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March 13, 
THE LAWNS OF 
OLD ENGLAND 
Are famous for their wonderful 
perfection and durability. Such 
lawns may be produced in this 
country if 
IMPORTED ENGLISH 
LAWN GRASS SEED 
is used. No weed seeds or 
coarse grasses. Hardy and 
beautiful in color and texture. 
Send for directions — How to 
Seed and Keep a Beautiful 
English Lawn. Free. 
BLATCHFORD’S AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
MADISON AND SAND STS., WAUKEGAN, ILL. 
Established at Leicester, England, in 1*00. 
Grass Seeds 
That Give Results 
are the kind for farmers to sow. If you 
have been using the ordinary quality of grass 
soeds, try CONKLIN’S this spring. (They are 
different— because they are the best.) And 
thereby give yonr land a chance to show you 
how much bettor crop it can produce with 
the BEST SEEDS. 
CONKLIN’S RltRpS font no more than the “ordinary 
quality,” and are by far the cheapest for they are abao- 
Intely free from weeds and dirt. Insist on yonr dealer 
gettlitjt them forvou. B. B. BRAND FUftK TIMOTUV. 
I. X. 1/. BRAND PURE PLOT HR. 
E. W. CONKLIN A SON, Inc., Wholesale Dims* Seeds, 
lliiijrliuuatou, V. 
20 Glen Mary Strawberry Plants. 
Why not star! a home slrawberry bed? 
G en Mary is one of the largest and best of 
ail strawberries. It is early,large, bright red 
and of superior flavor and a vigorous grower. 
If you will send us 50 centsfor Green’s Fruit 
Grower one year, we will mail you 20 plants 
of Glen Mary Strawberry free. 28 th year of 
publication. Over 100,000 subscribers. Cap- 
Hal £ 50 , 000 . Sample copy free. Address, 
GBEEN'S FRU IT GR OWER CO.. 
Rochester, 
N. Y. 
SEND 
ILFALFA 
isine the New Ideal (draw cut) Pruning Saw with extension 
11c 8 and 12 ft. NO CLIMBING. Great labor saver. Lead- 
orrhardlsta nse (hem, as double the work can be done and 
luce better ahapeil tree. Made of the best saw eteel, cuts 
a razor weighs only 2 lbs. Price complete $1.80, without 
lie $1.25, prepaid. Money back if not satisfied. Order to- 
Clrculars free. Address 
: IDEAL PRUNING SAW CO. Dept.I>,Webster, N.\. 
THE RURAL 
EXPERIENCE WITH MULCHED TREES. 
I am very much interested in your 
young trees. I have 10 acres set now 
one to seven years; they are in grass. 
For the first few years I took part of 
the grass and left part for the trees. 
The last two years I have left it all. 
I wish I had left it all from the start 
for then I would have had them all 
up out of the way of the grasshoppers, 
which destroyed about 200 for me in 
1907. Of course had I kept them well 
covered with arsenate of lead I might 
have saved them, but T never heard of 
grasshoppers eating up apple trees, so 
did not know what to do until too late. 
The trees I set this year I kept cov¬ 
ered from the stSrt, and the hoppers 
did not bother them much. I agree 
with you that we want low-headed 
trees, but I think the head should 
be so formed that the lower limbs can 
come off some day, for it occurs to me 
that limbs starting 12 to 18 inches from 
the ground would be right on the 
ground some day if not taken off. 
Saratoga County, N. Y. j. e. b. 
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FARM SEEDS 
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Northern-grown, healthy and vigorous. 
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seed. Germination 95-98 %. 
SEED OATS, the earliest and most 
productive variety now in cultivation ; 
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Also the best high grade Alfalfa, 
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Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, 
Box C, HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
for our special prices of Farm Seeds. 
Oats, Corns and Potatoes. Fine Stock. 
SMITH BROS., Seedsmen, Auburn, N. Y. 
500,000 Fruit Trees Direct From Grower. 
Free from Scale and strictly true to name. Cata¬ 
log Free. REILLY BROS.. Box C, Dansville, N. Y. 
Fruit, Shade, and Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs, Roses and Plants of all kinds at 
CALL’S NURSERIES, PERRY, O. 
Call deals direct with his customers and 
thousands of the best fruit-growers are 
his customers. Write him for Price 
List. 
Clover Seed—$6 per bushel 
We sell the very host grade of Ohio Clover Seed 
at above price—bags, 20 cents. Money refunded if 
not satisfactory. Send for samples. 
G. M. SCOTT & BRO., 10 Main Street, Marysville,Ohio. 
AH Northern Grown and 
guaranteed to be 99 per cent 
_ pure. Should produce hay 
$40.00 per acre annually. Write for Free Sample 
snd instructions on growing. __ _ 
GRAIN AND GRASS SEEDS 
Northern Grown and of strongest vitality. invito you to 
get Government Tests on our samples. Send for Cat. No. 23 
THE J. E. WING & BROS. SEED CO. 
