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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 1024 
REASON NO. 2 
Why is it that the country with all 
its natural advantages very often suffers 
more sickness than even the tenement 
districts of cities ? Poor sanitation ! 
Most diseases can be traced directly to 
some unsanitary source. Running water 
is the essence of sanitation, the enemy of 
infection and contagion, the protection 
of health. 
The WILLSEA AUTOMATIC WATER 
SYSTEM supplies water for bathroom, kit¬ 
chen, lavatory, watering troughs, any¬ 
where you want it—silently, economical¬ 
ly, constantly. It is entirely automatic, 
requires no attention—no tinkering, fuss¬ 
ing, starting, stopping. It’s keynote is 
quality, based upon the conviction that 
you either want a water system to work 
properly and continue to do so, or you 
don’t want it at all. It is not expensive; 
and upkeep costs less than city water. 
How many things have you that cost 
more originally, more to keep up, and 
are not nearly as important ? 
If your local dealer cannot give you the information, write us 
THE WILLSEA WORKS 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Special Offering of “Trees propagated from bearing orchards” 
lyast year’s dry eummer gave us more than our usual quantity of smaller sized stock, and we offer, 
subject to prior Bale, the following items. The roots of these trees are fine, they are simply too small 
for our regular grades. If j'oti are not ready to plant in permanent places—a plow will open a furrow 
where they can quickly he ‘’lined out” and grow into money on your own farm. A real saving in your 
planting investments. Of course we can supply larger sizes. 
Peach Trees 
1 ^ 2-2 ft. w #10.00 per 100 
170 Meile of (in. 
189 Carman 
34 Champion 
224 Rochester 
Apple Trees 
Pear Trees 
l'g-2 ft. <«, 
*15.00 per 100 
id- 2 ft. an *3o.oo 
per 100 
2-3 ft. @ 
20.00 per 100 
2-3 ft. © 40.00 
per 100 
lV2ft. 2-3 ft 
1 D-2 ft. 
2-3 ft. 
Baldwin 
...229 607 
Bartlett. 125 
162 
Delicious . 
166 
Ben rre Bose 75 
85 
Kielntosii . 
... 32 284 
Clapps l av. 20 
28 
Wealthy.. 
. . 75 
No. Spy .. 
38 
*20.00 per 1000 
10.00 per 1000 
15.00 per 1000 
2,055 Eldorado Blackberries, No. 2. . *2.50 per 100 : 
7,000 St. Regis Everbearing Raspberries, No. 2... ® 1.50 per 100; 
830 Erskine Bark Everbearing Raspberries. No. 2 @ 2.00 per 100 ; 
620 Herbert Raspberries, No. 2.@ 2.00 per 100 
2-yr. medium grade of Currants @ $7.00 per 100 2,700 Concord Grapes, 2-yr., No. 2 
413 Fay 600 Perfectiou 1,400 Wilder @ $10.00 per 100; $75.00 per 1000 
We have no salesmen—use this list and our catalogue. Complete descriptive catalogue mailed free on reguest 
BOX A, \V A II.I.VtJlOliK CONN. 
“ The Orchard Propagation Nursery " 
BARNES NURSERY & ORCHARD CO., 
CABBAGE SEED 
Danish Ball Head. Imported direct 
from.Holland. $2 25 lb, postpaid. 
B. F. Metcalf & Son, Inc-, 202-204 W. Genesee St., Syracuse, N, V. 
PUNTING STOCK-BLOOMING SIZE. Inly 
White, L. M. Koch, Mrs. Watt, Wilbnck, 
2c. Miss H. Franklin, Chris, Herada. 
Pendleton, 3c. B. J. Hnlot. Flora, 4c. 1910 Rose, 
Louise, 6c (each.) ALBERT EASTON, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
Gladioli 
Farm Co-operation 
is a protest against the monopoly 
and other oppressive methods of 
organized distributors and the 
capital stock companies. Can 
farmers afford to adopt the policies 
in their own organizations that 
they denounce in others ? 
T HIS SUBJECT is treated fully 
but concisely in the new book, 
“Organized Co-operation,” Farmers 
must understand these questions if 
they are to direct their own organiza¬ 
tions, and no organization can be 
co-operative unless the members direct 
it themselves. 
The book will be sent 
post paid for $1.00 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
GRAPES, RASPBERRIES, CURRANTS 
Headquarters for- 
s 
Get New England 
grown plant! al¬ 
ready acclimated 
to the cold. 
Ever-Bearing 
trawberries 
C. S. KEMPTON & CO., catalog 
“ Longmeadow ” Springfield, Mass. 
CORTLAND APPLE 
Mail size trees.1-2 ft.—50c each, postpaid 
Scions, for Grafting. 10c a foot, postpaid 
Bliss New Sta. Strawberry Plants. $1 doz, P. paid. 
