The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-30
Notes From q Carolina Garded.

A Georgia friend tells US that these
notes particularly interest him, as our
experiences coincide SO closely With his.
lie had the same queer experience TINS.
year with Honor Bright tomato we had.
The whole plant turned golden yellow ard
the fruit partook of the same golden hue
and refused to ripen, While the plants
and fruit still seemed to grow vigorously.
1t Would be interesting to know if this
tomato has acted in the same way else:-
where. It is now the third of December.
and. though we were. threatened with
killfng frost about the last of November
very. little damage was done, and today
the great tail plants of Tobacco pepper
are as green as summertime. and We are
cutting the finest Of Big Boston lettuce
pleaded right from the open ground.
Chinese Rose Colored radishes are a sight
to see. \ customer a few days ago sent
for five dozen radishes and sent q man
with a half peck grocers paper sack to
put them in. | had to lend the man a
grain sack to carry them in. While as
large as ordinary COW horn turnips these
radishes are solid and fine with no pithi-
ness about them, and the beauty OF them
is that they VIII keep just SO all through
the winter with a little rough manure
scattered over when the weather gets
cold. We find that we made a mistake
in our frame lettuce. We generally pre-
rare a special compost for the frames
and clean out all the old soil. This fall,
bong busy about other matters, the COM
post was neglected and we added a lib
eral amount of commercial fertilizer to
the cid soil and planted the frames. Now
we find that we will lose fully half the
crop from the stem rot. The soil has
become completely infected with this
fungus and We Will lose heavily for not
either putting in new soil or steriliZing
the old. We are now, as the only hope,
replanting the frames with Hanson and
the Wonderful lettuce, which seem to
resist the rot better than the Big BOS-
ton. But we are starting already the
compost pile that we intend to use an
other fall. This would make a good item
for the page Of mistakes and Failures, =
for We learn sometimes more by them
than by success. We dressed the rows
Of spinach recently with nitrate Of soda
ard it is making a splendid growth. Greer
onions as large as they usually are in late
Februarya are now being punched for mar
ket. The Irish potatoes planted in No
vcmber are doing very well and have not
grown as we feared they will, but il
cold weather does not come soon we fear
they will get up. A North Carolina mar
has devised a plan for growing the sec
end crop OF potatoes, which is said tx
work we'll. He plants potatoes from Tho
carly crop in deep burrows as soon a:
dug and then at once SOW COW pea;
t on the land. These shade the land anl
Lby tho time they are ready to cut fo1
; hay the potatoes are getting above tn,
ground and are worked, the roots an
stubbie aiding their growth greatly. Thi
| second crop has been very fine this fall
t and we notice one grower offering 300
! barrels for seed purpose. We are Gu
iious to see how the narcissus and tn
t freezias will stand the winter, for the.
S are now we'll up above ground and look a
though they had a notion to make fiowe
buds. Roman hyacinths are UP, Of course
for they habitually get into bloom her
about Christmas. The freeziaS are in til
t same place as they were. last winter, whe
{ We had an unusually cold winter an
they did not show Gill spring. The bulb
were not lifted and we suppose this
8 partly the reason for their early starting
d But cur experience has shown that tn
& frcezia under ordinary conditions, is pei
fectly hardy here. This week We set i
nursery rows long cuttings Of figs ar
/, Hybrid roses. These will make fine plant
= another summer. Some fig cuttings woT
put also i'll places where we want tt
trees to remain. for they make bette
trees.