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professsonal  gardeners 
buy  theirs! 
YOU  may  have  wondered  why  pro¬ 
fessional  gardeners  seem  to  have  such 
good  success.  The  first  reason  is  that 
their  seed  is  always  obtained  from 
houses  like  Beckert’s,  which  for  nea_'y 
50  years  has  bred  and  selected  seed 
especially  for  professional  florists  and 
gardeners.  The  very  same  seeds — 
representing  the  latest  and  most  notable 
developments — are  now  offered  to  the 
individual  farmer  and  home  gardener. 
They  are  seeds  of  a  quality  rarely  sold 
to  any  one  save  commercial  gardeners. 
Beckert’s  1923  catalog  illustrates  and 
describes  the  most  complete  selections 
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seeds.  Here  are  just  a  few  examples  of 
the  multitude  of  new  and  outstanding 
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1  Beckert’s  Early  Coreless  Carrot— smooth,  cyl- 
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sweet  and  tender;  the  earliest  carrot  to  grow 
to  full  size. 
9  Beckert’s  Perfection  Plume  Mustard— finest 
mustard  for  salads  and  garnishing. 
3  Beckert’s  Table  Queen  Squash— equalled  no- 
wl.  ‘  fi'r  flavor  and  cooking  quality;  prolific  and 
easily  grown.  Serve  like  baked  potato. 
Bockert’s  Golden  Evergreen  Sweet  Corn— com- 
r*  bines  to  the  highest  known  degree,  tenderness, 
flavor,  sweetness,  large  size  and  quick  growth. 
C  Beckert’s  Perfection  Peas,  King  of  Denmark 
Spinach,  and  “Wayahead”  Tomatoes,  and  other 
notable  developments  which  will  surprise  and  de¬ 
light  you. 
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North  Side,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
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A  Study  of  the  Fruit  Exhibit 
“What  is  there  new?”  was  one  of  the 
questions  asked  at  the  recent  meeting 
of  the  New  York  State  Horticultural  So¬ 
ciety  at  Rochester,  and  it  characterizes 
in  its  very  indefinite  wording  what  too 
many  growers  are  looking  for.  We  must 
always  steady  ourselves  aud  become  con¬ 
servative — almost  skeptical — when  we  dis¬ 
cuss  new  fruits,  for  no  small  number  of 
new  things  have  been  the  sorrow  of  their 
purchasers.  We  must  always  remember 
that  new  things  must  be  able  to  weather 
the  storms  of  time  before  they  can  take  a 
legitimate  place  among  the  recognized 
worth-while  things. 
To  answer  this  question  of  “What  is 
there  new?”  Richard  Wellington,  secre¬ 
tary  of  the  New  Y’ork  State  Fruit  Test¬ 
ing  Association,  gave  a  pap0’’  °n  “New 
Fruits”  which  sums  up  the  situation  very 
well.  An  abstract  is  embodied  in  the 
following  notes: 
The  Cortland  and  Tioga  apples  were 
briefly  mentioned,  the  former  a  variety  of 
Ben  Davis-Mclntosh  parentage,  of  almost 
the  same  quality  as  McIntosh,  and  larger 
and  better  colored  than  that  variety. 
More  interest  was  shown  in  this  variety 
than  in  any  other,  and  plates  of  Cort¬ 
land  exhibited  by  George  Morse  of  Wil¬ 
liamson  were  a  center  of  attraction. 
They  ran  a  little  flatter  than  the  Mc¬ 
Intosh,  larger,  and  not  quite  so  highly  col¬ 
ored  as  the  McIntosh  grown  in  the  Hud¬ 
son  Valley,  but  better  colored  than  the 
McIntosh  from  Western  New  York.  Some 
growers  claimed  that  their  Cortland  hung 
better  on  the  trees  than  the  McIntosh. 
It  is  absurd  to  think  of  the  Cortland  as 
taking  the  place  of  Baldwin,  for  Cort¬ 
land  is  only  two  or  three  weeks  later 
than  McIntosh. 
