THE RURAL WIW-YORKER. 
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with very largo kernels and a small cob. 
The tips and butts are well covered with 
grain, and the butts, instead of being larger 
than the oar above, are somewhat smaller, a 
very desirable characteristic. It is said that 
Mr. C. W. Holman, of West Willington, 
Conn., raised in 1885, 158 bushels of shelled 
corn on an acre ... . | much praised All-Seasons cabbage, so called 
Pride of the North corn, as stated by the 
R. N.-Y. some eight years ago. As we re¬ 
member, they were sent to us the same year, 
the first by B. K Bliss, the other by Hiram 
Sibley .* • • 
J. J. H. Gregory, (Marblehead, Mass.,) a3 
we understand it, is the introducer of the 
Wm Henry Maulk (Philadelphia, Pa ), 
claims for his Everbearing sweet corn that 
after the first ears are taken off when mature, 
one to two and four more ears will set and de¬ 
velop on the same stalks during the next two 
to four weeks, single stalks producing in this 
way “ during the entire season frequently as 
many as six large, well-developed ears.” 
The R. N.-Y. proposes to try this remarkable 
variety next season. We don’t see where the 
“silks” (pistils) of the later sets get their 
pollen from. Or do the stalks produce a 
because it is said to be just as good for late 
market, or to keep over winter, as it is for 
10 per cent, in the weight of hulls of different 
varieties; this fact though rarely thought of 
when selecting a new variety, is worthy of 
consideration. 
Another year’s experience warrants the 
Station in continuing the White Schcenen, so 
often commended by tbeR. N.-Y.,at the head 
of the list. The reason for urging this variety 
is, that the seed may be obtained in any quan¬ 
tity at reasonable'prices, of Wisconsin farm- 
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early market. | ers themselves. 
His Hard-Heading cabbage is conspicuous 
for not cracking open and for remaining 
green longer than other kinds except the Sa¬ 
voys. 
Thorburn & Co. (New York) offer cow- 
peas, Canada field peas, tobacco seed of vari¬ 
ous kinds; also the Rural Thoroughbred Flint 
which we regard as the best variety of corn 
for ensilage. It is, however, too late to ma- 
landketh & Son (Philadelphia, Pa.) con¬ 
sider Landreths’ Earliest cabbage 10 days 
earlier than any other. Landreths’ First is 
claimed as the earliest long field cucumber in 
cultivation. This firm introduced the Garfield 
and State of Maine potatoes. The R. N.-Y. 
considers Landreths’ Boss watermelon unsur¬ 
passed for family use. with E. E. Stine, Cuyahoga Falls, O. 
second “ tassel ” (male flowers)?... | ture ears if grown in a much shorter season 
Mr. Gray, of Minneapolis, Minn, consid¬ 
ers the onion next in importance to the potato. 
In preparing the soil he would use 75 tons of 
cow manure to the acre, and after planting 
top-dress with wood ashes and bone dust. He 
would plant sets instead of seed, and prefers 
White Portugal. As the bulbs begin to ripen 
he covers to a depth of two inches with earth 
to protect them from the direct rays of the 
sun. Thus he is reported in the Farmer’s 
Review. 
The Turner Hybrid Tomato.— “I see 
some subscribers object to this on account of 
its roughness. My experience with tomatoes 
is that we may raise rough or smooth tomatoes 
from the same variety. My plan is to remove 
the rough fruit as soon as the shape is 
seen: by this means those left will be much 
better.” The above is from a writer in Popu¬ 
lar Gardening. It may be well to repeat 
what the R. N.-Y. has previously said. The 
shape of a tomato may be determined before 
the flower falls. The ovary will show to a 
certainty whether the fruit will be smooth or 
many-lobed and ill-shapen. 
It is now time to sow cabbage, cauliflower 
and tomato seeds in hot-beds. Potato seeds 
(from the ball) may also be sown now. 
