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Do You Know Hudson 
But Through Sheer Merit Alone 
Essex Made Its Thirty MiU 
lion Dollar Sales Record 
Builds the Essex? 
Notes From a Maryland Garden 
In a home garden the advantage of 
using light portable garden frames with 
three sashes will be very apparent in 
Winter till the frames are needed for for¬ 
warding and hardening off the garden 
plants, like tomatoes, et.(\, started in 
greenhouse or window boxes. Parsley 
can be kept green and fresh all Winter 
We can start onion plants from seed and 
lettuce for the early Spring setting. We 
can sow early cabbage seed if we do not 
winter plants over outdoors. We can 
winter the cauliflower plants and have 
them ready to make fine heads in the 
cool Spring weather. And all of these 
can be stripped of the frames when needed 
for the tomato plants and the frames set 
elsewhere. Of course. I mean the frames 
that would otherwise be idle. Those that 
have the Winter lettuce in them will, of 
course, be profitably employed. 
Then, too, while I am not specially 
engaged in growing plants for sale, there 
are always many of my neighbors who 
want tomato plants in Spring, and as I 
usually have a surplus of the early ones 
I can fill other frames from the green¬ 
house. Then there are people who want 
plants, but not specially interested in 
earliness, who want cheap plants, and I 
can sow a frame or frames in early to¬ 
mato seed in rows thinly in March and 
can have good plants for them in May— 
not so good as those started in February 
and twice transplanted, but cheap enough 
for the mill people who want them. 
I have tried growing of the Prizetaker 
and other of the Spanish onions from 
seed sown in a frame in January, and 
from sets grown the Summer before and 
planted in the Fall. I find that the 
plants grown under glass and set in the 
Spring do much better than the sets, 
which will persistently run to seed be¬ 
fore the onions are half grown, and if 
not at once pinched out the onion is 
ruined. In fact, I am more and more ! 
inclined to abandon sets, except of the 
Potato onion, the offsets of which give us ; 
the early green onions before any except 
the Norfolk Queen. I have some Prize- 
taker sets planted, but expect to sow some 
seed after Christmas, and have a com¬ 
parison side by side. Rut “man pro¬ 
poses,” etc. The rheumatism has me by 
the heels, and while I can sit at the desk 
with some little comfort, walking is a tor¬ 
ture, and the garden frames are not get- 
I ting the attention they should have, since 
hired labor is like the hen’s teeth so 
often quoted. 
Lettuce plants outside are so far win¬ 
tering all right, but the trying time on 
these and the Fall-set, cabbage plants 
comes the middle of February, when the 
sun is getting high enough to excite them 
some on sunny days, followed by the cold¬ 
est nights we usually have all Winter. 
If they get past the middle of February 
they are all right, and the rows can be 
leveled and cultivation pushed right along. 
I notice a new everbearing raspberry 
offered—La France. Cuts show heavy 
fruiting canes, both Spring and Fall. 
Since my experience with the St. "Regis 
I am inclined to fight shy of the ever- 
bearing raspberries. I would rather have 
a plant that will give me an abundant 
crop in Spring and then devote all its 
energy to getting fine canes for the next 
Spring, instead of one that gives me a 
sprinkle of fruit Spring and Fall. I put 
the everbearing strawberries in the same 
class. I would rather have the fine big 
berries of Rig Joe and Chesapeake than 
the late Summer and Fall dribble of the 
everbearers, of which it will take three 
to make one of the others. 
w. F. MASSEY. 
Hearth Fires 
Prof. Massey writes of hearth fires as 
if all gone. I am now boiling the kettle 
for coffee over a log fire which takes a 
O-ft. stick. As soon as the kettle boils 
I shall pour the boiling water in a mod¬ 
ern percolator and have five cups of cof¬ 
fee. The spider is on the top of the 
“arch” (a local nameL waiting _ for 
the cakes, and the real molasses is in a 
jar, and so I shall breakfast. No stoves 
for the perfectly healthy, happy living. 
Our “sweets” are gone, but have been 
very good. I suppose, being a “Yankee.” 
I prefer the yellow variety to the purple: 
both are grown here in old St. Mary’s. 
Last night the hearth fire was exception¬ 
ally perfect, and we all sat and chatted 
until too late, for it was S o'clock before 
I milked this morning. The first thing 
for a homemaker to plan is for a O-ft. 
fireplace. ELBERT wakf.man. 
Maryland. 
Lime on Potatoes 
As to lime on potatoes. I have not seen 
the case of Bermuda cited. The soil there 
is pure coral, and that means lime. They 
grow two crops of potatoes a year, and 
Mr. William Moore—a big grower—has 
a field where he has grown two crops of 
potatoes a year for 30 years. In between 
crops a great crop of leguminous weeds 
come up and are chopped up by hand into 
the soil before the next crop is planted. 
Much castor pomace is used. Looks ns 
if potatoes can stand lime—sometimes. 
Nova Scotia. .toitx buchanan. 
Essex success has not been accidental. 
No one doubts its right to the position 
it holds. 
But how many know why Essex in its 
first year revealed qualities more mature, 
more evident of the influence of long 
experience, than is commonly found in 
cars even in their third and fourth year. 
You will recall the Essex was an¬ 
nounced one year ago without one word 
as to the identity of its builders. Not a 
claim was made for its performance. 
You were asked to go look at it, take 
a ride and form your own opinion. The 
Essex, we said, would have to speak 
for itself. 
Now that it has established itself, 
we reveal why Essex has all the quali¬ 
ties of cars of long development. 
Was Designed by 
Hudson Engineers 
They conceived it as they developed 
the Super-Six. All they learned about en¬ 
durance, they incorporated in the Essex. 
They gave to the Essex the power 
that has made it famous in all quarters. 
Its speed is the result of what had been 
learned in making the Super-Six winner 
of all worth while speed records. 
The Essex can never be all that the 
Super-Six is for they are totally dif¬ 
ferent types. V- *-■ 
But the Essex does bring quality and 
performance to a class field that was 
unknown. 
The former owners of large costly 
cars that have adopted the Essex have 
not been Hudson users. They have 
come from other cars, cars that fall 
short of the Super-Six in all particulars 
save size and cost. 
The Essex appeals to such users be¬ 
cause of its nimbleness. They like the 
way its performance compares with that 
of the Super-Six. You can see this on 
every hand. The two cars in any com¬ 
munity that are most prominent because 
of their performance ability are the 
Hudson Super-Six and the Essex. 
Essex Did Not Need 
Hudson’s Endorsement 
Think of the advantages Essex has 
had. What ordinarily would have re¬ 
quired years to perfect was made pos¬ 
sible in the very first model. 
That is why 20,000 are now running, 
why more than $30,000,000.00 was paid 
for Essex cars in ten months. 
You have not needed the Hudson 
endorsement to understand Essex 
performance. 
Essex has won its own way. Hudson 
gave it full benefit of the experience of 
its engineers and the ability of its 
manufacturing organization. Its name 
was not needed. 
Now Hudson takes the same pride in 
acknowledging its kinship to Essex that 
a father might in speaking of his son 
who on his own account had made good. 
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