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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



July, 1908 



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Book of Vegetables 



No matter how skilful the gardener or 

 farmer may become in the practice of 

 growing vegetables, he can learn much from 

 the experience of others. An excellent book 

 that comprises the culture and management 

 of all kinds of vegetable crops is "The Book 

 of Vegetables and Garden Herbs," by Allan 

 French, a copy of which we have received. 

 The work is a publication of the McMillan 

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The advice given regarding seed sowing, 

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Screening Young Cabbage 



The Ag^ricuhural Experiment Station, at 

 Geneva, N. Y., has issued a bulletin, (No. 

 301) on "Screening: for the Protection of 

 Cabbajfe Seed Beds." The following are 

 extracts from same: 



The experiments that have been made 

 show that by the use of tight frames, cov- 

 ered with cheese cloth, cabbage sets can 

 be .grown free from injuries by root-mag- 

 gots. The plants raised under cloth grow 

 faster, and in average years will probably 

 reach the desired size for transplanting 

 earlier than the seedlings in the open 

 beds. The screened sets are also quite lia- 

 ble to be more tender, and if not well hard- 

 ened, are generally more subject to wilt- 

 ing on replanting. Present experience in- 

 dicates that the seedings may be made 

 more resistant to the usual injuries upon 

 transplanting by the removal of the screen- 

 ing for at least one week before the time of 

 planting, and that this seasoning may be 

 done without much ri.sk of injuries by mag- 

 gots. 



Screening of cabbage seed-beds is prac- 

 tised by comparatively few growers, and 

 usually only small percentages of the num- 

 ber of plants required for their purpose are 

 at present raised under cloth. The meth- 

 ods that are employed in growing seedlings 

 under screened frames often vary in minor 

 particulars in individual farmers, and there 

 is a diversity of opinions on such details as 

 the grade of cloth and size of mesh to use, 

 and the amount of seed to sow in beds to 

 be screened, to produce the maximum num- 

 ber of plants, etc. More exact methods in 

 growing sets in this manner can only be 



determined after more time for proof and 

 verification. There is no question but th.T 

 with screened frames, cabbage seedling 

 can be raised absolutely free from losses by 

 maggots, but the practicability of the at- 

 tempt, by the average grower, to raise all 

 or a large portion of his plants under cloth, 

 remains to be demonstrated. For this rea 

 son we would not advise, at least for th' 

 present, the extensive use of screening; bu' 

 it is hoped that cabbage growers who ai' 

 subject to annual losses in their seed-bed 

 by maggots will make at least a small te 

 to determine the value of screened frame 

 under their own conditions. Precise in 

 structions cnnot b given in some of tl 

 details in raising seedlings by this methoi 

 as would be desirable, but observations ' 

 the practices of a number of co-operatin. 

 farmers' are the basis of the following su;. 

 gestions to the grower who desires to te 

 the practicabilitv of screening seed-bed 

 as a means of protection against root mag 

 gots. 



Locate the seed-bed on a fertile and 

 well-drained piece of land, where there 

 can be no accumulation of water, or wash 

 ing by rains under the frame. The ground 

 should be free of weeds and should not 

 have grown, the year before, cabbages or 

 other cruciferous plants. For seed-beds it 

 is customary to apply to the land a liberal 

 quantity of a high grade chemical fertilizfr. 

 The seed should be drilled in rather thick- 

 ly in rows six inches apart. The plantin" 

 of the seeds may be done at the usual se;. 

 son, but to avoid injuries by the flea-beeth 

 it would be well to delay the seeding till th 

 appearance of the beetles, which will large- 

 ly have satisfied their ravenous appetites bv 

 the time the young plants appear. As tin 

 seedlings begin to show above ground 

 screen the bed immediately. 



For the frames, 12-inch boards are gen 

 erally employed, which are held in place b' 

 upright stakes. To prevent the coverin. 

 from sagging in the middle, a heavy wirf 

 running the length of the bed, and a litt;. 

 above the height of the boards, and sup- 

 ported by stakes, is used. The screening, 

 consisting of three or more widths of 

 cheesecloth sewn together to make on 

 sheet, should be fastened to the frame 1 

 laths, through which small nails ar^ 

 driven. All openings into the bed, due t 

 the unevenness of the ground, should 1 ' 

 filled up by banking the boards with eartli 



To season the plants before transplan' 

 ing, the screening should be removed on> 

 week or ten days before the time of setting. 

 In this interval of time examinations should 

 be made occasionally about the stems of 

 the young plants near the surface of the 

 ground for eggs, deposited by flies coming 

 to the bed from the outside. When any are 

 discovered, transplanting in the field should 

 commence. 



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