with cream; a strong grower taking posses¬ 
sion of the ground and keeping down the 
weeds. My first introduction to the Crescent 
happened in this wise: a nurseryman iu send¬ 
ing me some stock put in a single plant 
labeled as follows:“Creseent Seedling—just for 
luck:'' and because he thus made me acquaint¬ 
ed with this really meritorious fruit 1 b&ve 
always felt like forgiviug him for sending me 
a nearly worthless lot of trees and plants. 
Charles Downing has been my stand-by, and 
I don’t know hut I shall always stiek to it. 
It is a good yiclder, of good size aud color, 
aud excellent quality. One of the finest ber¬ 
ries in appearance and quality, for home use, 
that 1 know of. ANDREW sherwood. 
Tioga Co., Pa. 
with the plants. But I would not advise set¬ 
ting so late. 
The transplanting is done, not with a dibble, 
a trowel or a plow, but with a much better 
tool, as I know from experience. I take a 
piece of hard-wood plank, as of maple, an 
inch and three-eighths thick after it is dressed 
and made as smooth as possible, from which I 
cut out a spade-like implement, the handle of 
which is one inch and three-eighths by one 
inch and a half, with corners beveled, aud 
three feet and a halt long, while the shoulders 
The part be- 
sary to use a pin to force it out or back, in 
which case it is liable to clog the hole again. 
In using a pin in this w T ay the first issue of the 
liquid is quite likely to spurt against the hand 
and be deflected in one’s face or over the 
clothes. The improved Cyclone removes this 
objection entirely. It is called the Vcrmorel 
modification of Professor Riley’s Cyclone 
Nozzle. Neither is patented, and both are 
sold, Professor Riley informs us, by Thomas 
Summerville & Sons, of Washington, D. C., 
present monstrosity may, perhaps, be explain 
ed in the same way. 
are two inches aud a half wide, 
low the shoulder is five inches wide and four 
and one-half inches long, tapering to three 
inches and a quarter iu width at the end, the 
corners being slightly rounded. The operator 
with his foot pushes this implement into the 
ground up to the shoulder. A boy places a 
plant in the hole thus made, when the operator 
with his foot, crowds the earth firmly against 
the roots. This is done very rapidly, and with 
ease, and the plants are more certain to live 
than if set in any other way I have tried. By 
this method I ha ve never failed to get a good 
stand, which is of the first importance, 
and I have found it to work equal¬ 
ly well with cabbage plants, If it 
is during a drought aud the ground 
is very dry, I pour a gill of water into 
each hole. The implement described above 
cannot well be used if the ground is so 
wet as to be sticky, or so dry as to crumble 
into powder: neither cau it be used on land 
that is very stony. In dry weather it is a good 
plan to have the ground freshly plowed, and I 
would at all times rather have one good plant 
freshly dug from some near-by bed than three 
wh ch have been packed aud sent from a dis¬ 
tance by express. The plants are set from one 
to two feet apart iu the rows, according to the 
kiud, and are designed for matted rows. 
Some kinds, as the Crescent, will make a 
perfect row if the plants are set two feet 
apart. Just as soon as the plants are out,, the 
hoe, rako, wheel-hoe and cultivator are set 
going, and kept going, for no weed must be 
allowed to grow during the first, season. If 
they are kept, well under the first, summer they 
will not give much trouble the next. If the 
few that do then grow are carefully hand- 
pulled, the bed may run another year, when it 
should be turned under. I never cultivate or 
otherwise disturb the soil after the first sea¬ 
son; but very late in the fall after the ground 
is frozen I apply a thin mulch of straw 
or strawy manure over the entire surface, 
which in spring is partially removed from the 
plants and placed between the rows. As a 
fertilizer, to be applied directly on the rows, I 
have never found anything better than ashes, 
both leached and unleached. They are free 
of weed seeds, and seem to be about as good 
for strawberries as for onions. [It would be 
well to add raw bone flour.—E ds.] When the 
runners begin to form, it will pay to take 
some pains to train them along the row, aud 
iu such a way as to fill in the weaker spots as 
much as possible. I often use small stonesaud 
lumps of earth to hold them in place aud assist 
them in taking root. The greatest enemy I 
have ever had to contend with is the larva? of 
the May Beetle. Where these are numerous 
there is little use in trying to raise strawber¬ 
ries. 
