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APRIL, 1916 
Dreer’s Dahlias 
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Planting Out Commences 
LANT hardy vegetables, such as English 
peas, Irish potatoes, beets, radishes, and - 
kale, when cherries, plums, and peaches are in 
bloom; and plant the more tender ones, such as 
corn, lima beans, squash, melons, cucumbers 
and okra, when the apple trees are in blossom. 
Set out cabbage plants and lettuce plants. 
Tomato, pepper and eggplant seédlings should 
have been transplanted in March from the hot- 
beds to the coldframes and some into small 
pots and sunk up to the rim in earth in the 
coldframes. Watch these carefully so they will 
grow to be stocky plants, water them in the 
morning, ventilate the frames during the day, 
and cover carefully at night. If the days are 
very hot, water them in the afternoon instead. 
o not attempt to plant in the open ground 
before all danger from late frosts is past. 
Rather bend one’s energies to getting the soil 
in good shape. Work thoroughly and plow in a 
lot of well rotted cow manure. Vegetables need 
rich land and should be forced rapidly to ma- 
turity. At the last working put in the com- 
mercial fertilizer adapted to each particular 
crop. Remember that, because of difficulty of 
obtaining potash, deep plowing should be re- 
sorted to, especially for potatoes and corn. The 
lime put on the soil in the fall and washed in 
by the winter’s rains and snows makes avail- 
Sls the potash in the subsoil or clay. 
The asparagus bed should haye been mounded 
up in March as cutting begins the first of April, 
unless the spring is backward. A good sprink- 
ling of coarse salt after mounding the beds is 
helpful and also prevents weeds. This mound- 
ing is done to obtain white asparagus; use flat 
culture if the green tips are desired. 
Fall-planted cabbages should have a sprink- 
ling of nitrate of soda between the rows every 
two weeks. Put in just before a rain if pos- 
sible so it will be washed into the soil. Plant 
vegetables in rows two feet apart to allow horse 
cultivation, if the garden is to be of any size. 
In a very small backyard garden or cottage 
garden for a small family where land is a con- 
sideration, rows a foot apart is sufficient; these 
can be worked by. hand, and the junior plows 
and cultivators are indispensable. 
For the early crops the Irish cobbler is a 
good potato; also the Alaska type of peas; 
Sparks Harliana, Bonny Best, and Maule’s 
Earliest and Best tomatoes; Black Beauty egg- 
lant; Chinese Giant and Neaportan pee ers ; 
Hgyptian and Eclipse beets; Way-a-Head let- 
tuce and Harly Jersey Wakefield cabbage. The 
above named are old varieties and thoroughly 
tested. Try a few new varieties this year. 
The orchard needs close attention. Watch 
out for the tent caterpillar. The first signs are 
thin, grayish-white streaks about the crotches 
of the limbs. Wrap the end of a stick with a 
rough piece of burlap and with this rub these 
whitish places. ‘They are the larvae of the tent 
caterpillar. A weekly investigation of the trees 
and the wiping out of these first signs will save 
a world of trouble later. 
See if the gum is exuding at the base of peach 
and plum trees; if so, take a sharp knife or 
stiff wire and dig for the peach borer. The 
um is the beginning of the tunnel; follow it 
deen for about a foot into the ground and a 
white worm, which is an inch long and known 
as the peach borer, will be found. After thor- 
ough investigation paint the base of the trees 
thoroughly with whitewash with a little car- 
bolic acid, coal tar and lye mixed in. Do this 
twice a year, in early spring and late fall. 
Spray with bordeaux and arsenate of lead 
(summer strength) within ten days after the 
blossoms drop, for the curculio on peach and 
plum and coddling moth on apples and pears. 
Spray again just after the fruit is formed and 
again when the fruit hangs down. Grapes 
should be sprayed for rot just before the blooms 
appear and ten or fourteen days thereafter, and 