Above from stock direct from N. Y. AGL. EXP. STATION, 
GEO A. MORSE WILLIAMSON. N. Y. 
/If ore Corn Per Acre 
Not another variety but the 
product of a 
New method of producing seed 
Has the hybrid vigor of the mule 
Carter’s Crossed Corn 
Write for complete facts 
GEORGE S.CARTER, CLINTON,CONN. 
TIMOTHY SEED 
Few dealers can equal Metcalf’s Reclcaned Timothy, 
99.70;S pure. $4.70 per bushel of 15 lbs. Metcalf's Tim¬ 
othy and Alsike Mixed, at S5.2S per bu. of 15 lbs. Cot¬ 
ton hags free and freight paid in 5 bu. lots 
B. F. METCALF & SON, Inc. 
202-204 W. Genesee Si- - Syracuse, N. Y. 
CAULIFLOWER SEED 
Early Snowball. Imported direct from Denmark. 
Oz., $2; quarter oz., 75c, postpaid. Free catalog. 
B. F. METCALF & SON. Inc.. 202-204 W. Genesee St., Syracuse, N.Y. 
Pncilona Pnrn Bu Y Lycoming County Sweepstakes, 
CllollagC UOril Heaviest yielding for N.Y.and north¬ 
ern Pa. latitude. Best, therefore cheapest at any price. 
03.95 for 56 lbs.—bags free. (’. IlUiGS, Trnmnmburg, -N.Y. 
PlnuarCaarl only State grown where It’s grown. 
UlUYoruCCu Alsike. Medium and Mammoth Reds. 
F. C BIGGS - Trumansburg, N. V. 
C ERTIFIED RUSSET SEED POTATOES. High yielding, 
healthy strain. Circ. F. S. Hollenbeck, Tully, N.Y. 
New England Notes 
Testing Novelties. —Half the fun of 
garden-making comes in the growing of 
a few novelties each season. If it be true 
that there is something of the gambler 
in all of us, I know of no better way 
in which to give it expression. Experi¬ 
menting with new plants is always in 
the highest degree uncertain, and yet tve 
occasionally make the acquaintance of 
a new flower or fruit or vegetable which 
compensates us for all the failure we 
may have had. Comparatively few in¬ 
troductions in the way of vegetables and 
fruits have appeared for several years, 
but ornamentals have been many. Even 
the catalogs which specialize in farm 
seeds are giving increased attention to 
flowers. This phase of country living 
seems to have changed greatly since the 
World War. Farmsteads and country 
homes, where but few flowers were to 
be seen in former years now have neat 
perennial borders along the walks, with 
shrubs to hide the foundations of the 
houses and ornamental trees to break the 
monotony of level grass plots. Farm 
homes are happier homes when some at¬ 
tention is given to such things and in¬ 
cidentally the value of the property is 
materially increased 
A New Begonia. —Flower growers who 
like nice beds containing only one kind of 
flower will be pleased with the Begonia, 
Frau Helen Harms (page 500), which 
blooms practically all Summer long. All 
the small flowering Begonias are excellent 
for bedding •purposes, and when Fall 
comes may be potted up for the living- 
room window. They can be grown from 
seeds, too, if the seeds are sown in boxes 
of soil in the house early in the Spring. 
New Roses. —Another new rose of un¬ 
usual interest comes from Holland, and 
was produced by crossing the Rugosa 
rose with one of the Baby Ramblers. It 
has been named F. ,J. Grootendorst, and 
has been out long enough for its merits to 
be proved. I have seen it used very 
satisfactorily as a hedge, and in my gar¬ 
den it blooms practically all Summer. 
Some nurserymen are putting it out as 
the carnation-flowered rose, and the name 
is not inappropriate, for the red flowers 
are about the size of carnations and are 
curiously notched or fluted around the 
edges. The older hybrid Rugosa, Conrad 
Ferdinand Meyer, makes an excellent 
hedge, by the way, and like all the Ru- 
gosas, may lie recommended for planting 
at the seaside. Many of the best roses 
uow being given to the world are of 
American origin. Formerly we looked to 
England and Ireland for all our new 
roses, but now the English and Irish 
gardeners are buying American varieties. 
The newest varieties include Common¬ 
wealth (page 401M. a very beautiful rose, 
originated at Hadley, Mass.; Sensation, 
which had its birlli at Richmond, Inch, 
and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, which comes 
from Tarry town, N. Y. America and 
Angelas are not quite so new and have 
proved their worth. America gives prom¬ 
ise of being one of the best pink roses for 
American gardens. Angelus is a fra¬ 
grant white rose which keeps especially 
well. Lafayette is a new rose of the 
Baby Rambler type with flowers of rich 
crimson red and unsually large. This is 
a class of roses with which amateurs 
might well become better acquainted. 
