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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
A Favorable Season. —The most 
fruitful season we have yet experienced 
on the Rural Grounds closes with the 
harvesting of a fine growth of celery. 
There was a short drought in May, and 
apparently too much rain at times, but 
there has been a bountiful yield in a 
wide range of valuable products. Most 
fruits came nearer the grower’s idea of 
perfection than for several years past. 
Apples have grown larger than usual, 
and were less troubled by insect or fun¬ 
gus pests, but apparently will not keep 
as well as in many seasons less favor¬ 
able to fruit development. Vegetables 
have generally given full crops of good 
quality, though there were minor fail¬ 
ures, especially among cucumbers and 
melons. The cool and rainy weather 
characteristic of the past Summer lasted 
well into October, but few and compara¬ 
tively light frosts have followed. There 
is still a show of color on many hardy 
plants, and some passable roses are to 
be had at the beginning of the second 
week of November, but it now is evident 
the growing season is at an end, and 
preparations for Winter protection must 
scon begin. In this exposed situation 
the effects of even excessive rains are 
soon dissipated, and a wet Summer will 
in the long run give the greatest returns 
to the cultivator. 
Potatoes Bring in Much Money.— 
The yield of potatoes about Freehold, 
N. J., this season reached 300,000 bar¬ 
rels, selling for an average of $1 per bar¬ 
rel, thus bringing a considerable sum of 
money in a limited district from the 
production of a single farm crop. The 
intelligent adaptation of chemical fertili¬ 
zers for the last 20 years has made po¬ 
tato growing a fairly profitable industry 
in many parts of Monmouth County. The 
present large crop, though sold at a low 
price, brings in a reasonable profit to 
experienced and industrious growers. 
Practical Interest in Forestry.— 
The distressing shortage in coal, which 
does not lessen, despite the partial set¬ 
tlement of the strike, has caused thou¬ 
sands of farmers to “take to the woods” 
in a thoughtful mood, and it is safe to 
say fewer trees will be carelessly de¬ 
stroyed than for many past years, as the 
demand for fuel wood has seldom been 
so pressing. Trees for cutting will doubt¬ 
less be selected in a more careful man¬ 
ner than heretofore as appreciation of 
the possibilities of future coal famines 
grows on the public. Clumps will be 
judiciously thinned instead of being 
bodily slashed down in the old wasteful 
manner. Mature and decrepit trees will 
be selected for present sacrifice, broken 
limbs lopped and vigorous saplings 
spared when possible. The wood lot and 
brush field are likely to come to the front 
as possible future revenue-yielders in¬ 
stead of profitless eyesores to be re¬ 
claimed for cultivation as soon as pos¬ 
sible. A practical as well as theoretical 
interest in forestry is being created by 
this unforeseen demand for fuel, and it 
is possible far-reaching results may en¬ 
sue in the more intelligent treatment of 
farm woodlands. 
A Fast-Growing Fuel Tree. —We 
hear much about the value of the fast¬ 
growing Catalpa speciosa as a timber 
tree for the prairie States, and the argu¬ 
ments are convincing enough to warrant 
exhaustive trials in all parts of the 
country. There are so many points in 
favor of the Catalpa and practically no 
objection except precarious hardiness in 
far northern latitudes, that it is likely 
to be preferred to most other species. 
The Ailanthus or Chinese Tree of 
Heaven has also the defect of being 
somewhat tender when young, though it 
is very enduring after it gets a good 
start, and the malodorous blossoms so 
freely produced on the male or staminate 
trees are not a joy to the neighborhood, 
but this objection does not hold with 
the fertile or pistillate-flowered trees. 
The only widely distributed species is A. 
glandulosa, formerly much planted as a 
street tree, and now fairly well natural¬ 
ized in many localities. It is very orna¬ 
mental, the large pinnate leaves giving a 
pleasing tropical effect. Tlic Ailanthus 
will endure any amount of dust and 
smoke, and would be very popular in 
cities were it not for the objectionable 
male blooms and its inveterate habit of 
suckering from the roots at long dis¬ 
tances from the trunks. It often en¬ 
dures where more desirable trees will 
not grow at all. It is propagated with 
the greatest facility from suckers or root 
cuttings, as well as by seeds, though the 
latter method is not favored on account 
of the largo proportion of staminate 
flowering seedlings necessarily grown. 
