THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT 2? 
less vigorous. The berries are somewhat irreg¬ 
ular. Our out is that of the ordinary shape. 
In quality it is, to our taste;, better than Mi¬ 
ner's Prolific, having much of the wild straw- 
berry aroma. It was exhibited in 1883 at the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society's Show, 
and took first premium as a new seedling. It 
has not been disseminated, neither will it be 
for a year or two, until further tested. Our 
illustrations were drawn from specimens sent 
to the Hub ax office. 
THK MARLBORO RASPBERRY DOESN’T CRUMBLE. 
I see in the liURAL of September 13, that 
A, M. Purdy says the Marlboro crumbles on 
young plants. I have watc hed the Marlboro 
since its origin with Mr. Caywood, and have 
grown it on my grounds for the past two 
years, aud have never seen any of the berries 
crumbling. I have raised ruspberries for mar¬ 
ket for the past 20 years, and now look upon 
the Marlboro as the l jest berry 1 have grown. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. O. J. tillson. 
florintlhtrnl. 
RAYS. 
Lilies.—B y this time most of our lilies 
will have died down, aud for tidiness’ sake, 
the decayed stems should lx; removed. Look 
over the clumps, and gather up all the bulbs 
that are within six inches of the surface of 
and blossoms copiously in its natural habitats; 
but not in such perfection as we find it under 
garden cultivation. Lilies do not like rank or 
fresh manure to come In contact with their 
roots; but do not object to manure rotted to 
earthy fineness. A mulching of manure, how¬ 
ever, is highly beneficial to them. 
The Dwarf Yellow Ai.ternanthera.— 
W hen the yellow variety of A paronychioides 
major entn • into use, we hailed it with much 
rejoicing, even although it grew so rankly 
and became so green sometimes; but the 
Dwarf Yellow Alteruanthcra is positively 
compact in its nature, and yellow all the time. 
I have a large, oval-shaped bed containing 
some small plants of rare magnolias, also a 
few mats of Daphne Cneorum. As it is prom¬ 
inently situated, I was dissatisfied with its 
bareness, and 1 carpeted it with this Yellow 
AIternanthera. The little plants soon grew 
and spread out to meet each other, and have 
formed u solid, golden carpet a9 neat and 
compact in its way as a sod of grass. The 
effect is better than I expected. No alter- 
nanthera strikes more freely from cuttings 
than this one. 
Coleus, Golden Redder,—L ast Spring I 
got a few stock plants of this coleus from 
John Thorp, and by the first of June had got 
from them plants enough to fill a good-sized 
flower bed. I edged the bed with Alternau- 
thera amcena. June was a very warm and 
dry month and the coleuses didn’t grow much; 
indeed, 1 was afraid that I should have to re¬ 
move them and substitute something else; but 
July was moist and moderately cool, so has 
been August, and the coleus has grown very 
well indeed, and requires pinehiug into shape 
every eight or ten day’s. 1 am exceedingly 
well pleased with it. There is no yellow 
leaved plant, hardy or tender, that I know of, 
so yellow as this coleus. Dwarf Yellow Al- 
ternauthora is very pretty in its carpeting na¬ 
ture, and the yellow-leaved feverfews as edg¬ 
ings and pattern lines and massses in flower 
beds; but neither of them can nearly equal 
this coleus iu brightness of color or telling 
effect. 
Japanese Anemones. —These, rose purple 
and white, are the loveliest among our hardy 
flowers at this time of year—September and 
October. Their habit is compact and elegant; 
and when luxuriously grown, they attain u 
bight of three to four feet at their blooming 
time, and can he supported by a few neat 
stakes without marring their appearance. 
Their blossoms are pure, beautiful, large, 
showy aud borno ou long stems, and arc thus 
rendered very available as cut flowers. They 
are, as a rule, hardy, but in most cases very 
uncertain so far as surviving our Winters is 
concerned; but if covered over with u good 
mulching of dry leaves over which a board or 
two are placed, their life is secured. Often¬ 
times the main clumps ilie out, but pieces of the 
roots that have wandered under other plants 
or to more protected places live, and continue 
the stock. Any good garden soil and open, 
but sheltered situation, suit them. They are 
readily increased by division of the clumps or 
pieces of the fleshy roots treated as cuttings. 
william falconer. 
