Vol. XLVI. No. 1965, 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 1887. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS 
*2.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by the Rcral Nkw Yorker. in the oOlee of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
commercial berry. In size i.t is equal to or a 
fraction larger than Snyder. It has rusted 
more than Snyder, but not so much as Kitta- 
tinny. 
Harlem, Mo. 
FROM G. C. BRACKETT. 
The Taylor Blackberry is esteemed quite 
highly in some portions of the State. The 
plant is perfectly hardy with me, having 
passed the last two winters without injury. 
It is very productive. The berry is rather 
larger than a well grown Snyder, and of bet¬ 
ter quality. I prefer it to all others, except¬ 
ing the Kittatinny. 
Lawrence, Kan. 
FROM PARKER EARLE. 
1 had the Taylor’s Prolific for three or 
four years, and it seemed to be healthy and 
prolific, but it was small (with us) and late, 
and seemed to have no value for us as a mar¬ 
ket berry, while it is much inferior to Law- 
ton for a late berry for home use. 
Cobden, His. 
FROM J. H. HALE. 
The .Taylor is not equal 
to the Snyder in any par¬ 
ticular in this section. 
South Glastonbury, Ct. 
FROM HANFORD & CO. 
The Taylor’s Prolific 
Blackberry on my grounds 
is hardy, though not quite 
as hardy as Snyder. Berry 
rich, medium in size—the 
best I know of as to quali¬ 
ty. The variety is suffi¬ 
ciently prolific, bears as 
many berries as it can 
mature, and we like it very 
much for this locality. 
Bristol, Iud. 
FROM S. MILLER. 
Taylor’s Prolific Black¬ 
berry is with me perfectly 
hardy, of medium size, 
good quality and quite 
productive. It is very 
vigorous in growth and 
capacity for producing plants. I think it will 
prove a standard variety here. 
Bluffton, Mo. 
FROM CHARLES A. GREEN. 
My attention was first called to this variety 
by a casual remark made by Charles Downing 
during a visit to his home. He said he con¬ 
sidered it one of the best in quality. I im¬ 
mediately ordered plauts from the West, but 
they were uot true to name, not having the 
greenish-yellow canes of the Taylor, aud being 
stiff, upright growers, while the Taylors 
droop as they attain full growth. The spuri¬ 
ous variety is remarkable for productiveness, 
aud is exeeediugly late. Among them were a 
few Taylors, easily distinguishable. The past 
spriug a friend sent me with other plants a 
few hundred marked Taylor, but I saw at a 
glance that they were not time, and threw 
them upon the brush pile. At our Western 
New York horticultural meetings I have 
repeatedly called attention to the value of the 
Taylor, but the largest grower reported it to 
be of poor quality aud uot productive. I sus¬ 
pect he has uot the true Taylor. But any one 
Comment Oivoumb' of the gtural 
|tcu)-4Jorker. 
GOLDEN QUEEN AND A RURAL SEED¬ 
LING RASPBERRY. 
MORE ATTENTION TO RAISING SEEDLINGS. 
Twice before has the R. N.-Y. presented 
pictures of the Golden Queen Raspberry 
drawn from nature, but not raised at the 
Rural Grounds. At Fig. 845 (see next page) 
we now show a true portrait of the average 
size berry as grown there the present season. 
We now add very little to what has already 
been said in these columns regarding this ex¬ 
cellent new raspberry. To say that it is a 
white or yellow Cuthhert does not, we are in¬ 
clined to thiuk, tell the whole truth. It may 
endure extremes of cold and heat better than 
its parent, the Cuthhert, We are disposed to 
think this is the case, judging from our two- 
year-old plants; but a 
longer time is required to 
determine the question 
positively. 
TAYLORS PROLIFIC BLACKBERRY. 
How it is estimated in various parts of the 
country. Notes from Prof. .7. L. Budd of 
Iowa; Storrs, Harrisoji Co., Ohio; E. 
H. Scott of Mich.; N. Ohmer & G. N. 
Stowbridge ., Ohio; Sec. Goodman, Mo.; 
Sec. G. C. Brackett. Kas.; Pi'es. Parker 
Earle, III.; J. H. Hale, Conn.; Hanford 
Co., Ind.; J. M. Hayes. N. H.; S. Miller, 
Mo.: Charles A. Green, N. Y; W. L. 
Ashton, O.; H. B. Colby , N. H.; A. M. 
Smith, Out.; W. H. Cassell, Miss.; T. V. 
Munson, Texas; E. H. Hart, Fla.; T. 1. 
Lyons, Mich., et al. 
The many contradictory opinions expressed 
throughout the country in regard to the 
Taylor Prolific Blackberry, have induced us 
to collect more specific information,as will be 
seen from the following replies to the Rural’s 
inquiry. At the Rural Grounds it has fruited 
this season for the first time, and we are fa¬ 
vorably impressed with it in every way as 
judged after so short a trial. 
Dewain Cook of Wiudom, Minn. It is now' 
in the hands of many propagators and will 
soon become common if it exhibits no defect. 
