OCT 20 
6B8 
THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
other property. This is true all the way 
down to the hoys who make free with peaches 
and grapes o’ nights, 1 do not expect to in¬ 
troduce a new fruit after the Niagara Grape 
method; but that I have a right thus to do 
cannot be doubted. Nor should the method 
be criticized on the ground that it is not phil¬ 
anthropic. Business is not. conducted on a be¬ 
nevolent plan, nor is it. best that it should be 
so conducted. But were it otherwise, no one 
can claim that, suffering will occur from the 
withholding from among a thousand varieties 
of grapes one variety from general garden 
culture for a brief period. 1 think the com¬ 
mittee drew this resolution with good inten¬ 
tions; but I don’t think it. was expedient. 
When agriculturists or horticulturists con¬ 
vene, let due attention be given to the ques¬ 
tion of securing a quiet hall where men not 
accustomed to public speaking can be heard 
without splitting their throats. Go to the 
garret, the cellar, the back-yard—anywhere 
rather than into a hall where nothing can be 
heard. In most cases a sense of delicacy pre¬ 
vents any action on the part of those present, 
as they are fearful lest offense may be given 
thoso who engaged the hall. This is carrying 
politeness too far. What folly for men to 
travel thousands of miles to listen to a dumb 
show of gestures, rolling of ey es and moving 
of lips, while not a word can be heard. Public 
gatherings of ruralists should be encouraged. 
We do not go about enough, and thus we fall 
behind the times. But when we do go and find 
the meeting a failure because it is held in a 
noisy hall, or in one in which the voice is car¬ 
ried away from the audience by reason of de¬ 
fective construction, we are encouraged to 
stay at home and read accounts of the meeting, 
from the papers. 
When a State society invites a National so¬ 
ciety to hold its meeting in its State, it would 
be well for the National society to appoint a 
committee to learn what programme is laid 
out, and whether the details are appropriate 
or desirable. Otherwise, the National society 
would lose its character and assume that of 
the State society, which manages all details to 
a greater or less extent, and whose judgment 
may be deficient in some respects, or which, 
like all mankind, may make mistakes which 
would reflect most seriously on the National 
society. C. A. Green. 
APPLE INSECTS IN MAINE. 
The Codling Moth is found everywhere, 
and is very destructive. No attempt is made to 
fight it, except by pasturing with sheep, which 
proves fairly effective. 
The Oyster-shell Bark Louse is widely 
distributed, but is not often very injurious. 
The more progressive orchardists combat it 
with soap suds, in extreme cases. 
The Round-headed Borer in most parts 
of the State is exceedingly' abundant and very 
destructive. In the principal fruit districts 
almost everybody fights this pest with knife 
and wire with success proportioned to the zeal 
displayed. Some sections are wholly exempt 
from the pest, e. g.,& part of Fi aukliu County. 
The Plat-headed Borer is sometimes 
found but is not abundant. 
The Apple-tree Tent Caterpillar is 
generally distributed, but it is intermittent in 
its attacks. It has now' been quiet for several 
years. It has sometimes been very trouble¬ 
some. 
The Tent Caterpillar of the forest is 
intermittent, like the last. It is more com¬ 
mon on forest trees, but it often attacks 
orchards. In some seasons it has devastated 
tracts of country miles in area, leaving forest 
and orchard as browm as if scorched by fire. 
The Apple Maggot is a small, white mag¬ 
got that runs its fine, winding galleries through 
and through an apple, spoiling it for all uses. 
In some of the villages it has become very 
plentiful and is doiug a good deal of harm. 
The Canker Worm is unknown through 
most of the State. c. G a. 
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FLAME AND NIGHT-FLYING INSECTS. 
At Wellsburg, W. Va., there is a gas well 
from which there is a waste pipe for gas that 
burns constantly with a flame several feet 
high. The beetles gather to the flame at 
night, and are searched to death. Millions of 
dead beetles lie around the w aste pipe on the 
ground. The result is uot a caterpillar is to 
be found in that whole region. Why cannot 
farmers make torches and burn them at night 
in their orchards, and thus destroy the beetles 
and save their fruit? Wm, L. Hill. 
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We are in hopes that the remedy of spray¬ 
ing apple trees with Paris-green water, as 
soon as the fruit has set will be discontinued. 
STRAWBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES. 
