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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
February 17 
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Elae agnub Fbuit. —Two young plants 
of Elseagnus longipeswere planted on the 
Rural Grounds five years ago, and have 
borne increasing crops for the last three 
seasons. We like them very well when 
thoroughly ripened, but one does not 
care to eat many of the fruits at a time. 
Last Summer several quarts were gath¬ 
ered at one picking, and in casting about 
for some method of preserving them for 
tne Winter, we hit upon the plan of 
combining them with an equal bulk of 
ripe American plums to furnish the 
needed acid and pectin to make it a firm 
and agreeable jelly. The result, as 
tested at this season, is most satisfac¬ 
tory. The flavor is brisk and agreeable, 
forming a welcome contrast to that from 
other fruits. The color, however, is 
rather a livid red, and does not strike 
one favorably at first. Used alone, the 
Elaeagnus berries do not lend them¬ 
selves well to the preserving processes. 
Tbee-Dkied Cherries. —We send a 
package containing a sample lot of the 
Tree-dried cherry, something new, which 
we consider very fine. These cherries 
were picked from a chance seedling 
growing in Bedford County, Pa., in July, 
1898. The cherries ripen nicely on the 
tree, after which they dry in a few days, 
just like the sample inclosed. After ma¬ 
turing and drying on the tree, the cher¬ 
ries were then picked and placed in 
paper sacks, and allowed to remain so 
until now, over 18 months, and we pre¬ 
sume they would keep nicely for a num¬ 
ber of years longer. The tree is ex¬ 
tremely hardy, and in its habit of 
growth very graceful, and more dwarf¬ 
ish than most Heart and Bigarreau cher¬ 
ries. Its fruit never rots on the tree, is 
a regular annual bearer, and enormously 
productive, tiie blair co. nursery co. 
It. N.-Y.—The cherries closely resem¬ 
bled evaporated fruit, and were of ex¬ 
cellent quality. We consider them equal 
to sun-dried or evaporated fruit. 
We have just received the following 
from Mr. Van Deman referring to the 
same cherry: 
Strange as it may seem, I have just test¬ 
ed dried cherries of excellent quality that 
dried on the tree in Pennsylvania. They 
were of a new variety that has the re¬ 
markable peculiarity of hanging on the tree 
and drying just where they grew. One 
would naturally expect the dried product 
to be poor in quality, but after tasting 
some of the specimens in the raw state, 
and having the rest cooked and served on 
the table, they have proved to be of ex¬ 
cellent flavor. The tree is an accidental 
seedling, it is not as robust in habit as 
some of the sweet cherries, to which type 
it belongs, but is said to be exceedingly 
productive and very regular in bearing. 
The variety is to be thoroughly tested be¬ 
fore it is offered to the public. At my sug¬ 
gestion it has been named Freedom, be¬ 
cause of its origin near a place by that 
name in Pennsylvania. 
A Novel Fruit-packing Material.— 
A shipment of apples was received 
at Covent Garden Market, in London, 
England, from Australia, that were 
packed in asbestos previous to May 5, 
over five months before. They were per¬ 
fectly sound and lin excellent condition 
on arrival in London. They were 
wrapped in tissue paper, and packed in 
a preparation of asbestos, which caked 
around them, making an airtight case, 
acting as a non-conductor of heat. The 
steamship lines between Australia and 
Great Britain are fitted up with refrig¬ 
erating chambers for the conveyance of 
fruit and perishable products. The 
freight per bushel case, when carried in 
the cool chambers, is about 95 cents. If 
the asbestos packing proves practicable 
on an extended trial, it is hoped to ship 
apples in the hold or ordinary freight 
decks of these steamers, which would 
reduce the rate to 12 cents per case, and 
it is expected that pears so packed will 
come through in good condition. Most 
shipments of pears from Australia and 
the Cape Colonies have hitherto spoiled 
on the way, although stored in the re¬ 
frigerators. This may be important 
news for our California friends. Owing 
to a disagreement with the steamship 
company, the apples alluded to were 
held two months after packing, and 
finally shipped by the Cape route, which 
accounts for the unusual delay, and ren¬ 
ders the test more perfect. 
