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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 5. 
from Stokes’ 1910 Seed Catalogue 
Stoke*’ Bonny Best Early Tomato 
Finest and most prolific, Pkt. 10c; oz. 50c. 
Stokes’ Sugar Sweet Mnskmelon 
Flavor that everyone wants. Pkt. 10 c;oz. z&c. 
Stokes’ Hardshell K leek ley Sweets Watermelon 
Finest watermelon ever known, i kt. 10c; 
oz. 20 c. 
New strawberry Lettuce 
Delicious. Interior, .pink Color. Pkt. 10c; 
oz. 26c. 
Stokes’ Standard Sweet Peas 
New orchid-flowering type. Pkt. 10c ;oz. 20c. 
Stokes’ Standard Dwarf Nastnrllums 
Named varieties—prom ineiit colors. Pkt. 10 c, 
oz. 15c. 
All for 25 
jng 25c either in silver or stamps and mention 
The Rurax. New-Yorker. I will also send 
free my new catalogue. 
Walter P. Stokes, K&KJS2C 
“ BRIDGE-GRAFTING.” 
Every year we are asked to describe 
“bridge-grafting.” This is a method 
employed when trees are completely 
girdled, so that the sap cannot rise from 
the roots. In this case unless a channel 
is made for this sap into the cam¬ 
bium layer of the trunk the tree 
must die. In bridge-grafting the 
theory is to bridge over the wound 
on the trunk by inserting one end of the 
r :*vr 
Money in 
Early Tomatoes 
On® of my customers sold 
$102.35 worth of big, red to¬ 
matoes from 100 plants In bis 
back yard. Another from 14 plants In 
her flower garden, sold 312 lbs. daring, 
I July and Angnst for $16.70. It’s all In 
the knowing how and In using the right w 
seed. They used my new tomato— 
Field’s Early June 
Earlier tkaa Earfiaaa, aihandiomeasStaae, aa 
solid asPonderosa, and a greater yielder than 
any of them. The greatest new tomato is 25 
years. Small pkt., 20c; 3 for 50c; Yt ox.. $1. 
(This for specially selected seed, saved 
early.) My Garden Manual and Seed 
Catalog will give lots of pointers and 
good advice about gardening It’s 
, well worth reading. Get It and see. 
Henry Field, Pres. 
HENRY HELD SEED CO. 
Box 26 Shenandoah, Is, 
aa*__ 
Vick’s Earliana— Full 2 weeks 
ahead of all others—large, 
smooth, bright red, deli¬ 
cious, does not crack. Packet.10c, one-lialf oz...35c. 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide for 1910-best in 60 
years, Free. Write for your copy to-day. 
JAMES VICKS SONS, 430 Main Street, ROCHESTER. H. T. 
'HOW BRIDGE GRAFTING IS DONE. 
scion below this wound and the other 
end into the bark above it The Ohio 
Experiment Station in Bulletin No. 208 
gives the following statement about it. 
In bridge-drafting, the wounds should be 
made clean and smooth with a sharp knife 
and covered entirely with grafting wax. 
The scions should be cut a trifle longer than 
the span to be bridged so that, when they 
are inserted, their curving form will tend 
Tomato Seed 
Vaughan’s 1910 Seed Catalog 
from the Great Central Market is a 
business book: not a word in it to 
mislead any reader; only straight 
talk about the best kinds of vego- 
tablesand flowers that expert grow¬ 
ers in America and Europe can 
raise for ns—a fact we prove aunu- A 
ally on our big trial grounds and by til 
our sprouting tests. It is FREE—write today. 
Enclose 10cents in coin and receive 1,500 seeds 
of Vaughan’s Apple Shaped Globe Onion, 
which should produce throe bushe)6 of onions. 
Tho finest market and private gardens, green¬ 
houses and lawns for the last 33 years have been 
sown with Vaughan’s Seeds. 
VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE 
84-86Randolph St., CHICAGO; 25 Barclay St.. NewYork 
DFEV CCDIIIf Its pleasures and profits, is the 
Dbtlv tCrlNU theme of that excellent mid hand¬ 
somely illustrated magazine, GLEANINGS IN Btt 
CULTURE. We send it for six months on trial for 
twenty-five cents, and also send free a 04-page hook 
on bees and our bee supply catalog to all who name this 
- * "DOT CO.. 
paper. THE A. L ROC 
’ Box 65, Medina, Ohio. 
ALFALFA 
All Northern Grown and 
guaranteed to be 99 per cent 
pure. Should produce hay 
at $ 40.00 per acre annually. Write for Free Sam¬ 
ple and instructions on growing. _ _ _ _ 
GRAIN AND GRASS SEED 
Northern Grown and of strongest vitality. We invite yon te 
get Government Tests on our samples. 'They will interest you 
nflV DC A ilO U. S. govt, tests show that 
■kill D LA lid the grain analyzes richer than 
linseed meal and the hay nearly as nutritious aa 
Alfalfa; will grow on poor soil—and improve it. 
