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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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manure to the surface and rake it in. Old 
horse manure and unleached wood ashes 
are excellent for roses. 
JosiAH HooPES, excellent authority, says 
in the N. Y. Tribune that roses on their own 
roots are more reliable than the budded 
plants, no matter what the stock on which 
thpy are worked. The latter will snicker 
under all circumstances, and although they 
grow stronger at first, will in a few years 
prove less vigorous than the former. In 
planting budded roses, the point of union 
between top and root must be placed an 
inch or two beneath the surface of the soil, 
when frequently roots will be emitted from 
the stock, thus making them comparatively 
on their own roots. Roses dislike hot 
weather, and early planting gives them a 
chance to form new roots before summer.. 
Spring is the time to prune hardy roses. 
They bloom on the new wood. Hence we 
should cut out all weakly old shoots and 
prune back the most rugged shoots. The 
main point is to keep the bushes well 
balanced, shapely and rugged. 
Pres. T. T. Lyon speaks of several 
varieties of the Sand Pear, in the Michigan 
Farmer. He says that the Mikado, often 
alluded to in these columns, is probably the 
most disseminated of the Sand Pears in 
the United States. Its fruit is shaped 
much like an oblate apple; and has a long 
stem. It is of no account whatever as a 
dessert fruit he says, and without any 
practical knowledge of the matter he very 
much doubts if it will be found desirable, 
even for culinary purposes. In this our 
respected friend is mistaken. For several 
years the R. N Y. home people have canned 
the Mikado, finding it in every way desir¬ 
able for tne purpose. The tree is one of 
the most beautiful of pear trees: of fine, 
pyramidal habit, with abundant, very large 
and unusually glossy foliage, which is re¬ 
tained till late autumn, and fruit, which, 
though not especially beautiful, is yet at¬ 
tractive, it only for its novel appearance; it 
will hang upon the tree till the occurrence 
of freezing weather. So striking are these 
peculiarities that, if grown as a pyramid, 
and branched from the ground, it may even 
be planted upon the lawn, with good effect. 
It appeal’s, says Mr. Lyon, to be entirely 
hardy, at least as far north as Southern 
Michigan. 
The fact is, says our handsome con¬ 
temporary, the Breeders’ Gazette, that many 
farmers have become so discouraged with 
cattle that they have grown very careless 
as to the character of the sires they are 
using. It is certainly true that there are 
fewer pure bred bulls of the beef breeds 
doing service to-day all through the country 
than at any other time in recent years, and 
the effect of this retrograde movement is 
clearly observable in the daily receipts at 
leading points. This means but one thing, 
viz ; that those who have the strictly good 
beeves to send forward during the next few 
years are likely to be in such a minority that 
their cattle will be wanted at figures that 
will yield extremely handsome returns. 
There never has been such an opportunity 
presented for the purchase of pedigreed 
bulls and surely there never can be a 
fairer prospect of rich reward following 
their use. The long-looked for occasion for 
seizing time by the fore-lock in this matter 
is now indisputably at hand. 
A MEMBER of the Ohio Horticultural 
Society expresses surprise, in the Ohio 
Farmer, at the Wealthy Apple as grown in 
Mian i County. It is smooth, handsome 
and as large as the Northern Spy. The 
Yellow Transparent is the coming summer 
apple, aud would be welcomed by many 
who are unable to grow the unhealthy 
Early Harvest. 
A member of the New Hampshire 
Dairymen’s Assocation, according to the 
New Englaud Farmer, says that the season 
has been against keeping the solids in milk 
up to the legal standard of hi per 
cent. Farmers are also learning to their 
sorrow that continuous breeding for quan¬ 
tity will breed the quality out. Several 
noted herds in the milk-producing districts 
have been compelled to withdraw from the 
trade because they could not keep up to the 
standard, except by syphoning out the bot¬ 
tom of the cans and sendiug only the top.. 
COWS TO produce 300 pounds of butter 
per year must calve in the autumn after 
the severe heat of mid summer jspringcows 
can no: pass through fly time in full flow 
or regain it later. Mr. Fitch of Massa¬ 
chusetts would feed grain every day in the 
year except when drying off. 
Mu. George Powell states as a big fact 
that he had been able to obtain moi’e milk 
butter from a ration of pilage and six 
pounds per day of grain, than from a ration 
of hay and dried corn-stalks, with nine 
pounds of grain. He might have added, says 
Hoard’s Dairyman, that 20 pounds of hay 
10 pounds of dry corn-stalks, and nine 
pounds of grain would cost about 21% cents 
per day, wdiile 40 pounds of silage, six 
pounds of grain, aud five pounds of hay 
would cost 12}<; cents. 
Mr. Sharper of the Elmira Farmers’ 
Club, as reported in the Husbandman, says 
that one peck of potatoes if fed with meal 
is worth as much as a bushel of turnips. 
Mr. Hoffman thinks that one peck of 
potatoes is worth as much as one bushel of 
any roots for feed. 
Mr. McCann would rather have one cent’s 
worth of bran for feeding than four cents’ 
worth of roots. 
Mr. Collins believes that w T e get more 
milk by feeding beets, or turnips with grain, 
and the cows will eat more meal or feed 
with them than without. 
Sir Rowland Hill is described by the 
Dingee & Conard catalogue as one of the 
very darkest of all roses, being a “blackish 
maroon.” The flowers are large and fra¬ 
grant... 
