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HORTICULTURE 



April 11, 190S 



Daily Auctions 



Every Morning at 9 O'clock 



We offer without reserve 



Palms, Bedding and Decorative Plants, 



Bulbs, etc., etc. 



FROn LEADING GROWERS AND IMPORTERS. 



In lots to suit the WHOLESALE TRADE. 



TERMS CASH. 



NOTE. Special preparations have been made to handle exceptional quantities of Easter plants, 

 and the trade is hereby advised that our methods and facilities provide for prompt delwery. 



Catalogues on Day of Sale. 



The FRDIT AUCTION COMPANY, 



cor. Franklin and Wasliington Sts 

 NEW YORK CITY 



P. O. Box 640. Telephone 1512 Frankl.n 



er than the fresh fruit. Both goose- 

 berries and currants need careful 

 pruning and care to get the best re- 

 sults. All three-year wood should be 

 removed from the bushes and just 

 enough new cane left growing to in- 

 sure the life of the bush. For varie- 

 ties. Fays, Cherry and Perfection in 

 currants are best; Downing, Triumph 

 Chataqua. Industry and Red Jacket in 

 gooseberries. 



Freedom from Insects and Diseases. 



Piobably these small fruits taken 

 as a whole are freer from insect ene- 

 mies and diseases than any other class 

 of fruit, but it is also true that they 

 have very serious enemies which need 

 careful attention or the crop will be 

 ruined. The strawberry is attacked 

 by a white grub and the root of the 

 growing plant eaten off before you 

 know anything is wrong. This pest 

 can be controlled by a rotation of 

 crops, never allowing sti-awberries to 

 follow grass or potatoes without some 

 other crop between. Leaf blights and 

 rust can be prevented by spraying 

 with Bordeau.x. Currants and goose- 

 berries are both attacked by the cur- 

 rant worm and what is far worse the 

 San Jose scale. The former can be 

 killed by the use of arsenate of lead 

 or hellebore while the latter requires 

 more stringent methods. An appli- 

 cation of lime, sulphur and salt or 

 some of the more recent soluble oils 

 is found to be efficacious. Raspberries 

 and blackberries are both much bene- 

 fited by spraying with Bordeaux for 

 leaf diseases but where rust appears 

 the diseased cane should be cut out 

 and burned and in bad cases the roots 



and all dug out and destroyed. All 

 small fruits are greatly helped by 

 spraying with Bordeaux even if no dis- 

 ease is apparent and it certainly pays, 

 for in the increased vigor of the plant 

 or bush will come a corresponding in- 

 crease in size and beauty of the fruit. 



Keep in mind that to get large, fine 

 fruit, you must have plenty of sun .-tnd 

 air about the plant. Spraying and 

 pruning must be thoroughly attended 

 to, and above all the cailtivator should 

 be kept moving among the plants and 

 bushes in the warm summer months. 



Not aloi,e should these small fruits, 

 which add so much to the joys of liv- 

 ing, be grown for mere profit, but also 

 for the pleasure and experience that 

 one can get from a healthful occupa- 

 tion in God's open air. 



Interesting the Boys. 



.Many of you are no doubt ofteu it 

 a loss to give your boy an interest in 

 the farm work. You often see him 

 drifting away from the farm to the 

 factory, to the city and to the mill, 

 when if the farm had been made more 

 attractive he would no doubt have be- 

 come attached to the place and stayed 

 at home in a more healthy, moral and 

 physical atmosphere. Right here I be- 

 lieve (hat the small fruits have a mis- 

 sion for the farmer's boy, and 

 can be made more interesting 

 than the growing of hay, corn 

 and potatoes, and the child can 

 begin at them when he is quite 

 young. So set aside a place on the 

 farm and give it to your boy, and 'et 

 him till this and have the income from 

 a bit of land as well as the fun of 

 growing some nice fruit for the tabl". 



HAIL RECORD. 



Recent losses are reported by the 

 Vineclad Greenhouses. ]3oonville. Mo., 

 amounting to .|500; C. Schlensker & 

 Sons. $3,(RI0; H. Steickni-. $S,000; Meyer 

 Bros.. %:; 000, all of IndianaiKilis. Ind. 



OUR ANNUAL 



Good Friday's Sale 



Will take place on I7lh a* Noon, 

 consisting of flowering plants suit- 

 able for Easter. 



W.ELLIOTT&SONS 



201 Fulton St., New York 



