The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-24


Easily or Canned Should Be Grown -
Charts and Diagrams of Practical
Gardens Shown.
Prof. NJ. B. Cummings of the Univer-
sitv OF Vermont gave very practical
talk last egcaing III the assembly room
of the high school on gardening and
had q very interested audience, com
posed for the greater part of school
children, with a very substantial mum
Der of grown-ups, many of whom were
there with note books to gather mfor-
nation.
! Prof Cummings came in place of Mr..
Wright, formerly connected with the
extension service of the university, who
was to have spoken here. Mr. Wright,
County Agent A. W. Sweeton explained
in introducing Prof Cummings, had OBJ
tanned a better paying position and had
left the university after the ar
rangements for the meeting had been
made.
Prof. Cummings had several charts
that he used in connection with his
talk. One illustrated a plan of prao.
teal garden with its allotments of
space for permanent crops and the
proportionate amount of space allotted
for different vegetables.
Another was diagram of a
kitchen garden plot, % by 40 feet, in.
| i. 4 g -, ar1a an,,lI Ia
kept at work from spring until late fall
by growing succession of crops on the
same ground. 4 third chart gave the
vegetable maturity table.
lie said that some people think that
any place win do for n garden, but h'
o advised against the use Of filed land
: garden plots on the north side of build
l. ings and against the planting of clay o
}, sandy soils. Concerning witch gras
c he said that it must be eradicated b.
e constant work, for il requires the sam
food that the vegetables do.
The period from about June Is t
August 10 is when the vegetables re
quire the greatest amount OF water, TO
then sthcy are rushing 10 maturity 4
speaking of the use of all of the Ian
he pointed ont that betwcccn hills o
| SQudSntH anu tuEhlhBffS iuMS VI tiulf
: growing vegetables should be planted
1 for they will have maturcd and be OF
/ Of the way before the vine crops hav
| matured sufficiently to require III
1 room.
He urged that those who are plantin
war gardens plant only those vegctabl,
! that can be stored easily, or canned
I dried for future use. If the garden
4 g.. al
/ ter.
| He told the BOYS aud girls to plan
their rows straight aud to mark an
date each one. As for q rule Cor II
depth Of planting n seed he said tn;
on old rule was a good one: plal
three times as deep as the diameter
the seed to be planted.
He advised all to read the direction
on the packages of seeds they buy, Il
they are as generally correct as an
thiSg any one can advise. He said tn
an ngrammatical bit of advice on
| given was excellent. 1t is ''plant thi,
aud thin quick The planting
- seeds thickly is necessary because sol
- do not come, others do not live al
~ others become broken. The thinning
necessary to give those left the nccC
sary room in which to grow.
He said that dull day, or after
rain or at night was the proper til
TO transplant and that in most
stances it was advisable to reno
about half the leaves. In connccti
with that he suggested to Mr.. Sweet
that 4 demonstration of transplant
would be OF value.
He closed with the advice not to pla
much Of perishable kinds Of vcgctabl
illustrating his point by saying that
saw one garden last summer in VIII
80 feet of lettuce had been planted q
that 4j feet Of it had gone to waste
Prof. Cummings answered numcr
questions asked by members of his
dicnce.