TWENTY-NINE STATES HEARD FROM. 
RURAL SUBSCRIBERS' CHOICE OF 
VARIETIES. 
(Continued.) 
Tennessee. 
Vallejo, Solauo Co.—Iu this locality very 
few strawberries are cultivated, although they 
do very well. I have a small bed of Monarch 
of the West. I have interviewed quite a 
number of persons w bo take some interest in 
such matters, but have not gleaned sufficient 
information. In fact, I only found one man 
w ho knew W'hat kind of berries he was grow¬ 
ing. He had Sharpless. f. a, l. 
Colorado. 
Denver, Arapahoe Co.—Best strawberries: 
—early, Wilson; late, Jucunda; medium, 
Capt. Jack. Raspberries:—black, Gregg: red, 
Turner. I. a. s. 
Fort Collins, Larimer Co.—Strawberries: 
Jucunda, Crescent and Wilson, Windsor 
Chief, Capt. Jack and Glendale. 0. e. b. 
Illinois. 
Morrisonville, Christian Co.—Best straw¬ 
berries:—Wilson, Chas. Downing, Cumber¬ 
land Triumph, Green Prolific, Capt. Jack, 
Kentucky. Best raspberries:—Tyler and 
Mammoth Cluster'. Gregg best for market. 
Rod raspberries:—Turner, Cuthbert. The 
above are the only varieties grown to any ex¬ 
tent in this section f. g. 
Quincy, Adams Co.—Best strawberries: 
early, Crescent and Bid well; medium, Chas. 
Dowuiug and Wilson; late, Manchester and 
Sharpies . Raspberries: late, Gregg; early, 
Souhegan, for blacks. Red raspberries: 
Cuthbert and Turner. j. M. s. 
Michigan. 
Rochester, Oakland Co. — Strawberries 
for home: early, Triomphe de Gaud and 
Wilson’s Albany; late, Kentucky and Mount 
Vernon. Red raspberry, Cuthbert. w. F. 
New Jersey. 
Titus ville, Mercer Co.—Strawberries for 
market: early, on good soil Cumberland 
Triumph and Bid well. If the soil is thin, 
substitute Crescent for Bidwell. Medium, 
Charles Downing and Sharp! .ins. For distant 
market substitute Wilson for Sharpless. Late, 
Kentucky and Mt. Vernon. The above are 
as good as auy for family use unless we add 
Triomphe de Gand for rich soil. Early and 
late raspberries for market; black-cap 
Doolittle and Gregg; wamld prefer Mammoth 
Cluster to Doolittle. Red raspberries:— 
Cuthbert and Brandywine. T. H. 
New York. 
Portland ville, Otsego Co.—Strawberries: 
Charles Downing for early; Sharpless fol¬ 
iate, for home use and market. E. G. m. 
Queens, Queens Co., L. I.—Best early and 
late strawberry for home use, Charles Down¬ 
ing. Best late raspberry for home use, 
Cuthbert. C, e. p. 
Rathbone, Steuben Co.—Best strawberries: 
Wilson, Manchester, President Lincoln aud 
James Vick. Best raspberries; Mammoth 
Cluster, Cuthbert, Gregg, Doolittle. R. M’c. 
Ohio. 
Coe Ridge, Cuyahoga Co.—Best strawber¬ 
ries for home use:—Duchess for early; Ken. 
tuoky for late; Charles Downing and Green 
Prolific for medium. Strawberries for mar¬ 
ket:—Crescent for early; Kentucky for late. 
Raspberries:—Davison’s Thornless for early; 
Doolittle for medium; Lost Rubies is excel¬ 
lent for flavor and I like Caioline greatly, a. c. 
East Norwalk, Huron Co.—Best straw¬ 
berries: Crescent aud Wilson for market, 
and Bidwell and Wilson for home use. Rasp¬ 
berries r Tomer and Cuthbert for market 
and Clark and Cuthbert for home use. I have 
25 acres under fruit, and huve been a fruit¬ 
grower for 20 years. H. m. 
Newton Falls, Trumbull Co.-Straw'berries: 
For market, Crescent and Cumberland; for 
home use, Cumberland and Sharpless. The 
latter if planted in a clayey soil is a grand 
berry. For medium, Charles Downing and 
Miner’s Prolific; for late, Wilson aud Mt, 
Vernon. The Bidwell is a failure. Manches¬ 
ter is fast coming into favor. e. w. t. 
