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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Xatu ral Size of Derry 
BIG, JUICY , SWEET BERRIES 
FROM JULY TO NOVEMBER! 
The bushes are covered with firm, luscious, 
wonderfully flavored berries, With few seeds, from 
July until freezing weather. The fruit is twice the 
size of other raspberries and of the same delicious flavor 
from first to last. Immense branches covered with berries 
which are constantly ripening. 
Fruits early in July, the first season planted, and continues in 
fruit until frozen. Free from insects and disease, perfectly hardy. 
A dozen plants will supply the average family all season, year 
after year. Plants multiply rapidly. 
A Great Money Maker for Berry Growers ! 
It is the best for home gardens and a great money maker 
for marketing. 
Awarded medals and certificates by leading Agricultural and 
Horticultural Societies, including the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society, Horticultural Society of New York, The American 
Institute of N. Y-, etc., etc. 
Strong, .field grown, bearing plant*, $1.50 each, $16.00 per dozen, 
by prepaid parcel post. 
Safe delivery guaranteed in proper time for planting if ordered 
now. Circulars on request. 
Raspberry Farms at Sound Beach, Conn, 
and Glen Head, N. Y. 
Grown in the 
Gardens of : 
J. P. Morgan, 
Glen Cove, N Y, 
J. D. Rockefeller, 
Pocantico Hills, 
N. Y 
W. W. Astor, 
Newport, K. I. 
P. S. du Pont, 
Wilmington, 
Del. 
C. M. Schwab, 
J.orotto, Pa. 
Henry Ford, 
Dearborn, Mich. 
J. J. Hill Estate, 
Poke Genevn. 
Wis. 
Jjnd others who 
demand the 
IVorld's best 
John G. Scheepers, i»c 
522 ttfth Jive. NewYorR City 
Giant Everbearing 
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BIG PROFITS 
YOU CAN MAKE 
$500 to $700 Per A. 
GROWING 
STRAWBERRIES 
From Keith’s Big Healthy New-Land Plants 
Grown on rich, NEW, sandy loam, on ideal soil 
for growing plants, makes them Big Prize Winners. 
Some of our varieties brought growers over *70C 
per A. Inst Benson. VIGOROUS, HEAVILY- 
ROOTED PLANTS every one sure to grow makes 
them most valuable for your Garden or Fields. 
It’s Keith’s New Land that does it. 
V *.|> w . I . _ J pi„„,, insure your success in growing 
Keitn S nCW“L.ailu I lallls strawberries, every plant irrows 
produces more Bigger. Better Berries than plants grown on old soils. Our New 
f is the best plant soil filled witli Natural Plant Foods which gives KEITH S NEW- 
LAND PLANTS their heavier roots, size and vigfor over other plants. We ship them 
freshly duR direct to you. Satisfaction to all customers. 
r\ a/* n l r* We guarantee our New-Land plants to reach you 
Uur meney-Dack Guarantee in ffood growing condition, to he strong:, healthy 
and as exactly as described or refund your money. 
Wait! Don’t Order Until You Receive Our 1921 Catalog, It’s FREE! 
It contains nia.iv pictures of our New-Uml plants-Explains why they arc so valuable 
lor vou t«> nlunt—Pictures the hiRRfest yielding varieties of Strawberries, Raspberries, 
Blackberries. Gra^s. etc. Some in’nK eo\ors Get this catalog on SPECIAL VARIETIES for Garden or Fields. 
IT S FREE. W i . * oday and receive it tomorrow _ « 
KEITH BROS. NURSERY, Box 600, Sawyer, Mich. 
More Money to the Acre 
comes from small fruits than from any other 
crop. Some of our customers hav^ -mted re¬ 
turns of $700 to $800 per acre—what otiic-v er- 
will bring you such profitable 'eturns ? 
Knight’s Guide to Small Fruits 
tvill give you copious cultural directions anil the 
findings of our lone experience. We have recom¬ 
mended the be>t berries for different conditions 
and climates: the useful information makes the 
book extremely valuable. Send now for a fret copy 
before the edition is exhausted. 
DAVID KNIGHT & SON 
Box 80, Sawyer, Michigan 
Grow Strawberries 
N othing equals strawberries as a cash crop on the small place. 
One customer reports $1342 from less than % acre. Every 
farm and town garden should have a patch of Strawberries 
for the home table. 
Allen 's Book of Betties lot 1921 —tells just how to 
grow big, luscious strawberries for market and table. It de¬ 
scribes Everbearing Strawberries which will yield until frosts 
nip the green b> rric-s. Plant these this Spring and you can 
enjoy home-grown berries by August 1st. 
This Berry Book also describes and prices the leadingearly.mediumand 
late standard strawberry va: ,c ..os. V.'ri te for it today. 
The W. F. ALLEM CO 
72 Market St. Salisbury, Md 
I ALLEN’S 
PLANTS 
Review of New Fruits 
(Continued from page 355) 
Xo. 125. The fruit ripens in mid-season 
and is an excellent whit table grape for 
the home garden, and gives promise of 
becoming a commercial variety. 
Portland is another white grape which 
has for its parents Champion and Lutie. 
The fruit is the earliest white grape to 
ripen at Geneva, and resembles Niagara 
in appearance, but is superior in quality 
Portland is superior to Winchell in siz« 
of cluster, size of berry and earliness. 
Ontario is another white grape—a 
seedling of Diamond crossed with Win¬ 
chell. The crop ripens about with that 
of Winchell. Many ivho have seen the 
fruit call it the best table grape of its 
Red Bugs on Young Apples Fig. 171 
season. The grapes are superior to those 
of Winchell in quality, and the vine char¬ 
acters are good. 
