June, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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Onion Grawing at condnctcd on the fann of Donald Ckalmen, Eitex Covmtj, Ont., where a 



small pieces of board near the plants as a 

 decoy. The bugs can be killed under 

 the boards every evening. 



Thin out onions, beets, carrots, par- 

 snips and such plants that require it. The 

 more space given to these plants the 

 larger they will grow, but better quality 

 is obtained by allowing them to stand 



fairly close together, thereby keeping 

 them on the small side. 



The best time to water the vegetable 

 garden is in the evening. When this is 

 done the water soaks into the soil dur- 

 ing the night and the surface soil is not 

 baked hard as it would be if the watering 

 was done while the sun was shining. 



Success Grooving 82 Varieties of Vegetables 



Gcorie K. Baldwin, Toronto 



(Continued from previous issues.) 



IT is time to get your hoe sharpened, re- 

 pair your hose and other tools, and 

 start right in at the top of your garden 

 by pinching out superfluos runners and 

 leaves of the musk melonS|, cucumbers, 

 squash and marrows, etc., keeping the 

 hoe going constantly, killing the weeds 

 and loosening the soil, watching for in- 

 sects of all descriptions, sprinkling a little 

 sulphur around the turnips, powdering 

 the young cabbage and cauliflower plants, 

 with a mixture of pyretherum powder 

 and common flour in parts of four of 

 flour to one of pyretherum powder. 

 Meets want nothing but the hoe. Toma- 

 toes want attention, now that they have 

 started to throw up laterals and suckers. 

 The latter should all be taken off, pinch 

 out head of plant and allow four of the 

 strongest of the laterals which are to be 

 trained up four sticks, about four feet 

 above the ground, and stick into the 

 ground at an angle of about seventy-five 

 degrees, allowing each of these to run 

 up the sticks until the third set of fruit 

 flowers is formed, when the tips should 

 be pinched out,, which will tend to throw 

 the sap back into the fruit which is now 

 forming, all of which fruit will ripen be- 

 fore frost sets in. You may then let one 

 more lateral come on each branch so as 

 ito form more later fruit if you want green 



tomatoes for pickling. Pick all the fruit 

 as fast as it ripens to give the rest a 

 chance to fill out. 



In reference to the hose, do not spray 

 the foliage of any vegetables, in fact do 

 not use the hose at all, unless there is 

 about a two weeks dry spell in the grow- 

 ing season ; you may then give the ground 

 a good soaking once or twice a week, es- 

 pecially the celery. Carrots want noth- 

 ing but the hoe, onions need a little sul- 

 phur or lime sprinkled around them for 

 onion maggot, and keep ground well 

 stirred and friable. Stake up the peas, 

 if of a climbing variety, as soon as need- 

 ed. You may feed onions, celery, mar- 

 row and squash, with a little nitrate of 

 soda once a week, either dry, or prefer- 

 nbly by dissolving a quarter pound to two 

 and one-half gallons of tepid water. As 

 soon as celery has grown up about eight 

 or ten inches, tie up loosely with raflfia, 

 and three weeks before required for table 

 use, start your bleaching operations by 

 putting a ten inch or twelve inch board 

 along each side, keeping them up close 

 to the celery by driving in stakes at each 

 end. For the winter celery I prefer to 

 bleach by earthing up gradually to with- 

 in three inches of the top of the leaves, 

 taking care not to let any of the earth 

 get down in the heart of the plant. Beans 



Specialty it made of thit Crop. 



need only the cultivating act and keeping 

 the beans picked off as fast as they ma- 

 ture. Leeks require to be treated exact- 

 ly the same as celery, only the bleaching 

 must be done with earth. Leeks are also 

 partial to nitrate of soda. Salsify needs 

 nothing but the hoe. Cucumber should 

 have the earth constantly stirred and the 

 leaves sprinkled with sulphur. The same 

 applies to winter radishes. 



Great attention must be paid to the egg 

 plant from the time it is transplanted to 

 the garden until the fruit is well formed, 

 as if your neighbors have a patch of 

 potatoes the potato bugs will leave your 

 neighbor's garden and perch themselves 

 on the egg plant, and they will not be 

 long there until the foliage has disappear- 

 ed, so fond are they of this plant. Treat 

 citrons the same as melons. 



My reason for using the word success 

 in the heading of this paper has a two- 

 fold character, first, because my wife 

 never has to spend a cent on vegetables 

 for the table, and we frequently have 

 three or four varieties on the table at the 

 one time, growing suflficient in the garden 

 to do us the year around, by storing in 

 the cellar for winter, with the exception 

 of potatoes, the art of which I have not 

 yet acquired, also from the fact that I 

 was successful in securing the following 

 prizes at the National Exhibition at Tor- 

 onto, cpmpeting against market garden- 

 ers and others. First prize for collection 

 of tomatoes, containing twenty-two varie- 

 ties ; second, for greenhouse cucumbers ; 

 second for vegetable marrows ; third 

 prize for Kohl Rabi ; and last, but not 

 least, third prize for a collection of vege- 

 tables containing no less than sixty varie- 

 ties. I might incidentally remark that the 

 gentleman who took fourth prize in this 

 was a market gardener of repute who 

 has as many acres as I have feet, from 

 which to select his collection. 



