MARCH 3 
THE RURAL MEW-YORKER. 
that it does not waste much, and with one or 
two of these large lumps in the pasture the 
cattle will take just what they need. Although 
this salt costs considerably more per pound 
than comniou salt, Ido not think the expense for 
a season much greater as it is so much stronger. 
I wish, while bilking about cattle, to recom- 
meud that funnel's eat more beef. For several 
years 1 have killed, in November or early 
December, a heifer that will dress about 4 <H) 
pounds. We can often keep it fresh a month; 
but when coined in sweet pickle I think it bet¬ 
ter than fresh. In making the pickle 1 use a 
pound-and-a-half of salt and three-quarters of 
a pound of sugar, or its equivalent in molasses, 
for each gallon of water. A half ounce of 
saltpeter to the gallon will improve the color 
of the meat, but has no effect on its keeping, I 
think. This sweet pickled beef is delicious, 
cold or warm, and there is no meat more 
wholesome. 
Pomo logical. 
PLANTING APPLE TREES ON UNPREPARED 
GROUND. 
In the Spring of 18811 came to a sudden de¬ 
termination to plant out a lot of nursery trees 
on ground that had once been tilled, but liad 
been mowed and mowed until it was too much 
exhausted to bear a crop of grass worth cut¬ 
ting, and had then been abandoned to golden 
rod and other coarse weeds. I staked out the 
ground, had the place dug up thoroughly with 
spades, and planted the trees in the poor, yel¬ 
low soil. After all was done, I sprinkled two 
handfuls of a commercial fertilizer prepared 
for fruit-treed upon the surface, about three 
cents worth, about each tree. A good mulch of 
swale hay was then applied. Out of 400 trees 
not one died, and not more t han a score failed 
to make a satisfactory growth, from five to 
twenty inches on each twig. On land that is 
already sufficiently smooth, I consider it a 
waste of time and effort to go through a prep¬ 
aratory rouud of cropping and enriching. If the 
trees are ready, plant at once, applying what¬ 
ever fertilizers you have, a little at a time, as 
the growth of the tree demands it. I have refer¬ 
ence, of course, to cases where the creation of 
an orchard is the sole object in view. 
Manchester, Maine. c. G. a. 
- »» ♦- 
THE BEN DAVIS FOR EVAPORATION. 
The Rvrjll’s very full aud interesting ac¬ 
count by the “ professionals,” of the behavior 
and general character of the Ben Davis, omits 
a very important good quality—aud it needs 
all that kind certainly. I find it the best 
winter apple on the list for evaporating, both 
for handsome appearance and large per cent, 
of weight when dried. Even its quality is im¬ 
proved by tbe fire aud brimstone probation it 
undergoes. Sooner or later, when the goodly 
outside of such fruits as the Ben Davis apple, 
Glendale strawberry and Wilson blackberry 
fails t<> sell them, the Ben Davis can be profit¬ 
ably kept for this special purpose. E. u. r. 
& I) t Slpiarixm. 
SOUTHERN HONEY PLANTS. 
PROFESSOR A. J. COOK. 
[For Illustrations see page 182.] 
It has often been asserted that Southern 
honey lacked the superior quality and exquis¬ 
ite ilavor of our best grades in the North. We 
have been led to supjxwe heretofore tliat our 
clover and basswood honey hud uo equal in 
quality south of Mason's aud Dixou’s line. At 
the recent meeting of the North American 
Bee-keepers’ Association iu Cincinnati, Mr. 
C. F. Muth exhibited some honey from Flori¬ 
da, that for clearness and beauty, no less than 
for excellence of flavor, was pronounced by 
all present equal to any honey from any lo¬ 
cality. Of this honey Mr. Muth remarked 
that he desired no finer, and the Rev, L. L. 
Langstroth wrote: “ Its color is unexception¬ 
able, and its flavor very pleasant, I am not 
sure but that the majority of customers will 
consider it equal, if not superior, to white-clover 
honey. Our Southern friends arc to be con¬ 
gratulated ou being able to, supply the markets 
with so choice an article.” 
From Mr. W. S. Hart, New Smyrna, Flori¬ 
da, one of our most successful and intelligent 
apiarists, l leurn that this honey comes from 
the Cabbage Palmetto and the so-called Black 
Mangrove. Those trees are iu bloom at the 
same time from the middle of J uue till the 
first of August, and, very fortunately, the 
honey from them is so similar and excellent 
that its mixture in the hive is no objection. 
THE BLACK MANGROVE. 
Here we have an illustration of the danger 
of common names. It is no mangrove at all. 
