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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 11 
J. G. Patterson & Son, of Stewarts- 
town, Pa., favored us on August 20 with 
a little box of Lincoln plums, the first 
specimens we have ever seen, except 
several inferior plums borne by our own 
tree this present season. In shape, it is 
oblong, measuring about 5% inches in 
circumference ; suture none or obscure. 
Surface is a dull, mottled red, nearly 
concealing the yellow ground, and has 
a delicate lilac bloom; the flesh is 
greenish yellow, meaty, sweet, without 
any decided flavor, and the skin is some¬ 
what puckery. This variety, with the 
Pattersons, has not missed fruiting in 20 
years. They bring the most money of 
any plum grown in York County, Pa ; 
hundreds of bushels are sold every year 
in York City, and never at less than 8 
cents per quart, mostly 10 to 12 cents, 
and last year, 15 cents. Patterson & Son 
tell us, further, that specimens occa¬ 
sionally weigh from 3% to 4 ounces each. 
A picture of a fair-sized specimen of the 
plum is shown at Fig. 253, page 595 .... 
Mb. Henry Lutts, of Youngstown, 
N Y., says that the Triumph peach has 
many things to recommend it: First, 
hardiness—out of 20 varieties planted in 
the same plot, only five others blossomed, 
and none set fruit. Its other merits are 
early bearing, good color and fair size.. 
desires to hear from others as to how 
it compares with Snyder and other 
standard varieties. The Eldorado has 
disappointed us also. During April of 
1894, we received several plants from 
each of two nurserymen, J. T. Lovett, 
of Little Silver, N. J., and E. W. Reid, 
of Bridgeport, Ohio. The canes seem 
to be as hardy as those of Snyder or 
Taylor, but the berries are no larger, 
so that we do not think that it will 
ever become popular. The quality is 
very good. This is its first season of 
fruiting, and it is among the possibilities 
that the berries may be larger another 
season. 
Three plants of the Clark blackberry 
were received from Matthew Crawford 
last April. The growth of these plants 
has been surprisingly vigorous, and two 
of them are now (August 23) ripening a 
few berries. They are larger than those 
of the Kittatinny, and as black and 
glossy as blackberries well can be. They 
are melting and juicy, but possibly, too 
soft for distant shipment. We should 
like to hear from others regarding the 
Clark blackberry. 
A. W. Smith, of Americus, Ga., sent us 
a few seeds of his strains of the .Japan 
morning-glories. They are later to 
bloom, as we have said, than the ordi¬ 
nary morning-glories, but the flowers 
are much larger and of the oddest and 
most brilliant colorings. Some of the 
flowers are nearly four inches in diame¬ 
ter, frilled, and of a distinctly mauve 
color with white margins and a pinkish 
throat. 
W. A. Bassett, of Seneca County, 
N. Y., in the spring of 1896, set 30 trees 
each of the Burbank and Abundance 
plums. They were one year old from 
the bud. The past spring, he set a few 
trees of the Burbank two years old, 
from the same nursery, and from the 
same lot of trees ; they have not made 
one-quarter the growth, he says, which 
the one-year-old trees made, and are 
now greatly inferior to the others. His 
advice to beginners is not to set two- 
year-old trees of the Japan plums if one- 
year-old trees can be procured. 
Mr. Edward W. Winsor, of Farming- 
dale, Monmouth County, N. J., writes 
us that Campbell’s Early grape mildews 
with him. This is its first season, and 
he thinks that it may not mildew dur¬ 
ing a drier season. This has been the 
wettest season at the Rural Grounds 
that we have had during the past 25 
years. Our Campbell’s Early was planted 
four years ago. and there has been no 
trace of mildew upon it. The grapes 
are now ripening (August 21), nearly 
with Early Ohio. 
Mr. Winsor says taat the Phoenix red 
raspberry is much earlier than the Mil¬ 
ler, and he values it accordingly. The 
Phoenix raspberry and the Brandywine 
strawberry ripen with him at the same 
time. He says that the Bourgeat quince 
makes the most vigorous and symmetri¬ 
cal tree of any variety in his collection. 
He fully indorses our recommendation 
of the President Wilder and White Im¬ 
perial currants ; they are also his choice. 
Mr. S. E. Hall, a nurseryman of 
Cherry Valley, Ill., says that the Eldo¬ 
rado blackberry disappoints him. He 
If so, we want to make arrange¬ 
ments with you to represent 
The Rural New-Yorker , 
and take subscriptions for the 
rest of this year for 25 cents. 
Let us hear from you before some 
one else gets the appointment. 
We have had the Gault Everbearing 
raspberry long enough to give it quite a 
fair trial. That this is really a valuable 
everbearing variety in some places, there 
seems to be little doubt. The first crop, 
it appears, ripens about the time of the 
Gregg, bearing for three or four weeks 
upon the old canes ; then the new canes 
begin to fruit, and this continues until 
checked by frost. It is claimed, further, 
that the young sets, when planted in the 
spring, will bear fruit the next fall. 
With us, the Gault is not a success, but 
this may be wholly owing to anthrac- 
nose, to which disease it seems peculiarly 
susceptible. 
Are the Japan plums, or any of them, 
curculio-proof ? Are they less suscept¬ 
ible to injury from the curculio than 
other plums ? They certainly are at the 
Rural Grounds, but others who speak 
from experience say that they are not. 
Wo want to get all the information we 
can regarding the Japan plums, before 
we give this important subject a rest.... 
On August 21 we received another box 
of Japan plums from Stark Brothers, of 
Louisiana, Mo. There were two lots of 
Gold (originated by Luther Burbank), 
one “California grown,” the other grown 
on their own premises. Both are beau¬ 
tiful plums. The Louisiana measured 
5}4 inches in circumference either way, 
the plums being round. The color was 
a bright yellow, the “sunny side” faintly 
tinted with crimson. Flesh yellow, very 
juicy, and of fair quality—better than 
Ogon, not quite so good as Abundance. 
Skin tough. It is, evidently, a long 
keeper. Pit small. The California- 
grown Gold plums were of a “tomato” 
color, precisely the shape of the others. 
They were round bags of jelly, in qual¬ 
ity much the same, with a thinner skin. 
The skin of both was somewhat bitter, 
the flesh acid about the small seeds. 
Both lots were as delicately beautiful 
in appearance as plums well could be... 
Are 
You < 
Going 
to the 
Fair? 
J 
l The prospect of an exceptionally 
large crop of grapes at the Rural Grounds 
is not so good as it was a week or so 
ago. Continued wet weather is causing 
the berries to rot, especially those of 
the large kinds—Eaton, Wilder and 
Moore’s Early. 
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We are always thankful to our readers 
for such information, because it enables 
The R. N.-Y. to be more useful and 
serviceable to all: 
Early this year, I got some Bismarck apple 
trees from A. Blanc & Co., of this city. The trees 
were single stems, budded last year, two to four 
feet high. During our warm, early spring, they 
were completely covered with blossoms and, no 
doubt, I would have bad a large number of fruits 
had it not been for the severe late frosts injuring 
them. I never saw apple trees bloom so profusely 
when so small. From what I have read about it 
in English papers, it must be a most remarkable 
apple. HAROLD OTTER. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Last spring, we planted 20 different 
kinds of sweet peas. They all germi 
nated freely enough, but Little Red 
Riding-hood is the only one that has 
bloomed freely. All the other vines 
blighted before blooming, and are now 
dead. 
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Wanted best price 100 barrels. Address JOBBER, 
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75 Varieties in Stock. 
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