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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 23, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by 
the name and address of the writer to in¬ 
sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
our advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper. 1 
Clarifying Cloudy Vinegar. 
F. M. C., Plainfield, N. J .—I have some 
vinegar that has such a cloudy appearance 
that it will not sell. Do you know of any 
way I can clear it? It is good vinegar 
otherwise. 
Ans. —In the case of the cloudy vinegar 
it is evident that some abnormal form of 
fermentation has taken place, and I do 
not know whether it could be satisfac¬ 
torily clarified. It is possible that if it 
were mixed with a very little milk and 
thoroughly agitated and then allowed to 
settle, this treatment might clarify it. I 
would suggest that this treatment be ap¬ 
plied to a gallon, using three or four 
tablespoonfuls of skim-milk. I have not 
had any experience in this special form, 
and I am not certain that the method of 
treatment will work satisfactorily. 
L. L. VAN SLYKE. 
Violets as House Plants. 
M. A. O., Colcit\an’8 Falls, Va .—I am 
asked by a friend in northern British Col¬ 
umbia why it is her violets kept in the liv¬ 
ing room fail to produce flowers. They have 
plenty of buds, but the buds drop off. As 
my only experience with violets has been 
growing such as Ijady Hume Campbell and 
Marie Louise, in a violet house 40x12 and no 
such disease ever attacked them, I am un¬ 
able to advise. 
Ans. —Violets are unsatisfactory house 
plants from the fact that the average 
living room is much too warm and dry 
for the welfare of these plants, and these 
conditions are doubtless the cause of the 
trouble in this case. The cool and damp 
atmosphere of a greenhouse that is kept 
at a right temperature of 42 to 45 de¬ 
grees provides the atmospheric conditions 
that violets enjoy, and such conditions 
arc distinctly lacking in the living room, 
the latter being more often kept between 
60 and 70 degrees, while the humidity is 
relatively low. If the violets were placed 
near to the window, and a pan of water 
kept by them, there might be some im¬ 
provement in their growth, but it is 
doubtful if real success will be gained. 
W. H. TAPLIN. 
Seeds from Flowers Under Glass. 
G. O. K., Beard, Ky .—Our greenhouses 
are often full of bees, carnations, stocks, 
and many double flowering plants in bloom, 
yet; we never get any seed. Will you ex¬ 
plain bow to get seed from double flowers 
such as stock, wallflower and geraniums? 
Even baby primrose never seeds here. Tell 
me how to hybridize Cannas. 
Ans. —The chief reason why carnations 
and many other flowers do not form seeds 
freely without artificial fertilization is 
found in the fact that the essential parts 
of the flower, namely, the anthers and 
stigmas, of numerous species, do not at¬ 
tain maturity at the same time. In a per¬ 
fect flower of the Dianthus family, to 
which the carnation belongs, there are 10 
anthers, and these usually perfect their 
growth in two sets of five each. The 
first set of anthers completes its growth 
before the stigmas, and frequently the sec¬ 
ond set also, thus requiring pollen from 
another flower to complete the process, 
for unless the stigma of a flower is in 
what is termed a receptive condition, fer¬ 
tilization will not take place. The usual 
method of crossing these flowers is to 
transfer some pollen from the anthers of 
one flower to the stigmas of another with 
a camel’s hair brush, and in order to 
prevent the possibility of self-fertilization, 
the careful operator clips off the anthers 
and usually the petals also from the 
flower that is to be used for seed bearing, 
and then watches closely until the stig¬ 
mas assume that glutinous condition that 
usually indicates that the stigma is recep¬ 
tive. The expert uses a microscope to 
determine the condition of the pollen 
that he is about to use, but many valua¬ 
ble crosses have been made without any 
such elaborate preparation. 
Cannas are not difficult to cross, but 
need watching rather closely in order to 
avoid self-pollination. Cannas are more 
readily self-fertilized than carnations and 
consequently the anthers of the seed¬ 
bearing flower should be removed before 
the bloom begins to open. Plant hybridi¬ 
zation is a most interesting study, but is 
still far from being an exact science, and 
a much greater percentage of failures than 
of successes are recorded each year. The 
first requisite is to learn to distinguish the 
various parts of the flower, and then by 
close observation to note the changes 
through which they pass until they finally 
attain maturity, for a little experience in 
this way will prove more useful than sev¬ 
eral pages of written description. 
w. H. TAPLIN. 
