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EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Nitrate of Soda.— In The R. N.-Y, of 
August 22 J. E. Morse tells about using ni¬ 
trate of soda solution on plants. Will he 
tells us about how many plants or hills a 
gallon of the solution would suffice for 
upon cucumbers, melons, etc.? 
Mt. Olive, N. C. J. o. i,. 
As to the number of plants that a gal¬ 
lon of the solution will cover no hard or 
fast rules can he given. For a small 
plant a half gill would be sufficient, but 
as they increase in size more of course 
would be required. In using the pro¬ 
portions I gave, an ounce to two gallons 
of water, a gill would do no harm even 
to a young plant. I purposely prescrib¬ 
ed homeopathic doses, so that there 
would be no danger of burning the 
vines. I use it upon Lima beans severai 
feet in height, also upon running vines 
that nearly or quite cover the ground. 
In such cases I use the sprayer and ap¬ 
ply it freely. Plants just coming through 
the ground will easily stand a half gill 
of it, then increase in quantity as they 
increase in size and age. 
S.vLT FOR Garbage and Asparagus.— 
I have often seen it disputed that salt 
was in any way a benefit to cabbage. 
But with all deference to higher au¬ 
thorities, I am bound to rest upon the 
evidence of personal experience. Three 
years ago I planted out late cabbage 
considerably after the middle of July— 
so late, in fact, that men of more ex¬ 
perience than myself said the plants 
would not mature. I, too, was afraid of 
it, as the weather at that time was hot 
and dry. Later on the weather became 
much cooler, and remained thus most 
of the Fall. The plants grew well and 
seemed very vigorous, but the heading 
process did not materialize. In going 
over the patch one day I discovered that 
the worms were holding high carnival, 
and I decided to break in upon their fes- 
tivites if 1 failed to round up a single 
cabbage. Next morning, while the dew 
was on, I sprinkled them thoroughly 
with fine table salt, with the result that 
the worms vacated and the heads began 
to grow. 1 applied it the second and 
third time, and turned off a very good 
crop at the round-up. It sometimes 
turns a leaf brown where too much of it 
sticks in one place, but I verily believe 
it makes the cabbages grow. This year 
1 have been troubled in the same way- 
plenty and too much stem growth and 
leaves, but no heads. I have salted 
them liberally several times, and every 
head is now of fair size and solid as 
could be desired. Something put a head 
on them, and I am content to believe it 
was the salt, theories to the contrary 
notwithstanding. In conversation with 
a gardener early in the Summer he told 
me that he had found salt to be a great 
renovator of asparagus beds. I also 
thought the same, and so we were 
agreed. But I had a bed in one of our 
gardens that was but little better than 
no bed at all. The weeds were bound 
to grow there, and the asparagus seemed 
equally determined not to grow. Spind¬ 
ling little shoots not larger than a rye 
straw seemed willing enough to do what 
they could, but the bed as a whole was 
a flat failure. I cleaned the ground of 
weeds and with a manure fork I dug the 
surface all up and I put on salt until 
the ground w-as white. The ground is 
now covered with a luxuriant growth of 
asparagus, and there is not a weed to 
be seen. I am often asked if I believe 
salt is good for the asparagus bed. I 
certainly do so believe, and shall con¬ 
tinue to do so until very strong proof to 
the centrary is furnished. 
Work at H.and. —Just now it keepi 
us guessing and stepping pretty lively 
to see what next must be done. The 
sweet corn is now all marketed save a 
small piece of late planted Early Minne¬ 
sota. That will be reserved for home 
supply and it will last until snow falls 
unless cut off by the frost. It is just 
coming into use now, and if frost keeps 
his nose out of the business we shall 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
have green corn to be continued. The 
field corn is now ready to cut and is 
nice, but we shall have to risk it for a 
few days yet, for the tomatoes still keep 
ripening, and must be marketed. Then, 
too, grape cutting must be attended to, 
and the windfall apples, though low in 
price just now, must not be allowed to 
go to waste. We need a few more shotes 
at present, to care for the waste; but 
present prices of grain and the future 
outlook as to prices make it risky to 
venture further investment in that line. 
Crops have been almost at a standstill 
as to maturing, and this makes it diffi¬ 
cult to prepare for sowing cover crops. 
