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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
September 25 
Judging the Eirly Ohio grape as it is 
behaving this season, we have done it 
injustice. We have other black grapes 
that color as early, but they were still 
sour when the Ohio was comparatively 
sweet. The berries cling well to the 
stem and rarely crack. The vine is 
hardy and healthy. Fig. 263, from a 
photograph, shows the average bunch. 
All will concede that there are few 
trees more beautiful than the horse- 
chestnuts while in bloom. Especially 
may this be said of the Red and Double¬ 
white varieties which, a 3 Mr. Scott puts 
it, resemble “ verdant towers, spangled 
all over with hyacinth bouquets.” The 
Red fruits sparingly, and the Double- 
white not at all, because there are no 
stamens or pistils, they having changed 
into petals. But there is this to be said 
against them as ornamental trees : The 
leaves begia to brown by mid-August, 
as if scorched by fire, and there is no 
beauty in them thereafter. In fact, 
they are objectionable as being unwel¬ 
come reminders of fall and frosts. 
Not to the same extent does this 
objection apply to the Ohio Buckeye 
(7Esculu3 glabra) This is among the 
first of trees to break bud in the spring, 
and it retains its glossy blue-green 
leaves until frost. The objection to it 
is that it fruits abuadantly, and the nuts 
and leathery pods litter the lawn during 
September and October. 
The Ohio Buckeye stands pruning so 
well that it may be restrained to a 
medium-sized tree with such luxuriant 
foliage that the branches are fully con¬ 
cealed. .. 
We have a variety of the Red Horse- 
chestnut which is said to be pendulous. 
Our tree is about four years old. It is 
about five feet high, but has thus far 
shown no signs of pendulosity. Another 
horse-chestnut not at all well known is 
YEjculus Hippocastanum Memmingerii. 
One specimen (from Ellwanger & Barry, 
five years ago) is now 12 feet high. Its 
peculiarity is that the leaves are speckled 
with a dull yellow. The effect is rather 
that of disease than an attractive varie¬ 
gation. Another rare tree is iEsculus 
H. carnea. It differs from the others in 
that the flowers are flesh-colored as the 
varietal name indicates. Our tree 
bloomed the third year from the nursery. 
Mr, Powell, of the Delaware Experi¬ 
ment Station, kindly writes us the re¬ 
sults of a neighbor’s trial of the Sir 
Walter Raleigh potato he received from 
this office. On receiving the potato, Mr. 
McAnally cut it into 11 pieces, each of 
which contained an eye. The eyes were 
put separately into bottomless tomato 
cans filled with soil, and sprouted in a 
hotbed. As soon as the ground was in con¬ 
dition to plant, the cans were removed 
and the plants inserted into rich garden 
soil, the can being slipped over the 
young sprout which left the roots undis¬ 
turbed. From the time the plants were 
set, Mr. McAnally gave them exception¬ 
ally good care, having previously dug a 
quantity of hothouse manure into the 
soil and later, during a short drought, 
drenching the ground several times with 
water. Two of the plants were destroyed 
by Cut-worms. August 26, Mr. Powell 
saw the potatoes dug from the nine re¬ 
maining hills, and weighed, and the fol¬ 
lowing yield was obtained : Nine plants 
produced 60 potatoes, which weighed 
17% pounds. Forty-nine of these were 
first-class merchantable potatoes and 
weighed 17 pounds. The 11 remaining 
ones were very small. The salable pota¬ 
toes were large and smooth, with no 
traces of rot or scab about them, which 
is quite unusual in a garden spot so rich 
in manure. Had two of the plants not 
been destroyed, the yield from the two- 
ounce potato would have reached 20 
pounds, or one-third of a legal bushel. 
The plants produced a profusion of 
blooms, and three seed balls were 
formed. The yield of potatoes obtained 
by Mr. McAnally is a good example of 
the possibilities of an intensive system 
of agriculture on a small scale. 
Our opinion regarding the compara¬ 
tively new spiraea, Anthony Waterer, is 
still just that expressed last year, viz , 
it is the most satisfactory spiraea in ex¬ 
istence. It blooms constantly. The 
plant is of low growth, the umbels of 
a bright pink color, brighter than those 
of its close relative Bumalda, which bears 
lighter colored flowers and fewer of 
them. 
Have any of our friends tried the As¬ 
paragus pea ? If so, what do they think 
of it ?. 
