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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24, 
Good Seeds 
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Sweet Basil (Herb) . . .05 
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WRITE TO US ABOUT 
Fru.it Trees 
King Bros., Nurseries, Dansville, N.Y. 
FRUIT Choicest Western New York Grown' 
Tpcrc Fresh from the ground. 
Lowest 1’riccB. Catalogue Free. 
BLOSSOM NURSERIES. 583 Blossom Road. Rochester, N.Y. 
TREES 
Catalog Free 
150 ACHES. Genesee 
Valley grown. “Not the 
cheapest, but the best.” 
Never have had San Jose 
Scale. Established 1869. 
GEO. A. SWEET NURSERY CO. 
20 Maple St.. Dansville, N.Y. 
FRUIT At Wholesale FROM 
TDTCC Fresh dug etock, free CRnWFR 
1 KIIiLaJ from scale, and true to VJilxV-r YY UAV 
name. All kinds—lowest prices—guaranteed stock. Send 
us your planting list for quotation. We invite compari¬ 
son. Established 1879. 
L W. Hall & Co., 855 Cutler Bldg., Rochester, N.Y. 
FRUIT 
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Afresh Dog Western N. Y. Tree*. 
Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, 
Small Fruits, Shrubs, Roses, etc. Best 
Trees. Best Prioes. Write for FREE Cat. 
the frcitlard nurseries 
303 Wlnton Road. Rochester, N. V. 
UOO V nrietles. Also Grapes, Small Fruits, etc. Best 
looted stock. Genuine, cheap. 2 sample currants mailed for 10c. 
Catalog free. LEWIS KOKSCH A SON, Box Ji , Fredonla, N. Y, 
TREES and PUNTSH&iK£?5£ 
sale prices. Big supply Apple & Peach Trees, Privet 
Hedging. The Westminster Nursery, Westminster, Md. 
50,000 Wilder & Fays 
One and two year old, $14 to $18 per M. 5,000 lots 
less. J. F. WYGANT, Marlboro, New York 
GUARANTEED TREES 
I repay ten times cost if not true 
Speciosa Catalpa. Also Seed. Beau¬ 
tiful Cypress Trees. Free booklet. 
H. C. ROGERS, Box 11, Mechanicsburg", Ohio 
McKAY’S Peach Trees- 
McKAY’S Dwarf Apple Trees — 
McKAY’S Agricultural Lime, $3 per ton 
IVIcKAY’S Catalogue tells about them—and mora 
— W. L. McKAY, Geneva. N.Y. Box F 
For Reliable Seeds 
Bought direct from the farming community, and 
sold direct to the farmer;—Medium and Mammoth 
Clover. Alsike, Alfalfa, White and Crimson Clover, 
Timothy, Rape, Bed Top, Blue Grass, Orchard 
Grass, Barley, Bye, Spring Wheat, all kinds of 
Seed Corn and Peas. Freight prepaid your Bail- 
road Station. Write for samples and prices. 
N. Wertheimer & Sons, Ligonier, Ind. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS for Sale. 
Also, eight of the very best varie¬ 
ties of STRAWBERRIES on the 
market. We have selected these eight kinds out of 
a hundred. We also have a few pounds of selected 
New Stone Tomato seed—the kind that grow the big 
crops. This seed was saved from the best tomatoes 
we could get, and will please anyone that wants 
something extra fine. Our 1912 Catalogue will be 
mailed to you for the asking, giving a list of all 
kinds of Roots, Plants and Seed. Tomato seed$1.00 
per lb., postpaid. CALEB, BOGGS 8 SON, “ Romance " 
Seed,Plant and Truck Farm, CHESW0LD, Del. 
ONION SEED BErIjINAtFoN 
Yellow Danvers, $1.10: Yellow Globe Danvers, $1.25; 
Southport Yellow Globe, $1.50: Ohio Yellow Globe, 
gl.50: Prizetaker, $1.40; Southport Red Globe, $1.40; 
Red Wethersfield, $1.25 per pound, postpaid. 
ONION SETS — Fancy Yellow, $2.25; White, 
$2.75 bushel. 
Write for Seed Catalog and FREE trial pkt. of 
New Enkhuizen Glory Cabbage. 
J. AUG. DRAKE, Seedsman, 100 Main St., Chester, N. J. 
PEACH BUDS. 
The terrible cold here has killed all fruit 
buds on peaches, cherries and pears. 
Wisconsin. J. G. 
Peach buds nearly all dead, not one per 
cent left on the hardiest. Zero this morn¬ 
ing. Frequently eight and 12 below since 
January 0 on hills west of Cincinnati. 
Ohio. L. F. 
Peach buds are badly hurt, and the pros¬ 
pect is for few if any peaches here this 
season. It will be only on very favorable 
locations that any buds may live through. 
Worcester Co., Mass. H. o. M. 
