Life’s glowing description of his Jean I am willing to acknowledge he has swal- 
Bisley when it opened its first flowers in his lowed as much as I can when he tells me 
grounds ; and how he would stroke his vgn- roses, shrubs, etc., are better and longer- 
erable beard upon beholding Rienzi, which lived grown from green wood cuttings or 
is Jean Sisley several times intensified, and, buds than from the mature bud or seed of 
as may be'seen from the cut, it is a most re- the plant. 
markable flower for size, substance, and Dropping this all, and coming to the Ca- 
gencral make up. Its petals are very thick, tttwba .. beJng grown and propagated 
and the flower is a perfect circle even with- prior to the use of g^en wood buds for the 
out the lower petal. 1 have no doubt if Mr. origin of pIant8) » i et me tell my pleasant 
Glenny had been permitted to behold this critic that to . day the Catawba, on the vines 
Pr ° nOUnCeditPerfeCt K r own from cuttings of ripe wood, and 
ass. pruned on the American principle of space 
By tne way, Dr. Denny is quite an enthu- aild nir wanted) ig aH good a8 it , RVer ^ 
^Four years or more since, Mr. P. a TEH am of 
y&B&r )&f 4 Ohio, condemned the Catawba, and my then 
wmiif'w&ifeh. remark that tlie severe system of pruning 
j caused its failure, was critirised and scandal- 
WFt? ' ''' ized ; but. to-day Ohio has no better grape 
than tli« Catawba for h<r profitable 
I.—IMPROVED PELARGONIUMS FOR GUT 
FLOWERS. 
NEWS AND NOTES FOR PATRONS, 
I The Kentucky Granges are talking up 
! Grange Banks. 
| The number of subordinate Granges in 
New Hampshire is now forty-two, an in¬ 
crease of twenty-six since last report. 
A Patrons’ Life Insurance Society has 
been incorporated in Kansas. The entrance 
fee for full membership is 52. and the assess¬ 
ment on the death of a member £1 10. 
j The Rural Carolinian extends the most 
fraternal of welcomes to the member® of the 
National Grange who will visil Charleston at 
the annual session in February, 1875. 
The National Agricultural Laborer’s 
Union of England, contemplates shipping 
500,000 emigrant laborers to the valley of 
the Mississippi. 
It is estimated that the Grange organiz¬ 
ation has saved to the farmers of Ohio, dur¬ 
ing the last, twelve months, the handsome 
1 sum of £1,500,000 
A California Grange thinks the State 
Grange Executive Committee should make 
arrangements by which female, help may be 
imported from the Atlantic States by the 
car load. 
The next annual convention of the North 
Carolina State Grange will be opened w ! tli 
an address by John S. Long, Esq., the State 
lecturer, on the progress and achivements of 
the Patrons of Husbandry. 
“In ascending the hill of prosperity may 
we never meet a friend," at first seems a sin¬ 
gular toast, but when we reflect that the 
friend must be going “downhill," it appears 
a clear and excellent sentiment. 
Manufacturers who three months ago 
would not listen to propositions for redi c¬ 
tion of prices, or who would not sell direct 
to Patrons or to the agency, are now seeking 
opportunities to deal direct with the bloody 
Grangers. 
The Wisconsin Granges already have 
established forty-one co-operative associa¬ 
tions for selling goods and manufacturing, 
and twenty-nine insurance companies, ul 
flourishing and representing capital to the 
amount of four millions of dollars. 
The Southern Granges, notably those cf 
Mississippi and Arkansas, are actively be¬ 
stirring themselves in endeavoring to attract 
immigration to their States. The English 
Laborers’ Union Is in active corresponden c 
with the Arkansas State Grange on the 
subject. 
Cherokee County Council, Texas, urges 
Patrons everywhere In the cotton growing 
States to ascertain, as soon as the ginning 
season is over, how much cotton has bem 
put up at each gin, and report the statistics 
to the National Grange, in ol der to put it 
out of the power of speculators to control 
the price of cotton to suit themselves. 
There is a lady member of Farm and 
Home Grange, Falls county, Texas, who is 
75 years old, She is still vigorous and a regu¬ 
lar attendant at Grange meetings. She has 
both children and grand-children members 
of the same Grange. Three generations rep¬ 
resented in one Grange does pretty well for 
a new institution. Long life to the brave 
old matron. 
TnE Grange elevator at Indianola, Iowa, is 
the largest building of the kind in tie 
country. The size of the main building is 
38x80 feet, with a wheel house 20x22 feet, 
and the bight to the top of the elevator is 
30 feet. It is divided into eight bins, each 
having a capacity cf -1,000 bushels, giving a 
total of 32,000 bushels. The plan is different 
from that of any other elevator in the State. 
