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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 15 
; Ruralisms 
The Wisconsin Experiment Station 
speaks of the Eldorado blackberry in 
high terms. The Ohio Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, in its latest bulletin, issued last 
January, has this to say of the Eldorado : 
“It is now recognized as the leading 
hardy variety. It is quite as hardy as 
the Snyder, equal to it in productive¬ 
ness, a little larger and of better quality. 
Thus it ranks above the Snyder in those 
attributes requisite in a variety both for 
home use and for market.” 
As we have twice before said, the 
Eldorado has proved somewhat unpro¬ 
ductive at the Rural Grounds The canes, 
however, are perfectly hardy. 
Thk gooseberry Columbus was sent to 
us for trial by Ellwanger & Barry, when 
first announced. We have had some rea¬ 
son for assuming that, if a gooseberry 
would mildew anywhere, it would mil¬ 
dew at the Rural Grounds. The Colum¬ 
bus, however, has never shown any mil¬ 
dew, either upon the fruit or foliage. 
The Ohio bulletin above alluded to has 
this to say of the Triumph gooseberry : 
“It is not distinguishable from White¬ 
smith.” Of the Whitesmith, it has this 
to say: “Rather stronger in growth, 
and more prolific than Columbus. Both 
need to be sprayed with Bordeaux Mix¬ 
ture to keep the foliage healthy.” We 
have, for several years, compared the 
Triumph with the Columbus, and we 
cannot in any respect detect any differ¬ 
ence . 
A Record Breaker. —Mr. G. B. Clark, 
of Remington, Ind., has this to say re¬ 
garding the number of potato tubers 
that may be raised in a seedling hill: 
In Ruralisms of March 25, you are astonished 
at 105 potatoes growing from one seed. A few 
years ago, I planted about 100 seeds, and from 
one seed, I raised 154 potatoes. They were about 
the size of hazelnuts, and all about the same 
size. The next year they were small and few in 
the hill. 
Mr. Clark’s experience agrees with 
ours in one particular, viz., that when 
seedling hills produce so many tubers, 
these small tubers, when again planted, 
will produce small potatoes only. 
Mr. Clark has planted peas from one 
to eight inches deep, and the best peas 
he ever ra'sed were borne by the vines, 
the seeds of which were planted the 
last depth. The peas were planted in 
March, and “ four inches of smoking-hot 
manure were placed on top of the seed, 
and covered with four inches of soil.” 
This goes to show how vastly different 
the same experiment may turn out in 
different localities and soils. In our own 
trials made years ago, the eight-inch peas, 
as we have said, did not germinate at 
all, or if they did, the vines never reach¬ 
ed the surface. 
Mr. Clark says that the thermometer 
has registered as low as 27 degrees be¬ 
low zero with him, but the Clark black¬ 
berry has never been damaged. Last 
year, he raked 300 quarts from one-tenth 
of an acre, the vineshaving been planted 
12 years previously. “ The berries were 
as large as those of the Erie, and much 
better flavored. They were twice as 
large as the Eldorado growing in the 
same field.” The Clark blackberry has 
never been tried at the Rural Grounds.. 
An Appropriation. —Mr. L. S. Spencer, 
of Pesotum, Ill., desires us to state as 
follows: 
Wishing the fact on record, I desire to make 
the statement that, on September 26, 1898,1 ap¬ 
propriated the names Dewey, Hobson, Illinois, 
Wernet and Sanco for five new seedling potatoes 
which I have grown under numbers for several 
years. I have no seed to sell. 
It is a question whether it is just or law¬ 
ful for any one to restrict names which 
he may prefer for his plants until those 
plants have been sent out for trial to 
well-known horticulturists or to the ex¬ 
periment stations....... 
A Lawver Sport ?—A few days ago, 
the writer saw in the window of an up¬ 
town (New York) butcher, some apples 
that so resembled tomatoes that but for 
the calyx and stem, he would have as¬ 
sumed them to be tomatoes—and toma¬ 
toes, too, of a singularly bright, glossy 
crimson color. He bought half a dozen 
from curiosity, paying 30 cents, or five 
cents each. A diligent search through 
the authorities at hand, failed to give 
him any clew to their identity. The 
clerk of the fruit department of the 
butcher store said the variety was “Rome 
Beauty from Colorado.” That the apples 
came from Colorado we had no reason 
to dispute, but it was plainly not Rome 
Beauty, because the latter is more or less 
yellow and regular in form, while the 
tomato-looking apple was, as we have 
said, a brilliant crimson and convoluted 
like a tomato. A specimen was sent to 
our respected contributor, H. E. Van 
Deman. Here is his reply : 
That apple is an abnormal specimen of Law¬ 
ver, unless I am very badly mistaken. It looks 
as though it came from the Far West, but is 
under size. The eye is a little deeper set than is 
common, and the corrugations are quite off the 
regular type. But the skin, color inside and out, 
flavor, solid flesh and all else are all right for 
Lawver. I thought that was the name as soon 
as I took it in my hand, and when I cut it, there 
remained no doubt. 
