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Velvety Mahogany Reds and
Browns, and Crimsons
and 'Maroons
Tie richest and most relyety
mihnrur reds and browns as
well as crimsons and maroons are
foand in the marigolds, these
colon preTailing in the French
assumed a position of more than result is a large assortment of ya
usual importance. It has become rieties growing wild or cultivated
a show vegetable and its social , Drimitive wa b the natiTe8.
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VARIETY.
types, which are either dwart or
taLl. The coloring is seldom solid
bnt comes in flakes and spots or
with a narrow edging of yellow
when it is the prevailing color.
For Tirid yellows and oranges,
ttte huge double African mari
golds are a mainstay. The pigmy
of the family, a little ferny-leaved
plant with finely scented foliage
and myriads of tiny brilliant yel
low flowers, is known as tagetes
signata pumila. It is an excellent
edging plant, for the larger types.
The tall Africans under good
culture will reach a height of four
feet. The dwarf French types
make round bushes spangled with
flowers about 18 inches tall and
bloom over a long season. The
tall French represented by the
popular Josephine strain reach a
similar height, but are not as fre
quently grown as they should be.
the dwarf bedding type usurping
the affections of gardeners. The
tall Josephine, which has the most
gorgeous reds of all the mari
golds, being particularly brilliant
in the fall months, is the finest of
this class and once grown no gar
dens will be without it because of
its good stems and the fine ma
terial it gives for cutting. It be
comes a favorite market variety
almost as soon as Introduced.
Marigolds want plenty of room
to develop and 18 inches for the
French and 2 feet for the Africans
is none too close. While they like
fertile soil they should not be
overfed as when given too rich
fare they make too heavy a leaf
growth and the blooming season
is delayed. Seedling marigolds
spin up to a bud at once and then
proceed to branch out and make
good bushes.
The seed shonld not be sown in
the open ground until after dan
ger of frost is over, but should be
started in flats, or boxes with
protection . to get early bloom.
Many gardners. however, are con
tent to eow in the open as the
marigold comes to blooming in
f-hort order, one of the quickest of
annuals to give results. The tall
varieties are best given stakes.
ONIONS GROWN FOR
THE SHOW TABLE
Due to the increase of interval
in gardening, the growth of gar
den Hubs as an important Rocial
factor in American life, with the
garden shows which are becoming
regular functions, the onion has
standing is greatly improved.
Big onions are a feature of the
fall vegetable displays and a big
onion is a tribute to a vegetable
gardener's skill as it takes real
cultural ability to turn out big
Bermuda types of uniform size for
the show table. It is necessary to
get an early" start to produce these
big bulbs and this is about the
last chance to get them going if
you have neglected to get started.
They need to be sown and trans
planted to their quarters to get
the benefit of a full season's
growth.
Sown in April, fine bulbs may
be grown by intensive culture. The
We also know that the disease re
sponsible for reduced .yields in the
United States are present there,
and it is logical to suppose that
resistant or tolerant varieties will
have developed naturally."
Speeding up Propagating
Because sugar cane is propa
gated by cuttings instead of with
seed, it will be necessary to adopt
a method of keeping the collected
canes in a growing condition until
shipment can be made to the Unit
ed States. A propagation garden
will be established for the purpose
at Port Moresby where newly col
lected specimens will be sent at in-
seedlings should be transplanted tervals and planted. When the
. . .1 fY hfl i Mrn ia reaHv tn return -i,t
about six incnes apart in rows ai i - j -v "
least one foot apart in the richest
oil that the gardener can pro
vide. The top should be snipped
ting garden and shipped to Ar-
fgating garden and shipped to Ar
lington Farm, Rosslyn, Va., for re-
off about half its length when j mnuog in me aeparimeni s sugar
they are transplanted and great i cane, greenhouses where they win
care not to disturb the roots any j be kePl under observation for a
more than necessary should bejvear-
taken. To raise prize onions the l Under an improved method of
gardener must be ready to keep j propagating sugar can introduced
them cultivated up to the minute j by Doctor Brandes, it is possible
eradicating every weed and keep- ! to increase the supply of cuttings
ing the soil stirred. j from an original specimen about
Application of wood ashes. ! 20 times as rapidly as under the
which can be bought from seed j present commercial method. An
houses, scattered on each side of illustration of the rapidity with
the row and hoed in greatly bene-j which a commercial supply of
fit the development of big bulbs, j planting material may be devel
Prizetaker and Southport Globe ; oped is se&n in the fact that cut
are favorite kinds for big onions j tings for the 170.000 acres planted
as they usually are found easier last un were produced from a few
to bring to good-sized bulbs by the ! canes within four
average gardener than the foreign 1
types which makef bigger bulbs, j
The Globe types ire most highly' Should Go Further
esteemed for the 'show table, al-' The sending of the expedition
though Mammoth Silver King, the ; in the search of still better disease
largest of the foreign varieties, resistant varieties of sugar cane is
which is flat in shape, is often a wise move on the part of the
grown. It produces big bulbs United States government,
within four months from seed and TW P 0 j varieties of sugar !
