THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 9 
758 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS. 
Rose Clothilde Soupert.— There is a 
prediction in the late H. B. Bllwanger’s 
charming book, “The Rose,” made near¬ 
ly 15 years ago, that Tea roses, growing 
in huge clusters, might come from the 
use of the many-flowered wild rose of 
Japan, Rosa multiflora, in breeding new 
varieties. A race of dainty small-flow¬ 
ered kinds, resulting from crosses of R. 
multiflora with various Tea and 
Noisette roses, had already been intro¬ 
duced under the name of Polyantha 
roses, but it remained for a French 
grower to produce in 1890 a rose fulfill¬ 
ing Mr. Ellwanger’s prophecy, in an ex¬ 
traordinary manner. It was produced by 
hybridizing Mignonette, one of the pop¬ 
ular Polyanthas, with a white Tea, and 
was introduced to the American trade 
by J. C. Vaughan, of Chicago, under the 
name of Clothilde Soupert. It is certain 
that no rose of greater value has ever 
been disseminated here. It is useful 
wherever roses may be grown, either for 
pot culture or bedding purposes. It is al¬ 
most hardy in the latitude of New York, 
and can be grown farther north if pro¬ 
tected from hard freezing and Winter 
sunlight. It is covered with large blos¬ 
soms at all times when in growth, and 
has healthy, glossy foliage, seldom af¬ 
fected by any disease. Pig. 340, first 
page, shows a small cluster of blooms 
less than natural size, borne on a plant 
grown seven years in a six-inch pot. We 
have had a cluster of 15 blossoms open 
in good condition, though such large 
clusters usually fail to develop well un¬ 
less judiciously thinned. After trials 
extending over 10 years, we value Clo¬ 
thilde Soupert so highly that we would 
retain it to the exclusion of all other 
varieties, if forced to content ourselves 
with one rose. While invaluable for the 
border or window garden, it is of no use 
to the grower of cut blooms, as only va¬ 
rieties bearing large individual blooms 
on long stems are wanted for that pur¬ 
pose. It is, however, the rose for the 
million, and is greatly appreciated by 
amateurs. It should be included in every 
order for plants by beginners in rose 
culture. Plants are very cheap, being 
offered at 10 to 15 cents each by growers. 
Plant out in an airy place, and 
fertilize with old manure, wood 
ashes, and, if possible, a little 
clayey loam burned until it is red 
in color. It should begin to bloom al¬ 
most as soon as growth starts, and con¬ 
tinue until freezing weather. Cut off the 
flowers as they fade, and occasionally 
prune or thin out any weak branches. 
When the ground begins to freeze the 
plant may be lightly covered with coarse 
straw or reeds, and later with evergreen 
boughs, where procurable, or it may be 
potted up for a sunny window. Where 
Clothilde Soupert In its way, though in¬ 
numerable attempts have been made to 
develop varieties having more substance 
to the petals and of other colors. Prob¬ 
ably the nearest competitor is Mosella, 
sometimes called the Yellow Soupert. 
It had a yellow Tea or Noisette for one 
parent, and a Polyantha for the other. 
The flowers are a pretty light yellow in 
bud, but turn white when opened. They 
are freely produced in clusters when the 
plant is in full growth, but there are fre¬ 
quent intervals when it is “off crop.” 
Pink Soupert, produced by crossing Clo¬ 
thilde Soupert with Lucullus, a dark red 
Bourbon rose, is very pretty, and a free 
and constant bloomer. The three varie¬ 
ties mentioned make good companions 
in the garden, as they are about equal in 
stature and hardiness, but the delicate 
blush and white Clothilde Soupert will 
always be most admired. 
Kieffer and Le Conte Pears. —The 
season has been very unfavorable for 
pears about the Rural Grounds, and the 
crop of all varieties is very light, though 
the Sand pear hybrids, Kieffer and Le 
Conte, have done vastly better than the 
standard varieties. They endured the 
trying conditions of excessive moisture 
and heat through the growing season 
with no perceptible damage to the foli¬ 
age, though continuous rains at bloom¬ 
ing time caused the set of fruit to be 
very scattering. Many thousands of bar¬ 
rels of Kieffers will be shipped from 
near this locality as soon as matured 
sufficiently for market. A few orchards 
are fairly well loaded, while others, ap¬ 
parently as well cared for, have barely 
a show of fruit. The prices, in sym¬ 
pathy with the scarcity of all pome 
fruits, are quite satisfactory to those 
who have the pears to sell. Windfalls 
have been bringing $1 to $1.25, and good 
hand-picked $1.75 to $2.25 per barrel. 
Inquiry develops that most of these 
Kieffers are used for canning and culin¬ 
ary purposes, and they are not offered so 
freely as in the past on the fruit stands. 
