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4 What the best remedy for blight
on tomato vines? Bordeaux mixture
applied when plants are small

5 Is this climate suitable for a Copper
Beech? Yes

6 An asparagus bed planted last
year and manured, What should
be done now? Harrow with spring
tooth harrow before it puts up.

7 How treat a strawberry bed that
is covered with chickweed? Get
out the weed or move the bed

8 What fertilizer use on strawberry
beds in the spring? A combination
of nitrate of soda and nitrate of Polash
recommeded
There was no time for a walk inspection,
so the flowers in the garden
had to blush unseen and very
few could see enough from the
porch to imagine the appearance
of the ground on the morning of
the 30^th of September 1896, when sixteen
trees immediately around the
house were wrecked by the cyclone