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August 10, 
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TRANSPLANTING LARGE NURSERY 
TREES. 
J. B., Berwick, Nova Beotia .—I had a nur¬ 
sery with six-year-old apple trees. The best 
of them were Spy. I transplanted them eight 
feet apart, and, having fine, bushy roots, 
nearly all lived. Roots and top were cut 
back to medium stubs. Will it do to trans¬ 
plant them next year to their future posi¬ 
tion, or should I wait another year? If I 
transplant next year, should I cut back 
again? Growth will not be as good as some 
three-year-olds planted at same time, but will 
be fair. 
If the trees were transplanted this past 
Spring they should remain where they are 
another year. We do not like to trans¬ 
plant trees two seasons in succession. It 
is better to have a season of good, strong 
growth before resetting. If the trees have 
made a strong growth this season they 
may be transplanted next Spring. Other¬ 
wise not. I would advise cutting back 
one-half or more of the growth when re¬ 
set. EDWIN HOYT. 
Connecticut. 
If I understand the inquiry, it is that he 
has six-year apple trees, from graft or 
bud, now in nursery row, and transplanted 
the past season. If so, I should not move 
till a year later. If transplanted next 
Spring they would need very little head¬ 
ing in, as the growth will not be large 
the present year. If, however, they have 
already been in their present position 
over one year, then I should transplant, 
either to permanent position or in nursery 
row, in which case heading in will be de¬ 
sirable. These trees could readily stand 
two more years in nursery row if it is de¬ 
sired. It is a perfectly practical idea to 
continue trees longer in the nursery with 
repeated transplanting. A. g. gulley. 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
If the trees are very vigorous and made 
a first-class growth last year, both in top 
and root I would transplant them now; 
that is, either this Fall or next Spring. 
They would probably need only a very 
moderate cutting back at this time. In 
case the growth is not decidedly vigor¬ 
ous I would say it would be better to 
wait another year. f. a. waugh. 
Mass. Agric. College. 
The Culture of Sweet Peas. 
J. IF. S., Center Moriches, N. Y .—Are 
sweet peas a good money crop? If so, how 
are they grown and bunched? Are the col¬ 
ors separated or mixed? Which are the 
best colors? How are they sent to market, 
loose or bunched? Are they sent in baskets 
or crates? Are they all planted at once or 
in succession ? 
Ans. —Sweet peas are grown for the 
cut flower trade under two different plans, 
according to the season the flowers are 
intended for. Those that are grown for 
Winter flowering are sown in the green¬ 
house about the end of August or begin¬ 
ning of September, the seeds being planted 
rather thinly, in rows about 24 to 30 
inches apart, the beds containing about 
eight inches of good soil and the plants 
being trained up on wire netting or on 
strings. The night temperature of the 
greenhouse should be kept 50 to 55 de¬ 
grees, and the sweet peas should have 
plenty of ventilation in bright weather, 
and be dusted with tobacco dust in case 
the green aphis appears on the plants. For 
Summer flowering the sweet peas should 
be sown outdoors just as early in the 
Spring as the ground can be worked; in 
fact, some growers sow outdoors in Oc¬ 
tober, and thus gain possibly ten days in 
the time of flowering the following sea¬ 
son. But this latter practice is not an 
entire success in all soils, and thus the 
majority of growers depend on early 
Spring sowing. As to prices realized for 
these flowers, much depends upon the 
quality, but during the past Winter the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
wholesale price of sweet peas in Phila¬ 
delphia ranged from 60 cents to $1 per 
hundred, provided that the flowers were 
fresh and of good quality. In the Summer 
the price is much lower, and at times the 
market becomes overloaded. I he flowers 
are tied in bunches of 25 or 50 sprays 
usually, and are kept in separate colors. 
The colors most in demand are pink, 
white and lavender, and during the Win¬ 
ter the first two of these colors are much! 
more free in flowering than is the laven¬ 
der. The bunches of flowers are care¬ 
fully packed in baskets or boxes that have 
been well lined with paper, the flowers 
having been placed in water for some 
time before packing. The crop is usually 
sown at one time* as successional sow¬ 
ings in Spring are not very satisfactory 
after the weather becomes hot and dry. 
w. H. TAPLIN. 