The Baby Ramblers are very dwarf, never 
growing as large as the ordinary bush 
roses. They require very little pruning 
and bloom continuously all Summer. No 
rose is better for bedding purposes, and 
in my garden the variety called Echo has 
prqved particularly pleasing. 
Petunias. —In late years there have 
been great improvements iu Petunias, 
which are so inexpensive that great num¬ 
bers of them can he grown in any garden. 
There are Petunias for every place and 
purpose. Nothing makes a better ap¬ 
pearance iu a window box than the Pe¬ 
tunia Rosy Morn, with its delightful 
piuk flowers, and the deep blue or purple 
Petunias which are being put out by 
some of the seedsmen are unsurpassed 
for bedding. From California come huge 
frilled Petunias in different colors which 
make splendid borders for walks, while 
the so-called balcony Petunias, with 
trailing habit, are well suited to rock 
gardens and for use in cemetery vases. 
The double forms of Petunias are inter¬ 
esting, but the form is not fully fixed, 
and some single flower are certain to 
be thrown, no matter how good the 
seed may be. 
Shrubs for Cold Climates. —Prof. 
N. E. Hansen of the South Dakota Ex¬ 
periment Station has propagated several 
shrubs which are ready to be distributed 
and which are of special value in the 
colder States. One of the them is the 
so-called Siberian pea tree (Caragana ar- 
borescens), which makes an exceptionally 
good wind-break and snow-catcher. The 
Siberian buckthorn is another extremely 
hardy shrub which is good for hedge 
purposes, although desirable in any situa¬ 
tion because of handsome light green foli¬ 
age. Then there is a Siberian form of 
Rugosa rose, which is said to be even 
better than the Japanese form with which 
most garden makers are familiar. It is 
said that the natives of Siberia use the 
large red fruits of this rose for food. 
E. T. F. 
SPECIAL SALE / 4 
yfreco 3lenxL~ 
POUNDS FOR^ 
Delivered Postpaid 
OvTthin loojHiles 
ONE WEEK ONLY 
A real bargain opportunity to conveniently try 
another of Gillies’ famous Coffees. This is just 
a trial offer, as we usually accept no orders for 
less than 5 lbs. All we ask is that you act with- ( 
out delay on our guarantee of 
SATISFACTION OR MONEY BACK 
j Send Check, Cash, Money Order or pay 1’ e 
i Postman upon receipt of Coffee 
GILLIES COFFEE CO. 
23S Washington St. N.Y. City 
Est . 8£ Years 
The FARMERS’ GARDEN 
A Seed Drill and Wheel Hoe is in¬ 
dispensable — not only in a village 
garden but on largest farms. 
Farmers should grow all manner 
of vegetables and ‘Jive on the fat of 
the land.” Should provide succu¬ 
lent roots for Cattle, Swine, Poultry, 
and save high priced feed 
stuff. Great labor-saw 
ing tools of special 
value for the home 
as well as the 
market gar¬ 
den. Send 
for free 
book. 
Only One 
of Many 
Xron Ago Tools 
FRED. H. BATEMAN COMPANY 
625 So. Washington Square Philadelphia, Pa. 
Learn 
TREE SURGERY 
Here is an opportunity to 
earn while you learn 
We are offering a preliminary course in Tree 
Surgery to young men between the ages of 18 
and 30. If yon are ambitions, physieally fit, 
free from vices, love nature, like to travel, and 
want to associate with other fine men. 
Write today for particulars to 
The Bartlett Co-operative School 
For the Training of Tree Experts 
STAMFORD. CONN. 
Under the direction of the F. A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company 
Do the work Faster\Betterand in half the time 
aitaiol— Fruit Growers SawCo.Scottsviiic, N.Y. 
FRUIT TREES-BERRIES 
GRAPES—EVERGREENS—FLO WE RING SHRUBS 
Send for our illustrated catalog. 
DeBAUN & Co., Nurserymen, Wyckoff, N. J. 
Washington Asparagus 
Large, strong, l-vr.-old roots. 40c per doz; ICO—J2 ; 
500—$8 ; 1.000—$12 ; 5,000-$55. 
M. S. Pryor R. F. 0. Salisbury, Mrl. 
TREES 
Grow more fruit. Increase your income. Im¬ 
prove your property. Our trees grow. Free 
catalogue. MITt'HEIil.'S N1 ItSKKV, Heverly, Ohio 
♦ <0~- T “Manchu” $8.50 per bu. ; bigs, 60e, 
ooy Deans F. O. B. Delaware “ Elton,” *3.00. 
MYSER BROS. FARM Delaware, O. 
DflTATflC<! — Bliss, Cobbler,Green Mt., Russet, Ohio, 11a- 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
