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Buist’s 1919 Garden Guide now ready 
for mailing—not merely a seed cata* 
log, but a practical book of interest 
to the experienced gardener and the 
beginner as well—tells how to make 
a kitchen garden supply your table 
with quality vegetables of the finest 
flavor. Right now it’s important 
that every garden should be a real 
producer. Follow our instructions 
and reduce the “high cost of living.” 
Send for Your Copy Today—It’s FREE 
If you have a garden you should have 
this book. It tells you what to plant 
and how to cultivate and is free on 
request. Write for it NOW. 
Free Flower Seeds with Orders of 
SO Cents and Over 
ROBERT BUIST COMPANY 
S So. Front St., PHila., Pa. 
Ford’s Glory Cabbage 
A Record-Maker in Yield 
A grower at Kent, Ohio, made $550 
net profit from an acre and a half of 
Glory Cabbage. Can you beat it? 
Glory Cabbage is early, short stem; 
heads round, solid, and do not burst. 
Few outer leaves and' can be planted 
close. Good for summer and winter 
use. Also other leading varieties. 
Ford’s Catalogue 
of Sound Seeds tells about Glory . 
Cabbage, Old Virginia En- fhii 
silage Corn, farm, gar- " ,/ 
den, and flower seeds. 
Send your name to¬ 
day for a free copy. 
Ford Seed Co. Jr 
Box 24 
Ravenna, Ohio 
Make better gardens. All 
are tested for purity and 
vitality. Have been 
giving satisfaction for 
over 50 years. Be sure 
and try our 
5 FINE VEGETABLES 10c 
One large packet each of 
Bean, Beet, Lettuce, Rad¬ 
ish and Tomato — postpaid. 
All are heavy yielding and ex¬ 
ceptionally line In quality. Try them. 
Large CATALOG FREE 
Gives helpful cultural directions 
and offers strictly hhjh-pxado 
seeds at fair prices. Write for it. 
A Livingston Seed Co. 
(yV Box 334 Columbus, Ohio 
GRASS SEED 
FREE SAMPLES ESS 
with customers. Don’t fail to investigate these bargains, 
ltecleaned Tested Timothy $4.75 bu.. Alfalfa $8.90, Alsiko 
Clover and Timothy, $6.50. Sweet Clover and other Grass 
and Field Seeds at proportionately low prices. 
All sold subject to State or Government Test under an 
absolute MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. We are special¬ 
ists in grass and field seeds. Located so as to save you 
money and give quick service. Send today for our big 
profit-sharing, money-saving Seed Guido which explains 
all, free. Buy now and save money. Write 
American Mutual Seed Co. Dept. 626 Chicago, Ill, 
FERTILIZERS AND CROPS by Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke, Price, $2.50. The best general 
farm book. For sole by Rural New-Yorker 
ALFALFA 
AMERICAN NORTHERN GROWN 
For fifteen years our advice concerning the seeding 
and care of Alfalfa meadows, and our seed for sowing 
them, have been standard — the best that was to be 
had. The catalog tells how, and prices the seed, 
not Turkestan, “Dwarf Alfalfa,” which we refuse to 
handle, but the best of American grown seed, in¬ 
cluding usually Montana, Idaho, and the great 
‘Dakota 30,” which rivals the Grimm itself. 
RDIMli Al CAI EA Next to Hansen's Siberian, 
Unlinnl HLrHLrH the greatest variety grown 
in America. We have the genuine; also limited 
amounts of the Siberian. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
No matter how criticnl you are wo can please you. 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
Are grown for the most critical trade. Write for fred 
catalog. Lists many new and rare specialties. 
Wing Seed Co., Box 333 Mechanicsburg, O. 
The House of Quality and Moderate Prices. 
Notes From a Maryland Garden 
It is the open season for muskrats here 
now. The wide salt marshes along the 
Chesapeeake and its estuaries are leased 
by the owners to the trappers, and during 
the short open season they catch a great 
many and get tine prices for the 
from which the costly “Hudson seal’ 
of the ladies are made. Then our 
dealers get the carcasses and sell 
fast, for the salt marsh muskrat, or 
“marsh rabbit” is a tid-bit. Those who have 
never eaten a salt marsh muskrat have 
a treat yet to be had. Some years ago the 
late Joe Wing and Cary Montgomery 
from Ohio were here at a farmers’ insti¬ 
tute. I had them to my home for dinner 
and gave them baked muskrat, and they 
both voted it good. The muskrat or mus¬ 
quash is a vegetarian, a ad so clean that 
lie washes all his food, and is no kin to a 
rat, but nearer to a beaver. We had one 
for dinner today, and hence the digression 
from garden topics. 
