TiHK, KOKAL, NEW-VORKEB 
March 2, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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ONIONS FROM SEED. 
A. B., Ilalethorpe, Md .—My crop of onion 
sets being a total failure I must try to 
raise large onions from seed, these onions 
to be planted again next Fall for Spring 
or bunching onions. Which would be the 
best kind or variety to use for the purpose? 
Ans.— You can grow first-class onions 
the first season from seed if you sow 
the seed as early as you can get the land 
in good order. Heavy fertilization is 
needed to produce a good crop, and this 
being the case it does not pay to plant 
wide enough for horse cultivation, but in 
rows 15 inches apart, and cultivate with 
the hand wheel cultivators. You can sow 
seed of the Southport White or Yellow 
Globe, or the Yellow Danvers, and thin 
them carefully and can make good mar¬ 
ketable onions this Summer. For green 
onions I sow seed of the Norfolk Queen 
or Pearl in April on moderately fertile 
soil, but without fertilization. I sow 
the seed very thickly, or at rate of 60 
pounds an acre. These crowded seeds 
will make fine sets that will ripen late 
in July. These I plant again here in 
September, and the weather this past 
Fall was so mild that they were ready 
to pull and bunch the first of January. 
Then came the cold and the tops of 
these have been pretty we^ browned, but 
the bulbs are still safe and with mild 
weather will soon make new tops. If 
you grow large onions from early 
planted seed and plant them in the Fall 
you will not get bunching onions, for 
they will run to seed at once. Better 
market the large onions and grow the 
sets for the Fall planting. Usually we 
have no damage to onions here in Win¬ 
ter, and may not have another such 
Winter in 20 years. I always throw a 
furrow to each side of my onions in 
the Fall as a .Winter protection, and 
pull the soil away in the Spring. You 
can plant sets of the Potato onion in 
the Fall and use the offsets in Spring 
for bunching, and let the main bulb 
mature. The Norfolk Queen onion is 
not the Queen of the Northern cata¬ 
logues but is more like what is com¬ 
monly known as Pearl onion, but is 
earlier and better than the Pearl. You 
can sow now in a frame under glass 
seed of the Prizetaker onion and can 
transplant them and make immense 
onions this Summer. w. F. massey. 
PLANTING FOR SHADY BORDER. 
It. T. C.j New .Jersey. — I am situated in 
Northern New Jersey, where the soil is of 
an extremely light and sandy character. I 
have a flower border on the south and west 
sides of my house, in which I have grown 
annuals with a background of Cannas, very 
satisfactorily for the past four or five years. 
Last year, however, I found after putting 
awnings on my piazza that both the Cannas 
and Phlox Drummondii did very poorly. Can 
you advise me what plants or flowers will 
grow best under these conditions? I should 
prefer perennials if possible. 
Ans. —This is not a very encouraging 
place, since the light, sandy soil is prob¬ 
ably quite dry, and there is the further 
disadvantage of shade from the awn¬ 
ings. We would try enriching the soil 
with leaf mould and some well-rotted 
short manure, 'before trying much in 
the way of herbaceous plants. Ferns, 
however, should do well if the right 
sorts are chosen; the following are 
excellent in a dry, shady place where 
flowers do not do well: Aspidium 
acrostichoides, height one foot; Aspidi¬ 
um marginale, height one to two feet; 
Dicksonia punctilobula, height one to 
two feet; Osmunda Claytoniana, two 
to three feet. Among flowering plants 
we would suggest lily of the valley, 
though we would advise increasing soil 
fertility; after it once gets a start it 
will spread amazingly. The dwarf cor¬ 
nel or bunchberry, Cornus Canadensis, 
likes a shady spot; so do several of our 
little native Anemones, Hepaticas, and 
Arisaenra (Jack-in-the-pulpit). We 
have* found the latter very satisfactory 
in a dry spot under trees, although its 
native home is in moist woodlands. The 
odd flowers in Spring, followed by 
showy red fruit later, are very attrac¬ 
tive. The little Canada mayflower or 
wild lily-of-the-valley, Maianthemum 
Canadense, is a beautiful little thing; 
we have it carpeting the ground under 
a beech tree, in a dry and shaded spot. 
Daphne Cneorum, a low-growing shrub 
with glossy evergreen leaves and fra¬ 
grant pink flowers, does well in a par¬ 
tially shaded place. If not too heavily 
shaded, plantain lilies (Funkia) and 
hardy pinks will do well; also our na¬ 
tive columbine, Aquilegia Canadense. 
