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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 5, 
Ruralisms 
Effects of the Drought. —The dry- 
est season in many years was ended 
November 15 by soaking rains followed 
by snow. Winter grain will be greatly 
benefited if too severe cold does not 
follow. Grain sowing was much de¬ 
layed by the dryness of the soil, and 
considerable breadths of rye were put in 
as late as the first week of November. 
Such sowings cannot be expected to 
make much growth before hard freez¬ 
ing. Clover has taken a fresh and vig¬ 
orous start. It has been growing slowly 
since July, brightening up at every 
light shower only to droop as the dry 
winds sucked out surface moisture, but 
lias thrust its roots deep in the drying 
soil and thickened its crowns to a sur¬ 
prising degree. With a fairly open Win¬ 
ter there may be quite good stands next 
Spring. Cow-horn turnips have shown 
less ability to adapt themselves to de¬ 
ficient moisture, and are much smaller 
than at a similar time last season. 
Celery and Cabbage have made far 
better growths than could be expected 
from the unusual dryness of the soil. 
Stalks and heads are solid, and larger 
than was looked for. There has not 
been as fine White Plume celery for 
several years. This is probably due to 
the absence of celery blight, which pre¬ 
vails most in wet, hot weather. In dig¬ 
ging celery it was very noticeable how 
the rootlets filled every manure lump 
or mass of humus within reach in their 
untiring search for moisture. Less rain 
is needed than might be supposed to 
grow these leafy crops, if fertility and 
culture are otherwise sufficient for their 
needs. 
Lettuce and Spinach suffered more, 
requiring constant attention to keep 
moving. The quality of both these suc¬ 
culent vegetables is excellent, the foliage 
generally being firmer than in rainy 
seasons, but the crops for given areas are 
noticeably smaller than usual. The dry 
air and soil greatly lessened the effects 
of October frosts. Well-flavored ripe 
tomatoes from living vines, palatable 
table corn, firm peppers and green Lima 
beans were gathered October 31 on the 
Rural Grounds. 
Hardy Flowering Plants made con¬ 
siderable show during October, Chrysan¬ 
themums lingering unharmed until mid- 
November. Late planted Tritoma or 
Kniphofia Pfitzeri and Galtonia candi- 
cans, the “Summer-blooming hyacinth,” 
made a splendid show the first week in 
November. Cannas and Autumn Giant 
Gladiolus also bloomed until the end of 
October. Roses kept up an incessant 
bloom until actual freezing. Rugosa hy¬ 
brids rarely showed to. better advantage. 
Even the Wichuraiana and Multiflora 
Ramblers had occasional flower clusters, 
1 hough they are among the shyest of 
Fall bloomers. The prevailing bright sun¬ 
light was highly favorable to show 
Chrysanthemums. The}' have farelv ap¬ 
peared to better advantage. Exhibitions 
have been well attended, and in Chi¬ 
cago, at least, were given on the largest 
scale yet attempted. 
Apples were injured by October heat, 
and are spoiling in storage at an alarm¬ 
ing rate. When the present surplus of 
California grapes is worked off they 
promise to be in high demand. Kieffer 
pears were finally marketed at moderate¬ 
ly paying prices, though there was con¬ 
siderable loss among early shipments. 
Kieffers grown in light soil were gen¬ 
erally of excellent quality, though not of 
large size. New plantings should be cau¬ 
tiously made, if made at all, and only 
on suitable soil. The Kieffer market 
will be much relieved when certain old 
orchards and those on too compact soil 
are finally destroyed. Strawberry plants 
approach their Winter rest generally 
undersized, but with firm crowns and 
long, strong roots. There may yet be 
opportunity for considerable growth. 
Fall-fruiting raspberry seedlings of the 
purple-cane type gave us the best crop 
we have known. Richly flavored berries 
ripened all through October. Fruit trees 
generally appear to have .matured their 
wood well, and to have made plump 
fruit spurs and buds. Peach wood in 
particular, should be benefited by the 
very thorough baking it received last 
Summer. 
The Eight-rowed Table Corn, fig¬ 
ured on this page, we have come to re¬ 
gard as the best in quality of all va¬ 
rieties we have ever tested. There are 
many good kinds. Shoe-peg or Ne Plus 
Ultra, County Gentleman, Stabler’s 
Early, Squantum and Evergreen all have 
their good points as regards flavor, but 
in our estimation this old and a’most 
nameless eight-rowed variety outranks 
them all. The kernels are broad and 
deep, and at the proper cooking stage 
tender, rich and sweet beyond all others. 
It does not possess the gummy con¬ 
sistency noticed in Shoe-peg and other 
table corns with long irregular kernels. 
When catalogued it is generally under 
the name of Large Early Eight-rowed, 
but it is best grown for medium and 
late cropping. The stalk is rather tall, 
vigorous and leafy, with a troublesome 
tendency to sucker. Two ears are gen¬ 
erally perfected if the suckers are re¬ 
moved. The husk is thick and closely 
clasps the tip of the ear, protecting it to 
some extent from the corn or boll- 
worm, and especially shielding it from 
early frosts. We plant in June and again 
as late as July 20, and seldom fail to 
have excellent ears up to the end of 
October. This very sweet corn is grown 
in many localities, generally as a second 
EIGHT-ROWED TABLE CORN. 
NATURAL SIZE, Fig. 440. 
crop after early vegetables, and is 
greatly liked where known, though it 
scarcely ranks in productiveness with 
staple market sorts. The very high qual¬ 
ity and dainty appearance of the fresh 
ears make it especially suitable for a 
critical trade. Stocks are quite variable, 
producing many 10 and 12-rowed ears, 
but we find the typical eight-rowed ones 
always to be finer in quality than the 
sports. Some growers breed it larger 
and some smaller, but we take the 
illustrated ear, photographed natural 
size, in the dry or ripe state to be the 
most desirable type. We recommend a 
trial, where the true variety can be pro¬ 
cured, by amateurs who are not wholly 
satisfied with the quality of the popular 
market kinds. For early table corn we 
plant Malakhov or Golden Bantam, 
both small-eared kinds of best quality. 
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