ' uv rhe di lute (or 
very promising market variety, ripening thc ' ,n ■'} . lv 1 *l ),3)ls same tune, is a pleas- 
lastof July till ll,e middle of August. ant fruit, but somewhat inferior to the first 
named. There are no other early sorts that 
C'lime’B Cod 1 1 a. we bave tbat wc cons j der -worthy of 
This and the following were received from notice. 
E. H. Cocklin of Shcpherdstowii, Pa., who For » wine grape> „ number of sorts 
informs me that ns origin ,s unknown, hut 1)oc „ wori[l!( , j rMulfe Tjl0 0]<| 
that h,s lather received ,1 from Daniel Misaioll of California is the variety prince 
C I..M 1 , ol h air view low nship, I ork Co,, Pa., |i:l |] v . p, an md here, ftiid we doubt whether 
ninny years since. Free upright in growth, W c shall find a grape producing a greater 
vigorous, comes into hearing early, and ,» quantity of saccharine matter, or one more 
very product,,,.; ii good amateur fruit and darttaMe of a „ , )i5tincl Uftvor „ ia „ 
sells well,,, market. L ruh medium, oblate i goort a and wUc „ w ,,„ ri 
skin pale, whitish yellow, occasionally with maltl!a a w , ne of racen(a)t ,, ul / dosli 
a slight blush m the sun; flesh whitish ye*. mte of aroma . The b 0 i] y mcdi „„, 
low fine, crisp, juicy pleasant sulmcd; BiMi with of acccls tm . fron , , 
qoiiloy nearly very good, ft, pens from the „ d mikK a ,** or ro9y , tinc 
middle lo the last of August.—t To be con- lo the mode of ma „ n(Ucl / re , T | ie laaM1 J 
llllUCCU IQ tllf» 1IAV* in C? ...a_ 1 
FLORAL NOTES 
\ Dnlilina from Seed. 
I Mrs. F. A. Smith asks the 
I best method of sowing and 
I raising dahlia seed, and how 
1 long before they bloom from 
J seed. The best plan is to sow 
J the seed early in spring in a 
J hot-bed, and set the resulting 
/ plants in the open air in May 
or June. In most cases 
they will flower the same 
season. If not, take up the 
tubers in the fall —say in Oc¬ 
tober or early in November— 
dry them by exposing to tbe sun during tbe 
day, and remove them to the cellar, if dry, 
and keep cool and dry during winter. In 
spring divide the tubers so as to he sure of a 
bud upon each division, and plant where the 
plant is to stand, or start in a hot-bed and 
transplant. Thc second season you are sure 
of bloom. 
Prince Arthur Colcu**. 
This is a new and distinct variety, which 
promises to be highly attractive and valua¬ 
ble for massing, ribbon or carpet-pattern 
planting. Its leaves have a yellowish ground 
color, with heavily marked veins or mid-ribs, 
of deep purplish red. Thc outside margin of 
thc leaf is also red. 
Hone Du« for Plants. 
I bought some hone dust, or bone meal, 
for niy fowls, and knowing that bones made 
good manure, I put about a tablespoonful 
into each pot of plants that I bad in the 
house, and they took a tremendous start 
ahead, I think they have growu more for 
two weeks than they have any two months 
before this winter. I simply sprinkled it 
over the earth in the pot around the plants.— 
E. R. Whitney, Cambridgeport, Mem. 
Qncen ot the Desert. 
The Utah Pomologist describes a giant 
convolvulus under thc above name, which 
he says is “ a new flower, a native of some 
parts of the great interior desert, and the 
most magnificent and beautiful of that family 
of plants. The root is perennial. Thc plant 
rises about four feet, and resembles a dwarf 
willow, with long lanceolate leaves; the 
flowers are shades of bright purple, and two 
to three inches across. Wc have seen near 
one hundred blossoms at once on a single 
plant; very showy and desirable.” 
Aplita on Houmc Plants. 
L. C. G., South Byron, N. Y., asks for a 
remedy for small green lice which infest 
house plants. We have found whale oil 
soap, in the proportion of one pound to 
eight gallons of water very effectual for 
their destruction. It may he applied with a 
syringe having a fine rose, or a whisk broom, 
to the under surface of the leaves, continuing 
the application daily for a week, if required. 
If this course is pursued before they become 
troublesome, the labor will be less. Fumi¬ 
gation with tobacco is also good. Place the 
plants on a stool, turn over them a tub or 
barrel, and place under the tub burning to¬ 
bacco, so that the smoke will envelope the 
plant. Treating them to “ a smoke” a few 
times is generally sufficient.—u. u. 
Philadelphia* Keteteeril Flore Pleno. 
This vuriety of the Philadelplius I find in 
no catalogue hut that of Olin Brothers, 
Springfield, Mass., where it is de¬ 
scribed as “a decided acquisition, 
) superior in merit to the older varie¬ 
ties of this class, its double flowers 
lasting much longer than the single 
varieties.” Can any one tell me 
more of it ?— Addi. 
IA I hi hi C'audiduin. 
Mrs. S. R. Sanford does not 
succeed with her lilies. “ They come 
up every year, but do not seem 
thrifty, and seldom bloom.” Mrs. 
Sanford does not tell us how her 
lilies have been treated—whether 
the bulbs have been often trans¬ 
planted or not; and if so, how 
long an interval they remained out 
of the ground. We judge the diffi¬ 
culty to be weakness of bulb. They 
should be transplanted as seldom as pos¬ 
sible, and then immediately after the decay 
of the foliage in August or September. Your 
sandy soil requires muck or leaf mold, in 
order to give you good lilies. 
clime’s codlin. 
mean to have an ivy stand on this piazza 
built of the very crookedest roots I can find. 
