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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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can raise the plants yourself and thus se¬ 
cure a living and everlasting thermometer 
and barometer. In justice, however, let us 
say that before the appearance of the Kew 
Bulletin last January not one authentic 
word had been given to the public deroga¬ 
tory of the virtues of this weather plant. 
The R. N.-Y. has plants growing from 
seeds which Mr. Childs kindly sent, and we 
shall duly notify our readers what sort of 
a weather indicator it proves to be at the 
Rural Grounds. It does not cost quite so 
much as the weather bureau abomination 
at Washington, and will, no doubt, prog¬ 
nosticate quite as efficiently. 
SAUNTERINGS. 
The 21st annual report of the Fruit 
Growers’ Association of Ontario, gives 
some space to statements as to the compar¬ 
atively large amount of fruits and vege¬ 
tables that may be grown on small plots, 
such as city gardens. 
Mr. Dempsey had seen a little spot 
where pumpkins were planted, which ran 
on a wood pile, and some of them weighed 
100 pounds. He himself had taken 17 
bushels of onions off 17 feet square—a bushel 
from each foot. A man could take from 
20 feet square a crop of lettuce, of radishes, 
of cucumbers and a great many other 
things before the snow was off the ground, 
just by having some convenient glass and a 
stove. 
There are many spots in cities—especially 
in front of the house—remarked the presi¬ 
dent of the association, that might be beau¬ 
tified, and give the children an interest in 
growing plants. It would be very inter¬ 
esting for people engaged in commercial 
pursuits to indulge an hour now and then 
in a little spot of ground. They would be 
benefited in every way. There is something 
particularly refining in the cultivation of 
the soil for any purpose. 
Mr. Dempsey, well known as the origin¬ 
ator of new fruits, said that what he was 
worth to-day he made off three acres of his 
farm—and has supported his family and 
lived pretty well, and paid some other 
folks’ debts. 
Prof. Saunders said that he had a garden 
plot 66 by 110 feet, on which he put 120 
fruit trees, and grape vines along the 
borders and around the fences, and straw¬ 
berry vines about three feet from the 
grapes, bordering two paths, and he carried 
on that garden for 17 or 18 years, and in 
that time got an immense quantity of fruit 
off it. He might have realized a good deal 
more than $30 a year from the pears He got 
from those trees. He began by planting 
them out about eight feet apart each way, 
and as the trees grew large if they did not 
die he had to cut them out here and there 
so as to make room. He had as much as 
to two bushels of plums off these, trees— 
had to prop them up in all directions. He 
can corroborate all that has been said 
about gettiug a great deal off a small piece 
of land. No matter how small the piece is, 
by a little ingenuity and management you 
can make it useful, and make it contri¬ 
bute to your comfort and happiness. 
Many people manage to make more 
money out of their gardens than others do 
out of their farms. 
Mr. Falconer, in the American Florist, 
calls attention to the Cliveden pansies. 
They are not large, showy pansies for 
plucking, as are the Trimardeau, they are 
what we call bedding pansies, that is, 
pansies used in masses in spring flower 
gardening. The colors are clean white, 
clean yellow, and purple. The plants are 
of compact habit and extremely profuse; 
indeed they are the finest pure white and 
pure yellow bedding pansies Mr. F. knows 
of. Cliveden is the name of the Duke of 
Westminster’s country seat in Berkshire, 
England, and quite famous for its vast 
display of spring flower gardening. This 
fine strain of pansies is the one grown there 
and improved and perpetuated by careful 
selection. It comes true from seed. 
Noticing that the superintending gar¬ 
dener of Central Park had been seeding 
down some fresh patches of lawn, Mr. Fal¬ 
coner asked him what was the famous 
Central Park formula so freely advertised 
in catalogues. “We use Red Top and 
Blue Grass and a little White Clover, noth¬ 
ing more,” he said. Why. that’s what al¬ 
most everybody uses. For finely kept 
small lawns and croquet or tennis lawns 
however. Mr. F would omit the clover. 
The not uncommon practice of sowing 
some oats, Rye Grass or other vigorous 
grass among the finer grasses in order to 
give shade till the Blue or Red Top grasses 
get good hold is of no benefit whatever to 
the lawn grass, but on the contrary a seri¬ 
ous injury. Red Top seed, as the R. N.-Y. 
has shown from its comparative trials, 
germinates as freely as Timothy. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle of London 
speaks of Exochorda grandiflora as a little 
known but beautiful Chinese shrub. “ It 
forms a bush,” it says, “ three or four feet 
high.” This Exochorda, now changed to 
Spinea, is by no means rare in this coun¬ 
try and we know of many specimens, 10 
years old or more, that are not less than 10 
feet high. 
That there is any opposition or conflict 
between sciende and art or theory and 
practice, says Prof. S. W. Johnson, is a de¬ 
lusive error. They are as they ever have 
been and ever must be, in the fullest har¬ 
mony. If they appear to jar or stand in 
contradiction, it is because we have some¬ 
thing false or incomplete in what we call 
our science or our art; or else we do not per¬ 
ceive correctly, but are misled by the nar¬ 
rowness and aberration of our vision. It 
is often said of a machine that it is good in 
theory, but fails in practice. This is as un¬ 
true as untrue can be. If a machine fails 
in practice, it is because it is imperfect in 
theory. It should be said of such a failure: 
the machine is good, judged by the best 
theory known to its inventor, but its inca¬ 
pacity to work demonstrates that there is a 
fi.iw in the theory. 
The R. N.-Y., when the Clydesdale Oats 
were first introduced under that name, 
found them to be the same as the Welcome, 
and the statement was so made at the time. 
