1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
Personal Experience With Hot- 
reds.— On page 88 E. H., In referring to 
hotbeds and cold frames on page 5, sug¬ 
gests some modifications and says: 
As essential to success, I find nothing to 
take the place of glass in all cases, yet 
cloth (heavy cotton muslin), is very useful 
many times in the shading and hardening 
off plants. I at first used the paint on cloth, 
but on account of the cloth cracking badly, 
I discontinued its use, and now use just the 
plain cloth. When wet, they stretch 
tight, which with incline of frame, car¬ 
ries the water off, but little dropping 
through. If desired, a part of the bed can 
be used as a cold bed, by cutting off with 
a board fitted inside, from side to side. 
I am glad E. H. calls attention to some 
facts, for while he makes some valuable 
suggestions, he has, I think, in a mea¬ 
sure misunderstood my position. In the 
article referred to I think I clearly em¬ 
phasize the fact that glass is the best. 
It must be remembered, however, that 
in my work I must strive to get down 
to the needs of everyone and at the same 
time keep within the limit of everyone’s 
pocketbook. So to keep safely within 
the reach of all I offer the cloth-covered 
hotbed as a very cheap and serviceable 
substitute. It would not be dependable 
for very early work at the North, but 
in many southern localities it would an¬ 
swer every purpose for those who could 
not afford the greater expense of glass. 
Rightly understood there is no modifica¬ 
tion necessary. But if I rightly under¬ 
stand E. H., he only uses the cloth cov¬ 
ers for shading and hardening off. I 
use them for actually growing the 
plants, and side by side with the glass 
have grown better cauliflower, cabbage 
and lettuce under the cloth than 1 have 
ever grown under the glass. The cloth 
covers, if prepared just as directed on 
page 5, will turn the water, and, I think, 
nearly or quite as much cold as glass, 
and will be found a safe and cheap way 
where the expense of glass cannot be 
afforded. This is actual experience, and 
here in frisky, frolicksome Michigan 
weather I will risk it under all ordinary 
circumstances as early as March 15, re¬ 
membering always that the only safety 
with cloth or glass is in extra covering 
for severe changes. 
E. H. does not say what kind of paint 
he used, but with the preparation given, 
page 5, I have never seen a sign of 
cracking. Were I using them only for 
shading and hardening off perhaps I 
would not bother to prepare the cloth; 
but think I would, however, as when 
badly sagged as they will inevitably be 
at times, they will never shrink quickly 
enough in a very sudden and heavy 
downfall of rain to prevent drenching 
the bed. Try both ways and choose the 
better. The combined bed, hotbed and 
cold frame, spoken of by E. H., is very 
serviceable. It is a very great conveni¬ 
ence, but except it be very early in the 
season I do not take the trouble to di¬ 
vide off with boards at all. I bank the 
entire outside with manure the same as 
for any bed, then use whatever portion 
of the bed desired, simply banking the 
manure and soil squarely up at the end. 
The remainder is used for transplanting 
or for setting in pots, with or without 
manure, just as desired. 
Some Greenhouse Questions. —We have 
recently come into possession of a farm 
(we are market gardeners), on which is a 
greenhouse; this is 1214x20 feet, and heated 
by hot-air furnace. We wisli to grow cab¬ 
bage, cauliflower, tomato and egg plants 
for transplanting. Can good, thrifty plants 
of the kinds mentioned be grown in such a 
house? Would the plant cloth you men¬ 
tioned in a recent article answer for hard¬ 
ening off the plants? If so, we would much 
prefer it to the expensive sash. If you 
suspected the greenhouse soil might have 
the germs of club-root in it, how would 
you treat it before sowing the seeds? Would 
you use manure in the seed beds? Would 
you advise the use of any stimulating fer¬ 
tilizer like nitrate of soda in the seed beds 
or upon the young plants? G. m. 
Johnstown, Pa. 
