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Leaf Blight of Celery 
Can celery leaf-blight disease be tranS' 
mitted by means of celery seed? My 
celery crop of many thousand plants was 
almost a complete failure this year, al¬ 
though I sowed the seed far from any 
place where celery had ever been grown. 
No celery disease infected manure was 
used in the seed or the transplant bed. 
I sold several thousand plants, all a 
failure, and I am wondering how many 
customers will come back next season. 
During the past 10 years I have bad good 
success with celery, and locally receive 
much high praise for it. I was too busy 
this past season to spray the plants in 
the seed and transplant beds. r. E. E. 
Pulaski, Va. 
If you will write to the Michigan Agri¬ 
cultural College, Lansing, Mich., for 
Special Bulletin 77 on celery blight, you 
will receive a full discussion of this di¬ 
sease. The work in Michigan shows that 
the disease can be carried on the seed, 
so that the seed should be soaked for 
half an hour in warm water and then 
for half an hour in corrosive sublimate, 
one part to 1.000 of water. Wet condi¬ 
tions favor the disease. Later treatment 
consists in spraying the plants at inter¬ 
vals of two or three weeks with 4-4-50 
Bordeaux mixture. H. B. T. 
Burpee’s 
Annual 
The Leading American 
Seed Catalog 
P LANTERS in all parts of Amer¬ 
ica are coming more and more to 
realize that it pays to sow good 
seeds. Burpee Quality Seeds are the 
standard by which others are judged. 
"’"It is well known that the house of 
Burpee has introduced more distinct 
new vegetables and flowers that are 
now in general cultivation than have 
any three other American Seed 
Houses combined. 
New Vegetables and Flowers 
For 1924 we are offering some of 
thefinest new varieties that have been 
introduced in recent years. Amongst 
the Burpee Novelties is our wonder¬ 
ful new Sweet Pea—The President 
Harding, named by special permis¬ 
sion of the late President of the 
United States. 
In our new catalog we are also in¬ 
troducing the Philadelphia Bush 
Lima which is the earliest and most 
prolific of all Lima Beans, and two 
new Sweet Corns, Delicious and 
Sunnybrook, which are a new devel¬ 
opment out of our famous Golden 
Bantam. New Ciant Snapdragons, 
new Zinnias, new Dahlias, new 
Gladioli, and a new Self-Pruning 
Tomato are some of the new crea¬ 
tions which are offered this year exclu¬ 
sively by W. Atlee Burpee Company. 
Burpee's Annual is our Catalog 
It is the catalog that tells the plain 
truth about the Best Seeds That Grow. 
If you are interested in gardening 
Burpee’s Annual will be mailed to 
you free. Write today. 
The Christmas Rose 
I saw on page 14G8 an item on frost¬ 
proof garden or flowers. The Gaillardia 
and Calendula are strange flowers to me, 
but must be nice. I have one that can 
beat them all; blooms from early October 
to first of March, provided the flowers are 
cut. Any time during the Winter you 
may dig them out of the snow banks. We 
call them Winter rose or Christmas rose; 
proper name unknown to us. I will send 
you under separate cover, some new flow¬ 
ers, just opened, and others which turn 
green if not cut, and some leaves. Maybe 
you can tell me the name of this wonder¬ 
ful flower, which everybody should have 
in their gardens. They never die. E. h. 
Girard, Pa. 
II. N.-Y.—This flower is, of course, the 
Christmas rose or hellebore, Helleborus 
niger. It is a native of Europe, and has 
long been cultivated ; there are a number 
of fine garden varieties. The large wax¬ 
en anemone-like flowers and stout leath¬ 
ery foliage are very striking, and their 
blooming season, from October to March, 
or a little earlier with some varieties, 
makes them a unique garden feature. 
They will grow in any garden soil, but 
prefer a mixture of rich loam and coarse 
sand ,with a top-dressing of old manure. 
A partly shaded situation, with moist, 
but well-drained soil, is desirable. 
Bog Plants Around Fountain 
We have a pond about 15 ft. wide, with 
a fountain in center. Around pond is a 
o-ft. wide border where I would like to 
plant some hardy perennials or shrubs, or 
both combined. Outside of pond is a 
cement wall, but not watertight, and the 
soil in border gets very wet at times. 
Also when the wind blows the water from 
the fountain spreads over the border 
where I intend planting. With these con¬ 
ditions in view, will you suggest what to 
plant for best results, and to have blooms 
the longest time possible through the sea- 
son ? x. E. 
The condition described calls for bog 
plants, and some worthy native varieties 
may be found in the swamps. Among 
suitable shrubs are the rhodora, Rhodo¬ 
dendron Canadense, with purple flowers 
before the leaves in April and May ; sheep 
laurel, Kalmia angustifolia, purplish pink 
flowers in Summer, and Labrador tea 
(Ledum), with white flowers. Suitable 
hardy perennials are sweet flag, Acorus 
Calamus; Calla palustris, a showy arum*; 
the swamp pink, Helonias bullata, flow¬ 
ering in April and May; the golden-club, 
Orontium aquaticum, very early Spring; 
meadow beauty, Rhexia Virginica. Dur¬ 
ing Summer the Egyptian papyrus (Cy- 
perus papyrus) is charming in such a 
place, and will flourish wonderfully ; also 
the spotted calla (Richardia). It would 
be a fine place to grow Irises in great va¬ 
riety. The globe flower (Trollius) Lo¬ 
belia cardinalis, and many varieties of 
loosestrife (especially Lysimachia cleth- 
roides) would do well. There are some 
attractive native orchids that grow well 
in swampy places, also swamp lilies and 
wild arrow-head. 
Spraying for the Apple Maggot 
1. Can you tell me what spraying to 
do to benefit this apple? 2. Also, when 
to spray for railroad worm and the worm 
in quinces? h. B. 
Norwalk, Conn. 
1. We should say. from the appearance 
of the specimen of fruit that was received, 
that almost any spraying would have ben¬ 
efited it. The principal trouble was a 
severe infestation of railroad worm, or 
apple maggot, shown by the numerous 
brown burrows in the flesh of the fruit. 
Recomn ndation for control consists in 
spraying with arsenate of lead. 4 lbs. to 
100 gals, of water, about the first week 
in July. Ordinarily clean cultivation and 
.systematic spraying for the codling moth 
will hold this insect in check. 2. Very 
likely the worm referred to is the codling 
moth, controlled by spraying with arsen¬ 
ate of lead, 2 lbs. to 50 gals., as in the 
case of the apple, just after the petals 
have fallen, and three weeks later and 
about the last week in July. n. b. t* 
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