1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
206 
A VALUABLE 
i FRUIT BOOK FREE 
Wo have been growing fruit for thirty 
years, and while we don’t 
know it all, we have 
learned a good many things. 
These things we have 
boiled down for you in our 
free Booklet. You can get 
our thirty years’ experience 
in twenty minutes and get 
it much cheaper and quicker 
than we got it. 
This booklet also describes our reliable, test¬ 
ed fruit trees and plants—the best and safest 
money can buy. Write for a copy today. 
BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. 
Box 8. Yalcsville, Conn. 
“BLACK’S QUALITY” 
FRUIT TREES 
NONE BETTER 
None Give Better Returns when They Fruit 
Buy Direct From the Nursery 
and save agent’s discounts and middleman’s 
profits. When you buy our trees you get a 
Dollar's Worth of Trees 
for every one hundred cents you remit to us. 
PEACH and APPLE TREES 
a specialty. CATALOGUE FREE 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON & CO. 
HIGHTSTOWN. N. J. 
FRUIT TREES and PLANTS 
AT VERY LOW PRICES 
Apples, $15.00 per 100 
Peaches, 8.00 per 100 
Cherries, 7.00 per 100 
Plums, 9. OOper 100 
Pears, Currants, Raspberries. All strictly 
first-class stock, and Government Inspect¬ 
ed. Send to-day for our Free Catalogue on 
Fruits and Ornamentals and buy direct 
from the Growers. Our trees are grown 
in that well known nursery belt of Ontario 
County. 
ONTARIO NURSERY CO. 
INC. 
GENEVA, N. Y. Box 21 
P 
I 50 to Trees 
per cent.^V^Aiuaranteed 
I By Buying Direct 
L" 
Apple Trees 
$980 
per 
too 
All trees fresh dug, true 
to name and free from 
disease. 
Write for Free Catalogue 
REILLY BROS. NURSERIES 
Reilly Rond Bansville, N. Y. 
First-class BtoeK, Z yra. old, worth #2.00, . 
1 Baldwin, 1 Northern Spy, 1 Bartlett, 1 
Seek el Pear, 1 Tartarian, 1 Montmorency, 
1 Early Richmond Cherry, 1 Bradshaw, 1 
Lombard, 1 German Prune, 1 ElbertaPoach, 
1 Orange Quince—all for 94 cents. Write 
tor free catalog and other offers. 
L. W. HALL & CO., Established 1879 
860 Cutler Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
FRUIT TREES 
Don’t place your order for Trees and Plants 
until you get our illustrated-descriptive CATA¬ 
LOGUE. All stock first-class and prices very low. 
Wo guarantee safe delivery and SATISFACTION 
L'AMOllKADX NURSERY CO., SCHOHARIE, N. Y 
Peach and Apple Trees 
For fall or spring planting. Pricos right; stock 
right. MYElt & SON, Bridge ville, Delaware 
SEED—Money back If not pure 
Speciosa; lOU-tree pkg., ltlc.; 
1,000-tree pkg., 50c. S. H. Madden, 
Box 201, Granville Summit, Pa. 
TREES 
Catalog Free 
ISO ACRES. Genesee 
Valley grown. “Not the 
cheapest, but the best." 
Never have had San Jose 
Scale. Established 1860. 
GEO. A. SWEET NURSERY CO. 
20 Maple St., Dansville, N.Y. 
TREES and PLANTS-ffl,„ l 0 “^ h *!i! 
sale prices. Big supply Apple & Poach Trees, Privet 
Hedging. The Westminster Nursery. Westminster, Md. 
ONION SEED GERMAN AD ON 
Yellow Danvers, $1.10: Yellow Globe Danvers, $1.25; 
Southport Yellow Globe, $1.50: Ohio Yellow Globe, 
$1.50; Prizetaker. $1.40; Southport Red Globe, $1.40; 
Rod Wethersfield, $1.25 per pound, postpaid. 
ONION SETS —Fancy Yollow, $2.25; White, 
$2 75 bushel. 
Write for Seed Catalog and FREE trial pkt. of 
New Enkliuizeu Glory Cabbage. 
J. AUG. DRAKE, Seedsman, 100 Main St., Chester, N. J. 
Wholesale Price To Fruit Growers 
On First-Class Plants anil Vines 
Wo have all tlio standard varieties of Strawberries, 
Blackberries, Red and Black Raspberries, Grape 
Vines, etc. Special prices on largo lots. Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. Send for price list. BRIDGMAN 
NURSERY CO., Box If, BRIDGMAN, Mien. 
