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;393 r:(4) 3 '"V ''' m -.t..-.; ; the entire ieaf oh. Cut the tower vfchedt f Wfe Farmers Want to Know By W. F. MASSEY r Sweet Cherries Falling Nephrolepis-exaltata. These are the Boston fern which in leaves, is ex actly like the species except that the fronds fall over gracefully, while m the species they stand stiffly erect. Then the Boston fern has sported into numerous much divided fronds which have been given various names. As a rule, ferns prefer a soil largely composed of leaf mold from the forest mixed with sandy S" OUTHEAST VIRGINIA: haver some sweet cherry trees which always i drop the fruit and never ripen. What is the trouble T" ', , The difficulty is climatic. Sweet cher ; ries always fail from your section south ward, except in the high mountain sec tions.. You can grow sour cherries like '"g free f rom Hme TVrnntnrv Farlv Pirhmond: The garden soil, all absolutely tree trom,iime. X m"': SSr- never be wet, but the water poured on the soil around them and enough to go deaf through and then no more until dry. Shift from small pot carefully to a size larger and not all at once into a big pot. Do not set in the direct hot sunshine. end f pave tne enure leai uil vui mm wv Wvhv .kwiwiv -waui. xue -enn u. end square under the node and take off pistil, the stigma, receives pollen which the leaves of this and the second node. sfretchesdown till: it reaches the ph Set the cuttings in a pan of sand kept centa and ; the - ovules,, and a new in a half liquid state in a sunny win- growth is set up in, the ovules and 1 dow. In about four weeks little white 'seed is formed. Now the fruit mav hi roots wui oegm io shuw. men jjui vi&v"vu wv. uiwm uaving no pistil cuttings in strong clay loam soil in Hence there js: no means for nnorep-I Hit" puis. 1U tiiio ill lusuoi, - the little plants wilUiave the, pots full of roots in a few weeks and can be knocked out of the pots, andin.your section,' planted at once, and in a colder section packed in a frame for' the win ter and planted in the spring. Glad-to know that Houston is growing flowers. I was there in December 1859 when Col. House was a year old baby. The popular flowers there then were on the backs of the cards the gamblers used per section Qear the Blue Ridge. Ashes Worth Hauling ' fl CAN get for the hauling the ashes 1 from hickory wood. Some of them have been rained on. It will cost prob ably 50 cents a ton to haul the ashes. IVUl it pay to iak'e them and what crop should 1 use them ont" Of course, the ashes which have been rained on will have lost some potash, but the ashes will be well worth the hauling for the lime alone, as they contain about 35 per cent of lime in the best shape, and some phosphoric acid too. Spread them at the rate of a ton an acre on a sod to go in corn. White Sweet Potatoes fllLL you please tell me which is the best variety of white sweet pota toes? I have been growing for quite a while some white ones, but they do not get soft as they should, and I thought you might tell me of a better." The only white-fleshed sweet potato of the yam class that I know is the old Spanish. I do not know where these can now be had, though nearly every one in the sweet potato growing sec tion of east Virginia grows them for home use. 1 rather suspect that you have the Hayman, a whitish-skinned potato with yellow flesi. This is a poor potato in fall and early winter, but gets soft and good in the spring. There is a lierht-fleshed ootato in North Carolina known as the White Barba dos or "White Bayduses." This is grown around Raleigh. They are known in Virginia as Tolman Spanish. Everbearing Strawberries NORTH CAROLINA Mountains: "I have a bed of everbearing straw berries which seems to stand still. What can I do in cultivating or manuring?" To get much result from the ever bearing strawberries, I find that they should be treated as annuals. Set the plants in the spring and keep the bloom off till June, then let them bear theremainder of the season. The next spring let them make the dull spring crop, and then turn them under, for they do little fruiting if allowed to make the spring crop. I have dropped the everbearing strawberries as not worth growing. I have tried them thor troghly. They are sweet but never large, and I have concluded that I can gct more fruit with the best of the spring varieties and have other fruits in the fall and do not need the little strawberries. In fact, all the spring and fall-bearing small fruits like the everbearing raspberries and strawber ries are inferior to those that make a full spring crop. I have grown several varieties of the everbearing raspber ries, and have not found one that will, make in both spring and fall as good a crop as the standard spring-bearing