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March 5. 1921 
Tne RURAL N 
Will You Accept 
Three Fine Dahlia Bulbs? 
Regular Price, $1.00 Each 
Take your choice, any ol three collections 
Wonderfully beautiful new Dahlias, the products of the world's 
leading Dahlia specialists. Be sure to state which collection is 
wanted, A, B or C, otherwise we will make the selection. 
Dahlias are as easily grown as potatoes and will succeed 
anywhere potatoes thrive. 
Here is an opportunity to have a fine display of rare flowers 
in the garden sufficient for cutting freely for decorating, etc. The 
flowers keep a long time in water. 
A new Holland Peony-flowered, Sulhpur-yellow. ATTRACTION, 
Giant Hybrid Cactus, large, elegant, full flower, clear lilac rose, with long, strong stems. MISS HELEN HOLLIS, 
Giant Scarlet show. One of the largest and best deep scarlet shows, long, strong stem. Collections B and C are 
Peony-flowered Dahlias. 
Collection B CanoniCUS, Beautiful Dark Cerise. No other like it in shape or size. Samoset, Light Yellow, 
slightly shaded pink. Esther Du Barry, Velvety Cardinal. 
Collection C Ningret, Rich, Dar' Red, Clouded, and Strip-d Lighter. Powhattan, Dark, Crushed Straw¬ 
berry, Beautiful Shading. Frances Lane. Light, Lavender Red; Very Wonderfully Shaded. 
Collection A—Anny Doppenberg, 
The peony type of flowers have long, rolled petals, 
beautifully twisted and curled at the points, with short 
curly petals around the central disk. 
To rapidly increase the constantly growing list of members 
of the American Dahlia Society, a strong root of each of 
three grand Dahlias is offered to new members. The regu¬ 
lar price is one dollar each, three dollars for the three roots. 
Membership in the American Dahlia Society includes : 
I. The Quarterly Bulletin, giving Dahlia culture and 
Dahlia notes and news of the world. Some say a single 
issue is worth a year's dues. 
2. A season ticket to the Society's Dahlia Show. 
The annual dues are two dollars with nothing more what¬ 
ever to pay. If you wish three Dahlias described above, 
remit the amount of the annual dues, two dollars, and fif.y 
cents extra to pay the expense, and the three dollar Dahlias 
will be delivered anywhere in the United States postpaid, 
and your name will be enrolled as a member with ail dues 
for the year fully paid. All three collections and a year's 
membership, six dollars. 
EDWARD C. VICK, Secretary American Dahlia Society 
205 Elwocd Avenue, NEWARK, N. J. 
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perhaps allowed to fall down after the 
weather gets warm. There are places 
where it is very difficult to grow onions be¬ 
cause of the attacks by the onion fly. 
Many remedies have been devised, but 
most of them have proved ineffective, al¬ 
though the plan of sprinkling molasses 
water with which arsenic has been mixed 
over the plants gives fairly good results. 
Some growers report, however, that they 
have no trouble whatever with the onion 
fly if they start their onions in a cold 
frame and set them in the open field 
when partly grown. Of course this meth¬ 
od requires considerable labor, but. after 
all. it may be just as easy as to keep the 
weeds out of the rows and the soil weil 
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Sowing Alfalfa in Rye 
I have a field of rye and Timothy, 
which was seeded last Fall, and would 
tike to try out Alfalfa. Would it be ad¬ 
visable for me to sow it this .Spring with 
Alfalfa the same as clover, or wait until 
I cut the rye and then plow it and sow 
my Alfalfa afterward? J. A. S. 
Auburn, Pa. 
From our own experience we should 
wait until after the rye is harvested, and 
then fit the ground well and seed to 
Alfalfa alone. We have never had much 
success at seeding Alfalfa in the grain as 
we do fled clover. There are some re¬ 
ports of success from such seeding, but 
we find the small Alfalfa plants far more 
tender than young clover. 
Lime to Prevent Peach Rot 
A nursery stock agent here told me 
that a peach or apple orchard should be 
sprayed around under the trees with air- 
slaked lime, and that the fruit would 
ripen better and peaches and plums would 
not rot on the trees. As I never heard 
that before. I ask you for advice. 
Bangor. Pa. j. R. R. 
If that is what the agent told you he 
did what many others do—gave about 10 
per cent of the truth and called it a full 
job. Air-slaked lime alone under the trees 
will not prevent rot. We do not believe 
it pays to use lime on an apple orchard 
except to help make clover grow. Lime 
alone will not prevent rot in the peach or 
plum. Spraying the trees with lime-sul¬ 
phur will help keep brown rot in check 
and so will a dry dust of sulphur and 
lime, but you will be disappointed if you 
depend on lime alone. 
Home-grown Pansy Seed 
Can I pick out the best blooming pansy 
nlants from Fall-set beds, plants set -1x4 
ins., and lift them with plenty of soil, 
so that I can save the seed with an idea 
of improvement, provided care is taken in 
selection? I have young plants from seed 
sown this Winter that will bloom in the 
Spring. Would these be better? Will 
two different strains mix if planted near 
each other? I have eight different strains, 
including some famous ones, but one va¬ 
riety that I received from a small grower 
is much superior. The seed is expensive 
where a large amount is used. a. p. f. 
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Pansy plants can be transplanted iu 
the Spring for the purpose of selecting 
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plants should bloom before transplant¬ 
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and size. Pansy growers are always very 
particular in their selection, or at least 
they should be. The tendency is to re¬ 
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anything especially beautiful try to iso¬ 
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If you wish to specialize, the best is 
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the expense and trouble. These strains 
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