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where those can grow it who have no hot¬ 
house. and a larger number can, therefore, 
enjoy the luxury of owning a plant of one of 
the most beautiful of all palms. Secondly, it 
can be kept in good health in the sitting room 
or parlor in Winter, provided the air is not 
too hot and dry. I place the pot on the lawn 
during the Summer, fully exposed to the sun, 
where it seems to be perfectly at home. 
* * * 
The potato, during the present Summer, has 
been notable for its great number of blossoms. 
Some fields have looked like immeuse dower 
patches, so profuse has been the bloom. There 
are people who believe there oan not be much 
of a crop of potatoes without blossoms, and 
they ought to be happy. On the contrary, I 
have beeu asked if so many blossoms will not 
hurt the crop by making the potatoes smaller. 
From such opposite points do people look at 
the same object I 
* * * 
If dry weather should continue, those who 
plant strawberries should remember that one 
good soaking at the time of planting will do 
more good than a hundred sprinklings. As a 
rule, one good soaking will be all that is needed. 
These remarks are also applicable to celery 
and other plants put out in a dry time, and 
will bear to be repeated. 
* * * 
Why is not the chestnut, when in the hight 
of its bloom, a grand sight to look upon ? I 
think it is particularly striking at this time; 
and yet 1 never hear auy thing said in its praise 
except by the boys, who associate the abun¬ 
dance of the flowers with a good time in the 
Autumn, when they go “a-nutting,” the chest¬ 
nut being par excellence the nut of the boy’s 
“outing” in Autumu. He looks forward to 
that time much as the angler does to the ap¬ 
proach of Spring and the opening of the 
season for trout, the difference being that the 
one casts a stone and the other a “fly.” 
* * * 
Dr. Morris Gibbs, in Forest aud 8tream, is 
writing a very interesting series of articles on 
the natural history and habits of the “Hirds 
of Michigan.” In speaking of the robin, he 
charges against it, as a grave fault, that it 
destroys the worms on our lawns. This is 
said in the interest of Darwtnisto. Mr. Dar¬ 
win says that the earth-worm is a great, if 
not the chief, earth-maker, aud Dr. Gibbs, 
therefore, says it is a great crime in the robin 
to destroy earth-worms on the luwn. We 
who have lawns, and take pride in them, are 
not willing to conseut to an assumption of 
this kind. The robin has his faults, but de¬ 
stroying worms is not one of them. So far 
from being an enemy in this regard, he is one 
of our best friends, aud saves us a great deal 
of fretting and no inconsiderable trouble and 
expense. If the robin will only keep luy lawn 
free from woirns, he is quite welcome to a 
dessert from my cherry trees. The doctor 
should withdraw his charge. horticola. 
NOTES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 
VRVSVH 1USSARDII. 
I have a flue specimen of Prunus pissardii 
which produced two plums this season. One 
of them, from some injury, began to decay, 
and wo tested its quality on July 22d (the other 
issttllhard), and find it of fair ilavor, but 
there is, in the skin, a bitter and astringent 
taste, which, I think, will spoil it for cooklug. 
1 agree with a late Rural as to its value for 
ornament. My specimen is finely colored uow; 
while a Purple Beech uear it has nearly 
changed its purple for greeu. 
A NEW YELLOW RASPBERRY. 
By iuvitation of Ezra Stokes, of Berlin. N. 
J., I visited his fruit farm a few days since, to ex¬ 
amine the Golden Queen Raspberry, a variety 
which be found growing among his Cuthberts. 
This is the third season I have seen it in fruit, 
and it has uniformly made a vigorous growth 
aud borne a full crop of large, showy berries 
of line quality—in short, it appears to be a 
yellow Outhbert, retaining all the vigor, pro¬ 
ductiveness, firmness, size and quulity of that 
famous variety, and I regard it as beyond 
comparison the beat yellow raspberry I have 
yet seen. 
CUUOULIO-PROOF PLUMS. 
I have tried several of the curculio-proof 
plums, but they are valuable only where 
others cannot be grown. Wild Goose may be 
good for those who do not have au abundance 
of line fruit, but there is very little flavor in 
it. It may bo valuable for cooking, but from 
a dozen trees of good Bize I have never had 
enough ripe at one time to test its cooking 
qualities. The Reed Plum is butter in quulity, 
and much more brilliant in color, and my 
trees, four to six feet in hight, have borne 
freely, but, unfortunately, there is so much 
bitterness and ustringeucy in the skin as to 
render the fruit worthless for cooking. Bas¬ 
sett’s American grows well and bears heavy 
crops of medium-sized fruit, not quite so good 
us Reed, when eaten from the tree, aud having 
some astringency in the skin, although much 
less than the Reed Plum. 
