1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
5i5 
The R. N.-Y. Strawberry Reports. 
(■CONTINUED.) 
ing from heart-shaped to Sharpless shape 
Quite firm, fairly prolific, fair quality ; 
red flesh. Vines vigorous. Its season 
ends about June 19. 
Maytrott (B.)—From S. T. Dowler, 
Vineland, N. J.—June 8 : This is to-day 
one of the most productive varieties that 
we have. Though the peduncles seem 
stout, they are not strong enough to 
hold the very heavy clusters of fruit. 
The variety bears through a long sea¬ 
son. Berries, crimson color, heart- 
shaped, generally regular ; above med¬ 
ium size ; fairly firm ; fair quality. 
Equinox —From Cleveland Company, 
Rio Vista, Va.—Not desirable. 
Tennessee Prolific and Thompson’s 
No. (56—From same.—Not desirable. 
Charlie (P.) — From same. — April, 
1894. June 2 : Beginning to ripen ; 
small to medium size. This berry is re¬ 
markable for its perfect shape, that 
is all. 
Satisfaction —From G. W. Howard, 
Stevensville, Mich.—May, 1894. June 2 : 
Beginning to ripen ; medium size ; per¬ 
fect shape ; scarlet color, good quality, 
fairly productive. June 7 : Ripening 
freely ; firm ; berries not well held up. 
Nothing remarkable about it. 
Barnett (B.)—From same.—May, 1894. 
Not recommended. 
Marston (P.)—From C. S. Pratt, Read¬ 
ing, Mass.—June 2 : Beginning to ripen. 
June 8 : Berries small to a little above 
medium in size ; between crimson and 
scarlet; moderately firm ; heart-shaped ; 
fair quality. Very prolific, but the ber¬ 
ries are not held up well. June 10 : 
Still bearing many rather small berries. 
June 19 : A few little berries. 
Mkle (B.)—From A. H. Griesa, Law¬ 
rence, Kan.—September, 1894. June 2 : 
Ripening a few ; vines healthy and very 
productive. Berries large and of good 
quality, though not very firm. June 5 : 
Exceedingly productive ; berry broadly 
heart-shaped, with a blunt tip. Large 
size, scarlet, soft, medium in quality. 
June 8 : The berries are uniformly heart- 
shaped and of mild quality. Ripening 
in large quantities; one of the most 
productive varieties at this time. The 
berries are not held up well. June 15 : 
Still productive. June 19 : It ripens 
through a long season. 
Eleanor (B.)—From J. T. Lovett.— 
September, 1894. May 30 : A few ripe ; 
heart-shaped, regular medium size ; 
crimson inside and out. Fairly firm and 
fine quality. Among the most productive 
during this early season. June8 : Vines 
rather low, but vigorous ; peduncles 
strong. June 10 : Past its season. 
June 24.—The following kinds are 
still bearing a few berries : Bouncer, 
Giant, Hudson, Erie, Seedling of Geo. 
Stone, See’s No. 4, Chair’s Early, Ridge¬ 
way, Brandywine, Shuckless, Equinox, 
Maytrott and Mele. 
June 26.—The following varieties only 
among our collections are bearing fruit 
now : Giant, Erie, Seedling of Geo. 
Sloan, See’s No. 5, Ridgeway, Brandy¬ 
wine, Equinox, Mele and Glen Mary. 
McKinley is the name of a strawberry 
which Ellwanger & Barry now offer for 
the first. They have tried it thoroughly 
on their grounds, and find it superior to 
any other kind, new or old—superior in 
size, shape, color and quality. It is a 
bisexual variety. 
Last fall, we destroyed, as we sup¬ 
posed, our Common Catalpa. A stump 
was left about three feet high about 
which we purposed to set vines. This 
spring, shoots started all over the stump, 
and have made an immense growth. Some 
of these stems are the best examples of 
flattened or fasciated growth we have 
ever seen. Some of them are fully two 
inches wide and but a quarter inch thick. 
