Sow Better Seeds 
For Better Crops 
When good live seeds cost no more 
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your garden contain the best you can 
get ? Other seed companies may take 
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Ford’s 1921 Catalogue 
describes and pictures these improved 
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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
As in every milcl Winter the reporters 
for the daily papers are getting out their 
yarns. One has seen a robin in Chicago, 
another has seen dandelions in bloom, and 
still another says that Pennsylvania 
farmers are cutting the second growth of 
clover for hay. It has probably been as 
warm here as anywhere north of us. but 
none of these things has happened. It is 
true that we are having an unusually 
mild January. Now and then it gets 
down to 2S or .*10 degrees at daybreak, 
but up to the end of the first week of 
January we have had no daytime freez¬ 
ing whatever. But the peach trees have 
not swelled a bud. as the imaginative re¬ 
porters say in the North. We shall be 
glad if the total absence of snow con¬ 
tinues during the whole Winter. Snow 
is all right up North, where it packs 
down and makes good sleighing, but here 
snow soon turns to slush, and while it 
helps the Winter grain it makes the city 
streets miserable. So far. according to 
my record, this is the mildest Winter 
since ISfiO. f 
It is odd to note the ignorance among 
even people of intelligence and education 
of the trees and plants growing around 
them. Today comes a box containing 
branches of red berries, and the writer 
wants to know what the plant is, and if 
I not poison he would like to plant one of 
i the hushes on his lawn, as he has never 
i seen it before. The fact is that the 
weather has been so good that he has got 
out in the woods probably. The berries 
are those of Ilex decidua, the deciduous 
holly, a very pretty shrub in Winter 
iafter the leaves have fallen and display 
the clusters of red berries. 
The mild weather has given the farm¬ 
ers an opportunity to plow and prepare 
the land for the crops of melons and 
cucumbers. It is found advantageous to 
get the land ready, and the hills laid off 
and the manure in them early in Winter. 
The manure, being fresh, ‘becomes more 
available bv lying in the hills several 
months. But the New York "horse manure 
is getting scarcer and -more costly every 
year, and many farmers are considering 
the policy of using commercial fertilizers 
alone. Doubtless the fertilizer would* an¬ 
swer very well if they had a good clover 
sod to turn under to take the place of the 
organic material in the manure. 
The sweet peas are now going into the 
ground. I have sometimes planted them 
in October, but I have found that Janu¬ 
ary answers just as *well. We have to 
get them started early or get no flowers, 
for when the weather gets hot our sandy 
soil gets hot. and the sweet peas are soon 
done. The cold frames are being pre¬ 
pared for sowing* Prizctaker onion seed, 
radishes, beets and lettuce seed for the: 
early outdoor crop. The Christmas crop 
is now nearly done. Using portable 
frames of three sashes each it is easy to 
follow one crop of lettuce with another 
crop of the same simply by moving the 
frame to another spot. This avoids the 
diseases that are apt to appear in re¬ 
planting the same soil. 
In the frames we will also sow seed 
of the Copenhagen Market cabbage to 
fiiicceed the Early Wakefield. This cab¬ 
bage makes a fine succession crop, but it 
will not succeed from Fall sowing, as if 
sown when we sow the Wakefield the 
plants will he sure to run into bloom and 
seed instead of heading in the Spring. 
The frame in which the -beet seeds are 
sown will have radishes in alternate 
rows 6 inches apart. The radishes come 
out soon, and the beets have all the 
room. About the middle oL Marcu the 
frame is removed elsewhere to be used 
for setting tomato plants for hardening. 
The beets can stand any weather after 
that, and the thinnings can be trans¬ 
planted. The Egyptian beet is the only 
one I sow in frame. For the outside 
sowing Eclipse is far better quality. Mar¬ 
ket growers long ago abandoned the old 
Bassano beet with its light color and big 
top. but for really fine quality the Bas¬ 
sano is far better than the dark red 
beets. w. F. massey. 
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“but I was married the other day to Pat 
Sullivan.” “Indeed.” retorted Jane, “I 
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son on earth to marry him.” “Well, I 
hope I am.”—New York Globe. 
Burpee’s Annual 
The Leading American Seed Catalog 
Burpee’s Annual is a complete guide 
to the vegetable 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. 
Lower Prices. Wherever possible we 
have reduced the price of seeds by the 
pound and have increased the number 
of seeds contained in the packet. You 
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Annual for 1921 . 
If you are interested in gardening, 
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