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2| When and how sow lettuce for wintering over? Sow in a bed the middle of September, transplant to cold frame latter part of October.

3| What is to be done with apple trees that seem perfectly healthy and grow well for a year but then turn grey and the leaves gradually die? Thought to be an insect cut off about eight inches above the root and burn.

4| What is to be done with maple trees that die at the top? Trim out the diseased part, but if very bad and seems to be killing the tree better cut it down.

5| Where is loam to be procured for the culture of mushrooms? What is loam? The dictionary says "a rich friable soil". A discussion decided that there were different kinds of loam, a rather vague answer for the mushroom culturist.

6| What ails egg plants that have grown luxuriantly and are will with fruit but have had branches that wither up?
Not known

7| What is the best to do with the early potatoes we are now using?

Dig and store in the cellar to be used till gone..