July, 
1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
Your Saturday Afternoon Garden 
(Continued from page 31) 
will get them instead of the cook. Even 
where manure was used in the spring, an 
additional dressing of a high-grade fer¬ 
tilizer at this time will always help. Put 
it on broadcast after forking and rake it in. 
A little guano, bone dust, cottonseed meal 
or a little mixed hen manure and wood 
ashes used in each hill will give the plants 
a quick start and produce quicker and 
earlier results. A rainy or a cloudy day 
or a late afternoon is the best time for 
transplanting. 
If the seed bed where the plants are 
growing is dry, turn the hose on it and 
give the ground a thorough soaking the 
evening before you expect to transplant. 
A little trench made with the hoe along 
each side of the row of plants to be taken 
up will hold the water until it has a chance 
to soak in. Trim back the leaves a third 
or so if this has not already been done 
while the plants were growing. Rake over 
smooth and mark out the piece to be 
planted and then with the hoe or trowel 
make a small hole or opening at each place 
and drop into it a half handful or so of 
guano or some other fertilizer mentioned 
above and mix it with the soil. If the 
soil is very dry pour out a pint or two of 
water into each hole. Let this soak away 
before putting the plants into place. Take 
up only a few plants at a time and keep 
them well shaded from wind or sun. Put 
them well down. Plants of the cabbage 
family should be put in well up to the first 
true leaves. Lettuce, endive and celery 
should be set just down to the crown. Be 
careful not to get the earth over it. Press 
the soil down around the plants as firmly 
as you can with your knuckles, and after 
the row is finished walk or tramp over it, 
making the plants still more secure by 
pressing the soil about them with the feet. 
A plant well firmed in will stand more 
chance of living without watering than one 
which has been set loosely and watered 
copiously. If the newly set plants seem 
to show a tendency to wilt shade them 
during the middle of the day for two or 
three days with pieces of newspapers. 
For the cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels 
sprouts and kale have rows spaced three 
or four feet apart, the plants being spaced 
two or three feet in the rows, according 
to the richness of the soil and the variety 
planted. The late, flat, Dutch type re¬ 
quires a good deal of room. The flat, 
Dutch World Beater, Succession, Stone 
Mason and similar kinds belong to this 
class. The Danish Baldhead and Volga 
types may be set considerably closer. If 
you still have a few tomato plants left on 
hand from the spring, or seedlings which 
you started outdoors, set them out now 
for a supply of late fruit. You should 
plan to have a few vines in full bearing 
before frost. 
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