HOUSE AND GARDEN 
JUXE, 
1912 
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a supply of cuttings for rooting next fall, 
and all the plants you can use by next 
spring. This is one of the most impor¬ 
tant features of economical garden im¬ 
provement and should not be overlooked. 
Small Fruits 
Currants and gooseberries will need at¬ 
tention this month. Spray for currant 
worms and mildew, and mulch goose¬ 
berries to retain all the moisture possible. 
The currants will do better for a mulch¬ 
ing, as sufficient moisture greatly im¬ 
proves the quality of the fruit. 
The Naturalizing of a City Man 
{Continued from page 34) 
tie seemed loath to admit that the cul¬ 
tivation had had much to do with it. 
The crop of potatoes in the newly 
cleared land, which had been put in later 
than the others, and given special atten¬ 
tion, was looking the best of any on either 
of the two places. They dug into a hill 
or two, and found them of good size al¬ 
ready. 
“I think I’d dig them now, if I was in 
your place,” said the Squire. "Potatoes 
are worth a dollar a bushel now, and they'll 
probably go to seventy-five before long— 
maybe sixty, if we get some rain.” 
"These won’t,” said Mantell, smiling. 
“They’re for seed. I may have some to 
spare—at a dollar a bushel.” 
“Well,” said the Squire, “I guess I’d 
been ahead of the game, if I’d got that 
cultivator when you told me about it, and 
kept one of the men busy with it. I guess 
that that’s a pretty good thing, maybe, 
for a dry season, after all.” 
His care and persistence in doing every¬ 
thing he possibly could do to fight the 
drought every inch of the way, even in 
the face of the smiles of his friends— 
which are sometimes the hardest thing of 
all to bear—kept his crops in better shape. 
The onions and potatoes especially were 
helped by being kept in a growing state, 
though making little progress, until the 
rain did come. Then they jumped ahead 
again, while those of most of his neigh¬ 
bors were too far matured and dried up to 
be started into new growth. Several heavy 
showers in the first part of September 
made the outlook much better, and gave 
new confidence to the somewhat discour¬ 
aged members of the hard working firm. 
Although the farm crops were Mantell’s 
special care, a great deal of his attention 
was also given to the garden, where he 
and Raffles together threshed out the many 
problems of cultivation, battles with vari¬ 
ous insects, crop rotations, etc. 
Most of the planting for the year, of 
course, was done. But during July they 
had late crops of turnips and other fall 
vegetables to sow, and late cabbage, cauli¬ 
flower and celery to set out. The little 
brook, across which they had made a sod 
dam, came in very handy for this late 
transplanting in dry weather, as with little 
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