EARLY VEGETABLES. 



Jose Scale Act, of 1898 is well-known, 

 and this is still being amended by the 

 addition of the following sub section : 



(a) If, in the case of an orchard or col- 

 lection of plants, the inspector finds scale on 

 plants located in several different parts of the 

 orchard or collection, and decides that it is 

 advisable in the public interest to destroy all 

 the plants in such orchard or in any part or 

 parts thereof and so reports to the Minister, 

 the Minister may direct that an examination 

 or inspection shall be made by an additional 

 inspector, and upon their advice in writing 

 he may direct that all the plants in such 

 orchard or such collection of plants or in 

 such part or parts thereof shall be destroyed 

 without requiring that every plant in the 

 said orchard or collection shall be first 

 examined. 



3. The owner or proprietor of any nursery 

 shall not send out or permit any plant to be 

 removed from his nursery without the same 

 being first fumigated by hydrocyanic acid gas 

 in accordance with regulations prescribed by 

 order of the Lieutenant-Ciovernor-in Council. 



4. Xo person shall sell or dispose of or 

 offer for sale any plant obtained, taken, or 

 sent out from a nursery unless the said plant 

 has previously been fumigated in accordance 

 with these regulations. 



5. In case the inspector finds scale in any 

 nursery and so reports to the Minister, the 

 Minister may thereupon inform, by writing, 

 the owner or proprietor or manager of said 

 nursery of the existence of scale in his 

 nursery, and the owner or proprietor or 

 manager of said nursery shall not thereafter 

 permit any plant or tree to be removed from 

 the said nursery until the inspector reports to 

 the Minister that it is safe in the public in- 

 terest to permit the said nursery stock to be 

 removed after fumigation. 



This measure is e.xtreme, but coupled 

 with the Dominion Act, totally e.xclud- 

 ing all American nursery stock, is calcu- 

 lated to save our country from an inva- 

 sion of this insect and make it perfectly 

 safe for our readers to purchase freely 

 Canadian stock from our Canadian 

 nurseries. It costs a large sum of 

 money to trace out all these impor- 

 tations and examine each tree micro- 

 scopically, but it is well-worth the expen- 

 diture, if we are thereby saved from the 

 threatened evil. 



EARLY VEGETABLES. 



AUI.IFLOWER should be in 

 as general use as is cabbage. 

 Its good qualities merit its 

 general use. Would you be 

 without cabbage from year to year ? 

 Then why be without cauliflower ? 



Do you grow and use salsify, the 

 oyster plant ? Try it. If you have 

 good success, and are as fond of it as 

 some are, you will not let a spring pass 

 without planting it. 



If you like celery, try to grow it. 

 Splendid celery can be grown but it re- 

 quires thoughtful work. 



For raising early vegetables, now is 

 the time to begin to work. Make a hot 

 bed, and have good sized hardy plants 

 ready for the open ground as soon as 

 the weather will admit of their being put 

 out. Place several loads of horse 

 manure in a flat-topped pile, and give it 



a good wetting. After several days it 

 will be steaming vigorously, and should 

 be forked over into a similar pile and 

 wet again. After this process has been 

 repeated two or three times, make the 

 manure into a solid bed two feet deep, 

 place a frame on the bed, and fill in 

 with four inches of good soil well pul- 

 verized. Sow your seeds, cover lightly, 

 and keep the soil moist. Cover the 

 frames during nights and cold days with 

 glass sashes if you have them, but, if not 

 use the best covering you have, such as 

 old carpet or wagon sheet. \\'ith this 

 little care, you may have early vegetables, 

 They grow better during early summer 

 before it gets hot and dry, and tomatoes 

 will continue to bear till frost, if irrlga. 

 ed, or if the drouth is not severe. 



C. P. H.^RTLEV, Kansas. 



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