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May 8, 1920 
ful into deep fat and fry a delicate brown. 
Serve at once, either alone or with very 
thin, delicately fried slices of bacon. 
Fried Fish. —Take any fish of Classes 
1. 2 or 5, drain, season with pepper and 
salt, dredge with flour and fry quickly in 
a hot frying pan. The fish, being already 
cooked, the object of the frying is simply 
to reheat and form a tasty crust. For an 
extra occasion these may be served with 
a sauce Tar tare. 
'Sauce Tartare. —One cup of mayon¬ 
naise dressing, made with a little mustard 
and a little more vinegar than for salads, 
and mixed with one tablespoon of chop¬ 
ped cucumber pickle, one tablespoon of 
capers and one teaspoon of onion juice. 
Keep cold until needed. The sauce should 
be quite thick when served. Any of the 
boiled fish may be reheated and served 
with an appropriate sauce, as Holland- 
aise, Bechamel, Maitre d’hotel sauce, or 
parsley butter, the recipes for which may 
be found in almost any good cook book. 
Almost any of the boiled fish may be 
creamed or scalloped. 
Chowder. —Fish of Claes 4 (catfish) 
may be made into a delicious chowder, as 
follows: Take one pint of fish, about 10 
medium sized potatoes, peeled and diced, 
two sliced onions, two cups of carrots 
cut in pieces, a quarter of a pound of salt 
pork, a pint and a half of milk and salt 
and pepper to taste. Cut the pork into 
small pieces, add the onion, and cook un¬ 
til the onion is soft and yellow, and the 
fat extracted from the pork; then put 
pork, with drippings, onion, carrots and 
potatoes, in a kettle and cover with boil¬ 
ing water. Boil until the vegetables are 
tender. Thicken with three tablespoons 
of flour, blended with half a cup of milk. 
Add the balance of the milk and the cat¬ 
fish, broken into small pieces. Let boil 
one minute and serve. 
MRS. FRANKLIN T. CHAMBERLAIN. 
Scarlet Clover Moss 
I plowed under 14 acres of wheat stub¬ 
ble last August after harvesting the wheat 
and seeded it in Red clover about August 
15. sowing G qts. per acre. I had a fine 
catch ; it made a good growth. About the 
last of October eight acres of it came full 
of moss. Some people here call it Scar¬ 
let clover moss. It has about smothered 
the clover out. The moss comes worse in 
ground where corn is cut off and seeded 
in wheat, or where stubble is turned in in 
August and seeded in clover, as I have 
done. Can you give me any information 
of what will kill it, or what I can do to 
get rid of it? e. R. r. 
Ilarbeson. Del. 
I have received the specimens of the 
“Scarlet clover moss” sent. The plant is 
not a moss, nor any kin to a moss. It 
shows that it has bloomed abundantly 
and flowers dropped. In the absence of 
flowers it is rather hard to identify it 
positively, hut it is one of the Wiuter- 
blooming Stellarias, a form usually found 
in wet spots. The whole duckweed 
genus are Winter-flowering, so far as I 
have observed. Then as the seed ripen 
so early they are rather hard to get rid 
of. I think that you will find that as the 
clover advances and the weather gets 
warm the plant will make less show, and 
will die out in hot weather. But I would 
not save clover seed where this plant flour¬ 
ishes. as the seed will be certain to be 
carried off on the ciu clover. It has 
doubtless got its name from being carried 
in this way. The common duckweed has 
flat leaves. This one has lanceolate 
leaves. Plow it under with the clover 
for corn or some other hoed crop, and 
then always examine Scarlet clover seed 
carefully with a magnifying glass to make 
sure that you get no more of the seed. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Tulips for the Spring Garden 
The sight of a brilliau bed of tulips, as 
as shown on page 901. is sure to make any 
gardener enthusiast desire a similar dis¬ 
play, but many forget that while they 
may make their plans in the Spring they 
must he carried out in the Autumn. Fall 
planting is necessary for all such Spring 
bulbs, ns tulips, hyacinths, Crocuses, 
squills, Narcissi, grape hyacinths, glory- 
of-the-snow, etc., but it is a good plan to 
make notes in the Spring of pleasing va¬ 
rieties, and thus plan for future selec- 
tion. 
In planting tulips for solid bedding, 
Ihc bulbs are set 4 to fl in. apart, and 3 to 
4 in. deep in heavy soil; a little deeper in 
light soil. In selecting varieties for solid 
beds, they should be named varieties of 
the same height, blooming at the same 
time, to give the best effect, though most 
dealers sell mixed sorts that will bloom 
.it the same time. The mixed bulbs are 
cheaper, and are excellent for planting 
in clumps or singly in flower borders, 
though naturally one does not get the 
solid colors secured by using individual 
varieties. . . 
The handsomest of all tulips are the 
gorgeous Darwin and Cottage varieties, 
which flower in May. They are very 
large, standing boldly erect on long.stems. 
The Darwins include a great variety, or 
color, but no yellows: the Cottage sorts 
include beautiful yellows. 1 hese ^ 
tulips are a great addition to the bar 
border of perennial plants. Old Dut 
Breeder tulips are also late bloomers, aim 
they include many odd tints of bronze, 
buff, dull red and purplish brown. 
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