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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 4, 1924 
Every fruit grower is inter¬ 
ested in the Cortland Apple— 
the sensation of Eastern horticulture. 
We consider this about the most promising variety of recent intro¬ 
duction/' writes the editor of the Rural New-Yorker. (Jan. 26, ’24.) 
77ie Cortland Apple G f the McIntosh type with the same dark- 
red skin covered with bluish bloom. The flesh resembles the McIntosh 
in color and flavor, but is a month later in ripening. The Cortland 
hangs firmly to the tree, instead of dropping like the McIntosh. 
Keeps in common storage until January. Awarded the Wilder medal. 
We offer sturdy, true-to-name, one-year Cortland Trees. Those who 
plant this variety will reap a rich reward. Order now while the 
1 1 ces can be had. Crain a season by planting this fall. 
12 Flowering 
Shrubs 
Assorted vari¬ 
eties, 12-18 in. 
high. Plant them 
on lawn or around 
porch. Send $3; 
we’ll mail them 
postpaid. 
You can safely 
order direct from 
this advertise¬ 
ment. Prompt 
shipment. 
$1 Small Fruit Garden 
Plant these in your home garden 
or backyard. Send $1 with order; 
we’ll mail this Collection postpaid.: 
6 Blackberries; 12 Strawberries; 
3 Currants; 2 Grape Vines. 
$3 Home Orchard 
3 Apple Trees ) Early, Medium 
3 Pear Trees 
1 Plum Tree 
} 
All 3 to 4 
and Late 
1 Cherry Tree 
feet high 
Send $3 today; we’ll mail you 
postpaid this collection. 
Cortland 
Apple Trees 
The Barnes Bros. Nursery Co., Box 8, Yalesville, Conn. 
The Original Barnet Nursery—Established in 1890 
Van Dusen 
Dwarf Fruit Trees 
Here is a letter from one of our 
enthusiastic customers. 
Read what he says : 
E. Lansing, Michigan 
Mr. C. C. McKay, 
Van Dusen Nurseries, 
Geneva, N. Y. 
Dear Mr. McKay : 
We are very proud indeed of our 
little trees in blossom time and when 
bearing fruit, and enjoy having our 
friends see them as they are quite a 
novelty and rare sight to many. 
Very sincerely, 
C. W. Loring 
Our customers send in pictures of these trees 
because they are pleased! 
We Specialize In They are big bearers of big fruit from small 
trees. They bearyoungerand needless room. 
They are the best trees for the home garden. 
‘Dwarf Apple Tree Scarlet Beauty 
(See adjacent letter) 
Dwarf Apple Trees 
Dwarf Pear Trees 
Dwarf Plum Trees 
Dwarf Cherry Trees 
Dwarf Peach Trees 
Oar FREE catalog will tell you about them, 
also our roses, vines and ornamental shrubs. 
A Postal brings it to you. 
THE VAN DUSEN NURSERIES 
C. C. McKay, Mgr. 
Box R, Geneva, N. Y. 
Delicious, pure sweets direct to you from LOFT’S 
big sun-lit kitchens in New Y ork City. Prices unbelievably 
low. Highest standard of quality backed by our 50 year rep¬ 
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varieties of these famous candies to suit your taste and purse! 
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LOFT, 400 Broome Street, Department 118, New York 
OrUT a A1XTTS Calendula, 
Orange King, (young plants for potting.) Hardy Plants 
—Pinks, Carnations, Hollyhocks, Sweet William, Iris, 
Pink Rambler. BERRY PLANTS— Asparagus, Rhubarb, Pars¬ 
ley. No Cat. Low Prices. HENRY G. CARTER. Hampton Baps, N.Y 
CONCORD GRAPE VINES 
One and two-year-old. Priced low for Fall delivery. 
Special prices on fruit trees. Send us your list for quota¬ 
tions which will save you money. 
