98 
February 11 
HORTICULTURAL QUESTIONS. 
Sweet Corn Mixing. 
J. M. II., Sturgis, S. D.—X wish to plant three 
varieties of sweet corn, early, medium, and late, 
for market—not seed. Will the varieties mix 
enough in one season to injure the flavor of each, 
if planted close together ? 
Ans. —Probably not. The pollen of the 
medium and late would mature too early 
to affect the latest, and the pollen of 
the latest would mature too late to affect 
the medium. 
How to Use Hitrate of Soda. 
H. T. A-, New Jersey.— I would like to ask just 
how to apply sulphate of potash and nitrate 
of soda to strawberry plants. Some say that it 
will injure the plants if applied directly to them, 
and that it should be put between the rows. It 
seems as though the latter course leaves the fer¬ 
tilizer too far away from the plants. 
Ans —In our work with fertilizers and 
nitrate of soda for the strawberry, al¬ 
ways applied broadcast, we have never 
had any injurious results. The first was 
applied early in the season, and the 
nitrate at blossoming time, when its 
action is to favor fruit development 
rather than leaf growth. Our conclusions 
were that it is inad visable to apply nitrate 
of soda in connection with a fertilizer 
already rich in nitrogen. With low-grade 
materials, its addition is beneficial to 
the crop. The sulphate of ammonia 
has always given negative results except 
in the presence of lime. Do not apply 
when the foliage is wet. With a dry 
foliage or just preceding a rain, no in¬ 
jury should result. Applying before a 
rain insures its rapid passage into the 
soil, hence it is quickly available where 
otherwise it might lie on the surface for 
days, and with a little moisture, as dew, 
cause injury to the plants. A. t. jobdan. 
New Jersey Experiment Station. 
Fruit Growing in Washington. 
J. H. E., Ellensburg , Wash. —I have two hill¬ 
sides, one facing north, on which the snow lies 
from November 1 until April 1, usually caused 
by lack of sunshine in the short days of Winter; 
It gets very little sun for about three months. 
The other, facing south, gets the benefit of all 
the sunshine; snow goes off a month or six 
weeks earlier, as a rule, than from the first 
named. The temperature in the past four years 
has never been lower than 11 degrees below zero. 
Potatoes, cabbage, onions, sweet corn, tobacco 
and all small fruits do well. Frost sometimes 
comes as late as May 15, and in Fall as early as 
September 15. Are there any kinds of peaches 
and grapes that would mature on either of these 
hillsides? If so, which would be preferable— 
where the snow lies longer, or goes earlier ? Vege¬ 
tables and fruits were grown on the hillside fac¬ 
ing south. 
Ans. —Without having been in Wash¬ 
ington and had opportunity to observe 
the conditions that usually control the 
growing of fruits, it is my opinion that 
the north hillside will be the safer for 
peaches. There will be less likelihood 
of early starting of the buds, and con¬ 
sequent nipping of them by late frosts 
than on the south slope. The south side 
is the place for grapes, because they do 
not start so early as peaches, and need a 
longer season in which to ripen. If I 
had the selection of varieties, my pres¬ 
ent knowledge would lead me to plant 
Triumph, Mountain Rose, Elberta, Old- 
mixon Free and Salway peaches. Of 
grapes, I would set Moore. Campbell 
Early, Worden, Delaware, Niagara and 
Winchell (Green Mountain as synonym). 
H. E. v. D. 
Fine Potatoes and Flowers. 
C. A■ B., Indian Orchard, Mass.— 1. If you wished 
to raise the largest, finest specimens (without 
regard to quantity) of a new variety of potato, 
what methods would you pursue? 2. I would 
like to try one-half dozen or more of the largest, 
finest Chrysanthemums. Can they be grown in 
pots plunged in the earth, so as to move them 
under cover to avoid frost? I have no green¬ 
house. What size pots should be used ? 3. The 
hardy white pink, Her Majesty, is highly praised 
in the catalogues, but I have seen it stated that 
it bursts the calyx. Can you inform me as to 
that? 4. Will the monthly carnations of the 
florists endure the Winters in the vicinity of 
Springfield, Mass., if covered with a cold frame, 
or protected like everblooming roses ? 
Ans. —1. Our friend does not state bow 
large an area he purposes to plant to 
potatoes, but we judge that our favorite 
plot one-fortieth of an acre would suit his 
purpose. We should spade the soil thor¬ 
oughly, and then dig 11 trenches through 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
it, six inches deep, throw back two 
inches of soil, place seed potatoes of me¬ 
dium size, cut lengthwise, 14 inches 
apart. We should then cover them 
slightly with soil and sow on the entire 
plot, not in the trenches alone, at the 
rate of 2,000 pounds to the acre of high- 
grade potato fertilizer. The fertilizer in 
the trenches would serve the growing 
potatoes until mid season, and the ferti¬ 
lizer between the trenches would serve 
them during the rest of the season. 2. 
