570 
s 
It was the only variety that did not materially 
suffer from the drought and it yielded more 
than any two others put together. We are 
now raising it in quantity beside the White 
Elephant and Beauty of Hebron, and it prom¬ 
ises to outyield either. It seems to be remark¬ 
ably adopted to a dry season. 
The tubers are of medium size and singu¬ 
larly uniform—never growing very large and 
yielding very few small ones. The portrait 
shows the characteristic shape. The vines 
bear small leaves and the stems are notable 
for their branching habit and slenderness. 
They seldom bloom profusely and in field cul¬ 
ture occupy less space than most other kinds. 
The potato is of the very first quality. The 
skin is white except at the seed end where it 
assumes a rosy color from which the name of 
Blush was suggested to the originator. The 
Rural New Yorker has disseminated the 
Beauty of Hebron for early \ the White Ele¬ 
phant for lata and now offers the Blush for 
an intermediate to complete the set. This 
will, we believe, be found to possess distinct 
qualities that will in some respects render it 
more valuable than either of its associates. 
The Rural New Yorker does not claim to 
be the originator of the Blush potato, but 
merely in this case the introducer. Duo 
credit will be given to the originator, a Rural 
subscriber, another year. 
For tlie lmdies—Rural Mixed 
Garden Ircasures. 
This collection has been made up for the 
most part of the seeds of the most desirable 
plants growing at the Rural Grounds. The 
rest have been purchased to make up the de¬ 
sired quantity. We can assure our lady read¬ 
ers that, mindful of having neglected them 
•in our last regular seed distribution, we shall 
endeavor to make amends in this. Among 
the kinds are the following: 
The Persian Insecticide Plant— Pyie- 
thrum roseum—from plants growing in the 
Rural Grounds. The colors range from bright 
crimson to rose and white, blooming from 
May until July, One of the most beautiful of 
hardy herbaceous perennials. 
Imperial Poppy —immense flame-colored 
flowers jet black at the bottom. Hardy. 
Geranium Sanguineum. A true geranium 
—perfectly hardy. Flowers rosy-purple and 
borne in great numbers from May until Sep¬ 
tember, 
Eriantbus Raven u® and Eulalia Japonica, 
the handsomest of the hardy ornamental 
grasses; Yucca filamentosa, the finest of 
broad leaved hardy evergreens; Double flower¬ 
ing Hibiscus; the fuest of the improved 
annual and perennial Phlox; Asters, Nolana, 
Salpiglossis, Lauvitalia, etc., etc., etc. 
One packet of these mixed seeds will be 
sent to each applicant, so that all may have a 
bed of mixed flowers. It is best that these 
seeds should all l>e sown in a cold-frame or 
glass-covered box, aud that ample space be 
given so that every one may be transplanted 
without interfering with its neighbors, since 
the seeds of so varied a collection cannot be 
expect* d to germinate at the same time. We 
are taking great pains to gather thi3 collection 
of seeds and we hope that our lady readers 
will give them the care of which they will be 
found to be fully deserving. 
Remarks which all should Read. 
The Rural New-Yorker has never in any 
case sold seeds or plants to subscribers. This 
being well-known,our reports of the results of 
our tests are fully accepted as trustworthy, 
and the true value of hundreds of new and 
high-priced seeds and plants is made known. 
When, by such tests, we find that a given 
plant is more valuable than others of its kind 
which have been generally cultivated, we, at 
once,if practicable, place it in our next Distri¬ 
bution, aud send it without charge to ull of 
our subscribers who apply. These distribu¬ 
tions are 
ABSOLUTELY FREE, 
and their primary object has always been, 
and is, to promote the interests of agriculture 
and horticulture. 
POSTAGE. 
As all our readers know, we have hereto¬ 
fore borne a part of even the postal expenses 
of the Beeds and plants we have sentout. Our 
object in not charging the entire postage to 
those who apply is to prevent the possibility 
of a suspicion that we receive in any form 
the slightest compensation for our labor or 
for the heavy cost of these distributions. Be¬ 
sides, as these offerings are not premiums, as 
they are sometimes made without requiring 
either an application or any payment of 
postage, we hold the right to continue them 
or to discontinue them as we 'may determine. 
The postal cobt of our present distribution 
will be about (we can not determine it posi. 
tively at Ibis date) EIGHT CENTS PER COL¬ 
LECTION. Of this we shall charge those 
who apply six cents only,as heretofore. Thom 
who subscribe through us, lio* ever, for the 
“Inter-Ocean,” “Detroit Free Press,” and 
“New York World,” orother papers clubbing 
with the Rural New-Yorker, are not re¬ 
quired either to send any postage or to make 
any application, as this has been provided for 
Golden Grains.— From Nature.— Fig. 275. Black-: 
them merely to say: “send seeds. ' Those 
two words will convey all the instructions 
we need. 
All questions appertaining thereto should be 
written on seperate slips of paper, otherwise 
Centennial Wheat.—From Nature.—Fig. 276. 
in the clubbing price with the publishers of 
those journals. 
Special Notice To New Subscribers, 
Only yearly subscribers are entitled to apply 
for this Distribution. 
Two three-cent stamps must be inclosed in 
there is a chance of their being entirely over¬ 
looked, or, at least, of not being promptly 
answered, and upon each s< parate slip the name 
and address of the writer should be given. 
Finally, in order to provide ugainst the 
possibility of mistakes, disappointment or any 
dissatisfaction, we agree to duplicate all 
The New Intermediate Potato— Blush. From Nature.—Fig 277. 
the letter of application, or we cannot agree 
to fill the order except us above specified. 
