1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
3o7 
R UR A LIS MS — Continued. 
siderable space—20 feet or more. These 
vines take root at the joints, so that it 
propagates itself and will cover, in time, 
all the space given to it. The plant has 
no inclination to assume an upright or 
bushy form. Though usually employed 
to creep over banks and to hang down 
walls in a most graceful manner, or to 
cover stumps or rockeries, it is beautiful 
as a pillar rose. Mr. Falconer planted 
a single root against a post seven feet 
high. The vines soon reached the top, 
so that they were led, arch-fashion, 
across a walk to an opposite post, tying 
them as they advanced. When the tips 
of the vines reached the soil, they rooted 
there as a blackcap raspberry would do. 
“Without any exception,” he says, 
“ when it was in bloom, it was the finest 
sight in the way of a rose arch I ever 
saw, and it riveted the attention of 
everybody who came within sight of it.” 
A heavy crop of red hips (fruits) followed 
the flowers which hang upon the vines 
all winter. Again the vine is perfectly 
hardy—not a bud or tip is injured. We 
wish you, friends, to try this charming 
rose. 
Again tiie Otaiieite. —A few weeks 
ago, we told our readers about how long 
the oranges would last upon the little 
bushes after ripening without blemish. 
At Figs.96, 97 and 98, first page, we show 
the same orange, in the perfect fruit, 
the half fruit, and the perfect fruit 
with the skin partially removed. The 
last shows the extreme thinness of the 
rind. This particular orange seemed to 
be ripe last Christmas. When removed 
last week, it was as you see it in the 
photo-engravings, without a blemish. 
The quality is inferior, because it is a 
triile bitter. Still it is edible, and, when 
served with sugar, nearly as good as 
the cheap Messina oranges so abundant 
in the markets at this season. They are 
without seeds. 
The flowers are nearly an inch in 
diameter when fully unfolded. The five 
white petals are nearly as fleshy as 
miniature magnolia flowers, and as fra¬ 
grant as other orange blossoms. The 
stamens are many and erect about a 
pistil, the stigma of which is nearly as 
large as a pin head. The anthers shed 
their bright, yellow pollen as soon as 
the flowers are fairly opened, and the 
plants are nearly always both in fruit 
and flower. The Otaheite is a most in¬ 
teresting house plant, enduring the heat 
and gas of sitting rooms quite well, if 
the soil is kept constantly moist—not 
wet—and the leaves are sponged from 
time to time. The plant succeeds well 
in the garden, also, if shaded from the 
sun during the hottest part of the day. 
It will be remembered that this variety 
is used for stocks upon which to bud 
other and superior varieties when it is 
desired to dwarf them, the same as the 
Paradise stock is used to produce dwarf 
apples. The leaves are evergreen. 
FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
The Blue Victor Potato. 
C. E. B., Crossville, Tenn. —On page 
857 of last year’s It. N.-Y., W. W. W. 
asked, among other things, about the 
Blue Victor potato. I think it is the best 
potato grown, considering quality, pro¬ 
ductiveness and good keeping qualities. I 
have raised it, alongside of the R. N.-Y. 
No. 2, Early King, Burbank, Late Rose, 
American Wonder, Salzer’s Early, Early 
Mayflower, Early Ohio, Peachblow, Early 
Peachblow, and several other kinds, of 
which 1 do not now remember the names; 
but I have never yet found a variety that 
would make as large a yield, for two con¬ 
secutive years. The tubers are large, 
smooth, shapely potatoes, blue in color, 
except that a part of them are slightly 
mottled with white. I found several 
pure white ones, ana have planted and 
selected for several years, and now have 
them all white. They are beautiful 
potatoes, with a smooth, glossy skin. 
Following is a report of the yield of 
several kinds planted in the same field: 
The rows were nine rods long and four 
feet apart, plants 15 to 18 inches apart 
in the row. Each row had 10 pounds 
of fertilizer, which analyzed about two 
percent ammonia, 10 per cent phosphoric 
acid and three per cent potash. Blue 
Victor yielded 1% bushel per row; White 
Victor, IX bushel : American Wonder, 
1 1-5 bushel; R. N.-Y. No. 2,1 1-6 bushel ; 
Early King, one bushel; Early Ohio, one 
bushel. The Blue Victors are very wliite- 
fieshed, but are not so dry and mealy as 
some potatoes. We consider them a little 
better in quality than the R. N.-Y. No. 
2. They grow larger than the latter 
potato, but not quite so smooth ; there 
are very few small ones. 
Some Thoughts About Roads. 