Queens Co., Long Island, N. Y. 
PLANTING FLOWERS IN THE FALL. 
Experience has led me to believe that the 
fall planting of some seeds is far preferable to 
spring planting. My gardening is confined 
chiefly to out-door floriculture. I love flow¬ 
ers, and for that reason take no small pride in 
their cultivation. 1S82 was an extremely un- 
the ground, and replant them. The white 
Trumpet Inly and all of its varieties, as L. 
exituium, Take&imus and Wilsonii, bear nu¬ 
merous small bulbs along the underground 
part of their stems; the same is the rose with 
L. elegans, testaeeum aud several other lilies, 
though in a lesser degree; if these liulblets 
are gathered now and replanted, in two years’ 
time they will make good blooming plants. 
As a rule, lily bulbs should lie planted deep; 
at any rate, they should be fully six inches 
deep, and Swamp and California Lilies should 
be much deeper. The common white lily (L. 
candidum) should have started now to grow 
again. But. no matter; if you desire to trans¬ 
plant it, you can do so yet quite safely. In 
the case of late lilies, as L. speciosum and 
tigrinum, we need not wait till the stems have 
died off to lift the bulbs; as soon as they have 
done blooming, we may cut over the stems 
aud move the bulls with absolute safety. The 
bulblets that form at the axils of the leaves 
along the steins of bulbiferum and tiger lilies, 
may be saved aud planted. Every one of 
them will grow, aud iu two years or three, at 
most, yield good flowering bulbs. They are 
as good as bulbs raised from seed, and a year 
in advance of seedlings. 
As most lilies like good living, prepare for 
them an open, friable, rich, loamy, well- 
drained, soil. The American Swamp, or Turk's 
Cap Lily (L. superbum), grows luxuriantly, 
favorable year for growing anything, and my 
hitherto beautiful garden was a comparative 
failure. When sowing my seeds in the Spring 
of that year, I noticed an unusual growth of 
self-sown flowers. I thought it a pity to de¬ 
stroy them, as was my common practice.and so 
allowed them to stand. The result was that I 
had thriftier and stronger plants, aud they 
bloomed much earlier and longer than the 
same varieties ever did iu auy previous sea¬ 
son. My theory is that the seeds being In 
their natural state, as soon as the ice and 
snow left the ground in the Spring, they were 
already swollen and ready to sprout aud grow 
under the influence of the first warm sun 
rays. They also bad an even star! with all 
noxious weeds, aud as the days grew longer 
and the sun higher, the plants were equally 
well prepared to take advantage of all favor¬ 
able and resist all unfavorable circumstances, 
for their early start had by that time made 
them able to withstand all sorts of weather, 
and hence they rewarded me with a good sup¬ 
ply of bloom. 
On the other hand, seeds sown iu the Spring, 
if the season is at all unfavorable, make a 
stunted growth, aud then, despite all petting 
and pampering, give vei'y poor returns. Of 
course, all varieties of flower seeds should not 
be sown in the Fall—only the hardy kinds; 
that is, hardy annuals, perennials and bien¬ 
nials. Here are the names of a few kinds to 
•low in the Fall; candytuft, ageratum, ahro. 
nia, centaurea, sweet peas, petunias, phacelia 
(both varieties), Sweet William, larkspur, 
pansy, convolvulus, both the climbing and the 
dwarf; also many other varieties. Sow the 
seed any time before cold weather. As every 
one knows, the hollyhock is a biennial, and 
docs not bloom until the second year. When 
I sowed tny seed last Fall, I overlooked the 
hollyhock seed until after the ground was par¬ 
tially frcwiL Nothing daunted, I waited until 
a warm day, when the soil was thawed enough; 
then planted the seed of the large double yel¬ 
low hollyhock, and now I have nice, tall plants 
in full bloom, a fact which scores one more, in 
favor of fall planting. I give no protection 
whatever. Another point in favor of planting 
in the Fail is, thut there is usually less hurry 
than in the Spring, when there is so much to 
be done that the flower garden is about the 
last thing one thinks of, aud hence the results 
are often poor and discouraging. 
