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fHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 
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Earlier than you ever had before 
THE HALL SEED AND PLANT FORCER enables you to 
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Transplanting Papaw Trees. 
I have a dozen or more .seedling papaw 
trees five to six feet tall that I wish to 
transplant early this Spring. Can you 
advise me as to the best soil and location 
to set them in? I have decided to plant 
them in a group, on rich, moist but well- 
drained ground, in a sunny slope, with 
open southern exposure near the brook, 
but am not certain how far apart to set 
them, nor whether the papaw would grow 
best in the clear or under shelter and 
partial shade of other trees. Are they 
difficult to transplant successfully? 
Ilatboro, Pa. • c. s. M. 
The papaw (Asimina triloba) is hard 
to transplant, particularly when taken 
from the woods. If such specimens are 
to be transplanted, the work will be more 
successful if small, rather than large 
specimens are moved. Large, spongy- 
rooted plants like the papaw and Mag¬ 
nolia, are best transplanted about the 
time they start in to grow, rather than 
very early in the season. As large a ball, 
and as many of the roots as possible, 
should be secured. The papaw prefers a 
deep, rich, moist, but well-drained soil. 
Such conditions should be given the trees 
in their new location. Dig the holes for 
these trees just as soon as possible, two 
feet wide and two feet deep, and mix with 
the soil taken out a very liberal supply 
of leaf mold, peat, or other thoroughly 
decayed vegetable matter, and the soil 
returned to the hole, having first put 
such stones as came out of the hole back 
into the bottom for drainage. Some well- 
rotted horse manure can be mixed with 
that part of the soil going into the bot¬ 
tom of the hole, but it must not come in 
contact with the roots of the newly- 
planted trees. Let the soil settle if pos¬ 
sible before planting, but this is not 
absolutely essential. 
If the trees fail to grow with this 
treatment, the next best way to get pa- 
paws growing on the home grounds is to 
grow them from seed. Collect the seed 
as soon as the fruits are ripe. Wash 
the pulp from the seeds, then plant them 
directly in pots, pans or flats, and store 
in a cool place over Winter where they 
will not dry out. Or, the seed can be 
stratified in sand—mixed with sand— 
the sand to be kept damp, but not wet, 
over Winter, either by burying the box 
in which the stratified seeds are kept in 
the ground, or in a cool cellar. In any 
event, it is important that the seeds do 
not become dry. B. 
Propagating Shade Trees. 
I wish to make an addition to the in¬ 
formation given concerning hickory trees 
on page S. The hickory and walnut are 
very hard to transplant, and I believe 
that very few people will successfully 
transplant them. Under normal condi¬ 
tions they will lose a large percentage of 
the young trees. Mr. Jackson Dawson, 
the superintendent of the Arnold Arbore¬ 
tum, Jamica Plain, Mass., is one of the 
most successful propagators that I know. 
He plants the seeds in “flats.” These 
“flats” are shallow boxes made from soap 
boxes about four inches deep, with four 
or five holes in the bottom for drainage. 
They are filled with good, well-drained 
garden loam, and the seeds are planted 
about three inches apart. This is done in 
the Fall. They are piled up in the cellar, 
in the cold pit or frame over Winter, 
where they will not dry out. In the 
Spring they are put out of doors and 
watered frequently enough to keep the 
soil moist. It is a little more work to 
grow the plants in this way than to plant 
the seeds in the ground, but the yearling 
seedlings are very easily transplanted 
the following Spring to the places where 
they are to grow. 
To remove the seedlings from the boxes 
the sides or bottoms are removed and the 
soil washed from the rocks. By this 
method the tap roots are not broken. 
Whore the young trees are grown in 
nursery rows, the tap roots are broken 
when being lifted, which causes a high 
percentage of mortality. I would suggest 
that if “C. J. O.” intends to plant elm 
trees along a driveway, or in a position 
where he wants them all of the same 
character, that he graft his elms instead 
of growing them from seed. There are 
six or seven different types of growth of 
our common American elm (Ulmus Amer- 
icanus) and if he will select his scions 
from the type of tree that he desires and 
top-work some seedling trees, he can then 
reproduce that particular type of tree. 
r. T. B. 
Start Your Garden Early 
In response to a special demand I have 
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WILLIAM H. LUTTON 
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Red Clover Seed $8 50 to 9.50 
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MILLIONS 
pa vagus roots, etc. 
J. KEIFFORD HALL, 
OF STRA WBERR Y P LANTS 
for sale, true to name. As- 
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Strawberry Plants 
RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY and all small fruit plants, 
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the nTw Standpat Everbearing Strawberry 
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’ Our 21st annual catalog now ready. 
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For over thirty years KNIGHT'S PLANTS havo 
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Seed Oats and Seed Barley for Sale - ^™ 
selected re-cleaued oats, $1.15 per bu. Be-cleaned 
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main crop and early varieties. Write for descrip¬ 
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STRAW BERRY PLANTS 
We have eight that have been selected out of a 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
berry, Blackberry, 
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FKick. Harry J,. Squires, Remsenburg, N. Y. 
Planted by those who appreciate quality and very moderate prices 
ONION SEED. Yellow Danvers, Large 
Red Wethersfield, $1.10 ; Yellow Globe 
Danvers, $1.25 per pound 
postpaid. 
ONION SETS. Choice 
99 Yellow, $2.50 ; Selected Yellow ; Choice 
White, $2.75 per bushel (32 lbs.) 
J. AUG. DRAKE, Seedsman, 100 Main Street, Chester, New Jersey 
Drake’s 
“Satisfactory 
Seeds 
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of New Enkhuizen 
Glory Cabbage and 
Now Triumph Radish 
Allen’s Strawberry Plants Bear Large, 
Luscious Fruit 
"YCtlR success as a frui t grower depends largely upon securing 
berry plants from carefully grown stock. You are sure of the 
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All Shipments of Plants Guaranteed to be carefully l packed 
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Allen’s Book of Berries for 1914 
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This book is profusely illustrated and full o{valuable information to fruit 
growers. Tells how to plant and cultivate Strawberries and other small fruits. 
It also lists and describes Allen’s True-to-Name Blackberries, Raspber¬ 
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W. F. ALLEN 72 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 
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If you want the highest grade seeds years 
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We have Seed Com testing 96 100% 
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—BOX 93— lirlT 
Cold water, NewYork^^ 
