May, 1911 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



119 



in the garden. I also find room for a few 

 choice tomato vines, wonderberries, pea- 

 nuts for the children, a couple of hills of 

 musk melons, a few summer squash (bush 

 squash take up no more room than a 

 tomato vine), a few lima beans, some 

 growing on poles eight feet high, others 

 on bushes (the Fordhook strain) and some 

 garden wax beans besides. 



I always sow some lettuce seed in the 

 row, along with the parsnips and vegeta- 

 ble oysters and parsley. These latter are 

 slow in coming up, and often the weeds 

 get the start of them. The lettuce ger- 

 minates quickly and shows the row so 

 you can get after the weeds long before 

 the other seeds are up. The lettuce 

 grows rapidly and can be pulled and used 

 before the room is needed by the other 



vegetables. I always find room for a few 

 rows of carrots, beets and mangels for 

 my hens. Here and there along the rows 

 I plant a cabbage or cauliflower which 

 seem to do extra well and get along very 

 peaceably with their neighbors. 



Besides all this, last year I had a 

 beautiful bed of crocuses, tulips and nar- 

 cissi, regular spring beauties, and later 

 on a magnificent hedge of sweet peas, 

 and a bed of exquisite asters, with here- 

 and there another flower of rare beauty. 



All this goes to show that even on a 

 very small plot of ground, with careful 

 planning, a good selection of seed, and 

 constant cultivation, an abundance of the 

 useful as well as the beautiful can be 

 grown. 



Eighty-Two Varieties of Vegetables 

 on a Small Lot"" 



Geo. Baldwin, Toronto 



HAVING hardened off your plants, 

 start at the top end of your gar- 

 den by planting according to your 

 plan, either the plant which you have 

 raised in the hotbed or the seeds which 

 did not require raising in heat. If the 

 ground be very dry, give each cabbage 

 and tomato plant a half pint of water, 

 and shade from the sun for a day or two 

 until they get acclimatized. 



Plant the seeds of your squash, mar- 

 rows and garden cucumbers in hills that 

 have already been prepared, three feet 

 apart each way, by digging out the hole 

 about fifteen inches and putting in well 

 rotted manure, covering same over to 

 the depth of four inches, leaving the 

 mound about one and a half inches high- 

 er than the level of the ground. Press 

 your seeds in edgeways about one-half 

 inch deep and firm down, and scatter- 

 ing a few radish seeds in each hill for 

 the insects to feed on, otherwise they 

 would eat off the young leaves of 



» squash or melons. 

 PEEPAEING THE CELERY BED 

 The celery bed should be prepared ir, 

 the following manner : Mark off with 

 string the size of the bed required. In 

 this instance three feet six inches wide 

 by twenty-one feet long. Trench north 

 and south and shovel out all the earth 

 to a depth of six inches, throwing earth 

 along each side of the trench. On top 

 of these ridges is an ideal spot for rad- 

 ishes, provided you keep them moist. 

 Then fill up to level of earth again, with 

 good rotten manure, digging it in deep 

 and mixing it up thoroughly. Then 

 throw up two inches of fine sifted soil 

 on top of this, leaving your trench four 

 inches deep, planting your three kinds 



I of celery in rows nine inches apart and 

 six inches apart in rows, leaving twelve 

 inches on each outside of rows. 

 * ( Conhnued from last issue) 



Prepare the hills for your tomato 

 plants in exactly the same manner as 

 you did for squash, marrows, etc., put- 

 ting the plant in deep. Sow seed of 

 pickling onions in the open, on June 

 2oth, very thickly, and do not thin out, 

 but let them push one another out of 

 the way. All your planting is now done, 

 excepting the ornamental tomatoes, 

 which, by the way, are the best flavor. 

 Plant these up against your north fence 

 where they will get the sun as much 

 as possible, training them up the fence 

 (Chicken netting is a good material to 

 train them up against.) Give each plant 

 about four feet of space and they will 

 cover your fence entirely and will grow 

 to a height of six or seven feet, pro- 

 ducing fruit up to the top, and look very 

 pretty, besides covering up an unsight- 

 ly fence. 



The above is mostly play in my esti- 



mation compared with the work that 

 follows to make a success of the crop. 

 Get your hoe sharpened, repair the hose 

 and all garden tools, and I will give 

 further directions for caring for the 

 garden in the next issue of The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist. 



Onion Culture 



To grow onions from seed for profit 

 you should have good ground — a sandy 

 loam with loam predominating. It should 

 be made rich by a heavy coat of man- 

 ure, or plowing under a crop of red clov- 

 er. Keep the ground well worked with 

 cultivator or disc the rest of the season, 

 so as to kill all grass roots and foul 

 weeds. 



In the fall or early spring cover the 

 ground again with a fair covering of 

 well rotted manure. As early as possi- 

 ble in the spring plow very shallow 01 

 work the manure in with disc or culti- 

 vator. By so doing you will preserve 

 moisture. 



PEEPAEING THE SEED BED 



Prepare your seed bed by using a 

 heavy roller, harrow well, then use the 

 plank scraper or light roller. I prefer the 

 scraper as it gives a nice mellow, smooth 

 seed bed. In choosing seed, select noth- 

 ing but No. I seed, even if the price is 

 somewhat hfigher, for you will receive 

 better results. Yellow Globe and Dan- 

 vers are the favorites for market, al- 

 though there is a growing demand for 

 red onions. 



Do not sow until the ground is thor- 

 oughly warmed up. Sow in drills from 

 twelve to fourteen inches apart, as that 

 is sufficient space to work in. 



CULTIVATION 



When the onions make their appear- 

 ance use the hand harrow ; by it you 

 break the crust that sometimes forms, 

 and you allow the air to work through 

 the ground, and it also kills a great num- 

 ber of small weeds. — A Grower. 



Intensive Cultivation 



Qrowing potatoes between the rows of trees on th« 



Grand Porks, B. 0. 



fruit ranch of Cooper Bros., 