RANSOM SEED 8 NURSERY COMPANY Geneva, Ohio 
Fruit at New York State 
Fair 
(Continued from page 1256) 
skylight lighting and an unobstructed 
view in any direction through the build¬ 
ing makes it one of the finest, if not the 
finest, devoted to this purpose in America. 
But to improve upon the situation 
further more room was given for the 
fruit and the flowers, so that they were 
set off to better advantage. New double 
tables, raised in the middle, made an 
excellent display down the center of the 
hall, while at one end was the well- 
organized and attractive exhibit of the 
New York State Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Geneva, and the New York 
State Department of Farms and Markets 
at Albany. Along the sides of the hall 
ranged the county and Grange exhibits. 
All in all, considering spacing, arrange¬ 
ment, and lighting, the display was out¬ 
standingly superior to anything seen in 
recent years. Apparently the voices of 
the growers raised in protest over last 
year’s difficulties, together with the stand 
of the State Horticultural Society, re¬ 
ceived full consideration from the State 
Fair Commission, although we have it 
that it was some power acting over the 
head of the individuals immediately in 
charge that was responsible for the large 
improvement. 
The fruit was plentiful, several hun¬ 
dred plates more than last year, though 
it was not as good, generally speaking, as 
usual. It was suggested by one person 
that a revision of the fruit list is de¬ 
sirable, striking off such old and un¬ 
familiar varieties as the St. Lawrence 
apple, the Washington pear, the Horton’s 
River and the Red Cheek Melaeatune 
peaches, and other odds and ends, and 
putting some of the newer promising 
sorts in their places, such as Golden De¬ 
licious and Cortland. 
The flower exhibit was the best that 
we have ever seen. The named collec¬ 
tions of annuals, perennials, and so on, 
are quite appealing to the average visitor, 
and the large displays of commercial con¬ 
cerns are wonderfully beautiful. 
Competing counties were not as many 
as there should have been, but quantity 
was made up for by quality. Wayne 
County took first prize again, and once 
more the hand of C. H. Mills of Sodus, 
was very evident. The collection of fruits 
was complete, from such old varieties as 
the Montmorency cherry down to the 
new Cortland and Golden Delicious ap¬ 
ples. Now, add to completeness the uni¬ 
formity and excellence of the individual 
plates and specimens that Mr. Mills 
knows so well how to provide, and add to 
this neat cards and fine arrangement and 
you will perceive that this was as fine a 
fruit exhibit as has been made by a 
county organization in New York State. 
There was a noticeable change and im¬ 
provement in the State Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station exhibit. This year in 
combination with the State Department 
of Farms and Markets the entire end of 
the hall was occupied with an attractive 
display that showed organization and 
brought out the functions of the Experi¬ 
ment Station and the Department of 
Farms and Markets—the former as an 
agency seeking new facts and informa¬ 
tion, and the other as an agency for en¬ 
forcing regulations, reporting market and 
crop conditions, and disseminating gen¬ 
eral helpful information. It would be 
difficult to mention at length the display 
of plums, apples, pears, currants, nec¬ 
tarines, grapes, and so on ; of the graphic 
illustrations of breeding fruits and vege¬ 
tables ; of the pop-corn investigations; of 
the insect and disease work and of the 
information service. Suffice it to say 
that folks were agreeably impressed. But 
we cannot help but recall the smiling 
manikin who is always the center of at¬ 
traction whenever he appears. 
And nov% finally, the fruit growers and 
the fair commission should get together 
and patch up their difficulties. The fruit 
growers have been met more than half 
way. Next year -everybody should be 
working together for the finest horticul¬ 
tural exhibit yet seen at a State Fair. 
Incidentally, what is the need for a new 
horticultural building now that the whole 
of this fine building has been turned over 
to fruits and farm products? It would 
seem better to unite on the long-talked-of 
and badly needed horticultural laboratory 
at the State Experiment Station. 
OBSERVER. 
