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T H E G A R 1) E N IN I A G A Z I N E 
April, 1915 
COLDWELL 
WALK TYPE 
MOWERS 
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MODEL 
Weight on 
Drive Roller 
Width 
of cut 
Capacity 
per hour 
PRICE 
F 
1. 100 
40 
1 acre 
$475- 
G 
600 
35 
3 A " 
325- 
H 
500 
30 
'A “ 
250. 
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ground, the corms dug out with a garden fork, the 
dumps separated into convenient parts for handling 
and all the earth shaken off. They should then be put 
away to cure and dry back like onions. Heat helps 
to hasten this curing process. An empty hotbed or 
the unused bench of a greenhouse are excellent 
curing places in the climate of New York. Or the 
corms can be both cured and kept all winter under a 
greenhouse bench provided water is not allowed to 
drip on them. Any place that is warm enough to 
keep pumpkins and sweet potatoes will suffice for the 
storing place of dasheens. 
The corms used in my first planting were sent to 
me by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. They 
were the smallest culls or side corms. None of them 
was over an inch in diameter. They arrived early 
in .April and were potted immediately, watered and 
stored under the greenhouse benches to take root. 
By planting-out time, in May, they had attained 
three or four leaves about the size of swiss chard 
leaves 
Dasheens are very easily forced in this way. 
Not infrequently a small, fallen corm will germinate 
on the trodden dirt floor of the greenhouse. At a 
certain sanitarium dasheens are forced all winter in 
greenhouses for the sake of the tender, succulent, 
blanched leaves which make a delicate, boiled salad 
for the patients. By potting the corms early, a 
month or more was added to the growing season and 
The roots and several inches of leaf stalk are left to cure 
back into the large corms. Small corms without leaf stalks 
in the foreground 
to this additional growing month I attribute much of 
my success with this vegetable. The plant requires 
seven or eight months to reach full maturity. On 
Long Island killing frosts often come toward the end 
of October. The first year I planted about a quart 
of corms, perhaps thirty in number, and harvested 
five bushels of uncured corms, many of them the 
size of a rutabaga turnip. The small corms that 
were used for planting the first year yielded no 
blossoms. 
The second year I selected larger corms for plant- 
ing. Some of the largest, I was advised to divide 
into two plantings, cutting from crown to base. 
These were potted early in April. As the result of 
planting large corms a luxuriant leaf growth came on 
more quickly, while the plants blossomed from July 
until the end of the growing season. The pro- 
portion of large corms in the harvest was much 
greater from the planting of large corms. 
HOW TO CULTIVATE 
The dasheen, like any other heavy yielding root 
crop, needs rich soil and an abundance of moisture. 
It will thrive in low-lying soils too damp for many 
other garden crops. Where it is possible to use 
overhead or other kind of irrigation during drought, 
a successful growth may be assured in any garden. 
The plant is easy to cultivate, since its large leaves 
and long stems lift it from the ground so that it is 
not covered by hasty hoeing. Frequent cultivation 
brings rapid response during all stages of growth, 
but when the plant has attained a fair size the large 
leaves so thoroughly shade the ground that culti- 
vation for the purpose of killing weeds is not often 
necessary. 
The flavor of the dasheen is not very unlike that 
of the potato, especially the waxy varieties so much 
prized in certain European countries. Those who 
are fond of waxy potatoes like dasheens very much 
on first trial. A taste for the vegetable is one 
easily cultivated by most people. The starch grains 
of the dasheen are much smaller than those of the 
potato. Their small size renders them so easy to 
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