1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
205 
Bone, Ashes and Manure. 
D. TP. M., Spring Garden, Pa.— Our garden 
Is a black loam, shading out to a sandy 
loam; it has always been manured with 
barnyard manure. Would you advise the 
use of wood ashes in connection with the 
manure, or would you advise some com¬ 
mercial fertilizer? If you advise a fertil¬ 
izer, what analysis would you suggest? 
Ans. —Wood ashes would give good 
results in connection with the manure, 
but we suggest that you use fine-ground 
bone also. The manure will provide the 
nitrogen, and the ashes will give the 
potash. You might well add phosphoric 
acid, which the bone will supply. 
RURAL NOTES. 
Hedges and Snow. —A correspondent 
asks whether hedges will cause the 
snow to drift and bank, the same as 
stone walls or rail and board fences. He 
says that there are persons in his neigh¬ 
borhood “working” the farmers for or¬ 
ders to set and care for hedge fences, 
and he is afraid of bad roads in conse¬ 
quence. Hedges will cause snow to 
drift just in proportion to their close¬ 
ness and effectiveness as hedges, and in 
this respect are no better than walls or 
board fences. The only fences we know 
which do not check air currents suffi¬ 
ciently to cause snow drifts are those 
made of wire stretched on posts. 
New Peaches.—A reader in Nebraska 
asks: 
Have the Bokhara peaches Nos. 3 and 
10 been tested at the Rural Grounds, and 
with what results? Will it pay to plant 
them extensively? 
The Bokhara No. 3 peach tree on trial 
in the Rural Grounds was destroyed last 
Spring, before it arrived at fruiting age, 
on account of being infested with per¬ 
nicious scale. A number of trees in a 
trial orchard near by bore a fair crop 
of good peaches last year, although the 
buds of most other varieties were en¬ 
tirely killed. We would not recommend 
extensive planting without further care¬ 
ful trials. We have never seen Bokhara 
No. 10. 
Tree Seeds. —The following questions 
are typical of many others: 
Kindly give the proper method of hand¬ 
ling Catalpa seed to insure its germina¬ 
tion. N. B. 
Fayette Co., Pa. 
Please give the necessary treatment of 
basswood seeds in order to grow trees. 
Milo, N. Y. R. D. L. 
Oatalpa seeds may be gathered after 
the pods turn brown, and stored in a 
dry, cool place until the middle of April, 
when they should be sown in drills two 
feet or more apart, covering about one- 
half inch deep, and pressing the soil 
firmly about them. Catalpa seeds usual¬ 
ly germinate well when sown the Spring 
following their ripening. Basswood, or 
linden (Tilia) seeds should be stratified 
between layers of moist sand, as soon 
as gathered and kept in cellar or out¬ 
house until April, when they may be 
sown as directed for Catalpa. If ex¬ 
posed to moderate freezing While strati¬ 
fied, they will germinate rather better. 
Culture of Sage.—A Connecticut 
reader asks the following questions 
about sage: 
What Is the best variety of sage to grow 
for market on a small scale? When should 
the seed be sown for plants? Can a crop 
be obtained the first year from seed? Give 
Instructions as to soil, manure and culture, 
and how many years the plants will grow? 
The variety known as the broad¬ 
leaved sage is preferred, as a greater 
weight is produced. Holt’s Mammoth 
sage is fine for kitchen gardens, as it 
is productive and long-lived, but it 
ripens very little seed, and must be 
propagateu by cuttings, so that plants 
are too scarce and costly for market 
crops. Sage seeds are sown in rows, 12 
or more inches apart, in April, in rich 
mellow soil. Commence cultivation as 
soon as the plants come up, and thin to 
eight or 10 inches in the row as soon as 
well established. Keep the ground 
loose and mellow until the plants begin 
to cover the ground, which should be by 
the middle of September. Evejy other 
row can then be cut out, made into 
bunches, and marketed. The remaining 
rows will soon spread, and in a favor¬ 
able season will close up the vacant 
spaces before November, when the re¬ 
maining plants may be marketed. Each 
plant will make two or three bunches. 
Fine-rotted stable manure is the best 
fertilizer. Sage plants will live several 
years with good care, but it is best to 
grow it as an annual, cutting the whole 
plant for market. It does not pay to 
pick leaves from old plants for market. 
Seeds Wanted. —We need here, above 
all, for our dairies, an early green food. 
