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is  <1  better  tomato  than  the  Earliana.  I 
have  just  sown  seed  of  these  in  my 
greet! house.  The  best  celery  is  one  of 
the  green  varieties  to  be  blanched  with 
soil.  The  self-blanching  sorts  will 
blanch  between  boards  and  make  very 
poor  ct'lery,  I  prefer  the  Sandringham 
or  the  Giant  Pascal.  Tomatoes  do  well 
on  our  high  sandy  soil,  but  for  celery  the 
low  black  land  is  best,  for  celery  needs 
plenty  of  moisture  and  will  not  amount 
to  much  on  our  sandy  uplands,  though  it 
can  be  grown  well  on  a  clay  loam  upland 
where  there  is  means  for  watering.  I 
RURALISMS 
The  Pickle  With  a  Nose 
The  picture  shows  a  cluster  of  pods  of 
Martynia  probosoidea,  often  grown  for 
pickles  or  as  a  garden  curiosity.  This 
is  a  tender  annual,  which  may  be  grown 
from  seeds  sown  in  the  open  ground.  As 
the  seeds  have  a  hard  shell,  soaking  in 
warm  water  hastens  germination.  It 
hears  large  numbers  of  showy  flowers, 
sometimes  two  inches  across,  and  later  in 
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Cluster  of  Pods  of  Martynia  Proboscidea 
the  season  there  is  a  heavy  crop  of  pods, 
three  inches  or  more  long,  including  the 
nose.  These  pods,  picked  when  small, 
may  he  handled  like  cucumbers  and  make 
fair  pickles. 
use  the  Earliana  and  Bonny  Best  toma¬ 
toes  for  the  early  crop  and  later  sow 
Success,  Bed  Bock  and  Globe.  Success 
is  a  better  yiolder  than  the  Stone,  so 
universally  grown  here  for  the  canning 
houses,  and  is  a  very  handsome  red  to¬ 
mato.  The  Red  Rock  is  also  fine,  and  the 
Globe  is  pink  in  color.  I  shall  try  this 
year  a  new  variety  that  has  been  high¬ 
ly  praised  called  Mississippi  Girl.  Don’t 
know  anything  about  it  till  tested. 
W.  F.  MASSEY. 
Offsets  on  Gladiolus  Roots 
On  taking  up  my  Gladioli  bulbs  last 
Fall  I  found  nearly  all  of  them  had  mul¬ 
tiplied  from  two  to  five  conns  each,  but 
I  found  a  few  that  only  had  one  conn, 
but  had  heavy  roots,  and  on  the  ends 
of  these  roots  were  little  cormels  about 
the  size  of  large  pop  corn  and  as  many 
as  25  on  a  single  conn.  Should  these  he 
left  on  the  parent  conn  for  planting? 
Will  they  be  all  one  color,  and  will  seed 
raised  on  a  yellow  bulb  produce  all 
colors?  MRS.  c.  w.  w. 
Bern  us  Point,  N.  Y. 
Many  varieties  of  Gladioli  do  not  make 
offsets  or  cormels,  neither  will  they  make 
divisions,  consequently  they  are  not  con¬ 
sidered  of  much  value.  No  matter  how 
fine  the  flower  and  color  may  be,  such 
bulbs  are  usually  thrown  in  the  mixtures 
by  the  growers  and  sold.  Generally  in  a 
few  years  they  become  exhausted  and  die, 
and  are  thus  lost.  Other  varieties  mul¬ 
tiply  by  division  of  the  large  conns  al¬ 
most  exclusively,  while  others  will  in¬ 
crease  by  division  and  by  offsets  or  cor¬ 
mels.  The  latter  sire  considered  the  more 
valuable  from  a  commercial  point  of  view, 
as  a  large  stock  may  soon  bo  accumu¬ 
lated  from  varieties  having  Ibis  habit. 
Just  why  some  varieties  make  large  num¬ 
bers  of  offsets  and  others  but  few.  or  none 
at  all.  is  one  of  the  mysteries  of  nature. 
Bach  year  a  new  bulb  or  bulbs  are  formed 
above  the  old  one,  or  mother  bulbs,  which 
dies  after  it  has  completed  its  work  .4 
nurse  to  the  offspring.  The  cormels  arc 
formed  between  the  old  and  new  conns. 
The  old  or  mother  conn  is  no  longer  of 
any  value,  and  should  he  separated  from 
the  new  root,  and  thrown  away.  This 
work  is  usually  done  two  or  three  weeks 
after  digging  in  the  Fall,  at  the  time  of 
cleaning,  as  it  is  termed.  The  small 
lmlblets  are  separated  from  the  blooming 
bulbs  and  should  be  stored  in  a  cool  dry 
cellar  or  anywhere  away  from  heat  and 
frost.  The  cormels  should  lie  planted  ms 
early  in  Spring  as  the  ground  can  be 
worked.  The  soil  should  be  reasonably 
fertile,  but  contain  no  fresh  manure.  The 
planting  may  be  done  in  the  same  manner 
as  garden  peas  and  should  be  sown  in 
the  drill  quite  thickly,  about  100  to  a 
foot  of  row.  The  rows  should  be  at  least 
18  inches  apart.  The  young  plants  must 
be  kept  free  from  weeds,  and  should  be 
frequently  cultivated  up  to  about  Au¬ 
gust,  when  cultivation  may  ho  discon¬ 
tinued.  A  few  of  them  may  possibly 
bloom  the  first  year,  and  nearly  all  will 
do  so  the  second  year,  while  a  few  of  the 
weaker  ones  will  not  bloom  until  the  third 
year.  K. 
Storing  Jonathan  Apples 
,T.  B.  II.,  Idaho,  asks,  on  page  244, 
about  Jonathan  apples  stored  in  pit.  We 
have  had  Jonathan  taken  out  of  cold  stor¬ 
age  for  several  years  that  looked  fairly 
well,  but  were  a  little  softer  than  they 
should  have  been,  and  were  brown  under¬ 
neath.  but  were  not  rotten,  just  discolored 
and  dead  ripe.  It  is  my  opinion  they 
hung  on  the  trees  too  long  and  were  too 
ripe  to  keep  well.  We  like  to  get  as  much 
color  as  possible  on  the  fruit,  and  when 
we  do  so  we  get  some  of  the  kind  de¬ 
scribed.  We  do  not  find  that  kind  in  the 
fruit  of  less  color;  it  is  always  those  with 
high  color.  The  remedy  is  to  pick  the 
ripest  ones  first,  while  some  of  them  are 
too  green  to  pick,  and  make  a  later  pick- 
pig  for  them.  Jonathans  are  ripe  enough 
to  pick  when  they  get  good  color  on  one 
side  and  a  deep  pink  on  the  underside, 
not  high  color  all  over,  for  the  ones  that 
get  dark  red  will  go  bad  sooner  than 
those  with  less  color.  u.  T.  cox. 
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