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HORTIfcULTURE 



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GET WISE TO MY SIZE 



There is no more attractive and salable plant when grown, trained in pots for Easter than the CRIMSON 

 RAMBLER ROSE, and considering the simple treatment they require, few plants make better returns. 

 Most important of all, is to get strong field grown plants, that have been dug carefully, and the roots kept 

 moist. We have several thousand such plants, grown in our Nurseries that have been put up in bundles of 

 25 each and graded as follows : 



Plants with 5 to 8 and more canes, 6 feet long suitable for an 8 inch pot $25 

 per 100. The e should sell in flower from $3 to $5 each. 



Plants with 3 to 5 canes, 4 to 6 feet long, suitable for a 7 inch pot $15 per 

 100. These should sell in flower from $?,so to $3 each. 



Plants with 2 to 3 canes, 3 to 5 feet long, suitable for n inch pots $12 per 

 100, These should sell in flower from $1.50 to $2 each. 



We also have some smaller plants that would make nice $r plants in sJ^to 6 

 inch pots, 2 to 4 canes 2 to 3 feet long at $8.50 per ion. 



The latter size is useful for outdoor planting having very strong roots. 



Each plant has been tied up separately in the field making them very convenient for potting. 



PALISADES NURSERIES, Sparkill, N. Y. 



HARDY PERENNIALS OUR SPECIALTY. (Formerly conducted by Clucas & Boddlngton Co.) 



to make a living from 40 acres of poor 

 land in New England, or to grow 

 crops on areas wliich nature intended 

 for forests or recreation places for 

 tirer" city people. He was long past 

 middle life when he had an oppor- 

 tunity to welcome the experiment sta- 

 tion as a friend and helper. He has 

 learned to sell milk by the Babcock 

 test, to feed silage to his cows, to 

 spray potatoes and fruit, to buy high- 

 grade phosphate at higher cost be- 

 cause it is so much more available to 

 his crops. He has even undertaken 

 to be an experimenter himself. Hav- 

 ing heard that one of his neighbors 

 had accidentally poured brine on land 

 intended for potatoes and claimed that 

 the succeeding crop was free from 

 scab, he tried this year the effect of 

 putting salt in the hills when he plant- 

 ed his potatoes. And what is the 

 most important thing about his atti- 

 tude is shown by his remark that he 

 realized that this single year's experi- 

 ence would not prove anything, but 

 that he should have to repeat the ex- 

 periment several years and study the 

 matter closely to determine what was 

 the real effect of the salt on the scab. 

 Ho has made a good success at farm- 

 ing and claims that his arable land is 

 twice as productive as it was forty 

 years ago, but lie greatly regrets that 

 in all probability he will not have 

 much more time in life to continue 

 and develop the experimental side of 

 his farming which he believes prom- 

 ises much. If such can be the atti- 

 tude and the hopeful outlook of an 

 ag.-'d man who has come under the in- 

 fluence of the experiment station what 

 may we expect if we can put the sta- 

 tion back of every farm and school in 

 New England, and other parts of this 

 country and rear succeeding genera- 

 tions of rural people with a love for 

 discovery of new truths pertaining to 

 agriculture and a belief that science 

 can advance agricultural practice and 

 make agriculture a perpetually pro- 

 gressive industry. 



Awakening the Rural People. 



This is obviously a matter of tre- 

 mendous importance. For if once the 

 masses of rural people have the spirit 

 of progress and discovery in matters 

 relating to their industries they will 

 doubtless carry it into all their social, 

 moral and religious lite. As things 

 ai'e now a large part of the progres- 

 sive energy which has wrought the 

 fabric of our commercial manufac- 

 tures, social customs, laws, govern- 



ment and religious life has come from 

 the country. 



If all this has come out of communi- 

 ties; largely dormant or retroactive 

 what may be expected when the coun- 

 try districts are permeated with the 

 vital spirit of modern science — the 

 lov,3 of truth and the desire for its en- 

 largement. 



