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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 3 
The new Strawberry-raspberry still 
bears a flower here and there—no fruit. 
September 15, the tallest plants of tbe 
Mexican June corn were 14 % feet high, 
and the band plays — or, rather, the 
plants grow on. There is neither silk 
nor tassel yet in sight. On one of these 
largest plants, the writer counted 20 
leaves averaging from three to four feet 
long and four inches wide. These plants 
grow in a field with 20 other kinds of 
sweet and field corn. Many of the 
plants of these have lodged. But there 
is not a plant of the Mexican June that 
is not erect. One would suppose that 
they would be the first to lodge, because 
they offer a much greater resistance to 
high winds. Probably the reason is that 
flower that has such brilliant contrasts, 
fiery red, purple, nearly black, light 
blue, indigo blue, maroon, grayish, 
brownish, bronze-colored, some of them 
with margins of pure white. Other 
flowers are blotched, splashed, marbled 
in all sorts of odd ways. With all the'r 
intense brilliancy, there is yet a softness 
and delicacy of shade, a purity and 
freshness of color or of combinations of 
color, that makes one wish to look at 
them, not for a moment only, but to 
study and enjoy them for hours. True 
it is, that, as with the ordinary morning 
glory, the flowers are short-lived. True 
it is, however, that in the early morning 
nothing among flowers is more fascinat¬ 
ing, more refreshing, than an arbor or 
lattice or fence covered with these vines. 
They are morning glories to be sure.... 
Campbell’s Early Again. —We have 
just received a catalogue of grapes, 
strawberries, raspberries and currants 
ing, but the berries were destroyed by 
the tornado. This season, we have had 
a full chance to compare both vines and 
fruit. We have carefully compared the 
tendrils, leaves and leaf stalks, both as 
to texture, size, serration and color. We 
have compared the berries as to color, 
bloom, color of receptacle, flesh, size, 
pulp, quality, number and size of seeds, 
and we are now prepared to say that the 
Eaton and Hosford’s Mammoth are the 
same. The vine of the Hosford’s Mam¬ 
moth was sent to the Rural Grounds 
November 15, 1890, by Geo. Hosford, 
Ionia, Mich. We learn that, about four 
years ago, the supposed new variety 
was introduced by a Michigan nursery, 
the name of which has escaped us, and 
the vines sold for twice or thrice the 
price of the Eaton. 
they bear no ears. from Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y. 
On the last cover page, is a beautiful 
Bulletin No. 164 of tbe Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station (Wooster), gives a carefully 
selected list of the varieties of apples, 
pears, plums, grapes and peaches best 
adapted to different parts of the State. 
The list does not include all of the best 
varieties, but it contains none but the 
best, and every one named may be safely 
planted in the section for which it is 
recommended. Our Ohio readers inter¬ 
ested in the above fruits, should send 
for this bulletin. 
Mr. Wm. Falconer, the editor of our 
always-welcome contemporary, Garden¬ 
ing, says that the Wichuraiana rose is 
not as hardy as he thought it was. It 
seems that Mr. W. H. Manning, of Bos¬ 
ton, reports that all of these roses in 
Franklin Park, except a few shoots, were 
killed last winter. Well, we merely 
gave our own experience. It stood, last 
winter, 18 degrees below zero, at least, 
without the slightest injury. 
Our esteemed London contemporary, 
The Garden, regards the craving for 
something new, a very old complaint. 
Probably there is no older complaint, 
and, probably, again, it will never be 
“stamped out”. To stamp it out, would 
portrait of a bunch and leaf, in colors, of 
Campbell’s Early grape, and on the 
second page cover, an excellent profile 
portrait of its originator, one of “ Na¬ 
ture’s noblemen,” indeed, and one who 
has striven all his life to improve the 
grapes that Nature gave us. 
The R. N.-Y. is glad that it was per¬ 
mitted to be the first paper to introduce 
this grape to the public ; the first to 
present its portrait (see R. N.-Y. Decem¬ 
ber 16, 1893). We have told our readers 
that, in our opinion, it promises to be 
the most valuable hardy black grape or, 
perhaps, the most valuable variety, 
whether white, red or black. Now let 
us tell our readers how others regard it: 
Prof. W. J. Green, Mr. M. Crawford, 
and Mr. Frank Ford, all of Ohio, say: 
“ It is a large, black variety of excellent 
quality and of very great promise.” 
S. B. lleiges,United States Pomologist, 
says : “ The cluster reminds me of a 
Black Hamburg as grown under glass. 
