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GARDENING. 



Jan. 15^ 



wish and without any fear of excitiugthe 

 vines, which might be the case were they 

 laid down and boxed inside the house. 



Many gardeners have also cold frame 

 and hot bed sashes in use in winter and 

 spring, but stored past idle in summer, 

 now there is no need of this, with these 

 sashes you can very easily set up a tem- 

 porary greenhouse in summer over your 

 grape vines and grow and ripen your 

 fruit in perfection, and have your grapes 

 cut, and the sash house taken apart i 1 

 fall in time to let you have the sashes 

 again for your winter frames. To make 

 such a house, for the back wall set in posts 

 to run 8 feet above ground, then use 

 boards or shutters not in use in summer. 

 Nail pieces of scantling 3 feet long to the 

 top of the posts, to project forward like 

 the rafters of the north hip of a green- 

 house, on these nail light boa rds. The front 

 should be of sash Six or seven feet is 

 wide enough for the house. A few light 

 posts along the front, then a board or 

 plank next the ground, and a string of 

 sash on their sides will give a 4- foot high 

 front wall; from «p of this and leaning 

 to meet the boarded hip at the top sash 

 should be placed in regular order This 

 is practically a hip roofed little green- 

 house. The sash should be fixed tightly, 

 and provision made for ventilating at the 

 top at the back of the house. The vines 

 should be planted 3 feet apart and 18 

 inches inside from the front wall, and 

 trained up on wires run through vertical 

 screw eves and nine inches from the glass. 

 The vines should be planted permanently 

 in rows out of doors for this purpose, and 

 the temporary building merely set oyer 

 them. T^he chief labor in connection with 

 them in summer is training the vines and 

 thinning the grapes, which is very simple 

 and light work and can be done by 

 children if need be. 



Ventilation may be left open day and 

 night after the first of June except during 

 wet and dull sunless weather, when the 

 ventilators should be shut. No ventila- 

 tion or draught should be admitted from 

 the front of the house, and the glass 

 should be shaded thinly with whitewash. 



For these exotic grape vines a clayey 

 loam soil enriched with bone and rotted 

 manure is best. A border six feet wide 

 and two feet deep is sufficient, and it must 

 be drained so that no stagnant waterean 

 lay on it at any season of the year. Dur- 

 ing the growing season the border should 

 be mulched with a heavy dressing of 

 rotted manure or litter to conserve moist- 

 ure and keep the fine feeding roots near 

 the surface of the ground where they can 

 get additional feeding in occasional ap- 

 plications of liquid manure. This having 

 the roots at the surface of the ground 

 where they are under full control as to 

 feeding is half the battle in raising fine 

 grapes. 



.\fter the grapes are cut the sash house, 

 can be taken down and removed, and by 

 the first of November the vines may be 

 pruned and laid down lengthwise in the 

 row on top of the border, and four or 

 five inches deep of loam placed on top of 

 them, then all further trouble with them 

 is over till next April, except to look out 

 that this ridge of loam covering is not 

 broken or washed down so .ns tnvNpnsc 

 any part of the cnnes lo (li ■ liyht. 



Another good way of growing catch- 

 crops of grapes is in tubs. I use square 

 box tubs 20 inches square at top 16 

 inches in bottom, and 12 inches deep. 

 The tubs and vines are buried out of 

 doors in winter, and unearthed and taken 

 up before the middle of April. By bring- 

 ing them into the greenhouse then and 

 training the vines up to a wire or a stake 

 they soon start into growth, and they 

 bear good crops of grapes too. 



JOBSTOWN, N. [. John G. Gardiner. 



Chestnut cions— J. E. Prior, Conn., 

 writes: "I have some 25 or 30 three year 

 old seedlings of native chestnuts in my 

 garden. Can you inform me where I can 

 get cions of Paragon chestnut to graft on 

 them?" Ans. Try Samuel C. Moon, 

 Morrisville, Bucks Co., Pa. 



The Vegetable Garden. 



THE BUNCH SWEET POTATO. 



Let me impress upon your readers who 

 grow sweet potatoes the importance of 

 tiiis new variety. After a season's trial of 

 the Bunch yam I don't think any of you 

 will plant any more of the running yellow 

 yam. The latter is now and has been for 

 many years the sweet potato of the south 

 —the Ne Plus Ultra. But it is bound to 

 go. Its viney, trailing, rooting along its 

 branches as it runs habit, renders its 

 cultivation troublesome, worse than that 

 the spreading rooted vmes soon become 

 independentof the original root where the 

 yams are forming, and absorb the nonr- 

 ment for their own interest and eff'ort at 

 a sub crop, and thus it is that we often 

 find patches of potatoes producing a 

 meagre crop although the tops look first- 

 rate. If the average running sweet potato 

 vines could be run on trellises this would 

 be avoided and the whole mission of the 

 the leaves and vines would be centered 

 in swelling the yams at the original root 

 But we will never take this trouble. So 

 nature has now given us agood yam that 

 doesn't run at all, but gathers itself into 

 a compact leafly bunch that attends 

 strictlv to business at the main root. It 

 is a chance sport, not a seedling, and its 

 tubers are identical in kind with those of 

 its parent, the running yellow yam. But 

 for the reasons given above it produces 

 finer tubers and a heavier crop of them 

 It is as easily cultivated as cotton, Al- 

 through not new by any means, it is still 

 scarce. We are adopting it altogether. 

 James Stewart. 



Elmwood, Memphis. 



THE VEOETflBLE OHRDEN. 



Be careful that no frost gets to any of the 

 roots stored in boxes or bins in the cellar, 

 or in pits out of doors. Don't spare the 

 covering. Begin to save manure for hot- 

 beds; you will need it next month. Sow 

 lettuce seeds in flats in the greenhouse for 



plants for the earliest hotbeds. If you 

 haven't sown some tomatoes sow some 

 at once. Some extra early cabbage and 

 cauliflower plants may also be sown 

 now, and when the seedlings come up 

 keep them in a moderately cool light 

 place to get them well rooted and stocky; 

 they should be half grown beforeitistime 

 to plant them out permanently. Both 

 rhubarb and asparagus force very easily 

 from now on, and all the tr. uble with 

 them is to dig them and bring them inside 

 where there is a moist warmth of about 

 60". They don't need the light. 



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