The Patrons of Sangamon county Ill., 
have adopted the practice of holding month¬ 
ly sales of stock and produce. Already two 
fairs have been held, at each of which more 
than £30,000 worth of cattle, horses, swine, 
mules, sheep and poultry were disposed of. 
Some cattle were sent expressly from Iowa, 
Kansas and Missouri for sale, and a Cincinnati 
firm even sent a car load of buggies, and 
reaped a handsome profit from the experi¬ 
ment. 
Upon the occasion of a visit to Covent Gar¬ 
den Market, during the past summer, I was 
considerably surprised at the immense num¬ 
ber of Pelargonium flowers used there by 
the florists in the construction of bouquets, 
the filling of baskets and rases, and, in fact, 
for every purpose where cut flowers were a 
feature, Pelargoniums were 
used in large numbers, and 
they appeared to form quite 
an important article of pro- 
duction in the vicinity of /-*j 
London, many florists devot- 
ing their whole time and 
space especially to the pro- F A' ’y 
duction of these flowers for ' 
the great London flower mar- • 
ket. I saw those flowers at jg&y• 
florists’ stands by K- ?E 
than the Catawba for her profitable 
yards. 
And now, good friend Jones, as I read 
along your criticism, and 1 hope those who 
read this will refer to It, don’t let us talk of 
the rotting of the grapes, for that has noth¬ 
ing to do with our theory of the vitality of 
life. I grant your statement. “ that young 
plants and trees are Bent out before their 
defects are known and why f Because 
the grower has had no consideration of honor 
connected with his work of propagation and 
its association with the advancement of the 
art he claims to work for. 
Let me say that I desire to censure no man 
or grower, propagator or salesman ; but I 
do believe the whole of all onr future success 
and permanency of fruit growing must and 
will come from a full understanding of the 
parentage of the plant which we grow. I 
have said repeatedly we can never have a 
reliable orchard or number of trees of a va¬ 
riety if they are propagated as now upon 
chance seeds obtained Imp-hazard from the 
cider mill; or the wild pear seeds (gathered 
similar to our apple seeds), upon which our 
standard pear trees are grown. 
F. R. Elliott. 
different. 
the large basketfuls, and in 
one or two instances by the 
cartload, packed with baskets 
containing almost exclusively rf\ s k 
Pelargonium flowers, nwd 
they seemed to be regarded 
by the London bouquetists as 
a staple article, without ,$| 
which it would be difficult to \Ji v /A 
carry on their business. 
Knowing the contempt 
with which New York florists q/iifiB 
regard Pelargonium flowers, "4flHGF 
I became somewhat, interest- 
ed, and made some inquiries 
regarding the extent and 
manner of use of the flowers, 
upon which I scon learned 
that they were used quite ««- 
tens! vely and very prominent¬ 
ly in their very best work. I 
also discovered that previous 3PETiA 
to use in bouquets, and 
almost as soon as received, the florist took 
each truss of flower separately in his left 
hand, and with a small brush in his right 
hand, the blossoms were manipulated and 
made ready for use ; this was done by the 
small brush being dipped into a colorless 
mucilage and then applied to the center of 
each flower, this gum had the effect of secure¬ 
ly holding the petals in position for an iudef- 
finite period, and as soon as dry the flowers 
could be handled and made up in any de¬ 
sired form without danger of scattering the 
petals. The whole process struck mo as one 
worthy of imitation by American florists, 
as a means of introducing into our winter 
floral arrangements a very beautiful class of 
flowers. 
To give an idea of the esteem in which 
Pelargonium flowers are held, 1 would cite 
that during a conversation with a florist, 1 
quite incidentally remarked that these flow¬ 
ers were not regarded very favorably by 
American florists for the purpose of making 
up. He asked me the reason, which I could 
not give, unless it was because they had a 
somewhat common and cheap appearance. 
Upon this tie informed me that he had seen 
Queen Victoria with a bouquet in her hand 
which was made almost exclusively of Pe¬ 
largonium flowers; “and,” said he, with 
considerable force of speech, “Queen Vic¬ 
toria is quite as much of a lady as any 
American, and is quite as capable of know¬ 
ing what constitutes a choice bouquet;” to 
which argument, of course, I liad no reply, 
especially as there were so many beautiful 
varieties heaped up all around me ; in fact, 
upon examination of some of the magnificent 
trusses brought, into the market, I felt rather 
disposed to agree with the florist that his 
Queen was certainly a lady of good taste 
even if she deigned to carry a bouquet of 
Pelargonium flowers. 
