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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 4, 1915, 
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The Home Acre 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 
Pansies. — My pansy seed has been 
sown. I sow in an open border and cover 
the bed with gunny sacks till the seed be¬ 
gin to germinate. This keeps the surface 
of the soil from drying and baking, and 
also shelters from the hot sun. Some 
of the plants will be transplanted into a 
frame for early blooming, and the re¬ 
mainder •will be set in open beds, for they 
winter easily and will bloom far better 
than if transplanted from a frame in the 
Spring. 
Kudzu Vine. —Seed of the kudzu vine 
planted in the greenhouse in February 
and which I had about despaired of 
germinating, have just shown above 
ground. I suppose that the seed was 
from Japan and not altogether fresh 
perhaps, but the slow germination may 
be the habit of the plant. It is not slow, 
however, when it once starts to grow, 
for it is one of the most rampant of 
hardy climbing plants. 
Seedling Gannas. —I have been grow¬ 
ing seedling Gannas with the object of 
getting plants of a dwarf and floriferous 
character, and a bed just outside of my 
office door shows that I am getting closer 
to the object, for the bed is a mass of 
crimson flower heads and only one plant 
over two feet high to top of the big flower 
head. We have plenty of the tall Cannas 
with massive foliage, but need dwarf ones 
for making beds in which the flower 
mass is the object rather than the foli- 
age. 
Fall Gnors.—Seed of the May King 
lettuce for the outdoor Fall crop has been 
sown. This variety heads earlier than 
I3ig Boston, and it is hard here to grow 
the Big Boston for the outdoor Fall crop 
because of its tendency to run up to 
seed during the warm weather. I often 
am inclined to envy the Northern grow¬ 
ers their ability to get some crops in the 
Fall which we cannot. At Grand Rapids, 
Mich., a few years ago I saw a field, of 
splendidly headed lettuce in early Sep¬ 
tember. The most skillful gardener 
could do nothing like that down here. 
Then at Cleveland, Ohio, I saw them 
marketing beautiful celery in Septem¬ 
ber, and we can not do that either. 
Every climate has its advantages and 
also its disadvantages; we cannot have 
everything in one place. But we can 
beat the North on melons, and the thou¬ 
sands of acres around here in cantaloupes 
are now being profitably stripped of the 
crop, and seem to be the one crop that 
the truckers are getting some money out j 
of this year. 
Tomatoes. —It has been a wonderful ' 
season for tomatoes of the early varie- | 
ties, so far as the product is concerned. ! 
but there has been a good deal of loss j 
from suusealding recently. The later ! 
varieties, which have thicker foliage, do ! 
not suffer so badly from this cause. Not¬ 
withstanding the fact that the canning 
factories are offering much lower prices 
this season, there seems to be a larger j 
area in tomatoes than ever. A few days j 
ago I rode through four counties of this 
great Eastern Shore, and did not see j 
a farm in sight of the railroad but had \ 
a field of tomatoes, and of course the j 
same condition prevails farther back, for 
the canneries are everywhere here. 
Southern Crops. —Last Winter my 
mail was loaded with letters from the 
Southern farmers asking for information 
about growing early Irish potatoes. I 
urged them to keep out of it this sea¬ 
son, but hundreds went in much to their 
loss. Now there has come a fever among 
the same class for making a Fall crop 
of lettuce in the open ground. Again 
I am warning them that the Northern 
growers can make the Fall outdoor crop 
better than the Southern growers, and 
unless they have a good home market 
they had better let lettuce alone unless 
they grow the Winter crop in frames 
under glass or cloth. Another man writes 
that in his neighborhood they have grown 
about 100 acres of sunflowers, and wants 
to know all about harvesting, curing and 
where to sell them. If anyone knows 
I would like to hear from them. Instead 
of going into systematic farming, the 
cotton growers are looking for profit in 
all sorts of odd crops, and usually at 
a loss. 
Potato Prices. —W. A. S. is doing re¬ 
markably well in selling Irish potatoes 
for $1 a bushel. Our growers did not 
got much more than half that much for 
a barrel. 
IIot Lye For Peach Borers. —Many 
years ago a man owning a small farm in 
Maryland got into financial difficulties, 
and the sheriff was going to sell his farm. 
