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Vol. XLIII. No. 1798 
NEW YORK, JULY 12, 1884 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
*2.00 PER YEAR. 
(Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1884, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.) 
through bellows, will rid an// plant of Rose 
Bugs at once. Whether they die or not the 
reader can judge from the above tests. As 
thousands of the bugs are flying about, a 
plant may soou become again lufested, and 
repeated dustings will be uocessary. The work, 
however, is easily and rapidly done,, and far 
more economically than might be supposed, 
as a small amount of powder goes a long way. 
It is needless to say that the most delicate 
plants are not in the least harmed by its use, 
how often soever repeated. 
large and healthy, though the plants are some¬ 
what uneven as to size. The shape of the 
berry, as nearly as we can describe it from a 
necessarily small quantity of fruit, is ovate- 
conical, never coxcombed. often with a nip¬ 
ple-shaped tip, as shown by the upper right- 
hand berry and by the transverse section 
beneath on the lowermost leaflet. Those below 
show a shape not uncommon in this variety, 
the left-hand one again showing the flesh. 
The sepals are wide and long, resting upon 
the berry while green—recurved in ripening. 
The size may he rated as large. Thu color is a 
bright red with darker seeds. The quality is 
good—uot best It is fairly Arm, and its sea¬ 
son of ripening is from early to medium. All 
ripen up fully. Our illustration (Fig. 211) is 
from average berries grown upon the 12 plants 
seat to us by Mr. Parry. 
to 18 berries of goodly size. There were no 
small ones. The shape is sometimes conical, 
sometimes broadly ovate, broadened atthe tip. 
But our illustration (Fig. 212) shows what ap¬ 
peared to be the typical shape. The color is a 
bright red, the season medium; quality fair. 
It. is quite lirm. und, all things considered, we 
are ready to advise our readers to try this 
Jewell in a small way as soou as it may be 
announced for sale. It seems that an acre has 
been planted near the railway station (Middle- 
field) which will be open to visitors next June. 
The Jewell (named after Ex-Gov. Marshall 
Jewell, of Connecticut) is a seedling of either 
Prince of Berries or Jersey Queen—which, is 
not known—of 1880. In 1888 a row 1(3 feet 
long “yielded 20 quarts of picked fruit, mostly 
of very large size, being at the rat© of 400 
bushels per acre.” So Mr. Augur writes us. 
©xpeviment (SrountU of tho $ural 
D^w-4Jotfect. 
AN EXTERMINATOR OF THE ROSE BUG FOUND. 
A. ontinuing an aecouut of the 
results of our experiments 
with pure pyrethrum powder 
—that manufactured in Cali- 
Jf&jSJ) 4m[v> sskfornla—we have now to state 
K&WaM ^*afc we i )ave found it quite 
Iv an effectual exterminator of 
( f the Rose Bug (Maorodactylus 
J subspinosus), if blown upon 
it through bellows. 
We first sprayed Rose Bugs, as we 
found them iu great numbers upon roses 
and young apples, with the kerosene em¬ 
ulsion, then with half of the emulsion 
and half of the solution of pyrethrum 
made by dissolving u quarter of a pound 
of the powder in half-a-pint of alcohol v, 
and adding this to two gallons of water. is 
The beetles wore then carefully shaken 
into tin cans at 10 o’clock in the moni-^vgjS? 
ing. They were all alive in the evening, ’ 
though unable to crawl unuli. The next 
morning most of them wore still alive. 
At the same time the pyrethrum so- 
lutiou and kerosene emulsion were used 
separately in the same way, with the 
rosult that those sprayed with the ein- 
ulsiou all recovered, while many of the 
others were killed, showing that the koro- 
sene emulsion hud little effect. Later iu 
the day the pyrethrum powder was 
blown upon several clusters of the beet- 28 
les, and, as iu the other cases, they were -4; 
then carefully shaken into tin cans. The 
next morning all were either upon their 
backs or crawling about feebly. Wbe- 
ther they would have died or uot was 
not ascertained, flud the Rose Bugs 
been collected in cans aud the liquids or 
powder applied not until then, the tests 
would have been inconclusive, even 
though all were killed, since the coullned *23 
air would hure rendered the effect of the J- 
powder or liquids more powerful. 
The powder was then blown upon a 
rose bush having perhaps 100 beetles 
upon it. Some flew away at once, but 
the rest in a few minutes bad fallen to 
the ground, where they wriggled about 
iu a frantic way, finally becoming para¬ 
lyzed. 
