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BURPEE’S ANNUAL 
THE LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOG 
Burpee’s Annual is a complete guide to the vege¬ 
table and flower garden. It fully describes the 
Burpee Quality Seeds, with a hundred of the 
finest vegetables and flowers illustrated in the 
colors of nature. If you are interested in garden¬ 
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August? 
Just now seeds are only seeds— 
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66years farmers and gardeners have 
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Box 13-B Pfiinesvill©, Ohio 
CARDEN BOOK 
Treats of everything that can possi¬ 
bly interest the Vegetable or Flower 
grower and is a necessary pari of 
your Garden equipment. 
DREER'S GARDEN BOOK 
FOR 1920 contains 224 pages, six color plates 
featuring Choice Vegetables, Early Colossal 
Cosmos, Mammoth Verbena. Los Angeles 
Rose and the new Rose, Columbia ; also nu¬ 
merous photographic illustrations of the best of 
the recent novelties and old-time favorites in 
Vegetables and Flowers. 
The amateur as well as the professional will find 
many helpful cultural directions, written by ex¬ 
perts, on all worth while Vegetables and Flowers. 
A copy will be mailed free if you mention this 
publication. Ready in January. Write today 
HENRY A. DREER 
-CLOVER SEED- 
We specialize in the best seed obtainable. Good 
Seeds mean satisfied customers. When you buy our 
seeds you have the best that grows. 
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Our Clover. Alsike, Timothy. Alfalfa and other Farm 
Seeds are tiro most carefully selected. Quality is 
guaranteed. Itohrer's seed book and samples free if 
you mention this paper. 
P. L. ROHRER 
Smoketown, Lancaster, Co., Pa. 
Wiresap Apple in Delaware 
Referring to your discussion of the 
Winesap apple in The R. N.-Y., page 
1847, it is evident that this apple comes 
to its highest perfection on soil that is 
not too heavy, and in a climate like that 
of Delaware. Visitors to Delaware in 
October, 1918 and 1919. expressed won¬ 
der and admiration of the quality, size 
and beauty of the Stayman apples in the j 
central and southern parts of this State. 
Well-grown, well-pruned and well-sprayed 
trees have been loaded with fruit. It is 
evident that there is no better apple for 
Delaware than the Stayman. It must be 
said, however, that on the clay soil in the 
northern part of the State it does not 
reach the perfection that it does farther 
south on sandier land. For the extreme 
northern end of the State some other va¬ 
rieties may surpass the Stayman. 
WESLEY WEBB. 
An Irrigation Plan 
I have a plan for watering tomato 
plants, and am submitting it to you to 
learn whether is is practical. I have city 
water, with about S7 lbs. pressure, and 
a %-in. pipe. My tomato patch is about 
145 ft. wide. My plan is to lay a %-in. 
pipe every four rows of plants, each pipe 
to be drilled with about 72 1-16-in. holes. 
These holes to be drilled so that one-halt' 
of them will be at right angles with tin- 
other half. The first hole is to be drilled 
at one angle, the next at the other, and 
alternate clear across tho pipe, so the 
water will flow both ways from the pipe. 
The pipes will be plugged or capped at 
the end opposite where the water comes 
in. Each pipe will be rigid, with a stop¬ 
cock, and only one pipe used at a time. 
Each pipe is expected to water four rows 
of plants, two each side of it. The rows 
are to be 4ft. apart, the pipes are to 
lie on top of the ground. .Shall I get a 
good pressure of water on the holes drilled 
in the pipe? Will it be a very tedious job 
to drill the holes with a good, large breast 
drill? Is there any reason why the plan 
will not work? c. w. B. 
Leominster, Mass. 
Your plan will work, but there is a 
better one which you will be glad to hear 
about. Holes drilled into the pipe itself 
will rust and wear, so that the streams 
of water will soon be different sizes. Fur¬ 
thermore, the little streams of water from 
each hole will not be clear and smooth, 
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as a plain little bole in the pipe will 
cause fuzzy streams, etc. Spray irriga¬ 
tion started on just the plan you have 
conceived. In fact. C. W. Skinner, the 
originator of overhead spray irrigation, 
told me that lie tiled little holes into the 
pipes he first used. 
