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THE 'GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1919 





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7*Ae Massachusetts Horticultural Society, one of the most important and conservative organiza- 

 tions of its kind extant, has after an ominous silence of more than 67 years finally made a 

 corn award. Dr. Frederick S. DeLue, the noted Boston oculist, is the happy recipient of the 

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 prise. _ "The Golden Giant" is the title of nature's new master of the fields. According to 

 the ethics and judgment of the famous society and all who have tried it, theproduct is a match- 

 less one. It is a luscious sweet corn, maturing much earlier than any other hnown corn; 

 richer by far in proteins sugar and starches and other nourishing qualities with round golden 

 ears nearly double the size of the average similar grade. All seed hand selected. Illustrated 

 circular of instructions. Price, }4 oz., 35 els.; I oz. 50 cts.; I pint=12 ozs., $5.00; I quart, 

 $10.00. Send check or money order. No stamps. As there are already several imitations on 

 the market, it is suggested that you order from Dr. Frederick S. DeLue s Experimental Farm. 



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Experiences Among the Vegetables 



Corn and Potatoes as Companion Crops.— 

 In the January Garden Magazine Mr. Blank 

 claims that no companion crop is possible with 

 late potatoes. We combine our main plantings 

 of corn and potatoes and get a full crop from each. 

 We plant our "late" potatoes early, having 

 found from our own experience, and from ob- 

 servation of our neighbors' gardens, that potatoes 

 which are planted early have a much better root 

 system, are better able to endure the drought of 

 midsummer and to withstand blight and insect 

 pests. Our potatoes are planted as soon after 

 the first of April as it is possible to work the 

 ground. The rows are spaced three feet apart. 

 Corn is planted the last of May in the three-foot 

 space between potatoes. They make ideal part- 

 ners because their habits of growth are different, 

 the corn continuing to occupy the ground after the 

 potato tops have withered. We tried to still 

 further conserve land by * growing pumpkins 

 among this late corn, but found that the luxuriant 

 growth of vines interfered with digging the po- 

 tatoes in September. We see no reason why 

 tomatoes trained to tall stakes could not be grown 

 between the rows of potatoes. Mr. Blank further 

 says that it does not pay to plant potatoes when 

 they must be cared for and harvested by hand. 

 It depends upon the end you have in view. If 

 you are planning to sell the produce, other crops 

 will pay better, but if you are aiming to supply 

 your family's needs from the home garden, it will 

 pay you to grow potatoes, unless your plot is 

 smaller than sixty feet square. Even then we 

 would include one or two rows of extra-early 

 , potatoes, which you may begin to dig by the first 

 of July, when new potatoes are something of a 

 luxury. The quality of one's soil has much to do 

 with the variety to be planted. We have known 

 enormous crops to be raised from Gold Coin in 

 one locality, while in another it was a complete 

 failure. Better find out what variety does well 

 in your immediate neighborhood before planting. 

 Irish Cobbler does well in heavy soil, and we had 

 wonderful results last year from the old Beauty 

 of Hebron. — Anna M. Burke, Mass. 



"Mixed" Cucumbers and Melons. — Mr. H. 

 M., Ontario, claims to have had the experience 

 of "mixed" cucumber and melon fruits grown 

 on the same acreage. I have never had the oc- 

 casion to complain of this trouble as squash, 

 cucumber, or melon have invariably been grown 

 at a considerable distance apart in my garden. 

 However, I have noted such an occurrence in some 

 garden plots of the acreage size, as mentioned by 

 brother H. M. I have seen cucumbers that grew 

 unusually long, were yellowish green on the out- 

 side and had a marked resemblance to the crook- 

 neck squash in flavor; but still they were cucum- 

 bers with the above-mentioned exceptions. The 

 "crossing" is caused no doubt by the work of 

 bees among the blossoms. — A. W. B., Mass. 



A Seed-sowing Help.— It has always been 

 a difficult problem in my little home garden to 

 sow small seeds like turnip, kohl-rabi and radish 

 so that they would not be too thick in the rows. 

 An old gardener once told me to take a spoonful 

 of turnip seed, mix it with a peck of sand, and sow 

 the mixture, but this last season I have found a 

 better way. Take a small can or little glass jar 

 which has a metal top, like the cans in which 

 spices or sal-hepatica come, and with a small nail 

 punch a half dozen holes in the top, driving the 

 nail from the inside, and being very careful not 

 to make the openings too large. 1 hen put the 

 seeds in the can, screw on the top, and the seeds 

 can be scattered evenly in the rows. An ordinary 

 salt shaker can be used. — F. Tarbell, Mass. 



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