VALUABLE BOOK FREE . 
In connection with onr Hi-Grade Brand of Pure 
Paris Green we have issued a now booklet on Insecti¬ 
cides, containing many useful hints to the farmer, 
truck grower and gardener. It is authoritative and 
up-to-date. Better send for a copy to-day. It costs 
nothing and will tell you all you want to know about 
fighting insect pests. 31 ORRIS HERRMANN & 
CO., <J6 William Street, New York City. 
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INSECTICIDES 
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saving Fruit and Vegetable Crops when other 
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dusts two rows of pota¬ 
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The BEETLE 
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The JUMBO 
dusts trees. 
Our Spray Calendar rIvcb concise information regarding; 
Dusters and Materials. Mailed on request. 
LUGGETT & BRO., 301 Pearl St., N. Y. 
Where Are Your Apples Going? 
’TAID you ever stop to think of 
the opportunities open to the 
CAKEFUL APPLE GROWER, 
and the possibilities of a SPE¬ 
CIAL TRADE in supplying DI¬ 
RECT TO THE CONSUMER.the 
HIGHEST QUALITY apples, put 
up in SMALL PACKAGES? 
There is no business which 
offers better prospects for the 
future. 
But you must start right. 
You must get out of the old ruts. 
You cannot do it with the Ben Davis-:.'ny thing-to- 
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It ts not a question of quantity, but QUALITY, 
and not only the HIGHEST QUALITY, but every 
apple grown to the HIGHEST PERFECTION, 
You cannot do this by the old way of growing 
apples on the high-headed, ‘■sky-scraper’’ style of 
trees. You must keep them down where you can 
watch every apple. 
You can keep the heads down and not only grow as 
many apples, bnt MORE APPLES and BETTER 
APPLES. 
Our little booklet, the “Apple Breeder”'’sent 
free only on application) will tell you about the 
plan of low heading, close planting and the kinds 
you need for this special purpose. 
Why not decide now WHERE YOUR APPLES 
ARE GOING, and work for the highest market by 
growing the FINEST APPLES IN THE WORLD? 
ROGERS ON THE HILL 
Apple Breeder Dansville, N. Y. 
FRUIT TREES 
AND SMALL FRUITS 
Highest Grade 
$1.50 per 100 up. Freight Paid. 
Illustrated catalogue free. Send for one to-day 
HIGHLAND NURSERIES, Rochester, N. V. 
PAPER POTS 
by . 
Mis 
Last Call! 1000 3 in. pots with form, 
express prepaid to any point reached 
by Adams Ex., $1.95 ; to any other point east of the 
ississippi, $3.30; 4 inch pots 30 cents more. 
P. B. CROSBY & SON, Catonsville, Maryland. 
VIRDIN’S 
crated Straw¬ 
berry Plants 
Choicest varieties for 
home and market. 
All fully described in 
my latest catalog. 
Vigorous Plants, all 
fresh dug from new beds. 
All stock guaranteed true 
to label. Prices right. 
Send for my new 1907 catalog free. Address, 
SAM’L A. VIRDIN, Hartly, Del. 
CURR£NT^- Stro, ’e 2 Years Plants. 
° U unn» n I O Cal p r ivet, 2 yrs., heavily 
branched, 4 ft. Make a hedge at once; also2 ft.plants. 
Asparagus Roots, strong, 2 yrs. Maples, Poplars, 
Shrubbery,etc. Low rates. J.A. Roberts, Malvern,Pa. 
OR nnn iriRIC Earliest, Largest, Brightest 
faOiUUU VmllsU New Red Raspberry. A good 
catalog. W. N. SCARFF.NEW CARLISLE, O. 
Sold k .ar or shelled. Al 
graded, tested, proven—then 
guaranteed. No better at 
any price. Test it in your 
sprouting box. If you don't 
like it -fire it back. You’ll 
get your money back double 
quick. “Guaranteed-pure” 
Clover seed. Garden seeds 
that will really grow. Cata¬ 
logue and samples free. 