Mr.Hickman, the Agriculturist of the Ohio 
Station, says in a late bulletin, that both 
in yield of grain and in weight per bushel 
these sorts have varied in different years ; 
sometimes one has outyielded the other, 
and vice versa. Sometimes one has out¬ 
weighed the other, and vice versa. Botan- 
ically they are alike; in weakness of straw 
they are alike, and there seems to be no 
other difference between them to justify 
difference in name. 
A COMPANY has recently been incorpor¬ 
ated, and offers as its specialty a “ Non-acid 
Phosphate,” for which letters patent have 
been obtained. The process rests upon the 
discovery that the “tri-calcic phosphate 
rock can be rendered available as a fertil¬ 
izer without the use of acids. The process 
is less expensive than the acid treatment 
and the product a more valuable fertilizer.” 
It is claimed that the substitute for the 
deleterious sulphuric acid is in itself a valu¬ 
able fertilizer. 
Fifty-six POUNDS of quick lime become 
74 pounds when slaked. Seven hundred 
parts of water will dissolve one part of 
lime, forming the clear liquid known as 
lime-water. 
The Springfield Republican describes 
the methods followed by Mr. Dillon, of 
Massachusetts, in his efforts to grow a 
“prize crop” of potatoes. We are told 
that he has copied the “English bank” 
system partially. He plants two rows 15 
inches apart, and then gives 30 inches space 
between the next two rows, 15 inches dis¬ 
tant from each other. He runs a cultiva¬ 
tor between the rows that are 30 inches 
apart, and another implement with one 
tooth, which digs deep, in the 15-inch space. 
The hills are about seven inches apart in 
the rows, and one and two eyes of cut po¬ 
tatoes in a hill, making 41,500 hills on a 
measured acre, and Stockbridge’s potato 
fertilizer is used freely. 
A writer in the Country Gentleman 
says that before he had Jerseys he would be 
out of milk and outter every year for two 
or three months, but he has had no trouble 
of the kind since his purchase of a Jersey 
cow. He tried the Jersey with the Short¬ 
horns for about four years, and when two 
years ago he sold off a surplus of stock he sold 
all but the Jerseys. His father thought he 
had done a very foolish thing, and would 
use every opportunity to mention it for 
some time after, but to his surprise a few 
weeks ago his father said: “ If you will 
save me a Jersey heifer calf, I will give you 
a nice Short-horn calf for it.” And so it 
goes—little by little the prejudice is wear¬ 
ing away; and in a few years the Jersey 
will prove a boon to the now much de¬ 
pressed cattie trade. 
This accords with the R. N.-Y.’s exper¬ 
ience. In our farming we like the Jerseys. 
There are conditions, however, in which 
the Jerseys would be entirely out of place. 
The secret of success lies in selecting tools 
that suit your work. 
Shropshire Sheep.— Mr. C. Hills of 
Ohio, in an able argument in favor of 
Shropshire sheep, says there is not one of 
the many varieties or kinds of sheep in ex¬ 
istence that has not more or less valuable 
qualities for the production of either mut¬ 
ton or wool, or that is not an economic 
factor in some direction, tending to the 
improvement of the farmer’s homestead 
and the padding of his purse. But as these 
qualities vary to a large extent in the several 
breeds, it is most important that the party 
about to engage in this business should 
carefullv examine and ascertain what spe¬ 
cial kind is best adapted to his taste and 
surroundings—of climate, feed, markets 
and prices. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
- C. M. Stone: “An editor’s calling is 
other and higher than that of a waiter at a 
restaurant, expected to furnish whatever 
is called for, so long as the pay is forth¬ 
coming.” 
- A. L. Bancroft : “ As to the desir¬ 
ability of having one, and but one, per¬ 
manent and recognized name for an indi¬ 
vidual plant, all must agree. If this one 
accepted name could be decided upon by 
some central power and be made official for 
the whole country, it would be the most 
desirable thing that could be done; but it 
must be official and final or it would not be 
generally accepted and permanent, and 
would amount to nothing. The names, 
etc., should in this connection be recorded 
in a series of volumes to be known as the 
American Horticultural Register.” 
“ The originator of literature is protected 
by the copyright laws; the originator of 
inventive products by the patent laws, and 
they certainly deserve no greater recogni¬ 
tion than the originator of new and val¬ 
uable varieties of plants deserves to be pro¬ 
tected by propagation laws.” 
- American Florist : “ Quite regard¬ 
less. * I want a bouquet for a bride to 
carry. Have it a stunner—I don’t care for 
the cost! There’s a two-dollar bill for you 
—now do your prettiest 1 ” ’ 
-Binghamton Leader : “ There is all 
the difference in the world between a friend 
in need and a needy friend.” 
-Ashland Press : “ It is a careful wife 
who puts four big berries on top of her 
husband’s dish and seven at the bottom of 
her own.” 
- Republican : “ If the tobacco habit 
could be cured like bacon, by smoking, how 
easy it would be to swear off.” 
-W. O’Brien’s New Novel: “There 
are persons now in hell who might have been 
in heaven with half the trouble.” 
- How Crops Grow : “ When arsenic in 
the form of Paris green or London-purple, 
is applied to land, the arsenic soon becomes 
converted into highly insoluble iron com¬ 
pounds and is not taken up by plants.” 
-Specialties Rule : “ The post-office 
is no longer combined with the grocery, 
and the shoemaker has removed his bench 
from the dry-goods store. It has now be¬ 
come just as necessary for the gardener 
or the fruit grower to be trained to his 
profession if he would succeed, as it is for 
the doctor or for the lawyer.” 
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