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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 25 
; Ruralisms • 
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The Kieffer Pear as a Decorative 
Tree. —During these early November 
days the Kieffer pear orchards form a 
very noticeable feature of the rural 
landscape. The upright habit and luxu¬ 
riant dark foliage of th'is variety always 
attract attention throughout the groov¬ 
ing season, but the rich Autumn colors 
are so varied that even the most careless 
passer has his interest aroused. Almost 
invariably a few trees will remain dark 
green until the leaves drop, while others 
take on deep tints of golden russet, dark 
wine or mulberry, and many bright in¬ 
termediate shades. It would be inter¬ 
esting to know if these peculiarities of 
leaf coloring lie in the grafts from orig¬ 
inal trees of the same tendency, or modi¬ 
fications caused by individual stocks. 
New Geranium, the Yellow Kid.— 
This pretty golden-leaved geranium—a 
memento in name of the most original 
conceit of New York’s famous yellow 
newspapers, has been growing in the 
Trial Grounds in an unshaded forcing 
house all the past Summer. We may 
say that the foliage maintains its clear 
green-gold tint in the brightest Tight 
and most ardent heat a geranium is 
capable of enduring. We have not had 
a chance to test it as a bedding plant in 
the open yet. The flowers are produced 
most abundantly, which is seldom the 
case with fancy-leaved geraniums. They 
are large, and held well above the 
golden leaves in flat trusses. The color 
is a peculiar rich crimson, and contrasts 
remarkably well with the foliage. The 
whole plant is very dwarf, and grows 
well when established, but the lessened 
quantity of green chlorophyl in the 
leaves diminishes vital action to a con¬ 
siderable extent in making this pretty 
variety rather slow and difficult to prop¬ 
agate. Good yellow-leaved plants that 
will stand dry hot weather are few, and 
Yellow Kid geranium promises to be a 
fine addition to the number. 
Japanese Dwarfed Trees, Chabo 
Hi bas. —A three-days’ auction sale of 
dwarfed miniature Japanese trees has 
just been concluded in New York. The 
gnarled and tortured little trees, in pots 
and vases, ranging from 15 to 235 (?) 
years old, trained by the best artists of 
Japan, brought good prices—all the way 
from $5 to $125 each. A particularly 
fine specimen sold at auction in May of 
last year for $340. They are nearly all 
Japanese pines and conifers, though a 
few maples and other deciduous trees 
are used. Although the Japanese grow 
the weird little monsters for centuries, 
they appear to have a very slender hold 
on life when exposed to the usual condi¬ 
tions of ornamental plants in our city 
homes. We saw a fine collection of 
Chabo-hibas, as the dwarfed Japanese 
conifers are called, summering under a 
great elm in the water garden of the 
Henry A. Dreer Co., Riverton, N. J., last 
September. Seen thus in contrast to the 
free grow r th of Nature, these miniature 
distortions presented a most striking, 
and what might be termed a decidedly 
Oriental effect. 
Plant Small Bulbs in the Turf.— 
Near the close of the bulb-selling sea¬ 
son, some of the minor Holland bulbs, 
such as tulip, Crocuses, snowdrops, 
Scillas, etc., can be obtained in quantity 
at a low price. A most satisfactory way 
to plant some varieties is in irregular 
groups in the lawn. The most satisfac¬ 
tory subjects for turf planting are 
Chionodoxas, Grape hyacinths, Scillas, 
snowdrops, and Crocuses, though the 
latter will deteriorate rapidly on account 
of the new corrns forming each season 
on the top of the previous one, thus 
bringing them too near the surface for 
healthy growth. Choose a grassy place 
with good soil, and rather away from 
the drying effect of the roots of trees. 
Keep each variety pretty well by itself, 
as if a natural colony were being estab¬ 
lished. With a mallet and a short sec¬ 
tion of broom handle punch a number of 
holes in the sod about three inches deep, 
and drop a bulb in each hole, taking care 
that the bottom side goes down. Close 
the hole by an edge blow of the mallet, 
or better still, sift rich soil over the 
group of holes until filled, and scatter 
the surplus with a rake. A few jonquils 
or yellow and white hardy Narcissi may 
be used for variety, also some scarlet 
Due Van Thol tulips. The small Span¬ 
ish Iris will furnish rich dark purple 
shades. 
