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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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peach and cherry trees which are shel¬ 
tering thousands of the destructive tent- 
caterpillars, and which demand im¬ 
mediate destruction by the troublesome 
means of the kerosene torch. Anyone 
who will carefully examine his trees be¬ 
fore the bloom or leaves have made 
NEW PEACHES FROM STUBENRAUCH. 
Since you gave description and illus¬ 
tration of my new seedling peaches 
(Elberta-Belle cross) the past season I 
have had quite a number of inquiries 
on the part of your readers who want 
to know more about them. It would 
be quite a task for me to answer them 
all in detail, hence will .you publish the 
following? The trees in question are 
yet young, and while appearing promis¬ 
ing in every way, they ought to bear at 
least one more good crop before I would 
deem it anyway safe to judge as to their 
value or to recommend them for plant¬ 
ing. We have already too many varie¬ 
ties, and unless anyone can be positive 
that any new kind is really superior to 
what we already have, it is best not to 
bring it out at all. We ought to have a 
law that would punish a fellow severely 
for palming off a sorry article on an 
unsuspecting public as something new 
and superior. The Carman had borne 
two magnificent crops before I ever 
mentioned it to anyone and from what 
I can learn of it the country over it still 
NEST OF TENT CATERPILLAR. 
fills the bill. These seedlings will be 
closely watched, and while fruit is ripen¬ 
ing specimens from each will be sent to 
your office for inspection. This will be 
a test as to their shipping as well as 
eating qualities and appearance. If they 
prove of real merit your readers will be 
given a chance to try them in their own 
orchards, while if they turn out other¬ 
wise, they will not be recommended to 
anybody. The new peach that we had 
named Queen, of which Dr. Van Fleet 
made mention and gave illustration in 
“Ruralisms” some time back, has proven 
too shy a bearer with us to be worthy 
of general planting. While the peach is 
all that could be wished for in appear¬ 
ance and quality, they are too few to be 
profitable. j. w. stubenrauch. 
Texas. 
R. N.-Y.—It would be hard to frame 
any such law as Mr. Stubenrauch refers 
to. It often occurs that so-called 
“novelties” have been fairly well tested 
in some localities before they are sent 
out. The trouble is that these local tests 
do not cover a wide range of conditions, 
and thus the variety proves a failure 
when tried away from home. What we 
need is personal application of the laws 
of common sense to prevent people from 
rushing to throw their money at “novel¬ 
ties.” _ 
DESTROY YOUR TENT CATERPILLARS 
NOW. 
When the season is well advanced, 
and the gardener and fruit grower are 
nearly distracted from lack of time to 
do all the things demanding immediate 
attention, it will be something lighter 
than the proverbial “straw” that will 
threaten the “camel’s back;” it will be 
the masses of white cobwebs on the 
their appearance, may find upon some of 
the smaller twigs something which looks 
very much like a small wad of dark 
bronze-colored wax neatly pressed about 
the twig. If one of these is opened and 
examined under any good pocket lens, 
it will be found to contain innumerable 
eggs of the tent-caterpillar moth, await¬ 
ing the quickeniijg influence of Spring 
weather to hatch into a host of trouble¬ 
some enemies. One of their first activi¬ 
ties is to spin the web which calls at¬ 
tention to them and which gives them 
their “local habitation and a name” as 
“tent”-worm. There is great advantage 
in recognizing them at this stage, since 
it is now that their complete destruction 
is easily and completely accomplished; 
whereas the later method of the torch 
only destroys the web and a very small 
per cent of the worms, which drop to 
the ground and escape. And whosoever 
flatters himself that the hens or the 
birds will complete his unfinished job 
may sometime discover the fact that 
the woolly things are despised by all 
the feathered tribe! An early Spring 
walk through his trees, when there is 
nothing pressing upon his time, will en¬ 
able the fruit-grower to clean them of 
this pest by simply removing the af¬ 
fected twigs, or even by removing the 
nests, which now are about the size of 
the meat of a peanut. One of them is 
shown in adjacent cut. L. G. bedell. 
North Carolina. 
AMERICAN FRUITS IN EUROPE. 