Johnson & Stokes (Philadelphia, Pa.) 
give an illustration and a description of a 
mangel called the Chirk Casile. While in 
Scotland one of the firm saw “ hundreds of 
specimens taken from the field, weighing over 
GO pounds each, while whole crops averaged 
88 to 40 pounds per root, producing a yield of 
over GO tons to the acre" . | Cylinder A\ ax beau is earlier than any other 
stock. Autumn King is claimed as the finest 
Swedish oats have been grown by the 
Station three years and proved constant in 
their yield; they stand up well and have thin 
hulls. The Welcome is prolific and hardy, 
but it has a thick hull. Salzer’s White Bonan¬ 
za the Station pronounces very promising.... 
Early Dakota White was one of the 
earliest to ripen and it stood up beautifully. 
It has a thin hull. The American Banner 
bought of J. C. Vaughan of Chicago, 111., vield- 
than that of New York. | ed at the rate of 72 bushels per acre, weighing 
32 pounds to the bushel. Hull thick. 
Of 10 kinds of barley, the Wisconsin Sta¬ 
tion found that the Manshury won an easy 
victory. It is the best variety for a general 
crop ... 
Attention Is called to a new medium-rip¬ 
ening potato, the Summit, which originated 
D. M. Ferry & Co, (Detroit, Mich.) con¬ 
sider Ferry’s Early Puritan cauliflower the 
earliest, the surest header and the best for 
market or family use. Ferry's Optimus, in 
the R. N.-Y.’s estimation, is as good as any 
tomato in cultivation. 
The Tomato egg-plant now' advertised at a 
very high price for a few seeds, is the old 
Scarlet Chinese egg-plant of 30 years ago. 
Prof. A. J. Cook can hardly say enough 
in praise of the new Japan buckwheat. The 
millers say it is superior to any other kinds. 
It weighs 45 pounds to the bushel. For grid¬ 
dle-cakes it is A. No. 1. 
James Vick (Rochester, N. Y.) places the 
Ohio Junior at the head ot his list of early 
potatoes. See R. N.-Y., report, page 161, IS88. 
Mr. Vick, after sufficient trial mentions the 
Irondequoit muskmelon as “ a fruit of great 
merit.” He deems the Ideal cauliflower the 
earliest and, all things considered, the best 
variety in cultivation. 
Too much can scarcely be said of the cab- 
‘It 
bids fair,” the Station says, “ to do him much 
credit.” See R. N.-Y., report, page 281,1386. 
Thorburn and Early Sunrise potatoes are 
praised as productive and of good quality for 
early kinds... 
ABSTRACTS. 
—Popular Gardening: “I have at hand 
a catalogue from a responsible firm, showing a 
geranium with 34 clusters of bloom in sight 
and a small plant at that. I find almost every¬ 
thing in this way. How can the buyer get any 
knowledge of a variety by these cuts? We 
certainly want new sorts: we want varieties 
that are free bloomers, but when the deal¬ 
er gives us to understand that 50 clusters 
of bloom on a small geranium are possible, we 
get disgusted, and I for one cannot trust other 
statements, some perhaps that are time.” 
—O. C. Farmer: “ A good garden is an ob¬ 
ligation which no wise farmer will deny his 
family. On the score of profit, it stands at 
bage “All Seasons.”. I the head, while its effects on the family' health 
Peter Henderson (New York) says the 
Ford’s New Mammoth podded Lima is 
claimed to be “ absolutely the largest, finest- 
flavored and most productive of all Limas 
S. F. Leonard (Chicago 111.) announces 
the Golden Wonder millet, the heads of which 
are said to be 18 inches long, the hight of 
the plants about six feet. It is said to yield 
strain of late cabbage ever offered. 
Mr. Henderson claims that his New Bush 
Lima is at least two weeks earlier than any 
are invaluable. Less pork and animal food 
generally will give us better men and women, 
mentally, morally and physically.” 
-“The horticulturist who can read the 
glowing catalogues of our seedsmen anti gaze 
on their attractive pictures without getting a 
climbing Limas. I- little “enthused,” is made of unmalleable clay, 
Peter B. Mead says of the Bush Lima that 
it grows exactly like the ordinary bush tean 
in thousands of 
enormously” both of grain and fodder. I and that it will find a place 
gardens where the old climbing bean is un- 
John A Salzer’s (La Crosse, Wis.) Earliest 
of All tomato is said to ripen in SO days. 
