1910. 
THIS RUR.AJE* KEYW-YORKICKl 
287 
A GARDEN PLAN. 
This sketch which I send you herewith 
is of a flower and vegetable garden. It 
was conceded by all those who saw it 
to be the finest and at the same time a 
profitable and useful one. The size of 
A GARDEN PLAN, 
this garden was 15 feet square. The 
two outside rows which for a border 
were bush beans planted in hills and 
greenhouse. Seeds germinate fairly readily 
if sown about one-half jncli deep, and kept- 
moist. After the seedlings are out of 
the ground they should be thinned down to 
two or three inches apart. 
One reason for sowing in a cold frame 
or greenhouse is that it lias appeared to ns 
that the seedlings require a rather long sea¬ 
son to mature. The plants will attain a 
height, or rather a length (as they are in¬ 
clined to be weak at the bottom and fall 
over like pea vines) of a foot or 18 inches. 
These vines probably will not blossom, at 
least thev never have with me, but will 
produce small tubers. The tubers formed 
on these plants will range from the size of 
garden peas to that of cherries. I suppose 
that one should keep the tubers from each 
of these seedling plants separate, as each 
plant, in all probability, will produce what 
is practically a separate variety of potato. 
Our practice, however, is simply to dig these 
tubers and the second year to keep the hills 
separate. The tubers will need to be kept 
dormant for quite a time after digging be¬ 
fore they will sprout. 
The second year, or the first year of plant¬ 
ing the tubers, more or less trouble will be 
experienced from insects attacking the 
plants, as these plants are not as resistant 
as the varieties grown for market. Prob¬ 
ably not more than one out of a hundred 
of these varieties will be good enough to 
make it desirable to save after the second 
year. About three seasons are required to 
bring the tubers from seed to full size. We 
have produced in the past two or three 
years some very fine-looking potatoes in this 
way, but so far, we have not produced any¬ 
thing which we consider' superior, or even 
equal to Pearl. Rural New-Yorker, or T’eaeli- 
blow. In fact, if we were to get one variety 
out of a million seedlings that was as good 
as any of these named varieties we should 
think‘that we were getting valuable results. 
quite close together thus making a good 
looking border. The four rows marked 
one on sketch are tomatoes, six plants in 
each row. The four rows marked two 
are lettuce. Then come four rows of 
beets marked three and lastly are four 
rows of onions marked four. This 
makes 36 rows in all. Now here is a 
little innovation in gardening. If on 
light sandy soil dig a trench about five 
inches deep for each row and place in 
the bottom of each one building paper, 
or even old newspapers will do. Cover 
this with soil and on that place the fer¬ 
tilizer. This paper will prevent and 
hold the moisture and fertilizer from 
going through the soil on light sandy 
ground. d. f. h. 
Springfield, Mass. 
Potato Seed and Seedlings. 
How shall I handle potato balls to get 
tubers next year? J. J. 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
I have raised nine potato plants this 
last year from a package of seed. Potatoes 
are from the size of a garden pea to the size 
of the yolk of an egg, potatoes showing all 
eolors, even to black. How should I pro¬ 
ceed this Spring in planting them? Should 
they be started in hotbed, or planted in 
the open field like other potatoes? One 
plant had 101 potatoes on it. u. m. 
Sheldon, Vt. 
Ailing Norway Spruce. 
I desire advice in regard to a Norway 
spruce. There is something wrong with it. 
Some of the limbs are dying, and it does 
not grow as fast as the others. The soil 
is sandy gravel. I cannot find any grubs or 
borers. ‘ Does it need some fertilizer? If so 
what kind? a. l. s. 
Waverly, N. Y r . 
Old stable manure is about the best fer¬ 
tilizer for spruce trees, as it acts as a mulch 
as well as yielding fertility. We would 
remove an inch or two of the top soil and 
cover with five or six inches of good yard 
manure, protecting with wire netting if 
necessary to keep fowls out. The manure 
should be applied ns far out as the branches 
extend. It might be well to apply a sprink¬ 
ling of fine ground bone before putting on 
the manure. 
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in reply to these and other questions we 
repeat part of an article by I’rof. E. R. 
Bennett which we printed last Pall. 
Collecting the seed is done the same way 
as tomato seed is gathered. We take the 
fruits, crush them in a jar with water, and 
allow them to stand a few days to ferment. 
This fermentation separates the seed from 
the pulp, and then, with a little stirring, 
the seed will settle to the bottom, after 
which they may be easily washed out and 
cleaned from all pulp. A couple of quarts 
of the fruits will produce an ounce or two 
of seed—probably make from 15,000 to 
.‘10,000 potato seeds. These seeds may be 
sown in the ground in the Spring. It is 
not desirable, however, to follow this course, 
as the young seedlings are very tender, and 
if not protected very carefully from insect 
pests, such as the Colorado Potato beetle 
and the little black flea-beetle, they are very 
apt to be destroyed before they are large 
enough to take care of themselves. The bet¬ 
ter way is to sow the seed in boxes or 
beds in a cold frame or hothouse. We fol¬ 
low the practice of sowing in beds in the 
When you examine the construction of this 
harrow, and especially when you have tried it, 
yon will understand_ why it has always been the 
favorite and why it is recommended more than 
all other harrows combined, in books written 
by agricultural authorities. 
Not an Inch of soil escapes tho sharp sloping knives 
and these knives cut through to the undersoil, chop¬ 
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“34 Potatoes to the Bushel, weighing 61 lbs.” 
“ I am sending a sample bushel of potatoes weighing 6 i lbs., and made up 
of 34 in number, to your agents from whom I bought your fertilizer. The 
yield is about 300 bushels per acre, and the point is they were grown from a 
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Oct. 26 , 1909 . FAXON BROWN, North Adams, Mass. 
“ Not a Rotten Potato in the Whole Field.” 
“ While the season was very dry this past year, your Swift’s Special Potato Fertilizer 
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was not a rotten potato in the whole field. I applied three tons on a little more than 
three acres of land and used no other manure on ground that was badly worn out.” 
Dec. 3 , 1909 . GEORGE A. MURCH, Old Orchard, Maine. 
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