THE RURAL, NEW'YORKEH 
1223 
RURALISMS 
Heating Small Greenhouse. 
IIow is it best to heat a small green¬ 
house 10x16 feet, with coal or oil. hot 
air or hot water? We shall build ce¬ 
ment walls and roof of glass down 'to 
wall. w. B. y. 
Center Co., Pa. 
Heating a greenhouse 10x16 feet 
should be a very easy matter with one 
large stove in a pit a few feet deep in 
center of house, or two smaller stoves 
at ends (one at each end.l All that 
would be necessary would be a sheet 
iron shield completely enclosing stove, 
but eight to 12 inches away from out¬ 
side of stove. This sheet iron should ex¬ 
tend a foot or so above stove and to 
within about eight inches of ground at 
bottom. This will set the air currents 
circulating in a definite direction. A 
large galvanized iron tank placed on top 
of stove, and filled with water, would 
possibly aid in holding a more uniform 
temperature, and probably help counter¬ 
act the dry atmosphere caused by the 
stove, though this is a question, as 
water to moisten or humidify the air 
in a room should be applied cold and 
broken up into an exceeding fine spray. 
E. J. w. 
spread broadcast, then cut it over with 
the disk harrow, going over it three or 
four times both ways, which will chop 
up the sod and thoroughly mix the ma¬ 
nure with the soil. Make the surface as 
fine and smooth as possible before seeding. 
To make the surface smooth and free 
from bumps and hollows, it should be 
gone over at least once in each direction 
with a hand roller, and after each rolling 
the high spots should be leveled and the 
low spots filled in with a steel rake. All 
the leading seed houses handle good lawn 
grass and mixtures suitable for the va¬ 
rious soils and localities. If stable ma¬ 
nure cannot be had in proper condition 
for use, then apply fine ground raw bone 
at the rate of 500 pounds to the acre, and 
pulverized sheep manure in the same 
quantity, and disked in as directed when 
stable manure is used. Sow the seed as 
early in Spring as the ground becomes dry 
enough to work, make the first cutting 
with the lawn mower as soon as the 
young grass reaches a height of three or 
four inches, and regularly each week 
thereafter throughout the season, unless a 
drought should prevail, when the young 
grass would be better uncut until th<> 
drought is broken. To thicken old turf 
there is nothing much better than finely 
ground raw bone, applied at the rate of 
1.000 pounds to the acre. It should, how- 
Destroying Poison Ivy. 
I have just bought a farm, and part 
of it is overrun with poison ivy. I wish 
to kill out this ivy which is getting on to 
the yards and lawns and on fences. Can 
you suggest something that will kill it 
out? I have pulled a lot of the roots 
but it would take forever. Would plow¬ 
ing the lawns kill the ivy or cause it to 
spread more? H. b. p. 
New Preston, Conn. 
If the grass on this lawn is cut regu¬ 
larly as it should be, it would no doubt 
soon subdue the poison ivy, as the plant 
could not thrive nor long exist if it is 
regularly and persistently shorn of its 
foliage. The breathing pores of all plants 
are situated in the leaves, and if the 
plants are prevented from developing top 
growth, the roots must soon die from suf¬ 
focation. In this case, plowing up the 
lawn and raking out the roots and burn¬ 
ing them may be the quickest and best 
method of eradicating this noxious pest. 
The plants along the fence rows will have 
to be grubbed out and watchful care 
taken that any remaining roots never 
have a chance to develop much top 
growth and get another start. When 
the plants are so situated that nothing 
else will suffer, heavy applications of 
salt may be used with success, but this 
cannot be done where other vegetation 
is to be preserved or grown in the imme¬ 
diate future. K. 
Renewing An Old Lawn. 
My lawns need something to thicken 
the grass, and several will have to be 
plowed up, as they are uneven and need 
tilling in. Will you tell me what I would 
better put on to thicken the growth of 
the old sod, and how would I better han¬ 
dle what I plow up so that I can have a 
good sod for next Summer? It has been 
suggested that I sow rye and grass seed, 
cut with a lawn mower early in the Sum¬ 
mer. The idea is to get a good looking 
lawn for next Summer. g* l. c 
Whitefield, N. H. 
