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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 19 11 



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"*"<# |"F your fruit trees or garden plants are in- 



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Beans repay for having 

 plenty of room. Big crops 

 cannot be had from 

 crowded vines 



the month. Plant a 

 small patch of an im- 

 proved variety this 

 year. Get the seed 

 from a reliable seeds- 

 man or farmer near 

 you, as corn that 

 comes from a different 

 section has to become 

 acclimatized before be- 

 ing at its best. 



GROWING BEANS 



Beans can be grown 

 on almost any soil and 

 with but little cultiva- 

 tion, though their pref- 

 erence is for a moist 

 loam and frequent 

 shallow cultivation. 

 Plant thickly so as to 

 get a good stand, but 

 later on thin out to 

 one plant every five 

 or six inches for the 

 bush type and two to 

 three vines of the run- 

 ning sort to a pole. 

 Set the poles two to 

 three feet apart in 

 rows of the same dis- 

 tance apart; remember 

 that the vines must 

 have plenty of room in 

 which to grow. 



Use a fertilizer rich 

 in potash and phos- 

 phoric acid. Remem- 

 ber also not to culti- 

 vate when the vines 

 are wet or they will 

 rust. 



Here, in Middle 

 Georgia our first plant- 

 ing is about the first of March and the last about 

 the first of September. Beans from the first planting 

 are ready to eat about the last of May, and those 

 from the last planting until first frost which comes 

 about November. If the bushes are covered with 

 newspapers in the fall, they will furnish beans 

 several weeks later. Of course, our first and last 

 planting is of the early bush sorts; the running sort 

 is not planted until the middle or last of March, 

 and the last planting is made the first of August. 

 Buena Vista, Ga. Thomas J. Steed. 



Concerning Celery in Florida 



[The following letter, referred to in the editorial 

 note on page 78 is presented for the general benefit 

 of our readers. The writer claims to be financially 

 interested in the district under discussion.] 



I WAS much surprised to read in The Garden 

 Magazine for January such a dream of get- 

 rich-quick, via the celery route at Sanford, Fla. 

 The writer confessed that he was there in February, 

 1010; had he been there several months later, he 

 would have seen an almost universally discouraged 

 community, as acre after acre of celery was plowed 

 under because of lack of markets. I know where- 

 .of I speak for I am myself an owner of Sanford 

 soil, as good as any there and fully developed to 

 celery. 



The actual truth of the matter is that at the 

 present time Sanford faces the disaster of three 

 unfortunate crops in succession. The lettuce 

 crop of the fall of 1909 was an almost complete 

 failure, many of the crates shipped not paying the 

 express. In many cases I personally know of, 

 the returns in New York per crate were insufficient 

 to pay expressage. Following this came the 

 hardest blow: the celery crop was excellent in 

 quality, but there was so great an overproduction 

 that the majority of growers plowed under their 

 celery in the fields. 



Last fall hopes were high again and the com- 

 munity pluckily set out to redeem past losses. 

 In October a tropical hurricane swept down and, 

 as a result, probably three- fourths of the fall seed- 

 beds of lettuce were ruined. 



The whole history has been that some years ago 