I have examined several hundred peach 
buds from more than a dozen varieties, 
including the Greensboro, Hiley and Carman, 
all supposed to be hardy varieties but was 
unable to find any live buds, all were black. 
The same was true of a neighbor’s orchard 
in a more sheltered location. These or¬ 
chards are located at Y’aphank in Suffolk 
County, Long Island. Some orchardists be¬ 
lieve they have a few alive but personally, 
I doubt if there is a live peach bud on the 
center or east end of Long Island. This is 
one of the Winters when we wish we had 
stuck to our old friend, the Crosby peach. 
During this severe freeze in the first part 
of January, the thermometer was variously 
reported over this section, from 10 to 30 
below. v. r. s. 
The peach buds are nearly all dead. There 
is less than five per cent alive. The crop 
will be a total failure in Somerset Co. this 
year. This section supplies more than one- 
half the peaches for New Brunswick, and the 
hucksters cart a great many to Amboy. 
The thermometer registered 14 degrees below 
zero. There are a great many orchards 
coming on in this section. Many more 
peach than apple orchards. 
Somerset Co., N. J. G. c. N. 
We are from 500 to 600 feet above tide 
water, several mornings from five to seven 
below zero. So far as I have examined 
from one-half to two-thirds of the peach 
buds are all right at present. G. w. d. 
Shelton, Conn. 
I note that you want to know about 
peach buds. 
Our orchards arc in Washington Co., Md. 
near the West Virginia line; have about 
18000 peach trees in bearing. 
I have given lands a thorough examina¬ 
tion and find all are killed except about 20 
per cent of Elberta that are planted on 
hill tops. Of course we cannot open every 
bud or tell exactly until time to bloom, hut 
I am safe in saying that about 95 per cent 
of buds on all varieties with above excep¬ 
tion are gone. Our coldest weather so far 
has been 18 degrees below zero, on day be¬ 
fore 9 degrees below and day afterl2 below, 
so you can see why we are in mourning for 
the late lamented peach crop. 
West Virginia. c. w. keller. 
I have examined my peach trees and 
cannot find one live bud. I have Carman, 
Champion and Elberta. Elevation here about 
1.700 feet above sea level, 15 degrees below 
zero here this morning (February 13). 
Burbank plum buds also dead. Robins have 
been here through all the cold weather. 
Centre Co., Pa. frank waring. 
I am sorry to say that peach buds in this 
vicinity appear to be all dead. I cut open 
a good many buds, but failed to find one 
that showed life. December was unusually 
mild, and buds swelled, and January came 
with arctic temperature and the poor buds 
could not stand frost of 20 degrees below 
zero, which Boreas brought down from 
Greenland or some other equally cold coun¬ 
try. The mercury stood in different ther¬ 
mometers and in different places from 10 
degrees to 30 degrees below zero. The cold 
has been extreme since January 2. 
Massachusetts. M. M. 
Concerning the condition of peach buds 
in this vicinity, I give below a table of es¬ 
timated percentages of buds left unhurt by 
the extreme cold weather in January. This 
table is made up by averaging our own 
with the estimates of some other nearby 
orchardists, and is based partly on exam¬ 
ination of buds through bisection and partly 
by putting cuttings in water and starting 
the buds. The damage in orchards is un¬ 
evenly distributed. Soil conditions, air 
drainage, location and vigor of trees ap¬ 
pear to be influential factors, and there will 
be occasion for observation and study in 
connection with this experience. As a rule 
buds on upper branches were less damaged 
than on the lower limbs. Frequently the 
buds on the lower part of a tree apparently 
would be all killed while above a large per¬ 
centage are alive. In some instances it 
looks as if we should have the anomaly 
of being obliged to thin the top of a tree, 
with no peaches at all below. Belle of 
Georgia, 50 per cent; Carman, 35 per cent; 
Champion, 20 per cent; Crosby, 40 per 
cent; Elberta, 15 per cent; Fox Seedling, 
10 per cent; Gold Drop, 25 per cent; Hill’s 
Chili, 40 per cent; Horton Rivers, 50 per 
cent; Iron Mountain, 10 per cent; Kalama¬ 
zoo, 15 per cent; Salway, 50 per cent; 
Smoek, 40 per cent: Sneed. 25 per cent; 
Stevens R. It., 30 per cent; Yellow St. John, 
10 per cent. d. h. avers. 
New York. 
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JOSEPH HARRIS CO. 
Box 52 
COLDWATER, N. Y, 
HARRIS 
SEEDS 
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Fruit Two Acres of Straw- 
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$120 Net Profit 
From */» Acre of 
Thomas Pure Bred 
Strawberry Plants 
An average profit for users of my 
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ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
My 1912 stock of asparagus roots is 
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know they will please you. Place 
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large orders. There is big money in 
growing asparagus plant. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
You should know about my own fine, heavy bearing 
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