Short Creek, Harrison Co.—Of old tested 
strawberries I would name as best early 
Crescent aud Duchess; medium, Charles 
Downing aud Cumberland: late, Glendale and 
Kentucky. Would name as promising new 
varieties, Hart’s, Piper and Windsor Chief. 
h. g. h. 
California. 
Green Brier, Robertson Co.—The Chas. 
Downing and Mt. Vernon are the favorites 
here. The Turner and Gregg are also con¬ 
sidered prime berries. s. K. 0. 
Texas. 
Melissa, Collin Co.— I can ouly recom¬ 
mend three strawberries for this country; 
they are: Crescent for early market; Captain 
Jack for medium and late, and Cumberland 
as best for home use. Best raspberry. Cuth¬ 
bert.* Blackberries do well here. Strawberries 
suffer too much in our hot Summers, c. a. g. 
STRAWBERRIES AND IRRIGATION IN 
COLORADO. 
There may be some strawberries which do 
not take kindly to irrigation; but 1 have as 
yet found none. 1 aim to keep the ground 
always moist, aud during the fruiting season 
give the beds a thorough soaking from two to 
three times a week. We had a freeze here on 
the night of the 29th of May, which destroyed 
perhaps three-fourths of the strawberry crop. 
Noticing the threatened, very severe weather, 
1 turned a stream of water on my beds in the 
evening, and allowed it to ran through the 
vines all night, and the consequence was I 
lost hardly one-tliird of my crop. My notes 
for the season are as follows: 
Manchester, very largo, fine and prolific; 
quality medium. The most vigorous grower 
I hive. 
Jersey Queen, large aud of fine quality; not 
so prolific as some other varieties. Big Bob, 
small to medium, of fine color and very 
prolific. 
Bidwell, of splendid quality and of good 
size, but a shy bearer. 
Sharpless, large aud fine berries. May do 
for amateurs; will not pay for market. 
Longfellow, a better berry; but vine un¬ 
productive. 
Red Jacket early* with fine, large berries, 
but soft. Vine a poor bearer. 
Warren, Black Defiance, Monarch of the 
West, Crystal City and Glossy Cone, all small 
and shy bearers. Have discarded all of them. 
Crescent beats them all. Of good size, 
bright scarlet, carries well and out-bears any¬ 
thing 1 ever saw. The best paying berry 
that grows. 
Windsor Chief, large and very prolific, but 
of a lighter color, which does not attract the 
eye nearly so well as the darker shades. Still 
it is hard to excel. 
Cumberland Triumph bears lots of large 
berries, and they are of good flavor. 
Kirkwood, a good, late berry', but like Cum¬ 
berland and Windsor, of rather too light 
a color. 
Finch’s Prolific, a promising berry, of good 
size and quite firm. 
J ucuuda does well upon my heavy clay soil, 
and the berries are very large and firm. Few' 
varieties look so handsome. 
Charles Dowuiug 1 like better each year. 
It is of good size, very handsome and uniform 
and the quality is the best. There are other 
varieties that are more prolific. 
Out of the 40 kinds I um now growing, the 
old Wilson is the most worthless. What few 
berries it bears range from the size of a Cres¬ 
cent to that of a pea, and most of them are of 
the latter size. A bed 20 rods long, yielded 
but from four to six quarts at a picking, while 
the Crescents iu adjoining rows yielded 20. 
The old Kentucky yields heavily of large 
berries, but it is a little soft for shipping. 
The Glendale, with its enormous hulls is a 
remarkable-looking berry, very prolific and 
it ripens all at once. If it was not so 
coarse-looking it would be a very profitable 
market berry. 
Prices of berries here opened and closed at 
55 cents wholesale, but were down to 25 eeuts 
for a time. j. s. mcc. 
Fort Collins, Colorado. 
ADIRONDACK RASPBERRIES. 
GEN. WM. n. NOBLE. 
I am among the lakes and mountains. I 
make my Summer 2,000 foot above the sea 
where in Winter the thermometer often goes 
down among the forties. Yet about here are 
thousands of acres of raspberries, in stature 
from a foot to five feet high. They are loaded 
all over to the very tips with luscious fruit 
of the i ed Antwerp type; thousands of bushels 
could be picked. Wherever there is a clear¬ 
ing they spring up as if by' enchantment and 
grow' luxuriantly. In fact, every roadside 
hedge and open stretch through the wood¬ 
lands are clothed with raspberries. 
