Vol. XLVI. No. 1957. 
NEW YORK, JULY 30, 1887. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1887, by the Rural 
Nkw-Yorker, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
the first year, except for experimental pur¬ 
poses. 
Wilder, El Dorado, Herbert., Amber Queen, 
Niagara, Duchess, and Brighton are rotting 
badly, Worden considerably. 
PEDIGREE SWEET CORN. 
Planted April 22, gave the first mess for 
cooking, July 11. The plants average three 
“Vick’s Excelsior Insect Exterminator.” The 
firm claims that it is harmless to plants of any 
kind, and not poisonous; that it will kill plant 
lice, cabbage worms, potato beetles, squash 
bugs, and, in short, all plant insects. The 
firm also sent us, at the writer’s request, the 
Vick Bellows with which to apply the 
powder. 
der upon 25 rose-bugs 
w whiffs were blown 
E the can was covered 
In half an hour all 
(SBxpmmcnt of the gtutal 
£Jau-^)o*kcr. 
The Early Harvest Blackbermj again; a new 
black-cap; the Belmont Strawberry with 
illustrations from life; grape rot; Pedigree 
Sweet Corn; Vick's new insecticide. 
THE EARLY HARVEST AGAIN. 
Again let us speak of the Early Harvest 
Blackberry. It is at once the earliest and 
most distinct variety of which we have any 
knowledge. The glossy berries, nearly all of 
which are of the same shape aud size, haug in 
clusters of a dozen. Wo say “hang,” b*ecause 
the stems are too slight to support them as in 
other kinds, and so they hang directly down. 
The bushes are half covered with these beauti¬ 
ful clusters, the berries, nearly all of them, 
black and ripe, though the earliest other kinds 
are scarcely changing color. The canes are 
comparatively slender aud short, though the 
plants seem quite healthy. It has never oc¬ 
curred to us before that a blackberry bush, 
while ripening its loads of fruit, was an object 
of uucommoa beauty. But in the way of 
small fruits we have certainly never seen 
plauts that called out more words of pleased 
surprise from our visitors than our three 
plauts of Early Harvest have done during the 
past week. 
A NEW BLACK-CAP. 
A new 7 black-cap received from Levi Bell, 
Orangeburg, Rockland Co., N. Y., in the 
spring of 1885, is worthy of special notice. The 
plants are perfectly hardy, of stroug growth, 
aud more productive than any variety ever 
before tried here. The berries are fully as 
large as those oF Gregg, aud borne in large 
clusters. The canes are laden. The flavor is 
sweet, but the berries are not very juicy and 
the seeds are large. 
Mr. Bell says “the 3 r will ship long'd is tances, 
will dry without spoiling if spread out in a dry 
room,” statements which are doubtless quite 
true. It is a chance seedling found near 
Mammoth Cluster. 
TUE BELMONT STRAWBERRY. 
In April of last year a few plauts of this uew 
berry wore sent here by Parker & Wood, of 
Boston, Mass., which have thus far shown un¬ 
usual health and vigor. June 10, our first note 
was as follows: “Medium as to time of ripen¬ 
ing; berry firm, scarlet, red flesh, good qual¬ 
ity.” Again, June 1-4: “Rosy flesh, very good 
quality, firm, medium as to time of ripening.” 
June 16: “Belmont is a good variety; quality 
excellent, vines vigorous, ripens about with 
Sharpless. Its faults are irregularity of shape 
and occasional white tips. Its characteristic 
shape, if it has one, is long or oblong." June 
18 : “Belmont and Ontario ripening freely. 
The Belmont is better iu quality.” 
As to the fruitfulucss of this uew straw 
berry, we are not as yet prepared to speak. It 
is said to be very prolific, a statement which 
we are not fully prepared to question or ad¬ 
mit. The illustrations (Figs. 28-4-886), show 
an average cluster of fruit iu the several 
stages of ripening, and two single berries, all 
from specimens growu here. 
GRAPE HOT. 
Here are a few grapo-viues boariug 
full crops, the berries showing no signs of rot: 
Delaware, Early Victor, Pockliugton, John 
Burr’s No. 1, Rockingham, Cai'lotta, Victoria, 
Lady, Ulster Prolific, Cottage, Berekmans, 
Jessica, Moore’s Early, F. B. Hays. The new 
grape-vine Alice, though planted last spring, 
bears a siugle buuch whichjis free from rot. 
Jf course, it ought uot be permitted to bear 
were feebly wriggling, many of them on their 
backs. The next day all were dead. The 
same experiment was repeated with the same 
results. The powder was next blown upon 
rose bugs ou a grape-vine. In an horn 7 after 
there was not one to be seen. Mixed with 
water, one heaping tablespoonful to a gallon, 
we sprayed 20 or SO rose bugs on the bushes 
and then knocked them off into a tomato can 
and covered it as before. Some of them died 
in four days, others recovered. 
At uoon one day the powder was dusted on 
currant worms in a tomato can. They were 
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dead the next day iu the evening. At eleven 
o’clock potato beetles in oue can were dusted 
with the Vick powder aud iu auother with 
Buhach. In half an hour all were on their 
backs moving their legs slowly iu a helpless 
way. The next day at uoon the beetles 
seemed to have growu neither worse nor 
better. On Wednesday morning all were 
dead in both cans. The insects in all cases 
were kept supplied with fresh food. We next 
blew the powder on ten caterpillars aud its 
action was the same as that of Buhach. They 
soou began to wriggle and fight each other 
frantically and finally to drop to the ground 
where many were found dead the next 
day; while not one was to be found 
in the tenU. Flies iu the house were uot so 
quickly affected as by the pyrethrum, and 
many survived. 
The effect of pyrethrum upon insects is so 
KVX/U. yEW- 
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THE BELMONT STRAWBERRY. From Nature. 
feet high. The ears have eight rows, and 
average not over six inches long. The 
quality is line, but it is uot a prolific variety 
here. 
VICK’S INSECTICIDE. 
At the writer’s request, James Vick, of 
Rochester, New York, sent us a quantity of 
The powder resembles pyrethrum powder, 
has a somewhat more pungent odor, and 
affects insects iu apparently the same manner. 
It is not quite so finely ground as Buhach, and 
is more liable to clog up a flue spraying nozzle, 
when mixed with water and forced through it 
with a pump. 
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