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May 15, 1920 
Intensive Culture at 80 Years 
This Spring I rented all my farm ex¬ 
cepting about two acres. I say about, be¬ 
cause I have not had time to measure it 
Later on I shall measure it carefully. An 
old greenhouse covering five square rods 
of ground is on the reserved portion, be¬ 
sides two large apple trees, four mature 
pear trees and three Gov. Wood cherries 
These partly shade the plow land, which 
does not exceed 200 square rods. The re¬ 
mainder of the ground is in lawn, and 
groups of trees and shrubbery. There are 
over 70 varieties of trees and woody 
shrubs, and nearly or quite as many va¬ 
rieties of herbaceous stuff, including 30 
of pneonies, and collection of columbine 
and other perennials, besides bulbs. The 
experiment I am planning is to see how 
much this plot of ground can be made to 
produce by a man who was eighty on 
April 30, 1920. A little warm weather 
occurred toward the close of March, and I 
cleaned out and fertilized a row of rhu¬ 
barb on the south end of the greenhouse. 
This rhubarb is about 2 ft. from the build¬ 
ing, and in the clean warm ground I 
planted onion sets 3 in. from the wall, 
and 6 in. further out a row of Grand Rap¬ 
ids lettuce. This was on March 24, and 
a week later my record shows that the let¬ 
tuce was up. Then came snow and cold 
weather, ending during the last 10 days 
with ve-y heavy rains, so that it has been 
impossible to do any work that required 
moving of the soil. The greenhouse is 
out of repair and possibly may be renewed 
this Summer, hut as I did not get back 
from Florida until March 4 it was not 
worth while to fire up. I keep a horse, 
and when I accumulate a dozen bushels 
of stable manure I wheel it to the green¬ 
house and make shallow piles on which I 
set flats in which to sow vegetable and 
flower seeds. 
Although the weather has been too bad 
for garden making I have not been mop¬ 
ing in the house and fretting. In a small 
enclosure devoted to a kitchen garden, but 
which has not been used for four years, a 
chance blackberry came up. It increased 
to about 30 plants. It is of good quality, 
of good size and a good bearer. M.v ten¬ 
ant wanted to use the garden, so I have 
lifted the plants, following out the roots, 
and the surplus roots I cut into 2-in. 
pieces. These I expect to plant before 
long in shallow trenches 2 ft. apart, plac¬ 
ing the root pieces continuously. This is 
the way commercial .blackberry plants are 
started, but the cutting is done in the 
Fall and the roots callused during Win¬ 
ter. 
Along a hedge of Japan quince I found 
a half dozen plants, either suckers or 
seedlings, and in cleaning up around it I 
dug these plants and got enough roots 
that could be spared to make about 200 
cuttings similar to the blackberries. I 
have more than 1,000 small pots, and I 
shall plant these cuttings in pots and set 
on a mild hotbed. Should the stormy 
weather continue I may do the same 
with the blackberries. I have rooted the 
quince in that way, and probably the 
blackberries would he enough earlier to 
warrant the work, and then I can plow 
under an old strawberry bed about July 
1 and set the potted plants there and thus 
conserve soil needed now for other work. 
In that ease I would plant Golden Ban¬ 
tam sweet corn in drills 30 in. apart, and 
put the blackberries Ibetween, as they will 
grow in partial shade. 
The use of small pots, tin cans or paper 
boxes can be made to turn to advantage 
in every small garden by advancing suc¬ 
cession crops or saving surplus plants. As 
an example of the latter, yesterday I dug 
some strawberry plants for a buyer and 
had a. few tiny plants left. Instead of 
throwing them away I potted them in 2- 
in. pots and set them on a greenhouse 
bench. Now when the mud dries up and 
I have a bit of vacant ground I can plant 
them out, and each plant will multiply 
fiftyfold or more. The variety is worth a 
cent a plant now; what it will be worth 
next year is of course a question. Could 
I get help I would pot a few thousand 
plants and hold them until about July 1. 
I would use the large sized evaporated 
milk cans. By setting on a redhot stove 
the bottoms can he melted off without un¬ 
fastening the seam near the top. Plants 
started in such a can can be set in the 
ground without turning out, the only pre¬ 
caution being to set deep enough so the 
top of can* will not cut or mangle the 
plant as it is swayed by the wind. 
In a day or two T hope to be able to 
plant 100 or more melon, squash and cu- 
cunrtber hills in pots. Some years I have 
planted as early as April 1. but the 
weather has been so unfavorable I have 
delayed until now, and it is almost May. 
Not more than 5 per cent of oat ground 
has been plowed, and not 1 per cent of 
garden work started. 
The wet weather is delaying me seri¬ 
ously about clean iug up my paeony beds. 
I like to have them well started before 1 
do it, and now they are growing an inch 
or more per day, and it will be difficult 
getting out tlie seedling grasses which 
always start in perennial clumps. I took 
a heroic method a month ago with a bed 
of German Iris which had got filled with 
goldenrod and orchard grass. I dug the 
whole business up, separating the roots, 
potted the large ones in 4 and o-m. pots 
and the smaller in smaller ones, they 
are flourishing finely, and the larger ones 
will probably bloom. I have found more 
than “>0 columbine plants under the hedge 
and these 1 took up and potted, and they 
are flourishing without other care than 
watering. ^ plEBCEl 
Summit Co., O. 
