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rHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24 
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THE WEATHER AT THE RURAL 
GROUNDS. 
The lowest temperature experienced 
at the Rural Grounds up to February 12 
was eight degrees above zero. No injury 
is yet perceptible except to such sensi¬ 
tive plants as Burbank’s Mayberry, most 
of the top-growth of which is killed. 
The frequent periods of mild weather 
since the beginning of the year have at 
last started some plum and peach buds. 
None seem to be dangerously swollen at 
this time, except those of the Satsuma 
plum, which appear to be quite excita¬ 
ble. Numerous robins and oluebirds 
appeared in this vicinity on February 9. 
This does not necessarily indicate warm 
weather, as many of these familiar birds 
regularly winter in the dense thickets 
on the Military Reservation at Sandy 
Hook, a few miles away, and occasion¬ 
ally make incursions inland on pleasant 
days. The crossbills and redpolls, which 
were plentiful among the pines in Jan¬ 
uary, have apparently gone north since 
the beginning of the month. 
The Giant Browai.ua. —This very 
desirable new flowering plant has been 
catalogued as Browallia gigantea. It 
appears that the true name is B. speci- 
osa major. Besides being an eminently 
satisfactory flowering plant, both in¬ 
doors and in the garden, it is most de¬ 
sirable for cutting. The large blue flow¬ 
ers have a very delicate look, but they 
last a week or more in water. The color 
is a bright shade of indigo blue, relieved 
by a white throat. The plant seems 
very 'healthy, and the blooms are most 
freely produced. One seedsman speaks 
of a plant under his observation that 
has not oeen without flowers a single 
day for the last two years. 
Sweet Corn in the Greenhouse.— 
As mentioned on page 54, we have been 
trying to grow a dwarf hardy variety 
of table corn in the greenhouse. The 
space available for this test is a part of 
the house shaded by the benches during 
the shorter Winter days, and the range 
of temperature is decidedly low for this 
heat-loving plant, generally descending 
to 45 or 50 degrees at night. Notwith¬ 
standing these unfavorable conditions, 
tne corn grew about two feet high, and 
then concluded to send out silk (the fe¬ 
male bloom) from the top, in the place 
where the tassel ought to be, and con¬ 
sequently there is no chance for pollen- 
ization. This Arctic experience is too 
much for the corn, and it is evidently 
giving up tne fight, with this last effort 
to perpetuate itself. Sweet coni has 
been very successfully grown under 
glass at some oi the experiment stations, 
but one of the chief requisites is a night 
temperature of 65 to 70 degrees, and 
as much more during the day as the sun 
will give it. 
Two Dainty Plants. —All who have 
grown the Sweet olive, Olea fragrans, 
and Daphne Cneorum, sometimes called 
Garland flower (a name also given to 
Hedychiums) will probably agree that 
they are the sweetest of all flowering 
plants. Although they have been prized 
for generations, they are not often seen 
now. The Sweet olive is a dwarf mem¬ 
ber of the true Olive family, and is not 
sufficiently hardy to endure frosty 
weather. It makes an admirable pot 
plant, however, and can easily be grown 
in any well-managed window garden. 
The leaves are small, and of the usual 
gray-green of the olive. The little white 
flowers are borne in large clusters, and 
are constantly produced, even on the 
smallest plants. The fragrance is most 
delicious and powerful, and one is al¬ 
ways conscious of its presence, though 
it 'is not in the least cloying. It seems 
to succeed in any fair soil, and needs but 
little sunlight. 
The Daphne, on the other hand, is an 
entirely hardy little evergreen shrub, of 
a somewhat creeping nabit. It is spe¬ 
cially well adapted for planting in rock¬ 
eries, or in the front edge of shrub beds. 
The foliage is very dense, and always at¬ 
tractive throughout the year. It flow¬ 
ers profusely in early Spring, and quite 
freely through tne Summer and Fall. 
The dainty blooms are produced in clus¬ 
ters, and are ^eliciously iragrant. The 
color is a delicate pink. For a oouton- 
niere or buttonhole bouquet nothing can 
be more agreeable, especially as both 
leaf and flower are quite enduring. 
These desirable plants are not listed by 
many catalogues, as tney are somewhat 
slow of propagation, but they can be 
found in the collections of several large 
dealers. The R. N.-Y hopes that many 
who have not hitherto grown Lem will 
be led to make a trial of one or both. 
Flower Seeds. —The Spring cata¬ 
logues are nearly all out now, and the 
weighty question with many, while 
making out their orders for the neces¬ 
sary vegetables, is how much they are 
warranted in expending for flowers and 
purely decorative plants. While there is 
much to choose from, and to distract 
one’s attention, the older reliable flower¬ 
ing annuals should never be overlooked. 
