PERENNIAL VEGETABLES IN THE GARDEN 
Any home owner with a good sized back yard will 
do well to find room for at least three perennial 
vegetables. 
ASPARAGUS may take up a good deal of garden 
room, but once established will keep on producing 
for twenty years. 
Dig a trench about a foot wide and 21% feet deep. 
Use a good all around fertilizer mixed thoroughly 
with the subsoil. Place rhubarb roots 4 to 5 feet 
apart in the trench and cover with 4 inches of 
subsoil. Keep cultivated, both to conserve the 
moisture and to keep down weeds. 
It’s best to buy dormant roots or crowns, Use 70 
roots for 100 foot row. Dig a trench 12” wide and 
12” deep. Put in a generous amount of manure 
or an all purpose plant food well mixed with the 
soil on the bottom of the trench. Add enough soil 
to bring the inside level of the trench to within 
6 to 8 inches. Keep soil moist. As the spears be- 
ing to show, gradually add soil until you have 
reached the original soil level. 
In the fall, mulch with strawy manure or peat 
moss. Don’t cut the first year, but from then on cut 
each spring. 
ARTICHOKES—to prepare the bed, dig in plenty 
of manure or all round plant food. Artichokes are 
heavy feeders and need large quantities of food 
right from the beginning. While in active growth, give them 
plenty of water. A good place to plant artichokes is along 
the edge of the lawn. They will be 
well watered and the atmosphere 
will be cool and moist. 
Don’t cut for 2 seasons. The third year, cut the spears when 
they are 8” high and before their tips being to unfold. 
Mulch in the fall and soak beds. In the spring, cultivate 
and add a complete fertilizer, re- 
apply mulch and water thoroughly. 
RHUBARB like asparagus is a 
permanent plant. It must be put in 
Buy sturdy young plants (suckers) 
and set 6 inches deep in the ground, 
a part of the garden where it won’t 
be disturbed. Once established it 
should not be moved. Ten or fifteen 
roots will be enough for a family. 
leaving a shallow basin around each 
for water. Soak the soil well and 
mulch lightly. Plant rows four feet 
apart, with plants four feet apart. 
The Cold Frame 
At Its Best 
To get the full benefit from your 
cold frame, start it early and keep 
it busy every month of the year. 
A cold frame is the same as a hot 
bed without manure or other source 
of artificial heat. It depends upon 
the sun for heat and must be 
covered with hot bed mats to con- 
serve this heat at night and in cold- 
est weather, Most important spring 
use for the frame is the hardening 
off of seedlings started indoors, 
The cold frame is also used to start 
half-hardy and tender annuals sown 
three to four weeks ahead of the 
time they would be planted out- 
doors. Use your cold frame to store 
cuttings of herbaceous plants 
through the winter. It is an excel- 
lent place to establish division of 
clumps of alpines and perennials. 
The cold frame is used for forcing 
early vegetables and hardy bulbs. 
In the fall, you can store your 
celery, cabbage, beets, carrots and 
turnips from your garden. 
The bed in your cold frame should 
consist of a 2” layer of gravel for 
drainage, 1” sand, and 4-5” of 
good garden loam. Sand under the 
soil makes transplanting easier. 
Always water in the early morning. 
CELERIAC 
LARGE SMOOTH PRAGUE—(Turnip rooted 
celery). Smooth spherical roots. 2 to) 3-ins 
thick, 120 days. 15c. 
CELERY 
Start in shaded hotbed 60 days before 
needed. Cover seeds V4". Transplant 
when 6” high, In setting outdoors, don’t 
get soil in or over crown. Set 7” to We 
apart. Soil must be rich, moist and loose. 
As soon as plants have grown to Gee ie 
15” tall, set 12” boards on both sides 
of row and hold in place with earth, 
Or 4” drain tile can be used to blanch 
individual stalks. Celery must have warm, 
settled weather. If chilled, plants are 
likely to go to seed. Keep soil well 
fertilized and moist. Crop matures im 
cool weather of autumn. 
GIANT PASCAL—Late variety for winter 
use, Large plant, dark green leaves. Big 
solid stalks that blanch to yellow white. 135 
days. l5c, 
GOLDEN SELF BLANCHING, DWARF— 
Compact plants, yellowish green foliage. 
Broad solid stalks, nutty flavor. Blanches 
readily. 120 days. l5c. 
WONDERFUL OR GOLDEN PLUME—Early, 
medium plant with compact, full heart. 
Blanches easily to golden yellow. 112 to 
115 days, lsc, 
COLLARDS 
Sow seed heavily and transplant when 
4” high, or sow in rows in permanent 
beds and thin to 16” to 18” apart when 
plants are well started. 
SOUTHERN OR GEORGIA—An excellent 
cooked green. Long stemmed plant, with 
clustered leaves. Withstands heat and bad 
soil, 24 to 36 days. 
SWEET CORN 
Hybrids 
We offer Hybrid Sweet Corn varieties known 
as the best for your garden—the finest that 
can be produced anywhere. We list here 
only a few of these choice kinds. Whatever 
your needs or your preference, be sure we 
can supply you with the kind of corn you 
want. Talk it over with us. 
IOANA (fr)—Ears 712 to 8-in., well-filled 
with 12 or 14 rows of deep, medium nar- 
row, light yellow kernels. Highly resistant 
to drought and bacteria wilt. 87 days. 20c. 
@ IOCHIEF—A yellow hybrid sweet corn 
with sensational qualities. Sugar sweet and 
tender—stays prime longer—rich color. 20c. 
GOLDEN CROSS BANTAM (fr)—Extremely 
uniform, Ears 10 to 14 rows, slightly lighter 
yellow than Golden Bantam, Highly resist- 
ant to Stewart's disease, 85 days. 20c. 
MARCROSS (fr)—An early wilt-resistant hy- 
brid, producing deep golden yellow ker- 
nels 7 days earlier than Golden Bantam. 
Ears 6 to 7-in, long, with 12-14 rows of 
large sweet kernels, 73 days. 20c. 
Open-Pollinated 
BANTAM EVERGREEN—A cross of Golden 
Bantam on Stowell’s Evergreen, 14 to 18 
rows. Deep, rich golden kernels, tender, 
sweet. 90 days. 15c. 
BLACK MEXICAN—Pure white corn with 
purplish-black seed. Ears are 7 to 8-in, long, 
8 straight rows, 88 days, l5Sc. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN OR SHOE PEG (fr) 
—Prolific late variety. Favored by canners. 
Irregular kernels, very deep, sweet. 93 days. 
SG: 
GOLDEN BANTAM (fr)—The best and most 
favorably known of all the yellow varieties. 
Stalks often have 2 ears. Ears 8 rowed, 
kernels broad, with tender hull, 15c. 
STOWELL’S EVERGREEN—White. Large ears 
about 8” long. Big kernels. Very sweet. 
Good late variety, 93 days. l5c. 
POP CORN 
SOUTH AMERICAN OR YELLOW DYNA- 
MITE—Rich, creamy, yellow, smooth and 
round kernels, which pop double size of 
others, Ears 8 to 9-in, long, Vigorous grow- 
er, 115 days. 20c. 
Hybrid Pop Corn 
You will be delighted with hybrid pop 
corn. Yields are terrific; every plant pro- 
duces corn with satisfying, big ears, with 
uniform popping. ASK US ABOUT HYBRIDS! 
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