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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
F0RDHO0K FARMS.

THE Sun garden man was in Phila-
delphia last week and OF course Wis.,
tied the celebrated Fordhook Farms.
1t was the intention to make the trip
to Fordhook in the unconventional
railway train. A call at the Burpee
seed warehouse in Philadelphia re-
suited in a complete upset Of all well
laid plans. All argument was unavail-
ing. Atlee Burpee insisting hat We
accompany him in the automobile in
which he makes his daily trips be.
tween the home farms and the office.
The trip was made through beauti-
full rolling country. the smooth roads
lined with the magnificent parklike
grounds OF Philadelphia millionaires.
1t is historical ground practically the
entire route. and AS the distance from
the city increases the solid old man.
sions built previous to Revolutionary
times are frequently met and appar-
emily are in as good condition as when
they were built.
The old system Of operating the
roads by private enterprise is still in
force, and we passed so many toll
gates that count of them was lost.
Surely none but the wealthy can af-
ford to make the trip frequently.
Arriving at Fordhook. we first mo-
tored over the farms and then al!ghted
to make a close inspection of the
growing crops and the extensive trial
beds. In these beds not only Bur-
PEGS seeds are tested, but seeds OBJ
tanned from other sources for COM
parison Of results in quality, size, sea-
son. color, vitality, &c.
The trial grounds contain novelties
that gardeners will be greatly inter-
ested in. chief of which is the Ford
hook hybrid gladoli, Towering the first
season from seeds. The flowers are
as large as any of the older gladioli
raised from bulbs, or more properly
corns. The colors run from almost
pure white and cream bordering
closely on yellow through the various
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erahle trouhIe in ke.nina ,ho hoas IL,
order
Tho eowers m, IN. ,iar, soar,o,
zinnias rosembIo tho noonv oouarod
dah,,as 80 closely that onr ms rents
( who's zinniss were aIwovs tho nridc
of the garden, would not r~ecopnize the
new varieties as zinnias In size and
form they are more like dab,ias ,b.n
zInnlas. while the foliage of he Mia MS
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and other conditions being favorable
plants in this soil will grow like weeds.
When good potting soil is mentioned
In articles on gardening 1t may be
understood that the soil from a COM
post heap, such as described. is in
tended.
In addition to the compost heap, n
pile of leaf mould will be useful. A
neat way is to MI a barrel with leaves
raked up from the lawn this fall.
Stamp the leaves down until the barrel
IL packed solid. Wet the leaves dow
To start decay at once and keep the
barrel out i'm the weather with the
head out, An occasional wetting, II
the weather rs dry, will hasten decay.
This mass OF leaf mould will frequently
be found useful in mixing with the soil,
in pottins some plants requiring much
matter Of this sort in the soil.
The compost heap of n Of the
largest greenhouse establishments In
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PROPAGATNG THE WILLOW.

Willow trees can be p%ropagated
from cuttings made in the spring, be-
fore growth starts, and planted as
soon as they a be put i'm the ground.
The cuttings should he made from
twigs about half an inch in diameter,
eight inches long. Plant the cut
tings so as to leave the two top buds
above ground and pack the soil firmly,
niles 1T is very wet, in which case it
will not require firming. Nurserymen
make cuttings in the autumn after
the foliage has dropped and the trees
are dormant. The cuttings are kept
buried In sand or earth in a cool ce.-
lar or out in the open ground in a
good well drained location. Tho cut
tings are planted the following spring,
as recommended for fall planting.
The willow roots easily and large limbs
used for posts will frequently take
root and grow. The willow is particu-
larry useful for planting along the
banks OF streams 10 prevent the water
wearing away the banks.
The U. s. Department of Agriculture
reports the importation of a peach
which bears an edible fruit contain
ing q smooth stone. something quite
unknown heretofore among peaches,
from China, and may be used to i'm
prove vi commercial peach. A tree
hat grows In roadside thickets in
parts of China bears a fine variety Of
ounce. golden on one side and red
dish on the other. This also has done
well In its new environment, So have
a new hazelnut bush bearing large
nuts. and three new varieties Of holly.
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Soil worked in this way a few seasons.
If worked deeply, will give surprising
results, the vegetables, maturing rap
idly, will be OF superior quality. An
nual and perennial flower seeds are
sown in beds Of this kind every spring
and produce wonderful plants.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
VERMONT HENS GAIN
ON ENGLISH RIVALS
Increase Lead From One to
Sixteen Eggs in Space
of One Week.

