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HO USE & GARDEN 
The Rochester Peach (New) 
Large, yellow and red free-stone; flesh yellow, very highly flavored; stone very 
small. To eat out of hand or canned it cannot be equalled as a table delicacy. Will 
ship as good as an Elberta. The peach comes into ripening the middle of August, 
when there is no other yellow and red free-stone of quality on the market, so you 
can readily see that it will command the highest price. 
The tree is a strong, upright grower, hardy as an oak. Has stood sixteen degrees 
below zero and produced a full crop; while Elberta and Crawford under the same 
conditions in the same orchard produced no blossoms and consequently no fruit. 
It is seldom known to fruit-growers for young trees planted a little over a year 
to bear fruit. The New Rochester Peach solves the problem for you. 
Hardy English Walnut Orchards 
Are a Commercial Success in 
this City and County 
Sober Paragon 
Mammoth Sweet Chestnut 
BEARS FIRST YEAR 
Paxinos Orchard crop brought $30,000 
Commercially, fortunes lie in raising Eng¬ 
lish Walnuts. Never before has the English 
Walnut been so available to every one as now. 
Our Glenwood Grown English Walnut 
of today has been bred for its majestic 
beauty as well as for the golden crop it 
hears. It has likewise been bred for Health, 
Hardiness and Resistibility in Northern 
Climates. 
The Thompson Orchard, near Roch¬ 
ester, 228 trees, the largest commer¬ 
cial bearing orchard in the East, pro¬ 
duced Fall, 1915, 260 bushels Walnuts, 
32 lbs. to the bushel, sold at 25c. per lb. 
Wholesale $2,080. This orchard has 
been in bearing many years, with abso¬ 
lutely no winter-killing—with occasion¬ 
al temperatures 20 degrees below zero. 
YOU can now grow these wonderful English 
Walnuts around your own home or in your or¬ 
chard just as you have always grown Peach 
and Apple trees—Elms and Maples. 
Pure Strain Filberts 
The Filbert is probably the least understood 
of all Nut trees in the East, and yet it is a 
Nut tree of great commercial value and 
bound to be very important in the 
future development of Nut culture. 
It is admirably adapted to grow 
throughout the North on account of its 
hardiness. It comes into bearing early, 
often at two years of age and is a 
steady cropper. Filberts will do well on 
almost any soil but succeed best on clayey 
loam, rather moist. It is a rapid grower 
and should be trained as a tree. 
Sober Paragon Mammoth Sweet Chestnut 
will thrive anywhere apples, pears and other 
fruit trees do. It will withstand extremes of 
heat, cold and drouth with less injury than 
most trees. It will even grow in poor soil, 
cultivation not being necessary, although 
careful cultivation will greatly increase the 
yield. The chief requirement is a well- 
drained soil , kept free from underbrush. 
The care and attention that you would give 
an apple orchard will pay big dividends if 
spent upon an orchard of Sober Paragon 
Chestnut trees. Moreover, your orchard be¬ 
gins paying you results almost at once, since 
you start with BEARING TREES. 
t2p”Fiftieth Year in Business—Our Golden Anniversary Souvenir 
Rose Free with every Order 
Our igt6 Catalog and Planting Guide—Includes Nut Culture, 
Fruits, Roses, Shrubs, Evergreens, etc., mailed FREE on Request. 
GLEN BROS., Glenwood Nursery (Est. 1866) 1733 Main St., ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
The Biggest-Littlest Dog 
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she brought back with her a beautiful 
red sable specimen, Marco, who was 
for years the favorite pet of his royal 
mistress. Under Her Majesty’s spon¬ 
sorship the Pomeranian fairly leaped 
into prominence. From the Prime 
Minister—Mr. Gladstone himself was 
won by the lively little dogs—to the 
humblest subject, all England suc¬ 
cumbed to the Pom's charms. Eu¬ 
rope, especially Germany and Italy, 
was ransacked for diminutive speci¬ 
mens, and English breeders could 
not begin to supply the demand for 
puppies. Ounce for ounce the ordi¬ 
nary Pomeranian was worth more 
than a champion of other breeds. 
Show specimens commanded truly 
fabulous prices. Mrs. Vale Nicholas 
refused ten times his weight in solid 
silver for Nanky Poo, a famous 
sable mite of six and a quarter 
pounds, and Mrs. Christopher Houl- 
ker sold her Black Prince as a pet 
for two hundred guineas. 
The year 1891 has been called 
“the birthday of the Poms.” It is 
indeed an important date in the 
breed’s history, for during this year 
happened four events that have af¬ 
fected the breed closely. The Pom¬ 
eranian Club was organized in Eng¬ 
land, and a Standard describing the 
points was drawn up. Queen Vic¬ 
toria first appeared as a Pom ex¬ 
hibitor in this year, winning a first 
prize at the Cruft’s Show, London, 
with her lemon and white parti- 
color Gona; and Black Prince, a dog 
with a wonderful coat who was re¬ 
sponsible for having greatly im¬ 
proved this point through his sons 
and daughters, made his debut. Two 
years later, in 1893, Mrs. Hale’s 
Bayswater Swell, the first dog of 
the breed of plainly outstanding 
quality, appeared before the public. 