The  Tioga  is  a  late-keeping  yellow  ap¬ 
ple,  a  cross  between  Sutton  and  Northern 
S’w-  It  is  said  to  have  the  late  bearing 
fault  of  the  Spy  and  is  very  tart  in  the 
early  Fall.  Its  chief  virtue  lies  in  the 
fact  that  it  retains  its  sprightliness  late 
in  the  season,  when  most  other  sorts  have 
lost  their  snap.  One  of  the  most  interest¬ 
ing  creations  recently  brought  to  atten¬ 
tion  is  a  bud  sport  of  the  Red  Spy,  said 
to  have  originated  with  C.  E.  Green  of 
Victor,  a  plate  of  which  was  shown.  It 
is  a  beautiful  fruit,  a  solid  rich  red  in 
color.  It  is  claimed  that  it  is  identical 
in  fruit  and  tree  characters  with  North¬ 
ern  Spy,  only  that  it  is  an  attractive  red 
in  color.  If  this  is  true,  it  is  a  most 
promising  fruit,  especially  for  the  sec¬ 
tions  of  New  York  where  Spy  does  not 
color  up  well.  One  grower  said  that  he 
had  seen  the  same  thing  40  years  ago.  and 
that,  as  far  as  he  knew,  it  was  all  that 
has  been  claimed  for  it.  Another  “Red 
Spy”  has  been  reported  from  Michigan. 
Of  course,  Golden  Delicious  and  De¬ 
licious  come  in  for  their  share  of  discus¬ 
sion.  The  fruit  shown  in  the  Geneva 
Station  display  was  not  comparable  with 
Delicious  grown  in  the  Northwest.  Both 
Cornell  and  Geneva  reported  Golden  De¬ 
licious  as  good  in  quality  as  Grimes 
Golden,  but  shriveling  rather  quickly  in 
storage  and  lacking  the  size  of  the  West¬ 
ern-grown  fruit. 
There  was  some  interest  in  Jonathan 
and  King  David,  but  the  consensus  of 
opinion  was  that  these  varieties  are  apt  to 
be  undersized  in  Western  New  York. 
Several  inquiries  were  made  in  regard 
to  growing  Yellow  Newtown  and  Stay- 
man  Winesap.  The  answer  was  that 
though  the  trees  bore  well,  the  fruits  were 
late-maturing  kinds,  and  apt  to  develop 
poorly,  therefore  better  left  to  the  south¬ 
ern  sections.  The  Deacon  Jones,  a  large 
red  apple  of  fair  quality,  was  reported 
upon  favorably  by  men  from  the  Hudson 
and  from  “up-State”  as  well.  Yet  the 
whole  discussion  simmered  down  to  the 
conclusion  that  R.  I.  Greening,  McIntosh, 
Northern  Spy,  Baldwin,  and  the  like  are 
prettv  good  varieties  for  the  New  York 
grower  to  stand  by  firmly.  A  little  shift 
from  both  Baldwin  and  Wealthy  was 
evident  from  questions  regarding  the  top¬ 
working  of  these  varieties  to  some  other 
sorts.  Opalescent  was  highly  regarded 
by  some,  in  spite  of  its  low  quality,  be¬ 
cause  of  its  high  color.  Rome  Beauty 
seemed  to  be  meeting  wth  approval, 
though  McIntosh  is  being  planted  more 
extensively. 
As  for  pears,  the  desire  of  some  grow¬ 
ers  to  get  rid  of  their  Kieffers  was  evi¬ 
denced  by  the  questions  in  regard  to  top¬ 
working  this  variety  to  those  of  higher 
quality.  Nobody  seemed  to  have  definite 
conviction  that  grafts  on  Ivieffer  would 
last  for  more  than  five  or  six  years  at  the 
most.  The  Wilma  peach,  about  a  week 
later  than  Elberta,  and  being  extensively 
planted  in  Ohio  and  Michigan,  was  re¬ 
ported  as  still  promising  in  New  York 
State  *and  worthy  of  trial. 
The  Geneva  Station  reported  further 
on  its  new  grapes,  mentioning  in  particu¬ 
lar  Portland  as  an  early  white  grape, 
and  Sheridan  as  a  thick-skinned  blue 
grape,  following  Concord  about  a  week, 
and  likely  to  prove  a  good  shipper.  Three 
new  red  raspberries,  Seneca,  Cayuga  and 
Owaseo.  all  crosses  between  June  and 
Cuthbert,  have  just  been  introduced  by 
the  same  station.  Both  Cayuga  and 
Seneca  ripen  before  Cuthbert,  the  former 
being  a  trifle  earlier  than  the  second 
named.  Owaseo  produces  the  largest 
fruit,  but  the  plants  are  not  quite  so  free- 
growing.  The  berries  are  especially  de¬ 
sirable  because  they  are  very  healthy. 
The  Latham  red  raspberry  intrdueed  by 
the  Minnesota  Station  is  again  recom¬ 
mended  because  of  its  good  health  and 
vigor  and  its  large  fruit.  Beacon,  Bliss 
and  Boquet  are  three  new  strawberries 
also  just  introduced  by  the  station.  The 
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