Evening star., 1915-06-20

sl0o, $500 per hundred. Thos c. Pollock,
1914 w st. Sc. Phone Linen. 1870.
KITTENS White Ansora kittens: fine stock. 2
months old: house''roken: cheap. llI2 Lamont
AIREDAIES- Party leaving city Will sacrInc.
hne pair Of registered Airedales. Phone Co
For the first paintings one of the early
Narletles, of course. must he the choice.
Golden Bantam being perhaps the best
of these. Later one of the old stand
ard varieties, such as Country Gentle
man. Stowells Evergreen or something
Similar, viii produce roasting ears dur
ing the summer season AS the season
advances paintings of the quick -matur-
ing varieties, which bear within sixty
to eighty days. will keep corn on the
table as long as it is desired.
Tomatoes sown in succession or grown
from plants set out at intervals of two
weeks Will bear until the vines are
cut down by frost. Too often the gar
dener who makes only a single plant
ing of tomatoes finds his vines have
exhausted themselves by the middle of
the summer. and from that time on he
must depend on the markets or on
neighbors who have had more fore
sight. By planting an early variety for
the first crop, followed in two weeks
by planting of later-maturing va
riety, and this followed in two or three
weeks by another planting of some
good early sort, the gardener will have
fresh ripe tomatoes through the entire
summer. with plenty of green ones for
picking left on the vines when frost
comes.
String beans should be sown at in
tervals of ten days up to the middle
of August. AS soon as the earlier vines
have ceased to bear the later paintings
will come into bearing, thus assuring
plenty of this favorite vegetable from
June l to frost. For this kind of sue
cession, however, the bush variety is
sooner than do the pole sorts, even
though they do not bear SO long.
Peas are more difficult to grow than
varieties and attention to cultivation
they may be had from early summer
until late fall. AS In the case of the
vegetables previously referred to, ex-
ira early varieties should be selected
for the first paintings. with late or
main crop sorts following in ten days
or two weeks. and then return to the
early sorts for the late fall crops. Peae
require more careful cultivation than
do beans. corn, etc, and they also need
more moisture. IF 4 reasonably shady
location can be found in the garden,
set it aside for midsummer sowings Of
peas, as the vines, being rather tender,
are likely to wilt badly under the rays
Even lima beans may be had for an
all-summer succession. if the first
planting is of standard early bush
variety, the main crop one of the old
favorite pole sorts, and the late plant
ing a return to one of the quick-matur-
ing bush varieties. Heavy fertilization
and plenty of moisture are required to
grow Hmas successfully.
For an aI-sunmer supply of lettuce
a shaded location is necessary, as let
tuce grown In midsummer in a fully
exposed location is likely to be rank
and coarse. If the lettuce bed is To-
Gated where it has a reasonable amount
of shade during the middle of the day,
and where it can be kept plentffuily
supplied with moisture in case rains
are infrequent, the material for salad
may be grown right along from early
spring to late autumn. Make sowings
at intervals of not more than ten days;
a week apart will be even better.
The same plan for radishes as for
lettuce will insure a supply of these
crisp roots for breakfasts and lunch
cons through the entire summer AS
in the case of lettuce, radishes must
be sown in somewhat shaded ioca-
ton in order to keep them from grow
ing tough, stringy and rank during the
hot weather.
Tomatoes trained up to stakes and
pruned back to one. or not more than
room and bear more and finer fruits
Care should be taken to pinch off all
the suckers that form at the joints Of
the stalks. as these suckers never bear
good fruits. but simply draw on the
plants supply of sap. Tomatoes to be
trained to stakes may be set out two
to three feet apart each way. the stakes
being about four feet high. Each plant
4 hD1a tNl
been placed a shovelful of old. well
rotted manure.
Although the frequent rains of the
last couple of weeks have soaked the
ground to a depth of several inches,
making it unnecessary to water lawns,
flower beds or borders and garden
plots, the time is coming when the
ground will be baked hard and when
the hot sun will scar and wither grass.
plants, etc. if water is not supplied.
1t should be borne in mind that a
superficial watering of any growing
Lawns well as everything else
should be soaked. or no water at all
should be applied. Superficial water
ing merely moistens the top half inch
of soil, and this forces the vegetation
to send rootlets toward the surface
rather than deep into the ground. As
a natural consequence the heat Of
scalds the tender rootlets and
the vegetation wltnerS ana dies. II
the lawn or the flower garden or veg
etable garden is to be watered at all,
the job must be done thoroughly, so
that the ground may be soaked several
inches deep.
Sowings of kale and spinach for late
fall and early winter cutting NAV be
made at any time now. Prepare the
seed bed carefully. enriching 1t liber-
ally with old. well rotted manure, as
Doa a lHy d,yri he hot
weather. will burn the tender young
plants. Make the ground as fine as
possible, and SOW the seeds either in
rows or broadcast, covering them by
raking them in to the depth of half
an inch or so.
AS soon as the Strawberries have
ceased bearing 1t is good plan to
cultivate the rows and to place a mulch
Of lawn clippings an inch or SO deep
On the ground between the rows. This
mulch, of course, should be replaced
with a deep straw mulch late IN the
tall, to protect the plants during the