1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
4 i 9 
FARMERS’ CLUB DISCUSSION. 
(CONTINUED.) 
oak trees, and do serious harm to orchard 
and ornamental trees. The larvie of the 
Allorhina are very seldom seen, and 
occur chiefly in old pastures. The 
beetles are present hut a short time, and 
make very little show. Their larvae, I 
am sure, are not “dung worms” though, 
of course, they may be found sometimes 
with dung. Only once in my experience, 
have the larvae of the Allorhina been 
present in sufficient numbers to do harm. 
This occurred on the grounds of the 
Capitol at Washington, an account of 
which will be found in Vol. I. of Insect 
Life. 
Danger in Crimson Clover Hay. 
C. W., Seaford, Del. —I have been a 
champion of Crimson clover since its in¬ 
troduction here, and believe that I was 
one of the first, if not the first, to make 
hay of it. This has been fed to all kinds 
of stock with the best results always 
till a few days ago. On May 31, 1 lost a 
horse as a result of the hulls forming 
balls and causing death. I have heard 
of similar cases, but had fed it so long 
without trouble that I attributed it to 
badly cured hay or hulls, cut late with 
more or less seed in them. But my hay 
this year is the best I ever had, so that 
cannot be the cause, and I shall not feed 
any more. The veterinarian took 32 
balls which measured three inches in 
diameter, and the others somewhat 
smaller, from the horse’s stomach The 
substance resembles an old felt hat, 
and cannot be dissolved by any known 
means. Those who feed this hay will do 
well to look out for this. I have fed it, 
at least, seven or eight years, and this is 
the first trouble. As a feed for cattle or 
hogs, or a crop to plow under for manure, 
I don’t know its equal. 
It was in the spring of 1894, as we re¬ 
member, that Pres. Geo. W. Campbell, 
of Delaware, O., sent us a poorly-rooted 
cutting of Campbell’s Early grape. 
Neither Mr. Campbell nor the writer of 
these notes, expected that it would live. 
It was the only available plant Mr. Camp¬ 
bell had at the time. With careful nurs¬ 
ing, it did live, and is now quite a thrifty 
vine, having stood the past winter (18 
degrees below zero, at least) without 
harm to a bud. There are two main 
branches, each about three feet high. One 
of them bears (May 31) a bunch of buds. 
Another plant was sent to us last fall by 
George S. Josselyn, of Eredonia, N. Y., 
who hopes to have a large enough stock 
to be able to introduce it next fall. 
What weak characteristics Campbell’s 
Early may develop, no one can tell. From 
what we have seen, and from Mr. Camp¬ 
bell’s experience with it, we have high 
hopes that it will prove the best black 
grape in cultivation. The bunches are 
perfect as to shape, the berry is without 
a trace of foxiness, and the vine has, 
thus far, proved hardy in Delaware, O., 
the Rural Grounds, and in Iredonia, N. 
Y. We are, as in all such cases, glad to 
be the first to call public attention to 
this grape, and we request those of our 
readers interested in grape growing, to 
bear tbis variety in mind and, also, to 
bear in mind our high hopes (we might 
say prediction) as above expressed. 
A week or so ago, we reported Hyperi¬ 
cum Moserianum as dead. It did seem 
to be dead. We are glad to say that vig¬ 
orous shoots have sprang up from the 
roots, and that it will soon commence to 
bloom and continue to bloom through¬ 
out the rest of the season. We know 
that this Hypericum is herbaceous ; but 
knowing this, we thought that the roots 
were dead In our opinion, it should 
take rank with the most popular of her¬ 
baceous plants. 
The Hardy Shrubby verbena, or Blue 
spirea, as some of our florists call Cary- 
opteris Mastacanthus, was said to be 
hardy as far north as Boston. Our plant, 
however, is dead, root and branch. We 
are sorry that it is so. Its lavender 
flowers, produced in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion, were most pleasing. We shall be 
glad to hear from others regarding the 
hardiness of this beautiful plant. 
It has been said and is claimed that 
the hardy orange, Citrus trifoliata, is 
really hardy in this climate. We have 
had two plants growing in the same plot, 
about 15 feet apart, for about five years. 
Every winter, the plants have been 
harmed, more or less ; last winter, one 
of the plants was killed, and the other 
was killed back about half. Neither has 
ever bloomed, and we must, therefore, 
pronounce it of no value for this and 
similar locations. 
