188 THE  G Ak D EWN © MAG AGZAe NG APRIL, 1916 
For True Gardeners 
You who bestow loving care upon your garden, who know 
the satisfaction that comes from keeping the soil thoroughly 
pulverized and aérated—from keeping out the weeds—you 
can get more healthful pleasure out of your work by using the 
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it is and how easily it can be adjusted. If 
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Freezing and thawing opens book for Rolling settles the soil back 
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y If your dealer hasn’t the 
RE POMA IE LEELA E BE LPL DIRE EAA LAELOLT) 
fall and force them either in the cellar or in 
trenches out of doors. Forcing out of doors 
required a great deal of manure, so the cellar 
way seemed more economical to me for here 
the heat could be supplied by our furnace with- 
out extra cost. 
I had the seeds sown in a drill in the veg- 
etable garden about the time the early corn 
was planted. Every seed germinated and the 
little Pleo grew so lustily that we had to 
transplant nearly a hundred to allow the neces- 
sary six inches between plants. The trans- 
planted roots and the ones in the original row 
all flourished alike; they developed long, strag- 
gly green leaves, with jagged edges, carried more 
upright than any of the endive or chicory 
family that I had previously known. It was 
not a neat or pretty plant. We ran the culti- 
This is the result of improper forcing, with heat applied 
below 
vator along the rows, and gave the endive about 
the same attention that the beets and carrots 
received. After the first black frost had killed 
the tops I had the plants dug, and I was sur- 
rised to see what large parsnip-like roots they 
ad grown. We piled them in a sheltered cor- 
ner and covered them with litter. A dozen were 
chosen for the first forcing. These roots we 
took to the cellar and stood upright in an old 
window box, filling in between them with good 
rich earth; we then soaked the ground with 
water and set the box in a dark corner near the 
furnace. I gave orders to have the soil kept 
moist and thought no more about my experi- 
ment. Four days later the gardener asked me to 
go down cellar and look; every root had sent up 
a nice white shoot, already four inches high! 
The seventh day we cut our first stalks and I 
was enchanted to find that the shoots had a 
most delicious flavor. 
This first lot had rather too open heads, not 
enough heart, although the leaves were all 
beautifully white; so the next roots we forced 
were planted in a deeper box, covering the roots 
with six or seven inches of earth. ‘The shoots 
came through almost as quickly as the shal- 
lower planting, and the leaves were folded 
much more tightly; to make sure the heads 
would be firm I tied them up with raffia. Every 
week we started a new boxful and had salad 
to eat and give away all winter. 
New York City. FrRANcES K. Porter. 
Growing Big Onions for Profit 
T THIS season the young plants that are 
now starting to develop—whether from 
transplants or from seed sown directly in the 
garden—will need real attention with the cul- 
tivator. The general conditions as to profitable 
onion raising were given in detail in the Feb- 
ruary, 1916, number. 
In regard to cultivation, three things need be 
said: (1) Keep the crops perfectly clean at all 
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