Identifier: lureoflandhistor00full (find matches)
Title: The lure of the land; the history of a market-garden and dairy plot developed within eight months upon Long island's idle territory
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Fullerton, Edith Loring, 1876-1931
Subjects: Long island railroad company. Experiment station, Wading River, N.Y. (from old catalog) Long island railroad company. Experiment station, Medford, N.Y. (from old catalog) Agriculture
Publisher: (New York?) Long island railroad company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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und is in far from propercondition to suit onion germination and growth. The same erratic showing ofrows is here that was found in the first planting made on acre number two. Thecabbage set out in acre number three has done marvelously well, yielding a verylarge percentage of not only marketable but very large solid heads. First plantingof onions still reminds one very much of a shave with a dull razor. The beets,because late germinations, have somewhat caught up and transplantings havehelped out broken row\s, are growing thriftily and look somewhat like a well keptmarket-garden. Turnips planted on acre number two were superb the day beforeyesterday; to-day leaf and even bulb have rotted so badly that in appearance andstench the showing is awful. Endive for the first time is making beautiful growthand promise for crop is excellent. Melons I hardly dare to speak of, for fear they will have the blight. Theacre is the most beautiful patch I have ever seen and I came from a melon country.
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Fine Tobacco at both \o. 1 and No. i The set is superb, the bees are marvelously thick and the melons are filhng outlarge and shapely. The assorted l^lighted and measly celery plants have at lastsecured enough vigor through copious doses of wood ashes, Long Island fertility,diluted salt water coming to us in the form of fog, to show considerable promise.The very best of the bunch however, is golden self-blanching, raised in numberones seed-bed. In our vegetable flower garden, peppers, are as elsewhere, superb both inleaf and fruit. The cardoon shows here and there leaf blight, but makes up inpart by a number of good sized buds. Scarlet runner is growing luxuriantly withno sign of vegetable enemy. On the United States Government plot both haricotbeans and lawn are in fine shape. The squash and pumpkin samples near houseplot we have apparently saved in part from the ravages of the brood of the smallstriped beetle, who do not seem to keep ahead of the special brand of importedblight. Cel

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