1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
243 
THE GARDEN. 
(continued.) 
Amateur florists are always a little afraid 
of potting - firmly enough. 
The sweet peas started in pots ought 
to be put out. See that the ground is 
firmed well around them ; if sunny 
weather, a little shade may he needed at 
first. Tt is an advantage to select a 
place where sweet peas were not planted 
the previo»s year. 
Paris daisies, coming into bloom for 
Easter, must he watched for greenfly, 
and the same may be said of Easter lilies 
and Japan Spiraea (Astilhe or Hoteia). 
The latter will not endure tobacco smoke, 
so it must not be left in a greenhouse 
where fumigation is going on. Another 
of the popular Easter plants, though 
less in demand now than 10 years ago, 
is Hydrangea Otaksa. The beauty of its 
large panicles of pink or sky-blue 
blooms, often produced on the tiniest 
plants, proves very attractive to pur¬ 
chasers, and pot plants are often set out 
in cemetery or garden, under the im¬ 
pression that it will be equally free in 
blooming another year. But it is not 
hardy in this latitude, and while it may 
grow year after year, producing strong 
foliage, it will not flower, because the 
flower buds have been winter-killed. It 
may be treated satisfactorily, however, 
by keeping in a pot or box. for veranda 
or garden decoration, and wintering it 
in the cellar. 
The hotbed should be ventilated on all 
pleasant days, but it is unwise to leave 
it open when the weather is cold or 
stormy. Great care must be observed in 
watering. When many plants in pots 
are placed in it, water is often splashed 
down in the bed itself, and the manure 
underneath thus chilled and water- 
soaked. Most seedlings may be better 
managed in flats or boxes than in pots, 
while in the hotbed ; they are more 
easily moved about. They should be 
either thinned or transplanted into 
other flats, before they have time to be¬ 
come drawn up and spindling. As a 
rule, it will be found better to sow flower 
seeds in flats than to sow them in the 
hotbed direct. 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
We have been staking and wiring the 
raspberries. We brace the end stakes, 
and stretch wires in pairs about six 
inches apart—one pair 18 inches from 
the ground, and the other three feet. 
The plants will be trained up between 
these wires. Our blackcaps have made 
a good growth, and have passed the Win¬ 
ter perfectly. We shall not set out any 
more Gregg, but expect to double our 
planting of Kansas, with Lotta and Mills 
for comparison. 
Our tools have all been overhauled, 
oiled, and made ready for business. We 
won’t have to stop when Spring work 
opens. The seed potatoes have been or¬ 
dered, and we have begun to feed up the 
horses for their hard Spring work. Oil 
meal with their grain does them good 
now. It starts out the old hair, and 
keeps the horses feeling good. April 
will be a hard month for them. 
We have one Berkshire shote that we 
want to feed for a big record. We feed 
him kitchen swill with bran and corn 
meal mixed in it. Into this, we break 
half a dozen of the infertile eggs tested 
out of the incubator. Well, now, you 
can see that little fellow grow. Why 
isn’t that a good use for infertile eggs ? 
We sowed oats on rented ground M arch 
25. This ground was Fall-plowed, with 
the furrows left standing up straight. 
This Spring, we worked it twice with 
the Cutaway, and twice with the Acme 
before sowing. These oats are for horse 
hay. We cut them green, and cure like 
Timothy. For fertilizer, we use only a 
little nitrate of soda. Last year, we 
used basic slag and potash on this ground 
for millet. 
A small patch of potato s was planted 
March 26, in what former tenants used 
as a chicken yard. The ground was 
worked up fine with spade and rake. 
Shallow drills 18 inches apart were made, 
and in them small whole tubers of June 
Eating were placed one foot apart, a 
small amount of potato fertilizer being 
used broadcast. The whole surface was 
made level, and about three inches of 
coarse stable manure scattered over the 
bed. We tried this three years ago with 
good success, but don’t care to risk it on 
a large scale. 
One piece of light soil intended for 
early potatoes this Spring was sown to 
turnips and Crimson clover last August. 
