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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 11, 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
The Hoodoo Melon. —“Hoodoo” is not 
tile name we should have chosen for the 
melon shown in Fig. 343, first page, when 
its exquisite quality is considered, yet the 
originator, Paul Rose, South Frankfort, 
Mich., has so christened it. The cut is of 
a fruit picked so late in the season that 
the flesh is not of average thickness, yet 
its crystalline texture, always an index of 
high quality, is plainly shown. The mel¬ 
ons are round, heavily netted and just the 
right size to pack well in baskets or crates. 
'I he vines are vigorous, healthy and ex¬ 
ceedingly productive, the melons from be¬ 
ginning to end of season being as like as 
peas from the same pod. ,We have 
grown Hoodoo four seasons, both in the 
field and under glass. Far from bring¬ 
ing bad luck, it has given us our best 
melons every year, holding off blight from 
a week to 10 days longer than Petosky, 
Emerald Gem or Rocky Ford strain of 
Netted Gem. Mr. Rose tells us he has 
been many years selecting Hoodoo in the 
endeavor to bring it to ideal shipping 
form and size, and at the same time to 
retain the delicious quality, vigor and 
productiveness of Petoskey and its an¬ 
cestor, Miller’s Cream. It would seem he 
has achieved complete success, and we 
feel certain this new variety, when dis¬ 
seminated, will not “hoodoo” its growers. 
Mr. Rose grows melons in various North¬ 
ern and Southern States, and reports 
good success in controlling Melon blight 
by thorough applications of Bordeaux 
Mixture, beginning as the vines com¬ 
mence to run. It is too much trouble to 
spray inferior kinds, but no effort appears 
too great for varieties of such excellence. 
Three Autumn-blooming Honeysuc¬ 
kles.— Honeysuckle is a name applied to 
widely different plants bearing tubular 
flowers, but is more commonly used to 
designate climbing shrubs of the genus 
Lonicera, the most familiar in this coun¬ 
try being the wild scarlet trumpet honey¬ 
suckle or woodbine, L. sempervirens, com¬ 
mon in rocky forests from Connecticut 
to Florida and westward to Nebraska. 
1 here are many dwarf shrubby species 
of Lonicera, some having fragrant blooms 
and others bearing highly ornamental 
fruits, natives of various temperate coun¬ 
tries from California to Manchuria. The 
climbing honeysuckles are among the best 
hardy plants for pillars, trellises, walls 
and for covering rocky slopes and un¬ 
sightly objects, but often need artificial 
support, as they are twiners and cannot 
attach themselves to smooth, flat surfaces. 
I he foliage is profuse and ornamental, 
while the flowers are elegant in form and 
charming in color. They are among the 
most hardy of all climbers; the only de¬ 
fect being liability to attacks of aphids, 
which may be easily controlled by dusting 
with powdered tobacco stems, sold by all 
seedsmen. Most kinds bloom only in 
Spring or early Summer, but the three 
varieties to be described produce flowers 
through the whole growing season, and 
are particularly showy during cool weath¬ 
er of Autumn, though profuse in bloom 
during the earlier seasons. 
The Chinese Honeysuckle. —While 
termed by botanists Lonicera Japonica, 
this most ornamental species is native to 
China and the Asiatic mainland rather 
than to the islands of Japan. It has long 
been naturalized in America, and is slowly 
spreading over waste lands' particularly 
rocky ledges by the roadside. The little 
black fruits are sparingly produced, and 
do not greatly tempt birds, so that dis¬ 
semination by means of seed is not rapid, 
yet the plants are continually appearing 
in new localities. It roots freely by nat¬ 
ural layers, and the young plants are 
quite tenacious of life, so they may be 
carried some distance by farm tools and 
yet grow if covered by moist earth. As 
a pillar or trellis plant it is one of the 
most desirable, as the foliage and young 
growth are hairy, and therefore little 
troubled by insects. The very fragrant 
flowers are borne in loose sprays. They 
are at first white, changing in a day or 
two to yellow, and produced very freely 
from July until November. The foliage 
is almost evergreen in our latitude, and 
makes a very good Winter screen for 
poultry yards if the plants are trained up 
wire netting and closely clipped twice 
during Summer. Frequent clipping great¬ 
ly thickens the main stems and promotes 
a short twiggy growth that makes an ad¬ 
mirable windbreak. 
Heckrott’s Everblooming Honeysuc¬ 
kle.— This is a beautiful but compara¬ 
tively little known variety, supposed to 
be a hybrid of the Etruscan honeysuckle 
or Mediterranean woodbine, L. Etrusca, 
first noticed growing in an Austrian nurs¬ 
ery as a chance seedling. It has been 
catalogued for the last 15 years in this 
country under the name of L. Heckrotti, 
but is not widely disseminated. The 
growth is father stubby, with little tend¬ 
ency to climb unless planted in rich soil 
and given early support. The large 
flowers are deep rose color without, often 
brightening to carmine red, shaded yel¬ 
low and buff within; very fragrant and 
continuously produced during the whole 
growing season. It is readily grown in 
compact, bushy form, and makes a desira¬ 
ble lawn or specimen plant. The Conard 
& Jones Co., West Grove, Pa., grow 
great quantities of this handsome honey¬ 
suckle, and offer plants for 15 to 20 cents 
each. It is hardy almost everywhere and 
should be extensively planted. 
Henderson’s Everblooming Honey¬ 
suckle.— One of the few cross-bred vari¬ 
eties with recorded parentage, Lonicera 
Hendersoni, was raised on the Rural 
Grounds from seeds of the Yellow Trum¬ 
pet pollinated with the Fuchsia-flowered 
honeysuckle. These varieties are said to 
be botanical forms of the common scarlet 
trumpet honeysuckle, L. sempervirens and 
not true species. 1 lie result, however, is 
a most distinct garden climber, completely 
sterile as regards seed production, but 
more persistently floriferous than any 
other we know. The plants climb high, 
often reaching 20 feet the third year after 
planting. The foliage is glossy and per¬ 
sistent, retaining its green color far into 
Winter. The flowers are more numerous, 
and the clusters larger than ordinary 
trumpet-flowering kinds. They hold on 
longer and are very useful for cutting. 
The clusters are very long and are borne 
on long stems, making them very con¬ 
spicuous. ^ he blooms open yellow, but 
change the second day to orange-red, and 
are borne on every young twig through 
the entire growing season, making a 
continuously brilliant show. This variety 
was named by Peter Henderson & Co”. 
New York, and plants are offered by this 
firm for 30 and GO cents each, according 
to size. Henderson’s honeysuckle makes 
a fine companion for the Chinese species 
on account of its great profusion of bright 
flowers, which, however, are not fragrant. 
It seems to be hardy wherever planted. 
w. v. F. 
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