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Yol. XLVI. No. 1939 
NEW YORK, MARCH 26, 1887 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1887, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
cannot tell whether cultivation would help 
them or not. They grow very fast without 
cultivation. F. e. smith. 
Hillsborough Co., N. H. 
The Pruning of an Orchard I thiuk best 
done by following it up in March every year 
from planting. I would leave no limbs lower 
than five or six feet and let uo limb stay on 
that will be a nuisance in years to come. This 
prevents the terrible slaughtering in trinun ing 
large trees that have been neglected for years. 
Kent Co., Canada. f. w. WILSON. 
consider the Due de Brabant the most beauti¬ 
ful although the Lady Stanley and the other 
variegated varieties of dowel’s, white and red, 
are desirable. I have succeeded in keeping 
the Double-flowering Almond but a few years. 
Although very beautiful, both white and red, 
and grafted plants are not long-lived.—[That 
is our experience.—E ds.] 
What a a showy hedge the Japan Quince 
makes, and what a blaze of crimson flowers, 
but how few hedges are to be seen. Blush 
and white-flower kinds make a beautiful 
variety and contrast. Pride of Rochester is a 
singular name for a deutzia; but it will be an 
ornament and an object of pride on any per¬ 
son’s grounds. It is the most profuse bloomer 
of all, but the other varieties have their 
merits too. We want trees or shrubs that 
make a show in the fall when trees are des¬ 
poiled of their foliage, and the euonymus 
will have a pleasing effect. The best is the 
American, but the European is much the pret 
tier tree. The winged variety is curious aud 
desirable. In early spring the Golden Forsy- 
tbia cheers the heart of the gardener, and the 
Fortunei is the best and can be trained to a 
handsome upright bush; while the other two 
kinds spread over too much space. A favorite 
with most is the upright honeysuckle with 
its many varieties; but the Grandiflora, 
Rubra or Speciosa, which may be the same 
as there is often contusion in the names of 
flowers as well as of fruits, will be satisfactory. 
Every one admires the hydrangea bearing 
such splendid panicles of white flowers, but 
few remember or care for its long and hard 
name—Paniculate grandiflora. The cultiva¬ 
tor should cut out the old wood, as those 
monstrous bunches grow ou young wood only. 
Grafted lilacs of different shades of color are 
preferable to the common red and white, as 
they require but littie room and the whole 
plant is covered with a mass of bloom in a 
compact form. [ think for all purposes the 
Philadelphia grandiflora is my preference. 
What a prize we have in the Prunus Pis- 
sardii or Purple Plum. It holds its purple 
of leaf and bark the best of ail yet, but the 
dowel’s are of little value. I have 
the Golden-leaf Privet and the 
Silver-leaf, but the California is 
the best, and is beautiful in bloom 
throughout the season. 
It is surprising to find so many 
planters of trees who pay so little 
regard to what the future tree will 
be, if it has only a straight 
trunk, that is sufficient. But the 
form and growth of the top are 
far more important than the per 
feet symmetry of the trunk. Near¬ 
ly every shade aud ornamental 
Wee should have a leading central 
shoo Land the branch should spriug 
regularly from it, and the owner 
should keep but one leading trunk 
if perfect lieauty of shape is de¬ 
sired, aud nurserymen should trim 
uearly all their larger varieties of 
deciduous trees to that end. We 
often see trees improperly pruned, 
making a straggling unequal 
growth, and the limbs broken by 
storms. This is so, especially the 
... case with the Silver Maples that 
jjjY many object to planting them 
This would not occur if properly 
trained iu the nursery to straight 
upright leaders. Many in planting 
S trees iu new places err iu having 
too many large trees, aud often iu 
small yards too. A part should 
be of the second-class in size, 
some flowering, others small weep- 
ing trees, interspersed with a few 
purple or variegated specimens, of 
fey . which there is a very goodly selec¬ 
tion, and if a proper number of 
flowering bushes are mingled in. 
