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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
Vegetable Collection" A’ 
This contains IS of our choicest 
vegetables and will be sent for 
$|.00 
Jt has proved a great favorite with 
those planting small gardens, both be¬ 
cause of the care taken in the selection 
and the price, which is considerably less 
than the several varieties of seeds would 
cost purchased separately. 
X pt. Beans, Refugee Green-Pod 
X pt. Beans, Golden Wax 
1 pa. Beet, Egyptian 
1 pa. Cabbage, Early Wakefield 
1 pa. Carrot, Half-Long 
X pt. Corn, Early Bantam 
1 pa. Cucumber, Imp. White Spine 
1 pa. Leek, Best Flag 
1 pa. Lettuce, Big Boston 
r pa. Onion, White Globe 
x pa. Parsley, Extra Curled 
X pt. Peas, Thorburn’s Extra-Early Market 
1 oz. Radish, Scarlet Turnip 
1 oz. Spinach, Viroflay 
1 pa. Turnip, Snowball 
We cannot make alterations in this 
assortment for they are packed ready to 
ship. The price of one dollar includes 
free delivery. You will find it just what 
you want for your small garden. Send 
for it today. 
J. M. Thorburn & Co. 
53D Barclay Street through to 
54 Park Place, New York 
spraying is to be done, dilute 1 part of 
stock with 100 parts of water, and use. 
For prompt application, it is simpler to dis¬ 
solve potassium sulphide (liver of sulphur 
from the chemists) in water, using 
ounce to a gallon. This solution will not 
retain its strength, however, and must 
therefore only be prepared as needed. 
Soapsuds —Two pounds whale-oil soap 
to 1 gallon water. Dissolve the soap in the 
water by heating to boiling point, and put 
away for stock. Dilute 1 part stock with 
5 parts water for use against aphids, slugs, 
etc. Common laundry soap also makes an 
effective wash, N cake to 4 gallons water, 
used hot, being the proportion. 
All of the above, save the last, are ob¬ 
tainable from first-class dealers, in forms 
to be depended upon and with full direc¬ 
tions for applying. It is quite unnecessary 
to make them, if one prefers to buy ready 
mixed. 
Your Saturday Afternoon Garden 
(Continued from page 251) 
may be made to help in the work—dib¬ 
bles, transplanting trowels, the trans¬ 
planting hoe, and so forth. The various 
kinds of plants are set at different dis¬ 
tances, shown in any planting table (see 
planting table in this issue). If the plants 
are large and succulent the outside leaves 
should be cut back a third or more, so as 
to make them more convenient to handle 
and to keep them from wilting in the sun. 
Unless the ground is very rich it is 
usually best to put a little manure or fer¬ 
tilizer in the “hill,” or the place where the 
plant is to be set out. It may be quickly 
done either by marking off the rows both 
ways and digging a small hole with hoe 
or trowel at each intersection, adding the 
compost and covering it up, making a 
mark with the head of the hoe to show 
exactly where it is, or by furrowing out 
the rows one way with a hoe attachment 
on the wheel-hoe, crossmarking, dropping 
the compost and covering it again with the 
wheel-hoe. Where several hundred plants 
are to be set the latter method will usually 
save some time. In setting the plants, 
get them well down into the soil, but not 
deep enough to cover the crowns of such 
things as lettuce, beets, strawberries or 
celery. Get them in as firmly as possible. 
Some planters make a practice of walking 
back over each row and pressing the plants 
in still more firmly with the feet. If the 
plants have to be set out in hot, bright 
weather it is not a difficult matter to shade 
each plant with a sheet of newspaper, 
which can be left on for two or three days. 
The Seed Border .—One of the tasks 
which should be attended to early in your 
garden making—the third or fourth Sat¬ 
urday afternoon of this month, if you are 
maintaining a Saturday afternoon gar¬ 
den—is to start seeds of things which you 
will want for transplanting. This will in¬ 
clude such plants as cabbage and cauli¬ 
flower for fall use, leek, summer lettuce, 
late celery, and so forth. Ordinarily, this 
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