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HORTICULTURi: 



February 12, 191© 



VINES, PEACHES, NECTARINES, 

 GLOXINIAS. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Can you please give me a little in- 

 formation on the following subjects? 

 I have a % span house running east 

 and west, large sjian to the south. 

 This house is 150 feet long. I want 

 to section it off into three houses of 

 50 feet each. My intention is to grow 

 Colman and Black Barbarossa grapes 

 in one section, IMuscat of Alexandria 

 grapes in another and have the third 

 for a general fruit house. Can 1 grow 

 peaches, nectarines and figs in this 

 third house? Also give a little infor- 

 mation in regards to malung borders 

 for the grapes, etc.: how deep should 

 they be? This house is 20 feet wide. 

 Could I have grapes on the back of 

 the first two houses, also what mix- 

 ture of compost should I use? 



What size gloxinia bulbs would you 



advise me to buy so tliat I could have 



nice flowering plants in (J-inch pots? 



Any information on the above will 



be highly appreciated. 



"SUBSCRIBER." 



m reply to the inquiry of a sub- 

 scriber who has a % span fruit house 

 loO feet long, 20 feet wide, facing the 

 south and divided into three equal 

 lengths, two of those sections being 

 intended for the growing of grapes, 

 the border for this should be prepared 

 as follows. Remove all inside soil to 

 the depth of three feet, also from a 

 strip two feet wide all along the im- 

 mediate front outside, being careful to 

 slope the bottom so that water will be 

 carried off; then fill in the bottom 

 with a layer of lime rubbish, broken 

 up bricks, or anything of a porous 

 nature that will provide good drain- 

 age. This layer should be 6 to 9 in 

 deep. Then fill in the space to the 

 level of the groiind with the following 

 compost. For six cords of fibry loam' 

 roughly chopped up, add one cord of 

 well rotted cow manure, y„ cord lime 

 rubbish, 150 lbs. bone meal and 150 

 lbs. half-in. bone. Mix all together 

 thoroughly. The outside border should 

 be extended yearly with a richer ma- 

 terial as the roots require. The vines 

 should be planted so that the upper 

 part of the roots will be about 2 in 

 under the surface. You could not have 

 first-class grapes from vines planted in 

 the back of this house, as thev would 

 be too much shaded with tiie front 

 ones. Nectarines or peaches of early 

 varieties would be more suitable for 

 the reason that the fruit of these 

 would be in a more advanced stage 

 before sun is shut out. The writer 

 has grown nectarines under similar 

 conditions the last eight years and 

 with good results. 



The third section of this house 

 would be suitable for growing peaches 

 and nectarines together, planted in 

 both front and back borders, and the 

 compost recommended for the grape 

 border will be suitable, leaving out all 

 the manure and half the bone. 



Figs require a higher temperature 

 than peaches or nectarines for best re- 

 sults, but as they are not at all fastidi-: 

 ous and adapt themselves well to pot 

 culture, we would advise trving them 

 in this way with the above. 



Gloxinia bulbs of one-and-a-half- 

 inches in diameter will, if properly 

 treated, make good plants of a size 

 suitable for 6-inch pots same season. 



J. R. 



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Ji^>;^': 



Profit, not Necessity, is the Test 



kind w.th onoud, Potash in it to mako" balanced 

 plant ration, 'i o„r dealer would cet it for vou ,f he 

 knew that you wanted it. For crain, use 6: for corn 

 ■ ,,, , ,.,.*'■ ^"<',',°'^'"°°'^''"iit and truck. 10 percrnt of Pola,h 

 in the fertilizer If your dealer has not such brands,' Ret t?im to 

 my some Polash salt for you and put it in the goods yourself 



To increase the Polash one per cent, add two pounds of 

 muriate or sulfate of Potash, or eight pounds of Kainit to every 

 H"J pounds of fertilizer. 



Potash Pays Jllft ^"^l ^Tm'wJ "'"?'»>■ *f ';a"y Potash Salts in 

 will write to us about it ^''™ ''° "'°""^ "' '"■>'"'^ "■«■» '^ ''« 



U'ri/e to Sales Office: 

 GERMAN KALI WORKS 

 Conllnenlal Building Ballimore, Md. 



