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Shovels penetrate level and 
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Pruning Scotch Heather 
I have some sprawling old plants of 
Scotch heather, which now have formed 
a good deal of hard wood. How much 
can I prune them to get better shape? 
Should I cut the old hard wood? M. R. 
Bergen Co., N. J. 
There would be no advantage in cut¬ 
ting back the hard wood. The plants 
really should have been trimmed regularly 
when they were small, to keep them from 
becoming straggly, although they are 
very likely to take on a sprawling habit 
anyway. I would suggest that you wait 
until the weather begins to get warm, 
and then shear off the tops of the plants 
without getting into the old wood. 
E. I. FARRINGTON. 
Onions from Sets; Lettuce 
1. Would you advise growing bulb 
onions from sets, or only green onions? 2. 
I am anxious to raise lettuce for market. 
What kind of soil would you advise, also 
what varieties? These seems to be a 
good market in our nearest city for early 
lettuce. l. b. G. 
Sauquoit, N. Y. 
1. I have seen onion growers in South 
Jersey that plant from 50 to 100 bu. of 
onion sets in a season, to be pulled and 
cured and put on the market before 
onions from the seed mature. In plant¬ 
ing sets I always go through the patch 
and pull out all onions as soon as they 
start a seed sprout, and bunch them and 
sell them as green onions, for when they 
send up a seed stalk they will not make 
a good bulb. The great advantage in 
planting sets is that very little hand 
weeding is necessary, as they can be kept 
down by using the hand or gasoline culti¬ 
vator. Especially is this true where phos¬ 
phate is used instead of manure ; a grade 
running about 4-8-6 is excellent. On 
fairly good ground one-lialf ton to acre 
is sufficient. The Southport Yellow Globe 
has a better appearance than the Eben- 
ezer and generally sells better. The 
Ebenezer is a flat onion, but a fine keeper. 
2. A good heavy loam is best for rais¬ 
ing good head lettuce. If you expect to 
grow lettuce this Spring, buy your plants 
that have been wintered over and set as 
soon as weather and ground will permit. 
These plants are from seed sown last Oc¬ 
tober, and will give better results than 
seed sown this Spring, as the idea is to 
get the lettuce to head before warm 
weather, or it will be very apt to run to 
seed. The best varieties are Big Boston, 
Unrivaled and New York. New York is 
the same as the Iceberg grown in the 
West, and will stand much longer before 
going to seed than the two former men 
tioned. wii. perkins. 
Starting Seed in Oat Sprouter 
I have a large 10-tray grain sprouter 
that I purchased three years ago, and as 
I do not expect to use it this Spring for 
sprouting oats was thinking of using it 
for starting vegetable and flower seed. 
Can any or all of the following things 
be successfully started in this way, and 
when best to sow each? Celery, peppers, 
tomatoes, eggplants, cauliflower, asters, 
pansies, everlastings or straw flowers. 
Can onions be sown early in house and 
then transplanted with success? 
Richfield Springs, N. Y. w. J. A. 
My opinion is that this method would 
be very unsatisfactory, as the plants in 
the under trays would not get enough 
light, and they would grow very spind¬ 
ling. The celery seed if sown, in open 
ground the middle of April would give 
good stalky plants the first of July, 
which would be early enough for Fall 
celery. The cauliflower seed should be 
sown in open ground May 10, which 
would give fine plants to transplant July 
1. Early cauliflower does not head well 
in hot weather. The aster, pansy and 
strawflower seed should be sown in pold 
frame at once. Take a 3x6 sash and set 
on frame 8 in. high at top and 5 in. at 
bottom; no bottom heat is necessary. 
Peppers, tomato and eggplant seed would 
need some bottom heat, the same size 
frame as above set over a pit IS in. deep 
with hot manure in bottom, and 5 or 6 
in. of fine soil on top to sow seed in. 
The onion seed sown in open ground 
April 15 will give fine bulbs in August 
and is much less trouble than transplant¬ 
ing the sprouts. WM. perkins. 
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