February, 1917 
THE GARDE N M A G A Z I X E 
27 
CHART FOR PLANNING THE GARDEN ON A PER PERSON UNIT 
VEGETABLE 
AMOUNT TO PLANT 
PER PERSON 
SUGGESTED 
VARIETIES 
DISTANCE 
OF PLANTING 
SEEDS RE- 
QUIRED 
FOR 
50-FOOT 
ROW 
NO. IN 
HILL 
DEPTH OF 
COVERING 
Beans (bunch) 
10 ft. row 
Refugee 1001 
Wardwell Kidney Wax 
2 in. rows. 3 ft. 
1 pt. 
1 or 2 
2 in. 
Beans (pole) 
4 hills 
Lazy Wife 
Golden Cluster 
2 3 ft. each way 
5 pt. 
3 or 4 
2 in. 
Beets 
10 ft. row 
Eclipse 
Detroit Dark Red (late) 
15 in. rows 13 ft. 
1 oz. 
1 or 2 
1 J in. 
Cabbage 
10 plants 
Early Jersey Wakefield 
Flat Dutch (late) 
18 in. by 24 in. 
. 
i oz. 
1 
Trsplt. 
Carrot 
7 J ft. row 
Oxheart 
Danvers Half-long 
1 in. row, 1 £ ft. 
5 oz. 
1 
5 in. to f in. 
Cauliflower 
5 plants 
Snowball 
Dwarf Erfurt 
18 in. by 24 in. 
2 OZ. 
1 
Trsplt. 
Celery 
30 plants 
Golden Self-blanching 
White Plume (late) 
5 in. rows, 3 ft. 
1 OZ. 
1 
Trsplt. 
Corn (sweet) 
8 hills 
Golden Bantam 
Evergreen 
2 J ft. each way 
5 pt. 
3 
2 in. 
Cucumber 
2 hills 
Davis Perfect 
White Spine 
5 ft. each way 
\ OZ. 
8 
4 - in. to 1 in. 
Eggplant 
5 plants 
Black Beauty 
New York Improved 
23 ft. each way 
\ oz. 
1 
Trsplt. 
Lettuce 
10 ft. row 
May King 
Iceberg 
Sow thinly in 
rows 15 in. apart 
\ oz. 
1 
\ in. to | in. 
Onion (sets) 
10 ft. row 
Silverskin 
Southport 
1 5 in. rows, 10 in. 
2 qts. 
1 
1 in. to 13 in. 
Parsley 
5 ft. row 
Extra Curled 
Dwarf 
2 in. row, 15 in. 
\ oz. 
1 
1 in. to \ in. 
Parsnip 
10 ft. row 
Hollow Crown 
Abbott’s 
*1 in. row, 1§ ft. 
i oz. 
1 
f in. to 1 in. 
Peas 
20 ft. double row 
Surprise 
Excelsoir 
Telephone 
2 in. in 8 in. dou- 
ble rows 2\ ft. 
1 qt. 
2 
2 in. 
Pepper 
5 plants 
Ruby King 
2 ft. apart each 
way 
\ oz. 
1 
Trsplt. 
Radish 
23 ft. row 
Earliest White 
Scarlet Frame 
1 in. rows, 10 in. 
3 oz. 
1 
3 in. 
Salsify 
1 
5 in row 
Sandwich Island 
Long White 
1 in. rows, 15 ft. 
\ OZ. 
1 
J to 1 in. 
Spinach 
15 in. row 
Savoy 
New Zealand 
2 in. rows, 12 in. 
1 OZ. 
1 
1 to 13 in. 
Tomato 
8 plants 
Earliana 
Bonny Best 
25 ft. each way 
1 oz. 
1 
Trsplt. 
Turnips 
10 in. row 
White Milan 
Snowball 
13 in. rows, 13 ft- 
\ oz. 
1 
2 in. 
manure on hand for use unless the garden 
has been manured and plowed in the fall. 
Apply the manure at the rate of one or two 
good sized loads per 40 x 50 ft. plot spreading 
it evenly on the surface and see that it is well 
turned under. See that the fertilizers are 
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Planting diagram for a plot 18 by 30 or 35 feet. As compared with the diagram on the facing page it will be noticed 
that there are less of the vegetables requiring large space and giving relatively low returns per area covered 
ready for use as the soil is being fitted; apply 
from 50 to 100 lbs. of a good mixture contain- 
ing 4-6 per cent, nitrogen and 8-10 per cent, 
of phosphoric acid per 40 x 50 ft. garden 
plot. Sow the fertilizer broadcast, as evenly 
as possible just before the soil is given the 
final raking for planting. Make lighter 
applications of nitrate of soda along near the 
rows of leaf crops, as lettuce, spinach and 
cabbage, where growth seems slow or checked. 
THE TOOLS YOU NEED 
Do not overlook the matter of suitable 
garden tools. Procure good tools and have 
them on hand when needed. The following 
tools are necessary, and may be secured at the 
prices stated: 
Spading fork 
£1.00 
Garden rake 
■ • • -75 
Hoe 
. . . .65 
Planting line 
. . . .25 
Measuring tape 
.40 
Garden trowel 
. 20 
Transplanting dibble . 
... .25 
Total .... 
.• • •. $3 • 5 ° 
Additional tools which will be useful 
throughout the gardening season are: 
Wheel-hoe £2 . 75 
Seed drill 3.50 
Knapsack sprayer 3.25 
Wheel barrow 2.50 
Total £12.50 
Save time and energy in the garden by 
keeping all tools in good working order, sharp 
and bright, throughout the season. A rusty 
hoe or spade has no place in the garden or shed. 
Thoroughly clean and oil each tool before 
hanging it up. 
The Cabbage Root-Worm Maggot 
TP TO three years ago all my attempts to 
grow cauliflower had been failures. The 
cabbage root-worm maggots destroyed every 
plant, despite my setting the plants in different 
parts of the garden each year, and also trying 
in vain all the standard remedies, such as air- 
slaked lime, wood ashes, nitrate of soda and 
tobacco dust. 
Three years ago I set the plants in a part 
of the garden that had not been cropped with 
any member of the cabbage family for five 
years at least, thinking I might thus dodge 
this pest. It failed! The maggots began their 
attack on the plants as early as in the other 
years. I then resorted to trying possible de- 
stroyers of my own selection. These included 
carbon dioxide — a teaspoonful in a hole be- 
side the plant — whale oil soap emulsion, car- 
bolic acid emulsion and finally a weak kero- 
sene emulsion. The latter seemingly was ef- 
fective, for ten of the dozen plants it was ap- 
plied to recovered from the maggots and 
formed heads. 
The next year sixty cauliflower plants were 
set in a part of the garden where plants had 
been destroyed by these maggots two years 
before. On the first evidence of the presence 
of the maggots the entire patch was treated 
with coal-oil emulsion — one pint to a plant — 
with the result that not a plant was destroyed 
by the maggots. This emulsion was of one to 
thirty strength. , 
Whether the kerosene kills or drives away 
the maggots I am not sure. 
Scotia, N. Y. W. Ramsdell. 
