1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5o3 
Farmers’ Club Discussion. 
(continued.) 
acres last year. I plowed the ground in 
December, in January and February 
harrowed several times to get the soil 
fine, and the last of February planted 
corn. Now, the last of June, the corn is 
ripe, and the Beggar weed 10 to 20 inches 
high. In a few days, I shall pick the 
ears of corn, then cut all the stalks off 
close to the ground and let them lie and 
rot. In about three weeks, the Beggar 
weed will be three to four feet high, 
and begin to blossom. Then is the time 
to cut it, as in a very short time it will 
be full of seeds, and the stems get hard 
and woody very quickly, spoiling it for 
feed, and the leaves will drop. If cut at 
the right time, it makes the very best of 
feed for horse and mule, but it will not 
do to let it get wet in curing, for the 
leaves will all drop and the best part is 
lost. After cutting, a second crop grows 
and produces plenty of seed for the next 
year. It takes the rough seed a long 
time to sprout, for the hull or husk 
must rot first; but the cleaned seed we 
buy comes up readily. I don’t want 
the corn fodder, so leave it for the good 
of the land. Acid phosphate and potash 
are all the fertilizer needed for the corn. 
Crimson Clover Ideas. 
W. V., N utlky, N. J.—Last season, I 
turned under a piece of sod and sowed 
it to Crimson clover August 6. This sea¬ 
son, I purpose to do the same, and shall 
try a little rye on part of it, mixed with 
the clover. This year, I planted my corn 
on sod plowed in April; I put it in drills 
north and south, six feet apart, as my 
soil grows such heavy corn that, if 
clover be sown in July, it can’t get a 
show, and I concluded that what I lose in 
corn I will gain in clover. But plowing 
it in is a job. I have not tried the 
rolling coulter. 
Deep or Shallow Berry Boxes. 
W. W. II., Leamington, Ont —With 
many years of experience, I am con¬ 
vinced that the shallow box is best. 
There is less weight of fruit to crush 
that in the bottom of the basket. I also 
think that the crates should not have 
too much ventilation. I find that those 
kept with slight ventilation always come 
out better than those packed in very 
open crates. The open crate will not 
keep the fruit as clean, and admits of too 
rapid a change of temperature. While 
the crates are packed in a car, there is 
but little difference whether they are 
open or quite close, as but little air can 
get at them. When an open crate is re¬ 
moved from the car in which it has been 
shipped, the fruit it contains is exposed 
to such rapid changes, that much of it 
is often injured from this cause. 
Again we would beg for iuformation 
regarding the Bismarck apple from those 
who have fruited it in this country. We 
have received a circular which says that, 
“ on a transplanted two-year old stand¬ 
ard tree were counted 26 handsome ap¬ 
ples.” The usually guarded Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, of London, said last fall that 
18% rods were covered with Bismarck 
trees, two years old, on Doucin stock. 
They were planted in nursery rows about 
three feet apart, the plants about a foot 
apart. Many of them had 11, a few 12 
large fruits upon them. The fruit is 
said to be of large size, specimens hav¬ 
ing been grown weighing nearly two 
pounds each. The color is described as 
of a deep orange yellow shading to red. 
The flesh is yellow, tender, juicy and of 
good quality. The claim is made that 
it keeps all winter. 
Red Riding-hood sweet pea is a nov¬ 
elty of the present year, illustrated on 
page 133 of The R. N.-Y. The vines 
grow to the height of three feet and 
over and they bloom among the earliest 
of the sweet peas. It is well named Red 
Riding-hood, because the standard, 
which is of a very light pink color, so 
covers the wings, which are of a darker 
pink, as to form a hood. The flowers are 
rather small and, divested of the Red 
Riding-hood idea, look pressed just as 
if they had been taken out of a box. 
This variety forms seed in great abund¬ 
ance, the pods often being three inches 
in length and containing nine or ten 
seeds. The claim is made that this 
variety of sweet pea surpasses all others 
in fragrance, but we do not find that 
this claim is well grounded. 
Another victim of Dendrolene at the 
Rural Grounds is a beautiful specimen 
of the Grand Isle pear. The tree was 
received from the originator, Mr. S. M. 
Macomber, of Grand Isle, Vt., during 
May of 1885. It was, early the past 
spring, of a symmetrical pyramidal form 
20 feet high. The effects of the Dendro¬ 
lene, applied during the spring of 1896, 
were not then noticeable, except for a 
dead leaf here and there, and a feeble 
new growth. Now, the leaves are for 
the most part dead. 
Of the set of Japan plums planted 
during October of 1894, and alluded to 
a few weeksago, Ogon is now so heavily 
laden that it has been necessary to stake 
the tree and support most of the 
branches. The variety is reported as 
having been unharmed by a temperature 
of 26 degrees below zero at Cedar Rapids, 
la. The Willard is among the first to 
ripen—mid-July in central New York. 
