. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. , Cauli-flower, Turnips), Onions, Leeks, Beets,Rhubarb, Potatoes, Asparagus, and per-haps Peas and Beans. For fruits, it is considered more desirablefor Peaches, Plums and Pears, than forApricots, Apples and Cherries. As a top-dressing, says the Journal ofHorticulture, salt may be applied to everykind of kitchen garden crop at the rate often bushels per acre, either at the time ofsowing, or perhaps preferably when cropsfrom seed have arrived at the thinningstage. For Potatoes and Artic
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. , Cauli-flower, Turnips), Onions, Leeks, Beets,Rhubarb, Potatoes, Asparagus, and per-haps Peas and Beans. For fruits, it is considered more desirablefor Peaches, Plums and Pears, than forApricots, Apples and Cherries. As a top-dressing, says the Journal ofHorticulture, salt may be applied to everykind of kitchen garden crop at the rate often bushels per acre, either at the time ofsowing, or perhaps preferably when cropsfrom seed have arrived at the thinningstage. For Potatoes and Artichokes, it maybe applied when they are well aboveground, and before the first hoeing. Somecrops will bear much more salt than thequantity named: Asparagus for instance,will not suffer by any application of twotons per acre. Cabbages may have repeated applicationsof salt, and so may other members of thetribe. Salt possesses still other values. It isdestructive to slugs, grubs in Turnips, also protects plants from injury by cold. To apply salt mixed with other substan- 48 POPULAR GARDENING. December,. STERLING. ces, I believe, is the most satisfactorymethod. Gardens long enriched with stableor farmyard manure in time become sickor worn out. Lime dressings have been ad-vised, and are indeed very beneficial, oftenmore so than a dressing of stable manure. While lime does good, it is known thatwhen salt is mixed together with moistearth and lime a considerable quantity ofcarbonate ofsoda and chloride of calcium isproduced, owingto the salt beingpartially decom-posed, the chlor-ine of a part ofthe salt unitingwith the lime,whilst carbonicacid supplies itsplace, formingcarbonate ofsoda. This hav-ing the properlyof combiningwith silica andrendering iD solu-able may provebeneficial toplants by supply-ing them withthat essentialarticle of theirfood. A bushelof lime, soot, andsalt mixed andsowTi broadcastover the groundIntended forOnions and Car-rots prior to put-ting in the seedsis
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