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THE RUR-A-Lc NEW-YORKER 
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APPLES FOR NEW JERSEY. 
]i. M., Xcic Brunswick, N. J. —Kindly 
advise me in the matter of setting out an 
orchard. The soil is a sandy loam, pos¬ 
sibly underlaid with clay, but am not cer¬ 
tain as to this. Location is a slight knoll 
with southern slope. I wish to set out 
from 150 to 200 trees, and such varieties 
as will make a continuous feast from the 
time of Red Astrachan. Strawberry and 
Sweet Harvest to the latest Winter va¬ 
rieties. There is no trouble to sell apples 
of any kind here as we are only four miles 
front a town of 25,000 people. Please give 
a list of what varieties would in your 
judgment keep up a succession and at the 
same time do well in this locality. 
Axs.—If H. M. wants to plant an 
orchard of 150 to 200 apple trees, it is 
not advisable to plant too many varie¬ 
ties. It is better to have enough of 
one variety to make a shipment of sev¬ 
eral barrels at one time, or, if to be 
sold in a local market, then have 
enough to pay to go to market. Of the 
early varieties for family use, one or 
two trees of a kind might be planted to 
keep up a succession, and the surplus 
disposed of to advantage. Yellow 
Transparent is one of the earliest to 
come into bearing, as it is in season 
of ripening, and where it succeeds is a 
profitable market variety; and follow¬ 
ing it is the Summer Rose or Lippin- 
cott’s Earlv. This is one of the best 
apples for family use that I know; it 
has a long season and is of the very 
best quality, equally good for eating or 
cooking. Benoni is another good apple. 
Early Strawberry is a good family 
apple. Starr is a large, greenish-yellow 
apple good for family or market. Red 
Astrachan is one of the very best where 
it succeeds, but is no longer considered 
\.tillable on account of its uncertain ac¬ 
tions on different soils. William’s 
Early Red is one of the best for family 
or market: this variety should always 
be budded or grafted on a strong¬ 
growing stock, like Baldwin, Spy or 
Ben Davis. Jefferis, Porter, Duchess 
of Oldenburg, Gravenstein, Maiden’s 
Blush, Wealthy, Twenty Ounce and 
Nyack Pippin are all good family apples, 
and are at the same time valuable mar¬ 
ket varieties. Then the old Fall Pip¬ 
pin is considered by some to be indis¬ 
pensable as a family apple. For sweet 
apples, the Sweet Bough and Jersey 
Sweet are best for Summer and Fall 
varieties. For Winter, Ladies Sweet¬ 
ing and Moore’s Sweet or Paradise 
Sweet. The Summer or Fall Pearmain 
is one of the very best for family use, 
but is a shy bearer, and will never be 
profitable as a market variety. Grimes 
Golden is one of the very best late 
Fall apples, and is a good market va¬ 
riety. The tree is a good grower and 
a good cropper; the fruit is only me¬ 
dium size, but it will sell on its merits 
—color and quality. 
Xero is one of our good Winter va¬ 
rieties. The tree is a strong, irregular 
grower, comes early into bearing, and 
is apt to overload with fruit. The fruit 
is medium size, yellow, almost covered 
with dark red ; quality good ; it is a good 
keeper and profitable. Stayman is an¬ 
other good apple; tree a good grower 
and cropper; fruit large, fine quality 
and a good keeper; color, dull dark 
red. Winesap is a good variety for 
market or family use; fruit medium 
size, dark red; a good keeper. Mam¬ 
moth Black Twig is a good apple of 
fine appearance and best quality, but a 
shy bearer. York Imperial is a good 
apple, large size and sells well. Ameri¬ 
can Golden Russet is a small fruit of 
Ihe best quality, as is the old Roman 
Stem, but should be planted for family 
use only; not profitable as market va¬ 
rieties. Ben Davis should be planted 
wherever apples are wanted; it has 
! >een more praised and more abused 
ban any other variety, but when offered 
for sale in the markets it always sells 
at good prices for well-grown fruit, 
an< f when no other apples are to be had 
Ben Davis is a welcome visitor. For 
culinary purposes it cannot be beaten, 
especially for sauce and pies. I would 
plant Rome Beauty, an early Winter 
variety, but can be kept in ordinary 
seasons’ and conditions as late as the 
following March. One of the finest 
apples to grow in this State; tree a 
good grower and cropper; fruit large; 
color, yellow covered with bright red— 
one of the most beautiful apples grown; 
quality good. John FI. Barclay, of 
Middlesex Co., N. J., sold his crop of 
this variety in the Fall of 1908; No. 1 
a.t $5 per barrel, and No. 2 at $.8.50 per 
barrel, and customers seeking him all 
the time. All of the varieties named 
above succeed in most parts of New 
Jersey, are standard varieties in the 
State, and cover the season from ear¬ 
liest to latest. Scores of other varieties, 
popular with many growers, might be 
named, but this list is too long for an 
orchard of 200 trees, and if I were 
planting such an orchard I might put in 
a few odd varieties, but make it more 
compact and use the following: For 
Summer and Fall, Starr, Williams 
Early Red, Duchess of Oldenburg, 
Gravenstein, Maiden’s Blush. Twenty 
Ounce, Grimes Golden. For Winter: 
Nero, Stayman, Ben Davis, Rome 
Beauty, Winesap. e. s. black. 
