Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . Transplanted Cabbage PlantsHead Better Than Others. It has been claimed that the act of trans-planting Cabbage plants exerts a beneficial in-fluence upon their heading qualities. The sec-ond and third plantings in our test of varietiesgave an opportunity to make a comparison inthis respect, as the second planting was madein boxes iu the cold frame. May 6-10, and thethird in the open ground May 7-10. It is thuspossible to compare 106 rows of transplantedplants with the same number of row
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . Transplanted Cabbage PlantsHead Better Than Others. It has been claimed that the act of trans-planting Cabbage plants exerts a beneficial in-fluence upon their heading qualities. The sec-ond and third plantings in our test of varietiesgave an opportunity to make a comparison inthis respect, as the second planting was madein boxes iu the cold frame. May 6-10, and thethird in the open ground May 7-10. It is thuspossible to compare 106 rows of transplantedplants with the same number of rows grown iu place, the vai-ieties being identical, andthe seed being taken from the same resiilts were as follows: PS ?i ^^ •& ^?l y ^-1 Days Days Ins. Ozs. 90. Second planting. Plants transplanted .Third planting. Plants grown in It is evident that, in this case, the transplant-mg shows no lieneficial effect. The little differ-ence is in favor of the plants grown in place.—Report of the New York Eji-periment Propagating Case. Fig. 2. Plant Sh ield. Easily Improvised with Paties of Glass. As to Hardlnsss of Trees. Hardiness depends on many things — aselevation, soil, drainage, exposure, cultiva-tion, rapidity of gi-owth, the nature of thesummers, springs and winters, or any one or allof these, and doubtless on still other conditions. Last winter was as cold as any we have hadin 20 years—38 F. below zero—yet thriftysprouts of Mwjnolia umbrella remained aliveto the terminal bud. Perhaps this was owingto the fact that there was plenty of moisture inthe soil, or little wind, or no sunshine duringthe freezing pericnl, or all combined. TheseMagnolias have usuaU}, even in mild winters,died to the snow line.—Prof. Bears Report, u POPULAR GARDENING. March, Blue Roses: Fraud Agents RejoiceIn Such Things. In the notice of A Memoir of Father S. , of Philadeli)hia, which appeared i
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