..c u.c ayciuiens. oaP cane alreadv in use in Louisiana.;
been ernvfn wpictiinf oc hir
three pounds.
crops of last year showed sur
prisingly good results in the way
of their increase per acre of cane.
The name, P. O. J.. as the careful
reader has surmised, stands for
Proefstaten Oost Java, as men
tioned in the press service article.
The P. O. J. varieties in Louisi
ana are designated by numbers.
There are several of them in use.
But the writer of this comment
on the action of the federal author
ities gives so much space to this
matter in order to say that the
federal authorities ought to go still
further
They should get the power of
the United States government h-
hind the greater development of
the sugar industry of this country,
including the beet sugar branch of
it.
Should Imitate England
The British government sub
sidizes the beet sugar industry of
Great Britain to about the amount
of the wholesale price of sugar
in the United States. That is. in
cluding the direct subsidy and the
tariff protection. That is, around
j cents a pound. The protective
duty for the United States is 1.76
cents a pound, for Cuban raw su
gars, and that is practically all
the competition the industry of
the United States has. We get
about 4,000,000 tons of our annual
sugar supply from Cuba. Our to
tal supply is around 6,000,000
tons. About 1.000,000 tons is
beet sugar grown in our own con
tinental United States, and nearly
all the other 1,000,000 tons or
more is from Hawaii, the Philip
pines. Porto Rico and the Louisi
ana cane fields. There is a sprink
ling from the South and Central
American countries.
Ireland subsidizes her beet su
gar growers and manufacturer",
too. To about the extent nf ti,..
British subsidies.
Great Possible Prosperity
There is great possible prosperi
ty for the United States in the pro
duction of the 4.000.000 tons of
sugar in this country that now
comes from Cuba. This could W
accomplished without any sub
sidy at all
It could be done bv a reasonaM
j increase in the protective duty.
It would surely pay this country
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i uiiuj; auoui mis result.
' This is the result that would be
brought about if the matter were
in the hands of a great business
concern. In one phase of the mat
ter, the United States government
is a great business concern. It is
the only power that can bring
about the growing and making of
all the sugar used in the United
j States, in our own country.
The keeping and distribution of
this enormous sum annually in our
iown country, with its direct and in
i direct benefits, would be enough to
alone bring a high state of pros
perity to the United States.
It is strange that there does not
develop a leadership in congress
that would undertake to bring
this thing about.
as mentioned in the press article
above, has had the effect of re
juvenating the sugar industry of
that state. In fact, without these
' better varieties, the industry in
jthat state would have been all but
destroyed by the Mississippi flood.
Al I ftF OUR QllftAR The acreage devoted to sugar cane
hui ur uun auunn has increased amazingiT for thlB
(CntlMflt,pl(I) year oyer ,agt tf)n
sing under natural conditions. The nage of the new varieties in the
Onion seed sown as soon as the
ground can be worked will give
good onions of medium size.
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High Grade Fertilizers
You will find it very profitable to use fertilizers on
your lawns and around your flowers and shrubbery.
We have a complete stock of all the different kinds,
including Sheep , Fertilizer, Bone Meal, Rose Lawn,
More Crop, etc. And it takes far less water to keep
your lawn and flowers nice by the right use of a good
fertilizer.
LAWN GRASSES
We have the finest clovers and grasses on the mark
et, including Fancy White Clover, Kentucky Blue
Grass, Chewings, Fescue, Meadow Fescue, Creeping
Bent, Colonial Bent, Shady Nook, etc.
You will find it pays to sow a little each year
on your old lawn to keep it in shape.
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