Value of Fish Waste. 
It., Port Clyde, Mo. —A short distance 
away there is a fish factory where salt 
water fish, cod, haddock, pollock and hake 
are bought and canned. The entrails ax - e 
thrown overboard. I could have them 
thrown into a boat and landed here at my 
field without expense if they are of nutri¬ 
tive value to the soil. Are they, and how? 
Ans. —That fish waste contains nitro¬ 
gen and phosphoric acid, but little if 
any potash. It will pay to save it. The 
best way to use it is to pack in manure 
or in a compost heap until it is thor¬ 
oughly decayed. In some cases the fish 
waste is spread direct on grass or grain. 
This will make an offensive smell, and 
some of the ammonia is lost. When 
plowed in fresh the fish waste will 
often sour the ground. If you could 
put it in a pile of swamp muck and let 
both ferment you would have a cheap 
supply of nitrogen. 
Buckwheat to Kill Quack Grass. 
C. 8 .y (Iranil Haven, Mich. —I have an 
old orchard which was badly infested with 
quack grass. I planted it to corn the last 
two seasons, but the quack is still in evi¬ 
dence on some of the plots where the 
soil is heavy, although on the lighter por¬ 
tions it is practically eradicated. I gave 
(lie corn clean culture, and hoed thoroughly 
last season. I want to seed this land to 
grass for hay, but am afraid quack will 
regain its stronghold. I was thinking of 
planting the piece to beans as early as pos¬ 
sible and then sowing the grass seed with 
buckwheat in the Summer instead of seed¬ 
ing with oatg in the Spring. What do you 
think of that plan? My next door neighbor 
has good success seeding with oats, and a 
neighbor living about a mile away always 
seeds with buckwheat. I tried seeding a 
small piece without a nurse crop but the 
weeds got the best of it. The orchard does 
not amount to much, and soil ranges from 
sand, gravel, stiff red clay, clay loam, to 
low black muck. The piece is about four 
acres on the bank of the Grand River, 
about six feet above the river, and is 
mostly gravel, although the soils above 
mentioned do occur in places. The swamp 
lies next the river and land gradually rises 
to the top of the terrace, which is sandy. 
I have a small strip of Alfalfa started 
which I seeded last August on the gravelly 
land. If it winters all right and will 
thrive here it will be a godsend to the 
fruit farmers hereabouts who are con¬ 
fronted with large feed bills and poor land. 
Ans. —We will submit this question 
to readers, as there is ample time be¬ 
fore seeding. We have reports of thick 
buckwheat seeding, which smothered 
out quack, but if the buckwheat is thick 
enough to do that will it give the Tim¬ 
othy a chance? In our section farmers 
often seed to grass with buckwheat, 
but usually with a thin seeding of the 
grain—not thick enough to kill quack. 
We hope the Alfalfa patch will suc¬ 
ceed. Most of the argument for this 
crop has been directed at stockmen. 
Alfalfa will be even more, useful for 
the fruit growers and gardeners who 
work high-priced land and cannot 
afford to grow Timothy or Red-top 
for hay. A few acres in Alfalfa would 
feed their stock. 
Trees to the left are the mail size 
before being packed. Ribbon shows 
where tops are cut off to make postal 
weight. Package in center is the 
actual mail order package. Trees 
to right are larger size that we send 
by freight. Note perfect root systems. 