HENRY FIELD, SEEDSMAN, 
I0X 26, SHENANDOAH. IOWA. 
If you understand Modern Methods and 
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Every Reader of The Rural New-Yorker 
who is interested in farming or gardening, in 
the growing of fruit or of flowers, is invited 
to send for a free copy of our 80-pnge catalogue 
and full information in regard to the Homo 
Study Courses in Agriculture. Horticulture, 
Landscape Gardening and Floriculture which 
we offer under Prof. Brooks of the Mass. 
Agricultural College and Prof. Craig of Cor¬ 
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THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 
DEPT. 18, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 
FERTILIZER LIME etc., address 
WALTON QUAR RIES, Harrisburg, Pa. 
CTRAWBEBRY PLANTS-None better grown. Buy 
direct from a specialist. Catalogue free. 
GKO. R. 8CHAUBKR, Box R, Ballston Lake, N.Y. 
The Chipman Strawberry is a Winner 
This and forty other best varieties for sale; also 
eggs from It. I. Red Chickens, winners of first 
prize at Wilmington poultry show. Send for free 
plant and poultry catalogue. „ . ^ , 
W. S. TODD, Greenwood, Del. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
$1.60 per 1,000 and up. Raspberry, Blackberry and 
Currants at low prices. Heavy rooted high-grade 
stock true to name. Special Spring Wholesale Price 
List Free. A. It. WESTON & CO., 
Route 8, Bridgman, Mich. 
BARTLETT 
PEAR TREES 
Kxlra Fine, 2 Years. 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 
Vines, Roses, Evergreens and 
Herbaceous Plants. 
NELSON ROGUE, 
Agenls Wanted. BATAVIA, N. Y. 
Trees 
Southern grown the best. Spring bargain 
list now ready. Send for it before you buy. 
Easterly Nursery Co., C leveland,Tenn, 
DICKY STRAWBERRY 
NOVELTY FOR 1907. 
A strong, vigorous, healthy, Ann, staminate variety. 
A great cropper. A mortgage lifter. All the new and 
standard varieties for sale. Send for descriptive 
catalogue, c. y. PRATT, Reading, Mass. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS, forty of the best 
varieties; prices reasonable. Write for catalog, it 
is free. J. K. LOSEE, Elnora, Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
D EWBERRY PLANTS and Ward Blackberry 
Plants and Sweet Potato Seed for sale; send for 
price. MICHAEL N. BORGO, Vineland. N. J. 
SARATOGA NEW STRAWBERRY 
producing at one picking at rate per acre, 5918 quarts 
in height of season, finishing last of crop with Gandy. 
WILLIAM PALMER, Rexfords Flats, N. Y. 
SEED Potatoes, Corn&Oats 
nilAc of IowitST Pricss. Cntalov Fre 
, Best 
vari¬ 
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IGR0VER NURSERY CO. 
W ARD BLACKBERRY-Hardy and reliable; 
one of the best. Well-rooted plants, by mail, 25, 
75c.; 50, $1.00; 100, $1.50. For larger quantities, As¬ 
paragus Roots, Trees and other small fruit plants, 
send for price list. Chas. Black, Hightstown, N. J. 
STRAWBERRY PUMTSlSSfiS 
3 best Standard Sorts. Sent by mail prepaid forll.OO. 
Catalog free. SLAYMAKKR & SON, Dover, Del. 
Fall Bearing Strawberry Plants IImueZ 
COOPER, Delevan, New York. Circulars Free. 
7 7&£S 
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL 
Evergreens 
Shrubs Roses 
Hardy Plants 
All the Bestandllardiest Varieties. 
The Largest and Most Varied 
Collections in America. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY 
Nurserymen—Horticulturists 
MOUNT HOPE NURSERIES 
Established 1840 
ROCHESTER NEW YORK 
Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue (144 
page8),also Descriptive List of Novelties 
and Specialties with beautiful colored 
plate of tlio New Hardy White Rose 
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mailed FREE on request. 
