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May  5,  1923 
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Organized  Co-operation 
A  NEW  BOOK 
By  JOHN  J.  DILLON 
This  book  is  written  in  three 
parts. 
PART  ONE. — The  Develop¬ 
ment  of  the  Agricultural  Indus¬ 
try.  In  five  chapters. 
PART  TWO.  — Fundamental 
Principles  and  Adaptable  Forms 
of  Co-operative  Organization.  In 
ten  chapters. 
PART  THREE.  —  Application 
of  Co-operation  to  Efficient  and 
Economic  Distribution  of  Farm 
Products.  In  seven  chapters. 
This  is  a  new  treatment  of  the 
co-operative  subject.  Heretofore 
writers  of  books  have  contented 
themselves  with  accounts  of  co¬ 
operative  work  where  established. 
It  has  been  mostly  propaganda 
and  exhortation.  This  was  all 
good  in  its  time.  But  we  have 
grown  beyond  it.  Farmers  are 
now  committed  to  co-operation. 
Once  shy  of  it,  they  are  at  last  a 
unit  for  it.  What  they  want  now 
is  principles  and  definite  policies 
that  have  pr\  ved  successful.  This 
book  is  the  first  real  attempt  to 
supply  this  want.  Other,  and  it 
is  to  be  hoped  better,  books  will 
follow  on  this  line;  but  for  the 
present  there  is  no  other  book 
seriously  treating  the  subject  of 
organized  co-operation. 
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Horticultural  Short  Cuts 
Perennial  Phlox 
Taking  all  things  into  consideration, 
the  perennial  phloxes  are  probably  the 
most  useful  of  all  hardy  herbaceous 
perennials,  says  a  writer  in  the  Florists’ 
Review.  It  is  true  they  do  not  make  such 
i  a  blaze  of  color  as  the  peonies,  whose 
;  season,  however,  lasts  only  about  six 
weeks.  They  are  less  stately  in  the  gar¬ 
den  than  the  larkspurs,  which  are  glor¬ 
ious  in  late  June  and  July,  and  give  a 
good  second  crop  later  in  the  Summer, 
and  they  lack  the  rich,  orchid-like  color¬ 
ings  of  the  iris,  which  has  a  fairly  long 
season  of  bloom  where  a  number  of 
types  are  grown.  But  the  phlox  family 
gives  flowers  from  Spring  until  late  Fall, 
where  P.  subulata,  P.  divaricata  and 
other  early-'blooming  sorts  are  grown. 
For  many  years  the  writer  has  classed 
Miss  Lingard  as  “facile  priuceps”  of  the 
entire  phlox  family,  and  no  variety  is  yet 
in  sight  to  contest  that  position  with  it. 
Here  are  some  of  its  good  qualities:  It 
flowers  early  and  persists  until  Fall ;  the 
foliage  is  of  a  dark,  glossy  green  and 
holds  its  color  until  sharp  freezing  weather 
arrives ;  the  color  is  most  pleasing ;  the 
plants  soon  grow  to  a  large  size,  and 
cuttings  are  produced  in  great  abundance, 
which  root  readily  in  either  Spring  or 
Fall.  This  variety  is,  furthermore,  a 
splendid  sort  for  forcing;  in _  fact,  the 
writer  considers  it  the  only  variety  worth 
forcing. 
Peaches  from  Seed 
I  have  quite  a  number  of  choice  peach 
pits  which  I  intend  to  plant  with  the  idea 
of  transplanting  sometime  in  the  future, 
j  I  have  no  place  of  my  own  at  present, 
!  but  hope  to  be  located  on  10  or  15  acres 
in  two  years’  time,  with  the  idea  of  at¬ 
tempting  a  commercial  poultry  plant  and 
fruit  as  a  side  line.  Pits  are  one  and  two 
years  old.  When  is  the  best  time  to 
plant?  IIow  deep  should  I  plant,  and 
how  far  apart?  What  is  the  best  kind 
of  earth  to  plant  in?  Shall  I  use  fer¬ 
tilizer  with  seed?  Is  there  anything  to 
gain  soaking  seed  in  water?  If  so,  how 
long  shall  I  soak  them?  Should  I  culti¬ 
vate  from  time  they  start  from  ground? 
