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The Home Acre 
Paper Pots 
Can you furnish illustrated directions 
on the making of square and circular 
flower pots of cardboard? G. w, j. 
North Adams, Mass. 
Paper pots and dirt bands are com¬ 
paratively a new thing, and are being 
improved every season. One of the best 
and oldest we have is the paper pot 
which is made by folding a piece of heavy 
paper around a block of wood, which is 
fastened on top of a board or bench by 
means of a flat-headed bolt. Then the 
edges of the paper are all bent over neatly 
and a small soft tack is driven through 
the folded parts with one solid tap of the 
hammer. This one blow clinches the tack 
without causing it to cut the paper. The 
wooden block with the bolt through it is 
shown in Fig. 46 A. This block and the 
these in August and turned under for 
tomatoes for the canning house. Clover 
sown among the tomatoes and turned, 
even when half grown, for potatoes again, 
and repeat. This will cover the truck 
crops commonly grown here, and with 
the proper fertilization of each the prod¬ 
uce will very greatly increase from year 
to year. Our farmers all plant a field of 
tomatoes for the canners, but the aver¬ 
age crop is entirely too low, and mainly 
because they practice no rotation with 
legumes for the building ui> of the humus 
in the soil and depend entirely on com¬ 
mercial fertilizers. 
It is rather a curious fact in my gar¬ 
den that the early cabbage plants were 
all killed, while now, January S. the let¬ 
tuce plants in the open ground do not 
show a sign of injury. They are not 10 
Paper Plant Pots and Dirt Bands. Fig. 46 
tacks come with every order for the paper 
pot, papers all cut in the exact size ac¬ 
cording to the size of pot desired, any¬ 
where from 1% inch up to seven inches. 
Fig. 46 B shows a paper pot made up. 
The grower should order his material im¬ 
mediately so that the pots may be made 
up well ahead of time. It can be done 
near the market house stove or even in 
the back kitchen. Complete directions for 
the making of the paper pots comes with 
every order. Enough paper for 1,000 
three-inch pots costs about $1.75. 
A more recent innovation is the so- 
called dirt band. It is simply a band of 
paper, which surrounds a block of soil. 
For bottoms ne\vspapers are spread upon 
the smooth surface of the plant bed. 
These dirt bands are cheaper and more 
quickly put together. They are rapidly 
coming into favor. Fig, 46 C shows a 2%- 
inch dirt band, which can be quickly 
folded because it is already creased along 
the dotted lines and the cut ends hold 
together remarkably well. The 2i/^-inch 
size can be secured for about a dollar a 
thousand. Many growers are using the 
wooden dirt bands because they can be 
handled even more quickly. A New 
Jersey concern has just developed a paper 
pot which requires no nailing. When it 
is ready to be sold the paper pots will bo 
shipped flat, all cut out ready to fold to¬ 
gether. Fig. 46 D shows a 2i/^-inch pot 
as it will be shipped. 
The round pots are never made up at 
home to my knowledge. Neither are they 
especially practical because they can not 
fit snugly together as square pots do. 
Sometimes the paper cup companies will 
advertise that they accidentally made sev¬ 
eral thousands of cups which do not fit 
their drinking cup machines. They claim 
to sell these at a sacrifice but usually the 
pi'ice quoted pays them nicely for a “sac¬ 
rifice.” R. D, B. 
Notes from a Marylaind Garden 
Noting what your skilled correspondent, 
who prefers to hide under the name of 
“Trucker, Jr,,” says about a rotation for 
sweet potatoes, I have no objection to 
urge against his proposed rotation. "We 
have here the same method he mentions 
of planting the same land in sweet po¬ 
tatoes for years, a had plan, I think; as 
conducive to disease, at any rate. In re¬ 
plying to a correspcmdent on this sub¬ 
ject I advised for this section the follow¬ 
ing four-year rotation : First year, early 
Irish potatoes, followed by cowpeas. Peas 
turned under and Crimson clover sown 
as a Winter cover. Clover turned under 
for sweet potatoes, with a liberal appli¬ 
cation of acid phosphate. Rye sown after 
the sweet potatoes and turned under vdien 
less than knee high for cantaloupes or 
cucumbers. Crimson clover sown among 
feet from where the cabbage plants were 
killed, and how they escaped is a mys¬ 
tery, for I have always considered lettuce 
more tender than cabbage. 
Noting what F. E. G. (page 13) says 
about root pruning grape vines, which I 
have never practiced, it would perhaps 
be a good thing in my case. A trellis of 
vines in my heavily manured garden 
makes an enormous growth of wood, too 
much in fact, and for a long distance 
from the vines I am bothered with the 
roots in preparing the soil for vegetable 
crops. I think that this spring I will 
try the root pruning, hoping to get a 
more moderate growth of the wood and 
perhaps better fruiting. 
^luch as I like the double-glazed hot¬ 
bed sashes as a protection from frost, and 
much as I have said in praise of them, I 
believe that I will have to go back to the 
single sashes and mats, for the dust will 
get in between the layers of glass and so 
shade the sashes that the plants get drawn 
and half blanched under them. Only a 
few days ago I stripped off the top layer 
of glass from a violet frame in which 
the plants were suffering from the shade, 
and already there is an improvement. I 
am sorry, for the two layers of glass save 
a great deal of work in covering the 
frames in cold nights, but we must have 
all the sunshine possible at this season, 
and I will have to go back to the mats. 
I shall strip one layer off my sashes, 
though I do it with much regret. 
W, F. MASSEY. 
Handling Raspberries 
I have a row of St. Regis raspberry in 
a small garden patch. In the Spring they 
give a fair crop of small berries, but tlieir 
Fall-bearing properties are next to a fail¬ 
ure, so I am tempted to root them up and 
plant a large Spring raspberry. Could 
you give me advice in regard to growing 
and pruning St. Regis for a Spring crop 
only? What do you consider the best 
large red raspberry for the Long Island 
soil. What is your opinion of the Empire 
raspberry? w. E. 
Long Island, N. Y. 
The only way the St. Regis raspberry 
can be confined to the production of 
Spring crop only, is to keep the bloom cut 
off the new canes. It is doubtful if any 
advantage can be gained by doing this, as 
the natural tendency is to produce fruit 
on the new canes, and it is very doubtful 
if it will make any material difference in 
the size of the Spring crop, to prevent the 
young canes from producing fruit in the 
Autumn. The Empire raspberry has not 
yet been sufliciently tested out to judge 
accurately of its value for general plant¬ 
ing, but seems very promising. The 
Welch would no doubt succeed well in 
Long Island soil. This is a fine sort, and 
should be more extensively planted, k. 
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