Vol. XLII. No. 1754. 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 8, 1883 
PRICE FIVE CENTS 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1SS3, by the Rural New-Yorker in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.! 
poses. But all will agree that for canning 
purposes it is excellent. 
Bagging. —We have bagged strawberries, 
currants, blackberries, cherries and raspber¬ 
ries—but it is not worth one’s while. In fact, 
no fruit can be improved if the bag interferes 
with or covers the foliage. 
AN OLLA PODRIDA. 
MARY WAGER-FISHER. 
CURRANTS. 
Our crop of currants this year is extremely 
good. When the worms attacked the leaves, 
the bushes were thoroughly sprinkled with salt 
water fiom the watering pot, which simple 
process entirely freed the bushes of the vermin. 
When the Roses began to fail the bugs attacked 
my Hollyhocks, eating into the opening buds 
as if they were nectar: but after persistently 
picking the insects off. I am at length rid of 
them. The Hollyhocks from the last year's 
dist ribution of Rural seeds are superb. One 
variety in particular is quite unusual, very 
double, of a creamy white tinged with rose. 
I want to say a good word for the Dingee 
and Conard Roses. Of 25 varieties I received 
from that firm last Spring, all are in a very 
thriving condition and bravely blooming. Al¬ 
though they were planted out on the heels of 
a snow storm, and required cover for several 
nights, not a single plant died. I have never 
before had such charming luck with Roses. 
They have not only the suds from Monday’s 
wash but frequent doses of dish-water, poured 
Shaffer’s Colos-al.— From Nature.—Fig. 021. 
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Landreth and Armstrong Wheats. —In 
1880 we received a wheat called Armstrong 
from Mr. R. T. Holloway, of Penn Yan, 
Yates County, N. Y. Wo are under the im¬ 
pression that we hail for several years raised 
the same wheat under two different names It 
proved to be very hardy and prolific. Our 
notes, as published in the Rural of that 
year, say : “ The straw is 3}^ feet high and 
strong; the heads average four inches, with 
eight breasts or spikelets to a side and three 
kernels in a breast; the kernels are of a light- 
amber color, usually called white; the chaff is 
light-colored, and the heads beardless; it is 
an excellent, hardy wheat, so far as vigor, 
hardiness and productiveness are concerned.” 
For two yeans past we have planted this 
wheat—one kernel every ten inches each way, 
cultivating it once, sometimes in the Fall, 
sometimes in the Spring. 
Last Fall a sample of “Landretb’s New 
White Winter Wheat” was sent to us and 
planted in the same way. Our notes of the 
past season are as follows : “Rated as 95 per 
cent, hardy and next to the cross-bred Diehl- 
Mediterraneau, the hardiest of our wheats; 
3)4 feet high; tillers well; heads average 8bj 
inches long, beardless; nine spikelets to a side; 
2)4 kernels to a spikelet; white, large, plump 
kernels; this was sown not until October 2.” 
Upon a close comparison of the two wheats, 
Armstrong and Laudreth’s, we find them 
the same. A selected head of this wheat, 
drawn absolutely true to nature, is shown at 
Fig. 622, page 590. 
D. Landreth & Sons,"of Philadelphia, iu a 
late circular, speak of it as being “hardy, vig¬ 
orous, stiff in the straw, less liable to rust than 
others, and very prolific. The grain is large, 
plump and white, rnakiug flour of the best 
quality.” 
Our object in speaking of this wheat at 
length is to beg information as to its origiu 
and to commend it as both hardy and prolific, 
though we cannot speak of its flouring quali¬ 
ties. We have selected it for the past two 
years as either the male or female parent of 
many of our cross-breeds. 
The Ohio Black-cap. —The greatest growth 
of cane of any raspberry we have ever raised 
has been made by the Ohio Black-cap this sea¬ 
son. Several of them are now [August 22) 16 
feet long. The plant was sent to us by Mr. J. 
J. Johnson, of Pulinyra, N. Y., in April of 
1881. The berry Is of uiudium size and fair 
quality. 
The Everlasting Raspberry (cap) was 
sent to us by A. Satterfield, Pulaski (?) March 
30 of this year. August 22 we found upou 
one cane (of this season’s growth) 25 berries 
as large as the Gregg, green, ripening and 
ripe, of good quality. The canes arc from two 
to four feet long. 
