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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
seedlings are not hardy—the Adirondae, for 
example—but, then, our only hope for hard¬ 
iness lies in pure American blood, for no for¬ 
eign grape, and no hybrid, has yet been 
found to stand our climate on the trellis, and 
escape blight and mildew in summer. 
If those engaged in trying to produce bet¬ 
ter grapes, will abandon their careful exper¬ 
iments with pollen in trying to raise males, 
and try pure seed from the best varieties 
of native fruits, better success will crown 
Fruit Stand, gilt - lined and elegantly 
chased. Pi-ice, $15; for 20 subscribers at club 
rates. 
Ice Pitcher, large and massive, delicately 
engraved. The design consists of long grass 
and foliage, the delicate tracery of which 
relieves the brilliant polish of the plated 
portion. Price, $25 ; for 30 subscribers at 
club rates. 
Ice Pitcher, silver-plated, frosted ; a very 
beautiful style. Price, $15; for 20 subscribers 
at club rates. 
Cake Basket, heavily silver-plated on the 
linest quality of nickel silver, beautifully en¬ 
graved with a chaste design of birds and 
flowers. It is exceedingly graceful in form. 
Price, $10, and will be furnished for 15 sub¬ 
scribers at club rates. 
Silver-plated Tea Sot, consisting of Tea 
Pot. Sugar Howl, Milk Pitcher, Coffee Pot 
and Slop Bowl, with Bell attached, enriched 
with a superb design of birds and wheat. 
1 ha smallness of the cuts in soma degree 
provents the beauty of the design being 
perceived—in fact, any picture would fail 
unless the rich gleam of the polished metal 
and its contrast with the engraved portions 
could be shown. Friee, $60 ; furnished for 
60 subscribers at club rates. 
Butter Dish ; satin finish, agricultural de¬ 
sign. Price, $8; for 13 subscribers at club 
I'atcs. 
Castor, of rustic design. Price, $6 ; for 10 
subscribers at club rates. 
Castor, Japanese decoration. Price, $13 ; 
for 16 subscribers at club rates. 
Half dozen Napkin Rings; design, birds. 
Price, $5 ; for lu subscribers at club rates. 
We also have on our Premium hist a full 
line of oval thread, double-plated Spoons and 
Forks of all sizes. 
These goods will be gent by express direct 
from the factory at Taunton, Mass., and those 
who select these premiums may do so in per¬ 
fect confluence that the goods are the best 
of their class. 
HARDY GRAPES AND TESTS OF 
HARDINESS. 
SILVER-PLATED WARE 
io oe noru with a silver spoon in one’s 
mouth used to be considered exceptionally 
fortunate, but since the advent of silver- 
plated ware it makes but little difference 
whether families can or cannot boast the 
I cannot agree with the idea set forth in 
an article under the “ vineyard ” head in the 
Rural New-Yorker of Oct 0th, that, so far 
as relates to the season of 1874-5, our severe 
winters are in any sense a test of hardiness 
or tenderness in the matter of killing or de¬ 
moralizing grape vines. However true this 
test may prove with ordinary seasons, the 
drouth of summer preceding our last winter 
and extending Into it to near the end of Jan¬ 
uary, is a manifest exception. No rain to 
wet the soil to the depth of grape roots after 
the first week in June, left those roots and 
the soil about them dry. Water cannot., in 
the open air, be made colder than ice ; but 
dry soil can sustain a temperature as much 
below that of ice as the hottest summer air 
in the shade ever rises above it; and roots 
dried and deprived of vitality by winter cold, 
reaching 60* or more below freezing, cfan 
scarcely be expected to survivesuch a “ test.” 
I have seen forest trees—white oaks, hicko¬ 
ries, chestnuts, from saplings the size of a 
man’s wrist to patriarchs three feet in diam¬ 
eter, in the grove at Silver Lake in this 
County—to the ratio of about one in three 
that were killed—utterly destroyed, root, 
trunk and twigs, by this test of hard incus 
which last year gave them. And on grape 
vines here the “test” was no respecter of 
hardiness—Clintons, Concords and Delawares 
indiscriminately failing with tenderer va¬ 
rieties. 
Thus, as to hardiness, with me, the Iona 
and Salem have persistently failed to fruit 
till I laid them down for protection ; and 
this season, with laying down and with roots 
that have given a vigorous growth of wood, 
they failed to put forth one fruit hud from 
vines that had hundreds, healthy inthe fall, 
and coming out apparently fresh and gi'een 
in spring. Whether Graveling is, or is not 
hardy, is a question that interests vine eul- 
turists very little, as its quantity of fruit in 
this region does not pay ground rent, while 
other varieties, at least equally jib good and 
equally hardy, producing four fold the fruit, 
are to be had to take its place. 
The Salem and the Iona are excellent 
grapes, and evei-y amateur should have a 
vine of such ; but, of Salem, no extensive 
vineyard has been planted that pays, except 
in localities protected by water surroundings 
that winter does not freeze over ; and very 
few places give vineyard success to Iona— 
the best amber grape now known to the 
public. 