Strawberries 
Try Ekey 
for first choice. Rich, bright 
crimson, rerl flesh. Excellent 
fruit, very attractive. We have 
millions of strong plants ready 
for 1907. Every variety worth planting in¬ 
cluded. Write for late catalog of finest stock 
in this country of Strawberries, Apples, Pears, 
Peaches, Plums, Grapes, Cherries, Asparagus. 
Packed to arrive in perfect condition anywhere. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES. 
BOX 20, BERLIN, MD. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS" 
Argenteuil and 
Palmetto. West Jersey Nursery, Bridgeton, N. J. 
P EACH TREES, 4 to 6 feet, 5c. each, Elberta,- 
Crosby, Smock, etc. Send for our catalogue. 
WOODBINE NUU8E1UES, W. A. Allen,Geneva, O. 
Strawberry Growing 
Taught at home. Book free. 
H. J. SCIIILD, Ionia, Mich. 
BERRY PLANTS Wholesale Prices, Marlboro 
Snyder Blackberry. 
and Cuthbert lied Raspberries, 
C. S. ROND, Geneva, N. Y. 
BLIGHT PROOF POTATOES 
bugs; double the yield of common varieties. $1.00 per 
bushel, second size 75c. Ira Watson, Fredonia, N. Y. 
PD ACC cccn Seed Oats and Seed Corn, All 
UllflOw OttU kinds of Clover, Timothy, Blue 
Grass, Red Top, Orchard Grass and Oil Meal, old 
process, Prices and samples on application. 
U. J. COWER, Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 
F OR SALE—Crimson Clover Seed, #4.50 bushel. 
Red Clover Seed, #7.50 and #8.00 bushel. 
Onion sets, #2.00 and #2.50 bushel, Cow Peas 
#2.50 to #2.75 bushel. Joseph E. llollund, Milford, Del. 
CHOICE SEED P0TA10ES, felVTuft 
stock. Also R. C. R. I. Red, and R. C. White Wyan¬ 
dotte Cockerels of best breeding for salo, $3.00 to $10.00 
each. A. L. Fitch, Westmoreland, Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Fruit Trees That Will Live . 
Madison, Wis., Feb. 5, 1907. 
Last year on our farm at Wallingford, Conn., we planted some 4,000 peach trees, pur¬ 
chased from you. Notover half a dozen failed to grow. The trees were clean, thrifty and 
all right—W. A. HENRY & SON, per W. A. Henry. 
Above testimonial received by us from Prof. Henry, Dean of the 
College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, certainly speaks well 
for our stock. Get our free catalog’ and give us a chance to figure on 
your wants. BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO., Box 8, Yalesville, Conn. 
ELBERTA 
CHATTANOOGA NURSERIES, 300 Ridge Avenue, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
HEALTHY NATIVE-GROWN FRUIT TREES. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, VINES, SHRUBS, ETC. 
We offer for Spring of 1907 the finest and most complete list of Nursery Stock we have ever grown. 
Our stock can always be relied upon for It is all selected and grown on our own grounds under constant 
expert inspection. We guarantee every specimen true to name and free from disease. Give us a chance 
to figure on your list of wants before ordering elsewhere. We do LANDSCAPE GARDENING in all 
ts Branches. Write now for our Free Illustrated Catalogue. Address 
T. J. DWYER G COMPANY,.Box 1, Cornwall, New York. 
Peach Trees 
2 cents each 
Fine, thrifty, June budded stock, 2 to 3 feet high 
and guaranteed absolutely free from disease. $20 
per 1000, $2.50 per 100, i f you act quickly. We make 
this extraordinary offer to “show” growers that 
our East Tennessee Red-Land Fruit Trees are the 
best on earth. Now is the time to plant. Write 
today for full particulars. Illustrated catalog free. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Best new and old varieties by dozen.'hundred or million. Big sweet ones, little old sour 
ones, light or dark color. Finest collection in America. GREAT BEARING, MONEY¬ 
MAKING VARIETIES. Also Raspberries, Blackberries, Currants, Grapes, Asparagus, 
Rhubarb, Hale’s Hardy Peaches, Apples, Plums, Quinces, and Cherries. Everything for 
high-grade fruit gardens. Catalog free. Send for it. J. H. HALF, South Glastonbury, Conn, 
