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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 17 
As we are once more nearing the end 
of another season of flowers, we would 
again call attention to the new spirtea, 
Anthony VVaterer. It is blooming now as 
brilliantly as in early summer, and the 
flowers are of the same rich, crimson 
color. It gives itself no rest. It blooms 
from the beginning of the season until 
frost bids it rest. We have tried all of 
the spiraeas that are worth trying, and 
some that are not. Anthony Waterer 
is the best. The flowers are valuable 
for bouquets at this time—at any time, 
indeed—when there are few other flowers 
that one cares to gather. Try an An¬ 
thony Waterer. It is a more constant 
bloomer, and the flowers are of a richer 
color than those of its supposed parent, 
Bumaldi that is » ^ is more sprightly, of higher 
flavor. It is below medium in size, as 
underestimate it, we request American 
Gardening and any of •our*readers - who 
have fruited it, to specify wherein we 
do so. Where has American Gardening 
seen it in fruit? What is the age of the 
fruiting trees ? What is the size of the 
fruit? When does the fruit mature as 
compared with Rea or Orange ? Is it 
among the possibilities, if not the proba¬ 
bilities, that this quince thrives better 
in the Lovett nursery than in the Rural 
Grounds ?. 
The Eliot Early Peak. —A tree of 
the Eliot (not Elliott), was sent to us by 
the late James Dougal, of Canada, in the 
spring or fall of 1883. About five years 
ago, it bore a few pears which ripened 
as early as any pear we have tried—at 
least one week earlier than the Wilder 
Early, which by Mr. C. A. Green and 
other competent judges, is regarded as 
the best pear of its season. In quality, 
it seems to us better than Wilder Early ; 
Last yeak, we received one plant of- 
the new (new to us) rose Germain 
Trochon. It is a hybrid tea, and passed 
the trying winter of 1896 without pro¬ 
tection and without injury. The buds 
are of medium size, and somewhat—not 
decidedly—pointed. The open flower 
which is about two inches in diameter, is 
fairly double—notcrowdedly so. Its color 
is odd. We find it difficult to describe 
it. We should say, it is a mixture of 
buff yellow and light salmon. The odor 
is deliciously and delicately fragrant. 
We are describing the flowers that were 
grown in an unfavorable place in the 
Rural Grounds, and is between obovate 
and pyriform in shape. The tree is now 
18 feet high, of a close-growing habit. 
After Mr. Dougal’s death, it occurred to 
us that this very early and excellent 
pear ought to be introduced. Rut we 
had no authority to give buds to those 
who would gladly have propagated it. 
We, therefore, as has been stated in 
these columns repeatedly, put ourselves 
in correspondence with those who should 
be familiar with Mr. Dougal’s family. 
The result was that we were given per- 
in bloom September 30. mission to send buds to whomsoever we 
chose. One relative said that it had 
The London Garden says that the Bis¬ 
marck apple is grand in every respect, 
its size and color stamping it as a valua¬ 
ble market kind. In addition to this, 
the tree is hardy, a vigorous grower. 
The apples are very sound, solid and 
heavy. The high opinion of the Bis¬ 
marck formed by experts when it was 
first brought before the public, has been 
fully borne out by its behavior since. 
It is especially recommended for gardens 
when grafted on the Paradise stock. of our friends will give it a trial. We 
have no positive indorsement to offer. 
borne fruit in Canada, but that the birds 
destroyed the pears as soon as they 
began to ripen, and that a fully-ripe 
specimen had never been taken from the 
tree or trees. 
Some three years ago, we requested 
Ellwanger & Barry to propagate the 
Eliot Early, and the firm consented so 
to do, and we now find the pear offered 
in the supplementary catalogue just 
issued by that firm. We hope that many 
The Fuller Quince. — That bright 
and well edited paper, American Garden¬ 
ing, regards the Fuller quince “ as un¬ 
doubtedly one of the finest we have. 
Its very delicate flavor and curiously 
weak odor” are regarded as “noticeable 
features.” 
American Gardening expresses sur¬ 
prise that we should place this new 
quince, if new it is, among those novel¬ 
ties that are not worth even a trial. 
Our friend asks, “ Has The R. N.-Y. a 
real Fuller ?” 
