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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 7, 1920 
Manure is Deficient in Phosphorus 
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS COST DOUBLE THE USUAL PRICE. MAKE YOUR 
MANURE GO AS FAR AS POSSIBLE BY REINFORCING IT WITH 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
ANALYSING 
PHOSPHORIC ACID Grade A 28.00% Grade B 16.00% 
BARIUM SULPHIDE 7.00% 7.00% 
MANURE IS NO MORE A COMPLETE RA TION 
FOR CROPS THAN HAY IS FOR A COW 
The addition of Phosphorus to manure will pay as well as feeding grain with hay. 
A few pounds of B-P scattered each day in the gutters of your barn will 
DOUBLE THE VALUE OF YOUR MANURE 
absorb all liquids, prevent the loss of ammonia and keep the stable sanitary. 
This is a sensible and logical thing to do. 
WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT? 
Our book, ‘‘Phosphorus and Manure.” will give you valuable information along these 
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Garden Notes From New England 
Callicarpa Americana. —I have been 
interested in reading the several notes 
appearing in Tiie It. N.-Y. about Calli- 
carpa Americana, the so-called possum- 
berry of the South, because of the fact 
that another species of the same family 
has been introduced into New England 
and promises to become a valuable Fall 
garden subject to this section, where the 
possumberry is not hardy. It is called 
Callicarpa Japoniea, and was introduced 
from Japan a few years ago. This is not 
a plant to be valued for its flowers, but 
its beauty in the Fall is remarkable, for 
then it is covered with great numbers of 
violet colored berries entirely different 
from those of any other plant which is 
hardy in this climate. This Callicarpa 
has been introduced by the Arnold Arbore¬ 
tum, and if nurserymen take it up and 
propagate it freely it will doubtless come 
to be common iu gardens of the North, 
where perhaps it will be appreciated more 
highly than the possumberry of the South. 
The Giant Ismene.—I n my notes a 
few weeks ago I failed to mention a house 
ested in the simple way in which one 
market gardener marks out the furrows 
when he plants his hotbeds in the Spring. 
He has a long strip of scantling with a 
handle attached and with teeth inserted 
at intervals. By having an upright stick 
fastened to one end which will follow 
along the sash or support, (he lines are 
kept straight and the teeth mark the 
furrows at proper intervals. It. is a sim¬ 
ple matter to regulate the distances be¬ 
tween the furows by moving the teeth 
from one hole to another. 
Although greenhouses are becoming in¬ 
creasingly popular with market garden¬ 
ers, a good many hotbeds are still used. 
As a rule hot manure is relied upon for 
heat, but occasionally market gardeners 
around Boston have some of their beds 
fitted with steam pipes, and use them 
practically all Winter long. Practically 
all the farmers and market gardeners in 
New England use the standard 8x6 hot¬ 
bed sash, with glass that laps about three 
sixteenths of an inch. The glass may be 
6xS, 8x10 or 10x12 inches. The larger 
glass gives the greater amount of light, 
but, on the other hand, the sash, is not 
SB s BTl 4.. ; 
jBflB vt t 
ISIljfomft. 
A String of Market Garden Hotbeds 
plant which ought to he better known 
because of its very easy growth and the 
splendid fragrance of its blossoms. It is 
sometimes called the Peruvian daffodil 
and sometimes the giant Ismene. It gets 
its common name, no doubt, because it 
came from Peru, where it is one of the 
flowers common at festivals. The bulb 
should be planted and grown very much 
like that of the calla lily, care being taken 
not to give it' too large a pot. The flow¬ 
ers are white and lily-like, hut have a 
very curious characteristic iu the shape 
of six extra narrow petals which extend 
forward like so many horns. The frag¬ 
rance of a single flower will perfume an 
entire room, and several flowers are borne 
by one plant. An added value possessed 
by the Ismene is the fact that it can be 
flowered outdoors in Summer just as 
freely as in the house in Winter. In¬ 
deed, it makes a remarkably good garden 
subject. Oftentimes a plant which has 
flowered in the house will bloom again in 
the Summer if set out of doors * when 
Spring comes. 
About Kohl-babI. —There has been a 
growing appreciation of kohl-rabi iu tho 
quite so strong. In very few instances 
have I seen sash with double glass used 
on commercial places. Many amateurs 
find them convenient, apparently, but com¬ 
mercial growers say that it is very dif¬ 
ficult to keep the glass clean. Besides, 
double-glass sashes are heavier to handle. 
Farmers often have old windows which 
they can use for hotbeds, and when that 
is the case, of course, the beds must be 
made to conform to the size of the win¬ 
dows. More careful work is required in 
making a hotbed than is needed for a 
cold frame, and it is important that the 
sash should fit closely. For that reason 
the edges of the planks need' to be planed 
to meet the slant of the sash. Sash is 
sometimes- hinged, but it is better to have 
it slide on cross-pieces; but the latter 
should fit into slots so that they can be 
quickly removed. Otherwise they are 
much in the way when the bed is being 
prepared or cleaned out. For a long bed 
these cross-pieces serve as braces and are 
naturally placed every three feet apart; 
2x4 strips are about the right size. 
Conserving Natural Heat.—T he hot¬ 
bed should have a decided slant towards 
Roughly Made But Useful Cold Frame 
past few years, and yet there are many 
garden makers who do not know it. at all. 
Its flavor is about like that of a mild tur¬ 
nip, but it makes its growth above ground 
instead of underneath, and it will thrive 
in soil where turnips are hard to grow 
because of white grubs. I am led to 
speak about kohl-rabi now because ex¬ 
perience has shown that it will keep a 
long time if taken into the cellar in the 
Fall and stored in boxes of sand like 
beets, carrots and turnips. This fact is 
not commonly understood by garden mak¬ 
ers, and yet there is no reason why kohl¬ 
rabi shouldn’t be grown as a Winter veg¬ 
etable. This means, however, planting it 
late in the season, for it must be eaten 
before it gets much larger than a tennis 
ball, and if planted early will get too old 
before Fall. I understand that it. is quite 
a common plan across the water to store 
large quantities of kohl-rabi to be used 
for feeding stock during the Winter 
months. 
Making Hotbeds.—I have been inter- 
the south. A simple way to gauge this 
is to use two 12-inch planks at the rear, 
one on top of the other, edgewise, and a 
single 12-inch plank in the front. It is 
best to make the bed reasonably solid by 
using 2x4 posts at the corners, and occa¬ 
sional cleats along the back and front, 
which will prevent warping. Always have 
your hotbed where it will get full ex¬ 
posure to the sun, and, if possible, on 
the south side of a building or fence. 
Market gardeners often erect’ artificial 
wind-breaks. One greenhouse man in Re¬ 
vere, near Boston, has a wind-break that 
must he fully 20 feet high to shelter one 
of his long houses. 
Making the Bed. —The earlier in the 
season a hotbed is made, the greater the 
amount, of manure required. This ma¬ 
nure should be well-mixed horse manure 
iu the process of decomposition. Put in 
enough in February or early March so 
that when trodden down to a moderate 
extent it will be a foot or 14 inches deep. 
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