So about all we are sure of is that they 
will have to be sown late. A hillside 
which I desire to plant out to peach 
trees in the Spring has a cover crop now 
that ought to be plowed under, to be 
followed with rye. It is impossible just 
now to furnish team force for that at 
present, so the rye has to wait a little. 
It ought to be sown at once, for I de¬ 
sired to get all the growth possible to 
turn under in the Spring. But as all 
things are said to come to those who 
wait, I suppose I must hug that promise 
and hold on to my patience while I wait 
a little longer. One thing I can do—if 
the rye is late, and the Spring growth 
is small, I can supplement with stable 
manure. What I want is to get the 
ground full of vegetable matter and after 
that I shall try to care for the surface. 
As I write I recall a dozen jobs that 
ought to be finished up this week, but 
as there are but three of us to do them, 
the chances are that the books will have 
to be left open for future reference. 
Michigan. J. e. morse. 
Cherries in Apple Orchard. 
J. P. M., Mills Mills, N. 7.—1 have a young 
orchard of apple trees set 40 feet apart, 
and I purpose to use cherry trees as fillers 
for a portion of It. Will you give me a 
iist of 10 best varieties for this part of 
western New York? Soil clay loam, ele¬ 
vation 1,400 feet above sea level. 
Ans. —It is a mistake to use cherry 
trees as fillers in an apple orchard. Put 
them in an orchard by themselves and 
use early bearing apple trees as fillers. 
For this purpose the Oldenburg, 
Wealthy, Rome Beauty and Wagener 
are good in western New York, as they 
all begin to bear very early, and will 
use the ground to good advantage. 
Neither would 1 advise planting so many 
as 10 varieties of the cherry for profit. 
Richmond, Montmorency, English Mo- 
rello, which are all sour kinds, are pro¬ 
fitable; and of the sweet varieties Tar¬ 
tarian, Windsor and Bing are among 
the best. The cherry and apple often 
need quite different culture and spray¬ 
ing, and they should never be planted 
together. h. e. v, d. 
Apples for Carolina Mountains. 
M. U. G., Blowing Rock, N. O.—l have two 
orchards here at different altitudes, one at 
3,500 feet and one at 4,000. In the latter I 
have 15,000 trees, including 3,000 Ben Davis 
and 2,000 Bonuin which began to bear last 
year, the fruit in each case being disap¬ 
pointingly small, and in case of the Ben 
Davis not at all high colored. So I am 
convinced as my fruit this year is similar 
to last year, that I have made a mistake 
in selecting these varieties. I would like 
to have your view as to what varieties 
will do best at so high an altitude in this 
section? Would any of the following do; 
Baldwin, Jonathan, Grimes, Stayman. I 
am going to top-graft these 5,000 trees to 
some variety suitable to this altitude. 
Ans. —As I have had the opportunity 
to observe apple orchards at all alti¬ 
tudes from 500 to 4,000 feet above sea 
level in the Blue Ridge country, from 
Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and 
have been at Blowing Rock, although 
not within the last few years, I may 
have a clear idea of the conditions and 
the varieties suitable and unsuitable 
there. This Fall I was in a number of 
orchards in the Blue Ridge Mountains 
of Virginia and found Bonum doing well 
at 2,500 feet elevation, but I do not think 
it strange that it fails to reach proper 
size and color at 4,000 feet. The same 
is true of Ben Davis. In ton-grafting 
the 5,000 trees it would be useless to try 
Baldwin, for that has already been don® 
in the same general region without suc¬ 
cess. Jonathan has proved too small at 
the same altitude elsewhere in North 
Carolina. Grimes has the same fault in 
some measure, although it is a fairly 
profitable apple at that high altitude. I 
do not know of Stayman doing well at 
over 2,500 feet elevation, but it may do 
so. It will behave about like Winesap. 
York Imperial and Newtown are good 
apples for high altitudes, and inquirer 
doubtless has them. Wealthy and Ol¬ 
denburg will be profitable, but are early 
instead of late, which is not desirable 
in most cases. However, they would 
extend the season of gathering, and be 
helpful in that way. Wagener is very 
good and seems to me quite desirable for 
the required use. h. e. v. d. 
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