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THE BUBAL MEW-YOBREB. 
JULY 4 
for tl )t IJoamg. 
HI3 MANY NAMES. 
Never a hoy had bo many names; 
They called him Jimmy, and Jim, and James, 
Jeems and Jamie ; and well he knew 
Who It was hut wanted him, too. 
The hoys In the street ran after him. 
Shooting out loudly, ‘ JIul! Hey, J-l-m !" 
Until the echoe*, little and big, 
Be. med to be dauciug a Jim Crow jig. 
And little Mabel out in tbo hall 
•Mira -mi/.’ Jim my would sweetly call, 
Until he answered and let Her know 
Where she might flud trim; she loved him so. 
Grandpapa, who was dignified, 
And held his head wltli an air of pride, 
Didn’t believe in abrldg.ng names. 
And made the most that he could of “J-a m-e-fl.” 
But, If papa ever wanted him. 
Crisp an I curt was the summons "Jim !" 
Th .t would make the b >y on his errands run 
Much faster than IT he hud said “My son." 
Biddy O’Flynn coul 1 never, it seems, 
Call him anything else but ‘Jeems ," 
And when the nurse, old Mrs. McVyse, 
Called him •’Jamie," It sounded nice. 
But sweeter and dearer Mian all the rest-, 
Was the. one pet name that he liked the best; 
•• Darling"—he heard It whate’er lie was at, 
For none but his mother called him that. 
St. Nicholas. 
THE HUCKLEBERRY CONTEST. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —You will be pleased 
to know tb*t my list of competitors for the 
huckleberry prizes has quadrupled in length 
since my last letter. Names hive come into 
me from nine different States, and from 
Canada besides. This shows the wide influence 
of the Rural as well as the interest it has 
awakened in improving the huckleberry. 
S mi" of the Cousins have asked questions wii h 
their letters. Some of these I have already 
answered, others 1 will answer here. 
Ellen Btrker, of Ashaway, R. I., asks: “ Is 
it a very rare occurrence to find white huckle¬ 
berries? DpI you ever see any? They are like 
the black ones, only they are white.” I have 
retd of white huckleberries as growing in 
Michigan, but I have n-ver seen them. 1 
think they are quite rare, and I hope Ellen 
w’ill be careful to send a few when she sends 
in her berries for the prize. 
Dtniel R and Sarah K Young of River- 
head, Long Island, ask, “ Will you please tell 
us where we can get the Amelanchier Cana¬ 
densis variety altiifolia?” This is a shrub 
that grows in the Western States. I do not 
know that it is found in the East. I will re¬ 
fer you to Professor Beal, of Michigan Agri 
cultural College at Lmsing, Michigan, 
The receipt of a package of ripe huckleber 
rie-s from a C-m-dn living at Sumter, S. C., 
remin i* m > that it is time for me to write 
directiibs f >r sending the berries. I would 
reeomineud the cousins to put the berries in a 
square-cornered tiD box, that has a cover, ard 
to pack them in fine sawdust, putting in 
en nigh to entirely fill the box, so that the 
berries will not move against each other. 
Wrap the box in paper and tie securely with 
string. Do not seal the paper. Direct plainly to 
E. S. Goff, Geneva, Ontario Co., N. Y. Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station. Pasteboard boxes 
are not so good, as they are apt to be broken 
in transit. A small wooden box well glued, 
with a hinged cover, would answer. The bir- 
ries should not be very ripe when sent. 
Cousins living in the North had better cut out 
and save tnese directions, a"s it will be too 
much to ask of Uncle Mark to print them 
more than once. 
If any of the cousins wish to save some 
seeds for themselves, (ind I very much hope 
that some will), they had better mash the ber. 
ries up iu sand, so as to mix the pulp and 
seed* and san l all together and put the mix 
tore iu a box or flower pot, and bury it in the 
soil for the present. By and by I will tell 
them how to plant the seeds. Uncle Elm. 
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THE YOUNG QUERIST. 
Eddie M., Cross Creek Village, Pa. I have 
about 150 seedling p^ach trees. They came up 
this Soring and are now about six inches high 
How long will it be before they will bear, or 
should they be budded and how ? 
A vs.—Seedlings will of course produce 
fruit, but the custom is to bud with some va 
riety the name of which is accurately known. 
It is -euerally the case that a seedling pro¬ 
duces fruit altogether different from the 
variety expected, owing to some mixture ol 
the seed or to incorrect information as to the 
name of the variety. In order to make more 
sure about the kind, budding with a variety 
about which there can be no doubt is resulted 
t>i, and even then mistakes sometimes occur. 
