THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 8 
We do not feel quite happy unless we 
have a bed of double portulaca. Having 
had some 20 years of experience with 
these brilliant flowers, we may be able 
to offer a suggestion or so to our read¬ 
ers who value beds of the double flowers, 
that may save them a deal of trouble 
and greatly precipitate getting rid of 
the plants bearing single flowers. The 
plants begin to bloom in late J une or 
early July. The buds of the single 
flowers are sharply conical. The buds 
of the semi-doubles are between the 
slender conical buds and the nearly 
round buds which give the fully double 
flowers. Just as soon as buds appear on 
the plants we may in this way know 
which will bear single flowers, which 
semi-double and which fully double 
flowers. Destroy the plants at once 
which bear the sharply conical buds. 
Or wait for the first blooms. If the first 
flower is single, all the rest which that 
particular plant will ever bear will be 
single also. It is well to allow the plants 
which bear semi-double flowers to re¬ 
main, since the fully double flowers do 
not make seeds, while the seeds of at 
least 25 per cent of the semi-double 
flowers will give double flowers the next 
year. So tenacious of life is the portu- 
laca plant that it may be transplanted 
even in August, so that the colors may 
be distributed as one fancies. It is many 
years ago that the writer discovered the 
interesting fact that the color of the 
flower may be closely determined by the 
color of the stem. For instance white 
flowers will always be borne on light 
green stems; dark colored flowers on 
purplish stems ; variegated flowers on 
striated stems, etc. Fully double portu¬ 
laca flowers are as beautiful as carna¬ 
tions and even more brilliant in color... 
“ Double” Sweet Peas. —The flowers 
of these new strains of sweet peas are 
called double because some have two 
and three banner petals instead of one 
as in the old kinds. All pea or papil¬ 
ionaceous flowers—like clover, locust, 
wistaria, etc.—bear irregular flowers 
consisting of five dissimilar petals. The 
upper and largest petal is called the 
standard or banner, (vexillum) ; the two 
smaller side petals, wings (alas) ; the two 
lowest, often united, the keel (carina). 
The last inclose the stamens. We have 
many strains of these so-called double 
sweet peas, but the “doubleness” is 
confined to an increase of the banners, 
from one to two, three, and occasionally 
four, the wings and keel remaining 
single as in the old strains. 
Seeds of the Bride of Niagara were 
sent to us from James Vick’s Sons. The 
first blooms were July 7 , the vines four 
to five feet high. The color of the 
flowers is similar to that earliest variety 
Blanche Ferry. Not over 10 per cent of 
the flowers are double. Often when the 
flowers are borne in pairs, one will have 
two or three banners, the other but one. 
Double Butterfly (H. A. Dreer), is a 
charming variety. The flowers are large 
and of a lavender color edged with dark 
blue, the vines three feet high. Double 
Apple-blossom also bears very large 
flowers of white and pink. About 10 
per cent of the flowers have two or three 
banners. The vines are over five feet 
high. 
Katherine Tracy, from D. M. Ferry & 
Co., is a fine variety. The vines grow 
over five feet high and bear an abund¬ 
ance of large flowers of a delicate pink.. 
The New Cucumber, Eskimoso, from 
Johnson & Stokes, is a novelty as to 
earliness and perfection of shape. The 
vines are quite dwarfish and bloom pro¬ 
fusely in every part. We gathered our 
first pickles July 10 , before the flowers 
of any other kind had set any fruit. On 
July 14 several were ripe, yellow in 
color, perfectly smooth, three inches 
long and two in diameter, being a per¬ 
fect oval as regular as any of the little 
ornamental gourds. The seeds are small 
and few. 
Paris Pickling Cucumber, from W. 
