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be grown and can supply you with all standard 
varieties. Readers of this paper need no introduction 
to Wing’s Alfalfa seed, Corn, or other field seeds. 
Some of you do not know that our vegetable seeds 
are as good as our field seeds. Some of you, however, 
are finding out just her/ good they are, and as a 
result our vegetable department lias been either 
doubling, tripling or quadrupling for years. 
. As an indication of the quality of our seeds, we 
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the Ohio State Fair for two successive years on vege¬ 
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are as follows: 
General display of vegetables. First Premium 
two successive years. 
BEETS—Four Firsts, out of five classes in 1918. 
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The RURAL N 
Hall’s Golden Nugget Corn 
I sent you recently a few ears of Hall's 
Gold Nugget com (see Fig 55, page 207) 
which I raised. I consider this variety to 
be without an equal as a husking corn for 
this section. I have raised and improved 
this strain of corn for about 10 years, 
and succeeded in obtaining an average 
yield in 1917 of So bushels shelled corn 
per acre, and in 1918 of 90 bushels per 
acre. This corn will mature in an aver¬ 
age season in about 100 days. The stalks 
are of medium height and frequently have 
two large ears per stalk. It is an eight- 
row flint variety. The ears are of ex¬ 
ceptionally large diameter, as well as of 
great length, and the cob is remarkably 
small. It also seems to 1 i highly resist¬ 
ant to smut; at least I have had very lit¬ 
tle corn smut since I started raising Nug¬ 
get. 
Cultural methods for this corn are 
those obtaining on most New England 
farms. I use sod ground, plowing in the 
Fall, if possible. Plow deep and harrow 
with wheel and Acme harrows until a 
deep, mellow seed bed is obtained. The 
l and is then marked both ways, Uj feet 
apart, and a large handful of fertilizer 
EW-YORKER 
the parlor palm, thrives well in spite of 
considerable neglect and exposure to dust. 
Geraniums, Cyclamens, Begonias and 
Primulas, are desirable, both as foliage 
and flowering plants. All of these thrive 
well in a temperature at or slightly be¬ 
low that of an ordinary living room. 
Essential Requirements. — Among 
the requisites for success with house 
plants are ventilation and light. See 
that the windows are open on favorable 
days, in order that the air surrounding 
the plants is kept fresh and bracing. Do 
not draw window shades until dark, espe¬ 
cially during the Winter, or leave them 
drawn after daylight in the morning. In 
addition to fresh air and sunlight, keep 
the temperature of the room in which 
plants are growing as uniform as pos¬ 
sible. Furthermore, keep the air as hu¬ 
mid as possible by placing a pan of water 
on the stove or other heating appliance. 
With the furnace-heated house, see that 
the water pan attached to the heating 
chamber of furnace is kept well filled. Last¬ 
ly. see that plants are kept clean and 
fresh in order that pores of the leaves do 
not become clogged, thus checking their 
breathing process. Spraying or syringing 
the plant, including both the upper and 
lower surface of the leaves, will accom¬ 
plish this result. Leaves may be sponged 
with lukewarm water if desired. 
Totting and Repotting. —All plants, 
whether started from cuttings at home or 
secured from the florist, need repotting 
ordinarily once per year. Lack of proper 
February 8, 1919 
DREER S1919 
•GARDEN BOOK 
R EALLY a superbly illus¬ 
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224-page encyclopedia of all 
things pertaining to the selec¬ 
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all worth-while 
Vegetables and Flowers 
Both the amateur and profes¬ 
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rely on the descriptions of the 
varieties listed—novelties as 
well as the standard sort. 
