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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 24, 
Pluralisms 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Naturalized Oriental Plants. —The 
climate of Japan and eastern China is 
quite similar in many respects to that of 
the Atlantic States, lying in the same par¬ 
allels of latitude, and a considerable num¬ 
ber of economic and ornamental plants 
introduced from these temperate portions 
of the Orient thrive here as well as or 
better than in their native homes. Some 
are very desirable when intentionally 
grown, and also tend, as they are more 
widely disseminated, to escape from culti¬ 
vation and become naturalized in con¬ 
genial localities. Several prominent or¬ 
namentals, occasionally found colonized in 
this manner, are noted below. 
The Chinese Honeysuckle. — This 
familiar and very fragrant climbing shrub 
is fairly well naturalized, where commonly 
grown, from New York to the Carolinas. 
It does not fruit with much freedom until 
quite old and large. It is nearly evergreen 
in the greater part of its range, the glossy 
dark green foliage holding until mid¬ 
winter, or, in sheltered places, until 
Spring. The scattering black berries are 
thus preserved until Winter birds dis¬ 
tribute the seed along waste ridges, or at 
the edge of thickets, where the best con¬ 
ditions for germination and growth are 
likely to occur. Once established the 
Chinese honeysuckle is extremely persist¬ 
ent, trailing over moist soil, rooting at 
every joint and twining long canes about 
every available support. The fragrant 
white and yellow, trumpet-like blooms are 
ever a delight, and are produced in the 
greatest profusion on the young growth 
from July until early December. The va¬ 
riety Lonicera Japonica Halleana is most 
free in bloom, and is the form usually 
sold by nurserymen. Except for its con¬ 
stant production of flowers it scarcely dif¬ 
fers from the typical species. It is usually 
catalogued as Hall’s Japan honeysuckle, 
and is offered a.t from 20 to 35 cents each. 
As a porch or wall plant this honeysuckle 
needs no recommendation. It is found in 
every village, and about many farm 
homes. It may often be used to cover 
unsightly objects, steep slopes, grades and 
cuttings, if the soil is fairly good. It does 
not thrive in poor or arid situations, but 
delights in rich and mellow nooks. When 
naturalized it often prevents washing by 
floods and rains, and tends to enrich and 
protect the soil by its shade and close 
covering. Although very tenacious when 
fairly established it may effectually be 
controlled by grubbing or plowing, fol¬ 
lowed by clean cultivation for a season or 
two. If allowed to creep over the ground 
at the edges of grass plots it forms a beau¬ 
tiful cover, enduring kindly frequent clip¬ 
pings by the lawn mower. In time the Chin¬ 
ese honeysuckle may become a noticeable 
and agreeable feature in many wild land¬ 
scapes. On revisiting a small colony in 
northern Virginia, after a space of eight 
years, we found it enormously extended, 
covering the banks of a rocky roadside 
for many rods, and clothing the slopes of a 
nearby ravine with billows of fragrant 
beauty. 
The Blackberry Lily. —This is not a 
“lily” at all, but an attractive and unique 
member of the great Iris family, long 
known to our gardens. It is native to 
China and Japan, but was early natural¬ 
ized in portions of the Southern and East¬ 
ern States. It is often found in the vi¬ 
cinity of nurseries growing herbaceous 
plants, and occasionally in fields near old 
gardens. It will grow in almost any dry 
soil. We have found it most common in 
the meadows of central Tennessee, thoir h 
it may also be frequently seen in waste 
lands in other Southern States, as it is 
one of the few plants with a fleshy root- 
stock not liked by the ever-present “razor- 
back” hog. It is a handsome and very 
hardy plant with bold flag-like foliage of 
distinct aspect and bears many bright, 
orange-red spotted blooms, followed by 
clusters of shining black seeds, closely 
resembling the drupes of a dead-ripe black¬ 
berry in their arrangement, whence the 
popular name of the plant, which is also 
called Leopard lily, on account of the mot¬ 
tled blossoms. These seed clusters are 
very persistent, lasting for years as a dec¬ 
oration if cut and dried after the man¬ 
ner of bouquet grasses and immortelles. 
It is always desirable for a border where 
striking plants are grown. Nurserymen 
usually propagate this plant by division, 
but it is readily grown from the seeds, 
which, however, are very slow in germi¬ 
nation. It probably spreads in nature by 
seeds carried by water or blown about by 
winds. It is claimed birds sometimes 
mistake the ripe seed clusters for black¬ 
berries, but they are firm enough to hold 
up even a Jersey robin. The botanical 
name of the Blackberry lily is now de¬ 
termined as Belamcanda Chinensis. It is 
nearly always catalogued as Pardanthus 
Chinensis, but the former name is sup¬ 
posed to have priority. 
