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French Prize Roses. —L’lllustration Horti- 
cole has the following: The Journal of Roses, 
published in France and devoted exclusively 
to roses, has had the happy idea of organizing 
a sort of plebiscite to obtain opinions as to the 
best roses. Eighty- flve lists were sent in, and 
from these was made out the following list of 
fifty having ihe most votes: 
La France..... 
Barunue Adolph (le Rothschild.... 
Paul Neron. 
Gloirode Dijon......... 
Souvenir de la Malniaison. 
Jules Marvntttn . 
Mareehal N tel... 
Baronuo Prevort. 
Gon. Jscouetuldot.—. 
Captain Christy.-. 
Belle LyomiHit'e. 
Eugene Appert. 
Louie Van Houtte... 
Anna de Dlwhiuik. 
Aimea Vibert.... .. 
Souvenir de 1« peine d’Angleterre, 
onaile« Margo Wn.. 
La Reine.. 
Victor Verdlcr. 
Charles I.eleVTO.... 
Comtewe d'Oxford... 
Madame Boll . 
Glome do Ducher. 
Madame Falcot,..... 
John Hopper........ 
Madame l.acharruc. 
Cecile de CtuibriUant. 
Louise Gdtcr... 
Marquise <lc i.'iwtellane. 
Celine Forest! er. 
Elizabeth Vlgperon. 
BouledeNeigO ... 
Madame Victor Verifier.. 
Theresa covet.... 
Geant de BatUilllce. 
Rose du Roi - •••.. 
Triompho de I. Exposition. 
Elise Boe'lc..... 
Lord Rattan... 
Camille Bern«rdm... 
Ducheapo de CsmbacereB. 
Lamaroue. 
Marie Van Iloutte.... 
M. Boncenne... 
Ophirio. 
Alfred Colombo. 
Empereur du Maroc. 
Jean Fernet.. 
Madame Soipion Cochet. 
Chromatolla. 
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to each. 
The Cranberry. —Here is an interesting 
little item from the American Garden, respect¬ 
ing the cranberry : It is most profitably culti¬ 
vated on low, moist, level lands, where drain¬ 
age as well as overflowing can be applied, as 
circumstances may require. Yet, like rnauy 
other plants, it may be growu successfully 
under conditions very different from those in 
which it is found la its wild state. Any loamy, 
naturally moist garden soil will grow cran¬ 
berries. The plants are set out and cultivated 
exactly like strawberries, until the vines have 
covered the entire ground, when no other care 
is necessary than to pull out the tall weeds. 
An occasional light dressing of fine swamp 
muck or sawdust is very beneficial and keeps 
the grouud moist. A small beginning in cran¬ 
berry culture may even be made In a flower 
pot. Plants grown in this way are not only 
highly ornamental, the fruit hanging on the 
vines until the blossoms appear for the next 
crop, but also astonishingly productive. 
it more simple, safer and cheaper than Paris- 
green. It is prepared as follows : Put four or 
five gallons of gas coal tar in a barrel; fill np 
half full with water, and stir well, so the 
water will become impregnated with the tar; 
after the tar has separated from the water 
sprinkle the latter on your potatoes, cucum¬ 
bers, rose bushes, cabbages, etc. Care must 
be taken that the water is not too strong. 
This has been tried by a gentleman in this city for 
four consecutive years, and he cares nothing 
for the insects so far as his garden goes. For 
the worms that infest fruit trees, a smoke 
from the burning tar is a dead-sure "remedy; 
every worm or insect will immediately drop 
from the tree, choked and lifeless, and no in¬ 
jury whatever will be had to the foliage, as by 
sulphur.” 
Raising Potatoes. —From the Elmira Farm¬ 
ers’ Club as reported in the IIuBbandman, we 
take the following:— 
J. R. Conklin.—We do not raise as big crops 
of potatoes as in former years, but I think 
none of us knows why. I plant the stem 
ends because the 6ced ends give too many 
sprouts. 
D. T. Biiliugs.—Will they give any more than 
the whole potato, and will a whole potato give 
more than a piece—say one-quarter? 
