THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
627 
i89o 
G. II. W., Lyndon, Ky.—I would like to 
call the attention of readers who contem¬ 
plate buying nursery stock to the letters 
or T. V. Munson, and T. T. Lyon, pages 
501 and 503. These gentlemen are men 
who have the fruit interests of this country 
at heart. A word to the wise is all that is 
necessary. Only last spring one of my 
neighbors lost IKK) by buying from a repre- 
sentativeof the “ Nursery of the Universe,” 
and I see the same parties are being exposed 
in Iowa. Let each reader keep his eye on 
the “ Rough on Rogues ” column. 
O. H.S., IOllicottsvillk, N. Y.—Colonel 
Curtis has said that oats and peas are a 
complete ration for cows for milk and but¬ 
ter; my wife says the rations may be all 
right; but that millet will make more and 
better milk, and more and better butter 
than oats and peas. We have had a fair 
trial of both this season. 
F. K. P., DELAY AN, Win.—Michigan par¬ 
ties in this State are, it is said, taking orders 
for Honey Locust hedges to be set and cared 
for for two years at $1.00 per rod. Has not 
the Honey Locust, after many years’ trial, 
proved practically worthless for hedges ? 
R. N.-Y.-We think so. 
“ Uber,” Falls Church, Va.— Let E. L. 
Taplin (p. 438) and S. M. B. (Timberville, 
Va., p. 449), use as a remedy for the eruption 
caused by Poison Ivy, a saturated solution 
of alum. I have tried numerous remedies 
during the past 25 years and have found 
no other so generally successful. It is 
troublesome to apply plantain. 
Here is a sample of many notes which 
The R. N.-Y. has of late received : 
“ I am glad to know that we have one 
agricultural journal with ‘sand’ enough 
to tell the plain facts about things. I have 
received Mr.-’s catalogue a number of 
years, but, chiefly because of the extrav¬ 
agant, misleading statements made there¬ 
in, I never ordered a cent’s worth from 
him. His seeds may be good and his plants 
large and strong, and some of his novelties 
really valuable, but his high-flown and far¬ 
fetched style of describing them has been 
a sufficient warning to keep my hands off 
and my cash in my pocket. There is no 
sense in describing such second-rate truck 
as ‘Wineberry,’ Crandall Currant, etc., 
etc., in such a bombastic style. But, then, 
many people love to be humbugged and 
his is the surest way to accomplish it.” 
The following note from T. V. Munson, 
of Texas, will arouse a sincere sympathy 
in the hearts of many others who have 
worked perseveringly to originate and 
introduce new and improved plants. We 
print it without his knowledge or consent : 
" So far, in spite of all the excellent 
things the press has voluntarily said of the 
great Parker Earle Strawberry, and my 
own advertisements to the extent of about 
2,000,000 in circulation, in the best mediums, 
I flud myself behind some hundreds of dol¬ 
lars in the enterprise of introducing it; but 
the world has now a better berry than ever 
before, all points considered. I scarcely 
expect my grapes ever to reimburse me 
the thousands of dollars my labors in their 
production and in working the problem of 
permanent and universal American viti¬ 
culture have cost me. It satisfies me to 
know that I have broadened and deepened 
the foundation of viticulture a thousand¬ 
fold. Future generations will reap the 
benefits, and thus I shall have been of 
some use. Notoriety, fame, wealth are 
hollow bubbles. To do good is the only 
true greatness and joy ; thus the humblest 
can be truly blest and happy, in adding 
something to the sum of beauty and 
healthfulness.” 
Insect Life, published by the authority 
of the Secretary of Agriculture, has the fol¬ 
lowing : 
“The Tulip-tree Scale insect.—The 
Rural New-Yorker of May 10, 1890, con¬ 
tained a little editorial notice of the dam¬ 
age done by Lecanium tulipiferie, Cook, 
with a rough figure of an infested limb. 
The tulip trees upon the Rural Grounds 
are said to be ‘ now so disfigured by this 
disgusting insect that they will have to be 
destroyed. The branches are covered with 
the scales which resemble so many chronic 
sores. The infested branches first turn 
black, as if scorched by fire, and then die.’ 
The editorial mention concludes with the 
statement: ‘ There is practically no way of 
fighting this insect. The kerosene emul¬ 
sion, if applied at the right time, and at re¬ 
peated intervals during two or three 
weeks, would, no doubt, afford a temporary 
relief.’ ’’The Editor(Dr.Riley) then remarks: 
“This, it strikes us, is a very unsatis¬ 
factory way of dismissing the remedy 
question, and we feel assured that a thor¬ 
ough treatment of the kerosene emulsion 
at the time when the young lice are hatch¬ 
ing will prevent the spread of the insects 
and result in the recovery of the trees.” 
Very good, Dr. Riley. The tree (one of 
them, at any rate), is 50 feet high. Are we 
to spray it frorti top to bottom ? Again, 
the tulips of a near-by grove are alive with 
these insects. Would you advise that we 
spray these as well ? 
THE RURAL’S LUNCH. 
ONE of the editors of an influential paper 
in this State writes to us, in connection 
with The R. N.-Y.’s remarks regarding 
the Wineberry, that it is high time that 
those who indulge in such extravagancies 
and absurdities should be forced to take a 
back seat. “ I have also been fighting 
these wrongs,” he says, “with all my 
ability, but it discourages me to see so 
many of our ‘ leading ’ journals so much 
more careful of their advertising interests 
than of the interests of their readers. 
Such seedsmen and florists engage whole 
pages in leading journals and the latter 
seldom dare to say anything against them. 
