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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 17 
; Rural isms ; 
A COMPARISON OF SEVERAL EARLY 
GRAPES. 
Campbell’s Early. —One plant of this 
grape was sent us by the originator, 
Geo. W. Campbell, about five years ago. 
Later, we received a plant from the in¬ 
troducer, Geo. S. Josselyn, of Fredonia, 
N. Y. It is somewhat too early to judge 
positively of its value, but we may say 
that it gives promise of being the most 
valuable early black grape at present 
known. It has not yet developed a fail¬ 
ing. The vine is perfectly hardy, the 
leaves without mildew. It is, apparently, 
even more productive than the Concord, 
while the bunches and berries are larger. 
This season, the berries are even a little 
larger than those of Moore’s Early, 
and ripen at almost exactly the same 
time, viz., about September 5. It must 
be borne in mind that this is one of the 
latest seasons we have ever had. The 
skin is firm, much firmer than that of 
Moore’s Early or Concord. The flesh is 
meaty, sprightly and of pure flavor. The 
seeds are few and rather small. The 
bunches are rarely shouldered ; the ber¬ 
ries have a lilac bloom. 
Green Mountain or Winchell.— 
From Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, 
Conn., November, 1889. — This is the 
earliest white grape we have ever 
tried, ripening, this year, September 1. 
The bunches are of medium size, the 
berries rather small, scarcely larger 
than those of Delaware. The flesh is 
tender and agreeable, though not of the 
highest quality. The vine is hardy and 
productive. 
Early Ohio. —Vines planted during 
May of ’93.—August 29. Berries nearly 
ripe. It and the Green Mountain may 
be said to ripen at just the same time. 
The vines are vigorous, hardy and pro¬ 
ductive ; the bunches are long and often 
shouldered ; berries of medium size, 
black with a dense lilac bloom. This 
grape, which we at first condemned, is 
certainly valuable because of its extreme 
earliness, hardiness of vine and produc¬ 
tiveness. While it is not of high flavor, 
it is, all things considered, better than 
any other black grape that we have tried 
that is equally early. 
Moore’s Early —We mention this 
merely to say that the grapes are nearly 
all of them fully colored (August 29) 
but not any of them are fully ripe. It is 
not so early by, perhaps, a week as Early 
Ohio. The vines are wonderfully vigor¬ 
ous and hardy, the leaves large and free 
from mildew. The bunches are showy, 
the berries large, but it is not a very 
productive variety. 
Cottage. —Leaves exceptionally large 
and perfectly healthy, vine hardy ; about 
half of the grapes at this time (August 
29) colored, but none fully ripe. The 
berries are of medium size, slightly 
flattened, bunches of medium size with 
long stems. The quality is very good. 
Berries rarely rot or crack. The Cot¬ 
tage is not, however, prolific. 
Nectar. —From A. J. Caywood, 1888.— 
Leaves rather small and somewhat mil¬ 
dewed. The vine is, however, hardy and 
highly productive. Bunch and berry 
are of medium size. All the berries are 
colored from red to black, but none are 
quite ripe at this date. Skin firm, qual¬ 
ity a good deal like that of Delaware.... 
Diamond. —From the Diamond Grape 
Co , Rochester, N. Y., May, 1889.—This 
ripens after Moore’s Early and before 
the Worden and, as we have before said, 
is, all things considered, the best white 
grape ever fruited at the Rural Grounds. 
It gives us, one season with another, the 
largest and most perfect bunches. For 
some reason, which we have not been 
able to discover, rose bugs do not harm 
the blossoms as they do those of most 
other kinds. The berries are of medium. 
size, the bunches large and compact. It 
is an exceedingly productive variety and 
perfectly hardy. The leaves are large 
and thick. 
Notes. —August 29. —Neither Worden 
nor Concord has begun to color. Wilder 
is about half colored. 
A Promising Late Summer Apple.— 
During November of 1894, we received 
from the Rogers Nursery Company, of 
Moorestown, N. J., one tree of a new 
variety of apple named Garden Gem. It 
is indeed a gem. The tree this season 
bore six apples, all of which ripened per¬ 
fectly without a Codling moth mark or a 
blemish of any kind. We have never 
before had a standard apple tree fruit so 
soon—four years. The apple is of the 
finest quality of its season, the flesh 
being tender, juicy, richly acid. The 
color is greenish-yellow with some crim¬ 
son on the part most exposed to the sun. 
The stem is more than an inch in length, 
set into a deep cavity. The calyx basin 
is also deep. The shape is nearly round 
—just a little conical. One of the apples 
was picked August 15, and placed in a 
warm room. It is at this writing (August 
30) perfect still. 