Newman, one of the Cbickasaws, is so beau¬ 
tiful in its slender, graceful growth and 
handsome foliage, and in its mass of snowy 
white flowers very early in Spring, that it is 
worth growing for ornament, but it gives 
only an occasional plum. 
CERCIS JAPONICA. 
This has been growing here for at least 10 
years,both on light and heavy soils,and I have 
never known it to be injured by the Winter. 
HANS ELL RASPBERRY. 
I think the extra size aud lateness of the 
Hansell with you this season are the results of 
weakening by drought of last year and con¬ 
sequent partial winter-killing during the 
severe weather which followed. As is 
well understood, the Rubus family pro¬ 
duce their main crop from branches which 
come from wood which grew the previous 
season, and the canes for the next year’s crop 
come from the same stock, but lower down, 
aud it is not uncommon to see an occasional 
cane with growth very similar to tbat of those 
which are to produce the next crop, yet pro¬ 
ducing fruit the lirstseason, and on these we 
get some enormous beiTies. Any injury to the 
fruiting cane often increases this tendency,and 
I find an unusual amount of it in my Hansell 
and Outhbert this seasou. Examination also 
shows that a portion of the canes come from 
near the surface of the grouud from canes 
which were partially killed,aud a portion from 
small suckers which only got two or three 
inches above the surface last Fall, and these 
have made strong fruiting canes this Summer. 
Most of our Hansells came through uninjured, 
and ripened very early. w. F. Bassett. 
Atlantic Co N. J. 
STRAWBERRY, DAISY MILLER. 
Many favorable accounts of this new straw¬ 
berry have appeared of late, especially in 
Western journals. 
“ We received plauts from the originator, S. 
Miller, of Bluffton. Mo., Sept. 2b, 1SSS. The 
flower is perfect, the foliage healthy, low- 
growing and dark-green. The fruit stems are 
too short, the berries being in clusters just 
above the ground. There are six to eight 
berries to a peduncle. Shape, ovate-round. 
Quality rather sour; seasou medium. From 
the first seasou’s test, no good reason appears 
why this berry should be introduced.” 
The above within quotation marks appeared 
under Notes from the Rural Grounds, Aug. 2 
of last year. Below, we present the views of 
several well-known horticulturists. The en¬ 
graving (Fig. 807) Is a careful portrait of the 
fruit as it grew with us the past seasou. 
FROM \Y. J. GREEN. 
The Daisy Miller Strawberry has not proven 
satisfactory here. The plauts are apparently 
healthy, but of weak growth. The berries 
are quite small, not larger than those of the 
James Vick. We have, however, fruited fall- 
set plauts only. Of 40 or more varieties 
planted at the same time, it gave the poorest 
results of all. 
Columbus, O. 
FROM PRES. T. T. LYON. 
The Daisy Miller Strawberry has beeu grow¬ 
ing on my grounds since the Spring of 1884. 
It has proved to be a great producer of plants; 
and stands the sun with very little rust or 
scorching. The fruit is of fair size and quali" 
ty; but the variety cannot, so far, be said to 
be very productive. Pari’y (planted only in 
August last), is decidedly larger, better and 
more productive; while Jewell aud Cornelia, 
growing near, of the same age, and treated 
in the same manner, show fruit fully twice as 
large; and are from two to three times as 
productive. 
South Haven, Michigan. 
FROM HALE BROTHERS. 
The Daisy Miller Strawberry is a strong, 
healthy grower, with rather short leaf stalks; 
it makes young plants quite freely; blossom 
“perfect” and the variety is very prolific of 
medium to large-sized fruit, that In form 
and color much resemble Manchester, being 
moderately firm and of fair quality. It would 
prove quite valuable as a market berry were 
it not for the fact that the fruitstalks are so 
very short that it is almost impossible to keep 
the fruit up out of the rlirt, even with a liberal 
mulching; the berries just “root” for the 
bottom. 
South Glastonbury, Connecticut. 
FROM J. T. LOVETT. 
The Daisy Miller Strawberry has been an 
almost utter failure with me. It resembles 
Capt. Jack and James Vick, being a berry of 
the same class, perhaps a seedling of one or 
the other. It is not, however, so good a 
grower as either and not so productive with 
me, as it is a poor grower, while Vick and 
Capt. Jack are both vigorous growers. 
Little Silver, New Jersey, 
FROM E. WILLIAMS. 
