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April 28 
the rural NEW-YORKER. 
How I Get Etrly Tomatoes. 
.1, T, McL,, Leech’s Corners, Pa.— 
I have a sidehill hot-house for starting 
them. I BOW the seeds February 1 and 
transpl ant the plants into boxes or in hot¬ 
beds as soon as four inches high. As soon 
as they get started nicely, I replant in 
the rims of old tin fruit cans. The cans 
are thrown on a fire outdoors and melted 
apart. Place the can rims on the hot¬ 
bed where you wish the plants, put a 
board on top and press them into the 
soil level with the surface. Scoop out 
the soil with the trowel and put in the 
plants. They will not dry out as they 
will if put in pots, and they are handier 
to plant out. A lighted lamp set in the 
bed will save them from damping off, 
and also from frost, if the beds are tight 
and covered with mats or carpets, even 
though the thermometer gets to within 
10 degrees of zero. When the plants are 
as high as the glass, which should be two 
feet high, and have filled up a space of 
one square foot, and all danger of frost 
is over, they should be planted out. Se¬ 
lect gravelly, loamy soil if available. 
Give it at least 10 good loads of manure 
to the acre, and mark out the rows with 
a plow six feet apart for the Dwarf 
Champion ; other kinds seven feet wide. 
The Dwarfs may be planted two feet 
apart in the row, the other kinds three 
feet. Throw two more furrows to the 
first one, just close enough so as not to 
fill it; then with the hoe, dig out a place 
for the plants, remove the can rims and 
set the plants in carefully. Have a large 
box in which to remove the plants, flood 
the bed well with water, leave a short 
time and then take them up carefully. 
Put some soil around the plant when set, 
then some rotten manure, then a quart 
of water, and draw the two frames up 
each side till they meet. Stick some 
bushes with leaves around the plants 
till they get started. They should be put 
out after the middle of the afternoon. A 
ridge for them to grow on exposes the 
fruit to the sun better. 
Dried Sweet Corn Prices. 
D. C. B., Mount Lebanon, N. Y.—We 
have read The R. N.-Y. with great inter¬ 
est, especially the article on the growing 
of sweet corn. We have been in the busi¬ 
ness over 40 years, and have manufac¬ 
tured 40 barrels of dried corn per day in 
the rush of the season. We pay at pres¬ 
ent 70 cents per 100 pounds of husked 
ears delivered to the factory. We have 
grown four tons per acre (a large yield 
for this section), which would bring $56, 
and the fodder in the silo is worth from 
$10 to $15 more. 
Celery Plants to the Ounce. 
E. II. M., Stony Point, N. Y.—On Feb¬ 
ruary 7, 1894, I sowed one-fourth ounce 
of Golden Self-Blanching celery seed in 
two boxes (14x21 inches) and to-day 
(April 13) have just finished transplant¬ 
ing 5,000 good plants, 1 to 13>^ inch 
high, from those two flats. This is equal 
to 20,000 plants to an ounce, or, in fact, 
much more, as I threw away fully one- 
third of the plants that were too small. 
Yet the seedsmen say, one ounce to 2,000 
plants I 
Who Bites at Such Balt 7 
E P. R., Sidney, Ohio. —Some of the 
gardening papers are printing the ad¬ 
vertisement of a Philadelphia house, 
which IS headed, “ $40,000 made in five 
years !! $100,000 in six years from $1.50 
invested now.” It further states that 
“ certain gladioli multiply at the rate of 
200 bulbs per bulb in one year,” but “ at 
the very moderate increase of 25 bulbs 
per bulb, 100 gladioli planted this year 
would produce two millions of bulbs in 
five years, or five billions in six years! ! 
They wholesale this year at an average 
of $20 per 1,000 !! Any boy or girl can 
grow them without trouble. For $1 50 
we send by mail or express prepaid 100 
of these PROLIFIC GLADIOLI.” There 
is a picture of piles of coins and bundles 
of bills, and one bag marked $50,000. 
Now, what kind of a reader could be 
caught by so self-evident a fraud ? If I 
were publisher of a paper, and an ad¬ 
vertiser offered such an advertisement, 
I would deem it a reflection on the in¬ 
telligence of my readers. Is it possible 
that an advertisement of this kind will 
prove profitable ? Of course, the fools 
are not all dead, but are there enough 
to pay this fraudulent advertiser ? When 
the wholesale price is $20 per 1,000, why 
does he go to the expense of advertising 
these bulbs at $1.50 per 100 at retail, ex- 
pressage prepaid ? One hundred bulbs 
multiplying at the rate of 25 per bulb 
per year would amount to over 24,000,- 
000,000 in six years, instead of 5,000,000 ; 
and at $20 per 1,000 would amount to 
over $480,000,000, instead of a paltry 
$100,000. The sixth year, allowing 10 
bulbs to each foot of low, and rows 12 
inches apart, the “ boy or girl ” would 
need over 56,000 acres to grow the 
24,000,000,000 bulbs. 
Experience With Plums, 
n. 0. M,, Lunenburqh, Mass. —Having 
fruited both the Burbank and Satsuma 
plums for the past three seasons, a few 
words in relation to them may be of in¬ 
terest to your readers. In the spring of 
1889 I received grafts of both varieties 
from Luther Burbank. The grafts were 
set in two plum trees bearing a small 
white plum bought for Moore’s Arctic. 
Although the leaves had started, by 
drying a little I made every graft of 
Satsuma grow, and five of Burbank. 
Since then I have grafted quite a num¬ 
ber of other plum trees and also the 
Burbank into the peach. I find both 
very free growers, many scions making 
a growth of five to six feet, especially the 
Burbank, which is a trifle the freest 
grower. Many of the scions will bear 
a peck or more the third season, and, 
like the peach, bear upon last season’s 
wood, although there are many buds 
upon short spurs on older grafts. On 
both varieties the fruit has been much 
larger than the Lombard, with very 
small pits. 
The Burbank is somewhat inclined to 
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rot with me, and is no better keeper 
than Lombard, while Satsuma is the 
only variety that will keep, being better 
than any of the American or European 
varieties I have tried. Nearly all varie¬ 
ties will rot within a few days, but this 
will keep a number of weeks without 
loss. It is also the best for sauce and 
preserves, and also a very good plum to 
eat if thoroughly ripe, although I think 
the majority of people would prefer the 
Burbank for eating. The Burbank will 
outgrow and outyield anything I have 
yet seen; and, in favorable locations, I 
think can be grown, bushel for bushel, 
as cheap as apples. The curculio does 
not affect the fruit except for the very 
small mark it makes. The fruit should 
be thinned or the tree will be almost 
literally covered. Both varieties are af¬ 
fected by the black knot, Burbank the 
least. Satsuma is also more troubled 
with the curculio, and will not yield as 
many baskets of fruit per tree as Bur¬ 
bank, although the fruit will average 
more even in size. Burbank gi ows on 
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