Well worth a fair trial. Write for Catalog Ko. 23 
WING SEED CO., Box 333 MECHANICSBURG. OHIO 
Send for our 1910 
Catalogue of 
MILLS & CO., 
SEEDS, BULBS 6 PLANTS 
Dahlias a Specialty 
Dept. 5, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 
THAT YIELD. OurSENSATlON 
OATS breaks all records. Nothing like 
it. Also SEEP CORN, Samples and cata 
ogue free, THKO. BURT & SONS, Melrose, O. 
EST SEED POTATOES 70 varieties free. 
A. G. ALDRIDGE, Fishers, Ontario County, N. Y. 
Medium, Mammoth, Alsike and Alfalfa 
Clovers, Timothy, Blue Grass, Orchard 
Grass, etc. Send for samples and prices. 
ZACK DAVIS COMPANY, DELAWARE, OHIO. 
OATS 
B 
M 
JSDIFM, Mammoth, Alsike and Timothy Seeds 
for sale. For samples and prices write _ . 
WALTER G. TRUMPLER, Tiffin, Ohio. 
Potatoes, Crish Gobbler 
TRUE TO NAME 
JOHN HERR SHE>K, 
Lancaster, Pa. 
HOW BRIDGE-GRAFTS UNITE. 
to keep them firmly fixed in position. The 
two ends of the scions are cut to a thin, 
wedge form. Incisions are made in the bark 
with a narrow chisel—those above the 
wound sloping upward and those below 
sloping downward. Insert the scions firmly 
and wax heavily and securely all wounds 
made in the operation—especial care being 
exercised to press the wax in firmly and 
neatly about the points of union of scions 
with the body of the tree. 
The pictures gfven above show how 
the grafting is done and how the 
scions unite with the tree. 
Starting a Box Edge 
Will some one advise as to the cheapest 
way of making a box edge? Do the plants 
grow readily from seed, and if so how are 
they started? What variety is considered 
most suitable for a dwarf edge? 
C. M. K. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Evergreen box grows fairly well from 
seed. The seeds should be planted in early 
Spring in shaded beds of rich, fine, deep 
soil. They should he carefully watered 
and shaded and need great care in weeding, 
as the seedlings grow very slowly. At the 
end of the second or third year they should 
be large enough to plant in nursery rows or 
hedges, placing every six inches apart. The 
dwarf variety, known as Buxus nana, is 
always preferred for dwarf edging. Varieties 
of box are also propagated from short 
cuttings of the new ripened wood propa¬ 
gated under glass during the Winter in the 
usual way. 
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. 
Hall’s Gold Nugget Corn Yielded 200 Bu. 
Crates of Ears Per Acre 
HARRIS’ SEED CORN 
W E take the greatest pains 
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SEED POTATOES 
The best early and late varie¬ 
ties of our own raising, free from 
disease. Some bargain prices. 
(Sir Walter Raleigh, {pure) 75c 
per busheL) 
OATS— The oest varieties, pure 
clean seed. 
VEGETABLE SEED-Largely 
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W. OSCAR COLLIER, Corn Specialist, EASTON, MARYLAND 
rnn OAIC —Scarlet Clover Seed, $7.50 to $8.50 
MJK OnLLi bushel: Red Clover Seed, $8.50 to 
$10.00 bushel: Cow Peas feeed, $2.50 to $2.75 bushel; 
Old Fashioned Buckwheat Flour, $...00 per 100 
pounds; Onion Sets, $2.50 bushel; Alaska Peas, 
$4.00 bushel; Seed Potatoes, $3.M bag 
JOSEPH K. HOLLAND, fllilford, Del. 
PURE LIME SCREENINGS grade of burnt 
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cars at any point between Buffalo and New- York, 
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& W., Penna.. Lehigh, O. and C. R. R. of N.J. 
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Raw Ground Lime Rock 
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F. E. CONLEY STONE CO.. Utica, N. Y 
AT WHOLESALE 
8 Concord Grapes, 25c. 
12 Wood’s Imp. Cuthbert or ld 
12 Columbian Raspberry,50c. A1 1 Prepaid. 
Write at once for illustrated Catalogue ana 
Bargain list. ALLEN L. WOOD, Rochester, N. Y. 
at ONE-HALF-^ 
City Seedsmen Prices S 
( e t us send you our catalog of seeds-=It s 
different. It tells you facts, and why we 5 an s ®^ e differencein buying yo^iTseeds in 
SQUARE DEAL. Just drop a postal today and see the amerence m u x * 
country or city. FORREST SEED CO.. Box 34. Cortland, n. t. 
