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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 14, 
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• Ruralisms f 
/VOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
“Sacaline” Once More. —Readers of 
The R. N.-Y. a dozen years ago will 
recall the colossal claims made for 
“Sacaline,” the giant Asiatic knotweed 
that was to dispel all fears of drought, 
displace for forage purposes our great 
national crop of maize or Indian corn and 
generally transform American agricul¬ 
tural methods. There is little need to 
say it failed to substantiate the hopes 
raised by its introducers. While it is 
hardy enough to grow when established 
under almost all conditions of heat, cold, 
excessive drought or moisture, it de¬ 
mands rich deep soil to piake a good 
showing, and though horses and cattle 
will sparingly eat the fresh foliage and 
succulent stems they plainly are not 
relished. While grazing animals might 
for a time subsist on “Sacaline” forage 
it would doubtless prove a sorry sub¬ 
stitute for grain or corn stover. “Saca¬ 
line” is botanically Polygonum Sachali- 
nense, native of the cold and sterile 
island of Sakhalin and contiguous Siber¬ 
ian and Japanese territory. It is, when 
suited, a vigorous and long-lived plant, 
spreading by strong underground shoots. 
The herbaceous stalks make rapid growth 
early in the season and are clothed with 
heart-shaped leaves nearly a foot long. 
The clump shown in Fig. 336 grew from 
an offset of one of the original imported 
plants, thrown under a greenhouse bench 
in 1895. It made its way underneath 
the foundations and annually grows 
about 15 feet high, being used as shelter 
for tropical pot plants placed outside 
for the season. It would be quite a task 
to eradicate a plant so thoroughly estab¬ 
lished if it should appear desirable, but 
we have never heard of it becoming a 
pest notwithstanding its wide distribu¬ 
tion at the time of the “Sacaline” boom. 
It has merit as a decorative plant for 
hiding rough places but should have, for 
best results, a moist and fertile situation. 
The fleecy white blooms are abundantly 
produced in August and are followed by 
quantities of reddish chaffy seeds, which, 
however, seldom mature. “Sacaline” is 
gone but not forgotten. Worthless as 
forage on account of its coarse nature, 
it has a rough beauty of habit and while 
the glowing promises of its promoters 
linger in memory there is likely to be 
interest as to its real utility. 
Strawberry - Raspberry and Rocky 
Mountain Cherry. —Judging from fre¬ 
quent inquiries interest in these exploded 
“novelties” is reviving. Even nursery¬ 
men send us samples of the above fruit, 
and hint they may have merit for popu¬ 
lar (planting. Although 'both are old 
species, fairly well known to botanists, 
they were first vociferously exploited 
about the same time as “Sacaline,” and 
have fallen into obscurity after wide¬ 
spread trials. There may be a horti¬ 
cultural future for them after prolonged 
breeding, which is well under way as 
regards the cherry, but it has been 
demonstrated that in their present con¬ 
dition they have only trifling economical 
value. The strawberry-raspberry is 
Rubus rossefolius, a red-fruited herbace¬ 
ous blackberry, native to the mountains 
of Asia and Japan. It has a large and 
ornamental bloom that survives in double 
form in the sterile conservatory plant 
known as Bridal Wreath rose, though, of 
course, it is not a true rose, but a 
pretty and free-blooming plant, of easy 
growth, the only objection being its ex¬ 
cessive thorniness. The typical straw¬ 
berry-raspberry fruits are large, bright 
red and showy, quite resembling straw¬ 
berries—but are dry and flavorless, 
though palatable when cooked. It is 
sometimes called India raspberry and has 
been shown at meetings of the American 
Pomological Society as a novelty, under 
that name. Our experiments show that 
it will hybridize with both garden rasp¬ 
berries and blackberries, but the mongrel 
progeny is always weak, sterile and 
short-lived. Prolonged selection of pure 
seedlings may in time develop varieties 
of better quality than the type, worthy 
of cultivation where standard fruits can¬ 
not be grown. The Rocky Mountain 
cherry is Prunus Besseyi, a shrubby 
black-fruited wild cherry native of the 
northern Rocky Mountain range. It is 
a quick growing and fruitful species in 
its natural habitat but the fruits are any¬ 
thing but agreeable in quality. There is 
considerable variation, occasional plants 
bearing fairly palatable cherries, and 
much work is being done at North Da¬ 
kota, Minnesota and other experiment 
stations in the higher latitudes in the 
way of raising seedlings and hybrids in 
the hope of developing improved varie¬ 
ties. It is said that seedlings are now 
under way by the half-million, so that 
it would appear that the prospects for 
testing the horticultural possibilities of 
the species are indeed bright. The Rocky 
Mountain cherry is very ornamental 
when in bloom and is recommended as a 
reliable hardy shrub for the northern 
prairie States. It is useless on the Rural 
Grounds, as it is here so subect to twig- 
blight as to be a positive menace to 
other related vegetation. 
Some Good New Lilies. —Recent ex¬ 
plorations in the far East have brought 
to light several meritorious Liliums, new 
both to botanical science and to horti¬ 
culture. Chief of these is L. Henryi, the 
“yellow Speciosum,” which has previously 
been mentioned in The R. N.-Y. Interest 
in this vigorous and handsome species is 
increasing. ; t being asked for in quan¬ 
tities as large as 25,000 bulbs for a single 
decorative planting. It is needless to say 
it is not on the market in such numbers. 
Planters must still content themselves 
with this fine species by the dozen or 
hundred at good rcund prices for even 
such limited quantities. 
Lilium Sutchuenense, from Western 
China, is a very bright and graceful 
species of the Tiger-lily type. The 
blooms are orange red, with black-purple 
spotting and have reflexed petals like our 
native swamp lilies. It grows tall and the 
stems are heavily clothed with very 
narrow leaves. It appears to be entirely 
hardy, our trial bulbs wintering perfectly 
with no protection but their earth cover¬ 
ing. Though the blooms are perhaps not 
so large it is far more refined and deco¬ 
rative in growth and appearance than 
any Tiger lily we know. It will doubt¬ 
less become a great favorite when it 
can be had in quantity. 
Lilium Myriophyllum is still very 
scarce. The only bulbs we could pro¬ 
cure were small and gave but two blooms 
each. It is a distinct species of the L. 
Browni type, and is also native to West¬ 
ern China. Our plants grew dwarf, 
scarcely rising more than a foot high, 
the stems being densely clothed with nar¬ 
row one-nerved leaves. The flowers were 
large, full-trumpet shaped, white and 
yellow inside with rosy-purple markings 
outside. They were very handsome and 
faintly fragrant. If Myriophyllum turns 
out a good grower and as hardy as other 
far Chinese species it will be extremely 
desirable. 
Lilium Yoshaida? —This is a most 
interesting lily grown by Herr Max 
Leichtlin, of Germany, from seeds col¬ 
lected in the Philippine Islands by a 
Japanese botanist in Herr Leichtlin’s 
employ. It appears closely allied to 
Myriophyllum and the provisional name 
of Yoshaida has not yet been sanctioned 
by botanical usage. Small bulbs pro¬ 
cured from the raiser two years ago 
bloomed for the writer this Summer. The 
plants appear to be fairly vigorous 
growers and hardy enough to endure 
frosting of the bulbs, but ours were not 
exposed over Winter. The leaves are 
narrow and closely crowded, while the 
flowers are very elegant trumpets over 
five inches long, pure white inside, flushed 
with rose-pink outside, and quite fra¬ 
grant. It is an elegant variation of the 
pleasing Browni type of Oriental lilies. 
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