1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
119 
ding and conservatory plants of all kinds are very 
full—almost bewilderingly so, and our friends may 
scarcely consider themselves ready to make out their 
orders until this catalogue shall have been well 
examined. 
The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa.—This 
firm, as our readers well know, has made itself famous 
as rose growers. Its first adver¬ 
tisement, it appears, was’‘taken 
as a huge joke. No orders were re¬ 
ceived.” Now there are 70 large 
houses given to roses alone and 
“ filled and emptied each year.” All 
the Dingee-Conard roses are grown 
on their own roots—that is, they 
are not budded on Manetti or other 
stock—an advantage for many va¬ 
rieties, but not, as we believe, for 
all. A large proportion of their 
roses are sent to patrons, carefully 
packed, by mail. 
We are glad to see that there is 
a growing appreciation of the 
grand Japanese rose, Rosa rugosa, 
a colored plate of which appears 
in the handsome catalogue showing 
the buds, flowers, leaves and crab- 
apple-like fruit. Another colored 
picture, artistically arranged, 
shows the roses, Henry M. Stanley, 
Golden Gate and Pearl Rivers—all 
novelties. 
The catalogue is not confined 
to roses. Bedding plants—tender 
and hardy—shrubs, vines and seeds 
of vegetables and flowers are given 
more space from year to year. 
J. T. Lovett Co, Little Silver, 
Monmouth Co., New Jersey.— It 
must be conceded that Mr. Lovett 
has introduced many valuable 
fruits to the public, and intro¬ 
ducers are only less to be thanked 
than the originators themselves. 
They are obliged to pay a consider¬ 
able amount for the control of the 
novelty in the first place and then 
to assume all the cost of propaga¬ 
tion and introduction which, should 
the novelty not meet with popular 
approval, involve a heavy loss. 
Among Mr. Lovett’s introductions 
may be mentioned the Cuthbert, 
Golden Queen, Lovett and Hansell 
raspberries; Early King, Early 
Harvest, Erie and Lovett's Best 
blackberries; Iowa Beauty, Gandy, 
Shuster’s Gem, Lovett and other 
strawberries; Lovett’sWhite Peach, 
Glowing Coal and Ruby Gem 
apples, Fuller quince, the Lincoln, 
Spaulding and Abundance plums, etc., etc. The 
Glowing Coal is said to be remarkable as to large 
size, beauty and quality. Ordinary specimens 
“ weigh from 1G to 20 ounces, one half of each 
specimen is bright, glossy red and the other half an 
intense scarlet. The flesh is yellow, of a rich, 
sprightly, sub acid flavor fully equaling a well-ripened 
Newtown Pippin. The tree is an early, heavy bearer. 
New Single Marigold. Fig. 45. See page 138. 
Season September.” Ruby Red is not so large as Glow¬ 
ing Coal, but is “ as perfect in form as if molded in 
wax. The color is a most brilliant red. The flesh is 
snowy white, tender, juicy, sub-acid and delicious. 
The tree is a strong grower and an early bearer. 
Season early autumn.” 
The catalogue gives a list of Gideon’s seedlings 
(Peter M. Gideon of Minnesota) and they are espec¬ 
ially valuable for extreme hardiness. There are nine 
varieties, viz. : Excelsior, October, Lou, Florence, 
September, Gideon, January, Martha and Peter. Mr. 
Lovett says that the new Lincoln is the largest of 
hardy plums, selected specimens weighing four ounces 
each. These are of the very choicest quality, surpass¬ 
ing its parent the Green Gage. The tree is “wonder¬ 
fully prolific.” The fruit ripens early and the claim is 
confidently made that it is curculio-proof. 
R. Douglas & Sons, Waukegan, Ill. — Here we have 
a circular that ought to interest our readers intensely. 
It will prove a revelation. Only species and varieties 
are grown which the firm knows to be valuable. A 
specialty is made of the Colorado evergreens of which 
Rocky Mountain Cherry. Fig. 46. See page 138. 
the firm has the largest stock in cultivation. A 
specialty is also made of growing evergreens from 
seed. The Rural New-Yorker has received as many 
as 100 evergreen trees by mail from this firm, nearly 
every one of which lived, and in from four to five 
years grew to be as large as single specimens from 
other nurseries which cost from 50 cents to $2 each. 
Here is a specimen of the prices which Mr. Douglas 
charges for these little trees sent by mail. Norway 
spruce six to 10 inches high, GO cents per 100 trees; 
White spruce 10 to 12 inches high, $1.50 per 100 trees ; 
Austrian pine GO cents; White pine $1.50; Colorado 
Blue spruce .$4. And the deciduous trees are offered 
for the same moderate prices. Send for this list. 
The Mares Formula and Peru¬ 
vian Guano Com i* any, New 
York City.—If there is any firm 
that has done more to bring about 
an appreciation of the value of so- 
called chemical fertilizers than 
this, we do not know what it is. 
The R. N.-Y. acknowledges with 
gratitude the help it has received 
from Mr. Mapes, who for nearly 
20 years has interested himself in 
our fertilizer experiments as if they 
were his own. The little books 
and pamphlets which this com¬ 
pany issues free to applicants are 
educational, and should be read if 
not studied by all of our readers 
who have or may have occasion 
to use fertilizers. The R. N.-Y. 
is confident that upon the poor 
soil of its experiment grounds 
larger crops of potatoes can be 
raised with fertilizers than with 
farm manure. This has plainly 
been shown by the reports with 
which our readers are familiar and 
which are now presented in de¬ 
tail in “The New Potato Culture.” 
It is but a few years ago that fruit 
growers, orange growers of the 
South, and tobacco growers of all 
sections scarcely dreamed of using 
fertilizers for the betterment of 
their crops. Tobacco growers 
found later that though fertilizers 
increased the growth of leaf and 
stalk, it was at the cost of quality. 
The leaves were thick, coarse and 
veiny, yielding a low per cent of 
wrappers. To-day the Florida 
orange growers look to fertilizers 
as an indispensable help to their 
groves, while tobacco growers find 
that their best paying crops are 
those raised by their aid as now 
made up by the Mapes Company. 
There are hundreds, if not thou¬ 
sands, of orange groves in Florida 
in full bearing, the soil being what 
we in the North would consider 
pure sand, that have never received 
a load of stable or farm manure. 
It would appear that manures of 
any kind would leach through 
these sandy soils in a single season. Northern people 
have little conception of the extent of many of 
these groves. One grower alone that we know of is 
using this year 200 tons of the Mapes Orange fertilizer. 
We further know of tobacco growers who buy 100 tons 
each year, using a ton and upwards per acre. The 
R. N.-Y. has demonstrated that on its poor soil plots 
as high as 1,700 pounds per acre may be profitably used 
Otaheitk Orange. Fig. 47. See page 123. 
in potato culture. So, too, our visits to certain New 
Jersey and Longlsland prosperous farmers have enabled 
us to place the tacts before our readers that immense 
quantities of fertilizers are used—the amounts increas¬ 
ing from year to year—and the farmers could not be 
induced to go back to farm manure alone. 
We are in no wise underestimating the value of 
Strain of Tuberous Begonias. Fig. 44. See page 117. 