A beautiful and satisfactory border can 
be made of these alone, and many of the 
favorite species have been improved al¬ 
most beyond recognition during the last 
few years. Among the less-known spe¬ 
cies now receiving the florists’ best at¬ 
tention may be mentioned the Antir¬ 
rhinums, more familiarly known as 
snapdragons; the Salpiglossis, which 
has been notably improved, the New 
Emperor Salpiglossis producing blooms 
of a brilliancy and intensity of coloring 
scarcely equaled by any other garden 
flowers; also the numerous new and 
brilliant poppies and Dianthus. The 
flowers of the pretty and delicate little 
Torema have lately been magnified to 
treble their usual size. The splendid 
new Japanese morning-glories should 
not be forgotten. When money is very 
scarce the 25 and 50-cent collections of 
flower seeds offered by many seedsmen 
are well worthy of attention, as most of 
these special offers are carefully made 
up, and usually include some meritori¬ 
ous novelties. Be sure to get some good 
flower seeds, as they will give endless 
pleasure the coming season. 
PEACH TREES. 
Over 100,000 of the finest Healthy, 
Thrifty, Hardy, Northern-Grown Peach 
Trees. Call’s Nurseries, Perry, Ohio, 
are selling as fine stock as was ever 
offered for sale, at very low r prices. These 
trees are grown near the shore of Lake 
Erie, and are all budded on stock grown 
from natural pits gathered in the 
mountains of Tennessee (where Peach 
Yellows were never known), and are the 
best that can he produced. 
A large number of our readers say 
that the finest and best fruit trees they 
ever bought were received from Call’s 
Nurseries. They make a specialty of 
dealing direct with the farmers, and 
guarantee satisfaction. Write them for 
Price List.— Adv. 
EVERGREENS 
Hardy Sorts, Nursery Grown. Millions to 
offer. 6 to 8 In $1; 12 in. $3; 2 to 8 ft. $10 
.per 100 prepaid; 4 to 6 ft. $20 per 100. 50 
GREAT BARGAINS to select from. Forest 
and Fruit Trees, Vines, etc. Send for free 
catalogue. LOCAL AGENTS WANTED, 
D. HILL, fp e eciaiis n t, Dundee, Ill. 
*1,000 per acre yearly profit from Blackberries. 
STRAVV- 
KASP- 
BLACE 
RFRRIFS 
GRAPES 
AND 
Apple, Pear, Peach. Plum, Oherrv, Quince and Nut 
Trees. All the good old and choice new varieties. 
Quality Unsurpassed. Prices Low. 
Richly illustrated catalogue of 75 pages, giving 
truthful descriptions and telling how to grow them, 
free to all J. T. LOVETT, Little Silver. N. J. 
REID’S 
Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Roses, 
Ornamental Trees and Plants 
true to name. Low prices. No. 1 
stock. Illustrated catalogue free. 
KKID'S NURSERIES, 
Box 1, Upland, Ohio. 
uw prices, xyu. i 
FRUITS 
For Spring Planting 
The reliable new EVERBEARING PE AOH . 
Also, the ELBERTA and other choice varieties. 
JAPAN PLUMS— all the most approved sorts. Se¬ 
lect assortment small Fruits. Prices for above very 
reasonable. Address 
MILFORD NURSERIES, Milford, Bel. 
The President 
Wilder Currant 
heads the list as a producer and 
a money-maker. Plant no other. 
Prices given on application. 
S. D. WILLARD, Geneva, N.Y. 
ROCKY MT. EVERGREENS-^rRKYA r wN n a f nd 
CKMETKRY. Four Blue Spruce, 15 Inches, for $1.50; 
feur 2(J-lnch for $2.50; ten two-year old, for 25 cents in 
postage. 100 two-year old for $2, 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 ’08 and ’09. GARDNER & SON, Osage 
Nurseries, 117 Seventh Street, Osage, la 
SUGAR PRUNE 
CLIMAX PLUM 
THE TWO GREAT 
The BEST FRUIT 
RECORD BREAKERS. 
KINGS for Earliness, Size, Quality, Beauty and 
Echo Strawberry. 
Loudon and 
Columbian Raspberry. 
Erie and Rathbun 
Blackberry. 
Pearl Gooseberry. 
Pomona and 
Red Cross Currants. 
is the only kind worth growing. 
I handle nothing that I cannot 
guarantee. All my plants are 
hardy, fresh dug, and war¬ 
ranted true to name. Let me 
send you my catalogue— free. 
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, 
ALLEN L. WOOD 
, Wholesale Grower, Rochester, N. Y. 
SANTA ROSA, CAL. 
