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December 8, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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The Brown’s Early Grape. —We have 
been familiar with this very promising 
new grape for several years. It is a seed¬ 
ling of the famous Isabella, and has all 
the good qualities of that well-known 
variety, with the addition of extreme 
earliness, ripening at its place of origin 
in the cool Hudson Valley in late August. 
The berries are of good size, blue-black 
in color, with tough resistant skin, mod¬ 
erate pulp and good sweet quality. The 
clusters are very compact and always ap¬ 
pear well filled. '1 he foliage is healthy 
and vigorous, of the true Labrusca type, 
while the vine is a good grower and of 
undoubted iron-clad hardiness. The 
grape is shown in Fig. 410, first page. 
Late-fruiting Raspberries. —Autumn¬ 
cropping raspberries have long been 
known. Varieties having this characteristic 
are found among all cultivated types—the 
blackcap and purple cane, as well as the 
native and European red-fruited kinds, 
and in practice almost any strong rasp¬ 
berry plant, and some blackberries as well, 
may be induced to bear late fruits by cut¬ 
ting away in Spring the fruiting canes 
and thus forcing an early and vigorous 
new growth. The old October Red and 
Belle of Fontenoy, of European origin, 
the Catawissa, a purple-cane, and the 
blackcap Ohio were all valued among 
other good qualities in their day, for their 
late or Autumn-bearing propensities. In 
the press for modern heavy-cropping mar¬ 
ket varieties this characteristic has been 
almost forgotten, and a dish of Autumn 
raspberries, possibly the most delicious 
fruit of the year, is rarely seen. To 
have them in perfection the regular Sum¬ 
mer crop must be sacrificed by early cut¬ 
ting away the canes of the preceding year 
as above noted. Varieties in which the 
late-fruiting habit is well developed may 
bear scattering berries on vigorous suck¬ 
ers even if permitted to crop as usual, 
but for satisfactory results it is best to 
remove all old growth in Spring and limit 
the new to a few thrifty canes. The fol¬ 
lowing new late-fruiting kinds appear 
promising on the Rural Grounds. 
Beyer’s Everbearing Blackcap. —Plants 
were received in October, 1904, from the 
originator, Hugo Beyer, New London, 
Towa. The young canes grew three feet 
high, the following Summer, and bore a 
fair crop in September of good-sized, 
well-flavored berries, black with light 
blue bloom. The seeds were large like 
those of Ohio, of which this variety may 
be a sport or seedling, though the canes 
do not appear as white as those of that 
popular old variety. This season the crop 
was larger, and ripened later, running 
well towards October. The variety is not 
especially vigorous, and demands good 
culture and fertile soil. It has been en¬ 
tirely free from disease during the two 
seasons it has been under observation. 
Hybrid Purple-cane. —Fig. 413, page 
911, fairly represents in natural size clus¬ 
ters of berries taken October 25 from a 
seedling purple-cane raised on the Rural 
Grounds. It is a result of crossing Car¬ 
dinal (purple-cane) with Cumberland 
(blackcap), and the best of the progeny 
later by Miller, which appears to be de¬ 
scended from our native red-fruited spe¬ 
cies, Rubus strigosus. The first cross of 
Cumberland on Cardinal produced mainly 
dark-fruited purple-cane varieties, a few 
scarcely distinguishable from ordinary 
blackcaps, and two or three plants that 
bore large, firm berries of good flavor and 
size, late in ripening and lighter in color 
than Cardinal, which is dull purple when 
ripe, as grown here. A few blooms on 
the rfl&st promising red-berried plant, 
fruit '(Lin 1902, were pollinated with Mil¬ 
ler, naoAvn as a good commercial native 
kind, Sirred f° r bright color of its 
large jewply-ripening berries. A dozen 
plant 5grown from this last cross, 
most fruited in 1904. They are 
all f lirJpjIjsBical purple-canes in habit— 
the 1 'Jilood of the first cross be¬ 
ing s pparentljr ^entirely neutralized by the 
Miller ihfKffcnfce, but appear to increase 
by si ckers Yk tlV^r than tips, as most canes 
term: hate in bloom clusters late in Sum¬ 
mer. Tbet of illustration made a 
stron Brecond year from seed, 
and 1 ore nearly a pint of excellent berries 
in October. It was divided last Spring, 
form n g«4/y££tW?^' plants, each of which 
sent ip-t^wirrf’^ifSreLtrong' canes, nearly 
even Wrayicb pf'wb-k'b germinated in clus¬ 
ters of blddmiai^oMtiflibs like those illus¬ 
trate* . flJ< The- j feerYie?t 1 '}tf < e e exceedingly firm, 
but j ucy and of rich subacid flavor, and 
the y eky^f^ Jncgff Jjggff we have ever 
befor ; found on I"air-muting raspberries 
he tefthery, has al- 
wavsh-been- -efttrrelv—healthv, while the 
canes have neV^Peven by the 
sever; Whiter tTjoffgh absolute¬ 
ly w lllout*ne rrics are 
shown in natural size; the color is lighter 
purple-red than any purple-cane variety 
we have grown. If the variety maintains 
its prolific Autumn-bearing habit under 
commercial culture and propagation it 
would appear desirable. 
