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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February IS, 
A, A A. ^ 
Ruralisms ; 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Pierson’s New Fern. —The widely pop¬ 
ular Boston fern, itself a superior horti¬ 
cultural variety of the wild tropical 
Sword fern, Nephrolepis exaltata, has 
lately produced in the hands of various 
growers several fine sports, differing in 
vigor and habit, but all having exquis¬ 
itely fringed or crested pinnae, giving the 
fronds an attractive plume-like or feath¬ 
ery character. One of the best of these 
dainty newcomers was recently distrib¬ 
uted by the F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, 
N. Y., under the name of Pierson fern. 
It has become useful and popular, many 
magnificent specimens having been grown 
for exhibition and home decoration. The 
Pierson Co. have been nursing a greatly 
improved offshoot of this late novelty, 
to be called the Tarrytown fern, and 
now offer it for general trial. The new¬ 
comer marks as great an advance in util¬ 
ity and elegance over its parent, the 
Pierson fern, as that lovely variety does 
the Boston fern. It is very dwarf and 
compact; the fronds are double the width 
but only half as long as those of the 
parent. The fringed pinnae also lie at a 
different angle, and are divided in a far 
more elaborate manner. The reduced 
height and finished aspect of the plant 
will likely make it available in places 
where taller ferns cannot well be used. 
We are told the Tarrytown fern has the 
vigor, in addition to its extreme beauty, 
quickly to make superb specimens under 
fair treatment. 
The Wealthy Apple for Australia. 
—Several apples of American origin have 
gained popularity in Australia; Jonathan, 
Yellow Newtown and Northern Spy are 
popular and freely planted. The last is 
liked for its fine fruit as well as for its 
usefulness in forming stocks, resistant 
whyn low set so that it gets on its own 
roots to the Woolly aphis or “American 
blight,” for top-grafting other varieties. 
We notice a recommendation in one of 
our antipodean horticultural exchanges 
to test Wealthy as an early-ripening and 
long-keeping variety of fine appearance 
and good quality. Wealthy apples, grown 
in Vancouver, British America, have been 
carried to Melbourne without cold stor¬ 
age, exposed to the high temperature of 
the tropical Pacific Ocean for over two 
weeks, and arrived in perfect condition. 
It brings best prices abroad when ex¬ 
ported, and bids fair to become of inter¬ 
national importance if it grows as well 
in other countries as in the Northern 
and Eastern States generally. Wealthy 
was developed after years of discourag¬ 
ing failure, by Peter M. Gideon, a Minne¬ 
sota pioneer in the search for an apple 
hardy enough to withstand the pecu¬ 
liarly trying climate of the northern prai¬ 
ries; it has become a valuable culinary 
and market sort wherever planted, and 
is often good enough in quality to rank 
with dessert kinds. Mr. Gideon con¬ 
stantly planted trees, and each year grew 
1,000 or more apple seedlings, yet at 
the end of nine years’ disappointing trials 
had left only one seedling crab, the cold 
Winters killing all the others. With 
commendable persistence, he procured 
seeds of hardy apples from Maine, and 
finally raised from seeds of the Cherry 
crab the hardy and valuable variety since 
known as Wealthy. It is not alone a 
money-maker for the North, where it is 
an early Winter apple, but as far south 
as lower New Jersey, where it ripens in 
September, and readily sells on account of 
its fine red and yellow color and lively, 
pleasant quality. 
The New Tufted Pansies. —The pansy 
is such a prime favorite in America on 
account of its ease of culture and the 
great size, profusion and richness of its 
vari-colored blooms that the hardier, 
sweet-scented tufted pansies, or violet- 
pansy hybrids, now popular in Europe, 
are rarely grown. Though the flowers are 
smaller and less gorgeous than those of 
the newer pansies, they have a quiet 
beauty and delicate fragrance that ap¬ 
peal to the discriminating. The plants 
spread at the root more than ordinary 
pansies, forming broad tufts, and making 
great masses of bloom during the Sum¬ 
mer, if planted in a cool, shady place. 
Fig. 47, first page, shows the flowers less 
than natural size. There is great diver¬ 
sity in coloring, but white, yellow and 
purple predominate. The blue and vio¬ 
let shades are purer in tone than those 
found among pansies proper. The lighter 
colored varieties usually have the most 
pronounced fragrance, though the dark¬ 
est ones are not without pleasing odor. 
Seeds are not plentiful in this country, 
but a few dealers offer them at 10 to 25 
cents a packet. They should be sown 
early in Spring, and the plants treated 
like ordinary pansies, except that a moist 
and rather shady situation favors contin¬ 
uous Summer bloom. Pansies are es¬ 
sentially Spring flowers and need plenty 
of sun. They usually cease blooming in 
the heat of Summer, no matter how 
placed. The admixture of violet blood 
in the tufted pansies makes the plants 
more floriferous and resistant to heat as 
well as cold. They were produced sev¬ 
eral years ago by an enthusiastic amateur 
gardener in Scotland, and have since been 
carefully bred and much improved. Choice 
varieties may be increased by cuttings 
or division of the clump, but come so 
nearly true from seeds that it is scarcely 
worth while. Plants allowed to bloom 
too freely do not always endure the Win¬ 
ter, but are likely to be reproduced the 
nekt season from self-sown seeds. Slight 
protection and shade from Winter sun 
will usually bring young plants through 
in good condition. We have had Mourn¬ 
ing Cloak, a handsome variety, purple- 
violet, margined with white, reproduce 
itself two years in succession with only 
trifling care in thinning and weeding 
the little volunteer seedlings. The soil 
should be made deep and rich at first 
planting, and water applied during unus¬ 
ually dry weather. These charming 
plants well repay considerate attention. 
w. v. F. 
The Fadeless Flower.— In an editorial 
note, page 928, reference is made to a news¬ 
paper report that Mr. Burbank had produced 
a flower which, when cut, neither fades or 
loses its odor. If this is so, I wonder 
whether the wizard has succeeded in im¬ 
planting a permanent perfume in the old- 
fashioned showy Xeranthemum, or everlast¬ 
ing flower, of our childhood ! In these days 
of white blackberries, seedless apples, core¬ 
less pears, etc., it seems hardly safe to say 
“It can’t be done !” j. y. p. 
Young Wife: “My husband savs these 
are cold storage eggs.” Honest Grocer: 
“Your husband ought to know, ma’am, 
that the hens don’t lay any other kind 
in Winter.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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THE PERFECTION SPRAYER 
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SAN JOSE SCALE 
and other INSECTS killed by 
GOODS 
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U Vn DA TCIl I lUC For mixing with kerosene 
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SALIMENE 
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Write for circulars and testimonials. 
DRY OR LIQUID FORM. 
Monmouth Chemical Works. Shrewsbury, N. J. 
HOWTO RID YOUR ORCHARD 
OF 
SAN JOSE SCALE 
PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. 
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0 depends upon working all the 
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EH0DES DOUBLE OUT 
PEUNLNO SHEAB 
Cuts from 
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