The true mangrove—Rhizophora Americana 
(Fig. 92) is a near relative of the renowned 
Banyan tree of India. Prom its branches 
steins pass vertically to the earth where they 
take root. They thus form an impenetrable 
thicket. These trees grow in the muddy flats 
of the sea-coast, so that often oysters find at¬ 
tachment to their stems. The flowers are 
yellow, and the seeds send out roots before 
they fall from the branches. 
The Black Mangrove is Avieennia tomen- 
tosa, so-called because the under sides of the 
leaves are tomeutose, or hairy. It is a vervain, 
that is it belongs to the Verbena Family, the 
same that includes our blue and white ver¬ 
benas of the North, well known honey plants. 
Another species, also called Black Mangrove 
is Avieennia oblougifolia. The leaves of this 
are less hairy and of somewhat different form, 
Like the true mangrove, these are evergreens, 
and flourish best in the muddy flats of the sea 
cost. The leaves are much like those of the 
true Mangrove in general form and appear¬ 
ance. The flowers, however, are white. These 
flowers secrete honey in great drops, so much 
that the bees can ouly take a small portion 
of it, as the roots of the t ree reach deeply down 
into the mud, they are always supplied with 
moisture, and so this tree never fails because 
of drought. It is confined to the Peniusula of 
Florida, where, says Mr. Hart, it forms by 
far our best honey-plaut. At its Northern 
limit, latitude 29 deg., it is but a shrub, while 
South it becomes a flue ti*ee, from 12 to Hi 
inches in diameter, aud 40 or 50 feet high. 
THE CABBAGE PALMETTO. 
This magnificent palm — the emblem of 
South Carolina—is Sabul Palmetto (Fig. 
93.) It grows from the Gulf to the Caro- 
liuas, aud thrives on any soil—even on the 
pure beach sand. It attains perfection, how¬ 
ever, only on rich soils, where it reaches up 
even 75 feet. The trunk is a straight shaft, of 
uniform size from the earth to the top, where 
its fringe of leaves forms a fitting crown. The 
plicate leaves are in ('luster-, on stems which 
are from four to ten feet long. Nestled in this 
tuft of foliage are from six to ten spikes of 
small, white blossoms. Each spike is from 
four to six feet long. This spray of bloom is 
two feet in diameter aud is very rich in nectar 
and pollen, from which the bees gather great 
quantities. A quart jar of this houe 3 r , either 
pure or mixed half-and-half, says Mr. Hart, is 
so transparent that very tine priut can easily 
be rend through it. 
THE SAW PALMETTO. 
Thus is a creeping palm, and covers thou* 
sands of acres iu Florida so densely that it is. 
almost impenetrable. Its removal, says Mr. 
Hart, forms the main expense in clearing the 
land. A large horizontal stem, often 2t) feet 
long, passes along the groimtl, seuding roots 
beneath and leaves and flowers above. The 
clusters of blossoms are immense. Each flow¬ 
er is small, and of a yellowish-white color. 
Not only are these flowers rich in nectar, 
which keeps the bees busy from the middle of 
April to the middle of June, but there oozes 
from the fruit, which in form resembles that 
of the Concord Grape, though the size is twice 
as great, a saccharine liquid, which, though 
too dark for market, is admirable for stimula¬ 
tive feeding. Bees gather from this source 
from October till Christmas. During the Win¬ 
ter of 1881-82 the bees filled all available space 
with this honey. 
We have ouly to refer to the magnolia—il¬ 
lustrated iu the Rural some weeks since—the 
orange and banana groves which supply much 
honey, to make it appear that Florida is not 
only the " Land of Flowers,” but the land of 
honey as well. 
TANK FOR COOLING MILK. 
A convenient tank for cooling milk can be 
made of a Ixiard box with a frame made of 3x4 
wall strips at top and bottom ou the outside. 
Have this box linod with galvanized sheet-iron; 
lot the galvanized iron come over the top aud 
cover the top frame. Then the tank will be an 
article that cau be easily kept sweet, and the 
board top will not get jammed by the lifting 
in and out of the heavy milk cans. Have an 
inch hole made iu the bottom, with a short , gal¬ 
vanized sheet-iron tube made slightly tapering. 
Take n broom handle, whittle the small end to 
a point; take four or five inches of a three- 
quarter-inch-bore rublier tube, and crowd the 
piece on the small end of the broom handle; 
drive in a few tacks in the ends of the rubber 
tube, and you will have a very handy stopple 
that can bo easily drawn out and put in again; 
when only part of the water is to be let out, 
the point of the broom handle need not be 
completely withdrawn. I have three cooling 
tanks, two are lined with galvanized sheet-iron 
and one is made of clear twoineh pine plank 
put together with white lead. In the wooden 
tank the ice water becomes so sour that it would 
be quite offensive iu Summer if the water was 
not let out every day and the tank occasionally 
scrubbed. The lined tanks give no trouble; 
the water keeps sweet for several days even 
when considerable milk is spilt in the water. 