Iu order to get buds true to kind, buy of some 
well kuown nurseryman who has a reputation 
for honesty in such matters. Or you may 
select buds from a young orchard, the buds t« 
be of the current season’s growth. Be careful, 
also, to get leaf buds, not fruit buds. The 
small, pointed ones are the leaf buds, the full¬ 
er, rounder ones the fruit buds. Make no use 
of unhealthy ones. Budding may begin in 
August or September, or as soon as the buds 
are large enough to cut from the twig. Peach 
trees should bear well the third season after 
p anting in the orchard. The steps are these : 
pl int seed in nursery in the Spring; bud in 
the Fall; top the next Spring; plant out in 
orchard the following Fall or Spring. 1 he 
seedlings will then be one year old from the 
bud and two from the seed. Many kinds of 
peaches r*produce themselves from seed. 
C. M. M., Frederick, Md. 1. Is there an 
evaporator that is simple, operates rapidly, 
takes up but little room, is not costly and can 
be used iu any farm kitchen or room where a 
stove can be put Up? 2 What is the price of a 
whe. 1 hoe? 3. Wbat is Percy G. Tuthill’s ad¬ 
dress? 
Ans.— 1. Write to the Vermont Farm 
Machine Company, Bellow’s Falls, Vt., about 
evaporator. 2. 8. L. Allen & Co, of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa , manufacture wheel hoes. Write 
to them for a circular price list. 8. Matti- 
tuck, N. Y. 
M. O. IV., Elmira, N. T., asks, 1, what is 
the scientific name of the mosquito ? 2, Does 
it hatch in the water ? 
Ans.— 1. The entomological name is Culex 
pipiens. 2. Yes; the mosqiito lays her eggs 
in the water, and out of these the little “ wig¬ 
gle tails ” hatch. They breathe by means of 
a little tube on the last segment of the body, 
until they change into the next stage of devel¬ 
opment, wheD they breathe through two tubes 
in the thorax. Later, they burst through 
their envelopes and come out of the water per¬ 
fect mosquitoes. 
Rural Boy, Merrimack N. R., asks for 
a preventive or destroyer of the worm that 
bores into the roots of squash vines during 
early Autumn and kills the vines. 
Ans. —We suppose you refer to the Squash 
vine borer (Melittia cucurbit®). Try a small 
piece of phosphorus between the root and the 
neck of the plant, ju«t below the surface of 
the ground. Efficient remedies are scarce for 
this insect. 
“Pansy," Morris, Kan., asks if peanuts 
should be taken out of the shell before plant¬ 
ing. 
Ans. —It is not necessary. Just crack the 
shell a little and the young shoots will find 
their way out when the time comes. 
Anna 8., Eastman, Wis., sends leaf for 
name. 
Ans. —Without description of plant or 
flower we are not able to name it from the 
specimen. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Uncle Mark —I am very much interested 
in the Horticultural Club, and should like to 
become a member if it is not too late to join. 
I have been intending to write for a long 
time, but have neglected to, as I have been 
very busy in school. We moved from Greene 
County, N. Y., over two years ago, and tike 
it here very much. The Summers are much 
warmer than where we move l from, aud one 
coming from New York here would be sur¬ 
prised to see what a growth all kinds of vege¬ 
tation makes in a few weeks. We have a 
great deal of rain during the Bummer, the 
greatest rain fail being in Jtine and August. 
Grapes, plums, Crab Apples, and all kinds of 
berries and certain varieties of apples, grow 
well here. The Winters are too severe for 
peaches or pears. Blums grow wild in the 
timber, and are better for Winter use than 
many kinds of cultivated ones. Strawberries 
grow wild on tha prairie, and raspberries 
also where they are protected from the 
prairie fires. The prairies are covered with 
flowers all Summer; the crocuses open In 
April, and from that time uatii frost the 
prairie looks like one vast dower garden. 
Wishing the Rural aud all connected with 
it success, I remain, your mice. 
Hardin Co., Iowa. Florence J. Con yes. 
[[ wish i could present to my young read¬ 
ers a fac simile of the above letter, which was 
written so distinctly. Of course 1 do not look 
tor perfection among my young letter- 
writers, but it is one of the advantages of 
belonging to the Club, in writing letters, to 
write them just as well as possible, both as to 
penmanship and the construction of sen¬ 
tences. But, then, I do not wish to have any¬ 
one refrain fiom writing simply because they 
cannot write good. We wish to hear from 
you all just the same. u. m.J 
Dear Uncle Mark:—W e wrote to you 
once before but I suppose our letter went to 
the waste-basket with some of the others, 
i^ast Summer I had a small patch of beans. 