I have a home market, aud have tried a 
number of varieties as follows (soil a sandy 
loam): James Vick, a good yielder, of good 
color; but the berries have hard tips, and 
are too small. Windsor Chief, of good color; 
a fair yielder; very large; of fair quality; 
rather acid. Wilson, sour, poor in flavor, and 
small. Vineland, a good yielder; of good 
flavor, size, and color; no hard tip: grows up 
highest of all from ground. I am well im¬ 
pressed with this berry; quality nearly the 
same os Manchester, Sharpless, good out of 
hand; a little lacking iu flavor with cream; 
generally a light yiclder in matted rows, and 
its blossoms are easily killed by frost. Cum¬ 
berland, a flattened lterry with a hard tip; 
color, a light pink—too light for market; a 
light yielder; quality fair. From other ac¬ 
counts I have seen of this berry, 1 am iu 
doubt as to whether lhave the genuine Cum¬ 
berland, [The Cumberland is of excellent 
quality, regular iu shape, ripeuing all over 
equally.—E ds] Iron-clad, poor in every way, 
except parliuess of berry aud vigor of plant; 
a small yielder of small, poor and knotty 
fruit. Mouut Vernon, a good yielder; flavor 
best of all; of good size, rich iu color aud 
fragrance; no hard tips: flattened in shape; 
most like the wild strawberry iu flavor and 
aroma; the most delicious home berry I have 
ever growu, and if I could have but one 
strawberry for my own use, it would be the 
Mount Vernon. Manchester a good, large 
berry, a large yielder of good color aud shape; 
no hard tip; pretty good quality; rather 
late—one of the best. Crescent, the larg¬ 
est yielder; of good bright-red col¬ 
or; no hard tip; average of good size; 
quality poor, but better thau Wilsou 
VEGETABLE NOTES, 
Mont D’Or Pole Bean.— This is certainly 
one of the best, acquisitions, in its line, which 
Europe has sent us. Early, handsome, very 
productive, stringless, free from spotting, of 
excellent flavor, it is valuable alike to the 
market and the private gardener. 
Golden Pod Yelloweye.— This is a 
dwarf beau, as early as any. It was sent to 
me several years ago by a Massachusetts 
friend as a valuable novelty'. So far as I 
know, it has not yet been introduced to the 
trade. Its merits are earliness—being a first 
early—productiveness, beauty and good quali¬ 
ty. It is not quite stringless, but it is perfect¬ 
ly uon-spotting. Though extremely produc¬ 
tive, its season is short; two pickings pret¬ 
ty well finish it. This makes it very valua¬ 
ble to the market gardener. As it originated 
in Essex County, Mass., the great seed center 
of New England, lam surprised not to have 
seen it put upon the market. 
Rawson’s Clipper Pea. —This looks like 
Lax ton’s Earliest of All, but is a long way 
earlier, very productive, aud in quality one of 
the best smooth peas. Alongside of Vick’s Ex¬ 
tra* Early it proves itself superior in enrli- 
uess, productiveness aud quality. It is strict¬ 
ly u market pea, two pickings clearing the 
vines. It is not, on my land, a rank grower, 
but the pods are well filled. 
and probably by others. The price of the 
plain nozzle is 50 cents each, or §5 per dozen; 
that of the Vermorel $1.50 each, or $15 per 
dozen. 
A Monstrous Grape. Fig. 312, 
SPRAYING NOZZLES. 
Many inquiries continue to come to us respect¬ 
ing the Cyclone and other nozzles w hich are 
used to vaporize the liquid insecticides, and are 
attached by means of an iron t ube and hose to 
force puinps. But two kiuds have been used 
here and these are essentially the same ex¬ 
pect that one, as shown by Fig. 811, lias a 
HOW I GROW STRAWBERRIES FOR 
MARKET. 
Preparation of the ground; a stone boat 
preferable to a roller; marking: spring for 
transplanting; special tool for the work; 
advantages of ashes as a fertilizer; 
varieties. 
I take a good sandy or clayey loam—pre¬ 
ferably the latter if I have it—wfith a clay 
subsoil; but any soil will do that will raise 
good com, only it must uot be a freshly- 
turned sod, and it ought to be well drained. 
I make, the nrea just what I can take good 
care of, and no more, and I avoid land infest¬ 
ed with purslane, chick-weed and sorrel. I 
put on all the barnyard manure I can plow r 
under. Strawberries will do fairly well on 
ground of ordinary fertility; but it pays to 
enrich it. I know of no soil in this part of 
the country too rich for strawberries. After 
plowing l harrow aud roll the ground; but I 
prefer a stone boat to a roller. This I make, 
say four feet wide, and five or six long, by 
nailing planks crosswise on the under side of 
two plank runners. In the forward end I 
bore a lot of boles, aud through these drive a 
lot of old railroad spikes so that they will 
project from the under side about two niches. 
I drive them in such n way that no lump can 
escape. The spikes will break the lumps very 
fine, while the after part of the boat, having 
no spikes iu it, will not only leave the ground 
as smooth as a floor, but mellow and fine. I 
ride iu this boat, which occasionally requires 
some additional weight. Of course it can be 
used only on clean ground, free from stones. I 
have used an implement of this description— 
one of my own contrivance—with great satis¬ 
faction. 
