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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 



Phonograph 

 Pea. 



Squash Vine. 



Clover. 



Cultivation 



During 



Drought. 



Weeds on 

 Lawn. 



Cucumber 

 Beetle. 



Cabbage for 

 Florida. 



A. Landreths' Large Late Flat Dutch is the unit of comparison by 

 which all other late sorts are graded. None exceed it and few equal it. 

 Variations of this cabbage have been given all sorts of names, but new 

 names make it no better, while the selection is often made by men who 

 do not know what constitutes a good cabbage. 



774. Q. Which is one of the best of the very large-podded peas? 



A. The Phonograph, almost as large podded as the Telephone. Quite 

 as early and productive and in every way its equal, in fact far sweeter in 

 flavor. 



775. Q. What is the matter with my Hubbard squash vines ? They are 

 nearly all dying. 



A. No doubt they are dying at the root, either from an insect attack or 

 from a fungus, probably now too far gone to do anything to save them. 

 Another year, when the plants are just beginning to run, treat them at 

 the root, both with Bordeaux mixture and an insecticide. 



776. Q. Is it advantageous to sow ordinary Red clover with Crimson 

 clover, that the Crimson may have a succession ? 



A, No ; the Crimson to be any good should form a dense mass the first 

 Spring, and such a growth would smother out the much less developed 

 plants of the common Red clover. 



777. Q. Will frequent horse cultivation of a crop in dry weather tend 

 to provide the crop with more moisture at the root than if left without 

 cultivation ? 



A. Yes ; the soil kept loose absorbs more moisture than it loses. Keep 

 the horse cultivator going even if it kills a few plants, the others will be 

 benefited to more than compensate for those injured by the culture. 



778. Q. For twenty years weekly, during Summer, I have cut my lawn 

 with a horse lawn mower and no weed has gone to seed or risen over two 

 inches in height. This Summer I was in Europe, and upon my return I 

 find my once beautiful grass a wilderness of all sorts of weeds. How is it? 



A. This is one of the conumdrums of horticulture. It is always so 

 with any field not kept in control, be it grass or fallow. The seeds have 

 been there all the time, a part sprouting every year, but formerly the 

 young weed plants were cut off soon after germination. On this 

 occasion they were not so cut off, but attained full size, for weeds nearly 

 always grow quickly. 



779. Q. Does the little, striped cucumber beetle come out of the land, 

 or do the seeds of the cucumber contain the beetle? 



A. No, not out of the seed, but from the earth. Lime and salt, when 

 not applied in too large a dose, are beneficial. Kainitis good, so is nitrate 

 of soda. Don't overdo the medicine. 



780. Q. Which is the best cabbage for Florida and the Gulf States, for 

 July planting? 



A. Reedland Early Drumhead, as it stands the sun without burning or 

 wilting, and has proved itself in every way adapted to the prevailing 

 conditions of the Gulf atmosphere. 



