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THE KUKA.L NEVV-VOKKEH 
April 24, .UH5. 
The Home Acre 
NOTES ON GARDEN MATTERS. 
I Jippeastkum Johnsoni. —Years ago 
in North Carolina, I grew this Amaryllis 
by the thousands. They will stand an 
ordinary Winter in the open ground at 
Raleigh, but I always lifted them in the 
Fall and packed them on a bed of damp 
sphagnum moss in the cellar, for I found 
that these naturally evergreen bulbs do 
far better if not allowed to lose their 
roots. They were planted out in the 
Spring and bloomed profusely in late May 
and June, and increased by offsets. In 
pot culture the one thing to avoid is over- 
potting. They will not bloom well in pots 
till the roots are cramped, or as the flor¬ 
ists say “pot-bound.” I have now in 
bloom one of Burbank’s hybrid Ilippea- 
strums. The flowers are over six inches 
across, white with rosy pink stripes. John- 
is already seeded to crab grass, and as 
we come southward there is no better 
grass for hay if it is cut at the right 
stage. Down in Eastern North Carolina 
after an early truck crop one can let 
the land lie and make a heavy crop of 
hay that is fully as good as Timothy. It 
is a common practice after gathering a 
crop of peas or string beans to plow un¬ 
der the vines and let the crab grass grow. 
In the case suggested I would spread the 
dead grass and plow it under. I once 
saw a field in the Fall in North Carolina 
with a tremendous crop of crab grass on 
it. The owner said that the field had 
been set in cabbages the previous Fall, 
and in the Spring string beans were 
1 ilanted between the cabbages at last 
working and the cabbages cut out and the 
beans cultivated. Then between alter- 
NORTH 
Blackberries 
Black 
> X X. X X * * * * 
Raspberries Red 
■ Kpn\ 
Asparagus 
Rot Bed Cold Frame 
*■ x .* + -► 4 + 
+ Rhubarb 
New Straw berry Bed 
Old Strawberry Bed 
4-Hot. Knr\V Early Peas X Late Cabbage -h )m\\j ~ 
• * » . • • * (*»»«%• ♦* f •» ♦« M ♦♦ %>*%%.»*'** * ' ' ' * ''' 
-j- kprW O Early Cabbage O Cauliflower Wax; 
Sow jn — 
Early Potatoes 
— Turnips rn &u\vj 
Early Potatoes 
+ O Pepper O Egg Plant t _ + Mcy Q Tomatoes _ 
~~^-hyn\ & Ifo\x Onion Sc<s r ’t-B<F?o\»dUqr. Aug ^Head Lettuce ' * Mar Auq. Radishes 
-hficpcdtlV.qr Spinach Hog Swiss Chora Endive Beets . 
VMqu Parsnips '-fMaa Salsify Parsley 
4May Corrots~ 
•flAotj Onions 
“t*3uue Late Peas 
Celery- 
Cucumber Musk melon -+tAa .3 or June Summer Squash 
Watermelon + * * 
* Winter Squash* 
Vvom Snap Beans . Bush Lima Beans **i-\Aav\ or \&\ ivinc. 
hurt) \asl Early A ^ . Sweet Corn -f lasl Mia summer , 
-f- Juivj Late Sow m Pumpkins Mid summer _ 
SOUTH 
A GARDEN PLAN FOR FOUR. 
soni is smaller but prettier. This plant 
has two very large bulbs in a six-inch 
pot, and I have been four years getting 
it into bloom from a small bulb. The 
Johnsoni can be grown in the open 
ground during the Summer and potted 
in a pot that will just hold the roots, and 
the bulbs can be forced into bloom in a 
greenhouse in Winter, or can be packed 
in moss in the cellar and planted out in 
Spring. When I grew them largely I 
had no difficulty in selling them to the 
seed houses for $20 per 100. as my bulbs 
were much larger than those commonly 
offered. 