The improved method is arranged so 
that there are stationary galvanized pipes 
(every 50 feet across the irrigated field. 
(The pipes may be on the ground, on boxes 
or more usually they are placed about 
seven feet high on posts 16 to 20 feet 
apart. Every four feet along the pipes 
j a tiny brass nozzle is screwed into the 
j pipe. The holes for the nozzles are 
quickly and easily made with a special 
one-man tool. A tiny stream of water 
will shoot out of each nozzle for a dis- ! 
j tance of 25 feet before it will break up 
into a coarse mist as it falls to the ground. 
It is interesting to note that the nozzles 
are on the same side of the pipe, so that 
the streams of water are parallel. Fur¬ 
thermore, the pipe is connected to the 
! water supply with a union coupling, so 
! that the pipe can be turned around, caus¬ 
ing the water to settle on different strips 
along the pipe. With this arrangement, 
and with a water pressure of over 50 lbs., 
it will be perfectly convenient to water 
six rows of tomatoes with each revolving 
stationary pipe. A %-in. pipe with noz¬ 
zles in it every four feet may be 160 ft. 
long and still retain good pressure on the 1 
last nozzle. One great feature about the 
methods is that the pipe can be turned 
according to the wind, so that every sec¬ 
tion can be evenly watered. Overhead 
spray irrigation is a splendid aid in the 
production of vegetables under intensive 
cultivation. Home gardeners and com-! 
mereial growers find it profitable to install 
I the improved appliances. They can be 
purchased all made up to fit the field 
which is to be irrigated. 
B. W. DE BAUN. 
“I CAN’T do the family washin’, 
ma’am,” said the new girl. “Why not, 
pray?” asked the lady of the house. “The 
family’s too large, ma’am.” “Why, there’s 
only my husband and myself in the fam¬ 
ily.” “Yes. ma'am: but look at the size of 
you !”—Yonkers Statesman. 
STOKES SEEDS 1920 
A REMARKABLE garden and farm 
catalog—the culmination of 42 years 
experience in the seed business. 
Of interest and value to every planter 
because of its unique simplicity, frank¬ 
ness and completeness. 
It is a humanly written, plainly spoken, 
understandable book containing a rich 
fund of information. 
You will find in it a new joy in grow¬ 
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be its children. 
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edition is necessarily limited. 
Stokes Seeds 
STOKES SEED FARMS CO., GroVrs 
Windermoor Farms 
Moorestown, New Jersey 
Ford’s Glory Cabbage is Better Than Wakefield 
When we sav better we mean that Ford's Glory is 
larger, has fewer loose leaves, and matures about as early. Those 
ho have not tried it are throwing profits away. There is lots 
more quality seed offered in — 
Ford’s 1920 Catalog ^ 
This book should be in the hands of every¬ 
one who raises vegetables for table or market and 
it's free. Just put your name on a post-eard and we’l* 
send it to you, but don’t forget, write today. 
FORD SEED CO., Box 24, Ravenna, Ohio 
GLOVER 
Buy grass seed 
early to permit 
testing for pur¬ 
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We allow re¬ 
turn of uuaatis- 
faetory seed—refund money—pay freight. The early 
buyer, in this year of seed scarcity gets best quali¬ 
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write for free catalog and sample*. 
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A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc, Landisville, Lane. Co., Pa. 
Seed to be worth planting at all must 
not only grow, but must grow a profit- 
ableVrup. For years we have been supplying 
seed practically free frern weed seeds and dead 
grains, the only kind that wUl show a profit. 
Samples and our Eield Seed Book, which tells 
exactly "How to Know Good Seed.’ - arc free. To save 
losses from weeds,you need this information. 
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Write Today for Isbell’s 1920 Catalog / 
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__ Isbell’s seeds are produced in the North where earli- 
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