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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1907 



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A TURNIP FOR GREENS 



T. J. S., Va. — The Seven-top turnip is a true turnip but 

 the root has rot been developed as in other turnips. Tie 

 leaves are large dark green, leaves grow flat on the ground. 

 It is grown only fcr greens and is used only in the South. 



COAL ASHES AS A FERTILIZER 



A. L., Mass. — Do not use coal ashes as a fertilizer, nor 

 as a mulch for fruit trees if there is any other material at 

 hand. They have no value as plant food and are even of 

 less value as a mulch than sand. Coal ashes are best used 

 on very heavy clay soils to improve the physical condition 

 by making them more porous; but often fail in that effect 

 by making the clay into a sort of cement. They are used 

 as a "filler" to increase the bulk of concentrated fertilizers 

 but add nothing to the value of the mixture. 



PROPAGATING ORIENTAL POPPY 



F. W. B., Wyo.— The best time to divide the Oriental 

 poppy (Papaver orientale) is in the summer, late July or 

 August, after the plants have finished blooming. These 

 late summer divided plants will bloom the following sum- 

 mer, but if the work is done in the spring, the plants do 

 net sufficiently recover from the shock to bloom the fol- 

 lowing summer. More plants can be gotten by taking 

 root cuttings. Cut the roots into sections an inch or so 

 long, and handle them exactly as though they were seeds. 



THE BEST MULCH 



H. M. J., New Jersey.— The best all-around mulch for 

 the amateur gardener to use is strawy horse manure. If it 

 is not practicable to get, and leaves can be obtained, use 

 them, for they make an excellent mulch and the following 

 spring they can be turned into leaf mold. If neither cf 

 these can be used, then use salt hay, any long litter that can 

 be found about or some pine needles. If these latter are 

 used, a two-inch mulch is deep enough. Do not make the 

 mistake of mulching the bulb or other beds before the ground 

 freezes for it gives the ground mice an excellent chance to 

 make a winter nest. 



DON'T DOUBLE-CROP THE ORCHARD 



J. M., Oregon. — It is poor policy to try to take two totally 

 different crops off the same land at the same time. Sod 

 culture is all right in some sections but taking off a clover 

 crop would be dangerous unless there is ample rainfall in the 

 growing season, and a heavy application of fertilizer is made 

 to replace the plant food removed. Apple trees are par- 

 ticularly heavy feeders on potash which a second crop of 

 clover, plowed under, would not furnish. Clover would 

 draw heavilv on the moisture supply of the soil at a time 

 when it is needed by the trees. What is generally considered 

 the best practice is clean cultivation in spring and summer 

 with a cover crop planted in the fall to be turned under in 

 spring. 



KILLING FOXTAIL GRASS 



T. G. S., New Jersey. — Foxtail is a rank, strong growing 

 perennial pasture grass and the only feasible plan of ridding 

 the land of it is to plow it under and use a clean cultivated 

 crop on the ground until the foxtail is all killed out. You 

 might plow under and reseed with clover, but the chances 

 are that the foxtail would again run out the clover. About 

 the best plan would be to move the potato patch to this lot 

 for a season or two. The cultivation will help to kill the 

 grass. If the field is small and the necessity for killing the 

 foxtail great, all growth may be killed out by pegging down 

 squares of tarred felt roofing, leaving them about six weeks 

 in a place, and moving as required. This device has been 

 successfully used on orange hawkweed when salt failed. 



PUTTING HUMUS IN THE SOIL 



J. H. H., N. J. — Hauling enough clay to cover twenty 

 acres of sandy soil is out of the question. A 6-or 8-inch dress- 

 ing means moving and spreading 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 

 lbs., which would cost more than any twenty acre farm 

 I know of, even if the clay was right at hand. A light dress- 

 ing turned under shallow and well harrowed in might pay if 

 hauling and labor are very cheap. A light sandy soil may 

 quickly be made to hold enough moisture for a corn crop by 

 heavy dressings of coarse stable manure, or more slowly by 

 a combination of stable manure and turning under green 

 crops. Either of these methods will tend to form a rich 

 mellow soil, and are preferable to clay dressings. An im- 

 plement known as the sub-surface packer, much used on 

 light soils in the arid regions, should prove of value on your 

 light soil. It is used after plowing and before harrowing, 

 working between the furrow slices, and packing the bottom 

 of the furrows so that more of the rainfall is held in the upper 

 soil. 