I think the best way to harvest them is to 
pick them as they get ripe for, if you pull 
them up and leave them on the vines to get 
ripe they sometimes mold and rot. They 
need a sandy soil and clean cultivation. I 
have found out one thing that watermelons 
will mix with squashes and pumpkins if they 
are close to them. 1 bad a good many water 
and musk melons last year and would have 
had more but the dry weather set in an l dried 
up the vines before the frost came. This y ear 
we intend to try to rai-e the prize watermelon. 
We like to read the Cousins letters very much 
and think we will learn a greatdeal from each 
others experience. 
Chas. & Ella Chambers. 
Stephenson Co., Ill. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I now take up my 
p°n to let you know the success I had with 
flowers, vegetabit-s, etc., last Summer. It was 
very dry the latter part of the season; no rain 
fell fur nearly two months. The Crimson 
Dwarf Celery was very nice. I had twenty- 
five good beads and several had sixty or seven¬ 
ty stalks on each. The Pyretbium Roseum 
did well considering the dry weather. I have 
forty-five good plants, one of which flowered 
but the seeds did not ripen. I planted them in 
equal parts of swamp muck and garden soil. 
The Red-buds did not germinate although I 
gave them the greatest of care. The pmks 
were beautiful, I received the prize last Fall 
at the Fair on a display of geraniums. I have 
tried several times to start white leaved gera¬ 
niums from slips but 1 cannot get them to 
root. Your niece, 
Ontario, Can. t,. H. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I am a little girl ten 
yeais old and my sister Edi h is five. We 
wish to join the Horticultural Club. We live 
in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., near the St. Law¬ 
rence River. My father has taken your paper 
over twenty years : anu we should feel very 
lonesome if the Rural did not come each 
week. My sister cultivates a great mauy 
flowers. The Chinese Pinks in her garden 
last Summer, raised from “Rural” seed, weie 
very lovely. They were shaded from the 
darkest crimson to pure white. The darkest 
were almost brown. Mamma said some of the 
variegated ones looked like butterflies. We 
have a cactus with tw o beautiful scarlet blos¬ 
soms on it now. Your friend, 
Lotta M. Porteus. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I have quite a large 
garden this year. I have nine rows of 
radishes in one bed, and in another I have 
four rows of lettuce, and two rows of beets. 
I have also peas, onions and cucumbers. 
Everything that I planted came up well except 
my cucumbers. I was sick in bed last Win¬ 
ter, and when I could sit up I used to look 
through old files of agricultural papers aud 
cut out the best scraps I could flud to make 
an agricultural scrap book. I have found 
this plan very helpful aud I should advise 
others to try it. I like the Rural very 
mimh, and expect to read it every year. 
When I grow up I expect to be a farmer. 
Your nephew, 
Cook Co., Ill. Arthur Harbert. 
Dear Uncle Mark— I planted my seeds 
about the 1st of May; they did not come up 
very well, but the other night I saw that one 
little sprout was coming out of the ground. 
I thought before that that the seeds had rot¬ 
ted, they had been on tue ground so long. I 
will tell you how I arranged my garden. 
On the ea>t side I planted two rows of pea¬ 
nuts; then next I plantel the watermelon 
seeds, which you sent, in three bills; then I 
finished that row out aud one other with 
m iskmelons. I planted the re*t of the bed 
with watermelons, the seed of which we 
raised. I wish the cousins would write more 
letters. Your nephew, Henry De Land. 
Buena Vista Co., Iowa. 
Dear Uncle Mark: —I live on a farm three 
miles from Cambridge, which is the county 
seat of Dorchester Co., MJ., and is a veiy 
nice town. My brother plowed nearly all of 
our ground for corn and have put in twenty- 
five acres. Wheat is looking very nicely. 
We keep tweuty-five sheep, and have eleven 
nice little lambs. We have three calves, and 
over one hundred little chickens. But 1 have 
forgotten to tell you about my two colts, 
Netberby and Max. My brother is breaking 
Netherby, a three-year old. They are both 
nice colts. Now I will be much pleased if you 
will accept me as one of the Horticultuial 
Club. Your nephew, Waldo C. Jackson. 
Dorchester Co., Md. 
Members of the Club for the Week End¬ 
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Roger Davis, Ophelia T., [Full name, please.] 
Eliza Bartley, Edward W. My era. j„. - —: 
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