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The Garden Magazine, April, 1921 
It Is Like Letting the Fairies 
Water Your Garden 
You turn a valve. At once a series of silver like streams 
hover over your flowers; and then breaking up into a thous- 
and drops, they scatter refreshingly over your plants and 
onto the ground. 
So gently, do they drop that it’s like the kiss of fairies. 
Not a petal broken- Not an inch of ground packed. 
The soil will be moist and lightened for inches down. Oxygen 
and air nitrogen has been carried into the ground to be con- 
verted into quickly availabe plant foods. 
Send us the size of your garden and we will send you full 
particulars about the best way to water it. 
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THE CHAUTAUQUA FLOWER FIELDS 
C. Zeestraten, Prop. 
Bemus Point New York 
Three Remarkable Strawberries 
Buckbee — The result of thirty-five yean; of hybridization. 
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{Continued from page i44) 
I dig the first crop usually about the middle 
of June, when they are well matured. The 
ground is then prepared for a second crop. The p 
seed is cut the right size for planting; a barrel is 
set under a shed or in a cool shady place; a 
layer of straw put in it, a layer of dirt over the 
straw, finally a layer of potatoes; then another 
layer of straw, dirt and potatoes, repeating until 
the barrel is filled. Pour water over the top 
layer of straw every day, keeping it wet all the 
time. In about two weeks the potatoes begin to 
sprout well; they should then be planted in deep 
A FINE FALL CROP 
The Red Bliss variety of Potato seems equally 
well adapted to both early and late plantings 
furrows and covered heavily to prevent them 
from coming up too early as the hot summlr 
sun would make them grow spindling. Whem 
they begin to come up the ridges are harrowed 
off with a drag harrow. Cultivation is then begun 
and carried out the same as with the spring crop. 
My fall crop of potatoes sometimes makes I; 
better turnout of large, well formed tubers than 
the spring crop, and the fall grown potatoes malje 
better seed than the spring crop. 
The picture illustrates a basket of the second 
or fall crop of potatoes, grown by me last season. 
They are the Red Bliss variety. All early 
varieties do equally well for a second or fall 
crop. 
I believe that two crops of potatoes a year con 
be successfully grown by this method in any of tl 
states which have five months without frost. 
J. M. Smith, Oklahoma. I 
WITH MOTHER GOOSE IN THE 
GARDEN 
Sing a song o’ sixpence; a packet full of seeds, 1 
A spade and trowel, rake and hoe are all a gar! 
dener needs. 
When the seed is cared for, into life it springs, I 
And, oh, the flowers and veg’tables are gooJI 
enough for kings. 
****** 
I 
I had a little hotbed. I cared for it each dayl 
A neighbor kindly tended it when I went away! 
We aired it, and watered it, and weeded with al 
smile — 
And soon I’ll set my lettuce out and beat him 
by a mile. 
