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GARDEN MAGAZINE

Devoted to Planting and Managing the Grounds About the Home
and to the Cultivation of Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers

Volume XVII
February, 1913, to July, 1913

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INDEX

About Hydrangeas in General, 60.*

Adams, H. S., articles by, 142, 179, 208,
314, 352-

Adding $1,000 to Your Assets, 251.

Agropyron, 144.

All About Pieplant, 200.

Allen, George H., articles by, 36, 198.
Mary & Francis, photographs by,

February cover, 12, 13.

Alpine Strawberry, The, 208.*

American Substitute for Heather, An,
132."

Angell, H. E., articles by, 48, 173.

photographs by, 48, 172, 173, 174.

Annual Flowers, 138.

Apple Tree, The Planting of an, 172.*

Arabis, 314.*

Are Your Iris Healthy? 272.

Artemesia, 56.

Asters and Aster Troubles, 118.

Babson, Roger W., articles by, 177, 250,
305, 339-
Backyard, The, 222.
Balcomb, E. E., article by, 102.
Barberry, Japanese, 324.
Barron, L., photographs by, 176, 241.
Barrows, Anna, article by, 196.
Beautiful Shrub, A, 208.
Beck, H. B., article by, 280.
Beetle, elm leaf, 358.
grape-vine flea, 206.
Beets That Are Fit to Eat, 170.*
Beginner’s Vegetable Planting Table for
Measured Results, A, 96.
Begonia Bloom, Two Months of, 48.
Bell, George G., article by, 214.
Bellamy, Gordon H., article by, 126.
Best Ten Peas for the Home, The, 93.*
Bittersweet, evergreen, 134.
Blackberry cane fly, 240.*
Blight, phlox, 28.
Bonsteel, F. E., photograph by, 27.
“Boosting” the House Plants, 32.*
Border planting, 328.
Bothersome Quack Grass, The, 144.
Bridge Grafting for Girdled Trees, 54.*
Brief Fertilizer Notes, 284.
Brilliant Bedding Shrub, A, 324.
Brinton, Elinor S., article and photograph
by, 212.
Brown, Julius, article by, 350.
Bud-moth, 240.*
Bulbs for May Planting, 240.
grown in water, 28.
Bush fruits, 210.
Butterfly pea, 346.
Buying and Planting Nursery Stock,
176.*
Byington, Steven. T., article by, 282.

Cabbage, spraying, 110.*
Cabbages, Trials in Growing, 108.*
Campanulas, 192.*
Carnation cuttings, 16.*
Carnations to Follow the Tulips, 15.*
Carrots and Poppies, 322.
Case, Emma, photograph by, 311.
Celery raising in South Dakota, 126.
Centrosema, 346.
Chamberlin, John W., article and photo-
graph by, 146.
Chart for a Perpetual Vegetable Garden,
88.*
Your Home Grounds, 174.
Child’s Garden, The, 24, 1o1, 185, 256,
311, 349.
Chrysanthemums,
86,* 87.*
Citron Melons, Home Grown, 316.
Clarke, Harold H., article by, 206.
Classifying Iris, 272.

large-flowered, 85,*

TO THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Volume XVII — February, 1913, to July, 1913
Copyrighted, 1913, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

The asterisk (*) signifies that the subject ts illustrated

Clough, C. C., article by, 5o.

Cone, William, photographs by, 167, 168.

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
Station, photographs by, 240.

Conover, M. Roberts, articles by, 108,
200.

Contest, garden, prize winners in the, 102.
The Garden, 349.*

Cosmos to Follow Sweet Peas, 52.

Cost of Fertilizing, 136.

Cottage garden, 245,* 246.*

Crab, Bechtel’s double flowering, 318,
320.*

Craig, W. N., article by, 134.

Crategus, 208.

Cromwell, Lincoln, article by, 21.

photographs by, 23.

Cross, Jean A., article by, 24.

Cucumbers, Growing Early, 266.

Cut flowers, how to keep, 30.*

Cuttings, carnation, 16.*
dianthus, 316.*
growing shrubs from, 307,* 308.*
Propagating Perennials from, 314.*

Dahlia, peony-flowered, 247,* 248.*
roots drying out, 28.

Dandelion Greens All Season, 178.

Decorations, Making Floral, 58.

Desirable Roses for Southwestern Idaho,
42.

Device for Determining Small Eleva-
tions, A, 46.*

Dianthus cuttings, 316.*

“Division” in the Perennial Border,
179.*

“Doctors” Again, The, 56.

Doogue, Luke J., articles by, 30, 32.

photographs by, 30, 32, 34.
Dubois, Wilbur, article by, 56.
Dunbar, John, articles by, 208, 307.

Early Salads, 196.

Edging, white violets for, 120.

Egan, W. C., articles by, 44, 60, 318.

photographs by, 44, 60.

Eggplants and peppers, 40.

Eldredge, A. G., photographs by, 142,
179, 208, May cover, 243, 245, 246,
314, 316, 352, 354.

iE i. DS Ss article by, 222:

Elevations, small, device for determin-
ing, 46.*

Elm leaf beetle, 28, 358.

English Wall Gardening, 192.*

Euonymus, 134.

Evergreen bittersweet, 134.

Evergreens, New Leaders to, 324.

Exhibiting peonies, 274.

Farm, The Little, 26,* 257, 312, 350.
Farr, B. H., article by, 272. ~
Fern, Boston, 216.*
Fertilizer, brief notes, 284.

Street Sweepings as a, 222.
Fertilizing, Cost of, 136.
Fine Boston Fern, A, 216.*
First Year Garden From Seed, A, 97.*
Floral Centrepieces, 204.*
Flower seeds, starting indoors, 89.*
Flowering Tobacco, The, 44.*
Flowers, cut, how to keep, 30.*
For a Satisfactory Garden, 280.
Forsythia, April cover.
French, Howell P., article by, 266.
Fruit garden, small, 181,* 210.

The, 262.

thinning, 301.*

trees, summer pruning of, 342, 343.*
Fruits, tree and bush, 210.
Furniss, Geo. B., article by, 114.

“Garden Clubs,” Significance of the, 186.

Contest, Prize Winners in the, 102
The, 349.*

Garden Doctor, The, 11,* 98,* 183, 254,
309, 347-
how irrigation will help a, 50.
Magazine Garden, A, 84.*
Measures for the, 282.
of perennials and annuals, 253.*
small fruit, 181,* 210.

The Story of a, 36.
transplanting in the vegetable, 249.*
vegetable, chart for, 88.*

Walk, The Straight, 142.*
Gardening tools, 282.
Gardens, town, perennials for, 180.
Germinating Delicate Seeds, 126.
Getting Down to One’s Own Region, 280.
Giffin, Otto, article and photograph by,
216.
Girdled Trees, Bridge Grafting for, 54.*
Give the Novelties a Chance, 104.*
Gladiolus, May cover, 241,* 242,* 243.*
Flowering the First Year from Seed,
260.*
Glorified Backyard, A, 222.
Gloxinia, The, 224.
Golden glow, 220, 322.
Grafting, bridge, 54.*
tomato on potato, 182.*
Grape, Brighton, 346.
Grapes in the Backyard, 206.
Grape-vine Flea Beetle, The, 206.
Grass pinks, 316.*
Graves, N. R., photographs by, 297, 300,
305, 307, 308, 345.
Green, Nat S., article by, 34.
Greene, M. L., photograph by, 185.
Greenhouse, heating a small, 28.
Gregg, Elizabeth, articles by, 64, 224.
Growing bulbs in water, 28.
Early Cucumbers, 266.
Large Pumpkins and Squashes, 268.
Prize-winning Eggplants and Peppers,
40.
Tomatoes for Quality, 130.

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Halligan, C. P., article and photograph
by, 182.

Hardiest Roses, The, 116.

Hardy, Mrs. A. S., article by, 200.
Pink Rose, A, 262.

Haught, M. E., article and photographs
by, 341.

Haxton, Fred, articles by, 194, 324.

photograph by, 324.

Heather, An American Substitute for,
ig 25a

Heating a small greenhouse, 28.

Hedge, A Run-wild, 172.

High Feeding and Root Pruning, 64.

’ Hints for Transplanters, 250.

Hobble-bush, 346.
Holly, American and English, 28.
Homans, Susan T., article by, 42.
Home Grown Citron Melons, 316.
Home-Made Lawn Roller, A, 212.*
transplanter, 258.*
Hotbed, how to make a, 10.*
Hough, Halvorsen, article and photo-
graph by, 344.
House Plants, 30.
feeding, 32.*
How I Cared for My Backyard Garden,
339.
Planted and Prepared My Back-
yard Garden, 305.*
to Care for Blue Hydrangeas, 48.*
Exhibit Peonies, 274.
keep cut flowers, 30.*
make a hotbed, 10.*
floral decorations, 58.

How to plant a border, 328.
Root Slips of Plants in the House,
64.
sow fine seed, 346.
Howlett, Effie M., article and photo-
graph by, 104.
Hudsonia,
Hydrangea, 60.,* 320.
Hydrangeas, Blue, How to Care for, 48.*

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132.

Idaho, Southwestern, Roses for, 42.
Indoors, starting flower seeds, 89.*
Iris, June cover.
classifying, 272.
Japanese, From Seed, 122.
Irises, bulbous, 345.*
for Everybody’s Garden, 297.*
Iron Clad Perennials for Town Gardens,
180.*
Irrigation Will Help the Garden, 50.
Is This the Best Cottage Garden in
America? 244.*

Japanese Iris from Seed, 122.
Jenkins, W. H., articles by, 176, 210, 258,
262.
photographs by, 258, 264.
Johnson, E. S., articles by, 206, 284.
Jones, Donald F., article and photograph
by, 62.
Jordan, A. W., article by, 262.
July. Planted Strawberries, 344.
What to Plant in, 350.
Keeping Flowers and Plants Indoors, 30.*
Up With Samuel, 258.
Kerr, G. W., articles by, 85, 138, 247,
260.
photographs by, 85, 86, 87,
241, 242, 247, 248, 260.
King, Mrs. Francis, articles by, 186, 242.
Mrs. Mary R., article and photograph
by, 84.
Knack of Transplanting, The, 352.*
Kruhm, Adolph, articles by, 17, 93, 17¢,
249, 302.
photographs by, 17, 18, 93, 94, 95,
170, I71, 249, 302, 303, 304.

140,

Large Flowered Chrysanthemums for
Outdoors, 85.*

Lawn Plant for the Southwest, A, 62.*
roller, home-made, 212.*

Lawns, 62.

Lawrence, C. L., article by, 52.

Lediard, G. M., article by, 222.

Leeks for the Home Garden, 270

Leitch, Lucy B., article by, 220.

Lettuce, 17,* 18.*

L. G. B., article by, 178.

Life Story of a Tomato Plant, The, 341.*

Liming trees, 28.

Lippia, 62.*

Little Farm, The, 26, 257, 312, 350.

Long, J. M., article by, 270.

Madigan, Mary, article by, 112.
Making Floral Decorations, 58.
Fruit Trees Bear Earlier, 342.*
Marigold, French, 24.*
May Planting, Bulbs for, 240.
protecting plants in, 240.
Measures for the Garden, 282.
Meller, C. L., articles by, 46, 48, 54.
drawing by, 46.
photographs by, 54.
Melons, Citron, Home Grown, 316.
Middle West, A Rose for the, 194.
Miller, Louise Klein, photograph by, roz.
Wilhelm, articles by, 174, 244, 337.
Month’s Reminder, The, 9, 83, 165,
239, 295, 335-

More About Border Irises, 345.*
the Evergreen Bittersweet, 134
and Better Lettuce for All, 17.*
Morning glories, 104.*
Most Gorgeous Summer Flowering Bulb,

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Mulberry, Teas’ weeping, 320.

Musser, Mabel J., article and photograph
by, 25.

McCollom, W. C., articles by, 89, 301,
342.

photographs by, 89, 301, 342, 343.
McFarland Publicity Service, photo-
graphs by, 250, July cover.
McFate, E., article and photographs by,
180, 181.

Natural Cold Storage, 44.

Necessary Seedbed, The, 214.

New Help in Border Planting, A, 328.
Jersey school gardens, 256.*
Leaders to Evergreens, 324.*
Rose Bushes From Slips, 326.

Newest Type @ Dahlia, The, 247.*

Nicotiana, 44.*

Nietz, Adolph H., article and photo-
graphs by, 97

Northend, Mary H., photographs by, 204

Notes on Some of the Newer Gladiolus,
242.*

Novelties and Rarities, 104.

Nursery Stock, Buying and Planting,
176.*

O. C. E., article by, 87.

One-Man Suburban Garden for Six, 19.*
Rod Onion Patch, A, 198.

Onions, 1098.

Orchard, Starting an, 173.*

Oystershell bark louse, 358.

Pandanus Indoors, 146.*
Pansies and Parsley, 322.
Papaws, 278.

Paret, Mary B., article by, 122.
Parsley and Pansies, 322.

Peas, 93,* 94,* 95.*

Peonies, How to Exhibit, 274.

Peony-flowered dahlias, 247,* 248.*

Peppers and eggplants, 40.

Perennial Border, ‘‘Division” in the,
179.*

Perennials from Cuttings, Propagating,
314.*

iron clad, 180.*

Perrigo, Katherine K., article by, 326.

Perry, Joseph H., article and photographs
by, 15, 16.

Persimmon in Our Fruit Garden, The,
218.

Personal Experiences, 118, 146.

Pettit, L., article by, 120.

Phlox blight, 28.

Pieplant, 200.

Pierce, P. P., article, photograph and
drawing by, 88.

Plant Breeding for a Bigger Hay Crop,
100.

Planting a border, 328.

Suburban Lot, 167.*

and Buying Nursery Stock,
of an Apple Tree, The, 172.*

176.*

INDEX TO
Planting Outdoors, 218.
table for flower seeds, 90.*
of vegetables, 96.
Plowhead, Mrs. E. H., article by, 42.
Plowing, March cover.
Plume Poppy and Golden Glow at War,
220.
Poppies and Carrots, 322.
Potatoes and Tomatoes on One Vine,

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Powell, E. P., articles by, 218, 278.

George T., article by, 172.

Julie Adams, articles by, 44, 316.
Practical Hints for Beginners, 126, 328.
Prairie gardens, 337,* 338."

Prize Winners in the Children’s Garden

Contest, 102.

Propagating Perennials from Cuttings,

314.*

Roses, I14.

shrubs from cuttings, 307.*

Protecting Plants in May, 240.

Protection from Late Spring Frosts, 3.

Pruning, summer, 342,* 343.*

Pumpkins, growing large, 268.*

Purchase, Clarence A., photographs by,
March cover, June cover.

Quack grass, 144.

Radishes for the Connoisseur, 302.*
Raising Celery in South Dakota, 126.
Your Own Shrubs, 307.*
Rare Garden Plant, A, 278.
Readers’ Experience Club, 346.
Service, 28, 358.
Real Hot Weather Work for the South,
356.
Reducing the Cost of Living, 177,* 25
305," 339.
Reed, James W., article and photographs
by, 19.
plan by, 20.
Refuge from City and Prairie, A, 337.
Rehmann, E., article by, 167.
Reminder, The Month’s, 9, 83, 165, 239,
295, 335-
“Reminders”
Rheum, 200.
Rhubarb, 200.
Richardson, Mrs. W. B., article by, 118.
Riege, Rudolph, article by, 136.
Robinson, William, article by, 192.
Rock cress, 314.*
Rodgers, Harry J., article by, 181.
Rogers, R. E., article by, 282.
Root Pruning and High Feeding, 64.
Rooting rose slips, 28.
slips of plants, 64.
Rose bushes from slips, 326.
Department, 42, 114, 194, 262.
for the Middle West, A, 194.
hardy pink, 262.
Seedlings, Three, 42.
slips, rooting, 28.
Roses for Southwestern Idaho, 42.
from slips, 346.
propagating, 114.
Sunlight for, 116.
The Hardiest, 116.
Run-wild Hedge, A, 112.

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for the Month, 262.

GARDEN MAGAZINE

Sage, Hollister, article by, 108.

Seaver, Robert, article by, 344.

Sedum, 192.*

Seed, gladiolus from, 260.

Japanese Iris from, 122.
planting table, 90, 91, 92.
sowing indoors, 89.*

Seedbed, 214

Seedlings, rose, 42.

Seeds, germinating, 126.

Sefton, William, article by, 28.

Shade, shrubs for, 28.

Shaw, Ellen Eddy, articles by, 24, 101,
185, 256, 311, 349.

Shrub for bedding, 324.

Shrubs for shade, 28.

Raising Your Own, 307.*

Significance of the ‘‘Garden Clubs,” 186.

Sinclair, Gladys H., articles by, 58, 328.

Sipe, Susan, photographs by, tor.

Slips, rooting in the house, 64.
rose bushes from, 326.

Roses from, 346.

Small Fruits, 206.

Garden, the Story of a, 36.

South Dakota, Raising Celery in, 126.
Real Hot Weather Work for the, 356.
Spring Planting in the, 38.

Southern Department, 38, 124, 218, 280.

Southwest, A Lawn Plant for the, 62.*

Sow fine seed, how to, 346.

Spiegel, M., article by, 40.

Spraying cabbage, 110.*

Spring Planting in the South, 38.

Squashes, growing large, 268.*

Stack, Garrett M., article and photo-
graphs by, 268.

Stakes, sunflowers as, 87.

Starting an Orchard, 173.* :
Flower Seeds in the House, 89.*

Less Hardy Vegetables, 108.

Steed, Thomas J., articles by, 38, 124,
218, 280, 326, 356.

Stoddard, George O., photographs by,
April cover, 298, 299.

Stokes, Walter P., article by, 130.

Stories of Familiar Plants, 318.*

Story of a Small Garden, The, 36.

Straight Garden Walk, The, 142.*

Strawberries, July Planted, 344

Strawberry, The Alpine, 208.*

Street Sweepings as a Fertilizer, 222.

Strong, F. R., article by, 36.

Suburban Lot, Planting a, 167.*

Successful Summer-Home Garden, A, 21.*

Successfully Moving a Garden, 344.*

Summer pruning fruit trees, 342,* 343.*

Sun roses, 192.*

Sunflowers as Stakes, 87.

Sunlight for Roses, 116.

Sweet Pea Novelties that are Worth
While, 138.*

Sweet Peas, Cosmos to Follow, 52.
Woodruff, 346.

Ten Acres Enough, 26,* 257, 312, 350.

“Thinning” the Fruit Set, 301.*
vegetables, time for, 250.

Third International Flower Show, The,
124.

Thomas, E. K., photograph by, 185.

Thompson, Paul, photograph by, 99.
Thoms, Craig S., article by, 126.
Thorn, 208.
Three Rose Seedlings, 42.
Tinker, Robert H., photographs supplied
by, 337, 338.
Tobacco, The Flowering, 44.*
Tomato grafted on potato, 182.*
Plant, The Life Story of a, 341.*
Tomatoes, Growing for Quality, 130.
in a Dooryard Garden, 36.
on single stem, 346.
Tools for Gardening, 282.
Transplanter, A Rapid, 258.*
Transplanters, Hints for, 250.
Transplanting a garden, 344.*
in the Vegetable Garden, 249.*
The Knack of, 352.*
Tree and Bush Fruits for the Home
Garden, 210.
Trees and Shrubs, 318.
fruit, summer pruning of, 342,* 343.*
girdled, bridge grafting for, 54.*
liming, 28.
Trials in Growing Cabbages, 108.*
Triem, Paul E., article and photograph
by, 108.
Tulips, Carnations to Follow the, 15.*
Turnips in a Jersey Garden, 200.
Two Companion Planting Ideas, 322.
- Months of Begonia Bloom, 48.

Van Fleet, W., article by, 116.
Vegetable Garden, Chart for a Perpetual,
88.*
planting table, 96.
“Reminders,” 106.
Vegetables, 40, 106, 196, AG
and Flowers, 124.
Starting Less Hardy, 108.
thinning, time for, 250.
transplanting, 249.*
Vine over doorway, July cover.
Vines and Trailers, 134. :
Violet, 180.*
Violets, white, 120.

Wall Gardening, English, 192.*

Walsh, M. H., White medalist, 84.

Warthin, Aldred Scott, articles by, 56,
132.

photograph by, 132.

Washburn, Anna, article and photo-
graph by, 256.

W. C. McC., article by, 64.

Welcome Novelty, A, 56.

What a Tiny Fruit Garden Produced,
181.*
Southern Gardeners Should Do Now,
326.
To Plant in July, 350.

White Memorial Medal, awarding the, 84.
Violets for Edging Flower Beds, 120.

Wilder, Mrs. W.R., articles by, 297, 345.

Winner, A, article by, 274.

Wolfe, G. E., article by, 322.

Worms, 358.

Wylie, Dalton, article by, 258,

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trios. A little new blood will ginger up your bunch.
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$13,400.31 on the Side

By a man who works ten hours a day

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any man with intelligence and a moderate amount of good health and
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Letters to Unknown Friends

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The Green Bough

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Ever After
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blended than ever before.

The Best Spring List of Books That Doubleday,
Have Ever Brought Together

or bad chiefly in proportion as the
new list is strong or weak. The ideal
condition is to have important new books by
authors whose work is well known and for
whom a public is already made and waiting,
and a few new books by new authors whose
spurs are still to be won and who will be favor-
ites in the years to come. Such a fortunate
condition Doubleday, Page & Company have
for the spring of 1913.
The names of well-known authors include
the following:

AE season for a publisher is good

ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
J. C. SNartH

Dr. Jostan# STRONG
BootH TARKINGTON
JuLret WiLBor ToMPKINS
Mrs. HumpHry WarpD

Lyman ABBOTT

Mary AUSTIN

JoHN BIGELOW

ELLEN GLASGOW

Roy Roire GILson

Ropert M. LA FOLLETTE

Mavrice LEBLANC C.N. & A. M. Wi1i1AMson

GRACE S. RICHMOND Harry LEON WILSON
WooprRow WILSON

and in August a new book by GENE STRATTON-
PORTER.
Turn to the advertising pages of this maga-

zine to read the brief descriptions of
these books and of the books by other
writers who are not so well known,

but in whom we have great faith. On
that page are given the approximate dates
of publication, and we hope you will give your
bookseller an advance order for those you
select — the whole list if you ask us. Failing
a local bookseller, we will send any or all of
them on approval, and be glad of the chance.

THE COST OF BOOKS AND WHY

It is so much the custom to write just now
of what Mr. Hill calls the ‘‘cost of high liv-
ing,” that we should like to put forth a few
remarks about the cost of books, some aspects
of which we think are not entirely appreciated.

When a customer buys a new book, his
money goes to pay these distinct charges:

I. Royalty to the author.
2. Payment to the typesetter and electrotyper.

in answer to that subtle stimulus that comes with the seasons.

CHANGE IN PUBLICATION DATE

The Garden Magazine will hereafter be issued on the fifth day of the month for which it is dated. It has long been a tradition that a
publication should be actually put into the hands of the subscriber some indefinite time before it was dated. In a magazine of practical
work, dependent on the weather, this had led to such anomaly as having the January issue come out just in advance of Christmas.
And so we were addressing our subscribers on seed sowing while yet the snow was on the ground and winter still with us.
on, however, The Garden Magazine will follow the logical course of dating itself for the time when it actually appears and the contents
of each number can therefore be made even more practical and helpful to the reader. :
apparent. Hzs timely offers will be put int the hands of the reader just at the psychological moment for prompt action on his part—
f The Garden Magazine has always aimed to make its contents of timely
service to its readers and the present announcement signifies that the coincidence of interest, and action will be more thoroughly
This new plan is a boon to the readers and to

3. Cost of paper, printing, and binding.

4. Cost of making the book known by advertising,
salesmen, circulars, and posters, etc.

5. Profit to the bookseller.

6. Profit to the publisher (if there be one).

So far as we know, there is no/getting away
from any of these six deadly charges on a
new book, but there is one large cost; namely,
that of setting the type and making electro-
type plates, which does not have to be dupli-
cated with each printing, and this plate or
initial cost is one of the largest and it goes
far to establish the price at which the book
shall be sold.

This is particularly true of important books
of reference, travel, biography, etc., which
require many pages of typesetting, editing and
correction, and often elaborate illustrations.
A tremendous number of good books have
their first sale at a fairly large price, and just
when they reach the stage of having paid
expenses, die an ignoble and neglected death
because the market at the high price at which
they had to be published has been filled; and
yet the number of people who would care for
these books and could afford to purchase them
at a lower price has not been touched— a bad
state of things for all concerned.

Doubleday, Page & Company have recently
made some experiments with books the sales
of which have paid for the cost of preparation
at the higher price, and have started what
they call

THE USEFUL BOOK LIBRARY

a collection of books made originally at great
expense, but now reprinted in substantial edi-
tions with good paper and printing at half or
quarter or less than the original price, retaining
the original matter, and at times containing
new and supplementary matter.

We have been a year in working out this
experiment, and have said little of this plan
until we could test out our theories. Here
are some results from which our readers can
judge for themselves:

The advantage to the advertiser will also be

FEBRUARY, 1913

FICE-|

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From now

THE EDITORS

Page & Company

THE INTERNATIONAL COOK BOOK, by Atex-
ANDER FILIPPINI.

Published in 1906 at $4.80 net, a reasonable price
considering that the book covers the whole subject
and 1,075 pages. In four years we sold about 4,000
copies.

About a year ago we put it into the Useful Book
Library at $1.00 net, 10,000 copies have been sold, and
it is going at this rate now.