I have seen no distinct varieties, though 
there are often some of superior size. But all 
are of the same red type, thimble-shaped, 
soft, high-flavored and luscious. A canning 
establishment at Lake Placid could male a 
fortune. It’s nothing to ran out and pick a 
couple of quarts along a farm hedge, close by 
my son’s cottage. 
Now, how is it that this Adirondack berry 
has never been triad down near the sea level 
and farther south? There is a constant bicker 
and rivalry about hardy' raspberries. Why 
not try this Northern variety? I admit that 
the question of hardiness is very puzzling. It’s 
not always the freeze that kills. Sometimes 
the sun and frost combine to blast the crop 
power of this bush. Sometimes the drought, 
as well as the thermometer at zero, quenches 
the life of the plant. But I do not believe the 
low’-down figures of the scale do much harm 
to ripened wood. It’s the hot Winter sun and 
the alternate freeze and thaw that hurt 
the worst. 
At any' rate, would it not be well to try the 
plant along the lower Hudson, and within 
reach of the ocean’s breath? Perhaps some 
have made the experiment. If so, they uever 
tell where they' get their new kinds with all 
sorts of names. Wby' should not our Agricul¬ 
tural Department make the experiment with 
some of these high-up and cold-land varieties? 
•RTiscfllantous. 
NOTES FROM THE GARDEN AND 
FARM. 
The American Wonder Pea was a won¬ 
derful failure with me. It promised well at 
first but the yield compared with that of the 
Marrowfat, was voi-y small. No other variety 
ever gave me the satisfaction afforded by the 
last named pea. 
The Cabbage Worm. —I see that a writer 
in a late Rural thinks there are no remedies 
that are effectual for this worm. I believe 
that the nearest approach to ono is found in 
hot w'ater. One of my neighbors who raises 
vegetables for market, had 400 heads of early 
cabbage in good condition, which be had treat¬ 
ed with hot water. The water should not be 
boiling, or it will crisp the leaves, but hot 
enough to feel uncomfortable to tho finger. 
Put on once a week or so with a sprinkler, it 
does excellent work on tho worms. The same 
treatment for the currant worm, when it first 
appears, cleanses the bushes better thau any¬ 
thing 1 have ever tried. Lime water, with a 
haudful of salt dissolved in it, is excellent for 
cabbage also. I do not believe in the use of 
Paris-green or other active poisous for cab¬ 
bage; for if the majority of people used any 
of these a certain per cent, of them would ap¬ 
ply it so carelessly that some one would be 
fatally poisoned by eating tho vegetables to 
which it had beeu applied. [The hot water 
remedy is a poor one. In nine eases out of 
ten more damage will be done to the cabbage 
thau to the worms. We have used Pyrethrum, 
however, effectually this season, blown on the 
plants through a bellows.— Eds.] 
Cutting Weeds. —Riding through the 
country a short time ago, 1 noticed a cornfield 
iu which there were so many vigorous mul¬ 
leins growing that l thought at first the ow ner 
was trying to raise another crop of something 
iu connection with the corn. Mulleins have 
only recently put in an appen ranee in t he West, 
and it gives one a forlorn feeling to see a field 
of the bare, dried stalks standing like lonely' 
sentinels proclaiming the carelessness of tho 
farmer who will harbor them, or other trouble¬ 
some weeds, such us thistles und burdocks, 
w ithout making war on them. 
Minor Morals in Agriculture. — One 
thing that makes many' an otherwise good 
man disliked iu a neighborhood is the slack 
habits he has, of doing business w ith hisneigh- 
bors. Neglect to pay little bills for things 
bought; to return seed grain borrowed ; or 
tools he has bud the use of; or to keep his 
fences in repair, so that his neighbor need not 
watch his fields constantly to be sure his grain 
is not beiug destroyed by lawless cattle—such 
things become very disagreeable and often 
create ill-feeling urnoug tho offender’s ac¬ 
quaintances when by a little thinking for 
others as well as for lumself all trouble might 
be avoided. “observer.” 
Soutnern, W T is. 
NOTES FROM CANADA. 
Fruit picking begins here a week earlier 
thau usual. The frost of two weeks ago has 
J loosened the apples from their stalks und they 