Several of the native Asters, such as 
A. corymbosus, white, A. cordifolia, 
pale blue, A. undulatus, bright blue, and 
A. kevis, sky-blue, like a dry, shaded 
place, and improve in cultivation. 
LEGAL NAMES FOR FARMS. 
Senator Geo. B. Burd, of Erie Co., N. Y., 
has introduced bill No. 121 in the New 
York Senate. This bill provides for re- j 
cording names as follows: 
“Section 1. Any owner of a farm in the 
State of New York may have the name of 
his farm, together with a description of the 
lands to which said name applies recorded 
in a register kept for that purpose in the 
oflice of the county clerk of the county in 
which said farm is located, and such re -1 
corder shall furnish to such land owner a 
proper certificate setting forth said name 
and a description of such lands. When 
any name shall have been recorded as the 
name of any farm in such county, such 
name shall not be recorded as the name of 
any other farm in the same county. 
"§ 2. Any person having the name of 
his farm recorded as provided in this act 
shall first pay to the county clerk a fee of 
one dollar. 
“§ 3. When any owner of a farm, the 
name of which has been recorded as pro¬ 
vided in this act, transfers by deed or 
otherwise, the whole of such farm, such 
transfer may include the registered name 
thereof; but if the owner shall transfer 
only a portion of such farm, then in that 
event, the registered name thereof shall not 
be transferred to the purchaser unless so 
stated in the deed of conveyance. 
“§ 4. W’hen any owner of a registered 
farm desires to cancel the registered name 
thereof, he shall state on the margin of 
the record of such name in such clerk’s 
oflice the following, or the same in sub¬ 
stance: ‘This name is cancelled and I 
hereby release all rights thereunder,’ which 
shall be signed by the person cancelling 
such name and attested by the county clerk. 
For such latter service the county clerk 
shall charge a fee of 25 cents. 
“§ 5. This act shall take effect imme¬ 
diately.” 
Peaches For Cumberland County, N. J. 
I would like to have some information 
regarding the'kind of peach trees to plant 
in Cumberland Co., New Jersey, and the 
best time to plant. e. b. t. 
Our strict No. 1 commercial list of varl- 
tles is as follows: Carman, Hiley, Cham¬ 
pion, Belle of Georgia, Elberta, Fox Seed¬ 
ling. For a local market and to a limited 
extent, Greensboro may be added to this 
list When the Georgia crop is early, it 
often brings a good price, but requires care¬ 
ful and prompt handling. Iron Mountain 
is a good variety for local market, closely 
following Fox Seedling. In fact, it overlaps 
with it. For persons who desire a succes¬ 
sion of yellow-fleshed peaches for the home 
garden, we recommend the following: Arp 
Beauty, St. John, Early Crawford, Elberta, 
Edgemont, Willett. Those varieties in gen¬ 
eral are not as hardy as such sorts as 
Carman and Belle of Georgia, but may sup¬ 
ply the needs of persons desiring yellow- 
fleshed peaches for home use. 1 would rec¬ 
ommend that peach trees be planted in 
southern New Jersey by the first of April 
in most seasons. In general, Spring plant¬ 
ing is preferred to Fall planting. 
New Jersey Exp. Station, m. a. ulake. 
Trouble With Peach Trees. 
Last April, when I pruned my peach 
trees (three each of Triumph and Fitzger¬ 
ald) they were apparently in fine condition. 
The wood was fresh and the fruit buds were 
plump. Later the limbs became shriveled, 
also the buds, and I cut them back until 
they looked like stubs. They started rather 
late, and made an excellent growth during 
the season, and appear to have lots of 
buds. They will have been set four years 
in the Spring. What was the matter with 
them? f. L. c. 
Jefferson, Me. 
Trees are quite liable to be hurt after 
the sun gets higher in the Spring and the 
warm days are followed by freezing nights, 
and 1 have seen peach trees quite badly 
hurt after the sap had started If followed 
by severe freezing weather. I should sup¬ 
pose for Maine that Carman, Greensboro, 
Mamie Ross (perhaps Ray), and Elberta 
for yellow would prove more satisfactory 
there than the varieties named. The Tri¬ 
umph especially is a back number here, 
and the Fitzgerald has proved to be about 
in the Crawford class with me. n. o. M. 
Massachusetts. 
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Box R 
Moorestown, N. J. 
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