584 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 20, 1920 
If you want to know something of the profit and 
pleasure that a beautiful “home of your own” gives 
—ask a Bennett Better-Built, Ready-Cut Home 
owner, note his beam of contentment—his forgivable 
pride as he tells you facts. 
'Better-Built^^ ! iRe&dy-Cul 
Are Beautiful, Modern 
Built at Below-Normal Prices 
He will tell you there is MAGIC in the Bennett Way of Building 
—MAGIC that slashes the cost of labor, lumber, other building essen¬ 
tials—slashes costs in such a big way that the genuine saving brings your 
cost of building far below normal. This slashing puts “your own home” 
within reach. Yet there is not the slightest sacrifice of fine, modern de¬ 
signing, high quality materials, convenience, staunchness—of anything, 
except costs which add absolutely no value. 
Quantity, Production and Famous 
Location, the Secret 
Bennett Homes are all designed by the combined efforts of famous de¬ 
signers and practical home-keepers. They are accurately cut in tremendous 
quantities by automatic machinery operated by low cost Niagara-electric 
power at the great Tonawandas, one of the world’s foremost lumber centers. 
Shipped ready-cut and complete—all the lumber, lath, 
shingles, finishing lumber, doors, windows, frames, floor 
ing and interior trim, hardware, paint and nails. No 
delays—no expensive extras. 
Profit and Pleasure 
in this FREE Book 
If you do not know a Bennett Better-Built home 
owner, send for this beautiful FREE 72-page Cata¬ 
log. If you do know one, he will tell you to send 
for this latest edition. It is an education, in its de¬ 
scription of the ready-cut method. It also describes, 
in detail, by photographs and words, Sixty Beauti¬ 
ful Homes—and among the sixty is one—or more 
—to suit your exact taste in price and design. Each 
home will go up without a hitch because it has 
been built many times over. 
USE THE COUPON 
Send us the coupon. We’ll send you the Book. You'll find pleasure in 
its interesting reading—and you’ll find BIG PROFITS in the Bennett 
Better-Built Ready-Cut Way. 
We Guarantee Entire Satisfaction or Money Back 
Perfect Strawberry Flower. Fig. 153 
the plant will not make a sufficient 
growth of fruit buds when planted in this 
way. The plant shown in the center of 
the picture is planted about right. Here, 
as we see, the roots are fully covered, 
while the crown of the plant is above 
ground. 
IIow to Set the Plant. —Many peo¬ 
ple make a mistake when planting the 
strawberry in supposing that they must 
leave the ground light and open around 
it. The truth is that the strawberry 
plant, like a tree, should be planted in 
firm ground, with the soil pressed tightly 
up around it. Many people go out with 
a trowel, dig a large hole, and spread out 
the roots in fan shape, then lightly 
scratching the earth up to the plant. > 
This is a mistake. The best plan we 
have found is to take a sharp spade, or a 
large trowel, and drive it down into the 
firm ground. Work it back and forth to 
make a hole of fair size. Then put the 
plant in behind the spade or trowel, with 
the roots spread out, and with a quick 
movement pull the spade out of the 
ground, so that the earth fills in around 
the root. Then step firmly on the ground 
and press the soil up against the plant. 
After a little practice one can do this 
rapidly and in such a way that there will 
be few. if any. clbad plants. 
RAY H. BENNETT LUMBER CO., Inc. 
