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space bet ween the rows well worked with the 
horse hoe. Repeat the work with the hand 
wheel-hoe as often as is necessary to keep 
down the weeds, or until the plants are so 
large as to prevent its passage. When the 
plants are about three inches high, chop out 
with a hand hoe, leaving clumps of plants the 
distance apart at which itis desired the single 
plants should stand. Now comes the only fin¬ 
ger work that is required—to thiu the clumps 
to a single plant. A man on bis hands and 
knees, taking two rows at a time, will thin 
very rapidly. 
I am now harvesting the turnip crop; a man 
from life; Fig. 496 is a cross-section; and Fig. 
497 is the calyx end. 
[These two apples are by no meaus new, but 
they are very good. The Clyde Beauty is 
quite popular in some sections of Western 
New York. Wo shall next week give cuts 
and descriptions of more of these hardy ap¬ 
ples.— Eds.] 
standard, and perhaps eight feet high. In 
quality the fruit is very good, but not equal 
to the Bartlett. It colors up handsomely in 
ripening. j. c. M. 
Farmingdale, Queens Co., N. Y. 
only ones which are good, and that the others 
will never make good plants. Now as a 
plaut. produced on a runner Is simply a por¬ 
tion of the old plant, ft can make no possible 
difference whether it is the first or the twen¬ 
ty-first. provided only that, itis a well grown 
plaut, and if in a series of plants on t he same 
runner, the last, one happens to root in an ex¬ 
tra favorablo place, it is likely to be the best 
one. In a late Rukai, I find the question, "Is 
the first plant on a strawberry ruuuor a male 
plant?” Being, a3 I have said, a portion of 
the old plant, it must be like the old plant in 
all essential characteristics, and no different 
THE CONGRESS PEAR, ETC. 
SELECTION OF SEEDS. 
In the Spring of 1878, l put in two cions of 
this pear in the top of a Flemish Beauty grow¬ 
ing on a sandy loam soil. Both of them lived 
and made a fair growth during that and the 
two following seasons, 
and in 1880 gave me 
| jfev 21 pears that weighed 
18>£ pounds. In 1881, I 
iMjy had some 50 specimens, 
not weighed; in 1882 
BHBlirlilk I had three-quarters of 
a bushel, six of the 
largest weighing six 
pounds and 12 ounces. 
;'- : S| * u ^ obtained one 
bushel, the largest 
fMI? weighing only 13 
ounces, owing, no 
doubt, to the extreme 
drought of the season. 
This past, season I had 
bushel—128 sped- 
~ mens; of an average 
- r ' we tehfc "l 1 4 5 ounces 
each; several weighed 
- - ~ ' 18 ounces each, and 
F"Ff « w-Vo r k er " none was less t ,um 
Fig 493 ounces. These figures 
are not remarkable, 
yet they show that it 
appears to be an an nua 1 bearer of large size. Tt 
ripens about with the Bartlett, and with pro¬ 
per care colors up a fine lemon yellow witli a 
bright red chedt; in fact, I think it the most 
SEED POTATOES.—STRAWBERRY PLANTS, 
Those who advise us on the above subject, 
while they offer a great many 
excellent suggestions, do not 
ulways properly distinguish 
between those plants which 
are reproduced from seeds and 
those which are, in practice, 
generally multiplied by divi- 
sion of the old plants. 1 fully 
believe that any one who un- 
derstands the subject, cun, by 
persistent effort, improve most 
of the grains, vegetables, etc., :'i JL 
to an almost unlimited ex- ft 
tent, by proper selection of ’ 
seed for a series of years, if 
suitable precautions are taken 
to avoid mixture with other 
varieties, and, what is equally 
important in cases where they 
inferior specimens. I have 
been too busy with other 
things to experiment in this ‘ ‘ ' IVUVW;.-<y» v ‘ 
direction lately; but soon Cellini, Calyx End. Fig. 497, 
after the introduction of tho 
China Fink, I destroyed every plant in my 1 from others on the same runner 
beds, which produced single flowers, just which properly comes in here, 
as soon as I could be sure any one would be idea that cions should bo takei 
single, and by this method, in a few years, I wood, and that those taken fre 
*»R *§®i%Ssstej, 
Clyde Beauty. From Nature, 
with a sharp hoe passes along clipping the 
tops of two rows at a time; another follows 
with a short-tined potato-hook, and rolls out 
the roots almost as fast as he cau walk. After 
a few hours’drying in thesun, the turnips are 
thrown into rows and then loaded on the 
wagon for drawing to tho cellar; most of the 
dirt will fall utf in handling. a. o. b. 
