1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
487 
Farmers’ Club Discussion. 
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ner poets underground. There are now 
several automatic machines on the mar¬ 
ket, and contrary to expectations, these 
improved machines cost 25 per cent less 
than my old-time machine. Once you 
have a machine, you can make an un¬ 
limited number of styles of fencing, in¬ 
cluding the best possible support for 
peas and the like. 
Wind Power Cheapest. 
E 11. W., Chicago, III —I note in The 
R. N.-Y. of June 19, the argument favor¬ 
ing the use of gasoline engines for pump¬ 
ing water for farmers’ uses. These men 
will do well to stay on their own side of 
the fence, and advocate the use of their 
engines in the line of work with those of 
steam engines for such work as they 
are likely to be adapted to, and not at¬ 
tempt to compare the utility, cost, econo¬ 
my, safety and durability with that of 
wind power. It is an acknowledged fact 
that wind furnishes the cheapest known 
power in the world. With a good wind¬ 
mill, we harness the winds and make 
them subservient to our wants, at a 
trifling cost, entirely unattended by any 
power-producing fuel or material or 
human attendant, working early and 
late, night and day, while man is rest¬ 
ing, storing power for electrical pur¬ 
poses to be used at will, and pumping 
water into tanks or reservoirs. To verify 
my belief in this invisible and economic 
power, I feel like quoting the remarks 
of an educated Chinaman whom I met 
at the great American Centennial in 
Philadelphia. He said in substance in 
course of conversation : “ American man 
he smartee; he catchee windee and makee 
workee.” 
Currants. 
White Imperial —PromS. D Willard, 
Geneva, N. Y., October 1, 1895 —Bushes 
upright, vigorous. Berries as large, or 
nearly so, as those of the White Grape. 
Color yellowish-white, transparent and 
of the best quality. The berries began 
to ripen in late June, and were fully 
ripe July 4. It is too soon to judge of 
the productiveness of this variety as 
grown at the Rural Grounds. 
Pres. Wilder,— Prom Mr. Willard, 
October, 1895. —The plants are extremely 
vigorous, and though planted the date 
of White Imperial, are laden with fruit, 
the individual berries being as large as 
those of the Cherry or Pay, and much the 
same in quality. The color is slightly 
lighter. Ripens with Fay. As at pres¬ 
ent judged, there is no more desirable 
red currant, size of berry and bunch, 
vigor and habit of bush considered. 
Red Cross. —Prom C. A. Green, Ro¬ 
chester, N. Y., October, 1895. —Ripe July 
2 The berries this year are nearly as 
large as those of Pay. A longer trial 
needed. 
Pomona. —From the Storrs & Harrison 
Company, Painesville, O., March, 1893.— 
While this seems to be as prolific as the 
Red Dutch, the berries average larger ; 
color bright red, ripe July 2. 
North Star — Received April, 1894, 
the record omits to say from whom. 
Berries smaller than those of Red Dutch. 
The variety is in no way superior to 
Red Dutch that we can discover. Ripe 
July 3. 
With our present knowledge of cur¬ 
rants, we should choose for market 
Wilder for red and White Imperial for 
white. For home use, we should choose 
the old Red and White Dutch. 
Any of our readers that have both the 
Columbus and Triumph gooseberries 
would place us under obligations if they 
would state wherein they differ. 
Mr. Jossklyn, of Fredonia, N. Y., 
writes us that, of all the gooseberries he 
has tried, he would choose oaly Rid 
Jacket, Pearl, Downing, Smith’s Im¬ 
proved, and Houghton. Houghton, how¬ 
ever, is too small, and Downing is not 
productive enough in his section of the 
country. Mr. Josselyn finds that it takes 
just about 10 years to get up stock of a 
new gooseberry sufficient to put it on 
the market. 
The Silver-leaved Oleaster (Elgeagnus) 
is a shrub not well known, though it 
ought to be well known because there 
is scarcely another shrub with leaves so 
silvery, both above and below. There 
is another Oleaster—Elmagnus longipes 
—that, besides being a pretty shrub, is 
worth cultivating because of the fruit 
it bears, a fruit worth more, by far, than 
that of the worthless D warf Rocky Moun¬ 
tain cherry. The leaves are of a medium 
green above and of a steel whiteness 
beneath. They are much the shape of 
a pear leaf, though scarcely one-third 
the size. The fruit began to ripen at 
the Rural Grounds July 1. It is the 
size of an elongated cranberry, with a 
date-like seed, and the pulp, though 
astringent, has a peculiarly pleasant 
flavor that it is hard to describe, because 
it is different from that of any other 
fruit. It is somewhat acid and might 
remind one of a cross between the na¬ 
tive persimmon and a currant. They 
are borne singly, of a dull red color, with 
peduncles like those of a cherry, though 
not over three-fourths inch long. The 
skin slips from the soft pulp like that of 
a grape. This is a variable species, and 
some of our plants are sterile. 
