The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
567 
of such people more to be feared than 
foreign immigration. If one of them had 
a case of the grippe and little Rose looked 
in upon him—well, I would he sorry for 
his nurse. 
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Outside the sky is fair. The crab- 
apple tree by the window is full of leaf. 
Thomas and the men are spraying on the 
hill. It. will be a race to finish before 
the buds come out too far. Now comes 
word that the last shipment of grain from 
our co-operative buying association has 
come. One thing about this form of buy¬ 
ing is that when your goods come you 
must pay cash for them, and get them at 
once. In that respect the system is as 
merciless as the grippe and the doctor. 
The local dealer would let you take your 
time—and charge you for doing it. So 
Thomas must stop spraying and haul that 
grain home. They tell me the geese ,r.d 
hens are shelling out the eggs, and all 
these things make interesting news to the 
prisoner. The children have come romp¬ 
ing home full of joy at the Easter vaca¬ 
tion. They tell me that “The Last of the 
Mohicans” 'Is to be shown at the little 
town near by. and I shall “treat the 
crowd.” So they drive off with my 
daughter as chaperon. I fail to see any 
connection between Cooper’s romance and 
Easter, but these are curious days, and I 
know that the grippe may give the patient 
strange notions. He might better keep 
them quiet. I cannot complain. They 
even gave me an egg for dinner, and I 
shall be up tomorrow. So here I lie on 
the last lap of the grippy race, and over 
by the window sits Ma, feeling that on 
her record she would be entitled to re- 
election if she cared to run for another 
term as jailer. And little Rose peeps in 
at the door and skips away for another 
hour of play. Easter will mean much to 
Hope Farm this year. n. w. c. 
Why Not Cut Out the Trash? 
The time is here when some of us are 
looking over the catalogs of garden seeds 
with the end in view of ordering our 
stock. It is very confusing when we go 
through the long list of varieties of the 
different vegetables, and I feel that there 
ought to be some seedsman with sufficient 
heroism to cut out nine-tenths of all that 
appears now in their catalogs. Many of 
those people have a craze to put out 
something new at a high price every year. 
In almost all cases the new things prove 
to be some old thing, or something not 
nearly as good as what we already have. 
The new varieties of tomatoes, radishes, 
lettuces, cabbage, turnips, beans, cucum¬ 
bers. etc., all come under this head. I 
don’t know that anything of value has 
been produced for some years; I know 
a great many new things turn out very 
inferior to the old. As an example. I 
mention the new Icicle radish. We had 
raised Icicles for 15 years with never a 
failure; always had good radishes from 
early Spring till almost Christmas, but 
with the “Improved New Icicle” radish 
we have seen no radishes. The worst of 
it was, the old reliable was not supplied. I 
do not wish to belittle the efforts off the 
seed grower. There are things that need 
doing. We want a white-seeded, long and 
thick-podded string bean of golden color; 
there are a multitude of string bean va¬ 
rieties, but none that satisfies the home 
grower. In the line of tomatoes, nothing 
better has been ^offered than the old va¬ 
rieties we had 25 years ago, but we have 
been asked to pay high prices for some¬ 
thing said to be exceptionally valuable 
almost every year. I wonder whether the 
old varieties deteriorate? We raised, for 
instance, the White Belgian carrot ex¬ 
tensively 40 years ago. This carrot grew 
one-half above ground; it was a very 
productive variety and easy to harvest— 
a stock variety—but the present White 
Belgian (raised it for two years) grows 
all below the surface, and does not yield 
like the old. It is no good. What shall 
I say about the lettuces, the melons and 
the many other things? To go over all 
this ground would be an endless task. 
New York. F. greineb. 
Nut Trees in New York 
On page 320 C. W. asks about nut trees 
in Jersey. Not knowing much about con¬ 
ditions in New Jersey I will not advise, 
but for New York State will say that the 
butternut tree should be encouraged. 
English walnut does not do well here. 
Chestnut blights, and is being cut and 
shipped for shoring in mines and for ties, 
posts, etc. The time is not far away 
when the question of fence posts, ties, 
etc., will be a serious one. There is 
nothing that grows as fast or surely as 
butternut. It makes good posts, ties, 
etc. After tree is cut new shoots make 
vigorous growth, and are soon ready to 
cut. It should occupy rough out-of-the- 
way places. It is something like the 
upas tree in that nothing seems to thrive 
in its shade, or where its leaves fall. If 
each farmer will put a few nuts, enough 
into the soil so squirrels will not find 
them, the country will receive a /treat 
benefit. The tree requires practically no 
care, except reduce the shoots to num¬ 
ber desired. joiin piixllips. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. 
She: “Women may gossip sometimes, 
but they have better control of their 
tongues than men have.” He: “You are 
right. Men have no control whatever of 
women’s tongues.”—Loudon Answers. 
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