. Making horticulture pay; experiences in gardening and fruit growing. Gardening. 146 MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY as carefully as possible, preferably in damp weather, or just before a rain. They will soon start off and give fruit much earlier than common plants from the ordinary seed bed. The cold frame can be used to sow lettuce for late fall or to plant pansies and violets for win- ter. As soon as plants begin to appear through the covering this must be removed in favorable weather and replaced in unfavor- able. Great care is needed to pre- vent extremes of heat and cold, and the plants suffer
. Making horticulture pay; experiences in gardening and fruit growing. Gardening. 146 MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY as carefully as possible, preferably in damp weather, or just before a rain. They will soon start off and give fruit much earlier than common plants from the ordinary seed bed. The cold frame can be used to sow lettuce for late fall or to plant pansies and violets for win- ter. As soon as plants begin to appear through the covering this must be removed in favorable weather and replaced in unfavor- able. Great care is needed to pre- vent extremes of heat and cold, and the plants suffer from too much wet. " If any plants grow too fast or too tall they should have plenty of air, and water should be withheld; if they wilt in the sunshine, they will not be ;. ROW MARKER MAKING STRAIGHT ROWS " To enable one man to mark out straight rows in the quickest possible manner," writes R. J. Dallinga of Summit county, Ohio, " we stretch two strong cotton lines, which cost us about 25 cents apiece, where the first two rows are to be, say, 3 feet apart. "From a garden drill we remove all the seed- ing attachments and run the drill wheels over the first line from a to a. Before running back on second line (b to b) we put the stake of line one from a to c. When we arrive at b, stake of line one is moved from a to c, which puts the line in position * rTTT W < p "*â »'-«.â rf p *^xr'~ 0 â â â - ,-"""" rtXATH ROW B1 MAKING STRAIGHT ROWS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville), 1868-1946. New York, Orange Judd Co.
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