Six very fine Chrysanthemums are Ivory 
and Mayflower, white ; Major Bonnaffon. 
yellow ; Viviand-Morel and Mrs. Howard 
Rinek, pink ; J. Shrimpton, bright crim¬ 
son. This list might be extended in¬ 
definitely. They can be grown as you 
describe, and would, probably, flower in 
six or eight-inch pots, being shifted as 
required during the growing season. 3. 
Her Majesty pink does burst the calyx, 
as a rule, a frequent fault with pinks of 
its class. It is, however, a fine flower. 
4. Good sturdy carnations may be kept 
over Winter in a frame ; of course C. A. 
B. would not expect Winter flowers from 
them. We would not advise outdoor 
protection like that given to roses. 
Hollow-Hearted Celery. 
G. D. W., North Tonawanda, N. Y.— What is the 
cause of celery stalks being hollow ? Our celery 
is quite worthless, as most of it is hollow. What 
treatment will be necessary to prevent a recur¬ 
rence of the trouble ? 
Ans. —This is a short question and 
quite innocent in appearance, but the 
more it is studied, the tougher it be¬ 
comes. Having no positive evidence to 
offer, I give the following borrowed 
opinions. The first is the opinion of a 
seedsman, the second that of a man 
familiar with the theory and practice of 
celery growing on a large scale. 
FREDERIC CRANE FIELD. 
“ Answering yours of December 21, we 
have always been inclined to believe 
that hollow celery was grown from in¬ 
ferior seed, but we are not positive about 
this.” 
“I would say that our growers are 
somewhat in doubt as to the cause of the 
hollow stalk in celery. It is certainly 
most troublesome where land has been 
used for a number of years for this crop, 
and it has been found desirable to use 
onions or some other crop in rotation, 
although, where celery Is grown for a 
number of years in succession, the injury 
from the hollow stalk can be lessened by 
the application of a liberal amount of 
manure with ground bone and wood 
ashes, 500 pounds of the former and 100 
bushels of the latter being used at least 
every other year. My impression is that 
the trouble is due, to some extent, to a 
check in growth that often occurs dur¬ 
ing a dry period, especially if it is fol¬ 
lowed by warm rains that cause a second 
growth.” 
A 
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HAND CULTIVATOR 
than three men with common 
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Bend SI.25 for sample, delivered. ' 
<'«»“•>«. If Ivor Jit. 
Planting is 
Pleasant 
when you watch the corn drop in the rear of a 
Keystone Corn Planter. Its beautiful work, 
covering ten or twel ve acres a day, is a constant 
pleasure to farmers who enjoy seeing work 
well done. The phosphate attachment is a 
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Corn Planter 
It sows any kind cf pulverized fertilizer. The 
planter drops kernels in drills or hills with any 
desired spacing; works well even in rocky land. 
Plants ensilage, beans, peas, etc. Send for 
large illustrated catalogue. 
A. B. FARQl II AIt CO.,Ltd., York, Pa. 
LEADING NEW 
STRAWBERRIES 
Sample, Excelsior, Nick 
Ohmer, Jerry Kusk and 
r Darling* are some of the 
new varieties 1 have to offer this 
season. 
MY STOCK IS LARGE AND 
VERY FINE. 
My illustrated and descriptive cata¬ 
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scribing 60 varieties of' Strawberries 
will be sent FREE to all who ask for it. 
Your name and address on a postal is 
all that is required Better send at once. 
W. F. ALLEN, JR., Box 44, Salisbury', Hd. 
Ni 
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STRAWBERRY 
free. 
PLANTS. Sixty varieties 
II per 1,000 up. Catalogue 
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If you give our wonderful new straw¬ 
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JUST OUT. 
The annual price-list of Call’s Nurs¬ 
eries is now ready for our readers, and 
all who are wishing to set fruit trees 
this year will do well to send for it. If 
you wish to secure the best and health¬ 
iest trees that can be grown, write 
them for price-list. Hundreds of our 
leading Fruit Growers write that the 
finest Fruit trees that they have ever 
seen, were received from Call’s Nurseries, 
Perry, O. They make a specialty of 
dealing direct with the Farmers. 
20 Dollars in Gold 
for the best yield from one bushel of my 
New.Oat. only ioo bushels for sale. First 
time it has ever been offered. Write for 
particulars at once. 
