926 
December 31 , 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Ruralisms 
stable of sufficient capacity to accommo- ! , 
date a dairy of 125 cows. A large in- 
crease is in prospect if the plan works 
well. The primary object is to secure an 
adequate supply of clean sod from the 
land and cow manure from the dairy at 
first hand. This seems a businesslike way 
to overcome an increasing difficulty. 
Those Hardy Oranges. — Sensational 
press reports appear from time to time 
concerning the “hardy” oranges bred by 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
An Excellent Pear. —There are few 
better pears for late Autumn or early 
Winter use than Anjou, formerly known 
as Beurre d'Anjou. It may not possess 
the high and sprightly flavors of Seckel the National Department of Agriculture 
or Nelis, but when thoroughly ripened is by hybridizing the sour and worthless, but 
good all through to its very small core; truly hardy Citrus trifoliata with selected 
juicy, tender and refreshing. In size, fine sweet varieties from Florida. These ex¬ 
appearance and really satisfactory quality, periments have been carried on for sev- 
Anjou is quite the ideal of a Thanksgiv- eral years, and many interesting crosses 
ing dessert pear. Fig. 431, page 923, shows have fruited. Nearly all are too sour or 
a fair specimen, just at the best eating bitter to be edible, but are thought to 
stage, as grown by Ellwanger & Barry, possess prospective value for culinary use, 
Rochester, N. Y. This widely-known such as for lemonade and marmalade 
nursery not only offers trees of this and making. It is asserted, however, that a 
many other varieties of exquisite quality, .few fruits of really good quality ripened 
too seldom planted, but grows the fruits this season, and there is hope that very 
extensively, supplying the greatest hotels tolerable oranges may be grown far north 
and most * exclusive customers in large of the present Citrus fruit limit. The 
eastern cities, not forgetting annual con- boldest 'prediction yet made by those in 
tributions to the horticultural editors of position to know is that varieties already 
the country. Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry secured are likely to succeed as far north 
are doing a very real service to commer- as the Potomac River. Making all al- 
cial pomology by reminding the public of lowances for the sanguine expectations 
the delicious quality of the best pears common to originators, it is reasonable to 
through their frequent fine displays at ex- look for a very considerable extension 
hibitions. Consumers will not always be of orange culture as a result of public 
satisfied with Kieffers and Pacific Coast and private breeding experiments. Cen- 
Bartletts. The variety Anjou has become turies of selection alone have developed 
well known among dealers in high qual- various tropical species of orange to the 
ity fruits, but the name is still too often magnificent fruits now cultivated. The 
tagged to boxes of Duchess and other hardy kind appears to have been totally 
large yellow pears of lower grade. The neglected as a fruit-producing possibility 
Anjou pear is of French origin and has until its quite recent introduction to this 
been long cultivated in this country. The country. While the practical orange for 
tree is vigorous, healthy and productive, temperate climates may be long in coming 
but standards are not likely to bear freely there is every reason to feel that sub- 
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The Poor Man's Orchid.— The new 
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Animal Manure Best for Florists. — ings of their countless blooms, and so eas- 
The R.-N.-Y. has published references to ily and cheaply grown, that the above 
the experience of Jackson & Perkins, popular name is fairly justified. S. pin- 
Newark, N. Y., nurserymen and rose natus, often called Butterfly flower, from 
growers, who are feeding young beeves the graceful poise of the small but gaily 
mainly for the manure, but with the hope tinted blossoms, has long been cultivated 
of offsetting the expense for care and as a garden annual. It is a neat and pleas- 
food by the prospective gain in market ing plant with finely-cut foliage and semi¬ 
value of the animals when properly fat- climbing habit, growing two feet or more 
tened. Florists and nurserymen usually high. There are many horticultural va- 
have difficulty in securing yard manures rieties, running through all shades of vio- 
in sufficient quantity and of the right let purple and lilac with yellow blotches 
quality for making up their composts, and markings. A grand mixture is now 
Large establishments are put to heavy ex- offered as “Hybridus Grandiflorus,” pro- 
pense in getting their supplies from dis- ducing compact, bushy plants, almost 
taut places. Commercial fertilizers, with smothered with their curious and lovely 
the exception of the higher grades of blooms. Seeds should be sown early and 
ground bone, are not regarded with much the plants set about 18 inches apart in 
favor. Many trials of chemicals, singly rich light soil. They succeed well in pots 
and in combination, have ended in disas- or boxes, and are very fine for conserva- 
t pr - Cow manure is almost universally tory and veranda decoration A promis- 
preferred fur glass . Bouse use, though ing novelty is soon to be offered under 
nurserymen largely use litter from horse the name of Schizanthus Wisetonensis. 
stables for mulching and field dressings. The plants grow scarcely 16 inches high, 
The preferred compost for greenhouse use and for many weeks are covered with 
is made of old cow manure and rotted panicles of white and rose flowers 
sods, with the addition of a trifle of lime blotched with yellow, carmine and occa- 
and bone flour. Cow and sheep manures sionally bright chestnut brown. Seeds of 
are also much used inside for liquid ap- the large flowered hybrids cost 20 cents 
plications and top dressings for rapidly a packet last year, but will soon be much 
growing plants. The standard of modern cheaper. S. Wisetonensis is still scarce," 
cut flow r ers especially is so high, and the and a comparatively high price will be 
culture of the plants producing these won- asked for the seeds the coming season, 
derful blooms so exacting, that no hut it will not be long until they will he 
chances can be taken in supplying them hi reach of the most economical amateur, 
with every atom of fertility that can be _ w. v. f. 
assimilated without surfeit. The need of c . T . . - 
. Seedless Apple.— In regard to the seedless 
having the best possible manures always apple discussison, 1 have my doubts whether 
at hand is so widely felt that a dairy or there will be any great boom in it, for I have 
cattle annex to large greenhouse estab- k S, own of , s ^ ecll © ss apples ever since I was 
. b b old enough to distinguish between one with 
lishments is likely to become an ordinary seeds or one without seeds. At present my 
iW.irp jn tV.P A NT father has a grafted tree of a seedless variety, 
teature in the near tuture. A. N. 1 ter- .4 nicely shaped apple of fairly good quality 
son, Cromwell, Conn., has an extensive . a light yellow skin ripens in September. 
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range of glass, covering over half a mil- _ ,, 
x , , Coal Tar on Metal Roof.—I used steel 
lion square feet 01 surface, and employs roofing seven years ago on part of my 
200 men Here the choicest- nlnnts nnd Bouse, put on coal tar, and have not done 
en. xrere tne cnotcest plants ana anything to it since, and it is solid as a rock : 
flowers known to the trade are grown, no rust - 1 P ut tin roof on liogpeu, painted 
, , , , it with lead and oil; in one year it began to 
and the amount of compost used each sea- rust and I put on tar. To-da.v it is perfect 
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