From such an unfavorable strawberry sea¬ 
sou as that just passed, one caunot form a 
just estimate of the merits of any berry, but 
in comparison with others my Daisy Millers 
were a total failure. The plants seetn healthy, 
of dwarf growth, and the feeble attempt at 
fruiting resulted in a few “buttons” on very 
short foot-stalks, but there was not a perfectly 
developed berry, so tbat I am as yet without 
the least evidence of its value. 
In another and more propitious season I 
hope for better results. 
Montclair, N. J. 
FROM P. M. AUOUB. 
I have not tried the Daisy Miller, so per¬ 
haps I ought not to speak of it. My impres¬ 
sions are that it is a very pretty berry of 
moderate size and as good as many other va¬ 
rieties in market, probably not above medi¬ 
ocrity. 
I don’t care to spend time ou varieties no 
better than many which we already have. I / 
have condemned many of my own seedlings 
simply because they are no better than what! 
we already have. 
Middlefield, Conn. 1 
FROM PARKER EARLB. V 
With us the Daisy Miller is quite worthless 
from its liability to rust Our climate is 
peculiarly trying to many varieties of the 
strawberry. 
Cobdeu, Ill. 
PomologicR! 
JOHNSON’S JUNE APPLE. 
WE received, ou June ISth, 1885, from Mr. 
J. P. Johnson, New Vernon, N. J., a box of 
apples in fine order, of which he wrote: “The 
tree which bore these apples originated as a 
STRAWBERRY “DAISY MILLER.” (From Nature.) Fig. 3(57. 
chance seedling on the farm of grandfather 
Johnson some 80 years, or more, ago. It is a 
good grower and bearer, and is regarded 
here as an iron-clad.” 
The apples, a cut of one of which we show 
at Fig. 308, are medium in size, conical, often 
I Johnson’s June Apple. (From Nature.) 
J Fig. 368. 
inclined to be oblique. Stem short (one half 
inch long), stout, planted in a deep, small, ir* 
regular cavity: calyx small, closed and in a 
broad, shallow, much corrugated basiu. 
Color, body greenish-yellow nearly covered 
with a pale grayish-red, gradually deepening 
in the sun, thickly splashed with deep-red 
stripes; the whole surface covered with a 
whitish bloom, and quite thickly dotted with 
yellowish dots. A cross-section is shown at 
Fig. 360. The core is above medium, and is 
well filled with medium-sized seeds; flesh 
greenish-white, distinctly greenish toward the 
core, fine grained, very firm, juicy .only “good” 
in quality, with a very little bitterness. It 
must be a remarkable beeper, as on June ISth 
the specimens were very hard and looked as 
though they would keep another year before 
getting mellow. Mr. Johnson informed us 
that he sold on June 10, 25 bushels as sound 
as these sent us, at $1.00 per bushel. 
THE FOUNDLING APPLE. 
T. H. HOSKINS, M. D. 
The Foundling originated in Groton, Mass. 
It is described in Cole’s American Fruit Book, 
ed. 1857, as “new,” and “one of the handsom¬ 
est and best.” It has never been very exten¬ 
sively planted, even in New England. It was 
introduced into Vermont some 30 years ago 
by George F. Nutting, a native of Groton, 
Mass., who brought it to Randolph, Vt., and 
I think it is more extensively grown around 
Randolph than in any other locality in the 
United States, as Mr. Nutting has been a very 
earnest preacher of its merits. In the Ameri¬ 
can Pomological Society's last Report it is 
double-starred only in New Hampshire, pro¬ 
bably by some one enthusiastic admirer, as I 
cannot learn that it is extensively cultivated 
in that State. It has one star for Massachu¬ 
setts, Michigan, and Vermont, and a + for 
Rhode Island, which is all the notice taken of 
it. 
Singularly enough, the Foundling was car¬ 
ried into Lower Canada (Province of Quebec) a 
good many years ago, where It has been grown, 
aud has become quite popular under the name 
of Late Strawberry, the Montreal Horticul¬ 
tural Society only correcting the error in its 
last report. They also have it in Wisconsin 
under another name, which I do not recall, 
but which I received with a specimen from F. 
K. Phoenix, of Delavan, Wis. 
June Apple. (Half Section.) Fig. 369. 
Downing describes the fruit very well, but 
probably from a single specimen. Cole gives 
no outline, but notes tbat the apple is “rib¬ 
bed (more porperly -‘angular”) which Down¬ 
ing omits, and says of the stem that it is “me¬ 
dial” and * very deeply sunken.” This is true, 
and may have been the reason why Downing 