New England Duck Farms 
There are considerable numbers of large 
duck plants in Massachusetts. To tell 
the truth, the industry seems to have 
grown a little faster than the demand. 
Two or three new duck farms have been 
established within the last year or two 
and so many ducks have come onto the 
market that the prices have sagged. A 
mistake was made last year in an en¬ 
deavor on the part of the growers to 
keep prices high. Not a little trade was 
lost in this way, according to some of 
the men in the business, and has not 
been regained this season. The prices 
in Boston have run five to six cents a 
pound lower than last Summer. Of 
course selling at retail at the farms has 
helped to stiffen the market somewhat, 
and it mav be that an increasing amount 
of business will be done in this way. 
Figs. 528 and 526, page 1257, show 
typical scenes on duck farms. 
E. I. FARRINGTON. 
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Send For Fall Catalog 
Our new Fall catalog tells how 60,000 of 
our trees have a certified true-to-name 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers Associa¬ 
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, there until the tree bears true-to-name 
fruit as guaranteed by us. 
Orders will be filled in order of their re¬ 
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Packed by Experts 
Onr -44 years of nursery experience has 
taught us the proper method of 
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trees so they reach you in 
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Write today for your copy of 
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Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
1160 Main St., Dansville, N.Y. 
Strawberries 
Raspberries 
Grapes, etc. 
for 
FALL 
Planting 
any time be¬ 
fore ground 
is frozen solid 
FROST 
CAN’T 
HURT THEM 
C. S. KEMPTON & CO. CATALOG 
“Longmeadow” Springfield, Mass. 
FRUIT TREES 
Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum and Cherry Trees 
Also GRAPE VINES and other small fruits, bred and 
grown from true-to-name orchard bearing trees, and 
sold to the planter at lowest possible prices. Write 
for Illustrated descriptive catalogue and price list. 
BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES, Box 266, Princess Anne, Md. 
GRAPEVINES"— 
Concord, Catawba, Moores Early, Niagara, Moores Dia¬ 
mond, Delaware, Worden and several other varieties. 
Good, strong, selected l-yr.-old vines, best size for vine¬ 
yard planting. We grow grape vines in large numbers, 
and can fill your order large or small. Our vines are first- 
class and true to name. Write for price list. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Buntings' Nurseries, Box 1, Selbyvflle, Del. 
Every Garden NeedsGolumbianPurpleRaspberries 
Delicious fruit; beautiful bushes: disease resistant; 
long lived: heavy producers; do not spread. Dozen, 
$1; 100, 8S4. Washington Asparagus: 100— #1; 1,000 
—#8. Bliss, the highest quality Strawberry. Dozen 
—<M; 100—i$5. Postpaid. Choice Iris roots free with all 
orders. Circular free. CERTIFIED PLANT FARM. Macedon, ,N.T. 
SET YOUR NURSERY STOCK THIS FALL 
I have the best variety of Roses, Hybrid teas, Perpetu- 
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fruit trees, Peonies and other stock. Catalogue on re¬ 
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SEED RYE—Russian Pitkus. Rank grow¬ 
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8-5 bu., $1.45 per bu. Larger lots, $1.35. Cash with or¬ 
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Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 
Fresh dug, direct from nursery to you,, 
Peach, Apple, Pear, Plum. Cherry, 
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Strawberry, Blackberry, Rasp- I 
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BUNTING’S NURSERIES, B« 1, SelbyvilU, Del. 
HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWER PLANTS 
FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER PLANTING 
Delphinium, Foxglove, Hollyhock, Columbine, Hardy 
Blue Salvia, Canterbury Bells, Phlox, Oriental Poppy, 
Hardy Chrysanthemum, Gaillardia. Wallflower, Penste- 
mon, and many others. These plants are perfectly hardy, 
living outdoors during Winter, and will bloom nextSum, 
mer. Catalogue free. HARRY L. SQUIRES, Hampton Bojs, N. I- 