THE POULTRY BOOK, by Harrison WErtR.
The most exhaustive work on this subjzct. Published

in three large volumes, 1,299 pages, over 600 illustra-

tions, at $13.60. Issued later in a single volume at $5.00.

Added to the Useful Book Library in 1912, at $1.50,
complete with all original material, selling now four
times as fast, and just started.

THE DOG BOOK, by James Watson.

Published in two volumes, 904 pages, 810 illustra-
tions, at $10.00. Issued later in one volume at $5.00.

Added to the Useful Book Library in 1912 at $1.50,
sells about seven times as fast as before.

EM CYCLOPZDIA OF ETIQUETTE, by Emmy

OLT.

Published at $2.00 net, 500 pages, illustrated. Over
26,000 copies sold.

Republished in April, 1912, in the Useful Book Library
at $1.00 net and selling four times as fast as ever.
THE COMPLETE HOUSEKEEPER, by Emity Hott,

Suggestions for care of the family; the house; the
gardens; the pets.

Republished in 1912, in the Useful Book Library
at $1.00.

MUSIC LOVERS’
HUGHES.
Published in 1903 at $6.00 net.
Revised to date and added to the Useful Book

Library in January, 1913, at $1.50-—a better and

more complete book at one quarter of the original

price.

Good books will be added to the Useful
Book Library. We want to get in touch with
book lovers who want to build up a library of
worthy, authoritative books and will codper-
ate to make this library a success.

CYCLOPAEDIA, by RuprERtT

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.,
GARDEN City, N. Y.,
Please send me special circular of The Useful Book
Library

Frespruary,1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE y

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The catalogue contains all the Flower and
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PAGE PAGE
Tue Montn’s REMINDER - ~-’ - - - - - - - - - - 9g GROWING PRIZE-WINNING EGGPLANTS AND PepperS M. Spiegel 40
EP OS ARDIEN ID@GROR: = 5 SS te Coa te THREE RosE SEEDLINGS - - - - - - Susan T. Homans 42
: Photographs by Mary and Francis Allen
CARNATIONS TO FOLLOW THE TuLIps - - Joseph H. Perry 15 DESIRABLE ROSES FOR SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO
Photographs by the author Mrs. E. H. Plowhead 42
More AND BETTER LETTUCE FoR ALL - - Adolph Kruhm 17 THE FLowERINc Topacco - - - - - - - W.C.Egan 44
Photographs by the author 4 Photograph by the author
A ONE-MAN SUBURBAN GARDEN FoR SIx - James W. Reed 109 A DEVICE FoR DETERMINING SMALL ELevations C.L. Meller 46
Photographs and plan by the author ; Drawing by the author
A SUCCESSFUL SUMMER Home GARDEN - - Lincoln Cromwell 21 How to Carr ror Biur Hyprancreas - - - H.E. Angell 48
Cc ; G Photographs and plan by the author Diewerrean bay he antihee
THE CHILD’S GARDEN - - - - - - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 24
eng ME Je Makcer and others IRRIGATION WiLL HELP A GARDEN - - - - C.C.Clough 50
PUrEPEMNIGE ARM 9-9 - = = == 9-5 = = = = = =) 26 Cosmos To Fottow Sweet Peas - - - - C.L. Lawrence 52
; Ptaroerapbuby Rabe Bonstecl BRIDGE GRAFTING FOR GIRDLED TRBES - - - C.L. Meller 54
READERS’ SERVICE eee hay aye a Ie at eS Photographs by the author
KEEPING FLOWERS AND PLANTS INDOORS - - - - - - - 30 POINTS ON STARTING A HEDGE- - - - - - - - - M. 56
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Boostinc” THE House Prants- - - - - L.J. Doogue 32 MakinG Frorat Decorations - - - - Gladys H. Sinclair 58
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THE STORY OF A SMALL GARDEN - - - - George H. Allen 36 ABout HYDRANGEAS IN GENERAL - - - - - W.C. Egan 60
Photographs by the author
TOMATOES IN A DoOoOR-YARD GARDEN- - - - F.R. Stron 6 ey es
& 3 A Lawn PLANT FOR THE SouTHWEST - - Donald F. Jones 62
SPRING PLANTING IN THE SOUTH - - - - Thomas J. Steed 38 Photograph by the author
SUBSCRIPTION; CopyRIGHT, 1913, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY For Foreign Postage
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Utilize That Backyard Garden

to reduce the cost of living. Many vegetables are quite ornamental and lend themselves to producing beautiful gardens quite as
much as flowers. Of course, you have to work more in a vegetable garden, as every square foot of ground should be kept constantly
“busy”. But the crisp, delicious vegetables you gather in your own garden cannot be duplicated from the green grocer at any price.
Besides, you have the satisfaction of seeing the things grow, you know what you are eating and you eat it when it’s “just right’’.
Gardening on a small scale is enjoying great popularity. It offers the chances for exercise many men and housewives need. It gives
immediate returns for every effort invested, and the longer you are at it, the more fascinating it becomes. Let us urge you to have
a garden in 1913. Get started with one, no matter how small — you will have a larger one next year.

Gregory’s Fine New Catalog Helps

Gives reliable advice on all matters pertaining to the garden. Tells all about the
soil and its preparation for the various vegetables, how to sow the seeds and when.
Describes.the most profitable vegetables to grow in home-gardens and shows
many of them in “true to nature” illustrations. More than fifty years’ experience in
growing vegetables and flowers on a large and small scale comes to your assistance
through our catalog. You will get larger and more expensive books, but for a reliable
garden guide with dependable descriptions, truthful illustrations and honest
prices for ““Honest Seeds’, Gregory’s catalog cannot be beat. Ask for your free
copy on a post card to-day, or, better still, write a letter and let us send you,

A Fine Trial Garden Collection for 25 Cents

This splendid collection, properly handled, will, from a small piece of ground, supply
an abundance of crisp vegetables throughout spring and summer. Sorts selected
(and described below) are the very best in their classes. First, the lettuce
bears, followed by beans. Then beets and carrots follow, while swiss chard and
tomatoes bear clear up to frost. It’s a great combination.

Keeney’s New Kidney Wax Bean, Hutchinson Carrot, (Gregory’s) a
large, handso e, stringless pods. heavier cropper than Danvers.

Edmand’s Beet, Gregory’s strain May King Lettuce, none better for
with fine delicate roots. early out door culture.

Lucullus Swiss Chard, the ideal Chalk’s Early Jewel Tomato, the
summer spinach. home garden sort for all.

Remember:—The catalog is absolutely FREE. We want tosend you YOUR copy, whether
you order the collection or not.

J. J. H. Gregory & Son, 902 Elm St., Marblehead, Mass.

The Readers’ Service gives information about automobile accessories

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Rosa Spinosissima

E have again succeeded in getting a stock of this
rare and exquisitely lovely hardy single white
Rose. With the exception of the marvelous
Cherokee Rose of the South, it is the most beautiful
single Rose in the world. The plant is compact and
bushy, growing four to five feet high, and in June it is
covered with large yellowish-white flowers of indescrib-
able beauty. It should be planted in groups, and like
the Kosa Rugosa, it can be used in the shrubbery. Com-
ing from Siberia, it is absolutely hardy. Limited stock.
Extra Strong Plants, 50 cents each, $15.00 per dozen.
Good Plants, 30 cents each, $3.00 per dozen.

We have the largest, finest and most comprehensive stock of Hardy Plants in
America, including three hundred varieties of the choicest Peonies, the largest
collection of Japanese Iris in the world, and an unsurpassed collection of named
Phloxes. Our illustrated catalogue, describing these and hundreds of other Hardy
Plants, Trees, Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Shrubs will be sent on request.

“A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS,” by J. Wilkinson Elliott, contains much information

about Hardy Gardens, with plans for their arrangement. We have made arrangements
with the Bubhebers of this book to furnish it to customers at a very low price. Particulars

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St. Regis Everbearing

The Rasberry for the Millions and the

Millionaire. ““There’s Millions in it,’’

You can now have wonderful raspber-
ties from June to November by setting
out the plants this spring.

St. Regis produces continuously from
June to Nov. —heavy crops of large, lus-
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Its summer and autumn crops do
not consist of a few scattered berries,
but good to heavy pickings all the time.
One party who had asmall patch, say 4
an acre, picked and shipped from it two
or three pickings each week for four
months.

Grows successfully in any soil—en-
dures without injury heat, drought and
severest cold.

Our 1913 Catalog and Planting

Going abroad? Routes, time-tables, and all sorts of information obtained through the Readers’ Service

Actual
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Northern
Grown

Hardy English
Walnut Orchards

Are a Commercial Success
in this City and County.

Rochester grown—hardier than
Peach Trees. For the lawn, the accli-
mated English Walnut is unmatched,
with its smooth, light gray bark, luxu-
Tiant, dark green foliage, lofty, sym-
metrical growth. Grown with temper-
atures far below zero at times, only
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the only kind you ought to plant and
the only kind you can plant with
safety.

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Guide---Includes Nut Culture---Fruits, Roses, Shrubs, Evergreens,

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Sober Paragon
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VoL. XVII— No. 1

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is

generally taken as a standard.
ence for every hundred miles of latitude.]

The “‘Get Together”? Month

FEBRUARY is the ‘get together”

month for the gardener. Little
productive work can be done outdoors
(with one exception noted below), but
much, indoors in preparation for future
events.

Get together bean poles and pea brush.
If you live in the country this means cut-
ting them in the woods; if you are a sub-
urbanite, build light trellises, racks, and
frames to take their places. For a poultry
wire support you need only posts, but this
sort of trellis may burn the foliage in hot
weather.

Get together lumber, bricks, or the con-
stituents of concrete according to the
kind of hotbed you are going to build.

Get together the old hotbed mats; repair
what you can and buy new to replace the
others.

Get together all your tools. Give an
entire week-end if necessary to a round
up and inspection of everything you expect
to use in the garden.

Get together the new season’s catalogues.
Send for them to-day, for spring is rapidly
advancing on the garden. Study the
novelty lists and by all means try a few
of the new things.

Get together your seeds; as fast as they
reach you, store them in an orderly manner
out of reach of mice. A cabinet or small
set of drawers is convenient and saves the
trouble of going through packet after
packet when you want to sow some special
variety in a hurry.

Get together your flats or material for
making them. And the soil, too, in which
to start the earliest seedlings.

Get together spray materials enough to

Allow six days’ differ-.

arden Magazine

FEBRUARY, 1913

last all season. This is real economy.
If you use prepared mixtures the more you
buy the cheaper they are; otherwise it is
well always to have the ingredients on
hand in case of sudden need.

The One Vital Outdoor Task

EBRUARY is hotbed month. Build

your frames by the roth, fill them by

the 15th, and sow the first seeds not later
than the 25th.

The greenhouse builders and the larger
seed stores sell hotbeds complete in every
particular, which you have only to bolt
or nail together. They are neat and
convenient, but more expensive than home-
made articles.

Some General Pointers

|DN forget to provide hotbed mats.
Both quilted and straw ones can be
bought, but the latter can easily be made
at home. See THE GARDEN MAGAZINE,
Vol. III, page 23. Waterproof duck mats
last longest, and are the best.

Don’t make all your beds at once. You
cannot maintain good heat for more than
two months at most, and if spring is late
you will need the warmth well into May.

Plant for the first fresh vegetables:
lettuce, radish, beets, and kohlrabi. Plant
for later transplanting: French artichoke,

broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels
sprouts, leek, onion, celery, kale, and
parsley.

Do not plant: crops that will not trans-
plant well, yet are all-season crops, such
as turnips, chard, salsify, and carrots.

- Donot plant too early: tomatoes, squash,

cucumbers, melons, eggplant, and pepper
— they cannot be set out until the weather
is definitely warm and by being kept in the
hotbed too long, they become weak and
spindling.

Bush beans, corn, cucumbers, eggplant,
and tomatoes can, however, be started now
if you have room and are willing to grow
them to maturity under glass.

Practice the same choice with flowers.
Start hardy perennials and hardy annuals
for later transplanting; save half-hardy
sorts until a little later; and of the
tender annuals plant only those that
you can keep sheltered even while blos-
soming.

This is a good month to spread manure
on the lawn and garden. How much?
All you can get for vegetables, and per-
haps two 2-horse loads on a lawn 100 feet
square.

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Starting Things Agoing

|OxS up a couple of frozen rhubarb
plants, thaw them out ina cool cellar,
then start them into growth in tubs of
moist sand. Or, set headless barrels over
a few plants where they stand in the
garden and pile manure around and
against them.

Have you made a final inspection of the
fruit trees for San Jose and oyster shell
scale? The most effective spraying must
be done while the trees are dormant. The
fewer branches there are to cover the less
expensive the spraying will be; therefore,
complete your pruning first.

Suckers about the base of stock chrysan-
themum plants will now be well developed
and ready to be taken as cuttings. Root
them in moist sand in a cool cellar.

Geranium cuttings to supply plants for
the outdoor border may now be treated
the same way.

Begonias start easily from leaf cuttings,
while bulbs of the tuberous varieties should
be potted and plunged in moist sand or
ashes to develop a large system of feeding
roots.

Some of the hyacinths and other bulbs
started in the fall, must be about ready
for forcing. Judge by the root growth;
if it does not fill the pot or reach the bottom
of the bulb glass wait a little longer.

Ten Rules for Hotbed Care

1. Choose a southern exposure, sheltered
on the north if possible by a fence, bank,
building, or hedge.

2. Use unrotted horse manure con-
taining bedding if excessive heat is not
required.

3. Keep the pile moist and turn it at
least twice before packing it in the bed,
so as to prevent loss of nitrogen by
heating.

4. As soon as the entire pile steams uni-
formly, fill the hotbed. Do not delay!

5. Spread the manure evenly but do not
pack it down until it has again become
warm.

6. Bank soil around the outside to
within four inches of the top of the bed.

7. When the temperature of the soil falls
below go degrees sow seeds — not before!

8. In watering, spread coarse cloth on
the soil to prevent washing.

g. Keep the bed covered until the seeds
germinate; then give gradual ventilation
at mid-day.

10. Remember always to set the low
side (front) of the bed toward the south.

10 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Frepruary, 1913

WHAT YOU NEED FOR A HOTBED

Make the hotbed of 2-inch lumber if
possible, though 1-inch stuff will do. For
a 3-sash bed (as in the plan below) you
need:

piece 93" Moo)
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pieces 6’ x 2’ the frame
POStSm5y x 24x Ae
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pieces 63” x1" x4” end ‘bars

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2

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2

2) pieces 6/37

2

3 sash, 6’ x 3’

3 to 5 cu. yds. packed manure.

2 tor cu. yd. soil (depending on depth)
The accompanying figures will help

you in building your own hotbeds. Either

set of dimensions will give a good frame.

And by-the-by, remember that your hot-

bed becomes a coldframe later in the

season, as the heat is dissipated.

TOOLS FOR HOTBED CARE

Spade, spading fork, rake, trowel, dibber,
hand weeder, fine-rose watering pot, ther-

Build your own hotbed if you like.

mometer for testing soil temperature, and
props to hold sash open.

News and Comment

MAKING THE CATALOGUES HELP

eles is a quotation from a friendly
letter recently received that brings

up a point worth talking about:
“Several of your recent issues have
made reference to an evergreen bitter-
sweet, the Buffalo berry and an evergreen
hawthorn (Pyracantha coccinea, var. La-
landi) Descriptions of these plants are
most alluring. I need them all in my
garden scheme, but I have failed to pro-
cure the first two from the best known
eastern seedsmen and cannot even find the
hawthorn in their catalogues. What is
the practical use of referring to such plants
when they are not procurable in the mar-

Any carpenter can work from this plan

ket? It simply arouses enthusiasm which
falls with a dull thud when one finds that
the plants cannot be obtained. It does
not seem to be the part of a magazine
supposed to be practical to commend for
planting unattainable objects.”

In the first place THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

A hotbed becomes a coldframe when the heat is
gone, but the bed is still useful in the home garden

has very rarely, if ever, suggested the use
of a plant that is absolutely unattainable.
In the second place how else can progress
and development be effected and improve-
ment stimulated than by occasionally
suggesting the use of the newer and less
familiar subjects? Of how much interest
would the magazine be if it clung only to
the ordinary methods and results with
which everyone is familiar? The editorial
duty is to point the way; it is the business
of the trade — seedsmen and nurserymen
— to tell how the necessary materials can be
obtained. Nor do they often fail to do this.

To our own knowledge, the hawthorn and
bittersweet mentioned above, are listed in
the catalogues of several prominent nur-
serymen of the
Atlantic and
South Atlantic
states. The
Buffalo berry
being a native
is harder to
buy but cer-
tainly on the
market, and one catalogue before us lists
all three plants! All three firms are among
our regular advertisers; which leads us to
emphasize these points:

Don’t rely on one or two catalogues.
Send for half a dozen, covering a wide
geographical range.

Remember that seedsmen sell seeds and
bulbs, while nurserymen handle growing
plants. Send your orders to the men who
can give them the closest attention. Don’t
be surprised if a seedsman cannot supply
an unusual shrub or tree.

Get in touch with some of the specialists
who concentrate on one or two genera —
roses, gladioli, peonies, and the like.
Study their catalogues and price lists too,
for comparison if nothing else.

Some of the less familiar plants may not
be listed even though they can be supplied.
Therefore in studying catalogues “if you
don’t see what you want, ask for it.” The

responsibility here rests with you; dealers
make it a point to carry whatever their
customers call for.

GOOD READING FOR THE GAR-

DENER

pe GLEAN from among the hosts of
modern agricultural books those vol-
umes, that are wholly reliable and really
useful is no small task. Fortunately three
recent state publications have done this,
and now afford excellent bibliographies.
They are: Bulletin 10 of the Massachusetts
Board of Education, “‘Agricultural Project
Study Bibliography.”

Circular 14 of the New York State
Department of Agriculture, ‘‘What Shall
the Farmer Read?”

Bulletin 215, of the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture, ‘List of Publica-
tions Important to Fruit Growers.”

Another pamphlet, Circular 19 of the
Division of Publications of the United
States Department of Agriculture, lists all
the publications of that department, classi-
fying them by subjects for use in schools.

Of the many books mentioned, we
suggest these as a small library for the
average gardener:

General Horticulture
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture,
Bailey; 4.:volss.-")) tu) Se OF
Plant Breeding, Bailey .
Farm and Garden Ruled Book, ‘Bailey
Garden Making
Manual of Gardening, Bailey
Garden Planning, Rogers .
Landscape Gardening As Applied to
Home Decoration, Maynard, .
Flower Gardens
The American Flower Garden, Blanchan
The Flower Garden, Bennett .
The Garden{Month by Month, 1, Sedgwick
House Plants, Barnes
Lawns, Barron
Vi egetable Gardens
How to make a Vegetable Garden, Full-

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Home Vegetable Gardening, Rockwell . $ 1.20

Small Fruits
How to Makea Fruit Garden, Fletcher . $ 2.00
Bush Fruits, Card. . $$ 1.50
Small Fruit Culturist, Fuller $ 1.00
Insects
How to Keep Bees, Comstock . $ 1.10
The A B C and X Y Z of Bee Culture,

Root. . $ 1.50
Insects Injurious to Vegetables, Chit- :

tenden . . $1.50
Insects Injurious to Fruits, Saunders $ 2.00
Insects and Insecticides, Weed. SY 2s
Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Or-

chard, Sanderson Mee 6 th BeOS)

Plant Diseases and Spraying
Fungous Diseases of Plants, Duggar $ 2.00
Fungi and Fungicides, Weed $ 1.00
The Spraying of Plants, Lodeman $ 1.00
Weeds
Weeds of Farm and Garden, Pammel $ 1.50

Nore. Add 10% to the price for postage.

Space necessitates the omitting of many
valuable volumes on individual plants, and
the innumerable publications of state
and National departments of agriculture,
that are invaluable. Complete lists of these
can be obtained from the various stations
and THE GARDEN MAGAZINE Readers’
Service will gladly help you in any way.

THE SUBTLE

Epirors NOTE:

DOUBT if ever a new-winged butter-

fly drying moist, uncertain, exquisite

wings in their first sunshine, felt more

astonishment at a new-found world
than I, or found it stranger or more be-
wildering to look back to the old life in
the chrysalis. The mere being alive is so
wonderful a thing.

I had been ill, you must know, for a long,
long time, two or three years, it was.
Not dangerously ill —that might have
been exciting — but sunk in that spiritual
and bodily quagmire, the ‘“‘Slough of Des-
pond” we used to call “nervous prostra-
tion’’; now, it is known by a dozen imposing
names — psychasthenia, neurasthenia,
hypochondria, and the rest, according, I
suppose as to whether the quagmire has
really gripped you, or whether you're
sitting down on the edge of it and won’t
try to get up. There are dozens of ways
of reaching it: too much work will bring
you there, or too little; too much pleasure
or none at all. My road was overwork, or
rather, an idiotic idea of work which al-
lowed no space for play — the result, I
suppose of owning a New England Con-
science. To my mind, that diseased and
enlarged type of conscience, known as New
England, is responsible for more ills of the
body and mind than any other one thing.

It insures you a colorless, monotonous
existence close-packed with useful work,
from which any touch of the joy of life is
carefully excluded. That was what mine
did for me. And then it leaves you —
as mine left me —at eight and twenty
with the best days of life gone by — noth-
ing much done — nothing ahead, but the
prospect of being a burden to long-suffering
relatives, and for company the conviction
of having been a fool.

After a while it was not so bad. Life
hadn’t been so wildly exciting that I felt
I was missing much. There were books.
There are foolish and satisfactory ways of
amusing yourself in your head —as fool-
ish and satisfactory as the game of tit-tat-
toe to one’s infancy. Then there are
symptoms. There’s your heart and your
stomach and your head, whether you slept
or didn’t — these are of engrossing interest
to yourself, though they pall sometimes on
your family. As for what happens outside
—you don’t care at all, no more than a
clam cares about mountain scenery. All
you want is to be let alone.

I should have been there yet, in the quag-
mire, if it hadn’t been for the new nurse.
My chance came with her.

The Garden Doctor

THE NEURASTHENIC VICTIM HAS ALREADY COME UNDER
INFLUENCE OF THE BENIGN
The author of these “confessions” is now well-known as an amateur

gardener, and writes with such genuine humor as proves the efficacy of the “cure”.
Who she is we do not say at this time, but the future may reveal it.

HEALER

It had been rather a relief when Miss

Watkins went. She was a good enough
nurse, I suppose, as nurses go, but her nose
worried me — it was too thick at the end;
she had lips that closed tightly when she
didn’t talk, but she talked most of the
time. She used to tell me all she could
think of about the hospital — how they
“laid out” people, and matters of like
interest with vivid and abundant detail.
She wouldn’t let me alone. She kept
digging into my sandbank — metaphori-
cally of course, but it worried me.

The new nurse was different. I liked
her from the first. She was tall and strong
and dark and she had a very quiet face.
Her profile was beautiful; I think she didn’t
know that. She had a chin like Rossetti’s
Blessed Damozel, but there the resemblance
stopped for the nurse wore eye-glasses and
the dark hair that ought to have been
parted and worn in a knot at the back of
her neck was put up in a pompadour and
her little white nurse’s cap was frilled, which
suited her no better than it would have
suited the Rossetti lady. But these were
matters that might be mended. “Miss
Clarke” she was; I called her “Clarky”’.

It was about three weeks after Clarky
came to me that I began to sit up. A
nuisance, but the doctor insisted. So for
a half-hour a day I was put in the big
chair by the window, tucked in with pillows
and rugs and I had the tedious pleasure of
looking at the blank February sky above
and the blank expressionless yards below.
That from the window of our “third-story-
back” constituted our prospect. Back to
back, were the yards, a double-row of
brown-wooden compartments, all precisely
the same, and for all the world like the
pasteboard compartment-box that a gro-
cer fills with eggs. Only these were empty.

“Who’s the round old gentleman in the
next yard?” asked Clarky one day.

I leaned toward the window. She had
just given me my nourishment, some sort
of eggy stuff, and stood by the other win-
dow waiting until I had finished.

“That’s the Kreislers’s yard,” I said, “‘it
must be their ‘Uncle Hermann.” Clarky
took the glass and the little plate and went
out, leaving me looking down at “Uncle
Hermann.” A round, fat, little man, he
was and he seemed fussing with a brown
mass of vines on the fence. JI watched him
absently, just as | watched the Thompson’s
cat walk carefully along the fence-top,
deftly eluding the cat-teasers and going
where she would. Uncle Hermann still

il

kept poking at the fence; presently, I
noticed that branches were beginning to
form a pile on the bare grass-plot be-
side him. Then, as I watched, the fence
emerged from the brown mass at one side
and against it, plainly in view, was a single
branch trained upward.

“Clarky,” I said, as I heard the door
opened, “‘give me the opera-glasses, please,
top drawer, chiffonier, right-hand side. I
want to see what Uncle Hermann is doing.”’
I focussed the glasses on the yard below.
Now I could see. He was clipping with
scissors and every now and then feeling
in a pocket for a bit of something that he
tacked to the fence with the hammer he
kept in the other pocket, while on the fence
was beginning to appear a design of
branches, springing from a single stem,
branching like the seven-golden-candlestick
I remember seeing in a Sunday School
quarterly of my youth.

““What’s he doing?” I asked.

Clarky took the glasses, screwed them
a bit —she is near-sighted — watched at-
tentively a moment:

““He’s pruning his roses, Miss Caroline,
and he’s pruning them in good old German
style. He’s going to have a handsome
espalier arrangement on that fence.”