For $6.00 
Cash With Order 
—we will send by mail, post paid, a 
carefully selected package containing 
the following selections of fruit trees 
and ornamental stock; guaranteeing 
safe delivery, complete satisfaction, 
and stock to be just what we say it is. 
This is in no way a catch-penny- 
scheme to dispose of worthless stock; 
neither is it a scheme to sell you un¬ 
named, unlabled, discarded back 
number sorts. This offer is backed 
by our reputation of 84 years success- 
ul business with tree planters in all parts of the country and is 
an offer to sell good trees by mail, at an honest price, to those 
who are inconveniently, or far removed from railroad or 
express offices. We stand ready to replace any of the stock 
free of cost should it fail to be exactly as we say it is. 
—To make it possible to send this package through the mails 
the trees are naturally baby trees, but the root systems are per¬ 
fect, the trees are young, healthy, vigorous ones, and will 
make strong growth. 
—We condemn the practice followed by some nurserymen of 
making “bargain offers” to dispose of trash-pile stock which, in 
truth, is not worth the paper it comes wrapped in. Our offer is 
not one of that class—this is the list: 
10 Delicious Apple—The highest quality apple known today 
10 King David—Ranking next to Delicious in quality. 
1 Liveland Raspberry—A high quality apple—excellent. 
1 Wilson June—Very large red apple. Big bearer. 
1 Banana Apple—A beautiful fruit. Excellent quality. 
1 Henry Clay Apple—Good early bearer. Excels Yellow Transparent. 
1 Eclipse Grape—Earliest black grape. Superb quality. 
1 Banner “ —Best brilliant red. Very productive. 
1 Lutie “ —A rich red, juicy grape. Flavor good. 
1 Wilder 11 —A magnificent black grape. Good quality. 
1 Red Cross Currant—Deep red, sweet, high quality. Productive. 
1 Josselyn Gooseberry—Pale red. tender and juicy. 
1 Burbank Rose—Cherry rose. Vigorous, healthy, fine bloomer. 
1 Gruss An Teplitz Rose—“The Reddest of all Roses’’—fragrant. 
1 Clematis (Japanese Paniculata) — Hardy. Small white blossom. 
1 Hydrangea (Arborescens Grandiflora)—Everblooming. White blossom. 
—A good home orchard is a necessity to every family—here is 
a way opened to get a good fruit producing orchard on a small 
outlay. Order early, direct to us or through our local salesman. 
Larger trees by freight, prepaid 
Safe arrival and complete 
satisfaction guaranteed 
—On orders amounting to $10.00 or over, cash with order, we 
prepay freight to any point in the U. S. on the larger size trees 
that cannot be sent by mail. These are the best trees grown— 
the best that modern nursery science can produce—they are the 
standard by whieh all nursery stock has been measured for 84 
years. Plant none but Stark Trees. Write for price list. 
Special prices on Elberta peach trees 
—For a short time we will ship, freight prpaid, 1,000 2 to 3 ft., 
Elberta peach trees for $75.00 cash with order or 1,000 under 
2 ft., for $50.00 cash with order. While our stock of Elberta 
peach is large the demand is heavy and your order should 
reach us promptly. Bear in mind that these trees are in every 
way up to the Stark Standard. 
Mail us this coupon today 
—it is the easiest way to order and you cannot make a mistake— 
we will understand just what you want. Check the offer you 
want to accept, enclose post office money order and we 
will do the rest. Attend to it right now—do not delay. 
Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co. 
Louisiana, Missouri 
In accordance with your special offer, I enclose herewith post office mondy order for $. 
Please send me at once the item I have marked X. 
$6.00 mail order offer. You to pay carriage charges. 
$75.00 Elherta peach tree offer—1000 trees 2 to 3 ft. 
Freight charges to be paid by me. 
$50.00 Elberta peach tree offer—1000 trees under 
2 ft. Freight charges to be paid by me. 
Nan 
Post Office.. 
County... . .... .. Slate.. 
Express Office. 
By what or express line shall we ship. 
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A beautiful new book, free 
—“The Apple—Stark Delicious” is the title, showing Delicious 
and King David in nature’s own colors; giving the complete 
history of these two famous quality apples; also fully describing 
6 other varieties of apple, 11 varieties of grape, ornamental 
hedge plants, Norway Maple trees, etc. You should have this 
book—send a postcard asking for it. 
Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co. 
_ Lock Box 35, Louisiana, Missouri, U. S. A. _ 