The Fruits to Plant 
for profitable results are named in our 1900 
Catalogue. Tills book names all the trees and 
plants that will succeed in a northern climate; 
gives accurate descriptions of varieties and 
instructions about planting. Catalogue mailed FREE at your request. Write to us for any 
further information you need about fruits. Sixteenth Year. 
T. J. DWYER &l SON, Box I (Orange Co. Nurseries), Cornwall, N. Y. 
Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y. 
INTRODUCER OF 
Campbell’s Early Crape, 
Josselyn Gooseberry, Fay Curran 
Large list of Grape Vines and Small Fruit Plants. Catalogues Free. 
New Queen Potatoes.—A fter five years’ 
trial of many kinds of potatoes, we find 
New Queen far in advance of any other, 
both in quality, quantity of yield and 
earliness. In fact, for us no potato can 
excel this either for early market or main 
crop. J. T. H. 
Who can give us information of the 
Early Fourth of July potato? Some fine 
tubers under that name have been handed 
us for trial by Hon. James Hoyt, of New 
Canaan, Conn., who could only furnish the 
statement of the local grower that it is 
earlier than Early Rose, of high quality, 
and very productive. The potatoes are 
large, round, and rather blunt, with very 
few eyes. The color is white, with the 
characteristic netting that usually denotes 
high quality. 
fkcEs 
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, beautilully illustrated with 
hall-tone 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 10 cts. 
ELLWANGER& BARRY 
Mt. Hope Nurseries, ROCHESTER, N.Y. 
Established 60 Years. 
your t Chestnut Trees 
A few grafts put In your seedling chestnut tree will make it pay big I name price and kinds in catalogue 
Free. Full line nursery stock. AKTHUK J. COLLINS, Moorestown, Burlington Co., N. J. 
ROGERS' TREES 
SAT 64-page and 32-page truthful, cata¬ 
logues free. No Agents. 
ARE SAFE TO BUY. Clean, healthy business trees. 
You have our address, send us yours. We would like to 
tell you more about them. Those who know us best 
trust us most, and you will find it safe in every way to 
place your orders witli THE ROGERS NURSERIES, 
Tree Breeders, Oansville, N. Y. 
Trees for Orchard and Garden. 
All the old and well-tried, and several NEW VARIETIES; Climax and Sultan Plums (new Japs): BALD¬ 
WIN CHERRY, the hardiest of all. GIBSON Strawberry; statement sales of Gibson for period of 13 
days show prices double other kinds. We Guarantee best care, and best values, verified by our patrons, 
who are among the most practical, up-to-date Orchardists in this country. Our principle of guarding 
the PARENTAGE of trees in propagation in view of making them CONSTITUTIONALLY HARDY, and 
more likely to be PRODUCTIVE, is indorsed by best authorities. Catalogue free. Consult it and we will 
Cayuga Nurseries Established 1847 WILEY & CO., CAYUGA , N. Y. 
SEND YOUR NAME 
and address plainly vx/rltten to 
L. J. FARMER, BOX 20 , PULASKI, N. Y. 
and secure catalogue and valuable information on 
BERRY FRUIT CULTURE FREE. 
CDm A I nrrrD For 10 cents we wHl mail 
wrbvInL V.I ■ EiBbb three (3) “Sample”Straw¬ 
berry plants and six (6) months subscription to the horticultural 
paper FARMER’S FRUIT FARMER. We are the introduc¬ 
ers of the new strawberry, “Rough Rider.” Write to-day. 
TREES 
best by Test— 74 YEARS. Largest 
annual sale. High quality —not 
| high price. Finest sorts. We bud 
__ 4 million Apple trees, whole-root 
graft 5 million—1-and 2-yr. Other Trees, Vines, etc., in 
proportion. 1400 acres Nursery \\/„ DAY FPFIAHT 
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We rAl Stark Market and Quality Kings. PAY: CTABK LOUISIANA, M0. 
Apple of Commerce, Black Ben Davis, Champion, Delicious, 
Senator, Stayman Winesap; Gold plum; Kieiler; Elberta.-Yisitus 
jDansville, N. Y. 
“Stark, Mo., etc. 
The Popular CAROLINA POPLAR. 
Just the tree for city planting — Thriven where other, fail—.Resists 
smoke and gas as the salamander lire. No tree furnishes quicker shade; 
75.000 of them, beautiful trees, 6 to 8, 8 to 10, 10 to 12 and 12 to 15 feet. Immense stock 
of all other Shade Trees, Shrubs and Roses. Hundreds of thousands of Fruit 
Trees, Small Fruits, Grape Vines, Blunts, Seeds. Valuable Catalogue free. 
Correspondence solicited. Write us your wants if you would procure the best at bottom 
prices. 46th YEAR. 44 CREENHOUSES. IOOO ACRES. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Box 789, Painesville, Ohio. 
