1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
RURAUSMS — Continued , 
medium breadth, and enduring. The 
largest leaves are 17x7 inches, of a dark- 
green color edged with purple. Septem¬ 
ber 2. Height, four feet. 
Madame Montefiore (Dreer) bloomed 
July 1, the plants two feet tall. July 10, 
the plants were 3}£ feet high, the flower 
panicle elevated 18 inches above the 
green leaves. August 9 the flower pan¬ 
icles were six feet high and 30 inches 
above the leaves on strong, perfectly 
straight stems. This variety is not a 
great bloomer. Many of the leaves are 
20 inches long and 9 inches wide. The 
flowers are of a brilliant yellow with 
spots of feeble crimson. September 2, 
this variety was the tallest in the collec¬ 
tion, being six feet, four inches to the 
top of the flower stem. It bears its 
torch-like head of flowers far above the 
foliage supported by an arm at least two 
feet in height above the foliage. 
Admiral Avellan (Dreer). There is no 
better variety among the dark colored 
foliage class. Some of the leaves (Aug¬ 
ust 1) are two feet long, of a rich shade 
of dark purplish green with veins of 
darker purple. There are not many 
flowers in the cluster. The petals are 
broad and of a reddish orange color. 
The flower stems, August 1, were three 
feet in height, the flowers raised a foot 
above the leaves and borne in rather 
small, slender clusters. The chief value 
of this variety rests in its grand foliage. 
The largest leaves are 22 inches long 
and 734 inches broad. September 2, the 
height of the plant was five feet, six 
inches. 
Ami Pichon (Dreer) was late to bloom. 
August 9, the flower stalks were four 
feet in height bearing fine heads of flow¬ 
ers which are of a rich scarlet with lines 
of crimson. The leaves (medium green) 
are 22 inches long and 10 inches wide. 
The foliage is splendid. September 2, 
the plants were five feet high. The 
petals are very broad. 
J. Farquhar—our notes are deficient— 
September 2, was nearly six feet high. 
The petals are narrow—a broad crimson 
tongue on a yellow ground. 
It will be seen that, as in previous 
years, we have given the lengths of the 
plants—foliage and flowering stems. It 
is important if we would have a well- 
balanced, symmetrical bed, that the tall¬ 
est plants should be placed in the middle. 
It is important, too, that the color of the 
leaves be given. These in cannas vary 
from a pea-green to a deep maroon or 
purple. In massing, one wants all the 
colors evenly distributed. The culture 
of cannas is of the simplest. The plants 
are not the favorite food of insects. 
They will thrive during the severest 
droughts. They need a deep, rich, 
mellow soil, to be sure, if we would have 
them do their best. 
Tby the President Wilder and White 
Imperial currants. 
Manifestly there are Crimson Ram¬ 
blers and Crimson Ramblers; but the 
cause of the difference is not so manifest 
as the fact. Mr. H. N. Smith of South 
Sudbury, Mass., has this to say: 
I noticed a recent communication iu The R. N.- 
Y. in regard to the Crimson Rambler rose, which 
was very similar to my own experience with it 
last season. My plant which was obtained from 
a most reliable florist, made a feeble growth and 
mildewed badly in spite of good treatment and 
the use of sulphur, all through the season, which 
was rather wet, but other roses near by did well. 
Cheap Excursions to the l/l/est and 
Northwest. 
On April 21 and May 5, 1896, the North- 
Western Line (Chicago & North-Western 
R’y) will sell Home Seekers’ excursion 
tickets at very low rates to a large num¬ 
ber of points in Northern Wisconsin, 
Michigan, Northwestern Iowa, Western 
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and 
South Dakota, including the famous 
Black Hills district. For full informa¬ 
tion apply to ticket agents of connecting 
lines or address H. A. Gross, G. E. P. A , 
423 Broadway, New York.— Adv. 
We would like our friends and the ex¬ 
periment stations to try the dry Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture as a preventive of the flea 
beetle upon potatoes. We are not pre¬ 
pared to say positively that it will keep 
them from the vines, but that the vines 
upon which we used it 'Constantly last 
year were not harmed by the beetle.... 
Mr. Carson, of the Kew Gardens, 
England, has recently experimented as 
to the best method of preserving oranges. 
He buried them under three to four 
inches of dry soil, and after over six 
months, found them quite sound. 
Sorghum as Fodder. 
A. H. G., Lawrence, Kan. —The ques¬ 
tion of cheap and nutritious feed for 
stock, is one of large importance. Some 
time ago, eastern correspondents con¬ 
sidered sweet-corn fodder, with the con¬ 
clusion that it was not a safe, reliable 
keeping fodder for winter use. I have 
used sorghum for 25 years in Kansas, as 
a feed for horses and cows, with most 
satisfactory results. It is remarkable 
as a food for young stock, as colts and 
calves; they will leave any other for 
sorghum, and they make the largest 
growth on such fodder. It is easy to 
grow, cure and keep; if sown broad¬ 
cast, it needs care to cure well before 
stacking. It keeps stacked well; no 
water will penetrate it or while shocked 
in the field, but my way mostly, is to 
plant it with a corn planter, set the slides 
to drop only half the bulk as for corn, and 
put the drills close, cultivate as for corn, 
and shock it the same. It thus yields 
more feed than anything else. In feed¬ 
ing to grown stock, feed it only nights, 
and corn fodder mornings. 
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