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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil 10, 1918. 



Flower 



Boxes That Are Distinctive i 



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Folding Cut Flower and 

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SWEET POTATO PLANTS. 



We find there is quite a demand for 

 sweet potato plants in our locality in 

 the state of Washington and shall ap- 

 preciate your courtesy if you will tell 

 us how to get them started. W. F. C. 



Sweet potatoes are tender and can- 

 not be set out any earlier than tomatoes. 

 A hotbed for sweet potatoes can be 

 made the same as for other purposes, 

 but we prefer a deep one, a dug-out or 

 pit, made by digging a hole about eight- 

 een inches deep and a trifle larger than 

 the size of the frame. This trench we 

 fill with fresh horse manure which has 

 been hauled up previously and turned 

 and well shaken up once or twice. The 

 manure is tramped into the pit until it is 

 well filled and well packed. Then the 

 fr£une is placed on top, and more ma- 

 nure packed all around it to keep it 

 warm around the sides and ends. If 

 the manure is not good the hotbed will 

 be a failure, but we are presuming that 

 the inquirer knows something about hot- 

 beds. If the manure is burning dry, it 

 needs a light watering, or it will be 

 ruined. 



After placing the frame on the ma- 

 nure, spread about an inch or two of 

 sand on top of the manure, put the sash 

 on, and wait to see how it is going to 

 act. In a few days the temperature 

 will run high, and the potatoes should 

 not be put in until the temperature of 

 the manure falls back to about 90 de- 

 grees. To get the temperature, put the 

 thermometer well down into the manure. 



When the bed is ready to plant, place 

 the sweet potatoes on the sand as closely 

 as they can be laid without touching 

 each other. Put sand on top of them 

 until they are completely covered over. 

 Then sprinkle the sand and put the 

 sash on again. Ventilate the bed each 

 day, according to how bright and warm 

 or windy the weather is, and water 

 when needed to keep the sand moist. 

 Do not open too much. Close them up 

 early in the afternoon, so as to ran the 

 bed warm. 



When thfe plants are up large enough 

 to sell, a sash is lifted off and the plants 

 pulled off by holding the sand and the 

 potato down with one hand and catch- 

 ing hold of the sprouts, low down in 



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the sand, with the other hand. They 

 pull easily, and the old sweet potatoes 

 will keep on producing more such 

 sprouts or plants until late in July. 

 Take the plants to the shed, count them 

 out in bundles of fifty or 100, and roll 

 them up in sphagnum moss and papers, 

 like rooted cuttings. They do not keep 

 well and should be planted out soon. 

 It is best not to pull them until the 

 customers want them. It is well to 

 have the bed come on early enough, as 

 they can easily be held back by giving 

 more ventilation if they are ready a 

 week or so too early. We have seen the 

 first batch pulled and thrown away 

 when entirely too early. 



Where sandy soil is to be had, sweet 

 potatoes pay much better than Irish po- 

 tatoes, and the growing of the plants in 

 such a locality is profitable at 50 cents 

 per hundred. In sandy fields it is best 

 not to plow the soil first, but simply to 

 throw up ridges on the uncultivated 

 soil. These ridges for the rows should 

 be three feet apart, and the plants 

 should be set eighteen inches apart in 

 the row and watered immediately. If 



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these ridges are thrown up about eight 

 inches above grade and the trenches be-^ 

 tween are as far below grade, the ridges 

 will seem sixteen inches high. If the 

 ground is too loose under the ridges, the 

 roots will go down too deep and be 

 inclined to make long and slim instead 

 of short and fat sweet potatoes. 



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OUTDOOR VEGETABLES. 



Please tell me whether I can grow 

 celery on new ground. I have about 

 five acres of pasture, low ground that 

 never has been plowed. I thought of 

 breaking it this spring and planting 

 part of it with celery, onions and win- 

 ter cabbage. In this Iowa climate, if I 

 sow the celery seed in the last week of 

 March, in a hotbed, will that be early 

 enough so that I can set the plants out 

 in time. I want the celery to be early, 

 so I can sell it before winter comes. I 

 have White Plume, Golden Self -Blanch- 

 ing and Winter Queen celery. 



B. T. D. W. 



•■ The OTops named should do well on 

 the ground you have. For the celery 



