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stately in design, and besides being of 
great value as a commercial crop are 
excellent for park and lawn settings. 
Decorative Tree. —The improved black 
walnut is excellent, especially the beauti¬ 
ful Stabler, for lawn planting, as these 
varieties do not carry the undesirable 
trait of killing everything within its 
shadow. The English is more beautiful 
than the black, and as the black walnuts 
as well as pecans and hickories are all 
deep rooters they are far more desirable 
than maple or poplar, because they send 
their roots downward instead of out 
over the surface. Many people plant 
crops under these trees; this is especially 
handy in planting English walnuts in the 
truck patch as they are grafted on the 
black walnut stock, which roots deeply. 
Pennsylvania. joiin w. iiersiiey. 
(Continued Next Week.) 
Southern-grown Cabbage and Tomato 
Plants 
I expect to plant one acre of cabbage 
and two acres of tomatoes, both for the 
early market. Can you give me any in¬ 
formation in reference to buying these 
plants from the South (Georgia) in pref¬ 
erence to raising them or buying them 
here? What, if any, is to be gained by 
getting the Southern grown plants in the 
way of earlier crops? What advantage 
would there be in resetting them in cold 
frames a few weeks prior to field plant¬ 
ing? What can you advise as to using a 
plant setter (a hand planter) for this 
work? E- c. T. 
Dayton, Ohio. 
I do not see any advantage in buying 
cabbage and tomato plants raised in the 
South, if you can purchase or raise good 
plants in your own territory at a reason¬ 
able cost. Northern-grown seeds and 
plants are hardier than Southern-grown, 
and tend to produce earlier crops. In 
order to harden plants before early set¬ 
ting in the field, it is always necessary to 
expose them foi; a week or 10 days during 
the day, by opening the hotbeds or placing 
the plants in the flats in cold frames. 
Ample protection must be given for cold 
days and during the night. 
The planter referred to is used with 
success in some sections. It has the ad¬ 
vantage of doing the work of transplant¬ 
ing more rapidly than the usual hand 
method, and also waters the plants as they 
are set. n. strycker mills. 
Varieties of Market Tomatoes 
What kind of tomatoes do they grow at 
Rochester, N. Y., for pickling? I have 
seen them come in the market in refrigera¬ 
tor cars. They are much lighter in color 
than the Stone tomatoes we grow here in 
Central New Jersey. They are more oval 
and much better shape. The pickle fac¬ 
tories claim they come out of pickle much 
better than the green tomatoes from New 
Jersey and are willing to pay considerably 
more for them. F. s. C. 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
The growers around Rochester, N. Y., 
are now growing the so-called John Baer 
tomato, which belongs to the Chalk’s 
Jewel-Bonny Best-John Baer group. These 
three varieties are so nearly alike that it 
is very easy to confuse them. New York's 
growing season is shorter than that of 
New Jersey, which makes it necessary to 
use early-maturing varieties such as the 
group just mentioned. There are several 
seedsmen who specialize in tomatoes, and 
others who have good strains under their 
supervision. Order your tomato seed 
from any reliable seedsman of which there 
are many. 
^ther factors, besides the variety 
grown, may influence the keeping quality 
of the tomato. The cooler climate of 
Northern and Western New York State, 
tends to produce a slower growing, and* 
therefore more solid tomato. The warmer 
climates tend to produce more disease 
which in turn causes watery fruit. 
IT. STRYCKER MILLS 
The Origin of Moore’s Early Grape 
When in Concord many years ago I 
was told by a resident of that place that 
E, W. Bull raised the original vine of 
Moore’s Early, as well as the’Concord. 
I rather doubted that, and asked for 
proof. He stated that a number of years 
previously he was at an institute meeting 
where both Mr. Bull and Mr. Moore were 
present, and that in a discussion there 
Mr. Bull accused Moore of stealing the 
original vine from his garden (Mr. 
Moore’s land joined or was very near 
Mr. Bull’s place, I forget which) and 
that Mr. Moore neither denied the charge, 
nor made any reply to it. 
Massachusetts. h. o. mead. 
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'P And then —quickly and 
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3 So that—the original lustrous body finish 
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