Next, it is said, comes the Ogon, ripen¬ 
ing about the first of August. It is des¬ 
cribed as being about two inches in 
diameter, nearly round, somewhat flat¬ 
tened like a tomato, bright yellow in 
color, with some bloom. The flesh is 
meaty and firm, but not juicy. 
During April of 1895, we received two 
blueberry plants from J. II. Hale, of 
South Glastonbury, Conn. One of them 
died. July 4, 1897, the surviving bush was 
18 inches high, in good health, bearing 
two ripe berries 5-16 inch in diameter, 
with blue bloom. We do not know that 
any persistent attempt has been made 
to improve the blueberry through rais¬ 
ing seedlings and selecting the best 
varieties. 
Our choice of grapes which have been 
tried at the Rural Grounds would be, 
at present, Campbell’s Early, Worden, 
Wilder, Moore’s Diamond, Lady, Data¬ 
ware, Colerain, Green Mountain and 
Eaton. 
The Keepsake gooseberry bears the 
largest fruit of any variety that has 
been tried at the Rural Grounds. Though 
of European parentage, it is, thus far, 
free of mildew both as to berry and 
leaves . 
The Logan Raspberry-blackberry will 
not bear fruit this season owing to the 
injury which the canes sustained during 
the past winter. Burbank’s Mayberry 
has been similarly injured and will bear 
no fruit. 
The price of lawn mowers is now so 
low that no one caring for a sightly 
lawn need be without one. For ordin¬ 
ary lawns of small size—an eighth of an 
acre to one acre—a 14-inch mower is 
wide enough, and may be used by young 
boys and girls without over-fatiguing 
them. The price is about $4.50 each for 
lightest weights. 
Henry A. Drekr, of Philadelphia, 
who, in his extensive grounds, has tried 
nearly all the varieties of strawberries 
offered of late years, selects as the best, 
Marshall, Haverland, Enhance, Green¬ 
ville, Brandywine and Timbrell. 
Rosa Multiflora Nana.— There was 
quite a stir in the rose world when it 
was announced that a new strain of roses 
had been secured which could be brought 
into bloom within a few weeks from 
sowing the seed. On April 15, 1896, 
seeds of this new candidate for favor, 
Rosa multiflora nana, were sown in flat 
boxes with pure leaf mold as the soil 
medium. They began to germinate in 
about 10 days, coming up very unevenly, 
through a period of about three weeks. 
Among all the plants raised fi om seed, 
these have been the most interesting 
and amusing. The first, because they 
were always largely in advance of what 
was promised for them. The second, 
because, from the appearance of the 
first leaf, they were such exact liliputian 
copies of their larger sisters in the rose 
family. 
On June 7, 52 days from sowing, three 
of them gave us a surprise party by 
showing developing buds, the first 
of which opened on June 21. At this 
time, the largest of the bushes was 
about four inches high, and consisted of 
a single upright shoot, with one bloom 
at the tip. As soon as this first blossom 
was cut, they began to branch. All this 
time they were still in the seed flat. June 
26, they were carefully transferred to 
the open ground. During the extreme 
heat of this month, they grew on apace 
without wilting a leaf, or showing any 
of the objection to being moved which 
ordinary roses display. Later in the 
season, some of the plants showed as 
many as 25 buds and flowers each, at one 
time. 
The tiny bushes passed the winter in 
the open ground with no protection 
whatever. Adverse circumstances com¬ 
pelled us to move them twice about the 
last of March of this year, but they have 
grown on in the same happy-go-lucky 
fashion. The largest bushes are about 
15 inches high and of equal breadth, 
the blossoms running from 1% to 1 % 
inch in breadth, and ranging from white 
through the various shades of pink. 
Some are single, others semi-double. 
The clusters are targe and flat, like 
many of the polyanthas, and the beds 
are a sheet of bloom most of the time. 
As compared with any perfectly formed 
rose, the blossoms have little beauty ; 
but for forming close masses of bloom, 
or for loose arrangement in vases, they 
are all that could be desired. 
The cultivation which these plants have 
received has been of the best, in that the 
soil has been kept loose and perfectly 
clean. But the soil itself is poor, and 
the only fertilizer used has been an oc¬ 
casional teaspoonful of commercial po¬ 
tato manure to each bush. The bushes 
came through the winter absolutely un¬ 
harmed, and were in bloom about as 
soon as they began to grow. In their 
proper place, and when not too much is 
expected of them as to their individual 
beauty, we have nothing equal to these 
roses for early bedding and continuous 
masses of bloom. 
Minnewaski Is Correct.—You are right about 
Minnewaski. As editor of Orchard and OardeD, 
years ago, I gave It in that paper repeatedly as 
Mlnnewaska, and liked this euphonious name. 
The late Mr. A. J. Cay wood wrote me, protesting 
In his vigorous way that the name he gave to 
this new fruit was Minnewaski, and I confess I 
did not like it because it sounded so much like 
whisky. t. oreinek. 
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