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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1910 



It requires sharp 

 tool-steel to cut grass 



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bird this year has been such a beauty, and blended 

 its soft yellow so well with the other colors, that it 

 bids fair to rival my old favorites, Peach Blossom 

 Princess Alice, Empress Augusta Victoria and 

 Queen Alexandra. 



Mammoth White Column is fine; the blossoms 

 are the largest I have ever seen, but they are not 

 so good foF cutting. Its faint, delicious odor is 

 never too strong. For cut flowers for any purpose, 

 more people have asked for stock than for any 

 flower in my garden. 



It is easy to grow stock in flats in the house or 

 in the hotbed. If planted by March first, it is 



Grow a bed of stock in your garden, this year 

 and have flowers for cutting from July until 



November 



often up in a week. Frequent transplanting is 

 the secret of success. Kept in the hotbed till the 

 leaves are out in May and then put in the permanent 

 bed between the rows of tulips, it begins to bloom 

 late in June, and never ceases. 



In the winter one pays the florist a big price for 

 stock, and the white especially is in great demand. 

 But why do not more people grow it for an all- 

 summer flower? "Veronica" should surely add it 

 to her list. 



Pennsylvania. Mrs. F. W. Graves. 



A Record-breaking Wheat Crop 



SEVERAL years ago a nine-acre field of winter 

 wheat in Kansas produced a record-breaking 

 crop for that vicinity, yielding, when threshed, an 

 average of thirty-seven bushels per acre. 



The land was a well-drained, rolling prairie 

 upland. The soil was from three to eight inches 

 deep, and consisted of a dark brown silt loam under- 

 lain by a brown clay. It had been in cultivation for 

 a number of years, and never had been fertilized or 

 manured. 



In July the soil was broken with a 1 6-inch plow 

 to a depth of from three to five inches, and was 

 harrowed but once. The crop previously grown on 

 this land was rye, and the rye stubble and a con- 

 siderable growth of weeds were turned under in 

 plowing. On September 2 7th the wheat was drilled 

 in, a bushel and a half of seed to an acre being 

 sowed on all the land with the exception of three 

 acres, when, the seed running low, only three pecks 

 to the acre were sown. No difference in the appear- 

 ance of the growth or of the yield could be detected 

 between the acres sowed with one and a half bush- 

 els to the acre and three pecks per acre. 



The grain was threshed in August, and where the 

 soil was of good depth — say six or eight inches — 

 the yields were higher than where the soil was 

 shallow, or where the subsoil came within two or 

 three inches of the surface. 



A peculiar feature was that although the season 

 was good for wheat, another field of the same kind 

 of land on the same farm yielded an average of 

 but seventeen bushels per acre. The methods 

 employed in the preparation of the land were prac- 

 tically the same, but oat stubble and few weeds 

 were turned under on the field that yielded only 

 seventeen bushels per acre. 



Kansas. W. T. Carter, Jr. 



