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favorable weather conditions, will, the next year, 

 result in failure. Early planting, however, gives 

 them the advantage of the warm spring days in 

 which to get started and the moss and hay at the 

 bottom of the trench will hold moisture even in a 

 drought. 



I always use birch brush for sweet peas, having 

 discarded wire because the wire became so hot in 

 summer as to dry up the little tendrils by which 

 the vines cling to it. 



Last year I planted several new varieties, each 

 by itself; but the effect was not nearly so pretty as 

 where a mixture was used. 



Remember that unless sweet peas are cut every 

 day or two they will soon go to seed and stop bloom- 

 ing. And it is better not to plant sweet peas in the 

 same place two years in succession. 



New York City. F. H. Moore. 



Nasturtiums Grown on a Slate Pile 



IN one corner of my garden a stratum of slate 

 comes so close to the surface it is impossible 

 to dig the soil with a spade and for several years was 

 allowed to remain idle, for I thought the soil was too 

 poor to grow anything. 



Needing more space for a nasturtium bed, and 

 knowing that the nasturtium does not require 

 ideal conditions, I dug the soil with a pick, making 

 a bed about 10 x 20 feet in size, raked off the coarser 

 slate and early in the spring planted the seed. 

 The result well repaid the effort, and the following 

 spring, making a better selection of seed, I had 

 increased pleasure in more beautiful flowers, and 

 in the knowledge that something had been accom- 

 plished. Last year (1909), I selected the seed, 

 fifteen packets, so that the dark reds, browns, dark 

 and light rose colors predominated, with enough 

 lemon, orange and light colors to make a contrast. 

 I use the trailing nasturtiums only, as they cover 

 the ground and hide the rough surface. The 

 flowers are picked every few days to prevent seeding, 

 and the bloom is continuous from early summer 

 until the vines are cut down by frost. A half bushel 

 basket is often filled at a picking, giving a greater 

 return for the money expended than any flower I 

 have ever grown. 



Each year some of the slate is removed, but the 

 spot is still a slate pile, and will remain so for a few 

 more years. 



No fertilizers have ever been used on this bed, 

 but we gave it a light covering of manure last fall, 

 and we will dig it under very early this spring. 

 Plenty of water has always been given to the grow- 

 ing vines. 



Pennsylvania. W. B. Reed. 



Soils. By C. W. Burkett. Orange Judd Company, 

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This is a book of experiments in agriculture. 

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