THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
723 
1896 
ago, it was the most sterile and uncer¬ 
tain field on the farm for a crop. Pre¬ 
vious to that time, it had never produced 
over eight bushels of wheat per acre. 
For one of the first crops I have grown 
on it, I sowed but a very small fraction 
over one bushel of wheat per acre. For 
the largest crop, I aimed to sow 
bushel per acre. This has been the 
amount I have sown, as nearly as possi¬ 
ble, for a number of years up to this 
year. I sowed, this year, on the field 
mentioned, a greater part of 1% bushel 
per acre. On the first plot drilled, I 
found that I did not get on as much as I 
desired, so I drilled it over, and got 
nearly 1 % bushel per acre on it. One 
reason I seeded so heavily this year, was 
that the wheat was of this year’s crop, 
and I feared that a considerable amount 
would not grow. It appears to have 
germinated well, and is now, October 7, 
making a good showing. 
Farmers here sow from 1to 1 % 
bushel per acre, 1% bushel being about 
the average. We have grown the Fultz 
variety for years. The grains are not 
so large as those of some other varieties, 
hence not so much seed is required. 
As was stated last spring, another 
trial was made to find out whether sul¬ 
phur will prevent potatoes from rotting. 
After the seed pieces were lightly covered 
with soil, at the rate of 400 pounds to 
the acre of powdered sulphur was strewn 
in the trenches of about half. We have 
now—October 13—dug all of our pota¬ 
toes, and as there is scarcely a rotten 
one among them, we are again unable 
to throw any additional light upon the 
question. 
Mb. O. M. Richardson, of Canton, Me., 
sends us several pears grown from seed 
by one of his neighbors. The seedling 
tree has not failed to bear a full crop in 
six years, and it is very hardy and vigor¬ 
ous. Except that the pears are more 
pyriform, and the stem set more ob¬ 
liquely, we could not tell it from Seckel. 
We are fairly confident that any good 
judge of pears would say that they were 
Seckels if he ate them with his eyes 
shut. So, too, we think that he would 
not question its being a Seckel, unless 
his attention were called to the slight 
differences we have mentioned. 
The European Sycamore maple is, 
doubtless, familiar to many of our read¬ 
ers. There is a variegated variety of 
this that has given us great satisfaction. 
It was planted in the Rural Grounds 
about 22 years ago, and is now 25 feet 
high. It is a close growing tree, and its 
general habit is all that one would ask. 
We have always had this fault to find 
with the Silver maples, as with the 
Maiden-hair or Gingko tree, the Phel- 
lodendron, or Chinese Cork tree, the 
Tulip tree and others, viz., that they do 
not assume a compact form suitable for 
grounds of limited area. 
The variegated variety of the Euro¬ 
pean Sycamore maple to which we would 
now call the attention of our readers, is 
the Tricolor-leaved Sycamore maple. It 
holds its variegation during its entire 
season of leafage, and it holds it con¬ 
spicuously. The color of the leaves in 
the early season is dark green, yellow 
and a rosy red, not very pronounced. 
Later, the leaves are yellow and green ; 
but no two leaves are variegated alike. 
Some are nearly all green with, it may 
be, an irregular band or splash of yellow; 
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some are nearly all yellow ; some are 
peppered, so to say, with green upon a 
yellow ground, and others are peppered 
and splashed with yellow upon a green 
ground. One enjoys making a collection 
of these dissimilarly marked leaves, and 
our friends who visit us never fail to ex¬ 
press surprise that the same variety pro¬ 
duces leaves so strikingly unlike in 
markings. It is perfectly hardy at the 
Rural Grounds, and is, among this class 
of medium-sized trees, one of the choicest 
we know of for grounds of one acre and 
more. 
The Minnewaski blackberry has 
friends. The late A. J. Cay wood, in 
whose grounds in Ulster County it origi¬ 
nated, could not say enough in its 
favor. Certain it is that In his grounds 
it was exceedingly productive of large 
berries, of a jet black color, and of a 
quality as good as that of the Erie or 
Lawton. Our respected friend, T. T. 
Lyon, of Michigan, reports that it is of 
doubtful value as a commercial variety, 
though of vigorous growth. It is not 
sufficiently productive. 
Here is a friend, also from Michi¬ 
gan, J. C. Haven, who says that he 
bought a few plants in 1892, and set 
them in a bleak situation on the east 
bank of Grass Lake, in order to test the 
hardiness of the variety. They have done 
exceedingly well, and seem to be per¬ 
fectly hardy. He does not allude to the 
productiveness of the plants. 
Speaking of the short life of the Lom¬ 
bardy poplar, because it is so subject to 
borers, Henry Hicks, of Westbury, L. I., 
writes us that he kills them in a simple 
way. He opens the entrance to the hole 
with a penknife, injects a few drops of 
carbon bisulphide, and then plugs up the 
hole at once with putty. Borers in all 
other infested trees might, of course, be 
treated in the same way. 
Mb. S. T. Walker, of Forest Grove, 
Ore., a sweet pea specialist, writes us 
that, for a time, the new dwarf pea, 
Cupid, “ outbloomed everything.” After 
a heavy rain of a few days, many of the 
plants blighted and were in part or 
wholly killed. He concludes from this 
that it may have a weak constitution, 
as Cupid was the only one among 100 
varieties to be so affected. 
An agreeable surprise among new 
flowers is the California violet, a small 
plant of which was sent to us last spring, 
by H. A. Dreer, of Philadelphia. It is 
now a little round clump over two feet 
in diameter, and nearly a foot high, the 
leaves being large, dark green and 
healthy. What pleases us most about 
this violet, is that it is bearing many 
flowers now (October 9) after we have 
had several stinging frosts. The flowers 
are of goodly size—nearly an inch across 
—of a purplish violet color, and ex¬ 
tremely fragrant. The stems are long 
and strong, so that the flowers may the 
more effectively be used for bouquets. 
We do not know whether the plant is 
hardy or not. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