DON'T SPRAY IN TOO COLD 

 WEATHER. 



As the effect of climatic conditions 

 on spraying in general is so little un- 

 derstood, and as a great many fruit 

 growers try to spray in the winter 

 months when work is slack, a word of 

 caution just now will not be out of 

 place. 



Spraying for scale may be done any 

 time after the leaves drop in the fall 

 until they begin to open in the spring 

 providing the weather is not too cold 

 and the material can dry on the trees 

 before freezing. Many people, how- 

 ever, suppose this can be done when 

 water on the ground does not freeze. 

 This is a mistake, for rapid radiation 

 on a clear day may force the tempera- 

 ture of the woolly fruit-bud down six 

 or eight degiees below freezing point; 

 so it is really unsafe to spray fruit 

 trees, especially the peach, when the 

 temperature is below 40 degrees Fah- 

 renheit, no matter what the material 

 used may be. I believe that in every 

 instance where I nave investigated 

 fruit-bud injury, it has been found 

 that the spraying was done in very 

 cold weather. 



The following clipping v/as taken 

 from Green's Fruit Grower, April 

 1009: — 



"The freezing of the leaves and buds 

 on clear spring nights when the air 

 temperature is above freezing point 

 has been superstitiously looked upon 

 as an effect of the moon's light. An 

 English experimenter finds that, while 

 all objects have the temperature of 

 the surrounding air on cloudy nights, 

 rapid radiation may produce "a differ- 

 ence on clear nights, and a piece of 

 cotton iiroved to be at times six and 

 even eight degrees colder than the 

 air. Plants may be similarlv chilled 

 below freezing, with the air above. 



"A few years ago the writer was on 

 a fishing trip in 'Vermont and two 

 nights in succession his bathing suit 

 was frozen stiff on the line, while 

 vegetation was uninjured. They were 

 bright moonlight nights. Had the 

 weather been cloudy, it is doubtful if 

 this would have happened. It is ad- 



visable, therefore, for fruit growers, 

 ■who spray in the winter time, to 

 watch their thermometers." 



B. G. PRATT. 



ARKANSAS STATE HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



That the work of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society is of state-wide value, 

 both in building up the fruit-growing 

 and allied interests and in conserving 

 these important resources in Arkansas, 

 and that as such it deserves some as- 

 sistance from the state is set forth 

 in a comprehensive resolution before 

 that body by Col. Lerov Palmer of 

 Fayetteville. The resolution calls for 

 an appropriation of at least $5,000, to 

 be used in assisting the society in its 

 work, and asks that the president and 

 executive board see that the needs of 

 the society along this line are properly 

 placed before members of the legisla- 

 ture at the forthcoming session. 



The D. D. Johnson Company, of 64- 

 66 'Wabash avenue, Chicago, whose ad- 

 vertisement of Evergreen Brand Fer- 

 lilizers has, no doubt, attracted the at- 

 tention of our readers, are making 

 rapid progress in arranging for the 

 sale of their product through the job- 

 bers and dealers throughout the coun- 

 try. They assure us that it is their 

 aim to distribute the fertilizers through 

 these trade channels exclusively, and 

 that all orders which they receive di- 

 rect will be turned over to the dealers 

 in their respective territory. This 

 promise of protective co-operation with 

 the local dealers should inspire a re- 

 ciprocal interest on the part of the 

 jobbers, seedsmen and others and, we 

 doubt not, will go far towards increas- 

 ing the demand for and sale of Ever- 

 green Brand Fertilizers. 



SCALECIDE 



I I^'",f "»'»'>-<'-'y,<i.£st'".v S.IN J. i.sE SCALE and all 



I soft bodied suckiDf mseels without injury to the 



tree. Simple, more cffeetive and cheaper than 



\ 16 to so g.llon. spray b, .lm„i, ,ddi„g J.^r. 



Send for Booidet, "Orchartl Insurance." 

 B.e. PR/in CO., 50 CHURCH ST.. N€W YORK CITY. 



