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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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THE PAN-AMERICAN AND OTHER EVER- 
BEARING STRAWBERRIES. 
Seventy years ago, or in the near 
vicinity of it, my father, who was then 
raising the Pine strawberry, brought 
home a single plant of a variety of 
it which we named everbearing. This 
he planted in a flower pot in the gar¬ 
den, and it proved true to its name, 
bearing berries until struck by frost. 
This variety of the Pine was the only 
strawberry until recently to which the 
name “everbearing” could be given with 
any degree of truth. In recent years 
the Joseph and two or three other 
kinds for which this claim was made 
have been put upon the market. Each 
of these I have tested, including one 
I imported from France, all failing to 
make good their claims; the best re¬ 
sults obtained were here and there, 
generally on the runners, a bunch of 
'berries later than the main crop. I an¬ 
ticipated the same result from the Pan- 
American when my attention was called 
to it; indeed, was told by a strawberry 
grower that the secret for obtaining a 
later crop was in plucking off the first 
crop of blossoms. The fine exhibit of 
berries two years in succession at the 
Fall exhibitions of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, led me to pur¬ 
chase a few vines. There were given 
an average chance and to test their 
claim no blossoms were picked from 
them. I have had them for three 
seasons, and they have fully demon¬ 
strated their right to their claim of 
“everbearing,” for both the mother 
vines and the runners continue to bear 
crop after crop until, while abounding 
in green fruit and blossoms, they are 
killed by the frosts of the late Fall. 
The 26th of October last, of 26 vines 
taken as they came, 22 had either blos¬ 
soms or fruit—most of them ripe fruit. 
The berries are of fair size, the largest 
one measured five inches in circumfer¬ 
ence; the quality is good; it is among 
the earliest to ripen and the crop for 
the whole season being considered is 
a good one. This ought to be a profit¬ 
able variety to raise for Fall and Win¬ 
ter fruit under glass by removing the 
two sets of earliest blossoms. It makes 
but few runners and has to be propa¬ 
gated by dividing the crown. My 
grandson made 100 plants from two 
vines in two seasons. The Autumn is 
another everbearing variety bv the same 
originator. This I have fruited. Being 
a pistillate variety it needs the Pan- 
Americaji to fertilize it. Most of the 
plants are everbearing, but not so gen¬ 
erally as the Pan-American. It is a 
great cropper, but the berries average 
small. In quality they are superb; I 
know of no other strawberry equal to 
them. In time all who raise straw¬ 
berries will have one or more of the 
everbearing class in their gardens, for 
once seen, with their bright fruit 
months after all other varieties have 
passed, the temptation is irresistable. 
Marblehead, Mass j. j h. Gregory. 
FREE SEEDS; CALIFORNIA NOTES. 
You have printed a few articles lately 
about free seeds. A trade paper recently 
stated that a California seed firm had 
secured a contract for seeds amounting to 
$100,000 or over. Is it any wonder that 
the Government gets poor seeds when they 
buy from the lowest bidder? A few years 
ago I helped my employer ship a lot of 
Government seeds which, if sent to a re¬ 
liable dealer, would have been returned. 
I am still in the seed business but do not 
sell Government seeds as I value my 
reputation too highly. Some of your cor¬ 
respondents want guaranteed seeds. I 
would not warrant results from our best 
stocks of tomato seed, yet they are care¬ 
fully grown from selected stock each year. 
One could guarantee no sports! in tb" 
patch from which seed was saved; but 
winds and insects sometimes make trouble. 
Selected seed from the common sorts of 
tomato would be worth $3 to $5 per 
pound, while the common stocks sell at 
wholesale for as low as 60 cents. Some 
dealers using cannery stock sell for much 
less than that. 
The R. N.-Y. is doing a good work. 
Primary election laws, parcels post and 
stopping the express extortion, then help 
us to get after the other evils. Let the 
Government spend its money raising good 
seed to sell instead of buying seed that 
will not sell in the trade, to give away. 
It seems that our servants, the Congress¬ 
men, think themselves quite generous when 
they hand out presents that no one wants 
and which the recipient must pay for. 