“Why does he prune them?” I asked.

“They'll bloom better.”

“But why now? Nobody cuts his bushes
until May.”

Clarky smiled. ‘“‘Uncle
knows what he’s about. Now’s the time
for roses. Later, the vines would bleed,
now the cuts will heal before the sap runs,
not a bit of vitality will be lost.”

“How did you know all that?” I asked,
when she had got me back into bed.

Clarky laughed. “My mother was Eng-
lish,” she said, “I used to help her prune
the roses when I was a little girl. I’ve
seen her do just exactly what ‘Uncle
Hermann’s’ been doing.”

“Tell me about it.”

“About what?” She folded the rugs,
put the pillows back on the couch and
was moving about the room putting one
thing and another in its place.

“You know — about pruning the roses.
Sit down in the big chair and tell me.”

She sat down in the big chair, took off
her eyeglasses, pushed back the dark hair,
looked out across the little yards and ever
so far beyond.

“Tt was ‘way up in Massachusetts that
we lived,” she began, “up near the edge
of Vermont, but my mother was English
and she would have her roses. All up on
one side of the house they were, on a lattice
— Sweet Brier, Baltimore Belle, and the
Seven Sisters, were the climbing roses.
There was a tangle of old cinnamon roses
below the house; then we had a York
and Lancaster by the front door, and a
bed with Jacqueminots and Boursaults,
Maiden’s Blush and a_ beautiful old
Damask. Moss roseswe had,too. It would
be a day like this that my mother would
take — the first warm day, only it would

Hermann’

12 THE GAT, DYE NGM PAG GaeAuy/ ile NgeB,

FEBRUARY, 1913

be in early March —not February. It’s
colder there than here, you know, and the
season’s a bit later. I would have on an
old dress and big gloves and she would
let me cut the easiest branches.

“First the dead wood must come out.
Then the weak shoots —I used to cut out
those. ‘To him that hath shall be given,’
she used to quote as she pointed out the

big, strong shoots that must be left and

showed me the little ones that Icould po
cut. ‘It’s gardening, and Scripture, |
and I believe it’s finance also.’ |
But the more artistic business such
as we saw Uncle Hermann doing
—that she always did herself. My
work was to stand by and hold the
tacks and hammer and the little
strips of cloth. Afterwards, I
would pull away the cut branches,
rake them into a pile and then we’d
burn them together —a_ glorious
bonfire we’d have. I can smell it
yet — the scent of the burning wood
in the clean March air. The air
has come off the snowbanks, and
you know it. But it would be
warm sunshine, quite warm by our
old house, even when there’s snow
up under the big hemlocks ‘

“Then?” I questioned, for Clarky
had stopped.

“Then we'd sit down on the
doorstep a bit and rest after work-
ing and look off at the hills. That
is, my mother would look off at the
hills, but I would poke in the
, brown grass beside us to find the |

hard little points of crocuses coming ©
up. My mother used to say they
were wrong in changing the calen-
dar —it was then the year began, ©
not January.” :
| “But what did you see?” I begged.
» “From the doorstep? Oh, we
looked over the tops of orchard
trees, then rough, broken pasture
land; then over the meadows and river
to a little town. We could see the roofs
and the smoke rising; hills that were
thickly wooded behind it; then the blue
of distant ranges beyond and beyond!
There would be hardly a sign of life
in the trees now, but just a little later
there’s the faintest haze over them, first
at the edge of the pasture land. You
think it’s the atmosphere, but it isn’t,
it’s the coming alive. Oh, and then you
watch or you miss something! The
branches are dark and distinct — it’s only
in the very tips, where the twigs are so fine
you can’t see them, that there’s life.
There’s a moment when the tops of big
oaks in the distance have an aureole of
pale gold; there’s just one moment when
the black birch has the color of an amethyst.

“Did you never see it?” she demanded.

py Never io. Usaid: algnnotwamsnoets
Clarky, besides I’ve only been to the
country in summers — July and August —
and then to hotels.”

Clarky was silent a moment, then ——

“You’ve something to live for, Miss
Caroline,” she said quietly, “‘I’d get well,
if I were you, just for that.”

CHAPTER II

After this day, we watched Uncle Her-
mann —that is, I watched him. After
he had the roses done to his taste, he began
lifting with a fork something that was on
the narrow little side-beds and making piles

of brown stuff in the walks. Then he would
get down on his knees on the bit of old
carpet he had brought with him to lay on
the chilly flagging of the walk, and poke
in the beds.

“He has a lot of young things coming up
there, I’m sure,” said Clarky. “He can’t
dig with a spade — he might hurt them —
he’s got some sort of a funny little old
weeding fork, and he’s loosening the soil.”

“How does he know where they are?”’

“Oh, he’ll know where everything is;
you always do.”

“What do you think he has there?”
IT asked.

“Tt’s his bulbs he’s looking for — winter
aconite, snowdrops, scilla, they’ll be show-
ing — perhaps the tips of daffodils. Then
he’ll want to see if anything’s been hurt.
Hollyhocks might have rotted, you know.
Besides, he might find a pansy in bloom.”

“He might give it to me if he does,” I
grumbled. But Uncle Herman had no
idea how interesting he was.

Toward the end of March we had day

after day of rain. I sat by the window my
allotted time, looked down at the yards
among which Uncle Hermann’s golden-
candlestick arrangement of roses shone
resplendent, and I did some thinking.

Then came the sunshine. :

“Uncle Herman will be gardening to-day,
surely,” said my nurse.

“Clarky,” I replied, “I don’t want to
watch Uncle Hermann, I want to talk. Have
you any sporting blood in you? Are
you good for something reckless?”

Clarky laid down the thick
steamer-rug —she was placing the
pillows for me in the chair. “Very
reckless?” she asked.

“Very. Listen. There’s a little
Old house up in your country that
eblongs to me. My grandmother
lived in it years and years ago.
. There’s no one in it now, I believe.
I was there once when I was a
little girl, but all I remember is an
apple-tree that you could climb,
some yellow lilies along by the stone
wall, a pasture that had a brook in
it — there are hills, I know. It’s
in Enderby —that’s farther north
than you were — New Hampshire.
Will you go up there with me, just
you and I? Will you go next week?
I want to see the trees come alive!
I want to poke in a garden-bed
like Uncle Hermann! I want to see
those dear little things come up
and loosen the soil for them! I
want to make a gorgeous seven-
golden-candlestick thing out of a
climbing rose! But there mayn’t
be one there —still we can plant
it. Will you come?”

Clarky looked at me a moment.
“You haven’t walked yet,” she
began slowly.

“Only to the big chair,” I said,
“but I’m going to — besides, I could

I began to sit up for a half-hour a day in the big chair by the window lie down on a rug or a mattress and

poke in a garden-bed beautifully.”
Clarky considered, scanning me closely.
- “Tt’s time for your egg-nog,” she said at
last by way of answer, and went to fetch it.
It was a full half-hour that Clarky kept

me hung up in the air waiting for the egg-

nog and the answer.

At last she came.

“Well?” I asked, “‘ Will you come?”

“We'll have to find out if it’s possible,
I mean, if the place is possible,” she began.
“Tye been telephoning. Mrs. Pritchard
says she will stay with you for a few days,
youll IE

“Aunt Cassandra!” I exclaimed aghast,
“but go on, Clarky, a few days won’t
atl wars === ”"

“Mrs. Pritchard will take care of you
for a few days,” repeated my nurse, “‘and,
if youre willing, I'll go up to the little
place in New Hampshire and find out if
the thing’s practicable.”

“Good for you, Clarky!”

“Vou must not count on it too much,
Miss Caroline,” she said. ‘‘The roof of

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the house may leak. There may be
water in the cellar and typhoid in the
well, but I spoke with Doctor Brandon
about it. He thinks a change would help
you and that there’s no possible harm in
finding out what it’s like. But that will
take two or three days.”

“Take a week, if you like,” I said, “but
don’t find any lions in the way! If you
do, stop and shoo them off. I'll plan the
garden while you’re gone, and do penance
for my sins with Aunt Cassandra.”

“‘There’s no harm in planning a garden,”
began Miss Clarke.

“Oh, I’m going to,” I assured her, ‘I’ve
sent for some catalogues already. Maybe
Ill get a garden-book or two ——

“Go on up to New Hampshire, Clarky.
When you’re back we'll talk it over. I
won’t order any plants till you come
back!”

So Clarky left me to Aunt Cassandra and
the catalogues. I confess I found the
catalogues the better company of the two.

CHAPTER III

I had a beatific time with the catalogues.
They came the morning after Clarky left.

I had tried my best to remember how the
ground lay about the little house in the
hill country, but it was no use. All I
could remember was a hay-mow in the
barn; an apple-tree with a swing in the
tree, stood on a steep slope, and when you
swung out you went up into the branches
and high —fearfully, beautifully high
above the ground; and yellow lilies by a
stone wall. Once I had fallen from the wall
into the lilies which fixed both in my mind.
None of these items was of much help in
deciding where I’d put the garden, so I
quit this mental research and turned my
attention to what I’d put in it.

Two cataloguesIhad. First I read them
all through and looked at all the pictures,
just as if I were a child and they
were fairy-books. They were, of
a kind, for you put in a seed
or a bulb in the ground and
out comes a fairy-princess.
It’s quite as wonderful-
as an idea, as Aladdin
and the Lamp, and I was
to be Aladdin!

Then I came down to
practicalities.

I took a little note-book
and made a “visiting list.”
There were two reasons
for doing this. First, I
‘wanted to; secondly, I
knew that if Aunt Cas-
sandra came in and saw me
busy with a pencil, she
might conclude that I was
profitably employed and
not “lonesome” and that
she needn’t come and talk
to me which would be
a gain.

On this “visiting list”
I wrote down the names

of all the flowers and bulbs and
shrubs I liked best. I put down the ones
I knew and the ones I didn’t know, but
thought I’d like to know. Of some, I
iiked the names — those sonorous, slow-
syllabled Latin names—of some the de-
scription was alluring. I liked the sound
of Lilium auratum, Helenium magnificum,
Lychnis, Monarda, Gnothera, Arabis, and
Bellis perennts; I liked the sound of Cam-
panula. I think there’s a bee in Pippa
Passes that set a campanula chalice a-swing;
it might do the same in my garden — any-
way it should have opportunity. Then
there were sea lavender, spring Adonis
—a lovely thing surely. Next came less
poetic reasons. I put down Gaillardia, be-
cause I knew and liked the Carolina Gail-
lards. Aconitum Napellus, 1 had known
only as a medicine and thought it but
fair to meet it under another guise. Digi-
talis, however, I excluded — I’d taken too
much of it! It could be as handsome as
it liked, but I wouldn’t have it in the garden.
Irises and roses oh, ever so many roses!
These seemed more personal because most of
them had Christian names instead of Latin
ones. It sounded rather sociable to invite
Ulrich Brunner, Frau Karl Druschki, and
Papa Gontier; Lady Gay, I had because she
sounded cheerful; I chose Mme. Casimir-
Perier, a lilac, because I had seen her
on the stage and was interested to discover
how she’d appear horticulturally. (Later,
I may say, I learned to select plants more
intelligently, but this

is the way I selected

them then, and
a fine time I had
doing it.) Beside
the nia mies), I
put down color
and blossom
time and sun

or shade,

I had a beatific time with the catalogues

‘colors were puzzling.

whichever it preferred. Then I “located,”
as the detectives say, a box of colored
pencils I once had, and I underlined each
name with a pencil-mark as near the color
described as I could hit. Some of the
“Rosy purple,” for
instance; the catalogue seemed very fond
of that and what on earth is it? ‘‘Rosy-
red flushed with salmon” was another
poser. But I finished my little note-book
and it looked highly interesting, albeit
somewhat childlike.

Next I made a half-dozen little books
out of note-paper doubled over once with
a pin for binding and named them April,
May, June, July, August, September; and
I took my “visiting list” and entered each
plant where it belonged, some figured in
two or three books. I suppose this sounds
silly, but there’s nothing more tiresome
when you're ill than trying to find what
you want among loose papers. Besides,
what I did later sounds sillier to any one
who hasn’t been a neurasthenic and doesn’t
know that in that case you may exhibit the
artlessness of childhood and the foolishness
of senility, but your actions don’t reflect
the judgment and hard sense of middle life.

I made another book of note-paper
and colored the cover bright yellow. (To
return to my kindergarten employments.)
That was for sunshine. I cut the
inner leaves so that they opened index
fashion and gave a few leaves to each
month. Then I took my visiting list
and wrote in its proper section, first

the plants that must have sun; then,

with a division line between, those
catholic ones that relish either sun
or shade. I colored these properly,
for that was half the fun.
Next I made another book
with the cover half green
and half yellow, like the garb
of the Pied Piper —that was
for partial shade; and yet
another book, all green, in
which were shade-loving
plants, arranged as in
the yellow book. Then

I laid back on my

pillows and rested
from my la-
bors, looked at
my little books
and felt proud
and satisfied.

Not yet had

I planned my

garden, but it

was something
to have the
dramatis per-
sone selected
and to have
learned the
parts each
was capable of
playing. The
scenescouldbe
arranged later.
(To be continued)

A GARDEN OF GLORIOUS COLORS

Lilacs, single roses, irises, and in the foreground tree peonies, in Professor Charles S. Sargent’s garden at Brookline, Mass.

Carnations to Follow the Tulips — By Joseph H. Perry,

Massa-
chusetts

FRAGRANT FLOWERS, FROM JUNE TO NOVEMBER IN THE BEDS WHERE THE TULIPS HAVE
BLOOMED, CAN BE HAD FROM SEEDS SOWN NOW —A PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO AN OLD PROBLEM

T is possible to have Marguerite car-
nations in bloom from June to Novem-
ber, and that, too, in beds where
tulips have blossomed in the early

spring.

Marguerite carnations are raised easily
from seed, and, once started and placed in
a bed reasonably fertilized, will grow and
blossom, affording large bunches of rose
crimson, yellow, scarlet, white, and striped
flowers. In addition to the beautiful
colors and graceful form which delight the
eye, these flowers exhale a delicious, spicy
fragrance which fills a whole room. More-
over, the whole season is none too long for
them to bloom; they delight in the cool
days and frosty nights of October when
most of the outdoor flowers are gone.
They commence to bloom in May and June,
and the burning heat and drought of July
and August do not interfere at all with
their floral display.

The plants for the first bed of Mar-
guerite carnations which I grew were
from seeds planted in a box early in April.
These plants, transplanted into the bed
when the weather permitted, began
blossoming the latter part of August or
early in September. When the severe
cold of the late fall would let them blossom
no longer, they were covered with hundreds
of buds. The logic of this was that the
plants should have been started earlier so as
to give them a longer season for blooming.

I then began planting the seeds on the
twenty-second of February, and for years
I celebrated the birthday of the “Father
of His Country” by planting Marguerite
carnation seeds. The boxes in which
these were planted were placed in a sunny
window of the dining room. It was a
constant source of pleasure and inspiration
during the latter part of winter to watch
for the first tiny, white bow bending up
through the earth, and then for the second
leaves, until the seedlings were ready for
transplanting. During this period of
watching, delight and inspiration too fre-
quently gave place to disappointment and
discouragement as one after another of the
little plants drooped and _ shriveled to
nothing. It is a very critical stage for all
things living when they pass from depend-
ence to independence. The little seedlings
_ start depending on and using food and
energy stored with them in the seed; but
these supplies are soon exhausted and then,
if they are not able to derive nourishment
from the surrounding soil and air and shift
_ for themselves, they must succumb. Then,
too, sometimes with kindest intentions
toward the little plants, I gave them too
much water; at other times I forgot them
and the earth became dry as a bone; first
I placed the boxes where it was too warm,
and then where it was too cool. It seemed,

at times, as if I were fated to do the wrong
thing at just the right time in dealing with
these little seedlings. It has been with a
sigh of relief that, year after year, I have
seen the second leaves appearing on my
Marguerite carnation seedlings, for then
I knew that, barring accidents, the little
plants had passed the most critical stage
in their development.

When the second leaves were fully grown,
the plants were ready for transplanting,
which was done by placing the seedlings
two inches apart in boxes filled with earth;
and, soon after, when the plants had be-
come accustomed to their new position,
the boxes were placed in a sunny south
window of a room having no artificial
heat. By that time the spring had ad-
vanced enough so that such a room was
warm enough for sturdy, healthy growth.
Then when the outdoor weather permitted,
about May first, I have been accustomed

‘to transfer the seedlings from the boxes

to some place in the garden where they
might grow, while the tulips were blossom-
ing and ripening in the flower beds. It has
been a principle with me that each flower
bed must furnish me with two crops; and
so, when the tulips have passed, there
might grow ready to take their places for
summer or fall blooming. Between the
ist and the 15th of June the tulips have
been taken up, the bed fertilized, and the
Marguerite seedlings, then good sized

plants, have been put in their permanent
places to produce the second crop of flowers
in that bed.

Early in July such plants have been
accustomed to show buds; by August
1st to furnish a few flowers, and by Septem-
ber rst great bunches of spicy flowers of
various colors; and from that time until
they have been pulled up, about November
first, to make place for the tulips, they
have supplied us with a bouquet every
two or three days. The frosty nights of
October have never injured these Mar-
guerite carnations, and frequently during
that month they have produced the
largest, sweetest, and most brilliant flowers
when other beds were bare.

The problem of giving them a longer
season was not easily solved. I tried to
keep them out in the bed through the
winter by covering them with a thick layer
of leaves. This necessitated the giving
up of tulips in that bed in the spring, and
only a few of the plants survived, and these
made but a poor growth the second year.

At the suggestion of a friend, two years
ago, in the early fall I took slips and rooted
them in sand, then put them in the cold-
frame. To my delight they passed the
winter nicely and were ready to commence
blooming early in the season. [I felt that
I had solved the problem of lengthening
the season for my Marguerite carnations.
The following is my method of procedure:

Seeds are sown indoors in February and cuttings of the plants are put into frames in September

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Frpruary, 1913

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Make the cuttings like this and insert in sand
to root

September 1st, I begin to take slips.
I choose good sized ones six or eight inches
long because they are more likely to form
roots. At this time there is a chance for
selection, especially if slips are taken from
seedlings. Among these there are always
some plants which bear single flowers;
these plants I omit in the taking of slips,
and my bed next season contains plants
bearing only double flowers. Also there
are some plants whose flowers are espe-
cially pleasing, as the yellow and salmon
pink; from these plants I take many slips.
In this way I select what are to me the
best and choicest for the next season. The
slips are then put in moist sand in boxes.
If one desires to keep the different colors
separate, it is only necessary to have a
box of sand for each color. The boxes
are put on a piazza where they receive
the direct sunlight for only a short time in
the morning. The sand is kept moist
by the addition of water every day or two.
While in the sand these slips frequently
begin to grow and form a little terminal
bud. When a bud appears soon after a
slip is put in the sand, it is better to re-
move it and let the strength of the slip
go to the roots. At the end of from four
to six weeks most of the slips are rooted
and are then ready for the coldframe,
where they are placed three or four inches
apart. They are then treated as pansies
are treated in the coldframe. I have kept
little Marguerite carnation plants through
two winters with the loss of scarcely a
single plant that was well rooted when
put into the coldframe.

_After the tulips have been taken up,
and the bed made over and fertilized, the
Marguerite carnations are transferred from
the coldframe to the beds. My beds are
circular in shape and are eight feet in
diameter. In transplanting, a clump of
earth is taken with each plant so as to
disturb the roots as little as possible. They
stand the. transplanting nicely and im-
mediately begin. to grow and soon to
bloom, and early.in July furnish flowers
as abundantly as seedlings do in September.

It might be expected that plants which
take delight in the frosty nights of October

and endure the freezing temperatures of
winter in the coldframe, would not stand
well the heat of summer and the long
drought so likely to come in July and
August. On the contrary the Marguerite
carnations withstand transplanting during
the warm days of June and notice the
change less than asters do; during the
severest heat of summer they grow they
blossom luxuriantly, as if that were their
own season, and when the long drought
comes, if they are given a few buckets of
water through the sprinkler of the water-
ing pot two or three times a week they
quickly respond with larger flowers in
greater profusion. I say water them
through the sprinkler of the watering
pot rather than by means of the garden
hose, for with the latter one is likely to
give them too much water and some of
the plants will begin to turn white and die.

Marguerite carnations (rooted cuttings), ready
for the winter, taken from plants raised from seed
sown in February

Keep the weeds out of the bed and the
flowers picked and water them only when
it is absolutely necessary.

In the fifteen years that I have been
growing Marguerite carnations they have
never been troubled by insects when grow-
ing out of doors. This is a consideration
of no slight weight in their favor. But there
was a difficulty which I encountered some-
what early in my experience with them.

During the first years I transplanted
them to the same bed year after year.
After a few years the plants did not thrive
as formerly. Though the seedlings were
strong, sturdy, promising plants before
transplanting, they made but a sickly
growth after being put in that bed, and
one after another died without any visible
cause. Finally that particular soil be-
came so that a Marguerite carnation could
not grow in any part of it. I could not
find any insect enemies in the bed, neither
did the plants give any indication of being
injured by such; it was simply that they
could not grow in that soil. It was clearly
an illustration of the principle which the
experts of the Agricultural Department at
Washington have pointed out: that plants,

grown in the. same soil year after year, give
into that soil poisons which, when they
have accumulated sufficiently, wili prevent
the growth of that particular plant. I
then adopted the principle of the rotation
of crops. In the bed in which Marguerite
carnations would not grow, other plants
were put for several years. There was no
trouble as far as these plants were con-
cerned. After two or three years I found that
Marguerite carnations would again grow in
the bed. Since that time I have alternated
Marguerite carnations and asters in two
of my beds, and the trouble has not
reappeared.

As to fertilizers, the Marguerite carna-
tions do not seem to be very discriminating.
I have used with them in different seasons
ground bone, blood fertilizer, phosphate
fertilizer, and dried sheep manure, and
the results have been equally good as far
as I have noticed, though perhaps greater
care on my part would have detected a
difference. It might be interesting to
experiment with different fertilizers to
force the plants to give larger and finer
blooms; but I have been content as long
as they have furnished an abundance of

flowers to adorn my lawn and make my |

home cheerful, bright, and fragrant.

I make this plea for the Marguerite
carnation because I think this flower is
neglected, at least in New England. Very
rarely do I see a bed of it in the city or
country except those on my own lawn.
When I consider the delight and pleasure

which my family and my neighbors and

friends have derived from this delicate,
sweet, spicy flower, I am confident that
many might add to their pleasure of
gardening by having a bed of Marguerite
carnations. 2

For color, fragrance, general utility, as a cut flower
the Marguerite carnation scores high

SO —— —

Two dependable summer lettuces.

All seasons (butter head) on the left; Iceberg (crisp head) on the right.

Not all varieties are suitable to hot weather

More and Better Lettuce for AIl—By Adolph Kruhm, %

TEN RELIABLE VARIETIES THAT WILL GIVE THE LONGEST SUCCESS OF HIGH QUALITY SALADS

IN THE HOME GARDEN — A CROP THAT CAN

ELL grown lettuce is seldom
found in the home-garden, al-
though it is a most easily grown
crop. At the same time it is

exacting as to culture and soil. Sometimes
the weather has a whole lot to do with
the quality of the finished product. How-
ever, the real solution of the ‘‘lettuce
problem” as an all-the-season crop lies
neither with the soil, nor with the weather,
but depends almost entirely upon the selec-
tion of the proper sorts for the different
periods.

Lettuce thrives in a great variety of
soils. Contrary to many statements, I
have found it always willing to do the best
it could under the circumstances. It
matters little whether you grow it on loam,
clay, muck or sandy soil, it always does
well, provided it has easy access to readily
absorbed plant food, and receives liberal
cultivation. This last named condition
is by far the most important; it will
thrive even in poor clay soil, if cultivated.
Slow growth on account of poor soil fer-
tility does not influence the quality of the
finished product where the plants are
kept well hoed throughout their develop-
ment.

To thoroughly test the adaptability of
the different sorts to different seasons
under unfavorable soil conditions, I tested
nearly two-score varieties last summer.
I emphasize the fact that soil-conditions
were decidedly unfavorable. The trials
were planted on the clay soil commonly
found on suburban lots. Nevertheless
the test was a splendid success, and I know
that anybody may grow heads like those
shown in the pictures.

One fact impressed me particularly with
all sorts during the different seasons —

BE SAFELY GROWN

lettuce likes to be “fussed about.” It
has its petty likes and dislikes, its whims
and preferences. ‘The most beautiful heads
may be grown by giving each plant in-
dividual attention. Above all, give the
plants ample room to expand. Since
well-grown heads of most kinds will easily
spread 8 inches in each direction, I have
found it practical to set plants 2 feet apart
in the row with at least 2 feet between the
tows! This would enable me to con-
stantly keep the soil lose even between the
heads. Besides, I have found that lettuce
planted and treated in this fashion was
much slower in going to seed —i. e. bolt-
ing — than heads of the same sort under
more crowded conditions or not cultivated.
Lettuce “burns” easily under the scald-
ing rays of the July and August sun. The
most beautiful heads, which also were of
highest quality, were grown in a partly
shaded position. Some of the
trial plantings were between
tall varieties of peas. These
lettuce rows had the ad-
vantage of a lot of mois-
ture which the pea-vines
retained between the
rows; they were partly
shaded, and the culti-
vation for the peas also
benefited the lettuce.
As a “short-season”’
crop, lettuce lends it-
self readily to culti-
vation between other
crops of slower
growth. The earliest
crop of crisp lettuce
from this trial was
yielded by rows
planted between

17

The strong midribs of New York are accountable for
the head not infrequently remaining tightly closed

IN ANY PART OF GARDEN

beet seedlings. Other sorts of lettuce were
planted between tomatoes trained to
stakes. Cos lettuce, on account of its
upright growth did splendidly between the
cabbages, before the latter began to spread
early in June. No other crop (with the
exception of radishes), lends itself so
readily to “intensive” cultivation.

THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF LETTUCE

To “know lettuce” you should know
something about the different kinds avail-
able. This does not refer to the botanical
distinctions but rather to the practical
divisions found among lettuce on account
of their growth. Primarily, we have to
recognize: 1. Loose-head or curly-leaved
sorts which form just big bunches of leaves;
2. Firm-head sorts which form a solid
head, like a cabbage; 3. Cos lettuce.
No account is taken here of some odd sorts

which are of no practical value in

the home-garden.
Among both the loose-leaved
and the firm-head lettuces we
find sorts that are especially
adapted for forcing. Peculiar
tendencies make these un-
desirable for growing in the
open ground in many sec-
tions of the country.
This applies particularly
to Grand Rapids
among the loose-
leaved sorts and the

Tennisball varieties

among the head

lettuces. Big Boston,
the variety that fur-
nishes those beauti-
ful, solid heads
shipped during the

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winter months from the South, proved a
dismal failure during spring trials. In the
fall, when cool nights prevailed, it did
splendidly.

Among the head lettuces we find different
sorts which are distinctly adapted to
spring, summer or fall cultivation. The
real distinction, however, lies in their
growth, which divides head lettuces into two
broad classes—the “‘butter head” and “‘crisp
head” sorts. Among the “ butter-head” sorts
we find varieties for all seasons, while the
“crisp head” varieties prove the reliable
stand-bys during the hot summer months.

The secret of success in growing lettuce
throughout spring, summer and fall lies
in selecting varieties that, by nature, are
best adapted to thrive in the different
seasons. I am glad
to say that, from
among several hun-
dred sorts
listed by

Ideal development, due to giving ample space and constant cultivation.
This plant of Wayahead was started in the house and transplanted out-
doors very early in spring

American seedmen, I have found ten that
will furnish a perfect succession.

CRISP LETTUCE FROM APRIL TO OCTOBER

Before describing the most important
characteristics of the ten varieties which
proved the leaders in this trial, let me
explain how the programme to secure a
constant supply of lettuce was worked out.

March 15th, Early Curled Simpson was
sown in a coldframe. By April 15th, well-
hardened plants were transplanted into
the open ground. At the same time beet
seeds were sown between these rows of
lettuce. Curled Simpson from this plant-
ing supplied the table from early in May
until about the middle of June.

Middle of April, four 15-foot rows were
sown to the following: Golden Queen,
Wayahead, May King and California

Cream Butter. These matured in the
order named, furnishing deliciously mild
butter head lettuce from the middle of
June until June 25th, when the last heads
of California Cream Butter “bolted.”

May 4th, sowings were made of All
Seasons, Iceberg and New York or Wonder-
ful. All these proved fine heat resisters,
furnishing crisp lettuce from the end of
June until about July 2oth.

May 30th, when the rows of Iceberg and
New York were ‘“‘thinned”’ to let seedlings
stand four inches apart, the sturdiest of these
seedlings were transplanted. These supplied
the table from July 20th until August rst.

July toth repeated sowings were made
of All Seasons and Iceberg. These two
varieties had proved their heat resistance
in a splendid manner in previous

trials. I cut from these rows
from the middle of August
until September tst.
August 1st I sowed a
short row
CACIN — Oi
Wayahead,

and
Crisp as
Ice. The
first

two va-
rieties
supplied the
table in a most
satisfactory fash-
ion between Sep-
tember 15th and
October 1st, when
Crisp as Ice came
to its own as the
hardiest of all lettuces. It provided an
elegant salad until about October 25th,
when we quickly used the last few heads
before hard frosts would injure them.

TEN SPLENDID LETTUCES

Early Curled Simpson is the only “loose-
head” variety which played a part in this
test. The variation between it, Black
Seeded Simpson, and Boston is not suffi-
ciently important under outdoor culti-
vation to make special mention worth
while. Any one of these three will do
well under favorable conditions in the
home-garden.

Golden Queen (butter head) is a dandy
little variety forming compact yellowish-
green heads within six weeks from date of
planting seeds. In this test it proved fully
four days earlier than May King and almost

as early as Wayahead which formed a great
deal looser heads.

Wayahead (butter head) very much
resembles May King in general appearance,
but matures a few days earlier. To score
some unusual results with this remarkable
lettuce, seeds should be started very early
in the house and plants set out into the
open as soon as the weather permits. Under
such conditions it will prove its remarkable
earliness and high quality in a most unusual
manner.

May King (butter head) is still without
a rival as the best all-round early outdoor
lettuce. It resists cold and wet weather
in a marked degree, always forms splendid,
solid heads of bright green color, tinged
with reddish brown on the edges of the
centre leaves. Its clear yellow heart and
delightful “buttery” flavor win May King
many new friends every year.

~ California Cream Butter (butter head)
is the largest and latest of these early
varieties of this type. It is of distinct
bright green color, with brown speckles
all over the outside leaves. It matures
fully ten days after May King, furnishing
large but rather loose heads with golden yel-
low inside leaves of delightfully mild flavor.

Big Boston (butter head) should not be
sown outdoors in this latitude in the spring.
It will not head up firmly and the loose
heads are only of very indifferent quality.
In the fall, under the influence of cold
nights, it forms tightly folded, firm, heavy
heads, and develops a quality that has
not been surpassed.

All Seasons may be described as a black-
seeded ‘‘Deacon.”” Those who are familiar
with the merits of that old-time favorite
will be more delighted with All Seasons.
In time of maturity, general appearance
and quality not unlike Deacon, All Seasons
resists the heat even better. Furnishes a
delicate, buttery salad of finest quality.

Iceberg is the first of the “crisp heads”
which proved to be reliable stand-bys
during the hot summer months. The
reason why this and the next variety often
rot rather than burst, is found in the strong
centre ribs of the leaves. These bend
firmly toward the heart of the plant,
keeping it well protected and thoroughly
blanched. The flavor of the “crisp head”
sorts is distinctly stronger than that of
the “‘butter head.”

New York or Wonderful is of distinctly
dark green color, as compared with the
almost yellowish-green outer foliage of
Iceberg. It grows nearly half as large
again and matures from a week to ten days
later. For a continuous supply of crisp
lettuce during the summer months, these
two are absolutely indispensable.

Crisp-as-Ice is, perhaps, the least known
member of these three remarkable crisp
head varieties. Its mission is unique. 1
believe it to be the hardiest of all lettuces
in cultivation to-day, since it will stand
freezes that turn other sorts black. Crisp-
as-Ice has often stood unprotected in the
garden in this section up to Thanksgiving.

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without injury to quality. Heads are
almost globe-shaped, of unattractive dark
green appearance with bronze hues. But
the heart these outside leaves hide and its
quality cause the outward appearance of
Crisp-as-Ice to receive small consideration.
There are many other good varieties
in the different classes of lettuces which
may do as well or better than those de-
scribed here. No hard and fast rules can

One-Man Suburban Garden for Six—py James W. Reed, nit"

This account was awarded one of the $100 prizes in our Garden Contest

HIS garden lies on an eastern

slope, within fifteen miles of the

New York City Hall. It is goxt50

ft. in size, and its area is a little

more than a quarter of an acre. It sup-
plies the needs of a household of six.

The soil is a heavy loam, reddish-brown

in color, underlain by a sub-soil of disin-

Luscious
Jruit

tegrated red sandstone. There are a good
many small stones in the soil, with an
occasional bowlder. The soil originally
gave an acid reaction, which has been
largely overcome by the application of
lime.

In the spring of 1903, when the garden
was started, the entire area was so over-
grown with wild berry bushes, shrubs and
an occasional small tree that it was nec-
essary to mow the briers and brush, and
to cut down the trees before it could be
plowed. After plowing the roots were
grubbed out, gathered and burned. The
plot was then raked, the stones removed

be laid down as to which will do best
under the greatly varying conditions of
soil and climate in different parts of the
country. But the above ten will be found
as generally reliable as any. Until per-
sonal tests acquaint you with the superior
characteristics of others, you will be safe
in adopting them.

A few words about culture: Plant your
lettuce rows at least 2 feet apart. When

and the entire area planted to corn, pot-
atoes and garden vegetables, without the
application of any manure.

In the spring of 1904, most of the trees,
vines and plants were set as shown on
the plan (on next page.) Plowing was un-
dertaken in that and the following years
but not since. During the last six years
no plowing has been attempted for fear
of injury to the trees and vines; but the
entire area has been dug up with a
spading-fork each season.

After each spading the stones have been
raked up and removed, but some still
remain. Owing to the prevalence of the
stones and their flattened shape it has been
almost impossible to use a hand wheel-hoe
or cultivator. In fact, almost all the work
of the garden has been accomplished with
a spading-fork, hoe and rake.

Furthermore, from the start this garden
has been developed on economical lines,
with a view to making it pay each year by
its products for the time and money ex-
pended upon it. Every stroke of work
in or about it has been done by the owner;
not an hour or a day having been hired
from season to season. Only a moderate
amount has been spent on fertilizers but
every effort has been made to develop
and conserve the natural resources of the
soil.

From every source litter and leaves have

seedlings are 2 to 3 inches tall, thin them
out to stand 4 inches apart in the row.
Do not delay this important work. Upon
it depends to a large extent your success
with this crop. As plants begin to crowd
each other in the row, thin them out to
stand 8 inches and later 16 inches apart.
Give shallow but frequent cultivation.
A dust mulch on the lettuce bed is better
than sprinkling with the hose every day.

Fresh
vegetables

been saved and spaded under to increase
the supply of humus in the soil, or spread
as a mulch under the trees. As a con-
sequence, the garden has continually in-
creased in fertility and productiveness.

In April and May, 1904, roots of aspar-
agus and rhubarb, four varieties of straw-
berry plants, currant and gooseberry bushes
blackberry, raspberry and black raspberry
canes, and twelve grape vines were set.

The grapes still remain where first set,
in the long row across the garden, but most
of the others have been removed and reset,
once or more, some have been superseded,
some displaced altogether.

Most of the fruit trees shown on the plan
were set where shown in the spring of 1904.

Others have been set from time to time
as the trees became available, or as it
seemed desirable to secure other varieties.
There are now too many trees; but as they
come into bearing it will be possible to
ascertain the quality of the fruit borne by

One man (the owner) does all the work on the 90x150 ft. garden which supplies the family with all the fruits and vegetables it can use

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each tree, and the least desirable will
be removed.

Many of the later set peach trees are
seedlings, grown from pits planted in the
garden, which were transplanted when one
year old and bore fruit the second year
after transplanting.

As for quality, some of these seedling
trees bear the finest and highest flavored
fruit, superior in the opinion of many to
some widely known varieties.

A hotbed has been in use each year,
sometimes of two sash and again of but a
single sash. The box or frame is of wood,
but some day we hope to have a masonry
bed, in which it will be possible to grow
some winter vegetables.

All pruning is done very early in the
spring, before vegetation starts, but after
the hard frosts are over. The spraying
for scale is also done while the trees are
dormant.

The grapes are summer pruned by cut-
ting off the tips of running canes; and
spraying is kept up through the spring and
early summer.

All vegetables are planted in straight
rows by the aid of a line; and, so far as
possible, no vegetable is grown two succeed-
ing years in the same location.

Vegetables which mature early, as peas
and string beans, are removed in time to
allow late tomato plants to take the place
they occupied. The strawberry bed is
turned under and the ground set to winter
cabbage; and as late as July 10, every
vacant spot is planted to some variety of
extra early sweet corn.

Experiments in varieties and in treat-
ment are continually being tried. In fact,
the garden is an experiment station on
a small scale.

LAST SEASON’S WORK

All spraying for scale and all pruning
was finished in February and March, while
vegetation was dormant.

The hotbed was put in shape on February
22, and on March 4, seeds of radishes,
lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and
summer cabbage were sown.

The radishes and lettuce from the bed
were large enough for use on April 15.
The radishes did not last long but there
was lettuce enough to last until June,
when lettuce sown in the open ground was
ready.

The plants from the bed were trans-
planted after the middle of May.

Frost lingered late in the ground, and it
was March 24, before any spading was
attempted. Peas were sown on March 209,
and the first for the table were picked the
second week in June.

On April 6, early potatoes were planted,
and the firs: for use were dug July 15.

Other garden vegetables were sown from
time to time as the season developed,
always having in view the object of secur-
ing a variety of the best vegetables as early
as possible in the season, and a succession
of peas, sweet corn, string beans, etc,
There were several failures of seed to grow

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as expected, the reason for some of which
could be determined. Where possible
replantings were made until a satisfactory
stand was secured.

An effort was made to get pretty nearly
all the ground fitted and planted before
the strawberries ripened. When the straw-
berries do come on it takes so much time
to pick them that little remains for other
work in the garden.

A cold season (in the year of this record)
delayed the strawberries so that the first
were picked on June 4. They lasted three
weeks, and supplied a family of eight two
or three times a day, besides a good
many quarts for canning. On June 20,
the cherries were ripe but there was not
much demand for them while the straw-
berries lasted.

There was about a bushel of sour
cherries, most of which were canned or
given away to neighbors. Red and purple
raspberries came right along, and a few
blackberries.

The currant bushes yielded a full crop
but only a few were used on the table.
Most of them were canned or made into
jelly.

Prior to about July 15, the garden
yielded enough early vegetables to supply
the table with two or three varieties each
day. After that time, there was not a day
when four or five different vegetables were
not available.

In August an abundance of tomatoes,
summer squashes, eggplant, etc., replaced
earlier vegetables.

All the apple trees blossomed for the first
time this year, and some produced fruit.
Some trees bore only half a dozen apples
while trees no larger carried several bushels.

Sour Harvest apples were ripe July 15,
and sweet ones a few days later. Plums
were ripe August 1, and the last were

A Successful Summer-Home Garden — By Lincoln Cromwell, &

E HAD three objects in view in
planting our vegetable garden.
First, the pleasure of seeing

the things grow and_ the

physical exercise we should have to put
into it; second, the wish to provide for
a boy of fifteen some regular occupation
for part of each day of his school vacation;
third, to have a supply of fresh vegetables.
For two years we had had a little vege-
table garden planted in a haphazard way
— a row of beans and a row of corn, a few
tomato plants and some peas. We took
so much more interest in it the second year
that we began to wonder why we could
not take the vegetable garden as seriously
as some of the contributors to THE GARDEN
MacazineE, and at the same time get as
much fun and satisfaction out of it as they
described. We got a copy of “ Garden

picked the day the first peaches were ripe
August 12.

The peaches from this garden overshadow
every other product; they lasted from
August 12, until September 16, when the
last were picked. Not a very long
season, but while they lasted no other
garden product seemed worth mentioning.

Besides those used, canned, pickled,
preserved and given away, forty baskets
were sold.

Grapes were also very good this year,
and were much in demand after the peaches
were gone.

At the time of writing (October) there
still remain in this garden beets, parsnips,
carrots, salsify and winter squash sufficient
for a small family throughout the winter.
There will be tomatoes for some weeks
yet, summer squash, lima beans and
string beans for a few days. Lettuce for
the coldframe is growing and some mustard
for greens.

There have been all the apples that
could be used since August 1, some were
sold and many given away. ‘There must
have been five bushels of crabapples, which
were much in demand for jelly.

It will be possible to gather for winter
several bushels of winter apples from the
trees where they are now ripening.

A fairly accurate record has been kept
of what has been spent on the garden, the
allowance for labor being increased 25 per
cent. because it is estimated that the labor
of the owner is at least that much more
efficient than hired labor.

The value of the garden products is
based on going prices in the market for
such products, and the quantities are
under-estimated rather than over-estimated.

One item on the credit side has been
omitted because of the difficulty of putting
a fair valuation upon it. That item is the

abundant health and vigor of the gardener
resulting from doing all this garden work
with his own hands.

EXPENDED

148 hours of labor at 25 cents
per hour, plus 25 per cent. for

greater efficiency. . . . $ 46.25
Seedskand#plantsiy sn). ce. 3.50
Manure . . Ree ah eles 6.00

Chemical fertilizers - I
Repairs to spray pump I
Spraying material . . . . 235
Peach baskets I

ARO LAlCOStan nu ee oe $ 62.20

RECEIVED
VEGETABLES
Rhubarb... sg 0 38) BGO
Lettuce and radishes... 1.50
Asparagus .. ais 75
Swiss chard and greens ease .60
(Greentypeasi nem eae ame 1.80
Stringaebeansmate aren) tee 1.00
SWEEE GOH, 3 ee a 12.00
Summer cabbage... 80
Summer squashes 2.00
Winter squashes . 2.00
Tomatoes . 4.00
Lima beans 1.00
Eggplant 1.50
Beets, carrots, parsnips 4.00
Salsify 5 Shee .50
IROtatoesye ties re eee 4.50
Total $ 40.45
Fruits
Strawberries) (0-36 pl 27.00
Currants 3.00
Cherries 3.50
Raspberries and blackberries 2.00
Plums . 1.00
Crabapples 4.00
Peaches 65.00
Grapes 6.00
Apples . 12.00
Total $108.50
Total, vegetables and fruit 148.05
Total cost cee 62.20
Profit $ 86.75

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Awarded a $100 prize in our Garden Contest

Profits,” and in the autumn laid out the
little plot according to the diagram on
page 22. In the last week of September
it was covered with a large load of cow
manure, which cost $5, and to this we added
from our own stable, about a load of
horse manure, which cost nothing. All

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this was thoroughly plowed in, all the loose
stones taken off the surface, and the ground
thickly sown with red clover seed. The
clover made a slight growth before frost,
and it came up fairly well in May, when
the ground was again plowed and levelled
off for the vegetable planting.

The tool equipment from the previous
years was a spade, a garden fork, a hoe,
and a rake. To this we added a 50-foot
tape measure (soc.) and a wheelhoe or
cultivator, costing $2.50. It was the best
kind of a purchase and the success of
the garden is largely due to that instru-
ment, which was faithfully run up and
down the rows, and the ground kept soft
all summer.

The work was done by a boy of fifteen
and myself, with regular help from our
Hampton Institute boy. He was em-

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ployed for the sum-
mer months without
reference to the gar-
den, as his duties
were supposed to
cover only the stable
and care of the
grounds. For faith-
ful, intelligent, will-
ing workers let me
commend the Hamp-
ton boys during their
summer vacations.
They may be secured
for June, July, Au-
gust, and September.

There are half a
dozen of them in our
town every summer,
always satisfactory,
and our Godwin was

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WHAT THE SUMMER GARDEN DID

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FrBpruary, 1913

and partly to keep
them away from the

no exception. To
give each boy a real interest, we prom-
ised them a quarter share apiece in the
gross profits, and the family agreed to
buy at the local market prices the entire
product. For our work and planning, for
supplying the seeds, fertilizer, tools and
paying for the plowing, my wife and I
were to have the other half of the gross
profits.

In this Connecticut hill town 1,400 ft.
above sea level, the season is so short that
it is not considered worth while to attempt
any planting before the last week in May,
and there is sure to be a killing frost by
the first of October. The year of this
record the frost came on September 13th
and put the whole garden in mourning.
So it was not possible for this garden to
compete in its product of vegetables with
gardens in more favored places where
plantings could be made in March or
April either with seeds or from cold-
frames and a considerable succession
of plantings arranged for. We
spent a good many winter eve-
nings reading a little library
of interesting books about
gardens of various kinds.
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tive likings for the different vegetables
—aiter considering the promised yield
from each kind according to the amount
of ground planted, and with due consider-
ation to the possibility of successive plant-
ings of such things as the turnips, beans,
and peas.

The first seeds were planted on May
24th. Along the upper edge we put in
English and Italian vegetable marrow
alternately in hills four feet apart, until
near the end of the row where five hills of
cucumbers were planted. When these big
leaved things grew up they were trained
over the rocks along this edge of the gar-
den, partly to make an ornamental border

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NAME FIRST AND LASL PICKINGS GATHERED VALUE ROWS PER FOOT beans in row No. tf.
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Italian Marrow July 31st-Sept. 16th 30 4.50 35 feet 13 cents The othe p ant gs
English Marrow fee pub Sept. 20th 36 5.40 35 ss TON on May 24th were
Bk. Wax Beans uly 15th-Aug. 26th 59 quarts 5.90 Q % Oe
Bk. Valentine Beans July r5th-Sept. 20th SS mean 5.50 6 9 § the Black Wax
Burpee’s Bush Limas . Sept. 15th 3 : 30 Bowne Leon beans an d Black
Golden Bantam Corn. . Aug. 12th-27th rz dozen 2.65 60 “ A ‘ 2
Stowell’s Evergreen Corn rere athe eh ; (yn 1.35 Ge ts 2 elic Valentine beans in
Alaska Peas uly r1th-Aug. 25th 24 quarts 3.00 ey # See
Gradus Peas July rrth-25th : gee res I.00 go 3 i row No. t 7 the
Telephone Peas. July 25th—-Sept. toth I4 1.75 we ° @ Eclipse beets and
Swisse@hardhsss acter July 1st-Sept. 28th 384 pecks Te G5 120) ne % Z >
INew Zealand Spinach ae at 2geh an a ff 45 eevee ae 3 3 bush lima beans in
Carrots 5 Yo uly 25th—-Sept. 28th 31 dozen Bees Ae i
Eclipse Beets July 23d-Sept. 27th mo & Tess (jf Bt row No. 2, Golden
Radish. July rrth—22d 16 bunches 1.25 Olas aie Bantam corn
Onions. July 25th-Sept. 25th 20 quarts 1.60 fey SS 2a 5 ,
IN. Y. Lettuce yay seth sat 26 heads 1.82 a 3 3 Stowell’s Evergreen
Romaine Lettuce . Aug. 4th-Sept. 14th 3 Thais: 2.59 Zo ;
Crystal Head Lettuce July r3th-Aug. 18th Bzyee Aun bo a * corn, Alaska peas,
Mignonette Lettuce July toth—-Aug. 2d 7 -49 Io = 5 7 Gradus p eas an d
Tomatoes Aug. 28th-Sept. 28th 55 I.10 60 2 = i
Turnips . July r1th-Sept. 8th 6 bunches -90 io & aes Swiss chard in rows
Cuchi bers ; Aug. 5th-Sept. 6th 32 1.60 20a 8 De Boi. 6 7 and 8
Parsley POS s) I) 1) ([5) Sa (0
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Sweet Marjoram > 2eth Sept. 28 : £ i) %
Sage—Pepperarass Meiers eek I the 600 5.00 89 6 sown in rows four
Summer Savory = 1
Sweet Balsam | 1085 Ft. feet apart to get a

larger yield than
in hills would give. The rows

planting
of peas also were four feet apart to give
room for cultivating under the brush, but
all the other rows were only two feet
apart and we had very little trouble run-

ning the cultivator between them all
through the season.

On May 25th we planted rows 20 to 31
with summer turnips, oxheart carrots,
scarlet horn carrots, yellow and white
onion sets, little lettuce plants, and parsley.
Parsley, by the way, is a most discouraging
enterprise. The seeds must be soaked for
several hours in tepid water, it is no
easy task to get them wet and they do

not come up for so long after they are

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5-24—6-1—8-5 (32 picked)

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the third figures are the date on which the first fruit was picked.
SEcoND PLANTINGS.—s, Black Wax beans. 7-29—8-4—9-10; 5a, Eclipse beets, 7-29—8-4—0-12; 6, Black Valentine beans, 7-26—8-1—9-10; 6a, cucumbers, 7-29—8-4—9-10; 20, second crop
of turnips, 7-26—8-1—9-2; 16, carrots thinned from Row 13 on 7-25.

Covered with fruit when frost killed 9-14. Rows 7 and

Chart showing succession plantings and yields in L. Cromwell’s Garden

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Upper scene, June 25th in the garden.
beans, beets. Golden Bantam corn, Stowell’s Evergreen corn, Alaska peas,
and Swiss chard. The lower view shows the same spot three weeks later

planted that you become sure they are
never going to grow.

Half of our ground was now planted!
The rest was reserved for later seeding
anda succession of crops according to the
time stated in the books that it takes each
kind to mature.

All the first plantings came up beauti-
fully except the right hand end of row 6,
Gradus peas. There was a streak of hard
clay soil along there, and only half the
seeds sprouted. On June 14th we trans-
planted the stragglers, thickening up the
other end of the row. Then we thor-
oughly spaded the poor end and planted
it with Telephone peas, which grew well
enough and had big pods, but seemed
to us decidedly inferior in quality to both
Gradus and Alaska. We fooled the crows
and pigeons which ate up our neighbors’
corn seeds by hanging over. our rows some
strings on which ribbons of cotton cloth
were tied at intervals. They swung in
the wind enough to keep the birds away.

By the middle of June we planted the
rest of the garden, and the boys spent an
hour each day weeding and plowing be-
tween the rows with the cultivator. The
peas were brushed on June 21st, four weeks
after they were planted. The corn was
about a foot high, and the beans were so
lusty that the beets seemed backward.

The Swiss chard was the most profitable
crop in every way, for its rows were only
two feet apart while the marrows were twice
as far apart. The first crop of turnips was
a failure because they were not thinned out
in time to save them from becoming woody.

