March 5, 
CflWflDIflH GBOWH 
Regenerated A.I* 
Swedish Select U9lw 
Bast of all Oats for Amoricaui Conditions 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture 
has pronounced Swedish Select or 
Wisconsin No. 4 ** the best American. 
Oat.” ‘‘Regenerated” Swedish Select, 
bred in England and introduced in 
America two years ago, was th e climax 
In the oat line tor weight, purity, and 
high breeding. 
Olds' Regenerated Swedish Select, 
grown in Canada,retains all the good qual¬ 
ities of the English stock and yields better 
because adapted to our soil and climate. 
Sample free. Ask for 88 Page Catalog, 
Fffeld Seeds, Potatoes, Garden Seeds, 
Poultry Supplies, etc. Write to-day. 
L. L. OLDS SEED COMPANY 
Drawer Y Madison, WIs. 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS 
offer their choice selections of all kinds of seeds 
such as Clovers. Alfalfa, White Clover, Crimson 
(’lover. Red Top. Blue Grass, Hairy Vetches, 
Orchard Grass and all kinds of grain and field 
seeds, which we buy direct from the farming com¬ 
munity and sell direct to the farmer. Prices and 
samples on application. We deliver seeds, freight 
prepaid, to nearest railroad station. 
N. WERTHKIMER & SONS, Ligonier. Ind. 
Plant Grape Vines. 
From healthy, heavy bearing vines. Bpecial Prices 
Now on 1,000 lots. Get our price on what you want. 
Concord and Niagara by mail, half of each kind- 
twelve one-year vines. $1; eight two-year, $1.60, or 
six three-year (bear next season) for 52. 
N. G. & J. T. MERRITT, D unkirk, N.Y. 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Grape and l arrant riant* 
Extra Heavy Rooted High tirade Stock. 
38th Annual Wholesale and Retail Catalogue Free. 
A. R. WESTON & CO., R. 8 , Bridgman, Mich. 
"THE FAMOUS” 
FENDALL STRAWBERRY” 
And AH the Leading Varieties 
Send for catalogue. It’s free. 
CHAS. E. FENDALL & SON. 
Originators of the Fendall and Growers of Fine Plants, 
Towson, Md. 
L ATE Seed Potatoes, Northern grown; one variety 
only; best yielding and quality; no rot. Car-lot 
price very low. Cboss Road Faum, Plattsburg, N.V. 
CDilfT TDCCC Roses, Shrubs, and all kinds 
inUll I flLLo of Berry Plants; No. 1 stock; 
lowest prices. Catalogue free._ 
W. A. ALLEN & S ONS, Geneva. Ohio 
L OOK! LOOK! STRAWBERRY PLANTS— Chipman, Bu- 
bach and Fendall, Chesapeake; Cumberland and 
Kansas Raspberry Plants. Ratbbun, Lucretia 
B. B. LMants. My plants are fine. Before placing 
your order anywhere it will pay to get my catalog; 
it is free. D. W. MOSLEY, Lover, Lei. 
Strawberry Plants * Descriptive catalogue 
free. BASIL PERRY D-18, Cool Spring, Delaware. 
S TRAWBERRY PLANTS-Eiglit best varie¬ 
ties. ASPARAGUS and vegetable plants. 
Prices right. Send for onv price list. , „ _ , 
^CALEB BOGGS & SON, Cheswold, Del. 
T WO Million Strawberry and Raspberry Plants. 
None better. None cheaper. Catalog free. 
J. F. CATHCAUT & SONS. Box 114, Bristol, lnd. 
P EDIGREED ONION SEED— Southport Red Globe and 
Yellow Globe Danvers from carefully selected 
bulbs Write for prices and full particulars. 
K. F. CLARK & SON, Way land, Michigan. 
Potato Growers dirVct ^ SEK 
and save money. White, smooth, sand grown 
Rural New Yorkers, free from blight, $1.55 per 167 
lb. sack. Also a few Irish Cobblers and Early 
Petoskeys. L. G. BRIDGER, R. D. 8, Phelps, N,Y, 
Plnunr Cnarl -Timothy. Oats and Seed Potatoes, 
lllUYCI oCCUi 28 varieties; sold direct; catalogue 
free CLICK’S SEED FARMS, Lancaster, Pa. 
C„A»i GotoInn-no —Send us your name and ad- 
Seetl bataiogue. dress, and we wm mail free 
our 1910 catalogue of seed potatoes, seed corn, 
seed oats,alfalfa seed, in fact, everything in seeds. 
MACE & MANSFIELD, Greenville, Ohio. 
MILLIONS OF TREES, 
PLANTS, VINES, ROSES, Etc. 
