Vegetables of the Vine Family 



tically thcit of all vine products. Starting seed 

 on sod in the hotbed and transplanting has much 

 to recommend it as the squash seems to attract 

 more than a fair sort of attention from striped 

 cucumber beetle, squash bugs, stink worm and 

 blight. The vine borer also takes its tithe of the 

 plant and a sudden wilting of the leaves is indica- 

 tion that he is at work; he should be hunted for 

 and killed. Usually there is little hopes of sav- 

 ing the injured branch; if anything will do it 

 it will be burying the wound in earth and keeping 

 it moist for a time until it either heals or sends 

 out roots at the nearest joint and so becomes an 

 independent plant. 



As a rule squash, melons, cucumbers and the 

 like will not transplant. It often happens that 

 about all of the seed planted in some hills will 

 germinate and make strong plants while other 

 hills will have but one or two plants and it is de- 

 sired to transplant some of the extra plants into 

 hills where they are needed; attempts to do this 

 with a trowel invariably fail; it is possible, how- 

 ever, to transplant an entire hill — or a part of one 



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