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ROSE NOVELTIES FOR 1920 



FRANK W. DUNLOP 



MADAM BUTTERFLY 



An improved Russell seedling, but much 

 more brilliant in color. Flower is larger 



A glorified Ophelia, but more vigorous in 

 growth than Ophelia. Color, bright pink, 

 than Russell and opens freely even in dark apricot and gold. Unsurpassed by any 



weather. The best dark-pink Rose to date. existing Rose of its color. 



PRK:E on above varieties for 2W PLANTS: 



GRAFTED 

 SIO.OO dozen 

 S60.00 hundred 



OWN ROOT 



87.50 dozen 

 45.00 hundred 



Larfier size!^ on application. 



CHARLES H. TOTTY COMPANY 



Madison, New Jersey 



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HOW TO SAVE SOIL MOISTURE. 



if yoii wish to save moisture, tine the 

 top of your ground. Make it just as fine 

 and loose as possible, and leave it just as 

 level. Ridges and clods in a field waste 

 moisture because they present so much 

 surface to the air. 



Also, if you wish to save moisture, get 

 rid of the weeds. Every plant is a veri- 

 table pump, drawing water into itself 

 through its roots and giving it- out through 

 its leaves. The water that is pumped 

 through your growing corn and beans is 

 utilized by them and helps to make the 

 crop you are looking for. The water that 

 is pumped up by weeds is wasted so far 

 as you are concerned, and your crops are 

 robbed to that extent. 



The two essentials of good cultivation, 

 generally speaking, are to keep the weeds 

 down and to keep the top of the soil fine 

 and loose. The former, especially after 

 the cultivated plants get the soji-well filled 

 with roots, is the more important thing to 

 do. Every weed in the cornfield is a pump 

 and is busily pumping possible ears of com 

 out into the air and scattering them to the 

 winds. — Seed World. 



WRONG NOTIONS ABOUT 

 FLOWERS 



I know people who are deterred from en- 

 joying success in growing certain flowers 

 liccause of some mistaken prejudice. So 

 many do not care to grow Peonies because 

 they claim the season of bloom is too short, 

 when by judicious selection of varieties they 

 could have a full month of enjoyment with 

 that most exquisitely beautiful flower. 

 Some will not take up Rose culture because 

 soiTiebody who ne.glcctcd his Roses made a 

 failure of Rose growing. While it is true 

 that no flower can give more disappoint- 

 ment than the Rose if neglected, no flower 

 rewards with greater satisfaction the care 

 and attention it exacts. Some refuse to 

 grow the Gladiolus because the bulbs have 

 to be dug and cared for every .'\utumn and 

 replaced every Spring; but the enthusiasm 

 this lovely flower inspires makes such 

 work truly a labor of love. 



Then we have the prejudice of color. 

 .Some people cannot see much beauty in a 

 bouquet of mixed colors, when as a matter 

 of fact, a mixed bouquet is seldom in- 

 harmonious, and need not be so at all, if 

 magentas are omitted or used sparingly 

 and white predominates. Some might 

 even exclude Purple Glory from their 

 Gladiolus collection and miss its majestic 

 beauty because they do not like a dark red 

 flower. It is well that these prejudices 

 and idiosyncrasies appear contradistinc- 

 tively as preferences in some natures, as in 

 the old, old story that grandfather used to 

 fell of the Dutchman that ordered his barn 



painted, and having been asked by the 

 painter what color he desired it to be, re- 

 plied, "Veil, make it any color so it's red." 

 — The Floiver Gro-wer. 



BEAUTY OF DECIDUOUS TREES 

 IN WINTER 



At this time of the year the chief beauty 

 of the deciduous trees is their branching 

 habit and outline as seen against the sky. 



To the casual observer only the extremes 

 of form are noted, such as the slender out- 

 line and upright growth of the Lombardy 

 Poplar as compared with the spreading 

 growth of the Apple tree. But each kind 

 of tree is different in its method of branch- 

 ing and habit and can readily be dis- 

 tinguished nearly as far as they can be seen. 



It is of immense value to know and dis- 

 tinguish mature trees in their winter efTect, 

 because this is their condition during at 

 least five months of the year and it is pos- 

 sible to develop much beauty in landscape 

 effects without their summer clothes. 



A really successful landscape should be 

 interesting and beautiful at all times, 

 changing from one eff'ect to another as the 

 seasons pass. 