Box 223. Mechiiniesburg;, Ohio 
TRIM YOUR TREES FROM THE GROUND 
Pump for Light Spraying. 
J. 8. B., FayetieoiUe, N. C .—Which is 
best spray pump for light use? I have a 
barrel sprayer, but want the most useful 
or desirable Rind for easy handling; either 
iu hands, on back, or on a wagon. I want 
it for spraying kerosene, or emulsion, or 
lime-sulpliur. 
Ans.—O f the very portable pumps for 
light use the knapsack is probably the 
best. If kerosene emulsion and lime 
sulphur wash arc to be used the tank 
would best be of galvanized iron, with 
brass pump. Pump and tank should be 
thoroughly washed out after using lime 
sulphur, and pump well oiled. For 
Bordeaux Mixture I would prefer a 
copper tank, but remember that a cop¬ 
per tank will not stand lime-sulphur so¬ 
lution. The knapsack, bucket or auto 
or hand compressed air sprayer would 
all be out of place in a wagon. Then 
if a power rig is too expensive, large or 
unhandy the good barrel pump or 
double-acting pump with suction hose to 
draw from barrel or tank containing 
spray material are the best. Some of 
the barrel pumps are worth about the 
price they would bring as junk. Study 
[ the pump problem, find out those satis¬ 
factory to the actual grower and remem¬ 
ber that the cheapest is not often the 
best. B. b. v. 
Cover Crop In Apple Orchard. 
L. O. IF, Plielps, A\ V.—The fore part of 
last July I asked wbat I sliould sow in my 
orchard for a cover crop. You advised 
sowing Crimson clover and Cow-horn tur¬ 
nips. which I did, and have secured a 
heauliful stand of clover and turnips. The 
clover is wintering in fine shape. Now I 
wish to ask the proper time to plow under 
this clover, and wbat to sow next. I would 
want a cover crop that would protect the 
falling apples from becoming so dirty (as 
tlie naked sand adheres to the fallen apples) 
and at the same time he of material benefit 
to the orchard when again plowed under. 
Ans.—W hen advising the clover and 
turnips we said it involved risk, since 
the crop is not usually safe much north 
of New Jersey. It may yet be thrown 
out in March. For orchard culture 
the best time to plow under the clover 
is just after the scarlet blooms be¬ 
gin to turn brown. With us this comes 
a little before Decoration Day. This 
may be too late for you to give your 
orchard thorough early tillage. In 
Delaware they have a way of plowing 
the clover so as to leave part of the heads 
uncovered. Those heads mature seed 
and when the furrows are harrowed 
down the seeds are scattered and the 
field is reseeded. If the clover should 
live through March we should try clover 
and turnips again, adding half a bushel 
of buckwheat seed per acre. This ought 
to make a quick growth, so as to cover 
the ground and help protect the clever. 
MEW-YORKER 
Do You Want 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS? 
If you want a dozen plants or a 
million, write us. In our climate and 
soil strawberry plants grow at their 
best. You know how vigorous and 
healthful crops of any kind grow on 
newly cleared land. Our strawberry 
plants are grown on virgin soil among 
the stumps, the first crop the land ever 
produced. 
We therefore have the most vigorous, 
strong rooted plants it is possible to 
grow under any conditions, and mil¬ 
lions of them. 
Write for our I !H)9 Catalogue, giving full de¬ 
scription of nil varieties. Catalogue also tells about 
the Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum and Cherry Trees, 
California Privet, etc.., grown on our 1,100 acre 
nursery. It is free—hut if you plant trees or plants 
this season it will be worth dollars to you. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES 
Box 432, Berlin, Md. 
BERRY 
PLANTS 
Millions of Them. 
healthy, mountain - grown 
AH commercial varieties. 
WRITE For Bargain Prices. 
CHATTANOOCA NURSERIES, 
(>2 Mission Ridge, Chattuuooga, Tenn. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Send $2.00 for 1000 plants; 40 varieties finest 
Tennessee grown. Free catalog. John Light- 
foot. Dept, 36. E. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Strawberry Plants That Grow. 
Leading Varieties. Blackberry, 
Black and Red Raspberry. Positive¬ 
ly true to name, no substitutions. 
Lowest price. Send for circular. 
A. G. BLOUNT, 
Hastings. Oswego Co., N. V. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
30 of the Best Y'arietles. 
Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue Free. 
BASIL PERKY, Box 18, Cool Spring, Del. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
Strawberry, Raspberry, Blurb berry. Grape and Gnrraat Plan tv 
Extra Heavy Rooted High Grade Stock. 