We have another porch on the north side, 
and here cocoa-nuts, and gourds, and ox- 
muzzles arc doomed to moneywort, and pe¬ 
tunias, and sweet peas. 
You will see from what I have written 
that I don’t favor mixtures. I like better to 
fill a basket with one variety, or with two 
or three that are of congenial habits, and 
then take good care of them. Plenty of 
moisture is the main thing, given at proper 
times. Moss retains it, or sponge; and some 
recommend tar. My ivy basket has flour¬ 
ished this winter with a thorough wetting 
on Monday, which it gels by standing a few 
minutes in a wash-tub of water, and an oc¬ 
casional sprinkling of the leaves through the 
ORANGE PIPPIN. 
xrricultnrf 
MY PIAZZAS: 
Flow I Garnish them with Vluc» ami Plants, 
Blessed he the man who invented piazzas, 
and happy tbe woman who has enough of 
them to garnish with climbing plants and 
fringe with hanging baskets. Let me tell 
you about mine ! The southern piazza leads 
to our dining-room, and shades the east 
E.SH(T5 
THE PRINCE ARTHUR COLEUS. 
week. A large sea shell is overflowing with 
Kenilworth ivy, and above it is an egg shell 
in a crocheted bag of scarlet worsted, out of 
which peers a small green “chicken” and 
sprays of tbe last mentioned ivy. Morning 
glories grow well in baskets, and also tbe 
small, single petunia and the maurandia— 
or the two latter can be trained in pots over 
simple trellises made of wire, ratan or grape 
vine. A rustic cross can easily be fash¬ 
ioned, andtliis covered with ivy is extremely 
beautiful. 
I have u few climbers in my garden— 
sweet peas, of course, nasturtium, Ac. Cobea 
I don’t like, nor cypress vine; the latter is 
slow and tender. 
I have one vine that I want to dispense 
with. I found it when I came here ten years 
since and it has proved itself strong on the 
squatter sovereignty question. It is called 
hereabouts by the ditfering names ol “ wood- 
window of tbe library. -The end toward the 
sunrise is covered in summer time by a rus¬ 
tic trellis of cedar, decorated by morning 
glories; they grow out of a loose, rich soil, 
and arc as beautiful on a sunny morning as 
anything you need wish. Among them is a 
climber resembling the morning glory in 
foliage; flowers smaller and coral red. I 
received tbe seeds from a friend in Mississippi, 
and value it highly, as it remains in bloom 
all day. The fragrant honeysuckle and a 
Baltimore Belle are trained around this 
porch, making a cool, shady •retreat dear to 
the hearts of tbe children. Two baskets, of 
borne manufacture, are suspended in the 
shade; one overflows with a luxuriant 
growth of German ivy, and just here let me 
explain about these baskets. Ours are of 
grape vine, built up log-bouse fashion, six 
pieces forming a layer, and slender vines 
twisted together for handles; one is round, 
the other oval. A layer of moss next the 
basket serves tbe double purpose of retain¬ 
ing moisture and the earth. The larger of 
these has ferns by way of leafage— a&yridium 
thelyptera is the very best, its fronds are so 
finely cut—aud in the autumn a scarlet lily 
flames out from the greenness. 
On the western and front side of our house 
is a long verandah, where tbe American 
woodbine asserts its beauty iu language too 
powerful for opposition. A wire basket here 
lias “bens and chickens” peeping through 
English moss for its undergrowth. Above 
is a strawberry geranium. Auotber has 
stouc crop and coleus, and a bit of the 
“Dusty Miller;” another a thunbergia —a 
flower very little known for some reason or 
other, but which is quite a favorite of mine 
from its clean, symmetrical growth and the 
delicate color of its flowers. 
Beneath one of the parlor windows is a 
t ray two feet long, which has a Madeira 
vine starling from eaeli end, framing the 
window with its wax-hke leaves. A striped- 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP, 
Flalev’s St. .lolin Peach, 
The editor of the Southern Horticulturist 
has a long article on tbe Plater’s St. John or 
Yellow St. John Peach of the South; and 
in attempting to show bis own knowledge 
and tbe error of others, himself priuts Fla- 
ter’s “ Flatirs and accuses the recent edi¬ 
tion of Downing’s work as embracing 
the same blunder. He regrets Mr. 
Downing “ bad not made more careful 
investigation;” but we think if lie will 
look carefully, be will find tbe blunder J 
is all on bis own side, and that be has / 
attempted to corrupt a man’s name / 
into a would-be willy supposition that J 
somebody tried to latinize flavors. He J 
asks writers and nurserymen “ to make | 
a note of this bit of pomologieal bis- I 
tory,” and accordingly we have done so. 1 
Tint Wacnrr Apple. \ 
The "Wagner apple is a variety that \ 
meets with favorable record wherever \ 
it has been grown. At a recent meet- 
ing of the Michigan State Potnologi- 
cal Society it received universal favor; 
ami looking back to tbe transactions 
ol tbe American Pomologieal Society 
of last September, we find it there gen¬ 
erally commended. It is an upright 
growing, hardy tree, disposed to bear early 
PARRY S WHITE. 
bine,” and “ old maid’s window-curtains.” 
It over runs everything if let alone, and the 
more I disturb it tbe faster it grows. Tbe 
whole plant has a vile odor—to an unpreju¬ 
diced observer it may seem rather pleasing, 
BUZBY S EARLY APPLE. 
of a wine superior to either of the sorts 
named. 
“ For raisins, we should place first on thc 
