I'HE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 23 
346 
AN ORCHARD OF ROOT-ORAFTED 
TREES. 
Header, Pennsylvania .—On page 231 there 
are some very interesting articles in refer¬ 
ence to planting apple trees. I wish your 
correspondents had gone a little farther 
back and talked about the propagation of 
trees. I have an orchard of 4,000 trees, 
which were planted in the year 1900, on the 
side of a hill, limestone land, in Blair 
County, Penn., and there is a controversy 
going on now among my neighbors about 
the planting of my 1 trees. I purchased the 
trees from a local dealer, who is a nursery¬ 
man and claims to be well versed in the 
knowledge of tree culture. He bought a 
great many of my trees from a nursery¬ 
man in Baltimore, and some of them from 
a. nurseryman in Richmond, Va„ and some 
he raised in his own orchard. Lately a 
dealer from Ohio, who is a nurseryman, 
came through this country and condemned 
my orchard, because it was planted, as he 
alleged, from root grafts, stating that 
root-grafted 'trees would never do any 
good: did not have the strength to force 
the tree nor to bear fruit, and if they ever 
did come to anything they -would not live 
long. I inquired particularly of the nur¬ 
seryman who furnished the trees in refer¬ 
ence to the ones he raised himself, and he 
tells me that he bought the trees grafted 
on small pieces of roots in Topeka, Kan.; 
be received them here in a box. holding 
1 ,000, about two feet square and set them 
out in his ground, and when they grew to 
be four feet high sold many of them to me. 
T planted the trees in quantity and quality 
as he recommended; they are Ben Davis, 
planted in alternate rows with Albemarle 
Pippins and Grimes Golden, and York Im¬ 
perial, planted in alternate rows with 
Grimes Golden and Peck’s Pleasant; then 
T have Mammoth Black Twig. Willow- 
Twig, Winesap and Salome to make up 
the 4,000 trees. I am not very much in 
love with the Ben Davis apple since I have 
planted my orchard, and have read more 
about them; I have about S00 Ben Davis 
trees. How would it do now for me to 
top-graft at least one-half of the Ben 
Davis trees w’ith Spitzenberg? The Ohio 
nurseryman wishes me to pull out all my 
trees and allow him to plant budded trees 
in place of the root-grafted ones. I do not 
like to lose the three years. 
Anr.—I t Is all nonsense to talk about 
taking out the trees that have been 
planted and putting budded trees in 
their stead. Do no such thing. The 
trees are probably all right., and cer¬ 
tainly are If they are thrifty and not af¬ 
fected with any disease. The Ohio nur¬ 
sery sharper is simply trying to make a 
sale of a lot of his trees and to pave the 
way, perhaps, for sales to others who 
might hear of the owner of this orchard 
making such a change as he is being 
advised to make. Root-grafted trees 
are very good. I have planted many of 
them, and carried them to mature age 
with excellent results, and millions 
more of such trees have done likewise. 
h. e. v. i>. 
VEGETABLES WITH STRA WBERRIES 
Have you ever tried the experiment of 
grow-ing any kind of vegetables between 
rows of straw'berries the first season after 
planting? If so, do you advise it under 
any circumstances, and what vegetables 
do vou find best? 
We have years ago tried peas, early 
beets and radishes between the straw¬ 
berry rows. This makes, of course, a 
good deal of work to keep free of weeds, 
but if near a good market can be suc¬ 
cessfully done with heavy manuring and 
sufficient distance between rows. We do 
not think it would be advisable unless 
sure of a good market. Either of the 
three will grow all right. 
Long Island. l. h. hallock. 
I have never grown vegetables be¬ 
tween the rows of strawberries, but I 
frequently grow sweet corn in the rows 
of strawberry plants, setting two plants 
between the hills of corn. For this pur¬ 
pose I use the small or medium growing 
varieties of corn, and removing the 
stalks as soon as the ears were taken 
off there appears no damage to the 
growth of the plants. I did it last year 
with good paying results. 
New York. w. f. tabeb. 
For several years I have grown onions 
between my Spring-set strawberries, 
and under favorable conditions I think 
the yield of onions will pay for work¬ 
ing both onions and strawberries; that 
is if the land is rich and comparatively 
free from weed seed. Last Summer, 
however, the raising of the double crop 
was a pretty tough job. I plant my 
strawberries live feet apart and then 
drill two rows of onions in each space. 
