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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March. 1912 
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ROSTER’S BLUE SPRUCE 
This Blue Spruce is by far the most attractive and beautiful Evergreen that can be 
planted on your lawn or grounds; it is extremely decorative and moderate in cost. 
We have a large stock of these, as well as all other specimens of Evergreens, 
in sizes from three to fourteen feet high. Send for our catalogue on Nursery 
Stock and Greenhouse Plants, also Orchids. 
VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME AT OUR NURSERIES 
JULIUS ROEHRS GO., Exotic Nurseries, Rutherford, N. J. 
the head is still solid, as the quality is 
almost entirely lost if they are allowed to 
‘“sprangle” preparatory to sending up the 
flower stalks. 
Celery.—Golden Self Blanching still 
marches in the front rank, along with the 
stuffed turkey and the cranberry sauce, 
on November’s last Thursday. Winter 
Queen, however, is a most excellent newer 
variety, and becomes more popular every 
year. The essential quality to get in cel¬ 
ery is that crisp, rich nutty flavor that 
makes its deliciousness unique, and which 
this Winter Queen has to an unsurpassed 
degree. Silver Self Blanching is a new 
sort claimed to be an improvement over 
the Golden. I have not yet tried it, but 
the argument made for it is logical. 
Celery, for best results, must have 
moisture, especially if grown by the “new 
method.” Care in blanching, too, is nec¬ 
essary to develop its latent quality. It well 
repays the effort required, however, as 
good home-grown celery is usually im¬ 
measurably better than what you are like¬ 
ly to get in the markets. 
Cucumbers. — The one cucumber of re¬ 
cent introduction that has made a country¬ 
wide hit is the Davis Perfect. It was de¬ 
veloped as a forcing strain, but does equal¬ 
ly well out-of-doors, the fruits when well 
grown often being taken for greenhouse 
cucumbers. Another merit is that its dark- 
green color is retained when fully devel¬ 
oped — though for the best quality any cu¬ 
cumber should be picked as soon as full 
size has been reached, as after that the tis¬ 
sues begin to toughen. Vickery's Forcing 
has become very popular for greenhouse 
use or starting in frames, and gives good 
results out-of-doors. The new Twentieth 
Century is the result of a cross between 
the Vickery's and one of the long English 
sorts, taking the desirable quality of 
greater length from the latter parent. I 
have not yet seen how it acts out-of-doors, 
but it certainly is a handsome cucumber, 
and will, I think, prove a valuable acqui¬ 
sition. 
To beat your cucumber record by sev¬ 
eral weeks, make room in the center of a 
hotbed or coldframe sash of tomatoes or 
other hot plants, for a hill well made by 
digging in rotted manure and ashes or 
bone flour. As soon as you can move 
other plants to a cooler place, give the 
growing cucumbers plenty of heat — up to 
eighty degrees in the day will not be too 
much — leaving not more than two vines. 
For earliest garden results, start in in¬ 
verted sod, that can be lifted plant and 
all, and transferred outdoors after dan¬ 
ger of frost is passed. The pieces should 
be four or five inches square and as thick 
as convenient, and the seed covered with 
loose sandy soil. Pack the sods close to¬ 
gether. so that the surface after being 
covered will be without cracks to cause 
washing. 
Where only a few plants are grown care 
should be taken to keep the matured fruits 
picked off clean; even if they can't all be 
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