Garden Varieties.—F. E., Hampton, 
Iowa, asks Tiie R. N.-Y. to name the 
most desirable varieties of the following 
vegetables for the climate of Iowa, to be 
grown for home market: 1. Best sweet 
corn to follow Cory; 2, best yellow and 
best green-fleshed muskmelons, each to 
be a large kind, five to eight pounds; 3, 
best early and best general-crop peas, 
both to be of good flavor; 4, best Sum¬ 
mer squash; 5, best earliest tomato of 
marketable quality, and best general- 
crop variety. 
It is a somewhat uncertain and 
thankless task to recommend varieties 
of vegetables where the local circum¬ 
stances of climate and markets are not 
thoroughly known. The following kinds 
have all been thoroughly tested for the 
purposes indicated, and our correspond¬ 
ent cannot go far astray in using any of 
them: 1, Country Gentleman; 2, Hacken¬ 
sack, Osage; 3, Nott’s Excelsior, Mc¬ 
Lean’s Advancer; 4, Boston Marrow; 5, 
Maule’s Earliest, Stone. Our experience 
leads us to think that no perceptible de¬ 
terioration in the quality of the melons 
would result from growing an the above 
varieties near together. It is very un¬ 
likely that squash, pumpkins or cucum¬ 
bers will hybridize with melons under 
any circumstances, ana if it should oc¬ 
cur the seeds only wouid be affected. 
" TREE " OR ALPINE STRAWBERRY. 
A reader in Warren Co., Mo., asks 
these questions:—“A shrub or tree has 
been extensively sold in this vicinity as 
the Alpine strawberry, and is repre¬ 
sented as an edible fruit and true straw¬ 
berry. I have an idea that it is a fraud. 
This has involved me in a newspaper 
controversy, and knowing you are an 
authority on new fruits, I would esteem 
it a great favor if you would furnish me 
the information I seek. Is the Alpine 
strawberry edible? Are any of the 
shrub or tree strawberries edible? Has 
there ever been propagated a shrub that 
bears a true edible strawberry?” 
There is no tree or shrub bearing edi¬ 
ble strawberries. Several species of 
Euonymus, often called Strawberry or 
Spindle trees, bear scarlet inedible fruits 
late in the Fall, and are planted for or¬ 
nament. The so-called Strawberry- 
raspberry (Rubus sorbifolia), is not a 
hybrid of the strawberry, but is a red- 
fruited blackberry from Japan. It bears 
large handsome berries, slightly resem¬ 
bling strawberries in appearance, but of 
a very insipid flavor. They make excel¬ 
lent preserves, however. The real Alpine 
strawberry comes from Europe, and pro¬ 
duces small, light-colored, but highly- 
flavored strawberries throughout the 
greater part of the Summer, if given 
good cultivation. The plants grow just 
like our wild strawberries, and increase 
from runners In the same way. They 
can easily be grown from seed, which is 
offered by many seedsmen in their 
Spring catalogues. There are many ex¬ 
cellent and reliable nurseries in the 
Western States, but they do not adver¬ 
tise any such transparent frauds as you 
refer to. 
SUGAR PRUNE 
CLIMAX PLUM 
THE TWO GREAT 
RECORD BREAKERS. 
KINGS for Burliness, Size. Quality, Beauty and 
Productiveness. Never before equaled. 
Thousands of acres are being grafted over to 
these new fruits. Other grand New Creations in 
Fruits. Price-List Free. 
Burbank’s Experiment Farms, 
SANTA ROSA, CAL. 
