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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Decernoer 3 
Ruralisms ; 
TO OUR SHORT-TERM SUBSCRIBERS. 
GREETING ! 
What The Rural New-Yorker has 
accomplished during the past 22 years 
through its experiment work, gives no 
positive guarantee, we are aware, as to 
its future efforts. With papers, how¬ 
ever, as with individuals, a good record 
should inspire confidence that the en¬ 
terprise and endeavors of the past will 
be earnestly continued in the future. 
Many of our present readers—those 
who have subscribed for a short term— 
may be interested to know what The 
Rural New-Yorker has accomplished 
in a general way, during the past 22 
years, through its farm, garden and fruit 
experiments. It was the first farm 
paper to establish an experiment sta¬ 
tion. In the early days, we were chiefly 
engaged in wheat and corn experiments. 
Every known wheat was tried in a small 
way for comparison as to yield and 
hardiness. What quantity of seed wheat 
should be sown per acre to obtain the 
best results? All the way from half a 
bushel to four bushels of seed were sown 
per acre to answer this question In 
other plots, the seed wheat was planted 
by hand, a single kernel from six inches 
to one foot apart each way. 
Our corn experiments resulted in the 
adoption of what we called The Rurai/s 
Triplicate Method, viz., surface fertiliz¬ 
ing, drilling in the seed one foot apart, 
and level cultivation. This resulted one 
year, according to the examination and 
sworn statements of six well-known 
persons, in a yield of 130 bushels of 
shelled corn per acre—the area being 
seven acres. 
Later we began to cross wheats, and 
still later were successful in hybridizing 
wheat and rye, which had never been 
before effected. 
Our work in the way of seedling potato 
culture has resulted in the production of 
the R. N.-Y. No. 2, the Carman No. 1, 
the Carman No. 3 and the Sir Walter 
Raleigh. 
We were the first to effect valuable 
crosses between Rosa rugosa and the 
ordinary garden varieties of roses ; the 
first to hybridize and fruit the rasp¬ 
berry and blackberry; the first to hybrid¬ 
ize the Currant and Peach tomatoes with 
the best of the popular sorts of the day. 
During all these years, we have tested 
all of the novelties in the way of straw¬ 
berries, raspberries, blackberries, cur¬ 
rants, gooseberries, grapes and garden 
vegetables, always presenting to our 
readers early and impartial reports of 
their merits or demerits, absolutely re¬ 
gardless of the claims which the intro¬ 
ducers had made. Not less than 1500 
different kinds of strawberries have been 
tried at the Rural Grounds. 
It is from the results of such and simi¬ 
lar work that those who have known 
The R. N.-Y. through these years, have 
come to regard its reports as thoroughly 
trustworthy. We are in hopes that our 
more recent readers, should they con¬ 
tinue with us, will have occasion to re¬ 
gard the paper in the same way. 
An Appeal. —The season is now close 
at hand when readers will begin to re¬ 
new their subscriptions. We have this 
request to make, viz., that they will, at 
the same time, freely criticise the con¬ 
tents of the paper. Praise, it is true, is 
very dear to the heart of all hard-work¬ 
ing, sincere editors, and perhaps, to those 
as well, who are neither hard-working 
nor sincere. While, therefore, we fully 
appreciate and solicit words of approval, 
adverse criticism may prove more help¬ 
ful in the way of keeping the editors 
ever appreciative of'the necessity of con¬ 
stant vigilance, study and enterprise, if 
they would avail themselves of every way 
of improving The Rural New-Yorker. 
At all events, adverse criticisms are by 
no means likely to lull the editors into 
the dangerous complacency of assuming 
that the paper is all they are capable of 
making it. 
GROWING LATE PEAS. 
During the present season, an attempt 
has been made to raise a supply of late 
peas for table use. Three plantings 
were made at intervals of three weeks, 
the last planting being made August 18. 
The varieties used were Daniel O'Rourke 
and American Wonder. Plantings were 
made in two localities, one upon a rather 
dry hillside, and the other upon a heavy 
loam which was very retentive of mois¬ 
ture. As would naturally be expected, 
those upon the hillside were slower in 
germinating than those upon the heavy 
loam. 
After germination, they made a slower 
and more stocky growth, with larger 
and thicker leaves, growing to a height 
of about 18 inches, the plants blooming 
freely and setting a fair crop, although 
no pods were found which contained 
more than three peas, while the major 
portion contained but one or two. From 
a row 270 feet long, an average of one 
bushel of peas to each planting was se¬ 
cured, two pickings being made from 
each planting. At the time of the first 
picking from the last planting, there 
was no trace of mildew, and but a small 
amount was found when the vines were 
removed. 
