The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1045 
Garden Notes From New England 
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Dt'ST Sprays. —»What lias been said in 
The It. N.-Y. about the advantage of dry 
sprays in the orchard applies equally well 
to gardens. In the past three or four 
years I have relied almost wholly on pow¬ 
dered arsenate of lead, powdered Bor¬ 
deaux mixture and tobacco dust. I find 
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them quite as effective as the liquid 
sprays, and much less messy. If is a 
very simple matter to load a powder gun 
with dust material when the bugs are 
found on any particular crop. All too 
often. I am sure, spraying is neglected in 
the small garden just because the owner 
will not take the time and trouble to mix 
up a liquid spray to protect a few plants. 
For m.\ potatoes I use a standard corn- 
better flavor than carrots which have 
been stored a long time. 
Chinese Cabbage. —As has been point¬ 
ed out before, the planting of Chinese 
cabbage early in the Spring seldom proves 
a success, as the cabbage's quickly^go to 
seed. Now is the time to start tins ex¬ 
cellent but comparatively little known 
vegetable. The seeds may go in where 
the plants are to mature, or may be start¬ 
ed in a seedbed and transplanted. I was 
growing this vegetable long before tin* 
papers began to say much about if. and 
have found it perfectly easy to handle in 
late Summer. While it may be cooked 
like ordinary cabbage, its greatest value 
lies in its use as a substitute for lettuce. 
The tender heart eaten raw with French 
dressing or mayonnaise is most palatable. 
Ry all means get acquainted with Chinese 
cabbage, if you do not know it already. 
Market Hardening. —Market garden¬ 
ers around Boston are planting about the 
same acreage apparently as last season, 
but many of them are wondering what 
the end is going to be. Help is almost as 
scarce as it was last season, and they are 
obliged to pay as high or higher wages. 
If any of the returning soldiers have a 
desire to take up market, gardening as a 
business they do not seem to have pre¬ 
sented themselves as yet. Fewer com¬ 
munity and factory gardens are beiilg 
made this season, and many home gar¬ 
deners have lost much of their interest. 
If is expected therefore that there will 
be a bigger demand for market garden 
produce, and that prices will be better 
than they were last Fall. The people 
seem to be willing to pay whatever is 
asked, although they occasionally grumble 
a little. Profits from lettuce and cucum¬ 
bers made it possible for many of the 
greenhouse men to buy new automobiles 
the past year. They fared better than 
the men who depended windy upon out¬ 
door Crops. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
Blackberry Rust 
My blackberry leaves are rusty and un¬ 
fruitful. What is the remedy. M. c. 
Indiana. 
Your blackberries have an attack of red 
rust. There is no effective cure for the 
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bination of arsenate of lead and Bordeaux 
mixture in powdered form. When using 
arsenate of lead alone l find that the cost 
is reduced materially by using an equal 
amount of sulphur, or even Hour. Some¬ 
times it is a good thing to put in some 
flour in order to make the powder stick. 
The powdered sulphur proves an excellent 
remedy for plants that suffer from mil¬ 
dew. especially the climbing roses. It is 
very easy to put on. and of course it 
doesn’t disfigure the foliage. While the 
work is made much easier by the use of a 
powder gun. there is no reason why the 
dusting material cannot be applied by 
means of a cheesecloth hag or a can in the 
bottom of which holes have been punched. 
Still the gun makes a more even and sat¬ 
isfactory application. 
Root Crops. —It is curious to find 
many people who should know better 
planting beets, carrots and other root 
crops designed for Winter use early in the 
Spring. This practice is all right for 
parsnips and salsify, but all wrong for 
beets, carrots and turnips, including ruta¬ 
bagas. When they grow for too long a 
season they become tough and woody. The 
last of June is about the right time to 
plant the Winter beets, carrots and ruta¬ 
bagas. A month later is early enough for 
Winter turnips. After all. though, there 
is much to be said about the advantage of 
gathering beets and carrots when they are 
small and canning them for Winter. This 
is particularly true of beets. Every house¬ 
wife knows that hours are required to 
cook stored beets in midwinter. Little 
beets that have been canned are ready for 
the table in a short time. They are 
sweeter and have a better flavor, too. 
Detroit park Red is a good beet to use 
for canning. While so good an argument 
for canned carrots cannot be made, a few 
cans will lie greatly appreciated in the 
Spring after the supply of roots in the cel¬ 
lar has been exhausted. There is no 
doubt, too, about their having a much 
disease. When only an occasional plant 
is attacked, prompt removal by digging 
all such out and burning them will often 
prevent the spread of the disease, hut care 
must be taken that none of the tine pow¬ 
der that collects on the leaves becomes 
scattered to be carried by the wind to 
healthy plants. If your plantation has a 
The Chinese Cabbage or Pe-tsai 
general attack of the disease nothing can 
he done to effect a cure. Better dig the 
plants out and burn them, and buy other 
plants of some rust-resisting variety and 
start a new patch in another location. 
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