1911 . 
THE RURA.E NEW-YORKER 
787 
Ruralisms 
THE ST. REGIS RASPBERRY. 
On page 782 we show picture of the 
St. Regis raspberry, Fig. 293, and small 
cluster of fruit below. Mr. E. S. Black 
says, concerning this variety: 
“The plants are growing in a swamp 
of young plants and weeds. No attempt 
has been made at cultivation this Spring 
or Summer, and we have passed through 
one of the worst droughts in my 
ST. REGIS RASPBERRY. Fig. 295. 
memory. The sample I am sending you 
is a fair average of the whole lot of 
plants in fruiting. The vines are large, 
for the chance the)- have had to de¬ 
velop ; are good clear bright red color, 
and firm, as we have had almost con¬ 
tinuous rain for the past two weeks. 
The first berries that were noticed ripe 
were June 12, and I picked berries from 
it on November 2, 1910. I have watched 
this raspberry closely for two years 
past, but was not very enthusiastic over 
any everbearing variety up to the pres¬ 
ent time, but I am satisfied that this 
berry has merit and deserves a place 
among our best varieties regardless of 
its everbearing quality.” 
A NEW TROPICAL FRUIT. 
Fig. 296 shows one of the first fruits 
produced in America of Strychnos 
spinosa, introduced here by the Bureau 
of Plant Introduction. The seeds were 
secured by Messrs. Lathrop and Fair- 
child at Lourenco Marquez, Portuguese 
East Africa, in February, 1903, and a 
tree grown at Miami, Florida, fruited 
for the first time in April, 1911. This 
though it has in addition a distinct and 
pleasing flavor of cloves. When it is 
considered that this is still a wild fruit 
and that there are other edible relatives, 
it becomes worthy of the attention of 
subtropical plant breeders. 
This plant is referred to in Paxton’s 
Botanical Dictionary as a native of 
Madagascar discovered in 1818. The 
poisons strychnine and brucine have 
their origin in the seeds of Strychnos 
Nux-vomica. Another variety, S. pota¬ 
torum, is said t- be used by the natives 
of India to cleanse muddy water; the 
seeds being rubbed around the inside 
of the vessel, causing foreign matters 
to be precipitated and leaving the water 
clear. _________ 
IN MEMORY OF W. N. IRWIN. 
A Brief Record of a Good and Wise Man. 
On June 24, at Washington, D. C., 
there passed to the world beyond one 
of the noblest of men, and a most able 
although exceedingly modest pomologist. 
This was William Newton Irwin, one 
of the pomological workers in the U. S'. 
Department of Agriculture. He was 
stricken with the incurable malady, 
tuberculosis, which carried him away 
quite suddenly, for it was only about 
three weeks from the last time I saw 
him busy at work in the office until his 
body was tearfully laid away in the 
home cemetery at Greenfield, Ohio. We 
were the dearest of friends for 60 years. 
We visited and played together as chil¬ 
dren and boys on our fathers’ farms in 
Ross County, Ohio, and there began, 
together, our study of fruits, and they 
were the best then known, for his 
father and my own planted that kind. 
Mr. Irwin was a farmer of the advanced 
type, and fruit growing was his special 
delight, although keeping fine stock was 
one of his lines of business during early 
manhood. Fie had some 10 years of ex¬ 
perience at farming in Kansas, but his 
last and best work was done as an ex¬ 
pert pomologist at Washington, D. C. 
When I was organizing the Division of 
Pomology, knowing by long years of 
close association his special qualifica¬ 
tions, I selected him to be one of the 
office force. His work was to study, 
identify, record and describe the varie¬ 
ties of fruits that were received at the 
office. The work that he did has been 
of untold good to the many thousands 
who have applied there for information', 
although they may not have known to 
whom to give credit. Mr. Irwin was 
very observing, unostentatious and un¬ 
selfish and all that he did was done 
he had many more plans studied out 
of the same kind with regard to the 
animals of Manchuria and other for¬ 
eign countries. His thoughts in this 
connection are on record in some of the 
leading live stock journals. He was a 
close reader of The R. N-.Y., and his 
father induced my father to subscribe 
for it in 1855, since which time it has 
been in our families almost constantly. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
FRUIT OF STRYCHNOS SPINOSA. Fig. 296. 
is an extremely interesting new sub¬ 
tropical fruit. It is perfectly round like 
a cannon ball, and has a shell so hard 
that it has to be cracked with a hammer. 
This specimen was picked green, sent to 
Washington and kept for three weeks. 
While green it has no aroma, but as it 
ripens it becomes so aromatic that it 
scents the room with the odor of cloves. 
The seeds are supposed to be poison¬ 
ous, since the plant belongs to the same 
genus as that from which strychnine is 
obtained, but an examination showed 
scarcely a trace of this poison in those 
contained in this fruit. The pulp is 
about the consistency of a very ripe 
banana and reminds one of it in flavor, 
after careful thought and was quite apt 
to be unqv-Ytionably correct. I never 
knew a pomologist whose knowledge of 
varieties was so wide and accurate. 
When I was in doubt about a variety I 
always tried to consult him and get his 
judgment, and usually deferred to it. 
His judgment at fruit fairs was often 
sought and always prized. Mr. Irwin 
was also deeply interested in the intro¬ 
duction and domestication of animals 
that have not yet been known to the 
American stock breeders. It was largely 
through his original suggestions and 
manifested interest that the move to in¬ 
troduce the hippopotamus and other ani¬ 
mals from Africa has been begun, and 
Thrips and Slugs on Roses.— The 
best and only satisfactory remedy in my 
experience for these pests is lemon oil 
insecticide, obtainable from any seed 
dealer. Diluted according to directions 
it is best applied with one of the air 
sprayers, as the hose can be turned un¬ 
der the leaves. Azaleas, always subject 
to thrips, can be kept perfectly clean 
with this remedy. I remember once we 
filled an old wash boiler with the solu¬ 
tion and dipped the plants. Roses can 
be kept free from lice and other insects 
in the dwelling by using it occasionally. 
The odor is extremely agreeable. Fir 
tree oil will do the work equally as well, 
but costs more than double. Tobacco 
is a disagreeable insecticide at best, and 
anyone who uses the lemon oil once 
would never try tobacco again, f. c. c. 
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