The oldest, largest and most complete nursery In 
Michigan. 8end for catalog. Prices reasonable. 
Agents wanted. I. E. ILGKNFRITZ' SONS CO., 
The Monroe Nursery, Monroe, Mich. 
For Best EXTENSION LADDER “ "SSKt? 
JOHN J. POTTER,!* Mill St., Bingham toon, K. Y. 
farm ! 
Kina ■ 
L V-t. SS 
A great trial collection of 
seeds, composed o t ISpelti, 
the cereal and hay wonder. H Silver 
" iff Bariev , capturing the world prize 
173 bus. per A. 5 Rei. Bonanza Oats, 
backed by four fine farms for biggest 
yields. ^Billion Dollar (7raM,theTenTon 
Grass Wonder. ^Sailer’s hardy, luxuri¬ 
ant Alfalfa, endorsed by Oov. Hoard, at 
the best on earth and H five other packages. 
All tor 10c in stumps or send 14c and we add 
a sample package of Nameless Corn. Try to name 
oar new com, whether or not you buy a sample 
packet. Send in a name. Entrance is free. If 
another sends same (acceptable) name at yon, th, 
prize will bo equally divided. We offer 
$500.00 IN COLD 
for a name. Write to-day, Wo. are the largest 
growers of farm and vegetable seed* iu the 
world. Cat. Free, Namecoctest ends May 10 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
I44V0« fllh 8k La Crosse, WIs, 
W^AT BARGAIN PRICES 
Bargain list. 
8 Apples for $1.00. 6 Pears for $1 DO. 
6 Plums for $1.00. 8 Cherries for $1.00. 
12 Peaches for $1 00. Trees guaranteed. 
Write at once for Illustrated Catalogue and 
ALLEN L. WOOD, Rochester, N. Y. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
THE 
THE NURSERYMEN'S SIDE OF 
SUBSTITUTED TREE CASE. 
Part I. 
The reports of mixed or substituted 
trees, damage suits commenced, and 
editorial comments on such cases in 
The R. N.-Y. seem to need some prac¬ 
tical explanation from the standpoint 
of the nurseryman; as most of what has 
been published has been enough to 
prompt the question from the intending 
buyers of nursery stock, “Can any good 
thing come out of Nazareth?” or like 
the proverbial Indian, the only good 
nurseryman is a dead nurseryman. Hav¬ 
ing spent all my life in the nursery busi¬ 
ness until four years ago; serving as an 
apprentice, foreman, superintendent, and 
partner, I feel qualified to speak a word 
for the nurserymen, and having no con¬ 
nection or interest In any nursery at 
the present time, I can speak without 
prejudice. The seedsmen and nursery¬ 
men are only human beings, therefore 
cannot be held more responsible for 
their failures than the trucker or fruit 
grower for theirs, neither should they 
be held morally or legally more re¬ 
sponsible for a mi-s-labeled tree any more 
than the fruit grower should for a mis¬ 
labeled package of fruit. The buyer of 
a barrel of apples labeled XX and- 
topped XX who finds, the remainder of 
the barrel culls or worse, has just. as 
much cause for a damage suit against 
the fruit grower, as many of the buyers 
of nursery stock have against the nurs¬ 
eryman. When deliberate transparent 
fraud is committed, both nurseryman 
and fruit grower should willingly make 
amends for such losses on the part of 
the buyer. When mistakes are made 
unintentionally, both sides should be 
ready to make reasonable concessions. 
Many complaints are unreasonable and 
in consequence therefore are hard to 
adjust. A few years ago, a damage 
suit for some celery seed that, proved 
to be worthless was started against one 
of the oldest and most reliable seed 
houses in this country. The amount of 
damage claimed, if it had been collected, 
would have made the plaintiff rich, and 
ruined the seed house; in short the 
amount claimed as damage for the loss 
of this crop was more than the net 
profits on the crop of celery in any 
ten States of the country, and more 
than the net profits of the seed house 
on all of its sales in many years. An¬ 
other case was about some oats pur¬ 
chased from a seedsman that contained 
a large amount of wild turnips or mus¬ 
tard seed. In this case a jury awarded 
damages to an amount that was more 
than the farm was worth on which the 
seed was sown. 
