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Tiie Odd-Year Baldwin. —J. W. 
Adams & Co., Springfield, Mass., issue a 
leaflet concerning the odd-year Baldwin 
apple, and offer budded trees from the 
original stock. The description of the 
odd-year Baldwin was published in The 
R N.-Y. of November 18, 1899, and the 
interest then aroused has warranted its 
propagation. The only difference be¬ 
tween the odd-year and the ordinary 
Baldwin is the habit of the former pro¬ 
ducing its crop in the alternate years 
when the regular one fails. It is claim¬ 
ed to rank with the best and juiciest 
strains of Baldwins, and comes in dur¬ 
ing the off years when this indispensable 
variety is usually scarce and high-priced. 
The Messrs. Adams say the well-marked 
habit of normal Baldwins bearing heavy 
crops only on alternate years existed 
from the earliest introduction of the vari¬ 
ety until the hard freeze of May 28, 1888. 
when apples the size of marbles were 
frozen on the trees, destroying most of 
the New England crop. Since then the 
even-year habit has not been quite so 
persistent, but even now there is a su¬ 
perabundant Baldwin feast one year and 
a famine the next. The odd-year Bald¬ 
win tree stands in Hampshire Co., Mass., 
and bears its full crop in the odd-num¬ 
bered years. If this important charac¬ 
teristic is maintained in the propagated 
buds and scions, and the Adams Nur¬ 
sery people think it will be, the 
important commercial advantage of 
having good Baldwins when the 
market is hungry for them will 
reward the enterprising planter. So 
marked is the alternate-year habit 
of the ordinary Baldwin that one 
of the original orchards of this variety 
has been known to bear 300 or 400 bar¬ 
rels of good apples in the even-numbered 
years, and scarcely one barrel between 
these large crops. The propagation of 
tiees from this odd-year Baldwin is a 
most interesting experiment, right in 
the line of plant breeding by selection, 
and its outcome will be of much interest. 
Burbank’s Methods of Hybridiza¬ 
tion. —The February Sunset Magazine, 
published at San Francisco, Cal., con¬ 
tains the second installment of Prof. 
Wickson’s article on Luther Burbank 
and his work. Much light is thrown on 
Burbank’s methods of hybridization, by 
which such remarkable results have 
been produced. Like most busy plant 
breeders Mr. Burbank usually does not 
waste time in covering the blooms he 
pollenizes to protect them from insects, 
but prepares a large number by thor¬ 
ough emasculization and trimming away 
all parts except the pistils and append¬ 
ages. Insects practically do not alight 
on flowers from which the stamens and 
showy petals or sepals have been re¬ 
moved, and with most plants the trans¬ 
ference of pollen by the wind is little 
likely to occur. Plants grown from seeds 
pollenized in this manner almost invari¬ 
ably show characters of hybridity, and 
it much simplifies the work and utilizes 
precious time in the brief flowering per¬ 
iod of many valuable plants. It is all 
very well to putter about with exact 
methods for excluding errors in parent¬ 
age where scientific facts are to be as¬ 
certained and recorded, but in the ordi¬ 
nary hurry of plant breeding for horti¬ 
cultural improvement it is necessary to 
work on the largest possible scale, and 
produce as many seedlings of a desired 
hybridization as circumstances will ad¬ 
mit, and this may only be done by sim¬ 
plifying the process as much as possible. 
Experience soon teaches dabblers in 
plant breeding that the chances of ulti¬ 
mate success are much increased by se¬ 
lection from an extended series of cross¬ 
bred seedlings. 
What Are the Best Garden Peas?— 
Few vegetables are more acceptable than 
good fresh peas, and a home garden 
without a generous succession of plant¬ 
ings is not worthy of the name. There 
are many varieties offered; so many that 
the beginner finds it hard to make an 
intelligent selection. The newer kinds, 
while often of local excellence, behave 
so differently in varying soils and condi¬ 
tions that they should only be planted 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
in small quantity until well tested. 
