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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 14 
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More About Japan and Japan-Cross¬ 
bred Plums. —Our valued correspondent, 
J. L. Normand, of Marksville, La., lias 
reason to assume that his Wassu Botan- 
kyo will prove as valuable in New York 
State as it has in his experiment grounds. 
Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell, writes of 
it as follows : “ Your Wassu Botankyo 
bore with us this year (1898), and proved 
to be a plum of very excellent quality 
and very early — not much later than 
the little Earliest of All. We have hopes 
that it will prove to be a useful thing.” 
Writing of Earliest of All, Mr. Nor¬ 
mand says that, with him, it is a shy 
bearer and very late to bloom. He thinks 
it ought to have varieties planted close 
to it which bloom at the same time, so as 
to insure pollinization. 
Mr. Normand has been extensively en¬ 
gaged in the cross-breeding and culture 
of fruits, and he says that, out of about 
30,000 seedling Japan plums which have 
fruited, he has selected but “ 20 varieties 
which are good.” These are, for the 
most part, crosses with our native plums. 
He believes these crosses will prove more 
profitable to the fruitgrower than the 
pure Japan varieties. These 20 varieties 
ripen with him from May 10 till the 
middle of August, ranging in size from 
the Wild Goose to the large Kelsey, and 
he regards some of them as finer than 
the much-talked-of Wickson. 
Mr. Normand finds it difficult to under¬ 
stand how some fruit raisers get their 
new varieties out so fast, alluding to the 
fact that it took Peter M. Gideon, of 
Minnesota, 16 years of crossing and re¬ 
crossing the Siberian Crab with our 
common apple to produce a variety that 
would withstand the cold of Minnesota, 
viz., the Wealthy. Mr. Normand has 
not yet named any of his cross-bred 
plums. They have been sent, however, 
under numbers, to a number of compe¬ 
tent experimenters, and he thinks that 
it will not be long before we shall hear 
from them. 
The following letter from Mr. John W. 
Pennell, of South Norwalk, explains it¬ 
self : 
To Messrs. Stephen Hoyt's Sons, 
New Canaan, Conn. 
Gentlemen : I saw an article in American Gar¬ 
dening in regard to a new seedling strawberry 
originated by James Nimon, o t Denison, Texas, 
which he says he named Dewey on or about June 
10 . I would say that my seedling strawberry, 
which you know something about, and have sent 
some plants to The R. N.-Y. to be tested, had 
been waiting three years lor a name good enough 
until Admiral Dewey achieved his great victory 
at Manila; whereupon, I immediately named it 
Dewey. That was Mayl; as soon as the news 
arrived in this country, I gave my seedling its 
name, which, it seems to me, entitles mine to 
precedence. 
If Mr. Pennell named his new berry 
May 1, and Mr. Nimon named his new 
berry not until June 10, Mr. Pennell's 
variety is entitled to name by priority 
if he publicly made it known before Mr. 
Nimon publicly made his known. No 
one, it seems to us, has the exclusive 
right to a name unless he takes due care 
to publish the fact. 
Mr. Hale writes us interestingly as to 
the Satsuma plum. He says : 
“ The criticisms that have been made 
by many in relation to the Satsuma plum 
not fruiting freely, have seemed to apply 
to young trees, for we are all learning 
that, as the trees of this variety grow 
older, they are inclined to become very 
productive, in some cases so much so as 
to surpass nearly all others. It is a won¬ 
derful plum in its keeping and shipping 
qualities, and nothing can compare with 
it for canning purposes. I predict that, 
within a few years, Satsuma will take a 
much higher place in the opinion of or- 
chardists than at the present time. Red 
Negate or Red June, as they are one and 
the same, is also beginning to be ap¬ 
preciated. It is almost as large and 
handsome as the Abundance, and so 
much earlier as to prove very profitable 
in market, although of only fair quality. 
The still newer Red May is fully as large 
and a week or 10 days earlier; while I 
have not eaten the fruit of it as grown 
in the North, it is of fairly good quality 
as produced in the South. It is said to be 
a seedling of the Abundance, which 
it somewhat resembles, although far 
earlier ”. 
GRAPE TESTS IN WISCONSIN. 
The following is a brief estimate of 
certain varieties of grapes as grown on 
the grounds of the Wisconsin Experi¬ 
ment Station. It is not intended as a 
description of varieties that would aid 
in identification, neither should it be 
taken for anything further than the in¬ 
dividual opinion of one observer. Oth¬ 
ers, observing the same fruits, might 
have seen more or less of good than I 
have seen. The Station vineyard is not 
large, and is intended mainly for experi¬ 
mental work rather than for testing 
varieties. A few varieties, however, are 
worthy of mention. 
Brilliant.— This is one of T. V. Mun¬ 
son’s hybrids obtained from seed of 
Lindley crossed by Delaware. It has all 
the good qualities claimed for it in his 
descriptive catalogue as follows: “It 
ripens just before the Delaware, is very 
prolific; berries and clusters as large as 
Concord ; compact, translucent red, sim¬ 
ilar to the Delaware ; quality about the 
same as Delaware, with less pulp ; seeds 
one to three ; skin thin and tough, ber¬ 
ries adhere firmly to peduncle, making 
it a splendid early market grape, suita¬ 
ble for long shipment.” It may be preju¬ 
dice in favor of this variety, but I con¬ 
sider the Brilliant, by long odds, better 
in quality than any other grape grown 
here, and the list includes many stand¬ 
ard native sorts, as well as a number of 
Rogers s hybrids. It is better in quality 
(Continued on next page.) 
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Cold is the enemy of life. In cold 
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where help is needed. By strengthen¬ 
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HoocFs parilla 
Is America’s Greatest Medicine. Price, $1. 
Hood’s Pills cure biliousness, indigestion. 
W anted —10 or more names fruit growers, for which 
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P C A P U TREES, 3c. AU kinds of stock CHEAP. 
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