A Sandy Soil. —Like Trucker Jr. I 
am gardening on a sandy soil, and I have 
been so much interested in what he writes 
in Tiie R. N.-Y. that I am rather desir¬ 
ous to know who lie is. One who writes 
in so practical a manner should give us 
his name, for he has no reason to he 
bashful about what he writes. I would 
add to what lie says to A. C. that it 
would be well for a grower on Long Isl¬ 
and to visit the experiment farms of the 
Long Island Railroad. He can learn 
more there than in any other way. 
Cucumbers On Tkellis. —I would 
say to C. II. N. (page 517) that I have 
had line crops of the Japanese climbing 
cucumber on a chicken wire trellis. Two 
years ago I bad a plant of the Hubbard 
squash, which reached and got hold of 
a wire netting fence, and I simply let it 
climb, and I had more squashes on the 
fence than on the ground. But with these 
and with melons lie will have to support 
the fruit, as the stems will not do it 
successfully. The cantaloupes will have 
to lie supported in netting just as in a 
greenhouse. 
Some Goon Peas.— For first early I 
plant a good strain of the Alaska type, 
usually the Nonpareil. For the second 
early I have formerly used Nott’s Ex¬ 
celsior and American Wonder, but Sut¬ 
ton's Excelsior is better and I shall use 
this and Laxtonian this season. The much- 
praised Gradus is a line pea. but after 
several seasons’ trial I have concluded 
that it makes more vine than peas, and I 
have never got a satisfactory crop of it. 
Then for a late pea to grow on chicken 
wire netting there is nothing better than 
the old Champion of England. It must 
have plenty of support to climb on, but 
it pays well for it. 
Crab Grass. —D. S. M. is advised to 
burn liis dry crab grass. I would not do 
anything of the sort. His Virginia land 
nate rows of beans hills of cantaloupes 
wore planted and cultivated and then the 
grass let grow and the cantaloupes picked 
from along it. and after these were off 
the grass grew tip as I saw it, and 
cut over a ton of hay an acre. 
Maryland. w. f. massey. 
Planting a Potato Patch. 
I would like to know how potatoes 
should be planted, that is. distance apart, 
etc.; also if manure or fertilizer is good 
or both? When cutting the seed potatoes 
is it necessary to cut more than one eye? 
I)o two or three eyes make any difference 
in plant? P- B. 
Connecticut. 
We assume that you have a garden 
and .^ot a farm, so that not more than a 
bushel of potatoes will be planted. You 
will find the tubers of two general types. 
One is long and slender. On this you 
will find the buds or “eyes” well distrib¬ 
uted all over the potato. You may cut 
the long potatoes into almost any shape 
so long as one or two strong eyes are on 
each piece. We prefer two good eyes. 
The other type is round and thick, like 
the shape of a fist. Most tubers of this 
type have the live or vital buds grouped 
at one end—“the seed end.” There are 
other buds scattered over the tuber, but 
they are usually feeble and some of them 
will never sprout. In cutting such tub¬ 
ers plan to have at least one of these 
strong end buds on each piece. The rule 
is to slice such tubers lengthwise and 
not cut across them. Medium-sized tub¬ 
ers can be cut thus in half—larger ones 
quartered. As you cut these pieces have 
a quantity of dry sulphur on hand and 
dust it well over the cut pieces. It helps 
prevent scab and keeps the pieces firm. 
If you are to cultivate with a horse 
put the rows three feet apart—if with 
hand cultivator 2 1 / 4 feet. Make a deep wide 
furrows eight inched deep at least. If it 
is but a small patch it will pay to spade 
these furrows out like wide ditches. We 
would not use stable manure on the po¬ 
tatoes. Drop the seed pieces 15 inches 
apart in the furrows and work about two 
inches of dirt over them. Then scatter 
the fertilizer in a wide strip—not crowd¬ 
ed right above the seed pieces, but scat¬ 
tered at least 18 inches wide. Pull over 
about three inches more of dirt and keep 
working more and more in as the plants 
grow. We assume that you know the im¬ 
portance of clean culture and thorough 
spraying. 
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