A planter bought a few thousand 
dormant buds after he was advised by 
the nurseryman that dormant buds were 
unsatisfactory stock to plant, but having 
the peach fever he insisted on having 
them. Those dormant buds were pur¬ 
chased from a small nursery and were 
dug, bundled, and delivered by the 
grower to the nurseryman, who packed 
and shipped them in the original bun¬ 
dles to the planter. This planter was 
a lumberman, and knew nothing about 
planting or caring for a tree, so entrust¬ 
ed the planting to hired help. A severe 
drought soon after the stock was planted 
caused the loss of practically the whole 
lot of these dormant buds, which under 
the most favorable conditions would 
have been an unsatisfactory stand. At 
the time this planter received the stock, 
he wrote saying that a few of the trees 
had root-galls on them, and he was 
advised to discard them, and turn in 
an account of all such stock, that the 
same might be deducted from the 
nurseryman’s bill, and at the same time 
credit could be given to him; this he 
did not do, as he wanted the trees. 
After the buds failed to start he was 
told that the knots or galls were the 
cause of it all. He took the case to a 
scientific man, and he at once told him 
that his ground was ruined for future 
peach orchards, etc.; and on the strength 
of all this he wanted damages. The 
purchase price of the stock was about 
$200, but the nurseryman, finding that 
the man was -unreasonable, and was be¬ 
ing unreasonably advised, offered to 
make a settlement with him—(not on 
reasonable grounds but simply to avoid 
trouble and lawsuits) to give him several 
hundred dollars to settle and stop his 
noise. So confident had he become that 
he had a chance to get- a larger amount 
as damages, than he could ever possibly 
get out of peach crops, that he asked for 
thousands of dollars to settle. His law¬ 
yers encouraged him, and before the case 
came to a trial they had increased the 
amount to double the original claim. 
The case was tried in the home town of 
the planter, by a jury of his neighbors, 
and they gave him a verdict of about 
one-half the amount that the nursery¬ 
man had originally offered to pay him; 
E. S. BLACK. 
Everything for the Garden 
is the title of Our 1910 Catalogue — the most beautiful and 
instructive horticultural publication of the day—a book of 200 pages 
—700 photo engravings from nature—8 superb colored and 
duotone plates of vegetables and flowers. It is a mine of 
information of everything in gardening either for pleasure or for 
profit, and embodies the results of sixty years’ experience. 
To give this catalogue the largest possible distribution we make tbe following liberal 
offer: 
Every Empty Envelope 
Counts as Cash 
To every one who will state where this advertisement was seen and who en¬ 
closes Ten Cents (in stamps) we will mail the catalogue and also send 
free of charge our famous 50 cent “HENDERSON” COLLECTION 
OF SEEDS, containing one packet each of Giant Mixed Sweet Peas; Giant 
Fancy Pansies, Mixed; Giant Victoria Asters, Mixed; Henderson's Bis 
Boston Lettuce; Freedom Tomato and Henderson’s Blood Turnip Beet in a 
coupon envelope which, when emptied and returned, will be accepted as a 
25-cent cash payment on any order amounting to $1.00 and upward. 
In addition, all ordering from this advertisement will receive a copy of our 
Garden Guide and Record, which wc consider one of our most valuable 
publications. A book of condensed cultural information of which one of cur 
customers who has had an advance copy^says: “It is the most complete, 
concise and comprehensioe hook of its kind. " 
Peter Henderson & Co. < 
35 & 37 
Cortland St. 
Mew York City 
Apple , Pear, Cherry 
and Peach Trees 
New Roses, new Lilacs, new red grape Lucile, 
Syracuse new hardy red raspberry, new Diploma 
Currant, Red Cross Currant, Green’s new hardy 
blackberry, new Cans early pear. Wilder early 
pear, Dwarf apple trees. Dwarf pear trees. 10 
carloads of Bartlett pear trees, standard and 
dwarf. Evergreens and deciduous hedge plants. 
Send to-day for NEW FRUIT CATALOGUE, and 
a copy of BIG FRUIT INSTRUCTOR, all a gift to 
you. Established 30 years. Capital, $100,000.00. Send 10 
cents for Green ‘b Book on Fruit Growing—worth $1. 
CREEN’S NURSERY CO., Box 22 ■ Rochostar, N. Y. 
General Assortment. 
FRUIT TREES. 
■ * ™ ™ ™ Readers are familiar with the 
values we have offered through this paper for nearly 25 years. Beautiful 2-year Cherry, 3 to 4 ft.. 
S>7 per lOO. Our free catalogue will interest you. IT. S. WILEY & SON,Drawer 5, Cayuga,N. 1 - 
FRUIT TREES. 
T. B. WEST, Maple Bend Nursery, PERRY, O., Lock Box 287. 
—Small Fruit Plants, Ornamental Trees and 
Shrubs. Hundreds of thousands Of Strawberry 
and Raspberry Plants. Send for catalogue. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE HAMPERS FOR 1910 
If interested send for catalogue and price list. 
SOUTH SIDE MANUFACTURING CO., Petersburg, Va. 
New York Office, 114 Warren Street. 