ROCKY MT. EVERGREENS-JruKwN'.':; 
CEMETERY. Four Blue Spruce, 15 inches, for $1.60; 
four 20-inch for $2.50; ten two-year old, for 25 cents in 
postage. 100 two-year old for $3, all delivered EX¬ 
PRESS PREPAID. Catalogue of HARDY NURSERY 
STOCK, with colored and photo-plates FREE. Our 
stock all upon HARDY ROOTS; none injured by 
Winter of ’98 and '99. GARDNER & SON, Osage 
Nurseries, 117 Seventh 8treet, Osage, la 
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Sent Free for Trial. 
This excellent variety bears abundantly of large 
bright red Tomatoes; very smooth, and of delicious 
quality. The plants stand up like a tree without 
support of any kind. In order to give every reader of 
The Rubal New-Yorkeii a chance to test this 
tomato without cost, I will send a sample packet of 
seed, also a packet of my Perfection Lettuce, the 
finest in the world; also packet of Papaver Carnation, 
beautiful brilliant flowers, together with my Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue for 1900. FREE to any one enclosing 
two-cent stamp for return postage. Address plainly, 
F. FINCH, Box R, Clyde, N. Y. 
filt* - H mfil. 
Clover, Timothy, Grass Seeds, Seed Grain, Seed 
Potatoes, at WHOLESALE PRICES to FARMERS. 
Catalogue Free. SIEGEL, The Seedsman, Erie, 1*». 
GLADSTONE STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
$10 per 1,000 ; 3,000, $25. Circular free. 
V. F. MKKCEKON, - - - Catawlasa, Pa. 
REDDY Dl A NTQ our 8pecla,ty ’ 18th Annual 
Dtnni iLAn I 0 Catalogue Free. Save money 
by buying best plants at our low prices. Address 
SLAYMAKKlt & SON, Dover, Del. 
For Spring Planting 
The reliable new EVERBEARING PK ACH. 
Also, the KLBERTA and other choice varieties. 
.JAPAN PLUMS—all the most approved sorts. Se¬ 
lect assortment small Fruits. Prices for above very 
reasonable. Address 
MILFOKU NURSERIES, Milford, Del. 
nfill^T Rive an order for Nursery Stock again 
UUI1 1 until you have read my illustrated 
catalogue, and see low prices. Bargains by mail, 
etc. Remember it pays to have them sent 
by mail. YouwiliniillT TUC DECT 
rejoice if you rLAIl 1 1 ilk DCO 1 
Send to HALL’S NURSERY, Cherry Valley, Ill. 
Our Illustrated Catalogue for 1900 
Explains what may be accomplished by using 
well-grown trees and plants. Mailed free. 
W. M. PETERS' SONS, Wesley, Md. 
nr ■nil TDCCO First size 4J* cents; 3 to 4 
itAull 1 flLLd feet > cents; 2 to 3 feet, 
1 a *"** 11 1 2>4 cents each, all one year 
from bud, healthy and thrifty; no scale. Official certi¬ 
ficate with each shipment. Sample by exp. If wanted. 
Ship any time. Trees kept dormant until May 10th. 
K. S. JOHNSTON, Box 4, Stockley, Del. 
JOHNSON’S EARLY STRAWBERRY. 
You cannot afford to be without It, if you need a 
large early, firm shipping berry. Send for circular. 
O. A. JOHNSON, Upper Fairmount, Md. 
Strawberry Plants, $2 per 1,000. 
Fruit Trees equally cheap. Catalogue free. 
C. A. HYATT, Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Kin A ODCC in Strawberry Plants. Wholesale 
iUU AumLu List free. T. C. Kevltt, Passaic, N.J 
Ml | ||TC VINES, trees, shrubs, 
M| AN 1 ^ best varieties for Northern 
potatoes. For anything in nursery stock, at reason¬ 
able prices, consult our catalog, sent free. 
COE & CONVERSE, Box 9, Ft. Atkinson, Wls. 
-Tries 
Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, 
including grapes. Ornamen¬ 
tal Trees, Evergreens and 
Shrubs for public and pri¬ 
vate grounds. Shade Trees 
for streets. Hardy Roses, 
Hardy Plants,Climbers, etc. 
