Traction Sprayer 
For Potatoes, Truck 
and Shrubs, etc. 
Spraying an acre of potatoes, pickles, 
strawberries, etc., in 12 to 15 minutes 
with a one-man, one-team machine is cer¬ 
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1 he Eureka sprays 4, 6 or more rows at a 
time, 9 to 24 ft. One, two or three nozzles 
for each row deliver powerful, fine, misty 
spray on all sides. Drives between rows, 
thus saving all ground for planting. 
Supplied with fit) or Irto-gal. Cypress Tanka 
ltigfiOx 3 inch wheels give ample traction for 
pump, delivering steady pressure. Gauge and 
relief valves provide automatic control of 
pressure ns desired. Dasher in tank keeps mix- 
turn constantly agitated. Dasher operates 
with machine in or out of gear, 
can also be used with attachment for spraying 
trees and slumps. 
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Box 880, Utica. N.Y. 
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attached shovels for deeper cultivation. 
Requires no skill. A boy can run it, and 
do more and better work than ten 
men with hoes. 
Inexpensive. 
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Dept. 16 
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West :50th Street New York 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
815 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
March came in rough, hut seems to be 
going out in a special good humor. This 
is the 30th, and for more than 10 days we 
have had beautiful Spring weather. A 
long border of Princess of Wales violets 
is blue with bloom. The first hyacinths 
are blooming and the daffodils have been 
open for a week. The early shrubbery. 
Spiraea Thunbergi. the Forsytbias and 
P.vrus Japonica are covered with bloom. 
The fruit buds are swelling and we are 
hoping for a good peach season. In the 
garden the hist of the late peas have been 
planted. Irish potatoes, spinach, kale i 
and Spring lettuce all were put into the I 
ground later than usual by reason of the i 
bad weather of early March. A neighbor 
who was in Florida in early March came 
here to get out of the cold, for freezing 
weather went well down the peninsula of 
Florida. 
The grass is starting off with such a 
vivid green that we will need to overhaul 
the lawn mower soon. But the effects of 
the Winter <are very evident. My hedge 
<>f the Amoor River privet is usually ever¬ 
green, but this Winter very nearly took 
nil its leaves. T.igustrum lucidum, which 
I can hardly distinguish from .Taponicum, 
has held its broad leaves. This and the 
I,. Japonicum are the most persistently 
evergreen of any privets I have grown. 
Unfortunately Lucidum is not hardy as 
far north as Philadelphia. I have seen 
•Taponicum in the Botanic Garden in 
Washington which did not seem to have 
been scorched there by the cold. Our i 
Magnolia trees have not had their leaves 
scorched as they were in the hard Winter 
of 1D17-1S. This splendid tree which we 
have always called Magnolia grandiflora 
the terrible botanical revisionists now 
want us to call M. fietida, but we won’t 
do anything of the sort. 
Some years ago I received from the ex¬ 
perimental ground of the Department nf 
Agriculture at Chico, Cal., four plum 
trees, two each of two crosses on the 
Wild Goose. These trees promise to 
bloom heavily this season. One of them 
set a few plums last Spring. These more 
resembled in shape the German Prune, 
and had no resemblance to the Wild 
Goose. I had hoped to mature them, but 
the pesky sparrows picked them green. 
This year I have declared war on the 
sparrows. A few years hack I had shot 
them so persistently that we seldom saw 
one in the garden, but a year or so of in¬ 
dulgence and they recovered their cour¬ 
age, and I shall be obliged to get after 
them if T get any cherries or plums. 
Our greatest Spring insect enemy here 
is the rose chafer. Just as the roses get 
into bloom and the grapevines have set 
the cluster of blossom buds they swarm 
everywhere. If not checked they eat every 
bud on the grapes before the flowers have 
a chance to open. They attack the white 
roses first and seldom damage tin* red 
ones half as much. The Crimson Ram¬ 
blers seem to defy them. I have a plant 
of Crimson Rambler which has been al¬ 
lowed to tumble over a great bush of 
Deutzia creuata. The rose bugs swarm 
on the white bloom of the Deutzia and the 
Rambler turns the whole to crimson. We 
have for years been trying to make a 
spray that would defeat the rose chafer. 
We have used with partial success lead 
arsenate, molasses and water, but only 
partially successfully and sometimes fail¬ 
ing to save our grapes only, knowing that 
the roses would recover and blooom later. 
This Spring I expect to test the new 
remedy which the maker claims is sure 
death to the pests. This is called Mel- 
rosine, and I hope it may do till that is 
claimed for it. I shall also dust some 
roses over with the calcium arsenate 
powder which I found so effective on other 
insects last Summer. For the potato 
beetles the calcium arsenate was particu¬ 
larly efficient. I mixed it with double tlie 
bulk of air-slaked lime and dusted the 
plants over as soon as the old bottles be¬ 
gan to creep around, and very few of 
them seemed to have laid eggs, for the 
hatch was very small, a ml another dust¬ 
ing finished them. Later a swarm at¬ 
tacked the eggplants, and one dusting 
cleaned them up. The caustic nature of 
the lime aided, doubtless. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
For the Land’s Sake—Use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
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