How  old  should  they  be  before  transplant¬ 
ing?  When  they  are  ready  for  trans¬ 
planting,  is  pruning  necessary?  Does 
the  Government  issue  bulletin  on  small 
fruit  growing?  .  W.  B.  S. 
Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y-. 
Some  varieties  of  peaches  come  fairly 
true  from  seed,  but  most  of  them  do  not. 
You  may  expect  as  many  different  types 
of  trees  and  as  many  different  types  of 
fruit  as  you  sow  seeds.  Peaches  are 
propagated  by  budding,  though  the  stocks 
onto  which  they  are  budded  are  propa¬ 
gated  from  seed.  However,  if  you  desire 
to  grow  the  trees  from  seed,  the  seed 
should  either  be  planted  outdoors  in  the 
Fall  or  stratified  in  sand  out.  of  doors  and 
thoroughly  wet  down.  Peach  trees  are 
usually  set  18  ft.  by  18  ft.  or  20  ft.  by 
20  ft. 
Pits  of  the  other  stone  fruits  may  be 
secured  from  canning  factories  or  from 
nursery  companies,  but  they  should  be 
used  only  from  which  to  produce  stocks 
for  propagation  purposes.  If  you  will 
write  the  United  States  Department  of 
Agriculture,  Washington.  D.  C.,  and  re¬ 
quest  bulletins  treating  of  the  small  fruits 
that  you  are  particularly  interested  in, 
you  will  receive  publications  that  will  be 
helpful.  H.  B.  T. 
Pruning  Plums  and  Quinces  and  Propa¬ 
gating  Grapes 
1.  I  should  like  information  about 
pimning  plum  and  quince  trees.  All  va¬ 
rieties  of  plums  that  I  have  bear  pro¬ 
fusely,  and  have  done  so  the  past  three 
or  four  years,  with  the  exception  of  the 
German  prune.  The  trees  of  the  latter 
are  unusually  healthy,  and  the  branches 
grow  very  long,  and  have  but.  few  side 
branches.  They  are  now  well  filled  with 
fruit  buds.  2.  What  is  the  procedure  in 
producing  grapevines  from  trimmings? 
J.  F.  r. 
1.  The  quince  should  be  pruned  suf¬ 
ficiently  to  keep  it  open  and  to  keep  out 
dead  and  wayward  branches,  but  other¬ 
wise  very  sparingly.  Excessive  pruning 
induces  the  development  of  succulent 
growths,  which  are  susceptible  to  fire 
blight.  The  amount  of  pruning  done  to 
plum  trees  should  also  be  moderate.  The 
Japanese  plums,  with  their  sprawling 
habit  of  growth,  will  require  heading  j 
back  to  keep  them  in  hand,  and  the  \ 
American  species  will  require  thinning  I 
out.  but  the  Domestics  or  European  ! 
plums  will  succeed  best  with  light  prun¬ 
ing.  To  the  last-named  group  belongs 
the  German  prune,  a  vigorous,  tall 
grower.  Because  of  its  habit  of  growth 
it  calls  for  a  bit  more  pruning  than  the 
other  Europeans.  We  would  suggest  that 
you  cut  hack  the  longest  branches  and 
induce  them  to  branch. 
2.  Grapevines  are  produced  from  cut¬ 
tings  as  follows:  Mature  wood  of  the 
current  season’s  growth  is  cut  in  Fall 
into  6  to  10-in.  lengths,  having  two  or 
three  buds.  The  bottom  cut  is  made 
close  to  a  bud  and  the  upper  one  some¬ 
what  above  a  bud.  The  cuttings  are  then 
buried  upside  down  in  sand.  In  the 
Spring  they  are  planted  with  the  top  bud 
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