r I hat we can in some part of this coun¬ 
try grow all the flowering bulbs that are 
so largely imported becomes more aud 
more evideut as efforts are made to pro¬ 
duce them. The war over the north of 
France cut off the supply of Candidum 
lily bulbs from that section, and those 
from the south of France are not so highly 
esteemed. But I have shown that we 
can grow them here fully as good as in 
France. It has been assumed that the 
polyanthus class of Narcissus are so 
tender that they are grown specially in 
the Riviera, in Southern France. Last 
Fall a lady in Eastern North Cai’olina 
sent me samples of the Paper White Nar¬ 
cissus bulbs she had grown through the 
last hard Winter, and wanted to know 
where to sell them and some Candidum 
lily bulbs. I referred her to a leading 
floral commission house in Philadelphia, 
and have no doubt that they handled 
for the bulbs were as fine 
ever seen imported. Those 
put in water for blooming 
have four flower spikes to 
the bulb, which is more than T have ever 
seen on an imported bulb. The commis¬ 
sion firm to which I have referred say 
that all the American-grown Narcissi are 
becoming popular with the florists, as 
they can be forced into bloom earlier than 
the imported ones. I grow here as fine 
tulip bulbs as I have ever seen come 
from Holland. With the immense variety 
of soils and climates which we have in 
the I nited States, we should be able to 
supply the world with many things that 
we annually import. Many of these 
things are imported, not because they 
Cannot be grown here, but because they 
can he grown cheaper in Europe, owing to 
cheaper labor. 
Many years ago I grew tuberose bulbs 
here in Maryland and sold them to a Lon¬ 
don seed house for .$(10 per 1,000. Then 
later, as the demand seemed to lessen, I 
sold my last crop of tuberose bulbs in 
New A ork for $10 per 1,000. I thought 
this too low and quit. Now, all the tube¬ 
rose bulbs sold in this country and in 
Europe are grown in a limited area in 
Eastern North Carolina, and I do not 
think that the growers average over $3 
or $4 per 1,000 and yet make money. 
Millions of Narcissus bulbs of many va¬ 
rieties are now produced in Southeastern 
Virginia. One grower from the Island 
of Jersey still maintains his .Tersev place 
* I 
to produce young stock for Virginia, as 
our climate ripens tlm bulbs far better 
than that of the Channel Islands. 
This mild and rainy Winter has devel¬ 
oped a wonderful mat of chiekweed, and 
it has spread into the lawn. I do not 
mind it in the vegetable garden, for I can 
easily get rid of it there, and it makes a 
good Winter protective mulch for many 
things. But in the lawn it is a different 
matter and T shall try the iron sulphate 
on it, aud hope it will be killed. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
them for her, 
as any I have 
she sent me I 
and now thev 
Treating Beans for Weevil 
In reference to destroying weevils in 
shelled beans by using carbon bisulphide 
in a tight can. I wish to know if these 
beans are edible after treatment, or just 
for seed purposes. g m 
Highland, N. Y. 
The beans are edible—not affected by 
the gas. They are not injured for seed 
unless the germ has been destroyed by the 
weevil. 
» 
4©,0S0 business 
in stoek 
The kind to sow n> gl ow bumper crops 
Dibble *s the heaviest and most productive American 
- «..* variety. Early with stiff, sturdy straw ; free 
Heavy weight from smut or disease; . heavy, thin-hulled 
grain, weighing 44-47 lbs. per measured bushel: yields of 80-82-87- 
90-92 and up to 118 bushels per acre reported to us by our 
customers right here in the Eastern States. 
Dibble’s a most reliable standard variety introduced by 
_ as a dozen years ago, extra early, stiff straw. 
Twentieth Uentury thin-bulled grain, weighing 38 lbs. per measured 
bushel and have produced on our Farms growing around 150 acres annually, 
double the average yield of the United States for the last 
decade. Popular? Yes, we have sold over 300,000 bushels 
direct to our.eustomers and last year’s sales heavier than ever. 
Samples, Special Price List and Dibble’s Farm Seed Catalog FREF / jEVERY ^ 
Address, Edward F. Dibble Seedgro^ei 
Box B, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
Seed Oats, Corn, Spring Wheat, Barley, Potatoes, 
Peas, Soy Beans, Vetch, AlfaIfa,Clover and Grass 
Seeds in any quantity, from bushels to carloads. 
I has 
, Shoty/^ L 
punrrtf u 
‘V’c/ /nil 
From our Farms to Yours 
For Quality 
and Quantity 
Plant Carpenter’s Giant Golden Sweet 
It’s as delicious as the famous Golden Ban- 
M tam and much larger, many ears 8 to 10 
™ inches long, yet it ripens only 3 days later. 
It does not become mealy but remains sweet 
and succulent until too hard for the table. 
The stalks grow 6 ft high, bearing one or 
three ears each Large pkt., 15c; l A lb., 35c; 
1 lb., 55c; 2 lbs., $1.00 postpaid 
Also ask for our 1919 Catalog—free. 