SToRRs. Conn, July 3l-The Vernon.
pen OF Rhode Island Reds from 81.
Adams have not only held their place
as the leading pen hut managed To in
crease their lead over the English birds
from n egg last week 10 sixteen eggs
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A sowing OF antirrhinum in drills
should be mad at this season for
Towering next year. Transplant d.
rectly from the seed beds to where
they are to bloom.
Tuberous rooted begonias sown at
this time will become established be-
fore winter, to be grow in the con-
sery atory or dollhouse, for Towering
next season.
Soudan gross was introduced from
Africa In 1909 by Prof. c. V. Price
of the Department Of Agriculture. II
Is claimed to yield from one to eight
ton Ia the acre. Its power OF resist
nee makes 1t one Of the most reliable
Of the hay crops for the semi-arid
West.
Pot grown %perennials can he planted
now or any time they can be put in
the ground. Several florists maxi a
speciality OF pot grown hardy plants
for the reason that they may be
planted any time when new flower
beds are made or occasion arises
where immediate planting is desired.
Rhododendrons are grown on the
roots confined with burlap, so they
can be set out at any season. Box
for edging can also be set out any
time II the ball Is we'll rooted.
In visiting many farm properties 1t
was noticeable hat the we'll on every
farm was badly located. where the
natural drainage of the m swept
into II and where the we'll was almost
sure to be contaminated by the drain
age from stables and the house. In
purchasing a farm the first thing for
the new owner to do Is locat a well
where the water will surely be pure.
Keep 1t away from the house and the
barn and pipe the water in.
r. l.. Vincent. a New York fruit
grower who has seen thousands OF
bushels Of good apples spoil for want
of a market while children not far
distant were hungry for good fruit,
SAYS In the Western Fruit GrotCcr
that some day we will have public
markets in every town OF any size at
which the people who produce may
meet those who consume and each
rear the good of such an intimate re-
ltion.
Public markets in every town in the
country would greatly reduce the cost
Of living and supply people with
better food than many can afford at
present. The producers condition
would be greatly benefited at the same
time. Laws without number are passed
and wonderful improvement made, but
no one in authority seems to grasp
the wonderful possibilities Of the pub
lie market.
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The foot and mouth disease in New
York is confined to the counties or
Erie, Kings. Madison, New York,
Niagara, Onondaga, Oswego. Queens.
Rensselaer, and Westchester. which are
qu~arantined. also the yards at West
Albany in Albany county. The eN-
posed area: the Fortieth street stock
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LEARN POULTRY KEEPING

