ter All—Nature’s 
Ways Are Best 
And so, at the Rupert Nurseries, nature is given full 
sway. Take, for instance, the winter storage of trees. 
Nearly all nurserymen pile up their trees in cellars like 
cord wood—little or no dirt on the roots—branches 
twisted and bark scratched. How much better the grow¬ 
ing qualities of trees stored in nature’s own way—the 
Rupert way—as shown in the cut. Roots in the soil- 
trees erect in their natural position. The growing and 
bearing qualities of 6uch trees are many times better than 
those stored in wood pile fashion. That is one reason 
why we 
Didn’t Have a Dissatisfied Customer 
Last Year 
Here’s another—we give a special guarantee of absolute 
purity of variety, with no conditions attached, on our 
proved main varieties. If the trees do not prove true to 
name we pay orchard planters not only the price of the 
trees but the damage suffered also. We won’t be satisfied 
until you are satisfied. 
you are 
Rupert Trees Are Sold Direct Only 
All agent’s and middlemen’s profits are put into your pockets. You get the best guaranteed 
trees at very reasonable prices. Rupert stock is northern grown, free from scale, hardy, shapely, 
have abundanceof roots, and are heavy bearers. We grow all kindsof nursery stock —apple, peach, 
pear, plum, cherry, quince, shade and ornamental trees. Also shrubs and berries of all kinds. 
Money in Currants We Pay Freight Grangers—Look ! 
made $2,250 in five If your order amounts to $7.50 We are an authorized Grange 
One man 
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or two acres. Ask about our pay freight. Safe delivery guar- which we refer our pat 
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W. P. RUPERT & SONJ Box 20, SENECA, 
ARMY WORM MOTH ON PEACH. 
clustered around one hole in a peach, 
especially if this hole was a crack or 
where the skin in ripening had cracked 
away from the stem. The injury to 
the fruit resulted from their sucking 
the juice, leaving the discolored pulp, 
and causing the fruit to appear as if 
affected by an internal “brown rot.” 
The juices had a physicking effect on 
the moths, as a result they soiled much 
more fruit than they destroyed. 
Long Island. f. a. sirrine. 
SOME FREAKISH FRUITS. 
The past season seems to have been es¬ 
pecially productive of freakish fruits, par¬ 
ticularly of apples. At least a larger num¬ 
ber than usual have been brought to my 
attention. The picture at Fig. SI, page 258, 
shows a double Greening apple which has 
but one stem and has grown together at 
the base but has two distinct calyces, giv¬ 
ing one the impression that in some way 
two apples have been grafted together. 
This is the common explanation of this 
not rare occurence. It is not uncommon to 
find two branches' on a tree-top which have 
rubbed against each other until the bark 
has been worn through and the cambium 
layers have grown together, exactly the 
same as they do iu artificial grafting. In 
the case of fruit, however, there is little 
cambium tissue present and, though there 
are cases on record of successful attempts 
in grafting fruits, they are so rare and 
the process so difficult that it is the opin¬ 
ion of the writer that it is altogether im¬ 
probable that the case in question is an 
actual graft, but that iu reality it is a 
sport or monstrosity much the same as a 
chicken with two heads or the growing to¬ 
gether of two dandelion heads, which is so 
often seen. 
While visiting the famous Tonoloway or¬ 
chards in Maryland at picking time last 
Fall I was'shown an apple which was di¬ 
vided into five equal segments by sharply 
defined russet lines extending from the stem 
to the calyx. On cutting the fruit it was 
found that each of these lines was directly 
over one of the five cells which hold the 
seeds. (It will be remembered that the 
apple blossom is a five-part flower.) These 
markings are not uncommon. In the Tolman 
Sweet one such line is almost always pres¬ 
ent and is considered as one of the dis¬ 
tinguishing characteristics of that variety. 
The Winter Banana often^has two or more 
fairly well defined lines. 
In an orchard owned by E. P. Garret- 
son, of Adams County, Penn., there are 
four trees which several years ago were 
top-worked to Stayman Winesap. Of these 
four original trees one was a Baldwin and 
one a Sweet Paradise. Fruit from these 
trees has been exhibited at two consecutive 
meetings of the Pennsylvania State Horti¬ 
cultural Association, and in each case bore 
a striking resemblance in form and to 
some extent in color to the variety upon 
which it was grafted. Still a more strik¬ 
ing feature of the exhibit was the fact 
that fruit from the same branch on the 
tree grafted on the Baldwin stock varied 
so greatly that experts pronounced the 
specimens to be different varieties. In a 
neighboring orchard of York Imperial in 
which alternate rows were grafted to Stay- 
man Winesap, the fruit from the Stayman 
trees always approximates in shape that of 
the York Imperial. (This may he due to 
the influence of the stock, but more prob¬ 
ably to the effect of cross-pollination with 
the York. In some fruits this effect of 
cross-pollination has been shown to affect 
the shape of the fruit in the first genera¬ 
tion.) In Pennsylvania there are commonly 
recognized two types of Baldwin apples 
known as the “long stemmed Baldwin” and 
the common or “short stemmed Baldwin,” 
yet each can be easily recognized as Bald¬ 
win types. Both bred true when grafted. 
In the columns of The R. N.-Y. there 
500,000 FRUIT TREES 
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All will be sold at about wholesale prices. This includes 
Apple, Pestr, Plum, Peach, Cherry, Quince, also shade 
trees. You can’t buy any better trees anywhere, no 
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Established 33 years. Capital $100,000. 
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Kellogg 
Plants 
Will Yield $500 to $800 per Acre 
Steyensyille, Mont., Feb. 13.1912. 
Enclosed find order for HI,000 strawberry plants. 
I have used Kellogg Thoroughbred plants in 
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the Bitter Root Valley of Montana, and have stiT 
to experience my first disappointment. Kellogg 
plants are like a hard-boiled egg—they “can’t bo 
beat.”—WILLIAM J. GALL. 
Another letter, dated Dec. 22, 1911, comes to us 
from J. S. Furnas, of Brownville, Neb., stating 
that he sold $725 worth of strawberries from three- 
fourths of an acre of Kellogg Thoroughbred plants. 
This is at the rate Of $1,009 per acre. Our 04-page 
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Make Evenr Acre Net $200 Each Yeai 
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Your garden three weeks earlier if started in Paper 
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like to send you one. 
TO OUR OLD CUSTOMERS.—Prices same as last season.- 
6,000 three-inch, $5 ; 5,000 four-inch, $7.50. Shipped fiat, 
low freight rates. 
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Propagated Where 
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