1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
451 
The New York Farmer pleases us 
with what we consider a just tribute 
to the tirst Rosa rugosa hybrid rose of 
which there is printed record. Georges 
Bruant followed it a year or more later. 
The editor of The Farmer, well known 
for his horticultural writings, says : 
“We are more than pleased with the 
Agnes Emily Carman rose now that we 
have it in full bloom. The rose is ex¬ 
quisite in color, and when the sunlight 
is on it, assumes a rich, velvety appear¬ 
ance that is excelled by no other. It is 
a marvelous bloomer. A bush set out 
in the spring of 1895, has now at least 
100 buds and blossoms on it, and its 
foliage is as handsome as can be.” 
We can assure Editor Fowler that, as 
well as he may regard the rose now, an¬ 
other and still another season will fur¬ 
ther raise it in his estimation. Its 
peculiarity, as we have several times 
said to our readers, is that it does not 
show just what it is until the third year 
after transplantation. It will then have 
proved that there is no other rose with 
more charming foliage ; that there are 
few others more prolific of bloom and, 
in so far as three years can prove it, 
there is no hardier rose. 
We have been trying Richards’s trans¬ 
planting implements — see Fig. 148 — 
which were sent to us for that purpose 
RICHARDS’S TRANSPLANTERS. Fid. 148. 
last spring. There are three devices. 
We may describe the transplanter as a 
little, sheet iron, galvanized pail with¬ 
out bottom and with a strong, galvan¬ 
ized iron handle. The pail is about four 
inches in diameter, and the same in 
depth. This is for removing plants, as 
we shall describe presently. The excava¬ 
tor consists of a bottomless pail of the 
same size, with an upright rod of iron 
26 inches high on either side, and a 
wooden handle. The ejector consists of 
a concave disk of galvanized iron, with 
an opening to admit the stems of the 
plant to be removed. 
The excavator is pressed into the soil 
by the foot up to the rim, and at once 
pulled out by the handle filled with soil, 
leaving a clean hole of the size of the 
excavator. We now place the trans¬ 
planter over the plant to be transplant¬ 
ed, and press it down to its rim as with 
the excavator. It is now pulled out by 
the handle, and we have the soil, roots 
and plant complete as if they were in a 
flower pot. We now place the trans¬ 
planter with its soil and plant into the 
hole made by the excavator. The disk 
of the ejector is now placed over the 
plant to hold it firmly in the hole, and 
the transplanter is pulled out by the 
iron handle. 
In this way, we have transplanted fully- 
grown strawberry plants with so little 
disturbance to the roots that, after wilt¬ 
ing for a time in the sun, the plants 
would fully recover. This without water¬ 
ing them. Melon and cucumber vines, 
beans, seedling fruits or small orna¬ 
mental plants of any kind, may be 
transplanted in the same way in mid¬ 
summer. It would seem to the writer, 
however, that these implements could 
not be advantageously used in a stony 
or even gravelly soil. 
Goosererries from Seed—Cross- 
rreeds. —Four summers ago, we crossed 
the flowers of the Carman and Dougal 
No. 2. The seeds were sown in flats 
during the fall, and the boxes were 
sunk to their rims in garden soil, and 
covered first with wire netting, to pre¬ 
vent injury from animals, and, second, 
with a mulch of straw to prevent heav¬ 
ing of the soil from alternate freezing 
and thawing. The flats (boxes three 
inches high and of any size as to length 
and width) were placed in the conserva¬ 
tory during February. As soon as the 
little plants had grown to the size of 
two inches or so in height, they were 
transplanted to three-inch pots, where 
they continued to grow until late May, 
when they were thumped out and 
planted where they are at this time. 
There are about 50, varying as much in 
habit, size, leaf, thorns, color of leaves, 
etc., as any varieties now in cultivation 
differ. We selected the Carman as one 
parent, because, all things considered, 
it is the best variety we have tried. The 
berries are as large as the average of 
foreign gooseberries, the plant is ex¬ 
ceedingly productive (too much so, in¬ 
deed), the berries ripen early, 10 days be¬ 
fore the excellent Columbus, and neither 
bush nor berry has ever mildewed. We 
selected the Dougal No. 2 because of its 
upright tree habit; because of its few 
and small thorns, and, finally, because 
of the excellent quality of the fruit. 
Well, about 10 of the bushes are fruit¬ 
ing, but it is too early as yet (June 16) 
to judge either of the size or quality. 
We choose this time to write about 
raising gooseberries from seed, because 
we would like to induce our friends to 
save and plant the seeds of the largest 
and best berries accessible to them. 
There is, as shown, no trouble about it, 
and one may just as well raise his own 
varieties at a trifling expense, with a 
chance—remote, it is true—of producing 
superior kinds, as to pay nurserymen 
from 10 to 50 cents per plant for the 
varieties, old or new, now offered for 
sale. 
Seventeen or eighteen years ago, Dr. 
W. J. Beal of the Michigan Agricultural 
College, sent us about 20 ears of corn. 
We were, at that time, interested to 
know whether (positively) various roots 
of sweet and field corn would so mix 
the first season as to show the mixture 
in the kernel. For this purpose, 60 dif¬ 
ferent varieties were planted in one 
field, each kind being true to name in so 
far as could be judged by the appear¬ 
ance of the kernels. The result was 
that many ears showed the effects of 
crossing. The ears sent by Dr. Beal 
were a curious lot. One ear was a mix¬ 
ture of variegated and pure yellow field 
corn. Another was a mixture of yellow 
and dark purple field corn. Another 
was a mixture of black and white sweet 
corn. Another a mixture of white, 
light purple and dark purple popcorn. 
Other ears were mixtures of field and 
sweet corn of various colors, and so on. 
A few days ago—we shall give the par¬ 
ticulars later—a few kernels of each of 
the 20 ears were planted in the garden. 
Will they sprout and live ? Our friends 
would oblige us if they would tell us 
how old they have known sweet or field 
corn, or both, to be and germinate. 
We may now again allude to the new 
privet Ibota (Ligustrum Ibota). The 
bush, which is about four feet high and 
as many through, stood the winter with¬ 
out harm. The so-called California 
privet (L. ovalifolium) is always more or 
less cut back. It rarely blooms at the 
Rural Grounds because the bud-bearing 
wood is generally killed during the win¬ 
ter. The bush is now half white with 
its hundreds upon hundreds of close 
racemes which average a couple of 
inches long, each having about 50 little 
tubular white flowers shaped like those 
of a lilac. Bees are very fond of these 
flowers. 
One dozen seedlings of the Paragon 
chestnut, three years old and averaging 
five feet high, stood the past winter 
without harm, though most of them 
were injured by the tornado. Ridgeley, 
planted in 1894, was severely injured. 
Superb (Japan) from William Parry in 
1894, was killed The stems of Alpha, 
(Japan) were killed back a few inches. 
Our old trees of the Paragon were not 
hurt. 
lx writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yohkek. 
10 
TIMES 
OUT OF 
The New York Journal 
recently offered ten bi¬ 
cycles to the ten win¬ 
ners in a guessing con¬ 
test, leaving the choice 
of machine to each. 
ALL OF THEM 
chose: 
Standard of the World. 
Nine immediately, and one after he had 
looked at others. And the Journal 
bought ten Columbias. Paid $100 each 
for them, too. On even terms a Col¬ 
umbia is chosen 
10 
TIMES 
OUT OF 
10 
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This is attracting considerable attention among 
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