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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 7 
Seedling Strawberries. 
Tuat it is a difficult thing to produce 
seedling strawberries that will be pre¬ 
ferred to the best of the varieties now 
generally grown, is shown by the fact 
that, among the scores that are sent out 
every season, it is rarely that a new 
variety comes to stay. It is many years 
ago that the writer, in a small way, 
began to raise strawberries from seed. 
The largest and shapeliest berries were 
always selected, and those of the best 
quality. The berries were then crushed 
in water, and the seeds separated and 
dried. Sometimes, when we had but a 
few selected berries, they were crushed 
between blotting pads and the seeds 
thus easily separated. Many prefer 
sowing the seeds in flats or pots of rich 
soil, but we prefer preparing beds in 
protected parts of the garden, and sow¬ 
ing the seeds in drills. This is done so 
soon as the berries are ripe, and the 
plot is afterwards shaded and watered 
as needed. The seed germinates in 
about three weeks, as we remember. 
The plants make so considerable a 
growth that, with suitable protection 
after the soil freezes, they will winter 
in perfect safety. The strongest of the 
plants are then removed the next spring 
to the permanent beds, and cared for in 
the ordinary way. They will fruit the 
next year, and those deemed worthy of 
a longer existence, may be propagated 
from. 
Up to the introduction of the Timbrell 
and Brandywine, our efforts to originate 
a new berry worthy of introduction did 
not amount to much. We have now 
about 10 kinds grown from their seed, 
which were selected as the best of about 
100 seedlings. The runners were trans¬ 
planted by the Richards transplanter, 
about the middle of last August. The 
leaves wilted for a day or so, when the 
plants fully recovered and grew as vigor¬ 
ously as if they had not been disturbed 
—as vigorously as spring plants set the 
year before, and far more vigorously 
than pot-plants received from nursery¬ 
men at about the same time our seed¬ 
lings were transplanted with the Rich¬ 
ards device. We think that pot-plants 
are, for the most part, unsatisfactory. 
The plants are too liable to become pot- 
bound, or too dry, so that the soil falls 
from the roots. In either case they re¬ 
ceive a check from which, in our experi¬ 
ence, they never fully recover. Such 
plants yield more or less fruit the next 
season, but not enough to pay for the 
additional trouble and expense involved. 
Of the 10 Brandywine-Timbrell seed¬ 
lings, three varieties seem to be well 
worthy of further trial. We need par¬ 
ticularize at this time but one, the No. 
7, illustrated on page 51(5. We may not 
fairly judge of the vines or fruit except 
by comparison with other varieties on 
trial, as the season was, in ail ways, 
exceptionally favorable to vigorous 
vines, large berries, though not so favor¬ 
able to firmness and quality of berry. 
The No. 7 began ripening large, well- 
formed berries June 8, well held up on 
strong stems, and continued in bearing 
until the very end of the season of our 
latest sorts. 
June 11, we noted as follows : “ No. 
7. Vines of extra vigor and productive¬ 
ness. Flower perfect. Berry large to 
largest; shape varies from heart-shaped 
to broadly heart-shaped, sometimes with 
a white tip. Extra fine quality for so 
large a berry ; color medium-red, inelin- 
To 
Jan. I 
Next 
for 
25 cts. 
You must have just one neigh¬ 
bor or friend who wants 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
Then just call his attention to this 
suggestion : We will send him the 
paper for the rest of this year for 
25 cents. 
iDg to scarlet, red flebh Jane 21. Sea¬ 
son from medium to late. As judged by 
this season, it seems to us the most pro¬ 
lific of the kinds under trial. Vines still 
vigorous and perfectly healthy.” 
But it is not safe to j adga a seedling 
strawberry—we should say a new straw¬ 
berry, for a plant is not a seedling after 
it has been propagated—from its first 
season of fruitage. We want to know 
if it is long-lived, hardy ; if it will en¬ 
dure drought as well as plenty of rain, 
and if the vines will continue vigorous... 
Tue Richards transplanter we cannot 
praise too highly for amateurs, if not 
for professionals, if they have soil free 
of stones. For stony soils, it is worth¬ 
less. Our own experience is, as may be 
j udged by what we have already said, 
that wholesome runners, transplanted 
in mid-August by this contrivance, will 
yield the next season as full crops as 
ordinary plants, set out in the spring, 
will yield the second year. The Richards 
transplanter amounts to two tomato 
cans with the heads and bottoms care¬ 
fully removed, having iron handles and 
upright wires to make the work less 
fatiguing. The principle is this : Press 
one of these bottomless and headless 
tomato cans into the soil just about the 
rooted runner. Another can is to be 
pressed into the soil where the plant is 
to be set. Remove this can with its 
contents of soil. Then remove the can 
about the runner and press the plant 
and the soil into the hole made by the 
removal of the second can. The fit is 
perfect and, as we have said, the trans¬ 
planted strawberry scarcely knows that 
it has changed its home. The handles 
and upright wires of the Richards de¬ 
vice make the work simple and easy. 
