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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
TifE NovEjnBER Abundance Rasp- 
BEHRY,—This new variety lately gained 
an award of merit from the British 
Royal Horticultural Society for its great 
promise. It is said by one eminent gar¬ 
dening journal to be a hybrid between 
the standard European red variety, Su¬ 
perlative, and an American blackberry, 
and by another authority of equal prom¬ 
inence as between Superlative and our 
native purple-cane raspberry, Catawlssa, 
with the probabilities greatly in favor 
of the latter parentage. It is described 
as large and handsome in fruit and an 
enormous cropper. The season is very 
late, a characteristic which seems to 
warrant its name. Catawissa has al¬ 
ready given seedlings varying from a 
typical blackcap through orange to a red 
cap like the wild Rubus strigosus, and 
is probably a natural hybrid between 
our red and black species. Superlative 
is highly regarded abroad, and can be 
well grown in northern New York, but 
fails on the Rural Grounds, dying out in 
a few years, with light fruit production 
in the interval. It is not generally 
known that American blackberries are 
too late in ripening to be useful in Eng¬ 
land, and even the early Loganberry, 
which comes in with us in June, does 
not mature its fruits in northern Eu¬ 
rope until late July and August. The 
Loganberry has almost completely van¬ 
ished from eastern gardens, but is win¬ 
ning friends in Europe, where it is care¬ 
fully trained on trellises or wires 
against walls. The crop U^us produced 
is said to be enormous and of the finest 
quality. The hybrid berry Mahdi, il¬ 
lustrated on page 786, R. N.-Y. for 1901, 
is a cross between the common wild 
blackberry of Europe and Fontenay, a 
French red raspberry very favorably 
known in this country. It is again well 
spoken of, but probably will be of little 
value in the United States except pos¬ 
sibly in the extreme Northwest, where 
the climatic conditions greatly resemble 
in humidity and modified sunlight its 
place of origin. 
TirE Greedy Express Companies. —As 
if florists were not sufficiently tried by 
the high price and great scarcity of coal 
the various express companies have sud¬ 
denly jumped the rates for transporting 
cut flowers 50 per cent over the exces¬ 
sive first-class schedules, thus adding a 
most unjust tax on this already burden¬ 
ed industry. Some lively protests are 
being made by the unwilling victims. 
No reason has been assigned for this ar¬ 
bitrary action, and it would appear that 
less occasion exists than with many 
other classes of merchandise, as most 
growers deliver their products to the ex¬ 
press stations and often load them in 
the cars in their anxiety to avoid rough 
handling. Express companies have 
scarcely been known to pay damages for 
flowers or plant products injured in 
transit, and can scarcely plead extra 
risk and care in transportation, as they 
are handled about like other boxed mer¬ 
chandise. The advance must be regard¬ 
ed as a cold-blooded grab, particularly 
when the season and condition of the 
fuel market is considered, and is so 
termed by the florists, who are thus 
forced to pay out additional thousands 
of dollars for an already extortionate 
and ineffective service. Correspondents 
of florists’ trade papers advocate vigor¬ 
ous action by indignation meetings and 
direct protests by letter—the postage- 
stamp vote in substance. This may or 
may not have the desired temporary ef¬ 
fect, but the true remedy is the estab¬ 
lishment of a National parcels post that 
will not be affected by individual or cor¬ 
porate greed, and will give a cheap and 
uniform service to all shippers without 
discrimination. Almost every country, 
with the exception of our own, is enjoy¬ 
ing the manifold advantages of a gov¬ 
ernment package post, but we have long 
been kept out of a. by the influence of 
selfish interests. Another fairly effec¬ 
tive means of tempering excessive ex¬ 
press rates in some localities would be 
the extension of the right to transport 
merchandise on electric railways, which 
has never been granted in several 
States. The steam roads hold the mon¬ 
opoly for this important service, and up¬ 
hold the express companies in their ex¬ 
tortions. The economical interchange 
of various light commodities is certain 
to be of incalculable benefit to rural 
communities. 
The Childs Quince. —In 1900 we 
planted three-year-old trees of Childs, 
Borgeat and Fuller quinces. All have 
made satisfactory growths, but Childs, 
a production of Burbank’s, is the only 
one inclined to bear. Four good-sized 
perfect fruits were ripened the past sea¬ 
son, which is about all a young tree 
should carry. They were of remarkably 
good quality when cooked, fine grained, 
tender and of high flavor. The fruits 
may be expected to gain in size if not 
in quality as the trees grow stronger. 
'These quinces are round and smooth, 
clear yellow in color and highly per¬ 
fumed. They ripened in early October. 
The Borgeat and Fuller trees are 
healthy and vigorous in growth. Both 
are inclined to take on a tree-like form. 
Fuller had a few blooms last Spring, but 
set no fruits. 
