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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 5 
A friend tells us that, on the grounds 
of Whitman & Clark, Earlville, N. Y., 
some of the plants of the Primus black¬ 
berry (Burbank) have vines over 30 feet 
long. The plants were killed to the 
ground the past winter. 
Mr. J. M. Mkbsk.reau sent us a fruit¬ 
ing branch of the Mersereau blackberry, 
August 17. The remarkable thing about 
it is the quantity of fruit borne as a 
second crop on branches that grow from 
the base of this season’s main canes. 
He says that they continue to bear and 
to ripen until about October 10. The 
berries are black and of about the size 
of the Kittatinny, though the quality is 
more that of the Lawton which itself 
often ripens its berries until frost. 
The black grape, Early Ohio, this 
season as in previous seasons, was the 
first to ripen among the 75 varieties in 
our collection. Our vine was planted in 
May, of 1892. The berries are a trifle 
larger than those of the Delaware, the 
bunches small, the quality medium 
only. The berries were ripe August 17. 
Our Logan raspberry-blackberry was 
planted in April, of last year. Now, 
August 18, the vines are five feet long, 
trailing like those of a dewberry. The 
vines are closely set with short, straight 
prickles. 
How rarely nowadays one sees the 
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) in 
gardens, yet few herbaceous plants are 
more satisfactory, and not one other 
bears flowers of a more brilliant red.... 
It strikes us that Columbia is just 
about the finest canna of its class. The 
flowers are large, and open fully, the 
petals broad and of good substance, the 
color a clear, bright, fresh scarlet in¬ 
clining to crimson. The leaves are 
large with purple edges, the leaves being 
a dark bluish green. It is now, August 
20, three feet high, or nearly so. The 
flower stems and the leaves are the 
same height. 
Our first decayed potatoes were found 
in hills not treated to sulphur. 
We are preparing to talk about pole 
Lima beans. Which are the best of the 
old kinds ? How do the old kinds com¬ 
pare with the newer and new kinds ? 
Do you prefer a large, flat Lima or a 
smaller fat Lima ? As to pods, which 
sell best in the market, the six-inch 
pods with four or five large, flat seeds, 
or the three-inch pods with about three 
smaller, thick seeds ? Have you tried 
Siebert’s Early Lima, Salem Improved 
Lima, King of the Garden ? How do 
they compare with the Dreer Lima, the 
Jersey Extra Early, the Large White 
Lima, Challenger, etc.? For home use, 
which are the best in quality ? Which 
are the most productive? Which are 
the earliest? Which bear during the 
longest season ? We trust that our 
friends may be interested in this ex¬ 
position. and will help it all they can.. 
Our respected and, we guess we may 
add, venerable, friend, D. S. Marvin, of 
Watertown, N. Y., has, for many years, 
made the gladiolus a special study. Last 
spring, he sent us a set of two dozen or 
so of his varieties to show the results of 
his work. Mr. Marvin has crossed rather, 
we judge, to secure a straight, firm flow¬ 
ering stem than to improve the size or 
change the colors of the flowers. At any 
rate, with the exception of his Old Gold, 
there is nothing remarkable about the 
flowers of the varieties sent to us. 
A Remarkable Flower. —But his Old 
Gold is just the oddest flower we have 
ever seen among gladioli, and we have 
had to do with this popular flower ever 
since it has been popular in this country 
—some 30 years ago. The parent is Dra- 
cocephalus which, Mr. Marvin tells us, 
he procured from the llallocks of Garden 
City some 12 years ago. Dracocephalus 
is itself a remarkable gladiolus, and it 
is something of a marvel to the writer 
that, during his 30 years of gladiolus 
growing, it has escaped him —and the 
seedsmen and florists. 
Dracocephalus. —When the flowers 
begin to open, they are a delicate green, 
penciled, lined and speckled with brown, 
nearly black. As the flowers open, the 
green changes to greenish-yellow. They 
are the same in color and markings in¬ 
side and out. In shape, they are long 
and narrow as compared with the flowers 
of ordinary gladioli. The flower stems 
are straight, strong, and about four 
feet high, bearing nine flowers which 
turn one way instead of being two- 
ranked or twisting about the stem. 
Old Gold is not the prettiest gladiolus 
flower we have ever seen, but it is the 
oddest and, for the oddest, the prettiest. 
The flowering stem is 3% feet high, 
straight and strong as with its parent. 
The flowers are like those of its parent, 
too, in form and markings, but the 
colors are such as to render Old Gold an 
appropriate name. The outside is a 
greenish-yellow, with fine, close pencil- 
ings of dull red. The inside lower petals 
have each a blotch of velvety maroon 
upon a greenish-yellow ground with fine 
hair lines close together. The flower is 
much curved downwards, so that one 
must, raise it to look into it. 
The other seedlings of Mr. Marvin do 
not strike us as superior to—scarcely the 
equal of—the best of those catalogued 
by-seedsmen. Lucille, for instance, the 
first to bloom, has a spike 18 inches long, 
bearing 20 flowers. They are light and 
dark pink, with yellow and maroon 
throat. They are medium size only. 
Another is named Open, because the 
flowers, which are of medium size only, 
open more widely than other kinds. 
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I.oudon new lied Raspberry has surpassed 
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Monarch of the Garden and Field. —C. A. 
Green. 
From one and one-half acres here, (1896), we 
have sold to date (July 20th) $357.00 worth Lou¬ 
don red raspberries, and there are fully $50.00 
worth now on the bushes. The total sold was 
4,721 quarts (over 147 bushels.) This crop 
of fruit has been secured on plants grown for 
propagation, and not for fruit, and on poor soil. 
The young suckers allowed to grow, aud soil was 
cultivated only one way, not hoed. 
At our farm the size and yield was immense. 
Loudon beats the world. It is superior to Cuth- 
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quality- A iarge fruit grower here who has been 
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The granary fillers. Arcadian, Pedigree Giant. 
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If every fruit grower in the U. S. and Canada, 
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on our farms, they would exclaim as we do— 
“There is only one Red Raspberry and that is 
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ever expect to see. M. A. Tiiayer, Wisconsin. 
July 20, 1896. 
The berries on plants set one year ago are as 
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