Evening star., 1915-06-06

| supply OF tomatoes untli lrost' anu
plenty of green tomatoes for picking,
! etc, set out new planting during
June. Select plants which have one
or two blossoms on them Ponderosa
| is one of the very best varieties Tor
| general household use.
For bed or border of saliva, or
scarlet sage. the plants should be set
gut now, to bloom in late August or
| at most florists and are not expensive.
while they make a gorgeous showing
Of long spikes of fiamelike crimson
| bloom at season when few flowers
are producing blossoms.
| Sweet potato plants should be set
| out as soon as possible. in order that
the tubers may mature and ripen fully
! before frost. Any kind of sandy soil.
! not too moist, will grow sweet pota-
toes. provided the rows properly
| fertiliZed. After the rows have been
! made-the soil ridged up in long hill
open the top of the ridge and scatter
| in it old. well rotted manure. prefer
ably from COW stable. \ large SHOW
| elful to each plant is not too much
Cover the manure with the soil re-
moved in opening the rows, making the
| soil covering a couple of inches orI
more deep. Set the plants about a
| foot apart in the rows. watering liber-
ally when the plants are set out. Keep
| the hills we'll ridged up and free from
| weeds. and when the vines are well
| grown, begin winding or coiling them
| loosely about their own stalks. This
| keeps them up out of the trenches be-
| tween the hills and at the same time
conseryes the moisture in each hill of
| sweets.
| If it can possibly be done. SOW cow
| peas thckly between the rows of sweet
corn at the final cultivation of the
, corn: also sow them anywhere else in
/ Il ,1or@ Se In
| August. after the early crops are Off,
| turn the cowpeas under and SOW Grim
| son clover The clover will have time
| to make a good start before frost, and
will continue to grow during the win
| ter, unless the location is exposed to
| the full effect of the northwest winds. |
| Turn the crimson clover under at plow
ing time next spring, and the soil will
| be much more highly enriched than
would have been the case had several
| tons of manure to the acre been used.
Turnips should be grown only on
ground that has already produced one |
crop. and they should never be highly |
fertilized. A crop of turnips sowed |
where the earliest peas or beans have |
grown, without any additional ferti- |
lizer, will make good crop for use
in August and September. If sown in |
new ground or given much fertilizer |
the turnips will be strong and rank.
A few dollars for brass hand spray
er and insecticides are well spent. The
sprayer is handy for use in the chicken
house well as in the garden.
Spray the peach and plum trees to
destroy the insects that deposit eggs
on the young fruit which hatch grubs
that eat their way in to the stone and
destroy the fruit.
The youngster who has not seen
or,1 hn1n IN fIo
has missed part of his or her educa-
ton. A garden is a childs paradise,
and every child should have bit of
one for its individual use. The care of
movies and the tendency to run wild.
The average lawn is a vain show, the
tennis court is often a delusion, but a
garden is substantial blessing.
Liquid manure applied at intervals of
about a week, sometimes less, ac-
cording to the richness of the soil, will
do wonders in increasing the produc-
all kinds. Tomatoes fed with liquid
manure also bear more and finer fruits.
When you buy dollars worth of
80 and Is cents to mddleman and
grower. The same amount of vegeta-
bles home grown would actually cost
you % to so cents for seed, fertilizer,
your own labor. In many cases the
market stuff is burdened with three
or four separate profits.
Feed the roses freely, using liquid
manure-made by suspendng an ordi-
nary burlap bag filled with manure in
barrel of water, and dipping off the
liquid-at least once a week. The liquid
The use of bone dust and dried blood,
worked into the soil at the roots of
the plants, also makes for growth and
improves the color of the blossoms.
White hellebore blown on the plants
will keep the rose aphis and the small
rose spiders off.
If there is room all kinds of fruit
trees and small fruits should be set
out. For a fair sized garden COM
plete layout of half dozen of each
fruit tree grown in this climate, sew I
eral kinds of berries, grapes, straw
berries, rhubarb and asparagus can be
bought for under $40 Don't deal with !;
nursery agents or take the advice of
friends on perfectly splendid this or
that, but get the catalogue of first
class nursery house and study it,
Dwarf pears and apples are quick 4;
growers and take little room. Rhubarb,
berries and currants yield the second
year after planting.
Honeysuck1e, which is one of the
easiest plants to grow. makes a fine ,
oSl SCH loT d poECH OF IOT d fence. Cut
tings of honeysuckle taken from vines
growing beside the roads almost any !
where around Washington will root {
without any tfouble if stuck into the
ground and watered a few times
woman demonstrated the other day
that she could afford to buy a bushel ,
of wheat at high price, grind 1t her ,
self with hand mill into flour and |
breakfast food and make a big saving ,
over market products of wheat manu-
factured with machinery on colossal
scale. 1t may not be feasible to grow
wheat in a backyard, but all kinds of
vegetables may be grown there in sue /
cessful rivalry with hundred a ere ,
truck farms
Sow little crimson clover wherever
the soil seems poor and thin Either !
leave it growing, to be turned under ,
next spring, or turn it under when it !,
is six or eight inches high. 1t is one of
the best manure crops known ,
The practical home gardener avoids !
vegeta bles which are too fancy or be- ,
come inedible too quickly, like okra,
and also those which are difficult to !
prepare for the table, like spinach. ,
Chard IS equal to spinach and easier to ,
wash. Dwarf varieties of string beans, : !
lima beans and peas save the trouble =
OF brush or poles In some places peas /.
grow poorly and the amateur simply
ooes not try to wrestle with them. A
ra1r sized tomato Is better than the big
or very small sorts. Summer squash is
great and easy grower. The most
useful winter crops are potatoes. pars- I