THE five darkest colored roses are named 
as Baron de Bonstetten, Pierre Notting, 
Antoine Quihou, Souvenir de Ducher and 
Prince Camille de Rohan. They are hybrid 
perpetuals. 
Blue Gum Trees From Seed.— Some 10 
years ago the Australian Fever Tree was 
much talked of. In order to find out what 
sort of a plant it was, as well, also, as to 
learn something of its hardiness, which 
w r as then a disputed point, we purchased 
seeds and planted them. Somewhat to our 
surprise they germinated freely and grew 
with great rapidity. It was found after¬ 
wards that they could withstand but a few 
degrees of frost, three or four as we remem- 
hei\ Mr. Falconer now speaks of this in¬ 
teresting tree in the American Florist. He 
advises that we get an ounce of fresh seed 
of Eucalyptus globulus, sow it now and 
raise thousands of plants. By March they 
will be pretty little plants in 2K or three- 
inch pots and in good shipping order; but 
if you wish to grow them on you can have 
three or four-feet-high plants in eight-inch 
pots by next May. But if this be not de¬ 
sired you can keep them in good, healthy 
condition in three or four-inch pots till 
planting-out time in May. They grow 
almost as rank as corn the first year. 
Globulus is the commonest and most de¬ 
sirable of any, and a very handsome 
glaucous, blue-leaved plant for sub-tropical 
effect in summer gardens. 
Tuberous Begonias.— A friend of Mr. 
Falconer who makes a specialty of tuber¬ 
ous begonias writes him : “ Those that 
bloomed latest were the best. I have 
doubles as large as roses and some singles 
that will easily measure six inches across, 
good round flowers.”. 
' ABSTRACTS. * 
-Journal of Commerce: “Our Side 
and The Other Side.— It. is admitted 
we believe that all men are more or less 
depraved, but the great majority of those 
who are desperately wicked belong to 
the other party. Our side, in religion, is 
orthodox, and ours is the only true church. 
The other fellows are iufidels. Their sym¬ 
bols are idolatrous, their creed is packed 
with heresies, or if it has in it any element 
of truth, they do not believe in it, and they 
have no chance of salvation here or here¬ 
after. Our side in medicine is the only 
school that can cope with disease, or that 
really has any knowledge of the healing 
art. The other M. D.s are quacks, and 
kill more people than they cure. In trade 
and in all business-relations, ours is the 
only side that can be trusted. Our people 
make the only genuine products; every¬ 
thing that does not have on it our label is 
spurious or adulterated. ” 
-Mr. Ware before the Massachusetts 
Hortk i LTi'RAi. Society : “The people of 
California are happy, contented aud self- 
satisfied ; every one thinks his location the 
best of all, and where every one has the 
best, of course there can be no jealousy; 
but every one wants to sell out. They 
want from $200 to $350 per acre, which l 
have thought too high ; it is rather a pros¬ 
pective value.” 
-- Farmers’ Review : “ Success iu fai’ming 
depends more on keeping down expenses 
than on increasing income.” 
-C"oi. man’sRi ral World: “A man can 
be longer starving to death, on a farm than 
ip any other business,” 
-Era : “ The Crow—A grain elevator.” 
—Boston Gazette: “A Beehive—A n 
old homestead.” 
- Journal Of Commerce: “The prop¬ 
erty of the country is increasing every year 
because there are still so many faithful 
hands at hard work adding to it by their 
toil. But the speculators who hope to fill 
their pockets without contributing any¬ 
thing to the common stock are multiplying 
more rapidly in proportion to their num¬ 
bers than the patient workmen, and it is 
their persistent efforts to live on the labor 
of others that bring so many of their own 
rauks, and those who are entangled with 
them, to the list of the bankrupts.” 
-Washington Star: “Two of a kine— 
twin calves.” 
-James Tallin, London Garden.- “ One 
plant of any variety of rose on its own roots 
is worth 10 worked on any variety of 
stock.” 
-“A Dwarf Japanese Hemlock.— 
Amongthe plants introduced into this coun¬ 
try from Japan by Mr. Thomas Hogg is a 
dwarf, compact, pyramidal variety of the 
Japanese Hemlock (Tsuga Sieboldi), which 
does not seem to be much known yet be¬ 
yond the borders of the Flushing Nursery. 
It is an attractive and interesting plant, 
nevertheless, well suited to occupy a place 
in a small garden, and well worth culti¬ 
vating in any collection of conifers.” 
- Christian Union : “That advertise¬ 
ment is played 1 The public has chewed j 
on that cud till its jaws must be tired. 
Give it some fresh grass, or you’ll find our 
cow beginning to dry up.” 
-Henry Ward Beecher: “ No matter 
what a man’s work is, he is abetter man for 
having had a thorough mind-drilling. If 
you are to be a farmer, go to college or to 
the academy first. If you are to be a 
mechanic, and you have an opportunity of 
getting an education, get that first. If you 
mean to follow the lowest calling—one of 
those callings termed “menial”—do not be 
ignorant; have knowledge. A man can do 
without luxuries and wealth and public 
honors, but not without knowledge. Pov¬ 
erty is not disreputable, but ignorance is.” 
-“ WE are all of us bounded by fences— 
sectarian fences, political fences, social 
fences, local fences. Down with them !” 
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