House and Garden 
THE MARCH 
METROPOLITAN 
is crammed full of timely articles, good 
Fiction and artistic drawings. 
Several plates in full color. 
Some of the Subjects: 
Motor Boating. 
Motoring. 
The Stock Exchange and Its Influence on the 
Development of America, by J. P. Ryan. 
Americanizing the World’s Food Products. 
The World at Large, in story and picture. 
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as not to disturb the brown covering over 
the kernels, as this might destroy the 
germ. Mark a straight row, ridging 
same possibly three inches. Along this 
crest plant the nuts about two inches deep 
and two kernels in the hill. I do this by 
simply forcing the first two fingers of my 
right hand down into the soft earth, there¬ 
by making two holes, and into each drop 
a seed; this keeps them separate and 
prevents rotting. A commercial plan¬ 
ter, of course, would laugh at this sim¬ 
ple plan, but let him remember that 
we are dealing with a plant that is sup¬ 
posedly outside of its environment. 
Late frosts are to be guarded against, 
so do not plant too early. Plants will show 
in about two weeks after planting. 
Clean culture must be given, as weeds 
must not be allowed. When the vines 
begin to run, gradually hoe the soil 
toward the roots; soon the blossoms will 
begin to show and here the interesting 
part of the work begins. 
There is an old claim that the flowers 
must be covered or the vines will not 
hear, but please forget this, as it is an old 
whim and should he relegated to the 
past with the moon-planted potatoes. 
Immediately with the opening of the 
flower and exactly beneath it, is started 
what is called a peduncle, this being a 
sharp spine, which grows straight down 
into the soil, and on the bottom of which 
the nut is formed. Cultivate as long 
as possible without breaking these spines 
after which simply pull out the large 
weeds as they appear. 
As the crop begins to ripen, the vines 
will turn yellow, which with us is the 
last of September or first of October. 
They are then lifted with the potato fork, 
being careful to loosen all the soil so as 
not to break the nut from its parent 
stem, as each nut has its own thread to 
hang to. — E. L. Keasey in The Weekly 
Farmer, 
SOME POISONOUS PLANTS 
' I ^HIS is the subject of an interesting 
article by a correspondent of the 
English journal of Horticulture, which 
reads as follows: 
Many of our prominent garden sub¬ 
jects possess ppisonous properties en¬ 
tirely unsuspected by the average gar¬ 
dener. In some cases all parts of the 
plants are injurious; in others it may be 
only the seeds, leaves, or roots. Prim¬ 
ula obconica is to many persons the 
cause of more or less severe attacks of 
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