At eleven o’clock Monday, we began a 
more careful test. The pure powder was 
blown upon 200 beetles while upon rosea 
ana young apples. They were then shak¬ 
en into a shallow tin pail, 10 inches in 
diameter, aud several roses were put in 
the pail for food, if needed. A mosquito 
netting was placed over the pail so that 
air should not be excluded, and the pail 
was tbeu placed in a room where no in¬ 
terference with the experiment could 
occur. At 11 o’clock on Tuesday morn¬ 
ing most of them were lying upon their 
backs quietly, but when disturbed moved 
their legs, while the others were crawling 
about as if likely to recover. A fresh 
supply of roses aud rose leaves was given. 
Wednesday at 10 o’clock the beetles were 
iu much the same condition as the day 
before, and another supply of roses was 
given. At four f.m. on Wednesday, 22 were 
feeding upon the leaves and roses, some 
were mating, and 20 still moved their legs. 
On Thursday morning 88 were alive, and most 
of them were entirely recovered—the rest 
were dead. 
Pure pyrethrum powder, when blown 
Laxton’s Minimum Pea, which has been 
offered by American seedsmen for two years, 
is of little account. It is well named. The 
vines grow not over six inches high iu good 
soil. It is uot early or prolific, aud we don’t 
see why auybody should plant it. 
RURAL LIFE NOTES, 
The new Marlboro Raspberry seems 
to promise a contiuuaneo of well-doing 
as far as beard from. The originator 
told mo a few days ago he had it ripe ou 
his grounds June 20. Tho euues stood 
the Winter well, and there is uo louger 
any question either us to its hardiness or 
exceptional vigor. Its great productive¬ 
ness seems also to tie conceded by all who 
have seen or who know anything about 
• it. Now, concerning tli« quality of the 
Q fruit, how shall we settle that? Mr. 
f Oreon, in his July Fruit Grower, says be 
* does not consider it. equal to tlio best iu 
p quality, und a few others have expressed 
a similar opiuion. Buch a verdict from 
one holding a share in tho distribution 
of tho plants would seem to be caudid. 
and yet, while it is ti*ue that such a com¬ 
bination of good qualities as tho Marl¬ 
boro seems to embrace, is rarely found 
in any one variety of fruit, ought we not 
to be very alow to condemn any of its 
apparent virtues before a full and pro¬ 
per test can be made? And then who 
shall bo the arbiter of this great subject 
of flavor iu fruits? No two pulates will 
ever agree, and think of the number of 
this great fruit jury, and how they have 
differed for years iu their estimates of 
quality. Let as eat tho Murlboio again, 
and then talk it over. It is just possible 
that Mr. Cay wood has given us a rasp 
berry which combines firmness and high 
flavor with all the rest of its desirable 
qualities. 
[We consider the quality good, not 
best.—E ds.] 
v*" Those who are inclined to sneer at 
f t, vk k k i|k V black-knot, would learn a valuable lesson 
V A lylllJ* just now by taking a trip along the west 
shore of the Upper Hudson, They would 
' see whole orchards, both young and old, 
/ V / i > 'many of them evincing most cureful oul- 
djy .A-#* rff ture and management, yet all of them 
, - -' -wm gatf. ** * .>V jf * ruined beyond the possibility of redemp- 
JSjry ... ;•<* - 1111 flfeV i) * tion by this terrible disease. “Oh, that 
Ippf, .■'■••Sgl li fe ft $ > j J.’V is easily managed. Cut it out as fast as 
^P|fL- . ^ appears.” This has been the theoreti- 
'Kpt %||f cal refrain of our frutt writers for years. 
^ But that plan is of uo practical avail 
now. The “knot” in “too many'’ for it, 
N& fi i fr y il*-*-*^ and my own experience proves that it 
PARRY” STRAWBERRY (Junior Queen). Fig. 211. will come faster than you can cut, unless 
you saw away the treu at the ground. 
Jewell. —This berry was received from P. ; For a number of years previous to the year 
M. Augur & Sons, of Middlefield, Conn., and 1882 there was comparative freedom from this 
planted in the same plot with the Parry ou disease iu the Fast, but last year it came with 
April 28 of this year. The flower Is pistillate. terrible force, uud it is iu full progress again 
The plants are unusually vigorous and pro- this season, promising to take everything that 
ductive, as judged from this imperfect test of V escaped last year. Plums must bo given up, 
spring-set plants. Each plant averaged from uuless an actual prevention or remedy for 
two to three fruit stems, each bearing from six black-knot is found. The German Prune, here- 
THE 
NEW STRAWBERRIES CONTINUED, 
The “Parry ”—This was sent to us ou Sep¬ 
tember 28, last year, by William Parry, of 
New Jersey, as the “Junior Queen.” It was 
lately, as stated in this journal of June 21, re¬ 
named “Parry.” We find tbe flower to be 
“perfect”—•£.«., not dependent upon other 
varieties for fertilization. The leaves are 
