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FALL PLANTED SWEET PEAS.

Atlanta, although in the South. Is
1.100 feet above sea level and has a
most variable climate In winter.
Roses. shrubs and such trees as we
grow here should eve be planted in
the autumn. as they cannot stand the
hard freezes we frequently have at
night followed by a day OF hot sun
and thaw. which constantly disturbs
the tender roots trying to settle them
selves in the new ground.
Sweet peas and spring bulbs are al
most the only things We can plant TO
advantage in the autumn. Late in
October or in November. II the season
Is fine. we plough the ground deeply,
turning under a thick layer OF ma
nure. We SOW sweet pea seed at least
four inches apart and not more than
an inch deep. and although they come
up before Christmas and are frequent
ly nipped by frost they make deep
root growth and are in riotous bloom
by the middle OF June.
Mrs. WALTER HOWARD. Georgia.
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BY No Means an Experiment Abroad,
This Country Just Waking to
the Value of Orchards

Americans seem to have a peculiar
weakness for Initiating others Or for
following the leader. The public sud
denly develops the roller skating craze
and no ono Is quite happy who is not
roller skating. Suddenly this fad sub
sides and another develops. bicycling
is found to be the one and only thing
to insure perfect health and happi-
ness, and then dancing or moving pic
lures is the craze. In planting the
idea Is quite the same. The Amer
lean elm attracted. the attention Of
the Pilgrims and their descendants,
and everywhere in New England,
down to the present time, 1t is the one
tree generally used for roadside and
shade planting.
In planting home grounds there Is
altogether too much sameness. For
a season or W n beds are every
where; then red salvias. Every yard
has a hydrangean ~paniculata. at least
two catalpa bungeii and a weeping
mulberry. In other sections there
will be cut leaved birch on every lawn.
Just now evcrgreens are the fad, and
everywhere privet is used. perhaps to
just beyond the limit of good taste.
All these are good, but there are
too many trees and shrubs to have
rows Of yards almost exactly alike,
after the style Of brownstone fronts
in New York city.
Every yard. to he most attractive,
should be Individual, and utility. a
purpose for everything that is done,
should BE- the fundamental idea.
Tho result Of want OF taste and
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DAHL1A SHOW ON TUESDAY.

The annual show Of the American
Dahlia Society will be held September
20 to 20 at the Engineers building,
rs West Thirty-ninth street. Admis-
sion is free. A large and attractive
display Is assured. There will be keen
competition for the prize offered by
Mrs. Gertrude Dahl Mordecai. the only
living descendant OF Prof. Dahl. from
whom the dahlia obtained its name.
Mrs. Mordecai's prize Is offered for
the best new Seeding dahlia to be
named after her. There will be from
fifteen to twenty entries In this class.
There will also be a large number
Of entries Of seeding dahlias raised
by amateurs.
The annual meeting will be held
Tuesday at 8 p. NJ. Prof. Fraser Of
the Connecticut Agricultural College
will lecture and Prof. Norton Of Mary
land will talk on classification. The
annual dinner of the members OF the
society and invited guests will be held
at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening.
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GREENHOUSE AND C0NSERvA.
TORY.