FRUIT TREES 
Buy them direct from the grower at first 
cost and get the benefit of our wholesale 
prices. Catalog free. W .VI. J. REILLY, 
Nurseries, Box 09, Dansville, N. Y. 
Growing Transplanted Onions. 
H. K. O., Elizabethtown, Pa .—Will you 
give explicit directions for profitable onion 
culture both as to setting and <as to hand¬ 
ling the crop after it Is mature? 
Ans. —We assume that you refer to 
the plan of starting seedlings in the 
hotbed and transplanting. We sow the 
seed about seven weeks ahead of the 
time for setting outdoors. With us 
this means late February. The hotbed 
is prepared as usual with a good coat 
of rich soil. The seed is sown in drills 
four inches apart. They sprout quickly 
and are kept clean by hand weeding. 
Care and good judgment are required 
in handling the beds to regulate heat 
and moisture and sun. This must be 
gained by experience. It cannot be told. 
We plan to transplant when the little 
bulbs are about the size of a lead pencil. 
The tops are chopped off with the 
ONION HARVEST. Fio. 95. 
shears and the little plants are set four 
inches apart in rows. Some growers 
on very rich land put the rows one foot 
apart, but this is very close for clean 
culture. We prefer 18 inches at least. 
The soil must be naturally rich and 
moist, and should be well supplied with 
manure or fertilizer. We use a coat of 
lime well harrowed in. Culture is the 
same as with other onions. They must 
be kept clean and the soil must not 
bake around them. The best variety 
we have found for this work is Prize- 
taker. Under right conditions this 
makes very large bulbs. While the 
labor of transplanting is considerable 
there is much less work at weeding than 
when the onions are drilled. With us 
the Prizetaker does not keep well and 
we plan to sell shortly after pulling in 
the Fall. 
The Trade in Christmas Trees. 
What Is the outlook for the Christmas 
tree trade? Is it likely to gain or fall off 
in the future? 
Ans.— Regarding the Christmas tree 
industry, will say that it seems to be 
on the increase every year. There are 
no farmers now who cut the wood clean 
off their lots. They usually cut the un¬ 
sightly trees and leave the more sym¬ 
metrical ones to grow larger both for 
timber and wood. As regards the 
Christmas trees, they are thinned out 
in like manner, only those unsuitable for 
Christmas trees have the boughs cut 
off. We bale them up and send to dif- 
erent dealers to he used as background 
in halls and churches for decorating, 
and in gardens and parks for covering 
plants and shrubbery in Winter. Then 
when we require Christmas trees they 
cut those of a suitable size and bring 
them to us in large loads, which nets 
them a good sum per load. Around a 
large spruce of 25 to 30 feet the seed 
falls and is carried several rods from 
it, and a great quantity of small spruce 
spring up. 1 hese are thinned out and 
used for table decoration. Lots that 
were cut over six or eight years ago 
have better Christmas trees growing on 
them now than were cut then. For in¬ 
stance, a tree that is two feet now will 
reach a height of 10 to 15 feet in six to 
eight years. This gives the farmer a 
good return for his labor and gives him 
a revenue on land which otherwise he 
does not use except for pasture, and the 
pasturing of cattle on such land does not 
deter the growth of the trees. 
Massachusetts. h. j. smith. 
Thorburn’s Seeds have stood the 
test of time. Through four genera¬ 
tions, they have been the standard 
for purity and fertility; their quality 
has been unquestioned. Whether 
you have a large or small garden 
you will be well repaid if you give 
Thorburn’s Seeds a trial. Both the 
large and small planter speedily 
recognizes the superiority of 
Thorburn’s Seeds. ^ ^ 
IIO YEARS 9 EXPERIENCE 
means something to you. It means that 
you are safe when you plant Thorburn’s 
Seeds; you are safe because year after 
year we have selected only the best grades 
and by scientific culture have improved 
the strains until Thorburn’s Seeds are now 
reconized by long experienced farmers as 
the standard seeds of America, -aut -jl <l. 
The 1912 Thorburn Catalog is ready for you now. Its 144 
pages, well illustrated and full of valuable suggestions and 
advice, make it a seed book of unusual value and interest. 
Write for it today. It’s free. 
J. M. THORBURN & COMPANY 
110 YEARS IN BUSINESS 
33 BARCLAY STREET and 38 PARK PLACE, Dept. Y, NEW YORK 
SEEDS PRODUCE BIG CROPS 
When buying your Vegetable and Flower Seeds consider quality before 
cheapness. Our 1912 illustrated Seed Annual describes the best Vegetable 
and Flower Seeds of tested value—write for one to-day. 