17th Annual Wholesale and ltetail Catalogue Free. 
A. R. WESTON * CO., R. 8, Bridgman, Mich. 
Stra wberries^wiams 
at reasonable prices. 27th annual catalogue free. 
8LAVMAKKK & SON, Dover, Del. 
CM U A nV-TTECORD BREAKING stock 
ULCN- mMn I OF STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
50,000 quarts now grown on one acre—my system. 
•Send for Chart. T. C. KF.V1TT, Athenia, N. J. 
S trawberry Blunt,—Cblpitian, a leading variety. Alan all 
other reliable varieties. Semi for my free 1909 Catalogue. 
Prices from $1.55 up. DAVID liODWAY, Hartiy, Del. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS—Reliable,money-making 
varieties, only $1.50 and SI.75 per 1000. New 1909 cata¬ 
logue Free. S. A. VIliDlN, Hartley, Delaware. 
300 Strawberr Plants, SUrlS 
WM. PERRY, Cool 8pring, Del. 
free. 
Scale-Immune Trees.—I n answer to 
J. E. W., page 972. our experience has been 
identical. Ben Davis, Baldwin. Grimes 
Golden and Nero are scale favorities with 
us. York Imperial, Willow Twig, Winesap 
and Jonathan show no scale when others 
are growing near. p. b. r. 
Bound Brook, N. J. 
IF YOU WANT THE BEST FIELD SEEDS, 
for hay, forage, and soil improvement, write today 
for my new wholesale list, and buy direct. It’s free. 
ENSILAGE SEED COHN, GRASS 
and CLOVER SEEDS are my leaders. 
PACKARD, Field Seeds Specialist, Dover, Delaware. 
W E have this year the largest and finest crop 
of CLOVER SEED ever grown. Write us 
for samples and prices. Address 
S. BASH & CO., Fort Wayne, Ind. 
C LOVER SEED §6.25—Timothy. Onion Sets. Garden 
Seeds. Buy Direct. Glick’s Seed Farm, Lancaster, Pa. 
SEED 
Potatoes. Oats, Corn, Garden Seed and 
bee supplies. Catalog free. Send for it. 
McAdams Seed Co.. Columbus Grove.O. 
Choice Seed Bariev—success Beardless 
Two bush., $2.30; ten bush, or more, $1.20 per bush. 
Henderson’s Clydesdale Oats. 
Two bush., $1.75; teu bush, or more, 80c. per bush. 
Sacks free. Cash with order. 
,T. N. MacPHERSON, 
Pine View Farm, Seottsville, N. Y. 
A. WE W POTATO 
The “TAFT.” 
After 10 years experience with this variety, I now 
offer it for the first time. It lias been tested on 
the Rural grounds and elsewhere as No. 52, and 
always made good. It is large, roundish, some¬ 
what flattened, creamy white, more or less russety, 
much like the Carman No. 3. of fine quality and an 
excellent keeper. It is a heavy yielder and, with 
favorable conditions, nearly every tuber is of mar¬ 
ketable size. It is as near blight-proof as any that I 
know. Season.medium late. Price,by express,peck. 
$2; k>bii.,$3; bit..$5. D.J. MILLER, Millersbnrg.O. R.4 
H Alii kinds (my selection) $ 1 . Satis- 
UHllLlHO faction guaranteed Write for full 
particulars. H. HURT. Taunton. Mass. 
Miller's Favorite Potato.—Never rusts or 
blights: a phenomenal yielder. Eldorado oats— 
greatest yielding oat grown in America. Send for 
circular describing the best varieties of potatoes 
and oats. CHAS. OODNElt, Owego. N. Y. 
Native Evergreens, Balsam Fir. Arbor Vitse 
American Spruce, White Pine and Hemlock, 6 to 12’ 
Inches, at $5.00 per 1000 : 5000 for $20. Also trans¬ 
planted Evergreens. Write for price list. THE 
JAMES A. ROOT NURSERIES, Skaneateles, N.Y- 
COlltaius over One Hundred Special Cultural 
Artidet, written expressly for the 1909 
edition by the leading horticultural 
writers of'America, including: 
Helena Rutherfurd Ely, author of “A Woman'* 
Hardy Garden,” etc: 
Prof. L. H. Bailey, editor of Encyclopedia of 
American Horticulture” 
Mr. "Win. Falconer, former editor of “Gardening”; 
Mr. Geo. W. Oliver, expert plant Oman and writer; 
Mr. W. C. Egran, ibe eminent amateur; 
Mr. Eben E. Rexford, the well-known “writer on 
Ho upc Plants; 
Ml*. T. Greiner, author of 11 How to Make the 
Garden ray,” etc., etc.; 
And our own corps of experta. 