From left to right, the rows are

The bush limas did
not do well for some
unknown cause which
affected this plant
throughout the town.
We were ready for
cutworms and various
insects, but none
came. Even the wood-
chucks which spoiled a
hundred lettuce heads
next door, never nib-
bled ours as we helped
smoke them out before
they had leisure to
call on us. In mid-
summer we moved
our chickens to new
ground, hen-house,
yard, and all. Then
we planted the rich
soil of the old yard
with summer turnips,
gave the tops to the
chickens and ate the
turnips ourselves —
but this produce was
not counted as part
of the garden.

I said there were
three objects in hav-
ing this garden. Each
succeeded. We raised
all the fresh vege-
tables for a family of eleven for three
months. There were thirty varieties. The
same quantity would have cost $70.24 at
the local market. They did cost us $53.12
after paying the boys
$35.12 for their work.
The horse manure
from our stable cost
usnothing. We were
given the tiny lettuce
plants, and some of
the herbs, but we gave
away surplus seeds
and thinnings to an
equal value. Even if
we had paid for the
horse manure and the
little plants, we should
have had a money
profit from the garden
of at least ten dollars.
Any man who has
around his house as
much spare ground as
we planted, whether
he lives there the year
around or only for four _
summer months, can
have as good a garden
as ours, and if he will
work in it himself an
hour each day it need
not cost him over $30
including the cost of
plowing, spading and
fertilizing.

The second object,
just as desirable, was

to make an interest for a school boy on vaca-
tion, something with enough regular work
to be discipline, easy enough to be taken as
fun, and showing quickly the result of care
or neglect. Here again our garden made
good. ,It was a common interest for father
and son, another bond of sympathy with ten-
nis, golf and the ball game. Besides, the
boy earned his vacation pocket money.
The third, and the main object was to
get out of that garden health and strength
for ourselves, in body, mind, and_ soul.
Every Saturday of the summer is a day
off with me. I began by giving the garden
one hour in the morning, each Saturday.
The boys spent an hour there every morn-
ing. As the plants grew, including the
weeds, I found myself spending more and
more time there, sometimes the whole
morning, digging, trimming, hoeing, and
weeding, and an hour in the evening play-
ing the hose. What a change from the
city’s dusty, noisy, smelly streets! What
a rest from the frets of business and the
telephone bell! What a tonic of air and
sunshine after a week in a stifling office!
Try it, and you too will know the appetite
and the dreamless sleep that come to the
happy farmer from the city. Then you
will know that the sure and the greatest
profit from a garden is the new health
which your body and mind will get ih its
growth. It will lay up for you a treasure
quite beyond price, from which dividends
will be paid for many a month after the
frost has come, and whose interest will
make you plan during the winter nights to
have a still better garden next summer.

Onions, carrots and summer turnips with Swiss chard and beans in the
distance; on June 25thin the upper panel. On September 4th looking in the
same general direction the lower panel shows second crop beans and corn

24 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY, 1913

CONDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

Starting a Community Garden

(Gawes in the city! but where
can one find the land.” It is the
inevitable first question in _ starting
children’s gardens. ‘There were plenty of
lots outside the city proper, but what we
were looking for, in Boston, was an open
space in the congested district, where the
children are most in need of a breathing
space. After days of wandering up and
down unknown streets we found a large
lot, on Sterling Street, Roxbury, centrally
located in a tenement district swarming
with children. To be sure, it was nothing
but a dump, but it was an open space and
not built upon.

The next question was, “to whom did
it belong,” and, more important still,
“would the owner permit us to use it?”
I questioned some small boys. They told
me the property was owned by the Boston
Elevated Railway Company, and used as
a dumping ground for snow in the winter.

The Boston Elevated Railroad proved
to be a true friend. They saw that the
lot, cleared of rubbish and kept attractive,
would be worth more to them than a dump.
So, very much encouraged, I started out
to measure the land. I had no more than
unrolled my yellow measuring line then
two curious small boys asked, ‘‘What you
doin’?”” I told them that we hoped to
have a garden for all the children in the
neighborhood and dwelt long on the de-
licious fresh vegetables they could take
home. Small boys are great news
spreaders. The lot was 240 by 120 feet.
Sterling Street was on one side, tenements
on two sides and a high fence in the rear.
I found that we could have 165 individual
gardens each 8 x to ft.

The lot was a dump in bad condition.
Plowing twice and getting out the large
stones took a long time. Then sixteen
loads of splendid well-rotted stable manure
was applied and an attempt made at
harrowing with a very poor harrow, but
the best we could find in the district.

A strong substantial tool house, 12 x 10
ft., was built in one corner of the lot.
Racks for the tools were put up. Shelves
for the watering cans and a large bin for
seeds was made, and a loft overhead for
extra stakes, etc. It was small and the
children took great interest in helping me
plan just where everything should be put,
for we had to use every inch. Four dozen
spades, rakes, hoes, and water cans, two
dozen trowels, one dozen spading forks and
four wheelbarrows made up our equipment.
The handles of the rakes and hoes were
marked off with rings 6 inches apart, to be
used in measuring.

It seemed as if the garden could open
any day but our fence, though ordered,
was not yet in existence. We waited for
it six weeks and the last week of June began
staking out the plots, while the men started
on the fence.

You will ask, “how did you get the
children for the garden?” The yellow
measuring line helped much; the three
settlement houses in the district sent
children; I gave a lantern slide talk on
gardening at two nearby schools and told
the children to watch the lot. The prin-
cipals sent me lists of children who were
interested and I talked to passers-by, telling
them what was going on. Ifa child wanted
a plot, I told him to come the next day and
I would see about it, then I put him to
work helping me. If he did this willingly
and appeared the next day, the plot was
his. This method worked very well.

In September, the garden was at the
height of its beauty. The pessimistic
friends who tried to discourage us in the
beginning marveled at our success. A
bird’s eye view showed 165 neat gardens,
each 8 x ro ft., a 13 foot path running be-
tween them. There were 10-foot rows of
radishes, lettuce, beans, beets, carrots,
Swiss chard, parsley, and kohlrabi, besides
zinnias, calendula, sweet alyssum and
candytuft. We started too late to have
many flowers, but each garden had at least
one Tow.

Partial expenses: Tool house, $75; tools,
$137; installing water, $55; seeds, $25;
total, $292.

Jean A. Cross.

Garden Director, Boston Social Union.

Work of the Month

IDWINTER is such an in-between

time in plant work. Yet it’s just the
time to have really active things going
on in the classroom. So try some of the
following suggestions:

(1) If you wish to raise a plant from seed
and have it surely blossom try dwarf French
marigolds. This experiment is worth try-
ing in school for it succeeds. Be sure to
buy the seed suggested above and no
other kind of marigold seed. Plant the
seeds in a box in drills a quarter inch deep.
When the little plants are about an inch
high transplant into pots. If the children
are doing this at school it would be safer

Dwarf French manigold is satisfactory for pot culture

for each child to transplant three or four
little seedlings into a _ three-inch pot.
When the seedlings are accustomed to
their new quarters and are growing vigor-
ously pull out the weakest little plant of
all. After a few days pull out another
weak one, and so on until just one sturdy
plant is left in each pot. These little
marigold plants will grow to a height of
about six inches. They will flower in
about six or eight weeks from the time of
planting. If this work is to be a school
one, and to be used in lower grades, teachers
will find the fibre flower pots very good to
use. They are easily handled by little
children. Each child can have his own
little red pot on his own desk with no
danger of breakage. These fibre pots are
sold at most seed houses for a few cents
a dozen.

(2) Other plants easy to raise from
seed are sweet alyssum, corn flower, dwarf
nasturtium, scarlet runner beans. The
corn flower plants may develop lice. The
nasturtiums are likely to spindle out and
get leggy. To avoid this place the little
plants in the sunniest of places. It is
possible to raise all of these plants in class
rooms and to bring them to a state of
blossoming. Start them all in boxes and
transplant once or twice. When trans-
planting set the little plant a bit lower
than it was before. This helps to develop
a greater root system.

One can start all these seeds in individual
pots putting about six seeds into a three-
inch pot. These little seedlings are not
transplanted, but are thinned out right
from each pot pulling out the weakest of
seedlings. It is stated in the August
GaRDEN MacazIne that in the case of
petunia seedlings the smallest, weakest
seedlings produce the large double flowers.
The ranker seedlings produce the single
blooms.

(3) If the house plants begin to look a lit-
tle the worse for wear encourage them a bit
with a tonic. Buy five cents worth of sodium
nitrate at the drug store. Dissolve ten
grains of these crystals —not more —in
a quart of water. This makes the tonic

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with which to water the plants. Do this
twice a week.

(4) Each child might start a gladiolus
bulb now all ready for his outdoor garden.
These grow rapidly in a class room. Pot
each bulb separately. Leave a bit of the
bulb above the soil in the pot. Place the
little pots in the dark for a week or ten days
to start root growth. After that the
plants will do nicely on the children’s own
desks.

(5) Madeira vines grow rapidly and are
satisfactory in class rooms too. Pot the
root as the gladiolus tubers were planted.
Growth starts very soon. The vine grows
rapidly and may be trained up over the
window casement.

(6) Try different ways of starting plants.
Start marigold from seed; geraniums from
cuttings; begonias from leaves; madeira
vine from roots. The large leaved Rex
begonias are best to use for leaf cuttings.
Cut off pieces of a leaf only being sure to
have a section of midrib in each piece.
Stick the pieces midrib down in a box of
moist sand. Do not use the sand of the
kindergarten sand table for this purpose.
But any clean, sharp brown sand will do.
When the bits of begonia leaves are planted
they will look like sails of boats sticking up
in the sand. When roots have started from
the midribs plant in little separate pots.

(7) When planting the vines for the
ornamentation of the school building try
Virginia creeper; Ampelopsis, a rapid
grower; Euonymus radicans, very hardy,
bears red berries. The trumpet vines and
rambler roses look well over door ways and
arches.

(8) Excellent shrubs for the school or
home grounds are the following; lilac, Jap-
anese dogwood, Dutch honeysuckle, snow

berry, barberry, and forsythia. Plant
shrubs from five to ten feet away from
buildings. The shrubs, thus planted, will
do better besides producing a more pleasing
effect.

(9) Make the garden plan. Estimate
on cost of garden and amount of seed.
This is good arithmetic work.

A Girl’s One Hundred and Fifty
Dollar Garden

By Maser J. Musser, Cleveland, Ohio

STARTED my garden work this year

with the full determination of having
it better in every particular than ever
before. I wished to show what could be
accomplished on a plot fifty-two feet square
and also to make it net me Stoo. Many
of my friends laughed at the idea of
making Sr1oo on so small a plot. Some
said that few farmers could average S50
an acre.

This did not discourage me in the least.
It only strengthened my determination.
I counted high on my tritoma bed, as I
already had orders ahead for twenty
dozen, which would net me $20. But
found later that they had not survived the
severe winter. The tritoma bed had been
the pride of my garden and my best money
maker. To lose this was a severe blow
but I did not give up.

My only hope then was to fall back on
my coldframes, which I crowded to their
full capacity with asters, salvia, snap-
dragons, foxgloves, Canterbury bells, del-
phinium and other plants along this order.
By May my receipts were $38.28 and by
July roth they had passed the Stoo mark.
On oo cents’ worth of aster seed I made

This school girl’s 52 it. sauare garden made an income of over $150 last year

$30.76; salvia, $27.82; sweet peas, $13.05;
Canterbury bells, $10.63; snapdragons,
$7.80; cut flowers, $15.85; and in all have
realized $158.73 from my little fifty-two
foot plot. My expense account ran much
higher this year than previous years. I
expended $12.43 for seeds, fertilizers, car-
fare, etc. But this still left me $46.30
ahead of my mark. I also received $9
in prizes this season, which I did not enter
in my cash book but which came indirectly
from my garden. My garden work has
all been done before and after school hours.
I have not been marked absent or tardy
and my monthly average has kept up
with my class.

I place all my garden success to trans-
planting. I transplant every plant three
or four times before it is sold or placed in
the garden. This gives a better and
stronger root. I have proven in several
tests that a transplanted plant is more
vigorous, will have better and larger flowers
and in general, give far better results
than other seedlings. I do not mean by
this, that I lift a plant with a spade full
of earth (this I call moving a plant from
one place to another as though it were in
a pot or box) I lift the plant, shake the
earth from the roots and give it a fresh
start. I transplanted shell pink Mikados
last spring four times. I planted seed from
the same package which I did not trans-
plant. The result was I cut asters six
inches across with twenty to thirty-inch
stems, while the untransplanted seedlings
grew to be from six to twelve inches
high, with flowers two, three, and three
and a half inches across under the same
care.

I think asters, salvias, Canterbury bells
and tomatoes improve 25 per cent. with
every transplanting and are very easy
plants to handle. Ihave had good success
with more difficult plants such as poppies,
sweet peas and mignonette. My garden
looked just as fresh in October as any
time in the summer with dahlias, gail-
lardia, snapdragons, cannas, scabiosa,
chrysanthemums, delphiniums, coreopsis,

nasturtiums, coxcomb, larkspur, China
pinks, bluebells, salvia, and stock in
full bloom.

Our festival, last fall, was a beautiful
sight, mostly flowers; I had fifteen entries,
and did well to capture four first and three
second prizes. And finally I’d like to say
to all boys and girls, “‘let’s join in having
gardens.” The first thing is to make out
the seed order. This we must think over
carefully for we want only the best that
money can buy, not too many varieties,
say we each choose six, according to our
notion; then report to THE GARDEN
MacazinE next fall an accurate account
of our six varieties. We must try and
give every detail so as to learn from each
other just how to have success with each
kind. Have you ever noticed that the
busiest boys and girls have time for flowers
while some not so busy say they have no
time?

Ten Acres Enough* — Chap. V.

(Continued from page 250, January, 1913)

The Garden — Female Management —
Comforts and Profits

MENTIONED some time ago that the wife

of the former owner of this place had left it
with a world of regrets. She had been passionately
fond of the garden, and had filled it with the
choicest fruit-trees, most of which were in full
bearing when we took possession. There was
abundance of all the usual garden fruits, currants,
gooseberries, grapes, and an ample asparagus bed.
It was laid jout with taste, convenience, and lib-
erality. Flowers, of course, had not been omitted by
such awoman. But the garden bore marks of long
abandonment; great weeds were rioting in the
borders, and grass had taken foothold in the alleys.

After I had got through with the various plant-
ings of my standard fruits — indeed, while much
of it was going on —I took resolute hold of the
garden. It was large enough to provide vegetables
for three families.

I began by deepening the soil wherever a spade
could be put in. I hired a man for this purpose
and paid him ten dollars for the job, including
the hauling and digging in of the great pile of
manure I had found in the barnyard, and the clear-
ing up of things generally. I would have laid out
fifty dollars in manure, if the money could have
been spared; but what I did afforded an excellent
return. My wife and eldest daughter, Kate,
then in her eighteenth year, did all the planting.
I spent five dollars in buying for them a complete
outfit of hoes, rakes, and trowels for garden use,
lightly made, with a neat little wheelbarrow to
hold the weeds and litter which I felt pretty
sure would have to be hoed up and trundled away
before the season was over.

They took to the garden manfully. I kept their
hoes constantly sharpened with a file, and they
declared it was only pastime to wage warfare on
the weeds with weapons so keen. Now and then
one of the boys went in to give them a lift; and
when a new vegetable bed was to be planted, it
was dug up and made ready for them. But the
great bulk of all other work was done by them.

Cash for the Surplus

HE work of weeding kept on through the whole

season, and as a consequence, the ground about
the vegetables was kept constantly stirred. The
result of this thorough culture was that nearly
everything seemed to feel it and the growth was
prodigious, far exceeding what the family could
consume. We had everything we needed, and in
far greater abundance than we ever had in the city.
I am satisfied this profusion of vegetables lessened
the consumption of meat in the family one half.
Indeed, it was such, that my wife suggested that
the garden had so much more in it than we required,
that perhaps it would be as well to send the surplus
to the store where we usually bought our groceries,
to be there sold for our benefit.

The town within half a mile of us contained
some five thousand inhabitants, among whom there
was a daily demand for vegetables. I took my
wife’s advice, and from time to time gathered such
as she directed, for she and Kate were sole mis-
tresses of the garden, and sent them to the store.
They kept a regular book account of these consign-
ments, and when we came to settle up with the
storekeeper at the year’s end, were surprised to
find that he had cighty dollars to our credit. But
this was not all from vegetables —a good deal of
it came from the fruit trees.

After using in the family great quantities of fine
peaches from the ten garden trees, certainly three

* Copyright, 1905, by Consolidated Retail Booksellers.

times as many as we could ever afford to buy when

in the city, the rest went to the store. The trees
had been so hackled by the worms that they did
not bear full crops, yet the yield was considerable.
Then there were quantities of spare currants,
gooseberries, and several bushels of common blue
plums, which the curculio does not sting. When
my wife discovered there was so ready a market
at our own door, she suffered nothing to go to
waste. Whenever she needed a new dress for
herself or any of the children, all she had to do
was to go to the store, get it, and have it charged
against her garden fund.

Cultivation Makes Money

TIE cause of this success with our garden was
not owing to our knowledge of gardening, for
we made many blunders not here recorded, and
lost crops of two or three different things in conse-
quence. Neither was it owing to excessive richness
of the ground. But I lay it to the unsparing war-
fare kept up against the weeds, which thus pre-
vented their running away with the nourishment
intended for the plants, and kept the ground con-
stantly stirred up and thoroughly pulverized. Ihave
sometimes thought one good stirring up, whether
with the hoe, the rake, or the cultivator, was as
beneficial as a good shower.

When vegetables begin to look parched and the
ground becomes dry, some gardeners think they
must commence to use the watering-pot. This
practice, to a certain extent, and under some
circumstances, may perhaps be proper, but as a
general rule it is incorrect. The same time spent
in hoeing, frequently stirring the earth about
vegetables, is far preferable. When watering
has once commenced it must be continued, must be
followed up, else you have done mischief instead
of good; as, after watering a few times, and then
omitting it, the ground will bake harder than if
nothing had been done to it. Not so with hoeing
or raking. The more you stir the ground about
vegetables, the better they are off; and whenever
you stop hoeing, no damage is done, as in watering.
Vegetables will improve more rapidly, be more
healthy, and in better condition at maturity, by
frequent hoeing than by frequent watering.

There are secrets about this stirring of the earth
which chemists and horticulturists would do well
to study with the utmost scrutiny and care. Soil
cultivated in the spring, and then neglected, soon
settles together. The surface becomes hard, the
particles cohere, they attract little or no moisture,
and from such a surface even the rain slides off,
apparently doing little good. But let this surface
be thoroughly pulverized, though it be done merely
with an iron rake and only a few inches in depth,
and a new life is infused into it.

Cheated in a Cow

OTH myself and wife had always conveted a
cow, yet I was utterly ignorant of how to
choose one, and at that time had no friend to advise
me. But I suspected that no one who had a first-
rate animal would voluntarily part with it, and so
expected to be cheated. I hinted as much to my

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wife, whereupon she begged that the choice might
be left to her; to which I partially consented,
thinking if we should be imposed on, I should feel
better if the imposition could be made chargeable
somewhere else than to my own ignorance.

One morning a very respectable-looking old
man drove a cow and a two-weeks old calf up to the
door, and called us out to look at them. I did not
like the cow’s movements — she seemed restless
and ill-tempered; but the old man said that was
always the way with cows at their first calving.
My wife seemed bewitched in favor of the cow and
was determined to have her, so I said nothing, and
finally bought cow and calf for thirty dollars.

At the end of the week the calf was sold for three
dollars —a low price; then my wife wanted the
milk, and she and Kate were anxious to begin milk-
ing. The first process in the operation of milking
is to make the cow’s acquaintance; it will never
do to approach the animal with combative feelings
and intentions. Should the milker be too im-
petuous or frighten the cow, she will probably
prove as refractory as a mule. Especially in the
case of a new milker, who may be a perfect stranger
to the cow, the utmost kindness and deliberation
are necessary.

Before commencing to milk, a cow should be
fed, in view of diverting her attention from the
milking. By this means the milk is not held up,
as the saying is, but is yielded freely. All these
precautions are more indispensable when the cow
has just been deprived of her calf. She is then
uneasy, fretful and irritable, and generally so dis-
consolate as to need the kindest treatment and the
utmost soothing. The milker should be in close
contact with the cow’s body, for in this position
if she attempt to kick him, he gets nothing more
than a push, whereas if he sits off at a distance,
the cow has an opportunity to inflict a severe blow.

Of every one of these requisites both wife and
daughter were utterly ignorant. They went
talking and laughing into the barn, one with a
bright tin pail in her hand, an object which the
cow had never before seen, and both made at her,
forgetting that they were utter strangers to her.
Their appearance and clamor of course, frightened
her, and as they approached her, she avoided
them. They followed, but she continued to avoid,
and once or twice put down her head, shook it
menacingly, and even made an incipient lunge at
them with her sharply pointed horns. These
decided demonstrations of anger frightened them
in turn, and they forthwith gave up the pursuit
of milk in the face of difficulties so unexpected.
We got none that night. In the morning we sent
for an experienced milker, but she had the utmost
difficulty in getting the cow to stand quiet even
for a moment. Longer trial produced no more
encouraging result, as the cow seemed untamable,
and my wife was glad to have me sell her for twenty
dollars.

Buying a Good Animal

(2 WAS voted unanimously that another should
be procured, and that this time the choice
should be left to me. Now, I never had any idea
of buying poor things of any kind merely because
they were cheap. When purchasing or making tools
or machinery, I never bought or made any but the
very best, as I found that even a good workman
could never do a good job with poor tools. So with
all my farm implements —I bought the best of
their kind that could be had.

I had repeatedly heard of a cow in the neighbor-
ing town, which was said to yield so much milk
as to be the principal support of a small family.
She had cost seventy-five dollars. By careful
inquiry, I satisfied myself that this cow gave
twenty quarts daily, and that five months after
calving. and on very indifferent pasture. I went

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to see her, and then her owner told me she was
going to leave the place, and would sell the cow for
fifty dollars. I did not hesitate a moment, but
paid the money and had the cow brought home the
same evening. My wife and daughter had not the
least difficulty in learning to milk her. Under
their treatment and my improved feeding, we kept
her in full flow for a long time. She gave quite as
much milk as two ordinary cows, while we had the
expense of keeping only one. This I consider genuine
good management; the best is always the cheapest.

The Matter of Feed

‘HE cow was never permitted to go out of the
barnyard. A trough of water enabled her to

drink as often as she needed, but her green food was
brought to her regularly three times daily, with
double allowance at night. I began by mowing all
the little grass-plots about the house and lanes,
for in these sheltered nooks the sod sends up a
heavy growth far in advance of field or meadow.
But this supply was soon exhausted, though it
lasted more than a week; besides, these usually
neglected nooks afforded several mowings during
the season, and the repeated cuttings produced the
additional advantage of maintaining the sod in
beautiful condition, as well as getting rid of number-
less weeds. When the grass had all been mowed
over, we resorted to the clover. This also was
mowed and taken to her; and by this treatment
my little clover-field held out astonishingly. Long
before I had gone over it once, the portion first
mowed was up high enough to
be mowed again. Indeed, we did
secure some hay in addition. In
this way both horse and cow
were soiled. When the clover
gave out, the green corn which
Thad sowed in rows was eighteen
inches to two feet high, and in
capital condition to cut and
feed. It then took the place of
clover. Both horse and cow
devoured it with high relish.

The yield of green food which
this description of corn gives to
the acre, when thus sowed, is
enormous. Not having weighed
it, I cannot speak as to the
exact quantity, but should judge
it to be at least seven times that
oi the best of clover. Even with-
out cutting up with a straw-
knife, the pigs ate it with equal
avidity. In addition to this, the
cow was fed morning and night
with a little bran. The uncon-
sumed corn, after being dried
where it grew, was cut and
gathered for winter fodder, and
when cut fine and mixed with
turnips which had been passed
through a slicer, kept the cow in excellent con-
dition. She, of course, got many an armful of
cabbage-leaves during the autumn and all through
the winter, with now and then a sprinkling of sliced
pumpkins from which the seeds had first been taken,
as they are sure to diminish the flow of milk.

Thus I was obliged to lay out no money for either
horse or cow, except the few dollars expended for
bran. By this treatment I secured all the manure
they made. By feeding the barnyard itself, as
well as the hog-pen, with green weeds and whatever
litter and trash could be gathered up, the end of
the season found me with a huge manure pile, all
nicely collected under a rough shed, out of reach of
drenching rain, hot sun, and wasting winds. I
certainly secured thrice as much in one season as
had ever been made on that place in three. In
addition to this, the family had had more milk
than they could use, fresh, rich, and buttery.
Even the pigs fell heir to an occasional bucket of
skim-milk.

A Cloud of Weeds

UNE came without my being obliged to hire
anything but occasional help on the farm. But
when the month was fairly set in, I found every
inch of my plowed land in a fair way of being

smothered by the weeds. I was amazed at the
countless numbers which sprang up, as well as at
the rapidity with which they grew. There was
almost every variety of these pests. It seemed as
if the whole township had concentrated its wealth
of weeds upon my premises. In the quick, warm
soil of New Jersey, they appear to have found a
most congenial home, as they abound on every
farm that I have seen. Knowing that the last
year’s crop had gone to seed, I confess to looking
for something of the kind, but I was wholly
unprepared for the thick haze which everywhere
covered the ground.

