THE GARDENING WORLD 
November 2, 1907. 
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If the trees are some size when you get 
them, each of them should have a stake to 
support it, or you could have wires stretched 
as for the Raspberries above mentioned. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
2337 . Extirpating Bindweed and 
Colt’s-foot. 
Would you say in your next issue- the best 
method of extirpating Bindweed and Colt’s- 
foot in a corner of the garden where weeds 
'have taken deep root? (R. Dodsworth, 
Notts.) 
You can only get rid of these weeds thor¬ 
oughly by having the ground ' cleared of 
other plants. Then you can either dig or 
trench the soil, and in doing so, every piece 
of underground stem of either Bindweed or 
Colt’s-foot could be picked out. Another 
method is to' simply get a fork and follow 
the underground stems or rhizomes until 
you have got every , piece. The rhizomes of 
rhe Bindweed are brittle and more liable to 
break than the Colt’s-foot. This is the rea¬ 
son why we suggested trenching, because 
then every portion of the soil would 1 be 
moved to some considerable depth. Every 
spadeful turned over should be broken, so 
that if any pieces of rhizome are present 
they may be picked out. Next year if any 
pieces have been left in the soil they will 
soon show it by pushing crowns of leaves 
through the soil in spring. Then if the 
ground is fairly open, that is, __not closely 
covered with plants, you can get a fork and 
follow these pieces until you have got the 
whole root removed. If you follow this 
plan and look sharply after- the said piece 
of. ground during the forthcoming summer, 
you should not be further troubled with 
those troublesome weeds. 
2338 . Book on Hop Culture. 
Will you kindly say if you canjrecommend 
a book or pamphlet on Hop culture? 
(Wellson and Co., Yorks.) 
There was a book entitled “Hop Culture” 
by Simmonds, and which was published a 
few years ago by Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon, 
125, Strand, London, at 4s. 6d. with postage 
extra, but the firm informs us that they do 
not now publish such a work. Another 
book entitled “The Hop: It’s Culture and 
Care, Marketing, and Manufacture,” by 
Herbert Myrick, is offered by Mr. A. T. 
de la Mare, 2, Duane St., New York, U.S.A., 
at 6s. 3d. Possibly this is still offered by 
that publisher. 
2339 . Burning Garden Rubbish. 
I should be glad if you could tell me what 
best use I could make of garden refuse. 
During spring and summer I usually burn 
it, but I cannot do so now on account of the 
wet and the large quantity which is accu¬ 
mulating both from the kitchen and the 
flower gardens. There is also a heap of 
rotten Apples, Potatos, etc. (Charles 
Windschuegl, Kent.) 
You can still burn much of the material 
that is taken off a garden if you have room 
to spread it out rather thinly, so that it gets 
withered and partly dried up. There are 
many times in winter even when flower 
stems can be obtained sufficiently dried to 
burn readily. It depends largely upon 
whether you can get it to burn quickly and 
whether you are so situated as to be a 
nuisance to your neighbours if the fire keeps 
smouldering and smoking for some days 
together. If these points come into con¬ 
sideration you should make your gardener 
separate the ranker material from the finer, 
as the rank material and prunings of hedges, 
trees, etc., can easily be made to burn. 
When you have a large heap of these well 
lighted you can burn the green material by 
heaping it over the top of the prunings and 
letting it smoulder, and if too much smoke 
in your neighbourhood would be a nuisance 
then the more unburnable material can 
either be laid up in a heap in some out of 
the way part of the garden or shaken up 
loosely so as to cause it to ferment. You 
could, at the same time, throw a good dust¬ 
ing of lime over it, the main idea being to 
cause the seeds present to germinate and get 
killed with the heat or otherwise destroyed. 
If a heap on the surface of the ground 
be unsightly, then you could take out a 
large hole in the garden . and bury all 
the green material, covering it over with 
soil. Next autumn this material should be 
sufficiently .rotted to make good fertilising 
material to place over the ground. If you 
could-make the heap- on the surface of the 
ground, however, you oould shake up the 
heap a second time, putting all the outside 
and unfermented material into the centre. 
This would do much to destroy the weeds in 
it and make the refuse into a good garden 
manure. You should try, if possible, to get 
the Potatos burned, as they are probably 
full of disease. 
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