varieties will make in the spring alone. nating the ovulesand no-seed is form About 50 years ago I dropped into the office" of Mr. Saunders, then the horti culturist, of the Department of Agri" culture in Washington. He showed me in a greenhouse devoted to oranges some little plants in pots. He said that he had grafted these with cutting from a seedless orange from Bahfa. Brazil. He sent these to Riverside, Cali- iorma. rive or six years later T w for it seemed to me that gamblers Were1 oened to he . in, Washing ...:Jz" the leading business men and gambling day," and again, dropped in to see Mr .the main calling in the shabby little Saunders. He said, fYou are just in Cantaloupes for Market "XJLTHAT are the best varieties of cu Y V cumbers' and cantaloupes to plant for market ? There are thousands of acres of cu cumbers and cantaloupes planted here. The growers have mainly planted the Klondyke, though I advised them that the Davis Perfect is better. .Last season those who planted the Davis topped the market in price, and more will be planted this year. The cantaloupes generally planted are Netted Rock, Eden Gem, and Pollock salmon tinted. These are usu ally grown from seed brought from Rocky Ford, Colorado. A few have grown what is called the White Pink Meat This is larger and later than the Netted Rock. It is crusted all over with white netting and has orange colored flesh, though called pink. town on the Snaky Bayou. I would like to see Houston now. Growing Strawberry Plants "WtHAT method do the extensive " growers of strawberry plants use? Do theD sell slants from the runners and harvest a crop of fmii from the Mtt 3SZSS.ra T" Is there any IstilZte of the numier of SJ5i??'J' plants produced an acre? The large growers set blocks of. plants in size according to the usual demand for the several varieties grown in the field. They are grown a year and are dug and The cantaloupes generally ?o1 m fall and spring. - The entire ; block is uug dim uic i miners uuuciicu miu bunches of 50. An entire, new planting is made in the fall. Incidentally, they get some berries from unsold blocks, but the plants are the dependence. No estimate of number of plants on an acre can be made until the habit of the variety is known, for some varieties make, few plants while others make a great 'many. Varieties in demand, which, like . the Chesapeake, make few runners, must be grown in much larger areas than varie ties which make many and may be in less demand. , time to taste tne first seedless navel oranges as I have just received a small basket from the trees I sent to Cali fornia. I can only spare you half an orange." I found it very good. That was the. orange known as the River side NaveLli Ja any plant which men cultivate from other than seed nature At mwi uscu. x nc cumvaiea Dana na has been, for. untoldyears, grown from suckers, and has. long since quit mak ing seed. And yet one of my old stu dents found acres of wild bananas in the Philippines that had plenty of seed. He sent me some and I grew banana plants from the seed." Many plants cul tivated have' failed to make seed. An All-the-year Garden "T)LEASE give details of your plan for . an all-the-year garden." In a general way, manure and fertilize heavily and cultivate absolutely clean. Then: plant the earliest things in a close block so that when out, the ground will be ready in a body for later things. It would take too much space here- to go into real details. Get my book, the "Gar den Book for the South," from The Pro- gressive Farmer office and you will'have the whole matter in detailr Kudzu Again Til EDM ONT North Carolina: al want ... Fertilizer for the Garden "'WJHAT fertiliser do you advise with manure for the garden? I have a half -acre garden and one good load of manure.1 One load of manure will not go far on a half-acre garden, I try to cover my garden thickly with manure in the fait so that it will lie and rot through the winter. My garden is less than half an acre, but I use five good loads and then in spring add acid phosphate at rate of 1,000 1 in knmv nll nhnut the blnnf called nounds an acre, and dig all in. I would kudsu. They say it makes more hay spread that load of manure thickly as iar as it will go ana then add 1UU pounds of acid phosphate to the manure.