These stems start as a single stem, and 
then grow as if wanting to separate into 
from five to ten branches. Some of them 
have separated and themselves become 
fasciated. 
Owing to a disarrangement of labels, 
we had overlooked a specimen of Red 
Jacket gooseberry received years ago 
from Mr. Josselyn, who introduced it. 
The berries, which are of medium size, 
nearly an inch in length, are red when 
fully ripe. A number of plants of the 
Pearl gooseberry were sent to us about 
five years ago, by Prof. William Saun¬ 
ders, of Canada, as we have already 
stated several times. The Pearl ripens 
with the Red Jacket, is about the same 
size, and of a light-green color when 
fully ripe. Pearl has the thinner skin, 
and is, we think, a trifle sweeter. 
Neither has shown a trace of mildew. 
Columbus ripens at the same time, and 
for the Rural Grounds, we greatly pre¬ 
fer it to either Red Jacket or Pearl, be¬ 
cause it is more prolific, and the berries 
are much larger. Columbus berries are 
smooth and of a medium green color 
when ripe. 
For three seasons, we have tried the 
Manhattan sweet corn, offered by Thor- 
burn & Co., as the “ earliest sweet corn 
grown.” Last season, the tornado de¬ 
stroyed it. The first season, the trial 
didn’t amount to anything. The soil 
was too poor. It requires a rich soil to 
show of just what it is capable. This 
season, the plants average scarcely over 
two feet high, measuring to the very tip 
of the tassel. The ears are borne only 
an inch or so above the soil. They are 
very small—rarely over four inches in 
length and an inch in diameter. The 
kernels are, for the most part, yellow 
and smooth, like field corn. Nearly all 
the ears have a few kernels of a lighter 
color. The quality is, we think, not as 
good as that of the Cory. The kernels 
were planted May 5. Cold weather pre¬ 
vented an early germination. The first 
“mess” was taken July 10—66 days from 
planting. On the same day, we planted 
trial quantities of Buckbee’s First of All, 
Maule’s First of All, Ford’s Early, Mel¬ 
rose, Early Butler, Extra Early Vermont 
and White Cory. Or> July 10, when we 
gathered the first mess, the silk of the 
above kinds was fresh and green, only 
a few of the silks of the Extra Early 
Vermont and White Cory showing that 
they had passed the receptive period. 
As the plants of the Manhattan are so 
dwarf—the dwarfest sweet corn we have 
tried—the seed corn may be planted 
much closer together than that of other 
first early sorts. Earliness is all the 
variety has to commend it. 
July 14. —The cherries are now ripe 
and ripening upon one (the best) of our 
Dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry bushes. 
The largest cherries are three-fourths of 
an inch long and not so wide as long. 
Each cherry shows an obscure suture 
like that of plums, and the stems are 
short like those of plums. The color is 
dark purple, nearly black when ripe, the 
flesh astringent. 
We have just (July 14) received a few 
ripe Strawberry-raspberries from each 
of two friends, the one, William Parry, 
of Parry, N. J., theother,Dr. Van Fleet, 
of Little Silver, N. J. The berries on our 
own bushes have not yet begun to color. 
The berries from our friends are the 
size of large-sized raspberries, the drupe¬ 
lets much smaller, the shape more coni¬ 
cal than raspberries, which must have 
suggested the “ Strawberry-raspberry ” 
name, for there is nothing else to indi¬ 
cate that there is any strawberry about 
it. The berries part from the receptacles 
just as do raspberries. The color is a 
dull red, the flavor insipid or sour, ac¬ 
cording to the stage of ripeness. 
We shall have more to say regarding 
this singular fruit when our own berries 
ripen. If obliged to found an opinion 
upon the specimens sent, it would be 
that Rubus sorbifolius is not worth cul¬ 
tivating except as a curiosity or for 
hybridizing purposes. 
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