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June 20 
; Ruralisms ; 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Thk Japan Snowbapt-. —Fig. 164. page 
451, shows a six-year plant of the sterile 
or double flowering form of Viburnum 
tomentosum, usually catalogued by nur¬ 
serymen as V. plicatum. The large ball¬ 
like clusters of bloom have a striking 
effect when seen against a dark back¬ 
ground of shrubbery. The flowers are 
very white and delicate, and as regular¬ 
ly arranged as if clipped from white 
paper. The Japan snowball has a better 
habit and neater foliage than the com¬ 
mon snowball or Guelder rose, and is 
especially desirable in that it is not sub¬ 
ject to attacks of aphids that usually 
infest the familiar variety. Both are 
handsome shrubs, worthy of the choicest 
situations, but the plague of lice on the 
Guelder rose is so frequent that one 
grows weary of flghting it. 
A MEMOKiAn Day Siibub. —The Guel¬ 
der rose blooms a few days earlier than 
the Japan snowball, but both may usual¬ 
ly be counted on for cutting the last of 
May. The warm wave in March and ex¬ 
cessive dronght of late April and May 
so forced most flowering plants this sea¬ 
son that reasonable calculations were 
upset. Viburnums were far past their 
prime, but the leafy branches, with their 
fading blooms, were still much sought 
after on Decoration Day, owing to the 
scarcity of other blooms. The Japan 
snowball is propagated with some diflfl- 
culty from cuttings, and always brings 
a good price, 35 to 50 cents being asked 
for plants two to three feet high. It 
should be included in every collection 
of half a dozen or more dooryard shrubs. 
While quite hardy the foliage is sensi¬ 
tive to heat and drought and a rich, 
moist location should be found for it 
whenever possible. Planting is best done 
in the Fall or early in Spring, as if de¬ 
layed until the buds start there will be 
danger of loss if dry weather sets in. 
Few shrubs better repay good treatment 
than this flne snowball. 
The Type Species. —The typical form 
of Viburnum tomentosum has Hydran¬ 
gea-like, creamy-white blooms, often 
followed by abundant red fruits chang¬ 
ing to black as the season advances. V. 
opulus, the type of the Guelder rose, 
also bears many bright scarlet edible 
fruits, and is known as the high or bush 
cranberry where it grows wild in north¬ 
ern Europe and America. The berries 
hang nearly all Winter when not dis¬ 
turbed, and have been advocated as a 
fruit of possible horticultural value, as 
they make, when cooked, a good substi¬ 
tute for cranberries. The whole plant is 
ornamental and quite free from the in¬ 
sect pests that trouble the garden form. 
The foliage of both species, particularly 
V. tomentosum, colors brilliantly in the 
Fall. We have planted them on a hill¬ 
side chiefly for their Autumn effect. 
The Crimson Giant Radish. —This 
large, early globe or turnip radish must 
take rank among the meritorious vege¬ 
table novelties of the year. Unlike the 
ordinary forcing radishes it grows to a 
good size, reaching two or more inches 
in diameter before the centers become 
pithy. It has a small top and can be 
sown in the garden or under glass in 
the usual manner and quickly grows to 
the size of the common type, when the 
thinnings are in excellent condition for 
the table or market. The remaining 
plants should be spaced three or more 
inches apart and continue to grow for 
several weeks without becoming soft or 
hollow, retaining their crisp high qual¬ 
ity quite up to the appearance of the 
flower shoot. The seeds are still scarce, 
and were only sent out by a few reli¬ 
able dealers this Spring, though trials 
were made by experienced private ana 
market gardeners last year with most 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
encouraging results. Seeds from promi¬ 
nent New York and Philadelphia deal¬ 
ers were planted on the Rural Grounds 
April 12, just before our last rain. A 
sharp frost caught the young plants just 
as they were coming up, and an un¬ 
broken drought, with much cold wind, 
followed and continues to this writing in 
early June. Not by any means ideal 
conditions for radish growing, but with¬ 
in four weeks after sowing we had most 
acceptable table radishes, and the last 
days of May found the survivors still 
sound and well flavored. Three sowings 
at least of ordinary quick-growing varie¬ 
ties would be needed for a succession of 
palatable roots during this period, and 
as the soil has been so dry for the last 
five weeks that no seeds have germi¬ 
nated except where irrigated the advan¬ 
tage of using the Crimson Giant, when 
true stock can be procured, is very evi¬ 
dent. The shape is still rather uncer¬ 
tain, varying from round to oval, but 
the color, texture and other characteris¬ 
tics seem pretty well fixed. 
The Puefy Turnip Radish. —All gar¬ 
den radishes probably originated from a 
common source nearly or quite identical 
with wild mustard or charlock, but long 
cultivation and careful selection has 
produced a multitude of forms suited to 
varying horticultural needs. The most 
popular type is plainly the little early 
round or turnip-shaped radish found in 
our markets every business day in the 
year. There are an endless number of 
strains and seedsmen’s selections, some 
of great merit from the grower’s stand¬ 
point, but quite similar in their uniform 
Spring radishes without the trouble of 
planting in 10-day successions. We hope 
it may be bred true so that the present 
slight irregularities will be eliminated. 
w. v. F. 
