The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Planning the Home Garden 
How can I best lay out my vegetable 
garden which is 36 ft. on its east and 
west sides, and about 10 or 11 ft. north, 
less at the south? It is shaded on the 
west by currant bushes, one large lilac 
bush at southeast corner, one moss rose 
bush in northwest corner. This is sup¬ 
posed to supply bush beans, lettuce, rad¬ 
ishes, Swiss chard, carrots, beets, toma¬ 
toes and spinach for a family of five. 
Yorktown Heights, N. Y. s. e. j. 
There is plenty of room on this plot 
for the desired amount of vegetables. Run 
the rows north and south; 1 lb. Wilson 
bush Lima, 1 lb. string beans, 2 oz. 
Crimson Giant radish, one packet of Big 
Boston lettuce (or 50 plants would be 
Lest) ; 1 oz. Early Egyptian beets; % lb. 
Victoria spinach for Spring and % lb. 
Bloomsdale Savoy Leaved for Fall sow¬ 
ing ; one dozen Bonny Best tomatoes for 
early and two dozen Stone for late ; one 
packet Swiss chard, one packet Danvers 
Half Long carrot, 1 lb. Hundredfold peas, 
one dozen Crimson Giant peppers. H. p. 
Building a Hotbed 
Will you tell me how to build a hotbed? 
We do truck gardening on a small scale 
and would require room for 150 tomato 
plants, 2.000 or more cabbage plants, as 
well as celery for our own use. What 
size would you suggest? Is a southern 
exposure best? Is the horse manure 
placed in a pit or on top of ground? 
Would vou use glass cloth ? d. l. s. 
Long Eddy. N. Y. 
Dig pit 6x9 ft., 18 in. deep; make 
frame to set in it so the upper side of 
bed toward the north is 4 in. higher 
than lower side of bed. This frame will 
need three 3x6 sash to cover it, and will 
give ample room to grow the desired 
plants. This size ■ bed will take about 
half a ton of horse manure, which is 
heating. Tramp manure down solid and 
throw six or eight pails of water on it. 
If manure is not very hot use hot water; 
if hot, cold water. Put four to five in¬ 
ches of very rich earth (about half ma¬ 
nure and half soil, mixed well) on top 
of manure; rake fine and level with 
straight edge. The earth should fill your 
frame up to about six or eight inches 
from top. Make eight rows under each 
sash by pressing straight edge in soil and 
working back and forth until rows are 
in. deep. Sow seed, smooth off bed 
with narrow board, and firm the soil by 
pressing board on it. 
I would not use glass cloth. 
WM. PERKINS. 
Second Early Tomatoes in Hotbed; 
Pruning Grapevines 
1. What experience have you with sow¬ 
ing second early tomato plants in hot¬ 
bed (under glass) and not spot them 
out? That is, sow them in rows and let 
grow until they are ready to pull for 
planting. My object is to have plants 
set out early enough so they will begin 
ripening the first of August for can 
house. 2. In trimming two-year-old 
grapevines how many buds is it best to 
leave? F. r. g. 
Bridgeton, N. J. 
1. Just the procedure you should fol¬ 
low. After pulling my early tomatoes out 
of the hotbed, and the heat is mostly ex¬ 
pended, I stir up the top soil and sow the 
seed thinly in rows 4 in. apart about May 
10. This gives more stalky plants to set 
in open ground June 1. 
2. Two buds. wm. perkins. 
Raising Locust Trees for Posts 
Will you tell me how to plant locust 
seed? I had thought of sowing on top of 
snow and letting rains wash it in ground. 
What is the right kind to grow for posts, 
the black, yellow or honey locust? 
Marlboro, N. Y. R. F. 
“Yellow,” “black” and “common” lo¬ 
cust are all the same as generally em¬ 
ployed, referring to the locust which 
grows naturally from New York south. It 
has been naturalized in New England and 
Europe. Its scientific name is Robinia 
Pseudacacia. This is the species most 
commonly grown for posts, the wood being 
hard and cicse-grained and resistant to 
disintegration processes common to wood 
in contact with soil. Thj honey locust, 
Gleditsia triacanthos, is also valued for 
the same purposes as the common locust, 
but its natural range is not so far north. 
Seed is usually sown in the Spring about 
one inch deep. In the case of seed of the 
honey locust it is best to roak it in warm 
water to soften before planting. 
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