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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 1, SS24 
JONES’ GRAFTED NUT TREES 
ARE MAKING GOOD 
MY HARDY PENNSYLVANIA GROWN TREES are making good and more 
than fulfilling my earlier claims for them. No reader of the R. N.-Y. who has 
space to plant trees can afford to not plant some of my hardy pecan, English 
walnut and hybrid hickory trees. 
NUT TREES ARE DUAL PURPOSE TREES and combine beauty and 
shade with production of the most delicious and valuable natural food product 
known, making them ideal trees for both the farm and suburban place. 
The above is from a photo of one of my hardy English walnut trees growing on 
WyckofTs Grand View Poultry Farms, Aurora, N. V. 
I quote from Mr Wyckoff’s letter as follows : 
“Aside from producing the most delicious nuts, these nut trees are the 
most satisfactory shade trees that one could imagine in a poultry yard, pro¬ 
ducing a dense, cool shade that the fowls more than appreciate during the hot 
summer weather. The beautiful English walnut trees that we have growing 
here have added thousands of dollars to the value of our farm. Visitors are 
greatly attracted and interested in them. I also inclose two small photos 
taken‘through the branches of two trees, one English walnut and the other a 
pecan, showing the nut clusters.” 
Write today for a copy of my finely illustrated Catalog and 
Cultural Guide, free for the asking. 
J. F. JONES, The Nut Tree Specialist 
Box R., Lancaster, Penn’a. 
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Our New Catalog 
Illustrated In natural colors from actual 
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OUR BEAUTIFUL 1924 CATALOG NOW READY 
An interesting and helpful book from the pen of our Martin E. King, an 
authority on Horticulture. It tells the plain truth about our guaranteed Trees. 
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KING BROTHERS’ NURSERIES, Box 40. Dansville, New Yor 
In Business Forty-six Tears 
Can a Gardener be a Salesman at Home ? 
A Hoadside Stand. —By roadside mar¬ 
ket gardening I mean a business carried 
on by a truck gardener who lives on a 
main or State highway, where he has a 
stand by the road and sells his produce to 
the passers-by. The way we carry the 
business on at our home, on the State 
road between Syracuse and Watertown in 
Onondaga County, it takes the time of 
all the family. The business . begins al¬ 
most as soon as Spring comes. We have 
a long green and white stand which has a 
tray down in front as well as on top. on 
which to display the goods. In the back 
are little partitions between which are 
kept the papers and. sacks of different 
kinds and sizes to put the produce in. 
Early Supplies. —As soon as it is 
warm enough for the cars to stop we put 
out early green onions, eggs and butter, 
rhubarb, hotbed radishes, which are fol¬ 
lowed in a few* days by ■ asparagus and 
lettuce. There is a little let-up before 
we have more radishes, lettuce and onions, 
and bouquets of early flowers, which are 
followed by the big strawberry season, 
when all hands are busy. College and 
school are closed, and then there are three 
of us girls and two boys at home to do 
our share of the work. We have never 
were taken to the field in a hurry. From 
the picture you can see it was con¬ 
venient to drive fairly near the field. 
It. often happened, especially on Saturday 
afternoon, that someone would want may¬ 
be six or eight dozen ears of corn or one- 
half bushel of tomatoes. We would much 
rather go and gather more if needed than 
to have much to carry over. If beets 
or carrots are by any chance left over 
they are put out in the dew for the night, 
and by so doing can be kept over one day 
and be as good as ever. Those would be 
put out first the next day. As more 
things are gathered and put on the stand 
they are added to the record of things 
put up in the morning. After a little it is 
fairly easy to know somewhere near the 
amount of things that will be sold dif¬ 
ferent days. There are quite a few who 
come out from the city several days a 
week and get a basketful, and often they 
leave an order several days ahead. 
The Matter of Prices. —There are 
some who complain about the price no 
matter how it is. We have been told that 
certain people could have a man bring 
produce right to their door for less than 
we asked. I know when I came home a 
year ago last Summer from New York 
A Roadside Market in Onondaga County, N. Y. 
hired outside help, as that eats up the 
profit. 
Succession Crops. —At this time we 
have besides the things before mentioned 
bunched beets and carrots, chard and cu¬ 
cumbers. After the strawberry season we 
have raspberries and blackberries, peas, 
string beans (green and wax), Summer 
turnips, bouquets of sweet peas and nas¬ 
turtiums, Golden Bantam sweet corn, 
which is -welcomed by all, and a few early 
potatoes and tomatoes. We also have 
some Country Gentleman sweet corn for 
the few who want something a little dif¬ 
ferent from the average. From now we 
have cabbage, Summer squash, lots of 
corn, tomatoes, potatoes and bouquets of 
asters, which give color to the stand. 