Tind OUT how he / = = can '.-"| N
make the most money With t..a.
Write for booklet. intrrnatioutf CORE.
spondence Schools. BOX l6sG. scranton. ~.
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A sowing Of antirrhinum in drills
should be made at this season for
Towering next year. Transplant di-
rectly from the seed beds to where
they are to bloom.
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Tuberous rooted begonias sown at
this time will become established be-
fors winter, to be grown in the con-
sery atory or dollhouse. for Towering
next season.
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The compost heap of one OF the
largest greenhouse establishments In
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they have yet demonstrated to a ma
terial age the power of the spirit. I'm
der the fiery ordeal OF their labors the
spirit Of some among them has,
think, withered 10 scrid ash. but in
others II has been released into a
purified fame and been caught up 70
regions too rare for US 20 follow"
In explaining that singular pre-
nomenon, the anti-sufrsge woman"
this feminist says: THE spectacle Of a
class vehemently striving against its
own freedom is not by any means new
in history. such is the force OF con-
servatism in human nature. The fact
IS that the American anti Is every whit
as interested in the affairs Of the world
as the suffrsgist. She differs from the
latter not because she loves home
more, but because she loves democracy
and women less.
Frivolous and coquettish women are
70 be found in the rank and file OF the
anti-suHrage leagues. but their leaders
are astute and cool politicians. whom
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white hesddress, visit, sometimes as
early as Ave o'clock in the morning,
the hospitals In the shadow OF the
summer palace At Tsarkoe Selo.
Service has its reward, for the En-
press who has been what Americans
call nervous wreck so that she
could hardly walk in the garden last
summer without collapse, begins 10
look robust again. And sll this de-
spite the whispering that goes on In
Petrogrsd about her German sym
pathies and that she is behind a move
ment 10 bring about peace before Ger
many is crushed.
As for the Russian soldiers, "They
are like children" Russian nurse In
Moscow told me as she led me through
the hospital that has been made out
Of the Governors house. And when
we came on whole roomful of men
hugging themselves with delight and
finally discovered that the whole joke
WAS over a man in the corner bed who
happened not to belong to the Greek
Church, and whom they we're calling
Tartar, tartar" they did seem so.
Certainly, they had none OF the city
sophistication that one noticed in the
German and Austrian wards of the big
military hospitals. In their muslin
hospital clothes, with their feet ban
dsged in linen after the fashion a
moujik adopts in place of socks. often
at the approach OF a visitor. they
would rise and even with bsndaged
knees and broken arms sing and dance
the Russian folk dances they had
learned along the Volga.
Russian Soldier Finds Childish Pleas
ure in Hospital.
For some Of them At least. bitter As
# is, there is a child's pleasure in the
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sc

(kNF ALL the dispossessed. wom-
en- nave been the poorest
through the ages. OF the
deadened brains. theirs have been must
blunteG: Of the tired hearts. theirs most
wearied. Only now are the faculties
ambitions. desires and capacities OF
women emerging from obscurity. Dur
ing the years o, their silence man. the
romancer. has spoken for them. cloth
iiig them with the garment Of MS own
fantasy"
And so. because she belongs 20 the
croun Of women who have become ar
.iculate. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
Hale has undertaken 70 tell the world
"vhat women want" IN ker book By
that name. As one OF the new gen
Grafton o. feminists" she has pre-
scented her Interpretation Of the feni-
mist movement
at Is good 10 be a woman to-day
Mrs. Hale exclaims az the beginning OF
her book. Tn every isnd our sisters
are stirring. feeling the pr.cking OF
heir growing wings, lifting thsir
hands TO the sun. As a sex. women are
alive in the world as never before.
They are learning the great lesson OF
eo-opsrstioa. which has enabled men 20
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the big new Polytechnic Institute. set
on the top OF hill with a charming
avenue Of poplars leading UP TO IL.
When ! arrived in kiev the Americans
had been in Russia three Jmonths. and
so far not a patient. For nearly three
weeks following long controversy
with a group Of Russians who had an
evacuation hospital there and were
bleeding the Red Cross. the American
nurses. scrubbed and made ready.
Never" said the Russian from Pet
rograd, who had been sent down by
the government TO manage the Russian
end Of the hospital. "have | seen such
scrubbing. They wear the floor away.
these Americans Sister Helen" he re-
ferred 10 Miss Haye, tho head nurse
from the Illinois Training School "oata
brushes. She does indeed" The lit
tie group Of Russian sisters looked on
amazed The "sanitaircs." mon from
the regular army detailed 20 assist In
the hospital, succumbed slowly 10 their
new bosses. But I stayed long enough
10 hear a group Of movjiks, kneeling
70 their scrub brushes, chcerfully say.
I've go TO fight the enemy OF America"
and one eXclaim. enthusiastically, "If
the nurse says scrub u tweuty times,
why no matter. We will scrub"
Finally the morning Of the opening
Of the hospital drew near. Still no
patients. After half past two fifty
weary soldiers from near Cracow were
received and sent to the bathroom. Dr..
4. II. Egbert, OF Washington, is the
head doctor and wears therefore the
uniform OF a Major General In the
Russian Army. IL was he who super
intended the reception and he who fell
to himself when things went tea
slowly. Suddenly the soldier began to
laugh and Wriggle. After a long time
he consented 10 explain. 81 never
thought said the peasant. when I
went into the army. that a general
would wash my feet"
The opening OF the American hospital
the next day, like the opening OF all
the new hospitals, was religious
event Three priests and two deacon,.
and chorus of twenty came to sing
An hour long mass while the dignitar-
les Of kev stood about and waited for
the blessing Of the beds with holy
water, and the subsequent tea party
that accomp anies every undertaking
possible in Russia.
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RUSSIA'S WOMEN LOVABLE IN WAR I