The plants upon the loam made a 
growth of about 2K feet, and had much 
the same appearance as a plant which 
has been allowed to become drawn in a 
greenhouse, the condition under which 
the growth was made being about the 
same, as the soil was several degrees 
cooler than the air. Soon after bloom¬ 
ing, these plants were attacked by 
mildew, all of the lower leaves falling 
off, and the pods commenced to decay 
before many of the peas were fit for 
use. From the three plantings upon the 
heavy soil, but two pickings were made, 
the first crop being an entire failure, 
the last two yielding about one bushel 
to 500 feet of row. 
It was the opinion of those who tested 
the late-grown peas, that they were far 
superior in quality and sweetness to 
those grown upon the same land early in 
the Spring. From the results obtained 
during this and previous seasons, it ap¬ 
pears as though the growing of late 
peas would not be a commercial success 
in Rhode Island, although a few may be 
grown for home use when the item of 
expense is not to be considered, and it 
would seem as though they might be a 
desirable crop, adding, as they do, a 
most excellent vegetable to the Fall diet¬ 
ary. G. E. ADAMS. 
R. I. Experiment Station. 
It is, perhaps, 15 years ago that The 
R. N.-Y. experimented with late-planted 
peas, the result being that, except as a 
dainty for home use, it did not pay at all 
because of mildew and small yield. It 
is among the possibilities that some of 
the newer varieties will succeed better 
when late planted than the American 
Wonder and Daniel O’Rourke. It will 
be remembered, however, that, during 
the past season, we planted the Gradus 
or Prosperity pea June 20. The peas 
germinated readily enough, but the vines 
grew feebly. They did not suffer from 
drought. The vines grew to a height of 
nearly six inches, yellow and feeble. 
Then they died, before blooming. 
On July 28, we planted Nott’s Excel¬ 
sior and Nott’s Perfection. These grew 
fairly well, bearing a few pods contain¬ 
ing from one to three peas of exquisite 
quality. 
Without doubt, the early-bearing pro¬ 
pensity of the new pear, Worden Seckel, 
will help towards an early popularity. 
The Smiths & Powell Co. write us : 
“ We had an enormous crop of pears 
from the parent trees this season, and 
quite a number of our three and four- 
year-old trees standing in the nursery 
rows bore perfect, well-formed, good- 
sized fruit.”. 
A Necessary Change of Name —The 
following note from - Luther Burbank 
needs no comment: 
The Division of Pomology at Washington, hav¬ 
ing called attention to the fact that the name 
Royal had been before applied to one of the 
European plums, the name of that plum has been 
changed to Climax to prevent confusion. For the 
same reason, Garnet has been changed to Sultan. 
This early notice of the change will, probably, 
save all confusion in the matter. It is a little 
difficult to find short, plain, appropriate names 
for new fruits, which have not been used at some 
time since the flood. 
The Montgamet Apncot. 
Is the Large Early Montgamet apricot, now 
being planted quite extensively in western New 
York, a Russian or an English variety ? Nursery¬ 
men say that it is Russian, but Ellwanger & 
Barry have had a Large Early Montgamet in 
their catalogue for years, and they say theirs is 
English. J• R. T. 
New York City. 
Ans.—W hy any nurseryman should 
wish to claim the Montgamet apricot as 
Russian, I cannot see, unless he wishes 
to sell the trees under a Russian boom 
of some sort, and it is time that craze 
should have subsided in the minds of 
Dyspepsia 
Makes more people miserable than any 
other disease. It takes the pleasure all 
out of life. The gratitude of those who 
have been cured of dyspepsia by Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla is therefore natural. Thou¬ 
sands say they have suffered more than 
they can tell from this disease, but have 
felt no symptoms of it since taking 
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100 
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PEACH 
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thoughtful and experienced fruit grow¬ 
ers, outside of the coldest parts of the 
country. A few weeks ago, I was talk¬ 
ing with some of the far western men 
who grow apricots largely, and they all 
denounced the Russian varieties, saying 
that they were far inferior to the old 
established varieties. I tried some of 
them in Kansas years ago, and found 
them of little value, and I know others 
who had the same experience, neither 
did I know of any one who did like them. 
If there are those who have found supe¬ 
riority of any kind in the Russian apri¬ 
cots, I, for one, would be glad to know 
of it. Montgamet is an old variety, said 
to be of English origin, that has been 
listed and described in the books for 
many years. Large Early is a double 
prefix which is attached by some authors 
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