Novelties in peas are sent out every year 
with the most enthusiastic praise, but 
generally drop out of notice after a sea¬ 
son or two. Occasionally one will have 
just the happy balance of qualities need¬ 
ed to warrant success in widely separ¬ 
ated localities, and under the most ordi¬ 
nary conditions. These varieties gradu¬ 
ally become known, and in time replace 
such older kinds as they may most close¬ 
ly resemble. Nott’s Excelsior seems to 
be a newcomer of merit, and is being 
more largely planted each successive 
season in the trucking regions about 
New York, and may now be said to have 
gained the position of the standard first 
early. It is hardy, compact in growth 
and very productive, while the quality 
is nearly equal to the best wrinkled late 
varieties. It can be planted in 10 to 14- 
day succession periods, and may be re¬ 
lied on to give a good return. Gradus 
comes soon after in order of ripening 
and may be planted as early as the 
ground can be thoroughly worked, as it 
is almost as hardy as the smooth-seeded 
kinds. The pods are very large, and the 
peas of even better flavor than Nott’s. 
li makes an extremely good second sort, 
and has been before the public long 
enough to establish its solid merit. With 
these two varieties in repeated plant¬ 
ings there is little need for the tall late 
kinds, of which there is only a limited 
choice. We find the old Champion of 
England most suited to our conditions, 
but in heavier soils the White Marrow¬ 
fat gives great satisfaction. Experienced 
growers do not consider there is a “best’’ 
pea any more than there is a “best’ 
apple or strawberry. Local conditions 
and needs determine the whole question 
of preference, but we can advise all to 
try the varieties above named if they 
have not already done so. 
Ambler’s Magnum Bonum Pea.— 
Among several new kinds first tried on 
the Rural Grounds last season the “Mag¬ 
num Bonum,” from F. Ambler, Winni¬ 
peg, Manitoba, made the best showing. 
It appears to be a medium early wrink¬ 
led pea of the largest size, both as to 
pods and seeds. It grew about 18 inches 
high, with haulms of great vigor and 
sturdiness. The pods were filled with 
from six to eight immense light green 
peas of the highest table quality, and 
were so large when cooked as to excite 
remark. This pea is of the Stratagem 
type, but more productive and compact 
in growth than that favorite old variety. 
We do not know whether the Magnum 
Bonum pea is yet in commerce. 
w. V. F. 
For the land's sake, use Uowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
Only a Name 
No Money is Wanted. 
Please show this to some person who 
needs one of these books. Ask him to 
send me his name. 
I will mail the book, and with it an 
order on your nearest druggist for six 
bottles of Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. I 
will tell the druggist to let the sick one 
take it for a month. If satisfied then 
pay $5.50. If not, I will pay the drug¬ 
gist myself. 
I mean that exactly. I do not always 
succeed, for sometimes there is a cause, 
like cancer, which medicine cannot cure. 
But most of these diseases result from 
weakened inside nerves; those nerves 
which alone make every vital organ do 
its duty. I have spent a lifetime in 
learning how to strengthen them; my 
Restorative always does that. I have 
furnished it to 555,000 people on terms 
like the above, and 39 out of each 40 
have paid for it—paid because tney were 
cured. 
There are 39 chances in 40 that I can 
cure you or your friend. 1 will pay all 
the cost if I don’t. Won’t you tell this 
to some sick person who wants to be 
well? 
Simply state which 
book you want, and ad¬ 
dress Dr. Shoop, Box 
570, ltacino, Wis. 
Book No. 1 on Dyspepsia, 
Book No. 2 on the Heart, 
Book No. 8 on the Kidneys. 
Book > 0.4 for Women, 
Book No. 5 for men (sealed), 
Book No. 6 on Rheumatism. 
Mild cases, not chronic, are often cured by one or 
two bottles. At aU druggists. 
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is what one new man has just made. An 
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and has nearly 100 more sold for later de¬ 
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lias **Kaut-K log" nozzle and Hells 
like hot cake** We want some one to 
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Writo for circulars tolling how to get 
ONE SPRAYER FREE. 
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_16 EaMt A vc«« v Koch enter, N. Y. 
Half 
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is quite enough for .some people, but most 
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Rider or Ericsson Hot-Air Pumps 
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" Have used 1’aragrene on my farm for potato 
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