X^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
419 
RURALISMS 
Fruit Notes from Missouri 
Oriental Persimmons.— In looking 
over the horticultural field for some 
things that, while not ahvay.s new, have 
demonstrated their jigl.t to be included 
in a list of valuable fruits. I shall men¬ 
tion first the fact that two of the large 
oriental persimmons, the Chinese Tam- 
opan and the .Japanese Eureka, have 
proved to be hardy here in Southeast 
Missouri at a temperature of 14 degrees 
below zero and bore fruit at three years 
of age. As we know that it is possible 
to increa.se plant hardiness by certain 
methods, it appears to be certain that 
this new family of fruit from the Orient 
is destined to become acclimated over a 
large part of the United States. In 
some .sections of the South where these 
persimmons are largely grown, they are 
said to sell at prices which make their 
production very profitable. .Tu.st hoAV 
far the popular taste will approve them 
it is impossible to say. They have a 
tough skin and when ripe the pulp be¬ 
comes very soft and is best eaten with a 
spoon. They are picked when well col¬ 
ored, and when laid away, will ripen up 
in the course of days or weeks. But, 
as may be guessed, they are well worth 
growing as novelties and their large, 
thick, glossy leaves are quite ornamental. 
McDonald Berry. —I call ithis new 
fruit a “berry,” because it is a hybrid 
blackberry-dewberry and partakes of 
both species in about equal degree. I 
advise small fruit growers to test this 
new arrival, for wherever it is as suc- 
cesful as here and wherever else I have 
received reports, it w’ill be foiind to be 
the most profitable of all its family. 
This is because its fruit is as large and 
as plentiful ns that of the true dewberry, 
and because it is the earliest of all do¬ 
mestic species to ripen, so far as I know 
them. Some of our wild dew’berrics 
.seem to ripen perhaps as early, but it 
marches a few days ahead of the Early 
Harvest, our old standard of earline.ss, 
ripens its crop in much shorter time and 
its fruit will average twice as large. I 
wish'to add that while last year I adver¬ 
tised and sold some plants of the Mc¬ 
Donald, I have and .shall have none for 
sale, and have no pecuniary interest in 
it whatever. The plant has tremendous 
vigor, is i>robably as hardy as the I.u- 
cretia dewberry .and makes a bu.sh as 
large as the blackberry. My opinion is 
that in a few years it will be the lead¬ 
ing stiindard from California to New 
York. Bear in mind, however, that it is 
a pistillate and must be i)lanted with 
some other bloomer of its season, though 
nothing is quite so early as its first 
blossoms. 
Kino David Appi.e. —This is one of 
the mo.st promising of the new apples I 
have tested. It is one of the earliest to 
bear, beginning very young. Its fruit 
resembles that of the Winesap to some 
degree, but is not so flat and is even a 
darker red. It may be akin to the Ar¬ 
kansas B.lack or .Tonathan. Its quality 
is good, but not so high as that of Jona¬ 
than. Otherwise it would be hard to find 
a single fault in this variety. It has 
never failed, since beginning to bear, to 
outyield or at least equal, any other 
kind. It always comes up with a big 
crop. The fruit is beautiful and most 
attractive. It hangs on as long as you 
like; never drops like Jonathan. It is 
ready to pick here the last of August, 
and will keep till late Winter in cold 
stni'ugi!; may be longer. It is therefore 
about the .same season as .Tonathan, a 
Fall apple. It ought to succeed wherever 
the Winesap does. Its outstanding qual¬ 
ities are its sureness of yield; produc¬ 
tiveness and good looks. 
.Toe Strawberry. —An iinmmist! amount 
of praise has been lavished on the (Jiesa- 
jieake strawberry since its irtroduction, 
but my experience is that the .Toe has it 
beiiten decisively in every respect, ex¬ 
cept that of quality. In this respect it is 
liossible the Chesai)eake ma.v excel it— 
a little, but my experience is that the 
•Toe is superior in vigor of plant and run¬ 
ner production; that it is sin)erior in size 
of berry; that it is at least as handsome 
in appearance ; that it is much more pro¬ 
ductive and in season of ripening about 
the same. I have tested the Joe for a 
number of years and became so im¬ 
pressed with its value that I lost no op¬ 
portunity to sound its praise. Recently, 
greatly to my satisfaction, the .Toe has 
undergone a new birth and comes forth 
in some catalogues rechristened as Big 
.Toe and Joe .Tohnson. It is conclusive 
proof of its merits that it should have 
been able to thus reassert iteslf without 
any extrinsic boosting from interested 
parties. i,. k. Johnson. 
Cape riirardeau Co.. IMo. 
The “ Wonder” Rose 
I notice in some of the catalogs this 
year what is called a Wonder Rose. It 
is said that it will bloom in a few weeks 
from the seed, and is offered as a great 
novelty by a few of the .smaller .seeds¬ 
men. I ordered some of the seed last 
year, and when they <‘ame they resem¬ 
bled buckwheat grain. They were plant¬ 
ed, but most of the seeds failed to germ¬ 
inate. I managed to get one along into 
a sizable plant, but it died before bloom¬ 
ing. Will you tell me if there is any¬ 
thing at all to this, or is it entirely a 
fake in this .story of “six-w'eeks’ 
bloomers ?” f. j. 
There is a form of rose known as Rosa 
multiflora nana that will bloom in six 
weeks from seed, and that is unquestion¬ 
ably the one to which your corres¬ 
pondent has reference. It is apparently 
a form of Multiflora rose that has some 
tea rose blood in it, but w'hich comes 
sufficiently true from seed to have a 
large proportion of the rose.s bloom in 
from six to eight week.s. Of course, 
there are many individuals that will go 
even longer before blooming. The blooms 
are small and single, but the plants are 
constant bloomers as a rule. I believe 
there is frequently disappointment in 
purchases of this rose, not due to any 
claims made by the advertiser, but due 
entirely to the false notion that is 
formed in the minds of the purchaser 
of the rose. The word “rose” is so apt 
to conjure up the large full buds of the 
more fully develoiied varieties that there 
is disappointment when it is found that 
those roses are of the small single type. 
F. L. AI. 
Water in Hotbed and Pit 
I have a pit dug for a hotbed 8x.‘} ft., 
and 2 ft. deep. I have it lined with a 
12-inch board from the surface doAvn 12 
inches, and nothing below that. Our 
ground is low, and it is half filled with 
water, but not frozen, as I have it well 
covered. I thought (J preparing my ma¬ 
nure and as .soon as I am ready dip out 
the water and put in manure and pre¬ 
pare for planting. I want to jdant let¬ 
tuce and radi.sh. Will it be satisfactory, 
or what can I do for it? ii. av. c. 
Middleport, I’a. 
If there is no way to provide artificial 
drainage, against the accunmlatiou of 
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with soil up to or a little above tlie water 
level, and add to the height of tlie frame 
above ground, and bank it with earth or 
manure on the outside. To put heating 
material in a pit where it Avill be con¬ 
tinually soaked with Avater Avill be to de¬ 
feat the object sought, as manure cannot 
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