THE FLURA-L NEW-YORKER 
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THE HARDIE SPRAYERS 
The Hardie Junior is the biggest little sprayer 
ever made. It is big - in everything- except pi-ice. 
Never before have you been offered so much for 
such a small price. 
Specifications: 150 gallon tank, Its inch thick; heart 
cypress; rotary agitator running in brass bearings; 1)4 
horse power 4cycle engine, water-cooled pump with cut 
gears, bronze hearings, hell metal ball valves, 4 gallons 
per minute, 200 lbs. pressure, machine fully cabbed, 25 
feet high pressure nose, Hilo spray rod; large tank 
strainer; full kit of tools. 
You should know more about this wonderful 
machine. Our catalogue shows twenty kinds of 
hand and power sprayers. 
The HARDIE MFG. CO., Hudson, Mich. 
are noted for their 
HIGH PRESSURE 
LARGE CAPACITY 
SIMPLICITY OF CON- 
STRUCTION 
ACCESSIBILITY OF 
ALL PARTS 
FREEDOM FROM EX¬ 
PERIMENTAL RISKS 
Known by over 6000 growers 
as “ The Sprayer with the 
Trouble left out." 
Hardie Junior as shown here 
PRICE $140.00 
with complete equipment 
TRUCK $25.00 EXTRA 
WE PAY THE FREIGHT 
Do You Have to 
be Shown?- 
I’m told that I have the best 
' s 'fbJh ►quality of seed, give the largest 
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souri line and I’ll “show” you. 
I’ll send you the Seed Book and a big pack¬ 
age of garden seed, and you can judge for 
yourself. NO CHARGE FOR EITHER, 
and you need not even send the postage un¬ 
less you wish. 
I also have guaranteed Clover and Al¬ 
falfa, and all kinds of farm seed at 
Farmer’s Prices. Shall I send you free 
samples of these also? 
HENRY FIELD, Pres. 
HEMRY FlEtD SEEP CD., Be» 26, Shenandoah. lonra. 
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SWEET CLOVER 
This plant Is now generally recognized as being the 
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976 Insurance Bldg, Rochester, N.Y. 
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NURSERY COMPANY 
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The only persons by the name of Sheerin in the Nursery business in Dansville 
The H ome Acre. 
LAYING OUT A PLACE. 
Tart I. 
I ask for plans by which T may im¬ 
prove land surrounding my house. The 
place is level, but is full of hog cranber¬ 
ries. The house is in the center; the let¬ 
ter A in diagram is a small persimmon 
tree I put out lust September. B B are 
very small plum trees. X small roots of 
locust trees about 12 inches high. O 
young pine trees, all hardy, and vary 
from six feet to 15 feet high. The four 
sides are fenced in with cedar posts four 
feet above ground; the east and south 
sides have barb wire, but no wire on 
north or west sides. On the south side 
there is a space 40x70, which was plowed 
(hut a poor job). The house is nearing 
completion and is to be used as a Sum¬ 
mer home three months in the year, June, 
July and August and possibly September. 
It is on Cape Cod, near the salt water. 
IIow can I beautify this place? Will 
curved roadways help? What advantage 
would fruit trees be and what sort could 
I put out? IIow can I clear the land so 
I can have lawn grass? To sum this 
January 17, 
should be raked off in the Spring and 
the remaining fine manure lightly spaded 
in, being careful uot to disturb the roots. 
All deciduous trees and shrubs should 
be pruned (cut back) when planted, if 
this is neglected many of them will be 
apt to die the first season after planting. 
Beds and borders for flowers and roses 
should be dug out to a depth of IS inches 
or more and filled in with good top soil, 
mixed with one-fourth its bulk of well- 
rotted stable manure. 
For privet and Althaea hedges, a 
trench should be dug IS inches wide and 
IS inches deep, and filled in with good 
top soil mixed with one-fourth its bulk 
of well-rotted stable manure. Immedi¬ 
ately after planting California privet and 
Altha?a, the hedges should be cut evenly 
to within six inches of the ground, and 
then be allowed to grow without further 
trimming the first season. After the first 
season it should again be cut down to 
within eight or 10 inches of the ground, 
and allowed to grow the second season 
FLAN FOR GROUNDS OF COUNTRY HOME. Fig. 26. 
improvement in the general layout, such 
as walks, shade trees, a garden and a 
fence, either hedge or something that 
; will look well. j. e: s. 
Boston, Mass. 
For specimen trees and shrubs (indi¬ 
viduals located by individual numbers) 
holes should be dug 2% feet in diameter 
and two feet in depth, and filled in with 
good surface soil mixed with one-fourth 
its bulk of well-rotted stable manure. 
The entire space to be occupied by 
massed planting of shrubs aud plants 
should he prepared by trenching. Com¬ 
mencing at one end of the ground to he 
trenched, a space, say five feet wide is 
dug out one spade deep, and the surface 
soil thrown to one side. The subsoil 
is then dug up to the depth of one spade 
and mixed with one-fourth its bulk of 
well-rotted stable manure, and then a 
second section five feet wide of the sur¬ 
face soil is taken out to the depth of 
one spade and thrown on top of the first 
section of spaded and manured subsoil, 
and the second section prepared the same 
as the first. These operations are to be 
continued until the entire space of 
ground to be prepared is gone over, when 
the top soil that was thrown aside from 
the first section is removed to, and placed 
on top of the subsoil in the last section. 
After digging two inches of well-rotted 
manure should be added to the surface 
soil and mixed with it. Sod should he 
carefully edged up to these plantings as 
shown on plan by the regular lines en¬ 
closing them. 
The surface of the soil about all plant¬ 
ings should he mulched liberally with 
coarse strawy manure every Fall. This 
mulching will be a good protection to 
the roots in Winter, and the leaehings 
from the manure will enrich the soil 
and promote growth. All the roughage 
without further trimming. The hedges 
will now be well filled out near the 
ground. The privet should he lined up 
to the height it is desired and cut back 
evenly to the line on top. The sides 
should be likewise lined and trimmed. 
Subsequent shearings with the hedge 
shears during the growing season will 
keep the privet hedge at the proper 
height and width. To have the Althaea 
hedge make the best show, it should be 
cut down to within 10 or 12 inches of 
the ground every year in early Spring. 
It will then bloom on the young wood, 
almost from the ground up, thus making 
a fine show at a time when no other 
shrubs are in bloom (midsummer). 
For small evergreens, the holes should 
be dug 18 inches deep and two feet wide, 
and good top soil only, nsed in the holes 
when planting. A mulching of coarse 
manure around thorn on the surface will 
retain moisture aud help keep the ground 
cool during Summer. 
All the cranberry bushes should be 
grubbed out, after which the ground 
should be deeply plowed, when it should 
he smoothed and leveled. Then apply a 
liberal coat of fine well-rotted manure 
and spade it in throe inches deep and 
before raking apply air-slaked lime at 
the rate of one ton to the acre, spreading 
it evenly. Now rake the ground level 
and roll with a heavy hand roller, after 
which go over the ground, filling in all 
depressions and leveling off all bumps. 
Then roll cross-ways; go over the ground 
again raking soil into all low places and 
leveling down all bumps. After which 
it will be ready for seeding to grass, 
which should be of a mixture suitable 
for the seashore. Sow at the rate of 
five bushels per aero. k. 
(Concluded next week. ) 
