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Ruralisms \ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 28 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Sweet Coen Trials. —While agricul¬ 
tural corn came nearer local failure this 
season than for a generation, sweet corn, 
not requiring maturity for table use, 
gave fair returns where well managed. 
The adverse conditions that reduced the 
yield of field corn also bore hard on 
sugar corn grown for seed, especially as 
regards late varieties, and there doubt¬ 
less will be many shortages in delivery 
from growers. The Spring drought ac¬ 
companied by much cool weather, de¬ 
layed early plantings so that it was well 
into June before they started off with 
any show of vigor. Sheffield - as usual, 
developed the first edible ears July 18, 
followed about four days later by Go^ 
den Bantam (Burpee). This lp,st turns 
mit to be a veritable treasure for the 
home garden. It only grows about four 
feet high, and may be planted in hills 
in good soil as near as 24 inches apart. 
Every stalk bore a compact little ear. 
The grains are deep yellow in color, 
rich, sweet and tender in quality, and 
separate very readily from the cob when 
eaten. Yellow sweet corn somehow does 
not appeal to the eye, and consequently 
finds small favor in the market, but the 
quality of Golden Bantam is so exqui¬ 
site that it will ma,ke friends wherever 
tried. It seems to be a development 
from some of the early yellow kinds 
long popular in New England, but is far 
better than any similar sort we have 
ever grown, ( jplden Bantam has been 
on the market two years, and is rapidly 
gaining popularity. 
AnmTr|oPAT, from Henry A. Dreer, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Distributed first this 
iseason. This is an extra early variety, 
ripening about with Cory, but with us 
is far more vigorous, productive and re¬ 
sistant to smut than that much-planted 
variety. It originated near, and has 
long been popular among, the Summer 
resorts of Rhode Island. It is a stocky 
grower, reaching five or six feet in 
height on good soil. The ears are thick 
and well filled, averaging about nine 
inches long. When young the grains 
cook white, sweet and tender, but darken 
when they grow older, as the dry seeds 
are amber in color. The quality is at all 
times very good, but scarcely suitable 
for our local market, which prefers a 
small slender ear of very white corn. 
Aristocrat is a well-bred variety, and 
presents a most uniform and business¬ 
like appearance in the field, as many 
stalks have two or more plump ears. The 
husks are thick and heavy, keeping the 
young corn in table condition for many 
days. 
White EvRnoREEN . W. Atlee Burpee 
& (Jo., PhliaOfelphia,’ Pa. A great im¬ 
provement, by long and careful selec¬ 
tion, on Stowell’s Evergreen as now cul¬ 
tivated. The attempt has been made to 
get a strain having light green silk and 
tassels, but this has not been altogether 
accomplished. About 20 per cent of our 
trials showed dark color in the floral 
organs. The cob and kernels, however, 
are at all stages of edibility beautifully 
white. They are of the most pronounced 
“Evergreen” type. The getting rid of 
the amber tint so prominent in many 
strains of sweet corn passing for 
StowelJ’s Evergreen is a great gain, as 
it fits this variety for extensive use in 
canneries. The quality has been so im- 
])roved by critical selection that it must 
rank among Uie very best of the large 
sugar corns. The plant is robust, with 
heavy broad foliage and frequently bears 
two large ears. For serving on the cob 
they are rather large, but afford an un¬ 
limited supply of excellent green corn 
for all other culinarj’^ purposes. As with 
the parent variety, the young ears re¬ 
main in the edible state a long time, and 
when two or more ears are produced on 
a stalk they come on in succession, thus 
considerably lengthening the season for 
a given planting. We have found noth¬ 
ing better for a main crop sugar corn. 
-Large Eight-Rowed. —A most desir- 
abl^ld Vkl-ieti^ lldW rarely listed. Our 
seed was purchased from J. M. Thorburn 
& Ck)., New York. It is a productive 
mid-season variety but seems especially 
adapted for late cropping. Planted July 
10 it came in after Evergreen started 
three weeks earlier, and furnished a pro¬ 
fusion of slender ears, carrying eight 
rows of broad, tender, pearl-white grains 
of the richest ima^nable quality. A 
planting was made at same time of a 
smaller-eared local strain of this dis¬ 
tinct type, that developed 12 days later 
and gave us delicious corn until after 
the freeze of October 26-27. The small 
kind is even sweeter and more tender 
than the commercial strain, and in our 
opinion far exceeds in delicacy the 
famed Black Mexican and Shoe-peg va¬ 
rieties, long accepted as standards of ex¬ 
cellence. The small ears of milky grains 
with their slender cobs are exceptionally 
dainty for serving at table. We have 
generally found Sugar corn varieties 
with few rows to the ear of higher qual¬ 
ity than crowded, many-rowed kinds 
with their thick and heavy cobs. No 
seeds of the local strain are available 
but we would advise all wanting an ex¬ 
ceptionally rich-flavored mid-seajson or 
late variety for home use to try the 
neglected Large Eight-rowed as now of¬ 
fered by careful seedsmen. 
Sweet Corn in Succession. —Everyone 
having sufficient garden space to grow 
table corn wishes an unbroken succes¬ 
sion throughout the season of this par¬ 
ticularly agreeable esculent. This may 
be approximated by repeated plantings 
of favorite varieties at 10 to 14-day in¬ 
tervals, but this trouble may be much 
lessened by planting at the same time a 
selection of early and mid-season kinds 
known to succeed in the neighborhood^. 
When these have made a growth of five 
or six inches it is time to put in addi¬ 
tional breadths of main-crop and late va¬ 
rieties. For the latest of all, if one is 
willing to take the chances of frost, such 
kinds as Mammoth Evergreen or the de¬ 
licious Eight-rowed kind above men¬ 
tioned may be started, not later than 
July 20 in this latitude. Dates are usual¬ 
ly uncertain guides in corn culture, as 
seasons vary widely, but it seems safe 
to defer succession plantings, if a wise 
choice of varieties is made, until the pre¬ 
ceding sowing comes up and makes a 
few inches of growth. 
The Limbert\vig Apple. —The fierce 
September gale was no respecter of va¬ 
rieties in tree fruits. Apple and pear 
trees were generally stripped wherever 
exposed to the fury of the wind. The 
loss was almost complete in this vicin¬ 
ity except in the case of a few trees of 
the Limbertwig so much cultivated in 
the South and West. Fig. 306, page 819, 
represents in reduced size a cluster of 
apples of this variety taken from a 
young tree in October after weathering 
a second gale little inferior in velocity 
to the record breaker of September 16. 
The drooping slender twi.gs carrying the 
fruits yielided to the wind pressure and 
the fruits hung persistently until quite 
ripe. The flesh is tough and the quality 
until late Winter so indifferent that it 
would scarcely be worth planting were 
it not for its reliable cropping and pa¬ 
tient endurance of cultural slights that 
would stunt ordinary varieties. The ap¬ 
ples are excellent keepers under the 
most ordinary conditions, and by March 
or April develop quite an agreeable 
flavor, though the texture never becomes 
very tender. For planting in exposed 
situations and where careful attention is 
not likely to be given the Limbertwig is 
still worth considering. The tree is 
hardy, reliably productive and comes 
bearing quite young. Quantity, not 
quality, is its motto. The apples are not 
of much account when there is an abun¬ 
dance of better kinds, but when favorite 
varieties default their turn for appre¬ 
ciation begins. The loss from Autumn 
storms and other climatic vagaries from 
the Limbertwig trees under observation 
was scarcely noticeable. w. v. f. 
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