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I must confess I could not detect any. Again 
both varieties have the same peculiarity of 
producing some tubers much lighter in color, 
so much so, that one not familiar with the 
variety might think them mixed. Mr. Tilling- 
hast in explaining this peculiarity of the 
Belle, says it “is the result of a ‘bud sport’ 
and cannot well be avoided.” How does Mr. 
Talcott explain the same peculiarity inQueen 
of the Vallay? Will he also let us know 
(through the Rural) wherein consists the 
difference between the two varieties. 
Cumberland Co. Pa. S. W. Sterrett. 
[As grown at the Rural Ex. Grounds they 
are not the same. Eds.] 
THE EUEAL PKIZE COEN EEPOETS, 
How the Crops were Raised, etc. 
Stearns Co, Minn.—I planted 130 kernels 
of the Rural Thoroughbred Flint Corn, on 
June 9, 1882, and 127 came up. I had 170 ker¬ 
nels in the first place, but the mice destroyed 
40, and eight plants out of the 127 that came 
up were drowned out, leaving 119 that grew, 
I planted the corn on a plat 24 feet wide by 
40 feet long, with a ditch one foot deep on all 
four sides, one kernel in a place, rows four 
feet apart, and seed from 15 to 18 or 20 inches 
in the rows, covered about two inches deep. 
I manured it with nearly a two-horse wagon 
load of uufermented hen manure spread after 
the ground was plowed, and worked in with 
thenoe. 1 also sowed nearly or quite two 
bushels of unleached ashes, after planting. 
The ground had been in squashes last year, 
and manured with half a wheelbarrow of cow 
manure (uufermented) in each bill; squash 
hills 12 feet apart, each way; gave level cul¬ 
ture and hoed often, until the corn showed 
the tassei; land sloped gently to the south. 
Cut it up on Sept. 25tb; husked Oct. 30th; 
weighed ears Nov, 1st; shelled Nov. 2d, 
weighed shelled corn Nov. 8d. Weight of 
ears, 881 pounds; weight of shelled corn, 140>£ 
pounds; corn suckered from three to ten stalks 
from each kernel. Average bight of main 
Btalks, 9X toot; average hight of suckers, 
eight feet; greatest number of ears on main 
stalk, five; least number, two. Number of 
ears on main stalks, 344; on suckers, 114. 
Number of nubbins, 74. Total number of ears 
and nubbins, 532. In planting I was careful 
that none of the manure should come in con 
tact with the seed, but think some did. 1 cul * 
tivated entirely with the common hoe. At 
first I loosened the ground as deep as I could, 
and as the roots spread, worked more and 
more shallow. J. J- Baxter. 
[Yield at the rate of about 114.8 bushels 
shdled corn per acre. No. 23 on the list ] 
Monroe Co , Mich.—May the 18th, I planted 
136 grains of the Rural Heavy Dent Corn in 
hills two feet by four feet apart, one grain in 
a hill; 100 grains germinated and grew. The 
soil was a black clay, and had been planted 
to potatoes for three years in succession, and 
manured with common barn-yard manure at 
the rate of about 15 loads to the acre (the same 
this year). In addition to that, I dug a small 
hole about eight inches deep, and put half of 
a hoefull of hog manure in, and filltd it up 
with dirt and planted the corn on it, one 
grain in a hill. I cultivated it twice, and 
hoed it twice. The stalks averaged about 10 
feet high. Cut it up the 24t.h of October (it 
would have done to cut the first of the month); 
husked it the 1st day of November, and 
weighed and shelled it on the 3d of Novem¬ 
ber. There were 157 good ears and 52 nubbins, 
making in all 209 ears. Weight of good ears, 
176% pounds; weight of nubbins, 30 % pounds. 
Total weight of ears, 207 pounds; weight of 
good ears, shelled, 127 pounds five ounce ; 
weight of nubbins, 20 pounds eight ounces, 
making in all 147 pounds 13 ounces of shelled 
corn. The ground was underdrained. I 
weighed 40 ears that weighed 57 pounds, 
counted the grains on two ears; one had 955 
good grains, and the other had 905. 
Wit Durkee. 
[The above is 11th on the list; thepubli 
cation of the report was delayed to obtain the 
details of culture. The above yield is at the 
rate of 142 4 bushels shelled corn per acre.] 