In closing let me say a word about 
California. It is a good place to live, but 
people who contemplate coming here want 
to remember that there are enough real 
estate men here looking for tenderfeet to 
skin half of the Eastern States before 
breakfast. Know what you want and then 
see t.hat the man with long wind and 
pretty words does not fool' you into taking 
something else. Above all don’t put up 
money till you see the land. 
Stanislaus Co., Cal. b. hoffmaster. 
Fertilizer for Peaches. 
A. L. D., Elk Rapids, Mich. —To what 
extent will commercial fertilizers, applied 
this Spring, affect this year’s crop of 
peaches? The ground is badly in need of 
plant food. 
Ans.— It depends upon the fertilizer. 
Nitrate of soda and sulphate of am¬ 
monia, and, to some extent, dried blood, 
will give available nitrogen, which will 
feed the crop at once. Acid phosphate 
will furnish available phosphoric acid, 
and muriate or sulphate of potash will 
furnish potash. A combination of such 
chemicals will feed the crop planted 
this year, while less available chemicals 
would not do so fully. 
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POSTSCRIPTS. 
The Burbank Plum, so far as our ob¬ 
servation goes, is self-fertilizing, the tree 
bearing as heavily as it should even when 
standing entirely alone. To make the mat¬ 
ter certain however, it would be well to 
set a very few trees of Abundance among 
them, as it blooms at the same time and 
pollenizes Burbank, as is proven by cross¬ 
bred seedlings that are raised from plums 
gathered from trees that stand close to¬ 
gether. 
Blight on Currants. —True blight is 
quite rare in currants. Old canes die 
down while in fruit from lack of vigor, 
and are also at times killed by borers eat¬ 
ing out the pith. The currant is also at¬ 
tacked by the San Jos<5 scale, which makes 
short work of the old wood. We have not 
found that chemical fertilizers suit the 
plants very well, and would rather depend 
upon heavy mulches of stable and chicken 
manure without cultivation than the chem¬ 
icals with good cultivation. 
Cucumber or Melon Blight affects the 
plants just as they begin fruiting, killing 
the foliage rapidly and destroying them. 
This disease gives much trouble to pickle 
growers and is difficult to control. There 
is no cure, but it may be, in a great 
measure, prevented by spraying the vines 
as soon as they begin to run, and there¬ 
after every week or at least after every 
heavy rain until most of the cucumbers are 
gathered, with Bordeaux Mixture made up 
of fou pounds each copper sulphate and 
lime t 50 gallons of water. This is a 
troublesome and somewhat expensive rem¬ 
edy, but it is thoroughly effectual in keep¬ 
ing the blight fungus from getting a foot- 
ltold. 
Timber Trees on Poor Land. —Do not 
expect too much of timber trees planted 
on poor worn-out land. In timber tree 
planting for profit it has been found best 
to select good strong land, such as would 
grow good grain crops. The trees will, 
of course, grow just as well without cul¬ 
tivation on steep slopes or rough land as 
on level land, provided the soil is good. 
Little can be expected of thin, poor soils. 
You will notice that no forest trees worthy 
of the name grow in poor places. In Penn¬ 
sylvania, probably the common Yellow lo¬ 
cust will lie most profitable where it will 
not be attacked by the locust beetle. The 
true timber Catalpa, Catalpa speciosa, 
promises more profit on good land than 
any other, as it is a rapid growing tree, 
makes durable and useful timber and is 
not so much attacked by insects. The seeds 
may be sown in rows one to three feet 
apart, and should be only lightly covered. 
They will need two or three years’ culti¬ 
vation to be large enough to transplant 
for a permanent growth. 
“For the Land’s Sake use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it. Write Bowker Fer¬ 
tilizer Co., Boston, New York, or Buf¬ 
falo, who make attractive propositions 
to farmers who will act as agents. 
Illustrated catalogue free.”— Adv. 
April 10, 
Our Catalogue 
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AVeritable Mine of Information 
You will agree with us when you have 
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Mailed Free Postal Sufficient 
All the imported and Natural Grasses. 
