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Garden and Farm Notes 
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Summer Meeting of the Ohio State Horti¬ 
cultural Society 
< >no hundred and two years ago a small 
.boy set ont in Lawrence County, O., an 
apple tree, a sprout from below the graft, 
which became the parent of the Rome 
Beauty variety. On July 23 the Ohio 
State Horticultural Society held its Sum¬ 
mer meeting there and dedicated a me¬ 
morial to this apple in appreciation of its 
value and services to the appie industry 
and to the growers of the State. The 
memorial was in the form of a huge gran¬ 
ite boulder to which was attached a 
bronze tablet, reading as follows: 
: Attractive and Reliable, Foremost 
: Gift of Ohio to the Apple Industry. 
: The Rome Beauty 
: Has Borne Fame to the State 
: And to Her Fruit Growers. 
I: The Original Tree was Planted in 
: 1S17 by Alansou Gillette, near 
': Proctorville. 
: H. N. Gillette, Cornelius Turley 
: and Nelson Cox. Pioneer Lawrence 
: County Fruit Growers, were Active 
: in Its, Early Dissemination. 
: An Appreciation by the < 
: Ohio State Horticultural Society, 
: 1919. 
The Rome Beauty has become the most 
important variety in Ohio. It has been 
planted from New York to California, but 
seems to reach its highest perfection in 
the land of its nativity. Attractive in 
color, of good size and shape, a long 
keeper, a reliable cropper and borne on a 
tree of vigor, it'has brought attention to 
Southern Ohio as an apple producing sec¬ 
tion. and represents the State’s most valu¬ 
able contribution to the industry. 
Col. E. S. Wilson gave the dedicatory 
address, telling the story of the origin of 
the Rome Beauty apple, and recalling the 
characters and good citizenship of. some 
of the pioneer fruit growers of Lawrence 
County, who were influential in the de¬ 
velopment and dissemination of the va¬ 
riety. including II. N. Gillette. Cornelius 
Turley and Nelson Cox. The original 
Memorial to Rome Beauty Apple. Fig. 372 
tree, a sprout from below the graft, was 
brought from the nursery of General Put¬ 
nam at Marietta, O., and planted by a 
boy whose father though it worthless. 
Prof. W. J. Green of the Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station called attention to the ten¬ 
dency of the variety to produce valuable 
seedlings, and suggested that attempts be 
made to obtain seedlings or to detect 
sprouts of worth. It is generally sup¬ 
posed that Rome Beauty is grown exten¬ 
sively only in the States of the Ohio Val¬ 
ley. but figures were introduced by Prof. 
Paddock showing that the variety is ex¬ 
ceeded in numbers in the State of Wash¬ 
ington only by Jonathan and Winesap. 
Prof. Shelby noted the characters of the 
apple which make it such a good market¬ 
able apple, namely its late blooming hab¬ 
it. its annual bearing, its beauty and size, 
and its late-keeping qualities. He spoke 
also of its susceptibility to scab and rust 
and its comparative resistance to fire 
blight. 
U. T. Cox. a descendant of the man 
who planted the parent tree, told of the 
naming of the apple, Rome for the_town¬ 
ship in which it grew. Beauty for its ap¬ 
pearance. He stated also that nursery 
stock of the variety was carried to Cali¬ 
fornia in the gold rush of 1S49 by way of 
Cape Horn. 
F. H. Ballou summarized the fertilizer 
work of the Experiment Station in or¬ 
chards on the thin soils of the Southern 
Ohio hills. Nitrate of soda, at the rate 
of 5 lbs. per bearing tree, has given im¬ 
mediate and surprising results in vigor 
and production. Taking the entire series 
of experiments through five years, the 
actual cash gain from the use of nitrate of 
soda has been $125.75 per tree, a gain of 
2.000 per cent on the investment for fer¬ 
tilizers. Acid phosphate is recommended 
in addition for its beneficial results on 
the clover and grasses. Five pounds each 
of nitrate of soda and acid phosphate in 
conjunction with a mulch of a bale of 
straw to the tree gave a gain of $174 per 
acre. 
After dinner an auto tour was taken 
to a number of orchards, both valley and 
upland. Over 300 were in attendance. 
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Ohio State University. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The great crop of early Irish potatoes 
is finished and shipped. The Eastern 
Shore Produce Exchange reports ship¬ 
ments from Accomac and Northampton 
counties of over 6.000 cars, selling for 
$8,000,000, 1,000 cars going out. of the 
United States. A large number of cars of 
early cabbages and onions were shipped. 
Now the movement of the sweet potato 
crop of the two counties will begin shoi’tly, 
for comparatively few sweet potatoes are 
stored there for Winter, as is done here. 
They consider shipping the half-grown 
sweets to pay better than holding for the 
ripe crop. At any rate it works well for 
our growers here. Few are shipped from 
here in Summer and early Fall. If prices 
favor they go in the late Fall. If not 
then they go into the curing houses and 
the growers take advantage of warm spells 
in Winter for shipping in well-lined ham¬ 
pers. My sweet potatoes, stored last Oc¬ 
tober. were used all Winter, Spring, and 
the last of them were taken out the middle 
of July. As they were sprouted I cut 
them like Irish potatoes and planted them 
and they are now growing finely. It will 
be interesting to watch the results from 
this method of planting. 
