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Notes From New England 
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Dusting Sprays in the Garden.— 
Dimling sprit.vs linvp grown in favor very 
rtijijdly flu rime tilts past sea sou. Several 
orchard growers are now using tobacco 
dust for lice on yomiR tipple trees, and 
report satisfactory results. Personally I 
deoeml ujion a nicotine preparation in 
ii'lttid form for lice in tin* garden, because 
1 have not. found it easy to get at the 
pests on the under sides of the leaves 
with the dust so as to make it cover the 
lice. For several years, however. I have 
been using dusting poisons, sulphur and 
Bordeaux in the form of dust, with a 
special gun, of which there are several 
types. To tell the truth, I haven't much 
faith in dry Bordeaux, hut most of the 
pests can bo handled very readily with 
commercial dusts, of which there are sev¬ 
eral kinds on the market. It is certainly 
very much easier to use these dusts than 
to mix up messy wet sprays. They do 
not ruin the spraying apparatus, and a 
pump or guji can be kept loaded for im¬ 
mediate use. They arc particularly con¬ 
venient for women who do garden work. 
Tut’. Home Celery Patch. —This has 
been a particularly good year fur celery 
in New Mtightnd because of the large 
amount of moisture in the ground. Acres 
of celery have been set without any arti¬ 
ficial watering, and the plants have stood 
up very well indeed. experience con¬ 
tinues to show the value of Fasy Bleach¬ 
ing celery in the home garden, as well as 
for commercial use. It has some faults. 
tained when the bulbs are not planted 
until tlie middle of July. < yen in New 
England, These latc-plunted* bulbs, how¬ 
ever. make almost uo increase. The 
Brimulinus hybrids, which are a cross 
between the common Gladiolus and a 
species found in Central Africa, have 
come to be especially popular. They are 
smaller than the other kinds, arid the 
color is more delicate, but. their habit is 
excellent, and they often throw four or 
live spikes to a bulb instead of one or 
two. Some growers advise shipping 
wilted stalks, but this lias unt been found 
a good plan its a rule. The best way to 
ship the blooms is to keep them ir. water 
ill a cool place until the stalks are filled 
with moisture, and then to ship them 
dry. The stalks should be cut with a 
knife and on a slant, and care must he 
taken not to remove too much of the 
foliage, for otherwise the bulbs will not 
ripen properly for next year. 
Killing Out Poison Ivy. —Smother¬ 
ing with heavy paper is fairly successful 
with poison ivy where it spreads over 
level ground. When the paper is kept 
in place a month or more the poison ivy 
soon succumbs. Another way of killiug 
out poison ivy. however, and one which 
lias given excellent results in my own 
garden, is to pour the brine from the ice 
cream freezer around the roots. Of 
course this would not be a very feasible 
plan where the plants are - numerous, but 
if there are only one or two, repeated 
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bite celery is commonly banked Avirlt 
earth in the home garden, early cel¬ 
ery should be bleached with board* or 
paper set on edge. Boards are easily held 
in place by short slicks nailed lightly 
across the tops, or by u Ire-- bent at the 
ends. If plenty of fresh hor-e manure is 
aviilnhlc. wonderful stalks of celery can 
be grown by mulching the ground ;ir"und 
the plants with this material. It should 
be several inches deep, and cover tin 
ground completely. Such a mulch obvi¬ 
ates all ticirssily for cultivation, and of 
course feeds the roots continuously. It is 
a labor saving plan in itself. 
Marketing Gladioli. Not a few 
farmers are adding Gladioli to their 
crons. A half acre or less provides many 
hundreds of flowers which can be sold by 
the roadside or shipped to market. Then, 
of course, there will be a big supply of 
bulbs for sale in the Fall Roadside cus¬ 
tomers for flowers often become bulb cus¬ 
tomers. too. It is difficult to sell many 
(lowers in rite city wholesale market to 
advantage, because of the great glut 
wl'cb comes in midsummer, but if a 
grower can get in touch with a number 
of florists in surrounding towns he often 
*• make a contract to supply them a 
given number of spikes two or three times 
a week. Font- cents apiece makes a fair 
flat rate for the season. The (lowers sell 
for six or eight both early and late, but 
go very low in midsummer. The dowers 
should be cut with a knife on the slant, 
and while some foliage is required, three 
or four leaves must be left on the plants 
so ilqit tin* bulbs will ripen up. For dis 
taut shipments the stalks are often tied 
together at the butts, bur for iiearoy de¬ 
liveries ir is best to place them carefully 
in boxes holding about two dozen spikes, 
the spikes being laid in place so that the 
flowers rest on their sides. When flowers 
are in be shipped a considerable distance 
the spike* should be cni .iust as the first 
flower opens, but nearby florists usually 
want them with three or four flowers 
open, so that they can be used inuuedi 
ately in making tip funeral pieces and for 
other work. 
Flowers for Cutting. —A good way 
to gel a succession of blooms is to plant 
a variety of sizes, for even a half-inch 
bulb will flower, but later in the season 
than the larger bulbs. Growers who 
warn an increase of bulbs plant early, 
but a good crop of flowers eau be ob- 
applications of salt brine gradually kill 
out the ivy. If ice cream is not made 
at home, a heavy salt solution may be 
prepared and applied once a week as 
long as the ivy remains. When there is 
a lot of poison ivy on the place good re¬ 
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of salt to a gallon of water and spraying 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 23, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Lessors from Experience. 
Hope Farm Notes... 
Potato Growers Co-operata. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
L - ve Stock at the Ohio State Fair. 
Feeding Cows and Raising Ca’ve-.. 
Cribbing Horse . 
THE HEN”ALT 
Egg Laying Contest . . 
Paralysis in Hens. .. 
HORTICULTURE 
Another Florida Strawberiy Crop. 
Improved Elderberry ... 
Orchard in Old Pasture. 
Black Spot on Plum and P neli...... . 
New England No’.es. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 
Loaf Hopper on Grapes.. 
Cortland Apple . 
Old Apple Packing Trouble. 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day... 
The Rural Pattortts. . ... 
Oit Stove Cookery.. 
Di.l Pickles .. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Rid irg House of Bees. 
Emulsion for Worms.. 
Carbonate of Copper for Grain Smut. . . 
Greasy Water in Septic Tank. 
Prohibition for Bats.. 
Outbreak of Bagworms. 
Carpenter Ant .. 
Property Rights of Widow and Children 
Division Fence . 
Form of Deed and Mortgage... 
Editorial .... 
Hunt for Nearby Markets. 
Report of Committee of 21.. 
New York State Notes. 
Proposed New Jersey Market. 
Ventilating Potato Cellar.... 
Waterproofing Cellar . . 
Diameter of Wheel for Given Speed..!. 
Mending a Cistern.. 
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