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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 22, 
Ruralisms ; 
WWW 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Some New Peppers. —There is a grow¬ 
ing demand for large, thick-fleshed mild 
or sweet peppers to be cooked in various 
ways as a vegetable as well as for pick¬ 
ling and serving raw in salads. The older 
kinds, such as Bell, Sweet Mountain and 
Ruby King, are productive, handsome and 
of good flavor, but often too thin in flesh 
for kitchen use. Chinese Giant, intro¬ 
duced four or five years ago by W. Atlee 
Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., is a grand 
acquisition, double the size of the famous 
Ruby King, brilliant in color and of most 
excellent quality. It needs good culture 
to develop the immense peppers to their 
full size. Chinese Giant is finding its way 
in the market and bids fair to displace 
some of the old favorites when its good 
qualities are better known. It has already 
given origin to the promising new varieties 
figured on page 763, Figs. 341 and 342. 
The very smooth peppers shown in Fig. 
.342 are the result of crossing Chinese 
Giant with Mild Red Harold, an excellent 
Italian variety, bearing thick-fleshed fruits 
of moderate size upright above the foliage, 
with Chinese Giant. The pollenization 
was most carefully done under glass on 
the Rural Grounds, and a large number 
of seedlings raised, varying through wide 
limits in habit, vigor and fruitage. The 
type illustrated was selected as most de¬ 
sirable, and has been grown true from 
seed for three successive years. The 
plant is especially vigorous and stocky, 
holding its huge load of large, brilliant 
and smooth peppers upright above the fol¬ 
iage, thus favoring early ripening. The 
color is bright, clear scarlet; the ripe fruits 
looking as if they had been modelled 
in translucent wax. The flesh is thick, 
sweet and tender, and the skin exception¬ 
ally thin. The seeds are rather scanty. 
For pickling, stuffing and culinary uses it 
is not excelled by any kind we have test¬ 
ed. The thick, mild well-flavored flesh 
and tender skin permit it to be fried or 
otherwise cooked in the manner of egg 
plant, and adds a most desirable Summer 
vegetable to our tables. 
The Magnum Dulce Pepper. —Fig. 341 
does not give a fair idea of the gigantic 
pepper from which the photograph was 
taken, as the reduction in size is almost 
one-half. This enormous variety ap¬ 
peared several years ago in the fields of 
T. M. White, Little Silver, N. J., and is 
most likely a cross between Chinese Giant 
and Ruby King. It differs from the former 
in greater length, while retaining the full 
thickness, some specimens reaching almost 
eight inches, thicker flesh and increased 
productiveness. It is probably the largest 
pepper grown, and has been introduced to 
the trade by Vaughan’s Seed Store, New 
York and Chicago, under the name of 
“Magnum Dulce.’’ The plant is vigorous 
and rapid in growth, ripening the great 
peppers early for a large variety. The 
color is bright scarlet, quality mild and 
sweet. For market and home use it is 
not excelled by any large fruited pepper, 
and is particularly valuable for those who 
wish to grow the largest possible fruits 
for exhibition purposes. 
Salt Water on Fruit Trees. —A fierce 
gale September 16, 1903, blowing in from 
the ocean, drenched the fruit trees on the 
Rural Grounds, five miles inland, with per¬ 
ceptibly salt water. The foliage was bad¬ 
ly whipped by the force of the wind, but 
held on the landward side until frost, sev¬ 
eral weeks later, but on the seaward or 
exposed side blackened and fell off within 
a few days after the storm. The branches 
thus early defoliated have carefully been 
watched the present season, and absolutely 
no difference in leafage, bloom or fruit¬ 
ing could be noticed. The development 
throughout the Summer was norma! in 
every particular, and the crops borne gen¬ 
erally excellent. We like to see trees and 
plants hold their foliage late and ripen up 
gradually, but it is evident a tree can lose 
a large portion of its foliage by mechanical 
or chemical means in September, pro¬ 
vided the buds and bark are not injured, 
without visible bad effects. The imme¬ 
diate death of the leaves on the seaward 
side appeared to result from the salt 
driven in the bruised tissues by wind pres¬ 
sure, but the solution was too diluted by 
rain to harm bark, buds or partially shel¬ 
tered foliage. Most plants are quite re¬ 
sistant to salt spray, but on the imme¬ 
diate beach, where plant growth is fre¬ 
quently drenched by sea water, driven by 
fierce winds only a few species thrive. 
Among trees our native cedars, eastern 
pines, willows, the Carolina poplar and 
African tamarix are most resistant. Rosa 
rugosa and California privet are useful 
shrubs for exposed situations, but it is 
usual to provide a Winter windbreak of 
boards for the latter. As a rule vegeta¬ 
tion is little affected by salt spray at dis¬ 
tances greater than one-fourth mile from 
the sea, as salt water is rarely carried 
further inland except in extraordinary 
storms, and is then usually much diluted. 