In many sections various green
house plants will need to be housed.
care being taken to keep them as cool
as possible during the day. Plants
that have been plunged out during
summer will require examining to see
that they have proper drainage and
they should receive a topdressing Of
good, rich soil. Some may require
shifting into larger pots. although this
should have been attended to in
August.
Plants required for next seasons
use should DO made now from cuttings,
rs fall rooted cuttings as a rule bloom
more freely than plants from cuttings
made in the winter. and young plants
generally are preferable to old speci-
mems. particularly 70 Of bedding plants
such as geraniums. h~eliotropes. fuch-
sias, &c. Plants Of a woody nature,
such as roses. larger and older plants,
are better.
Seeds OF pansics. daisies. sweet
alyssum. mignonette. candytuft. &C.
should be sown.
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ton Of seed from which seedlings are
grown. when any ono undertakes It
who has the time and patience to do
II.
The almond flowers about the same
time as the peach tree. the flowers ap-
pearins before the foliage; in fact the
foliage does not appear until Just as
the flowers drop.
Flushing. Long Island. introduced the
almond some time previous to 1898.
He also imported a number of Eng
fish walnuts about the same time.
The almond should have Il good dry
soil: sandy or calcareous Is best. The
trees have a long tap root. which
should be carefully provided for in
planting. using a crowbar to make
the holes Of sufficient depth.
The Chestnut.
The Sober chestnut originated on the
farm OF Col. c. X. Sober OF Northum-
berland county. Pa. and seems to
thrive equally well In every part OF
the United States.
II only a few chestnut trees are to be
planted the character Of the soil need
hardly be considered, but IL a grove Is
to be set out a sandy. Gravelly or
rocky soil should be selected. The
chestnut thrives by a mass OF fbrous
roots thrown out from the main or tap
root, n stony OF sandy soil aids in
the development OF these netlike root
lets. Avoid locations where water
stands or land that Is not well drained
for chestnuts.
Autumn Is n good time to plant
trees, while the soil is warm from the
summer u and chestnuts and other
u trees do well when planted at this
season OF the year The soil has all
winter to settle about the roots. aided
by rain and melting snow.
The Sober chestnut, according to re-
ports OF those who have planted 1t,
m into bearing early, yields well,
and 30 far has resisted the chestnut
bark disease that has taken Off the
native chestnuts in the East. Last au-
tumn a number Of Sober chestnuts
were planted on our experimental farm
and they are doing nicely. Last spring
a number OF Chinese varieties were set
out, which were brought to this coun
try by explorers in employ Of the Gov
eminent. Careful records will be kept
and reports will he published later.
There are many varieties Of chest
nuts. including the Japan, Of which
there seem to be several varieties. one
somewhat dwarfed in, size, though tn,
nuts are unusually large, n various
nurscrymen list man, other varieties
When examining the table of contents
' OF q catalogue. II chestnut 10 not In
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The country schoolhouse and
grounds should be made an attractive
place. Land in the country is compare
lively cheap, so have good. big school
grounds. People who send their chill
dren to school should be willing to do
their share in helping to plant plenty
OF shade trees. With sufficient room
to romp the children will not inJure
the trees. In the spring make a few
flower beds around the building. and
let It he part Of the school course to
have the children plant u and care
for the flower beds.
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More than 200 burs on this s-year-old sober chestnut tree.

forethought nay be seen In whatever
direction n travels throughout the
older and more thickly settled por-
tions OF the country. The present
generation should show by its work
that wisdom has been gained by the
experience of the past.
When the suggestion Is made to
plant fruit and nut trees for shade,
the objection Is made that they tempt
those who pass and make trespassers
OF them. Where there is an album
dance either temptation is lessened or
the proportion of fruit taken as COM
pared with the total crop Is so small
that 1t Is moi missed. Children can
not be dispensed with. our own or
our neighbors'. so It Is a good plan
to provide them with all the good
things that climate and circumstances
will afford.
If nut trees are used wherever shade
is wanted the trees will not only pro-
vide shade but a valuable crop Of nuts,
80 the trees will produce n revenue in
q few years. where other trees simply
furnish shade. The same Of course
viii be true Of fruit trees. Ber9strasse,
which extends from Heidelberg to
Darmstadt in Germany, IL. or was a
few years ago. all planted with what
we call English walnuts.
In 1853 Roger Morris built a spa
cious mansion on his estate at what is
now known as Washington Heights
New York city. and With many other
foreign trees and shrubs planted Eng
lish walnuts. One of these trees -four
ished for about $40 years.
Northern English walnut culture r.
no longer an experiment. as the fruit
Of the hardy northern varieties SUI
pass tho western and southern prod
uots.
English walnuts OF northern varie'
ties are now successfully grown as faI
north as st. GATHERINGS, Ontario. ant
there are several large and productive
orchards between Rochester and Buff
falo, N. Y, where the temperature
falls as low as 20 degrees below zero
The largest OF the New York State
orchards Is the Thompson orchard o,
c2S trees, at Avon. near Rochester
which last season produced 260 bush
els Of nuts that were sold for 25 cents
. pound, or $4,000 for the crop. Thu
trees required no spraying. and onl!
orchard cultivation was given.
Where walnuts are to be grow
there should be nc rock or hardpal
- retard the growth Of the Ions
straight tap root. Naturally the richie
the soil and the better cultivation
given the better the crop will bt
Continued cultivation about the tree
D the best treatment.
&srthern varieties Of wsinuts vii
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grow and bear wherever the peach will
live and are less trouble to care for.

