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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 12 
One of the most beautiful variegated- 
leafed trees is the new Iiose-margined 
Purple beech—Fagus sylvatica purpurea 
rosea marginata. The inner part of the 
leaf is as purple as in the ordinary Pur¬ 
ple beech—the marginal parts a beauti¬ 
ful pink. Our tree was planted in a 
sunny, dry position. The leaves scalded, 
and it died during the following Winter. 
This charming tree, we fancy, needs a 
shady home. 
Most of us know of the Weeping 
beech. There is now a Weeping beech 
with dark purple leaves. It is very rare 
as yet, and the price is $5 per tree. 
Still another new beech is the Golden- 
leafed, which makes a striking and 
charming contrast with the Purple- 
leafed. The leaves are large and of a 
golden-yellow color. 
Those of our readers who want to 
raise apples and have only a limited space 
—an acre, let us say, or even a quarter 
acre—should order the varieties they 
want on Paradise stock. These Paradise 
stock apples are ornamental as shrubs, 
more ornamental than many of the 
shrubs which are popular everywhere, as 
for instance, the Cydonias, Elteagnus, 
Euonymus, Exochorda (Spiraea) grandi- 
fiora, Privet,Philadelphus (Mock Orange), 
Rhodotypos kerrioides, Sumach, liale- 
sia tetraptera, dogwood. These shrubs 
are in no way more ornamental than the 
apple shrubs, as we may call them, 
grown upon the Paradise stock. If we 
except the ornamental quinces (Cydo¬ 
nias), the flowers are less showy, the 
foliage no more attractive, while the 
apples borne on the Paradise stock are 
fully as large as those which the stand¬ 
ard kinds bear, with the important differ¬ 
ence that the Paradise bears in two or 
three years, while the standards do not 
usually bear in less than 10 years. These 
dwarf apples have been singularly over¬ 
looked as ornamental shrubs — shrubs 
that give us all the pleasure of shrubs as 
to foliage, form and blossoms, and the 
best of apples as well. We know of no 
other plants that are more enjoyable 
while in bloom and later, while laden 
with their beautiful fruit which one may 
watch from the time of setting until 
maturity without raising up his head. 
Among the best growers upon Paradise 
stock are Red Astrachan, Porter, Alex¬ 
ander, Baldwin, Gravenstein, and North¬ 
ern Spy. 
We learn from a friend who has seen 
the plants growing and bearing fruit on 
the grounds of the great firm of Vilmorin, 
of Paris, during the middle of July, that 
the Sir .loseph strawberry is a true ever- 
bearing variety. It continues to bear 
fruit and flowers during the entire 
season. The berries are somewhat larger 
than the Wilson. It is not an Alpine 
variety. 
Mb. Luther Burbank, of California, 
who has fully earned the title of the hor¬ 
ticultural wizard, has raised 75,000 roses 
from seed, many of them crossbreeds and 
hybrids. To one of these, he has been 
willing to give his name. It is said to 
be perfectly hardy. The one remarkable 
thing about it is that the plants bear 
flowers without cessation from June 
until frost. We have ordered plants of 
this variety, and shall have more to say 
about it in due time. 
According to our own trials, the 
Blanche Burpee sweet pea is the best 
purely white flower that has, up to this 
time, been introduced. If we would have 
early flowers, plant the seeds now, in 
pots, and transplant to the open ground 
as soon as there is no longer danger of 
severe frosts. This, however, may be 
said of any of the sweet peas. The flow¬ 
ers should be cut every day, if we would 
have the vines continue vigorous during 
the entire season. 
Mr. L. L. Shrpi.ar kindly sends us a 
box of hickorynuts. He suspects that 
this variety, two trees of which are grow¬ 
ing in his grove, within 50 feet of each 
other, is much like Hale’s Paper-shell, to 
which we have alluded from time to 
time during the past 20 years. Each tree 
is about a foot in diameter, the larger of 
which is loaded every other year with 
nuts, yielding a generous crop every 
year, the season being at all favorable. 
These nuts easily average one inch in 
diameter, well filled with meat, and the 
shells are much thinner than those of the 
ordinary hickory nut. 
Our more recently made acquaintances 
should know that, among the very best 
of recent novelties is the Crimson Ram¬ 
bler rose. We have had it since its in¬ 
troduction, and do not hesitate to make 
the following statements regarding it: 
We do not know of any rose more vig¬ 
orous and healthy. Ten feet a season is 
about the ordinary growth of the canes, 
if the soil is congenial and moderately 
rich. Two-year-old plants will bear as 
many as 150 clusters of flowers, each 
averaging not less than 20. The plants 
begin to bloom, usually, at the Rural 
Grounds about the middle of June, con¬ 
tinuing until July 10. It is worthy of 
note, as we have before said, that nei¬ 
ther the leaves nor flowers are harmed 
by the rose bug. Every rose has its 
thorn. There is no such thing as a per¬ 
fect plant. The Crimson Rambler rose 
is odorless. 
The Yellow Rambler seems, from what 
we have heard of it, a charming com¬ 
panion to the Crimson. We may not 
speak from experience, since our own 
plants were received not until late dur¬ 
ing the season of 180(5, and the Summer 
being dry, they made so little growth 
that they did not survive the Winter of 
'07. Its habit of growth is said to be 
very strong, the flowers of a bright yel¬ 
low color. 
Dwarf Champion Tomato Indoors. 
G. F. W., Biltmore, N. C.—I have seen 
several times, in The R. N.-Y., a strong 
recommendation of the Lorillard tomato 
for forcing, and I believe that it is also 
indorsed by the Cornell Experiment Sta¬ 
tion in one of its bulletins. We devote 
two of our forcing houses to tomatoes, 
and I am quite at a loss as to why this 
variety has been an utter failure with 
us. We commenced by planting Dwarf 
Champion, which was satisfactory in 
every way, but the recommendations of 
the Lorillard were so strong and posi¬ 
tive that I allowed our foreman to plant 
one house to this variety. The vines 
seem to be imbued with the idea that 
their sole duty is to go up to the roof as 
fast as possible, forgetting in their haste 
even to produce flow’ers, let alone setting 
fruit. Finally, I decided to throw away 
all of them except one side bench, which 
we left for comparison, planting the rest 
of the house to Dwarf Champion. How¬ 
ever, practically, we did not pick any 
fruit from the Lorillard, and what we 
did pick was inferior in flavor to the 
Dwarf Champion. One of our competi¬ 
tors here has this Winter planted entire¬ 
ly the Lorillard, very much to our finan¬ 
cial benefit, as we are selling him plenty 
of the Dwarf Champions now. 
For curiosity’s sake, our foreman se¬ 
cured some of his plants and planted 
them among our Dwarf Champions. The 
Lorillard runs up nearly twice the height 
before it commences to set fruit, in fact 
by' the time the Lorillard has made three 
settings of fruit, the Dwarf Champion 
has made five, and there is simply no 
comparison in the quality or size of the 
product. Of course, we have a very 
much larger percentage of sunny days 
here, and it is seldom that we have to 
run the furnaces during the day. We 
trim to a single stalk, getting the best 
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