1884 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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berry. The fruit ripens for three or four pick¬ 
ings, and I cannot decide whether that is a 
good or a bad quality. It is black, and very 
glossy; the canes are not tall; but I think 
that is the habit of the plant, and not the re¬ 
sult of winter-killing or lack of thriftiness, 
iu the matter of earliness, it is certainly an 
acquisition. annie l. jack. 
now 
The fact is patent to all. that of the thous¬ 
ands of new fruits put forward as valuable 
improvements, within the recollection of most 
of us, and skillfully used to transfer large 
sums from the pockets of the many, for the 
benefit of a few, more than ninety-nine out 
of every hundred have turned out absolutely 
worthless. 
It may, with great propriety, be charged 
that the fault lies largely with buyers. True 
as this doubtless is: and true as it is, also, that 
even the maguates of horticulture are often 
misled by fortuitous appearances not realiz¬ 
able under ordinary circumstances, it would 
seem that the immense preponderance of fail¬ 
ures, in the past, should be made the occasion 
for greatly increased caution in the com¬ 
mending of comparatively untried novelties; 
and with the hope to accomplish a step in the 
for a cure or relief, to put dishonest money in 
their own pockets, - With regard to no other 
disease, is this truer than with regard to can¬ 
cer. 1 he success of the imposition is made 
easier because the name is constantly applied 
to tumors of various kinds, which lire not at 
all cancerous, and which disoppeur of them¬ 
selves if let alone. If, however, the name of 
cancer has been applied to such a tumor, nud 
a “cancer doctor’" has been called in, or some 
of the cancer nostrums hove been used, when 
the tumor gradually diminishes and eventual¬ 
ly disappears, the case is heralded us a “can¬ 
cer cure,” and popular credulity is greatly 
strengthened. 
The truth ig, alas! that geuuine cancer, in 
any of its three forms—hard. soft, und epitho 
lial—is incurable, except in very rare cases, 
when it has been treated in the eurlv st .arrnrf 
i)or1mutiiviU 
THE EARLY HARVEST BLACKBERRY, 
Plants of this variety were received from 
J.T.Lovett, of NewJcrsev, in March last year. 
We cannot, therefore, speak of it confidently 
from so short an experience Tbo past, season it 
ripened its fruit by the fifth of July, while yet 
the berries of Snyder, Kittatinny. etc., were 
green. The berry, as will be seen by our true 
portrait (Fig. 4«J, this page) from specimens 
grown at the Rural Experiment Grounds, is 
small but very distinct, the drupes being uni¬ 
form in size and of 
a jet-black color. 
The quality is 
about the same as 
that of the Snyder. 
While the small, 
regular drupes and 
their intensely / 
black color give 
the berries a dis- 
tinctive appear¬ 
ance all their own; ''i&slaP* 
the earliness of ^ 
the variety will 
make it desirable 
for home use, and v 
the carrying qual¬ 
ities of the fruit 
will make it popu¬ 
lar for market. It 
is said to be a 
chance seedling 
found 10 years ago 
in Illinois. 
PRES. MARSHALL 
P. WILDER’S OPIN¬ 
ION. 
Mr. Wilder, of 
Massachusetts, 
Southern Illinois, 
where it is said to 
bo hardy aud pro¬ 
lific. Here, in the Michigan Fruit Belt, I have 
had it in cultivation for three years past, aud 
I regret to say that it has been killed down 
nearly, or quite, to the ground each Winter, 
provingoneof the most tender of blackberries. 
I can only account for this by supposing that 
it is inclined to grow late; and that our 
shorter season finds it still In a state of growth 
at the advent of freezing weather. Be this 
as it may, it will not do with us, and must be 
put dowu as nearly, or quite, worthless for 
our locality.” 
JUDGE PARRY’S OPINION. 
“With us iu New Jersey the Early Harvest 
Blackberry is a very stocky grower, entirely 
hardy, free from disease, and makes but few 
suckers. It is enormously productive. Fruit, 
firm; of good quality, aud, although not of 
the largest size, it is very attractive in the 
box; shiny black, uniform in size aud shape; 
aud, being the earliest known blackberry, it 
is very valuable for market.” It is 
NEW BLACKBERRIES, RASPBERRIES AND 
STRAWBERRIES. 
A well-known horticulturist writes us 
that all the uevv blackberries have proven 
with him inferior to the old. He considers 
Lawton the most delicious of all, and Dor¬ 
chester tbe best, all things considered. He 
thinks the new raspberries and eveu straw¬ 
berries are all the while growing poorer. 