Some of the berries were an inch in 
diameter. The quality is remarkably 
fine, pulp sweet to the center, with 
small seeds, easily detached from the 
pulp ; the skin thin, yet remarkably 
Moles and Cats. 
B. T. W., Rochester, Mass. —If T. A., 
Hartford, Conn., will keep a number of 
good cats, and treat them properly, I 
think that the moles will disappear. 
When I came to the place I now occupy, 
seven years ago, a place long neglected, 
we were very seriously annoyed with 
rats, mice, moles and squirrels. I had 
disliked to have cats about, but the 
nuisance was so great that we procured 
a number of kittens with most excellent 
results. Of the original stock of cats, 
we have but one, a very valuable ani¬ 
mal. Of the increase, we give away a 
good many, drown some and aim to keep 
three or four of those that prove good 
hunters. Cats should never be fed meat. 
We give them all the skimmed milk they 
care for, and, occasionally, a little corn 
bread or an ear of green corn, and make 
them forage for the rest of their living. 
£tti$cviUuu'hus mtisiufl. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
The Rural New-Yorker. 
* ’ tenacious, making it a very valuable 
shipper. I really believe that it is a grape 
The Garden regards the Weeping 
walnut, with its bold foliage and true 
pendulous habit, as a refreshing, um¬ 
brageous tree well adapted for planting 
that has more good points than any other 
now in cultivation.” 
Wm. A. Taylor, assistant pomologist, 
says : “ I hope that it will sustain its 
Just 
Now Hood s Sarsaparilla will do you great good 
by purifying your blood, giving you appetite and 
sweet, refreshing sleep. Remember 
ood’s 
Sarsaparilla 
Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. 
on a lawn. home record, when grown in other locali- Hood’s Pills 
ties. If so, it will leave little to be de- —- 
are the only pills to take 
with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 
A Few More Words as to Varieties 
of Asparagus. —We have been overhaul¬ 
ing our notes upon the varieties of 
asparagus since 1880, when we set out to 
investigate the questions, “In what do 
they differ ? W hich kinds are superior 
to others ?” We began with seedlings 
of Red Dutch, Argenteuil and Conover’s 
Colossal, followed by Smalley’s Defiance, 
Barr’s Mammoth, Dreer’s Eclipse, Pal¬ 
metto, Moore’s Crossbred and, finally, 
Columbian White. 
Our conclusions are just these : In 
quality , there is no difference. In the 
size of the stalks, there is no difference, 
always assuming that all the conditions 
are just the same. In earliness or late¬ 
ness, there is no difference. In the 
color of the stalks, there is a difference. 
Some are reddish—Red Dutch for ex¬ 
ample—some of a medium green—Con¬ 
over’s Colossal for instance—some are 
whitish or a light green—Columbian 
sired.” 
Isidor Bush, the well-known grape 
authority, and author of the Bushberg 
Catalogue, says : “ Were I to write ever 
so much, I could not say half as much as 
I think and feel about your grape. It is 
the grape of the future, exceeding all 
American grapes in its ensemble of quali¬ 
ties, and equal in beauty to the Black 
Hamburg.” 
All of the above commendations, com¬ 
ing from authorities whose judgment 
we must respect, were written after The 
R. N.-Y. gave its opinion of Campbell’s 
Early. 
There is just one thing that remains to 
prove the accuracy or inaccuracy of such 
favorable estimates, viz., a trial of the 
grape in different parts of the country. 
In so far as we may judge from the ap¬ 
pearance of the leaf, the hardiness of the 
vines, the size of the bunch, and size and 
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A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa., were sown 
not until early June, in the garden. The 
vines are of as rapid growth as those of 
the old morning glory, the difference 
being in the leaves, which are lobed and 
cleft in the Emperors, and often varie¬ 
gated. It is difficult to do justice, in a 
few words, to the beauty of the flowers, 
which are fully twice as large as those 
of ordinary kinds, and of a brilliancy 
and diversity of color excelled by no 
other flowers. We know of no other 
the grand old Concord, and it almost 
frightens us to say so much. 
They Are the Same. —It must be 
about six years ago that a bunch of 
grapes was sent to the writer with the 
request that he give his opinion regard¬ 
ing it. We could detect no difference 
between the size, color and quality of 
the berry and the Eaton. Still, we had 
no Eatons at that time with which to 
make a close comparison, neither had 
we any leaves. Last year, both the Eaton 
and Hosford’s Mammoth were in bear 
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