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than any pipeless we’ve ever 
tested. 
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The special Summit installation does 
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Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
With potatoes planted, peas up and 
early tomato plants in the frames, trans¬ 
planted 4 in. apart, it begins to look like 
Spring. Weather mild, and we are get¬ 
ting uneasy, for the Japan plums are in 
full bloom, and other plums and peaches 
are showing the color of their buds. Of 
course, this is later than last Spring, but 
still early enough to have the bloom 
killed. 
In looking over the gay-colored cata¬ 
logues of the seedsmen, I have been think¬ 
ing of the great evolution in the seed bus¬ 
iness in my gardening life. Seventy years 
ago and more the only garden seeds sold 
in Baltimore were sold in a little shop 
which advertised “Shoe Findings and Eng¬ 
lish Garden Seed.” The originator of 
this business passed it on to his son-in- 
law, and he gradually dropped out the 
shoe pegs and leather, and increased the 
seed, and now a large seed establishment 
has taken the place of the little shop, 
and we have learned more about seed, and 
have found that seeds of some kinds 
grown in England are very poor for our 
climate, and that the seed trade, to main¬ 
tain a reputation for good seed, must 
fairly smooth skin. I'revious to the 
Trophy we had the Tildeu. a slight im¬ 
provement on the old Smooth Red, but 
still rather too hollow. Maule’s Earliest 
was the first real early tomato, but too 
rough, and growing them and Earliana 
side by side I could find no difference, 
and believed that Earliana was a selection 
from Maule’s Earliest. Both have bc- 
come smoother of lave years, and are good 
for the marketraan, but solid sorts and 
smooth have developed oarliness but litttle 
behind the Earliana, and far better for 
borne use. 
There are too many varieties named of 
Winter cabbage, and they puzzle the in¬ 
experienced grower. Certain types of 
vegetables become standard, and variety 
after variety differing little comes out, 
like the Netted cantaloupe and its Rocky 
Ford descendants. Now the drift is 
toward the pink or orange colored musk- 
melons. 
In my boyheed days we called the nut¬ 
meg-shaped cantaloupes “inushmelons,” 
and only the Jenny Bind and Hackensack 
were cantaloupes. As a whole, there has 
been a very wonderful development in 
seed and the seed trade in this country. 
This field of “whiteweed” is enough to make a good farmer feel discouraged, but 
as a bunch of daisies it is a source of great joy to these children. “Whiteweed” 
has some little value, after all. 'When cut and cured as hay, our cattle are fond of 
it. though it makes but a small crop and scatters its seed through the manure. 
The only remedy or cure for it that we have found is to plow under the sod and 
give clean hill culture. 
GENEVA, N. Y. 
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WINSOtt’S WHITE DENT 
Many Times Stale and County 
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Severely selected for tvpe, yield 
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Huh produced 110 to Hu bo. 
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SEED POTATOES 
6G4 bu. per acre official test by. Farm 
Bureau, on Jones’ immature, hill se¬ 
lected Rural Russets. 443 bu. per acre 
on Irish Cobblers. Write for pamphlet 
and prices. WM. A. JONES, Truxton, 
Cortland County, N. Y. 
CHOICE FARM SEEDS 
Field selected, ruck dried, high uurminulinn Im¬ 
proved Champion mid Cloud's Yellow Dent seed 
corn, $2 50 tier Imshel on the oar. White Tartar 
seed oats, $1.25 per Imshel- Choice Russet seed po¬ 
tatoes, free from disease, at JG.50 per sack of 105 lbs. 
W. W WEIMAN P. 0 Box No 4G9 Miinimelstown, Pg. 
know the climates where each species sold 
is grown to the best perfection. The 
more intimately the seedsman is ac¬ 
quainted' with the conditions of climate 
and soil best suited to every species of 
Seed produced and sold by him, the more 
rapidly his reputation for good seed will 
grow. The lists of varieties of some 
plants have grown, too cumbersome. Va¬ 
rieties of vegetables introduced 20 years 
ago are still in the catalogues. I see 
some still listing the Trophy tomato. It 
is hardly possible that the Trophy to¬ 
mato, for which I paid Colonel Waring 
.$5 for 20 seeds, is the same Trophy I 
grew then, 40 years ago. It was a won¬ 
derful advance in tomatoes, but breeders 
have not stood still, and the Trophy of 
Colonel Waring has been either greatly 
improved in the hands of some growers 
or has depreciated in the hands of others. 
So variable a plant as the tomato does 
not stand still. It either advances or 
deteriorates. Hence the Trophy on the 
list today. In one catalogue I count 27 
varieties of tomatoes. Plants like the 
Trophy, Acme and some others have long 
ago been passed to the rear by gardeners. 
All the average gardener wants is an early 
tomato, like Earliana, June Pink and 
Bonny Best, and a good later canning to¬ 
mato like Stone. Matchless and Success, 
and the long list that have become obso¬ 
lete would better he left out of the cata¬ 
logues. Forty years ago we could buy the 
English-grown Early York cabbage seed 
for 25c a pound, and at the same time 
the Wakefield of American growth was 
worth $4 a pound, and far cheaper to the 
gardener than the English seed. 
In my earliest garden days we had 
none of the named varieties of tomatoes. 
We had simply the Smooth lied and the 
crooked, but solid, Mexican or Chihuahua. 
The Smooth Red was a very hollow to¬ 
mato. and it was from the crossing with 
the Chihuahua that the Trophy was bred, 
♦ he first solid and meaty tomato with a 
In my boyhood the elder Mr. Buist, a 
gruff and blunt-spoken Scot, had green¬ 
houses where every newly arrived Scotch 
and English gardener stopped and worked 
for his board till he found a job, and hun¬ 
dreds of skilled gardeners had their first 
experience in America at the Buist green¬ 
houses. The chief retail florist x remem¬ 
ber was Peter McKenzie, on Broad street. 
I often visited his garden when a little 
fellow, for I lived in Philadelphia from 
1S40 to 1M0. The oldest Philadelphia 
seedsman was probably Bernard Mc¬ 
Mahon, whose excellent garden book was 
among the first of the kind I bought, and 
still have. His book shows how the 
earlier foreign gardeners tried to imagine 
that English methods and plants were the 
best for America, and many of the in¬ 
structions in McMahon’s book will make 
an experienced American gardener smile. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Training Grapevines 
I have about 200 grapevines trained 
up on stakes (not poles) about 5 ft. high, 
this is their third year (those are now 
trimmed), I have 4(H) more third-year 
yearlings next Spring, also oil stakes. 
How would you trim those? d. F. 
At the end of the second growing sea¬ 
son the trunk of the vine that is to be 
trained to a stake is formed. It is as¬ 
sumed that the vine has made a good 
growth of cane the previous season. 
Pruning at this time will consist of cut¬ 
ting the host cane back to the height at 
which it is desired to form the head. This 
should never he less than a foot from the 
ground; probably 18 ill. will be better. 
All other canes are entirely cut away. 
The cane retained for the trunk is tied 
firmly to the stake, but not so closely 
that it will be girdled. If any laterals 
have been grown oil this trunk the past 
season they may be cut back to two or 
three hud spurs near the head. Later 
these will become the permanent arms. 
All growth below those spurs should be 
cut away, and all suckers should lie 
broken off as fast as they develop. The 
new growth from the spurs should be tied 
lightly to tip* stake two or three times 
during the season. F. K. g. 