Mr. Benjamin Buckman, of Farming- 
dale, Ill., writes us that Elseagnus 
angustifolia (E. hortensis of the cata¬ 
logues) bears with him exquisitely 
scented flowers in late June. “ They are 
small, yellow and not particularly no¬ 
ticeable, but their agreeable fragrance 
is all pervading.” He mentions its sil¬ 
very leaves as making a marked con¬ 
trast with those of the Purple-leaved 
plum, Prunus Pissardii. The several 
species of Elseagnus are offered by lead¬ 
ing nurserymen at from 25 to 50 cents 
each. They are readily propagated from 
seeds. 
Prof. J. L. Budd, of the Iowa State 
College (Ames) has been in the harness 
for 21 years. Does any one know of any 
of the horticultural professors who has 
done or is doing better service in a broad 
experimental line of work ?. 
Rugosa Hybrid Roses —It has been a 
cause of regret and disappointment that 
the best of the Rugosa hybrids produced 
at the Rural Grounds have not yet been 
propagated in sufficient quantity for in¬ 
troduction. Difficulty in propagation has 
been offered as the reason of this long 
delay. We do not know that they will 
ever be introduced, but several of them 
seemed to the writer among the most 
satisfactory very hardy varieties ever 
grown at the Rural Grounds, and in view 
of the years of work put upon them, it 
seems a pity that there is a possibility, 
if not a likelihood, of their not being 
offered for sale in the near future. 
Prof. J. L. Budd, of Ames, Iowa 
(State College), is among those greatly 
interested in Rugosa hybrids. He says 
that it now seems that the crosses of our 
best garden roses with the different 
Asiatic types of Rugosa will give the 
future desirable varieties for the Prairie 
States, where Hybrid Perpetuals and 
other of the best roses of the East and 
South are not a success with ordinary 
care. But such hybrids as Mad. Georges 
Bruant, A. E. Carman and those devel¬ 
oped by J. C. Schmidt of Erfurt, Ger¬ 
many, are a perfect success. Prof. Budd 
says that Mr. Schmidt’s Charles Fred¬ 
erick North and Thusnelda are real 
treasures, as their 40 dark crimson petals 
stand out like those of the best dahlias. 
Prof. Budd also has about 25 hybrids 
of the Russian Rosa rugosa crossed with 
pollen of Gen. Jacq., LaFrance, etc. 
They have from 20 to 150 stamens and 
all have rich colors, especially those 
from Jacq pollen. 
One of the odd products of our Rugosa 
hybrids is a little plant not over 10 
inches high with tiny rugosa leaflets. 
Now, as we remember, the seeds of a lot 
from which this dwarf sprang were sown 
in 1887. The little plant is quite hardy, 
but it has never bloomed—never, indeed, 
formed a bud. 
The Carman Peach.—O n June 14, Mr. 
Stubenrauch of Mexia, Texas, shipped 
us a box—about 18 inches long, 12 in¬ 
ches wide, and 10 inches deep, of the 
Carman peach. The box was received 
and opened June 19. Each was wrapped 
in a piece of newspaper. They were not 
closely packed, so that several peaches 
were bruised ; but not one was decayed. 
The largest of them measured 9% inches 
in circumference the short way, and 10 
inches the long way. Just about half 
of the peach is striped and mottled 
with crimson, the rest being a light 
buff color. Last year, the peaches sent 
to us by Mr. Stubenrauch were more 
conical—3ome of them being pointed. 
This season, the shape seems to be more 
nearly round. If such peaches could be 
sent to this, or any other northern city 
in large quantity so early (we have as 
yet seen nothing to equal them in size 
and quality), we should suppose that 
the producer would be amply compen¬ 
sated. Mr. Stubenrauch writes : 
For the fourth time, I take pleasure in sending 
you samples of your namesake, the new peach 
Carman. We are having much too much rain 
for the quality to be the highest, but they still 
hold their own in being the best of anything in 
the peach line we have. It is a grand sight to 
see these trees laden with this beautiful fruit, 
while all around them trees have little or nothing 
on them. 
That our plant of Yellow Rambler 
rose did not stand the past winter is not 
proof that this splendid variety is not 
hardy at the Rural Grounds. The plant 
was small and set out in the summer— 
we do not recall the date—and no pro¬ 
tection was given. Jackson & Perkins 
of Newark, N. Y., write us as follows : 
From a short paragraph in Tub R. N--Y. of 
June 12, we regret to note that the small plant of 
the Yellow Rambler which we sent you did not 
survive. It was a matter of very much doubt at 
the time we sent it whether it would stand the 
winter, or not, being so small a plant and sent so 
late in the summer. It, therefore, had very little 
chance to get a heavy growth and harden up 
enough to stand the winter wel . It does not 
seem to us that this would show any especial 
want of hardiness in this rose, for we tind that 
we lose a large proportion of even the hardiest 
of hybrid perpetuals when we put out so small 
plants so late in the summer, as this one which 
was sent to you. 
We greatly hope that it may prove hardy, 
for, if the description of it is not over¬ 
drawn, it is not only a gem in itself, but, 
as a companion to the Crimson Rambler, 
it will make one of the most beautiful 
combinations possible for piazzas, arbors 
and the like. Of course, we shall give 
it another trial. In the meantime, we 
shall be glad to hear from those who 
may speak with more authority. 
j- Cinciu 
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