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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 14 1 , 
uralisms 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
“Beautify Your Yard” Not Free.— 
The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, 
Pa., advise us that the excellent booklet 
with the above title, noticed on page 2(54, 
is not intended for free circulation, but a 
charge of 10 cents to cover cost is made 
for each copy. As it is a manual of in¬ 
struction and not an advertisement they 
feel justified in asking this small sum. So 
many applications for copies have come 
in that the firm is much impressed with 
this evidence The R. N.-Y. is widely 
read. 
“Silver King Hardy Celery.” —This is 
advertised as a new vegetable wonder, 
everlasting, and hardy in all climates. The 
root is claimed to be perennial, sending 
up large round stalks early in May that 
bleach perfectly when earthed up, fol¬ 
lowed by two or three more crops later 
in the season. The celery is said to be 
equal in table quality to the ordinary late 
kinds. Tons of it have been marketed at 
a good profit in Ontario, Canada, where 
it originated as a sport in a neglected 
trench of common celery. Roots under 
the above copyrighted name are offered, 
under restrictions not to sell or otherwise 
dispose of any increase, by a western 
nursery at $1.50 each, only orders for two 
or more plants to be filled! 
No Perennial Celeries. —As all vari¬ 
eties of celery in ordinary cultivation are 
biennial—that is grow one season, bloom, 
seed and die the next, if indeed they do 
not run to seed the first year when plant¬ 
ed early—and are far from hardy when 
exposed to severe freezing, it is obvious 
that a celery actually possessing the qual¬ 
ities claimed for “Silver King” would in¬ 
deed he a valuable novelty as well as 
something of a botanical curiosity. The 
name of Prof. W. W. Hilborn superin¬ 
tendent of the Ontario Experimental 
Farm, Leamington, Ontario, being given 
as reference, we applied to him for infor¬ 
mation, enclosing a circular exploiting 
this phenomenal novelty. Here is his re¬ 
ply under date of March 19: 
I did not see tlie circular until last week. 
They have no authority to put m.v name to 
any such testimonial. What 1 did say was, 
that “It is a very good substitute for. hut 
would never take (lie place of celery." At 
the date I gave (hat testimonial I had not 
seen the foliage, and did not recognize the 
plant. We tested a large sample of the 
stalks last Spring. These we had on the 
table a number of days. At first our family 
ate (juite freely of it, and thought it a very 
good substitute for celery, especially as It 
came early in the Spring when there was 
no other. After using for three or four 
days most members of the family ate very 
little of the vegetable, in fact we would eat 
as much of the true celery at two meals as 
we could of that In four or five days. During 
the Summer I saw the plant growing, and 
believe it to be the same thing we grew in 
our garden over 40 years ago. It was called 
“lovage" or “smellage.” The leaf is not un¬ 
like celery, but when you crush it between 
your thumb and fingers it has a very rank 
odor not at all like celery. 
The Lovage Plant. —Lovage is a tall, 
hardy perennial plant, belonging to the 
Umbelliferse or parsley family, which in¬ 
cludes celery, the carrot, parsnip and sev¬ 
eral garden herbs, such as fennel, dill and 
caraway. It is a native of Europe, and 
was formerly quite common in old gar¬ 
dens, the aromatic seeds being occasion¬ 
ally used in confectionery and the Spring 
growth blanched and eaten like celery. 
There is only one species, known under 
the botanical name of Levisticum offi¬ 
cinale. It is not a celery at all, the stalks 
being only useful as a substitute in the 
same manner as the blanched shoots of 
chicory or fennel. The root of lovage 
is long-lived, and may be increased by 
d vision like rhubarb. It is quite possi¬ 
ble that the promoters of the new hardy 
“celery” believe they have a valuable new 
product, and are reasonably justified in 
demanding a large introductory price for 
the roots, but if Prof. Hilborn’s identi¬ 
fication is correct, and they are really dis¬ 
seminating the old and comparatively 
valueless lovage plant as a sensational 
novelty, they cannot be informed too soon. 
A fair price for lovage, if anybody wanted 
it under its proper name, would be about 
15 to 20 cents a root. Of course no re¬ 
strictions as to propagating such an old 
plant would hold. 
