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The largest potato in any one hill weighed 
six ounces ; the next best, five ounces. 
Of the 14 hills, three were early. Mr. 
Willson sends a pencil outline of two of 
the largest tubers, one of which is round, 
the other somewhat oblong. He says 
that both are very smooth, the longer 
one having but few eyes. 
Now it seems to us a very interesting 
problem to solve, which will give the 
heaviest yields after the seedlings be¬ 
come established — those that yielded 
only one or two tubers, the largest of 
which weighed three-fourths pound, as 
in the case of The R. N—Y. yield, or 10 
ounces in the case of Mr. Graham’s yield; 
or those that yielded 85 small tubers, as 
was the case with a hill of the R. N.-Y. 
seedlings the past season. Surely, we 
want to know about this, and, in so far 
as the writer is aware, very little is 
known about it. 
Another report regarding the Mexican 
June corn comes to us from a friend in 
South Haven, Mich.—F. K. Chesebro : 
I had 125 stalks of Mexican June corn from a 
10 -cent package of seed. I planted it in a corner 
of my main corn field, and gave the same care in 
cultivating, but no manure. The tallest stalks 
reached a height of 13 feet; eight ears were 
started on two or three stalks, the earliest barely 
reaching the roasting stage. I counted 11 rows 
of brace roots on one stalk, the highest being 
four feet 10 inches above the ground. A young 
man weighing 135 pounds climbed a stalk until his 
feet were fully four feet from the ground. No sup¬ 
port was given the stalk. 
THE KUMQUAT OR CHINESE GOOSE¬ 
BERRY ORANGE. 
As Grown Wild. —On page 805, your 
market reporter announces the advent 
into the northern markets of the Kum- 
quat or Kin-Kan, a little-known fruit of 
the Citrus family. He says that he has 
been told by one who has tried them 
that ordinary persimmons were just as 
satisfactory. Now a good, well-ripened 
persimmon is quite agreeable, but I 
think that particular person’s taste for 
the orange flavor could not have been 
very highly developed, or the Kumquats 
were in poor eating condition, as many 
consider them the most pleasing and 
dainty of all Citrus fruits, and that is 
saying a good deal. 
My first knowledge of this distinct 
little orange came as a very agreeable 
surprise 20 years ago, when I was piloted 
by a bright native boy to a small thicket 
of Kumquat trees growing wild about 
some neglected fortifications near the 
old city of Cantarem, in Brazil. The 
native called them by a Portuguese name 
equivalent to sweet limes, but nobody 
seemed to know what they really were, 
neither did I find them again while in 
tropical America, though many months 
were spent in voyaging upon the Ama¬ 
zon River, and nearly every town and 
village upon its bank was visited. Dur¬ 
ing the centuries in which this magnifi¬ 
cent river has been known to the civil¬ 
ized world, nearly all the useful tropical 
plants and fruits native to other coun¬ 
tries have become naturalized, and are 
found in more or less neglected profu¬ 
sion growing about the various towns 
and villages situated on its banks. 
Oranges, lemons and shaddocks in great 
variety are found struggling with native 
vegetation near every settlement, and the 
grateful and intensely acid lime (Citrus 
Limetta) grows in the greatest profusion, 
tangled thickets, loaded with fruits, 
springing up wherever a careless hand 
has tossed a few seeds. But no Kum¬ 
quats were again found or heard of, and 
the name and habitat of this interesting 
fruit remained a mystery to me until a 
descriptive list of Oriental economic 
plants fell into my hands, after return¬ 
ing to civilization. 
