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Box D, Williamsport, Pa. 
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Valuable instructions on planting and care. 
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almost perfect in germination. 
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FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc., Boxl5 H Landisville, Lane. Co., Pa- 
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1 000 for *3, postpaid. By Express. per 1,000. 
Onion, Beet, and Lettuce Plants same price. 
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FOR SALE—TRUE DANISH BALL HEAD CABBAGE SEED 
Imported direct from Odense. Denmark. 82 per lb. post¬ 
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Certified Mancliu 
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C ertified Green Mountain Seed Potatoes. Heavy > icld. 
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Prices below all others. Extra 
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Big tree catalogue lias over 
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Seed Corn 
Certified Seed Potatoes 
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Catalog: Free. 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Certified Apple Tree 
These are the days o£ standardization, 
also certification. We have certified ac¬ 
countants and certified seed potatoes, also 
certified apple trees; nearly 60.000 of 
them will be planted by fruit growers this 
year. The certified apple tree is the re¬ 
sult of an effort to eliminate the “misfit” 
tree; to guard the fruit grower from the 
Wolf River sold for McIntosh. 
Certification is based on the possibility 
of identifying varieties growing in the 
nursery row. All skilled fruit groweis 
know varieties by the fruit; it is no mote 
difficult to know them by the nursery 
trees, only most fruit growers are not so 
familiar with the trees. Rut go into any 
nursery center where a specialty is made 
of fruit stock and you will have no dif¬ 
ficulty in finding men who know varieties 
better by the trees than by the fruit. 
Identification of nursery trees rests partly 
on leaf characters and partly on charac¬ 
ters of the bark and bud and the general 
habit of growth of the tree. 
Variety certification has thus far Men 
carried out under the auspices of the 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion by experts from the Massachusetts 
Experiment Station, where the plan was 
developed and put in operation. The plan 
of operation is as follows: Any nursery¬ 
man may apply to the association for cer¬ 
tification. The trees are then examinee 
and those found true to name have a hole 
drilled through a branch and a common 
lead wired seal is thrust through and 
sealed with a common hand seal press. 
This stamps the name of the variety on 
the seal which may remain on the tree 
until it-comes in bearing and confirms for 
refutes) the judgment made in the nurs¬ 
ery. The entire cost <>f the job has 
amounted to about two cents per tree 
where considerable numbers were handled. 
The work was begun in 1921. when about 
2..">00 were certified and in 1923 the num¬ 
ber rose to 05.910. What the future may 
be no one can tell, but the indications are 
that there will he a further increase. 
Misfit trees doubtless come about some-, 
times through dishonesty on the part of 
nurserymen and tree dealers but in most 
cases they arc unavoidable under the sys¬ 
tem commonly followed by nurserymen. 
Trees are commonly propagated by buds 
from other nursery trees. If a stray tree 
gets into the nursery row, buds are very 
| likely cut from it along with others from 
| trees true to name, and thus the error is 
perpetuated and most highly magnified. 
Then there are doubtless cases where va¬ 
rieties are mixed in storage. To avoid 
entirely such errors is probably impos¬ 
sible, but if the trees are critically ex¬ 
amined each year in the nursery row such 
errors are detected and by labeling each 
tree mix-ups later on are absolutely pre¬ 
vented. 
Practically every large nursery so far 
examined in this certification work has 
contained misnamed trees. The first year 
these amounted to nearly 10 per cent of 
the total number examined. This year it 
amounted to loss than 1% per cent. I his 
decrease is due in part to the fact that in 
nurseries examined repeatedly the mis¬ 
named trees were naturally discarded and 
pure stock brought in. and in part to the 
fact that the new nurseries taken on con¬ 
tained a smaller proportion of misnamed 
trees than the first ones. All nursery¬ 
men who have once tried certification have 
kept it up in succeeding years. 
The effect of certification is felt far be¬ 
yond the trees actually certified. It has 
doubtless, even at this early stage, op¬ 
erated to spur nurserymen on to greater 
efforts on their own account to exercise 
greater care in keeping stock true to name. 
It has also had a more direct effect in 
the nurseries when a portion of the trees 
only were offered for certification. In 
several such cases other trees have been 
pointed out as not true to name, and 
these have been eliminated by the nurs¬ 
erymen. Many specific cases of this sort 
could be cited. 
So far the work has been confined to 
abftut 25 varieties of apples. These in¬ 
clude most of the varieties in common 
cultivation. There is no reason why other 
apple varieties may not. be included when¬ 
ever the demand arises. No doubt much 
could be done with other fruits, though 
the writer has given but little attention 
to them so far. Pears, plums and cherries 
Grow 
Sow Burpee’e Seed» 
and you will tee 
How they Grow! 
Burpee’* Annual ie 
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pictures of the best 
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