I have been a reader of your paper many 
years, and like the general tenor of it, hut 
one thing is missing, a word of praise 
where it is due. The oft-repeated “pack 
your fruit honest” can be read in almost 
every issue, a« if the growers were all a 
set of rascals, and needed instruction. But 
I was in Europe, and chanced to buy 
fruit. If I, made it known that I was an 
American it brought forth some words of 
praise for the American fruits. It was 
so in England and Germany; in France 
I could not be understood much, but at 
the retail dealers in England and Ger¬ 
many they always spoke in high terms of 
American fruits, I did not go near a whole¬ 
sale place, as I had no business there. In 
addition to ripe fruits in Germany, they 
even spoke well of our evaporated apples, 
they called them ringlings, from the shape 
they are. It was in 1902, in August in 
England, they had a poor fruit season, and 
I saw pears in a wagon grown near Lon¬ 
don sold to restaurants and bakers that 
were not over one inch to one and a half 
in diameter, green and hard. My pigs at 
home would not eat such fruit. Fruit was 
high, and it was shipped in. In Germany 
they had grapes from Italy, like the 
Niagaras here, sold at 15 to 20 cents per 
pound, other fruit in proportion. In Paris 
and other points in France where I ex¬ 
pected to find pears in perfection and 
plenty, they were not. Some stands had 
what seemed to be seedlings. I found 
some Duchess d’Angouleme and other 
budded kinds, but they were scarce, sold 
at one franc a pound of almost any kind. 
Grapes sold early in September at the 
same rate, then I thought and wished for 
some of my Kieffers. The shipping or rail¬ 
road freight seemed to be all in wine 
barrels; empties were piled high on plat¬ 
forms in Taris. At Boulogne, a seaport 
place, it was all fish and fish baskets and 
other packages, but all seemed to be new, 
no old baskets in sight. Fruit sold there 
by the pound, as also in Germany, where 
all vegetables went in the same style by 
weight, and retail fruit was as high as in 
the best American markets, and no better 
quality. I think once in a lifetime the 
American fruit growers may hear the other 
end of the Pluropean market, the retail 
market, and know there it is appreciated. 
If the tariff could be off or lowered Ger¬ 
many could use an immense amount of 
apples and pears, as well as England. 
Fruits ripened later in the old country 
than here. We had the Yellow Transparent 
here in early July, there the first I saw 
was in Berne, Switzerland, in September. 
Grapes did not ripen except from Italy, 
till after September 15, when the home 
grown came in. But the point I wish to 
make that American fruits in the retail 
trade meet with their best approval. Lots 
of this talk is to help excuse poor dealings 
in commission business. a. h. griesa. 
Kansas. 
R. N.-Y.—A very large share of the com¬ 
plaint about poor fruit in this country is 
caused by repacking on the part of deal¬ 
ers. The Eurooean trade demands the 
most careful packing and nothing else will 
go. The fruit is dumped out of the barrel 
at random when sold by sample. 
40 @ I5f = $6.00 
40 @ 10 = 4.00 qq 
40@$5.00= 200.00 
40@ 3.00= I 20p00 qq qq 
The explanation of the above figures 
in the story of a man who planted an 
acre of ground to fruit trees. 40 trees 
were planted with the best trees 
he could buy at 15c. each. Another 
was planted with clieap trees at 10c. 
each. At the end of five years the 
value of the first acre is $ 200 , while 
the cheaper trees on similar soil, and 
receiving exactly the same care, is only 
valued at $ 120 , showing $78 in favor 
of the high-grade trees. 
We should like to have every prospective 
purchaser see for themselves the class of 
strong, well-rooted stock grown at 
Harrison’s Nurseries. 
For those who cannot visit us and make 
selections, we have a catalogue giving plain, 
lionest descriptions of all our stock, with 
photographs; so that everyone who reads it 
will get a fair idea of every variety offered 
and grown on our 1,100 acre nursery. 
Write today for catalogue—it is free, but will be 
worth many dollars to you if you buy a tree, plant, 
or ornamental stock this season. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES 
Box 432, • _ Berlin, Mid. 
FRUIT TREES-SHRUBS-ROSES 
Hardy, thrifty, well developed, fibrous-rooted trees and 
Plants at prices which, after you investigate will attract 
your clow; attention. Assortment and quality unsur¬ 
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Nurserymen, Geneva, New York. 
STRAWBERRIES NEAV L VARHCTY 
All the best new and old kinds. 
Descriptive Catalogue Free. 
•J. E. KUHN'S, Cliffwood, New Jersey. 
Fruit Trees. 
Now is the time to make your selec¬ 
tion and order your Fruit Trees—while 
the Nurseries have a full stock to select 
from, and while you have time to attend 
to it. Call’s Nurseries, Perry, O., have 
a large stock of the best quality at reason¬ 
able prices. They deal direct with the 
farmers. Write them for Price-List. 