Salzer’s Iron-clad potato is represented as 
yielding prodigiously, as having remarkable 
keeping properties, few eyes, excellent flavor, 
etc. It is late. . 
Price & Reed (Albany', N. Y ) catalogue 
the following potatoes in their list: Queen 
of the Valley, American Giant, and Green 
Mountain. The R. N.-Y. has found them 
heavy yielders though of inferior quality. 
In the same list New Queen, Early Maine, 
Ohio Jr., and Stray Beauty, are worthy of 
trial. 
R. D. Hawley & Co., (Hartford, Conn.) 
claim that Hawley’s Improved East Hartford 
is positively the earliest pea in cultivation.... 
Mr. Samuel Wilson (Mecbanicsville, Pa 
is the introducer of the much advertised 
Northern Spy potato. Mr. Wilson has sent 
us a number of these potatoes some of which 
we shall plant. The others were cooked a 
few weeks siuce. The quality is good, the 
flesh white. It is claimed that this potato is 
a great yielder. 
The R. N.-Y. has suceeded in raising very 
fair crops of peanuts. It is not beyond the 
possibilities that improved kinds may be made 
profitable in the North. We call attention to 
J. V. Faust’s (Philadelphia, Pa.) “ Improved 
Peanut.” It is claimed to be very early and 
prolific, yielding fewer imperfect pods than 
any other... 
W. W. Rawson & Co. (Bostou, Mass.) 
offer Pringle’s American Triumph and 
Pringle’s Progress oats, also the Rural Branch¬ 
ing sorghum which some seedsmen prefer to 
call Millo Maize—an absurd and unjustifiable 
name. The firm is headquarters for th e 
Alpha potato, claimed to be the earliest variety 
known, as few will go to the expense aod 
trouble of providing and sticking poles. The 
beans are the size of the Sieva or small Lima 
The bushes grow IS inches high and produce a 
continuous crop in this climate (N. Y.) from 
July 15 until frost.. 
Yosemite Mammoth Wax bears beans, as 
stated, eight inches long or even longer. The 
pods are all nearly solid pulp and absolutely' 
stringless. 
Golden Custard squash, Jonathan pump¬ 
kin, Puritan potato, Japan buckwheat. 
According to the Wisconsin Station, of 13 
varieties of dent corn most of which were 
advertised to mature in Southern Wisconsin, 
only three were found sufficiently early to de¬ 
pend upon for general crop, viz: Pride of the 
North, North Star Golden Dent and Queen of 
the North. The first two varieties have been 
indorsed by the Station for several years. 
The Queen of the North is a larger form of the 
Pride of the North, and consequently a few 
days later than the last named variety, but in 
an ordinary season it can be relied upon to 
mature in Southern Wisconsin. 
For that portion of the State that can not 
mature the dent varieties, the Station has 
found nothing superior to the King Phillip, 
unless it be Sibley’s White Flint, a variety 
that attracted much favorable comment from 
visiting farmers who saw it growing on their 
grounds the past season. 
For the very earliest use, the Station men¬ 
tions three varieties with preference m the 
order given: Cory, Early La Crosse, Early 
Narragausett. 
For second early: Early' Minnesota and 
Perry’s Hybrid are recommended. 
Stowell’s Evergreen and Henderson's Sugar 
Corn are very superior for extremely late 
or else has had his enthusiam chilled by ex¬ 
periments in former years. We could wish our 
seedsmen would be a little more temperate in 
praise of their novelties; but, after all.it is the 
19th-century way of doing business, and the 
seedsmen are not worse than men in othe r 
lines of trade. They certainly tend to excite 
interest in the garden, even if disappointment 
follows the experiment.” 
in cultivation. varieties 
Remember, R.N.-N. readers, that leosiute I The thickness of the hull of oats should be 
(announced in every catalogue) will not ma- takeu in(o consideration. A study of 20 
tore seed north of lexas or Florida. I varieties grown by the Wisconsin Station the 
Queen of the Prairie is the same as | past season, resulted in finding a difference of 
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