When the surface is made fine and smooth 
I go over it with a marker, which I draw by 
hand, being careful to get the first rows per¬ 
fectly straight, which causes them all to be 
straight, as one tooth of the marker is allowed 
to follow the last row each time as a guide. It 
pays to have the rows straight. The marker 
is made of a stick long enough to contain three 
or four teeth aud a pair of thills. The teeth 
are set so as to make the rows four feet apart, 
which is none too much. 1 have tried three 
feet and three aud a-half, but 1 like four best. 
1 do not usually mark the ground much faster 
thau it is planted, especially if it is dry. The 
pluuts are now taken up and put into a pail of 
water beyond the reach of sun and wind, and 
a boy takes them and places them as fast, as 
wanted. I usually transplant in the spring. 
Some advise fall transplanting, saying half a 
crop may be expected the following season; 
but I have never been able to obtain half a 
crop the first season from l'all-set plunts. 
Plants should be set early, though 1 have set 
them—and with pretty good success—as late 
as Juue 4, wlieu they were full of half- 
grown berries; when, in fact, I had ripe 
strawberries on my table. The fruit-stems 
were removed; I always remove them, though 
sometimes (when set early) not till after trans¬ 
planting, w bile a good deal of soil was lifted 
Cory Sweet Corn. —I hear.very different 
reports from growers in regard to this variety. 
As the Marblehead was differentiated from 
the old Narragansett by selection, so the Cory 
is a selection from the Marblehead; but its 
characters are not. well fixed, and in many 
cases it has been found no earlier, while in 
some it is reported one week earlier. It is, per¬ 
haps, those who have themselves been careful 
in the selection of their Marblehead seed who 
find the Cory no improvement. 
White-Cob Marblehead —There are sev¬ 
eral straius of this offered, and it is certainly 
superior. Many hotel stewarts will not have 
a rat cob corn at auy price. 
King ok the Eablies. —Quite a number of 
years ago, a party iu Maine seut me some early 
sweet corn which he claimed as the earliest of 
all. Maine is a great sweet com State pack¬ 
ing more of it than all the rest of the country; 
but. I did not think much of the variety re¬ 
ferred to, or its name, which, although origin¬ 
ating in Maine, was “Early Montana.” The 
growth was very uneven, and not one-third of 
the crop had ears large or well-filled enough 
for market. Its superior earliness, however, 
was indisputable, and I have been trying to 
root out its defect, by selection and crossing. 
As the Rural has some of it on trial, I leave 
it to be reported on from that source, and will 
only say that this yeur its growth is even, aud 
nearly every stalk has two marketable ears, 
as long as Cory without, its big butt or red 
cleaning pin which at once frees the hole of 
auy obstruction on pressing the thumb upon 
the broad head of the pin, as shown at H. 
The point of the pin is thus driven through 
the hole as shown at K. 
For the purpose of illustrating the action of 
the nozzle, we again present our illustration 
of the original Cyclbne, which appeared in the 
It. N.-Y. of July 25,1885—Fig 810. A shows 
it in perspective, B shows a side view and C 
aud D sectional view's, all somewhat reduced. 
The principle on which it works is that of 
centrifugal motion. The orifice from which 
the liquid issues is no larger thau an ordinary 
pin, and is the center of the circular disk as 
seen in A The spraying mixture in passing 
from an iron tube connected with a hose of 
any desired length, is forced through the aper¬ 
ture F—seen iu C—and also through the hole 
E, seen in I), into a circular chamber in the 
same, when screwed into C. Thus the liquid 
is given a rapid circulatory motion, causing it 
to issue from the hole in a mere mist. 
It occasionally happens that little pieces of 
wood or what-not will be forced into the lit¬ 
tle hole and wedged there. It is then neces- 
Lime for Root Maggots. —Mr. Hender¬ 
son’s success with air-slaked lime as a destroy¬ 
er of the cabbage anthomyiu maggot has in¬ 
duced me to try it for the onion aud turnip 
maggots, mnl 1 find it docs equally well for 
both. 1 have not had a dead turnip or cab¬ 
bage from this euuse. and although the lime 
was applied rather late to the ouious, it saved 
most of them. Here is a cheap remedy, but 
for success it must, be used freely, and well 
worked in close to the plants. The first rain 
will then wot the maggots with lime water, 
which kills them. 
Tue Plum Curoulio in Apples —Last 
fall I cleared out a thicket of our native Cana¬ 
da plum, badly infested with curtullo. Every 
tree was rooted up and burned, and of course 
there were no plums for the little Turk this 
year. The result was ho has gone for the 
curly apples, aud ruined a lot of them. But 
as the worms do uot seem to live long after 
being hatched iu the apples, I hope this is the 
end of them. My neighbors raise plenty of 
