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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1919 



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{Continued from page 94.) 



in the shade and then planted in boxes. 

 When the little plants were well started, I 

 transferred the boxes of dirt-bands to a cold- 

 frame, though a friend used a sunny cellar 

 window with equal success. My judgment is 

 that six weeks ahead of the usual planting 

 time is quite as long as they can be kept along 

 well indoors, though I find the experts urge 

 January planting. For New Hampshire that 

 is certainly too early as ft is mid-April before 

 the ground is in workable condition in an aver- 

 age season. 



The plants were set by the level culture 

 method and six inches apart, pinched when 

 about six inches high to induce branching, and 

 the trellis was well covered in due time. It 

 proved very easy to slip the dirt bands into 

 the trowel holes as the dirt had become- firmed 

 so the bands could be peeled off without dis- 

 turbing the column of soil. If you are troubled 

 with cut-worms slip them in box and all. The 

 row had good cultivation, and plenty of rain 

 kept them well watered until they came into 

 bloom about the last of June. I used Clay's 

 Fertilizer, followed at three day intervals 

 with pulverized sheep manure and a very light 

 application of nitrate of soda, all well watered 

 in after the buds showed, repeating the series 

 at an interval of one week. But the treat- 

 ment was interrupted just when it would have 

 been most useful by that bane of all true garden 

 lovers, a vacation that was reluctantly ex- 

 tended by the needs of others to three weeks, 

 while rueful visions of a neglected garden 

 danced before my eyes. A neighbor kindly 

 kept the flowers picked for me but the plants 

 had no care aside from that. On my return I 

 found the plants six feet high; and the quantity 

 and quality of bloom is almost incredible for a 

 fifteen foot row under such conditions. My 

 soil is all but pure sand and when I stray from 

 the list of sand-lovers I usually come to grief. 

 I get enough for three or four large bouquets 

 every day or at most every other day. 



The seed were Spencers and the sprays very 

 fine. My standard was refreshed by a visit 

 to the Boston Sweet Pea Show, and I have 

 many blooms that are in the exhibition class, 

 though not quite the great ruffled prize-win- 

 ners I saw there. This time I used a good 

 mixture, but henceforth I shall use the named 

 varieties, my selection being based on notes 

 made at the show rather than catalogued 

 charms. 



If one can supply water in dry seasons, I 

 should not hesitate to encourage any one who 

 loves Sweet Peas well enough to give them care 

 to use farmogerm and expect results, even if 

 their soil be thin and poor. I would much like 

 the chance of testing results of its use on really 

 good Sweet- Pea soil as well. The Sweet Pea 

 raisers can be bought, but I found it a simple 

 matter to make my own, using bristol board 

 about the weight of postcard stock, cut 7 by 

 4I inches, making boxes one and a half inches 

 square, with one inch for overlap and fastening 

 with paper clips. I folded them over a ruler 

 very rapidly, and as they were without bot- 

 toms they were simple enough to put to- 

 gether. They were fitted into a wooden soap 

 box, one side of which had been taken off and 

 replaced with screws so it could be removed at 

 planting-out time to permit the sliding off onto 

 a piece of board of the little bottomless boxes. 

 Care should be taken to give good drainage of 

 the large box and not to over-water. Some of 

 my boxes moulded and the seed rotted through 

 over-zealous watering. Better cover with 

 glass at first and shade than to keep over-wet. 

 — L. M. Robbins, Concord, N. H. 



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