It was rather unfortunate that I men- 
toned the Nanticoke blackberry. This 
berry was introduced by a local firm who 
have since dropped the production of 
everything in the nursery line except 
strawberry plants, and correspondents 
have been asking me where to get the 
plants of the blackberry. I do not. know 
that any other firm has them. I of course 
i am not growing plants for sale. If I 
should do so I will pay for an advertise¬ 
ment. The Nanticoke is useful for its 
quality, its late season and the length of 
time it is in fruit. We have been gather¬ 
ing them daily since the third week in 
July, and the plants are still full of green, 
red and ripe berries, for one will find a big 
ripe berry in the middle of a cluster of 
green and red ones, and it is this habit of 
ripening a few at a time that gives it 
special value, for the last of them will 
usually ripen about the last of August. 
This Summer they began to ripen earlier 
than usual and may not run so late. 
A trailing blackberry or dewberry called 
the Atlantic is just ripening. It has beau¬ 
tifully cut foliage, but so far the fruit 
has been small and poor. After a number 
of years’ trial I shall grub it out. The 
peach crop is good, but consumers are 
made to pay a round price by the grocers 
who handle the retail trade. As I have 
but four trees of peaches, and only one of 
these now in fruit, I have to buy my can¬ 
ning supply, and have now been able to 
get them from an orchard for 75c for a 
five-peck basket. The grocers would de¬ 
mand $2 to $2.50 for the same quantity. 
A grower with a loaded orchard is mak¬ 
ing money fairly at 75c, but the gro¬ 
cers-1 
August 16, 1919 
The squash which our growers have 
been experimenting with for shipping, 
called here the Italian, has not proved 
especially profitable. .The squashes vary, 
most of them being shaped like a large 
cucumber, and striped green and lighter. 
Mine are mainly white outside and round 
or oval in shape. They are excellent 
Summer squashes, but I will grow no 
more of them, for in rich garden soil they 
run too rampantly and want to take the 
garden. I will go back to the old Patty¬ 
pan and the Yellow Crookneek Summer 
squashes, for I cannot afford the room 
for a squash that runs 20 feet in every 
dreetion. Those grown by the truckers 
did not seem to run much. 
Riding with a friend to his farm he 
showed me an acre plot of cucumbers 
evidently done for the season. “I got 
$500 out of that acre,” said he, and all 
around I hear of great profits made in 
cucumbers this season. 
The cantaloupes are now going north, 
but every season I think our growers in¬ 
jure their own sales by packing melons 
so green that they will never sweeten for 
eating. And yet these green cantaloupes 
have been bringing fancy nr ices right at 
the railroad station from car h buyers. I 
brought some in from a farm packing shed 
and have been keeping them to see if they 
will get edible. I do not believe they will 
ever be fit to eat. I have a profuse crop 
of the Burrell Gem, a large cantaloupe 
with orange-colored flesh, similar to the 
Osage. They are so densely netted that 
the skin is hardly to be seen. I have 
plenty of them better fitted for cutting 
than the little melons now shipped, and 
yet I am leaving them till they will slip 
from the stem, for I want good melons to 
eat. w. F. MASSEY. 
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Note How Everyone 
It Has Become a Familiar Car 
on Nearly Every Highway 
Hails the Essex 
Essex owners report the satisfaction they 
experience at the way people speak of their 
cars. It increases their pride of ownership. 
Motorists and even boys on the street hail 
the Essex with some such greeting as “There 
is an Essex.” 
Curiosity in the car that possesses quality 
and performance at moderate cost and with¬ 
out the expense and* weight of such cars as 
formerly were the only ones that possessed 
those advantages, has given way to openly 
voiced admiration. . 
Essex Owners Are 
Its Salesmen 
At first it was what people who had seen 
the Essex said about it that led to its 
popularity. 
Now owners—and there are thousands of 
them—are endorsing it on every hand. People 
stop Essex owners to inquire about their car. 
The answer is unanimous. When asked as to 
its performance they make no reservations. 
Admiration of its riding qualities is never 
lacking. 
Every wanted quality in an automobile 
seems to have been met in the Essex. Ask 
the first Essex owner you meet. 
Essex Performance Is 
Always Mentioned 
There is no uncertainty to the owner as tc 
Essex performance. Drivers know positively 
that their cars will meet any acceleration or 
endurance test they impose. 
They know they can match the performance 
of whatever car they encounter. 
There are now enough Essex ..cars on the 
road to permit you to note their performance. 
They are always in the lead when quick 
acceleration is desirable. They hold their 
own on the road against cars regarded as the 
fastest. They keep going and require little 
attention. 
The repair shop is no place to learn about 
the Essex for it has little need to know the 
repairman. ^ 
Won’t you make some inquiry about 
the Essex? You will find it interesting and 
convincing. 
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