The varieties grown Cor cut flowers for the 
Lor don market seem to embrace all sections. 
Th<- Zonule varieties are grown in large 
numbers for tins* purpose; one florist I visit¬ 
ed had a large greenhouse filled entirely with 
a -white Zonalo variety called the White 
Clipper, which were grown in five-inch pots 
exclusively for their trusses of flowers, which 
were taken to the London market every duv. 
Another florist had a house full of a most 
magnificent scarlet variety called Corsair. 
At another place I saw a large number of 
Dr. Denny's Wellington grown for the same 
purpose, and at Mr. .John Copelin’S, at 
Stoke, Newington, I had the pleasure of see¬ 
ing a number of fine plants in flower of Dr, 
Denny’s master-piece, Rienzi. of which the 
accompanying illustration will convey a very 
good idea. In contemplating this splendid 
flower 1 bethought me of “ Daily Rural 
ANOTHER PATENT IN GRAPE CULTURF 
siast In the hybridizing and raising new Pe¬ 
largoniums. During my visit he had a large 
number of varieties which were being tested 
previous to their being either consigned to 
the rubbish heap or reserved f&r seed, and 
some superb variet ies were on hand, of which 
we may perhaps have something to say here¬ 
after, Dr. Denn y has lately becoin e tlio prime 
mover in establishing in London a Pelargo 
nium Society, one of the chief objects of 
winch is to protect the horticultural world 
against imposition from the great number 
of new varieties which are being continually 
thrown on the market,. This article was in¬ 
tended to speak of Pelargoniums and their 
use as cut flowers, hut 1 find there are so 
many varieties, both old and new, yet to 
mention in this connection, that another 
article will be necessary to do the subject 
anything like justice. H. E. Chitty. 
Patorson, N. J. 
PROPAGATING FROM GREEN WOOD 
This is the heading of my complimentary 
critic, Mr. J. B. Jones, who rubs me over 
with so much of Sam Slick’s soft soap that 
1 presume some of it sticks. Mr. Jones has 
been so very courteous, sensible, thoughtful 
and kind that a word contradictory presses 
hard upon my brain. But, for the sake of 
the cause 1 have worked for over forty years, 
I suppose it becomes me, as the deacon said, 
when called upon in absence of the parson, 
to behave as well as I can and talk my little 
talk out, hoping it may do good. I shall lie- 
gin as the deacon would, aud say, Friends, all 
this is theory, pleasant to the mind as pre¬ 
sented by those who have only viewed it 
from the surface ; but if we estimate our ul¬ 
timate results from the foundations of our 
base, it appears to me we should not build 
upon the sand or green grass, or even an im¬ 
perfect bud. 
My good friend Jones tells me calmly and 
quietly that the Iona grape was naturally de¬ 
fective in its vitality. Now, I had no desire 
to probe my friend Jones, or any other of 
the brotherhood, touching the vitality of the 
parentage of Iona. I am willing he should 
let that go back to the Garden of Eden. But 
the record of all of life showsus that vitality 
and perpetuity must come originally from 
nature’s vigor, and, if animal or vegetable, 
has been continuously inter bred, the product 
is abortive of any real practical good. 
I nm not going into a discussion with 
friend Jones ; T hope he did not get his name 
from Jonah, who swallowed the whale, but 
VINEYARD NOTES 
une grape crop ot Uuhfprma this year is 
said to have been so large that the wine 
makers are embarrassed bv its great quanti¬ 
ty, many vineyards more than doubling their 
yield. The wine makers had neither the 
capital to buy nor the room to manufacture 
ami store the immense amount of wine 
grapes offered at low prices. Hence, the 
over-supplied market has declined, and 
thousands of baskets of g-rapes for want of 
sale have been allowed to rot at the vine¬ 
yards.—F. R. Elliott. 
TFt- are always rfacl to receive vineyard ex 
perience and opinions of varieties of grapes 
based upon experience; but this department 
is not a grindstone, please remember, 
An “Organ.” —At the Iowa Grange it 
was voted to make the Patron’s Helper, at 
Des Moines, the official organ of the State 
Grange. This has excited the wrath of the 
other papers of the State, that have in the 
past dqne so much for the Order. What the 
final effect will be, remains to be seen. On 
principle we are and ever have been down 
on the “ organ ” business. We are satisfied 
that it is bad policy in Iowa or r*ie where.— 
Prairie Farmer, 
