The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
LITTLE WINDOW FARMS.
Tricks In Growing Seeds That Give
Early Bits Of Green.
Chicago Timcs-lIetll1.)

Now is the time when young and old
alike find the great joy of life in the
| fresh growing thing, and fortunately
this is a pleasure that need be denied
no human being who can command
bit of sunlight | have even known
people with broad fields and large gar
dens to take with enthusiasm to the
device of raising a crisp green cress
on a bit of flannel before the ground
is quite ready for sowing.
Take d piece of coarse flannel wet IL
thoroughly, and place it on large
plate or platter. and over it strew
water cress seeds; put this in some
place where it will be sure to get plenty
of sunshine, and keep it always we'll
moistened. In a very short time you
will begin to see the fresh green
plants, and you will soon have abund-
ance of cress for the table besides the
pleasure of seeing it grow.
Another jolly idea is to take a good
sized carrot scoop out the inside, NIL
it with water and suspend it in a win
dow with some pretty cord. Within a
day or two the sprouts begin to grow,
and before you know it you have a
dainty green hanging basket. A sweet
potato also answers very nicely for this
purpose. A lady who last year tried
this experiment tells me that after
starting her sweet potato in the kit
chen she transferred it to the drawing
room where her window decoration
called forth no end of admiration from
those who did not dream of its humble
origin Another very nice idea is to
thoroughly soak a red porous pottery
vase in water and then SOW thickly over
the outside very fine grass seeds They
will stick to the vase on account of its
moisture, and if the vessel is kept
filled with water will take root almost
Immediately and will soon present
most charming outline in green.
A woman who has had a life-time's
experience in a beautiful garden gave
me a tip in regard to raising cucumbers
that is well worth knowing 1t seems
they are the most difficult of all slips
to transplant. 1t was therefore her Gus
tom early in the season to SOW her seeds
in a turnip. She would first cut the big
vegetable in two, scoop out the middle,
fill it with fertile soil and SOW her seeds.
Then, when the time came for trans
planting turniD and all went into the
ground. The young plants were not
disturbed, and the subsequent rotting
of the turnip only added to the fertility
of the soil.
Not long since I saw what seemed
very clever conjurer'S trick, but which
is not cOnjuring at all when one knows
the secret of how it is done Some time
when YOU want to astonish your friends
get a handful of lettuce seeds the day
before and soak them over night in al
cohol; also provide yourself with a
flower pot or box not over six inches
deep. and in the bottom streW two
inches of well-mixed loan or florists
soil. Then assemble your friends and
tell them that you will show them
trick in farming. Now proceed to put
into your box about two inches more of
soil, composed of one part loan and
one part quicklime. and scatter the let
tuce seeds all over the top, after which
sift little more of the loan very thin
" over the seeds. Water the whole
and stand it directly in the light. In
ten minutes the seeds will burst, IN
twenty there will be two leaves, and at
the end of an hour, if kept sprinkled,
the lettuce leaves will have attained
quite a size and ought to be thick
enough to make the whole top green