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ISCONTINUE the planting of peas, but. 
plant Red Valentine beans every two 
weeks or Burpee’s Green-podded Stringless 
bean, until the middle of June. Begin again 
the end of August for a late fall crop. Try the 
new vegetable dasheen. It is grown like the 
Irish potato and the same fertilizers should be 
used. It contains 50 per cent. more protein 
and starch than the potato; the young shoots. 
can be cooked like asparagus and the small 
leaves make a good salad. 
Strawberries are ripe about the middle of 
the month. They should have clean straw 
or pine tags under the plants to keep them 
clean. Working and fertilizing should have 
been done in April. 
Keep down the weeds and watch out for 
insect and fungus pests. Slug-shot is effectual 
in destroying the potato bug and cabbage 
worm. Sprinkle early in the morning when the 
dew is on the plants. 
If tomato plants are protected at night 
they can be planted out by the end of April 
or first part of May, otherwise not until the 
20th. ave beside each plant either a large 
flower pot to turn over the plants at night or 
a piece of bagging hung on a stake in which 
to envelop the plant. ake the hills for to- 
matoes four feet apart each way and put in 
each one a spadeful of well rotted cow ma- 
nure. In setting out the plants either from 
the coldframe or from pots, put about each one 
a collar of paper, letting it extend an inch 
below the surface of the ground and one inch 
above. Do this with spring-set cabbages also. 
Thus is a safeguard against cutworms. 
Cabbages and lettuce should have an appli- 
cation of nitrate of soda every two weeks he- 
tween the rows; a very little must be used for 
tomatoes. A much better fertilizer would be 
eight pounds of acid phosphate, three pounds. 
of muriate of potash and seven pounds of cot- 
ton seed meal. After the plants are estab- 
lished, a teaspoonful of nitrate of soda dis- 
solved in two quarts of water poured about. 
the base of each plant would be invigorating. 
These proportions are enough for about two: 
dozen plants. Do not put the fertilizer too 
near the stem of the plant. As all fertilizers. 
are difficult to obtain now resort to deep plow- 
ing to obtain the potash which is in the sub- 
soil. It is best not to have too rich soil for 
tomatoes, else they will go to leaf. An occa- 
sional watering with liquid from the manure 
barrel will be beneficial for all plants. . 
Sow seed in coldframes the first of the month 
for late tomatoes. New Stone is excellent, also: 
Maule’s Success and Matchless. John Baer is. 
good, but not as early as Spark’s Harliana. 
Sow seed of Winter Queen celery, also Golden 
Self-Blanching in coldframe. eets sown in 
the open ground should be thinned out and 
the thinnings can be transplanted, but cut off 
the tops before doing so. 
Golden Bantam is a good early corn, sweet 
and yellow, but small ears. It is subject to 
smut and corn worms, but they can be easily 
eradicated if at silking time the corn is sprayed 
at the tip end of each ear with a mixture of 
30 per cent. sulphur and 20 per cent. arsenic 
early in the morning when the dew is on the 
lant. Country Gentleman and Stowell’s 
White Evergreen are excellent for main and 
late crops. : 
Cucumbers and canteloupes and other melons, 
are planted now, in heavily manured hills five © 
feet apart. Sow a few radish seed in each 
hill as a catch crop for beetles; also take the 
precaution to put the little single coldframe 
over each one. These are little bottomless boxes 
measuring twelve by twelve inches, covered 
with cheesecloth. If in place of cheesecloth it 
has a glass top it hastens the plant to matur- 
ity, acting as a real coldframe. 
Keep the soil on the asparagus beds con- 
stantly raked and free from weeds. Ground 
should be loose to permit shoots to push 
through readily. An occasional sprinkling of 
nitrate of soda just before a rain is helpful. 
Asparagus is a gross feeder and needs con- 
stant fertilizing. Also sprinkle salt occasion- 
ally. It keeps down the weeds. 
Spray Ivish potatoes from the time the plant 
first appears above ground with bordeaux 
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