Jjhe RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
381 
. Intensive Garden Notes 
Part IT. 
CsEFUL AND Ornament^vi,. —The in¬ 
tensive methods practiced in the city back 
yard I have transfen'ed to my present 
large garden, and It is the wonder of 
many how much I get out of it. In ad¬ 
dition to supplying my family with vege¬ 
tables I devote considerable .space to 
bulbs such as Candidum lilies, Narcissus, 
tulips, hyacinths and Gladiolus. Several 
years ago from a plot 25x40 feet I sold in 
cut flowers and bulbs of Candidum lilies 
in a single season, and had off¬ 
sets enough to replant a similar area. 
Many bulbs are grown here as well as 
the imported ones. I have grown Darwin 
tulips that W'eighed eight to the pound, 
and have grown the Dutch Roman hya¬ 
cinths. which are simply small bulbs of 
the regular Dutch, to a siv/o equal to the 
best imported, and making blooms fully as 
good. Narcissus grows finely, and makes 
bulbs that force earlier than the imported 
ones, for our hot sun ripens them so per¬ 
fectly. Roman hyacinths and the white 
Italians make very fine bullxs. Two years 
ago, as the Northern dealers wanted my 
Candidum lily bulbs, I sold very .short, 
and sent an order for small bulbs to 
Northern France which was accepted. 
Then the war swept over that section and 
I did not get the bulbs. Hence I have 
been short on these. The growing of 
bulbs will make a very interesting thing 
for the backyard gardeners, for some of 
these can be grown in any part of the 
country, such as Gladiolus and Candidum 
lilies. Devoted entirely to these lilies T 
could have made my Philadelphia back 
yard nearly pay my rent. In a large city 
the cut blooms would meet a read.v sale, 
and many a housekeeper could get lots of 
pin money out of cut blooms in the back 
yard. 
Profit in Coi.d Frame.s. —The cold 
frame, merely a frame in which the soil 
is made very rich, and wdth the usual hot¬ 
bed sashes, can be made the most profit¬ 
able part of the garden. Then, too. in 
the family garden there is a great dejil of 
pleasure as well as profit in growing veg¬ 
etables and flowers in the frames in Fall, 
Winter and Spring. The market growers 
use long lines of frames, simply two 
boards on edge with no. cross bars, and 
ventilation must be made by propping the 
sashes up sidewise, for it takes two men 
to remove a sash. I have three-inch 
strips between the saslu>s, in the middle of 
which are half-inch strips as a parting 
strip, and to make a slide, so that one 
man can easil.v slip the sash up or down 
for ventilation, and there is no danger of 
their blowing off. as when propped up 
sidewise. I do not u.se the long lines of 
frames like the market grower, but divide 
my sashes into a number of light small 
frames with but three sa.shes each. These 
flames are made with angle iron at the 
fornei’S to bolt them together, and it is an 
easy matter to pick up a frame and move 
it :o a fresh spot. The advantage of this 
is that one can repeat a crop in the same 
frame by moving it to fre.sh soil, and can 
remove a frame in early Siiring from 
some crop like lettuce.- beets or cauli¬ 
flower, which no longer ne<‘ds the glass, 
and can use the frame for setting tomato 
plants, pep|)crs, etc., for hardening off. 
Sttcce.s,sivf, Crops. —The first crop in 
the Fall is lettuce, which is usually cut 
out by the middle of .Tanuary. I’lien in 
one frame I sow seed of the Prizetaker 
onion for plants to set in the open garden 
in late March. P.etween tlie rows of 
onions parsley seed is sown in rows, 
and when the onion plants are out the 
parsl<*y has the frame and it furnishes 
paisley all Summer and the following 
Winter before going to seed. In another 
frame in late January I sow beets and 
radishes in alternate rows six inclu's 
apart. The radishes come out early and 
the beets have the 12-inch rows. Then 
in March the beets arc hardened off and 
the frame removed for setting the tomato 
plants. In another frame lettuce of the 
Hanson and Wonderful varieties are sown 
to make plants for setting in the outside 
beds in March or April. These stand the 
warm weather better than the Rig Pos¬ 
ton, which is generally used in the Fall 
and early Winter, but runs to seed in 
Spring. 
Flowering Plants. —Another frame is 
planted in violets iu the early Fall, and 
this frame, too, can be removed in time 
for the tomato and pepper plants. In 
another frame bulbs of Paper White Nar¬ 
cissus and Roman hyacinths are planted, 
and the bloom is off these also in time to 
remove the frame for later things that 
need protection, and the bulbs can go on 
and complete their growth and are not 
wasted as in greenhouse forcing. Then 
in March the plants of geraniums are get¬ 
ting iu the way iu my little greenhouse, 
and are stout plants in 4-inch pots. Thej' 
are set in a frarr e under the double-glazed 
sashes and I iave never had them hurt, 
and they tln iv. ‘ • tier in the frame than 
in the greenln i-^', that g^'^s too warm for 
them. Some sow spinach in frames, but 
down here we do not need to do so, for 
we can cut it all the Fall, Winter and 
Spring outdoors, A fcAv of the early 
forcing carrots are sown in February, but 
as we do not need many of these they are 
associated with something else or put in 
between the tomatoes. The dwarf and 
compact form of the Phlox Drummondii 
can be grown nicely in a frame by sowing 
the seed in the Pall and thinning them t.> 
about eight inches apart. They bloom 
often in late Febiuary and from that on. 
The plants are perfectly hardy in the 
open ground, and some of the Pall-sown 
ones are left out for the later Spring 
bloom in the open gi-ound. When setting 
the lettuce plants in the Fall I arrange 
for a few early cauliflowers, setting six 
plants to a sash and filling in wu'th Grand 
Rapids lettuce. This is cut out by .Tan¬ 
uary, and the cauliflowers are kept iu a 
slow-growing condition and by mid-March 
are getting up near the glass. They are 
then hardened off and the frame removed 
for other plants, and the cauliflowers 
head in the cool weather of eaily May. 
Years ago I grew cauliflowers profitably 
in this way to the extent of 1,000 sashes, 
and had the same sashes to use on extra 
frames for 40,000 tomato plants. 
AV. F. MASSEY. 
It was a baseball game in the middle 
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said the policeman, who wasn’t at all a 
bad sort, “which shall it be—a licking or 
a summons?” “Gimme the licking.” was 
the tearful response. “One more won’t 
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