Shaffer’s Colossal. —Wo have twice 
placed before our readers engravings of this 
berry. Our present engraving was made the 
present season to show the size of the fruit of 
plants set in May of 1881, as well as to enable 
the tea del* to compare the size of the fruit 
with ’hat of the Marlboro planted last Sum- 
ttier. \ engraving of the latter will appear 
next week. • 
The Shall or is wonderfully vigorous, our 
can' s of the present season having grown to a 
hight of 1 4 feet. The quality is sprightly and 
rich, though mo acid for many; the color a 
purplish red, not desirable for market pur¬ 
ROSK BUGS. 
If any Rural reader has found a method of 
clearing the Roses of bugs thoroughly, all the 
world will tie grateful for the information. 
The only pleasure I had in my June Roses lay 
in going out early iu the morning and cutting 
every Rose and half-opened bud. At night I 
cut off all dead Roses aud thousands of bugs- 
carefully about the roots. A vicious hen had 
the temerity to scratch off the top of Paul 
Neyron, but, like Truth crushed to the earth, 
it is good-naturedly rising into foliage again. 
JAPAN LILIES. 
What one my (hath the golden bauded Lily of 
Japan ? Mine, that was so fine last year, has 
failed to appear above the ground this; and 
the Iris Koemferi is in a sickly condition. I 
planted my Gladiolus bulbs in entirely new soil 
this season, and they have never looked more 
thrifty as to leaves. Some English writers 
predict a failure in the Gladiolus, as the bulbs 
indicate rapid deterioration. 
a farm king. 
I noticed yesterday in riding from Harris¬ 
burg to Philadelphia as I have hitherto ob¬ 
served, a series of splendid farms, with the 
buildings painted white with green blinds, and 
a great deal of vivid red introduced here and 
there, all the farm gates being of this lively 
color. Every cluster of farm buildings looked 
like a little village of the gayest and cleanest 
appearance. A gentlemau in the railway car 
told me that the farms, ten or twelve of them, 
were owned by a Mr. Young, and that he raises 
very fine stock—five or six thousand dollar 
cows and the like. I never ride through the 
eastern part of Pennsylvania without being 
greatly impressed with the magnificence of its 
resources, its unequaled (I believe) farms, 
and unequaled farming—all crops in perfect 
condition, and not a weed to be seen; fences, 
outbuildings and fruit trees made clean with 
whitewash. 
MULBERRIES. 
Has everybody a Mulberry tree planted in 
his door-yard ? If not. let not another year 
pass without planting one. Bear in mind al¬ 
so the Downing Ever-bearing Mulberry—it 
bears all the time except during W inter, and 
it begins bearing when no taller than a one- 
year-old boy; at least, that is the case with 
mine. A large, White Mulberry tree yields 
us bushels of fruit every June and we like the 
berries very much; we spread large cloths 
like sheets under the tree, aud with a long 
pole jar the branches, and the ripe berries 
readily fall. The entire household eats of the 
fruit largely, and no one has ever yet suffered 
any inconvenience from so doing. Of course, 
the berries are so sweet as never to require 
sugar. The master of the house is very fond 
of them with cream. 
DWARFED CHERRY TREE. 
Whenever cherries are- ripe I fall to wonder- 
ing if the trees, pruned when young, could not 
be cut. off at the top and so dwarfed in stature 
as to bring the fruit into more piekable alti¬ 
tude ? If all ordinary fruit trees could be 
made to grow low, branching low and wide, 
there would be far less difficulty in seeming 
the fruit. Has any Rural reader experimen¬ 
ted in this way, and with what success ? 
A PAEON Y BED. 
Two or three years ago, I had all the Prmju- 
ies in the lawn planted in one large circular 
bed; the deep red in the middle, the white 
next, the pink in the outside tow. This year I 
counted nearly two hundred blossoming buds, 
and one morning there were between fifty and 
sixty freshly-blown white Pteouies. The bed 
was a beauty, and when out of bloom it looks 
well, the foliage being so handsome. The 
roots were lifted iu November. 
BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 
The American Fruit Drier or Pneumatic 
Evaporator —a pamphlet of 48 pages, pub¬ 
lished for free distribution by the American 
Manufacturing Co., Waynesboro, Pa. It gives 
a full account of the process of evaporating 
fruit and of the American Evaporator, 
together with a long list of testimonials from 
those who have used this evaporator, all speak¬ 
ing of its excellence iu high terms. 
The Chemical Society. This pamphlet of 
44 pages consists of the very interesting ad¬ 
dress of Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F. R. S., Pres¬ 
ident of the above society, at its annual gen¬ 
eral meeting held iu Loudon, England, March 
30, 1883. In it is given a sketch of the his¬ 
tory of the society, together with an account 
of its work, its financial standing, short bio- 