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January 1, 1900. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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In a Greenhouse. —My next meeting 
with the Kumquat was in the green¬ 
houses of a New Jersey nurseryman, 
where I found a dozen dwarf little trees 
growing in nine-inch pots, and fairly 
loaded with the little golden, plum¬ 
shaped fruits. These trees, which had 
well-formed, bushy heads, and were 
scarcely two feet high, had been sent 
over from Japan by a friend some two 
or three years previously, and had re¬ 
ceived very indifferent care, being grown 
on the benches in vacant places during 
the Summer season, and stowed away in 
odd corners after the fruit ripened in 
November. The Kumquats produced 
on these little imported trees were as 
sprightly and refreshing as those found 
in boyhood on the banks of the far-off 
Amazon. These trees have been grafted 
in Japan on dwarf lemon stocks, prob¬ 
ably the “ hardy orange ” (Limonium 
trifoliata) which, I have since been in¬ 
formed, not only renders them extremely 
prolific, but quite resistant to cold, as it 
becomes nearly dormant during Winter. 
This I have repeatedly verified on a 
little imported tree scarcely 16 inches 
high, which is now domiciled in a gallon 
tomato can, and carrying a number of 
perfect and well-ripened fruits. Within 
the last three years, this tree has twice 
been shipped long distances, with the 
earth removed from the roots, and many 
times been exposed for hours to tempera¬ 
tures below the freezing point, but no 
apparent injury has ever followed. 
With the ordinary treatment of a win¬ 
dow geranium, the Kumquat seems per¬ 
fectly content, and remains a striking 
ornament during Winter with its dark, 
glossy foliage and brilliant golden fruits, 
which are almost as persistent as those 
of the well-known Otaheite orange. It 
blooms profusely in June or July, when 
the fruits set, and more sparingly in 
September. The flowers are typical 
orange blooms in miniature, and are 
much admired, having a very delicate 
perfume. 
A Window Plant. —I have always 
thought the Kumquat would become a 
very popular window plant as soon as its 
merits and ease of management became 
generally known. Grafted imported 
trees, which will bear as soon as estab¬ 
lished, are now being offered at 50 cents 
to $1 each by several nurseries handling 
exotic plants, and it is not easy to see 
how one can get better value for the 
amount, if at all fond of choice plants. 
In pot culture, the Kumquat can be kept 
almost indefinitely in a manageable size, 
it not being necessary to let it exceed 
the dimensions of a gooseberry bush, 
and can safely be wintered in a light 
cellar like a Hydrangea or Oleander, if 
not wanted in the living-room. 
The fruits borne in window culture 
are fully as good in quality as those 
grown in the tropics, if plenty of sun¬ 
light is to be had. As stated by your 
reporter’s informant, the rind and all is 
eaten, as it is thin, sweet, and juicy, 
while the pulp is refreshingly sub-acid. 
The principal use of the Kumquat in 
China and Japan is for crystallizing and 
preserving, and the very delicious prod¬ 
uct is now being offered by Oriental im¬ 
porting houses, and is even quoted by 
the fancy grocery departments of the 
larger general stores. It is, also, eaten 
when fresh, and cut into halves, forms 
an ingredient of all Japanese cooling 
drinks. 
A Market Fruit. —Many Kumquats 
have lately been planted in Florida and 
the Gulf States, as well as in the Citrus 
belt of California, and as it is undoubt¬ 
edly hardier than most oranges, it is 
likely to become a familiar and accept¬ 
able Winter fruit in our markets. Under 
favorable conditions, the trees will 
eventually grow 12 to 15 feet high, but 
are easily trained into any desired shape, 
so that Winter protection is not difficult, 
especially as they are said to bear with¬ 
out injury, temperatures of 10 to 15 de¬ 
grees above zero, when once well estab¬ 
lished. The Kumquat fruit is usually 
about the size and shape of a good-sized 
Damson plum, though we see Japanese 
drawings of round varieties, and the skin 
has the same appearance and texture as 
the orange, but is underlaid with a sweet 
juice, which contrasts most pleasantly 
with the interior acid. It is extremely 
prolific, even under adverse circum¬ 
stances, a bush scarcely six feet high 
producing, in Florida, over 2,000 fruits at 
a bearing. w. van fleet. 
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the hypophosphites and 
glycerine. It promises more 
prompt relief and more last¬ 
ing benefit in these cases than 
can be obtained from the 
use of any other remedy. 
50 c, and $1 00 , all druggists. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. 
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