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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 
NEW YORK HORSE SHOW. 
The annual exhibition at Madison Square 
Garden was held during the week ending No¬ 
vember 19. The attendance was something 
over 75,000, and the premiums given amount¬ 
ed to $35,000. The heaviest winner was E. 
I). Jordan, of Boston, who got. 27 firsts, three 
seconds and three thirds, amounting to $5,300. 
As an exhibit of horse flesh tlie show was 
fully up to its usual high mark. Fine spec¬ 
imens of nearly all classes'were shown, the 
least attention being paid to very heavy 
drafters. Hackneys, trotters and light road¬ 
sters are favorites with the visitors at this 
show. We know of no place where those in¬ 
terested in horses can spend two or three 
days to better advantage than at: this yearly 
meet, where the finest animals of all classes 
may be seen in stable and show ring. 
A CONSUMER ON PALMER GREEN¬ 
ING APPLE. 
On page 813 It. 1’. L. asks some questions 
about Greening apples, which are answered 
on the same page by Messrs. Waugh, Gulley, 
Hoyt and Adams, also by Mr. Mead on page 
815. These writers have written as grow¬ 
ers. Now, I want to be heard from as a 
consumer about one of these apples, the 
I’almer Greening. My capacity is from 
four to six per day, and my three children 
discount me. The quality of all apples is 
measured at our house by the Palmer. I 
test every new variety that I can get hold 
of (sort of an apple crank, you know), also 
grow a number of varieties in an amateur 
way, do my own grafting, etc. Is it not 
about time for the grower to raise the 
standard of quality? Give us more Palmer 
Greenings, McIntosh Ited, etc., and less of 
the Bon Davis family. if they will there 
will not be any call for them to say, as I 
heard a grower say the other day, that his 
apples that went across the water only paid 
him net 45 cents per barrel. 
As to the Palmer Greening, Mr. Iloyt 
says it is a poor grower, but it is fine for 
an amateur. Why not for any grower who 
wants to raise high-grade fruit? Mr. Iloyt 
is a nurseryman. Why does he not top- 
work it on Baldwin, Sutton Beauty. Spy or 
some other vigorous variety? It does well 
on any of them. On Baldwin it has a rosy 
blush that adds to its looks. Mr. Mead says 
it is a “higli-class eating apple." lie is 
right. It is one of the best. You can judge 
of the quality by the following: I asked 
one grower what Palmer was worth ; $2.50 
per barrel, buyer furnish barrel. The lowest 
price I found was $2 , buyer furnish barrel. 
I also paid $1.50 for Palmer windfalls and 
furnished barrel. 1 bought No. 1 Baldwins 
from the same man for $1 and furnished 
barrel. Some difference in price! 
Ayer, Mass. f. i*. ». 
Pears and Plums for Maine. 
If. C. P., Bangor, Me .—I wish to set out 
loo pear and plum trees; my ground is a 
rocky loam, moist, but slopes enough to 
drain well. I should like to know whether 
Beurre d'Anjou, Buerre Bose, and Sheldon 
are hardy enough to stand our climate; if 
not what three or four varieties would you 
name? Should they ne standard or dwarf? 
V.'ltat three varieties of plums would you 
advise on thesame ground? 
Ans.— The varieties named ail do well 
in the region of Bangor, though Anjou 
is the least successful of the three. Law¬ 
rence and Diel are also popular. * Stand¬ 
ard pears are usually preferred, as the 
quince roots of the dwarfs are not always 
reliable. The dwarfs come into bearing 
much earlier, and a few for home use 
are advisable. Burbank is the most large¬ 
ly planted of any of the plums in this re¬ 
gion at present. It is hardy, very pro¬ 
ductive and of fairly good quality. Im¬ 
perial Gage and Reine Claude (Bavay), 
the latter to be top-worked on Lombard 
on other hardy stock are also valuable. 
Moore’s Arctic is one of the most profit¬ 
able commercial sorts, though not very 
good quality. For home use, by all means 
put in a few trees of McLaughlin. 
