THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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BUBAL SPECIAL REPORTS 
Neb., York, York Co., Aug. 30.—We had a 
very wet reason for this state through harvest, 
consequently there is considerable sprouted 
wheat. We have had splendid weather since 
harvest was over, and farmers are now busy 
thrashing out the golden grain which is turn¬ 
ing out so light that it makes a good many look 
rather disheartened. Wheat is worth from 50 
to 65 cents, an advance of freights having cut 
down the price five or six cents per bushel. A 
good many are sowing fall wheat this season, 
hoping thereby to get in ahead of the chinch 
lugs. The barley crop was nearly lost through 
the wet weather. Oats are a good crop. Corn 
promises an immense yield. Late potatoes 
suffered badly from the beetles. Timber grows 
very fast here ; I have some Cotton-woods that 
have grown over six feet this season, and other 
timber shoots up proportionately. Wheat runs 
about 10 to 12 bushels per acre; oats 30 bush¬ 
els. Hogs are worth $2 lo $2,50. Some farm¬ 
ers have their plowing already doue for next 
year’s crop. Granger. 
Mo,, Hermitage, Hickory Co., Sept. 4.—The 
Pearl Millet you sent me, was planted about 
May 1st; tlie dry weather coming on, many of 
the seeds did not grow, but what did come up, 
is “ immense.” Who said that it would not 
ripen ? I left some eight or ten hills to ripen or 
grow rather, as I did not think it would ripen, 
and now 1 have almost enough ripe seeds to sow 
an acre, and if frost delays two weeks longer. I 
shall have a nice lot of seed. The Blount corn 
is good, hut the cut-worms, squirrels and 
raccoons left me only about half. I presume 
they thought I was farming on shares, and they 
did not wait for an equitable division, m. n. n. 
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“ The Parks and Gardens op Paris.” Sec¬ 
ond revised edition. This is a work that we 
heartily recommend to every lover of the hor¬ 
ticultural. Its author is the founder and editor 
of the London “Garden,” a weekly periodical, 
the best of its kind published anywhere. “ The 
Parks and Gardens of Paris”,is a large book of 
550 pages, and illustrated with hundreds of 
original and beautiful engravings. The title is 
somewhat misleading to Americans. It is not 
at all coufined to a mere description of the 
parks aud gardens of the French capital as 
such; for the author points out all he has there 
seen that is worthy aud all that is not worthy 
of imitaiiou. This he does as only a practical, 
educated horticulturist of refined taste can do. 
His censures, approvals aud praises are all 
alike sincere, and being guided by excellent 
judgment, do not fail to carry conviction with 
them. The book is lull of instruction and one 
reads it from beginning to end, delighted that 
he is learning so much. The first niue chap¬ 
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parks and squares of Paris. Among the most 
interesting subjects treated of in the rest of 
the book, are those under the following head¬ 
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Winter Gardens; A Few Notes ou Private Gar¬ 
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The Cordon System of Fruit Growing; The 
Paradise, Doucin and Crab Stocks; Some Notes 
on Fruit Gardens; Fig Culture in the Neigh¬ 
borhood of Paris; Fruit Culture ; How are we 
to Improve? Implements and Appliances used 
in French Gardens; The Market-gardens of 
Paris; Asparagus Culture; Mushroom Culture 
in Caves under Paris; Flower, Fruit and Vege¬ 
table Markets, etc., etc. We wish that those 
of our couutrymen who have to do with our 
parks and squares, could beinduced to read this 
book from beginning to end. It is published 
by Macmillan Co., of London, and the price 
is twenty-five shillings, or about $6.00. 
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and Chicago. The first edition of this work 
was published in 1842, the fifth in 1857. 
Each edition has been in part re-written—the 
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prosecution of systematic botany and to furnish 
the needful preparation to those who proceed 
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anatomy and to eryptogamie botauy. This is 
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and Physiology) Dr. Gray has assigned to his 
colleague, Professor Goodale j the third (Intro¬ 
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Farlow aud the fourth (A Sketch of the 
Natural Orders of Pbamogamous Plants and 
of their Special Morphology, Classification, 
Distribution, Products, etc.) Dr. Gray “hopes 
rather than expects himself to draw up.” We 
hope that his hopes will be realized and that 
his expectations will be wholly disappointed. 
Gray’s botanical works and writings are 
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WHAT OTHERS SAY 
Cultivating Wueat in England.— Our 
readers well know that we have not favored 
what is called the new system of “cultivat¬ 
ing ” wheat, which for the last couple of years, 
in the Eastern part of our State, has caused 
some excitement among onr farmers. In pur¬ 
suing the “new” method it was fortified by 
the statement that it had been adopted by the 
best farmers in England to the exelusion of all 
others. In our reading we could not see that 
this statement was endorsed to any consider¬ 
able extent, though some years ago it became 
somewhat practiced. The editor of the Rural 
New-Yorker, wishing reliable information on 
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amsted. Eng., aud received the following reply: 
“ No one here cultivates wheat, nor has thin 
seeding ever made much way. At the present 
moment the great hulk of the wheat grown in 
this country Is drilled in rows about live inches 
apart, and the seed used is about two bushels 
per acre. 11 stands to reason thaj if one plant 
of wheat has possession of oue or two square 
feet of soil, its power of growth must be in¬ 
creased ; hut except upon garden soil, or upon 
farms in excessively high condition, I feel sure 
that thin seeding will never be successful.” 
This would seem to settle the question, alike 
as it regards cultivating, thin sowing and drill¬ 
ing-in the crop. In England, where labor is 
cheap and a ready demand for every bushel of 
wheat that can be raised at good prices, they 
are quick at taking up every new idea that 
looks to an increased production at reduced 
cost; and this ought to cause American farm¬ 
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tried and abandoned under circumstances so 
clearly condemnatory of it. — Germantown 
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