By this time the little Pom’s over¬ 
whelming popularity was fairly es¬ 
tablished. and to trace out the sub¬ 
sequent history of a breed that has 
had so many heroes and heroines 
would require a whole book. 
A word or two should be said, 
however, of the beginnings of the 
Pomeranian’s career in America. 
The breed did not catch the Ameri¬ 
can fancy so early, and it was 1897 
before there was any serious interest 
exhibited even among dog fanciers. 
Mrs. Hartley Williamson’s Lake- 
wood Kennels and Mrs. H. E. 
Smythe’s Swiss Mountain Kennels 
were pioneers. Mrs. Reginald May- 
hew was another early Pom exhib¬ 
itor, while in Canada, another Eng¬ 
lish woman, Mrs. A. A. MacDonald 
of Toronto, was the first leader. 
His Points and Appearance 
The old tradition of the spitz dog’s 
ill temper has been persistently as¬ 
sociated with the Pomeranian. V hat- 
ever justification there may formerly 
have been for giving such an un¬ 
savory reputation to the parent va¬ 
riety, it is unfair, unless they deserve 
it, to pass along to their successors. 
That the Pom does not deserve this 
reputation is patent to all who know 
him best. Generally speaking, he is 
a dog that does not make up to 
strangers. He is not, however, either 
bad tempered or snappish. His bark 
is very much worse than his bite. 
Indeed, his bark is quite the worst 
thing about him—the only “worst 
thing” about him, his friends say. 
He is a lively, excitable little dog 
and is given to expressing his opin¬ 
ions far too freely for one of his 
size. Often his yapping is a down¬ 
right nuisance; but different dogs 
differ in the amount of barking they 
do. Excepting his bark, however, 
the Pom is a wholly delightful little 
dog. He is wonderfully quick witted 
and most apt in learning tricks. He 
is very affectionate, but only with 
his own family. He is a keen, lively 
dog-sprite, aristocratic in appearance 
and smart in his deportment. 
The typical Pomeranian is a strik¬ 
ingly handsome little chap. He is a 
cobby, short-backed, sturdy dog, 
quick and active in all his move¬ 
ments. His head, with its wedge- 
shaped skull, fine, pointed muzzle 
and small, erect ears, is decidedly 
foxy in appearance. The skulls of 
the extremely small specimens are 
often too domed. This detracts from 
the true fox-like expression and is 
a penalty paid for very small size. 
In Germany the apple skull was 
formerly allowed in the toy variety; 
but Continental breeders, since Eng¬ 
land and the United States have 
been their best markets, have striven 
for the more difficult but more pleas¬ 
ing flat heads. Small ears, set quite 
closely together and carried erect, 
and small, bright, dark eyes, are also 
important factors in the correct ex¬ 
pression. The body must be short, 
with well rounded ribs and a good 
chest. The legs should be neither 
so long as to give the dog a stilted 
look nor so short that he seems to 
be dumpy. The tail is one of the 
Pom's most characteristic points. It 
should be carried over the back 
flatly and covered profusely with 
long, spreading hair. The whole dog 
may be summed up as a cobby, very 
active little animal with a perky, in¬ 
quisitive air of bravado. 
The Pom’s Coat 
The Pomeranian’s coat is indeed 
his crowning glory, and another of 
his distinctive features. Properly 
speaking it is double: a wooly un¬ 
dervest over which grows a long, 
straight over coat. The outer coat 
is particularly long and thick on the 
shoulders and chest, standing off 
from the body so as to make a fine 
ruff about the head. The face and 
ears, however, are covered with 
short, fine hair. Over the hind quar¬ 
ters, as in the collie, the hair forms 
a fine, rather fluffy “feathering” 
from the rump to the hocks. 
The texture of the outer coat is 
somewhat stiff, and in a heahhy dog 
should have a peculiar glistening 
sheen. English Pomeranians are fa¬ 
mous for their fine coats, the damper 
climate undoubtedly favoring a more 
profuse growth; but the more scru¬ 
pulous care given the English dog’s 
toilet probably has not a little to do 
with their superior jackets. Miss 
Ives, the well - known English ex¬ 
hibitor, confided to me once that all 
her show dogs were carefully 
brushed for two hours every day, 
and that when they were being pre¬ 
pared for an exhibition this brush¬ 
ing was repeated both night and 
morning for several weeks. Cer¬ 
tainly very few American Poms re¬ 
ceive any such care as this. 
In the Matter of Care 
It must not be supposed from this, 
however, that the Pomeranian is a 
dog that demands great attention. 
Miss Ives’ dogs are show specimens, 
and the Pom kept as a pet will not 
have any such elaborate toilet. It 
pay's, nevertheless, to take good care 
of his coat, for it adds much to his 
beauty, and there is nothing so good 
as a stiff brushing with a long 
bristled brush applied the wrong 
way of the natural lay of the hair. 
This not only stimulates the growth 
like a tonic, but is almost as good 
as a real bath for cleansing purposes. 
A Pomeranian should not be washed 
too often. Once a month in summer 
and once in two months during the 
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