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Rose Gilpin wants every one to try & get
things in jars for the hospital, they are
thankful for anything, even one glass of
jelly. She said she wished she had
brought a sample of dried corn dried in
her dryer, it was so good.

[Sam?] Janney asked how to heat a celery bed.
Fill it up well & cover with leaves & put
boards over it. Some put dirt over the
leaves, about three inches of dirt, then straw
or fodder - you can't cover too much with
fodder. Della Brooke digs a pit & fills
it with the early celery, & covers it well,
it keeps splendidly.

Cornelia Bentley wants to know how deep
to plant [flag?] roots. They should be planted
shallow.

She planted out an asparagus bed last
spring, must she cut off the growth of a
new bed before she gives it a top dressing
for the winter? Leave it until the tops
turn brown & then cut off & cover.

Cousin [Ellen?] Farquhar wanted us to look at
her tomato plants - they were planted out
early in the spring, it grows ("Bolgiano's
[best?], most wonderful yielder known")
abundantly & blooms, but no tomotoes. Some