Orleans Co , V t 
NOTES IN A NORTHERN ORCHARD 
T. H. HOSKINS, M. D, 
A few notes upon some of the hardier ap¬ 
ples, such as are grown in Northern Vermont 
and the Province of Quebec, may interest 
the fruit-growiug readers of the Rural, 
Clyde Beauty is a native of Wayne 
County, N. Y.„and was sent to me some dozen 
years ago by Matthew Mackie of that county. 
The tree is a good grower, fully as hardy as 
Fameuse, spreading in habit, with strong 
branehuB, and peculiar waved and crimped 
leaves, like a beech. It is a moderate and 
not very early hearer of handsome apples, 
well distributed over the tree aud of brisk, sub¬ 
acid flavor, very good for cooking and fair 
for dessert. Season, early to mid-winter. Fig. 
493 shows a iikeuass of the apple, made from 
life, and Fig 494 one of a cross section. Color, 
greenish, sprinkled and mottled in the sun 
with different shades of red. 
Cellini. From Nature, 
showily marked pear I have ever seen. As to 
quality, it is to my taste only fairly good, not 
first-class by any means. Flesh coarse, yet 
juicy and sweet. I think it well worthy of 
trial, especially as a market variety. 
I k This year, as during the pust 
two, Kieffer failed to come to 
maturity here in Central Con- 
\ necticut; the fruit was only 
\ about two-thirds grown when 
\ freezing weather came on. I 
think it will not do to plant 
north of New York City. 
j. H. hale. 
South Glastonbury, Conn. 
so changed the character of the plants that it Mou* of all tho grain; 
was rare to get a single flower, nearly all rience of those who hi 
coming double. It would seem that no inte- favorablo; but this lm 
ligent person would need to grr,. 
be reminded that a few days’ jA 
delay lu such matters would ^ -- : 
frustrate the intention; but 
a grower of flower seeds whom / ff 
I visited the past Snnuner, In / ('• ,j 
reply to the suggestion that the / yfffw 
single-flowered balsams should / ^ 
be removed, said he would do / 
so before the seed ripened! / 
But to take up the portion of / 
my subject which I wished I 
particularly to comment upon I 
—potatoes except when new \ J 
varieties are grown, do not in \ Wi ' 
any sense come under the \ Sj w(! 
rules laid down for seeds. \ 
When we plant an Early Rose \ \|ii f 
Potato, for instance, we simply \ 
place in the ground a portion \ 
of the original Early Rose \ 
that cauie from seed years - 
ago, and It is my firm con- Cellini. Sectional View, 
viction that a potato no 
larger than an acorn, is quite as good as a lar¬ 
ger one, if properly managed, and for late 
planting in our warm climate and sandy soil, 
such a tuber is much better than a very large 
one; for experience has shown me that when 
hot, dry weather follows, cut potatoes are ex¬ 
tremely liable not to come up, and it is well 
understood now that one or two stalks in a hill 
produce more good-sized, marketable potatoes 
than a half dozen would do. All that is 
requisite is to secure a strong stalk, aud this 
can be done with very small tubers by placing 
them in a single layer iu a light and rather 
dry place before they begin to sprout. 
We are sometimes told that the first and 
second plants on strawberry runners are tho 
y THK SOUVENIR DU CONGBKS 
PEAR. 
[Why not call it Congress?— 
Eds.] 
In a late brevity the in 
quiry was made whether any 
reader had fruited the Souv- 
. enir du Congres Pear. I have 
done so for two years. The 
fruit is larger with me than the 
Bartlett growing on the same tree, and so 
abundant were the pears, that 1 had to pull 
many off to prevent their breaking down 
the limbs. They were perhaps a week later 
than the Bartlett on the same tree aud in 
ripening adhered firmly to the stems, and 
there were sometimes two of them to the 
same fruit spur. The fruit is of large size. I 
had some on a large tree, and the branch was 
loaded with those that weighed from 12 to 14 
ounces each, and on the original Congres tree 
that I got from the nursery, we had two 
specimens which weighed 17 ounces bach; one 
that weighed 15; and another that weighed 
12 ounces. The tree on which they grew is a 
Clyde Beauty. Sectional View. 
Cellini is an English culinary apple much 
grown in Canada, and popular in the Montreal 
market. A few years since Mr. Downing sent 
me some cions obtained by him from an Eng¬ 
lishman iu St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., under 
the name of London Pippin, the fruit from 
which proves identical with Cellini. It is a 
very handsome apple, yellow, with red stripes 
and markings. Season, Sept.-Oct. Its dis¬ 
tinguishing mark is its widely open calyx, 
the segments being entirely separate around 
the basin. As grown here, and in Canada, 
it is not oblate, as described by Downing, but 
rather oblong-ovate. The tree is productive 
I have a great respect for the medical pro 
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