FRANK P. JOBES, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
15 Choice Vegetables for 10 Cents. 
One pkg. beets—Lentz Early Blood; 1 cabbage— 
Lupton; 1 cabbage—True Danish Winter; 1 encum¬ 
ber—Arlington White Spine; 1 celery — Evans’ 
Triumph; 1 carrot—new Carentan; 1 lettuce—Grand 
Rapids; 1 lettuce—Denver Market; 1 pepper—Ruby 
King; 1 melon—Rocky Ford; 1 onion—Michigan Yel¬ 
low Globe; 1 onion—Early Barletta Pickling; 1 
radish—True Rosy Gem; 1 tomato—Bond’s Early 
Minnesota: 1 tomato—New Stone. For lo of your 
neighbors’ names that use seeds, ami 10 
cents in stamps, tve will mail you free the 
above 15 packages of choice vegetable seeds 
with our annual catalogue. 
SIEGEL, The Seedsman, ERIE, PA. 
WE’LL BUT OR SELL 
fiMDTHY,CLOVER, ALSIKE 
8END SAMPLES FOR OUR BIDS. 
Slaw methods of cleaning enable us to save all the goo< 
seeds and remove all the weed seeds. We can therefor, 
■ay fair prices for seeds—every quality—and can sell 
clean seeds at close prices. Booklet Skkd Skxh free. 
TBP WKITNEY-N0YES SEED CO., BUFFALO, N. Y, 
H eadquarters for Pedigree 2nd crop Seed Potatoes- 
acknowledged by potato growers of the U. S. and 
Ag. Ex. Sta. to be the best seed pot aloes grown. 
Cat, free. J. W. HALL, Marlon Station. Md. 
SEED POTATOES. 
Sir Walter Raleigh and Carman No. 3 High grade 
stock. Per 4-bu. barrel. $3. Bu , 85c., f. 0 . b. 10 years 
a grower. A. B. HORST, Dalton, Wayne Co., Ohio. 
NEW 
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MDRDV PLUM and 
DIAMOND PEACH. 
AND FINEST 
FRUITS 
NEW PEACHES. 
(Copyrignted.) 
Dean’s Red, Dan Boone, 
Deaconess & 8t. Clair. 
THE ALBAUGH NURSERY AND ORCHARD CO.. 
PiioxKTON, Ohio. 
From seed time to harvest, you will 
find use every day for the 
Iron Age Implements. 
The Iron Age Dou¬ 
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weeds, plows and 
cultivates. Sim¬ 
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^ Every ounce of “push’’on the Iron ^ 
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It wins the battle svitli weeds and 
saves a hired man’s wages. Like all 
the famous Ikon Aok implements 
It lias been perfected by 63 years of 
constant study and successful man¬ 
ufacture of farm and garden imple¬ 
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compete with those who use it. The 
handsome Iron Age Book for ’99 
describes them all. We will send It 
fYtCm 
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YOU CAN GET 
DOUBLE THE CROPS, 
11 you knew how to double your bank account you would do it 
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tillage results rrom using __ — 
THE WIARD WEEDER. 
Why cultivate always between the row! Why not cultivate the 
rows also? This weeder cultivates all the land. Kills all 
the weeds, saves the natural moisture of the soil, pro- 
V j P ;i duces level cultivation and promotes plant growth. Made 
-best oil tempered spring steel ami adjustable to any 
'^.Z^fr^feangle. More about it in our free circulars. 
TMC nntu/ rn 
A Weeder for S 5 . 00 . 
The New CHAMPION WEEDER 
is an attachment for any one-horse cultivator. Cul¬ 
tivates the row and between the row at one operation. 
The weeder cultivates the row, kills all the weeds and 
grass, leaving a mulch of fine earth about the plants, while 
the cultivator takes care of the middles. 
Can Be Attached to Any Make 
of One-Horse Cultivator. 
Send us $5 
Instantly attached or raised or lowered at will. So low in 
price that every farmer can afford to have one. Sold strictly 
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The hand that holds 
the plow, 
feeds the l//or/d.... 
It’s a big contract but we have made 
it practically an easy task by the intro¬ 
duction of the world famous 
Oliver Chilled Plows. 
As good agriculture begins with good plowing, the use of the 
Oliver increases the product of every acre under cultivation. 
Sold from every city, town, village and cross-roads stoic m the 
land. Buy nothing else for nothing else is so good, lne 
new things about the Oliver may be found in our printed matter. 
THE OLIVER CHILLED PLOW WORKS, 