Tritomas from Seed. —Botanists have 
settled on the name Kniphofia for the 
genus represented by the flame flower, 
torch lily or red-hot poker plant of old 
gardens, but dealers continue to offer them 
under the familiar name of Tritoma, and 
this will probably continue as the handy 
garden designation of this very showy 
and interesting plant. Kniphofias are na¬ 
tive to the elevated regions of Abyssinia 
and northern Africa. Many species have 
been discovered, some of which are 
claimed to be hardy. In dry, well-drained 
soil they will stand considerable cold, but 
hard freezing either kills them or weakens 
the tubers so as to prevent further bloom. 
They are easily wintered over, however, 
in a frost-proof cellar, if covered with dry 
sand. The clump should be taken up after 
a hard frost like Dahlias or Cannas, dried 
for a few days in the shade, then placed in 
boxes and covered with perfectly dry sand. 
Many hybrids have been produced, the 
most useful group of which was gained 
from K. Tuckii, an early flowering dwarf 
species, bearing small spikes of dull orange 
blooms. By crossing it with high-colored 
late-blooming kinds some very showy va¬ 
rieties have been raised having a long sea¬ 
son of bloom, Pfitzerii, Triumph and 
Express are likely to be the most popular 
of these. I lie first is very free in bloom, 
producing many spikes three to four feet 
in height with heads of bloom a foot long. 
Triumph is somewhat dwarfer, but has 
golden yellow blooms, in heads 16 or more 
inches long. It is still scarce and high- 
priced, but Pfitzerii and Express are sold 
as low as 15 and 25 cents each, respective¬ 
ly. Express grows readily from seeds, 
which it produces with much freedom and 
varies in color from light orange to deep 
carmine. Seeds sown in our glasshouse 
in March have made fine plants, about 
half of which bloomed in September, pro¬ 
ducing one good spike each. The seeds 
were planted in a pot containing very 
sandy soil mixed with flakes of dry cow 
manure. When the second leaf appeared 
in April the seedlings were transplanted 
to three-inch pots of the same soil, and 
planted out in a dry situation in May, 
placing them a foot apart each way. 
Thirty-two plants were grown from a 
packet of seeds, costing 25 cents. If safely 
wintered over in the cellar we hope to 
have a showy bed next year by planting 
them about 16 inches apart. We have 
grown other Kniphofias from seed, but it 
needed two or three years to produce 
blooming plants. w. v. F. 
The Honor Bright Tomato. —I notice on 
page 701 of The U. N.-Y. O. N. G. asks for a 
more solid tomato than the Chalk's Early 
Jewel, and would suggest that he should try 
an experimental planting of the Honor Bright, 
which 1 think is the most solid and best 
shipping tomato of any that we have ever 
grown. If picked while yellow or just start¬ 
ing to take on the scarlet coloring, the fruits 
of (his variety could he shipped in barrels like 
apples. The foliage and fruits of this variety 
are entirely distinct, and it is quite probable 
that the unusual appearance of the plant has 
prevented it from becoming popular and more 
widely known. About the time the plants 
begin fruiting the lower foliage turns yellow, 
and the fruits in ripening are first almost 
white; then yellow and finally a bright scar¬ 
let. in spite of the sickly appearance of the 
foliage, the plant is a strong vigorous grower 
and a good hearer. I would take exception to 
O. N. G.'s comparison of the Jewel with pur¬ 
ple-fruited sorts, such as the Acme, as with 
us the latter are much softer and more liable 
to crack in a dry, hot Summer, but in a wet 
season such as we have had the past two 
Summers, these purple-fruited sorts are fre¬ 
quently the most satisfactory, as they come 
darker in coloring and are less liable to crack 
or speciv. It is undoubtedly owing to the con¬ 
tinued wet weather that the Jewel made such 
a strong growth with O. N. G., and which has 
made the crop of late tomatoes in southern 
New Jersey such a heavy one. In visiting 
growers in that section during August, I 
found that purple or pink tomatoes were a 
drug in the market, while scarlet-fruited sorts 
like the Jewel were sold readily to the can¬ 
dors. Regarding the shipping qualities of the 
Jewel, I would state that two years ago we 
supplied seed of this variety to W. F. Allen, 
of Maryland, and that he found it very satis¬ 
factory for shipping to the northern cities, 
having to send them to a much greater dis¬ 
tance than O. N. (1. would, but of course the 
shipments were made earlier in the season. I 
am sure that the comparative lateness of the 
Jewel and the soft character of the fruits 
was due to the excessively wet season : again, 
the Jewel has developed on much heavier soil 
and in a cooler section than Vineland, wdiere 
the commions are those favorable for the 
Earliana, the two types being entirely distinct 
in habit. If O. N. G. wishes to grow the fin¬ 
est and most productive purple or pink-fruited 
sort for a late or main crop, he could not do 
better than to plant the Trucker’s Favorite. 
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