Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-19
SEED CATALOGUES PROBLEMS
SOLVED; THE BEST VARIETIES
Perpexites of Selection Unraveed for Home Gardeners
Standard and Prolific Sorts Listed and characterized
The Importance of Cultivation to Insure
Successful Crops
By JOHN BARTRAM

CULTIVATION is necessary for all
y crops, Nobody should leave the peas
or beans or eorn without clean and thorough
culture but it is to be feared that many
DO not bother enough about tillage
The term cultivation, so mysterious to
the beginner is really summed up in the
admonitory defnition Keep the earth
stirred up around all growing things .as
close to the plant as possible without in
terfering with or endangering the roots
Hoeng up earth along the rows of peas
or the hills of corn is cultivation. SO, too,
h turning the sod with spade or plow about
the fruit trees or grape vines.
Cultivation accomplishes several desirable
results. 1t keeps the weeds down and gives
the plants a chance to rise above choking
rank growth of these undesirable citizens of
the garden. II keeps the earth mellow, free
from baking hard and thus drying up the
tender rootlets which absorb nourishment
from the soil 1t saves the ground from
souring in some instances, II conserves
moisture in the ground by physical prin-
, eple known TO scientists as osmosis. The
freedom from weeds means all the more
Plant food stored up for the recipients Of
cultivation
The catalogues contain page after page OF
descriptions Of varieties. To relieve the
perplexed amateur from possibility Of
making wrong selection. l am listing
Standard and excellent kinds that my eX-
peHence has shown to be the best for all
round use.
sTANDARD PROLIFIC VARIETIES
bEANs-Stringles greenpod, free from
strings" require no stalking; Valentine,
suandard dwarf early green pod snap, re-
sure no stalking golden rust proof wax,
s~sft yellow or wax podded snap; Ford
k nSVk bush lima no stalking Carpenteria
sphe hma popular pole lima homestead,
N"est green-podded pole snap,
bEET-Eclipse, extra early, round, red
@ole beet; Crosbys Egyptian fine late,
BRUSSELS SPROUTS-Dalkeith, the
0est compact growth.
CABBAGE-Early Jersey Wakefield,
sahaard extra early; late fat Dutch, the
sa uss' large cabbage grown: Danish ball
Acu compact, good winter keeper,
SAhhOT-Early scarlet horn, extra early
aoe carrot; Danver's half long orange,
se and fine grained for main crop; OK
me for winter storing.
LIFLOWER-Snowball, finest for
Nher early or late.
IELERY-Perfected white plume, best
VIM; ig set-blanching golden dwarf, popular
winter keeper
.okN-Sweet. Cory. extra early, small
Sc ~ prolific; Crosby's, fine medium early
s,en bantam, delicious, small yellow corn I;
sbHehs Evergreen, the popular late sort (;
sSSspee OF Country Gentleman, fine grained
and sweet
a. oUuMBER-Perfected white spine, fine
nns or slicng.
pon,SSDiNE--Green curled, delicious and
,.LE-Dwarf curled, hardy supplying
"sehs In winter
'ohL-hABI-Early Vienna white. fine
'ssslshle for boiling.
LEEk-T
LETTUCE-Boston market, extremely
sssis small heading salamander, second
msis mead lettuce New York large and fine
ssn ss crop heading variety; b!ack-seeded
ppson good for hot period Grand
h.i lettuce.
A., LION, MUsK--Netted gem, small, ex-
~ green fieshed Hackensack, main
It.,,. Ik tfsen.heahed variety; Burrell Gem