1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
249 
CATALOGUMS 
Wm. Perry, Coolspring, Del.—Price list of 
strawberry plants; four pages. 
Geo. II. Colvin, Dalton, Pa.—rrice list of 
seed potatoes and strawberry plants; 12 
page*. 
Ellis E. Burwell, New Haven, Conn.— 
Price list of selected vegetable seeds; eight 
pages. 
M. Butterfield & Son, Lee's Summit, Mo. 
—Catalogue of Lee’s Summit Star Nurseries; 
10 pages. 
Milford Nurseries Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
—Catalogue of fruit aud ornamental trees 
and plants; 80 pages; illustrated. 
W. W. Whittier & Co., South Framing¬ 
ham, Mass.—Wholesale price list of ornamen¬ 
tal trees, shrubs and plants; 14 pages. 
L. G. Tuttle, Wallingford, Conn.—“IIow 
to Grow Plants." A 10-page booklet de¬ 
scribing uses of new metallic plant box. 
Hugo Beyer, New London, Iowa.—Cata¬ 
logue of choice seeds, 1(5 pages, with special 
offer of Beyer’s new perpetual-bearing black 
raspberry. 
W. W. Hunt & Co., Hartford, Conn.—Cat¬ 
alogue of Blue llills Nurseries; 58 pages. A 
general collection of fruit and ornamental 
trees and plants. 
IIari.an P. Kelsey, Boston, Mass.—Whole¬ 
sale price list of hardy native Rhododen¬ 
drons, hardy native shrubs and plants; 1(5 
pages. A most interesting collection. 
Geo. N. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y.—Cata¬ 
logue of grapevines and small fruits; 18 
pages. Headquarters for Campbell Early 
grape, Josselyn gooseberry and Fay currant. 
T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va.—cata¬ 
logue of farm and garden seeds, 80 pages, 
illustrated, colored cover. The selection of 
varieties adapted to the Middle Atlantic 
States is very full and good. 
The Templin Co., Calla, O.—Catalogue of 
seeds and ornamental plants; 1(58 pages; il¬ 
lustrated ; colored cover showing vegetables 
and new Begonia Templinil. A very attrac¬ 
tive booklet with colored plate of Cardinal 
strawberry is included. 
Ross Bros,, Worcester, Mass.—Catalogue 
of seeds and implements; 136 pages; illus¬ 
trated. One of the largest and best of com¬ 
bined catalogues. I.ists about everything in 
the way of supplies needed by the farmer. 
Edward F. Dibble, Iloneoye Falls, N. Y.— 
Catalogue of seed potatoes and farm seeds, 
1(5 pages. A well-chosen collection with the 
Ionia seedling and Early Manistee potatoes 
and White Twentieth Century oats all illus¬ 
trated in color, as specialties. 
Stark Bros.’ Nurseries and Orchards 
Co., Louisiana, M’o.—Circular with many 
folders and inserts, together with an astound¬ 
ing colored plate of new apples and fruits. 
King David is offered as a new red commer¬ 
cial apple of high quality and great value. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Vt.— 
Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and 
plants; 48 pages; finely printed and illus¬ 
trated. This is a very handsome publica¬ 
tion, describing a full collection of the best 
fruits and ornamentals in all desirable new 
and standard varieties. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md.—Cata¬ 
logue of fruit trees and plants; 40 pages, il¬ 
lustrated. Peaches and strawberries are the 
great specialties of this extensive nursery 
firm. There Is a splendid collection of varie¬ 
ties of these favorites and of other fruits. The 
Mark Ilanna strawberry and Ray peach are 
given great prominence. 
Ei.lwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.— 
There is little change this year In the mag¬ 
nificent nursery catalogue Issued by this 
widely-known firm. The Ellwanger & Barry 
catalogue is everywhere known as a standard 
for reference. / supplement contains a very 
choice list of novelties and specialties In 
fruit and ornamental trees and plants. 
Green’s Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y.— 
Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and 
plants; 72 pages, profusely illustrated. A 
large collection of new and standard fruits is 
listed. The descriptions are very forcible and 
elaborate where specialties are concerned. 
Among exclusive offerings we note Green's 
Improved Baldwin apple. Green’s Tartarian 
cherry, Thanksgiving prune and the Chas. A. 
Green new white grape. It is a very Inter¬ 
esting publication. 
ANTHRACN0SE ON RASPBERRIES. 
One. of .our readers In Illinois has sent us 
the following question ; “I would like to hear 
from those who have had experience in con¬ 
trolling anthracnose in raspberries and black¬ 
berries. Can it be entirely eradicated by per¬ 
sistent applications of Bordeaux, or Is it best 
to destroy plantations and start anew with 
unaffected plants?" 
I have never tried Bordeaux for it, as 
I have never suffered very much from 
anthracnose. If its attacks are confined 
to old plantations it is best to take them 
out and start anew, but not on same 
soil. It is worse on the red varieties of 
raspberries, and sometimes gets so preva¬ 
lent in localities as to make it impossible 
to grow them for a time. 
Mercer Co., N. J. Charles black. 
One of the experiment stations carried 
an experiment on my place, for two years 
spraying with Bordeaux Mixture, but 
without any benefit that I could see. I 
plowed my patch out. I would take them 
out and plant a new patch on new ground. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. j. a. hepworth. 
Raspberries and blackberries are less 
largely grown in this section than for¬ 
merly. It is doubtful if any persistent 
effort has ever been made here to combat 
anthracnose with Bordeaux. Eradication 
of plants and burning has probably been 
the chief remedy in Delaware, e. h. b. 