We picked all the turnips we needed, and 
left many with the clover. They are 
now rotting in the ground. Now, so 
many of these rots and blights are first 
cousins, that I am not sure of them. 
The turnip rot seems to affect the cab¬ 
bage, and for aught I know, it might 
play Hob with the potatoes. There is 
nothing like being sure about things, so 
we asked Dr. Byron D. Ilalsted about it. 
This is what he says : 
So far as I know, there is no direct relationship 
existing between the decay of turnips and 
that of potatoes, unless it possibly be the 
one known as the bacterial disease. This, how¬ 
ever, the bacteriologists claim, is due to a differ¬ 
ent species with the turnips than the rot of the 
potato. In short, I would not hesitate to go 
ahead with the work which you have proposed, 
namely to plant land with potatoes that, for the 
previous crop, had borne turnips, many of which 
rotted upon the ground. 
In go the potatoes, then. My opinion 
is that farmers would do well to consult 
these wise men oftener than they do, 
and learn what science has to offer on 
some of these puzzling questions. 
The Madame has invested in a trio of 
fine Light Brahmas. This is certainly 
the most dignified breed of poultry I 
ever saw. These birds are as tame as 
dogs. They march about the yard as 
handsome as pictures, and far too high- 
toned to scratch a hole in the ground. 
Our Minorcas will dig about as fast as 
a woodchuck, but the Brahmas “stand 
around and look handsome,” and they 
act handsomely, too. In 21 days of March, 
the two pullets laid 23 eggs, and only 
began laying on the first. One of them 
has already laid five doulde-yolked eggs. 
These eggs are tremendous in size—a 
single one is about a square meal for a 
good-sized man. The only trouble is that 
the first pullet that laid turned around 
and ate her egg. The other pullet and 
even the rooster have caught the habit! 
They all stop to cackle before they try 
to eat the egg, and this gives th6 chil¬ 
dren a chance to run and capture it. 
Most people would be astonished to sec 
the difference in appearance between a 
Minorca and a Brahma egg when the 
two are broken side by side. There is 
really more difference in color than there 
is between Jersey and Holstein cream 
from the same pasture grass. We are 
so well pleased with the Brahmas that 
we shall set every possible egg from 
them. They are too good to eat this 
year—wish we could make the Brahmas 
themselves think so ! h. w. c. 
Some cough mixtures 
smother the cough. But the 
next breeze fans it into life 
again. 
Better put the cough out. 
That is, better go deeper 
and smother the fires of in¬ 
flammation. Troches can¬ 
not do this. Neither can 
plain cod-liver oil. 
But Scott’s Emulsion can. 
The glycerine soothes and 
makes comfortable; the hy- 
pophosphites give power and 
stability to the nerves; and 
the oil feeds and strengthens 
the weakened tissues. 
50c. and $1.00, all druggists. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemiste, New York. 
QH IA|| TDCCC - *'* ne > healthy stock at low 
rkHUll I HCbw prices. Berry Plants and 
General Nursery Stock. Send list of wants for an 
estimate. JOSIAH A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
FIVE KINDS. 
250, $1; 100. 50 cents. Early, medium, late. 
C. C. SHEPHERD. Passaic, N. J. 
1,000,000 STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Eor Fall and Spring. All Young Plants. All the leading NEW and Old Standard Sorts, grown on land 
never occupied by strawberry plants before. Prices right. Write for Special Price. Catalogue Free. 
A.RTHUR J. OOXjXjIKTS, Moorestowu. TVT .t 
Don’t Buy a Tree or Plant 
UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN OUR 1898 SPRING CATALOGUE. 
A larger and finer stock than ever before. 3,000,000 Strawberry 
Plants. Fruit, Shrubs and Ornamental Stock in proportion. 
Everything that any fruit grower can need. Our customers are never disappointed. 
T. J. DWYER & SON, Cornwall, N. Y. 
PLANTS THAT PLEASE I 
Some plants arc so small and puny, besides enfeebled by leaf 
blight and root lice, that they mako weak, straggling and un¬ 
satisfactory growth when planted. Dear at any price, their 
venders arc glad to got $1 to $2 per 1.000 for them. 
