‘tie snow ae

The" 9

M1 the soll, and

who were not #0 fortun-
will have to get buay and
try and catch up on lost oppor
tunities, and make the beat of It

sbould be made at the earliest
possible moment, If this has not
Already been done. And a row
of Broad Beans should be sown
at the same time.

Laxton’s Progress is one of tho
Dest carly Peas to sow, it Is a
wart Pea, growing about 18
Inches high, and does not neces-
sarily need sticking, although it
Is advisable to do so to keep the
pods off the ground. >

American Wonder, Little Mar-
vel, and Blue Bantam are three
other good early dwarf growing
varieties. Laxton’s Superb 1s of
a medium, height, 2% feet, and
Is an excellent early Pea, which
I would recommend very highly.

‘The Pilot Is a little taller
growing still, about 3 feet, and
a very good varlety. It would be
advisable to sow a succession of
any of these varieties a week
or so apart, and these followed
up with sowings of the Main-
crop varieties, sch ns Strata-
gem, Dwarf Telephone and Tall
Telephone, Lincoln and Onward,
TWO VARIETIES

‘There {s a cholce of two varie-
tes of Broad Beans, the Brond
Windsor and the Green Longpod.

Tn sowing Peas and Beans, the
best method 1s to dig a- good
trench and place a good layer of
well-rotted manure in the bot-
tom, and replacing part of the
soll on top, then sowing the seed
and taking most of the remain-
der of the soil over the seed. Do
not sow Peas too deep, about 2%
inches to 3 inches4s deep enough.

As regards sowing Beans, it Is
Best to replace all the soll dug
out of the trench on top of the
™manure, and then plant the Bean
seeds with a trawel or dibbor,|
spacing them In a double row,
Giagonally, 6 or 7 Inches apart,
and 4 inches deep.

If you have well-drained soll,
‘and the same Is inn’ good pulver-
fed condition, the following vore-
table seeds, besides Pens and
Broad Beans, may bo sown:
Early Carrots, Parsnips, Parsley,
Radishes and Spinach.

BUY PLANTS

seed should be sown in a cold
frame or on a warm border,

thelr permanent quarters;

ingly.

ir attention to ge ting some veretab
—e ‘dean againat

wa as regards getting the land,
Ix and worked up, but those of ,
manured and dug tho P
the Autumn or early ) 1°
ter will be so much further
the land will be #9,
ttor off for the Cok hii Ren a

0 d

een Mrcal rely moss, which holds wator

working up Into a

Lettuce and early Cabbage

ready to transplant later on in
but
bettor till, you can buy early
Planta of these at the nursery to
‘Plant in thelr permanent quar-
ters towards the end of this

planted on woll-propared |
Remember what T sala
‘woek’s article on potato
Aisoanes, and be sulded accord-

vs

rono—we hope, for good—it ts TUNY | riven at the frat of the season,

needs mown.

in hortloulture, To amateurs, its
most Important quality Ia that it
I qntiblotic, n sort of pentoliiin
the plant kingdom.

Bacteria and fungi cannot tive
In the dried moan, which has been
rod from swamps and baked
Tt forms a

well, and maken excellent humus
Hut contains no plant food, Tt ty
Inexpenslye, being chiefly uncd ax
‘packing material for nursery
plants, Th using {t for humus re-
fomber that it In very acid,

Antkblotle qualities in Sphag-
num wore discovered by United
Statos Government svorkera who
observed that seeds grown In It
nover got damping-off, or any
other fungus or bacterial discases.
Seeds sprout quickly in Sphag-
num, and planta grow rapidly, If
plant food is supplied.

STOPS DISEASE

‘To provent disease the amatour
can fill a fiat with it, and sow the
seed, just as In soil. In this case
he must supply plant food as soon
fas the secds begin to grow. The
flat should drain well and the
moss should be soaked by Apply-
ing water fram above, so that It
remains molst, Overwatering does
no- harm,

Its protective powers may be
used without the need for special
feeding, if after the flat has been
nearly filled with soll, a layer of
Sphagnum half an inch thick is
spread over the top, rubbing
through a sleve of one-third Inch
mesh. Sow the seed in the moss
and cover It lightly with the same
material, well pressed down.

The moss should be thoroughly
wot when the seed is sown, and
the seed box then covered with a
pane of glass. Germination will
usually take place before addi-
tlonal watering Is necessary but
the moss should not be allowed
to dry out, and it must be water-
ed on the surface, because sub-
irrigation ts not effective on this
material,
Plants grown in Sphagnum de-
velop heavy root systems, and the
moss adheres to the roots much
better than ‘soll, which enables
transplanting to be done with
Uttle or no loss of root area. The
welght of the moss 1s much less |
than soll.
0
GARDEN HINTS
For every hour spont in a yege-!
table garden, the product of well
Planned work will pay high!
‘wages. Careful experiments have
Proved that to grow vegetables!
requires leas time than it takes ;
to shop for them in the markot.
Spring begins whon
starts North again. Days grow
longer and Indoor plants grow)
more vigorously. In a few weoks
hardy plants will awaken from
their Winter's sloop, T is Inter

than you think to plan your gar-
den..

i

the sun

Tt needs aro sown in n thin|
layer of aphagnum moss, placod
‘on top of the nol! in a need box,
the “damping-off" dinonse will
rarely develop, The mona In ntorito,
containing no plant food, and no

inense; It 19 belloved to have an

|therefore, should have a prolific

|Spring management
of the apiary

‘The success of the summor's

work with the apinry deponds
Inrgely upon the management

nya F.6D, Craig, Apinrist at the
Dominion Ixperimentai Station.
AN! colonten should be exam-
Inod tho first warm day in the
Spring, Unions ench colony han at
mat 1% pounds of honey they’

t
hould be fed, Combe of honey

held over from the proviows Wall
crop aimplifien the work of food-
Inge

If any dincano way prosont in
the colonies the previous nenxo
the colonies should be fed nugar
syrup, conalating of ono part of
sugar and one of water. The xyrup
1s fed in a ton pound frictlon-top
tin, which hax» about 20 holes
plerced in the cover,

‘The tin of ayrup Is Inverted over
the framoy, an ompty tn
placed on the brood chamber and
the, hive cover in placed on the
super.

On the first examination make
mire that each colony has a fer-
tile queen, indicated by capped
brood, which is flat. (The brood
of a drono laying or infertile queen
will be raised). AM queentcas
and weak colonies should be unl-
ted to ones of medium strongth.

mupor

Colonies which have drone tay-
Ing queens should have the queen
dostroyed provious to uniting
thom with quoenright. colonies.

When an aplary has beon estab-!
lished, a few two-pound queonloss
packages of bees can often be
used to advantage to strengthen
weak colonies. Strongthoning weale
colonies In this way will often
more than pay for the price of |
bees in’ the extra production of,
honey.

Colonies that are wintered in
the cellar are goncrally placed on |
the summer stands about tho frat!
week in April. At this time of
year the bees are subjected to
sudden changes in temperature
and unless tho colonies are excep:
tionally strong, they may be af-
fected by much changes to tho ex-
tent that brood-rearing will be ro-
tarded, and quite often brood will
be chilled. It ia therefore ndvis-
able that such colonies should be
protected, oven if only by a
wrapping of watorproof paper
‘over tho hives.

Colonies that are packed In the
Fall in outside Winter casos
should not be removed from the
eases until the latter part of May.

The proft derived from any
Splary will depond largely on tho
condition the bees are in when
the main honey flow starts, Mr,
Craig concludes. Each colony

queen, sufficiont room for oxpan-
sion and an abundance of stores
during the build-up perlod.

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