1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
435 
RURAL/SMS — Continued. 
size and better filled, and the peas of 
better quality than those of any smooth, 
extra-early sort. 
They were planted April 20, and the 
first picking made from it and the Mar¬ 
ket June 6. The height of Extra Early 
Market vines was two feet. In better 
soil, they would average (we are told) 
2% feet. The Station vines (seed from 
Thorburn) average six inches lower. 
Both are exceedingly prolific varieties. 
The Extra Early Market pods have from 
three to six seeds, and while the pods of 
it and the Station are about the same 
size—say two inches—the seeds of the 
Market average a tribe larger. 
The Extra Early Market was planted 
merely to serve as a standard with which 
to compare the Station and the other 
early sorts which we are trying. A 
careful comparison after the above notes 
were taken, shows that the Extra Early 
Market bears, at least, one-quarter more 
pcds than the Station. As to quality, 
we may say that the Extra Early Market 
was just that of the best First Early 
smooth peas, while that of the Station 
was tender, and sweet enough to satisfy 
the taste of most people—though not 
quite so sweet as Nott’s Excelsior which, 
in our trial field, gives the first picking 
about four days after. 
Nott’s Excelsior, the vines of which 
growing in the next row, were a foot 
high, is just about four days later. In 
a field opposite, belonging to a market- 
gardener neighbor, is a large plot of 
Nott’s Excelsior growing beside one of 
the best kinds of the smooth First 
Earlies. He marketed his first lot from 
both the same day. The vines (15 inches 
high) were loaded with large-sized pods, 
crowded with from five to eight seeds— 
so crowded that, as with later sorts, the 
seeds were angular. He said, “I sell 
them for the Champion, the same as the 
market gardeners sell a dozen different 
kinds of potatoes for Early itose. Nott’s 
Excelsior is more prolific than Champion, 
because the latter grows five feet high, 
and bears most of its peas near the top 
of the vines. Besides, we can plant 
these dwarfs so close together that the 
vines will bear more peas than the 
Champion, two to one, or nearly so.” 
Our own Nott’s have never ripened quite 
so early as the First Early smooth peas, 
the difference being from two to four 
days, and it will be remembered that 
Tiik R. N.-Y. was the first paper to 
bring this excellent variety to the notice 
of the public. But we saw for ourselves 
that the difference in the time of matur¬ 
ity with the two kinds of our market 
gardening friend, was but a few hours, 
the average pod of the Excelsior holding 
nearly twice as many peas, the quality 
being of the very best.. 
We are more and more pleased with 
the new clematis — Madame Edouard 
Andr6, Ellwanger & Barry. It began 
to bloom June 5, and will continue to 
bloom until frost, if it behave as it did 
last year. It differs from all others we 
have seen, in the color of the fiowers 
which resembles that of claret wine 
more nearly than anything we can com¬ 
pare it to. The flowers have six wide 
petals, and measure from 3>£ to 4 inches 
across. It is a fine acquisition. 
Our Crimson Rambler began to bloom 
June 9. We shall have more to say ot 
this beauty later. 
Winter Oats and Crimson Clover.— 
On August 27 of last year, we sowed 
winter oats, clover and oats, and Crim¬ 
son clover on a piece of level land of low 
fertility, using at the rate of GOO pounds 
of the Mapes potato fertilizer per acre. 
At the rate of 15 quarts of clover seed per 
acre, was sown. Our object in sowing 
oats with the clover was (1) to find out 
whether it would help the clover to 
stand the winter, and (2) whether the 
oats would stand the winter better for 
being sown with the clover. Exceedingly 
dry weather px-evented a quick germina¬ 
tion of either the oats or clover. Neither 
had made much growth when frosts oc- 
curi-ed. As we have already stated, 
about half of the Crimson clover win¬ 
tered safely. Every plant of the winter 
oats was killed. There was no apparent 
difference between the clover sown alone 
and that sown with the oats. The 
variety of winter oats was the Rural 
New-Yorker which, the preceding year, 
stood the winter perfectly. 
On a garden plot, we sowed, Septem¬ 
ber 4, small plots of the following kinds 
(or supposed kinds) of winter oats : 
sample from Mahlon Sager, Orange¬ 
ville, Pa.; from T. C. Wood & Sons, Rich¬ 
mond, Va.; R. N.-Y. winter oats, and 
Winter Turf oats from J. C. Vaughan. 
All were killed before spring, not a 
plant surviving. 
Our record of Crimson clover is this : 
For two seasons, it has stood the winters; 
the first year, it was not harmed in the 
least. The second year, on the same 
plot, it was, for the most part killed. 
The third (1895-6) it was about half 
killed. The Rural New-Yoi’ker winter 
oats passed the first winter without in¬ 
jury to a plant. Last winter, it, with the 
other varieties as above stated, perished. 
Our own experience with Crimson clover 
leads us to believe that it should be 
sown, in this and similar climates, as 
early as August 15, and that, if sown on 
poor land, it needs just as much nitrogen 
the first season as do any non-leguminous 
plants. 
Mr. Greiner, one of the editors of the 
Practical Farmer, says that Carman Nos. 
1 and 3 are heavy yielders, and of good 
quality. He says that No. 3 proves to 
be one of the best of keepex’S. 
Among our trials of new vegetables 
this year, is the radish, Earliest White, 
introduced by W. Atlee Burpee. It is 
the best and earliest white radish we 
have ever eaten—in fact, it is as early 
as any of the red turnip radishes, aver¬ 
aging 20 days from the time of seed sow¬ 
ing until ready for the table. The shape 
is oblong, about two inches long and 
one inch in diameter. The skin and 
flesh are white, and in quality, tender, 
crisp, mild and juicy—milder, it seems 
to us, than the reds. 
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