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March, 1892. 
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LITTLE SILVER. N. J.. MARCH. 1892. 
CONTENTS. 
An Attractive Corner.. 58 
Aotos Tubero«a 52 
Approach of Spring ... 55 
Artillery Plant. The... 52 
Azaleas, Treatment of. 52 
Bedding Sweet Potatoes 55 
Bir -s of Winter and 
Early Soring 48 
Books Received 51 
Buffalo Berry. The 46 
Catalogues Received. . . 51 
Dahlias, Starting 52 
Dslsie» 52 
Deep Setting 44 
Don’t Bud the Ironclads 44 
Dwarf Cape Gooseberry 46 
Early Peas 55 
Early Planting Beans. . 55 
Early Turnips 55 
Early Varieties of Corn 55 
Fall- Planted Potatoes.. 55 
Fertilizers for Early 
Crops 55 
Forwarding Cucumbers 55 
Fruiting the Native 
Plum 43 
Girdled Trees. To Save 43 
Grafting the Hickory 43 
Ground Nut, The 52 
Have the Boys Help.... 58 
Household 58 
Injury to Peach Ticigs 45 
Japan Pinks 51 
Lincoln Plum 43 
Long Cions on Long 
Roots 44 
Looking Forward ....... 58 
No Tree Hardier than 
its Stock 44 
Not Where but How. ..41 
Orchard Notings 44 
Parsnips and Salsify. . . 55 
Plants in Cold Frames. 55 
Remedy for Apple Scab 44 
Seasonable Suggestions 
for Berry Growers. 46 
Sow Beets Early 55 
Sow Radishes Often. ... 55 
S'arting Egg Plants 55 
Strawberries in Ohio. . . 47 
Tomatoes, Best Loca- 
tion for 
Tomato Plants 55 
Tuberous B“gonlas... . 52 
Understand It 58 
University Extension . 58 
Vallota Purpurea 52 
Vineyard Work 49 
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The Catalogues. 
At this season of the year catalogues of 
seeds, plants, trees and other horticultural 
products abound and set forth a most abun- 
dant store of varied and useful information 
for all who are interested in horticulture 
and kindred work. In most cases these 
catalogues are sent free or at a trifling 
sum of money and those of the largei firms 
are prepared at an immense cost of time 
and m one}’ which necessitates making some 
charge to guard against those who send 
merely to obtain the colored plates which 
embellish so many catalogues. This season 
they seem finer than ever before and we 
wish to suggest that those of cur readers 
who design planting send for them and 
look them over: they will give considerable 
information and many suggestions. Charges 
of exaggeration that have sometimes been 
made against them may be, and are proba- 
bly, true in some few instances, but in the 
main the descriptions are honest and the 
illustrations truthful. Last month we gave 
many catalogues a free notice, and notice 
more in this number. We do this to all re- 
putable horticultural catalogues which 
reach us, irrespective of their advertising 
patronage. W hen you write for catalogue 
therefoie it is only just to us that you men- 
tion Orchard and Garden. 
False Illustrations. 
In speaking of catalogues, however, an 
objectionable feature occurs to us. It is 
that of using the illustration of one variety 
for that of another, a thing that is done 
more often than is generally supposed. We 
have before us a circular describing a new 
variety of blackberry and the fruit is illus- 
trated with a cut of the Erie which we had 
engraved from the berry itself and which 
is a truthful likeness of that variety. It 
seems to us that it should be a matter of 
pride, to say nothing of honor, for the in- 
troducer of a new variety to have an origi- 
nal engraving illustrating his variety. 
Certainly in these days of cheap engraving 
and electrotyping there is no fair excuse 
for the use of one cut for that of another. 
A Big Job. 
To the Department of Horticulture be- 
longs the distinction of the first exhibit, 
installed, for the World’s Columbian Ex- 
position. 
P. S. Peterson, a nurseryman of Rose 
Hill, Chicago, has during the past week 
planted six trees on the grounds near the 
horticultural uuilding, as a permanent ex- 
hibit, and as a piactical illustration of the 
successful methods of transplanting large 
ornamental trees. They ar an Elm. 50 feet 
high and 3 feet in diameter, commemor- 
ative of General Sherman, brought from 
the woods in 1870. then 50 years < Id, and 
planted on the nursery grounds at Rose 
Hill : a Hackberrv, 40 feet high and 2 feet 
in diameter, commemorative of General 
Grant, also transplanted from the woods in 
1876 ; a Linden, 40 feet high and 13 inches 
bole; a Willow 30 feet high and 30 feet 
spread ; a Sugar Maple, 40 feef high and 10 
foot stem ; an Ash, 35 feet high and 14 foot 
stem. It required a force of 22 men and 12 
horses to transplant the trees, and the cost 
of the work was abont $700. 

An Exceptional Reward. 
The oft repeated assertion that the origi- 
nator of a new variety of fruit never makes 
anything of consequence from it does not 
hold true in the • ase of Fay’s Prolific Cur- 
rant. We are told that Mr. Geo. S. Josselyn, 
Fredonia, N. Y., the introducer, has paid 
to the Fay Estate for their share of Fay's 
Prolific, sold by him up to this year, the 
sum of thirty-six thousand, four hundred 
and four dollars. Pretty good pay for rais- 
ing and testing a few seedling currants. 
Few such bonanzas fall to the lot of origi- 
nators, however. It would be interesting 
to know just how much the introducer has 
made from the sale of this valuable 
currant. 
Testing New Varieties. 
The New York State Experiment Station 
asks for plants and trees of new varieties 
not yet introduced, for testing upon its trial 
grounds. It is a good thing for all concern- 
ed to have these tests made by such an in- 
stitution provided sufficient care and atten- 
tion be given them, and it is quite ~^itliiu 
the sphere of the station to take charge of 
such a work as this. There are many new 
varieties of fruit continually being intro- 
duced and many that are going under 
wrong names. Many fruit growers make 
partial tests of new varieties but it is nearly 
always in connection with their business 
and not always exact; sometimes a mere 
matter of opinion rather than of fact. A 
carefully conducted series of tests and an 
exact statement of facts from an authori- 
tative source would be a great help to 
fruit growers. 
What Varieties Shall we Grow? 
It is necessary for every one to modify 
his list of varieties for cultivation by the 
locality in which he lives. Soil, climate 
and market are of the utmost importance 
in the cultivation of fruit, and also have 
great influence upon varieties. What may 
be profitable in one local'ty may be worth- 
less in another, and one that succeeds on a 
heavy soil may fail utterly upon a light 
one. These facts must be kept in mind 
therefore when selecting varieties. What 
shall the planter do then if he is inexper- 
ienced? The nurserymen’s catalogues will 
not help him litre. Let him apply to neigh- 
boring fruit growers, or to the local or state 
horticultural societies, or to the state ex- 
periment station, or to the catalogue of the 
American Pomological Society. Observa- 
tion and enquiry must take the place of ex- 
perience and enable him to plant intelli- 
gently. 
