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RURALISMS 
Finocchio  or  Florence  Fennel 
Will  some  one  who  h:is  had  actual  ex¬ 
perience  tell  how  to  grow  finocchio  or 
Florence  fennel?  What  date  should  it  he 
sown  to  prevent  its  going  to  seed  the  first 
year?  llow  can  it  he  kept  over  Winter 
for  use?  (.'an  it  he  wintered  over  and 
seeded  the  second  year?  If  the  seed  is 
sown  early  in  Spring,  and  the  plants  run 
to  seed  without  forming  the  enlarged 
leaf  stalks,  will  plants  grown  from  that 
seed  produce  the  desired  swollen  bases, 
or  at  once  run  to  seed?  M. 
Long  Island. 
Finocchio  or  Florence  fennel  is  usually 
planted  in  New  Jersey  about  Fourth  of 
July,  then  during  the  late  Summer  it  has 
time  to  develop  properly  without  bolting 
to  seed.  Those  which  show  the  largest  de¬ 
velopment  at  the  base  of  the.  leaves 
should  be  selected,  so  that  your  strain 
of  seed  may  he  constantly  improved. 
Finocchio  is  stored  the  same  as  celery. 
Then  the  next  Spring  the  plants  will  de¬ 
velop  a  large  crop  of  seed.  New  Jersey 
gardeners  set  these  large,  desirable  plants 
in  cold  frames  and  rover  them  with  glass 
until  Spring,  then  the  seed  develops  right 
there.  If  the  seed  of  this  crop  is  planted 
in  the  Spring,  hot,  dry  weather  or  the 
least  check  will  cause  it  to  holt  to  seed. 
However,  this  seed  will  not  be  so  desir¬ 
able  as  that  grown  from  plants  which 
have  passed  through  a  dormant  period. 
SOIL  SCURVY 
When  a  mariner  rims  out  of  food 
containing  lime,  scurvy  gets  him.  And 
scurvy  is  what  ails  your  soil  unless 
you  replace  the  lime  which  continuous 
cropping  lias  takeu  out. 
Branch  houses  at  Brockport,  N. 
Y.,  Bentonville,  Ark.,  Hagers¬ 
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and  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  a 
branch  factory  at  Portland,  Ore. 
and  over  800  selling  agents 
located  in  all  the  fruit-growing 
sections  of  the  country — every 
one  carrying  supplies  and 
repairs — this  is  the  organisation 
back  of  every  Hardie  Sprayer. 
Think  what  this  means  when  every 
spraying  minute  counts,  when  delays 
mean  the  loss  of  your  crop — your 
profits.  From  these  Hardie  selling 
agents,  who  are  required  to  keep  a 
supply  of  parts  you  can  get  repairs, 
if  necessary,  without  any  annoying 
or  costly  delays. 
Thru  this  great  organization  «  have  been 
able  to  keep  in  touch  with  spraying  conditions, 
to  know  exactly  the  peculiar  spraying  con¬ 
ditions  of  the  different  fruit-growing  sections— 
and  Iiardic  Sptaycrs  are  built  to  meet  these 
conditions.  Fifteen  years  devoted  exclusively 
to  the  manufacture  of  spraying  machines  has 
shown  us  how  to  build  Sprayers  that  stand 
up  under  hard  service  and  under  all  sorts  of 
conditions.  You  cannot  get  more  in  a  Sprayer 
than  you  will  get  in  a  Iiardic. 
is  a  form  of  limn  easily  applied.  It 
will  correct  arid  condition,  will  favor 
the  action  of  soil  bacteria  and  will 
lighten  heavy  soil. 
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ground  may  persist  for  many  years. 
The  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  rec¬ 
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Forest  Trees  and  Civilization 
On  page  75,  F.  A.  D.,  Milford,  I 
proposes  to  fit  a  strip  of  his  forest  land 
for  recreation  and  camping  ground.  Per¬ 
mit  me  to  cull  attention  to  like  experi¬ 
ence  of  others.  Before  the  Pilgrims 
landed  at  Plymouth  they  went  ashore  tit 
the  end  of  Cape  Cod — at  “Wood  End.” 
a  grove  of  red  cedar  trees.  Subsequent 
sparse  settlement  at  Wood  End  soon 
killed  the  hist  tree,  since  which  time  the 
land  for  nearly  ti  hundred  miles  has  been 
drifting  sand  without  a  tree.  To  the 
north  on  Cape  Ann,  in  days  of  the  Pil¬ 
grims  ‘‘Collin's  Beach’’  or  Squam  River 
— was  covered  with  pines  and  later  with 
tin  apple  orchard,  but  has  boon  treeless 
drifting  sand  for  generations.  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  acquired  for  park  purposes  Take 
Como  and  its  bordering  laud.  A  piece  of 
included  woodbind  w.as  ordered  cleared 
■  f  underbrush  to  lit  it  for  park  use. 
This  done.  10 %  of  the  large  trees  died 
the  first  year,  and  as  many  more  each 
succeeding  year  till  all  were  gone.  Like 
the  Indian,  forest,  trees  will  not  take 
kindly  to  civilisation,  more  than  fruit 
trees  to  barbarous  life.  .t.  d.  e. 
Massachusetts. 
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Cyanide  of  Potash  and  Celery 
In  yotir  issue  of  December  11,  1915, 
page  l  it*.'!.  It.  I  >.  B.  answers  an  inquiry 
concerning  plant  lice  on  celery  in  the  cel¬ 
lar,  by  suggesting  fumigation  with  potas¬ 
sium  cyanide.  1  have  handled  cyanide  of 
potash  in  fumigation,  considerably,  and 
while  realizing  that  hydrocyanic  acid  gas 
does  not  injure  any  dry  food  products,  we 
know  that  the  gas  can  impregnate  water 
and  other  substances  of  a  liquid  nature, 
making  the  same  dangerous  to  use  as  food. 
In  view  of  the  large  amount  of  water  in 
celery  stalks,  would  it  he  possible  for 
enough  of  this  gas  to  combine  with  the 
same  to  make  the  celery  a  dangerous 
food?  This  thought  just  occurs  to  me  in 
reading  the  paragraph.  Of  course,  if  the 
succulent  stalks  are  completely  buried, 
the  gtis  would  not  reach  them  probably. 
f.  i..  w AS ii up rn  . 
Minn.  State  Entomologist, 
It  is,  of  course,  generally  accepted  that 
hydrocyanic  acid  gas  is  soluble  in  water, 
and  my  own  experience  in  the  use  of  it 
serves  merely  to  confirm  the  general  no¬ 
tion.  In  fumigating  greenhouses  it  has 
been  found  that  the  best  results  obtained 
by  the  use  of  the  gas  have  been  on  plants 
as  dry  as  they  can  safely  bo  made.  It 
has  been  found  that  any  increase  in  mois¬ 
ture  in  such  cases  is  conducive  to  injury. 
To  sum  the  matter  up,  I  would  say  that 
while  there  are  no  experiments  known  to 
me  which  hear  directly  on  the  use  of 
hydrocyanic  acid  gas  on  celery  stored  in 
cellars,  the  evidence  from  other  sources 
indicates  that  if  the  celery  is  moist,  some 
of  the  gas  may  he  dissolved  in  the  water. 
Whether  it  would  burn  the  plants  or 
poison  the  persons  who  ate  them,  are 
questions  which  I  am  not  able  to  pass  on. 
It  has  occurred  to  me  to  inquire  why  to¬ 
bacco  fumigation  would  not  he  practical. 
If  the  temperature  in  the  cellar  were  high 
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