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plants up by the roots on hooks in a dry, 

 (lark, frost-proof room; a warm, well 

 ventilated cellar would do. Cutting off 

 tlie leaves and worthless fruit lessens 

 evaporation, hence to a large extent 

 shrivelling. Egg plant, like squash, in 

 any stage of its existence, growing or 

 cut, dislikes cold, also a stagnant atmos- 

 ])here, hence the cellar is generally a poor 

 place forit. We keep it m this way for a 

 month or so in fairly good condition, but 

 have never succeeded in keeping it over 

 winter. If any of our readers have, will 

 iIr'v kindlv tell us how thev managed to 



WflTERINO PLANTS OUT OF DOORS. 



C. J. D. R., Holland, Mich., writes: 

 "Have you made any experiments as to 

 the difference in results produced by irri- 

 gating flowers orsprinkling them? Mar- 

 ket gardeners raising vegetables say that 

 they cannot grow them by sprinkling 

 with cold city water, but do have success 

 l)y causing the water to flow in trenches 

 .-iround the roots." 



There is a good deal in this point To 

 begin with, though, the coldness of the 

 water makes no difference. Irrigating 

 from surface trenches but not touching 

 the necks of the plants is excellent, or 

 better still, through underground pipes. 

 In watering outdoor crops, so far as we 

 can, the object is to soak the ground 

 about the roots, but keep the surface dry 

 .ind mellow. Wi h the same end in view, 

 when we water heavily on the surface or 

 overhead the first thing we do next morn- 

 ing is to run over the ground with long- 

 toothed steel rakes to scarify and dry the 

 surface. Take sweet peas for instance, if 

 the seed row is a little hollow and we 

 soak them in the rowafter a while agood 

 many vines will get' yellow at the neck 

 and die out, but draw a little trench on 

 either side of the row and soak the 

 ground through them and without wet- 

 ting the necks of the pea vines much, the 

 difference in favor of it is quite marked 

 In growing melons under glass in winter 

 one of the main points to observe is not 

 to wet the neck of the vine. In raising 

 the lovely Glory pea of Australia {Clian- 

 thus Dampieri) that too is a vital point. 

 Notwithstanding all this, however, let us 

 urge upon you the wisdom of watering 

 outdoor plants abundantly and on the 

 sui-face whenever they get too dry. Do 

 this late in the afternoon or in the even- 

 ing, and if the ground isn't covered by 

 foliage or is exposed to sunshine, run the 

 rake over it next morning. Don't let a 

 point like that stand between yourthirsty 

 plants and the hose or watering pot. 

 .\nd when you give water give a thorough 

 soaking of it. 



OPENING ft HEftVy SOIL. 



R. C. W., LaGrange, III., asks: "Can I 

 improve a heavy black garden soil (with 

 clay subsoil) with sand or coa/ ashes? Or 

 can you recommend anything not too ex- 

 pensive or difficult to obtain?" 



Sharp sand is good, say a coating of 

 two to tlircc iiiehes deep to the foot ac- 

 cording to the stiffness of the land; the 

 same with coal ashes But we would 

 rather have a heavy dressing of swamp 

 or pond peat muck that had been thrown 

 up dry to rot for a year or two before 

 using. Of this we would use3 to 5 inches 

 dee|) to the foot deep of clav, and as a 

 foot deep is all tli;il \vc generally dig the 



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