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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 23 
POSSIBLY A FORMIDABLE ENEMY OF 
CRIMSON CLOVER. 
October 3, we noticed that the Crimson 
clover on several of the dozen plots 
sown at the Rural Grounds in late July, 
looked as if killed by frost. A closer in¬ 
spection showed that the leaves were 
more or less covered with small, black 
spots. Many leaves were shriveled and 
dead—the rest showing all stages of in¬ 
jury and decline. The worst portions 
looked as though scalding water had been 
thrown over the prostrate plants. We 
were not long in discovering what seemed 
to be the cause. Upon nearly every leaf¬ 
let, there was, at least, one aphis (louse); 
upon others there were as many as a 
dozen. See Fig. 290. Gathering a goodly 
number of specimen leaves and stems, 
we sent them to Prof. Slingerland, of 
Cornell University, with the request that 
he would give us any information he 
might have regarding the disgusting 
pest. His reply follows : 
“ The trouble is not of an insect, but 
of a fungous nature. Many of the clover 
leaves were nearly covered on the under 
sides with small, velvety patches of 
black, which, under a lens, are seen to 
be masses of spores or ‘ fungous seeds ’. 
Oar mycologist tells me that this fun¬ 
gous disease is very prevalent this year 
on clover, and has been known seriously 
•to injure the plants. It has no popular 
name, but bears the scientific cognomen 
of Polythrincium trifolii. No experi¬ 
ments have, apparently, been recorded 
with fungicides against it. It would be 
a difficult matter to spray a clover field 
with sufficient thoroughness to check 
this disease. It would, also, be hardly 
practicable to burn over the field. Thus 
about the only thing that can be done is 
to plow under the clover, and practice 
a short rotation with other crops. 
Db. J. S. Read, of Fayetteville, Ark., 
says that he has not tried the Asparagus 
pea, but he has tried the so-called 
French Asparagus bean, which is really 
a cow pea. The vines bore pods, some 
of which were 29 inches in length. Dr. 
Read regards the claim of “ tender and 
delicious in quality” as fraudulent. 
Db. Read mentions this bit of interest¬ 
ing experience with the Elberta peach. 
His trees were all severely headed back 
except two. Those beaded back bore 
fruit nearly round and two weeks earlier 
than those not headed back. The latter 
had the usual oval form. The color of 
both was the same. 
The Gault Everbearing blackcap is 
not a success at the Rural Grounds. The 
stems grew to the height of about five 
feet, and were so flattened as to measure 
1H inch in width, and only about one- 
fourth inch in thickness. A portrait of 
these fasciated stems appeared in Tee 
R. N.-Y. of July 18, 1896. The plants 
are not very productive and do not bear 
a second crop at the Rural Grounds, as 
unquestionably, they do elsewhere, from 
the testimony of trustworthy persons. 
The first crop ripens about with Gregg, 
and the canes, it is claimed, continue to 
bear on the young wood until frost, 
single tips maturing from 75 to 100 
berries. 
A single sample of the Dr. Black 
peach was received October 2, from Mr. 
Charles Wright, of Seaford, Del., measur¬ 
ing three inches in diameter. Flesh yel¬ 
low, juicy and vinous, stone free, skin 
thick and downy. It should be a good 
shipper. Mr. Wright says that it is two 
weeks later than Smock, and that it is of 
high color when fully ripe. 
A fbiend noticing that we placed the 
Bovee potato as a little later than the 
Queen in our last trials, says that there 
must be some unexplained cause for 
this, as he has grown it for three years 
alongside of the Queen, and the latter 
has never made a favorable comparison 
either in yield or earliness with the 
Bovee. 
“ As to the plant lice which you found 
quite plentiful on the clover, they, 
doubtless, had little, if anything, to do 
with the diseased condition of the plants. 
I cannot give you the name of this 
aphis, but it need cause you no alarm, 
for Nature is already taking care of the 
surplus. You will find that many of 
the clover leaves have, adhering to their 
surfaces, some ‘ stationary ’ aphids of a 
light brown color, and presenting a 
powdery, stuffed appearance. Under a 
lens, you will find that these are covered 
with, or rather completely filled with, a 
fungous growth. This fungous is called 
an Enternophthora, and frequently at¬ 
tacks many other species of aphids and 
other insects. Thus you see that life 
and death of several sorts are taking 
place in your clover plot.” 