If? m with S°od la-sce, when the trees hc- 
qt. quire large size some may be partly 
removed if there are too many. 
&W-il’ Of the large number of spineas 
the amateur will find the Billardii 
.- callosa rubra, Reevesii double, Gol¬ 
den (aurea), prunifolia, teuuissima, 
superba, Vau Houtei, Ulmifolia 
aud Thuubergii ithe prettiest bush 
of all) a selection of good kinds 
that will give a succession of 
bloom. Our old-fashioned snow¬ 
ball should be mentioned, but the 
Japan variety (Viburnum plica- 
turn) is better for the greater pro¬ 
fusion of bloom and finer leaves 
aud form of bush, others of the 
viburnums are desirable on a large 
place, especially for the showy ber¬ 
ries, red and black, they bear. 
^ Among the best of flowering 
shrubs I place the w r eigelas, and 
there are so many kinds to se- 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT, 
t UCH has been said of this 
apple first and last in the R. 
N.-Y. Dr. T. H. Hoskins 
kindly called our attention to 
a colored illustration of the 
fruit, leaves and twig, which 
appeared iu a late number of 
the Canada Horticulturist as 
beiug the best portrait of this 
variety that has ever ap¬ 
peared, and from it our illustration, Fig. 141, 
was drawn. Prof. Budd, of Ames, Iowa, says 
iu the R. N.-Y. of Feb. 21,1H85, that he has 
received many good words from many States 
of the Union for this earliest of summer apples. 
It is agreed ou all bauds thut it is earlier than 
Early Harvest, quite as large and handsome, 
and fully equal in quality. Besides, it comes 
into bearing early and seems as 
regular in its crops as Duchess. 
Dr. Hoskius (Newport, Vt.) re¬ 
fers ou page 200 of last year’s R. 
N.-Y. to a “curious thing” about 
the Yellow Transparent. His 
original tree, from the one cion he 
received from Washington in 1870, 
is iu grass in a rat her poor spot 
aud boro an immense crop. But 
the fruit was so small that it was 
uot. gathered for market as that 
of the others was in August. The 
fruit hung ou, growing better and 
better, and whiter aud whiter un¬ 
til the last ol' September, and his 
visitors when they came round to 
that tree declared the apples to be 
the best ou the place. They were 
the size of the Fameuse, as white 
as the whitest ivory, and really 
equal to Early Harvest which is 
scarcely the case when gathered iu 
August. This apple, Dr. Hoskins 
says, is the beet shipper and keep 
or of any early apple he knows. ■ i 
Dr. lloskin.s tolls us that this i* 
apple is now in bearing from New AP® 
Brunswick to Washington Terri- 
tory. The tree is a free uud sym¬ 
metrical grower, upright when i 
young, but spreading as it becomes 
older, under the loads of its fruit. 
It is a healthy tree, uud, like most 
of the Russians, 1 ‘iron-clad”.against 
cold, enduring 40 degrees below 
zero without injury. It is of 
dwarf growth aud when brauched 
low, uearly all the fruit may be 
gathered by baud even from au 
old tree. In delicate waxen beau¬ 
ty, the Yellow Transparent is 
unequaled timoug American W 
FLOW' ERING SHRUBS, ETC. 
I have taken much pleasure in the cultiva¬ 
tion of flowering shrubs, and here is my opin¬ 
ion of their value and the order of their 
merits for cultivation. Beginning at the first 
of the list, the Althea, or Rose of Sharon, I 
A Hazel Nut we have here is 
very hardy, grows rapidly ou al¬ 
most any kind of soil, usually uot 
over six feet in bight. It bears at 
two to three years old. The nuts 
grow iu bun’s, three to 10 iu each 
burr. I have seen the bushes so 
covered with nuts that they bent 
uearly to the ground. We have 
uot tried to cultivate them, and 
A / £W'-yb/?/ 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT APPLE. Fig. 141. 
[Drawn from a plate iu the Canada Horticulturist.) 