Cultural directions by experts, 
written especially for DRRLR’S 
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ft 
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A Favorite House Plant, the Boston Fern 
composed of poultry manure and barnyard 
scrapings, together with 1(5 per cent acid 
phosphate at the rate of 500 lbs. per 
acre, is dropped in each hill. I then 
plant about four or five grains of corn to 
a hill. When the corn is four or six inches 
high it is cultivated both ways, and soon 
after is hoed by hand and each hill 
thinned to three stalks. I consider this 
thinning of the utmost importance. With 
too many stalks in a hill a number of 
small ears will result, and many stalks 
will have no ears at all. but with three 
stalks per bill each stalk has plenty of 
room to feed and grow without crowding, 
and the maximum size ears will result, 
very often two to a stalk. The cultivat¬ 
ors are kept going at intervals of 10 days 
until the corn is too large to he worked 
further. About the last week in Septem¬ 
ber the corn is cut and placed in shocks 
containing .16 hills each, from which it is 
husked about November 1. 
ARTHUR L. PURDY. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
House Plants for the Average Home 
A growing plant contributes more to¬ 
wards making the home homelike than 
does a costly piece of furniture. There 
are few homemakers who do not delight 
in caring for a house plant of some sort 
as best they know how. Time spent in 
tending a few choice plants is highly re¬ 
munerative from the standpoint of happi¬ 
ness which the work brings to everyday 
life. Careful attention to details in car¬ 
rying out the important principles of 
plant culture will insure success with 
practically all plants which are adapted 
to indoor conditions. 
Choice of Plants. —Plants grown for 
their foliage rather than for their flowers 
alone, should be chosen for growing in¬ 
doors. Asparagus plumosus, Asparagus 
Sprengeri (commonly called ferns), Bos¬ 
ton sword ferns, and the Aspidistra, re¬ 
spond well to care given them, and are 
well adapted for various purposes, as 
table decorations or as window or parlor 
plants. The Aspidistra, sometimes called 
growth, pour color or failure to produce 
flowers may be taken as signs of need of 
repotting. Turn the sickly-looking or 
puny plant out of the pot in order to 
ascertain its need for replanting. Invert 
the pot. holding it firmly in one hand and 
supnorting the plant between two lingers 
of the other hand, avoiding risk of bruis¬ 
ing. Tap t he edge of the pot lightly against 
something solid until the plant, with its 
roots in the ball of earth attached, slips 
out. Should the surface of the ball of 
earth he covered or encircled with fibrous 
roots, arrange for shifting the plant to a 
larger pot. (’lay pots make the most satis¬ 
factory container for all plants, repotted 
as well as newly-potted. Discarded can- 
ners’ tins are sometimes resorted to in 
case clay pots are not 'available. Each of 
these must be provided with several nail 
holes to facilitate drainage. Pots of one 
size larger, only, that is, of one inch- 
greater diameter at the top, should be 
used when plants are shifted. Use a fine, 
mellow soil made by composting t wo parts 
turf soil, one part sand and one part well- 
rotted manure or leaf mold together for at 
least one season. Where such a soil is not 
available secure the needed supply of sur¬ 
face soil from some well-protected fence 
corner, or from the woods, where leaves 
have accumulated year after year. After 
providing each pot with several pieces of 
broken pot or tile to insure good drainage, 
through the opening in the base, add a 
layer of soil. On this place the plant with 
the ball of earth on its roots slightly re¬ 
duced. Fill the pot to within one-half or 
one-fourth inch of its top. setting the 
plant slightly deeper than ib stood for¬ 
merly. Firm soil well and water thor¬ 
oughly. 
Watering. — Only sufficient water 
should he given the plant to keep it grow¬ 
ing nicely. Do not allow water to collect 
and remain in the saucer or other recep¬ 
tacle containing the pot, since water- 
soaked roots rot very quickly. Avoid 
watering in driblets; rather see that the 
plant has a thorough soaking at least once 
per week as the surface of the soil or the 
ball of earth when slipped from the pob 
appears dry. The most satisfactory meth¬ 
od of watering consists of immersing the 
pot in a pail of water until the ball of 
earth has hecv .ae thoroughly saturated. 
Following this allow the pot to drain free 
of surplus water through the opeuiug at 
the bottom. 
(Continued on page 210) 
|/1flTT S SWEET 
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ten dollars per bushel cheaper than red. (Un- 
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