We pay the Freigh 
Send for 
Catalogue 
and Sample 
The only perfect Sap Spout 
THE WARNER 
Produces the Most Sap. Guaranteed Not to Break' 
No Rossing of the Tree, No Leaking. No Pulling Out 
of the Tree in Heavy Winds, or by Thawing and Freezing. 
PRICE, - - 82.75 PER HUNDRED. Manufactured by 
GEO. D. JARVIS & CO., 45 chur b c u£l^£, vt. 
Have You 
The Price List of CALL’S NURSER¬ 
IES. Perry, Ohio ? They have a large 
stock of the finest Fruit Trees. Deal 
direct. Prices low. Guarantee satis¬ 
faction. Also a large stock of Seed 
Corn and Oats. 
CDIIIT TDCCC-? 10 V* T hundred; freight paid; 
mu I I I IT LLO send for our free catalogueon 
fruits and ornamentals. ONTARIO KLR>SLR\ 
CO., Box No. 21, Geneva, N. Y. 
CD HIT Send for new catalog of Fruit and Orna- 
rnU I I mental Trees, Berry Plants, Asparagus, 
vnrrft etc. Get our prices before ordering 
TRFF\ elsewhere. Stock fresh dug, direct to 
I IILLO piasters at low prices. We grow the old 
fashioned, hardy WHITE SWEET LHKHKY. 
L’AMOREAUX NURSERY COMPANY. Schoharie. N, Y, 
a r»r»T -p nmTE'C-50,000 fine straight, 
APPLE TKhbS healthy, stocky, well 
rtl i LL IBLLvJ roo ted trees. Leading 
^TetiesToTohio^VYa., Penn., New York State. 
Priw reasonable. SALESMEN WANTED. 
Outfit free. Address ouln 
W. T. MITCHELL & SON, BEVERLY. OHIO. 
COM! |T APPLES. PEARS, PLUMS, CHER* 
r_n%J * M RIES ppACHES, SMALL FRUITS. 
TfTFFC SHRUBS and ROSES. B«l Trees, best 
1 nCt J prices Catalog Free. Address J. FAERBER, 
Fruitland Nurseries, 315 Winton Rd. No.. Rochester. N. Y. 
DCfflU TDCCC— ^Fonrand five cents—Elberta, 
iLAuil I LlLLO etc. Orchard size. Send for 
our free catalogue. WOODBINE NURSERIES 
W. A. Allen & Sons, Geneva, Ohio. 
FRUIT TREES, 10 Cents 
Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry- Hardy, thrifty, 
fibrous-rooted and well developed. Also a splen¬ 
did assortment of small fruits, ornamentals, 
shrubs and roses. Catalogue free. THOS- MARKS 
& CO., Nurserymen, Geneva, N. Y. 
Trees, Plants & Vines 
Secure the VERY BEST grown. 
means"* Se n< i for our EREE Catalog. 
piiAUT*/ the ROCHESTER NURSERIES, Rochester, N. Y 
A 5c. STAMP 
will promptly bring to you a copy 
of our Catalogue or one of our 
SALESMEN. 
THE M. H. HARMAN COMPANY 
(A household name.) 
Growers and Importers of everything OCMpUA MV 
of merit m the Horticultural hue, uLIILYH, n , I ■ 
OUR PEACH TREES 
Propagated from Bearing Trees 
Rose Rushes on own roots. Small Fruit 
Plants good as can be grown anywhere. Let 
me send you catalogue of our full line of stock. 
Send your address. Let me quote you price on 
Fertilizer Chemicals you may need. 
W. L. McKAY, 
The Van Ousen Nurseries. BoxR, Geneva, N. Y. 
12 FRUIT TREES 
Value $1.90 for 98c 
1 Roosevelt, 2 Lombard, 1 .Brad¬ 
shaw Plum; 1 Montmorency, 1 
Windsor Cherry; 1 Niagara, 1 
F.Iberta Peach; 1 Baldwin, 1 
Dutchess Apple, 1 Orange Quince and 1 Bartlett 
Pear. All 12 trees first class, 4 feet high for »8 cts. 
Send us a listof your wants forwholesale prices 
Write for free illustrated catalogue. 
HAIjOKEY HKOS. ic WELLS, Box 16 BA.VSVILLE, N. If. 
STRAW 
BERRY 
PLANTS 
MILLIONS 
Or THEM 
Exclsior, Bubac h 
Klondyke, 
Lady Thompson, 
Aroma, Gandy, 
and all the best 
Commercial 
Varieties. 
Lusty, healthy, mountain-grown stock at bargain prices 
CHATTANOOGA NURSERIES 
62 Minion Ridge- '. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 