Assuming, as we should do, that Prof. 
Slingerland is right in ascribing the in¬ 
jury to a fungus, we are puzzled in this 
wise : Some of the plots are not harmed 
at all. The clover is as fresh and luxu¬ 
riant as it well can be. But upon these 
plots, there is scarcely an aphis to be 
found; neither are there any of the 
black fungous spots. All of the leaves 
infested with the fungous growth are, 
also, infested with the aphids. It would 
seem either that the aphis chooses the 
leaves infested with the fungus, or the 
fungus prefers the leaves infested with 
the lice. Examine your Crimson clover, 
friends, and let us hear from you.. 
The Cabman Grape.— We are pleased 
to receive the following report from C. 
E. Hogeboom, of Talucah, Ala. 
In repy to your request, we report the Carman 
grape a complete success with us. The vine is 
as healthy as a wild grape, prolific in fruit, which 
is of good quality, bunches shouldered and very 
large and berries packed together as closely as 
possible. Thus far, it has been entirely free from 
black rot, while the Niagara did not perfect a 
single bunch, and the Concord, Worden and 
Catawba were badly affected. We picked grapes 
from the vine for a period of six weeks. One man, 
in the fruit business, said that he had not seen 
so good grapes in the country, and all who ate 
of the fruit unite in pronouncing it “ best.” 
We are much pleased with the Diamond. 
Octobeb 7. Our Paragon chestnuts 
are now fully ripe, and many are falling. 
The trees, planted in May of ’89, are 
bearing a full crop, though the native 
chestnut crop is a failure. The burrs 
average about 2% nuts. Usually, when 
there are three in a burr, the middle one 
is either small or abortive. These Para¬ 
gon chestnut trees are so far from other 
chestnuts that it is safe to assume that 
they do not need foreign pollen. 
Superb, from Wm. Parry, spring of 
’94, has made no growth because of in¬ 
juries caused by the tornado. 
Ridgeley, P. Emerson, of Wyoming, 
Del., 1894, is recovering from the harm 
caused by the tornado. 
Alpha, Parry, April, 1894, is six feet 
high, but has not yet fruited. 
At this season of the year (October 3), 
one feels like saying a kindly word for 
the little-known knotweed, Polygonum 
amplexicaule — it has no "common” 
name. There are few hardy herbaceous 
plants in bloom now, and not one that 
we can recall that equals this in wealth 
of bloom. The little white flowers are 
borne in panicles nearly a foot long, the 
panicles being made up in pretty little 
racemes of an inch or so in length. The 
odor is that of buckwheat which is, 
botauically, of the same family. Sagba- 
lin (Sacaline) is a sister plant with wider 
leaves and stems that grow twice as 
high. But it blooms when there are lots 
of other plants which we prize more 
highly. 
Octobeb 5. The Golden Mayberry— 
plants from the Storrs & Harrison Co., 
and A. Blanc, April, 1895—are now about 
four feet high. The canes are many and 
slender, the foliage so ample as to give 
the bushes an ornamental value. The 
leaves are deeply cleft, glossy and of a 
deep green color still retained after sev¬ 
eral frosts. They have been so injured 
by the winters that they have not yet 
fruited. The fruit of this Mayberry is 
so pretty and of so good a quality that it 
would be worth while to try careful win¬ 
ter protection before discarding it. The 
Logan Raspberry - blackberry—A. Blanc 
and Wm. Parry, April, 1895.—Plants have 
canes from eight to ten feet long as pro¬ 
cumbent as those of the dewberry. These 
plants have not stood the winters suffi 
ciently to bloom. It might be well to 
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After Scarlet Fever 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cleansed the 
Blood and Completely Cured. 
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I gave him Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and it completely 
cured him. Since then we have taken Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla to cleanse our blood, and it always 
has a good effect.”— Mbs. D. J. Sill, Fitch, N. Y. 
HOOCI’S S p a arilfa 
Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. 
Hood’s Pills cure all liver ills. 25 cents. 
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FRUIT TREES, 
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COLUMBIAN TIPS AND TRANSPLANTS. 
We have about 20,000 Tip Plants to offer for this 
Fall and Spring, 1898. Prices right. 
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The Rural New-Yorker, of 
September 18, page 614, says: 
trees are like our fruit, “ the handsomest 
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