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11 A 62 
Killing Weeds With Salt 
I have cleared a raspberry patch after 
fruiting this year, plowed it, and har¬ 
rowed it weekly until grape time, the ob¬ 
ject being to kill the chickweed, but I 
see it is there again by this time. I wish 
to plant strawberries there next Spring, 
and the weeding will be costly. Will you 
advise me how to get rid of this pest? 
Somebody told me to use salt liberally in 
the Spring before planting. J. p. m. 
Highland, N. Y. 
Personally we have never used salt in 
this way and should hesitate to plant ber¬ 
ries on land that had received a heavy 
enough dose of salt to kill out the weeds 
that same Spring. Cow peas or Soy 
beans or some other shade-producing 
cover crop grown for one year will do a 
great deal to smother out weeds. At the 
same time such a crop will be improving 
the soil and getting ready for the next 
year’s strawberry crop. H. B. T. 
Winter Care of Summer 
Plants 
Every Autumn there are new flower 
growers with plants to carry through the 
Winter, and many well-grown and ex¬ 
pensive plants are lost because of lack 
of experience. May I share some of my 
experiences with you all? 
The first and greatest danger is, of 
course, chilling. Under the head of 
Summer flowering bulbs and tubers 
Dahlias and Gladiolus are most common¬ 
ly grown. Gladiolus are the easiest bulb 
to winter; just dig, dry a few days, cut 
off the tops, leaving at least two inches 
of stalk, put in a paper bag and suspend 
from a beam in the cellar. 
We are often advised to store Dahlia 
tubers in dry soil and many a flower 
lover by so doing has found the tubers 
decayed. If put in soil or sand it must 
be perfectly dry. When I had but a few 
Dahlias, I dug, dried and cut off tops like 
Gladioli, and stored in a flour sack and 
hung them up. Now I use boxes, prefer¬ 
ably shallow ones, for storing, and ex¬ 
amine the tubers once a month and if 
signs of decay appear, I bring them up, 
sort and dry. 
The spotted calla when dried off, I 
repot ready for next Spring and put 
down cellar. 
Caladium, dry off and leave in a frost¬ 
proof room. 
Madeira vines, dry tubers and store in 
dry soil in cellar. 
Fairy lilies, dry off and store like 
Madeira vine, or if grown in pots, put 
down cellar just as they are. 
Cannas are more fussy. For several 
years, I dug and planted in boxes of 
dirt, and stored in a frost-proof room, 
giving a little water occasionally and 
then one Winter they all died under the 
same treatment. They can be wintered 
finely in a lighted cellar, but mine is a 
dark one. Please think of this in con¬ 
nection with other plants. 
Frequently we find plants we use in 
Summer too large for our windows in 
Winter, yet we wish to keep them if pos¬ 
sible. Barge specimen plants are too 
precious to let freeze. How rats enjoy 
oleanders! I hope they die after their 
feast, as oleanders are poisonous. But 
remember plants and rats do not winter 
well in the same cellar. 
Chrysanthemums, Fuchsias, geran¬ 
iums, ‘tender roses may all go to the 
lighted cellar. Chrysanthemums and 
oleanders winter well in a dark cellar. 
But we have an unused chamber, warmed 
from a stovepipe from the room below 
where we winter our large Summer 
plants. A table in front of the east 
window .holds large Abutilons, tender 
Asclepias, Hydrangeas, geraniums and 
large Begonias, can be kept there, too. 
Away from the window on a bench can 
be found Fuchsias, oleander, another 
Hydrangea, roses, geraniums. Begonias 
can be wintered in east or north win¬ 
dows, on stands where only good light is 
received. 
The plants wintered in the chamber re¬ 
quire very little water. That is prob¬ 
ably the greatest cause of failure. These 
plants are resting or asleep, and as a 
person does not require to eat when 
asleep, neither does the plant, just barely 
enough water to prevent the shriveling 
of the stems. 
Amaryllis is getting to be a prime fav¬ 
orite. My latest, a hybrid variety, large 
flowered greenish white (almost pure 
white) with red pencil stirpes is especial¬ 
ly pleasing. These are dried off gradual¬ 
ly and the three Winter months are kept 
dry wherever convenient, in any cellar 
or a cupboard anywhere. In especially 
cold or windy days I pull down the cur¬ 
tains and leave them down perhaps for 
a week at a time. These plants are 
anxious to do their best the next Sum¬ 
mer, just as we can work better after a 
vacation. 
Cacti are interesting to many of us, 
and a sunny frost-proof window is their 
best place and now, don’t water much 
in Winter. For most varieties once a 
week is enough. The Christmas or lob¬ 
ster cactus doesn’t require Winter sun, 
a place on the Begonia stand or even on 
the table upstairs is all satisfactory and 
a fair size specimen of I’hyllocactus, 
known to us as caseknife cactus responds 
to the same treatment. mother bee. 
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