1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
231 
EVERYBODY’S GARDEN. 
Planting the Garden. —The direc¬ 
tions for planting the all-season’s gar¬ 
den presuppose that the hotbeds are al¬ 
ready in operation, and that the ground 
lias been well manured and thoroughly 
fitted. I fear, however, the fitting has 
been slighted. If heavy clay soil and 
lumpy, those lumps ought in some way 
to be ground to powder. You can do 
this with the pulverizer, disk harrow or 
roller, but lacking these, make a float. 
Take three two-inch plank, 1x6 feet; in 
one plank bore a half-inch hole one foot 
from each end, and two inches in from 
one edge for chain and devices. Use 
this for the front plank, and lap the sec¬ 
ond plank two inches on to the back edge 
of the first one, and bolt or spike on 
firmly. Lap the third on to the second 
in same way as the first, like the clap¬ 
boards on a house, and load with stone, 
bags of sand or get on and ride. It will 
pulverize the lumps and be equally use¬ 
ful for firming light sandy soils, which 
is quite as important. After this the 
permanent beds are in order. 
Asparagus. —Refer to page 87 for full 
directions for planting, which will be 
entirely sufficient, except to impress the 
fact that one-year-old plants are prefer¬ 
able to older ones, and also for garden 
beds they will bear setting more closely 
in the row than was there given for 
field culture, say 18 to 24 inches in the 
row. Clean culture, with liberal ma¬ 
nuring each Fall, are the chief re¬ 
quisites, and a few cuttings may be made 
the second year after transplanting. 
For forcing roots, sow the seed one inch 
deep in the drill, and follow cultural di¬ 
rections as above. When the plants are 
up and well established, thin to one foot 
apart. With intensive culture and ferti¬ 
lizing, the roots should be ready for 
forcing two years from the following 
Winter, but would, of course, be better 
the third season. The same general di¬ 
rections as for forcing rhubarb will also 
hold good for asparagus. Sowings 
should be made each year to keep up a 
root supply. 
Raspberries. —Nothing but the very 
best both as to varieties and vigor is 
good enough, and they should be had at 
whatever cost. Set them out carefully; 
do not throw or stick them into the 
ground. Begin cultivating as soon as 
set out, and never allow them to check 
in growth for want of good care or lib¬ 
eral fertilizing. When two to 2 y 2 feet 
high pinch back the tops to allow lat¬ 
eral shoots to develop. Light catch 
crops may be planted in the rows the 
first season, as beans or some small¬ 
growing variety of corn. Do not be sat¬ 
isfied with half-hearted work or poor 
stock, as results will be disappointing. 
Strawberries.— For the strawberry 
bed I would select the varieties as to 
season, early, medium and late, with 
medium predominating as to number of 
plants for convenience in canning. Get 
the best plants that money can buy; I 
mean get the best varieties, and those 
bred up by specialists in that line; you 
will have fewer runners to fight and get 
larger crops of better berries. If the 
plants are thoroughbred and the ground 
is rich as it should be, set the plants 30 
inches apart by 18 inches in the row, 
and allow no runners to grow at any 
time. This, of course, leaves them in 
hills so that thorough culture can be 
given at all times. If set 36 inches 
apart by 20 inches in the row, they can 
he allowed to set runners to some ex¬ 
tent in the rows. Either way will 
doubtless give better results than grow¬ 
ing in matted rows. When setting the 
plants, do not allow the sun to shine on 
the roots at all. Moisten the roots well 
(do not soak them), a few at a time, and 
leave a small mound of earth in the row 
where the plant is to be set. With the 
crown resting fairly on the mound, al¬ 
low the roots to fall and spread natur¬ 
ally over the mound, and cover with 
fine earth at once. Cultivate imme¬ 
diately after setting, as the ground will 
be more or less tramped down, and 
much moisture will be lost, which cul¬ 
tivating would save. This will be found 
excellent practice in all the garden 
work, cultivate and cultivate. Set the 
plants in freshly worked soil, and set 
them, do not stick them. With the best 
of plants properly set and properly 
cared for you will grow three to four 
good crops without renewing. 
The Salads. —Nearly all the salads 
require essentially the same cultivation 
and should be sown as early as the con¬ 
ditions of soil and weather will permit. 
As the diagram on page 207 shows 
everything in drills or rows it is taken 
for granted that these terms are under¬ 
stood all the time, and nothing is men¬ 
tioned of broadcasting. Lettuce should 
not be covered to exceed half an inch, 
and the plants may be picked out for 
transplanting at any tune after they 
are well established. As soon as large 
enough the plants may also be used for 
salad, but when thinning out either for 
transplanting or salad, leave good vig¬ 
orous plants standing four inches apart 
in the rows. Later on, as they begin to 
crowd in the rows, every alternate plant 
may be taken out and the others left to 
head up. Liquid cow manure will hasten 
the heading and increase the size of 
plants. Mustard is a very desirable and 
healthful salad, but the seed should be 
handled with great care, and not al¬ 
lowed to be scattered outside the drill. 