SUPPLEMENTING THE RAINFALL. 
The dry season has enabled me defi¬ 
nitely to prove the practicability of an 
exceedingly simple method of supple¬ 
menting the rainfall, which is so cheap 
as to be within the reach of gardeners, 
while it does not have the objections of 
diluting and washing away the food off 
the ground, nor endangering it in case 
of a heavy rainfall immediately after 
tlie watering, as is the case where the 
soil is flooded by the old methods. 1 
elevate the water to a tank 40 feet high, 
and for a plot of 400 feet square run a 
half-inch pipe to the center, as shown 
in the diagram. Fig. 165, making a cross 
in the pipe at the center and placing five 
one-fourth-inch stands, as shown by the 
dots. These stands are eight to 10 feet 
high, and have two atomizers upon the 
top of each one, which will discharge 
20 to 25 gallons of water in the form of 
a heavy mist, each per hour, and give 
a total of 2,000 to 2,500 gallons each 10 
hours. The water is turned on only at 
night, or, if the weather is very warm, 
at 6 P. M. and turned off at 7 A. M. 
Thrown out so fine the water is buoyed 
up by the air, and drifts and falls more 
as a very heavy dew than as rain. The 
number of atomizers may be doubled if 
desired, or only used each other night. 
I have found 2,000 gallons a night ample 
for the finest plant growth. 
Staten Island. s. s. boyce. 
overhead irrigation. Pig. 165. 
small size, seldom exceeding an inch in 
diameter, bright coloring, mild and ten¬ 
der flesh and quick maturity, becoming 
marketable under favorable conditions 
in from 18 to 36 days from planting. If 
grown in moist cool soil they are crisp 
and delicate, but if at all checked by 
heat and drought they become tough and 
pungent, or puff up into tasteless blad¬ 
ders in a remarkably short time after 
EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE. 
The idea of Increasing man power, 
page 386, is new to me. I did not know 
there was any way of giving him more 
pftwer than his food gave him. You get 
it by the use of a machine. This is 
as impossible as for a man to life him¬ 
self by his bootstraps. Colmstalk’s 
philosophy, taught in the common 
schools about 40 years ago, taught 
that there was no actual power gained 
by the use of machinery. It is merely 
a convenience to harness the elements 
and make use of them, which without 
machinery would not give any power. 
Your crank and windlass lessens the 
power of the man by the amount of fric¬ 
tion in the machine. There is a retard 
in motion which would make the work 
so slow as to be of no practical use for 
the work described. There is no more 
power in a man or horse than was 
created in them, and machinery cannot 
be made to develop more. A machine 
that will create power would be a per¬ 
petual motion. ' c. m. 
R. N.-Y.—How then do you explain 
the fact that by pulling at full strength 
directly on the rope the writer could not 
stir the cultivator, while when turning 
the crank he did the work of a small 
horse? 
reaching the market condition. While 
there are other excellent varietal types 
they have little hold on consumers, and 
are only sought for family use in limited 
quantities. The turnip radish is prac¬ 
tically the only one known by the vast 
majority of town dwellers, and is the 
only one served in public eating places, 
from the most exclusive hotels to the 
Bowery hasheries. When fresh and well 
grown it is indeed a dainty bit, pleasing 
to the eye and most appetizing and 
wholesome when eaten as it should be 
with a modicum of the green leaf stems 
as a corrective to the pungency of the 
THISTLE-INE' 
Feb. 28,1903. 
Gentlemen; Duriiiffthe 
past year I gave your 
Thistle-ine a test on the 
Kent County Poor Fannin 
Paris Township, Mich. 1 
tried it on Canada Thistles, 
M ilk weed, Y ellowdock, Bu r- 
dock. Willows, and found it 
does kill them just as you 
claim it will do. 
Very re.sp’y, N. 1). Edmonds. 
Keeper of Kent Co. Poor Farm. 
5 Ib. can makes 5 gallons of the liquid, 
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glowing rind, but is a vapid mess when 
Disparen^ 
saves 
trees 
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Springfield City Forester Gale says: “ I 
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Straddles 2 rows, sprays 
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^ ' Woodchucks, Gophers, 
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wrongly grown. 
The Tkuckbib’s Favorite. —Turnip 
and globe radishes are grown with such 
mechanical precision by glass garden 
experts that they will long remain favor¬ 
ites in their present forms. They are so 
uniform in size of root and top that a 
close calculation of the output of a given 
area under manageable conditions can 
usually be made. It would require some 
experimenting to ascertain just what a 
newcomer like the Crimson Giant would 
do in a commercial way, but it is evident 
that in its present condition it is a boon 
to the home cultivator who wants good 
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