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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
265 
R U R A US MS. 
(continued.) 
ous, even upon the plot which was dis¬ 
eased last Fall. There no longer seems 
any likelihood of frosts severe enough to 
freeze the soil to a depth that would 
sever the clover roots. Crimson clover 
has now been sown at the Rural Grounds 
(about late August) during four seasons. 
It has stood the winters three times out 
of the four. 
Mr. T. C. Tiiurlow, of West Newbury, 
Mass., describes and illustrates in his 
catalogue a new Weeping willow which 
has been named the Thurlow. He says 
that the top and a large part of the side 
branches point directly upward, while 
the lower branches and small twigs point 
directly downward, some of them trail¬ 
ing upon the ground, ne thinks ’that 
the original tree, which is now 40 feet 
high, will reach a height of 75 feet. At 
the Nebraska Experiment Station, it has 
proved to be hardy, even more so than 
the Kilmarnock. It is commended to 
those who want tall-growing, pendulous 
willows, especially to those north of us 
where the old Weeping willow (Baby- 
lonica) is not hardy. Its origin is not 
given. 
Mr. A. W. Smith, of Americus, Ga., 
writes us interesting-ly of the Velvet or 
Hyacinth bean which Prof. Hitchcock, 
of the Manhattan Experiment Station, 
calls, botanically, Mucuna pruriens, 
while Dr. Neal, of the Oklahoma Experi¬ 
ment Station, calls it Dolichos Lablab, 
Hyacinth bean, which is a close relative 
to the cow pea. Dr. Neal says that he 
has never heard of any one eating the 
beans in this country, but that the Chi¬ 
nese do. They soak or parboil them a long 
while, and then cook a la Boston bean 
style. Mr. Smith sent seeds to the Rural 
-Grounds as long ago as 1893, but we have 
no record whether they were planted or 
not. He fed the beans to his hogs, but 
they declined to eat them, either raw or 
cooked. Mr. Smith is much impressed 
with their climbing capacity. The vines 
grew to the top of his mill tower, a 
height of 40 feet. Their luxuriant foli¬ 
age and beautiful bunches of flowers 
hang like clusters of grapes, the flowers 
being white and dark brownish or pur¬ 
plish maroon. He knows of few plants 
which would so soon cover a trellis or 
arbor. But with its beauty, it has an 
odor all its own, which is not agreeable. 
We do not recall, at this moment, any 
improvements among vegetables by se¬ 
lection or crossing as important as the 
advance that has been made among peas 
during the past five years or more. 
Previous to that, there were also, de¬ 
cided improvements made. McLean’s 
Little Gem was the first of the dwarf 
wrinkled peas. Then came Bliss’s 
American Wonder,which originated with 
Mr. Pringle, of Vermont. Mr. Bliss gave 
us a trial quantity before its introduction, 
and he was surprised that we reported it 
to be not only earlier than the Gem, but 
more prolific. Later came Nott’s Excel¬ 
sior, another variety which was tried at 
the Rural Grounds before its introduc¬ 
tion. This we found to be as much 
superior to American Wonder as was 
American Wonder superior to the Gem. 
Now we have the Surprise and Pros¬ 
perity or Gradus, which were tried last 
season at the Rural Grounds with the 
first-early smooth varieties. Our report 
is before the readers of The R. N.-Y. 
We shall give them another tidal during 
the coming season. Our opinion, at pres¬ 
ent, is that, for family use, the first- 
early smooth varieties of peas may be 
given up altogether, inasmuch as their 
place is so well filled by the Prosperity 
and Surprise as to earliness, while the 
quality of these early wrinkled varie¬ 
ties is far superior. 
Crossing Peas. —Beginning during the 
season of 1884, and several years there¬ 
after, we were greatly interested in 
crossing- peas, determined as we were, 
to produce, in this w T ay, varieties su¬ 
perior to any then in existence. The 
following varieties were among those 
which we crossed. : A dozen of Laxton’s 
varieties, Queen, Pois parchemin de 40 
jours, Emerald Gem, Telephone, Prince 
of Wales, Culver well’s Giant Marrow, 
American Wonder, Pois nain conturier, 
Pride of America, Carter’s Stratagem, 
Ringleader, Early Paragon. The result 
of all this work was nearly a failure, 
and the failure was the result of two 
causes, chiefly: First, the pea weevil. 
This, at the Rural Grounds, infests near¬ 
ly every seed, so that the viability is 
nearly or wholly destroyed. Second, we 
were unable to fix the crossed varieties 
as grown from the very few seeds that 
were not infested. In one instance, we 
succeeded in getting a moderately true 
variety from a cross between the Emer¬ 
ald Gem—a variety with peculiarly dark 
leaves without bloom—and another of the 
first earlies. The cross was earlier than 
any variety that we have ever tried. 
The few seeds, not too much harmed by 
the weevil, which we gathered from our 
few plants, were given to a leading nur¬ 
seryman of New York for propagation 
and introduction. This firm sent the 
seeds to a trusted grower with careful 
instructions to propagate the variety as 
fast as possible. They were lost en 
route. So it is that the hardest work of 
The R. N.-Y., and we dare say of many 
others who have striven to make two 
blades of grass grow where one grew pre¬ 
viously, has come to naught. 
March 23. The buds of the .Japan 
plums have now so far developed as ti 
show color. 
Peonies, Larkspurs, and other her¬ 
baceous plants may be lifted and divided 
now. Of course, this work may well be 
done in the Fall, but if it was neglected 
then, set about it at once. The peren¬ 
nials that bloom very early in the Spring, 
such as Rock cress, Moss pink, Spring¬ 
flowering Anemones, etc., would better 
be attended to in Fall, but those plants 
that bloom a little later may be attended 
to now quite as advantageously as in 
Autumn. 
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SALEM Salem, Mass. 
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Wheel and Lever, Wood 
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plow is best for side hill land, or for plowing flat lan< 
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Can be narrowed up for 3*4 
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The Riding Attachment is practically independent 
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