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(Confirmed from page 239) 



phate is a particularly useful fertilizer for the 

 spring. This should be well mixed with the soil, 

 five or six pounds being allowed to each rod. 

 In the case of tomatoes this fertilizer seems to 

 exert an almost magical effect, if it is applied 

 just as the fruit is starting to set. 



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THE many suggestions that have appeared 

 from time to time in The Garden Magazine 

 that Iris lovers might get together and form an 

 association have culminated in action; and a 

 meeting of those interested is called for January 

 29 in the Museum of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. Dr. H. A. Gleason is acting as secretary 

 and will be glad to communicate with any one 

 who may be interested. The keen interest in the 

 Iris assures a good attendance and delegates are 

 coming even from California. It is suggested 

 that a trial ground for Irises be established 

 in connection with the New York Botanical 

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The Secret of Growing Good Peppers 



MANY gardeners have abandoned the at- 

 tempt to grow the larger varieties of sweet 

 peppers and others are highly dissatisfied with 

 the results they obtain with this vegetable. So 

 evidently the secret of growing good peppers has 

 not generally been mastered. 



The first thing to be considered is that the 

 pepper is not a native of the temperate zones; 

 it therefore is essentially a hot-weather plant. 

 Yet, as in the tropics the weather alternates 

 between blazing suns and drenching rains, so 

 the pepper needs not only much sun but much 

 water as well. In fact it is one of the few garden 

 plants that appears fundamentally benefited by a 

 sprinkling with the hose. Therefore sprinkle 

 peppers often and generously whenever the 

 weather becomes dry and dusty. 



A second need is for ample warmth. This 

 must be remembered from the time the seed is 

 planted. Pepper seed can be safely started in a 

 very warm hotbed; and the plants will flourish 

 only in such a place. Once stunted by chilling, 

 peppers seldom attain fine growth. My best 

 pepper plants have been started in a hotbed 

 early in March, in a mixture of loam and woods- 

 earth over two feet of manure packed tight. By 

 watering daily and by giving the bed some venti- 

 lation, the plants were afforded a quick and vig- 

 orous start. As they were thinly sowed, and as 

 the roots of young peppers are very snappy, I 

 did not transplant — this, too, because there was 

 no hurry about getting them set. They were 

 not put into the garden until May 20th, which 

 in this latitude (Southern Pennsylvania) is about 

 the vernal frost-limit. When set in the garden, 

 they were eight inches high, stocky, and with 

 heavy dark foliage. From one of these plants I 

 gathered two dozen large peppers during the 

 season. Of course, they were set in especially 

 prepared soil. 



A sunny, damp, well-drained situation is best 

 for peppers. They should be planted rather 

 deeper than other plants of the same size, for the 

 roots are not deep-plunging. For fertilizer I 

 have used with success ample stable manure and 

 screened compost. A pepper plant, if top- 

 dressed lightly with manure from the chicken- 

 yard at the time of blossoming, will be greatly 

 benefited. Pepper plants can be insured against 

 blights by an application of bordeaux a week or 

 two after they are set. 



Archibald Rutledge, Pa. 



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