PATRONS PRAISE OUR PLANTS 
because they arc large, stocky and vigorous. They grow and 
delight the planter, producing nice even matted rows. The 
price is $11.00 per 1,000 and up. Our catalogue will interest you; 
it’s Free. 100 varieties strawberries and all small fruits. 
Highest award at World’s Fair. Address for catalogue or any 
desired information. L. J. FARMER Bov 20, Pulaski, N. Y. 
A Nugget from the Northwest 
Patrick—Earliest productive strawberry, and 
the best early perfect-flowered variety ever intro¬ 
duced. Faultless plant of marvelous vigor; enor¬ 
mously productive. Superior to Wood in plant 
and berry, and a far better shipper. Patrick 
and Clyde will be the fortune-makers of the next few 
years. E D W. W. CONE, 
MENU MONl E, I VIS. 
m 
IF YOU WANT STRAV 
JL^tg^THAI 
iWBERRY PLANTS 
THAT WILL GROW 
SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS 
TO w. F. ALLEN J3 
SALISBURY. MD. 
’ AND HE WILL SEND YOU HIS 
32 PAGE STRAWBERRY CATALOGUE 
„ ONTAININGff LARGE NEW STRAWBERRY 
ILLUSTRATIONS.FREE -ALSO SAMPLECOPY 
FTHE STRAWBERRY CULTURIST 
AND SMALL FRUIT GROWER * SEND NOW.IT WILL PAY YOU. 
NORTHERN PLANTERS* 
, should get our tatalogue of testeo 
varieties of Strawberries, Ru»p. 
‘ err]eH,Currant*,AMpuraKun,Frult 
and Ornamental Trees, Seed dorr 
and Potatoes W rite to-day—free 
Cos A CoanrH, Mo. #, Fort AtklMon,Wls 
UqII’c Paunrito The coming Strawberry 
nail 0 rdlUlllG Best of 50 var. again 
the past season; 50 other kinds No.l stock. 
Kasn., Black., Ac. SECOND CHOP 
Seed Potatoes ripen earlier & make larger 
crops than any others. Descriptive cata¬ 
logue free. J.W. Hall. Marion Sta., Md 
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦STRAWBERRIES ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
is1,000 PER ACRE ♦ 
Small B'ruit Plants. Fine Poultry. ▼ 
▼beading varieties and prices a specialty. FINEST 
▼ILLUSTRATED, Large (15c.) Wall Calendar Cata¬ 
logue issued by any Nurseryman & Fancier, EDEC 
♦if you mention The Rural New-Yorker. IflLL 
♦to WICK HATHAWAY. Madison, Ohlo.^ 
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CHfllfiF.STRAWBERRIES 
UllUlUb FRESH DUC PLANTS. 
Nick Ohmkh, Maroakkt, Skakord, Ruby, Cakkik, Etc. 
400,000 Clyde, 130,000 Glen Mary, 400.000 Marshall Write for esti¬ 
mate on large lots. 100 varieties. CATALOGUE SENT FREE. 
C Vf FLAN8BURGH. LESLIE. MICHIGAN. 
“Strawberry Plants That Grow.” 
Standard sorts, $1.25 to $2.50 per 1,000. Raspberry and 
Blackoerry Plants, from $3.60 to $ti per 1,000. Cat. free 
C. K. WHITTEN’S NURSERIES, Bridgman, Mich 
15,000 QUARTS PER ACRE 
Arnout’s Im¬ 
proved Parker 
Earle Strawberry will yield it. The most productive 
Strawberry on earth. Plant no other. Write for tuy 
catalogue. J. L. ARNOUT, Plainsvllle, Pa. 
RATH BUN BLACKBERRY, by mall, for 50c. 
T. C. KKV1TT, Athenia, N.J. 
DCDDV Dl 1 IITC - * 51-12 t0 ® 2-25 P er booo. 
DCnn I l LAH I O Send for Price List. 
H. L. SQUIRES, Flanders, N. Y. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS—Gandy, $2 per M. Bran¬ 
dywine Red Raspberry Plants, $2.50 per M. 