The result is clear, concise Instructions that will enable 
amateurs to grow their favorite flowers and vegetables lo 
perfection, it would cost at least $25 for tbe various horti¬ 
cultural books to cover the information contained in 
Dreer’s Garden Book For 1909. 
Knl&rKed t-o 256 |u»Kes, 4 color and 4 dnotone plates, aud 
hundreds of photographic 111 nstratious of worthy novcIStles 
and dependable varieties or vegetables and flowers. I 
We will send a copy WITHOUT CHARGE 
lo anyone mentioning th is magazine. 
Henry A. Dreer S&fiSiS&Kd 
I ha WO * la< * Ereat success with your PAPER 
llavC poTS and the crop I raised last year 
was something immense, for early tomatoes. They 
certainly are tnc thing for the market gardener. 
Yours respectfully, S. I. COOK, N. Y. 
Send for circular. 
P. It. CROSBY & SON, Catonsville, Md. 
YEARLING FRUIT TREES 
Standard and Doucin Apples. Cherry. Pear & Plum. 
Grown for our own use. Tartar King Oats, $1,15 
bn. Sticks free, SAMUEL FRASER, Genesee,N.Y 
Peach Trees 
$3 to $7 per 
lOO. 
Myer & Son, 
Bridj;evllle, Dot, 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
AND FLOWERS. Send for Price List of Trans¬ 
planted, Well-Hardened Plants- 
THE J. K. HUTTON CO.. Conyngham, Pa. 
OATS 
SENSATION—Great yielder, (weight 
40 lbs. per bu.) Al*o8eed Corn,Potatoes, 
.Alfalfa, Cow Peas and Clover Seed 
Samples aud catalogue free. Tbeo. Burt & Sons, Melrose, Ohio. 
rnn PA I C—Medium Clover Seed, $5.50 to $7.50 
rUll OHLC bu.; Crimson Clover Seed. $3.50 to 
$4.50 bu.; Onion Sets, $2.50 bn.; Cow Peas, $1.75 bu. 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford Delaware. 
CHOICE CLOVER AND GRASS SEEDS 
Solti Direct to the Farmer. 
Samples and prices will bo sent upon application. 
N. WERTHEIMER* SONS, Ligonier, Ind. 
S OUTHERN White Horse-Tooth Corn is 
the Recognized Seed for Ensilage.—Bny 
direct from a producer that has a seed of 20 years' 
successive selection. Single bushel, $2.00; carload, 
$1.50. Any quantity desired can be furnished. For 
further particulars and information write to 
DR. J. H. HEWITT, Lynnhaven, Va. 
DIRECT FR0W~ 
"AT WHOLESALE PRICEsHfC GROWER 
Gregory 
are raised wit h the greatest care from 
superior hand-selected 6tock and sold 
under three warrants covering all 
risks. This year we are offering 
Yellow Globe Onions 
at the remarkably low price of $2.35 a 
pound. Sold for $fi.00 last year. Our 
packages of vegetable 6eeds are larger this 
year, and our 
NEW SEED BOOK—FREE 
tells about the special cash discounts 
we are making. This book is an invalu¬ 
able guide to farmers aud gardeners. 
Bend for copy to-day. 
J. J. II. GREGORY As SON, 
tfinrblohead. Blast. 
i nnminr— n i si h 
For 16 c. 
Everybody loves earliest vegetables 
'and brilliant flowers. Therefore, to 
gain you as a customer we offer: 
1000 kernels Fine Onion Seed. 
1000 “ Rich Carrot Seed. 
1000 “ Celery, 100 Parsley. 
1000 “ Juicy Radish Seed. 
1500 “ Buttery Lettuce Seed. 
1500 *' Tender Turnip Seed. 
1500 “ Sweet Rutabaga S’d. 
100 “ Melons, 100 Tomato. 
r 1200 " Brilliant Floweritg Annuals 
In all 10,000 kernels of warranted 
northern grown seeds, well worth 
$ 1 .00 of an v man’s money (including 
Big Catalog) all postpaid, for hut 16o 
In stamps. 
And If you send 20c we add a pack- j 
ageof Earl lest FoepO’DaySweet Corn. ’ 
Big Plant, Tool and Seed Catalog 
free to intending buyers. Write for 
same today. 
THE JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
LaCROSSE, WIS. 
Strawberry Plants 
Large stock of thrifty, young plants from the 
famous “Heritage” strain Prolific bearer. 
Also Trees, Vines, California Privet, Aspara¬ 
gus Roots, Garden Tools. Spray Pumps, etc. 
Catalogue Free. Write to-day. 
Arthur J, Collins, Box K, Moorestown.N.J. 