grow n bear Wherever the peach Will
live and are less trouble to care for.
Almonds at the North.
The late Andrew S. Fuller. horticul-
tural editor of THE Sun in 1896. said:
"As for almond culture In the United
States, very little is to be said further
than while we have few experiments
to refer to as having been made east
Of the Rocky Mountains, not one OF
our great pomologists in his pub-
lished works has over given any rea-
son for the almost entire neglect Of
this nut" The report of the pomolo-
gist of the Department Of Agriculture.
1892. said: IL state &c all ex-
perimenters that 1t is useless to try to
grow the almond Of on this
side of the Rocky Mountains. except
possibly in New Mexico and south
western Texas" Andrew Fuller was
confident. notwithstanding the ad-
verse reports on the culture of the
almond In the North. that further ex-
periments would produce satisfactory
results. and urged horticulturists to
keep or experimenting with the So
called hard shelled almonds. which
thrive in the North.
DIR. Robert T. Morris grows hard
shel.ed almonds In southern Connecti-
cut. and the trees have withstood win
ters so severe as to kill the peach
crop. In Rochester. n. v. the soft
shelled almond has stood the last four
winters. From the hardy hard shelled
almonds soft shelled varieties can and
! will be produced by the careful selec-
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Roses in pots for winter Towering
require a regular supply of liquid ma
nure. and its character should be
changed as often as possible, which
will be more successful than the con-
slant use Of one kind.
Roses are gross feeders. and con-
fined to only a limited amount Of soil
and food In pots they must be given
liberal supplies Of fertilizers.
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ROsE GERANIUM s

The rose geranium rose ! inquired
about recently IL no the rose geran-
ium. ! had n flower Of this rose given
me n year ago. but have never seen
another like. The green leaves were
curled tight like the rose geraninm
and had much the same scent. The
flower was a pale pink with a true
rose fragrance. think II Is n climber.
L. NJ. BOYER. New Jersey.
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In picking and packing fruit banda
1t carefully. Bruised apples in a bar.
rel are the first to decay. and this ,x
true Of other fruit.
Spinach and Brussels sprouts NAV
now be sown for spring use.
Young raspberry canes can he dur
and replanted to make new beds,
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las Saturday. September 90. and Sum
day, September "a, at the Museum
Building. Botanical Garden. Bronx
Park. by the Horticultural Society of
New York in cooperation with the Gar
den. Admission free.
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HARDY ANIMALS TO SOW IN
AUTUMN.

Seeds OF hardy ANIMALS sown in the
garden now will make an early start.
and this sowing will be out Of the way
during the busy time In the garden
next spring. Sow the seeds thinly
where the plants are to mature early
Good hardy ANIMALS:
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Tomatoes showing color may be re-
moved from the vines and set in the
sun to finish %ripening.
Sparaxis. ixias and freesias are splen-
did for pot culture. Try them.
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THE OLD GARDENER AS
WEATHER PROPHET.