After the first year it is more upright than the 
Lucretia, its thorns are shorter and w'eaker, 
its leaves are larger and thicker, the canes are 
hardier, and in our climate its fruit is larger, 
and so far we think better in quality than 
Lucretia. Although a new thing, its record 
seems thus far entirely clear. 
Ames, Iowa. 
FROM THE STORRS & HARRISON CO. 
We are very favorably impressed with Tay¬ 
lor’s Prolific Blackberry. With us it has been 
perfectly hardy, has a good constitution; fruit 
is of large size, very productive and in flavor 
about up to the best; certainly superior to 
several of the prominent sorts. 
Painesville, Ohio. 
FROM EVART H. SCOTT. 
As regards Taylor’s Prolific, I have grown 
it for years, and find it almost entirely hardy 
FROM JAS. M. HAYES. 
I have not tested Taylor’s 
Prolific Blackberry, but 
some of my acquaintances 
in this vicinity have, and 
speak highly of its hardi¬ 
ness and productiveness. 
Dover, N. H. 
A Rural Seedling.— 
Three years ago a rasp¬ 
berry seedling was noticed 
uuder a Lady Grapevine 
and it was permitted to 
grow. It fruited this sea¬ 
son, and the engraving. 
Fig. 340, shows the size of 
the berries—the largest 
ever raised here. It is a 
red berry of fair quality 
aud may one day prove to 
be worthy of introduction. 
We allude to it only to say 
that farmers might advan¬ 
tageously give more atten¬ 
tion to seedling fruits 
without interfering seri¬ 
ously with their pressing 
labor’s. Wbeu the best 
grapes, raspberries, black¬ 
berries, currauts or goose¬ 
berries are picked, save 
some seed. Put them iu 
little pots of soil or sand 
aud bury them six inches 
deep so that the frost uiay 
act upon them during the 
wiuter. In the spriug 
plant the seeds iu well-pre¬ 
pared beds aud most of 
them will grow. A little 
protection will do good in 
the fall, and early the next spring the seed¬ 
lings maybe transplanted to beds, where they 
will fruit in duo time. 
Then the inferior kinds may bo reject¬ 
ed and the better kiuds progugated. The 
Rural for 10 years has advocated this busi¬ 
ness of raising seedlings, and we believe now, 
as then, that, even in a very small way, it 
w'ill in the end pay our farmers, or their sons 
or daughters, to give a little time each year to 
this pleasing, instructive occupation. Seed 
balls of potatoes, too, may now be saved and, 
planted early next spriug in a frame, or iu 
February iu the house, and transplanted to 
the open ground iu May, they will produce 
tubers all the way from the size of a pea to 
that, of an egg, or, indeed, sometimes to that 
of a full-grown potato. Iu this way we are 
satisfied t hat, farmers may ofteu raise varie¬ 
ties better adapted to their land t han any of 
thosu offered for sale. The seeds of grapes 
may be taken from the berries when fully ripe 
aud treated the same as raspberry seeds. Or 
they may bo planted at once iu pots of rich 
garden soil, ttie pots to be placed uuder glass 
or iu a warm room. 
A “CHANCE” SEEDLING RASPBERRY. From Nature. Fig. 346. 
FROM PROF. J. L. BUDD. 
Taylor’s Prolific Blackberry has proven of 
the best quality of fruit aud the foliage endures 
our heat aud drought of summer quite well, 
but the wood will not endure our winters as 
well as the Snyder or the Ancient Briton. 
Still many of our amateurs who carefully 
cover the canes iu winter prize the Taylor for 
home use. The laying dowu of blackberry 
canes is now reduced to a system that is 
speedy and quite inexpensive. A spadeful of 
earth Is removed from one side, the canes are 
shoved over with a fork in the hands of an as¬ 
sistant, aud held down with three or four 
spadofuis of earth. In the spring the canes 
are raised with unimpaired vitality, aud seem 
to bear more and better fruit than those that 
have been exposed even after mild winters 
when no apparant damage to the canes of 
such hardy sorts as the Snyder, can be 
noticed. 
In this couuection, I will say that we have 
at the West a variety of the dewberry that 
promises to prove valuable over a large part 
of the Union. It has beeu sent out by Mr. 
iu this climate; very prolific; size medium to 
large; quality the very best. 
Aun Arbor, Mich. 
FROM GEORGE W. STROW BRIDGE. 
The Taylor is a comparative failure with 
me. I dug all up last spring, after seven 
years’ trial. It is uot as hardy or valuable as 
Suyder, which is now the most reliable of all 
thoroughly tested varieties, though by uo 
means what we most desire and ueed. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
FROM N. OHMER, 
The Taylor is hardy, though not equal to 
the Suyder. It is very productive, is of fair 
size, larger than the Suyder, long aud pointed, 
black and glossy. It looks well iu baskets. 
Quality good. I have three acres of them and 
find them profitable. 
Daytou, Ohio. 
FROM L. A. GOODMAN. 
The Taylor is moderately hardy, less pro¬ 
ductive thau Snyder, aud its habit of pro¬ 
longed ripening makes it objectionable as ■ 
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