Ladies, mothers of growing families, let me 
admonish you to beautify and adorn your 
homes with flowers. mrs. f. a. warner. 
Saginaw Co., Mich. 
NOTES ON THE FAIR NUMBER. 
I was pleased to read the communication 
from the venerable Chas. Downing in the 
Fair Number. I had heard so much said 
against the Marlboro, that I had almost de¬ 
cided not to add it to my already too long list 
of raspberries; but after reading the commu¬ 
nication of Mr. Downing, 1 at once concluded 
to give it a chance with the rest, even though 
the price is rather high. 
Although I agree with “Veritas” in regard 
to the value of clean culture in the vineyard, 
I cannot agree with him when he says “sow 
rye.” I have found rye so hard to eradicate 
when it once gets a foothold, that I would not 
think of using it. Oats are far better, as they 
grow quickly and are killed by the frost of 
Winter. If sowed early, they get a large top 
and make a fine mulch which decays quickly, 
enriches the soil very much, and is easily turn¬ 
ed under with the plow, or even with the cul¬ 
tivator. 
I would like very much to agree with D. 8. 
Marvin; but from experiments conducted for 
several years, I must conclude that sulphur 
has no effect whatever on the American mil¬ 
dew (Peronospora), and if used freely it causes 
the foliage to burn, and does positive injury. 
I find a great many that formerly recom¬ 
mended it are uow of the same opinion as my¬ 
self in regard to sulphurizing grape-vines. 
[It has never helped our vines. Eds.] 
“Nothing is clean where a hen goes,” so 
keep the hens out and away from the barn if 
possible, particularly from the horse stable. 
1 have known hens to fly into the feed box of 
a horse while he was eating his grain, and 
with their dirty feet so polute the grain that 
the horse refused to eat it. 
I say don’t follow the advice given in “Wean¬ 
ing Lambs,” and encourage the lambs to crawl 
through a hole in the fence to get food, i 
tried that several years ago, aud a more 
troublesome lot of sheep than those same 
lambs made, never existed. They are forever 
hunting for a bole. If there is a broken slat, 
a warped rail or a board that has loosened at 
one end, they are sure to find it, and get into 
mischief just when they can do the most dam¬ 
age. I never saw such poor advice given in 
the Rural. 
I more than half believe Col. Curtis is right 
in regard to the “Advantages of large breeds 
of swine.” At least, they have been with me 
the most profitable. 
I don’t understand Gen. Clay’s “Turning 
Rows.” We have none here. Corn, beans, 
potatoes, etc., etc., are planted close to the 
fences—at least as close as the ground can be 
plowed. 
Last Spring the Rural had considerable 
fault to find with the Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment for sending out packages of Learning 
Corn. Being one of its statistical correspond¬ 
ents, I was favored with a package and planted 
it May Hi. Ou the same day I planted the 
Rural Union Corn, California Dent, Yellow 
Dent, and Compton’s Early, and the next day 
1 planted White Dent, Yellow Eight-rowed 
aud White Eight-rowed. To day (September 
S), the Compton’s Early, Yellow Eight-rowed 
and California Dent are ripe, and Learning 
nearly ripe—I have saved seed from it—while 
the Rural Dent and all the rest are just about 
right for boiling. The Learning ears are very 
large, kernels long and yellow, stalks very 
large. F. L. wbight. 
•Wised Uncmts. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
Geo. S. Josselvn, Fredonia, N. Y. Whole¬ 
sale catalogue of American Grape-vines. 
From Ft. Collins, Col., we have received 
the Fifth Annual Register of the Colorado 
Agricultural College, a school for both sexes. 
Rorert Bell, Jr,, Hensall, Ont. Circular 
of new and old wheat. Our Canada friends 
should examine it. 
