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TIIE RURAI 
NEW-YORKER. 
February's 
Wk have had little experience with 
the White or Silver fir of Colorado— 
Abies concolor—but that little experi¬ 
ence, together with what we have heard, 
leads us to commend it to all of our 
northern friends who purpose planting 
evergreens next spring. We have had it 
only five years. The growth while young 
is slow, but it seems exceedingly hardy. 
In fact, we doubt whether there is a 
hardier fir, unless it may be the Siberian 
fir, Abies Siberica, which, however, is 
far less desirable. The Silver fir is fitly 
so called. Its leaves are as silvery as 
those of the Blue spruce, fine specimens 
of which, selected as to color, we regard 
as standing foremost, if not first, among 
the spruces. 
If we could get the Concolor fir and 
the Blue spruce, we would never think 
of planting either the Norway spruce or 
Balsam fir. 
Ouk one tree of the Siberian fir is 
about 18 years old. It has never been 
harmed in the least by the cold of win¬ 
ter or the heat of summer. It is now 
about 10 feet high, and of a narrow 
pyramidal shape. The color of the leaves 
is a rather dull green. 
Wk may now give our readers further 
information as to the Chinese gourd 
fruit, Benincasa cerifera or Cassabanana. 
Our single specimen, about a foot long 
and four inches in diameter—we are 
writing from memory—was kept until 
.lanuary 1. This fruit is a fine keeper. 
It was peeled, cut up in angular pieces 
an inch long by three-fourths of an inch 
in diameter, and to every pound of fruit 
was added a pound of sugar. Water was 
added, and the whole boiled and placed 
in glass jars. 
We have now a rich preserve, the llavor 
of which it is hard to describe, because 
really different from that of any other 
preserve we have ever eaten. We would 
say that it is an agreeable blending of 
the muskmelon and a pineapple. 
There is a question whether this fruit, 
which resembles, as we have said, a big 
Bologna sausage, with a deep red, smooth 
skin like that of an egg plant fi*uit, is 
the same as that which Prof. Bailey tells 
us about, under the same name, in Bul¬ 
letin 67 of 1894. lie says that “the fruit 
is round or oblong, and the exterior 
greenish and hairy, and covered with a 
film of white wax-like substance.” That 
answers for a description of the Zit-Kwa 
or Benincasa cerifera, m so far as we 
could judge it, from the tornado-stricken 
vines and fruit we raised last summer. 
Evidently, however, the Benincasa sent 
to us by J. L. Normand, of Marksville, 
La., is quite different. There wasn’t a 
hair upon the surface ; no “film of white 
wax-like substance.” Mr. Normand says 
that his Benincasa came from the East 
Indies—not from China. 
Tuk Rev. Dr. Garrick of Ashland 
P. O., Va., writes us as follows : 
East spring, I bought two large plants of the 
greatly praised new rose Crimson Rambler from 
a first-class house. I planted one by a porch, aud 
the other in what 1 thought a good place on the 
lawn. Both are alive, but I don’t think that 
either has grown an inch. I asked a florist in 
Richmond about it, and he told me that com¬ 
plaints of the same sort were common. Uave you 
had any experience with it? I am considering 
whether I shall bother any more with it. I have 
Jacqueminot and English Moss roses that grew 
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six feet last year. From my experience, Crimson 
Rambler isn’t worth its room. 
We would advise our respected friend 
not to conclude without further trial 
that this beautiful rose is not worth its 
room. Several of our own plants be¬ 
haved much as did those of Dr. Garlick. 
The others made a rapid, vigorous 
growth of several feet. Just why the 
plants should behave so differently, we 
may not say. Let us hear from others 
who have the Crimson Rambler. 
Dr. Garlick says that last season was 
the driest of any in 40 years in his part 
of Virginia. He planted a few each of 
Carman No. 1 and No. 3 potatoes, and 
they surpassed largely any others in 
yield. We are glad to know this, as it 
is one of the few reports that we have 
received from the South. 
The R. N.-Y. contends that the so- 
called Golden Self-blanching celeries are 
far inferior in quality to the white or 
pink varieties. We shall be glad to hear 
what our celery-growing friends have to 
say about it. 
Well, next summer we shall know 
just about how much Saghalin may be 
worth as a fodder plant; and we shall 
further know, through The R. N.-Y.’s 
trials, if through no other source, what 
may be the comparative value as between 
Saghalin, Polygonum cuspidatum, and 
P. amplexicaule. 
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