American Carnations in Europe.— 
The American type of free-blooming car¬ 
nation, especially adapted for glasshouse 
culture, is meeting generous, though 
tardy, recognition abroad. Until within 
the last few years European gardeners 
would have little to do with our popular 
varieties, but they have won their way 
by sheer commercial merit until large es¬ 
tablishments in England and France are 
now devoted to their culture. The Euro¬ 
pean carnation has been developed, by 
nearly two centuries of devoted culture, 
into a magnificent flower occasionally ex¬ 
celling in size and finish anything we 
grow in this country, but it is sadly lack¬ 
ing in continued production, giving a 
grand burst of bloom in midsummer just 
when there is a plethora of flowers of all 
kinds and sulking along under glass 
throughout the Winter months with only 
an occasional blossom. There are many 
semi-hardy strains grown for garden cul¬ 
ture under the general name of Tree or 
Remontant carnations, and a few well- 
colored and highly-perfumed varieties use¬ 
ful for Winter forcing, as they have the 
continuous blooming habit fairly well de¬ 
veloped. Our American Winters are gen¬ 
erally too severe for much satisfaction in 
outdoor carnation culture. From our 
earliest importations these beautiful 
flowering plants have been used for green¬ 
house culture, and soon after the present 
ever-blooming race was bred, about 1840, 
by a French specialist, our growers took 
up the work of developing the type, and 
by interminable crossing and continued 
selection from countless thousands of 
seedlings have brought it to the present 
admirable stage of perfection. We now 
have flowers of good form and finish, 
reaching nearly four inches in diameter, 
in almost every desirable shade of color 
and combination of markings, borne on 
robust plants that propagate with ease 
and produce a scarcely interrupted pro¬ 
fusion of bloom from the time they are 
benched in September until they are 
thrown out next June or July. Carnation 
culture is a national industry of no mean 
proportions, with its millions of invested 
capital, its innumerable glasshouses, every¬ 
where dotting the land, and its fragrant 
and lovely product on sale in quantity 
every business day in the year. Carna¬ 
tion blooms are so lasting and are now 
so fine and moderate in price that they 
are everywhere generally regarded as the 
people’s favorite decorative flower. 
Mrs. Lawson Led the Way. —The Eu¬ 
ropean carnation ideal appears always to 
be a smooth, round flower without fringes 
on the petals. American growers were 
quick to observe that plants bearing 
blooms with fringed or laciniated petals 
were generally more vigorous and pro¬ 
ductive than the smooth type, and from 
their standpoint the fringed effect was 
not only more natural, but enhanced rath¬ 
er than marred, the beauty of the flower. 
1 he fringed bloom, thus honored and pre¬ 
served, has become a characteristic of the 
American carnation and though at first 
strongly objected to by European growers 
has now been accepted by them as com¬ 
pensated for by the productiveness of the 
plants. 1 he American variety first rec¬ 
ognized as desirable in Europe is Mrs. 
Thomas Lawson, the famous $30,000 pink 
variety that created such a furore several 
years ago. Mrs. Lawson was the largest 
and finest carnation of its time, and is 
still profitably grown. Other kinds now 
largely planted abroad are White Enchant¬ 
ress, Lady Bountiful and Queen Louise, 
white; Nelson Fisher, Enchantress and 
hair Maid, pink; Governor Roosevelt, 
General Maceo and Harlowarden, crim¬ 
son; Dorothy Whitney, yellow, and 
Striped Lawson or Prosperity, variegated. 
European cultural conditions differ some¬ 
what from our own. There is generally 
less sunlight in Winter owing to the 
higher northern latitude, and plants are 
not so easily managed when planted out 
in the benches. More perfect drainage 
is secured by growing the plants in pots, 
and propagation is rather effected by 
layers than cuttings. w. v. f. 
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I)o your hands get cold? 
I.et us keep them warm. A 
P a > r of our elegant RUSSIAN 
?> RI VI N <J 
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corduroy. For warmth and hard 
wear, this GLOVE has no equal. 
Also made in mittens 
and one-fingered mit¬ 
tens. Send the whole¬ 
sale price, $3.50, and 
we will express you a 
pair, charges paid. If 
you are not pleased, re¬ 
turn them, and we will 
refund the money. 
State size needed and 
give your nearest ex¬ 
press office. 
RUSSIAN FUR CO. 
Gloversville, N. Y. 
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Hey! Santa, where s that 
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“Stevens-Maynard, Jr.” $3 “Little Krag” . . . $| 
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Department 5, 
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