Berries and onions can both be kept 
quite free from weeds, except for what 
hand weeding is necessary, with a wheel 
hoe until the onions get too large to 
work this tool. Then comes the critical 
time, If the ground is full of weed seed, 
for the onions and weeds and straw¬ 
berry runners all get together in a tan¬ 
gle. In a good season, when the onions 
can be harvested early, this trouble will 
not occur. It is important to sow the 
onion seed as early as possible. I often 
sow it before the berry plants have been 
set. Although by this plan only two- 
fifths the ground space is devoted to 
onions, the crop will be considerably 
greater than a two-fifths one, as the 
onions will grow larger than they do 
in solid beds. I have never grown any 
other vegetables in this manner, but 
any crop that has not too much top 
could be handled. titos. b. hunt. 
New Jersey. 
Early potatoes seem to be the best 
crop to plant between rows of straw¬ 
berries. Hundreds of bushels are plant¬ 
ed here in this way for the early mar¬ 
ket. The ground is first well prepared 
and the potato rows are made five feet 
apart, fertilizer being used in the drill 
to hasten the crop. Early varieties are 
used only, the principal sorts planted 
are Crown Jewel, Early Harvest, Queen 
and Irish Cobbler. The strawberries are 
planted generally as soon as the pota¬ 
toes show the rows, between the pota¬ 
toes, five feet apart. This leaves 2% 
feet for cultivation of each crop, the po¬ 
tatoes being dug for early market about 
July 4 to 20, according to season and 
variety. A late crop is then put in 
where the potatoes were grown, snap 
beans being mostly planted, but cab¬ 
bage and turnips are also grown for 
succeeding crop. No extra fertilizer is 
used on the beans, but for cabbage and 
turnips a little is put around the plants 
or strewn along the rows, at first or 
second hoeing. In this way three crops 
can be grown on the same ground in 
one season. e. e. b. 
New Haven, Conn. 
Leg Weakness in Hens. 
IT. H., Glymcr, N. Y.— I would like to ask 
for a cure and the cause what seems to me 
to be leg weakness In my hens. They arc 
Leghorns, and some seem to lose the use 
of their legs entirely, and lie on their side; 
others will run a little way and squat 
down. They look well, combs red and eyes 
bright; act better at night than in the 
morning, as some have apparently fallen 
from the roost. 
Ans. —This leg weakness in your hens 
is undoubtedly rheumatism, which is 
often prevalent in the damp weather of 
the early Spring. Prevention is easier 
than cure. Keep the houses dry; plenty 
of fresh air. The hens that are affected 
should be brought into a warm sunny 
room, or near a stove, and they often 
turn out all right without any medicine. 
A very little salicylate of soda in their 
drinking water is the only medicine we 
ever used. Hens running on the ground 
are very seldom troubled. 
• white & RICE. 
Propagating Berberis and Privet. 
G. n. P., Paterson, N. J.— How Is Berb.nis 
Thunbergii grown from seeds? Can the 
Ibota privet be grown from seeds, and if 
so how should they be treated? 
Ans. —Berberis Thunbergii is readily 
grown from seeds. The fruits are pick¬ 
ed in late Fall or early Winter, the 
seeds rubbed out and either sown at 
once in flats under glass, or stratified in 
moist sand until Spring, then sown in 
beds out of doors. When sown under 
glass the seedlings come up within a few 
weeks, and may be pricked out in small 
plots when they have made their first 
pair of leaves, and carried over until 
Spring in a rather cool temperature, 
when they may be planted out in nur¬ 
sery rows. This Berberis also grows 
well from short cuttings made from ripe 
woqiJ In early Fall, rooted in sand un¬ 
der glass in the ordinary manner. Ibota 
privet may be grown from seeds in much 
the same manner, but the seeds do not 
germinate so readily, and on the whole 
are best stratified over Winter in sand 
and sown outside in early Spring. This 
privet is also propagated from short 
cuttings from newly ripened wood, made: 
in the Fall and rooted under glass inf 
the ordinary manner. It does not grow 
nearly so well from long cuttings or dor¬ 
mant wood as common or California pri¬ 
vet, though a fair percentage of the cut¬ 
tings will root if treated in a similar 
manner. 
Johnny: “Maw’s always talkin’ about 
a hygienic diet. What is a hygienic 
diet?” Tommy: “It’s any kind of diet 
you don’t like!”—Chicago Tribune. 