In quality, it was not far from the 
Baldwin. Here we have a good illus¬ 
tration of the fact that inferior freaks 
are sometimes more profitable than the 
normal object. These apples, as may be 
seen by the photo-illustrations at Fig. 
114 and 115, page 279 are smaller than 
the Baldwin and no better in quality. 
Yet, because they resembled tomatoes in 
form and color, they were soon sold out 
at five cents each, while other apples, as 
good or better, would not have brought 
three cents each. All of these lobed 
apples were much the same in form. It 
would seem, therefore, that the variety 
is, probably, a propagated sport of the 
Lawver. 
On page 224, of The R. N.-Y. of March 
25, a reference was made to the Morning 
Star pea, as described in the catalogue 
of Mr. J. L Childs, of Floral Park, N. Y. 
The catalogue made the claim that it 
was the earliest pea grown, by nearly a 
week, though it is a wrinkled variety. 
Commenting upon this statement, one of 
our oldest and most trustworthy garden¬ 
ers writes as follows: “The Morning 
Star is almost as early as the Earliest of 
All and the Rural New-Yorker peas. 
This makes it a very early pea, but not 
by any means the earliest pea grown, by 
nearly a week.”. 
The Little-Leaved Hemlock —Re¬ 
plying to a question, the Little-leaved 
hemlock and the Large-leaved hemlock 
were planted in the Rural Grounds, as 
nearly as the writer can remember, 
about 20 years ago. The former has been 
restricted in its growth, by shearing 
back every year or so ; the latter has 
been cut back but once. It is a slow 
grower, while the Little-leaved seems to 
grow as fast as the species—the Canada 
hemlock. We would gladly hear from 
those who have had the Little-leaved 
hemlock for years, without cutting it 
back, how tall it has grown and how 
well it preserves its form and lower 
branches. We would, also, be glad to 
hear if such trees show the tendency to 
revert to the species that The R. N.-Y. 
specimen has shown. 
FOREIGN CHESTNUTS. 
Unless the quality of a fruit is known 
to be inferior, the fruit-buying public 
will always select the largest kinds. 
There is scarcely any exception to this. 
It is reasonable enough that it should be 
so, because large fruits, as a class, are 
really better than small fruits of the 
same kind. But the public does get 
educated in time. Lovers of fine pears, 
for instance, are beginning to know the 
Kieffer and avoid it. They know the 
Seckel pear, and choose it, notwithstand¬ 
ing its baby size. It is so with the mam¬ 
moth “Spanish” (European) chestnuts. 
The chestnut-loving public learned that 
the so-called Spanish chestnuts sold, 
raw or roasted, on the city stands, were 
vastly inferior to the Sweet American 
kinds. Hence it is that the best of the 
several kinds of Japan and European 
chestnuts that have been and are being 
offered for sale do not meet with so 
ready an appreciation as they may de¬ 
serve. 
It was about seven years ago that The 
R. N.-Y. ordered two trees of the 
supposed-to-be Japan chestnut named 
Paragon. It is now regarded by many 
as belonging to the European class. 
They have borne five years. It will be 
seen that these trees have been of rather 
slow growth. The immense crop they 
have borne every season for the past four 
years readily accounts for this. Last 
season, the one shown in Fig. 112, first 
page, bore more chestnuts than we have 
ever seen upon any chestnut tree of the 
same size—not less than 200 burrs, all of 
large size, holding from two to three 
nuts twice as large as the largest Amer¬ 
ican chestnuts. The man standing un¬ 
der the tree is five feet nine inches, so 
that the tree in height is not more than 
12 feet. The stake on the right of and 
near the tree has been needed as a sup¬ 
port, because the cyclone of 1894 bent it 
over several degrees towards the east. 
The Paragon Chestnut. — The R. 
N.-Y. has talked more of the Paragon 
than of any other foreign chestnuts, be¬ 
cause it was the first newspaper to fruit 
it, and because the other Japan and 
Spanish kinds have not yet borne at the 
Rural Grounds. There are hundreds of 
other varieties grown from nuts imported 
from Europe and Japan, but few of 
them, in so far as the writer is aware, 
are superior to the Paragon, except on 
account of early ripening. 
(Continued on next page.) 
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the largest yield per acre of the best 
and smoothest form, and very rich in 
sugar are grown by using 
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as a fertilizer. Apply just when the 
beets are getting well started in the 
row. The results will surprise you. 
Send to John A Myers, 12—O John 
St., New York, for free copy of book, 
“Food for Plants.” Tells about this 
and much else of value. Nitrate for 
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