J. R. Conklin.—I think it will, but of that I 
am not sure. It seems safe to assume that the 
more eyes there are in the hill the more sprouts 
will grow. 
G. S. McCann.—I have planted whole pota¬ 
toes, large and small, and pieces cut to halves, 
quarters aud smaller, even to single eyes. As 
a rule the best aud largest yield will be had 
when the largest, smoothest aud best potatoes 
are planted whole. This will not hold good 
every year, but it will in average seasons. 
Last year, some rows in my potato field plant¬ 
ed with large whole potatoes had so much 
larger tops than other rows alongside planted 
with cut seed, that the difference could be seen 
a long distance away, and the crop was as 
much better as the appearance of the tops. 
Presideut McCann.—Why plant large, whole 
potatoes if they send up no more shoots ? 
G. S. MeCauu.—Because they furnish sup¬ 
port lor the shoots until they have become 
vigorous and strong. 
W. A. Ward.—A piece with two or more eyes 
may give as many, and as strong shoots, as a 
whole potato; but the piece will probably not 
prove as safe a dependence in ordinary plant¬ 
ing from year to year. If 1 were going to set¬ 
tle upon a safe rule for field planting I should 
select fair, smooth potatoes of good tuble size, 
aud would put one whole potato in each hill. 
There can be no safer way, although the re¬ 
quirement for seed would be greater, perhaps, 
than where cut pieces are used. 
The editor of the Cultivator and Country 
Gentleman has visited the grounds of E. P. 
Roe He says, in tlic course of Mb remarks 
respecting his visit, that Mr. Roe plants his 
trial grounds with all the varieties iu ordinary 
cultivatiou as well as the new aspirants for 
public favor.-The new red raspberry, 
the Cuthbert, i6 evidently the best on his 
grounds, taking vigor of growth, hardiness 
of plant aud yield of fruit into consideration. 
It apparently is as good on rocky, slaty soils 
as on the deeper alluvium of the valleys. The 
canes are strong, foliage dark, profuse and 
healthy, and the fruit grows in large bunches, 
ripeniug well together on the same bunch, but 
as some canes are always later in ripening 
than others, the season is sufficiently pro¬ 
longed. The fruit is of good quality, not so 
fine as Brinckle’s Orange or similar tender 
sorts, but Ftill good enough for the general 
taste. The fruit grows larger than most other 
sorts, on a hot, dry soil, but, of course, is much 
larger, and the crop. is larger on rich, deep 
soils. It proves, even on the north side of a 
cold, high, rocky mountain (where Mr. Roc’b 
farm lies), exceedingly hardy, never winter- 
killing in any exposure. Its vigor of growth 
is such that it can be distinguished at a dis¬ 
tance from Brandywine, Herstine and other 
vigorous sorts. The berry is sufficiently firm 
to endure carriage well. The new sort called 
Queen of the Market seems to be identical with 
the Cuthbert. 
Mr. Benson tells the N. Y. Tribune that in 
September, 1878, ha put a small trout in his 
well, which is 2d feet deep and covered at the 
top with plank bo that but little light could 
gain admittance. Late in the Autumn of the 
year he cleaned the well and found his trout- 
ship apparently eD joying good health and fully a 
third larger than when he was put in. A short 
time ago, after the lapse of nearly two years 
he cleaned the well again and, contrary to his 
expectations, the trout was there and grown to 
quite respectable dimensions. Had not the 
water been exceptionally pure he would no 
doubt have perished in a short time. 
Gas Coal-Tar tnstead of Paris-green,— 
A correspondent in the Western Rural makes 
the following statement: “ We are using suc¬ 
cessfully iu this locality gas coal-tar, aud find 
Cabbage Test-Paper —A useful test-paper 
may be made by boiling a pound of the leaves 
of red cabbage in one pint of water for some 
time, and then straining the blue liquor 
through muslin. Evaporate to about half its 
bulk; place lavers of white blottiug-paper iu 
the liquid, aud then hang them up to dry. 
