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FEBRUARY, 1916 
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very slow and irregular in germination. The only 
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Shading Vegetables and Flowers 
qr summers ago a friend of mine in the city 
suburbs complained to me that it was diffi- 
cult for him to have a home garden, owing to the 
injury done by neighboring chickens, cats and dogs. 
I thought for a while and decided that vegetables 
grown under a tent made of cheesecloth would be 
quite safe from these pests. That meant shading 
the plants, of course, and the results it might bring 
were problematical. I advised my friend to plant 
his garden, enclosing half of it under a tent made of 
a heavy grade of cheesecloth, leaving the other half 
to the mercy of the hens, etc. I decided to do the 
same; I had not had much experience with growing 
vegetables in the shade, but have usually consid- 
ered that those which are produced without blos- 
soms would be most satisfactory. This, of course, 
would be parsnips, carrots, potatoes, salsify, arti- 
choke and celery. My friend, however, did not 
care much for any of these crops, and so we de- 
cided to plant different things and note the results. 
The summer of the test was cool and wet, and the 
results secured were probably much less favorable 
than they would have been in a hotter, drier season. 
With beets and corn we got poor results. Cucum- 
bers grew well in the tent, but no fruit set until 
late in the fall, when the tent became torn and a few 
insects were thus admitted. Watermelon and musk- 
melons were a failure. The vines grew well but the 
fruits were small. There was only a small crop of 
cucumbers and melons outside, owing to the un- 
favorable season. With lettuce the plants were 
two to four days later in maturing under the tent 
than outside. Tomatoes ripened six days earlier 
under cloth. The yield, however, was smaller than 
with the crop grown in the open. Beans, also, were 
ready for use three days earlier inside than out, and 
produced a somewhat greater weight of pods, but 
the proportion of ripe pods outside was much 
greater than in the tent. The best results we got 
were with radishes and cauliflower. The former 
were ready for use inside the tent fully three days 
before those outside, and were perfectly free from 
maggots, while those grown outside the tent were 
practically worthless from this cause. Cauliflower 
grown in the open was also badly attacked by the 
root maggot, while plants under the tent were per- 
fectly healthy. é 
We became so interested in the experiment that 
the following summer we experimented with a 
number of vegetables under lath frames, the space 
between the laths being equal to the width of the 
lath so that the plants were really in half shade. 
Early planted lima beans were retarded by the 
shade, but those planted late in the summer, when 
the ground was hotter, germinated more quickly 
underneath the shade than outside. Shaded car- 
rots produced more foliage and much smaller roots 
than outside ones. With lettuce, however, shaded 
plants of the second crop were much larger and 
better than unshaded ones, from which I should say 
that shading is of great benefit to midsummer let- 
tuce. Swiss chard gave similar results, and in ad- 
dition the injury from leaf blight was reduced. 
Celery grew to more than double the size of other 
plants of the same lot that were in full sun; but 
later in the season, with shorter days and less light, 
the exposed plants overtook and surpassed the 
shaded ones. Club root of turnips was apparently 
checked by shading. As with the vegetables grown 
under cheesecloth the shaded plants were unaf- 
fected by the first few frosts in the fall which killed 
the exposed plants. 
With flowers grown in shade, I had had some 
previous experience. JI knew that the shade from 
trees is nearly always accompanied by excessive 
exhaustion of the water and fertility in the soil. 
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