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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
If any one were to say to us, "I have money 
enough to buy three different kinds of ever¬ 
green trees for my lawn next Spring; now, 
the III’HAI. has a collection of those which are 
supposed to be the best in cultivation and the 
best adapted to the climate of New York and 
Chicago; which would you name?” 
We should reply: 1st, Abies Engelmunnii— 
or Engelmauu’s Spruce. It is also called (and i 
correctly) Alie n, or, according to the new 
nomenclature, Piceapimgens; 2d, the Oriental 
Spruce, Abies orientalist; .'Id, Alcock’s Spruce, 
Abies Aleoeklaua. These are extremely hardy, 
very dLst.iin t. and desiruble in every way. Were 
we asked which three evergreens we should 
select, if interesting peculiarities were first to 
be considered, we should reply: lst, the Um¬ 
brella Pine, Sciadopitys verticil lata; 2d, the 
Weeping Hemlock Spruce—Abies Canadensis 
pendula, and last, the Tiger’s Tail Spruce— 
Abies polita, We could write a page over the 
beauties of these splendid conifers. 
Oun friend, Mr. J. T. Lovett, remarks, in 
his lute catalogue, that the “Editor of the 
RURAL New-Yorker claims he has never, as 
yet, indorsed a fruit which did not prove 
meritorious.” 
Yes, wo do claim that. The New Jersey Ex¬ 
periment (Grounds of the Rural, lie in a valley 
which generally experiences the latest frosts 
of Spring and the earliest of Fall. As a rule, 
fruits that do well there, will do well any¬ 
where iii the same latitude. We lest our new 
plants carofully, and our reports are unbiased. 
It is not to be woudered at that they are trust¬ 
worthy. We huvo nothing to sell. 
Our Minnesota friends should plant the 
Wealthy Apple, 
Martin’s Amber is a hardy wheat, making 
a good flour, and with us, more productive 
than Clawson. 
The Caroline Raspberry, which the Rural 
has persistently praised for four years, is now 
beginning to be appreciated by the farm press 
in general. 
The great Lady Washington Grape of 
Ricketts, is u failure at the Rural Grounds. 
8<> are nearly all of his so-called hybrids. We 
say this after a patient, careful trial. 
Suppose, like Dr. Lawes, you had grown 
wheat for 40 years upon the same soil without 
the application of nitrogen in any form. The 
yield would prove possibly 10 bushels to the 
acre, and even though any quantity of phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash were applied, we should 
not look for any considerable increase in 
yield. Rut with a sufficient application of ni¬ 
trate of soda or ammonia salts, the yield 
might at once bo raised to 10 bushels per acre 
or more, according to the climate, weather, 
and character of the soil, This is not true of 
wheat alone, but of every crop. When, there¬ 
fore, you spread kainit, or sulphate, or muri¬ 
ate of potash, and a plain superphosphate, or 
all, upon your land, and the crops make uo 
response, do not condemn commercial fertiliz¬ 
ers; do not jump at the conclusion that your 
laud docs not need them, but, another season, 
add nitrogen to the phosphoric acid aud pot¬ 
ash, and then judge. 
If you want to waste your manure, spread 
it ou the land aud plow it under deep. The 
rain washes the food downward, not upward. 
As time passes on, there are many' advocates 
of the Rural’s methods, viz.: broadcast rna- 
uuriug, shallow cultivation, aud keeping the 
surface as loved as possible. 
A mono hardy plants, try the Japan (Jercis, 
Magnolia llalloana, Clematis Coecinea, Rosa 
rugosa (white ami vel), Viburnum plicatum, 
Eleaguus longipos, Hpirroa Thuubergii. 
They are new or little known. The Rural 
has them all,aud commends them from itsowu 
experience. • 
Eleven years ago, wo had one of our men 
sift l he soil of a round bed 12 feet iu dia¬ 
meter, through a quarter-inch mesh,removing 
everything that would not pass through the 
sieve. I’lauts have never done well in this 
bed The soil, though rich, is too compact. 
No matter how well it is stirred, the lirst raiu 
hardens the surface. We may r record a sim¬ 
ilar experience with a wheat plot which was 
raked aud raked until the stones and roots 
were all removed aud t he soil made as tine as 
powder. This was done with a view to see 
whut effect a perfect preparation uf the soil 
would have. The wheat upon that plot was 
badly winter-killed, aud the yield less t.liau on 
adjoining plots prepared iu the usual manner. 
A mellow surface which admits the uir and 
moisture to the soil and roots, is indispen¬ 
sable to the healthiest plant growth. 
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