The Honor Bright Tomato Finally. 
—It is a queer tomato—different from 
any other in our experience which, as 
our readers should know, covers nearly 
every tomato that has been introduced 
during the past 25 years. Perhaps we 
praised it somewhat too highly in our 
recent note. Still, we stick to this, it is 
distinctly different from any other to¬ 
mato—as different as the R. N.-Y. Terra 
Cotta is from all other tomatoes. The 
latter, however, was the result of a 
cross upon the Peach tomato. Honor 
Bright seems to be a sport or selection— 
which may be said of all of Mr. Living¬ 
ston’s introductions. The tomatoes are 
at first green, as are those of other kinds. 
Then they turn to a white color or nearly 
so. At this stage, they are as hard as 
bricks, so to say. Then they change to 
a lemon color and finally, when fully 
ripe, to a rich orange color. So decided 
is this that one, at a first glance, would 
mistake them for oranges. Their keep¬ 
ing quality is extraordinary. We picked 
several when the color was white, and 
placed them in a hot room August 14. 
They are now (August 30) fully ripe, but 
without decay. 
The vines, too, are peculiar. They 
seem vigorous notwithstanding all the 
lower foliage turns yellow during the 
middle and late season. The shape is 
first-rate. The tomatoes ripen fully about 
the stem, are smooth and do not crack. 
The quality is about that of ordinary 
tomatoes. 
Polygonum Cuspidatum. — About 27 
years ago, we saw a plant of this giant 
Knotweed growing in the grounds of 
the late Andrew S. Fuller. He gave us 
one of the suckers, and we planted it 
at the Rural Grounds, where it has since 
been growing. The plant, as it now 
appears, is shown in Fig. 294, page 638. 
Its height is about nine feet, width at 
the top, 11 feet. The leaves are broadly 
heart-shaped, with acuminate tips, of a 
dark-green, lusterless color. In the axil 
of every leaf, are compound racemes of 
white flowers, consisting of from two to 
a dozen simple racemes about two inches 
long. Though the individual flowers 
are only the size of a pin-head, there 
are hundreds of them in every raceme, 
so that the effect is that there is almost 
as much white as green in the entire 
plant. The effect is charming, especially 
at this season of the year, when there 
are few shrubby plants in bloom. The 
stalks, which average a full inch in 
■diameter, are both elastic and very 
strong, reminding one of so many bam¬ 
boo fishing rods. In fact the name Polyg¬ 
onum comes from two Greek words, 
meaning many-jointed. Bees are espe¬ 
cially fond of the honey-sweet flowers, 
and we should say that those who have 
apiaries would find it a valuable plant 
practically as well as ornamentally. 
This Knotweed belongs to the Buck¬ 
wheat family— we are not aware that it 
has any specifically familiar name. 
Giant Knotweed would be very appro¬ 
priate. It is a wonderful plant to prop¬ 
agate itself, the roots oftentimes extend¬ 
ing 25 feet from the mother plant, send¬ 
ing up plantlets here and there. Saghalin 
(Sacaline) blooms at the same time. Its 
leaves are much larger, but the flowers 
are not so bright. 
Mexican June Corn. — Mr. Thomas 
Hood, of Goderich, Ont., says that he 
was induced to make a trial of this corn 
from what was said about it under Rural- 
isms. The kernels were planted May 23. 
They were slow to sprout and slow to 
grow for six weeks after. August 23, 
the plants averaged 12 feet 6 inches in 
height. On August 22, he cut two plants; J 
they weighed 12% pounds. The rows 
were four feet apart, and the kernels 
were planted 18 inches apart in the row. 
As he figures it, this would give 22 tons 
of fodder per acre. 
Mr. A. J. Silberstein, of Framing¬ 
ham, Mass., writes us that, on August 
23, he picked a cucumber weighing 3% 
pounds. It measured 15 inches long, 11 
inches in its widest circumference, and 
nine inches at the thinnest. He asks : 
“ Do I hold the record ? ” Much larger 
cucumbers than this one have been 
raised under glass, but we do not know 
of any others so large raised in the field 
or garden. 
Under date of August 25, the Butler 
& Jewell Co., Cromwell, Conn., sent us a 
box of Japan plums—Normand, Berck- 
mans and Chabot. The Chabot, which 
the firm has bought from different firms 
under several different names—Bailey, 
Yellow Japan, Ilatankyo, Botankyo 
and Chase — has borne fruit for the 
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