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Forethought

Continue the wear on weeds
sow turnip seed and kale, also lettuce
snap beans and beets, and cucumbers
for pickles. Work celery and force it
along until hilling time. Keep strawberry
beds worked. Should you wish to make
a new bed, before Spring now is the time
tho' Spring is better. Keep weeds out of
sweet potatoes. Try spraying cabbage with
a solution of fly-poweder, 1 oz. to 4 gals of
water. In the flower garden, keep down
the weeds, begin potting plants for winter
trim out dead wood from rose bushes,
keep the spent blooms pulled off the Geraniums
and other plants, save seeds,
sow prenennials.

We enjoy the Forethough reports and
have been benefitted many times by the advice
and recipes given. Our Secretary
wishing us to remember, to whom our
thanks are due for proposing the plan, by
which we have profitted for twenty-one years.
Read the letter from Ellen Farquhar who
originated the idea, and we reiterate our
thanks to Eliza Brooke for so ably and faithfully
carrying out Ellen Farquhar's suggestion.

Questions

{1}Which is the most desirable Brussels sprout
Kale or Spinach? Kale is more hardy than
the others.
{2}Should Dahlias be cut back now to induce
late blooming? It is better not to cut them back.
{3}A visitor asked why she saw no gooseberries
in our gardens, did the climate not