Vine culturiits are beginning to see that 
all hybrids fail in hardiness to so great an 
extent as to unlit them for general culture, 
and many arc turning their attention to na- 
tivo sorts xtnd native seedlings. At the Ton- 
awatnUi Valley Fair, held in Atticxi, last 
week, the collection of grapes grown in open 
air that won the first premium as best and 
largest, w as led by an Isabella seedling, and 
backed up by fairer seedlings of the seedling 
that won diplomas lust year before the same 
society—all as sustaining claim to hardiness 
and healthfulness of vine—one as the best 
grape: another us second only to the best; 
a third as superior to Iona; and a fourth as 
better and far earlier than Hartford Prolific; 
while among the seventeen varieties com¬ 
prise .1 in this best and largest collection only 
one hybrid was to be found. And the second 
best and largest collection was headed by 
Isabella itself, and backed by another Isa¬ 
bella seedling that, also won a special pre¬ 
mium. 
Hardiness in grape vines is a quality not to 
be dispensed with in profitable vineyard cul¬ 
ture. Vines that will not stand ordinary 
winters on the trellis are not worth planting, 
except as amateur pets. Originally, the Isa¬ 
bella was hardy, and free from blight or mil¬ 
dew ; but the foreign slaughter system of 
summer pruning was introduced, and poor 
Rubella has fallen a victim toit—propagators 
generally having adopted it. and demoralized 
the roots till their entire stock has dissem¬ 
inated diseased plants throughout the land 
The seedlings noticed above were from Isa¬ 
bella?, planted cut before this foreign prun¬ 
ing came into vogue, and by individuals who 
did not adopt it, and hence there was nothing 
of disease in the parent to transmit to its 
progeny. However, 1 do not think that dis¬ 
ease in grApe vines is transmissible l,y the 
seed, (hough the cutting or cion is sure to 
carry diseases of the vine or tree from which 
it is cut. Ar least 1 have found this li ue of 
apple grafts ; and the demoralized Isabella 
is a sad memorial of its transmission in the 
vine. It is true that some pure American 
Silver -Platei> Cake Basket. 
And, having gained ono step, 
their labors. And, having gained ono step, 
make that the starting point for another. 1 
am now growing seedlings from Delaware 
and Catawba, but my a ruber hardy grape, 
“superior to Iona,” is a seedling of Eureka, 
a black grape bred from Isabella. 
Who will join me in breeding up the Amer¬ 
ican grape ? S. Folsom. 
Eureka Place, Attica, N. Y. 
unadulterated silver. Its imitation in heav¬ 
ily-plated wares gives all the advantages 
with cheapness and freedom from anxiety 
about its loss. Scarcely any family is with- 
THE CODLING MOTH, 
A Lono Island fruit grower gives this 
method of dealing with the Codling Moth. 
After trying every suggested mode without 
1 here is abundant opportunity for fraud in 
plated goods, and no easy way of detecting 
it except by actual use, for tho thinly-plated 
article looks as well m that having a more 
generous supply of the more valuable metal, 
though use of it soon displays its weak 
points, and of all mean-looking things save 
as fiom badly-plated goods, with ‘their shia- 
ing centers and dimmed, coppery edges. 
To guard against deception there is no ef¬ 
fectual way -but dealing with a house of 
established reputation. 
PHYLLOXERA REMEDY 
Wk see in the Gardeners’ Monthly that M. 
Dumas has announced to the French Acade¬ 
my of Sciences a mode of treating vines at¬ 
tacked by the phylloxera, which is certain in 
Its results. The remedy is the combined em¬ 
ployment of sulpho-carbonate of potasb, 
Silver-Plated Ice Pitcher. 
effect,, he says :—“ I have now adopted plain 
woolen rags wrapped around the stems of 
the trees, and have caught mujiy thousands 
In this manner. Last, summer I commenced 
on July $Qtb, examining three (raps each 
week until September 28th, and I killed dur¬ 
ing that period 3,841. Besides employing 
these traps, I collected and cooked all infest¬ 
ed fruit which fell from the trees. By this 
means 1 destroyed the larval of a large num¬ 
ber of citron I io, which were also in the im¬ 
mature nppks gathered. By putting on the 
bands early in the season aud continuing 
them late, examining at, least once a week, 
both broods which usually a ppear in a sea¬ 
son are kept in check. Tf every man who 
ha* an apple orchard puts this simple plan 
of destroying the worms into practice, we 
should hear less of wormy apples.” There 
i3 nothing very new to us in Michigan in 
these suggestions. The band system has 
long been commended to the attention of 
fruit growers, but the trouble is to get them 
to adopt and practice it. They all hold up 
their hands at conventions in the winter 
time, but how many go home and practice 
what is preached. That ^ the trouble I 
Silver - Plated Tea Srt 
which kills the insect any depth in the soil Fc 
and of potassic ammoniacal and sulphurated prei 
manures. 
“Les Modes” states that M. Dumas him- ooe 
self is the fortunate discoverer, though bis haa 
announcement Io the Academy was not jj oc j 
made until after his process hud been used i.:i p 
in exhaustive experimenting by (he com¬ 
mission appropriated to examine into the va- se-e ' 
nous plans submitted. beir 