Atlee Burpee & Co. We have tried this 
for three seasons, and prefer it to any 
other kind except Tailby’s Hybrid, 
whether for pickles or cucumbers for 
slicing. When young, the seeds are so 
few and small, that the cucumbers are 
virtually seedless. The flesh is as tender 
and crisp as it can be. The shape of the 
fruit is long, often curved and slender, 
and the surface, all but the neck, is cov¬ 
ered with fine, short black hairs—they 
are too soft to be called spines or even 
prickles. The color of the skin is a very 
dark green. Perhaps, the Paris Pickling 
would not take in the market, but it 
will please the home people who care 
less for appearance than for quality.... 
The Cupid sweet pea, introduced by 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co., was planted at 
the Rural Grounds April 13 . Rather, we 
would say, seeds were planted. The first 
blooms appeared July 13 . The tallest 
plants were at that time 10 inches high. 
The flowers are, as represented by Mr. 
Burpee, of a pure white color and of or¬ 
dinary size. How profuse a bloomer the 
plants may be, it is as yet too early to 
determine. Many of the seeds did not 
germinate, and many of the plants, for 
reasons we know not of, died. The plants 
are all dwarfs without an exception. 
Thus far, we are disappointed in Cupid. 
We have stated that of our two Sagh- 
alin plants, one was sent to us by Mr. 
Blanc, of Philadelphia, Pa., the other by 
a friend whose name we do not recall. 
On July 18 , the Blanc plant was in full 
bloom. The other plant is not even in 
bud. This is worth noting. The later 
variety to bloom is probably of more 
value as a fodder plant than the earlier 
to bloom. 
Michael H. Walsh is the name of a 
new rose to be introduced next year by 
Peter Henderson & Co. According to F. 
S. Matthews, this rose “ contains the 
darkest color, combined with pure color, 
of which Nature is capable.” We do not 
quite understand just what that means, 
or how Mr. Matthews knows that Nature 
could not make a darker combination. 
This rose was awarded a gold medal by 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
and it is said that the variety is consid¬ 
ered by all who have seen it to be the 
finest hardy dark rose yet introduced... 
There is yet another new rose in which 
we are greatly interested, to be called 
the Yellow Rambler, which may prove 
a fitting companion to the famed Crim¬ 
son Rambler. Its hardiness is not, as 
yet, fully tested ; but, judging by its 
parentage, we may hope that it will 
prove quite hardy in the North, as it has 
stood in the grounds of the originator, 
Peter Lambert, the well-known German 
rose grower,two degrees below zero with¬ 
out harm. The parentage of Yellow 
Rambler is the Japan rose, Rosa sarmen- 
tosa—crossed with the Noisette rose, 
Reve d’Or, so that, probably, the Yellow 
and Crimson Ramblers are half sisters. 
This relationship, we are told, is shown 
in foliage, habit and manner of bloom¬ 
ing. Well-established plants of the Yel¬ 
low Rambler, it is said, will make a 
growth of from eight to ten feet in a 
season. The flowers are produced like 
those of the Crimson Rambler, and in 
immense panicles, often over 100 to a 
stem, and they have a decided advan¬ 
tage, that of being “ sweetly fragrant. ’ 
The stock of Yellow Rambler is con¬ 
trolled, in this country and Canada, by 
Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y., who 
kindly send us a couple for trial. 
Mr. David Miller, Camp Hill, Pa., 
sent us July 1 , a box of blackcap rasp¬ 
berries which, in size of berry and weight 
of cluster, surpass anything we have 
seen. There were from 10 to 15 berries 
to the cluster, and the berries were 
larger than those of the Gregg—an inch 
in diameter—slightly better in quality, 
being less seedy, jet black, with slight 
bloom. We have no word from Mr. 
Miller as to its name or origin. 
The Rhode Island Station (Kingston), 
gives a very simple formula for the Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture to be used on potato 
vines. It is: 
Equal parts of quicklime and sulphate of cop¬ 
per, with four to eight gallons of water for each 
pound of the sulphate of copper. 
It seems that all the potato fields near 
the Station were more or less seriously 
injured by blight. The Station vines 
were sprayed from time to time, and the 
crop was not appreciably injured. 
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