J. J. H. GREGORY & SON 
1115 Elm St., Marblehead, Mas*. 
successful! Mari 
m 
innual 
on request 
Frederick W. Eberle 
Fruit for Future Food 
Plan now for the “after the war” fruit demand 
by putting extra land to work; high prices are 
sure. Plant berries,apples, 
peaches; raise vegetables 
between the rows for the 
first year or so. 
Storrs & Harrison Co. 
S919 Fruit Catalogue 
tells what, when and how 
to plant and care for 
home fruit gardens, or¬ 
chards, vegetable and 
flower gardens. Every¬ 
thing needed is listed 
in this new book. Send 
today for a free copy. 
65 years in business. 
1200 acres of stock. 
The Storrs & Harrison Co. 
Box 617 
Painesville, Ohio 
ODD SEEDS 
Choice Seed Corn 
90-Day Improved YELLOW DENT 
WHITE CAP YELLOW DENT 
REID’S YELLOW DENT 
EARLY MINNESOTA NO. 13 
Tested and germination absolutely guaranteed 
WOODFIELD'S FARM. Wycombe, Bucks Co., Pa. 
Our seeds are selected and cleaned to be 
WEEDLESS and free from dead grains. They 
will go much farther than ordinary field seeds, 
nearly always adding enough to the crop to pay fot 
themselves. Samples and catalogue including 
"How to Know Good Seed” free. Write today . 
0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO. 260 Sixth SL. Marysville, Ohit 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Frices Below All Others 
I will give a lot of new 
sorts free with every order 
I fill. Buy and test. Return 
If not O. K.— money refunded. 
Big Catalog FREE 
Over 700 illustrations of vege¬ 
tables and flowers. Send yours 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUM WAY, Rockford, 111. 
The Genuine 
Stock of 
Rust 
Resistant 
Have satisfied thousands of 
growexs. Fresh and reliable. No 
better seeds can bo obtained. Try Otll 
5 Choice Vegetables 10c 
1 pkt. each postpaid of tho following popular 
varieties. Tomato, Early Jewel; Lettuce, Big 
Boston; Beet, Detroit Dark Red; Rad¬ 
ish, Scarlet Globe; Carrot, Denver 
Half Long. Guaranteed to please. 
CATALOG FREE 
Contains valuable information on suc¬ 
cessful gardening. Lists all standard 
sorts of vegetable, flower and field seeds. 
HOLMES-LETHERMAN SEED CO. 
Box »ll 
CANTON, OHIO. 
CLOVER SEED 
Our high grades of Clover, Alfalfa, Alsike, Timothy, Seed 
Oats, Seed Corn, Maine Grown Seed Potatoes, Soy Beans, 
etc., are the most carefully selected and recleaned. High¬ 
est in Purity and Germination. We pay the Freight. 
Catalog and samples Free if you mention this paper. 
WASHINGTON 
Asparagus 
Originated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture on 
this farm. Write for price list. 
Mrs. C. W. PRESCOTT, - Cortcord, Mass. 
Qaail Rnrn 5,ooo 
OCCQ If III II Bushels ttSE- 
rieties. Highest yiclders Best show corn. Also seed oats, barley, 
alfalfa. Spring wheat. 1200 acres. Sample on request. Write 
today for catalog, W. N. SCARFF h SONS, New Carlisle, Ohio 
SUDAN GRASS Seed SToT! 
free from Johnson grass. 20e per lb.: bags, free; postage, 
express or freight, extra. White Sweet Clover, scarified. 3i)r. 
Alfalfa, $8 per bu. and up. Order early. Supply short. Qual¬ 
ity guaranteed satisfactory. IlE.Nlit FIELD. Shenandoah, Iowa 
SeedCorn 
Golden Orange, Flint. Giant, Ensil¬ 
age, Yellow Pride S5 bu. sacked. 
Special prices on car lots. Order Ear 
ly. Harry Vail, New Milford, Orange Co., N.Y. 
Sweet Clover 
tity. 
Northern grown. Hardy, white 
_ _ nnhulled. 20c. per lb., any quan- 
F. S. BRO.Mi, - Saylorsburg, Pa. 
Binder Twine 
Get our low 1919 prices. Farm¬ 
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THEO BURT & SONS. Melrose, Ohio 
TOBACCO DUST Hi e h P°‘asl' and nitro- 
, , , ” 1 gen—tor garden and onion 
land fertilizing. Also useful to sprinkle in liens’ 
nests. $5 per ewt. lbs. D. TKASS, Madison, Ohio 
P. L. ROHKER, 
HOTBEDSASH 
CYPRESS, well made with 
cross bar. blind tenons, white 
leaded in joints. GLASS, $u.;>0 
per box. Write for circular 
Smoketown, Lancaster Co., Pa. c. n. robinson & bro., Dopt. 14 , Baltimore, Md- 
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That’s what Forrest Seeds are—tested and 
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location and low running expenses with no 
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the best of seeds at very low prices. You 
can save 3096 on your seed bill. 
Let us convince you. Write for catalog today 
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