VOL. XLVII. NO. 199 L. NEW YORK MARCH 24 1888 price five cents. 
’ ' *2.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year, 1888, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
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June 7: Plants tall, vigorous. Often 30 
berries to a peduncle. Often of irregular 
shape, often hollow. General shape broadly 
ovate, sometimes as shown in our illustration 
(Fig. 69—see next page). Tips often remain 
whitish. Scarlet, rather soft. Productive¬ 
ness and size of berry are its chief merits. 
Large average size. Early to medium as to 
ripening. June 9: One of the most product¬ 
ive. Quality rather insipid—mushy. Color, 
scarlet. Soft. It gives us more berries at 
this date than any other kind. June 24. Its 
season of fruiting is now about passed. 
Parker Earle is of no great value. It is 
a pity that such a variety should bear so good 
a name. 
Enhance, from Henry Young, Ada, Ohio, 
August 15, 1886. June 19, 1887: Medium to 
late. Vines healthy, berries medium size, 
quite firm, fair quality, not very productive. 
Cohansey, from Geo. M. Cole, Deerfield, 
N. J., March 20, 1886. April, 1886: Low 
plants. An inferior kind in most respects as 
it behaves here. June 24: Worthless here. 
Feeble, little plants. 
Crimson Cluster, from Peter Henderson, 
New York, July 30,1886. Durand’s Seedlings 
do not succeed well here. Vines not vigorous, 
no suckers. Berries firm, borne in close clus¬ 
ters of about one dozen. Nearly pistillate. 
Shape inclined to oval or round. Color be¬ 
tween crimson and scarlet. Flesh very solid 
and of fine quality. 
Truitt, from J. H. & G. H. Hale, South 
Glastonbury, Conn., April 12, 1887. Originat¬ 
ed in Kansas. June 8, 1887: Berry firm and 
of fine quality. Perfect flower. Ovate, regu¬ 
lar. Medium early apparently. Promising. 
Logan, from J. H. Haynes, Delphi, Ind. 
Plants died. 
Bubach No. 5, from Bubach Nurseries^ 
Princeton, Ill., April 9, 1886. This variety 
produces strong runners early. It is a strong 
grower. June 10: Medium as to ripening. 
In order to obtain early cucumbers 
in the garden it is absolutely neces¬ 
sary that they should be started un¬ 
der glass in a gentle hot-bed, and as it 
is rather difficult to start and trans¬ 
fer them successfully, many methods 
are resorted to with more or less suc¬ 
cess. In my opinion the most simple 
and preferable method consists in 
using pieces of sods about five inches 
square and two or more in depth. 
These are placed in a shallow box as 
closely together as possible, grass side 
down. On the top of each piece five 
or six seeds are placed as far apart as 
possible, and covered with half an 
inch of light, loamy soil. Then they 
should be given the treatment usu¬ 
ally bestowed on hot-bed plants, and 
as soon as the weather becomes warm 
enough the young plants can be re¬ 
moved to carefully prepared hills in 
the cold-frame or in the open air. In 
the cold-frame one hill to each sash 
will be sufficient. The frames should 
be kept close and moist until growth 
commences, then air should be gradu¬ 
ally admitted, and before the plants 
reach the sides the glass should be fully 
removed so as to harden off j the plants 
properly before the frame is removed, 
which should be done before the vines 
reach its sides. These frames should 
be placed in the most sheltered situ¬ 
ation one has at his command, and to 
insure success, the soil should be made 
both rich and deep. If placed in the 
open, protect by hand glasses as much 
as possible. In gathering the fruit, 
cut it off from the stem—never pull it 
off, as this injures the vines—and 
gather all as soon as they are fit to 
use, for as soon as the seeds commence 
to ripen the flowers cease to act. The 
best varieties for cultivation are the 
(fxpmmcnt (Ground?? of the gUtfnl 
THE NEWER STRAWBERRIES CON¬ 
TINUED. 
Gold was received from P. M. Augur & 
Son, of Middlefield, Conn., in the fall of 1885. 
It is now offered for sale. It is a pistillate. 
