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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1914 



need the Spra- 



motor to realize 



from your farm 



or orchard, all 



that it can make for you — doing without it is costly — THOUSANDS OF 



DOLLARS are lost yearly through ravages of bugs — pests — germs and 



blight upon plant life. 



The increased yield in field, garden and orchard crops at a cost of a few 

 cents an Acre for spraying will return DOLLARS in extra profits. 



You can pay for your equipment and BANK MONEY in one season 

 from the increased yield you will get by using the Spramotor. After 

 caring for your own crops 



MAKE BIG MONEY 



spraying those of your neighbors and friends 



The hand power Spramotor sprays an acre of potatoes effectively in 30 

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 the yield. 



The President of the Michigan State Horticultural Society says, "I have 

 never seen so perfect an equipment for spraying." 



G. W. Maurer, New York, writes, "The Spramotor I bought of you last 

 season was put in test with others and PROVEN TO BE THE BEST in 

 every way. In 2 J hours the Spramotor did better and as much work as 

 could be done in n hours with the next best." 



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THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL 

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Prof. Craig 



Plant this lettuce 



Stokes' Bi 



gger Big Boston is the reliable hard-heading kind — 

 the selected strain that market growers 



plant. It produces uniformly large, solid heads, of fine color, crisp, 

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Stokes' 1914 Seed Book Will Help You 



Home Gardeners. It will tell you how to 

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 Standard Seeds. 



Farmers. It lists improved money-making 

 strains of seed corn, oats, potatoes, grass seed 

 and soiling crops. 



Market Gardeners. It offers the tested, 

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 Flower Lovers. It describes several hundred 

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Write for the Book now — your name on a postal will bring it. Ask for Catalogue 

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WALTER P. STOKES, 219 Market St., PHILADELPHIA 



a splendid salad if bits of grape fruit are liberally 

 cut over it; when cooked, the leaves have a brisk 

 spicy taste. 



We have two or three kinds of dandelions here, 

 that can be eaten possibly, but not liked. They 

 trouble somewhat in our lawns, but they never 

 become anything like a controlling plant. After 

 trying the Northern dandelion here, I advise every 

 home keeper to have a choice corner in his garden 

 for a few roots, where there can be plenty of rich 

 dirt and moisture. The only trouble is that the 

 dandelion gets very dirty, and needs to be care- 

 fully sorted and washed. 



Spinach also is more of a Northern than a South- 

 ern plant. It grows well enough here, where the 

 soil is free of root gall and acidity. I prefer, how- 

 ever, to wait for the young beets, and the carrots, 

 taking them when they will give not only plenty 

 of top, but juicy little bulbs at the bottom. I 

 should dislike very much to be compelled to omit 

 the carrot from my garden. What we cannot use 

 in the house (and we can use them almost every day) 

 are welcomed by horse, cow, and hens. 



Recently, however, the Department of Agricul- 

 culture has distributed so many new things, from 

 China and Japan and Java and Africa, that we are 

 learning to prefer to all our old friends some of the 

 new ones. You will find, gradually being intro- 

 duced in our gardens, petsai, a Chinese contribu- 

 tion. It looks a little like Swiss chard, and the 

 leaf stalks can be eaten for celery, when that vege- 

 table is not on hand. We have only to pull off the 

 outer leaves, and these are about as large as the 

 leaf stalks of rhubarb; others will replace them 

 speedily. You can have petsai greens for several 

 weeks, in fact for three or four months. 



All greens [are healthful, but celery greens are 

 almost a cure-all for weak stomachs and excitable 

 nerves. The flavor of cooked celery is spicy, and 

 the aroma very appetizing. 



Swiss chard and young beets rank in my judg- 

 ment very nearly at the head of all the old time 

 greens. The best grade of chard gives stalks that 

 are more than one-inch in diameter, and the growth 

 is so rapid that the cut stalks are replaced inside a 

 week. Cabbage and kale and cauliflower grow 

 just as well in the South as in the colder clay soils 

 of the country. Collards and lettuce also come 

 to perfection anywhere in the South. A Northern 

 gardener said to me recently, "I never saw lettuce 

 until I went into one of your little stores down town 

 and found solid heads as big as a half-bushel 

 basket." The little Mignonette which makes 

 such a fine head in my Northern garden, furn- 

 ishes me here just as good quality in a head one 

 foot in diameter. 



Nasturtium is used in the North mainly for 

 pickles. The flowers are just as profuse here, and 

 the growth is very rapid. It is good when cooked 

 and may also be used for salad. The plant is 

 satisfied with even the poorest soil that you 

 have. 



Another corner of your garden, if possible at the 

 foot of a slope, should hold a generous bed of 

 asparagus and rhubarb. A house should be sup- 

 plied with asparagus for two months from its own 

 garden; I have it for six months. A rhubarb bed 

 in this climate will not live through the summer 

 unless very thoroughly shaded. It is best of all 

 located in a bayhead. Asparagus and pie plant 

 must have lots of coarse manure and liquid manure 

 and the more shade the better. 



As a rule all greens require mellow soil, which can 

 be kept moist and worked easily. Most of the 

 sorts ask for very little fertilizer. These early 

 gardens come with us before the rainy season, and 

 it is quite desirable that they be flushed every 

 morning with water. Always soak them well; 

 do not give a mere sprinkling. 



Pigweed makes good greens; and the much 

 maligned purslane is another that the French have 

 taught us to esteem. 



Greens should never be put on the table in a 

 sloppy form; each sort should be cooked until 

 tender, and have a flavor distinctly its own. Do 

 not entirely rely upon vinegar, nor curry powder, 

 pepper and salt, to give the flavor. If I cannot 

 have sorrel or some other acid material out of the 

 garden, for flavoring the more bitter sorts, I find 

 sliced grape fruit very acceptable. 



Florida. E. P. Powell. 



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