Makers of BENNETT HOMES 
850 Main Street 
Imperfect Strawberry Plossom. Fig. 15/f 
BENNETT HOMES 
Perfect and Imperfect Flowers.— 
_ !The two other pictures with this article 
N. 1 onawanda, N. I.'are also taken from the Canadian bulle¬ 
tin. Fig 153 shows what is known as a 
850 Main St., N. Tonawanda, N. Y l perfcct Hower ’ while the other P icture 
„ ’shows an imperfect bloom. Many of our 
Please send Free Catalog No. S5 of BENNETT HOMES, Better-Built and readers do not understand, apparently, 
Ready-Cut, to that some varieties of strawberries pro- 
!^ ame . " duce a bloom that is imperfect. This 
, means that such plants’ flowers do not 
..carry the male organs, from which a fine 
Town.State.dust is produced to fertilize the other 
ipart of the flower. The male organs are 
Strawberry Planting and Fruiting 
Depth of Planting. —Bulletin 92 of 
the Canadian Experiment Farm, Ottawa, 
Ontario, gives a very good study of straw¬ 
berry cultivation in Canada. Thf lift e 
picture at Fig. 155 is taken from this 
pamphlet, and illustrates the proper way 
to put out strawberry plants. In this 
case the plant on the left of the picture 
is planted too shallow, as we see tbe en¬ 
tire crown and the upper part of the root 
are exposed. In a dry time it woulr be 
hard for such a plant to make a living, 
and in any event it will grow too fai out 
of the ground for best results. Ox. the 
other hand, the plant at the right of the 
picture is too deep in the ground. In 
this case, as we see, all oi part of the 
crown is covered. This is a mistake, as 
known as the stamens, and unless they 
are present no fruit, or very little fruit 
will ever be formed, unless this dust is 
carried from other perfect flowers by in¬ 
sects, or perhaps by the wind. The dif¬ 
ference between the two flowers may be 
plainly seen from these pictures. The 
dark mass at the center of the flower 
represents the pistils or female organs, 
while the little heads or bunches shown 
in the other picture represent the sta¬ 
mens. It is necessary to know about this 
when planting certain varieties of straw¬ 
berries. An imperfect variety, planted 
by itself, would give only very inferior 
fruit, but if they could be planted along¬ 
side, or nearby several rows of a perfect 
variety, the pollen or dust from these 
varieties wi l fertilize the other flowers 
and give a fair crop. 
Turnip Greens; Pomme Gris Applee 
1. Would Prof. W. F. Massey give the 
name of the turnips he has lately men¬ 
tioned as being used for “Spring greens”? 
2. Many years ago my uncle, a nursery- 
m n, tried to introduce in Northern Ver¬ 
mont an apple called “Pomme Gris.” The 
apples, which kept very late in the Spring, 
were medium in size and russet in appear¬ 
ance. The flavor was superior to that of 
the Roxbury Russet. I wish to find some 
nurseryman who keeps it. 
Mt. Vernon. N. Y. mrs. s. e. t. 
1. Here and Southward all kinds of 
turnips are used for Spring greens. When 
grown especially for greens the Seven-top 
turnips are used. These make more tops 
than roots, are very hardy, stand the 
Winter and make a heavy growth of tops. 
I suppose they will make good greens 
sown in the early Spring. There is a pe¬ 
culiar flavor in turnip leaves which one 
gets fond of after trying a while. They 
differ from any other greens. Here, the 
first Spring greens are from the wild up¬ 
land cress, which the country people cut 
and bring to town. This cress has the 
same taste as watercress. It is Barbarea 
Right 'and Wrong Way to Set Plants 
Fig. 155 
prseeox, and the seed is sold in the seed 
stores. Here it becomes a pest in the 
wbeatfield and among Crimson clover. It 
can be grown in the garden by sowing in 
September and is hardy anywhere. The 
Seven-top turnip seeds are sold by seeds¬ 
men generally. 2. Pomme Gris (Gray 
Apple) is a russet of high quality which 
is recommended for the extreme North. 
The Geneva, N. Y., Experiment Station 
can probably tell you where it can be had. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
The Dasheeen 
I notice in a recent issue of TnE R- 
N.-Y. that Prof. Massey has discarded 
the dasheen. I read everything the pro¬ 
fessor writes in The R. N.-Y. and the 
Progressive Farmer, and have profited by 
doing so, but I cannot agree with him in 
this matter. The dasheen. as grown here, 
1 think superior to the Irish potato. It 
is easily raised, produces well and can 
be left in the ground all Winter and dug 
up when wanted. If dug and thoroughly 
dried it will keep with the same temper¬ 
ature and care given to the sweet potato. 
Most people who like the Irish potato will 
take the dasheen. There are exceptions 
to this even in my own family. But we 
prize it highly. I would say to the South¬ 
ern people try the dasheen ; see for your¬ 
selves, and most of you will raise it for 
home use. So far there is no demand for 
them in the markets. Few know any¬ 
thing about them. h. g. smith. 
Mississippi. 
It. N.-Y.—A grocer near The I‘. N.-Y. 
office, who has a large trade among South¬ 
ern people resident in New York, offers 
dasheens for 12 cents a pound, but says 
sales are slow. 
“Were any of your boyish ambitions 
ever realized?” asked Jenkins. “Yes.” 
replied Marksby. “When my mother 
used to cut my hair I often wished I 
might be bald-headed.”—Credit Lost. 
Various Horticultural Notes 