None of the former, in his opinion, equals the 
phatic glands, aud has not seriously in jured 
the health, the surgeon is warranted in operat¬ 
ing; because, although the results are gene¬ 
rally disappointing from the intense tendency 
of the disease to recur sooner or later in the 
same or some other part of the body; yoh the 
relief to suffering and tin- prolongation of life 
attained, are sulfi- 
cient to justify the 
extent of the ’dis¬ 
ease or its exist 
1 nee in ((,,« 
« organs, no at. 
tempt at removal 
can be made,” all 
Wr that can be hoped 
for is the relief of 
priate medical 
j fcV treatment may do 
raft much in this 
W but to be 
3 4 
way; 
appro- 
form of treatment 
is appli ca 1 >le to a 11 
ful to think how 
many of the unfor- 
fr0m fc,iis 
' themselves in the 
hands of ignorant 
quacks who pro- 
fess to be able to 
cure cancers, but 
whose violent re- 
* ' medies, if they do 
not actually des¬ 
troy life (as has 
often been the 
case), only aggra¬ 
vate suffering and entail disappointment. 
The’ e are honorable medical men, well known 
to the profession, in different parts of the 
country, who have deservedly acquired a 
great reputation for their successful treatment 
of particular diseases; nud where the patient 
suffering from any of these, can afford the 
expense, it would be advisable to consult 
these specialists; but the advertising humbugs 
and the itinerant quacks should be left severe¬ 
ly alone. 
The lottery swindle at St. Stephens, New 
Brunswick, is still loading the mails with its 
alluring circulars. In spite of the warnings 
given to the public repeatedly through the 
columns of the Rural and by several other 
papers also, the business of tbe rascals is re¬ 
ported to have doubled last, year, and the dupes 
were almost exclusively Americans. What a 
commentary on the shrewdness of our conn- 
trytnen! Neither the Government of the 
Province of New Brunswick nor that of tbe 
Dominion appears to takea parti do of inti rest 
in the suppression of this obvious swindle. The 
Montreal Gazette which has been investiga¬ 
ting the matter, says that no drawings are 
ever held; no prizes are ever uwarded: but 
every dollar received for tickets is pocketed 
by the persons who send out the flaming 
circulars by which the credulous are 
caught Are the moral faculties of the 
tRY. From Nature. Fig. 402. 
right direction, I invite the representative 
horticulturists of the country to a thoughtful 
study of the duty they may he supposed Jo owe 
the public in the application of the fifth rule 
of section first, of the code adopted by the 
American Homological Society in September. 
some¬ 
times confouuded with Bruutou, though the 
two are entirely distinct. 
of the latter only the Sharpless is worth 
growing. 
NOVELTIES IN HORTICULTURE. 
PRES. T. T. LYON, OK MICHIGAN, * 
I WAS highly gratified to note, during the 
last exhibition of the Michigan 8tato Horti¬ 
cultural Society at Kaiarnazoo, the ready und 
very general application, by the exhibitors, of 
the rules of the Auieric 
blackberries, early and late. 
The Waehusott Thornless has not been a 
success with ns here iu the Province of Que¬ 
bec. Canada, but Taylor’s Prolific this season 
gave us some excellent fruit. The canes are 
strong growers, and stand the Winter well, 
which the Kittatinny does not. Our stand-by 
has been Wilson's Early so far, and we find 
it satisfactory, and so hardy thut when we 
think we have up rooted every piece, we find 
dozens the next season sprouting up. If one 
does not want hardy blackberries, he should 
not plant this sort, for if he does not have 
fruit, be will have plenty of suckers The 
Early Harvest, a new blackberry, excites my 
interest, and I wish i had 50 more plants. It 
is so early that people look at it in surprise 
and say “ Wbat! are blackberries ripe?” and I 
think for that reason it will be a good market 
•an Homological Society, 
in the naming of their fruits,these rules having 
been adopted by our State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety; and so far as circumstances would, at 
tbe time, permit, applied in the revision of the 
State catalogue of fruits. 
There seems, however, to be a great and 
growing necessity for the enforcement of yet 
another of these rules, the effective applica¬ 
tion of which must, J apprehend, depend 
very largely, if not mainly, upon the integri¬ 
ty, good faith, and careful discrimination of 
individuals in their separate, rather than their 
associated capacity. 
A friend at Dubuque, Iowa, sends us a cir¬ 
cular sent to him by a “Dr.” Scott, of Cincin¬ 
nati, offering a “sure cure for cancer,” and 
asks whether we know anything about Scott, 
or his cancer cure. We know nothing of Scott 
beyoud what his circular tells us, but from 
that we learn that he is a swindler and a char¬ 
latan. Any chronic disease which is confessed¬ 
ly painful and dungerous is sure to become 
associated with quackery. Unprincipled men 
take advantage of the popular ignorance of 