• Iroquois Co., Ill.—I planted May 24,1882, 
153 grains Rural Heavy Dent Corn in six 
rows 48 feet long, 3J^ feet apart. With ex¬ 
cessive rains in June, only 91 matured. I har¬ 
vested 202 pounds of ears, maktng 151 pounds 
of shelled corn. Every ear was fit for seed. 
Many ears weighed 1 % pound ; a few meas¬ 
ured 12 inches in length: some 8>£ in circum¬ 
ference. Stalks were tall and large; ears high 
and well filled. Had one stalk with three 
good ears bearing 1,520 grains; expect to 
send you a photo, of it; it is a decided success. 
The soil was black prairie; no manure was 
used. Did not cultivate the corn much; 
worked it once with double-Bhovel plow. If I 
had had a “ premium on the brain” I should 
have done better by it. G. H. Yan Neste. 
[The above report was requested, as the pre¬ 
vious one made was lacking in details. The 
yield was at the rate of 161.2 bushels shelled 
corn per acre,and is seventh on the revised list. 
SOME SMALL FRUITS. 
REV. J. R. GARLICK, A.M., D.D. 
Selected Raspberries —I have derived 
so much information from the columns of the 
acid, but good. Cumberland Triumph, beau¬ 
tiful and excellent in every way. Miner’s Pro¬ 
lific, a most abundant bearer; fruit of medium 
quality. Hervey Davis I think one of the 
best, though not very large. Crystal City, 
valuable for earliness—here first of all. Ken¬ 
tucky, size medium, quality good. Longfel¬ 
low, a peculiar, long, dark berry, here quite 
good, and a productive kind; I like it. 
The first of March last year I procured and 
set out a few plants of the new sorts, Jersey 
Queen and Manchester. Both bore fruit in 
White Star—From Nature—Fig. 59. 
Rural that I am disposed to contribute my 
mite of experience with some small fruits, as 
perchance it may be of service to others 
Two years ago I got from a responsible party 
(Mr. E P. Roe) the following sorts of rasp¬ 
berries, wishing to learn by experiment 
which would best suit my soil and location— 
Cuthbert, Turner. Caroline, Saunders,Clarke, 
Reliance, Gregg, Mammoth Cluster, and one 
or two others. Of these the Reliance has 
proved with me decidedly most desirable, 
June, and both impressed me most favorably 
_especially Jersey Queen. In less than three 
months from the time of planting it gave me 
some large, smooth, beautiful berries and in 
quality I thought them surpassing all that I 
had ever had. Of course, my experiment was 
a small one; but it seemed to me the best 
strawberry I ever saw. Manchester did ex¬ 
cellently well; but did not equal Jersey Queen 
in size or quality. 
Raspberries and strawberries were set in 
Burbank's Sport— 
growing finely and bearing profusely large 
berries of good quality. Of the Cuthbert 
some plants have died; the others bore a 
small quantity of very fine berries. Turner, 
moderate in yield and in quality; Caroline, a 
poor bearerof insipid fruit; Clarke and Saun¬ 
ders, worthless; Gregg and Mammoth Cluster, 
tolerably good. A friend here told me he had 
found Reliance the best of all he had tried. I 
should select it if I could have only one sort. 
Strawberries.— I procured some 30 or 
From Nature—Fig. 
good ground of medium texture. My loca¬ 
tion is near head of tide-water, about 80 miles 
from Chesapeake Bay. Perhaps these notes 
may be of service to some similarly situated. 
KiDg and Queen Co., Va. 
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ArticbokeB. 
Artichokes thrive well in moist soil, and 
with a compost of manure and coal ashes. 
They are propagated by suckers, that can be 
slipped off as soon as the ground can be 
RAYS. 
i SEE to it that the 
(•anker-worms do not get 
ever a thaw comes the 
slug9 will ascend, there¬ 
fore keep your tree- 
bands well tarred (I use 
oil), or if you have the 
your trees, see that they 
are filled with kerosene 
oil and do not leak. 
