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March, 19 11 



IF YOU'RE OFF TO 

 PHILADELPHIA— 



If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, 



You mustn't take my stories for a guide. 

 There's little left, indeed, of the city you will read of, 



And all the folk I write about have died. 

 Now few will understand if you mention Talleyrand, 



Or remember what his cunning and his skill did; 

 And the cabmen at the wharf do not know Count Zinnendorf, 



Nor the Church in Philadelphia he builded. 



It is gone, gone, gone with lost Atlantis, 



(Never say I didn't give you warning). 



In Seventeen Ninety-three 'twas there for all to see, 



But it's not in Philadelphia this, morning. 



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Another Experience with Aspar- 

 agus from Seed 



MY WIFE said that we must have an aspara- 

 gus bed; having had one at our home in 

 the North, before we moved to Northern Louisiana, 

 she felt our kitchen garden would not be complete 

 without it, to which I quite agreed. We had 

 bought the crowns for the bed at the old home; 

 this time we concluded to start from seed. We 

 bought a ten-cent packet of Barr's Mammoth, 

 made our seed bed and planted it about March 

 ist, being guided in the main by Farmers' Bulle- 

 tin No. 6i on asparagus culture. It seemed as if 

 every seed germinated. I do not remember just 

 how many plants we got from that packet of seed, 

 but it is sufficient to say that we have in our garden 

 seven rows 200 feet long that have been doing duty 

 for the last four years. 



The seed bed was kept free from weeds, but 

 had practically no other care during the s umm er. 

 The following January we plowed out the beds, 

 which were four feet apart, with a 2-horse plow, 

 throwing the soil up in ridges between the beds 

 as high as possible. We then cleaned the loose 

 earth out of the bottom of the beds with a shovel, 

 and on this hard bottom set the young plants, cover- 

 ing with two shovelfuls of well-rotted manure. 

 About six inches of soil was then plowed back on top 

 of that. The earth was drawn up to the plants 

 as they grew, plenty of manure being used. As 

 soon as the the frost kills the tops, we cut them 

 off and give the bed a top dressing of fresh manure. 

 Each spring we give the bed a shallow plowing, and 

 harrow the surface about once a week during the 

 cutting season, so as to restrain the weeds and keep 

 the soil mellow. It is the first vegetable that comes 

 in the spring and we cut it as late as July; we serve 

 it hot at dinner and as a salad with lettuce at the 

 evening meal. 



A neighbor wished to try the experiment and 

 applied to us for directions, which we gladly gave; 

 they were religiously followed, only she planted 

 a pound of seed! She has appealed to us for fur- 

 ther advice as to how she shall get rid of the surplus 

 plants; she cannot use a tenth of them. 



Asparagus is not as difficult to raise as celery, 

 requiring less care and less water. The result of 

 getting enough plants from one packet of seed for 

 a large bed, with plenty to give away in perpetuity, 

 is decidedly gratifying. 



Louisiana. Louis C. Btjlkxey. 



The Profit of Planting Potatoes 

 Early 



IN ONE of the early spring numbers of The 

 Garden Magazine for 1909, the advice was 

 given to get in a few early potatoes during March. 

 That year I had planted my early potatoes on 

 April 6th, and we enjoyed fair sized new ones on 

 June 27th. 



But last year I resolved to plant a few potatoes 

 in March, and on Good Friday, March 25th, I 

 put in one peck of Beauty of Hebron. I cut, 

 planted and covered them myself. The Garden 

 Magazine advised cutting down to one eye, as 

 far as possible. This I did, and then sifted fine 

 wood ashes over the pieces. The furrows were 

 eighteen inches apart; the seed was set twelve 

 inches apart in the rows, and covered with about 

 four inches of soil. 



March 25th, the thermometer registered 75 

 degrees. Such weather did not last long, however; 