We have now about 15 different kinds 
of the Japan plums. The Abundance is 
the only one of the assortment about 
which we have been able to give our 
readers much information. This has 
yielded immense quantities of fruit for 
the past three years, and it is well en¬ 
titled to a rest which it is taking this 
season. The tree has, perhaps, not over 
20 or 30 plums upon it. 
One tree each of the following was 
planted in October, 1894, received from 
Wm. Parry : Satsuma, Willard, and a 
third, of which the zinc tag is lost; one 
each of Ogon, Willard, Burbank, and 
Satsuma, in October, 1894, from the 
Storrs & Harrison Co.; one of Hale, from 
G. U. & J. H. Hale, April, 1895. All have 
made a fine growth, Hale being the 
largest, viz., 10 feet in height. This may 
be because it was sheltered from the 
tornado of last J uly. The leaves of the 
others were riddled, and some of the 
branches broken. Of the above collec¬ 
tion, Burbank—the next largest tree— 
is bearing about a dozen plums. Now, 
while all of the peach trees were more 
or less killed back by the past winter, 
not one of these Japan plums has been 
injured in the least. 
From J. L. Normand, Marksville, La., 
we received the following Japan plums. 
They were received when the ground 
was frozen a foot deep, and were not 
properly cared for. Several of them 
were dead or nearly so: Yone Mono, 
Furuguja, Nagate No Botanltyo, Un¬ 
known, Wasse Botankyo, True Sweet 
Botan, White Kelsey, Mikado, Weeping 
Blood, Normand and O. llatankyo. At 
the same time, Gold, Splendor and Van 
Deman were received from Stark Bros. 
& Co., Louisiana, Mo. Only Splendor is 
now alive... 
The earliest and most prolific straw¬ 
berry we have in our collection this 
year (90 varieties), is See’s No. 1, from 
H. S. & A. J. See of Geneva, Pa. We 
picked a few ripe berries from it May 
27. It is bisexual. The berries are 
round, scarlet, of excellent quality, and 
borne in great abundance upon upright 
vines with rather small leaves. The one 
objection is that the berries are under 
size—averaging no larger than the ordin¬ 
ary wild berry. 
Evidently, there have been different 
varieties of the Dwarf Rocky Mountain 
cherry distributed under that name. 
Some of our plants are badly winter- 
killed and bear no fruit ; others have 
not been hurt, and are bearing a small 
crop. May 31, they were about the size 
of ordinary wrinkled peas. 
Within three feet of a Catalpa spec- 
iosa, which is itself within eight feet of 
the north side of the dwelling at the 
Rural Grounds, covering an apple stump 
over four feet high, has been growing 
for many years, a Climbing hydrangea. 
It really may be said not to get any sun¬ 
shine at all. The soil is poor, and at 
times, “as dry as a chip.” Yet there is 
not a more vigorous, healthy plant on 
the place. It is as hardy as hardy can 
be. It is now (June 2) in bloom, the 
cymes of white flowers being flat and 
measuring six or eight inches across. 
The leaves are of good substance, glossy 
aDd beautiful. They are Dever infested 
wi‘h insects. The stems cling to the 
support like those of the Virginian or 
Veitch’s Creeper (Ampelopsis quinque- 
folia or A. Veitchii) and the abundant 
foliage conceals them entirely. For 
such a position, it is the grandest vine 
of which we know. 
We received a tree each of the Lincoln 
and Abundance plums in April of 1890. 
They were planted in the same plot, 
about 12 feet apirt Both were intro¬ 
duced by Mr. J. T. Lovett. He claimed 
that the former was the largest in size 
of any of the hardy plum«, averaging 2 % 
inches long and over six inches around, 
weighing over two ounces — selected 
specimens weighing four ounces each 
lie further claimed (and does claim) that 
it is better in quality than its parent, the 
old Green Gage. The tree, he says, is 
wonderfully prolific, the plums are beau¬ 
tiful in form and color, very early in 
ripening, and curculio-proof. The color 
is reddish-purple, with a delicate bloom. 
The flesh is light yellow, exceedingly 
juicy, rich, sweet, melting and luscious 
—entirely free from any coarseness—the 
flesh parting freely from the stone. All 
of these claims may be true. We have 
no reason to doubt that they are, since 
our tree has not as yet even bloomed, 
while the Abundance, planted at the 
same time, as we have said, has given us 
three full crops. We would be glad to 
hear from any of our readers who have 
fruited the Lincoln. 
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