Camden, Del. 
I have had no experience in controlling 
anthracnose. Black raspberries are raised 
quite extensively in this county, but I 
don’t think one grower in 20 sprays or 
attempts to control anthracnose. If it 
gets too thick we destroy the plantations 
and set a new patch on new ground. The 
Geneva Station says it can be controlled 
by several sprayings, but I have not seen 
it tried in this vicinity. c. e. clark. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
I have never been seriously troubled 
with anthracnose in either raspberries or 
blackberries, but occasionally do see a 
plant here and there that shows the in¬ 
fection. I immediately have the plant dug 
out and destroyed. I would not think of 
trying to eradicate this disease with any 
sort of spray, although I do not say that 
it could not be done. I do not want any 
of the roots of an infected plant on the 
place or in the plantation. With stock 
as cheap and quickly grown as the rasp¬ 
berry and blackberry we cannot afford to 
spend time trying to “doctor” sickly plants, 
so a plantation that has much anthrac¬ 
nose in it would better be cleared off and 
the refuse burned. Then get some good 
healthy stock and plant on a fresh piece 
of land, using the old plantation for 
some other purpose. geo. j. foster. 
McLean Co., Ill. 
Anthracnose of blackcap raspberries ap¬ 
peared in a piece of two acres of Kansas 
five years ago. The next season there 
was but very little of it. Prof. Stewart 
saw it both seasons and was surprised 
that so little was to be seen the second 
season, and as he told me that spraying 
did not seem to do much good I did not 
spray. This second season I had a very 
fine crop. We picked 41 bushels at one 
picking, very fine fruit. The next season 
the canes were much affected, and the 
fruit was inferior, and the following sea¬ 
son poorer still, and was plowed up. I 
set another piece with the plants from 
this two years ago, which bore fruit last 
year, but neither canes nor fruit was 
perfect, and my opinion is that it is poor 
policy to hold a bed after anthracnose 
makes its appearance or to use plants 
from such a piece or replant the same 
ground very soon. I have not had any 
trouble with blackberries. I would like 
to ask whether Kansas is more subject to 
anthracnose than other kinds of black¬ 
caps. WALTER F. TABER. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
BATHROOM IN A GREENHOUSE. 
I send you a drawing, shown in dia¬ 
gram, of a shower bath we arranged in 
our greenhouse plant, where steam is 
used. The room is of rough boards, 
made tight, and the ground being sand 
soaks away the water. There are no 
fixtures to keep clean, and anyone can 
use it. Each has his own brush and 
towels, and all keep clean, as it is such 
a pleasure to stand under the sprinkler 
and turn on any temperature of water 
just by turning the globe valves. The 
coil under dressing platform is to warm 
the room, and has an air valve in to make 
the steam circulate. The floor could be 
made of cement with a drain. The cost 
of this bath, lumber and fixtures was 
about $12. It could be built in a base¬ 
ment or anywhere where steam is used. 
Michigan. _ r. r. 
“See that man? Well, sir, he landed in 
this country with bare feet and now he’s 
got millions.” "Gee whiz! he must be a 
regular centipede.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee, page 18. 
s “o. k. Elevator” Potato Digger 
digs more like your own hands than any other machine or device of any description—digs and 
cleans potatoes more satisfactorily. The action of the elevator in separating the soil from the 
potato is unique—similar to the working of human fingers when sifting dirt through them. The 
separation is thorough and quick, and leaves the potatoes in even rows ON TOP OF THE SOIL. 
The machine is easy to operate and requires but two horses. Parts are easily removed and re¬ 
placed. Digger complete weighs but 500 lbs. Price $65. Write us now for full information, 
and what users say. „ M ., , , _ . 
Reliable agents wanted tn all unoccupied territory to sell this machine 
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Recent experiments in Hop Culture show that 
for each ioo pounds of Nitrate of Soda used per 
acre, an increase of 87^ pounds of Hops was 
obtained. This being so, no Hop Grower can 
afford to be unfamiliar with the use of 
Nitrate of Soda 
1 THE STANDARD FERTILIZER) 
Any Hop Grower who will send his name and 
address on Post Card will receive my book, 
“ Food for Plants,” giving official reports of ex¬ 
periments with various fertilizers in varying 
quantities. 
A Free Offer to Hop Growers 
I want fifty Hop Growers to make an experi¬ 
ment with Nitrate of Soda as a Top Dressing 
and will send a small quantity of Nitrate Free, 
if they will pay. transportation charges, apply it 
as directed and report results to me. The increase 
in Hops will more than repay the cost. Write 
only on Post Card , 
Wm. S. Myers, Room 148,12-16 John St., New York 
Two 
Suits 
for 
One 
Price 
Save half your cloth¬ 
ing money Buy direct 
from the mill. Men's 
all wool suits $7.50 to 
$12.50. All desirable 
weaves and patterns. 
Finely tailored and fin¬ 
ished. Suits guaranteed 
to give satisfaction. 
Buy from the Mill 
Save Half 
Ladies’ 
Spring 
Dress 
Goods 
A new idea for women. 
Buy your spring dress 
goods direct from the 
mill at wholesale prices. 
All the latest colors 
and shades. Panamas, 
Broadcloths, Brillian- 
tines, Henriettas, Silk- 
downs. Catalogue and 
samples free. Express 
charges paid. 
GLEN ROCK WOOLEN MILLS, 
203 Main St., Somerville, N. J. 