T. D. J., Dutchess County, N. Y.—I 
wish to concur heartily with the remarks 
in The R. N.-Y. on making a road part 
stone, say, 10 feet wide. I fear the idea 
will lose some of its value because some 
will throw it aside at reading of the esti¬ 
mated cost for a mile of Macadam road, 
18 feet wide, as $2,000 or $3,000. When 
one has had experience, he knows that 
such a road, with the greatest care, can¬ 
not be constructed for less than $ 6,000 
per mile. Another remark about con¬ 
sidering the wear and tear on harness 
and wagons, may lead to indifference, 
for it is not the place to begin. It is not 
the best way of getting at the value of 
a stone road bed, in my judgment, while 
I believe it is a very valuable considera¬ 
tion. Here is another way. I ask any 
reader of The R. N.-Y. if he can tell 
how many miles of road there are in his 
township. I never yet heard a definite 
answer to that question. Year in and 
out, the farmers have laid the tax, threw 
on the dirt and paid the bill. Their 
fathers may have lived and died in the 
township, in blissful ignorance of what 
it was costing them per mile. 
Here is my idea. Let some five farmers 
in a township get together, and agree to 
give $1 apiece to some boy with a 
bicycle which has on it a pedometer. 
Let him go over the roads of a township, 
and measure them accurately. They 
would have some definite idea of cost 
under the old system, to compare with 
that under a new. I give an instance to 
prove the importance of this. As soon as 
I began to consider this road question as 
a State matter, I took up a Register of 
New York State, and got the number of 
townships. But I found no word in 
reference to the number of miles in each 
township. I turned to three farmers of 
this township for the number of miles 
here where they were born. One said 
50 miles, another 200, and the third said 
300. They were simply guesses. How 
in the wide world are you going to count 
the cost of anything unless you know 
something definite about it ? 
ARMSTRONG & McKELVY 
Pittsburgh. 
BEYMER-BATJMAN 
Pittsburgh. 
DAVIS-CHAMBERS 
Pittsburgh. 
FAHNESTOCK 
Pittsburgh. 
ANCHOR 
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ATLANTIC 
BRADLEY 
BROOKLYN 
JEWETT 
ULSTER 
UNION 
SOUTHERN 
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COLLIER 
MISSOURI 
RED SEAL 
SOUTHERN 
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Cincinnati. 
Now York. 
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St. Louis. 
JOHN T. LEWIS * BROS.CO 
Philadelphia. 
M0RLEY 
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Cleveland. 
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Buffalo. 
Louisville. 
T he mistress of the house 
is always interested in having painting 
done, and the great variety of shades 
or combinations which can be produced by 
the use of 
Pure W h ite Lead 
and the Tinting Colors will afford her an 
opportunity to exercise her judgment and 
taste and secure the best and most durable 
paint. The brands shown in list are genu¬ 
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Co.’s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. No 
trouble to make or match a shade. 
Pamphlet giving valuable information and card showing samples 
of colors free; also cards showing pictures of twelve houses of different 
designs painted in various styles or combinations of shades forwarded 
upon application to those intending to paint. 
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Eight Years Cured; 
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Roslindale, Boston, Mass. 
Seven Years Cured: 
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Eight Years Cured:. 
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Five Years Cured: 
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Address 
IN writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
HOW MANY 
different advertisements of 
COLUMBIAI 
BICYCLES 
HAVE YOU SEEN ? 
The variety of Colum¬ 
bia Bicycle advertising — 
is great. All the good ^ 
points of Columbias, /* 
all the delight of riding 
them, cannot be fully 
described in any one 
advertisement, nor in 
a hundred. 
We wish to know how 
many announcements 
can reach any one person, and so offer a 
COLUMBIA PD|7C" 
BICYCLE as a ■ Vm I An La 
to whoever shall send us the greatest 
number of different Columbia Bicycle 
advertisements clipped from newspapers 
or magazines issued since Jan. I, 1896 . 
Many advertisements differ only in a word 
or two; others in the style of type; distinct 
variations only, however, will be counted. 
Each advertisement must have plainly 
attached to it the name and date of the news¬ 
paper or magazine from which it is clipped. 
Separate entries cannot be combined. 
Entries must be received by us at Hartford 
on or before Tuesday, June 30,1896. In case 
of a tie, the award will be made according to 
priority of receipt and entry. Address 
Department of Statistics, 
POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn. 
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Time and Money 
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A Fruit Grower writes: ‘ Can treat 100 large plum 
and apple trees per day. Used your Fungiroid on 
potatoes and fruit trees with good results.” 
Treats two rows of potatoes as fast as a man walks 
Ask for Leggett & Bro.’s pure Paris-green; It Is the 
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Other makers presefat 
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That’s our record. 
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,Currant Worms 
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that preF ° n Vegetation. Used for 16, Years with 
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