Elaeagnus Longipes. —We have found 
a number of seedlings of this beautiful 
fruiting shrub along fences and near 
thickets, many rods from any possible par¬ 
ent plant. The robin, catbird and brown 
thrush show a growing fondness for the 
bright cherry-like fruits, which ripen after 
strawberries are gone, and scatter the 
seeds about hedgerows. This Elaeagnus or 
olive-cherry often is of weak growth from 
seeds, as its vigor appears to depend to 
some extent on the presence of tubercles 
on the roots in the manner of cow peas 
and clover, but it is apparent some seeds 
get into favorable places, and as it ap¬ 
pears to be an extremely hardy, long- 
lived and fruitful shrub, it may extend 
considerably in the future, by natural 
means, as it is increasingly planted as an 
ornamental. Other species, such as E. 
parvifolia and E. umbellata, ripen fruits 
of very similar appearances, but dry and 
insipid, in the Fall. We have never no¬ 
ticed birds feeding on these fruits, but 
domestic hens are very fond of them. 
The Fulvous Day Lily. —Hemero- 
callis fulva, the tawny orange “Day 
lily” of dooryards and old gardens, has 
become extensively naturalized in the 
Eastern States, and may almost be seen 
by the acre in certain localities in moist 
waste lands and pastures that are seldom 
mown. It is an imposing plant, well- 
known to most country dwellers. It rare¬ 
ly seeds in this country, and probably 
spreads from its tenacious rhizomes be¬ 
ing thrown about as rubbish. The fra¬ 
grant and lovely “Lemon lily,” H. flava, 
and other bright yellow species are now 
much more frequently grown as decora¬ 
tive garden plants. Some of them seed 
freely, but we never appear to find them 
out of cultivation. H. aurantiaca major 
is a newly introduced variety with im¬ 
mense bright orange flowers. It is the 
handsomest of all, but not particularly 
hardy. Many new hybrids between the 
yellow species have been produced, some 
of which are very fine. The genus Hem- 
erocallis is not confined to Asia, but ex¬ 
tends naturally into eastern Europe. 
The Wineberry. — Antoine Wintzer, 
West Grove, Pa., who has propagated the 
wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius, from 
China and Japan since its first introduc¬ 
tion to commerce, informs the writer he 
has noted its appearance as a wild plant 
in the hedgerows near his home. This 
dainty fruit is a particular favorite of the 
catbirds on the Rural Grounds, who sel¬ 
dom fail to extract the ripening berry be¬ 
fore it is ready for use from the bur 
formed by the opening calyx lobes. It 
is only a matter of time when this inter¬ 
esting fruit may become widely natural¬ 
ized. 
Rugosa Rose and Thunberg’s Bar¬ 
berry. —Seedlings of both these valuable 
hardy shrubs have been found where they 
could only have been established by nat¬ 
ural means. Birds do not often trouble 
the brilliant fruits of the barberry nor 
the showy apples of the rose. Yet they 
are carried about by various means, and 
wild seedlings will doubtless appear with 
increasing frequency. Berberis Thun- 
bergii is being largely grown for hedge 
planting, and fruiting varieties of Rosa 
rugosa will always be wanted for orna¬ 
ment. Seedlings are slow to establish 
themselves, but A’ery persistent when they 
have gained a foothold. 
Clematis Paniculata. —This magnifi¬ 
cent Autumn-blooming Oriental climber 
ripens seeds in immense quantities. The 
akenes, as botanists name the bony fruits, 
each enclosing a seed, are provided with 
long plumes capable of sustaining their 
weight for a moderate distance in a strong 
wind. We have found seedlings growing 
some rods from the parent plants, 'and the 
species may be expected slowly to spread 
along hedgerows and in sheltered places 
when fairly established. The seeds usual¬ 
ly require two years’ time for germination, 
and seem feeble at first sprouting, but grow 
vigorously when fairly established. Young 
plants often kill back in severe Winters, 
but greatly gain in hardiness with age. 
This is an excellent climber for walls and 
porches and is yearly gaining in popularity 
for village decoration, though it is not 
seen as frequently as its merits deserve 
about farmhouses. The countless panicles 
of creamy-white, sweet-scented blooms, 
covering the plants in late September, are 
scarcely equalled in beauty by any flower¬ 
ing plant of the season. w. v. F. 
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CONSUMPTION 
HOW TO FIND OUT. 
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a sediment or settling indicates an un¬ 
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that the kidneys and bladder are out of 
order. 
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