They look invitingly to the passers to stop 
and take them along. Soon the stand is 
filled with dried onions, pecks of beets, 
turnips and bushels of tomatoes .and po¬ 
tatoes. The celery calls considerable 
trade. At the end of the season all the 
odds and ends are added, such as red and 
green peppers, ripe cucumbers, water and 
muskmelons, kale, kohlrabi, chicory, en¬ 
dive, martynia and several varieties and 
colors of tomatoes. 
Fruits and Buttermilk. —As soon as 
the different fruits ripen during the year 
such as apples, pears, plums and peaches 
they are put on the stand in quart bas¬ 
kets. There is always a demand for 
things that can be eaten just as pur¬ 
chased. Many buy the little baskets of 
small red and yellow plum and pear to¬ 
matoes to eat right out of their hands. 
We had a sign up three days a week, 
“Buttermilk for Sale,” and often some 
car would drive up and stop maybe with 
five or six wanting a glass of buttermilk, 
and some of us would bring out a tray 
containing the full glasses and a pitcher 
to refill the glasses if they wished more. 
Mother made a couple of extra loaves of 
bread three days a week, for a couple of 
families from Syracuse who were camp¬ 
ing out beyond. She also sold a few 
cookies and fried cakes on bake days. 
Keeping Things Going. —Each morn¬ 
ing a new supply of goods for the stand 
was gathered with care, trimmed and 
washed, if a root crop, and put in the 
cellar where it was cool. Then father 
made a record of everything put up and 
the amount. At nine o’clock he filled the 
stand, arranging things artistically, the 
large things in back, and mixing the red, 
yellow and green things. The picture, 
on this page, was taken last Summer w r ell 
along in the season. Each night the 
things left, if perishable were cooked and 
canned for our Winter use, and if peas, 
beans, or sweet corn that would not keep 
over well we cooked it for our supper. If 
we ran out of things someone wanted we 
rushed to the field, three or four of us, 
and put up as much as -was needed. The 
produce was grown along a road, so often 
we were all asked to get into the car and 
City they were getting less for a quart 
of tomatoes than we had been paying for 
a pound in New York, and those bought 
in the city were nowhere near as nice. 
In New York we paid 10 or 15c for a 
small head of lettuce, and up home they 
were selling a Mg head for 5c. Other 
people came along and said: “How can 
you do it for such a price?” More people 
spoke about the low prices and quality of 
the things than they did about the high 
prices. Quite often a big car drives up 
and asks the prices of things and goes on, 
and then in a few minutes come back. 1 
remember one instance last Summer when 
a very nice-appearing man and woman 
came along and asked the price of corn, 
and we were selling it for 15e a dozen. 
The lady said they had passed some for 
13c, and so we smilingly bid them good¬ 
bye. In less than 15 minutes she came 
back and wanted to know if we would 
sell her some of our fresh yellow corn 
after she had left us once. She said she 
had gone back and looked at the other 
and found it was not worth 10c. Oc¬ 
casionally someone comes along and tries 
to beat you down, and if they cannot they 
often find the two or three extra pennies, 
or maybe they go off cross, calling us 
suckers, or even thieves, or several other 
uncomplimentary names. 
Caring for the Stand. —Last Summer 
several people stopped, and when I went 
to the stand, found they were people I 
•knew but did not know they ever came 
so far from home, and they likewise were 
surprised to see me in that part of the 
country. There is a great deal of dif¬ 
ference, we find in people in dealing with 
them as we do. Some are gruff and others 
are pleasant and cordial, and we often 
find ourselves standing and talking when 
we know we should he at our work. No 
one plans to stay out by the stand, but 
someone usually is in the front of the 
house, or within sight of the road. Most 
of the cars blow the horn as they stop, 
and occasionally someone walks up in the 
yard to the door if we happen not hear 
them. When the rest of us are all busy 
there is the little fellow who can do his 
part by calling us when some car stops. 
We might sell more if someone was there 
all the time, though doubtful, but we have 
no trouble selling all and more than we 
can produce. We are on a corner, as 
you can see from the picture. Many 
times there are three or four cars standing 
there at once. There is a continuous 
string of cars going by much of the time. 
Last year we sold over $1,100 worth 
from the 12 acres but probably not over 
30 acres are cultivated. Besides selling 
all this the place furnished food for seven 
of us and we raised two hogs and 80 
chickens and keep a cow and horse. It 
may not be as paying a business as some 
kinds but it is a good healthy, hard¬ 
working, and for the most, part, enjoy¬ 
able occupation for a family. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. Mildred cole. 
