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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



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Painters will be very busy this 

 Spring. Everybody will be painting: 



Those who have been waiting for lower priced lin- 

 seed oil; 



Those who have been waiting "until times get better;" 



Those who have put off painting so long that it 

 simply must be done this year; 



Those who forestall Father Time and give their 

 houses a coat of paint every year or two; 



And, of course, those whose regular year it is to paint; 



And finally those who later decide to paint because 

 the whole neighborhood is painting; 



So — to get your painting done when you 

 want it done, now is the time to engage a 

 good painter, decide upon a color scheme 

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it is so white that it is indispensable for really white 

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Growing Prize-winning Egg- 

 plants and Peppers 



EVERY year I grow vegetables for exhibition 

 purposes but always have the greatest success 

 with eggplants and peppers. Last year I had six 

 specimens of Chinese Giant peppers, averaging 

 sixteen and a quarter ounces, the largest weighing 

 seventeen and one eighth ounces. 



I start both plants during the first week in 

 February, using Chinese Giant and Ruby King 

 peppers and New York Improved Purple and Black 

 Beauty eggplants. I sow the seed in flats two and a 

 half inches deep and twelve to sixteen inches long, 

 using for the soil a mixture of leafmold, sand and 

 loam, enough leafmold to hold moisture and just 

 enough sand and loam to give it body. A mixture 

 of i, 2, and 4 makes a good soil. A day before 

 sowing the seed I set the flat filled with soil in an 

 inch of water. The next day I sow the seeds on 

 the surface; then, with a very fine sieve, sift an 

 even mixture of sand and loam over the seeds, just 

 covering them. A temperature of 75 degrees 

 during the day and not lower than 60 at night has 

 given the best results with me. 



The first week in March they are ready to be 

 transplanted from the seed flats to larger ones a 

 half inch deeper. Drainage is an essential part 

 in the growth of plants; be sure the flats are well 

 drained. I put the seedlings about two inches 

 apart in a soil that consists of old sods, well rotted 

 manure and sand. I usually have two flats of 

 peppers and two of eggplants, with the varieties 

 labeled, to place in the hotbeds. I shade 

 them the first two days from the sunlight, 

 which, of course, is unnecessary if the weather is 

 cloudy. 



In the hotbed the plants have a tendency to 

 grow toward the light. I turn the pepper flats 

 around every third day; the eggplants are not 

 such rapid growers. About April 10th I shift 

 the plants to 4-inch crocks, placing an inch and a 

 half of well rotted manure in the bottom of each 

 crock; the soil used at this transplanting is a 

 compost of sods, manure and vegetable matter, 

 with a mixture of sand for drainage. The crocks 

 are then pressed down into the soil of the hotbed. 

 Great care must now be taken to give the plants a 

 proper amount of ventilation. 



The plant louse, a sucking insect, is liable to 

 attack the plants at this stage of growth. Dip 

 each plant in lukewarm water and dust both the 

 top and under sides of the foliage with tobacco 

 dust; then water each individual plant with a 

 light solution of liquid manure and water. 



After the first, of June my pepper plants are 

 usually a foot high; on the tenth both peppers and 

 eggplants are set out in their permanent places 

 in the garden. Frequent hoeing and cultivation 

 are very essential; weeds must be kept under 

 control at all times, as they rob the soil of mois- 

 ture. To have perfect specimens I disbud both 

 eggplants and peppers, leaving only two buds 

 to a plant. Sometimes the peppers produce too 

 much foliage, in which case the plant has to be 

 pruned. 



For a liquid fertilizer I use nitrate of soda, four 

 pounds to fifty gallons of water. This must be 

 kept away from the foliage as much as possible. 

 A week after the soda has been used, an applica- 

 tion of dried blood and soot will help the color 

 wonderfully. 



New York. M. Spiegel. 



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Last year when you panted your lima beans, sweet corn, and 

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And when you have ripe beans, corn, cantaloupes and water 

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 And mourned because I found it not. 



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