A Little-Known Pampas Grass.— 
Some plants of the rarely cultivated 
lavender-flowered Pampas grass, Corta- 
deria jubata, were kindly furnished the 
Rural Grounds last March by Luther 
Burbank. The little fellows were pot¬ 
ted up and placed in a cool shady place 
under glass until ground could be pre¬ 
pared outside. In early May they were 
planted in rich, rather moist soil, four 
feet apart. They grew strongly as soon 
as established and made fine spreading 
clumps, rising to five feet in height by 
October. The plumes began to show by 
the latter part of the month. They de¬ 
veloped sufficiently before frost, which 
was late in appearing, to fluff up well 
when dried. They are small as com¬ 
pared with the gigantic products of the 
common species grown so extensively 
in California, but are delicate and hand¬ 
some. The color is a silvery lavender, 
approaching pink in some specimens, 
and the branchlets are most gracefully 
disposed. This species blooms a month 
earlier than Cortaderia argentea, the 
ordinary Pampas grass, and for that 
reason may be successfully grown where 
the seasons are quite short. Mr. Bur¬ 
bank says he finds it about as hardy as 
the ordinary form and thinks it will 
live over in this latitude if the clumps 
are so well covered with leaves as to 
keep out frost. It is likely that clumps 
wintered over in a box of earth in the 
cellar will bloom earlier and better than 
the little division plants received last 
Spring. This species is claimed to bloom 
with much greater abundance than tne 
common one, and will doubtless become 
very popular for garden decoration, as 
it is so easily grown. We understand 
a Long Island seedsman will distribute 
it as a novelty the coming season. 
w. V. F. 
SOUND AS A DOLLAR 
That is the result of a course 
of treatment witli Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion. We ha\'e special refer¬ 
ence to persons with weak 
luno;s and sensitive throats. 
Scott’s Emulsion does some 
thino'S better than others. This 
O 
is one of them. It has a pe-' 
culiar action on the throat and 
lungs which gives them 
strength and makes themtough. 
That’s how Scott’s Emulsion 
drives out coughs, colds and 
bronchitis. It keeps them out, 
too. 
We’ll send you a little to try, If you like. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street. New York. 
® WE’LL PAY THE FREIGHT 
and send 4 liuggy tVheeln, Steal Tire on, - 
With Kuhber Tires, $15.00. I mfg. wheels to 4 in 
tread. Top Buggies, $28.75; Harness, $8.60. Write foi 
catalogue. Learn how to buy vehicles and pans direct 
Waenn Umbrella FRKK. W. R. BOOB, Cincinnati. O 
W E SHOW YOU, FREE, how to destroy San Jos6 
Scale at one-tenth the present cost. 
The Relnlein Gasoline Torch Co., Mt. Vernon, Ill. 
SAJV JOSE SCALE. 
And other Insects can be Controlled by Using 
Good’s Caustic Potash Whale- 
Oil Soap No. 3. 
It also prevents Cnrl Leaf. Endorsed by Entomolo¬ 
gists. This Soap is a Fertilizer as well as Insecticide. 
60-lb. Kegs, $2.50; 100-lb. Kegs, $4.50; Half-Barrel, 
270 Ids., 3^e. per lb.; Barrel. 425 lbs., 3J4c. Large 
quantities. Special Rates. Send for Circulars. 
JAMES GOOD, 939 N. Front St., Philadelphia, Pa 
OME makes of Rifle and Pistol Cartridges are as un¬ 
reliable as some people’s watches: Cartridges out of 
the same box won’t shoot alike—some go high, sonie 
go low and some don’t go at all. If you want cartridges 
that will shoot every time and just where you aim, ask for 
WNCHESna 
RIFLE AND PISTOL CARTRIDGES 
and insist upon getting this time-tried brand. The ex¬ 
perience of .30 years, coupled with a modern system of 
manufacture, makes the Winchester brand of Rifle and 
Pistol Cartridges better than any other on the market. 
HU Dealers Sell Winchester JHaite of Cartridges. 
PRAVING 
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Hand.Krvapsack.Bucket,. 
Field. Barrel, and Power 
sprayers.twenty styles. Bestnozsies 
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shown in Catalog F. It is PK££. Write at 
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Get the Best 
A Good. Spray Pump earns big 
proflts and lasts for years. 
THE EGUPSE 
Is a good pump. As prac¬ 
tical fruit growers we 
were using the com¬ 
mon sprayers In our 
own orchards—found 
their defects and then invented 
The Kclipse. Its success 
practical ly forced us into man¬ 
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You take no chances. We have 
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Large fttUy ittuatrated 
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A Big Crop of Fruit 
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trees and vines witli the wonderful 
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It drives the foe-like spray into every corner, killing 
all the bugs and fungous diseases. 
The KIg Growers all recom¬ 
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cause it maintains such a high 
pressure and because 
IT WORKS SO EASY. 
Our catalogue tells all about 
spraying. It is Frbb, send 
for it. 
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54 Lamed St., Detroit, nieh« 
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Our Split 
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IStatlon 89, Cincinnati, O. 
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Folding Sawing Mach. Co- 55 N. Jefferson St. Chicago, 111. 
Planet Jr. 
From the smallest kitchen garden to the largest 
field in cultivation; for all kinds of vegetable seed- 
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It embraces over 50 distinct and separate tools, 
nearly every one of which has been designed for a 
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Seed Drills which drop in hills or drills; Single and 
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Box 1107-v Philadelphia, Fa, 
Planet Jr. 
IT MEANS FULL FRUITING 
AND FINE FLOWERS. 
About the only pumps worth using are 
those that mechanically mix the liquid and 
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SPWY 
W ^ elean th* itraliier to prevent clogging nud et<jppi&g epraj. 
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nod the; are the onl; 0pr»;era with nutomntio Agitators and streiner cleaning 
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Careful Farmers 
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five cents' worth will protect a sill, etc. It sinks into the wood, and prevents wet or dry 
rot. A scientific money saver. Send for our circular ; it will pay you to investigate 
Conserve Wood Preservative. 
SAMUEL CABOT, MaaufacturlnK Chemist, 81 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. 
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