Zinc would not be nearly as durable. 
Queens Co., N, Y. J. Hicks. 
Painj ijvisbaatinj. 
IJEXDEJtSO.V** E.VRI.T KOOtEKl 
t'ABBAGE 
ftQrANTrit SUGAR 
CORN. 
» A medium early variety. 1 
tariff fainlzc, quality the 
v ry Lett. It |t turoliiirly 
- "extend very proton.. [.»»;. i 
•lutlnif h°tn lour to lire car*, 
nuasiafk, This (r. the »j. 
Holy which i> in ■%,> rtx- t 
t o-or wiih *he well-known ' 
^luantuiu Club oi Kbftde i 
1 rtttd, and u almost ex. 
• hy them in tb it 
f.nnoui t-ljin-b.ilt.-s, 
I’LL Qunrt, 50 eU 
(PodpaliL) 
MA.TOTT CLARK* 
* PIKE CELERY, 
Tc Is not generally known 
that the red .-r p»nk CcTc* 
lies are as* role much su¬ 
ltrier !?v OoxUty to t>a 
white £nr l*.l \‘i : -mly atef 
lliey bettor flavored i" l 
iti'ir* cr.cp, bit* they run 
usually mnJlcr and koe # 
BlnU of *•’£/ 
rtteTnne’.'rx, a*vl Its show twite, b «v~» •*> - 
'J te it to be pkntc’l near* V -v *!<>-* •*•« lk 
nMpktfBcld.aL.ML to xU* acre, wh'Jc 
■ 
log m larger heuU esa aoly l< • ie 
rat’t of S.ooo »o the sere. A ro , 'iin ipAM> 
of this txric«y i i |li#t o We-|d toinj-t imhoi't 
VUiVJfclAJiLY KTlKPilflCABRALK i 
SCALY li.VRK WATERMELON. 
[ Firct exhibits at tha 
At I atus Expoexton 
Itit, dart; 
:nfl tMkv in d (nvwpl 
i*nb f,ih*-ah»-*Ubouy:h 
<iu!te smooth. The ivc* 
• r > wcitjltt '«f the r*»r<- 
Alf Who wns rnrtrin.-vtd ennojjh to Tut p fhi* i 
vvwfjrxt.wui [ )«■« u»; |vit '*intmer, 1 
unite In fcwaoutclfijf it of me-*: ttei.cirw tt| 
flavor. It Vs «a early svr. »or proWnro. 
|a- l Of *r>cj v*?e. white the IS Vcty 
r i:k, ■SH—rt and teicy, and Of uo^uryasagd 
'luu. Packet, eO rest*. 
PERFECT «:VM still. 0 * 11 . 
Eqtudty tksdratoc at a awliktuer orwtfttc* 
ariciy-—yvtltl *< —y Urge. M ttuoy M si 
made* Uin* p vlttel cn x sickle vine, 
te <■ » * frvu . t <>C '.tel a* ciS-** 
ter. ■ ( \ • ro mv V • *. ami wlih a thin, 
mocth (icll- Tau kwWCd u dry, swet. 
£m 
MU iiHAUl t'LOAXtllRAfr WbSUkll." 
A t&rf;c r! Iltrt m*M.v iv i.. ».Hl— .1 
r At . r |i . . . • u. :ht 
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cu 111 v(»t i. .a. •• 1 1 * n< jS o c. t qojlity. ir.i f cvockfl • 
lively 11I'dU. live. It rs trrv OftHNac* anil 
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pcireyl Inowr 
trialjrf -aids 
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A spiendii 
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cool, dry 
rrgSf Any of ttie anoxc Xovtllus sent free by Xall ou receipt of price, or OXE PACKET ol 
EACH of tile COU.ECTIOX OF "II SEW ASH SCARCE VEGETABLES," MAILED 
FOR S'. SO. l or oilier New and Fine VEGETABLES, FLOWERS anti FRUITS, sere m,r Catalogue 
of “ EVERTTHISG FOR the GAHDES," sent free on application, xviien possible please 
malic remittances from tliis advertisement, by Pant office Order .or Registered. Letter, 
although small amounts may he sent In postage stamps. 
PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35 <£. 37 Cortlandt St. N. Y, 
BURPEE’S SEEDS ARE WAR 
b »■ ■ibi i j'i'i ■ ■ Urwl-olitwh \u pyi rv rf-i’ic-' 
Irl LLIftJ MIB# ’ll B V f Brst-oWibrT.ry re £ ,« 7 rt. 
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. I V ^ UP I 1 B I w n-« hit- ugh .. u... fair trlii! «" «->-• " l - r ."n . . -a 
A r jl —W. I-nW ■ a pa.'it’ t "i . f the t" l 'vImk new at. 1 ehuiecst vurtetles: Tito 
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Hpr-' 1 K F3 K 71 n . -3CS Moiit. . . or*.»u ib'-<. <-wn New No. *J Cabbage, r ry oar: . 
KBgggi.yir. a mr,' hirel.-r of line C|ti»utr. Gin nt White Italian thilon. rr.ivn 
® p- AagSiHjfelg a jg ^CASH PIOZES 'or1:.o'lar-'ott»r ■ ' . e’cG.L.ny. UUKCLE'S 
CUM AX TOM ATOES, 0 hr -1 of a' 1 Tomato*', Mrtot'Vfy ft* 
• tgjt BW lbT 1/ a 1 rli.«/ Nowl'rrpottutl Lottnoe. 'kiwi 
"rW' JVc —■ B 11 for Aualio u-r.aaotio yowinr vtiil ilo rbr tint oliul • .rA>on. Japan- 
k |wf O ^ cue Nest-Egir Oou rtl. nf g-- at. value A.;, rv:rv pouUry-lt.'opcr. thor 
w ^TiTlFSs jSIII maki’ the wy be-' nf m-i-err-- Egyptian ilrytl tbe carllcu. 
Intpr--ie 1 Hollow A rtitvn 1 'nr.itIp, I- •' | irritips. Gold. 
W on Globe lluilI, It, beautiful uf porf.-ui !.’. ipr tii.l a.ict (iron 
Perfect Gem Sqtifl.lt, vrrr Tirolifle. fineKrxinr*I, swrot flesh .uni wouderfol h'l Splnuoli, non tbielt Irriv--1, rouinl. 
m Eiarly Siiritt biill Ttiriilp, torv . xrlv, buih >)iiti and tlerli win!, m .-nnw. xiid of mo-t liiimat.. llaenr. Alt the ubot e tire 
lull, reitular dae paoLel^. with Illu.lrutimiH uiul itlrootIon, for eulturcs prliited on cst lt packet- m 
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nLl'IHnhfiDLL. UI I L M , collection by until, fiostpaid. :o moiiimtliir iinly SIM,, wocolltietlon, for 
92,bo! ojui we v. out iT ee.'li eollor tiun. free' of ehttrpo. - nun ■ r iekiA -ir RURl’EE’S ILUHMO I II R illT! si H. 
A I’UISE t'OKA. T't a rumplo uu -I of »b - wpi, 1. rial NEW WELCOME OATS, nic hoe.i.?: .vide- >. dsn - r 
rnn nur ITOI I IQ nvilaii<ltlioibottti;lt‘ti'ii<l | ' ( ii!' , dloii(i( KSvur'.. ■. mnl VL-SO o«« piuAet iwnbof it-j m- 
_ lUn URl UULLAn lowitir. Xow IVillll. Tree Beam tho ptolllo known. 1175 licatrt birjng bt*.’ii •! 
