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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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; Ruralisms 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
A Grass Hedge. —There is frequent 
need about gardens for a Summer hedge 
to form an agreeable boundary between 
the utilitarian and ornamental portions, 
or as screens to unsightly objects. There 
is abundant material for such purposes 
in rows of tall-growing annual and per¬ 
ennial flowering plants, quick-growing 
climbers as well as tender tuberous 
plants like Cannas and Dahlias. These 
have their advantages and limitations, 
chief of which is the necessity of plant¬ 
ing every season. Shrub and tree hedges 
are desirable where needed, but are ex¬ 
pensive, long in coming to perfection, 
require close attention, and monopolize 
considerable area of soil. We have often 
wondered why so little use is made of 
hardy grasses in this way. There are a 
number of good kinds, but the most 
available are the varieties of Eulalia 
Japonica, now Miscanthus Sinensis. As 
grown in the nursery they make magni¬ 
ficent hedge effects, but are rarely used 
for this purpose in gardens, being gen¬ 
erally planted as clumps or groups. The 
variety E. gracillima univittata is in 
every way the most graceful and desir¬ 
able for the purpose. The leaves are 
narrow and symmetrically curved, dark 
green in color, with a central stripe of 
white. 
Easy to Grow.— Fig. 17 shows the 
November aspect of a row of this grass 
planted in the Spring of 1901 in poor 
light soil after the removal of a privet 
hedge. Quite a show was made the first 
Summer, a few flower spikes being sent 
up. The second year it made even bet¬ 
ter appearance than in the picture, as 
many clumps had been cut for decora¬ 
tive purposes before the photograph was 
made. The only attention needed dur¬ 
ing growth is to cultivate lightly the 
first season, and afterward to keep down 
nearby weeds. The grass will do the 
rest; no clipping, staking or training is 
required, but it is quite essential to cut 
or burn away the dry canes before 
growth starts again in the Spring. 
Where it can be safely done burning is 
by far the most effective method of 
clearing away the old growth, and it ap¬ 
pears to favor the development of the 
young shoots. Eulalia hedges start 
slowly in Spring, and do not interfere 
with early operations, but attain impos¬ 
ing proportions by mid-Summer. The 
most violent storms do not put them out 
of shape. The plumy flower heads are 
developed too late to ripen seeds, but 
remain throughout the Winter. Propa¬ 
gation is effected by pulling the clumps 
apart, preferably as growth begins, and 
planting each root-stock with its accom¬ 
panying “eye” and fibers separately, set¬ 
ting them 18-20 inches apart if wanted 
for hedging. A three or four-year clump 
will make about 50 of these sets, all of 
which should grow if they have live 
buds. 
Uses of Eulalia Stover. —We grow 
this hardy Asiatic grass chiefly for Win¬ 
ter mulching of strawberries, roses and 
plants of doubtful hardiness, for wdiich 
the ripe stover is unsurpassed - . It is 
stiff and light, affords good protection 
and does not easily pack down by the 
action of snow or excessive rains. The 
stalks are just the right size and weight 
to handle easily. Until settled it is liable 
to be blown about by heavy winds, and 
is best laid on in overlapping rows like 
shingles on a roof, with the butts to¬ 
ward the prevailing winds. It makes au 
exceptionally neat thatch for a straw¬ 
berry or herbaceous bed, and gives no 
trouble after the first frost or rain has 
flattened it down. For tying up roses or 
tender shrubs it is much superior to rye 
straw, being stiffer and lighter for the 
same bulk. These characteristics make 
it very useful as packing material for 
covering light bales of trees and nur¬ 
sery stock for shipment. Where marsh 
Dr. Holmes used to say he 
was “seventy years young.” 
Some men are old at half 
that figure. 
Age is not in years. It is 
in the blood. Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion helps to keep you young 
by keeping your blood young; 
by supplying it with an 
abundance of rich, pure, vital 
nourishment; carrying con¬ 
stant life and renewal to 
every fibre of your body. It 
will help you to rob advancing 
years of half their sting. 
We’ll send you a sample free upon request. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl Street, New York. 
canes and grain straw are scarce it 
may pay to grow enough for the pur¬ 
pose. 
As a Forage Plant. —While no ex¬ 
tended experiments have come to our 
knowledge it is known cattle and horses 
eat green Eulalia grass with fair relish. 