The plants during the next season made a tall, 
strong growth, bearing late. June 12 our 
notes state as follows: Good quality, berry 
often broadest in the middle, and somewhat 
necked; sometimes winged; color scarlet, 
golden seeds. July 16. Berries at this date 
are large, light red, roundish-ovate, not al¬ 
ways fully ripened at tip. Quality good, quite 
firm, flesh rosy; shape often round, often 
larger in the middle. Prolific and 
desirable. 
June 16, 1887: Gold did not stand 
the winter. 
Cardinal, from same in fall of 
1886. This was a seedling of 1884 
raised from Prince. 
June 7, 1887: Fine vines, berries 
irregular, large, good quality, not 
very firm. Ripens second early. 
June 10: It now gives us some of 
our largest berries. Color a rather 
light scarlet, golden- seeds, light red 
flesh; it is now as firm as Sharpless. 
June 14: Berries often necked, flesh 
darker red. Quality medium. An¬ 
other season will be necessary to de¬ 
termine the value of this variety. 
Our illustration (Fig. 66) is true to 
nature. It bears a bi-sexual flower, 
though inclining to pistillate. 
Essex Co., was received from H. 
H. Alley, of Hilton, N. J., in Septem¬ 
ber, of 1886. Berries large, bi-sexual, 
scarlet in color, ovate, the tips as if 
two had grown together. Sometimes 
very irregular, as shown in the illus¬ 
tration, from nature, at Fig. 67 (see 
next page). 
The berry is of high flavor, but of 
an acid high flavor. Plants vigorous 
and healthy. About as productive 
as Sharpless: berries average nearly 
as large. Ripens among the earliest. 
Tips often green. 
June 7: Firm and large, the vines 
as yet not very productive. June 10: 
Of a brilliant color, between crimson 
and scarlet. Bed flesh, fair quality, 
generally regular, ovate. 
Summit, from M. Crawford, of 
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, April 20,1887. 
June 8: Form regular, ovate-coni¬ 
cal, second early. June 14: Of fine 
quality, conical, smooth, very glossy, 
crimson. June 16: Among the 
smoothest of berries, soft. Pistillate. 
(See Fig. 68—next page.) 
Crawford, from same, same date. 
Early June: Very promising; berries 
ovate-conical, regular (as shown at 
Fig. 70, from nature—next page). 
Crimson, quite firm, good quality, 
very productive, as judged from cur¬ 
rent spring-set plants. June 8: First- 
rate quality. Flowers bisexual. 
Shuster, from S. S. Shuster, 
Frenchtown, N. J., May, 1886. From 
Cumberland and Crescent. Mr. S. 
says it was raised in 1871, that the 
berry is very large, good, very early, 
and holds out to the latest with no 
small berries. “Outbore the Wilson 
and Downing.” 
Berries large to very large and moderately 
regular. Scarlet color, rosy flesh, medium 
quality, not very firm. June 14: Vigorous 
vines. Irregular in shape, ripen unevenly. 
Poor quality, very productive. July 18: At 
its hight of ripening. Poor quality, tips often 
white, irregular in shape. June 24: This is 
no great acquisition. There are other kinds 
of its season to be preferred. It is a pistillate. 
This is our poor report of this much-extolled 
variety. 
Kearns, from Grant Kearns, Zanesville, 
Ohio, August 25,1886. June 10,1887: A large 
scarlet berry of an ovate, generally regular 
shape, fair quality. A little soft. Vines quite 
prolific. Medium as to ripening. 
Besek (Augur & Sons, No. 87). Parentage 
unknown. Pistillate. June 11: Strong, tall 
foliage; berry scarlet with light flesh. Good 
quality, firm enough for near market; heart- 
shaped, slightly necked; large to very large; 
ripens about with Sharpless. Later: Berries 
large, shapely, good to fine in quality. 
Broadly heart-shaped, scarlet, short, 
stubby neck, golden seeds. Berry 
often contracted midway like Cres¬ 
cent. Vigorous foliage, prolific. 
June 17: At its hight. Berries not 
very firm, owing perhaps to rain. 
Light scarlet. Foliage perfectly 
healthy. It is better in quality and 
later than Jewell. The best of our 
berries at present. The above is our 
report for 1886. For last year we 
find the following note: Late, and 
the strongest and hardiest of any of 
Augur’s seedlings we have at present. 
Fairly prolific, fine quality—fruit 
puckered at top. 
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EARLY CUCUMBERS. 