The winter beauty of some trees is due to 

 their wonderful symmetry and proportions 

 of the trunk and branches so often seen. 

 It is their own peculiar habit as in the 

 Sassafras and Birch that adds distinction 

 to the landscape. The winter effect of the 

 Black Walnut is not particularly pleasing. 

 It has neither symmetry nor prettiness and 

 is perhaps best described as gawky when 

 seen along side of the graceful lines of 

 the .American Elm or Weeping Willow, yet 

 it too has its admirers. 



Many who are quite familiar with trees 

 are often confused and unable to distinguish 

 between the Norway and Sugar Maple when 

 ni foliage, a little study of their branching 

 habits and outline in the Winter would re- 

 veal very conspicuous differences also of 

 the Silver and Red Maple. In fact it is a 

 good time to study trees, their true branch- 

 ing habit is so readily seen.— Natioiuil 

 .\'iir.ierviiwn. 



"PANSIES; THAT'S THOUGHTS" 



_Was it Shakespeare, that real lover of 

 Xature. vvhi. spoke of "Pansies ; that's 

 thoughts"? In any event my thoughts go 

 back to a day when I practiced law and an 

 elderly maiden lady came in to consult me 

 professionally. There were tears in her 

 eyes, but there was iron in her close shut 

 jaw. Without divulging professional 

 secrets I can tell a little of the story. She 

 had a pansy bed. Her own hand had dug 

 It ; and sown the seed ; and her heart re- 

 joiced when the little plantlets first showed 

 their tiny stems. So she cared for it, and 

 nourished it, and carefully weeded it; until 



at last the first lovely pansy unfolded its 

 modest monkey face. But now came sor- 

 row and trial into her hitherto placid life. 

 Her niece Emma, maliciously and feloni- 

 ously and surreptitiously picked and stole 

 and carried away these pansy flowers, the 

 property of, and contrary to the wish and 

 will of her dear maiden aunt. And for 

 that reason the said aunt had come to me 

 to request that process of law might issue 

 against the said niece Emma, to enjoin and 

 restrain and prevent the said Emma from 

 picking, etc., the aforesaid pansy flowers. 

 Now I suppose 1 could have issud a war- 

 rant against the said Emma. etc. ; but I 

 didn't. Instead, I explained to the tearful 

 but resentful aunt, that unless pansies were 

 kept well picked off as they came, the 

 plants would soon run to seed, and that 

 there would be no more flowers that season. 

 Were there still pansies. fine, nice ones? 

 Yes. Did she pick any herself? Xo, not a 

 single bud. Well then, her dear niece had 

 kept the pansy bed from going to seed. 

 .And so the good, and no longer tearful 

 aunt left me, without paying me anything 

 for my advice ; bent and intent upon 

 thanking her niece for the kindness she 

 had unwittingly done. Now, that is the 

 advantage of a lawyer having a working 

 knowledge of simple floriculture. Other- 

 wise, I might have entered an action on 

 behalf of the tearful aunt and ultimately 

 had the suit ignominously thrown out of 

 Court, when my learned legal opponent 

 revealed to the somnambulent jury the 

 true situation and circumstances. 



H. P. Bl.\xchard. 



THE FIRST SIGN OF SPRING 



What is ilie first sign of Spring? That 

 would ))c. indeed, a hard question to ans- 

 wer, for. as Thoreau wrote, "No mortal is 

 alert enough to be at the first dawn of 

 Spring." It cannot be the blossoming of 



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II.IZER RING 

 DEPOSITOR 



Will Greatly Increase 

 the Quantity and Quality 

 of Potatoes, Corn, Cab- 

 bage, Tomatoes, etc. 

 HnUIs 25 ]bs. I'd aiul 

 diiwii of hamlle is full 

 operation — no twisting or 

 turning of handle. Can be 

 used witli powdered or semi- 

 powdered material. STYLE 

 *'A'* for Seed or for Plants 

 from 6 to 10 inches h'tih. 

 STYLE -B" for Any Plant 

 up to IS in. Thick in Stem. 

 Tested and Approved by A«- 

 ricnltural Departments and 

 Farm Bureaus. 

 STYLE A. 57.50. delivered 

 STYLE B. $13.50. delivered 

 Write for Circular 





Geor(je Wil'iam 



BROWNING 



Clinton. N. Y. 



