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Water Lilies are Hot 
Weather Plants 
In mid-summer’s hottest days the Ten- 
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on an August day I have counted seven 
flowers on one plant. Of these Tender 
1 'Hes my favorites are: Mrs. C. W. Ward, deep 
e-pink, $2 each; Pulcherrima, blue, $2 each; 
'Warn Stone, purple, $2 each; Dentata 
(night blooming), white, $i each. But 
there are other splendid Tender varieties 
described in 
WILLIAM TRICKER, Water Lily Specialist 
Box E, ARLINGTON, N. J. 
Tricker’s Booklet of Water Lilies 
which may be grown in an artificial pool. 
All the information you need to insure your 
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large numbers of fresh ones. This is the plan 
which 1 have seen carried out in Holland. When 
the leaves have died away from the Hyacinth 
bulb in the spring you take it from the soil. 
Then, with a knife, you cut rather deeply a cross 
at the bottom part. Or you might scoop out 
the bulb on the underside. You could follow 
either of these plans. The Dutch growers call a 
Hyacinth which has been cut like this the 
“mother” and you will soon know why. This 
bulb is placed in a sunny win'dow where it will 
just simply bake. After a little while you will 
see that the “mother” has started to bud off 
quantities of little bulbs — the “children.” When 
these are about as big as the top of one’s finger 
they are ready for gathering. They may then 
be planted in the garden or in pots and grown on 
until they reach flowering size. The blooms will 
not be quite so large as those you get from the 
bulbs brought straight from Holland but they 
will be very nice. — S. Leonard Bastin. 
GROWING VERY EARLY 
TOMATOES 
U NDER various conditions of soil, climate, 
etc., 1 have grown thirty kinds of Tomatoes 
and for satisfactory early varieties can recom- 
mend the following: 
June Pink: excellent medium to large-sized 
fruit, smooth skinned; prolific bearer. 
Burpee’s Earliest Pink: slightly earlier than 
June Pink; fruit not quite so smooth but better 
flavored and fewer seeds. 
Earliana: red fruited, a prolific bearer; good 
size and shape; very like June Pink except as to 
color. 
Maul’s Earliest: rather good, meaty, red 
fruited variety; earliest of the large fruited 
class. 
Damp soil is especially harmful for the early 
varieties; the ground is too cold for them to make 
rapid growth, and moreover they produce foliage 
rather than fruit. Also they are subject to black 
rot, a disease very deadly to the Tomato plant in 
the South. A well drained, sandy loam is best. 
For horse cultivation I make my rows two 
feet apart; for cultivation by hand only fourteen 
to eighteen inches, and set the plants twelve 
inches apart in the rows. Early Tomatoes re- 
quire the room that later main crop varieties do, 
and it is seldom necessary to stake them; though 
staking is sometimes of benefit, especially with 
June Pink, Earliana, and similar kinds, which 
have a tendency to grow tall and produce a 
second crop. 
I usually sow the seed for the very early 
Tomatoes the second week in December and sow 
thinly so as to produce large, stocky plants for 
transplanting to the open in February. Nothing 
should be done to check their growth and cause 
unnecessary delay. Have plenty of room to 
take up a lot of soil with the roots so that no 
breakage may occur; by doing this the usual 
setback after transplanting is avoided. It is 
better to have a few vigorous plants than many 
stunted ones; remember that one week’s check in 
growth usually means fruit two or three weeks 
later. 
It is also very important to watch the hotbed 
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