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Vol. XLY. No. 1919. 
NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 6, 1886. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
42.1X1 PER YEAR. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 18S6, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
finely rotted manure, half of each. Liquid man- 
tire is a nasty thing to use in a dwelling-house. 
W ate ring-. —Never use icy water. That at 
a temperature of 50 to <50 degrees, or about the 
same as that of the room in which the plants 
are growing, is bast. All plants in full growth, 
as callas, cinerarias, Chinese primroses, helio¬ 
tropes, stevias. nasturtiums and streptosolous 
need lots of water, but never water them if 
they already are wet; wait till they begin to 
get dry before you give them a further sup¬ 
ply. To stove plants, that is, pelargoniums, 
fuchsias, coleuses, plumbago, abutilons and 
the like, that you are merely wintering over 
for next year’s garden, only give water enough 
to keep them from shriveling. And give 
very little water to your “cutting” pots, that 
is, the rooted slips you are keeping on in pots. 
Cactus and other thick-leaved plants should 
get very little water; indeed, there is no call 
for giving a cactus a drop of water before 
next March Cornelias, azaleas, myrtles, bays, 
orauges and other evergreen shrubs should 
never be allowed to get dry at the roots; at 
the same time, never deluge them. 
often 
you may be advised to the contrary; 
furthermore, it is utterly impossible to keep 
the atmosphere of a dwelling-house so satura¬ 
ted with moisture as to kill or even dispel red 
spider. Tobacco in any form is harmless to 
this rapacious little pest, and the same is true 
in the case of mealy bugs and scale. These 
last two must also be washed or brushed off. 
How aggravating it is to find that our bou- 
vardias and cactuses that were planted out in 
Summer and looked so clean and thrifty, 
are now so freely sprinkled with mealy insects 
But such is very often the case; the bugs re¬ 
pair to the ground and live about the roots 
while the plants are out-of-doors in Summer; 
but on indoor plants they forsake the roots in 
favor of the tops. Look out for little green 
worms on your mignonette, heliotrope and 
other plants. 
Frost. —While Chinese primroses, calceola¬ 
rias, Paris daisies and rose geraniums will 
bear a slight frost with apparent impunity, 
chrysanthemums will bear a few degrees, and 
pansies, violets and carnations a good many, 
not one of them is benefited by frost. There¬ 
fore be on the safe side and 
don’t let any of your house 
plants get frozen. 
Venti'latio n.— Ventilate 
freely in warm weather, but 
avoid draughts even in genial 
weather. In ventilating don’t 
open the windows wide all at 
once, but rather a little at a 
time. Ventilate early and shut 
up early. 
“Dutch” Bulbs.—K eep them 
cool and let them alone. If you 
want fine, large, showy flowers 
don’t hang up your bulbs. The 
Roman hyacinths are about the 
first that will come into flower. 
L I L Y-OF-THE-VALLEY. — I 
have a bed of this in an open 
sunny spot and every Fall after 
cutting over the leaves I mulch 
the beds with a heavy coating 
of well rotted manure. In 
Spring I get splendid sprays 
from this patch, and in Winter 
it yields me my roots for forc¬ 
ing. I lift them in large clumps, 
shake the earth away from 
them, then tear them apart into 
bunches just big enough to get 
into a nail keg. I gee the empty 
nail kegs from the stores in the 
village, they don’t cost any- 
thiug, saw them across the mid¬ 
dle and use the bottom ends 
for my Lily-of-the-Valley, and capita 
pots they make. By starting in September 
the clumps are iu good condition for forcing 
in December, and the foliage comes up with 
the flowers. I leave them outside till hard 
frost is likely to occur, then transplant them to 
a cold-frame where I can get at them handy 
whenever I want them for forcing in Winter. 
After forcing, I return the plants to the bed 
whence they were first taken where they soon 
recruit themselves, grow aud open, and in a 
year or two, are apparently as good as ever. 
THE WINDOW GARDEN. 
THE NEW GRAPES—G. W. CAMPBELL 
AND BELL. 
WILLIAM FALCONER. 
All plants should now be arranged and in 
place for Winter. Coleuses, alternantheras, 
acalyphas, dracaenas and rex begonias, bad 
better be kept iu warm quarters, though not 
necessarily iu sunny windows. Oxalises, uas- 
turtiums, bouvardias, heliotropes, carnations 
aud callas iu bloom love the suuny windows. 
Sweet alysium will keep on blooming in com¬ 
pany with violets, pansies, carnations, Paris- 
daisies, meteor marigolds and mignonette, in 
a light window, even if the temperature will 
now and then descend to the freezing point. 
Chinese primroses now are coming into bloom 
am 1 are admirable window plants; they will 
even thrive inside a light, cool room, away 
from the window for many days. I have 
Chelsea Blue Chinese Primrose now in bloom; 
the flowers are good, and of a pleasing dark 
T. V. MUNSON. 
In IStSI I selected seeds of Elvira aud Camp¬ 
bell’s Triumph grapes from the finest berries 
of the finest clusters grown on young, thrifty, 
four-year-old vines. The seeds were planted 
in open ground late iu the same year iu 
inch, loamy, saudy land, and many hundreds 
of each of these lots of seed came up nicely 
the next Spriug. During the Summer every 
plant that showed any weakness was pulled 
up. About 15 of the finest of the Triumph 
seedlings, and probably 100 of the Elvira seed¬ 
lings were planted in my test vineyard. The 
soil—ordinary limestone, now cultivated for 
uiue years without manure of any kind—with 
the commonest kind of attention produced a 
healthy, vigorous growth of these viues equal 
or superior to the parents. In 1884 they bore 
a few clusters, aud from the first 
their quality attracted marked 
attent ion. They have increased , _ 
iu productiveness and size of 
cluster, until this season when 
our long, severe drought mater¬ 
ially reduced the size of both 
cluster and berry. The G. W. 
