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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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One of 'the'many new chrysanthemums 
offered is one which was originated and 
named by Mr. Robert Craig, of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., Mrs. A. C. Burpee. It is claimed 
to be the best yellow variety ever intro¬ 
duced. The flowers are from six to eight 
inches across. 
Among a large lot of hardy plants pre¬ 
sented to the R. N.-Y. last year by Mr. C. 
A. Dana, through his distinguished super¬ 
intendent Mr. William Falconer, was one 
named Polyganum amplexicaule, var. oxy- 
phyllum. It blooms late in the fall con¬ 
tinuing until after frosts. The flowers are 
borne in long white feathery racemes. 
Like the well-known P. cuspidatum, it 
forms large rampant shoots, with coarse 
foliage. But it will be prized for its 
wealth of white feathers when frost has 
reduced garden flowers to a minimum. 
This plant is now seen offered among the 
striking novelties in a catalogue just at 
hand. 
Those of our catalogue makers who 
would like to use the “ half-tone” photo¬ 
engravings with'due effect will have to use 
better paper and ink. 
What flower is there of a more beautiful 
tint of blue than that borne by Delphinium 
formosum ?. 
From the R. N.-Y.’s trial of nearly every 
variety of sweet corn offered by seedsmen, 
it would choose Crosby’s Early if confined 
to one strain of the early sorts. It is but a 
little later than the Cory. Early Minnesota 
etc., while the ears are as large as desir¬ 
able, the quality of the best and the plants 
are abundantly prolific. 
Pres. T. T. Lyon tells Vick’s Magazine 
that he has a screen or border of the orna¬ 
mental Japan Quince probably 10 or 12 
rods in length, planted 10 or 12 years since, 
which, besides constituting an impassable 
barrier to both man and beast, and afford¬ 
ing an exceedingly beautiful object in 
early spring, produces annually several 
bushels of attractive-looking fruit, which, 
while it lacks much of the aroma of the 
edible quince, and is much less edible 
while uncooked, he is accustomed to use 
freely, in small quantity, to flavor even the 
milder apples when cooked, with the effect 
of imparting to the sauce a sprightliness 
and piquancy of flavor not excelled, if even 
equaled, by the use of the varieties com¬ 
monly employed. The fruit is in season 
during the entire autumn, and apparently 
may, if not allowed to shrivel from evap¬ 
oration of moisture, be kept during part, if 
not the whole of winter. 
Bulletin 7 of the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College Experiment Station esti¬ 
mates the Cuthbert, Rancocas, Hansel, 
and Marlboro as the most productive of 
the red raspberries on trial. Strangely 
enough, the report characterizes the Han¬ 
sel as “ soft.” It is probably among the 
firmest of reds as grown in most localities. 
Again, it pronounces the Marlboro as 
“ firm.” In many places this berry is 
rather soft. Among blackcaps Carman is 
rated as “ weak in growth ” though it is 
very hardy and among the earliest. Hil- 
born is ranked high for productiveness, 
hardiness, quality and size. The Gregg is 
pronounced tender. So is the Nemaha- 
AMONG blackberries Agawam holds the 
highest rank as regards productiveness and 
hardiness. Taylor’s Prolific stands next. 
Early Harvest is ranked first for produc¬ 
tiveness but it is not hardy. The same may 
be said of Thompson’s Mammoth, Wilson 
Junior... 
Continued experiments in girdling 
grape-vines resulted in growing earlier 
crops by from six to 10 days, while the ber¬ 
ries were 30 per cent, larger and much sweet¬ 
er. Later they were somewhat insipid aad 
without the refreshing, vinous taste of 
those not girdled. The objection during 
the past very wet season was that from 20 
to 40 per cent, of the berries were lost by 
cracking open. 
The conclusion is arrived at that there 
is a decided gain in time of the ripening of 
the fruit which will enable Massachusetts 
vineyardists to grow many late varieties 
not possible without it; that a gain of 10 
days would make a great difference in the 
price of the fruit; that there is no loss of 
sugar,and that the increased size of the fruit 
would make it very attractive and more 
than make up for the softness of the berry. 
This latter condition can be of little objec¬ 
tion, as most of the grapes grown in New 
England are sold in local markets. 
This Massachusetts report might easily 
have been bettered. There are several ty¬ 
pographical errors, Nemeha, Minniwaski, 
Belle de Fontame c. g. Raspberries are ar¬ 
ranged to a scale of 1 to 10—1 indicating the 
greatest perfection. With tomatoes the 
scale is reversed. Over40 kinds are report¬ 
ed upon, but the table presenting them is 
too much of a puzzle for a busy man to 
work out..,.. 
It is very true, as the Albany Cultivator 
remarks, that about the first question 
which a purchaser asks is: “How well 
is this farm supplied with fruit?” A 
proper amount of ornamental planting 
is scarcely less important. A costly resi¬ 
dence bleakly exposed to wind and 
weather, is less attractive than a more 
humble one flanked with beautiful trees 
and shrubs. The ambitious and repulsive 
mansion is less desirable for the occupance 
of a rising family than one with all the at¬ 
tractions which may be imparted to it by 
foliage and flowers. 