J. A. Evf.rett & Co , Watsontown, Pa. 
History, description aud full particulars of 
the Martiu Amber Wheat. 
We have received from James C.irter & Co., 
High Holborn, London, a copy of the second 
edition of the Explanatory Guide to the ex¬ 
hibit of commercial vegetable food supplies, 
condiments and fibers, aho, oleaginous and 
honey-yielding plants of the world. Price Is. 
Illustrated Catat-oouk of the Syra¬ 
cuse Chilled Plow Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Superiority i* claimed in lightness of draft, 
scouring in any soil, bolding to the ground 
in stouy land, and facility of adjustmeut. The 
Syracuse Sulky Plow is also illustrated and 
described. 
Kllwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 
Descriptive priced catalogue of small 
fruits. It is the Rural’s opinion that this 
catalogue gives the most conservative and 
trustworthy descriptions of the kinds of fruits 
enumerated, of any American catalogue pub¬ 
lished. Aud wo don't say this to please E. & 
B. either, but to guide our friends. 
Also, catalogue of bulbous flower roots. 
Lkkfel’s House Plans, from James Lef- 
fel A Co., 110 Liberty Street, New York, is a 
book of more than 200 pages, containing ele¬ 
vations, plans and descriptions of fifty houses 
costing from $500 to $3,000 each, including 
the six prize plans iu “The Mechanical News 
Competition.” The book Is intended to aid all 
who must carefully count the cost before 
building, to secure as much beauty and con¬ 
venience as their money will command. De¬ 
tails are givni a* to woods, paints, glass, gut¬ 
ters and plumbing. The plans range from 
houses of five rooms to those of nine, all hav¬ 
ing ample closets, porches and hulls or entries. 
The book is worthy of study by any one in¬ 
tending to build. Price $2.00. 
♦ ♦ « - 
“AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE.” 
There has not been such a stir in Montreal 
society for many years as the agitation of the 
past week, fashionable as well as learned being 
influenced by the advent of the British scien¬ 
tists among us. Any one who has an idea that 
an Englishman cannot unbend, will be very 
much surprised to find it a mistake, und I won¬ 
dered to myself whether the charge had been 
a slur on the national character, or if the En¬ 
glishmen here assembled bad simply laid aside 
their dignity for this gigautic and really mag¬ 
nificent pie-nie. 
McGill College grouuds are beautifully situ¬ 
ated on the slope of the mouutain, and beauti¬ 
fully laid out, while the buildiugs are spacious 
and cool, so that the place was very pleasant 
during the first day of the meeting, which was 
very hot. The guests were entertained there 
with “princely hospitality,” and there are pro¬ 
grammes of local arrangements and free ex¬ 
cursions to places of interest in the Dominion, 
besides one that is limited to 150 gentlemen 
who are going to the Rocky Mountains, while 
the private hospitality is marvelously profuse. 
Real work began on Thursday, August 28, 
and I can only speak for the Biological Section 
where Professor Moseley, of Oxford Universi¬ 
ty, England, gave an address that told of re¬ 
search and deep thought, and the papers that 
followed were extremely interesting. The 
instructive discussions were only limited by 
want of time, and American vied with British 
and Canadian in animated arguments. We 
are proud of our guests, of whatever nation¬ 
ality, aud they, in turn, seem to have nothing 
whatever to grumble at. 
1 had not been long at the College before I 
had the pleasure of shaking hands with Mr. 
Saunders, and congratulating him upon his 
fine appearance in the Rural a few weeks 
ago—a likeuess that I recognized at the first 
glance, and fully appreciated from my knowl¬ 
edge of him. Professor Asa Gray, affable 
and instructive as ever, gave a pleasant ac¬ 
count of researches among the flora of North 
America. 
We have here Greely of Arctic fame, and 
Cushing of Zuni celebrity, while the Eng¬ 
lishmen of note are not easily counted. The 
President elect, Lord Rayleigh, is a man of 
intellectual strength, and Sir William Thom¬ 
son is the life of his section. There are Pro¬ 
fessor Glaisher of Trinity College, Dublin > 