and the hospitals do their best to see
that playing for stakes IA forbidden.
One man from Siberia, delighted with
a jar Of marmalade and a great pack
age Of cigarettes that had been brought
him, smiled his thank, with "Why, this
is like spring come btfore Christmas"
II doesn't worry him that the police
censor every book that is sent to his
hospital. over half the books sent TO
the English hospital in Moscow were
burned because they we're too likely
10 make the soldiers think.
There are other things, peculiarly
sad, that could only happen in a Rus
sian hospital. Dozens Of men are com
ing back from Poland with their ear
drums burst from csnnonsding, turned
deaf and dumb at one stroke, and IN
able TO read or write.
"If he could only read" said nurse
to me. as we looked az one stricken
bearded giant from the other side Of
the Urals.
It is a curious sight to see groups
OF these bearded men on the streets as
soon as they are able to be about.
Always accompanied by sister, one
sees these little parties making their
way about the cities, visiting museums
and cathedrals, then the clucking Of
the little figure in gray bingham, as
she marshals her charges and takes
them on q tram back to the hospital.
"Such a little general wasted" said
military man, as he watched a serious
young student line up her party on the
corner OF the Nevski Prospect.
Difficult to Send Relief to Country
Districts.
As FOR relief work that is not nurs-
ing Russia has problem no other
country has. In the cities it is not so
difficult to help the soldiers families.
The law which requires employers to
take on the wives of men absent on
duty has made places for hundreds OF
women whose doortender husbands
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the carly days 81 the war, when the
government was promising much to
Poland and limiting benefits TO the
Jews. there suddenly grew up feeling
that went from village TO village.
After the war better days will come
One hears that one phrase from all
quarters. The wounded tell you that.
The papers print it. The average man
doesn't know exactly what He may
talk about Belgium, and about mil
itarsm, but he always ends with, "And
after the war, better times will come
Oil Millionaire Gives Model Hospital.
Visits to nearly fifty Russian hospi-
tails of all kinds give one very good
idea of that side Of the war, and make
one agree with the Russian exile in
London who always writes OF her coun-
try lovingly, but critically, as the coun-
try Of extremes. The best and the
worst are side by side in the same
towns II is good TO write about the
model hospital in Petrograd, put up by
an Armenian oil millionaire. the Rookie
Teller Of the Caucasus, established in
one Of the military training schools.
From its excellent supply Of gym
nastic apparatus for the exercising Of
broken limbs TO its cool, quiet white
ness. with little evergreen trees here
and there sofhat il looks almost like
stage setting rather than a hospital,
it is as nearly perfect as any hospital
can be. The millionaire himself takes
an artists interest in his donation. and
I have seen him running his finger
along the Dashboard, q veritsble New
England housekeeper in his standards
of sanitation and cleanliness.
But that is only one hospital, and in
the military hospitals in Moscow one
gets an entirely different picture. and
knows that for the most part this is not
nation OF organizers. The beds were
so close together that no nurse could
pass between. But she had no time TO,
anyway. There were only ten sisters
and FIVE hundred wounded 10 be dressed
each day. Volunteer nurses were
turned away. That the Russian wound
ed suffered as much as the Germans
and Austrans made no difference.
American Red Cross Unit at kiev.
The Red Cross unit from America ia
established at Kiev. The building is
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Sister helen Eats Brushes Russian Attache of Ou
Red Cross Unit at Kiev Tells he
By Ernestine Evans.
Illustrations by Augusta Briggs,