S trawberry Plant,—Chipnmn, alendlng variety. Also all 
other reliable varieties. Send for my free 190!)’Catalogue. 
Prices from (1.50 up. DAVID KOD1VAY, Uartly, Del. 
6,000,000 Strawberry Plants. *%£%*£ 
Best stock In the world. We guarantee satisfaction and safe 
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Address THE SNOW HILL PLANT, KUU1T A TRUCK KAllM, 
Charlie S. Perdue, Prop. R. 2, Snow Hill, Sid. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Send $2.00 for 1000 plants; 40 varieties finest 
Tennessee grown. Free catalog. John Light- 
foot, Dept., 3(5 E. Chattanooga, Teun. 
LittleTrees&Plants 
will bear fruit almost as quickly as the large 
ones. Some of you are a long distance from a 
nursery. We can send them in finest condition 
to any part of the country by mail postpaid. 
PEACHES and APPLES at $1.00 per doz. 
Other stock at proportionate prices. 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO„ Hightstown, N. J. 
PEACH TREES 
Hardy New England Grown Fine Stock 
.True to Name] 
ASPARAGUS PLANTS 
Special prices, with list of varieties, now ready. 
Send for it to-day. 
BURIt NURSERIES. 
Box Y r , - - Manchester, Conn, 
Trees 
Catalog 
Free. 
GEO. A 
30 Maple St 
February 20, 
15 0 ACHES. Genesee 
Valley Grown. "Not the 
cheapest, but the best.” 
Never have had San Jose 
scale. Established 1869 
SWEET NURSERY CO., 
“*• Dansville, N, Y. 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees 
Hundreds of carloads. Catalog No. 1. 
112 pages, FREE to purchasers of 
such. No. 2, 169 pages, to buy¬ 
ers of Seeds, Roses, Bulbs. 
Vines, Shrubs, Geraniums 
and greenhouse plants in 
general. Mail, size postpaid. Safe 
arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. 
Large stock of SUPERB CAN¬ 
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Send for catalog wanted today. It tells the rest. 
Direct deal will insure you the best and save you 
money. 56 years. 44 greenhouses. 1200 acres. 
THE. STORKS & HARRISON CO. 
Box 186. Painesville. Ohio 
EVERGREENS 
38 Hardy Tested Varieties 
Nursery grown, suitable for all pur¬ 
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have 50 millions. Our low prices will 
astonish you. Also Hardy Forest trees. 
Shade, Ornamental and Fruit trees. 
Shrubs, Vlnes.etc. Our beautiful Catalog 
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D. HILL, Evergreen Specialist, Box 212, Dundee, III 
is crowded I 
Great Bar-1 
T nrro Y(M state 6Rom 
■K !■ 9B We offer you the hardiest 
■J and choicest Fruit and Orna- 
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Shrubs, Roses, etc. Our 
prices are right for quality. We charge nothing for 
packing and boxing. We guarantee safe arrival. Get 
our Catalog before placing your order, A postal card 
willbringit. ALLEN L.WOOD, Rochester. N.Y- 
12 FRUIT TREES 
Value $1.90 for 98c 
1 Roosevelt, 2 Lombard, 1 
Bradshaw Plum; 1 Mont¬ 
morency,! Windsor Cherry; 
--1 Niagara, 1 Elborta Peach; 
1 Bnldwin, 1 Dutchess Apple; 1 Orange Quince and 
1 Bartlett Pear. All trees first class, 4 feet high. 
12 Trees For 98 Cents. Send us a 1 ist of your wants 
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■ AT WHOLESALEPRICEsThe GROWER 
10 
Strong, Hardy, Two-year-old 
Grapevines 
$1.00 
Postpaid. 
Best varieties—red, white and black. Just the kind 
for planting around the house, along fences, or in the 
garden. We also offer live tlirec-ycar-old vines for 
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Established 42 Years. EKKDONIA. N. Y. 
on the STRAWBERRY 
A practical treatise on Strawberry 
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► Let me tell you about the 150 acres 
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MILLIONS OF TREES 
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WHOLESALE PRICES 
Strawberry, Rnspberry, Illachherry, Grape and Currant. Plants. 
Extra Heavy Rooted High Grade Stock. 
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Retail Catalogue Free. 
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S t r a w berri es'ver7best pia„?s 
at reasonable prices. 27th annual catalogue free. 
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forty varieties of strawberry plants; a book brimful of good things; write for i 
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