I can bear any quantity of snakes, but for weeds
I have a sort of religious aversion. I tried one
week to overcome them with the cultivator, but I
made discouraging headway. I then bought a
regular horse-weeder, which cut them down rapidly
and effectually. But meantime others were grow-
ing up in the rows, and corners, and by-places,
where nothing but the hoe could reach them, and
robbing the crops of their support. It would never
do to cultivate weeds — they must be got rid of
at any cost, or my crops would be worthless.

I was forced to hire a young man to help me,
contracting to give him twelve dollars a month and
board him. We went to work courageously on the
weeds. I will admit that my man Dick was quite
as certain as my neighbors that we could never get
permanently ahead of them, and that thus lacking
faith he took hold of the cultivator and weeder,
while I attacked the enemy in the rows and by-
places. I kept him constantly at it, and worked

Too many cows on *‘ Little Farms’”’ do not pay for their board.

steadily myself. A -week’s labor left a most
encouraging mark upon the ground. The hot sun
wilted and dried up the weeds as we cut them off.
Two weeks enabled us to get over the whole lot,
making it look clean and nice.

That night (Saturday) a powerful rain fell, with
a warm, sultry wind, being what farmers call
“growing weather.” I found it to be even so,
good for weeds at least. Monday morning came
with a hot, clear sun, and, under the combined
stimulating power of sun, rain, and temperature,
I found that in two nights a new generation had
started into line, quite as numerous as that we had
just overcome. As I walked over the ground in
company with Dick, I was confounded at the sight.
But I noticed that he expressed no astonishment
whatever — it was just what he knew was to come
—and so he declared it would be if we made the
ground as clean as a parlor every week!

He said he never knew the weeds to be got out
of Jersey ground, and protested that it couldn’t be
done. He admitted that they were nuisances, but
SO were mosquitoes. But as neither, in his opinion,
did any great harm, he thought it not worth while
to spend much time or money in endeavoring to
get rid of them. °

But it set me to thinking. It seemed to me im-

Does yours ?

possible that these ten acres of mine could contain
an absolutely indefinite number of seeds of these
unwelcome plants. There must be some limitation
of the number, and if we could induce all the seeds
contained in the soil to vegetate, and then destroy
the plants before they matured a new crop, we
should ever afterward be excused from such con-
stant labor as we had gone through. I submitted
this proposition to Dick. It struck me as being
so simple that even Dick, with all his doggedness,
could neither fail to comprehend nor acknowledge
1t.

But having originated the dogma, I fully be-
lieved in it, and felt bound to maintain it; so Dick
and I went resolutely to work a second time, as
soon as the new crop was well out of the ground.
The labor was certainly not as great as on the first
crop, but it was hot work. I carried a file in my
pocket, and kept my hoe as sharp as I have always
kept my carving knife, and taught Dick to put
his horseweeder in prime order every evening when
we had quit work.

About the third week in June we got through
the second cleaning, and then rested. From that
time to the end of the first week in July there had
been no rain, with a powerfully hot sun. During
this interval the weeds grew again, and entirely new
generations, some few of the first varieties, but the
remainder being new sorts. Thus there were wet-
weather weeds and dry-weather weeds; and as I
afterward found, there was a regular succession of
varieties from spring to winter, and even into
December — cold-weather weeds as well as hot-
weather weeds.

My warfare against the en-
emy continued unabated. As
the time came for each new
variety to show itself, so we
took it in hand with hoe and
weeder. Dick and his horse
made such admirable progress,
that I cannot refrain from rec-
ommending this most efficient
tool to the notice of every culti-
vator. With one man and a
horse it will do the work of
six men, cutting off the weeds
just below the ground and
leaving them to wilt on the
surface..

Thus aided, our labors ex-
tended clear into November.
In the intervals between the
different growths of weeds, we
looked after the other crops.
But when the winter closed in
upon us, the whole ground was
so thoroughly cleaned of them
as to be the admiration of the
jeerers and croakers who, early
in the season, had pitied my
enthusiasm or ridiculed my an-
ticipations. I do not think a
single weed escaped our notice, and went to seed
that season.

A Question of Fertilizers— Purslane

I SAW this year a beautiful illustration of the
idea that there are specific manures for certain
plants. On a piece of ground which had been
sowed with turnips, on which guano had previously
been sprinkled during a gentle rain, there sprang
up the most marvelous growth of purslane that
ever met one’s eyes. The whole ground was
covered with the rankest growth of this weed that
could be imagined. Every turnip was smoth-
ered out. It was singular, too, that we had
noticed no purslane growing on that particular
spot previous to the application of this rapidly
acting fertilizer.

After allowing the purslane to grow two weeks,
Dick cut it off with his horse-weeder, raked it up,
and carried it to the pigs, who consumed it with
avidity. We then recultivated the ground and
sowed again with turnips; but the yield was very
poor. Either the purslane had appropriated the
whole energy of the guano, or the sowing was
too late in the season.

(Lo be continued)

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Effect of lime on trees

Can you tell me whether there is any published
list of trees and shrubs indicating whether appli-
cations of lime are injurious to evergreens generally,
and to oak, maple, etc.p— C. D., Maryland.
—We do not know of any completely compiled
list of trees that will give you the information you
desire. Generally horticulturists regard lime as
injurious to all plants of the ericaceous group—
that is, the rhododendrons, mountain laurels,
erica, etc. It is open to question whether the lime
is in itself injurious in such a case or whether it is
merely that the soil containing lime is too close
and heavy. The plants of the Heath family look
for light, open, cool, well-drained, but not dry
soils, and such soils are not found in limestone
regions. The hemlock will certainly grow on lime-
stone soils; so equally will pine. The native red
cedar is widely distributed over a great variety of
soils, and great forests of it are found on lime-
stone hills. Oak and maple do rather better on
limestone soils than on other types of soils,
especially rich loams. Broadly speaking, with
the exception of the ericaceous plants, all our trees
are indifferent to the presence or absence..of lime.

Dahlia roots drying out

I find on examining some dahlia roots stored

in a dry cellar, frost proof but cool, that they are
very shriveled, dry and dead looking. How can I
keep the roots from drying out any ‘more?-—
H. W. M., Indiana.
—The air of the cellar must be too. dry; cover
the bulbs with newspapers or old clothes, and
sprinkle water on top of the covering. Packing
the roots in coal ashes, which retain moisture pretty
well, has been very successful in many cases. If
the roots are moderately watered as suggested,
however, there ought to be no trouble in saving
them. But the roots must be watched and their
condition, of course, must govern the treatment.

Shrubs for a shady location

My house fronts northeast; on the northwesterly

end, adjoining the front entrance and next to the
foundation, I have thoroughly prepared a bed
sixteen feet long and five feet wide for shrubs and
other plants. On account of the porch and maple
trees this particular place receives no sunlight.
For the background I want shrubs not exceeding
five feet in height. What shall I plant?p—C. J. S.,
Long Island.
— The situation you name is an almost impossible
one. Flowering plants must have sunshine to do
really well, and those things that will exist in shade
merely exist but do not flourish. Weigela, Kerria
japonica, highbush cranberry, shadbush, Anthony
Waterer spirea, the deutzias and snowberry will
grow, but they will not attain perfection

Phlox blight

Last year my hardy phlox seemed to be attacked
by some sort of a blight, many of the leaves turning
brown and dropping off. The blossoms were un-
sightly, too. What can I do this year to guard
against a similar attacke— J. S. R., New York.
— The trouble complained of is not uncommon,
but no one seems to know exactly how to combat

it. Its exact character is not recognized. We
advise planting so as to give very free air circula-
tion to the plant, and spraying with any of the
copper poisons — bordeaux mixture or copper
carbonate — around the base of the plants. This
treatment is efficacious sometimes. Potassium
sulphide solution is also recommended. But we are
in the position, unfortunately, of not being able
to advise properly until somebody determines the
exact cause and nature of the trouble. One or
two other common plant diseases such as peony
and larkspur blight are of the same class.

The elm leaf beetle

Every year a Camperdown elm tree that is
planted in my lawn is attacked by insects which
destroy the leaves, and before August is over the
tree is almost denuded. What can I do to
destroy the insects? —W. A. R., Pennsylvania.
— Your elm tree is attacked by the elm leaf beetle,
which is devastating the elms throughout the
entire country. The only remedy is to spray with
arsenate of lead in the spring time and again in
August. This little insect winters through, in the
crevices, and under any sheltering material that
it can find around the place. You can get a
circular giving its life history from the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Pink peonies for a border

I have a single border of Festiva maxima peonies
and wish to make it a double border by planting
another variety in the rear. What variety, bloom-
ing at the same time is a deep pink and about
the same height?—E. W. O., North Carolina.
— For a deep pink peony, use the variety often
sold as Lady Leonora Bramwell, a synonym for
Dr. Bretonneau (Verdier). In a somewhat lighter
color Monsieur Jules Elie is a very fine flower which
also blooms with Festiva maxima. In about the
same general tone of color, Gloire de Charles
Gombrult and Triomphe de |’Exposition de Lille
are both fine varieties. Any one of these should
answer the purpose.

Bulbs growing in water

Is it possible to do anything with daffodil bulbs

that have been growing in water? Will they ever
bloom again? Are they hardy if planted out-of-
doors?— H. B. H., Oklahoma.
—The hardiness of the daffodils would depend,
of course, on the species. If they are the large
trumpet kind, they are hardy; if of the so-called
Chinese sacred lily kind, they are not. As a rule
bulbs that have been grown in water are utterly
useless. Sometimes the offsets of extra strong
bulbs will retain vitality and those can be grown
on for a few years, but the result is usually not
worth the cost of the labor involved. Better by
far to buy good strong, flowering bulbs.

Rooting rose slips

Ts it difficult to raise roses from slips? What is the
process and the time for doing it7-—M. H., New York.
— The raising of roses from slips all depends on
what kind of roses you want to work with. The
Wichuraiana hybrids can be propagated from
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in a light sandy soil will cause them to root. Roses
of the rugosa type apparently will not grow from
cuttings at all. Many of the tea roses grow fairly
easily from cuttings taken in the fall which can be
carried over the winter in frames. Read the article
on page 252 of the January GARDEN MaGaAZzINeE.

American and English holly

Will holly thrive in New Jersey?

will it grow best? From whom can plants be
purchased? Do they grow in tree or bush form?
—H. S., New Jersey.
— We do not know whether you mean the American
or English holly, The native American holly
grows all through the eastern United States from
Maine to Florida and therefore will grow in New
Jersey. It will grow in any garden soil, even
existing in very light and poor sandy soils. A good
average garden soil, such as will grow corn, will
give best results. Plants can be purchased from
any dealer in hardy shrubs. The American holly
grows as a small tree up to thirty feet but is com-
monly seen in much smaller plants. The English
holly is doubtfully hardy as far north as New
York — that is to say, it will grow in sheltered
places but cannot be depended upon generally.
We know it growing on the south shore of Long
Island within a. quarter of a mile of the ocean and
also in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in sheltered corners.
English holly requires a moist, moderately rich
soil. It is a tree, slow growing and attains a height
of twenty to thirty feet. Plants could probably
be purchased from any nurseryman who imports
European plants.

In what soil

Heating a small greenhouse

Please give me details for heating a small green-

house (19 x 50 ft., 93 feet to ridge, 5 feet to plates,
2 feet of glass on sides) with hot water. The house
stands lengthwise north and south, is to be used
for growing geraniums, and should be capable of
maintaining 60 degrees in zero weather.— L. A. F.,
Connecticut.
—A house of this size, to give a temperature of
55 to 60.degrees during zero weather, would re-
quire 550 feet of radiating surface. If the boiler
is to be placed at one end and the house has a door
in each end, the most satisfactory way of heating
would be to have the boiler p!aced in a cellar below
the workroom. If this system is adopted and,
assuming that regular 4-inch outside diameter
cast iron greenhouse pipe is to be used, two coils
each of five pipes should be placed underneath the
side benches, the coils to be fed by a main of the
same size pipe. The coils should be returned
around to the door at the outer end. A 7-gallon
expansion tank should be placed in the shed.
Should it be desired to use 2-inch wrought pipe,
two coils of seven pipes each would be required.
Should you not care to build a cellar, the boiler
should rest about two feet below the greenhouse floor
and a 33-inch inside diameter, overhead main carried
under the ridge to the far end of the house, and
there divided so as to feed the coils under each
bench. The size of the coils would be the same
as in the first system described, which would be
the more satisfactory. A boiler containing 3
square feet of grate area should be used.— WIL-
LIAM SEFTON.

Fesruary, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 29

Introduction

FOURTH EDITION. SEASON OF 1913 AND 1914

GAIN it has become necessary to publish a new edition of my book of
“Hardy Plant Specialties’”’ in advance of the time planned, for so unex-
pected has been the demand for copies that the last edition, though dou-
bled in number and designed to last for two years, has become exhausted

before the end of the first year.
Four years ago, when my first Catalog was sent out, there was no
thought of publishing a new one annually, and no one could be more surprised than I
to find in so short a time a “‘Hobby”’ transformed into a business, and the business grown
to such proportions that it reaches out to every part of the country, and in order to
facilitate the proper handling of it, has required the erection of a new office building,
storage houses, and propagating houses and frames, built of concrete, steel and glass.

I again take the opportunity to thank the many friends whose generous patronage

BERTRAND H. FARR has had so much to do toward making this venture so great a success, and the great
WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA volume of letters received, filled with friendly expressions of encouragement, commenda-
tion and confidence of the writers who have written to me freely of their gardens, and
have not hesitated to confide to me their own garden pleasures as well as many tender.

sentiments and memories associated with them, in language beautifully expressed.

An old-fashioned hardy garden is a place sacred with tender memories. It has a
charm all its own, breathing the spirit of the past into the living present. And there isa
personality and sense of companionship about the plants that bloom there that make
us become attached to them. They are a part of the old associations and the home life.
They seem to have a distinct individuality of their own, often old inhabitants of the garden
reminding us of the absent ones who planted them long ago.

Year by year we tenderly protect them for their winter sleep and impatiently await
their awakening each spring, eagerly going forth on the first mild days to examine
whether they survived the perils of the winter. With a thrill of delight here and there
we see them burst into life. Sometimes we miss an old favorite and realize with regret
that we shall see it no more. Its place may be filled with another of its kind, but the
newcomer will not have the same place in our affections unless through new associations
it gains a new personality.

Perhaps yours is not an old garden but a new one, the planning of which has been
all your own, and its accomplishment a realization of your own fancies. But whether
new er old, it is a place of recreation and forgetfulness of business cares, a safety-valve
from overwork and a place where the man who is city-tired may find rest and new life.

More than ever I am resolved that Farr’s Hardy Plants shall measure up to the full
standard my friends seem to expect of anything coming from Wyomissing, and I hope
that those who receive this book may find in it some new inspiration and a safe guide.

BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing, Pa.

To be “A New Inspiration and a Safe Guide” to Flower Lovers
is the purpose of my new book, “Farr’s Hardy Plants.”

My aim in writing the new (fourth) edition of my catalog “‘ Farr’s Hardy Plants’’,
is set forth in these lines from its introduction. If you, like me, love the hardy garden
flowers ; if you delight in the magnificence of the Peony, the splendor of the Oriental
Poppy, the stately magnificence of the Iris, I WANT YOU TO HAVE A COPY
OF THIS BOOK. It will be mailed without charge, on request.

BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries, 104 Garfield Avenue, Wyomissing, Pa.

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Keeping Flowers and Plants
Indoors

ANY people imagine that there is some method
known only to the trade, by which flowers can
be kept for days and even weeks and then sold to
the public. This belief is strengthened when flowers
fade quickly after being purchased. The florist
is always blamed. The real truth is that flowers
can be kept in good condition for two or three days
only, and there is no magic known to the trade or
to anyone outside the trade, that will ensure fresh-
ness, from a commercial standpoint, beyond this
period. Flowers that have been kept for a long
time in a florist’s ice chest will “go to pieces” at
once when brought into a warm living room; and
flowers that have been but a few hours in a
florist’s store will also speedily wither when
brought into the house and neglected.

When flowers in a greenhouse are cut they are
first placed in jars of water, after having been sorted
as to size and maturity, and then put into an ice
chest, which is the only preserving treatment
resorted to, or known of by the florist, for keeping
them. Purchasers of flowers, roses in particular,
are very fanciful; some people can see no beauty
in roses before they are well unfolded, while others
want tight buds. For immediate effect the well
developed flowers are recommended but for lasting
qualities the tight buds are the better. A rose
partially opened with a firm body and good color
can be kept looking well in a room for a week, if,
of course, the heat is not excessive. In purchasing,
where there is any doubt about the age of a rose,
it would be well to test the firmness of the flower
by pressing it, very gently but firmly, between two
fingers. If the flowers feel solid to the touch they
are fresh and can be purchased with safety. This
test becomes surer by practice, but never should one
try to give a demonstration of strength when
doing it!

Much depends on the care of flowers after they
have been brought into the house. Change the
water every day; fresh water one day and foul the
next means quickly fading blooms.

Cutting off a little of the stems is to be recom-
mended; a _ sharp
knife is much better
than scissors. Cut
the stems without
bruising them, which
would check the cir-
culation and shorten
the life of the flower.
Many people put
chemicals in the
water to increase
their lasting qual-
ities but it is no
improvement on the
cutting method and
I greatly doubt its
efficiency.

Avoid crowding
flowers in a vase.
No matter how fresh
the flowers may be
they will quickly
fade because the
crowding bruises
and crushes the
A fresh flower has a solid stems and thereby

feeling checks circulation.

TY TBE IB, (Gp vaN Tae ID) 1B) INT IME A Ce 7A IN 3

Fesprouary, 1913

I want you to try this Gladiolus

in your Garden this coming Season

It has been named ‘“Peace”’ because of its wonderful purity and beauty, and has been given first place
as the grandest of all Gladioli. It is the nearest to a pure white yet obtained, a vigorous, lusty grower, throw-
ing up magnificent spikes of flowers exquisite in their perfect form and spotless purity. I want you to try
it in your garden because you are bound to get so much pleasure from it; because it is a flower to admire
and to love; because no matter what your soil it will blossom superbly for you. It asks little; it gives much.

My Ambition is to Make the Gladiolus Recognized
Everywhere as Everyone’s Flower

It will be as soon as everyone knows it — how easily it can be grown, in rich soil or light; how richly
it repays for little attention; how superbly rich and bewildering are its color combinations; how as a cut
flower it surpasses all other flowers in keeping qualities. JI have mentioned Peace, but this is only one of
more than 25,000 varieties which I have grown. I want to tell you about the best of these, about the special
collections I have made from them, about how every year I grow more than one hundred acres of Gladiolus
bulbs, I know the pleasure of watching the flowers unfold—and I want you to know it, too.

I Have a Beautiful Little Book for You
It Will Tell You all About These Things

You will enjoy reading it. You will enjoy the illustrations in the natural colors of the flowers. It will
tell you how I have devoted the best years of my life to the growing of just this one flower, for the love of it,
and then you will understand why I am so particular about the bulbs I send out — why Cowee Gladiolus
bulbs are the finest grown, strong, vigorous, and true to name. Send today for this little book. It is free.
I want you to have it.

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Also take off as many leaves as you can, without
affecting the beauty of the flower. Leaves in the
water make it foul.

What has been said about cut flowers might also
apply to flowering plants. Magnificent plants of
azaleas and roses fade and drop their leaves as
though struck by a fiery blast a few hours after
they have been in the house. This can be avoided.
Most all plants carrying an abundance of bloom
need plenty of water; a light sprinkling does not
reach the roots and the heat of the room quickly
evaporates the little bit of water that has been put
on. With a rose or an azalea the effect of light
watering is not seen until the damage is done and
the leaves are falling off. The thing to do with a
flowering plant is to soak it — put it in a pail of
water the first day you receive it, and let it stand
in the pail until the soil is thoroughly well saturated.
If you don’t do this, it’s your fault and not the
florist’s that the plant does not do well.

After your azalea goes out of flower do not put
it in the cellar to dry up and die. Keep it growing
and in the summer put it out-of-doors. It can be
taken indoors again the following fall.

Massachusetts. Joun D. Lane.

‘‘Boosting’’ the House Plants

bene the soil around the roots of any
house plant in the spring and you will find
it to be in an exhausted condition and perhaps
filled with worms. When soil gets in this con-
dition, something must be done, or else the plant
will steadily decline and by planting-out time will
have lost all its attractiveness. Lack of attention
in the spring, after a winter indoors, is the reason
why so many house plants are not in a really
flourishing condition when brought into the house
the following season. Even though the plants are
carefully treated during the summer, if they have
not had some stimulation during the early spring
months, they will not be in first class condition the
following fall.

There are several ways of “boosting” the plants:
You can repot by putting the plant into a larger
or smaller receptacle; or you can dig off the top
loam, substitute new soil and give a direct appli-
cation of fertilizers to the roots.

Repotting is not to be recommended at this time
of the year for the reason that the plants are not in
a condition to recover from the shock that repotting
entails. The other way — putting new loam on
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First remove the soil in the pot, going down as
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putting in the new soil I drive a small pipe or tube,
depending on the size of the plant, through the
soil to within an inch of the bottom of the pot.

Potted house plants can be fed by inserting a tube
to conduct fertilizer to the roots

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Fepreary, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 33

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I then fill the pot with rich soil and pack it in hard.
You can use a stick to do this. The tube that is
in the soil is to be left flush with the rim of the pot,
and through it ncurishment can be supplied to the
lower roots of the plant while the fresh loam will
feed the upper roots.

Care must be used lest the plants suffer from
getting too much of a good thing. While, of course,
all the fertilizers on the market have their special
merits, there is nothing better for this method of

An ordinary funnel driven part way into the ball will
easily convey water when wanted

feeding than just common soapy water. Apply
it once a week through the tube and the results
will be certain with no danger of hurting the plant.
The renewed top soil will work its way down to the
lowest roots and by late spring, if the plant is turned
out of the pot, you will find a vigorous lot of roots
well embedded in soil. For very large plants a
pipe of a half inch diameter should be used, and
with such a large opening it is practical to pour
in a quantity of softened bone meal and a very
little hard wood ashes.

Massachusetts. L. J. Doocue.

Protection From Late Spring
Frosts

Fake plantings of vegetables are apt to be
nipped by late frosts unless given some pro-
tection, and if the garden is a large one it is im-
practicable to cover everything; but we have hit
upon a plan that works admirably. It is similar
to the “smudging” practised by orchardists in
some sections to protect fruit buds from frost.

Heaps of weeds, small brush, chips, and other
rubbish are distributed about the garden twenty-
five to forty feet apart. When the thermometer
and barometer indicate that there probably will
be frost, the rubbish heaps are fired about nine
o’clock at night and when well started we smother
the fire so that it will continue to burn slowly at
the centre but will not burst into flame. If the
rubbish is dry it is necessary to moisten the heaps.
The smoke, heavy with moisture, spreads over the
garden and effectually protects the vegetables
from the cold. We also used this method last
fall to protect our lima beans, and were able to
extend their season until the first hard freeze.

Ohio. Nat S. GREEN.

FreBRUARY, 1913 TH E GARDEN MAGAZINE 85

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Y GARDEN is a door-yard garden in a city
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I set out the tomato plants in the same rows (never

| mind if the plants are small), planting beside each

one a seed of the giant Russian sunflower; for,
contrary to the prevailing opinion, I have found
that tomatoes do better in the shade than in the
sun. The peas and beans as they grow will furnish
shade for the tender plants; when they have borne
their crops and are pulled up, a clear field is left for
the oncoming crop of tomatoes. Meantime the
sunflowers have dev eloped and a sturdy stalk is
shooting up rapidly beside each tomato plant.
They now need support, and with inch wide strips
of cotton or other waste cloth I tie the tomato
plants to the sunflower stalks. Soon the broad
leaves of the sunflower are furnishing shade for
the tomatoes and the crop comes on apace. I give
the plants plenty of liquid manure (one cannot give
them too much) and keep them well trimmed from
suckers.

When the green tomatoes are fine and large, I
pick them, wrap in paper, and lay them away in a
bureau drawer or dark closet where, in a few days,
they will ripen. There will be none of the black
rot or seamy fruit such as is developed when they
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Spring Planting in the South

HE proper time for sowing onion seed has now
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| the bulbs will be. Make the rows from twelve to

eighteen inches apart, and plant the onions four
to six inches apart in the row.
Spring turnips, radishes, parsnips, carrots, beets,

| and salsify may be planted now; also early corn.

Risk a few watermelons and muskmelons, as
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the tenth of the month.

Sow seed of cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce at
any time during the month. Pieces of Bermuda
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pasture for cattle and hogs.

Put sweet potatoes in the hotbed in order to
have plants for setting out during April and May.
Do not be afraid of planting too many tubers.

Sow seed of celery and set out strawberry plants
at any time from now on.

It will be safe for you to sow seed of tomato,
eggplant and pepper in the open ground toward
the end of February.

Continue to plant white potatoes. Green cotton
seed is a good manure for this crop. Also plant
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Plant tuberoses now.

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inches apart in single rows.

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drained. I put the seedlings about two inches
apart in a soil that consists of old sods, well rotted
manure and sand. I usually have two flats of
peppers and two of eggplants, with the varieties
labeled, to place in the hotbeds. I shade
them the first two days from the sunlight,
which, of course, is unnecessary if the weather is
cloudy.

In the hotbed the plants have a tendency to
grow toward the light. I turn the pepper flats
around every third day; the eggplants are not
such rapid growers. About April roth I shift
the plants to 4-inch crocks, placing an inch and a
half of well rotted manure in the bottom of each
crock; the soil used at this transplanting is a
compost of sods, manure and vegetable matter,
with a mixture of sand for drainage. The crocks
are then pressed down into the soil of the hotbed.
Great care must now be taken to give the plants a
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The plant louse, a sucking insect, is liable to
attack the plants at this stage of growth. Dip
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top and under sides of the foliage with tobacco
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light solution of liquid manure and water.