Acids change the blue color of the paper to 
red, aud alkalies turn it green. This is a very 
good substitute for litmus paper,—Journal of 
Chemistry. 
Apiarians, it appears from the London 
Farmer, are so numerous in Paris as to become 
a nuisance to their co-citizens. One inhabit¬ 
ant alone in the 19th Arrondissement keeps 
from 800 to 900 hive6; and there are great 
numbers to be found in the 13th Arrondisse- 
ment, near the goods station at Ivry. Valu¬ 
able as are the bees to their owners, they do a 
great deal of damage in various directions. 
At the Say sugar refinery, for instance, it is 
calculated that the damage amounts to 25,000 
francs a year; for a whole jarful of sirup will 
be completely emptied iu less than a couple of 
hours, aud two or three bushels of bees are 
taken or destroyed within the day. The work¬ 
men, who are obliged to follow their occupa¬ 
tion bare to the waist, suffer terribly from 
these little pests, and frequently get badly 
stuDg. The busy bee improves the shining hour 
to the serious disadvantage of many peacefully 
employed Parisians. 
tftogtolm. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Ga., Washington, Wilks Co., July 31.—Our 
wheat and oat crops have been thrashed out. 
Oats have turned out well—that is, the red 
rust-proof variety. All other sorts rusted and 
their yield is poor. Wheat, too, has given a 
very poor yield. The corn and cotton crops 
now need rain. Upland corn has been dam¬ 
aged badly by drought. Cotton is good where 
it hue been well and properly cultivated. The 
fruit crop i6 almost a failure iu this section— 
what the late Irosts left has been damaged by 
insects. About all our garden crops have 
been ruined by dry weather. j. 0 . d. 
Illinois, Baldwin, Randolph Co., Aug. 1.— 
In all low or improperly drained lands, the 
wheat was badly winter-killed. It also failed 
to tiller out us much as it did the year before, 
and tbo general opinion was that the crop 
would fall Bhort considerably from that of the 
previous year, and so it looked until harvest. 
Up to then we had a rather wet Spring, and 
after wheat was harvested we had a week of 
heavy showers which damaged the crop con¬ 
siderably in the field before it was stacked. 
Still, as the thrashing proceeds, the crop is 
turning out well, aud, putting in the increased 
acreage, will nearly, if not quite, equal last 
year's remarkable crop. With oat6 the pros¬ 
pects at the time of wheat harvest were splen¬ 
did; they were thick ou the grouud, high 
euough and headed out first-rate; but for some 
reason they failed to fill and the yield will fall 
far short of what was expected. The continued 
showers had made corn grow aud tassel out 
well; but two weeks of hot, dry weather have 
dried it up, until now, unless we have rain 
very 60 on, there will not be half a crop. Even 
with rain now it must be damaged considera¬ 
bly. We are never certain wbat the crop will 
be until it is gathered m the granary; a few 
days of uuusual wet or dry weather may cause 
a loss of nearly half a crop. Sometimes, early- 
sown wheat is the best, and perhaps next year 
the late-sowu will be ahead. n. j. a. 
Ind., Columbia City, Whitely Co., July 31.— 
Wheat is two-thirds of a crop; oats a full 
crop; rye and barley are not much raised. 
Fultz wheat is the main variety. Sorghum is 
not much grown. Corn is light owing to so 
much cold weather. Potatoes are not very 
good. Fruit is about half a crop. Early cher¬ 
ries are plentiful but there are uot many late 
ones. 8 - 
Iowa., Vail, Crawford Co., July 31.—The 
weather is delightlul. Farmers are busy har¬ 
vesting their grain. Wheat will average 
about 15 bushels per acre and is of good qual¬ 
ity. Oats, a fair crop. Garden vegetables are 
abundaut. Fruit a fair crop, but owing to the 
newness of our country, fruit is not as plen¬ 
tiful as it will be in a 6hort time. Corn look¬ 
ing well, and an excellent yield is anticipated. 