Blight-proof Pears. —Our old friend 
Benj. Buckman, of Farmingdale, Ill., 
sent us the pear shown at Fig. 302, with 
the following note: 
I forward by mail a single specimen of a 
seedling pear, fruited three years and 
planted by me about 10 years ago. From 
resemblance in tree and fruit to the Anjou 
I now Imagine it to be a seedling of that 
variety, yet at the time of planting I 
thought I was planting from seed of a 
nearly blight-proof seedling, from Menard 
County, Ill., locally known as the Kincaid, 
a single tree of which has borne as much 
as GO bushels of pears in one season. The 
fruit is somewhat under medium in size 
and quality, yet being much better than 
such kinds as Early Harvest, Longworth, 
etc. 
Years ago I bought two bushels of this 
Kincaid pear, saved and planted the seed, 
and planted about 150 of the selected young 
trees—hoping to get a practically blight- 
resisting pear of fair size and quality from 
some of them. However, the one sent is 
not blight-proof, but the tree is productive 
and the fruit is of fair (for a seedling) size 
and quality. I should say that nearly every 
variety in my orchard, both apples and 
pears, shows much knot and scab and this 
brings up the question, “What causes 
knotty fruit?” This is getting to be an 
extremely serious question here. It is easy 
to answer, “Curculio.” But plums were 
not as badly infested as in former years. 
Besides, an experienced man recently told 
me that he had never succeeded in catch¬ 
ing a curculio from an apple tree, and this 
person was none less than a son of the in¬ 
ventor of the “Curculio catcher,” Mr. 
Hull, of Alton, Ill. 
Mr. Buckman is a careful observer and 
student. We regard him as one of the 
best-posted men in the country regard¬ 
ing the behavior of varieties in the Cen¬ 
tral West. The pear is of fair quality, 
and if blight-proof, or nearly so, it will 
prove an acquisition. 
PRUNINGS. 
Fruit Names.—How do you pronounce 
the names of these fruits?: Anjou, Clair- 
geau, Buerre Bose, AngouFme, Kieffer, 
Gueii, Pissardi, Bigarreau. Flowers: Gen. 
Jacqueminot, Gloire de Dijon, Van Houtte, 
and the names ending in li, as Henryii? 
It is rather difficult to give the exact, 
equivalent of the sounds of these foreign 
words by English orthography, but the 
following combinations of letters will give 
a fair idea of the pronunciation of the 
above names in the languages from which 
they are taken: An-zhoo, Klar-go, Boor- 
bosk, Dan-goo-lame, Kee-fer, Ga-oo, Pis¬ 
sardi, Big-ar-roo, Zhack-e-mi-no, Glor-a- 
di Dc-zhon, Von Hoot-ta, Henry-eye. 
Native Plums.— Last week Mr. Cranefield 
described a number of good natives. He 
says: “We have spent a great deal of time 
during the past five or six years in testing 
varieties of native plums, and I have given 
here brief descriptions of the cream of the 
orchard. They are the best varieties for 
the West. I have, of course, no knowl¬ 
edge of how they would behave in the 
East. I am aware that my estimates will 
not in many instances agree with those of 
certain western nurserymen, but we are 
all entitled to an opinion—and besides—I 
have no plum trees to sell.” 
Persimmons in the North.— G. G. Gibbs, 
Vail, N. J., writes that fruitful persimmon 
trees are fairly plentiful in northern New 
Jersey, and the fruit is usually of good 
quality. They are generally found on land 
that is wet most of the year, but which 
usually get dry sometime during the Sum¬ 
mer. Several trees in Essex County, grow¬ 
ing on moist waste land, have a numbei 
of fruiting seedlings growing about them, 
the fruit of which always resembles the 
parent, in quality, but is often smaller. 
He thinks that seeds from these northern 
trees would grow very hardy stocks on 
which to graft choice varieties. We now 
have reports of bearing trees in Connecti¬ 
cut and southern New York, also. 
My little boy, five years old, had a Cough all his 
life. Last Winter he took Whooping Cough. I 
thought he could not live. The doctor said his Lungs 
were diseased, aDd gave him medicine, but it did no 
good. Then 1 tried Jayne’s Expectorant and it cured 
him.—L. C. RAWLS, Searight, Ala., September, 1895. 
For constipation take Jayne’s Painless Sanative 
Pills. — Adv. 
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A SEEDLING PEAR FROM ILLINOIS. Fig. 302. 
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Some of them are other diseases, but be¬ 
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The indefinite symptoms which go with 
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