We cannot swear that we have. We 
ordered several plants of J. T. Lovett in 
the spring of 1891. Mr. Lovett was the 
introducer. We labeled them with our 
usual care, and have since made notes 
respecting them as we do respecting all 
the fruits, shrubs and trees about which 
we desire to inform our readers. We 
knew of the Fuller quince long before it 
was introduced. As the writer remem¬ 
bers, it originated in the grounds of the 
late Mr. England, the publisher of the 
New York Sun, whose country home 
was just opposite Mr. Fuller’s home, 
two or three miles east of the little New 
Jersey town of Ridgewood, Bergen 
County. Mr. England gave Mr. Fuller 
a plant or so, and after his death, Mr. 
Fuller sold the stock he had accumulated 
to Mr. Lovett. It was named the Fuller 
quince, the propriety of which name we 
commented upon adversely at the time, 
since Mr. Fuller did not originate the 
quince, and merely introduced what had 
been presented to him by Mr. England. 
We find that a second tree is bearing a 
few quinces which, as with the other 
mentioned in the notice to which Ameri¬ 
can Gardening alludes, are small and in 
no way superior to Rea’s Mammoth or 
the Orange, while they ripen later. 
It is desirable that the value of the 
Fuller quince should be known. If we 
It seems to us the best early pear we 
know of. 
A marvelous new strawberry is being 
advertised in the French and English 
papers. Its name is Louis Gauthier, and 
the portrait shows “ the true natural 
size as over 10 inches in circumference.” 
The claim is made that it is the largest 
strawberry known, a wonderful cropper, 
and that the vines give two crops the 
same season. The flavor is “ delicious.” 
On September 7, the National French 
Society of Paris awarded a certificate of 
merit “ on presentation of a dish of 
second-crop fruits .” The firm offering 
this marvel is Letellier & Son, Caen, 
France. This firm originated the Spine¬ 
less gooseberry . 
We have inquiries from time to time 
as to when the Carman gooseberry will 
be introduced. The entire stock was 
purchased by the Storrs & Harrison Co., 
of Painesville, 0., about five years ago, 
as we remember, and the firm has ever 
since been trying to propagate a suffi¬ 
cient stock to introduce it. The firm 
has met with disappointment after dis¬ 
appointment. Under date of September 
8, Mr. Robert George, one ot the com¬ 
pany, writes us : “ There are no pros¬ 
pects of our being able to offer the Car¬ 
man gooseberry the coming season. We 
have made one or two very bad failures.” 
Mr. George says that all the large 
gooseberry growers resort to stooling in 
propagating the plants. After they have 
become well established, say, two years, 
they are cut to the ground and allowed 
to sprout from below and near the sur¬ 
face of the ground. These are allowed 
to grow until about the middle of July, 
when the earth is thrown up about 
them, and filled in between them. 
Handled in this way, by fall, nearly 
every shoot will have made a fine bunch 
of roots. Especially is this the case with 
American varieties. Some of the English 
varieties it is next to impossible to grow 
by any method, in this country. It is 
time wasted to try to grow such goose¬ 
berries from cuttings. 
Mr. W. J. Green, the experienced hor¬ 
ticulturist of the Ohio Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, says that the King Red raspberry is 
large, firm, of a beautiful color, and pro¬ 
lific. He pronounces it as far ahead of 
either the Loudon or Miller. Plants of 
the King Red raspberry were received 
from the Cleveland Nursery Co., of Rio 
Vista, Va., during April of 1894. Thus 
far, the plants show less vigor, are less 
productive, and the berries are neither 
so large nor so firm. 
Mr. Green says that, of the new kinds 
of strawberries about to be introduced, 
none pleases him better than Carrie. It 
resembles, he says, tfie Haverland, but 
is superior to it in size, color and firm 
ness. It has the fault of the Haverland, 
viz., long fruit stems and the berries lie 
out in the row, and are liable to be 
trodden on by the pickers. He concludes: 
“ It will pay growers to keep a close 
watch of Carrie.” 
Plants of the Carrie were sent to the 
Rural Grounds in September of 1895, and 
we reproduce our report of July 25 : 
Carrie (P.)—From Thompson Sons, 
llio Vista, Va.—April, 1895. June 2: 
Ripening, conical shaped, medium sized, 
scarlet color, moderately firm. June 4 : 
Berries large, vines extremely produc¬ 
tive. June 5 : Berries rather soft, with 
white tips. June 8 : Very productive ; 
berries rest upon the ground. June 10 : 
Height of season. The tips are not 
white now. The objection to this variety 
seems to be that the peduncles do not 
hold up the berries at all. June 19 : A 
fair quantity of ripe and green berries 
still, from small to medium size. 
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