After the first of June my pepper plants are
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eggplants and peppers, leaving only two buds
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much foliage, in which case the plant has to be
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For a liquid fertilizer I use nitrate of soda, four
pounds to fifty gallons of water. This must be
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A week after the soda has been used, an applica-
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wonderfully.

New York. M. SPIEGEL.

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Whether yours is an amateur garden in the back
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Three Rose Seedlings

N MY garden is a white rambler, a Thalia, I

think. The buds are quite yellow, but the
roses open almost pure white. It is most prolific
in its production of haws. Six years ago I chose
some of the largest, and breaking them open,
planted the seed in the fall. In the spring
five or six little seedlings came up and grew
apace.

Last summer three of them bloomed, none of
them like the parent rose, and no two alike. One
of them was small and single, blooming in clusters
like the parent, but the individual flowers were
not much larger than a fifty-cent piece. They
were somewhat like the Wichuraiana but more
delicate.

Another seedling seemed to have a more bushy
habit, spread out on all sides and was covered with
blossoms. It had the appearance of a big snow-
ball. The blossoms were in clusters and very
double, much more so than the parent, but the
blossoms were small and perfectly pure white. It
seemed to have inherited the sturdy growth of the
parent, and was more rampant than either of its
sisters.

The third seedling which bloomed was my par-
ticular pride, as it was a pretty, soft pink, opening
deep pink in the centre. The buds were much
larger than those of the original and had the sepals
projecting beyond the closed petals. When opened
the blossoms were quite double and somewhat
larger than those of the original rambler. It was
a pretty color, but did not stand the sun well,
burning on the edges in the heat of the day.

The leaves of all the seedlings are quite different
from each other and quite different from the parent.

Long Island. Susan T. Homans.

Desirable Roses for Southwestern
Idaho

EVERAL of the recent roses gave us great

delight last year in our garden, especially Mrs.
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absolutely distinct in coloring from all other roses
I have known. It might be described as a bright
orange-salmon suffused with a golden glow. It
has a crisp, ‘‘jerky,”’ clear-cut appearance, stands
straight on its delicate, strong stems and blooms
freely. It seems perfectly hardy.

The Lyon, which we planted in the fall of rorr,
was the first rose to bloom in the spring of 1912;
and when we saw the length of stem, and the size
and perfection of the full bloom — soft pink shaded
shrimp, orange, yellow, and salmon — we did not
wonder that it has been described as the “perfect
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Gruss an Teplitz and Etoile de France are
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the less free blooming, blush colored Mildred
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In our climate — that of Southwestern Idaho —
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in November and well protected are ready in the
spring to keep pace with well established plants.
We try to get the best two-year old, field-grown
plants that are obtainable.

Idaho. Mrs. E. H. PLowneap.

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MAGAZINE

Frespruary, 1913

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The Flowering Tobacco

HE votaries of the “‘weed” look upon tobacco
only asa means of gratifying a desire originally
created out of curiosity. The votaries of the garden
recognize, in some of its forms, an essential element
of garden embellishment.
The word tobacco is an East Indian name for the
tube or pipe in which they smoked, and from which

The tasseled tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris), 4to 6
ft. high. has large masses of white flowers which
remain open all day

is derived the specific term, tabacum, the species
mainly grown in various parts of the world for
commercial purposes. The name Nicotiana was
given the genus by Linnzus in honor of John Nico,
French Ambassador to Portugal in the sixteenth
century. . ;

The form usually grown for ornament is Nicotiana
alata, generally catalogued as N. affinis. It is
easily raised in the greenhouse or hotbed, and if
started early will bloom from July to frost. Its
long, tubular, white flowers open only in the
evening and are extremely sweet scented.

N. sylvestris is a much more robust species with
immense, clean looking foliage. Its white tubular
flowers four to six inches long are produced in
whorls, forming a large, heavy panicle, and re-
main open all day. Both require a well drained
soil, rich in lime and potash, and full sunshine.

Illinois. W. C. Ecan.

Natural Cold Storage

N MY orchard there is a tree which bears a

large apple, of which we do not know the name.
It ripens during September, and is not considered
a good keeper, although of excellent flavor. It is
yellow on one side, and striped red on the other.
The apples which were gathered from this tree
in ro1r were used before November set in.

We did not have any severely cold weather until
after New Year’s, but from that date the ground
was continually covered with snow, and the ther-
mometer frequently registered ten degrees below
zero.

On the eleventh of February the weather was
quite mild and the snow melted fast. I walked
into the orchard, and saw under this apple tree,
a bright red cheek. It was one of the above men-
tioned apples. One side was buried deep in the
snow. I had to dig away the frozen snow in order
to get it free. The side which was out of the snow
was beginning to soften, but the buried side was
solid. I took it to the house, expecting to find the
apple frozen. I kept it for three days; then I cut
it in two, and found one half in as good con-
dition as it would have been in September, and
the flavor much richer.

Connecticut Jurie Apams POWELL.

Fepruary, 1913

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

FreBpRUARY, 1913

Lawn-Mowing is never child’s
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A Device for Determining Small
Elevations

Apee accompanying drawing illustrates a
rather simple device by means of which one
may make a fairly good contour map of a-hillside.
With it one man can determine, to a fair degree
of accuracy, the height of an ordinary hill or
the difference in elevation between two rather
close points, in terracing or laying out a hillside
garden.

The device consists of an upright strip about
three inches wide, one inch thick and possibly
nine feet high. This is graduated to feet. Ar-
ranged at right angles to this and fastened in such
a manner that it may easily slide up and down the
upright, is another rod, also graduated to feet,
and of from five to six feet long. This had best
be two inches wide and of equal thickness with the
upright so that when fastened into position it
cannot be otherwise than at right angles to the
upright.

To find the difference in elevation between two
points of the side of a hill, allow the foot of the
upright to rest on the lower point and slide the
horizontal rod so that its further end will touch
the hill. Then the reading on the upright will
give the elevation between the point, or the station,
where the foot of the upright rests and the point,
or station, where the horizontal rod touches the
hillside; and the distance between the two points
on the contour map you draw will be, in feet, equal
to the length of the horizontal rod. The width
of the upright does not here enter into our cal-
culation as only the side nearest the hill will touch
the point or station.

The horizontal rod can be brought to a perfect
level by means of an ordinary spirit level and if,
then, this rod be so arranged that it cannot be
otherwise than at right angles to the upright, the
upright must naturally be perpendicular when
the horizontal is true to the level. This is really

using the same
method that an
engineer employs
with his much
more elaborate
equipment only that
with this device we are
limited to points very
near each other.
Plotting contour lines
of five or ten feet is, of
course, rather an inaccurate
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though this device will be
found most practical to deter-
mine difference in elevation be-
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straight line up a hill. The sta-
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the horizontal rod, when the
vertical is at the second station,
may or may not touch the hill-
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rod as it did with the vertical rod on the station
just below. Thus the stations could not be lo.
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GARDEN

length of the rod not only determines the hori-
zontal distance between the stations but depends
upon the slope of the hill. It also determines the
difference in elevations between any two stations.
We are really measuring the height of the hill by
means of a right triangle where the one side is
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How to Care for Blue Hydrangeas

WE. HAVE four blue hydrangeas in tubs, which
have occasioned considerable comment from
visitors by reason of their prolific flowering and
splendid color. Our success may be due to the

care which we give the plants.

Toward the end of the summer, when the blooms
have died down and before frost has come, we cut
back the plants to within about eighteen inches
of the roots.

We then pack a heavy blanket of

This blue hydrangea has borne more than 150
blossoms at one time

straw about the stalks, tying it tightly. The tubs
are placed in the cellar of the stable, where frost
seldom if ever penetrates and where they are left
until spring.

With the first warm spring days, the tubs are set
out under a shed on the south side of the barn and
the straw packing is removed. Here they are left
without care or attention for several weeks until
the leaves are well started. The soil is then broken
up and the plants are watered regularly but not
heavily. When the shoots are well started and
covered with leaves and the buds have formed, the
tubs are placed on the lawn in the shade of the
great elm trees.

Late in July the flowers are at their height. We
have often counted more than 150 blooms on each of
the four plants, some of them measuring nearly a
foot across and all ofa deep blue color, turning into
pink toward the end of the season.

New York. Emma F. ANGELL.

Two Months of Begonia Bloom

VERY satisfactory house plant and one that
requires but very little care is Begonia semper-
florens. About Christmas time it commences to
send forth its buds; the flowers appear about the
first of February and last for two months. It will
thrive in an ordinary room temperature with but
a few hours of sunlight each day.

When potting the plant, use an ordinary rich
garden loam mixed with about one-quarter its
bulk of sand run through a fine sieve.

After blooming, let the plant rest for a few
weeks and then repot it. Tear the plant apart
when repotting, taking care to leave some of the
root with each part, and replant all in one pot.
Thereafter, it is no further care, except of course
the necessary watering. The leaves, which are
smooth, might be sponged off occasionally to im-
prove the general appearance of the plant.

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Frepruary, 1913

ou Will Love Berckmans’

Glorious New Roses

You who are fond of roses will be del ghted with the marvel-
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a robust salmon colored rose of rare fragrance. Others in
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Our roses are grown outdoors. In the bracing climate and
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Feprouary, 1913 Eh GAR DEN MAGAZINE 49

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Irrigation Will Help a Garden

Pee first year I had my garden, it was the
wonder of my neighbors! Among other
things, we had potatoes enough to last our family
offour until the following June; peas, lettuce,
beans, and sweet corn; cucumbers for daily use and
for many jars of pickles; and tomato plants that
simply would not stop bearing.

But the turning over of the soil, the putting in of
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only things we had to think about. The problem
that confronted us when our garden was started
had to do with irrigation. ...

We had just bought a new home; the soil in the
garden was a light sandy loam which gave promise
of being too dry in midsummer.

The neighbors told discouraging stories of how
their gardens dried up in summer, with the in-
evitable withering of vegetation. A few said they
prevented this by using the garden hose; others did
next to nothing in the way of irrigation, letting
nature take its course. Our next door neighbor
was a famous gardener in that part of the town; he
hoed and raked incessantly and used the hose with
unsparing hand.

My garden consisted of two plots lying side by
side, 80 x 30 ft. and 60x 30 ft. In the larger plot
were three rows of fruit trees — four in the first,
five in the second and four in the third — so placed
as to give all possible sunlight to the ground. These
trees had been well pruned, and though they bore
heavily the foliage was not so dense as to interfere
with the growing things. Between the trees, run-
ning the long way, were thrifty currant bushes.

The plots were ploughed deep in the fall and the
following spring the ground was harrowed and then
worked over with a rake until it was fine enough for
any seed. Inthe space between the first and second
rows of trees five rows of potatoes were put in, the
hills fourteen inches apart, which gave me sixty-
eight hills to the row. To make the most of what
moisture there was in the ground the potato seed
cuttings were sunk four inches deeper than usual
so that, when covered, the top of each planting was
that much below the level of the garden. All other
seed was planted deep, too.

In the next space were two rows of the California
pea bean, one of the necessities of New England
living, one row of kidney beans, one of string beans,
and a row of peas.

In the smaller plot were twenty-eight hills of |
cucumbers, two dozen tomato plants, four rows each
twenty-five feet long planted equally in beets and
onions. Two rows of sweet corn on the north side
of the plot and running the full sixty-feet length,
and a bed of lettuce, filled the rest of the space.
The tomato plants were grown from seed, and
started in the house.

My garden was the butt of the neighborhood —
at first. All who came to see it (and that was about*
everybody who lived on the street excepting the
famous gardener whose dignity lifted him above
vulgar curiosity) had a lot of fun when they saw my
“sunken garden,” as one of them called it. Low
planting was something that defied all their known
laws of procedure and therefore it received their
unqualified condemnation. They did not spare
me or my ideas of gardening, though there were a
few kindly souls who were really sorry for any one
who could do such “‘fool” things and expect favor-
able results.

It seemed to be up to me to make a success of
that garden or forever after be the subject of sar-
castic allusions hard to bear. My fate depended on
securing sufficient moisture when it was most
needed to keep things growing. Of course, the hose
could be utilized as a last resort, but such an ex-
pedient, while effective, would turn the delight of
gardening into the worst kind of drudgery.

Looking over the agricultural journals I found
one that told what to do with dry soils, but the
process involved a lot of time and labor, and I was
short on time. This publication advised the turn-
ing over of the soil to a depth that would include
several strata of earth. To accomplish this a
trench was to be dug across one end of the plot of
ground. The earth excavated was thrown to one
side; another trench was made alongside and the
earth from this was used to fill the first trench.
This operation was to be repeated until the whole
area had been worked over. As my garden con-

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afternoons.

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deep enough for this purpose when I was called
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holes free and clear. The water in these holes did
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was an exceptionally dry season at that. —Two heavy
showers came close together at about the time they
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Cosmos To Follow Sweet Peas

WE FEEL that we have very successfully solved
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to grow late cosmos and what to plant after
sweet peas.

Our sweet pea trellis is of 4-foot wire mesh
fastened to stout, well-set locust stakes eighteen
feet apart, with smaller stakes six feet apart to keep
the wire straight. The cosmos plants are started
in the coldframe and transplanted into a spare
corner of the garden to grow until the sweet peas
have lost their beauty. We plant only pink and
white cosmos — Lady Lenox and Giant White.

After the pea vines are removed, the ground on
one side of the trellis is spaded up and holes (or a
trench) dug for setting the cosmos. One season
the plants were more than five feet high at the time
of transplanting. If the ground is dry we water
the cosmos well before lifting and as the cosmos
roots are very compact, quite a ball of earth will
cling to them when the plant is lifted with a spade.
The plants are thoroughly soaked after being set
and, if the weather is dry, we sprinkle the foliage
several times during the first few days. The finely
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sun.

The main stems are fastened to the wire by
asparagus twine interlaced with the mesh, and the
smaller branches are pulled through the mesh as
desired. When well established the top is pinched
back to secure branching. The fine green soon
hides the trellis and in late September and October
there is a wonderful display of pink and white
blossoms.

We give them a top dressing of bone and wood
ashes every two weeks till the buds set, then a little
sheep manure or nitrate of soda. In front of the
cosmos we sometimes put rather dwarf, late-
flowering plants, such as chrysanthemum, scarlet
sage,{fairy lilies and sweet alyssum. The pink fairy
lilies (Zephyranthes Atamasco, var. rosea) bloom and
ripen bulbs when planted as late as August 1st, and
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Bridge Grafting for Girdled Trees
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attempt at preservation.

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quarter of an inch in diameter or less were cut from

the tops of the trees
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inches longer than the
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helped to keep it in
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to have all the buds
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The sap flows through
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trunk. The advantage of this method is that the
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FeBRUARY, 1913

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A Welcome Novelty

Pps of the fun of the home garden is the
trying-out of new plants, and each year we
make new ventures. During the winter months
there is the thrilling search through catalogues and
nursery lists to add interest to the last moments
of busy days when one is too tired for anything
else, and needs the discovery of new lands of hope
and expectation to offset the influences of a frozen
world. And where but in a plant catalogue does
hope so eternally spring? When all of the alluring
descriptions have been repeatedly gone over, and
the buying list narrowed down to reasonable and
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waiting and fulfillment. It is a “gamble,” of
course, but a relatively inexpensive one. And
when expectations are realized, as sometimes they
really are, then how great the content!

Every year sees some sad failures, plants that
we never again want in our garden; but to make
up for these disappointments, every year does add
something of worth, that having once seen we
cannot do without. Many of the best things of
our garden came in this way —as the result of
gambling with the unknown: Dropmore anchusa,
various eryngiums, limonium, double gypsophila,
especial varieties of Darwin tulips, phlox, trollius,
zinnias, cactus dahlias, iris, and many others —
the very choicest of our garden inhabitants have
been drawn in this lottery.

One of the new things of last summer to be
retained permanently is Avtemesia lactiflora. It
was planted in a bed containing Eryngiwm ame-
thystinum and pink phlox, with an edging of hardy
pinks. This combination was most successful.
The artemesia sent up a dozen erect stalks of bright
dark green foliage crowned by loose waving panicles
of small creamy-white buds, giving a graceful spray
effect, increasing in beauty for more than a month.
About the last week of August the tiny buds
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of a slightly deeper cream. By the middle of
September the sprays were brown, but new, smaller-
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the last week in October.

We liked the plant best in its budding state
through the month of August. At dusk the mass
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GARDEN MAGAZINE

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pee most widely known hardy hydrangea is
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To my mind the type — just plain Hydrangea
paniculata —is much more desirable in a garden
sense. In it, the sterile flowers, which are com-
paratively few, are scattered here and there, usually
at the margin of the panicle. The flowers are held
up above the foliage in a stately manner, resisting
storms of rain or wind.

Somewhat resembling the variety grandiflora,
but a much better all-round shrub, is the recently
found sterile form of our native H. arborescens,
the tree hydrangea. This shrub which commences
to bloom in June, continuing well into August is
known in the trade as Balls of Snow. At first the
flowers are white; ‘but-'soon turn toa pleasing
sea-green, both colors being often on the plant at
the same time. This plant will grow in partial
shade or in full sun."

Soon after the discovery’ of this plant, a sterile
form of another American species was found,
H. cinerea, var. sterilis, which closely resembles it.

H. venusta is hardy here, blooming early, in flat
The oak-leaved hydrangea, H.
quercifolia, is not hardy here.

Chicago, Illinois. W. C. EGAN.

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{

Wintered Out of Doors

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| Roses should rest. Fairfax Roses do rest. Wintered out-of-doors, they have six
| months in which to prepare for the coming season’s work. The wood, hardened by
winter weather, is ready to start vigorous new growth this spring, and the roots, refreshed
by their dormant period, are ready to feed that new growth abundantly, and develop
flowers that in perfection and number will make Fairfax Roses deserve their title —

The Aristocrats of Rosedom

I measure the worth of a Rose by its vitality—
not by its size. I select the parent plants for
vigor and free flowering habits, using only the
queens of my collection for propagating. Then I
let the young Roses take their time to develop,
knowing that while I could make them bigger, make
them grow faster, with an excess of greenhouse
heat, this forcing would sap the vitality of
the plants.

Fairfax Roses, grown in Nature’s way, are
transplanted so their good roots will become even
better, and all shoots which make an unusual growth

are cut back, since stocky, sturdy specimens —
not light and spindling bushes — are the ones that
give big blooms and plenty of them.

Nature aids in giving Fairfax Roses rugged con-
stitutions. The fertile clay loam of Fairfax
county and the long balmy growing season produce
vigorous development of both roots and branches.
Cold weather comes gradually, “ripening” the
wood slowly, and the ice and snow of a crisp winter
prove the hardiness of the plants. Fairfax Roses
— wintered out-of-doors — have constitutions
lacking in Roses made to grow the year round.

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The entire culture of Fairfax Roses is directed to one purpose — to develop hardy, thrifty plants that will endure extremes
of climate and produce great quantities of blooms out-of-doors. Fairfax Roses do this — even the one-year plants wil! bloom
abundantly for you this year, for they did bloom for me last year. é : : f

May I send you my 1013 handbook? It tells about Roses from the viewpoint of one who lives among them. It describes
428 varieties — including such novelties as Jonkheer, J. L. Mock, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Sunburst, and Radiance, that soon will be
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AND

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$1; one-year plants, 15 cents each.

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY, 1913

A Lawn Plant for the Southwest

|B REGIONS of the South where ordinary lawn
grass does not fill out the entire season with
thorough satisfaction, the problem of lawn making
is, after all, not so hopeless as it might seem. We
have at our hands a little plant which will give us
a really acceptable greensward. The fog plant
(Lippia repens) is a low growing, spreading plant
of the verbena family. Introduced into California
in 1900, its culture has spread from that state into
Arizona and New Mexico and is rapidly increasing
in popularity. It is not a grass but a plant
with small leaves that form a thick mat over the
ground.

It is perfectly hardy in all places where palms
can be grown outdoors. It does well on poor soils
and can get along on a smaller supply of water
than can. many grasses. During the hot summer
weather it thrives and makes a luxuriant, light
green covering over the ground. Thus it is superior
to blue grass at that time of the year. In the winter
it stops growing but does not entirely lose its green
color as does Bermuda grass. It can stand a great

Looks like grass! In the south and southwest
the fog plant (lippia) is a practical substitute for
the grass of the north

amount of trampling. In manner of growth it
resembles Bermuda grass very closely, spreading
by means of stems that take root at the joints.
The plant is very low growing and forms a pretty
lawn even if not cut although, of course, cutting
improves it. During the summer it has a small
white flower very much like white clover.

Planting is done in the same manner as with
Bermuda grass — small pieces of stems containing
several joints, preferably with some that have
started to root, are planted about one foot apart
each way. Plant during the summer rainy season
or as soon as growth starts in the spring, although
planting may be done at any time. The plants
should be well watered. They must have time to
make some growth in the fall in order to live
through the winter. The cuttings take root and
grow rapidly, spreading over the vacant spaces
and choking out the weeds. When properly mowed
it makes a rich, velvety lawn.

Lippia can not be grown where the winters are
at all cold but for the southern states it promises
to be much more valuable as a lawn material than
either blue grass or Bermuda.

Arizona.

Donatp F. JONES.

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SALE Stately Lawns and Beautiful Gardens of Old England
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GARDEN MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY, 1913

High Feeding and Root Pruning

T IS very important that a good strong start

is given to young fruit trees. If the trees are

set into impoverished soil, the wood gets hard and

the growth so sickly that it falls an easy victim to

the dreaded San Jose scale. With poor soil a tree

simply exists; with good soil it repays with a
bounteous harvest.

Now, you can dig fertility into a soil! In
orchards of any size trenching the ground is too
expensive but for small orchards and fruit borders
trenching should certainly be considered. Add
one layer of manure to every spade depth trenched.
The details of trenching were given in THE GARDEN
MaGazine for May, rorz, page 272. If trenching
is too expensive use a subsoil plow and plow deep.
Turn under as liberal a layer of manure as you
possibly can.

I never dig a hole for a tree less than four feet
across and three feet deep, digging some manure
under the bottom. A layer of manure is then
put on the bottom and the top soil thrown in; a
little more manure is added and then some loam
that came from the second depth of soil.

In some few cases the soil has been made too rich.
I have seen apple trees make six feet of new wood
in one season — advantageous in young trees but
it should be stopped when the fruiting time comes.
To do this, root prune. At a reasonable distance
around the tree (about three feet if the tree has
been planted for five or six years), dig a trench the
width of a spade and cut all roots encountered to
a depth of two feet. Work under the centre of the
tree from all sides to discover if there is any tap
root. Cut the tap root about two feet below grade
level. Place a small flagstone or slab of iron under
the tap root, so that the roots will shoot off sideways
and form fibre in place of another tap root. Refill
the trench and tramp the soil just as you would when

planting a tree.
New York. W. C. McC.

How to Root Slips of Plants in
the House

Reo rING slips of plants is really one of the
easiest things to do when you know how.
In nine cases out of ten, where failure is reported,
cuttings have been put in ordinary soil, often in
the pot the plant is expected to grow in when it
becomes large, the soil is saturated with water,
and the pot is put in some dark corner. The
cutting will not root; the leaves will turn yellow
and drop, and in a short time the cutting will rot
off close to the soil. The three great essentials to
success are warmth, light and moisture.

My plan is to use nothing but clean, sharp sand.
Where there are but a few cuttings to root, I use
a dish that is not very deep (a soup plate is as
good as anything) and fill it with the sand, applying
all the water it can absorb. It should be wet all
through, but there should not be enough water
given to settle in the bottom of the vessel and be-
come stagnant. You can easily tell when the
sand is in proper condition by inserting your
finger in it until you touch the bottom of the plate.
If water fills into the bottom of the hole you have
made it too wet; but if the sand seems just moist
enough to remain in any shape you put it, it is
in the proper condition. Insert your cuttings,
squeezing the sand well about them; then place the
plate in some warm, light place. If the sun shines
onit, no harm is done. Indeed, I think some of the
vigorous plants, such as geranium, abutilon, fuchsia
and heliotrope, root more readily when exposed
to the sun than when kept in the shade. It is
very important to keep the sand always moist.
If you allow it to get dry, and you will observe
that water evaporates very rapidly from sand
because of the freedom with which air circulates
through it, your cuttings will be likely to fail.
But if you keep it evenly moist, new leaves will
start in about a week. Some kinds make roots
slowly; but when four or five leaves have grown,
remove the young plants to small pots, and you
will find that they have made strong, healthy
roots. I seldom lose a cutting when started in
this way.

Pennsylvania. ELIZABETH GREGG.

FEBRUARY, 1913

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HE planning of your summer’s garden is one of the events of the

winter and to many the making out of the annual order for Hen-

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amount of efficiency. With the cultural directions and garden hints brought up to date,
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To get the best results from your garden it is necessary to get the best seeds. Every
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Foundation Planting of Barberry, Spirea, Boxwood and Yucca

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Heavy Feeding Does NOT Mean Heavy Laying

It is not so much what you feed — but how you feed

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THE PARK & POLLARD CO.
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It is composed of lean meat. bone meal and
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As the development of the tissues and
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You ought to get more butter profits.
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Large Berkshires
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We have for sale service boars, brood
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Dundee, New York

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203 Marginal Street, Chelsea, Mass.

