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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURAUSMS—Continued. 
it has been that single-eye seed do not 
pay at all. Two-eye pieces from large 
tubers with lots of flesh, are the smallest 
we care to use. It is well known— 
it has been proved time and again — 
that whole potatoes give the largest 
yields. It has also been shown that whole 
potatoes for seed, if the tubers have 
many eyes, yield a maximum of small 
tubers. This, however, may be remedied 
by planting further apart. Now that 
seed potatoes were never lower in price, 
we may well be liberal in the size of the 
seed used. With our present assumed 
knowledge, were we growing potatoes 
for the largest possible yield, at the 
least expense, we would use medium- 
sized tubers cut in half lengthwise so that 
each half would have just a half of the 
seed-end as well as the stem-end eyes... 
Paragon Not a Dwarf.— On page 216, 
we alluded to the Paragon chestnut as a 
dwarf. Thus we judged because of the 
early bearing of our own trees and their 
slow growth. H. M. Engle & Son, the 
introducers of the Paragon, have this 
to say : 
Of all the varieties of chestnuts that we have 
grown thus far, the Paragon is the strongest. 
That some trees grow dwarfish, may be account¬ 
ed for by their being grafted on weak stocks with 
a tendency to overbear; but we find such to be 
the case with any variety of fruit. Grafted on 
Paragon seedlings, we would expect few weak 
trees. 
ity, and to continue to bear on the young 
wood until frost. Our own specimens 
made little growth last year, because of 
the anthraenose. 
Prof. Bailey, of Cornell, regards Red 
June as the best early Japan plum he 
has seen. It ripens in Ithaca about Aug¬ 
ust 1. Luther Burbank says that it is a 
splendid market plum. President Berck- 
mans says that there will be a big de¬ 
mand for Red June. It is very much 
better than the Willard. 
We received a plant of the Otaheite 
orange last Christmas. It bore about 
eight oranges, two of them seemingly 
ripe as j udged by the color. Those two 
oranges are still on the little bush with¬ 
out decay or blemish. 
The new pea, Juno, is praised in all 
the catalogues because of its excellent 
quality. The vines grow about two feet 
high.. 
Mr. J. J. II. Gregory is disappointed 
in the new Imperial tomato, in that it is 
not so early as claimed. In other ways, 
he is pleased with it. 
We have had the comparatively new 
clematis, C. paniculata, for four years. 
It is hardy at the Rural Grounds, and so 
thrifty a grower that it easily covers an 
arbor 7x6 feet, every season. Its little 
white flowers are not conspicuous as in¬ 
dividuals, but there are so many of them 
that, during its period of blooming, the 
vines are more a mass of white than of 
green. 
We cannot help doubting that the 
Bismarck, or any other apple, will bear 
on two-year-old grafts unless the variety 
be worked on Paradise or some other 
equally dwarfing stock. 
Dr. T. H. Hoskins, who must now be 
ranked among the first pomologists of 
America, has been a good friend and a 
regular contributor to The Rural New- 
Yorker ever since the paper was changed 
in name from Moore’s R. N.-Y. to The 
R. N.-Y., some 20 years ago, by its pres¬ 
ent senior editor. Dr. Hoskins, ever 
prompted by a keen conscience and an 
absolute disregard of the criticisms he 
might provoke from interested parties, 
has never failed to praise heartily and 
condemn severely, the merits or demerits 
of new fruits,after he has discovered them 
from his own trials upon his farm near 
Newport, Vt. It is exceedingly gratify¬ 
ing to receive from such men recognition 
as to The R. N.-Y.’s endeavors to guide 
its readers in their selections of novelties 
such as the following which closed his 
little article last week on “ Gooseberries 
and Currants in Vermont ” : 
I have planted only the Fay currant, and the 
Red Jacket gooseberry, since The R. N.-Y. called 
attention to their merits. And, by the way, The 
It. N.-Y. has, in the past 30 years, put a good deal 
of money in my way by its recommendations of 
valuable novelties; I would not hesitate, at any 
time, to make large orders, solely on its recom¬ 
mendation. I may add that it saved me some¬ 
thing in warning me as to the Japanese Wine- 
berry. 
When a man gets to be nearly 60 years 
old, he may, perhaps, be pardoned if 
such kindly recognitions are accepted as 
some evidence that the good work he has 
earnestly tried to do, is not wholly with¬ 
out appreciation. 
It is the story told by several of the 
leading catalogues, that Siebert’s Early 
Lima is the best bean ever offered, all 
thiDgs considered. 
Probably the Gault blackcap is the 
most prolific of the “ perpetual” bearers. 
The berries are said to be fine in qual- 
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