Our new catalogue, carefully re¬ 
vised, beautifully illustrated with 
half-tono engravings, with cover of 
exquisite design, contains accurate 
and trustworthy descriptions of the 
most valuable varieties In cultiva¬ 
tion, and Is replete with practical 
hints indispensable to planters. Al¬ 
though prepared at great expense, 
It will be sent free to our regular cus¬ 
tomers ; to others, on receipt of lOcts. 
ELLWANGER& BARRY 
Mt, Hope Nurseries, ROCHESTER, N.Y, 
Kstabllshed CO Year*. 
S KKD POTATOES.—Rest pure stock, leading 
early and late varieties, cheap. Illustrated cata¬ 
logue free. A. G. ALBRIDGK, Fishers, N. Y. 
S ECOND CKOPSeed Potato Headquarters. Rest 
on earth. 50 choice kinds of Strawberry Plants, 
Otc. Cat. free. J. W. HALL. Marion Sta., Md. 
Seed Potatoes & Early Seeds. 
Marvels of the 20th century. 
Catalogue free. The George 
W. P. Jerrard Co., Caribou, Maine. 
cum DfYTHTM?C—! Steuben, 20th Century and 25 
OCiLih xUlnlUI-iO others. Steuben outyielded 
all on The R. N.-Y. Trial Grounds in 1897, yielding 
720 bu. per acre. Tuber, lUc , lb. 25c. Gold Standard 
Oats, pkt.lOc. Cat. free. Hiler B ros- Piattaburg, N.V 
£r*rfk—How many Potatoes? Which kinds? Bar- 
rel or car lots. Seedsman’s best varieties. 
Circular. Bovee, Maulo's Commercial, Queen, Ohio, 
Raleigh. Carman, Early Clark, Early Harvest, and 
40 others Spring delivery. SMITH’S POTATO 
FARM, Box E, Manchester, N. Y. *• Tiie duplicate 
orders he received last Spring from leading seedsmen 
Justify me lu recommending him as giving satisfac¬ 
tion to his customers.’’—K. D. Matiiku, Ranker, 
Shortsville, N. Y., Ja nuary 8,1900. _ 
BARGAINS IN SEEDS! 
II Choice kinds of Vegetable and Flower Seods at 
Be per packet. Flower Plante, 5c. each Many choice 
novelties. Don’t buy until you have seen our new 
catalogue. Mailed FREE if you mention this paper. 
IOWA SEED CO., DES MOINES, IOWA. 
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BUCKBEE’S 
HFW STRAWBERRY MELON 
which created such favorable comment last > season 
was hybridised with the strawberry, the result being 
the most dclIelouN at raw berry flavor. 
Hardy, goo«l inaiket .size, excellent eh ip f*r. It will 
i please everybody that grows it and all who eat it. 
WRITE TO-DAY rnrr MENTION THIS 
and we will sendyou | 1% | | PAPER 
a liberal package of I II ■■ ■■ 
this wonderful 
melon seed and our large beautl- 
I fully Illustrated Seed and Plant 
Book. Tells all about best varieties 
of melons, how to 
grow for profit,etc. 
I Write today and 
mention this paper. 
H.W.BUCKBEE 
ROCKFORD SEED FARMS, r 
ROCKFORD. IL L. B0X545 
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The Popular CAROLINA POPLAR. 
Just the tree Tor city planting — Thrives where others Tall—Resists 
smoke and gas as the salamander lire. No tree furnishes quicker shade; 
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prices. 46th YEAR. 44 CREENHOUSES. IOOO ACRES. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Box 789, PainesviUe, Ohio. 
NEW STRAWBERRY 
“ROUGH RIDER” L |j£ s 
It is the firmest* latest and best<kcepfnsr straw* 
_ _ berry yet introduced. Extremely large, immense- 
iy productive. Sold at 20c per qt wholesale season of 1899. Endorsed by best authorities We are the introducers. 
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For premium list, prices, samples and book, write < 
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