It will sane us trouble, and il will save our 
subscribers trouble und expense if they will 
make their application for the seeds and 
plants in the same letter in which they renew 
their subscriptions. We would also thank 
orders that from any cause may have failed 
to reach their destination, at the close of the 
Distribution. The most careful details of in¬ 
struction as to the treatment of the seeds— 
which we shall begin to destribute early in 
the New Year—will be given in future 
numbers cf the Rural New-Yorker. 
OF INTEREST TO ALL. 
Wk would respectfully state to those who 
read this Fair Number of the Rural New- 
Yorker who are not subscribers, that we 
would be pleased to send them specimens of 
our regular numbers free upon application. 
Those who are familiar with this journal will, 
as we believe, support us in the following 
claims: 1, The Rural New-Yorker is 
filled with original reading matter from be¬ 
ginning to end by the best writers of America 
and England. 2, It is printed upon fine, 
natural-colored paper, 3, It contains year¬ 
ly not less than f»00 engravings, mostly origi¬ 
nal, by our own artists. 4, It is conducted 
by practical farmers, whose first aim it is, ir¬ 
respective of advertisers and all merely pecu¬ 
niary or personal interests, to tell the whole 
truth. 5, The Rural is the first newspaper 
to have established Experimental Grounds in 
connection with journalism. They comprise 
82 acres. All new farm and garden imple¬ 
ments, seeds and plants are there tested and 
the results are impartially reported upon in 
its columns. 6. The Rural New-Yorker is 
conscientious, progressive, aggressive, spark¬ 
ling and original. It admits no ambiguous or 
fraudulent advertisements. It is pure in tone; 
it is a farm, garden, religious, news and lit¬ 
erary paper all in one, and is, in Rhort, the 
complete family rural journal of Amer¬ 
ica. It is national in every department 
ar.d tolerates no sectional interests. It con¬ 
tains 16 pages weekly und four-page supple¬ 
ments are issued whenever advertising would 
otherwise trench upon its reading matter. 
8 , The value of its 
FREE SEED DISTRIBUTIONS 
is now well and widely known. Only seeds 
or plants which have originated at the Ru¬ 
ral’s Experiment Grounds, or which are 
new, or the best of their kinds, are distribu¬ 
ted. 9, We have introduced or disseminated 
during the past five years not less than 100 
different species or varieties among our sub¬ 
scribers without cost to them. Among the 
most popular may be mentioned the Beauty 
of Hebron and White Elephant potatoes; 
Blount’s White Prolific corn, the Rural 
Branching 8orghum, the Guthbert Raspberry, 
Clawson, Fultzo-Clawson, Shumaker aud Sur¬ 
prise wheats, Mold’s Ennobled oats, the Rural 
Thoroughbred and Heavy Dent corn, the Tel¬ 
ephone pea, with garden and flower seeds in¬ 
numerable. Upon our Regular Free Seed 
Distribution of 1881-2, $2,000 worth of gifts 
were offered for the best jrields. The prize- 
takers for corn will be announced during No¬ 
vember: prizes amount to $900. Attention is 
respectfully called to the announcement of our 
Free Seed Distribution for 1832-3 on another 
page. 10, Truth, progress; the real interests 
of the laud and those who cultivate it, the dis¬ 
semination of improved seeds and plants and 
of the knowledge how best to cultivate them; 
so to conduct the journal that it may have a 
just claim upon all who love nature are 
among the aims of the Rural New Yorker. 
Among its more important departments 
are cattle, horses, sheep, poultry, swine, 
arboriculture, dairy, domestic economy, farm 
economy, field crops, garden crops, floricul¬ 
ture, pomology—especially grapes and all 
small fruits, farm implements, landscape 
gardening, veterinary, crop reports from all 
parts of the country, industrial societies, 
agricultural science, chemical fertilizers, 
news from all parts of the world, farm stories, 
rural architecture, a department for women. 
All of these departments are fairly illustrated 
by first-class artists from original drawings. 
The Rural Experiment Grounds, conducted 
as they are, purely in the interests of readers, 
offer rare facilities for making the paj>er val¬ 
uable. All new and high-priced seeds are 
tested at once, and reported upon according 
to their w r orth, so that subscribers have be¬ 
fore them a trustworthy guide as to what 
novelties are worthy of trial. The present 
season, for example, w e have tested, or are 
testing 50 different kinds of new potatoes, 15 
different kinds of corn, 80 different kinds of 
wheat, 20 of beets and mangels, 27 of beans, 
29 of cabbages, 21 of lettuce, 12 of onions, 60 
of grapes, ICO of strawberries, all of the dif¬ 
ferent kinds of raspberries, black berries, cur¬ 
rants, besides a rare collection of the most 
hardy shrubs, trees and herbaceous plants. 
We ask all progressive farmers and horti¬ 
culturists to examine the Rural New- 
Yorker before subscribing for any family 
journal another year. For this purpose, as 
we have said, specimen copies will be cheer¬ 
fully Bent to any address. Wo wish to make 
the truth appear and to show that those who 
would meet with success in land-culture can¬ 
not afford to do without the journal, and that 
it should be subscribed for as a measure of 
economy. 
The price is $2 per year, and there is no 
club or second price. Those who would aid 
in getting up clubs should send for our new 
premium lists and posters, which will be 
promptly forwarded when ready. A postal 
card addressed to the R. N.-Y., Park Row, 
requesting specimen copies, premium lists or, 
1 outfits i3 all that is needed. 