Urbana is a seedling of Governor Ross 
crossed with Mills. The grapes ripen 
somewhat later than those of Catawba 
and beep well. The fruit brings to mind 
the European grape and possesses many 
desirable characters not found in native 
grapes. 
Gooseberry.— The Poorman is supposed 
to be a cross between Houghton and 
D'owning, originating more than 30 years 
ago. Because of the vigor and produc¬ 
tiveness of tlie bushes and the high qual¬ 
ity of the fruit, this variety has attracted 
more attention than any other gooseberry 
grown at the Geneva Station. The ber¬ 
ries are larger than either parent, and 
Apple Deformed by Rcdbitgs. Fig. 172 
when fully ripe develop more color than 
Houghton. The crop ripens early in 
July. The variety is easily propagated 
from cuttings. This is by far the best of 
all gooseberries in New York. 
Raspberries.— June originated in 100!) 
on the grounds of the Geneva Station, 
and is now well known by growers of 
small fruits. The variety is equal and 
often superior to the best of the oldm’ 
varieties of any season. It is the best 
early variety now grown. Ontario origi¬ 
nated at the Geneva Station in 1009 as a 
seedling of Superlative crossed with Lou¬ 
der. The rhints are hardy, vigorous and 
productive, and the berries are large and 
retain their size well throughout the sea¬ 
son. The truit. which is of good quality, 
ripens u early mid-season, somewhat 
later than June and a little earlier than 
Cuthbert. There is every indication that 
this variety will be a good shipper. It is 
becon-’og a leading variety for its season. 
! Donooro and Marldon are other seedling 
red raspberries that are attracting atten¬ 
tion in the Hudson Valley and in Yates 
County. Growers of berries should try 
both of them. U. P. hedrick. 
Geneva, X Y. 
How Fast Should an Apple Tree Grow? 
It is our experience that the character 
of the soil does not have a great bearing 
March 5, 1921 
on the rate of growth of an apple tree 
except in the extreme eases where there 
may be a solid ledge of rock close to the 
surface. I have in mind a case where 
Duchess apple trees 40 or 50 years old 
are not larger than large quince bushes. 
The climate is not favorable, hut these 
trees are much smaller than others sit¬ 
uated a few miles away, where the soil 
is deeper. 
In our own orchards we do not expect 
a tree to make much growth the first 
year. If it grows a foot on several of the 
branches we are pleased and think it is 
getting an extra good start. If cultiva¬ 
tion is wrong or the preparation of the 
ground was not right we may feel glad 
that the tree did not die. After the first 
year the tree ought to make a growth of 
at least two feet on most of the branches 
each year, and should increase the amount 
of new growth a little each year until it 
begins to bear rather heavily. 
If the young tree has not made new 
growth two feet long on many of the 
branches by the first of July it is gen¬ 
erally a sign that we have been slack in 
cultivation. In some cases the trouble 
seems to be a lack of humus iu the soil, 
which lets it dry out. A good coat of 
manure will help here. A hundred pounds 
of nitrate of soda to the acre, or more 
if the poeketbook does not protest too 
much, will he a help. This should be 
spread over the whole ground, unless the 
trees have been mutilated as recommend¬ 
ed in some published rules for pruning. 
In the lattpr case more of the fertilizer 
should go near the trees. 
After the trees start bearing heavily 
they should make new growth at least a 
foot long each season. If the growth is 
less than this, and especially if the ap¬ 
ples are very highly colored and small, it 
is time to put on a heavy coat of manure. 
In our climate an apple tree which'is 
maturing a full crop of apples should 
make a new growth a foot long all over 
it if it is on soil which is well cultivated 
and has not lost too much humus. 
ALFRED C. WEED. 
Wayne Go.. X. Y. 
The Season’s Flower Novelties 
Many novelties sire being offered to 
flower loveis this season, and while some 
of them will have to be grown on the rec¬ 
ommendations of the catalog makers, oth¬ 
ers have been tested long enough to learn 
what they will do. A new rose called 
Grootendorst will prove very useful. It 
is cross between Rosa rugosa and the 
Baby Rambler, grows large enough for 
a hedge, blooms all Summer and makes a 
fine appearance. While the flowers are 
not large they are produced in large clus¬ 
ters. and are curiously fluted like carna¬ 
tions. A new red Rambler that can be 
recommended is Paul’s Scarlet Climber, 
a rose for everybody everywhere. Al¬ 
though Silver Moor, has been out several 
years it lias been looked at a little askance 
by Northern rosarians. but seems to have 
proven itself hardier than expected. It is 
a wonderful whit rose, a good climber 
and possessing beautiful foliage. Purity, 
another white climber, is almost if not 
quite as good. 
“Youth and old age” is the name given 
by our /ra Imotliers to the annual Zin¬ 
nia, but s hard to believe that some of 
the new Zimin s belong to that family at 
all. The cactus flowered Zinnia, for ex¬ 
ample, looks aimo ’t as much like a Dah¬ 
lia. while another kind resembles a Turk¬ 
ish fez. 
Purple Queen is a real blue Petunia 
that is fine for bedding, and the Dazzler 
sunflower is a garden gem, an annual 
which I can freely recommend. I grew it 
last season and liked it very much. There 
arc some fine new sweet peas, including 
Rosalind, Glitter and Lemon Beauty. A 
much advertised novelty is the blue lace 
flower, which resembles the common 
Queen Anne’s lace of the fields, except in 
color. Tt is a good flower to cut. hut the 
seeds are rather hard to start. It is best 
to sow them in boxes indoors aud he 
careful .hat they do not rot. Finally, 
there tire a hit of new poppies which are 
interesting, among them the Sunbeams 
and the Lilliputs. While it is a mistake 
to go in too heavily for novelties, there 
is a lot of pleasure in experimenting with 
a few of them, and the cost is but a 
trifle. E. I. F. 
