The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-19

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Growing Figs.
can figs be grown from cuttings in
the open grounds? What is the best
variety OF Ges?' There is no difficulty
whatever in roofing cuttings OF the
ripe ouc-year wood of the tig. Make
cuttings in the fall and tie in bundles
and bury them in the earth out of
reach of frost In spring take them
Up and set in rows. placing the whole
cutting in the ground except the top
bud. the cuttings being made about
Ton inches long. Now. what is the best
variety depends largely on climate. ]
had at one time in North Carolina fifty
five varieties of figs. getting all the
best ones from the south OF Europe,
and from the English greenhouses. But
some OF the best, like the White Adri-
attic and the Don Pedro, are too tender
10 thrive out of the orange belt. Tho
figs known rs Smyrna figs. that make
the dried figs of commerce. can only
he grown in mild climate, and with
the aid of little wasp that lives on
a Wild hardy fig. | have grown the
Smyrna figs from seed of the best dried
figs but they invariably dropped the
fruit without ripening. They have the
insect hat sets the fruit now in Cali
fornia, pa are growing the Smyrna
V
needs shat is called the Capri fig to
live upon. and they set the fruit OH the
Smyrna fig. The hardest figs are the
Celestial and the Doree Narbus. The
Celestial is a small brown fig, that can
1e eaten when ripe skin and all, while
most Of our self-settinE figs need TO
have the skin removed for eating.
Tho finest fig l grew in North Caro-
lima was the French Crosse Vert. This
is n large zig of "A satiny green color
when ripe and deep red within. 1t is
rather tender away from the salt Wa
ter In fact, all figs thrive in our
latitude best right along the salt water
as at Old Point and Norfolk. Most of
the figs grown Ia Virginia are the
Brown Turkey. They are usually
grown here in bush form. but recently
saw an orchard in the lower end of
Northampton County on single stems
and large rs ordinary peach trees.
This shows the value of the salt
situation. / have grown them sue
cessfully north of Baltimore in n very
cold section by branching them at the
ground. ana in the fall az soon as frost
cut the leaves ! divided the branches
in four bundles and bent them TO the
ground and pinned them fast and then
piled the soil thickly over the whole.
like n four-pointed star. In this way
] have carried them through n winter
that went below zero more than once
and lifted them i'll the spring after
frost was over. and generally carried
over the early crop that is far better
than the later fruit. ! had there
Brown Turkey White Marseilles and
brunswick. Down in the lower Tide
water section and right along the salt
water the Celestial. Brown Turkey and
few others will thrive without pro-
lection but inland il is better to bury
them.
Bur Clover.
II have been told by a man who
grows bur clover that he makes 200
TO 1000 pounds acre In the burs
DO YOU think this possible? What is
good heavy yield" In the first
Elace. in your Piedmont section / do
not think that bur clover is desirable
KS 10 making the crop you mention. l
am not able to positively contradict IL
because l have never MADE Il crop OF
this plant for seed. Still 1 wuold think
that half that amount would be a very
heavy crop. Bur clover. even in the
warm sandy soils of the coast region
cannot compare either as soil i'm
proven Or forage plant with crimson
clover Then, too. Am inclined to
night shy of any plant that will GER
talhlY reseed the land and come
again Tor II viii be apt to come where
do not want IT. This Is the chief
objection ! can see to the hairy vetch.
where one is interested in wheat
growing LQr II wifi be sure to get
INTO the wheat, and the seed are very
hard to clean out from wheat The
mans enemy sowed Tares Cvetch) in
ms wheat. and it is as bad in wheat to-
day Z s in Bible times The one advant-
age the bur clover has is that it will
lhoculate the soil for alfalfa when the
seed are sown in the burs
Growing and Keeping Sweet Potatoes.
planted last spring three acres in
Nancy Hall sweet potatoes, with a-s 2
wards added broadcast 400 pounds OF a
Special potato fertilizer, ard have
sept the cultivator running, q. avs go
ing the same way TO keep me vines
turned with the cultivator. Later
nave used shovels on the cultivator
and ridged them slightly. AS want
10 turn hogs in after digging the no
iatocs, l want 10 drill peas between the
rows DO you advice this? Shall
pun earth 10 the potatoes with hoes
snail lit the vines loose from the
8 ground. where they are roofing?
nave large room three feet above
ground and four feet under the ground
Two windows on south side. solid brick
wall ola west side next n wood cellar
and one window on east side under
Kitchen and door coming M into
Kitchen is this room good Mace ~
in crates or 90 build shelves? VIII i,
be necessary to have artificial heat in
this room: Ny correspondent cover,
great deal Of ground in a long let.
ter, from which / make the above cx.
tract have never tried planting poa,
between sweet potatoes. but cannot Sc,
that they viii do any harm or, planted
so late, amount TO anything for tn,
hogs. You need not use a ho. in swer
potatoes II YOU throw some TO then
an the last cultivation, which can b,
oest done Win cotton sweep. ncvc,
disturb the vines. for l want them I,
make all the leaves possible. for il f.
the leaves that get carbon from tn.
ar "ith which the mineral matter
form and distribute starch. and pota
toes are very largely starch. or starci
transformed into sugar
Hence we want plenty " leaves. an,
when the soil is wcll supplied wiz
phosphoric acid ana potash We wil
make the potatoes, no mattcr now RAN
the vines. use Oh sweet potatoes
fertilizer wi:h per cent Of nitrore,
per cent OF phospho!ic ac.d and !
Of uDfagh Ia stti,.l,..