The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-28
Editorial NOtings.

A NEW RosE.-By crossing Harri-
sons Yellow upon the iron-clad Rosa
Rugosa, Mr.. Carman of the Rural Ne,c
Yorker has produced seeding with
flowers hardly distinguishable from the
famous General Jacqueninot, but with
foliage of the Rugosa type. Popular
Gardening says of it; " Notwithstand-
ing Mr.. Carman's reputation as care
full fertilizer [hybrdizer], the question
will naturally arise, as the new conner
is compared with its assumed parent,
which so widely differs from it, whether
there may not be some mistake as to
the parentage." But we do not see
why that should be. Any one having
much experience in hybridizing and
crossing knows what strange surprises
result, and the same also in the case of
"sports, (which are, we believe, of the
same nature, fundamentally, as hybrids.
And we would like to ask what acct
dental cross, likely to occur in this case,
would any more probably give this
result?
Rosa RUGosA, with its vigorous
growth and insect-proof foliage, is
likely to be the parent of class of
most valuable garden roses of the IRON
clad type, such as can easily be grown
by those with little time to spare for
flowers, and less skill in their handling.
The Rugosa is boon TO northern
New England, as an outdoor rose.
STRAWBERRY NONsENsE.-A writer
in the Homestead, speaking of farm
fruit-growing, says of the farmer: " He
can raise bushel of strawberries with
as little labor as bushel of corn or
potatoes. | have done so for years.
They bring four to six times as much
as other things, and any farmer can
raise 300 to 400 bushels to the acre"
1t is folly to mince matters when such
a statement is made; and we do not
hesitate to say that it is bare-faced
lie. The few authentic records of such
yield of strawberries as this are like
the case of President Smith of the
Wisconsin Horticultural Society, ia
nous for brag crop of four hundred
bushels of Wilson, grown by careful
selection of choice plants, highly
MANFRED, thoroughly cared for and
irrigated. There is not professional
strawberry grower in fifty that can do
it: and as to "any farmer" doing it,
he is just as likely to get |, 900 pounds
of butter in year from scrub cow.
CHANGING THE BEARING YEAR.
Secretary Gold of the Connecticut
Board of Agriculture says: The dispo-
sition of my orchard and of most of the
orchards about me had been to bear ex-
cessive crops one year, and then have
year to rest. That disposition has
been very much modified by an inter-
ruption that was caused by hail-storm.
Since then the fruit has generally been
we'll distributed on the branches, at
few times has the quality of fruit been
injured by an excessive attempt at bear
ing, and almost every year have had a
fair amount of fruit; so that hail-storm
which temporarily did me so much harm
has really been blessing. l did not
understand it at the time, but | have
had my pay back more than once in the
even distribution of the fruit crop"
Very much has been written on this
subject; and from all that has been
gathered from experienced orchardists
it is apparent that the removal of all,
or nearly all, the fruit from a bearing
tree Cor branch) early in the season
may be followed by full crop the next
year; and this may continue until some
thing occurs to change the bearing year
again. But as the common cause of
such a change is usually general
rather than local one, it happens that
short or full crop is apt to be gen.
eral in most localities; though there
will be exceptional cases even then
some orchards or trees being more pro
tected than others. AS rule, heavy
bearing varieties exhaust themselves 81
thoroughly by full crop that they neeC
years rest to recover. If they beaI
full crops for two successive years, thu
trees will be apt to be found dead thu
the third year.
DIFFERENCE IN MILKERs.-At tn,
Mississippi experiment station, in orde
to ascertain the extent of the loss iron
careless work in milking, five COW
were given to one of the workmen, A
who was supposed to be good mixer
and who MIXED them for two weeks
weighing each milking from each COW
Nothing was said to him concernin
the object of the trial. AT the end c
the time, the same cows, with the sam
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