Campbell ripens about two . 
weeks earlier than its parent, ap¬ 
proaching the foreign Chasselas. 
It ripens with the Delaware, 
aud so far seems as hardy as 
any of Rogers’s Hybrids with 
much less rot. Several other Tri- t 
urnph seedliugs are very fine; V 
but ull are late like their parents, 
or later, good ouly iu the Middle / 
and Southern States. 
Quite a number of the Elvira tfe 
seedlings have proved of great 
excellence, but the particular 
one here referred to is designat¬ 
ed in mv records as No. ’21, and 
with the name “Bell.” It is the 4 
finest El s' ira seedling l have in 
quality, yellowish white, quite Is 
early persistent, productive, of 
excellent health and growth; ' 
skin tough and not at all in¬ 
clined to crack like its parents. 
It showed no indication of rot, 
even last season when the rot 
was so severe here. Still I 
would not call it rot-proof, as 
even the Norion sometimes has a few rotten 
berries, though one of the most resistant. I 
think it will prove hardy wherever Clinton is 
hardy, und it ripens earlier. It takes the 
Rupertris species fully to sustain “rot-proof” 
claims, and of this steel-clad species we are 
now getting some fine improvements. In 
purity no species excels it, 
Dennison, Texas. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. Munson sent us quite a num¬ 
ber of his seedlings which were received July 
29 in perfect order. We have selected two 
for illustration; viz. G. W. Campbell, see 
Fig. 410, and Bell, sec Fig. 499. The berries 
of the first were about the size of fine Dela¬ 
wares, very juicy, sprightly, vinous, no pulp, 
oue to two seeds, white with bloom, the skill 
tough though thin. We consider it of flue 
quality. The Bell is sufficiently described by' 
Sir. Munson. Such grapes sent to Northern 
markets by August 1st, would meet with a 
ready sale. 
- - ■- ♦ » •-— 
Mu. P. Barry sends us a basket of grapes 
from his cold vinery. One bunch of Calab¬ 
rian (white) weighs 88 ounces. Of the several 
different kinds we should prefer the Alicante 
(black) for its large, showy berries, as well 
as for its quality. 
1) BELL. From Nature. Fig. 409 
lavender color. Lobster-claw cactuses (Epi- 
phyllum) are iu their fullest beauty from Oc¬ 
tober into November. They don’t waut sun¬ 
shine. Cactuses of all sorts ami other succu¬ 
lents too, for instance, century plauts. stape- 
lias, yuccas, cotyledons and seduius, if kept 
rather dry at the root aud overhead, may be 
kept in the shady places till next Spring, 
Ferns of all sorts love faintly shady places, 
while cinerarias and calceolarias love to be 
kept cool and near the glass; they dislike 
direct sunshine, aud should bo kept from freez¬ 
ing. While a slight frost will not hurt the 
calceolaria it. will kill a cineraria as fust as a 
heliotrope or balsam. 
Repotting.— Don't do this if you can avoid 
it. Cinerarias and calceolarias may need re¬ 
potting, but very few other thiugs will. A 
window isn’t a greenhouse, hence you cannot 
with impunity repot your plants in Novem¬ 
ber or December. 
Stimulants. —If the nasturtiums, Paris 
daisies, callus and other vigorous plants have 
become tightly pot-bound and exhausted the 
soil, scrape off some of the surface earth aud 
replace with a compost of turfy loam aud 
Cleaning. —Pelargoniums and almost all 
plauts that have i eeeutly been lifted from the 
open ground aud potted to keep over Winter 
will lose many of their leaves, also a good 
many ends of branches may mold, or the fallen 
petals of flowers may lie on the foliage aud 
rot spots in it. Look to this aud remove every 
bit of decaying matter you may tiud on or 
about your plants. November and December 
are the worst two months for molding and de¬ 
caying leaves. 
Insects. —Eternal vigilance alone can keep 
these in check. Green fly are extremely par¬ 
tial to calceolarias, cinerarias, the young 
growths and flower buds of roses, anti like 
tender morsels. Brush or wash them off, or 
dip the plants ;but not the roots) head fore¬ 
most in tobacco water the color of very strong 
tea. Fumigating with tobacco smoke iu a 
dwelling-house is too disgusting to be enter¬ 
tained, aud I can assure you as impracticable 
(except on paper) as it is offensive. Red 
spider too have to tie washed or brushed off. 
Sprinkling the foliage with water will never 
rid the plants of “spider,” no matter how 
LIVE STOCK NOTES FOR NOVEMBER 
November, with its fogs and sleet by day. 
and its frosts by night, is a rigorous month 
for the stock that are unprovided with warm 
shelter. No animals should beut largest night 
during this mouth; and none can be expected 
to pay its owner for the feed it consumes if it 
is exposed to the cold in open, comfortless 