“Do you regard dollar wheat as a sign 
of prosperity?” “Not out our way,” an¬ 
swered Farmer Corntossel. “It’s just a 
sign that we haven’t any wheat.”— 
Washington Star. 
If you cannot secure from your Seedsman, 
GROFF’S HYBRID GLADIOLI 
[GENUINE] 
In their several sections, write me and I will mail my 
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prices which are much below the value furnished 
ARTHUR COWEE, gladiolus specialist 
Meadowvale Farm, Berlin, N. V. 
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“Hoyt” ought to know something about 
growing trees—been at it more than 50 
years and has more than 500 acres m 
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1 White Fine, Hemlock Spruce, White Spruce, 
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Hardy Flowers and Ferns 
A collection of 15 varieties of hardy plants for ll.OQ 
'f you mention this paper. 700 varieties of Dahlias, 
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•'KHNKRIK8, Growers & Importers, Beverly, Mass. 
PURE TESTED SEEDS 
(ALL PER BUSHEL). I 
Medium Clover, $7.50: Mammoth Clover,'$7.50 Al- 
sike Clover. $0.50; Alfalfa. $9: Crimson. $3.50; Tim¬ 
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$1.75; Bedtop, $1.20: Spring Bye. $1.25; Spring Wheat, 
$1.40; Seed Oats, 75c.; German Millet, $1.10; Hunga¬ 
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Box 01, MILFOKD NURSKKIES Milford, Dei. 
rnp Q A I C—Crimson Clover Seed, $4 per bushel: 
lUn OnLL Cow Peas, $1.75 and $2 per bushel; Seed 
Sweet Potatoes. $1 per bushel. 
J. E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
fl||n Ann || yielded at the rate of 203 bushels 
IJUIl UUnll of ears per acre at the experi- 
n* ment farm of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture. 
Prices: TALIAFERRO (yellow), or COLLING WOOD 
(mixed).bu.of ears by freight or express $1.00; packet 
by'mail, postpaid, 15c; 2 packets, (one of each), 25e. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON, Catonsville, Md. 
ENSILAGE CORN 
from the prairie country. It is better than Eastern 
seed, as it Is used to wind, and does not blow down. 
Grows eight to ten feet high, very leafy, and early 
enough ti mature well anywhere south of Albany. 
Selected seed, either White or Yellow, guaranteed to 
grow, @1.35 per bushel. New Sacks free. Freight 
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Box 26, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Go to the natural home of good corn for your seed. 
. M «4P O White Star and Washington; per- 
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White State Flint Corn, test 98. Samples free, 
atoee: Cobblers, Gold Coin and Green Mountain, 
set from the farm. ... „ _ 
Wanted address of Farmers interested 
in Early 8-rowed State Mammoth. 
* Yellow, Red, or (White adapted to 
light soil) flint; test 98; ears 12 to 16 inches: 2.200 
bu. from 14 acres. 1 sample free; 3 samples 10c.deduct 
from order; 10 bu. or more, $1.50 bu. For less amount 
write for prices. Ono seedsman purchased 150 bush"ls. 
8. J. SMITH’S POTATO FAUM, Shortsville, N. Y 
Seed Corn and Oafs SMaSk’USSSfS 
corn. Silver Mine oats 60c per bu. Sks.5ceach. New 
ha- s.lSc. Prices F.O. B .W.ikeman. O. F A. Denman 
ONION SEED—Southport Globe 
MEEKER’S SMOOTHING HARROW 
Bend for prieps and catalogue. 
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Seed Sweet Potatoes, 
Strawberry and Raspberry Plants, Asparagus and 
Rhubarb Roots. Sweet Potato Plants ready about 
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Formerly F.T. Newcomb Vinelnnd.N J. 
C ommonwealth. New Strawberry. I will sell 
fifteen for for one dollar. 
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Large Transplanted Early 
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Strawberry Plants 
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15 Best Varieties. 
Price list Free. 
GEO. II."COLVIN. Crest Farm, Dalton. Pa. 
Peach Trees 
size, 3c each. Trees kept dormant 
in kocmI shipping condition till May 20. 
Circular free. II. 8. Johnston, Box 4. Stookley,Iiol, 
Seed 
of t be 
grown. 
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—Lot of Light Cumberland Tips. Sample 
for postage. P. SUTTON, Exeter. Pa. 
Cumberland Raspberry Plants, ^^trieUM 
Blackberry Plants.80 emits p a r 100. 
. LINDSLEY S NURSERIES, Whitehouse N. J. 
— _- 
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