Highest Grade Only. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO* 
Department Y 
33 Barclay St. : : New York 
107 YEARS IN BUSINESS IN NEW YORK CITY 
DIBBLE’S 
Seed Potatoes 
20,000 BUSHELS 
27 varieties still on hand, both 
early and late. Send on your or¬ 
ders. Sold out of Cobblers, Ohios, 
Six Weeks and Oats. 
PLENTY OF SEED CORN 
3 varieties, also Clover, Alfalfa and 
Grass Seed. Circular Free. 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE 
Seedgrower 
Box C. HONEOYE FALLS, N.Y. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
AND FLOWERS. Send for Price List of Trans¬ 
planted, Well-Hardened Plants. 
THIS J. E. HUTTON 00., Conyngham, Pa. 
<50,0(K)Tpgpc 
200 varieties. Also Grapes, Small Frnlta ete. Best rooted 
stock. Genuine, ctieap. 2 sample currants mailed for 10c. 
Desc. price list free. LEWIS KOKSCH, Box K, Fredonia, N. V. 
PEACH TREES 
Fine stock, 2—3 ft. $1.00 a dozen, $5.00 a hundred. 
Carman. Champion. Early Crawford. Late Craw¬ 
ford. Elbert,a. Globe, Mt. Rose, Niagara, Old 
Mixon, Stump, Waddell and Mayflower. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
$4.00 per M. Conovers, Palmetto and Barr’s. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. Prompt Shipment. 
BURK NURSERIES, Manchester, Conn. 
TREES for SALE 
AT BARGAIN PRICES 
Apple Tbees for Sale.— We offer in 
addition to our lar¬ 
ger trees, goo*d apple 
trees with superior 
roots, good straight 
bodies, all well 
branched, 4 ft. high, 
some of them being 
5 ft high, mostly 
! two year old trees at 12 trees for $1.50, 
I $7.00 per 50, $12.00 per hundred. The 
following are the varieties : A merican 
Blush, Baldwin, Banana, Ben Davis, 
Bismarck, Duchess of Oldenburg, Early 
Harvest, Green’s Baldwin, Bubbards- 
ton,King, McIntosh, Fameuse,Northern 
Spy, Ontario, Pewaukee, Red Astra- 
chan, R. I. Greening, Stark, Sutton 
Beauty, Shiawassee Beauty, Wealthy, 
Wismer’s Dessert, Yellow Transparent, 
York Imperial. 
Cherry Trees For Sale.— We offer 
two year old cherry trees, averaging 4 
ft. high, some of them higher than 4 ft.; 
all nice young trees, well branched, at 
12 for $1.50, 50 for $5.00, 100 for $10.00 
of the following varieties: Early Rich¬ 
mond, English Morello, Montmorency, 
and a few hundred each of many other 
hardy cherries. 
Sweet Cherry Trees. — We offer 
Black Tartarian and Windsor Cherry 
trees, also a few hundred each of sev¬ 
eral other varieties of sweet cherry at 
$2.00 per 12, 50 for $7.00, 100 for $15.00. 
Plum Trees.— We offer the largest 
size plum trees at 10 ^ each, medium 
size at 8ft each, and the small size, aver¬ 
aging 4 ft. high and upward, at 50 for 
$3 00, 100 for $5.00. 
Peach Trees. — We offer selected 
peach trees 2 to 3 ft. high, branched, 
well rooted, at 12 trees for 85*5, 50 for 
$2.50, 100 for $5.00. 
Standard Pear Trees.— We have a 
few selected standard pear trees in 
small size 4 ft. and upward, well 
branched, including Bartlett, Clapp’s 
Favorite, Flemish Beauty, Howell, 
Kieffer, Lawrence, Seckel, Wilder Early 
and Worden Seckel, which we offer at 
$1.50 per 12, $12 per hundred. 
Carolina Poplar and California Privet 
for hedging in surplus. 
We have apple, pear, peach, plum, 
cherry and other trees in the larger 
size, also grape vines, etc. For par¬ 
ticulars, send list of your wants and 
get our free illustrated catalog. 
GREEN’S NURSERY CO. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
FRUIT TREES 
Every FARM and GARDEN should have on It seme fruit 
as nothing pleases the palate of both young and 
old so much as fruit taken direct from vine or tree. 