For canker-worms on 
Manning, of Reading, 
Mass., uses London- 
purple and Paris-green 
mixed with water as 
you would for beetles on 
potatoes. His mixture 
is a heaping teaspoonful 
to three gallons of water or a pound to 300 
gallons. He applies it with a syringe or a 
portable pump with hose attachment, pump 
and poisoned water being placed in a wagon 
for convenience in moving. He begins to use 
it as Boon as the first perforation of the leaves 
is seen in Spriug; usually one application 
completely rids the trees of the pests. He has 
applied it to thousands of apple and elm 
trees in his nursery with decided success. 
Mr. Fred. Law Olmsted, our eminent 
landscape gardener, says: “ My own practice 
is the reverse of artifleializing of grounds. I 
aim to reconcile the requirements of health 
and convenience with Bceuery of a distinctly 
natural character.” “ My profession," he 
further states, “ is not the same as the calling 
of a garden—gardener; the two stand back 
to back, and cannot be carried on together 
on the same ground without * making a 
mess of it.’ ” 
* * 
Now that the days are becoming longer 
and brighter, aud occasionally warmer at 
noonday than they were some weeks ago, 
house plants as geraniums, roBes, petunias, 
abutilons, carnations and the like, have be¬ 
gun to grow and blossom with proportionate 
strength. In warm and sunny weather we 
should ventilate our rooms for our own as 
well as for our plauts’ sake, but where the 
plants are concerned this ventilation should 
be discriminately applied. It Is better to 
ventilate in the forenoon than in the after¬ 
noon, open early and a little at a time and 
shut up early, is a good rule. Avoid cold 
drafts. Young growth is sensitive to sud¬ 
den variations in temperature and more so 
to draft-chills; both have a deleterious effect, 
and are particularly productive of mildew. 
* * 
When mildew does appear, sulphur is the 
only antidote. It may be applied by dusting 
it over the affected plants, or wetting the 
plants with diluted Water of Grisou. Dr. H. 
P. Walcott says: “ This is made of one pound 
each of sulphur and quicklime and three 
, quarts of water, boiled for ten minutes in an 
firon pot. After settling, the top la poured 
off and bottled and diluted with 100 parts of 
water.” Mr. Peter Henderson’s preparation 
is: ‘‘Boil three pounds each of sulphur and 
lime in six gallons of water until it is re¬ 
duced to two gallons; allow the liquid to 
settle until it gets clear, then put it in a jar 
or bottle it for use. One gill of this mixed in 
h five gallons of water ” is used for Byringing 
\ the plants with. I have taken a lump of 
quicklime and a handful of sulphur, slacked 
^ them together, then added a gallon or so of 
water aud allowed it to settle; with the clear 
liquid thus obtained 1 have wetted mildewed 
plauts with decided effect in stopping the 
mildew and with no apparent evil to the 
plants. Leon. 
Srborintllural. 
FORESTRY NO- 33. 
No. 1—Part 1. 
Brook’s Seedling—From Nature—Fig. 61. 
more varieties, and after two years’ trial 
have dag up and thrown away more than half 
as not worth cultivating. It would occasion 
too large an item for sugar in the family ex¬ 
pense account to use Champion or Red Jacket 
or Duchess or Glendale and some others, as 
they grew here—and I was not raising to sell. 
Several kinds appeared as follows in this lo¬ 
cality:— Sharpless, moderately productive, 
large, and of fine quality. Bldwell set too 
much fruit, but was large, early and quite 
good. Downing, prolific, robust, Bomewhat 
worked in early Spring. Always plant in an 
open exposure out of the shade of trees, or 
the roots will grow spindling. Set in rows 
four feet by four apart, and about half their 
length beneath the surface; water abundantly. 
They produce heads the same year from July 
to October. In November cover with pea or 
buckwheat straw or Bwamp hay, but not with 
manure, aB it induces decay. Uncover early 
in Spring and renew the beds every four or 
five years. No vegetable is more benefited 
by the application of salt or sea weed, a. l. J. 
„ DR. JOHN A. WARDER. 
THE FOREST NURSERY—PART 1. 
Importance of the Subject—Advantages to 
the Planter—Location—Soil— Prepartion— 
Inclosures—Planting seeds, cuttings—La t 
era—The Dibble and 'Trowel—The Spade— 
Propagation — Loudon's Methods. 
In all large operations for the establish¬ 
ment and maintenance of woodlands, great 
quantities of seeds, cuttings and young plants 
are required; an average of 3,000 sets to each 
acre, which is not a large allowance, will ab- 
