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VOL. XLVIII. NO. 2076. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 9, i889. 
PRICE, FIVE CENTS. 
$ 2.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1889 , by the Rural New-Yorker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.J 
A LA MARQUE ROSE. NILES, CAL¬ 
IFORNIA. 
T HE illustration, Figure 268, is from a 
photograph of a La Marque Rose on 
the house of James Shinn, Niles, Cali¬ 
fornia. It is budded on a double Cherokee 
Rose. The Cherokee was planted, a one- 
year-old rooted cutting, in the spring of 
1877. About 1882, the Cherokee being then 
a large plant, well up to the second-story 
window, three buds of La Marque were in¬ 
serted at from four to nine feet from the 
ground. The top was cut back, and the 
buds got a start. At present the vine is 
about one-third Cherokee and two-thirds 
La Marque. It grows so luxuriantly that 
it has to be cut away from the house 
and windows every year. If any at¬ 
tempt had been made to spread it over 
more space it would easily have cov¬ 
ered four or five times as much of the 
porch ; but other roses, a Bigonia graudi- 
flora, clematis, Catalonian Jessamine, and 
other vines occupy places on the lattice 
around the house, and the La Marque has 
to be restrained. There are some roses 
upon it for 10 months iu the year. The 
heavy bloom is in April and May. 
The original Cherokee stock sepai-ates 
into two large stems near the surface of the 
ground. Each of these is a trifle over 11 
inches in circumference. Three or four 
small Cherokee stems four inches in cir¬ 
cumference also ascend from this point. 
The largest La Marque stem is 12*>£ inches 
in circumference or larger than the stock. 
The other two La Marque stems are nearly 
as large. The union is perfect, and the 
whole plant is thrifty and vigorous. 
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TWO LETTERS THAT SUIT US. 
My father and I are farming together, as 
in some way I have escaped the attractions 
and allurements of city life. I scarcely 
know how, for from my earliest recollec¬ 
tion I have had a longing for a mercantile 
life, a longing which sometimes almost 
overcomes my resolve to be a thorough and 
practical farmer. I am 24 years of age, 
married and living on the farm with my 
father and mother, under the same roof 
but as two separate families, the house hav¬ 
ing been arranged for that purpose. Nearly 
one year ago the R. N.-Y. was introduced 
into our home. To say tlVht I have become 
an interested reader hardly expresses how 
much I am thankful for the amount of 
good it has done me. Suffice it to say that 
I carefully read every issue and thereby am 
becoming so interested in things relating 
to the occupation of the farmer that I am 
nearly forgetting my aspirations toward 
another kind of business, and right here I 
believe is one reason why so many cf our 
farmers’ sons leave the old farm to seek 
their fortunes in the cities. One may travel 
through the country and take the farming 
class generally and in not more than one 
home in every 25 or 30 is there to be found 
an agricultural paper of any description 
for the boys to read. The older ones are 
content to plant and sow and jog along in 
the same old rut year after year, to look 
for better times aud say that “ farmin’ don’t 
pay ” as it used to; but the boys who are 
coming up will not take the places of their 
fathers on the farm because they want 
something new ; some variation to the old, 
old plan, and not finding it they leave 
home and the city receives them. Now the 
doctor will take his medical journal, 
the school teacher his educational paper, 
the business man his daily paper, the 
politician his political party paper; 
but the farmer, where is he with the paper 
which relates especially to his interest ? 
Let me whisper it! he is “way back” like 
his picture in some of t he city papers. But 
he says he can’t afford an agricultural 
paper. Now just see: these men can 
afford to store their lumber wagons in the 
fence corners and other tools in like places, 
and then can’t afford an investment which 
will pay 50 per cent, on the money invested ! 
Too thin ! I feel like going out and stirring 
up some of these men and making them take 
the R. N.-Y. a year on trial, feeling sure 
that they would continue in well doing 
when once they were started on the right 
track. h. s. w. 
Little Utica, N. Y. 
I am glad to note that it is not proposed 
to lower the standard of the R. N.-Y. Its 
success must demonstrate that the farmers 
of the United States appreciate and will 
heartily support a journal that is at once 
an ornament on the table of the wealthy 
and so dear a friend in the homes of the 
poor that they cannot afford do do -without 
it. The ranks of cheap farm papers are 
filled to overflowing now; I am a subscriber 
to several. There are good papers among 
them; but the R. N.-Y. is far the cheapest 
when we take into consideration the feast 
it places before us. l. h. 
Dansville, N. Y. 
ANOTHER MICHIGAN THRASHING 
SCENE. 
Our friend, William Anderson of Alcona 
A LA MARQUE ROSE AT NILES, CALIFORNIA. From a Photograph. Fig. 268 . 