Let ns tell you all about how to grow them and 
what kinds to plant. 
Our handsome descriptive catalogue is free. 
JOS. H. BLACK, SOX <fc COMPANY', 
Iliglitstown, N. J. 
DEAD TDCCO-5 to 7 ft., 15 cents each. All 
rtHIl I nCCd varieties. Kieffer 10 cents 
each. New Strawberries and Raspberries. Cata¬ 
log free. W. A. ALLEN & SON, Geneva, O. 
IT A UI I A0 — 20 kinds (my selection) $1. Satis- 
uHnLlHO faction guaranteed. Write for full 
particulars. H. BURT. Taunton. Mass. 
MILLIONS OF TREES 
PLANTS, VINES, ROSES, ETC. 
r The oldest, largest and most complete nursery 
in Michigan. Send for catalog. Prices reasonable. 
Agents wanted. I. E. ILGENFKITZ SONS CO. 
The MONROF NURSERY, Monroe. Michigan. 
Prize-Winning Market Strawberry 
PAUL JONES 
$1 per dozen, $3 per hundred. Circulars from 
originator. 
R. W. JOHNSON, Northboro, Mass. 
firm quarts of straWHERRIES 
9 UUU now growing on one acre, my system. 
Come June 16, see me win or lose, as Collingwood 
says. T. O, KEVITT, Athenia, N. J. 
S trawberry Plants—Chipnmn, a leading variety Also all 
other reliable varieties. Semi for my free 1909 Catalogue. 
Prices from $1.00 up. DAVID RODWAY, Hardy, Del. 
300 Strawberry Plants $1. 12' “E 
Free. WM, PERRY, Cool Spring. Del. 
THE FAMOUS 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
GEO. R. SCHAUBER, Box R, Ballston Lake, N. Y- 
FENDALL STRAWBERRY 
I nnlf I I naif 1 Strawberry Plants Eor Sale. 
LUUn . LUUn i 600.000 Bubach, 100,000 Chipman, 
200,000 Gandy, 50,000 Alto Strawberry Plants, lots 
of others too numerous to mention. Kansas Black 
Cap, Cumberland Black Cap, Miller Red Raspberry. 
Before placing your order anywhere get my catalog, 
it is free. D. W. MOSLEY, I)over, Del. 
HIGHLAND, NORWOOD, GOLDEN GATE, 
and other Choice Varieties. 
Send for Catalogue. It's Free. 
CHAS. E. FENDALL 6 SON, Towson, Maryland. 
TREES niS'Vo IVti" $6.50 "„ CM P ESBf s $6.50 
Beautiful w ell formed, well rooted 2 year trees, 3 ^ to 5 ft. Your choice Delivered to all New England points; also in N. Y 
N. J., Fa., Ohio, Mich.. Ind. and Ill. Many other attractive offers in our complete catalogue—it is free. Hundreds of Rural read¬ 
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you the history of one of the. niopt productive 11 year old Apple orchards In VVcHtern New York, planted on the 
Filler System, Kstablished 1847. H. S. WILEY & SON, Box 13, Cayuga, New York. 
STRONG, HEALTHY, CHOICE NURSERY STOCK 
We offer for Spring of 1909 the finest and largest assortment of Fruits aDd 
Ornamentals that we have ever grown and they cannot be surpassed. 
Write today for our Free Illustrated Catalogue which will show you just what you 
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We are always pleased to quote special prices on your list and can give you the 
right figures for the right stock. 
We do latndscapc Gardening in all its branches. Don’t place your order until yon get our price*. 
T. J. DWYER & CO., P. O. Box 1, Cornwall, New York. 
PEACH TREES-BERRY PLANTS 
Our New 1909 Catalog Just Out. 
An invaluable handbook to the in¬ 
tending planter. The best varieties 
of Peaches and other fruit trees and 
how to grow them successfully. Over 
forty varieties of strawberry plants; a book brimful of good things; write for it. 
BARNES BROS. NURSERY' COMPANY', Box 8, Y alesville. Conn. 