M. E. G. 
Kansas. Burlington, Coffey Co., July 20,— 
Fall-sown wheat is a good crop and harvested 
iu fine condition. There were iu this county 
8,078 acres of the Fultz, Walker, Cottingham. 
Little May and Odessa. The Fultz takes the 
lead aud so far has given good satisfaction in 
all parts of the county. The Walker has its 
admirers also, who claim that It is ahead of 
the Fultz. The Little May appears to be run¬ 
ning out and the Odessa has not come in yet 
to any great extent. Estimated average for 
the county, 23 bushels per acre. Of Spring 
wheal theie were 69 acres; it is not a paying 
crop. Of bailey there were only 10 acres; it 
does uot succeed hero. Rye does well here aud 
is sown chiefiy for late Fall and early SpriDg 
pasture for cattle., and after being thu6 eaten 
down it yields from 15 to 25 bushels per acre. 
There were 420 acres sown. Oats is good, 
taking the county through; but the absence 
of rain In some parts of the county iu the early 
part, of May caused them to be light there ; 
but they are extra-good in those parts more 
favored with early rains. Again, some farmers 
did uot get their oats in early enough, aud in 
those cases there is a slight failing off. Oat6 
to do well here, must be got in early—very 
early—not later than February if it can be 
done. There were 4,083 acres sown: estima¬ 
ted average yield, 35 bushels per acre. Coru 
is the king crop this year, and from present 
appearances it seems likely to outdo all pre¬ 
vious yields. There are 42,120 acres planted, 
and the estimated average yield is 60 bushels 
per acre. The principal varieties grown here 
are the large aud Bmall Dent, aud a striped or 
Calico coru, an extra-large kiud, yieldiug 
euormously on the bottoms. It is known pret¬ 
ty much by the name of Bloody Butcher. Of 
buckwheat there were 79 acres iu the county. 
It is not reliable, our Falls being a little too 
dry to make a paying crop. Still, 80me people 
plant it every year for home use, and they 
have always got some. Of potatoes there are 
774 acres and they promise a crop /ar better 
than any raised here for years. The principal 
varieties are the Red and White Peachblow 
and the 8nowflake for Winter; and the Early 
Rose, Early Vermont aud Snowflake for early. 
Sweet potatoes look well; there are 41 acres 
uuder them and they do well. Sorghum, too, 
thrives here, but it is cultivated ouly for home 
use. The Minnesota Early Amber is the lead¬ 
ing variety. There are 287 acres in this sea¬ 
son. Of apples there will be pver half a crop, 
aud the following sorts do well and are es¬ 
teemed about in the order named; For Sum¬ 
mer:—Red June, Sweet Bough, WMte June, 
and American Summer Pearmain. For Fall:— 
Fall Pippin, Rambo, Striped Sweet Pippin, 
Fall Wine, Maiden’s Blush, White Bellflower, 
Fultou Strawberry, and Grimes’s Golden Pip¬ 
pin. For Winter:—Rawle’s Jeniton, Missouri 
Pippin, Winesap, Ben Davis, WMte Winter 
Pearmain, Milam, Limber Twig, Stark, Smith's 
Cider, McAfee’s Nonsuch, Sweet Romanite and 
Golden Russet. There are a great many 
otherB that do well iu most seasons; but the 
above-named have given general satisfaction 
in all situations. There are also some good 
apples that have given the best satisfaction, 
but the owners do not know their names, nor 
does any one arouud here. The trees are hardy 
and very productive of fruit of good size and 
quality. This year they are well laden with 
frnit, and a great point In their favor is that 
the fruit does not drop till fully ripe. Pears 
are not successful in all parts, though in some 
locations they do well and the owners would 
not part with them on any accouut. Most of 
the leading varieties are being tested iu nearly 
all parts of the county, but as yet not much 
can be said about them further than that some 
of them have winter-killed already, mostly on 
the bottoms; yet iu other parts, especially on 
the uplands, they are growing finely. Of cher¬ 
ries, the Early Richmond is the only one worth 
cultivating; this does well. The only plums 
worth planting are the Wild-Goose, Sand and 
some native wild plums. The Damson does 
well in places, but, as a rule, the curculio gets 
away with them too much to make them 
profitable for general cultivation. Of grapes 
there will be a very full crop; the viues are 
fairly loaded down with fruit: many kinds do 
well here; but the following prove reliable :— 
Concord, Dracut-Amoer, Martha, Delaware 
and Hartford Prolific. Peaches are only par¬ 
tially successful. Many were winter killed last 
Winter. There will be over half a crop this 
season. The seedlings appear to do the best. 
