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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 10, 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Strawberries in Fine Condition.— 
Strawberry plants are going to their Win¬ 
ter sleep in far better condition than 
last year. There was plenty of rain— 
almost too much—at the close of the crop¬ 
ping season, that enabled the exhausted 
plants promptly to form new roots and 
throw out runners. The Autumn months 
on the whole were sunny, cool and dry, 
but at no time was the surface moisture 
deficient enough to check growth. Old 
and young plants, wherever they had de¬ 
cent care, have formed strong clusters 
or crowns. The foliage is unusually large 
and glossy, free from all indications of 
disease, and colored by almost nightly 
frosts as brilliantly as the maple forests. 
There is prospect of good bloom next 
Spring if the coming Winter is not un¬ 
duly severe. There has been no frittering 
away of vitality on unseasonable bloom 
and fruiting as last year. 
Fruit Trees Generally in Good 
Shape. —With the exception of an annoy¬ 
ing increase of San Jose scale, fruit trees 
have had a good season and approach the 
coming Winter in favorable condition. 
Owing to full crops, so generally borne, 
there is a scattering set of bloom buds. 
Many trees of regular cropping varieties 
will need a year’s rest before bearing 
heavily again. The same conditions of 
bright, cool and dry Fall weather that 
strengthened the strawberry crowns fa¬ 
vored gradual and thorough ripening of 
tree growth. Proper ripening of fruit 
tree wood is not always indicated by early 
shedding of foliage. We like the leaves 
to hold on well towards freezing weather. 
If the twigs and spurs fill up plump and 
bright they are likely to winter well, even 
if the foliage hangs late. 
Plenty of Kieffer Peaks. —There is a 
full crop of Kieffer pears, generally of 
good size, but of dull coloring. This re¬ 
sult is attributed to the rainy midsummer 
weather. The Autumn gales thinned out 
the fruits to a helpful extent, but the suc¬ 
ceeding fine weather did not bring out the 
expected color. The eating quality is ex¬ 
ceptionally good where properly ripened, 
but the selling price has ruled low, and 
the profits small, where they materialize 
at all. One local grower, a woman, had a 
particularly fine crop of Kieffers in her 
young orchard. The pears were inspected 
in late Summer, and the owner was told 
$2 a barrel would likely be a fair price 
when marketed. Ninety-two barrels were 
picked and shipped, according to instruc¬ 
tions. After a long wait a check for $2.80 
was remitted as payment, it being claimed 
that this trifle, less than three cents a 
barrel, was all that remained of the low 
price received, after freight and selling 
expenses were taken out. This is an ex¬ 
treme case, and does not look like a 
“square deal.” Experienced growers and 
shippers are getting tolerable returns for 
first-class Kieffers, but the market has 
not of late greatly encouraged plantings 
of this variety, notwithstanding its pro¬ 
ductiveness and undeniably good canning 
quality. 
A Beautiful Fruiting Shrub. —Calli- 
carpa purpurea, fruiting twigs of which 
are shown in reduced size in Fig. 408, 
page 874, is a most attractive shrub 
hardy enough to be grown as far North 
as the latitude of Albany in fairly shel¬ 
tered situations. It is sometimes killed 
to the snow line by temperatures far be¬ 
low zero, but usually comes up vigor¬ 
ously, flowering and fruiting well the 
same season. The foliage is neatly ar¬ 
ranged, and the small pink or rosy flow¬ 
ers profusely borne in flat clusters or 
cymes in the axils. They are followed in 
August by dense clusters of violet fruits, 
as shown in the cut. These brightly- 
tinted berries cover almost the entire 
plant, and arc very ornamental, lasting in 
perfect condition until hard freezing in 
November. They are very bright and 
pleasing on the plant and keep well for 
several days when cut. The color is quite 
unique among hardy fruiting plants, and 
always attracts the attention of those who 
see it for the first time. Callicarpa pur¬ 
purea is a native of China, and is the 
hardiest species of the genus. There is 
a larger fruited species, C. Japonica, from 
Japan, but it is seldom offered. C. Amer¬ 
icana is found sparingly from Virginia 
southward to Texas and the West Indies, 
but is too tender for the North without 
glass protection. It has very handsome 
fruits, rather dark violet. There is also 
a white-fruited variety. The Callicarpas 
are easily grown from seeds and cuttings. 
Strong plants of C. purpurea that will 
fruit the first season are offered by a few 
nurseries growing ornamental shrubs at 35 
to 50 cents each. 
The Indian Currant. —Two good na¬ 
tive hardy shrubs bearing highly orna¬ 
mental fruits, and making good compan¬ 
ions to the Callicarpa are the common 
snowberry, Symphoricarpus racemosus, 
and the Indian currant, S. vulgaris. The 
former was quite common in old gardens, 
but is less frequently planted now. It was 
formerly fairly abundant in wild uplands 
over a great extent of eastern North 
America, and is always interesting and 
graceful, with its smooth foliage and 
arching growth. The slender branches 
are usually loaded with snowy white 
fruits in August, often remaining until 
near midwinter. The flowers are light 
rose-color, but not very conspicuous. The 
snowberry occasionally grows six feet and 
more in height. The Indian currant is a 
more southern plant in its native growth, 
being plentiful in rocky woods from* 
Maryland to the Dakotas and south 
to Texas. In the highlands of North 
Carolina and Tennessee it is often found 
in extensive areas near large streams. It 
is more compact and bushy in growth 
than the snowberry, and is very abundant 
and persistent in fruit and foliage. The 
berries are dark red, varying greatly in 
size in the same cluster. It is valuable 
for planting under trees and massing in 
groups, as it will grow in almost any situ- 
tion. All the above shrubs are pleasing 
in Winter, but the Indian currant retains 
its fruits longest. When planted together 
the white fruited snowberry should come 
between the lilac-violet Callicarpa and 
the dusky red Indian currant in order not 
to detract from the beauty of the latter. 
Snowberries and Indian currants sucker 
freely and are readily propagated by 
seeds or cuttings. They are offered by 
most nurseries at 25 to 35 cents each. The 
berries of these species are harmless but 
not edible. w. v. f. 
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAK? 
Thousands ofWomeu Have Kidney 
Trouble and Never Suspect It. 
An interesting letter to our readers 
from Mrs. Gertrude Warner Scott, of 
Vinton, Iowa. 
Vinton. Iowa, July 15th, 1002. 
In the summer of 1893. I was taken vio¬ 
lently ill. My trouble began with pain in my 
stomach, so severe that it seemed as if knives 
were cutting me. I was treated by two of 
the best physicians in the county, and con¬ 
sulted another. None of them suspected Hint 
the cause of my trouble teas kidney disease. 
They all told me that I had cancer of the 
stomach, and would die. I grew so weak that 
I could not walk any more than a child a 
month old. and I only weighed sixty pounds. 
One day m.v brother saw in a paper an ad¬ 
vertisement of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the 
treat kidney. liver and bladder remedy. lie 
bought me a bottle at our drug store and I 
took it. My family could see a change in 
me. for the better, so they obtained more, 
and I continued the use of Swamp-Root reg¬ 
ularly. I was so weak and run down that it 
took considerable to build me up again. I 
am now well, thanks to Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- 
Root. and weigh I ts pounds, and am keeping 
house for m.v husband and brother, on a farm. 
Swamp-Root cured me after the doctors had 
failed to do me a particle of good. 
Gratefully yours, 
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