Suckers and cuttings may usually be had 
in quantity from the odorless female 
trees and the species thus kept within 
reasonable bounds. Aside from its value 
as an ornamental feature the Tree of 
Heaven could be made very useful for 
economic purposes. The wood seems 
light, but is hard and takes a rich pol¬ 
ish. If grown in quantity it would 
doubtless command a good price for 
cabinet work, and the trimmings and 
young growth make excellent fuel. The 
branches and rapid growing sprouts ap¬ 
pear quite trashy when cut, but dry out 
quickly, burn freely, making a hot fire. 
Waste land planted to Ailanthus would 
soon yield a continuous supply of fuel, 
as the young trees renew themselves, 
from the stump or shallow roots with, 
amazing rapidity. The writer admits 
this view is quite theoretical, as fine 
specimens on the Rural Grounds have 
long been sacrificed to make needed 
room for trial varieties in other lines of 
horticulture, but the persistent vitality 
of the roots is still attested by occa¬ 
sional exuberant sprouts springing up 
where the trees were grubbed out. It 
may be this vigorous and adaptable 
oriental tree will yet develop practical 
utility. 
Big Chrysanthemums This Year.— 
The Chrysanthemum blooms shown at 
the recent exhibitions are possibly the 
finest yet developed. The weather con¬ 
ditions for the last three months have 
been about perfect for this cool-blooded 
plant, and the accumulated experience 
of former seasons enabled exhibitors to 
finish off their giant blooms to the high¬ 
est perfection. There is little in the way 
of novelty, the favorites of past years, 
such as Viviand Morel, pink, Majoi 
Bonnaffon, yellow, Timothy Eaton 
white, and G. W. Childs, crimson, are 
still unexcelled, though a host of com¬ 
petitors come forward every season. We 
are told every j^ear the limit of perfec¬ 
tion in show Chrysanthemums has been 
reached, and that the public has tired 
of the sameness among these peerless 
Autumn flowers and demands some radi¬ 
cal break in character to renew its in¬ 
terest, yet discriminating attendance at 
the annual shows seems as good as ever. 
Popular interest in the Chrysanthemum 
among amateur cultivators has, how¬ 
ever, undoubtedly waned, and for a time 
at least it will be left to expert profes¬ 
sional hands. There is an increasing 
inclination to plant the brilliant and 
hardy pompon varieties which thrive in 
any garden with trifling care. Once es¬ 
tablished a clump will get along for 
many years without attention, and fur¬ 
nish sheaves of. gay blooms in early No¬ 
vember, as they are not injured by mod¬ 
erate frosts. We have some pretiy va¬ 
rieties naturalized in odd corners of the 
grounds, but do not know the names. A 
correspondent of American Gardening 
recommends the following as most use¬ 
ful, and with our limited experience we 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
may not gainsay his choice. “Oneita, 
yellow; Vera, white; La Purite, small 
white; Little Pet, small yellow; Delica- 
tessima, white and bluisn pink; Caritas, 
shaded pink; Julia, deep shaded red; 
Mr. Astie, soft yellow; Angelique, pure 
white, and one of the oldest varieties 
known to cultivators.” The list of kinds 
is so great and the range of color and 
form so varied that one is thankful for 
the above expert selection. w. v. f. 
Cornstalks on Strawberries.—As for 
using cornstalks for covering strawberries 
I have had very little Experience with 
whole cornstalks. As far as I have tested 
they were not satisfactory. Fine sowed 
corn fodder would be better. The best and 
cleanest covering I think is shredded corn¬ 
stalks. I expect to cover seven acres of 
berries with this material. o. J. M. 
Bluffton, Ind. 
Chestnut Notes.— Arthur J. Collins, of 
Moorestown, N. J., sends us samples of 
chestnuts, which we have carefully tested. 
The varieties of European parentage are 
by far the best in quality. There is no 
great difference between Paragon, Ridgely, 
Numbo and Comfort, though Paragon really 
seems to be the best and comes nearest in 
quality to our native nut. The Japan 
kinds, Early Reliance, Giant and Alpha, are 
very good indeed, much better than Japan 
varieties generally are. Altogether they 
are a line lot as regards quality, and we 
think the grower would have no difficulty 
in getting a market for his crop. Taken 
altogether, if the trees could be procured, 
we would rather plant Paragon than any 
of the other varieties, though Ridgely and 
the early Japans should prove very pro¬ 
fitable. 
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Scott’s Emulsion does some¬ 
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