I think there is no reason why the 
very best plants of kinds named may not 
be grown in G. M.’s greenhouse, but be¬ 
i47 
ing heated with hot-air furnace, tem¬ 
perature and moisture will require close 
watching, and if as suspected there has 
been previous trouble I think it has 
arisen through mismanagement of one 
or both of these conditions. The plant 
cloth will do nicely for hardening off the 
plants. The medium weight will answer 
all right, and as the question is already 
under discussion, let me suggest that 
you get figures on the prepared cloth 
and also the cost of preparing the cloth 
yourself, and see if it will not pay you 
to put in your own labor and prepare 
your own cloth as directed on page 5. 
The labor of putting on the prepared 
cloth will be certainly as much as put¬ 
ting on the cloth before it is prepared. 
The frames you will have to make in 
either case. See if you cannot buy the 
unprepared cloth, and treat it after it is 
on the frames, as cheaply as you can 
buy the prepared cloth and pay trans¬ 
portation charges, as you will doubtless 
have to do. You will need considerable 
of one or the other, and, I believe, you 
can turn some of the odd spells and bad 
weather into cash by preparing the cloth 
yourself. If I suspected any trace of 
club-root I would hesitate long before 
using the soil. Do not use it if possible 
to avoid it, but if obliged to do so, put 
on a good dressing of air-slaked lime 
and work it well into the beds before 
sowing the seed. It will also be benefi¬ 
cial to put on sulphur, say one pound 
to the ordinary space of a hotbed. I 
think this treatment will obviate the 
difficulty, but would rather not use the 
soil if possible to avoid it. It is dan¬ 
gerous alike to cabbage and cauliflower. 
If you mean to use the manure the same 
as for hotbeds, to generate bottom 
heat, you will not need it. If you mean 
as a fertilizer, good fine manure well 
mixed into the soil will help very much. 
I would not use the nitrate of soda be¬ 
fore sowing the seed, as the young root¬ 
lets when first starting are exceedingly 
tender, and serious results are liable 
to follow the use of any such concen¬ 
trated stimulant. Two years ago I 
sprinkled nitrate .of soda on a hotbed 
just previous to sowing the seed, and 
the tomatoes were almost a total failure. 
It was only a light application, but not 
one-fourth of the plants ever got out of 
the ground. I was unable to assign any 
other cause, and it has also been the ex¬ 
perience of others. After the plants are 
up and growing I have had the very best 
of results by applying it in solution, an 
ounce to a gallon of water sprinkled or 
sprayed on lightly at first; then increase 
as the plants get age and size. 
Michigan. J. e. morse. 
The Early Ohio Potato.— There 
have been requests for a description of 
the Early Ohio potato, and we therefore 
show at Fig. 56, page 143, the picture 
of a fair specimen grown by the Living¬ 
ston Seed Co. Mr. Livingston says that 
this tuber was dug the last week in Au¬ 
gust, and was kept over five months on 
a desk in a warm office. This shows re¬ 
markable keeping qualities for an extra 
early potato, and the Early Ohio ranks 
high in table qualities also. While 
newer varieties have in some measure 
taken the place of the Early Ohio, that 
standard old variety is still the favorite 
in many localities, and is worth a trial 
by those who have never grown it. 
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Rheumatism. 
No Pay Until You Know It. 
After 2,000 experiments, I have learned 
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bony joints into flesh again; that is im¬ 
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I ask for no money. Simply write me 
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every druggist keeps it. Use it for a 
month, and if it does what I claim pay 
your druggist $5.50 for it. If it doesn’t 
I will pay him myself. 
I have no samples. Any medicine that 
can affect rheumatism with but a few 
doses must be drugged to the verge of 
danger. I use no such drugs. It is folly 
to take them. You must get the disease 
out of the blood. 
My remedy does that, even the most 
difficult, obstinate cases. No matter how 
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of thousands of cases in this way, and 
my records show that 39 out of 40 who 
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I don’t expect a penny from you. 
Simply write me a postal card or let¬ 
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medicine. Take it for a month, for it 
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pay $5.50. I leave that entirely to you. 
I will mail you a book that tells how I 
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Mild oases, not chronic, are often cured by one or 
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