Many plans for rural improvement 

 have been made by philanthropists 

 and statesmen but they have largely 

 been failures because they were im- 

 posed on the unwilling minds and 

 hoiirts of unprogressive people. But 

 if the rural people themselves awake 

 and make their plans of improvement 

 we may surely expect wonderful 

 things. As an arouser of desire for 

 improvement and a stimulator to in- 

 telligent effort to make the country a 

 better place to live in and work in the 

 agricultural experiment stations have 

 their chief importance and their high- 

 vice that they especially commend 

 est mission. And it is for this ser- 

 themselves to all the friends of rural 

 progress for if these fountains of new 

 knowledge are kept strong and pure 

 their waters will spring up forever to 

 replenish the life of countless genera- 

 tions of rural people. 



A NEW EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Your readers will undoubtedly be 

 interested in the fact that, through 

 the combined efforts of the truck 

 growers in the vicinity of Norfolk. 

 Virginia and the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, there has been established, 

 .just outside the city of Norfolk, in 

 Princess Anne County, an experimeur, 

 station devoted exclusively to the in- 

 terests of truck growing. This sta- 

 tion has been placed under the im- 

 mediate charge of Prof. T. C. .Johnson 

 formerly of Cornell and of the West 

 Virginia University. The station is lo- 

 cated upon characteristic trucking soil 

 of the region and embraces some 5S 

 acres which will be improved and de- 

 voted to the cultivation of various truck 

 crops, and the solution of the many 

 problems involved in the fertilization, 

 harvesting, marketing and improve- 



ment of such crops. Seven thousand 

 five hundred dollars ($7,500) have been 

 set aside by the Southern Produce 

 Company for the purpose of equipping 

 this tract with suitable buildings for 

 conducting the work. The State Board 

 of Agriculture devote $5,000 of its 

 funds to the maintenance of the work, 

 and the Department of Agriculture at 

 "Washington, and the State Experiment 

 Station at Blacksburg, Virginia, both 

 co-operate with the above named or- 

 ganizations in carrying on the work. 

 While no experimental work has yet 

 been inaugurated, the ground is be- 

 ing improved and prepared for the 

 work of actual experimentation. It is. 

 hoped that as the spring opens areas 

 will be available for extensive fertil- 

 izer and variety tests, as well as the 

 beginning of some systematic breed- 

 ing work with standard vegetables. 

 This is a notable undertaking in this 

 respect that it is the first experiment 

 station to be organized in the United 

 States exclusively devoted to the in- 

 terests of truck glowing of any locali- 

 ty. The organization is to be con- 

 gratulated on having secured the ser- 

 vices of a careful, conservative and 

 well trained man in the person of Pro- 

 fessor .Johnson, and all possible suc- 

 cess is hoped for the undertaking. It 

 is a new field of work and will of 

 course present innumerable problems, 

 a few only of which can be taken up 

 and solved at once. It will be neces- 

 sary to devote years of careful study 

 and research to this industry which 

 has sprung up and grown to sucli 

 .gigantic proportions in comparatively 

 few years: that is, the many problems 

 peculiar to itself which have never 

 been touched upon by the regular ex- 

 periment station workers of the coun- 

 try, and it is fortunate that this sta- 

 tion has been established in a region 

 so pre-eminently devoted to trucking 

 as is the territory in the neighborhood 

 of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. 

 Very truly yours, 



D. C. CORBETT, 

 Horticulturist. 

 U. S. Department Agriculture, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. 



ROSES 



Selected Stock for Forcing 

 CRIMSON RAMBIEREDIROTHY PERKINS 



3 to 4 ft. $1.50 per 10, $12.00 per loo; 4 to 5 ft. $2.00 per 10, $15.00 per 100 



HYBRIDS-AII Leading varieties. $150 per 



General Catalog and Trade Lists on Application 



io» $12.00 per 100 



The NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES, Inc., Bedford, Mass. 



