184 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Dutch Holland, Surehead -and All Season for late. White Plume celery; 

 Early Paris and Snowball cauliflower; Oxheart and Long Orange carrots; 

 Egyptian beets; Long Red mangels; Prizehead lettuce; Scarlet, Globe 

 and Icicle radishes for early and the White Strasburg for late; Golden 

 wax and Henderson's Bush lima beans; American Wonder, Horseford's 

 market, garden and everbearing peas; Sweet Marrow parsnips; Earliana 

 and Beefsteak tomatoes; purple top strap leaf turnips; Red Wetherfield 

 Prizetaker onions; Cole's Early, Sweet Heart and Peerless watermelons; 

 Emerald Gem, Netted Gem and Osage muskmelons; Hubbard squash; 

 Early Minnesota sweet corn; Early Ohio and Rural New York potatoes; 

 these are all good varieties and do well here. 



It pays to get new, pure seed every three or four years, and get it 

 just as near home as you can. Tested seed is alright provided it is test- 

 ed under the same conditions you wish to grow it. 



We have raised just as fine tomatoes from the slips as from the par- 

 ent plants, but they were later. Potato slips will grow all right, but I 

 have never been able to get them to bear potatoes. 



From DeSota plum seed planted seven years ago last fall we have 

 fine plums, and they were all larger than those planted. There were 

 only two DeSota trees, two early red, two late red, and two of them were 

 large yellow plums. Raspberry and gooseberry seed have come true to 

 name, but I have never been able to get plums or strawberries from seed 

 that were like the parent plants. 



You should always plant their fruit seeds just as soon as they are 

 taken from the fruit, or put them in moist ground until spring. I have 

 never been able to get dried seeds to grow. 



We find it pays to set a new strawberry bed each year, as they are 

 very little more trouble -than cabbage. Among some sixteen or seven- 

 teen varieties tested the Senator Dunlap is the best all around berry. 

 Every four or five years we send to a strawberry specialist and get new 

 plants, in the meantime setting the new runners from our old plants. 



Any one renting from three to five years can have asparagus, rhu- 

 barb, and strawberries if they care to set them, as some neighbor gener- 

 ally has an over-supply of roots they dig up and are glad to give away. 



Don't forget a row of flowers in the garden. The dahlia and gladiolus 

 are so easily grown, and are the most beautiful of fall flowers. Verbenas, 

 asters, sweet peas and pansies, are lovely little flowers, easy to grow, and 

 general favorites with all. — Paper read by Mrs. Leona Williams before 

 Hancock County (Iowa) Farmers' Institute, January 27, 1912. 



LAWN SEEDING. 

 W. H. Dunman, Landscape Gardener, University of Nebraska. 



Kentucky blue grass is not surpassed by any other grass in the mak- 

 ing of a perfect lawn. Sometimes, in adverse conditions such as acidity 

 of the soil, lack of humus, or a scarcity of water, a mixture is preferable. 

 For sour soil, a top dressing of air-slacked lime, using about one bushel 



