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publish long lists, which, they say, are ad- 
dapted to this section, but they mostly lead to 
disappointment. So many varieties have some 
serious fault difficult to overcome. For in¬ 
stance, Rawle’s Genet grows finely, bears 
well, but decays before maturity. 
Warren Co., N. C. 
[Fruit List continued ou page 149.] 
THE NEUNAN STRAWBERRY. 
The Neunan or Charleston Strawberry is 
becoming quite a great favorite with many of 
the extensive berry-growers hereabouts. One 
of them, after testing it and the Wilson side 
by side for several years, has discarded the 
latter, and in its place planted over 200 acres 
of the former, it being a better carrier, 
about one week earlier, fully equal in size and 
quality, and, moreover, it bears longer than 
its parent, the Wilson. It is a rampant 
grower; does best in stools and runnel’s kept 
clipped until September, and it is evidently 
most at home near the coast from Norfolk to 
Savannah. 1 doubt if it would prove as valu¬ 
able as the Wilson in the interior, or much 
further north than this latitude. G. F. B. 
Norfolk, Va. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
—Let unknown tree agents alone. 
—Mr. G. W. Fuller thinks that the Duchess 
of Oldenburg and Weal thy are the only apples 
that can be relied on in Meeker County, Minn. 
.The Chas. Downing Straw¬ 
berry fruited the best of any strawberry— 
Wilson was a failure last year—The Sharp¬ 
less failed also.Snyder was 
the only blackberry that was not harmed by 
the Winter of ’81. 
—Four of the principal fruit growers of 
Michigan, says the Michigan Farmer, be¬ 
ing asked separately for the four most desir¬ 
able varieties of Winter Apples for market, 
agreed on the following: Red Canada, Bald¬ 
win, Northern Spy aud Jonathan. For eat¬ 
ing, they named the Wagener, Pock's Pleas¬ 
ant, Jonathan and Northern Spy. For cook¬ 
ing, all were united on three varieties: R. I. 
Greening, Northern Spy and Baldwin. 
—Kieffer’s Hybrid Pear, says Prof. Budd, of 
Iowa, ripens its wood so perfectly that it may 
endure the Winter of the northern part of that 
State. He calls favorable attention also to 
Bergamotte Crassane and the St. Ghislain. 
—The Glendale, Charles Downing, Kentuc¬ 
ky, Miner’s Prolific, Sharpless, Cumberland 
Triumph and Champion Strawberries are 
highly spoken of by Iowa horticulturists. 
They stand the Winters well. 
—Mr. Clute, of Iowa, mulches his grape¬ 
vines with prairie hay, and gives no cultiva¬ 
tion. He gets fine crops of fine fruit and the 
roots go through the W inter in perfect con¬ 
dition. 
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The Great farm and Rural Journal of America. 
Fifth Year of its present Management—S2nd year 
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For the North, South, East, West. 
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The objects of the Experiment Farm of the Rural New-Yorker are to test all kinds 
of new seeds and to present the results to our readers; to produce new varieties of 
grain by cross-breeding; to test new farm implements and methods of culture, with 
a view to producing the greatest yields at the smallest cost; to disseminate among 
its readers seeds of varieties which, from our own tests, have proven of unusual worth 
without cost to them, and thus advance the agricultural interests of the whole country. 
The Rural New-Yorker has no personal interests to subserve. 
The most vigorous and able combination of Practical Writers ever collected to¬ 
gether m the columns of any Agricultural Journal. Here is a partial list for 1881. 
Dr J B Iawi-b ___IlOtbaniBtfld. England. 
Prof. J. P. Sheldon. Hants. & Wilts. Agl. Col., " 
William Robinson, F. It. S., Editor and Found¬ 
er ot the London Garden.— 
Prof. S. W. Johnson, Sheffield Solentlfle 
School, Yale College.-. Conn. 
Gen. W.H. Noble.. . " 
Pmf. F. II. Stover, Hussey Institute. . Mass. 
Levi Rtookbrldxe, Pres. Agr’l Col. 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Boston. 
