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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
March 2, 
lings to insure the finest blossoms. Let¬ 
tuce and early cabbage up in the cold 
frame. Saw the first dandelion. 
April 17—Transplanted 33 Globe to¬ 
matoes and 75 Petunias. 
April 23—Sowed lettuce, radishes, 
cabbage and tomato seed out of doors. 
Fixed the pansy bed and found 30 good 
old plants that had survived the Winter. 
April 25—Set out 50 Senator Dunlap 
strawberries and 50 Bubach, also six 
Fay’s Prolific currants. 
April 28—Cut the first asparagus. 
April 29—Fine rain last night. Rad¬ 
ishes and cabbage sown April 23 are 
up. Planted six more of Ninety-Fold 
potatoes, with coal ashes in each fur¬ 
row. 
April 30—Gathered the first outdoor 
hyacinths and a friend brought me a 
Dorothy Perkins rose to set out. 
So much for the first two months’ 
work. The Dorothy Perkins rose made 
a fine growth. It is the loveliest pink 
climber that I ' now of. The Celosia 
seedlings all dwindled away, planted 
too early, I think, also the red pep¬ 
pers, eggplant and celery were failures. 
Last season was an exceptionally dry 
one, and it was the hardest kind of 
work to keep young plants growing in 
the garden. After the tomato and cab¬ 
bage plants were set out the cutworms 
nearly won the game. It was certainly 
discouraging to find the plants I had 
petted and coaxed along ro many weeks, 
cut off as slick as a whistle. I grubbed 
for them before sun-up and after sun¬ 
down, put coal ashes and lime and salt 
in a circle around the plants, replanted 
with paper collars around the stems, 
protected the plants from the sun with 
berry boxes, carried water and ran the 
Planet, Jr., hoe up and down between 
the rows until the moon shone bright, 
and won out with plenty of tomatoes 
to eat from the 1st of August until 
frost, and some to sell. The Globes 
were the finest and earliest. The Stone 
rotted badly all season. The year be¬ 
fore they were the most satisfactory 
tomatoes we grew. I felt quite proud 
of having 54 pounds of early cabbage 
3yards of material 36 inches wide, to sell at three cents a pound. The 
with 1J4 yards of 44 inch wide for 
frills and 5/ yards of rose-bud band¬ 
ing, yards 18 inches wide for yoke 
and under-sleeves. 7304, two-piece 
skirt, 22 to 32 waist. For the medium 
size will be required 3-)4 yards of mate¬ 
rial 27 inches wide. 7297, four-gored 
skirt, with high or natural waist line, 
22 to 32 waist. For the medium size 
will be required 334 yards of material 
36 inches wide; price of each, 10 cents. 
GARDEN NOTES FROM OHIO. 
Canterbury bells and Golden Orange 
daisies to brighten up my desk dur¬ 
ing this zero weather, cheerful remind¬ 
ers, per catalogue that “seed-time and 
harvest shall not fail”; on top of the 
desk are pots of hyacinths just send¬ 
ing up their tender green buds in prom¬ 
ise of something lovely for Washing¬ 
ton’s Birthday. On the right side of 
the frost covered windows are geran¬ 
iums in blossom—one bright scarlet, 
one beautiful double rose-colored truss, 
on the window brackets are Begonias 
blooming and one Impatiens Sultani. 
They’re happy even if the mercury has 
been down to seven degrees below 
zero; within doors it has not dropped 
below 45 degrees at any time. 
Before making out a list for new 
seeds I must glance over last year’s 
garden notes, lest I forget the failures. 
March 6—Sowed first seed in boxes. 
Got the ground under an old post pile, 
fine and mellow, mixed with sand and 
sifted it through a window screen. I 
love to feel the fresh earth run through 
fny fingers. Put in three kinds of to¬ 
matoes, Livingston’s Stone, Globe and 
Perfection, also cauliflower, egg plant, 
celery, red peppers, Asters, Celosia, 
Petunias, carnations and Cosmos. 
March 10—Asters up. 
March 12—Cauliflower and carnations 
up. 
March 15—Stone and Globe tomatoes 
and Cosmos up. 
March 17—Perfection coming and 
Cosmos. 
March 20—Transplanted 63 cauliflow¬ 
er seedlings and 25 carnations. 
April 10—Transplanted 48 Stone to¬ 
matoes to cold frame. Fine roots ; 
have only 12 cauliflower plants left; 
others all killed by green aphis from 
some old carnation plants. Red maples 
just budding out. Sowed lettuce, cauli¬ 
flower, early cabbage and celery in cold 
frame. 