Our Native Chestnut. —When we 
come to think over the subject it is not 
difficult to realize that we have in our na¬ 
tive chestnut one of the most useful and 
accommodating timber trees known to 
man. The nuts are delicious, far excel¬ 
ling in quality those of any exotic chest¬ 
nut, and are quite an important item in 
domestic commerce, but it is its durable 
wood, freedom from destructive insects, 
rapid growth and extraordinary power of 
renewiug its stand from sprouts when 
cut that give it such unique value. 
Farmers and wood-lot owners in the 
Eastern States, in these days of large de¬ 
mand for trolley, telephone and electric 
light poles, are getting, in some instances, 
better incomes from their chestnut cop¬ 
pices than almost any similar acreage of 
their possessions. By judicious manage¬ 
ment the product.veness of chestnut 
stands may be long preserved, as sprouts 
quickly start from the stumps of trees 
properly felled, and grow with great ra¬ 
pidity for many years, often reaching 
heights of eight feet or more in a season. 
'1 he rate of growth lessens after a few 
years, but sprouts from good stumps 
reach useful size in little over half the 
time needed for seedlings, though the 
latter eventually make the largest trees 
when not disturbed. The wood of sprout 
trees is heavier, straighter grained, with 
thicker bark, and makes better timber 
than seedlings, but it cannot be had in as 
large sizes. For purposes of present de¬ 
mand, in moderate sizes, it is preferred. 
In favorable localities chestnut sprouts 
may be expected to furnish poles 25 feet 
high and 10 inches through at the butt in 
about 30 years, as against 45 years for 
seedlings. The time margin saved is 
much greater in smaller sizes, such as 
are used for fencing. With care in thin¬ 
ning and encouraging sprouts chestnut 
woodlands are likely to continue produc¬ 
ing for a quite indefinite time. 
Not Easy to Grow From Nuts. —It is 
slow work growing native chestnut from 
seeds. Under ordinary forest conditions 
it requires 10 years to grow seedlings 
eight feet high. The first 12 or 15 years 
appear to be spent in perfecting an ex¬ 
tensive root system, and afterwards the 
growth is fairly rapid, overtaking sprout 
trees about the twentieth year and more 
than keeping pace with them afterwards. 
Nuts for seed must be carefully stored 
where they will neither sprout nor dry 
out until Spring, and must be especially 
well protected from vermin. Boxes of 
moist sand, guarded with wire netting and 
kept in a cold cellar, furnish good pro¬ 
tection. The nuts should be planted in 
early Spring in a seed bed, or where the 
trees are to stand. Not over 10 inches of 
growth can be expected the first season. 
European and Japan chestnuts grow read¬ 
ily from seed, but are of little value for 
timber, as they tend to make dwarfish, 
branching trees, beginning to bear when 
very small. Our native species does not 
commonly bear until 10 or more years 
old, and nuts are very scantily produced 
until about the twentieth year, after 
which regular crops may be expected. 
Trees may live 400 to 600 years, and have 
attained immense size, but the timber 
lessens in value after the first 90 years 
of growth. Japan chestnuts planted six 
or eight feet apart each way may reach, in 
good soil, dimensions sufficient for fence 
posts in 20 years, but it is not likely they 
will grow tall enough in this country for 
telephone poles. Our native appears to be 
the hardiest species, but it is too sensi¬ 
tive to hard frosts to thrive far north of 
Boston, and does not well endure the 
changeable climate of the prairie 
States, but thrives vigorously all through 
the Atlantic and Gulf regions. Orig¬ 
inally very plentiful, it has been almost 
exterminated in many localities in the 
search for durable fencing timber. The 
fortunate owners of good second-growth 
stands are now in excellent position to 
manage their holdings in a profitable 
way. w. v. f. 
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More Power Spraying outfits with 
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The 
,/ATSON 
k Four Row 
Potato Sprayer 
jjjl Covers30to40acrcBpcr 
1 day. Straddles 2 rows, 
y sprays 4 at a time. Wheels 
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Leggett’s Dusters s= f „, 
saving Fruit and Vegetable Crops when other 
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NO BARREL OF WATER TO HAUL 
Two Acres of Potatoes 
dusted per hour. 
Several styles for 
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Auto-Spray 
i gal. tank, brass pump, operates by 
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cleans nozzle every time used; saves 
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