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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1914 



Gardencraft for Children 



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those seeds which were sown in September, to their 

 permanent beds. Make the ground very rich to force 

 them, and during the winter a small amount of 

 nitrate of soda, sprinkled occasionally between the 

 rows, pushes the lettuce along and makes good heads. 

 Give air each day if possible throughout the winter. 



It is not too late to set -out strawberry plants if 

 the ground is not wet. Prepare the land carefully 

 and enrich with commercial fertilizers, potash and 

 phosphates, and only a very small amount of nitrates, 

 as they force the plants and make them too 

 tender for winter. Be careful, when planting, not to 

 bury the crown. 



Orchard trees can be set out the last of the month, 

 with the exception of peaches and plums and other 

 stone fruits which are best set out in early spring; 

 also all shrubs and deciduous trees, with the ex- 

 ception of those with a pithy fibre like the tulip 

 poplar, spring being the best time for them. 



There is much to be done to the celery bed. The 

 earth should be carefully heaped up around each 

 plant. If the plants were set in a trench in rows 

 six inches apart and six inches apart in the row, a 

 good way to blanch them is to tie up carefully each 

 plant with soft twine, beginning at the corner and 

 twining it once around each plant all across the bed 

 and down one row and back again the second row, 

 holding the plant together with the other hand and so 

 on to the last row. Then shovel in the earth carefully 

 between the plants, for in this way no soil can get 

 into the crown of the plant to rot it. Every few 

 weeks, this has to be done, as the celery grows rapidly 

 up to Christmas, although some of the self-blanching 

 kind is ready to use by Thanksgiving. Rutabagas 

 and turnips can remain in the ground until late in 

 the winter, or put in earth kilns in November. 

 Force the fall cabbage by giving a little nitrate of 

 soda between the rows and by constant cultivation. 



The cabbage plants for early spring should be 

 fertilized with potash and phosphoric acid. Be 

 chary of nitrogen; leave that for spring for a top 

 dressing, the object being to have stocky plants. 



Lettuce plants for the open ground and late spring 

 consumption should have a furrow plowed or dug 

 on the north side of the row, throwing the earth up 

 as a protection against cold winds. 



Make the onion beds rich with hen manure mixed 

 with kainit. Work thoroughly and plant the 

 potato onions for early spring use. A few Queen 

 and Pearl onions may be set out, taking chances 

 on a mild winter. Sow crimson clover for turning 

 under in spring as humus, and also sow grass seed 

 wherever needed; orchard grass in the fields for hay, 

 and a good mixture of lawn grass for the lawn. 



Alfalfa might be sowed this month, though it is 

 usually done earlier in the fall. It is such a good 

 food for hogs and cows and all farm animals, farmers 

 should have more of it. It is difficult to get a good 

 stand, but well repays one for the trouble and ex- 

 pense; one gets four or five crops a year, and it en- 

 riches the soil as well. The soil should be gotten 

 in first class condition before sowing alfalfa. A 

 field first planted to cow peas and then to crimson 

 clover and both times plowed under are the first 

 steps to take for alfalfa. Then put on slaked agri- 

 cultural lime, a ton to an acre, plow it in, and follow 

 that with 400 pounds of bone meal and 53 per cent, 

 potash to the acre. Sow thirty pounds of alfalfa 

 seed with soil from an alfalfa field for inoculation. 

 Virginia. J. M. Patterson 



Bulbs and the Dibble 



I HAVE this year seen very great difference in 

 results from Holland bulbs planted with an 

 ordinary dibble, and from their mates planted on 

 the excavation principle. The dibble is very likely 

 to leave a pointed air chamber under the bulb; be- 

 cause, while a dibble makes its hole point down and 

 blunt end up, a tulip, hyacinth or narcissus is 

 planted point up and square end down. The Eng- 

 lish gardeners term a root in this predicament a 

 "hung" bulb; that is, it is hung by the waist and 

 must stretch down its toes through air (and in 

 January through a lump of ice) in order to sustain 

 itself. Bulb for bulb, the "hung" planting which 

 I saw this season gave smaller flowers, later flowers, 

 fewer flowers, and more blasted spikes and abortive 

 half-flowers, than its duplicate planting in poorer 

 ground, where all the bulbs were set level in an 

 excellent bed and then earthed in with a spade. 

 Pennsylvania. E. S. Johnson. 



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