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Fertilizer Quality 
When you buy fertilizer remem- 
ber you are buying what is in the 
goods and not merely a weight of 
two thousand pounds. 
When a smelter buys gold ore 
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mixture, summer strength, an addition of ar- 
senate of lead one and one-half pounds to fifty 
gallons of Bordeaux. This preparation is 
also good to use on the small cabbage plants. 
Later on when the cabbages head up slug shot 
would be better sprinkled on in the early 
morning. 
The seed sweet potatoes should be put in 
hotbeds with wet leaves at the bottom and 
sand on top. Place the Pete in this, water 
thoroughly, put on the glass frames and every 
day let in a little air. Do not allow them to 
become dry. When these have sprouted and 
made vines they should be anes in the open 
ground in long rows hilled up and four feet 
apart. 
Spray vineyard for grape rot with summer 
strength bordeaux mixture every two weeks 
until the bunches are well formed. Spray 
peaches, plum trees and apple trees according 
to directions given in the April number of THE 
GARDEN MAGAZINE. } 
If the Rose bushes were sprayed in March 
with bordeaux and arsenate of lead there 
should be no disease and few if any rose 
chafers, but if they should appear spray with 
slug-shot in the early morning. Bordeaux is 
also a preventive for mildew, but if the March 
spraying has not been effectual dry spray with 
flower of sulphur in the early morning. 
Separate Chrveantnecnien shoots now if it 
was not done in April. Plant a few in a pro- 
tected place about six inches apart, trim off 
the side shoots and cultivate only one good 
strong stem. Only allow a few buds on this 
to materialize. Late in the fall, if protected 
by a high frame covered at night with an 
awning, they will keep in flower almost up to 
Christmas. This is an excellent. plant for the 
late flowering varieties which are so often 
blackened by the frosts. 
Gladiolus planted in April and May two 
weeks apart for a succession of blooms are ef- 
fective if put in groups in the flower border; a 
good color scheme is corn colored ones with 
Heliotrope planted in front, or the Baron Hulot 
planted in groupings of yellow Snapdragons. 
America planted in early May among the Rose 
bushes makes a pleasing effect and a fine 
showing of blossoms after the first Roses have 
passed. 
Dahlia tubers should be placed in a bed of 
sand in a coldframe the last of April and in 
May the tubers cut apart, leaving a sprout to 
each piece. Plant these by the end of May. 
Ordinary garden soil is best if loose and 
pliable, but it should not be too rich, else they 
will run to leaves. Coal ashes loosen up a 
heavy soil. Fertilizers suitable for potatoes 
is best for Dahlias and if put around the 
plant at budding time will make handsome 
blooms. Plant in a row in the vegetable gar- 
den so that the earth can be kept cultivated 
about the plants. Cut off all weak shoots and 
only cultivate one good strong stem. 
Unless the Rose beds have a ground cover 
of low-growing flowers, like Mignonette, For- 
get-me-not and Alyssum they can be nourished 
by trenching—that is, digging around each 
bush to the depth of one foot and width of six 
inches and placing in this trench well-rotted 
cow manure, throwing the earth over to pre- 
vent baking. A little hardwood ashes and soot 
put in at the same time make a better fertilizer. 
Virginia. J. M. PATTERSON. 
Making Straight Rows 
Tes simplest and best way that I have 
found of getting transplanted plants 
straight in the row and’ at precisely equal dis- 
tances apart is as follows: Get a piece of clear 
white pine—or any other wood little likely to 
warp—as long as possible, and about two 
inches wide and half an inch to an inch thick. 
Mine is twelve feet long. On one edge of this 
strip cut narrow grooves with 6-inch centres. 
Lay this in the row, outlining the row first 
with a garden line, if it is longer than the 
measuring strip. Stick small garden stakes 
or any small sticks in the grooves at the proper 
intervals—six inches, a foot, eighteen inches 
or two feet—and then withdraw the meas- 
uring strip. The plant places are marked as 
accurately as it is possible to make them. 
Minnesota. S. H. BiIneHam. 
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severe it pays to use only 
Plants 
the hardier kinds of shrubs, trees and bulbs. 
and Flower 
Up here in Vermont we have had to discard 
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