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TIIK RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 6, 
F ARMERS' CLUB 
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EXPERIENCE WITH PANSY PLANTS. 
I would like a few words with the Hope 
Farm boys about pansies. I am very glad 
they are Interested in them. It may be a 
little of my experience will help them. I 
have always had much trouble to get the 
plants to come up until this year. My seed 
was put in the bed August 23. The pansies 
were up in eight days, and some have five 
leaves, and are nearly ready to transplant 
in cold frames for Winter. This year I 
kept the seed bed very moist, and covered 
during the hottest part of the day with 
cotton frames. Anything will do that makes 
a shade, and it looks as if every seed has 
come up. The first of October I shall put 
the plants in a cold frame about six inches 
apart each way. They will get well rooted 
and grow very much before I need to cover 
them with the glass. You will be astonished 
to find how much frost they will stand with¬ 
out being injured. After putting on the 
glass I do nothing more except occasionally 
on a very pleasant day raise the frames a 
little to give them fresh air, and raise 
them much more as soon as the warm days 
of Spring come. Looking at my past record 
I find I began to sell plants the second day 
of April, and from not a very large frame 
1 sold enough to amount to $65.20. By 
putting some in pots they will sell for 10 
cents apiece at Raster. I have more than 
once sold a hundred plants for $5 at my 
own house, but the greater part of them 
1 take up carefully, leaving on the roots as 
much earth as I can, put them in boxes 
that will hold two dozen and leave them 
at some different places in the village, to be 
sold for from 00 to 75 cents a dozen, allow¬ 
ing them 20 per cent for selling. Remember 
you cannot have your ground too rich ; the 
richer the ground the larger the blossoms, 
and the better they will sell. The first 
blossom is generally larger than any others, 
and then is l lie time to sell, and unless you 
have seen one you have no idea bow beauti¬ 
ful a box looks tilled with plants of dif¬ 
ferent. colored blossoms. 
Westchester Co.. N. Y. x. h. dumond. 
Diseased Candidum Lilies. 
T. J. 0., Sinking Spring, Pa ..—The foliage 
of my Candidum lilies is spotted and dying. 
Many of the buds, which are almost ready 
to open, are brown spotted, and ip some 
instances clusters of buds are dying and 
decaying. Will you inform me what the 
disease is and how it could have been pre¬ 
vented ? 
Ans. —Your Candidum lilies are prob¬ 
ably affected with the Lily spot, a fungus 
disease that has always existed among 
lilies, and has become so prevalent in the 
last 20 years that -almost all the white 
lilies in cultivation are now affected with 
it. It is quite similar to the disease affect¬ 
ing Harrisi and Longiflorum lilies so 
much used hy florists for forcing. The 
Candidum lilv seems especially affected 
by this trouble, and nearly all the bulbs 
in the trade show traces of it. There 
seems to be no real cure, though good 
effects have been reported from spraying 
the foliage every 10 days or so with 
Bordeaux Mixture, as soon as it appears 
above the ground in the Spring until 
blooming time. The best practice, how¬ 
ever, is to procure sound bulbs, if they 
can possibly be had and plant in new and 
uninfected soil. 
Edible Snails. 
II. 11., Ferguson, Mo .—Is there any infor¬ 
mation available on growing edible snails? 
Ans. —The edible snail of commerce is 
Helix pomatia, a native of Europe. This 
is very large, often growing to the size 
of a man’s fist, and Varro, the Roman 
author, refers to a snail-shell thaL. would 
hold 10 quarts. While the common 
garden snail of this country could be 
regarded as edible, it is too small to be 
of commercial value, and all the snails 
used in the French restaurants here are 
imported from France. They are im¬ 
ported during the Winter season, after 
they have sealed themselves up in their 
shells. In France, choice snails are fed 
upon grape leaves, being produced in the 
vine-growing districts, but we have no 
further information of their culture. The 
Romans, who were very fond of snails, 
kept them in buildings called cochlearia, 
and fed them upon bran and new wine, 
boiled down. They are very fond of 
lettuce, but the vine leaves are supposed 
to give a specially delicate flavor. In ad¬ 
dition to the edible snail of commerce, 
the European garden snail (Helix as- 
persa) and several of the slugs (Limax, 
or snails without external shell) are 
boiled in milk and used as a remedy for 
pulmonary complaints. 
Ripening Cherry Tomato. 
J. B. S., Amogansett, N. Y .—Is there any 
way of ripening ground cherry tomatoes that 
are not far enough advanced to pick and 
ripen in the husk when time for frost comes? 
If the vines were pulled and hung up would 
that do it? 
Ans. —By cherry tomato I presume 
J. B. S. alludes to a species allied to the 
tomato, Physalis, usually called strawberry 
tomato, or ground cherry or husk toma¬ 
to. The fruit when fully matured is about 
the size of the cherry, growing inclosed 
in a husk; they are of sweet flavor. 
Sometimes used for preserves. The plants 
when once established will frequently re¬ 
produce themselves year after year from 
self-sown seed. It is therefore quite 
hardy and the enclosed fruit is not in¬ 
jured by early frost, and usually ripens 
when the husk dries. To pull the vines 
and dry them as suggested would cause 
the fruit to shrink and shrivel up, render¬ 
ing it useless._ t. m. w. 
A Southern Corn Crop. —The picture 
given at Fig. 316 shows a cornfield on the 
farm of George W. Hunt, Henrico County, 
Va. Few things in the South are more 
surprising to a northern man than the way 
corn grows on the light soil of these old 
fields. Mr. Hunt says: “This field is 
about 12 miles cast of Richmond, Va., on 
Williams Bridge road, about one-half 
mile west of Balloms Bridge on Chicka- 
hominy, on land that cost about $4 per 
acre a few years ago, and was very poor. 
It was planted May 31; the picture was 
taken August 6. The corn is about 11 feet 
high on an average. It is Blount’s Prolific, 
and will average two good cars to the 
stalk. It is checked three feet six inches 
each way, two stalks to the hill. I am 
six feet one inch tall, so you may judge 
from picture how a short man would look 
in tall corn.” _ 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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