192 PRIZE GARDENING 



The roots of the plant or tree collect around the 

 porous jar and absorb the fertiHzers. Patent has been 

 applied for. Mr. Sherman's experiments have been 

 mostly confined to rose bushes, which in many cases 

 appear to have made enormous growth, shoots extend- 

 ing several inches per day in some cases. The inventor 

 expects the principle to prove of great value in cultiva- 

 tion of all kinds of fruit and shrubs and will attempt 

 to have the theory thoroughly tested at the state 

 experiment station. 



A Born Horticulturist is Una E. Knight, Niagara 

 county, New York. Her story is told in great detail, 

 and evidently with keen delight in working amid the 

 beauties of nature and among the plants and flowers 

 of her garden. A great deal of work was put into 

 this garden with no direct return ; much attention 

 having been given to various experiments which 

 proved more or less indecisive because of the drouth, 

 and from neglect caused by illness of several members 

 of the family. Expenses for the one-tenth acre were 

 nineteen dollars and three cents, of which two-thirds 

 was for labor charged at low rates. Receipts w^ere 

 twenty-two dollars and eighty-six cents. A novel 

 celery bed is described : 



''Near the lower wall was built up a heap of 

 manure a foot or more deep on which was placed 

 four or five inches of fine earth, and all was enclosed 

 in a box-like structure five feet high on three sides, 

 and less on the north side, so I could get in. Here I 

 transplanted my celery plants four inches apart. I 

 watered them copiously from the well every day, or 

 as often as I thought was needful. My plants grew 

 into stocky clumps, some of them eighteen inches 

 high; a red variety, and they blanched well without 

 trouble. All I had to do was to weed and water." 