We would request some of the agricul¬ 
tural experiment stations—those of the 
Middle States preferably—to try the corn 
known as Rural Thoroughbred Flint for 
ensilage. It is named after the R. N.-Y., 
to be sure; but aside from this fact, we 
neither have, nor have had, any interest in 
it beyond a desire to have it well tried as 
an economical variety for the silo. It will 
give more leaves to a plant than any va¬ 
riety of which we have any knowledge. 
Prof. J. L. Budd of Iowa, says, in the 
Farmers’ Review, that during the heated 
months a covering of growing buckwheat 
furnishes very nearly the cool, mellow soil 
found over the roots of trees in the primi¬ 
tive forest. Not only is the soil made cooler, 
permitting the nitrogen-feeding roots to 
come up nearly to the surface, but the lower 
beds of air coming in contact with the 
stems and lower branches are also cooler. 
If any one doubts the beneficial effects of 
buckwheat in a young orchard, let him 
sow one-half of the orchard to this crop 
the last of June, and treat the other half 
in any one of the ordinary ways. He will 
find in three years a difference in favor of 
the buckwheat portion that can be seen a 
mile distant. With the use of the new 
Japanese Buckwheat—which seems to fill 
perfectly in our worst seasons—the crop can 
be made profitable. If there is moisture 
enough in the soil when sown to bring it 
up Prof. Budd believes it r will mature a 
crop without rain. 
Pres. T. T. Lyon of Michigan, states in 
Popular Gardening that the Shiawassee 
Beauty possesses not only all the peculiar 
and desirable qualities of its supposed 
parent—the Fameuse—but is of somewhat 
larger size and nearly free from the lia¬ 
bility to scab and crack which proves so 
serious a drawback upon the value of the 
Fameuse. 
Dr. Ward of New Jersey, good authori¬ 
ty, speaks well of the Crystal Raspberry. 
He considers it far better than Golden 
Queen in flavor and color. 
Best Time for Cows to Calve.— The 
calves of Holstein-Friesian cows are, accord¬ 
ing to the experience of a Kentucky cor¬ 
respondent of the Holstein-Friesian Regis¬ 
ter, 25 per cent, larger than those of any 
other breed. The weight of his pure-bred 
Holstein calves has run from SO to 120 
pounds and he has heard of other breeders 
who had them to weigh, in a few instances, 
as high as 140 pounds on the day of their 
birth. Having lost so many calves from 
heifers that were bred to calve the spring 
they were two years old,he some time since 
adopted the plan of holding them back six 
months. This brought a number of heifers 
to calve during the fall months, at which 
time it is the nature of cows to grow their 
calves at least 25 per cent, smaller in size 
and weight than at spring birth. Since 
arranging to have heifers to make their 
first births in the fall he has had no trouble 
or losses; whereas with spring births, he 
not only lost many calves, but also lost two 
heifers that cost $300 each. 
The American Breeder thinks other¬ 
wise. It is a good idea, it says, to have a 
heifer drop her first calf in the spring, just 
as the fresh grass is starting. This kind of 
food is good for her health, and it stimu¬ 
lates milk secretion. Wheat-bran and 
corn-meal are a help, but be very careful 
with the corn-meal at first, lest it cause a 
feverish condition. Begin with the bran, 
and after a little keep adding corn-meal 
until it equals in weight the bran. 
by careful cultivation, and proves beyond 
question that the average farm yield of 
less than 100 bushels per acre must be due 
to inadequate culture and may be largely 
and most profitably increased, and that a 
little farm well tilled may be made greatly 
more profitable than a large farm badly 
tilled.” 
-“ Farmers make a great mistake by 
neglecting the schools and refusing to ex 
pend money enough upon them to make 
them most effective. The best schools 
should be found in the country, for there 
is more need there of training the young 
mind for future self-education. It is the 
half-educated young people who are lone¬ 
some and dissatisfied because they have 
not acquired the ability to continue useful 
studies after they have left school, and the 
mind, being unoccupied, the work they do 
becomes wearisome, plodding and distaste¬ 
ful, whereas it should be quite the reverse.” 
-Popular Gardening: “ Decorate your 
door yard with some ornamentals in this 
year 1890. Let those now plant who never 
planted before, and those who always plant, 
now plant the more.” 
-Henry Stewart : “ The experience 
of winter dairymen has abundantly shown 
that a cow may be kept through the winter 
quite as cheaply as through the summer, 
while the income is at least 25 per cent, 
more, and the cost of making butter is 
somewhat less, because no ice is required.” 
-Vermont Watchman: “The Rural 
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great illustrated farm journal of the 
world. Backed by abundant capital, a 
noble purpose and untiring energy, it well 
merits the wide-spread favor it receives.” 
-Journal of Commerce: “The men 
who make the most money from* farming 
are not the ones who work the hardest or 
the most hours, but those who manage 
with the greatest wisdom.” 
-American Stockman: “Twenty-five 
dollars a year for tobacco and one dollar 
a year for some cheap farm paper is a kind 
of management that makes the statement 
that farming does not'pay.'a much’greater 
truth than it otherwise would be.” 
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