Me. Exp. Station, w. m. munson. 
“ Blind ” Cabbage. 
C. A. 8., Bellows Falls. Vt .—What causes 
“blind plants" in the cabbage bed, and if such 
plants are unavoidable, bow can they be 
singled out when setting in the field? We 
put out. hundreds for late market, and now 
this Fall at least 50 per cent fail to head; 
great tops, but no heads. 
Ans. —Blind heads in cabbage are usual¬ 
ly attributed to two causes; first (which 
is probably the case with inquirer's cab¬ 
bage), cabbage of the Flat Dutch type, if 
sown late, is quite likely to produce blind 
heads, especially in the North. Second, 
seed that has been carelessly grown from 
inferior or imperfect plants will produce 
the same results. Cabbage originally grew 
a loose head, and only by careful selection 
under the most favorable conditions have 
we been enabled to produce hard heads. 
Cabbage of the conical type seems to be 
so well fixed that they seldom produce 
blind heads, even though they have been 
sown late. There is no way to select the 
blind plants at the time of setting, j. j. 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Removal of Landmaik. 
Is there a penalty for removing land¬ 
marks? Two night in succession a neigh¬ 
bor lias pulled up stakes that I had put 
for a mason to build a wall by. The stakes 
were two inches on my side of the line, as 
the neighbor found on getting a surveyor 
and as I knew by my deed. Said neighbor 
admitted doing it to hinder the work. I find 
much valuable information in your paper. 
Suffolk Co., N. Y. r. 
The facts stated by you seem to fall 
within the scope of Section 639, Sub-di- 
vision 5, of the Penal Code, which pro¬ 
vides for punishment “By imprisonment 
for not more than two years.” 
On page 813 is interesting information in 
regard to the Rhode Island Greening. The 
Greening is not considered a success in Kan¬ 
sas, and is but rarely planted, but there are 
in this county two seedlings which have been 
named Greenings and have been doing well, 
1 believe .Tones's Greening and Ashwell's 
Greening they are called. It. said that 
50 carloads of apples wfll be shipped from 
there this season. e. p. f. 
Sterling, Kan. 
Another Seedless Apple. —I was inter¬ 
ested in reading the article on page 827 on 
Seedless apples, as on this place, known as 
Colony III of the Worcester Insane Asylum 
(a State institution), there is an old tree 
bearing a seedless apple. A former owner 
of the place claims that the sport was due to 
the accidental inversion of the scion at time 
of grafting, out 1 cannot vouch for the fact. 
The blossoms are petalless; the fruit seed¬ 
less; the carpels as large as in an ordinary 
apple; fruit irregular in shape and of golden 
russet color. The flavor is not unpleasant, 
but as it grows now the apple is of no value 
except as a freak. In the hands of an expert 
grower something might be made of it. 
CIIAS F. STETSON. 
Storing Cabbage. —My way of packing 
cabbage which 1 began about 20 years ago, 
has been used with good success ever since, 
except one year. That was a very warm 
Winter and by March every head was soft¬ 
ened and bad to be taken out. The stable is 
about 10 feet square and the north and 
east sides I pack with leaves so that its thin 
board siding does not let in so much cold. I 
set sugar barrels-—or as large barrels as I can 
get—on a framework a foot or so from the 
floor (to give more scratching space) and 
back of these barrels are the leaves well 
wadded together, as well as under and be¬ 
tween them, putting t» inches of maple leaves, 
dry as possible, in the barrel. I take each 
head and cutting off the stem pretty close to 
the outside leaves, turn it down into the bar¬ 
rel, folding its leaves around and beneath 
it. I can get about five heads in a layer. I 
then pack maple leaves very closely between 
and around them leaving no interstices. I 
put in layers of cabbage heads and pack 
leaves around and between them to six inches 
from the top. Then pile dry leaves on top. 
The cabbage keep until April and we use 
them as we want them all Winter. So do 
the bens. a. j. b. 
Somers, N. Y. 
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