To produce a good turf, the soil should 
be fertile, in good tilth and of equal depth 
as far as possible throughout the entire 
lawn. When filling in low places is nec¬ 
essary, it should never be done by grad¬ 
ing off the higher portion to procure soil 
for the filling in of the lower spots, as 
every inch of top soil taken from the high 
points will lessen the chances of having 
an even turf. When the filling in of 
low spots requires only about two inches 
rise to bring them up on a general level 
with the surrounding surface, good top 
soil would better be obtained elsewhere 
for the purpose, and if the depressions are 
sharp and of limited extent, the top soil 
may be stripped off and filling of clay may 
be made to bring that part of the ground 
up to the surrounding level after the top 
soil has been replaced- For the remak¬ 
ing of the exhausted portion, it would be 
a good plan to plow it this Fall and leave 
it in the furrow over Winter, giving it a 
dressing of air-slaked lime before Win¬ 
ter sets in; at the rate of one-half or 
three-fourths of a ton to the acre will be 
sufficient. In the following Spring apply 
old, well-rotted manure (if it can be ob¬ 
tained) at the rate of 40 loads to the acre 
ever, be given in two applications, half in 
early Spring and the other half about 
mid-Summer. Bone produces a beaut¬ 
iful and lasting green turf that can hardly 
be equaled by the use of any other fer¬ 
tilizer. K. 
Exhibition Gladiolus Blooms. 
In the “Florists’ Exchange,” Maurice 
Fuld is quoted as giving the following ad¬ 
vice on cutting Gladiolus blooms for ex¬ 
hibition : 
“Wait until the spike is well advanced 
and the bottom buds are just opening- 
Remove one or two of the top buds very 
carefully, then place a brown paper band 
around the bottom for shade, leaving it 
on for a few days, with the top exposed 
to the sun. In this way you will get all 
the flowers out at once. Another method 
is to cut the spike when the first bud 
shows color, to remove the two top buds 
and to place the spike in a vessel of water 
and store it in an absolutely dark place. 
In three to four days every flower has 
opened while none has wilted. There is 
one disadvantage in this method that the 
color is not nearly as brilliant as if the 
blooms had opened outdoor.” 
Notes from the Flower Trade. 
There was a general complaint of low 
prices for Gladiolus flowers this Summer. 
There has been an immense crop, and de¬ 
mand for flowers of all classes has not 
been as large as expected. In former 
years $2 to $6 per 100 has been the 
usual range for mid-season Gladiolus 
spikes; this year they had fallen as low 
as 50 cents a hundred, and $1. to $2 has 
been a fair average. The glut is due, in a 
considerable degree, to the fact that ama¬ 
teur gardeners and farmers are now grow¬ 
ing Gladioli so largely as a field crop. The 
flowers may be grown as easily as field 
corn, and many people have an idea that 
there is great profit in these flowers. One 
retail store near The R. N.-Y. office has 
been selling Gladioli for one cent a spike 
since the latter part of July, which does 
not suggest much profit for the grower. 
Last year palm growers in this country 
were embarrassed by the scarcity of cer¬ 
tain varieties of palm seeds, practically 
the whole crop being in cargoes interned 
at Hamburg. This year these seeds are 
coming by way of Australia, and th^ lat¬ 
er country is likely to control the trade 
or the present. 
Complications due to war conditions 
are delaying the export of forcing Azaleas 
from Belgium, on which florists here de¬ 
pend for their stock. Most of the Azaleas 
forced here for Winter and Spring sales 
are grown in the Ghent and Termonde 
district of Belgium. 
The Dasheen. 
I note Prof. Massey’s observations on 
the dasheen. I have known, grown and 
used the original Colocasia for over 70 
years, but upon the advent of the variety 
called dasheen I threw them overboard 
as so much trash. The dasheen is of 
better quality and consistency, cooks in 
about one-quarter the time, is earlier, and 
far more productive. One that I sent to 
The Rural New-Yorker weighed about 
eight pounds while another I gave away 
was weighed in my presence and pulled 
down the scales at 10 pounds. c. s. j. 
Beaufort, S. C. 
A correspondent of the London Garden* 
ing Illustrated says that huge quantities 
of Loganberries are grown for the Man¬ 
chester and Birmingham market, trained 
on wires, rather farther apart in the rows 
than raspberries. 
Solid V alue 
Long heads full of big, 
sound kernels are what you’re 
after. 
YV e’ve gone after the same 
value in men’s and young 
men’s clothing. 
Good, long-wearing cloth, 
stout . thread, seams that 
hold, linings of good material 
—a suit packed full of ser¬ 
vice quality, guaranteed. 
We’ve got it—in Clothcraft at 
$10 to $25, made by a firm that 
has studied and perfected every 
detail in clothes-making. 
For sixty-nine years it has stood 
at the top in the medium-priced 
field. 
There are many fabrics in suits 
and overcoats to select from, in¬ 
cluding t he famous Clothcraft Blue 
Serge Specials, “4130” at $18.50, 
and “5130” at $15. Come in and 
try one on. 
The Clothcraft Store 
(IN YOUR TOWN) 
CLOTHCRAFT ALL WOOL CLOTHES 
* 10 ^* 25 
Made by The Joseph 6* Feiss Company, Cleveland 
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Steam 
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Burn coal, wood or rubbish. Run all 
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