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One of the nicest of the many 
nice ladies whom | have been for- 
tunate enough to meet by mail is 
Mrs. Eva K. Grey, an authority on 
Begonias. My Beefsteak Begonia 
was not thriving and | appealed to 
her for advice. She disagnosed the 
trouble and I changed from a tall 
can to a wide vessel and said Be- 
gonia is now flourishing. She was 
kind enough to give me permission 
to publish that part of her letter. 
BEEFSTEAK BEGONIA 
Mrs. Eva K. Grey 
The common “‘‘Beefsteak’’ is 
Feasti. Is not a difficult one to grow 
but likes a place where it can spread 
its roots on the surface as it is a 
rhisomatous variety and does not do 
well in a small pot. A box is best, 
say 12x12 inches. You will find 
most of the rhisomatous. varieties 
like room for their roots to spread. 
If anything I write can be of any 
use, you are welcome to publish it 
as | love to have people who grow 
Begonias find success and pleasure 
from ‘them. 
‘ ee) re 
Now is time for garden planting 
even in the North. So many books 
urge that Melons take too much 
room for any but big country gar- 
dens. Nonsense! During the years 
that we lived on the farm, Mr. Cole 
planted Melons and Cucumbers 
separate from my garden. He laid 
off the rows the usual wide distance. 
Then, when the Melons were plant- 
ed, split the middles and planted 
Peanuts. Peanuts and Melons are as 
congenial as Corn and Cow Peas. 
The Peanut plant consists of 
three parts, the top, the nuts and 
the true roots. Being a legume, 
these roots gather and store nitrogen 
from the air, hence should be left 
in the ground or put in the compost 
heap because of their fertilizing 
value. The blooms are formed on 
the tops, which then fall down, and 
the ovary of the flower digs itself 
into: the ground, developing there. 
In big acreage, machines can be 

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used for digging and thrashing, but 
in small gardens the work must be 
done by hand. 
In addition to the high food value 
of the nuts for humans, the tops 
when well cured, are a rich hay for 
cattle, goats and rabbits. 
Owing to my age and health, am 
having to omit much of my rambling 
in the woods and confine my atten- 
tion to unusual plants to be obtained 
otherwise. 
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