FREDERICK W. EBERLE 
-- SEEDSMAN - 
116S. PEARL STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. 
CLOVER 
blow is The 
Time to Buy 
Grass Seed 
Prices bound to 
be higher later. 
Buy before ad¬ 
vance and save money. Write todav for special low 
Price and FREE SAMPLES of our PURE IOWA GROWN 
NEW CROP RECLEANED TESTED CLOVER and TIMOTHY 
SEED. It is to your iutorest to write us now. 
/I. ft. Berry Seed Co., Box 60, Clarinda, Iowa 
ASPARAGUS HOOTS for Sale. 
Also, eight of the very best varie¬ 
ties of STRAWBERRIES on tho 
market. We have soiected these eight kinds out of 
a hundred. We also have a few pounds of so loo tod 
Now StoneTomato soed—tho kind that grow the big 
crops. This seed was saved from the best tomatoes 
wo could got, and will please anyone that wants 
something extra fine. Our 1912 Catalogue will be 
mailed to you for tho asking, giving a list of all 
kinds of Roots, Plants and Seed. Tomato seed$1.00 
per lb., postpaid. CALEB. BOGGS S SON, " Romance " 
Seed,Plant and Truck Farm, CHESW0L0, Del, 
Special Prices for March and April Sales 
100 bun. Soy Beaus—200 bun. Cow Peas—75 
bus Fancy Timothy—60 bus. Med. Red Clover 
—200 bus. Alfalfa (Bargain Price)—2000 bus. 
Regenerated Swedish Select Oats—2000 bun. 
Seed Corn (10 varieties) High Germination— 
2000 bus. Seed Potatoes. Full lino of other 
stock—<5 very thing guaranteed. Catalogue 
Free. Will mail samples if wanted. 
W.N.SCAKFF, H.F.D.No.8, New Carlisle,O. 
[“CORN TALK” 
How to produco a maximum crop at a mini¬ 
mum cost. A valuable treatise on tho modern 
methods in Corn Culture. Many new sugges¬ 
tions invaluable to Corn raisers, in this my 
revised treatise. It tells how to produco 100 
bushels shelled corn per acre without fertilizer 
or manure, and at the same time increaso the 
productiveness of your land. Highest compli¬ 
ments upon tho merits of this book received 
from the Agricultural Colleges from a number 
of States. FREE. A postal card will bring it. 
W. OSCAR COLLIER, Corn Specialist 
East n.-: - Maryland. 
ALFALFA 
seed of fancy grade is scarce this year. 
We offer choice western grown seed at 
reasonable rates and advise you to buy 
Nowl Wo expect an increased demand 
(onaccountof fancy seed wo furnished last 
year) and prices may go up. Write for 
samples, stating quantity wanted and we 
will quote lowest prices consistent with 
highest quality. Write for our beautiful 
new catalog Today. Free to you I 
LIVINGSTON SEED CO., Box4, Columbus, 0. 
PI AWTQ THAT GROW—75 varieties—truo to 
iLnll 10 name. My free illustrated book tells 
how to plant and grow STRAWBERRIES, RASP¬ 
BERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, etc. Lowest price. 
A. G. BLOUNT, Hastings, N.Y. 
NEW STRAWBERRIES! 
1912 Catalog FREB to 
- --- all. Reliable, IntcreBt- 
ing ami instructive. ALL THE NEW EVERHEAKERS 
, ami other important varieties. Adilreea— 
C. N. ELANSBURGH & SON, - - JACKSON, Mich. 
FROM GIIOWERTO PLANTER, 46 years’ experience 
In the nursery business enables us to know how to grow first- 
class trees and what the varieties are without guessing at it. 
We have no bargain counters or cheap job lots, every tree is 
an ornamentand moneymaker in your garden and orchard, sold to you ata fair living price- 
following any other policy we would have had to quit business years ago. Our annual output 
is 325,000 Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Currants, Gooseberries, etc. Send for 
our descriptive Catalogue mailed free, p. T. MCCARTHY 0 SONS, Nurserymen, Niagara Co., Lockport, N.Y 
FRUIT TREES 
XX. S. WILEY cfc SOINT, 
For a Quarter of a Gonturv wo havo been repre¬ 
sented on this page, we again call your attention 
to OUR DEPENDABLE FRUIT TREES 
Our values are good because our trees are 
reliable and will cause you no disappoint¬ 
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