- Then on the remainder use a good 3-&-3 fer tilizer at rate of 1,000 to 1,500 pounds an acre. Your garden of red clay bakes in summer- If you can get plenty of black rotten leaves and earth from the woods than anything else.' Briefly, I will say that kudzu will make more forage than any other plant I am familiar with. Once in the ground, it is there to stay. If not pastured it will spread rapidly. It sends out runners flat on the land, and I have had them run over 30 feet and root at every joint. It is a good thing, but you will have to watch it Pasturing is the only way to keep it in bounds, for the mower will skip the runners. I have been experi menting with kudzu for 20 years and these are the opinions I have formed. Earth Worms in Flower Pots T LEASE tell me how to destroy the worms in my flower pots. Also what kind of soil to use for a tuberous-rooted begonia?" Slake some fresh lime and let it stand to settle. Then take the . clear lime- water and pour enough on the pot to go Preparing Cotton Seed "I HAVE been advised that it will give cotton a ' good send-off to roll the seed in, nitrate of soda or a good fertil iser. Will jt injure the germination of the seed?" ' Rolling seed in powdered nitrate of soda,! fear, would seriously risk the life of the seed. i;-.."ir:"'". V Spraying Grapes ''WTHE Reference Special it is ad- vised to spray grapes before bloom ing: I have bunch grapes of several va rieties which have formed leaves. What spraying is needed?' i -i We spray grapes mainly to prevent the black rot. The first spraying should be made when the vines are dormant in February. We then spray with Bordeaux mixture, spraying trellis and all trash about the trellis. Then after the blbom is over, and the little grapes set, spray again and in ten days spray a third time. Here we are attacked by swarms of rose bugs every spring just as the flower beds set -These attack the blossom buds and eat every one of them unless checked. For these, we spray with an arsenateMn water to which a liberal quantity of glucose or and use it. heavily every year, it will help ?orn svruP ,s added. By careful spray mellow the soil. Then work in slaked lime at rate of a ton an acre once hi five years, and this will not only sweeten the soil but will help to mellow it. An Old Question "IS IT safe fdr tne to f plant cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, and cym lings near each other?" All the plants named belong to the" great natural order of Cucurbitaceae. But they are all in different genera. Plants cross within the species, but sel dom do genera cross. 1 " rv v My cantaloupes and cucumbers are clear through the soil. This will cause" planted in adjoining rows. I do that Growing House Ferns TJOfF may I grow ferns successfully? Why do some rose buds rot instead of opening?" " ' The mere name ferns is very indefinite asthere are hundreds of kinds of ferns which need different treatments. Some ferns can be grown only in shaded greenhouses by skilled gardeners. Some are minute and delicate while '(others make trees. I once bid $20 for a single plant of a Cibotium fern and someone m got at tor. more , moneys The? ferns now sq-,. commonly i grown in pots in the worms to crawl to the top where you can pick them off. For begonias, mix' one-half fine sifted black leaf mold from the woods with equal amount of grass sod rubbed through a quarter-inch sieve. Mix thoroughly. Use no manure, but a little fine bone meal may be mixed with ' the soil. v. Propagating Marechal Niel Rose SOME one at Houston, Texas, who is ..i;.asliamed;:5si''a'Mmt-'asfa how -to propagate; the Marechal Niel. There js no rose, more easy to, root than this every year because it is more conven ient to have the plants with running vines in a Block. I get first class mel ons and first class cucumbers and save seed that make plants which show no signs of crossing. I do not grow water- ' melons in my garden for lack of room, nor do I grow gourds and pumpkins. Cymlings and gourds will cross and all the different varieties ; of squashes blooming at same time will cross. ' : ''''' , ': .' ''J ' ;''':.;'.;', v: '.':''': "':. v,V-' v.W-- Seedless Oranges ing we manage to save', oart ot the crop, but the bugs always get a share. Plant Some Pop Corn for the Children WHEN planting my al ways allow a plot for pop corn. It not only possesses much food value, but it is a delight to the children. If more of this corn is raised than, can be nsed at home, it. can be sold to local merchants or neighbors at a fair price. I find raising pop corn a great stimu lant and pleasure to my,, 14-ycar-ld son. He has charge of-this crop, and he makes aiice little sum of money; each year from the surplus stock. 1 Pop corn should be planted early. It is necessary for it to have a long season in which to mature. 7 - ' Ff G. B. T BIRMINGHAM, ALA. -RALEIGH. N.C.. 1 1 W Hratt St- MEMPHIS, TE. DAI-m. TEXAS 00HMDNXCATIONS EEQAED1NG 1ADVSBTISW OB SUBSCRIPTIONS SHOULD BE Al)I)Eli88KD TO DmCB ' NEABE8T PHB ' R&JlDEB. V JffjTTllBKD AT a Noisette hd Af Ta rn w jbud and fragrance of. the tea, and the altnxfe to cut the "seed strinds? ; f . j. it , ; -A.' v -: " ' ' . vi Tvir - Six mSntiia . vTi m ? SUBSCRIPTION IfATEWtMVVTO ' :wB;oij!r
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