Growers are learning better how to han¬ 
dle and ripen them up in an attractive 
manner. The Le Conte was planted 
quite freely about here eight or 10 years 
ago for family use, but, luckily, did not 
find its way into many commercial or¬ 
chards. It is a handsome grower, like 
Kieffer, but more spreading in habit, 
with even more lustrous foliage. The 
pears ripen in October, and at once be¬ 
gin to decay about the core. The variety 
is usually promptly condemned on this 
account as soon as it comes into bearing, 
but if the fruits are picked as soon as 
the seeds color, and kept in a close place 
for two or three weeks, they color waxy 
yellow and develop a pleasant sub-acid, 
but not high flavor, with scarcely any 
loss from rot. They are excellent for 
stewing and other kitchen uses just be¬ 
fore they soften. When one learns to 
handle the Le Conte properly, it is found 
to be a useful home variety, coming in 
when other pears are not available. 
Kieffer is supposed to be the result of 
the climate is too severe for safety out- a-ction of Bartlett pollen on the Chin- 
doors, the rose may be lifted and 
planted in a box of earth, with 
a few holes in the bottom for 
drainage. The box may be kept in a 
spare room,where moderate freezing will 
do no harm, if it is not warm enough 
to start growth during the intervals. 
The soil should be kept quite moist, and 
the endeavor made to have the plant 
dormant during cold weather. Many 
hard-wooded plants of doubtful hardi¬ 
ness may be wintered in this manner. 
Nothing has appeared likely to succeed 
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ese pear, though Downing gave the 
pollen parent as Anjou. The pollen 
parent of Le Conte does not seem to be 
known, but it has been much grown 
through the South for nearly 40 years. 
Our trees of Kieffer and Le Conte com¬ 
menced to bear three years after plant¬ 
ing, and by means of careful thinning 
and early picking, we get some very ac¬ 
ceptable fruits while waiting for better 
varieties to come on. 
Planting Garden Lilies. —The long 
list of lilies offered in bulb catalagues 
is very tempting, but disappointment 
usually follows the planting of any con¬ 
siderable number of varieties. Lily 
bulbs lose much vitality during ship¬ 
ment and storage, and only a few kinds 
are likely to reward us with a healthy 
growth. The list of really reliable va¬ 
rieties is very short, running about as 
follows: Lilium tigrinum splendens, L. 
lancifolium rubrum and album, and va¬ 
rieties of L. elegans. Where white lilies 
are wanted, L. candidum and L. longi 
florum may be planted with reasonable 
hope of success. The magnificent L. 
auratum, the Golden-rayed lily of Japan, 
is very uncertain, most of the bulbs de¬ 
caying after giving a few poor blossoms; 
but it may be planted with the hope o:! 
securing a chance specimen vigorous 
enough to establish itself. Lilies, as a 
. ule, are unfavorably affected by crude 
fertilizers, and do not seem to require 
nitrogenous materials, excgpt during the 
period of bud development. They are 
best planted six or seven inches deep in 
good unmanured soil in a well-drained 
place. If they can receive a little shade 
at midday success is more certain. Each 
bulb should be bedded in and surroundec 
with two or three inches of clean sand, 
to check the inroads of fungus myceli¬ 
ums. The covering should be of sand 
or light soil, easily penetrated by young 
shoots in Spring. A light covering of 
leaves, held down by a few boughs, is 
all the protection needed to winter the 
varieties named. Lilies look best in ir¬ 
regular groups, with the plants stand¬ 
ing about a foot apart. If a fair growth 
results, the bed may be mulched with 
old manure as soon as the buds can be 
seen, which will greatly aid the develop 
ment of the blooms, but in the long run 
the less manure used the more perma¬ 
nent the results are likely to be. Some 
L. lancifolium bulbs, planted seven years 
ago in sod, under an apple tree, without 
culture or fertilization of any kind, have 
developed in a splendid specimen clump, 
growing in beauty each year, while a 
similar planting in a well-fertilized rose 
bed has diminished in strength about to 
the vanishing point. The apple tree is 
an old one, headed so high that sun¬ 
light reaches the lilies freely. Lilies 
seem to like the protection and drainage 
afforded by tree and shrub roots, but 
they also appreciate free air and light, 
and should not be planted in close shade. 
w. V. F. 
A Blow at Quack Grass. 
Three acres of peach orchard had 
been abandoned for a couple of years— 
not cultivated—^and had become thickly 
set with Quack grass. In August of last 
year, after the trees had been cleared 
off, the Quack stood about as thick and 
tall as a first-rate crop of Timothy, and 
it was the only Quack grass of any 
amount on the farm. How it got there 
and infested the soil so completely in 
the time it did is a puzzle. We plowea 
it in August, and harrowed the field five 
or six times before Winter. It was then 
pretty clean, but last Spring the Quack 
sprung up as thick as new seeding, and 
shortly the field was green as ever with 
it. About June 10 last we plowed it 10 
inches deep, cultivated thoroughly, and 
planted potatoes and cabbage. Good 
cultivating and hoeing was the rest of 
the treatment. The Quack is knocked 
out. Two acres of the potatoes will 
yield 180 to 200 bushels per acre; and 
the acre of cabbage 12 to 15 tons. Land 
always grows fertile under Quack grass. 
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