April 13—Transplanted 24 peppers, 24 
Celosia in boxes. Celosia seedlings are 
so tiny. 
April 14—Transplanted 45 Petunias, 
taking care to select the weakest seed- 
strawberry plants set out April 25 got 
such a fine start before hot weather set 
in that we did not lose a plant. They 
made a fine start after the first rain 
and no watering was done all Sum¬ 
mer, but a good bit of hoeing. Plants 
were in good shape last Fall when cov¬ 
ered after the first hard freeze with 
corn stalks, half of them, the other 
half with straw, so I concluded the first 
covering was too heavy, but left it on, 
on trial. Protected during the Spring, 
from the neighbors’ chickens by a good 
dog, I hope they will pay for their keep 
with a fair field, berries sweet and 
handsome enough to tempt a kodak 
friend. docia dykens. 
-YJ 
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Asters Mixed. Easy of culture, flowers in 
September, all the colors of the rainbow. 
Sweet Peas Mixed. Contains the cream of 
the newest and best shades. 
Cosmos, Giant Flowered. One of the most 
beautiful of all autumn flowers. 
Alyssum. Hardy annual; very fragrant. 
Excellent for bouquets. 
Pansies. Blended from the choicest seed 
grown. Large flowering. 
To get our Spring Catalogue to as many lovers 
of flowers as possible we will send the above 
five packets or seeds and our 1912 catalogue, if 
you will send us your name and address and 
10 cents in stamps nr coin for packing and mailing. 
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The Storrs & Harrison Co., Box 698, Painesville, 0< 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of patterns and measurements 
desired. 
In the group below is 7311, fancy blouse 
for misses and small women 14, 16 and 
18 years. For the 16 year size will be 
required one yard of material 36 inches 
wide for blouse, one yard 36 inches 
wide for over-waist, 34 yard of all-over 
lace 18 inches wide, two yards of lace 
for frill. 7287, fancy blouse for misses 
and small women. 14, 16 and 18 years. 
For the 16 year size will be required 
two yards of material 36 inches wide, 
with one yard 18 inches wide for yoke 
and under-sleeves, 34 yard of lace for 
sleeve frills, 34 yard of silk for piping. 
7308, semi-princess dress, for misses 
and small women, 14, 16 and 18 years. 
For the 16 year size will be required 
Cooking Fuel and Illuminating Gas 
Made at Home with a 
Little Machine, 
Like This 
lighting and coolcing problems for 
ail time. 
And they are so easy to install in 
any home without injuring walls or 
carpets that there are now over 
180,000 Acetylene Gas Machines in 
actual use. 
We manufacture and our 
agents arrange for install¬ 
ing thousands of them 
every month in all parts of 
the world. 
There are, of course, 
many crude imitations of 
our machine on the market, 
but the genuine is easily 
distinguished by its name 
and our trademark 
“Pilot” 
Acetylene 
Generators 
A BOUT once a month this ma¬ 
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gas-producing stone and 
wound up like a clock. 
When obediently it stands idle 
until you start to cook or turn on 
the lights. 
Then, with no attention 
whatever, it gets busy and 
makes gas automatically—■ 
just enough to keep your 
stove and your lights go¬ 
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The stone, known com¬ 
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gas when the machine 
drops a few lumps into 
plain water—a little at a 
time as the gas is wanted. 
The gas is genuine 
Acetylene. Burned in 
handsome chandeliers it 
gives a flood of brilliant 
pure w T hite light. 
Burned in the kitchen range, it makes 
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turned up or down, on or off. 
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over twenty million city people. 
As a fuel, it flows right into your 
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city-like appearance of refinement and 
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In a nutshell, one of these gas ma¬ 
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On the first return 
mail we will send you 
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MFG. CO.— People^ Gas Building, 
Michigan Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 
PLANT A PRIVET HEDGE 
It will give your place a finished 
appearance and add value as well 
as beauty to your home. I am 
making this very low special price 
to my customers and their friends 
for immediate orders. 
For 9 Cents per Yard 
I will sell you enough California 
Privet plants (two-year heavily 
rooted stock) to go around your 
place, planted six inches apart, 
packed and delivered to Railroad 
Station at Salisbury, Md. 
Only 9 Cents per yard, and! 
No Charge for Packing 
If you order $5.00 worth or more of 
Privet at above rate and mention 
Rural New-Yorker, I will add 
free of charge 
2 Spiraea Van Houttei 
2 Weigela 
2 Mock Orange 
Order today; this stock should be 
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Fruit and Ornamental Trees 
EVERGREENS, SHRUBS. 
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