The blades have a sharp cutting edge 
that might be expected to make the 
mouth sore, but we have never noticed 
any hesitancy on that account. The 
yield of an acre of established Eulalia 
would be great, as two or three cuttings 
could be made each season, and so far 
as known the stand would be very last¬ 
ing. The writer assisted in planting in 
Tennessee the sets—1,800 in number— 
from a barrel of clumps of the three or¬ 
namental varieties usually offered by 
nurserymen, E. univittata, E. variega- 
tus, the striped Eulalia, and E. zebrinus 
the cross-barred variety. They were set 
3x314 feet apart on good corn land, and 
made a strong growth the first year. The 
idea was to use the grass for cattle for¬ 
age and the dry stover for nursery pack¬ 
ing, but the property changed hands be¬ 
fore the experiment was carried out, and 
the field was again plowed for cereal 
crops. Eulalias are frequently seen 
about farm homes, where under good 
tieatment the stronger varieties make 
clumps six feet across. As a rule they 
should not be thickly planted where 
there is danger of fire unless the ripe 
growth is cut away in Fall before it is 
throughly dry. Good plants of Eulalia 
varieties cost 25 cents each, clumps 50 
cents or more each. Seeds of the striped 
and variegated kinds are offered at 10 
cents a packet. They do not come alto¬ 
gether true, many seedlings reverting to 
the strong growing green-leaved species 
type. We were charged $4 for the bar¬ 
rel of clumps for the Tennessee experi¬ 
ment, the nurseryman claiming a barrel 
of ornamental grass roots ought, to be 
worth as much as the current price of a 
barrel of seed potatoes. Large old 
clumps may often be had for the asking, 
and a good breadth worked up if wanted 
in a few years by close propagation. 
Two New Vegetables. —The Hail¬ 
stone radish and “Neckless” rutabaga 
sent out by W. Atlee Burpee & Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa., are attractive novel¬ 
ties as grown on the Rural Grounds. The 
radish is of the small-leaved, quick¬ 
growing type, coming to edible size in 
less than 20 days under ordinary garden 
conditions. They are quite regular in 
shape, resembling a young turnip. The 
skin is smooth and of almost translu¬ 
cent whiteness, rendering the name of 
hailstone very appropriate. The foliage 
is unusually small and compact, allow¬ 
ing many to be grown in a limited space. 
The quality is crisp, delicate and re¬ 
freshing. Hailstone makes a fine con¬ 
trast to the usual little red radishes 
when served at table. 
Rutabagas or Swedish turnips are 
usually of minor importance in the home 
garden, but valuable for market pur¬ 
poses. The quality is better as a rule 
than the flat turnip which forms a sep¬ 
arate species. Typical rutabagas have 
smooth leaves, thick necks and many 
fibrous roots on the lower third of the 
tuber. They are better keepers than 
turnips, and are much slower in develop¬ 
ment, being usually grown as a Winter 
crop. Burpee’s “Neckless” variety grows 
almost as flat as a turnip, while the fib¬ 
rous root mass is greatly reduced. It 
grows in much less time than other 
rutabagas we have tried, and may be 
planted for garden use any time before 
the middle of July. The flesh is solid, 
sweet and fine grained, pale yellow in 
color. When used at the proper stage 
there is no woody fiber. w. v. f. 
ARE YOU AGEING? 
THOUSANDS HAVE KIDNEY TROUBLE 
AND NEVER SUSPECT IT. 
A 
An interesting letter to our readers 
from Mrs. E. Austin of New York City. 
Brooklin, N. Y., Nov. 9th, 1902. 
A little over a year ago I was taken 
with severe pains in my kidneys and 
bladder They continued to - give me'trouble 
for over two months and I suffered untold 
misery. I became weak, emaciated and 
\cry much run down. I had great diffi¬ 
culty in retaining my urine, and was 
obliged to pass water very often night and 
day. After I had used a sample bottle of 
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, which you so 
kindly sent me on my request, I experi¬ 
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of my druggist two large bottles and con¬ 
tinued taking it regularly. 1 am pleased 
to say that Swamp-Root cured me entirely. 
I can now stand on mv feet all day with¬ 
out having any bad symptoms whatever. 
You are at liberty to use this testimonial 
letter if you wish. Gratefully yours, 
19 Nassau St 
The mild and prompt effect of Dr. 
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If y.ou are already convinced that 
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Handy Farm Wagons 
I make the work easier for both ike man and team. 
The tires being wide they donotcutintotheground; 
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In any other way and 
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A Golden Rule 
of Agriculture: 
Be good to your land and your crop 
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Potash 
in the fertilizer spells quality 
and quantity in the har* 1 
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93 Nassau Street, 
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Now Plant 
Seed. 
You want the book 
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SEED SOWER’S 
MANUAL 
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THE ECLIPSE \ 
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