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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
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I THE MAPLEWOOD BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY 
Sta 
mford, Connecticut 
Trees put in in late October start consid¬ 
erable root budding before the hard frosts 
reach them in December, and in the spring 
they get time to make a lot of root-growth 
before the sap rises in April and the buds 
begin to come out. Trees put in as late as 
the middle of May may succeed, but it’s a 
toss-up, for the leaves begin to demand 
sap before the roots can get a start to sup¬ 
ply it, and all the sap dormant in the root 
and trunk is soon exhausted. After drop¬ 
ping its first leaves, it will still grow an¬ 
other set, and then if sap is not forth¬ 
coming from the roots the tree will inevit¬ 
ably die. 
I was very uneasy about planting any 
more trees along the back border of the 
garden, though that is theoretically the 
ideal place for them. This was the lowest 
ground in my particular garden and every¬ 
thing had died there the first year, even 
the hardy privet hedge. The new fill, 
however, had raised this nearly a foot 
above the main traverse drain, but still I 
feared the overhanging branches of the 
forest trees shutting out the direct sun¬ 
light at high noon. Two Early Harvest 
yellow apples had survived here, however, 
and were getting along slowly, having been 
planted on high spots, so I decided to risk 
a row of ten currant berries (Industry), 
all of which did well the succeeding sum¬ 
mer. Here also, next to the drain, I de¬ 
cided to put the new asparagus plants, of 
which I had ordered fifty three-year roots 
to replace the hundred two-year roots 
which had all died. Asparagus must have 
a permanent bed of its own, in rich, dry 
soil not likely to be disturbed by annual 
plantings of vegetables, so where could 
they be better put than in the rear border 
of the garden, in front of the currant 
bushes and behind the main drain? The 
old location in the east garden I foresaw 
would be soon wanted by the new straw¬ 
berry runners, of which we would have at 
least 300 to find room for the next fall. 
No almanac or seed catalogue that I 
know of tells you how to set asparagus 
roots, though they tell you how far apart 
and what kind of soil to put them in. The 
thing to do is to dig a trench about a foot 
deep and two feet wide and set the plants 
in well-rotted manure in two rows, 18 
inches apart in the rows, “staggering” the 
rows; that is, one row ahead of the other 
nine inches. Fill back the trench soil so as 
to cover the tops of the roots about four 
inches. Two years later, when you begin 
to use the shoots for the table, build a 
blanching mound over them of loose loam 
a foot high, and cut the shoots off side- 
wise through this mound with an aspara¬ 
gus knife. 
Editors Note.—This is the first of a 
series of four articles that Mr. Miller has 
written on his garden. The next appears 
in April—“Slave of a Wheel-hoe” — a fas¬ 
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