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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 15, 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Hardy White Rose, Sir Thomas Lip- 
ton. —There can scarcely be too many 
white roses. There is a purity and deli-, 
cacy about the white-flowered kinds that 
is scarcely observed in the colored varie¬ 
ties, no matter how highly desirable. The 
list of reliably hardy white roses is very 
brief and may be said almost to begin and 
end in the old and well-known Mme. 
Plantier, Coquette des Blanches, Mme. 
Georges Bruant and Coquette des Alpes. 
The beautiful new kinds, such as Mar¬ 
garet Dickson. Mme. Fannie de Forest 
and the unrivaled Frau Karl Druschki 
need some protection in cold climates, and 
special care at all times for best results. 
We are glad to illustrate on first page the 
little known pure white hybrid of Rosa 
rugosa. Sir Thomas Lipton, somewhat re¬ 
duced in size. The blooms had wilted to 
some extent before reaching the photo¬ 
grapher, but their form as well as the 
rugose character of the foliage is fairly 
well shown. This variety was raised on 
the Rural Grounds 10 years ago from 
seeds of the Polvantha rose Clothilde 
Soupert pollenized with tiie single White 
Rugosa. The excellent pink-flowered New 
Century was grown from the same fruit 
or hip, and has become very popular 
where strong-growing, free-flowering and 
reliably hardy bush roses are wanted. The 
blooms of Sir Thomas are very freely pro¬ 
duced in June, covering the whole plant, 
and also in clusters of five to nine on new 
growth at intervals throughout the entire 
Summer and Fall, when there are no Rose 
beetles and few' insects of any kind to mo¬ 
lest the flowers. They are the purest of 
white in color, delightfully fragrant with 
the true wild-rose perfume, and vary in 
size from three to four inches in diameter 
according to the number produced at the 
same time. The foliage is dark green, 
thick and healthy, being seldom troubled 
by insects or disease of any kind. Plants 
may be expected to grow' five feet or more 
high in good soil, and to form strong 
clumps three or four years after planting. 
The value of these fine Rugosa hybrids at 
present is only recognized in some of the 
northern prairie States where ordinary 
kinds cannot withstand the Winters, but 
they w'ill steadily gain in popularity where 
known. For best effect they should be 
planted in wide, deep holes filled with 
good compost, and be liberally mulched 
with old stable manure each year. If 
well fed and cared for they gain in beauty 
and value at an astonishing rate, and on 
the other hand, they arc quite able to en¬ 
dure neglect and still produce beautiful 
blooms. 
PIowling Mob Table Corn.— This is a 
new introduction of W. Atlee Burpee & 
Co., Philadelphia, so named because the 
originator asserts that when he offers the 
first load in market the buyers collect 
about his stall in a mob, each trying to 
secure a few dozen ears of the earliest 
large corn growm in his locality'. Our 
sowing w'as made late in May for succes¬ 
sion to such extra early kinds as Malak¬ 
hov and Sheffield, and furnished large 
rounded. 14-rowed ears of very white corn 
with white cob by the second w r eek in 
August. These plump, heavy ears, with 
their broad and deep white kernels, doubt¬ 
less appear taking in the dealers’ eyes as 
they look as if the consumer would get big 
measure for his money. The quality, how¬ 
ever, is only fair at the best stage and 
quickly falls off as maturity progresses. 
This is not an undesirable feature for 
truckers, as a field may be cleared in two 
or three pickings and the land made ready 
for succession crops, but the home gar¬ 
dener usually prefers varieties continuing 
longer in edible condition. The stalks are 
short, sturdy and exceptionally even and 
vigorous in growth, well furnished with 
long dark-green leaves. About every one 
bears its plump and heavy ear. In this 
locality buyers usually prefer small ears 
of the Ne Plus Ultra type, but are, of 
course, content with other kinds when 
brought in early. “Howling Mob - ’ is cer¬ 
tainly of quick growth and may well 
bear out the introducer’s claim of being 
only five days later than White Cory. Its 
vigor and hardiness would give it a good 
start if planted early. 
The Catalpa Caterpillar. —The hot 
and excessively rainy Summer has not 
been conducive to the development of 
troublesome insects. Few destructive 
kinds have, been much in evidence. One 
notable exception is the appearance of the 
southern Catalpa caterpillar in sufficient 
numbers to defoliate most of the very nu¬ 
merous Catalpa trees in this vicinity, in¬ 
cluding many fine umbrella trees or top- 
grafted specimens of Catalpa Bungei, and 
also to play havoc with beds of seedling 
Catalpas in the nurseries. We have not 
looked up the entomological name of this 
formidable pest which takes the form of a 
smooth black-and-yellow caterpillar about 
three inches long when grown, with a for¬ 
bidding black spine in the last segment, 
like the common tobacco or tomato worm, 
and are probably larvae of a sphinx or 
night-flying moth. While familiar with 
their work in the South we have not be¬ 
fore observed them in this locality. The 
work of defoliation is so quickly done as 
to cause much surprise. Hand picking of 
the disgusting insects from accessible por¬ 
tions of the trees and dusting or spraying 
with arsenicals are the only remedies so far 
employed. Paris-green is fairly effective, 
but is likely to burn the foliage, and has 
caused almost as much damage in seed¬ 
ling beds as the pests. When the proper 
strength is found arsenical sprays will 
probably be the best means of saving the 
foliage of our much-prized umbrella Cat¬ 
alpas. A nemesis has appeared in the 
form of a parasitic Ichneumon fly, and the 
shriveled bodies of many caterpillars can 
be found covered with clusters of the 
ichneumon cocoons, so that it appears 
likely that the pest will greatly diminish 
if not entirely vanish in succeeding years. 
There was an appalling visitation of Fall 
web-worms in the season of 1903, defoliat¬ 
ing fruit, ornamental and roadside trees to 
such an extent as to discourage growers. 
Combative means appeared hopeless and 
all expected renewed devastation the suc¬ 
ceeding year. The chrysalids, on. being 
examined during Winter, appeared almost 
without exception to be infested with a 
parasite, and we have been almost free of 
the pest ever since. A moderate number 
of webs are again seen, the slight increase 
being probably due to dying out of the 
parasite for lack of victims. w. v. f. 
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