He had a small peach orchard, and de¬ 
termined that he would kill the trees 
rather than let anyone else have them, 
lie made strong lye from hardwood ashes 
and poured it boiling hot around the base 
of the trees to kill them, but the result 
was that he killed the borers and the 
trees took on new life. Hot wood ash 
lye will be better than the can lye, for 
that is soda and not potash, while the 
wood-ash lye is potash and this will help 
the trees. But nothing will completely 
keep the borers out nor kill all of them, 
and the best way is to go over the trees 
Spring and Fall and dig out all of them. 
TnE Kudzu Vine. —I had a kudzu 
vine a number of years in North Caro¬ 
lina. There it made a woody climber, 
losing only the tender shoots that grew 
just before frost, and made hard woody 
branches 10 feet from the ground. I 
have one plant here that has made an 
enormous growth this, its second year, 
and I have a number of young seedlings 
to plant next Spring. The large plant is 
covering very thickly a side porch be¬ 
tween my dwelling and my office, and 
this season has made a growth more than 
several Lima beans would have made. 
It will not die back to the ground here, 
but from Philadelphia northward will 
probably be truly herbaceous and hardy 
as to the roots. Plants like the one I 
have here would certainly make a very 
heavy amount of forage if planted for 
that purpose. Where it now is it has 
grown too large, and much has been cut 
away. The seedlings I have grown from 
Japanese seed will be planted out next 
Spring, and let run at will to see what 
sort of forage it will make. 
Maryland. w. F. massey. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker's 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
The Threshing Problem 
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Morristown, Tenn. 
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OFFICE AND SALESROOM 
115 WARREN STREET, NEW YORK 
$1500 A Carl 
That’s what we received last season gross for some of our 
peaches. Most of our fruit sells proportionately as well—our 
trees are budded from bearing trees in test orchards; 
thats why. And they’re healthy and big—hardened 
by the keen salt air winds from the Atlantic and with 
enormous root systems developed by our deep, loose 
loamy soil. We have 2,500 acres of true-to-name 
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and Ornamental Trees, Roses, Shrubs and Vines. 
The Wm. J. Reilly Nurseries 
22 Ossian St., - Dansville, N. Y. 
Bose Pears 
Plant This Fall 
Big crops at 
good prices 
come from 
this splendid 
variety — 
growers have 
received $9 a 
barrel for past two seasons. FRASER'S BOSC trees 
are extra fine, clean, healthy, with good roots 
and big tranks. I a Iso grow other reliable Pears. 
Cherries, and fifty sorts of apples. Send for my 
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SAMUEL FRASER. 126 Main Street. Geneseo, N. Y 
Millions of trees & plants 
."Wholesale Prices. Direct from grower. Guaranteed 1 
quality Apple & peach trees. Asnaragus, gooseber¬ 
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t THE WESTMINSTER NURSERY, Box 129, Westminster, Wld. 
APPLE, PEAK, PEACH 
Plum, Cherry and Quince 
First-class stock. Prices low. 
Catalogue free. Harry L. Squires, Remsenburo, N.Y. 
FRUIT TREES 
gtfjjA SHEERIIV’S FRESH DUG 
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NURSERIES 48 Seward Street, Dansville, N. Y. 
Here’s a book of daily needs you 
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best of every thing for the or- 
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Standard spray materials, har¬ 
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Our Service Department 
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what implement, spray material, etc., you need. 
Ask questions. But send for the book today. 
B. G. PRATT COMPANY 
Dept. N 50 Church St., New York 
Cabbage and Celery Plants 
fine stocky plants, of all the Leading Varieties. $1 
per 1,000; *8.50 per 10,000. J. C. Schmidt, Bristol. Pa 
STRA WBERRY PLANTS 
POT-GROWN AND RUNNER 
Ready for planting now. Will bear fruit next 
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HARKY L. SQUIRES, Kemsenburg, N. Y. 
SEED WHEAT 
VARIETIES THAT YIELD' MORE AND RH- 
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Quarts of Strawberries Next Spring 
from 101) plants. All my plants are now wed 
rooted. 10'l strong-rooted young plants for $1.50. 25 
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T. C. KEVITT, - . Athenia, N.J. 
STRA WBERRY PLANTS- 1 ™*^™ 
55 varieties, including the FALL BEARING 
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Seed Wlieat 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
^|k $l,000 an Acre 
EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES 
The most satisfactory fruit grown and Fall is the best time for sett- 
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like the common strawberry plants and if set out any time before 
the ground is actually frozen will bear an abundance of delicious 
berries next season from June till November. Doubters can send 
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Send for price list and free catalog telling what kinds to grow and how to grow them. 
CLIFFORD S. KEMPTON & CO., Longmeadow, Mass. 