Hale’s Early and Crawford’s Early do well 
also. Gooseberries were a full crop, they do 
pretty well aud bear in abundance, but the 
fruit is rather small. Uougliton'6 Seedling is 
the principal variety. Currants are not suc¬ 
cessful here. Some are being tried on the 
north sides of houses aud Light fences, but with 
what success has uot yet been determined. 
Strawberries are not to be relied on. Some 
seasons they do well; but, as a rule, the season 
is too dry to make them a paying crop. Black- 
be> ries and dewberries do finely and this season 
there will be extra-full crops. The Kittatiuny 
is the principal kind cultivated. Raspberries 
do. well in some parts; but are liable to be 
winter-killed. A. G. 
Mich., Watson. Allegan County, July 26.— 
From about the 12th of May to the 4th of July, 
we had such incessant rains that the streams 
were all full, and land so soft, especially clay 
or loam, that we could make but little head¬ 
way with farm work. Since the 4tb, we have 
had splendid weather for haying and harvest, 
and it has been well improved. Wheat at this 
date has been all secured; and the hum of the 
thrashing machine is heard in every direction. 
Where thrashing has been done, the yield 
was good, both in quality and quantity. The 
Clawson is the most popular variety, as it will 
flourish on all soils. I had a piece of about 
thirteen acres ou a loamy soil which had been 
lately cleared, and could be ouly imperfectly 
draiued, on which during the late rainy 
weather the water stood around the roots the 
greater part of the time, and it came out all 
right. The harvesters had to wear rubber 
boots while cutting it; aud when it was stacked 
the ground was so soft that onc-foui th of a 
load was all the team could draw. It was cut 
during the week ending July 10th aud stacked 
during the week ending July 17th. Now the 
same ground Is as dry as any one could wish, 
and we feel a little as the Englishman did after 
such a protracted wet spell, when one day the 
suu came out and he laughingly remarked, 
that ‘ God was going to smile on us once 
more." Haying is very nearly done, and all 
cut since the Fourth has been put up in good 
order. Some of that cut in Judc will be worth¬ 
less. Potatoes on upland will be good ; they 
are worth now 50c. a bushel in market. The 
Colorado beetle has troubled them this year 
but little. I attribute it to the protracted wet 
weather, I think the eggs need sun to hatch 
them. There has beeu a ad is now an abun¬ 
dance of all kinds of fruit, and it has been 
very healthy. New wheat started at 80c. per 
bushel. If this pleasant weather continues, 
corn where the land was not so low that it was 
drowned out in May and June, will be a good 
crop. As a consequence of the wet weather 
most of the pieces are grussy, but a week or 
two of thorough cultivation now will remedy 
that. Butter is extremely low—ouly from seven 
to ten cents per pound, and the yield thus far 
very moderate, for during the wet weather 
there was bat little substance in the grass, 
although its growth was large, so that we pre¬ 
dict a better market tM6 Fall. Cheese factories 
are also running, but that product is also low, 
so that the furore for keeping cows has abated 
from what it was four or five years ago. 
H. D. it. 
Mich., Big Rapids, Mecosta Co., July 27.— 
Wheat on heavy soils was badly v, niter-killed, 
and on lighter soils, where m the Spring it 
promised to be a heavy crop, at harvest time it 
proved to be very deficient. The crop, how¬ 
ever, will be an average one. The weather for 
the past two weeks has been unfavorable— 
rain every day, with the exception of the 23d 
and 24tli, during which days the greater part 
of the crop was secured, though i fear some 
of it was put up in bad condition. Hay, oats, 