D. M. C. PERR1NE, Tenuent Sta., Monmouth Co.,N.J. 
Pedigree Strawberry Plants 
and up 
WM. 
of the best varie¬ 
ties, $1.25 per 1.000 
PERRY, Cool Spring. Dol 
F or the BERRY GRO WER 
We supply the bent plant* of the be*t varieties. 
It’s our specialty, we do only that. Str»wb*rri*«, Kasp- 
b«rrtp*, Blackberries, Currant*, Gooseberries, etc. Write for 
prices and circulars, 
R. J. StahcHn, Box 4 Bridgman, Mich. 
Must Be Sold. 
500,000 Strawberry Plants, mostly Gandy Prize 
and Sharpless, 25 other kinds. Prices extremely low. 
All kinds of Vegetable Plants. Price-list free. 
I. & J. L. LEONARD, Box 10, Iona. N. .T. 
TREES, VINES AND PLANTS 
of all the leading varieties at very reasonable prices. 
No better grown in the United States. Introducers of 
the New Holderbaum Peach, the Giant of the 
Alleghanies. Write us for Descriptive Price List. 
It will interest you. KEMP BROS. NURSERY AND 
ORi'UAKD CO., Harnedsville. Pa. 
Grape Vines!* 
Extra fine stock of CURRANTS, Including the 
new and unrivalled WILDER. Lowest rate*. Quality 
extra. Warranted true. T. 8 . iilbiiakd CO., FredonU, N.I. 
finn strong two-year Cherry. Fay and 
Victoria Currant Plants. $10 per 1.U00. 
W. A. FREED, Homewood, Pa. 
ray No. 1. Two-year-Old PIIDDAIITC 
mi Roots. $2.25 per 100. bUnfl All i O 
C. E. EDMUNDS. Fredonia. N. Y. 
10,000 Gregg and Palmer 
RASPBERRY SETS, FOR SALE CHEAP 
ELIAS GATES, Coxsackie, N. V 
PAI llll 31 All Haspberrles, 8.000 quarts pa' 
UULUIIIDIflll acre. 50,000 sets. 
T. G. ASHMKAD, Nursery, Williamson. N Y 
SURPLUS 15,000 KANSAS “S""* 
Full list free. A. B. HORST, Dalton, Wayne Co., O. 
U A | C and other Japan Plums; Grapes, Cnrrants, 
nHLL Small Fruits; Roses, Gladiolus, etc. 
P fl M M C PTIPI IT Triumph. Elberta and other 
UUIlllLU I lull I Peaches. Fine stock, cheap. 
Freight paid. Catalogue free; full of genuine bar¬ 
gains. Edgewood Farm Nursery,C romwell, Conn. 
Berry Baskets. 
Quarts, Shorts, Pints, 'Thirds, etc. 
Peach Baskets. 
Sizes, 2. 4, 6, 8, 10,12,14 and 
llLquarts 
il Grape Baskets. 
ill Sizes, 3^, 5, 8, 10 and 15 lbs. 
Peach Covers. 
Wood, burlap and cotton. 
Berry, Peach and Grape Crates. 
Crate stock and box shooks in all sizes, direct from 
the manufacturers. Special prices to dealers and 
car-load buyers. Write for catalogue. 
A. H. MONTAGUE & SON, 
Manufacturers and Agents, 
120 Warren Street. New York City. 
Agents 
Wanted. 
A Twelve- 
year-old Boy 
can do more and bettft. work with 
Hand Cultivator than three men can do 
with common hoes. If you can’t get the 
Hand Cultivator 
of your dealer, send 70 cents for sample, 
Farmers' Hstudy Tool Circular mailed free. 
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the farmer’s work was never done. It isn’t so now. The “ Planet Jr.” Labor 
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For Instance, the “ Planet Jr.” Double Wheel Hoe will cover as 
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hoe, a cultivator, a rake and a plow In one. The other 
“ Planet Jr.” Machines are equally efficient, 
equally wonderful. You should read about 
them in the “ Planet Jr.” Book. It’s free. 
S. L. ALLEN & CO., 
Market St., Pliilada. 