Illustrations BY Augusta Briggs
women Of Russia lost no time, even
while the autumn was still here, TO as
sure themselves that cold feet would
be the lesst OF Russian Christmas sor-
rows. At every warming counter.
some time during the day, concerts
we're given that drew the passerby and
his pocket full of coins In to hear some
of the foremost artists Of Russia who
cheerfully gave up their work TO do
their strolling part around the town.
No Organized Association Of Nurses.
And as Russia has no organized ssso-
citation Of nurses TO protest against
amateur kindhearted nursing, hundreds
Of Russian girls, students, court person
ages and vorkwomen we're welcomed
into the six weeks course Of training
that entities them TO become Sisters"
and wear the gray bingham dress and
white cap Of the authorized nurse.
They tell story In Petrograd of one
Of the first groups Of nurses that went
down TO Poland. The Grand Duke him
self met them. "Tell me-" he said,
where you want to work. Will you
nurse soldiers or will you nurse Of
fcers ?"
"Oflcers," replied one Of the girls, the
romantic young spokesman. And the
entire group were straightswsy re-
turned to Petrograd and their chance .
of really serving where the work was
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~ ETHoGRAD-ons pays Ave ko-
pecks into tbs family Red
Cross bank II one says St
Fesrsburs-tskes the war far more
i Il. Paris than Ike London. II is the
hd Cross signs that make the differ
zee. For besides the big military
lsspltsl, and the remodelled clubrooms
I'D gynnssiums, there Is hardly a
Hock IN Moscow. Kiev or Petrograd
without Il, lszsrette from which hangs
10 great white square and its crimson
sen Of mercy.
With true Russian hospitality and
r.st hesrtedness, from the very open
~ q the war, everybody wanted
% something Families stayed in the
'i,ieh,," summer house along the Fin
RIB railway, and turned over the town
,srtment TO the Red Gross. Or quick
J., OF. room, two rooms, three rooms,
yer. turned over hastily into Quist,
sr. lszsrett.s for convslescing SOL
t.u.
Sometimes the flag Is not the sign Of
4 lslsrette, but warm counter" In
October, all Petrogrsd was divided into
tro hundred districts and house to
house collections were made of nit
tens, uufHers and hsunels Of all kinds
The Russian knows his winter and re-
,psets Il, The ice is on our side" the
moujik will tell you, quite as though
he we're naming a seventh ally, and the
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come 20 me every day TO hear what
is happening in Poland and TO get food
when | have no food
70 compensate for the hardship
Russia from end 20 end is alive with
a feeling Of being a united people.
The war is popular, some say, from a
real dstrust of Germany. and others
explain it as a bit of phenomenon. In
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have gone TO the war. Il is the coun-
try of across the great plain, ten
hours, and sometimes two days, from
the nearest railway station that pre-
sents the great problem. IN Great
Britain there is no such suffering pos
sible eve have had no news for
days" writes a priest from a village
in Nishni Novgorod, land the people
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hospital life the Russian soldier leads
With the exception OF the Cossacks
and men from the southwest, there is
little that is ferocous about the Rus
sian soldier. He may cry If he loses
at cards. He is an inveterate gambler
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Empress and Daughters Have Turned
Nurses.

The Empress herself and her daugh-
tiers, Archduchess Olga and Arch
duchess Titanis, IN their life show
how simply and firmly the women Of
Russia have gone about It TO help.
They have taken the same grinding
six weeks OF study as the other women
who have wanted TO serve, and now,
in the same plain gray Bingham and
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one admires as execuJants, but not a.
women. They lack the iiealism and
optimism which are so conspicuous In
the American sufragists, and seem in
stead 10 have developed a certain Bit
terness, induced BY a sense Of defeat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
BY ALICE DUER MILLER
A LITTLE REVERENCE Is A DANGEROUS

A REVERENCE Is DANGEROUS THING
French is reported has been converted TO woman SUI
the heo endurance and ability that
have shown the battefeds'
When opposed suffrage they always it is because they
much"
little bit they converted
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A BOLD THINKER.

81 know stuff that political parties made or, ~
Of Texas They just common clay"
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win continents. They are learning sex
loyalty.
"In the old days virtuous women
formed close corporation, whose
backs were rigidly turned 70 the
guilty and whose eyes could not even
b. opened By pity TO their distress To-
day women regard these sisters Of
theirs not as the wicked, but as the
wronged. and not so much deserving
condemnation as assistance. Also, they
are beginning 70 be unwilling to toll
crate the theory OF a personal exemp-
ton based upon the humiliation Of
other women's daughters"