Oh our farm we have rye to come after 
silage. To follow rye what? Little grass 
nowadays. The reason I take Tiie 
R. N.-Y. is that it is surrounded by 
eastern and northern dairy folk. What 
they discover will do us good in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. What do vetch seed and seed 
peas cost? If some merchants or grow¬ 
ers would but advertise them and tell 
how to grow and when and where, how 
attractive it would be to us as an ad¬ 
vertisement. Would not a little space 
in The R. N.-Y., well edited, cost less 
in rental than the price of catalogues, 
and pay better because of reaching the 
weekly eye with matter in season? Some 
young rellow is going to strike this idea 
and forge ahead of the silent old boys. 
Chester Co., Pa. s. r. downing. 
The Strawberry-Raspberry. 
As I notice this plant Is still holding a 
place in some catalogues, I will give brief 
directions how to treat it, and have tho 
benefit of its beautiful fern-like foliage. 
Dig a small pit, two feet wide, about two 
feet deep; line the pit with well-burned 
brick, laid in hydraulic cement. Don’t use 
ordinary mortar, as it might get out for 
you. Don’t fear the plants getting away 
from seed spreading, as you must have 
fruit to get seed, which it has never pro¬ 
duced for me. Fill your pit with good soil, 
and you will have the benefit of the plant’s 
fine foliage and be safe. Its outside cul¬ 
ture should be similar to that used for 
Canada thistle and Couch or Quack grass. 
These directions will answer for Golden 
Mayberry also. d. m. 
Camphill, Pa. 
After reading the above decided opin¬ 
ion, we induced the culinary genius of 
the Rural Grounds to open a jar of 
canned Strawberry-raspberries, put up 
last July. The large berries, with the 
richly colored juice, proved as tasteful 
as they were pretty. The flavor was 
rick, and fruity, with a very slight as- 
tringency, quite novel and distinct from 
other Rubus fruits. This handsome 
berry has come to stay on our grounds, 
as we not only find it ornamental but 
useful, and reasonably productive when 
planted in masses in rich, moist soil. 
Scattered plants on dry upland will not 
fruit, according to our observation. 
There will doubtless be some difficulty 
in eradicating it when once established. 
This “abominable weed,” as D. M. calls 
it, has been definitely determined to be 
Rubus rosaeflorus, from China and 
Japan (not R. sorbifolius, as we have 
hitherto named it). 
44 Evil Dispositions 
Are Early Shown .” 
Just so evil in the blood comes out in 
shape of scrofula, pimples, etc., in 
children and young people. Taken in 
time it can be eradicated by using Hood's 
Sarsaparilla, c/lmertca's Greatest Medi¬ 
cine. It vitalizes and enriches the blood. 
^ Never Disappoints^ 
How mucli 
do you grow? 
What’s your Harden going to yield this' 
/year? All depends on the seed. Sow rlghtN 
' and the chances are you’ll reap right. Sow t 
Gregory’s 
Seeds 
and you'll get the greatest yield your 
ground will give. All seeds guaranteed. 
AYear Book for 1900 contains broa d gnag e 
) offer to all who grow vegeta‘ 
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__■ pi_ 
or profit. Write for it. 
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/ 102 State Street, Boston, Mass. 
For Spring Planting 
The reliable new EVERBEARING PEACH 
Also, the ELBERTA and other choice varieties. 
JAPAN PLUMS —all the most approved sorts. Se¬ 
lect assortment small Fruits. Prices for above very 
reasonable. Address 
MILFORD NURSERIES, Milford, Del. 
The BEST FRUIT 
Echo Strawberry. 
London and 
Columbian Raspberry. 
Erie and ttathbtin 
Blackberry. 
Pearl Oooeeberry. 
Pomona and 
Red Crons Currants. 
1* the only kind worth growing. 
I handle nothing that I cannot 
guarantee. All my plants are 
hardy, fresh dug, and war¬ 
ranted true to name. Let me 
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ALLEN L. WOOD, Wholesale Grower, Rochester, N. Y. 
APPLE SCIONS Troos, Fumigated 
SUTTON BEAUTY, Malden Blush. Hubbardston, 
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ArrLt UIUNS keepers, vigorous growers. 
York Imperial, North Western Greening and Black 
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Trees. Trees. Trees. 
Every tree a pedigree tree, every tree bears loads of 
highest quality of fruit when properly cared for. 
Our orchards prove It. We have tho Pedigree York 
Imperlalsof thecountry. All fruits. Carloads of Peach 
and low price. 33 years’ experience. Name size, num¬ 
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Woodvlow Nurseries, Box 100, Uriah, Pa. 