I was so glad to see The R. N.-Y. take such 
a decided stand for what is the interest of 
the public and for what is just and right. 
I hope that idle threats of withholding ad¬ 
vertising patronage, or of libel suits, etc., 
will not move you an inch from the course 
you have taken.”. 
It is rather a cruel comment upon the 
host of new strawberries that have pre¬ 
sented themselves during the past 10 years, 
to find that the Wisconsin growers vote for 
Crescent and Wilson; Jessie and Warfield 
come next. Manchester is preferred for 
late. Captain Jack, Bubach and Mt. Ver¬ 
non have a few friends. 
Here is a novelty in the way of straw¬ 
berries, that will strike our readers forc¬ 
ibly. It 1 b called “ First Season.” Mr. 
Childs (he of Wineberry notoriety) says: 
“ It bears a good crop Immediately after 
planting; it fruits at once." Here is a 
great step in the advance line. The next 
thing for Mr. Childs to secure is a straw¬ 
berry that “ bears a good crop ” before it is 
planted. 
WE learn that the Large Bush Lima 
(Burpee) as grown by the acre rarely grows 
to vine. The average, according to a 
trusted grower, is less than six runners to 
the acre. The R. N.-Y. has but a few 
plants and we were hasty in assuming that, 
because two of these were found to run to 
vine, the same average would hold good 
when grown in larger quantity. 
The several grafts of the Idaho, most of 
which were worked on a Keiffer, have not 
yet fruited, though we hoped for fruit 
this year. We learn that several trees are 
full of fruit in Idaho. A year-old specimen 
in the nursery row bears two pears. The 
bud was worked upon a seedling pear. 
W E further learn that the IdHho is suc¬ 
ceeding remarkably well in the South. 
The President of the Jennings Nursery 
Company, of Thomasville, Ga. (the center 
of the Le Conte pear-growing region) writes 
that cions of the Idaho set last spring have 
exceeded in growth that of Le Conte and 
Keiffer and at that date (June 25) were 
making an average growth of an inch a 
day. Colonel Stuart, of Ocean Spriugs, 
Miss., of pecan culture fame, under date of 
Juue 15, wrote that his Idaho cions had in 
90 days made a growth of six, eight ami 
12 feet. 
The Idaho Company have the pear 
worked on quince, and we are promised 
specimens in due time unless ruined by the 
codling moth, which, it appears, is very 
hard to combat successfully there. 
We regard this promising pear, as. in a 
way, the protegfe of The R. N.-Y., and we 
shall hope to And that it succeeds over a 
large part of the country. 
DR. S. W. Johnson Bays that it was J. I*. 
Bronner, of Baden, who first mentions that 
dung liquor is deodorized, decolorized and 
rendered nearly tasteless by filtration 
through garden earth. This was in 183d. 
Mr. Huxtable, of England, made the same 
observation in 1848 . 
Prof. Way filled a long tube to the 
depth of 18 inches with Mr. Huxtable’s 
light soil, mixed with its own bulk of 
white sand. Upon this a quantity of 
highly offensive tank water was poured. 
The liquid passed through in several hours. 
One ounce of it was quite clear and free 
from smell or taste. 
The big-hearted John Thorpe is the 
recognized father of the Society of Amer¬ 
ican Florists. 
Among the plants of our Peach Tomato 
is one that bears white (yellowish-white) 
berries. Is there a white variety of this 
tomato, or is this the first sport ?. 
Speaking of this pretty tomato it is 
enough to disorder one’s equilibrium when 
he reads such nonsense as the following, 
which we find in the catalogue of Mr. John 
Lewis Childs : “ When gathered no one is 
able to tell what they are by their looks. 
For picking from the vines and eating out 
of hand they are liked by most people much 
better than the finest peaches or oranges”!! 
The emphasis is ours. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
-Robert Craig, before the Society of 
American Florists: “We are proud of being 
here because Boston is the center—the 
acknowledged center—of horticulture in 
this country. It is the home of the great¬ 
est. the most successful, and one of the 
oldest horticultural societies in the land; a 
society that, ever since its organization, 
has numbered among its members some of 
the beBt citizens of Boston. In fact, hor¬ 
ticulture has been recognized in Boston as 
it has not been in any other city in the 
Union.” 
- Harper’s Bazar : “ Susie: ‘ Papa, isn’t 
it murder to kill a hog ?’ Papa (who is a 
lawyer): ‘Not exactly. Murder is assaulting 
with intent to kill, the other is killing with 
intent to salt.’ ” 
-President Jordan: “Large fortunes 
have been bequeathed to religious institu¬ 
tions. but who can foretell the teachings of 
any one religious sect one hundred years 
hence 7 Libraries have been established in 
various cities, and schools have been 
endowed to carry out some wishes of the 
donors, and while we all believe that much 
good is accomplished in evolving a higher 
civilization for those that can avail them¬ 
selves of the benefits of these institutions, 
yet we must acknowledge that those who 
are thus benefited are very few, compared 
with the great mass of people that frequent 
our parks and public grounds to take ob 
ject-lessons; where young and old, rich and 
poor, learned and illiterate meet on one 
common level to drink in Nature’s best 
gifts to man.” 
-Century Magazine : " A man on the 
point of doing a wrong thing should ask 
himself, not what will other people think 
of him, but what he will think of himself.” 
- “ Both in art and in practical life one 
should avoid a blind worship of the ex¬ 
traordinary; we too often bestow admira¬ 
tion when only curiosity is called for.” 
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