In a late catalogue received from Pres. 
P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., are a 
colored portait and description of a re¬ 
markable peach, the Everbearing. It is 
described—and Mr. Berckmans’s descrip¬ 
tions are always conservative—as bear¬ 
ing ripe fruit from about July 1 until 
early September. Fruit in all stages of 
development—ripe and half grown—may 
be seen upon the tree at the same time. 
The tree blooms, of course, during a 
long period, so that a complete failure 
of fruit has never happened since the 
original tree first began to bear, eight 
years ago. The peaches are creamy 
white, mottled and striped with light 
purple and pink veins. It is oblong in 
shape and tapering to the apex. The 
flesh is white, juicy, vinous and of ex¬ 
cellent flivor; freestone. The first to 
ripen average 3% inches long by 3 broad. 
The size of the second and following 
crops diminishes gradually until the 
last peaches to ripen are about two 
inches in diameter. A supply of the 
fruit may be had from the same tree for 
nearly three months. 
Mr. Berckmans does not recommend 
the Everbearing peach for commercial 
orchards ; but for family use, or small 
gardens where there is room for only a 
few trees, he regards its value as un¬ 
questionable. 
The Hunn strawberry, which origi¬ 
nated at the New York Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, is making many friends. Mr. W. 
W. Cornwall, of South Wales, N. Y , 
writes that the vines are vigorous, form¬ 
ing lots of runners ; the berry is sweet 
and high flavored, and in shape “ as 
round as a berry can be.”. 
A. L. S., of Spokane, Wash., comment¬ 
ing upon The R. N.-Y.’s strawberry re¬ 
port, says : “ It showed the Wm. Belt 
strawberries as small. 1 grew them here 
so large that eight selected berries filled 
a Hallock berry box full.”. 
For the one reason that we would 
caution our readers against planting too 
freely of any of the Hippocastanum vari¬ 
eties of the horse-chestnut, we would 
guard them against the thorns — Cra- 
taagus. There are no trees more beau¬ 
tiful than some of the thorns in May 
and June, notably the double white, 
Cratmgus oxyacantha plena, and Paul’s 
Double Scarlet. But the trees lose their 
foliage in August, and are suggestive of 
winter during the rest of the season. 
Plant them where one may enjoy the 
flowers, away from the shrubs and trees 
one looks upon nearly every hour in the 
day. 
Mr H. O. Mead of Lunenburg, Mass , 
sent us August 30, a box containing a 
doxen or so each of the Japan plums 
Satsuma and Burbank. The former 
were not ripe, and Mr. Mead requests us 
to keep them until they fully ripen. He 
finds it the best keeping plum he has 
ever raised, both on the tree and after 
being picked. The plums average 6% 
inches in circumference, slightly pointed, 
most of them with a decided suture as 
previously described. The color is now 
a very dark purplish red on a greenish 
ground. 
The Burbanks measured 7% inches in 
circumference, wonderfully showy fruit 
which the writer regards as of somewhat 
better quality than Abundance. 
Mr. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, 
Conn., sends us a Satsuma plum 6% 
inches in circumference, with eight 
prominent curculio “stings,” yet the 
plum is not harmed. The Satsumas, from 
Mr. Mead, bear from one to four “stings,” 
but are, nevertheless, perfect specimens. 
Mr. Hale writes : 
I send you this plum, not only to show the size 
and style, but more to show how it will stand the 
attacks of the curculio. You will notice that it 
had eight bites on the outside, yet not through 
the skin so as to do any harm. There has been a 
good deal of complaint toat the Satsuma was not 
a free bearer, but my investigation this year leads 
me to believe that it is all right when planted in 
mixed orchards with other varieties. Down at 
Mr. Fairchild’s, at Nichols, Conn., it has fruited 
freely for the last six or seven years, where there 
are many other varieties close around it. Butler 
& Jewell, of Cromwell, Conn., have a block of it; 
where the Satsumas are alone by themselves, they 
bear rather shyly; but four or five trees right in 
between Burbank on one side and Chabot on the 
other, have produced a crop of the most superb 
plums 1 have ever seen of this type. 1 have a 
block of Satsuma now only two years planted, 
and I purpose to insert a bud of Chabot into each 
one of these trees, so as to see if this one Chabot 
branch to furnish bloom, will stimulate the Sat¬ 
suma to better bearing. 
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