In our issue Of August 20, when the
weather was severely warm, we stated
that 1.-The old gardener predicts very
cold weather, probably frost, by Sep
TENDER IL" The article was written
fully three weeks previously. some
time before July 80. and the prediction
was copied far and wide by other
papers.
Sunday. September II, the news
papers printed dispatches from the
West stating that frost fell over the
great lakes region on the night OF
September Is. The frost extended as
far south as northern Tennessee. A
heavy snowfall with n temperature OF
"a degrees was reported from Hib-
bling. MINI.
Damage amounting to $50. 900 was
reported from Danville, H.. where all
late vegetables were ruined. Reports
from southern Illinois said the frost
was the earliest In twenty years.
Light frosts were general In lndi-
and eight towns in the State re-
ported freezing weather. according to
the Government Weather Bureau.
Cambridge City. Ind. reported a tenn
pcrature OF 20 degrees.
A good lawn cannot be maintained
without regular feeding. Grass, like
any other plant. requires food. and as
the roc system IL somewhat shallow
the plant food must be in highly avail
able form.
Messy patches on the lawn may DO
due to lack OF potash and phosphates.
but are caused usually by dampness.
The remedy is to rake over and apply
hydrated lime, two good handfuls to the
square yard. Fertilizer may be ap-
piled Immediately after the lime. All
lawns will he benefited by an applica-
ton Of fertilizer now.
Petunias. heliotropes. m%arguerites,
hydrangeas. verbenas, ageratums,
coleus. geraniums ard fuchsias all
root easily from cuttings. and where
the plants are growing in the gar
den and to be left out. cuttings
can be made In pots. II the pots are
put in cold frames and covered with
sash or in boxes and covered with
glass so as to keep a close atmosphere
they will root quicker. but all these
root freely whether kept close OF not.
Keep In the shade until the roots start.
Save the leaves as they are raked
up on the lawn and from the paths.
Pile them up In an put OF the way cor
ner OF the garden or pack them down
solidly in boxes or barrels and leave
them exposed TO the weather. Leaf
mould is constantly needed by the
gardener.
Lilies to be transplanted should be
handled as soon as possible after the
leaves dry up.
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cluded In the list look for castanea.
One catalogue examined does not in
clude In the table of contents either
nuts or chestnuts, but gives the boz
tanical name that not M person In
n hundred would naturally look for II
seeking to find chestnut rec Con-
sidering the II In which many
catalogues are compiled 1t is not
strange that some OF tneso concerns
find advertising Improbable. and the
wonder is that they make any prog
ress in their business.
Later the possibilities with NJ
berts. persimmons and pecans in the
North will be given. also the butternut
and black walnut. The black walnut
is valuable both for its nuts and wood,
which Is now scarce and expensive.
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For asters. sladiofi. dahiias and
other flowers troubled BY the aseer
beetle, try Slug Shot. applying with
any Of the busters sold by seedmen.
Apply when the foliage Is wet with
dew.
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New Farm and Garden hooks.

Text Book Of Land Drainage" by
Joseph a. jeffrey. formerly professor
OF soils. Michigan Agricultural College.
This book puts into simple and con-
else terms the fundamentals OF knowl-
edge concerning the relation OF water
to agriculture and Of relation OF drain
age to soil water for the practical
farmer. The Mcmillan Company. New
York.
"The Small Grains" by NJ. A. Garlic
on. c~erealist. United States Department
Of Agriculture. Intended for farmers
general readers. academies. high
schools and universities. Wheat. oats
barley. rye. buckwheat and rice are
treated exhaustively. Cereal improve.
ment. soil and climatic relations. pests
diseases and uses Of cereals are fully
covered. The Macmillan Company
New York.
Breeds of Livestock" by live stock
breeders, revised and arranged by Car
w. Gay. professor Of animal industry
University OF Pennsylvania. Horse.
and ponies Of all kinds. mules and
jacks. beef and dairy cattle, sheep
goats. swine are covered by this work
which was originally prepared for the
encyclopedia OF American Agriculture.
The Macmillan Company, New York.
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Start Roman hyacinths in earth In
pots or in fbre in bowls at once foE
early winter Towering, Just cover the
bulbs with fibre and place the bowls
In q dark place until growth ia about
an inch high. The nbro must be kept
moist.
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Narcissi and crocus do best whom
planted early. Get tho bulbs In the
ground by the last Of October.
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There Is likely to be frost now any
night. Most vegetables will stand a
slight frost without freezing. but a Sc
we're frost will injure the tender vege-
tables, which should be gathered and
put under cover as early as possible.
In small gardens %squashes can be cov
cred until they ripen. Peppers should
be gathered before frost.
In gathering potatoes be careful
not to bruise them. Dig them on a
dry sunny day and let them dry be-
fore storing. Onions should be pulled
as DOT as the tops begin to turn color
and left out on the ground in rows a
few days to dry before the tops are re-
moved. Store in a cool. dry place.
spreading them out thinly.
Cabbage and lettuce seed should be
sown without further delay for win
tering in cold frames.
Top onions can still be planted for
spring use.
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The old fayorites like Columbine. Fox
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For home use peaches that have
ripened on the trees are the most de-
licious.
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HELP WANTED.

