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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 26, 1924 
From the Grower to the Sower 
Seeds grown in the north produce earlier crops and better yields than if grown 
further south. This has been proven over and over again. Get seeds you know 
are northern grown. Harris’ seeds are raised near the Canadian border and are therefore by far 
the best for the northern states. They are sold direct from the grower to you at wholesale prices. 
We raise Vegetable seeds, Flower seeds and Farm seeds, all of the 
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Golden Acre Cabbage—A wonderful new early variety, earlier than Jersey Wakefield and 
has round solid heads larger than that variety. Every plant makes a good head and they are 
just alike. Undoubtedly the best variety for the early crop. 
Harris’ Pedigree-Potatoes raised from seed selected from the best 
yielding hills, and carefully inspected and held freed from all dis- 
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Harris’ Northern Grown Corn is much earlier, and therriore 
much safer lo plant in the North than corn raised further bouth 
or in the West. We have unusual facilities for drying seed corn. 
A REAL TEST— Harris’ seeds are tested to find out how many 
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HARRIS’ catalogue, a book of over 100 pages, beau¬ 
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Planting One Year Whips 
Is it practical to set one-year seedlings 
that I have for a permanent orchard? 
These seedlings were budded in August 
and September last, and would be cut back 
at the time of setting and given a good 
chance in good rich cultivated natural 
apple land. If I could use these seedlings 
it would save me from $400 to $450 and 
I would be sure of getting the varieties 
that I want. I get full as good results 
from one-year whips as I do with two- 
year-old trees, and they fruit about as 
young. c - K - 
Vermont. 
I would not advise the setting of apple 
seedlings in a permanent orchard even 
though they were budded with known 
varieties last Summer. F.ven under the 
best of conditions some of the buds do not 
make good trees, but by allowing them to 
grow one season in the nursery row a 
larger percent of good one-year whips can 
be used the following season. 
By using the one-year whips no loss 
of time would result over using the seed¬ 
lings which might be set in the orchard 
this Spring. I agree with the writer that 
one-year whips are as satisfactory as two- 
year-old apple trees, but I would not try 
to use seedlings in place of one-year whips. 
S. P. HOLLISTER, 
Professor of Horticulture. 
Connecticut. 
I have never been a fancier of one-year 
whips. At the same time others find them 
satisfactory. If those seedlings, budded 
last August or September, have made full 
root development they will probably live, 
but if mine would leave them another 
rear before transplanting. As a rule New 
England climate will not make the rapid 
root and stalk growth to be obtained in 
Central New York. If the buds used 
were from tested trees your correspondent 
has a foundation for a good orchard not 
to be obtained in any other way, provided 
he has so fitted the land where the seed¬ 
lings were planted, and so eared for it 
since, that they have rooted well and 
made vigorous growth. In _ my own ex¬ 
perience whips have not given fruit in 
advance of two-year trees. That is, the 
number of years from budding will be 
practically the same in one ease as the 
other. I found ’in Maine last Fall some 
whips five-eighths inch in diameter, five 
feet high and with plenty of fibrous roots, 
better by far than most of the two-year 
stock offered. If C. K. has such he is on 
the right road. G. M. twitchell. 
Maine. 
C. K. answers his own question, “I get 
full as good.” If he is satisfied why 
hesitate? There are two sides to every¬ 
thing but a pancake, and that has top 
and bottom. In soil rich as he will use 
I believe he would get larger trees in the 
end by seedlings, planting where he wants 
them, but it is harder work to cultivate 
and care for such small trees than it 
would be in a nursery row, and cultivate 
for one or two years. What he would 
save in cost of the small trees would 
more than pay for cultivating _ when 
planted where they were to remain. If 
1 were sure of getting trees true to name 
by buying the small budded seedlings and 
was not sure of getting trees true to 
name in the larger trees I would certainly 
buy the small ones. The way he asks and 
answers his questions I would advise him 
to plant the small trees, for that is the 
’vice he wants. CLARK ALLIS. 
New York. 
Yes, it can be done, but I do not con¬ 
sider it the most profitable way to set a 
permanent orchard. The young trees 
should now be in nursery rows in good 
well fertilized land where the cost of care 
and cultivation would be much less than 
if the young trees were .scattered over a 
number of acres, even if the land was 
planted to some cultivated crop. Certain¬ 
ly it should not be corn under any cir¬ 
cumstances. The trees should be given 
good care where they are, and will make 
larger and better trees than if trans¬ 
planted the coming Spring. Then they could 
be set. into the permanent orchard the 
following year. Personally I should set all 
the better trees into nursery rows at least 
2 ft. apart, and grow one or two years 
more. This transplantation will give 
them a better root growth, and the trees 
can be grown cheaper and better than 
scattered over so much land. Trees so 
situated can be set very early when soil 
is moist without any drying out of the 
roots, and if some dirt is left on them all 
the better. Trees grown this way and 
then set will make. I am certain, a better 
and more profitable orchard than set as 
dormant buds, and at less cost. Stunted, j 
crooked or ill-shaped trees would better 
be cut back after the first season’s 
growth and given one more chance, but 
do not put any poor-growing, crooked 
stock in the orchard. Sell, give away, 
or put on the dump, but not in your or¬ 
chard. Personallv I do not set trees | 
whose root growth did not suit me. 
Massachusetts. H. o. mead. 
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