10 
Peach Trees 
10 Apple, Plum or Pear 
80c.; 10 Dwarf Pear tJOc.; 
10 Quince 76c.; 10 Grape, 
Gooseberry or Currant 
60c. Write Quickly. C. NURSERY AND ORCHARD 
CO., Charleston. W. Va. 
50c. 
VINES, TREES, SnitUBS, 
_ best varieties for Northern 
1 Planters. Also Seed Corn and 
potatoes. For anything In nursery stock, at reason¬ 
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COE & CONVERSE, Box 9, Ft. Atkinson, Wls. 
The President 
Wilder Currant 
heads the list as a producer and 
a money-maker. Plant no other. 
Prices given on application. 
S. D. WILLARD, Geneva, N.Y. 
Quantity of Fine Trees 
We have almost everything wanted In our line 
October Plum, 
Peach and Apple Trees. 
Green Mountain Grape Vines. 
FOREST TREKS AND SHRUBS are our groat 
specialties. We have, however, quantities of other 
Nursery Stock too numerous to montion. 
Send for our Free Catalogue. Address 
STEPHEN HOYT'S SONS, New Canaan, Conn. 
SEED CORN Selected. 
80-day Flints, Ky. Huron Dent, Ky. Golden Dent, 
II; Pride of North, Cuban Giant Ensilage, Gold 
Mine, 90c.; White Cap. Learning, Ey. Mastodon, 80c. 
New Bags, 15c. each. Track, Erie. 
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and others. Sample tuber, ti cents. 
J. W. HARTMAN, Sligo, Pa. 
SEED POTATOES 
CHOICE NORTHEHN GROWN. 
Imp. Ey. Ohio, Maule’s Ey. Thoroughbred, Ey 
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Fortune, Ey. Market, Ey. Michigan, 11.25 per bu., 
$2.25 bbl ; Sir Walter Raleigh, bu., $1, bbl., $2.40. 
Carman No. 3. bu.. 75c., bbl., $2.25; Truo Rural New- 
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JOHNSON & STOKES, "'JffiSIKL'Mr*’ 
Strawberry Plants.—Johnson’s Early, Excel¬ 
sior, and other new varieties, $2 per 1000; standard 
sorts, $1.50. List of small fruits on application. 
CIIAS. BARKER, Milford, Del. 
SEND YOUR NAME 
and address plainly \A/rltten to 
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and secure catalogue and valuable information on 
BERRY FRUIT CULTURE FREE. 
CDrillll AFPCD For 10 cents we will mail 
dr LvIHL Ur I Llli three (3) “Sample”Straw¬ 
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Trees for Orchard and Garden. 
All the old and-well-tried, and several NEW VARIETIES; Climax and Sultan Plums (new Japs); BALD¬ 
WIN CHERRY, tho hardiest of all. GIBSON Strawberry; statement sales of Gibson for period of 13 
days show prices double other kinds. We Guarantee best care, and best values, verified by our patrons, 
who are among tho most practical, up-to-date Orcharding in this country. Our principle of guarding 
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Cayuga Nurseries Established 1847 WILEY & CO., CAYUGA , /V. Y. 
Asparagus, 
Rhubarb, Celery 
and all other green garden crops should 
be provided ample supplies oi available 
Nitrogen. This is best done by using 
Nitrate of Soda 
■which stimulates an early, rapid and 
healthy growth. This treatment forces 
these crops into market earlier than is 
possible by the use of any other fertil¬ 
izer. Write for free book to Jolin A. 
Myers, 12-0John St., New York. 
Nitrate for sale try fertilizer dealers every¬ 
where. 
Write at once for Uet of Dealers, 
ROGERS’ TREES 
We FUMIGATE every tree you buy from us. 
are sold on merit. We have no fake whole 
sale prices, no catchpenny schemes, do Dot 
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gettiade. Those who know us best trust us 
most, and if you want honest trees and honest 
values, you will lind It safe in every way to 
buy from THE ROGERS NURSERIES, 
Tree Breeders, Dansvlllo, New York. 
Trees and Plants 
Choice New Varieties and all the old standard. SUNSHINE, 
the greatest late strawberry; has no equal. Brilliant Red 
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-90 Varieties. 
Inuludt n g ne w U1 u <1 .ton e , 
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POTATOES. 
Early Snowball and 
twonty other leading 
varieties. 
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