One needs scarcely to stoop The sides 
of the cylinders corresponding to the 
tomato can, are made of galvanized iron, 
and would last for many years if used 
in land free of stones larger than an 
inch in diameter. 
Red Cross —On June 20, we received 
a small box of Red Cross currants from 
Chas. A. Green of Rochester, N. Y., the 
introducer. We assume that they were 
selected bunches, but, so assuming, we 
have never seen longer racemes. The 
berries were about the size of the Fay, 
the racemes bearing 19 berries fully 
four inches long, and the lowest or tip 
berries nearly as large as those above. 
On July 24, a larger box of Red Cross 
currants was received from Mr. Green, 
with a few bunches of the Victoria, that 
we might compare the two. We do not 
remember ever to have seen larger 
clusters or more of them to a given 
length of stem than those borne by the 
Red Cross. The Victorias were smaller 
both as to berry and bunch. 
Mr. S. D. Willard, of Geneva, N. Y., 
says in the Michigan Fruit Grower, 
that he has tested all of the Russian 
apricots, and has discarded all but one. 
This one is the Early Montgamet. Mr. 
Willard has never before seen any 
variety that, considering quality, pro¬ 
ductiveness and hardiness, equals this. 
He believes that it can be successfully 
grown wherever the peach does well. 
It is being planted largely in his section 
of the country as a profitable invest¬ 
ment . 
Ruralisms begs for information re¬ 
specting the new peas, Carter’s Daisy, 
New Life, J uno and 1897. We tried the 
Daisy, New Life and Juno last year. 
We made no report as to Daisy because 
the plants grown from seed from two 
firms were so different that we didn’t 
know which was which. As a prelim¬ 
inary report, we may say that they are 
the four most remarkable varieties we 
have ever tried—and that is saying a 
good deal, for we have tried during the 
past 20 years nearly every new sort 
offered. 
Ellwanger & Barry regard the 
McKinley as, all things considered, the 
best strawberry on their grounds the 
past season. 
The Eldorado gave us the first ripe 
blackberries on July 15. The plants are 
hardy and vigorous, and we hope to be 
able to speak of it before the black¬ 
berry season is over, in a way that will 
guide our readers as to whether it is or 
is not worthy of a liberal trial. 
For the benefit of our readers, we 
want all the information we can get re¬ 
garding the Japan plums—good and 
bad. Which kinds succeed, which do 
not. Are they curculio-proof ?. 
We have never had a brighter prom¬ 
ise for a fine crop of grapes than we 
have at this time. This is due, in so far 
as we may judge, to the fact that the 
grape blossoms and Rose chafers failed 
to make the ordinary close connection ; 
and this again, seems to be due to the 
fact that we have taken pains to plant 
near the vines shrubs that bloom with 
the grape vines, the blooms of which 
the Rose bugs seem to prefer. Among 
these are : Viburnum lantanoides, V. 
macrocephalum, V. rugosum and several 
of the Spiraeas. By the time that these 
flowers are destroyed, the grapes have 
set, and the young berries are never 
harmed by the Rose bugs. They pre¬ 
fer the leaves. 
Italia, Bubbank and Austria are 
beautiful cannas. We may now speak 
of them from a slight experience. Hither¬ 
to we have merely repeated what others 
have said in their praise, for it has all 
been praise. 
Plants were received from the Storrs 
& Harrison Co., Painesville, 0,, and J. 
C. Vaughan, Chicago, Ill. Italia, July 
20, was 3% feet high, measuring to the 
top of the spike, which is raised above 
the highest leaves a foot or more. The 
leaves are of a lively green color, broadly 
elliptical in shape. The flowers when 
open are five inches in diameter, the 
petals broad, of a bright yellow color 
for the ground and a broad splash of 
orange scarlet, leaving a wide margin of 
yellow. There were 21 buds on the first 
spike. 
Burbank (Vaughan) has broader leaves 
(Continued on next pane.) 
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla Built up and 
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“My son had diphtheria and scarlet fever 
and after getting over his sickness he was weak 
and poor. A friend advised meto givehim Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla and I did so. In a short time it built 
him up and restored him to health. Since then 
we praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla highly.”— Mary A. 
Lees, Sherman Park, New York. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. 
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