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7 How can lettuce be made to head up in
winter? Try planting in Sept and transplanting
to a hot-bed

8 What size of bag should be used for grapes?
Two pound bags which should be pinned
on, not tied

9 Has any one had trouble with Tomato
blight yet? It is just making its appearance

10 How shall grass be obtained under forest-trees?
Heavy top-dressing of manure and wood ashes

11 How shall a lady-bug with twelve spots on its
back be exterminated from canteleups?
Pick off and kill or to a half peck
of air slaked lime add a tablespoonful
of kerosene, leave it over night and
scatter over the vines

12 Has any member of the society the San
Jose scale? No one except Dr. Kirk has found it

13 A cherry tree in St Louis has been bored into
by a black insect; is such a pest here?
It is not known

14 What should be done for a lawn in
which are many weeds? Use wood ashes

The specimens were as follows.
The Cedars, Egg-plant, okra, Lima bean
tomatoes wine-berries and flowers

Hermon, Lima beans corn & tomatoes