Sow early and for succession make 
sowings every 10 days or two weeks. In 
about 25 days from sowing the plants 
should be large enough to use for sal¬ 
ads, and the rows may be thinned out 
as required for use, leaving the plants 
two or three inches apart to grow for 
greens. When it begins to blossom, cut 
it out and never allow a plant to set or 
mature its seed. Turnips when sown 
for early use may well be included in 
the list of salads. They can remain 
standing quite thickly in the rows until 
the tops have made considerable growth, 
when they make delicious greens. Thin 
to three or four inches in the row, and 
in hoeing invariably hoe the soil away 
from and not to the turnips. They will 
make far more rapid growth, and will be 
less liable to attack from the worms. 
Cress (upland) should be sown as early 
as possible, and make continual sow¬ 
ings as long as desired. For early Win¬ 
ter use sow early in the Autumn, but in 
any case the ground must be very rich 
and mellow for best results. Dust the 
plants with Pyrethrum to guard against 
insects. j. e. morse. 
Michigan. 
Test the Rope.—I n putting up new ropes 
for hoisting purposes, the life of it depends 
upon the proper method of using it. Run 
the rope through your hand several times 
in one direction, and then reverse the pro¬ 
cess. I have found as much difference in 
the make-up of ropes as there is in the 
“wrong" and "right” side of a piece of 
Cloth. C. L. STEELE. 
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400 Lbs. New Globe Danvers Onion Seed 
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or more at 50c. per lb.; 40 lbs. or more at 45c. per lb.; 
SO lbs. or more at 40c. per lb Send money with order. 
Sent by Adams Express or freight. Reference: The 
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OATS 
Pure seed; best clover; Timothy; four best Held 
corns. Description. Cine sample free; more lc. each. 
00 kinds Potatoes, Beans, Raspberries, Barred Rocks, 
Evergreen Corn mailed for 50 bills, postage 5c. 
S. J. SMITH POTATO FARM, Box B, Manchester,N.Y 
Thielmanns—The Seedsmen—carry a 
full line of Garden and Field Seeds. 
Onion Seed a specialty Write to-day 
for their Catalogue and Special Prices. 
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GARDEN 
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We are recleauers of all kinds of Field Seeds i 
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| Seed Catalog mailed free. 
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80c a bu. ami up. 
Michigan North- 
Corn 
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Turnip—Purple Top Whlto Globe. 
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10c to W. J. HASKINS & CO., 140 Court Street, 
Binghamton, N Y. 
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Rheumatism. 
No Pay Until You Know It. 
After 2,000 experiments, I have learned 
bow to cure rheumatism. Not to turn 
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I ask for no money. Simply write me 
a postal and I will send you an order 
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of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Cure, for 
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 
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and I take the risk. I have cured tens 
of thousands of cases in this way, and 
my records show that 39 out of 40 who 
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Mild oases, not ohronlc, are often enred by one or 
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^vWPPt Potato SEED—Jersey Yellow, Big Stem 
OYICOl lUUUO jersey Yellow.Jersey Red,Pierson, 1 
Vineland Bush and other kinds. Seud for Price 
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If it’s trees you want, write for free fruit and 
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Ceed Potatoes—Carman No. 3 and Sir Walter Ra- 
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Choice Carman No. 3 Seed Potatoes, $1 
bu.; seconds. HOC. Woodbine Farm, Hartstown, Pa. 
OKED POTATOK8—Wholesale prices on early shlp- 
^ ments. Best early and late varieties. Catalogue. 
W. E. IMES SEED CO., Capac, Mich. 
I——Choice Early Bovee Potatoes, No. 1 
lOl gfllC size. $1.25 per bushel; No. 2 size. 75c 
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DAT A TDPQ grown especially for SEED 
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GEO. H. COLVIN, Crest Farm, Dalton, Pa. 
Carman No. 1 and No. 3 Seed Potatoes. 
Free from scab and true to variety. $1 per bushel. 
W. F. CRAIG, Sligo, Pa. 
Northern-grown Early Seed Potatoes. 
Ohio Jr., Early Sunrise, medium size, verv smooth, 
$2.50 barrel 180 lbs., f. o. b. S. P. KIMBALL & SON, 
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$1 per bushel Carman No. 3, my 
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itChoice Aroostook Seed. Leading 
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Green Mountain Potatoes, good keep¬ 
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bbl.$4. S. J. EMERSON Lunenburg, Mass. 
ChCn DOT Carman No. 3. 1 to 10 bushels, 
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