9 on one plant. Ruob t ino Iseirs fronl.". r. Burpee*, Nujierlor Large Lute Flat Dutch Cubbage, tb.: ■ iir L 
wintet o«l. toe. New l>n-»rf Kottml Pit rale Kgg Plant, ae.iest, ajcc-t'l oven •, lu-r.-. Itonml Yellow Dattver* 
0 Onion, on.- of tho 
Itim vers Carrol, tin, 
• Extra Early Peas, t 
quality a*vi t mnrnee 
ltouhd I»ark lied__ 
^ cooked i, a d_- i 
1*2.55 ucluul value, bu 
_ «lvc » ample p*ck, : . ' . r 
• 80 packages, staiif.lc ot, 
vurlellei. Th I‘ It certainly 1 ' 
Radish, 
lr*. > v*nr Muy flower 1‘omuto, fjarly, tfiuwnb, 
_bui 
nf - Jo Furiu- rV Fovorlli* GolJen Pent Corn 
three eentu eneti. A complete A 
t t . m v rr »’• Yn ORIOINATOI 
^ of 801 ** 1 -* fir N iow :Uo U>!D\I CJ * 5 Miy tbr «r*?7*t*w^ vnlat f r tho mom 
iu M I* roumlrno^ in ‘>tir Svctls aud know .:ik ri;l who 1 
« amc oa i> < i'-ll PRIZES tiir ISSS, to tbo ;row. r< of the 
'l'he Onion Seed was si 
\\ but ray customers say 
■ fj • wd wd *• Vnur sect! is U 10 only seotklroiu which " o can raise good Olliuus tic first year.'J 
_ J. j if, t. I’urkrr. jlhnt in (■ “I have used ytMlr seed tor six years and had rather pay *2.0(| 
per lb. extra linUi have seed iromany oiliorca a ■ ■ a ■ sounre."— A. T. Myrr*, t urners .)httsi 
Iowa. “The Danvers Onions front vnur seed 11 Ik I III Ik I irrow larger than any onions around here 
grow from setts .”—James Mrtfowan. 111 M I I I I v| Vlnlli)>si>urvr. Il’jrrka Co.. -V -/- "Your 
early Uetl Gloia,’ yielded at ritlo ntlHsbUsli. “ 111 W I a to the acre. — Sii.is Tu".:i c tfj/, 
jMicA. This is I list the kind of onion seed I have to offer Last year planted as a test sol ny >ide with 
seed from eleveu different growers, the onions from my own markedly siirpassed all in O _ . I 
roundness, earliness and fineness. If those of von who grow red onions wil! try my Early \ Q Q f] 
Red Globe vou will not ho likely to raise auv other for the future. Early Round Yellow Pan-«jR H II 
vers by man per tb. <2.65: Early Red Glolie $3.00; Yellow Cracker (earliest of alll 53.00: terge^ g- y- 
Red Wethereneld. 8i.S0 Mv ittree Seed Catalcurue free to ail. .TAMES J. H. IrREGORY. Marblehead. Ylass. 
500 ^aBr/ IN I.r*>i nHo»it»c». AMiYrar. 
BKtut\,ttii.taaUi}o.ea/ about uo tia,i«,Aet. 
The famo as x. -frr Hyfirtd T«... $1.50 
B^^f tsaMp^('t\m:e f'mr, $1; Champion 
ftfnGreenhouse Plante, Shrubs, Hoses, ISitlbt, 
Climbing Vines, incltldiU-' 25 kludsot 
yew Clematis, a full assortnumt of both^f 
Flower and Vegetable SEVPS apple, 
Pear, Plum, P.- trh Clrrr\. Orvij ■, A 
and all other FRl ITS. 1 X TY 
Pear, Plum, 1'r lrb, Cbrrr\. f.'rxi ., 
and oil otlu r FRl lm MYT\ J9 
^ I SETSa-iSTteJC 
■ 1117 fr*btt*rfe 
■ fmr.f * rA/U-S 'Y 
J O CL I O choice 
SEVEN 
Eiyntmdrods or other thiops olioap; many now and rare. Sate arrivnl £itan»rtcvd 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. toYKbCtb-Obio 
IBenscl 
T5 Hardy CatalfrJ^KW^S^p Ot* l 
12 BKAl 
► Jr Ever-RlrntminB ltOSES,y!r'j» A 
g/T lSJWnjrojss, iufifadi-dua.ljl l>riy - a — 
r 15 BaJliet orBrUilngPl u 'y.Slpk'st''. AC-X 
FI-sever Semis, +1 Sweet Chrv'fo ,:., etc., etc.^ 0 * 
* cno Awvccifcw crTO^yroaii. or^, 
^idatv.Ta Ct-nts; Japanese 
Lhoitr/T’if*.' 1 . 1 .:. fruit tm- 
■^xnenscly laryre, sweet, 
|U j^5(k' undl.owinjiVuf- 
1 l-rr. .tlAT'.iy AS the 
LiR^Tj^sPttk.O'TVylCTjMC- 
WqL-|fe_l t'tv ■ R5e . Set 
fi, worth 
^4.10, 
C$3 
CY 7 ”Hundreds or other tiiinps chewp; many now Krt rare. Sate nrrivnl £itan>utw'ii 
ncM ■ ■ an a V>% n D, B B JK n Q I O ^ |t2 r.\ 1 .> 11. LL? 
Prentiss 
Pookltnjrton l*udv V\fl*hlngton,VeN^ 
■ Vgcnncs Motire’* Kurly* Uri^htoii, JctforAon, otc« 
Prices reduced. AIstYO’ltor Sumll Fniltu Ami nil tihlvr varie* 
MM Grapes LARGEST 8TOCK IN AMERICA. 
mall. I<owA-atea toj[calcr5. Illustrated fr»o. T S.H^nBAiiD.yrcdonla.y.Y. 
KNtraquRHiy. Warranted true. C 
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