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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 26 
Proper Treatment for Flowers. 
»ST. 8. G., Hardwick, Tt.—l wish to purchase 
a few roses, carnations, etc., this Spring 
(mail-size plants), pot them, and handle 
them so as to have them blooming nicely 
about the last week in September. How 
shall I manage them? I have a small 
greenhouse, built last Fall, but have had 
no experience in running it yet. Will that 
be a suitable place to carry these plants 
through the Summer? If so, will it be 
necessary to provide screens to protect the 
plants from the sun during the hot weath¬ 
er? What annuals could I plant in the 
house, and when sow the seed, so as to 
have them blooming the last of Septem¬ 
ber? We often have hard frosts here 
early in September. 
Ans. —You may carry your roses 
through the Summer in pots in the new 
greenhouse if carefully watered and 
given very thorough ventilation. There 
will be no need of screening or shading 
if carefully syringed once or twice on 
bright days. The ventilators should be 
left partly open on warm nights, but 
closed when damp and chilly. The roses 
will probably need shifting to larger 
pots two or three times during the Sum¬ 
mer, advancing one or two sizes at a 
shift. It will much simplify matters if 
the roses are planted out 14 inches apart 
in a bench or border in the house, filled 
with six inches of a good compost made 
up of one part of well-rotted manure to 
two parts rotted sods or good earth from 
a fence corner. They will require less 
water in the bench but need the same 
attention as to ventilation and syring¬ 
ing. Carnations seldom succeed well in 
pots but may be had in bloom from Sep¬ 
tember through the Winter if planted 
one foot apart in a bench or border pre¬ 
pared as above for roses. The best an¬ 
nuals to grow for Fall bloom under glass 
are probably Asters, Ageratum, Gom- 
phrena, Dianthus Chinensis, mignonette, 
dwarf nasturtiums, Petunias, ten-weeks’ 
stocks, Salvia splendens and Verbena. 
The seeds could be planted in May or 
early June and the plants transplanted 
later to pots or benches. Sweet peas 
sometimes succeed well in the green¬ 
house when sown in August. Un¬ 
less these plants can be ventilated, wa¬ 
tered and syringed with perfect regular¬ 
ity it is well to use a muslin screen or 
a coat of whitewash on the glass during 
the hottest weeks of the year. The best 
plants are likely to be grown in full sun, 
but much attention is needed to keep 
them from drying out. 
First Rose Report.—I received the rose 
this morning in fine condition; had not 
wilted. It is a little beauty and I am 
proud of it. I had it set out where it is 
to remain by two o’clock in the afternoon. 
I dug a hole four feet across each way 
and 2*4 feet deep; then I dug the bottom 
of the hole up loose, two or three inches 
deeper; put in a wheelbarrowful of bones, 
then a wheelbarrowful of gravel, a bushel 
each of fresh hen manure and chips from 
wood yard mixed; then two inches of dirt 
that came out of the hole. The soil was 
put in three piles; first, five or six Inches 
was rich earth, next was common soil, 
last clay. Then the hole was filled two- 
thirds full with common soil and fresh 
cow manure (cows fed on cotton-seed 
meal, hulls and wheat bran), mixed; from 
there up was filled with top dirt and fine 
pulverized manure mixed. The rose was 
set in the top dirt, with cow manure pud¬ 
dled around it and little on the roots 
after I had straightened them out, then 
dirt. The clay I sprayed around for four 
or five feet to keep down weeds. I will 
water every day until rains; will have to 
put something around every night to keep 
rabbits from cutting it off. w. o. p. 
Columbus, Miss. 
Virginia Notes.— We have had a very 
severe Winter here, the greatest amount 
of cold weather'in 30 years.. We have not 
had more than four or five fine days since 
first of last November to the first of 
March. Wheat looks bad; cannot possibly 
make more than one-half a crop. It was 
too dry in the Fall, and got no start before 
the cold weather set in. j. r. 
Speedwell, Va. 
Mr. Atjtobalm: “Can’t you stop the 
thing?” Chauffeur: “No; impossible.” 
Mr. Autobalm: “Then, for Heaven’s 
sake, hit something cheap.”—Judge. 
COLT WITH BLEMISHED KNEE. 
I have a colt coming four this Spring. 
He always ran loose in a box stall, and 
last Fall I put him in a narrow stall and 
he pawed most of the time. After about 
a month I noticed that the left front knee 
began to swell. I put him back in the 
box stall and used salt and hot water. 
The swelling went down, but there seems 
to be a thickness either of the skin or the 
ligament about the size of a five-cent piece 
He Is not lame, but I would like to re¬ 
move this blemish if possible. I think that 
when pawing he struck his knee against 
the manger. What can I do for it? 
Union, N. Y. R. a. g. 
My friend Nature will do a great deal 
for that knee. Your application of salt 
and hot water, especially the hot water, 
was what aided it, and had I been called 
to see this case I should probably have 
prescribed hot water and a mild lini¬ 
ment of a stimulating nature, but per¬ 
haps we would better have a blister to 
absorb what little effusion may be lurk¬ 
ing in the joint. I do not think you will 
have any trouble with it if it is left en¬ 
tirely alone. Have your druggist put up 
the following: Tincture of iodine, one- 
half ounce; turpentine, one ounce; tinc¬ 
ture of cantharides, one ounce; linseed 
oil, two ounces. Apply thoroughly once 
a day to parts until a good blister is 
formed; then stop and after a week 
grease with fresh lard and after scab is 
off if enlargement is not removed blister 
again. c. e. hatch, v. s. 
“I now realize,” said the pig, as they 
loaded him in the wagon bound for the 
butcher’s, “I now realize that overeat¬ 
ing tends to shorten life.”—Indianap¬ 
olis Press. 
“Here, young man,” said the old wo¬ 
man with fire in her eyes, “I’ve brung 
back this thermometer you sold me.” 
“What’s the matter with it?” asked the 
clerk. “It ain’t reliable. One time ye 
look at it it says one thing, and the 
next time it says another.”—Credit 
Lost. 
The Stockbridge Manures 
Are the Cheapest to Buy 
T^ARMERS who use the Stock- 
bridge write us after harvest 
time that while in the spring they 
thought the Stockbridge were high 
in price, yet they had proven the 
cheapest to buy—for two reasons: 
First .— Because, being very much richer than other 
fertilizers, they “go further” in the field, thus costing 
less per acre; and 
Second, — Because, as the 
increased yield more than 
and the increased yield was more in proportion to 
cost than that received from other fertilizers that cost 
less per ton. This is 
p Mnt\N^ 
crops turned out, the 
paid for the fertilizer; 
The Difference That Pays 
“ I used Stockbridge on one acre of corn and twice as 
much of another brand on another acre, and the 
Stockbridge gave me the best results.”—C. Billings, 
Orange County, Vermont. 
“ The Stockbridge goes much farther than any other 
brand I ever used.” — Eli Holden, Washington 
County, Vermont. 
“The difference in yield in favor of the Stockbridge 
more than paid for the fertilizer used.”—John E. 
Francis, Newport County, Rhode Island. 
“ Although the Stockbridge costs more per ton than 
some others, it is much the cheapest to buy.” — 
A. L. Aseltine, Franklin County, Vermont. 
will pay you to see our local agents, or address 
BOWKER 
Fertilizer Company 
No. 43 CHATHAM STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
