Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . Do theforcing now, or as the newgrowth, and with it the nextseasons buds, is this time they may behastened by heat as high as65°. but defer this until justbefore blooming time,as maybe done with most kinds ofplants that are wanted inflower early, and you invitedisaster to the crop of bloom. An Edible Oxalis. Onespecies of this plant, , is cultivated as agarden vegetable in France,the bulb of which is muchprized as food. Its flavor isslightly acid; the leaves also
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . Do theforcing now, or as the newgrowth, and with it the nextseasons buds, is this time they may behastened by heat as high as65°. but defer this until justbefore blooming time,as maybe done with most kinds ofplants that are wanted inflower early, and you invitedisaster to the crop of bloom. An Edible Oxalis. Onespecies of this plant, , is cultivated as agarden vegetable in France,the bulb of which is muchprized as food. Its flavor isslightly acid; the leaves alsoare acid, like those of theRabbit Clover, a well knownnative Oxalis. This foreignspecies grows about one foothigh, has yellow flowers, and tubei-s that in someplants are yellow, in others red. The first frost killsthe tops; the tubers are fit to eat some time later. A folding protector for plants is shown in theengraving. It consists of a pair of trapezoidalboards hinged together at their right-angled endsand connected by netting or oiled muslin of suffi-cient size to permit them to be opened as The protector when not in use may be compactlyfolded, as seen to the left in the engraving. Thecost is said to be less than four cents apiece. Thisarticle is patented; it being the invention of EugeneZimmer, Mobile, Alabama. Ferns in Moss. In a fertilizing moss, made byspriukling some fine bone meal over the moss as itwas spread out, I have succeeded ingrowing Adi-antun^ and Pteris Ferns with excellent results Iplace the moss in round wire baskets of my ownmaking, and which look like balls of moss withFerns growing out of them when planted. Theyare pretty for hall or house decoration. They areeasily watered by placing in a saucer of water, buthere they must not be left to stand long.—Dora. A Rapid-growing Tree. The Silver-leavedMaple {Acer dasycarpum) is one of the most rapid-growing trees we know of in the North, and it isopen to but few of the objections that can be brought
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