LANDSCAPE man to represent first elias s
nursery; good proposition. Ia Points Nur.
ssry Co, Geneva N. 7.
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A PECK Of good apples delivered at your
home. 10 cts: Choice. rs cts. Cash with
order. Special price on bushel and barrel
lots. c. d. HALLOCK. New Baltimore sta
tion. n. Y.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-12-09
FOXAALl KEENE
THROWN IN HUNT
FAMOUS SPORTSMAN AND OWN
ER OF PRIZE HORSES is
SERIOUSLY HURT

BALTIMORE. Md. Dec. 6.-Fox-
hall P. Keene, the widely known
sportsman of New York, is lying in
a semi-conscious condition at the
Hartford Hunt club, where he was
carried after an accident while par
ticipating in the annual joint hunt
meeting, in progress lin Harfor1
county.
About 4 O'Clock yesterday after
noon Mr.. Keene was missed from
the large field engaged in a fox
chase, just after a spirited run.
Later his horse was seer gallop-
ing riderless across a field. Several
participants in the hunt went back
over the route traversed and found
Mr.. Keene lying unconscious in a
clump of bushes near a fence. 1t
is thought his horse fell while TAX
ing the fence.
keene has conclusion of the brain.
and his condition is too serious to
permit of his removal from the
clubhouse. Keene had been seri-
ously injured several times previ-
Ously.
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and it's situation is such as to rem
der it difficult of defense in time
bers of her citizens had made for
tunes out of the war, and they
were liberal spenders. Originally
a squalid, meanly built city, Buch-
the capitals or tile near east, Buch-
Arrest has of late years sought to
become a Balkan Paris and with a
fair measure of success. Many fine
public and business buildings anG
private residences along the streets
and luxurious hotels, which charge
are numerous, as are the expensive
Sc a day for the smallest rooms,
restaurants, capare;s, theaters and
dance halls. 1t is the metal plated
cupolos of the innumerable churches,
however, which give to Bucharest
its most picturesque aspect IN the
eyes of the visitor from the west.
Bucharest is 965 feet above sea
level, in the fertile but t~reeless plain
of the small, sluggish Dambovitza,
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figures issued by the management
az constituting the %bi-weekly ship
ments and also by noting the sums
mentioned as net earnings for the
successive months. During the past
year the Butler company has report
ed net earnings totaling $311,355.-
20, which is at the rate of about
is cents per share on the 1,71S,021
shares of capital stock issued ana
outstanding.
At the North Star mine, raising
is in progress from the S50-foot
level, where a large body of low
grade quartz is being opened up.
On the 900-foot intermediate level,
a cross-cut is being run to the
southwest to pick up the faulted
segment of the vein. A continue
ton of the usual stopping operations
on the 95O-foot level is reported,
the conditions at this place being
similar in all respects to the re-
ports previously issued.
The weeks report of operations
at the Cash Boy Consolidated pro-
perty furnishes information of an
encouraging character. The water
is rapidly sinking in the winze, the
decrease having been more notice
able during the past week than has
been the case heretofore. The man
agcment is now engaged in cleaning
out the bottom of the winze which
was stopped when the flow of water
came in, preparatory to the resump-
ton of operations at this point.
This stope will be we'll timbered
and as soon as the cleaning and
timbering processes have been COM
pleted the winze will be continued
as fast rs practicable.
The work in the Buckeye during
the past week has consisted OF
ditching alongside of the track to
carry the water that was encount-
cred when the ledge was struck.
back to the stump. This level had
been dry and even dusty until
the ledge was struck and the water
softened the floor of the drift until
it was impossible to handy the
heavy cars owe the track, making
extensive track repairs necessary.
At the Mizpah Extension opera
tions r proceeding at the usual
vigorous rate. The only change
that has occurred in any of the
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of war. An elaborate system of
Notifications, commenced thirty
years ago surrounds the city. Blu
clarest had a considerable popula-
ton of German and Hungarian
workmen, but most of these left
tc join the armies of the central
empires before Rumania entered
the war.
At a luncheon General Falken-
hayn gave to neutral correspondents
he remarked that, although moth
ing in this world is so certain that
one dares predict anything safely"
Bucharest will be uncomfortable to
be in when the Germans get their
guns trained on it.
Pictures show buildings in Bu-
charest. No. 1, is the palace of the
late Queen Elizabeth Carmen
Sylva); Nos. 2 and 4, the Anthena-
cum in Bucharest; No. 3, a typical
Rumanian church in the Rumanian
capital; No. 5, home of a wealthy
resident of the city.