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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Ruralisms 
THE GARDENA DEWBERRY. 
There has been so much adverse criti¬ 
cism given John Lewis Childs for his in¬ 
troduction of the “Wonderberry” on the 
east coast, that I feel tempted to say 
a word of praise for his introduction of 
the “Gardenia dewberry.” I ordered three 
years ago 100 of these vines, and set them 
out in the Fall, about November 15, three 
feet apart in a row in my garden. The 
next Spring as they commenced to grow 
I twined them up on hog wire 24 inches 
wide, set one’ foot above ground and fas¬ 
tened to locust posts placed about 18 feet 
apart. Not an inch of growth was lost 
during the Spring or Summer, and during 
late Fall the tips were allowed to root. 
Some of the shoots made a growth of 12 
feet. During this period they were sided 
down twice and chicken manure drilled in 
the furrows twice. During the Winter a top¬ 
dressing of chicken manure and wood ashes 
was given them, then mulched with pine 
straw or needles. The following Spring, 
after taking up over one thousand new 
ware and has been grown there exten¬ 
sively and elsewhere as well. As a later 
variety none excels Cuthbert, and few 
are as good. It is the best of all rasp¬ 
berries for the South. No yellow 
variety is of any commercial use. The 
fruit is not liked because of its color. 
Golden Queen and Yellow Cap are two 
such kinds, but few nurseries keep them. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Harvesting an Onion Crop. 
O. .1. R., Thomaston, Me .—I have a small 
onion patch, 51 rows each -50 feet long. They 
are looking fine, have onions as large as 
teacups now (September 4). The variety 
is Gregory's Improved Yellow Globe. I 
have never planted onions before, and would 
like to know how to handle them from 
now on, what time to harvest and all about 
it. I shall want to sell mine as soon as 
dry enough after pulling. How long would 
that be? 
Ans.— When the bulbs have attained 
their full size and maturity, usually indi¬ 
cated by the dying down of the tops, the 
crop is then ready to be harvested. Pull 
plants from the tips that had rooted, they 
were worked and wood ashes applied again. 
When they flowered the row was a solid 
mass of white bloom, a sight to make 
any man proud. When they fruited they 
came in over one week earlier than the 
Lucretia, used by other truckers in this 
section. We picked over 685 quarts from 
these original hundred vines, 108 to be 
exact, and sat on boxes while doing It. 
The beauty of this wire method over the 
ground method is that the vines fruit from 
both sides thus doubling the yield of fruit, 
while the shaded sides come in a week 
later than the southern or sunny side, rows 
running about southeast by northwest. The 
pickers can also sit down on boxes or 
stools, while working, thus saving many a 
backache. More berries can be picked in 
less time than on the ground, besides at 
one-half cost, i. c., one cent a box instead 
of two cents. The size and flavor of the 
berries brought me nearly always from a 
cent to two cents a box more than the 
other truckers received for theirs. While 
the initial expense for the wire may seem 
a great deal, It will soon pay for itself 
In time and cost of picking berries. The 
first year I tried this system I was laughed 
at, as a city crank or book farmer, al¬ 
though the wire idea didn’t come from any 
book. h. h. b. 
Newport News, Va. 
the onions by hand or rake them together 
by means of a blunt-tooth rake; cut the 
top from the onions at once, and stack 
the bulbs iff shallow crates in the field 
if the weather is pleasant, otherwise 
place them in an open shed, not allowing 
them to get wet. As soon as the bulbs 
are sufficiently dried sell the crop imme¬ 
diately from the field. I would not ad¬ 
vise a beginner to try to winter over 
onions, for it is a risk even for the more 
experienced grower. Never allow onions 
to remain in the field after the tops die; 
the grass and weeds will soon cover 
them and the dampness will surely cause 
them to rot. t. m. white. 
Fertilizer for Apple Orchard. 
I have about 50 apple trees in good bear¬ 
ing condition. In the absence of stable ma¬ 
nure, what is the best fertilizer for me to 
use to get the best results? D. I*. S. 
Chesham, N. II. 
This question has been worked out in 
several experiments. The latest report 
comes from Pennsylvania, where the fol¬ 
lowing chemicals are suggested for one 
acre: 100 pounds nitrate of soda, 100 
pounds dried blood, either 250 pounds 
steamed bone or 400 pounds acid phosphate 
and 100 pounds sulphate of potash. This 
would answer for your 50 trees and give 
them a full meal. 
H. H. B. has certainly given his dew¬ 
berries excellent care, and could justly 
expect good results. Any good variety 
adapted to the locality should thrive 
with such painstaking treatment. The 
Gardena dewberry, presumably identical 
with Childs "Gardenia,” has been large¬ 
ly planted in California, particularly in 
the southern horticultural portion of the 
State and is there considered the most 
profitable of the running blackberries 
on account of its extreme earliness, 
coming in before all other varieties. 
It is a strong grower and quite produc¬ 
tive under good culture, but the quality 
is so low in the estimation of those most 
familiar with it that it would be little 
grown if it were not the first to be 
ready for market. The origin of this 
dewberry, which takes it name from 
Gardena, a locality near Los Angeles, 
Cal., where it thrives especially well, 
appears rather obscure. It is thought 
to be a seedling or “sport” of the 
Prcmo, an early variety of the common 
eastern dewberry, Rubus villosus. It 
chiefly differs from Premo in being 
earlier and of generally poorer flavor. 
w. v. F. 
Raspberries in the South. 
G. C. B., Johnson City, Tenn .—I would 
like experience with raspberries in the 
South. What is the most productive early 
red one, also a late red one? Is there a 
yellow one that is suitable for growing for 
market, and how do they compare in size 
and productiveness with the red and black 
varieties? 
Ans. —The King is the earliest red 
raspberry that I know, and it is a very 
good one. It was grown from seed by 
T. Thompson near Richmond/Va., where 
I saw it growing first, and it was after¬ 
ward tested in many sections and gener¬ 
ally well liked. I have not heard much 
of this variety for several years, but I 
know it is a good one. The Tennessee 
Experiment Station at Knoxville may 
have it. Miller is another good early 
red raspberry. It originated in Dela¬ 
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