1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
627 
Tub new quince, Fuller, several trees 
of which were received from J. T. Lov¬ 
ett, in March, of 1S91, is, this season for 
the first, bearing a few quinces. They 
are, at this date, (September 1.) so small 
that there can be little chance of their 
ripening. We would not recommend 
the variety even for trial. 
During March, of 1891, we received 
several trees of the new Alaska quince, 
from Chas. A. Green. It bears this 
season for the first. The quinces are 
twice the size of those of the Fuller. 
The special claims made for the Alaska 
are early bearing, productiveness, earli¬ 
ness and hardiness. 
Plants of the Earliest in the World 
tomato were received, about June 1, from 
the introducers, J. and J. L. Leonard. 
The tomatoes average from small to 
medium in size, and they are uniformly 
smooth. The color is a shade of red 
between the yellowish red of the 
Ignotum and the crimson of the Acme. 
The vines are very productive, but it is 
not the “ earliest tomato in the world,” 
by a long shot. If we may judge it by 
a single trial, we should not regard it 
as an early variety. 
The Swamp Hose Mallow (Hibiscus 
Moscheutos) is now, and has been for 
two weeks, our showiest flower. We 
have a seedling that bears white flowers 
with a crimson eye. There is nothing 
unusual about that. But the flowers 
measure, when the petals are spread 
out, eight and nine inches in diameter, 
and that is unusual. The plant is now 
five feet high and, both in plant and in 
flower, it is a far more showy shrub 
than the Great Panicled hydrangea that 
every one praises. It grows readily 
from seeds, and the plants grow more 
vigorously upon high, dry land than in 
their native low-land brackish marshes. 
Seeds started in the winter will pro¬ 
duce plants that will bloom the next 
summer. 
Mexican June Corn. Here is a curi¬ 
osity. Our seed was sent to us by J. J. 
H. Gregory & Son. They write it up as 
“a giant among corn, growing from 16 
to 18 feet in height.” They regard it as 
a grand variety for grain in the South, 
and for the silo in the North, and a 
grand curiosity for every section. On 
the Massachusetts sea coast, it reached 
a height of 16 M feet, and a 10-foot pole 
but reached the lowest ear. It is 
especially leafy in its upper sections. 
The writer of these notes thought 
that he had tried all sorts of corn, but 
this is, indeed, a curiosity quite start¬ 
lingly new. The seed was planted in 
poor soil, enriched with Mapes’s potato 
fertilizers at the rate of 1,000 pounds to 
the acre, May 23, or within a week of 
June 1. We are writing August 31, and 
our notes were taken to-day. This 
variety is quite distinct from all others 
we have tried. It bears the longest and 
broadest leaves and the lowest leaves are 
just about as green as those above. The 
stalks average three inches in diameter. 
The leaves are from four to Jive feet long 
and about five inches wide in the widest 
part. The joints are. as compared with 
other field or silo kinds, close together, 
so that the amount of leaves, it will be 
conjectured, per given area, is some¬ 
thing beyond the amount borne by any 
other forage plant whatever. There is 
no chance of its maturing grain in the 
climate of the Rural Grounds, since, at 
this date, there isn’t a sign of either 
set, silk or tassel. The plants do not 
sucker. 
The Ohio Experiment Station (Woos¬ 
ter), for 11 seasons, has tried 16 differ¬ 
ent varieties of wheat. Valley heads 
the list as to^average yield and weight 
of grain. The average for the 11 years 
is 30.36 bushels per acre; the weight 
60.13 pounds per bushel. 
At the Kansas station (Manhattan), 
of 35 kinds tried the past season, Tur¬ 
key, a bearded variety, gave the highest 
yield, 42 bushels per acre; the bushel 
weighed the highest, 61>£ pounds and 
the plant proved this season and last to 
be the hardiest. 
August 30, we received a large heavily- 
shouldered bunch of Campbell’s Early 
grape from the originator. The berries 
were perfectly ripe, as large as Concords 
and of the same quality as those we 
described last year, sweet and vinous 
without any acidity about the seeds, and 
without a trace of foxiness that the 
writer could detect. 
Pres Geo. W. Campbell, of Dela¬ 
ware, Ohio, writes us as follows : 
Campbell’s Early grape is doing well this year 
again. The berries were fully colored August 
15, and they now (August 21) seem quite ripe. 
My confidence in it is unimpaired, and I believe 
that all the good and pleasant things you have 
said of it will be fully confirmed. 
The berries of the single bunch which 
our vine bears were fully colored 
August 25. The bunch was picked 
August 28, when Concord grapes were 
just beginning to color. The berries, 
however, did not seem to be quite ripe. 
We fancy that this may be owing to the 
fact that the vine is densely shaded on 
the south by a plum tree, and on the 
west by a Saghaiin plant eight feet high. 
The McPike grape originated with H. 
G. McPike, Mount Lookout, Alton, Ill. 
He has been working, as we are told, for 
30 years to produce a better grape than 
the Concord, and he thinks that the Mc¬ 
Pike is a full reward for his labor. It 
is a seedling of Worden ; the vine is said 
to be perfectly hardy—its splendid leaf 
certainly so indicates—earlier than the 
Concord. Its bunches, it is claimed, are 
“ large, even and compact. The berries 
even in size, covered with a blue-black 
bloom, ripening uniformly. The berries 
are of mammoth size, being three inches 
in circumference and of superb quality. 
It is, by far, the best grape grown.” 
The above is the estimate put upon it 
by our esteemed old friend, Colman’s 
Rural World. Several bunches of the 
McPike were sent to us, August 29, by 
the Silas Wilson Co., of Atlantic, Iowa. 
The berry holds more juice than any 
other we have ever eaten. The skin is very 
thin, yet it seems, by no means, tender. 
The pulp, so called, so readily dissolves 
that the seeds drop out of their own 
accord. Our friends often say that, if 
the danger of appendicitis is such that 
one should not swallow the seeds, they 
do not care to eat grapes at all, because 
of the acidity of the flesh about the 
seeds, and because of the trouble one ex¬ 
periences in separating the seeds from 
the flesh. The seeds are small and few 
—about three. There is no more acidity 
in the flesh about the seeds than in the 
flesh just beneath the skin. 
The McPike grape is much like the 
Eaton—so like it, indeed, that, if a 
bunch were banded to us with the re¬ 
quest that we should name it, we would 
say, “ It is the Eaton.” Yet it is super¬ 
ior. The berries, if we may judge by 
those sent us, are even larger, and, 
again, even juicier, and a juicier berry 
than the Eaton no one ever hoped to 
raise, if, indeed, it were desirable so to 
strive. The flesh seems more dissolving 
—dissolving is the word unless “soluble” 
be preferred—and it is a shade sweeter 
—less watery—than the Eaton. We can 
conceive of the Eaton being grown in 
soil and location so favorable as to be 
quite equal to the McPike. As we judge 
it, we must say that the McPike is an 
improved Eaton. The leaves and pet¬ 
ioles are closely alike. The illustration, 
Fig. 194, shows a portion of a bunch 
only. The bunches were all injured en 
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