William Falconer, Cambridge University. 
Richard Goodman, Pres. J. C. C. 
Richard Goodman. Jr...... 
Prof. W. J. Beal, Agricultural College. Mich. 
Prest. T. T. Lyon, Pom. Society.. 
See'y C. A. Garfield. lt 
C. E. Thorne, Farm Manager State Ag’l Coi... Ohio. 
Dr. John A. Warder. 
W. I. Chamberlain. 
AValdo F. Brown.. . 
B. F. Johnson,. .nilnols. 
Prof. G. E. Morrow, State Ag’l Col. 
Prof. Cyrus Thomas... 
Prof. G. W. French.. .. 
Pror. E. M. Shelton, Agricultural College.. Kan. 
Prof. Klbrldge Gale “ “ „ ..... 
Prof. Thomas Meehan, Author of Native 
Flowers and Ferns. Pa- 
Mrs. Mary AVager Fisher. 
W. G. Waring, Sr..... “ 
Henry Stewart., M. D. N. J. 
E. Williams. 
Col. M. C. Weld. 
James Taplin..,.. „ . 
Ex-Gov. Robert W. Furnas.. Neb. 
S. Rufus Mason.. - - • • ■ .. _ 
Prof. C. C. Georgeson, Agr’l College. Texas. 
Charles Shinn. CaL 
W. O. L. Drew. . “ 
J. B. Armstrong. ‘ 
Luther Burbank. “ 
Prof. J. L. Budd. Iowa, 
Prof. G. C. Caldwell, Cornell University.N. Y. 
Prof. I, P. Roberts, Farm Manager “ ...... “ 
Prof. L. B. Arnold. 
W. G. Barry . “ 
Charles Downing. “ 
Samuel B. Parsons. “ 
Samuel Parsons, Jr. “ 
A. B. Allen. “ 
Prof. E. W. Stewart. “ 
Col. F. D. Curtis. “ 
Peter B. Mead.. .. “ 
HS. Hardin. 
Jonathan Taleott... “ 
Lorenzo Rouse. “ 
Nelson Bitter. “ 
L. A. Roberts. “ 
D. S. Marvtn. “ 
G. D. Hopkins, Vet. Surgeon, N. Y. City. “ 
D. E. Salmon, D. V. M.. N. C. 
M. B. Prince. 
Mrs. Annie L. Jack. Can. 
J. P. Forfar. •• 
Richard Gibson. “ 
Prof. D. M. Tracy. Mo. 
Adeline E. Story. “ 
H. AV. Ravenel. S. C. 
Hugh L. Wysor . Va. 
Prof. AV. C. Bellamy. Ala. 
M. D. Hlllyard. 
Prof. A. E. Blount. Form Manager Agr'l G'ol., CoL 
T. IL Hoskins. M. D. Vt. 
Prof. F, A. Gulley, Farm Manager Agr’l CoL,. Miss. 
And not less than too others among our subscribers. 
is that no Progressive farmer, dairyman, stockman, pomologist, florist or gardener 
can afford to do without it.,J§=| 
The Rural New-Yorker earnestly labors to instmet the stockman and breeder; to 
introduce new fruits of improved quality; to make known the beneficent influences 
of the garden and of trees and shrubs about the home ; to increase the comforts, 
refinement, health, and the general welfare of all who own and cultivate land. It 
tests all new vegetables, and makes known their value. It tells how to raise them in 
the greatest perfection. Shrubs and trees, flowers, plants of every description, the 
methods of cultivation to suit the varied and ever-changing conditions which arise, 
constitute prominent departments. 
The insect enemies which infest our field crops, which seem to be rapidly in¬ 
creasing, and entomology in general are treated in our columns by the ablest spe¬ 
cialists in the country. To aid in 
The Progress and Development of American Horticulture 
and Agriculture 
is always our earnest endeavor. Such efforts as these have brought the Rural New- 
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is $2.00 a Year, payable invariably in advance. We have no club or secon” 
price. It is alike to all. 
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