Draining a Swamp; Water Supply. 
E. D. C., (No Address). —I- have just 
bought a farm in Litchfield Co., Conn., where 
the old house stands within 50 feet of a 
of a small swampy place about an acre in 
extent. The swamp is the source of a 
small brook, but could only be drained into 
land which I do not own, which * is not 
practicable. Could a cistern be sunk at any 
reasonable expense that will collect the water 
below ground level, and would such water 
be suitable for household use even if the 
cistern did not drain the swamp? The well 
is about 20 feet from the house toward the 
swamp. Is the water likely to be fit for 
drinking and if not would a well anywhere 
within 100 yards of the swamp be likely 
to be good? 
Ans. —If the small marsh, of about an 
acre, referred to by your correspondent, is 
an isolated area surrounded entirely by 
higher land and at the same time gives 
rise to a small brook, it is clear that the 
marsh cannot be drained by any cistern 
without pumping a volume of water equal 
to that carried by the brook. If the main 
problem is to drain the marsh and the 
brook has any considerable fall it is quite 
possible that the brook itself could be 
made to drain the marsh, provided the 
marsh is entirely surrounded by higher 
land and a fall of one or two feet in the 
brook occurs within the premises of the 
owner. If the conditions supposed exist 
it is very probable that the water giving 
rise to the brook, and which maintains 
the marsh, seeps into the low area from 
all around its margin, and that the water 
level in the higher ground is above the 
level of the marsh. If this is true, a line 
of drain tile laid around the border of the 
marsh at as low a level as an outlet into 
the brook can be obtained ought to inter¬ 
cept the water as it comes from the higher 
land, and carry it away. It may. also be 
true that the bottom of "the marsh is sandy, 
so that water rises up through its bottom, 
or it might be that the marsh has a layer 
of clay underneath its surface and at some 
point a spring breaks up through this, be¬ 
low the level of the swamp soil, but a line 
of tile leading through the wettest por¬ 
tion of the marsh, in addition to the line 
around the margin, ought to drain it. 
If there is a couple of feet of fall in the 
stream, within a short distance, simply to 
deepen its channel should lower the level 
of the water in the marsh, when supple¬ 
mented with a central line of drain tile, 
with one or two branches perhaps, a cor¬ 
responding amount. E. D. C. can readily 
ascertain whether the main body of water 
causing the 'marsh enters it by general 
seepage around its entire border, by using 
an extension auger two inches in diameter 
and boring into the ground around its 
margin to a depth of four or five feet. 
The auger holes will in time fill with 
water to the level of the ground water at 
the place, and thus show whether a line of 
tile passing along the line of borings 
could be laid so as to intercept the flow of 
water into the marsh. The water collected 
from the marsh in a cistern would not be 
likely to be suitable for household pur¬ 
poses, but might answer for farm stock, 
but a well anywhere outside of the marsh, 
even 20 feet away in the higher land, 
would not be likely to be contaminated by 
water from the marsh, as the supply for 
the well would be from the higher around. 
The only possibility of water from the 
marsh contaminating the well would occur 
in the event of pumping a large volume of 
water from the well so as to maintain the 
level of the water in the well below that 
of the water in the marsh, but this in sup¬ 
plying water for household use is hardly 
likely to occur. f. h. king. 
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CARBOLINEUM 
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FERTILIZER LIME etc., address 
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GRANULATED LIME 
For Farms. Especially prepared to drill with crop 
same as phosphate. Manufactured in Somerset Co., 
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PEONIAS, 
choic foE e sa d le heat "GOLD COIN” 
Produced 40 bushels to acre grown on my farm 
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CHAS. D. SMITH, Fairground, Long Island, N. Y. 
CRIMSON CLOVER.-1,400 bushels Fancy 
^ Crimson Clover Seed for sale, $3.60 per bushel. 
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Fresh new- recleaned seed, $1.3,', per pk., $6.00 per bushel. 
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Dwyer’s Pot Grown Strawberry Plants 
Strong, healthy plants from selected stock of choicest fruiting varieties sure to give 
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THE Abenaque Gasoline Engine 
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