LARGE BERKSHIRES

We offer brood sows, service

boars, and pigs of all ages.
These are sired by College
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Rosedale Farm, Tarrytown, N. Y.

Shetland Ponies

ee Eee

The ideal child’s playmate and
pet; teaches them to handle a horse;
all kind and gentle. If in need of
a stallion, mares or pony to give
health and pleasure to your boy or
girl, you can find it at

SHADY NOOK PONY FARM
Dept. H. North Ferrisburg, Vt.

How I Bred $50 to
$1600 in Two Years

I want to tell you how one man took FIFTY DOLLARS’ worth of MY
KIND OF POULTRY and in two years multiplied them to SIXTEEN
HUNDRED DOLLARS in value. He was a novice and started in a box
stall. A true and convincing story TOLD BY THE MAN HIMSELF.
You can do the same, or start smaller and grow. More experiences
of the same kind, illustrated. Ask me for the book. It is free.

RICE, 151 Howard Street, MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS

WINNING BACK OUR BIRDS

All my life I’ve loved and studied birds. I’ve been building
houses for them for years; have won hundreds of martins, blue- ¢
birds and wrens to my grounds. My friends wanted bird houses
—the birds came to them —calls for more houses came to me. So
I now build enough of my five most successful houses to offer
them for Sale.

House for the Great
Crested Fly Catcher
— Price $3.00.

The Martin House.

House for White Bellied
Swallow — Price $3.00.
The Wren House is of Solid Oak, Cypress Shin- The Bluebird House. Solid Oak, Cypress
gles, and Copper Coping. Price — $5.00. Shingles, Copper Coping. Price — $5.00.

(A Director of the Illinois Audubon Society ), 909 Association Bldg., Chicago, Ill.

Three stories
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| JOS. H. DODSON,

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There’s Money in Poultry

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Personal instruction. Expert Advice.
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Lyman Abbott

Letters to Unknown Friends

These were written by Doctor Abbott in response to hundreds of in-
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life. Net 60 cents. (Ready in March.)

Mary Austin
The Green Bough

This is an imaginative reconstruction of the events which followed
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John Bigelow
Recollections of an Active Life

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volumes, net $15. (Ready in March.) :

Grace MacGowan Cooke
The Joy Bringer

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very dramatic story. Illustrated. Net, $1.25. (Ready in March.)

Ellen Glasgow

Virginia
Why should a woman outlive her usefulness? is the vital question
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South of today in a romance of the children and grandchildren of
those who fought in the war. Frontispiece. Net $1.35. (Ready in April.)

Maurice Leblanc
The Crystal Stopper

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venture tale. Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Ready in March.)

Grace S. Richmond
Mrs. Red Pepper

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cipation in it. Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Ready in May.)

Ernest Thompson Seton
Wild Animals

in the Yellowstone

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trated. Net $1.50. (Ready in May.)

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J. C. Snaith
An Affair of State

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in March.)

Dr. Josiah Strong.
Our World: New World-Life

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cents. (Ready in May.)

Booth Tarkington
The Flirt

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some happiness on this earth. Illustrated. Net $1.25 (Ready in March.)

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
Ever After

“She had money and he had none, and that was the way the trouble
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Illustrated. Net $1.20. (Ready in May.)

Mrs. Humphry Ward
The Mating of Lydia

“The Mating of Lydia ” adds another name to such tales as ‘“‘ The
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Rose’s Daughter” —all of them delightful pictures of English life. In
this book one finds an exquisite literary workmanship. Illustrated.
Net $1.35. (Ready in March.)

C. N. and A. M. Williamson
The Port of Adventure

These two popular writers have returned to American soil in this story
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romantic mission country of California as a background. Illustrated.
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Harry Leon Wilson

Bunker Bean
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Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom

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and national life. Net $1.00. (Ready.)

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Some new friends and old

Prof. Paul Terry Cherington
Advertising as a Business Force

Professor Cherington’s connection with the School of Business Adminis-
tration of Harvard lends an unusual value to this authoritative dis-
cussion of the great modern force of advertising. It is a book which
every business man should read. Charts. Net, $2.00. (Ready.)

A. M. Chisholm

Precious Waters

Perhaps you remember ‘“‘The Boss of Wind River”? That was Mr.
Chisholm’s first book, and a live, out-door tale of the lumber country
it was. This is a romance of the West, the background of which is
the struggle of the frontiersmen to hold their water power against the
grabbing railroad. You'll like the bachelor girl who plays so big a part
in the story. Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Ready.)

Elmer E. Ferris

Pete Crowther: Salesman

This story of the adventures of Pete Crowther appeared serially in the
Outlook and attracted wide attention because Mr. Ferris has had the
cleverness to put in his pages the elusive and always interesting
genius of salesmanship in its manifold operations. Net $1.10.
(Ready in March.)

Christine Frederick
The New Housekeeping

A thousand things made easier, half your steps saved, short cuts to
difficult things—these are some of the results of this volume. It is
a sort of “scientific management” in the kitchen. Illustrated. Net
$1.00. (Ready in March.)

Roy Rolfe Gilson
The Legend of Jerry Ladd

Mr. Gilson has here given us the study of an idealist, who, failing in

this life in so far as his dreams are concerned, but sustained by love, up-

lifts others to his high vision. Net $1.00. (Ready in March.)

Ethel Gertrude Hart
The Dream Girl

“The Dream Girl” wrote the most intimate, delightful, fanciful let-
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out to find her. She wasn’t really a dream; but she was a great sur-
prise to Max and will be to the reader, too. Illustrated. Net $1.00.
(Ready in April.)

Samuel Howe
The Home-builders’ Handbook

Here is a book written by an architect of long experience in country
house designing and construction that will be of special practical value
to those who are planning a country home. Cloth, net 75 cents.
Leather, net $1.00. (Ready in March.)

Gerald Stanley Lee
Crowds

Mr. Lee has achieved an international reputation for brilliant, trench-
ant essays. His “Inspired Millionaires” laid bare some vital truths and
in this new book he has touched upon our social and economic problems
in a way to make one think. He writes vividly and vigorously. Net
$1.35. (Ready in May.)

John Macy

The Spirit of American Literature

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in fresh air to a room that has grown over-stuffy. Net $1.50.
(Ready.)

Frederick Ferdinand Moore
The Devil’s Admiral

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nobody knew. He exercised an uncanny influence at any rate and
a weird series of events followed in the wake of the Kut Sang. Illus-
trated, Net $1.25. (Ready.)

Henry R. Poore, A. N. A.
The Conception of Art

This book is addressed to the question: “‘What is Art? ” The average
reader is very hazy in his definition of it—if he has one—and most of
the works pretending to enlighten him do but lead him farther afield.
Mr. Poore writes with the knowledge of an artist and with the simple
directness of a man who has a very practical end in view. Illustrated.
Net $2.00. (Ready in May.)

Cale Young Rice
Porzia

In this volume of splendid dramatic verse Mr. Rice has reached, if not
surpassed, the high poetic level set in his other volumes. Net $1.25.
(Ready.)

Julia Ellen Rogers
The Book of Useful Plants

Miss Rogers has here given us ina most entertaining way the story
of many every-day vegetables and plants. Teachers of nature study
and agriculture will welcome such a simple and at the same time ac-
curate guide book. Illustrated. Net $1.10. (Ready in May.)

William C. Van Antwerp
The Stock Exchange from Within

This is the story of the Stock Exchange, its methods of operation, its
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changes and the various legislative attempts to regulate its operations.
Every business man should have this book. Net $1.50. (Ready.)

Anthony F. Wilding
On the Court and Off

This is a most interesting volume by the English champion on tennis in
all its aspects from training and diet to stroke. Full of interesting
anecdotes and personal experience. A special chapter is given to ten-
nis for women. Illustrated. Net $1.50. (Ready in March.)

Albert E. Wilkinson

Modern Strawberry Growing

In more than twenty-five years a complete book on this subject has
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(Ready.)

Edward Mott Woolley
Addison Broadhurst: Master Merchant

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experience which makes the author’s work at once so interesting and
so helpful: Net $1.25. (Ready in April.)

Walter E. Wright
The New Gardening

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volume the most recent developments in gardening. Illustrated.
Net $2,00 (Ready in March.)

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Marca, 1913

WINTER BUILDING—AND
OTHER MATTERS

{pee first addition to the Country Life Press
was planned during the fall, and the con-
tract let in the hope that early in the spring the
work of building could be vigorously taken up
and completed by May or June. The weather
man’s consideration has permitted practically
continuous work, and we now hope in a few
weeks to occupy this new building. It is an
extension at the south of the present structure
— designed to store three automobile trucks,
house the carpenter shop, and provide addi-
tional storage room.

The necessary accumulation of bound and
unbound stock incidental to making twelve
thousand cloth bound books each day, and
twenty-five thousand magazines, has made
this new building (about the size of our
former New York space in Sixteenth Street)
imperative.

The Long Island Railroad Company has
also added a new dot to its map. The Coun-
try Life Press is now a regular time-table stop
of nearly all trains, and a suitable station is
practically completed at the eastern edge of the
Press grounds.

MAGAZINE SERIALS

The serial features in Country Life in
America and The Garden Magazine that were
promised in the early fall numbers as now de-
veloped show Harrison Whittington deep in
adventures with “That Farm,’ and the
Neighbors doing many things at ‘‘Hillport”’
that point the way clearly to similar kinds of
effort for other neighborhood “associations.
“Inside the House That Jack Built” and
“The Fruitful Land,” the other two Country
Life in America serials, are suggestive and
helpful, we hope, in expressing some idea of
what has come to be termed the broader
country life movement.

In The Garden Magazine, ‘“‘The Garden
Doctor” and “Ten Acres Enough,” carry a
continuous interest from number to number.

Continued narratives have rarely appeared
in Country Life and The Garden Magazine, and
we are, therefore, keenly watching for signs of
interest or disapproval from our readers. We
are most eager to catch the drift of opinion.

“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.”’ — Antony and Cleopatra.

A definite expression of your attitude in a
note or postal to the editors of either magazine
will be deeply appreciated.

ABOUT SOME BEST BOOKS

Again we are tempted to talk about our
best list of spring books. Never before have
we been able to gather in one season so many
good books by so interesting a company of
authors. Yet in making these remarks con-
cerning the new books yet to come, we do not
wish to omit mention of books recently pub-
lished which suggest themselves in friendly
rivalry.

New books planned for this spring are:

Lyman Apport, “Letters to Unknown Friends”

Mary AustIn, “The Green Bough”’

JouN BicELow, “Retrospections of an Active Life”

GracE MacGowan Cooke, “The Joy Bringer”

ELLEN GLascow, “Virginia”

Maurice Lesranc, “The Crystal Stopper”

GENE STRATTON-PorTER, “Laddie”’

Ernest THOMPSON SETON, “Wild Animals of the Yel-
lowstone”

J.C. Snarta, “An Affair of State”

Dr. Jostan StroneG, “Our World: New World-Life”’

Bootu TARKINGTON, “‘The Flirt”

Mrs. Humpury WArpD, “The Mating of Lydia”

C. N. & A. M. Witriamson, “The Port of Adventure”

Recently published volumes now ready at
all book stores are:

Wooprow Witson, “The New Freedom”

Harry Leon Witson, “Bunker Bean”’

A. M. CutsHorm, ‘Precious Waters”’

FREDERICK FERDINAND Moorg, “The Devil’s Admiral”

C. N. & A. M. Wittramson, “‘The Heather Moon”

Dett H. Muncer, “The Wind Before the Dawn”’

SarAH Comstock, “The Soddy”’

GENE STRATTON-PoORTER, ‘‘The Harvester”

O. Henry, ‘ Rolling Stones”

Stewart Epwarp Wuite, “The Land of Footprints”

F. Hopkinson Suitu, “‘Charcoals of New and Old
New York”

Rupyarp Krerinc, “Songs from Books”

Ernest THomMrSON SETON, “Book of Woodcraft and
Indian-Lore”’

ARTHUR RACKHAM, Illustrated ‘“ A‘sop’s Fables”

ALFRED OLLIVANT, ‘“‘The Royal Road”

Grace S. Ricumonp, “ Brotherly House”

Harry E. Maute, “ Boy’s Book of New Inventions”

Pror. Joun H. Comstock, “‘The Spider Book”

F. BERKELEY SuitH, “The Street of the Two Friends”

Booxer T. WAsuincton, “The Man Farthest Down”

WOODROW WILSON IN THE WORLD’S WORK
The publication of “The New Freedom,”
has brought more letters to the editors than

any series of articles heretofore published
in the magazine. News-stand sales -—that

sensitive barometer of public approval —
indicate the same wide interest in the presi-
dent-elect’s philosophy of life.

THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN

This is now a twenty thousand book—a rarely
successful record for a first book. It is a
great whole souled novel which is attracting
much attention. If it sells 10,000 more copies
in the next three months, which it promises
to do, and continues to make earnest friends
at the present rate, then we shall feel it is
really established as a favorite, and the sale
is likely to be notable. After a few months
we'll begin to talk about Mrs. Munger’s next
book, as we are now mentioning

MRS. GENE STRATTON-PORTER

Mrs. Porter’s new book will be published next
August. “‘The Harvester”’ continued last year
to be the largest selling book in the country,
though in its second year, and it will be this
year among the books most in demand.

AN ADVERTISING CONTRIBUTION

There has been sweeping over the country
a crusade in behalf of better advertising. The
Associated Advertising Clubs of America are
behind the movement and there is every in-
dication that it is going to have a profound
effect on the business of the country, which
means, of course, a great effect on all the people
of the country. It is our privilege to publish
the first book issued by the Associated Adver-
tising Clubs, “Advertising as a Business
Force,” by Prof. Paul T. Cherington, of the
school of Business Administration of Harvard
University. That high priest of advertis-
ing —or is it the “little school master” —
Printers’ Ink in a four page review, says:
“‘Professor Cherington’s book is the best
and most authoritative work on the general
subject of advertising that has yet been
issued. Here at last we have a book that
represents advertising in the way its most
advanced exponents see it, that illustrates it
with instances drawn from the field of actual
occurrences. Theories and principles, in this
manner, emerge naturally from the concrete
cases adduced and stand out as verdicts;
they are not special pleading in advance
of the evidence. Nothing like this book has
been given to the advertising world before.”

Marcu, 1913

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Marcu 1913

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Box 50
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Order Your Trees and Plants Now

We will see that they arrive at proper time for planting

When you buy Rosedale trees you may be sure that they will
grow. The photo-engraving at the right shows a young tree
that had been transplanted but once. As is usual, in digging,
nearly all the roots were cut off at the proper distance. One
root was left intact to show how far away the fibrous roots
are if a tree has not been transplanted a sufficient number of
times. If you have been buying trees with roots like this and
waited two or three years for them to make new roots (and in
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Trees are often balled and burlapped. This is well; but if
there are few roots in the ball, the tree may utterly fail just
the same.

In contrast with the preceding cut notice the roots shown in one of
our small Norway Maples at the left, caliper 14 inch. One not
familiar with the effect of transplanting could scarcely realize
the fact that by this means practically all of the roots of this

tree are preserved intact. The number of these fibrous, or feeding roots is greatly multiplied every time a tree is transplanted.

This same effect is produced in all kinds of trees and shrubs.
the case of evergreens, but it is just as important in deciduous trees and shrubs.

By some, frequent transplanting is thought necessary only in
Even our cheapest trees like the Catalpa,

Ash, Poplars, and Birches are provided with plenty of good roots to insure their growth from the start. In addition to the
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A Word About Prices

Stock with such roots as we produce has double the value
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Moreover we make no extra charge for boxing and packing.
When you read the prices in our catalogue you know just
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Photograph and plan by the author SUNLIGHT FOR RosES - - - - - - - - -W.VanFleet 116
STARTING FLOWER SEEDS IN THE HousE - W.C.McCollom 80 ASTERS AND ASTER TROUBLES - - Mrs. W.B. Richardson 118
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Tue Best TEN PEAS FOR THE Home - - - Adolph Kruhm 93
: JAPANESE IrR1Is FRom SEED - - - - - - Mary B. Paret 122
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82 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE eee:

New Lilacs ae ene,
on Their Own Roots | #oh'"+yepee

Of late years there has been a multitude of . “ Rac age ™‘/~
new varieties of Lilacs grown and many of them F : Pa ie
have very great beauty, but, unfortunately, almost we i ak “ ~ NN |
all the stock offered, oth im this country, moe i :
and Europe, has been budded on privet and is p, Cane * c |
practically worthless, for lilacs grown on this are at F aN .
certain to die in a few years. Nurserymen bud "4
Lilacs ‘on privet because they can produce a
large stock quickly and inexpensively, but one
Lilac on its own roots is worth a_ score of

budded plants.

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LILAC, SOUVENIR be LOUIS SPAETH

Price, Except Where Noted, $1.50 Each, $15 per Doz.

Alba grandiflora. Very large, pure white Souvenir de la Thibaut. Rosy lilac.
trusses of flowers.

A. W. Paul. Red, black or flower whitish.
Bertha Dammann. Pure white; very large

Toussaint Ouverture. Dark crimson.
Virginite. Pure white.

panicles of flowers, fine. $2. Madame Lemoine. Superb; double; white.
Charles Joly. A superb dark reddish purple $1. :
variety; double. $2. Michael Buchner. Dwarf plant; very double;

Charles X. Large, shining leaves and great color pale lilac. $1.
trusses of reddish purple flowers. 50 cts. Madame Casimir-Perier. Creamy white;
Congo. Bright wallflower red. 75 cts. lovely double.
Dr. Lindley. Large, compact panicles of pur-
plish lilac flowers; dark red in bud; very fine.
Dame Blanche. Double; white. $1.
Emile Lemoine. Double; very large flowers, ;
of fine globular form; rosy lilac; beautiful. President Carnot. Double; lilactint, marked
Geant des Batailles. Bright, reddish lilac; 1" center with white. $1.
in large trusses. 75 cts. Rothomagensis. Violaceous lilac. 35 cts.
Jeanne d’Arc. Double, enormous spikes; pure

white flowers, large and full; buds creamy
white.

Marie Legraye. Large panicles of white flow- —
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Negro. Very dark violaceous purple.

Souvenir de Louis Spaeth. Most distinct
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: compact florets, very large; the color is deep
La Ville de Troyes. Large, purplish red purplish red.

flowers; fine. 75 cts.

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SP gedh artes ay cac eee ; and effective. $1.
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Lemoinei. Rose, turning to lilac; double. INES, CE Z

Matthieu de Bombasle. Double; carmine- Wm. Robinson. Double violaceous pink.
violet. Amethystina. Very dark reddish purple.

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VoL. XVII— No. 2

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

arden Magazine

MARCH, 1913

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is

generally taken as a standard. Allow six days’ differ-
ence for every hundred miles of latitude.]

Where to Work in March

ia the garden proper, doing the first real
outdoor work of the year. In the
hotbeds, where things should be in full
swing. Among the fruits, getting ready
for the growing season. About the grounds
fixing up after a winter of enforced idleness.

For best results, both summer and winter,
you should have a little greenhouse. Al-
most as good is a permanent, well built
hotbed.

Even a simple coldframe, or individual
protecting boxes are mighty helpful.

And if nothing else is possible, a few
flats or seed boxes in the kitchen are infi-
nitely better than nothing.

Whichever it is, get busy at it right away.

What You Can Do With Flowers

'AKE Curttines of allamanda, carna-
tions, chrysanthemum, coleus, eupa-
torlum, euphorbia, fuchsia, geranium,
heliotrope, impatiens, lantana, mahernia,
perennial myosotis, Panicum variegatum,
pelargonium, roses (for next winter) salvia,
stevia, Streptosolen Jamesonui, Vinca rosea,
var. alba and V. major.

Report Curtincs of acalypha, maranta
and double petunias now well established;
and the ferns and palms that have been in-
doors all winter and seem to need a little
encouragement.

In repotting use a pot but slightly larger
than the old one; in the case of large mature
plants, simply replace the loose soil with a
new, well enriched compost.

Sow INDOORS seeds of ageratum,
aster, tuberous begonia, calendula, cos-
mos, cyclamen, lobelia, mimosa, nico-
tiana, oxalis, pennisetum, petunia, phlox,

primula, rhodanthe, salpiglossis, salvia,
stock, sunflower, torenia, verbena, vinca,
zinnia and all other annuals that you
can think of.

Sow ourpoors, plenty of sweet peas.

Some Bulbous Duties

Si2k2 begonia, caladium, canna, gladi-
olus, and gloxinia in light, rich soil
and moderate heat.

Give plenty of water to those bulbs that
are growing and blooming.

As fast as the blossoms fade shake the
earth off the bulbs and store them where
they will keep cool and dry. Later, after a
resting period, they can be planted out-
doors, and if hardy left for spring flowers
next year.

To save time with dahlias, start the
bulbs in moist sand, moss or soil and when
planting time comes set out cuttings several
inches long.

Remove the mulch from perennial beds
and borders. Always keep a little pro-
tective material handy in case of a cli-
matic relapse.

In the Greenhouse

Gee the young and tender plants.
If few, a screen or curtain will answer;
for more extensive results whitewash the
roof.

Admit plenty of air — carefully — every
day.

Remove all dead leaves from the house
plants. Syringe them to drive away the
red spider. Fumigate with tobacco for
the green fly.

Plants that look poorly should be repotted
or plentifully supplied with liquid manure.

Starting the Vegetables

DES Cover: About March 1, beets,
cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery
lettuce.

About March to, onion, leeks, tomatoes,
melons, cucumber and squash.

About March 20, peppers,
beans.

OuTbDooRS: as soon as the ground can be
worked, peas, spinach, parsley.

Spread well rotted manure along the
asparagus row, to be worked in later.

Sprout some potatoes in an open tray in
a cool, moist place. By planting sprouts
or cuttings you gain several weeks at the
other end.

In sowing peas, remember that the
smooth varieties are the hardiest and should
be started first.

eggplant,

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§ ONE DOLLAR FIFTY CENTS A YEAR
(FIFTEEN CENTS A Copy

What You Can Do For the Fruits

RUNE the brambles; cut out old and

small canes; leave a few strong ones
— blackberry 3 to 33 feet long, raspberry
Dex NO) 3 USA

Then build a support to hold the canes
up and make cultivating, spraying and
picking much easier.

Clean up the stubs of branches broken
from the fruit trees during the winter.

Scrape the trunks of old, shaggy trees and
burn the scrapings.

Dehorn undesirable trees and top work
with improved high quality varieties. Graft
not more than a third of the tree each year.

Finish spraying with those strong, effec-
tive scalecides.

Rake most of the mulch off the straw-
berry rows. After forking in what is left
spread clean straw or marsh hay (any
coarse grass if you are inland) between the
rows.

For the Sake of the Looks

1 YOU manured your lawn last winter
rake off the coarse litter that remains.
If you didn’t, top dress the grass with bone
meal and, when growth really starts, nitrate
of soda.

Meantime seed down thin spots, fill in
depressions and level off humps, and roll
thoroughly while the ground is moist.

To make new lawns, grade, level, seed
and roll as soon as you can get on the
ground.

For all lawn work — creating or repair-
ing — buy the best, even if highest priced,
seed.

Roll the paths and driveways, too, not
forgetting to develop good crowns.

What precautions have you taken aye
the washing of these drives? Have you
gutters or curbs of brick, stone or tile?
Now is the time to lay such things.

Trim and tie up vines on wall, pergola
and summer house. Of course, ivy, euony-
mus and such clingers don’t need much
support or trimming.

But if there are dead, brown leaves on
the ivy, clean them off with a broom.

Wax for Grafting

4 Pueus is good to have around not only
for budding and grafting, but for
covering small wounds, cracks, etc. A
standard recipe is resin four parts, bees-
wax two parts, tallow one part (by weight).
Melt together, pour into cold water, then
pull with greased hands until very light
colored.

84 THE G & R DYEEN wT AGGAG Zee NeE,

Marcu, 1913

News and Comment

NOW WILL YOU SPRAY?

UE IN Burlington, Vt., the State Agri-
cultural College has been spraying pota-
toes with bordeaux mixture for twenty-one
years. Some seasons were moist and late
blight and other diseases were very pre-
valent. Other years were dry and the
plants suffered more from drought than from
disease injury. The spraying was done just
the same with these results:

The average yield per acre for the twenty-
one years, was greater where the plants
were sprayed by 104 bushels or 65 per cent!

Years when disease was rife, the increase
in the sprayed plants was from 116 to
192 bushels; from 52 to 215 per cent.!

Years when the mildness of the disease did
not apparently necessitate spraying, sprayed
plants yielded from 38 to gz bushels
per acre more than unsprayed; an increase
of from 26 to 108 per cent!

Invariably plants sprayed with bordeaux
were bigger, contained more starch and
showed a larger growth of tubers than
unsprayed plants of the same age — no
matter when they were dug!

Now will you spray!

HONORING A PLANT BREEDER

R. M. H. WALSH, of Woods Hole,

Mass., has been awarded the White
Memorial Medal of 1912 for the original
work he has done in giving new roses
to the world. The trust for the medal
is in the hands of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society which honors itself
in selecting Mr. Walsh as the recipient of
this award “for distinguished services to

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horticulture.” Strange as it may seem the
originator of Lady Gay (to name only one
of the host of wonderful climbing roses
given us by Mr. Walsh), has had but little
real recognition at the hands of his fellow
craftsmen in America, but abroad Walsh’s
hybrids have been received with acclaim.
Our floral societies fail to appreciate gener-
ally the prime importance of the home
garden, but will do much for a new introduc-
tion for forcing under glass. Mr. Walsh has
put new life into the rose garden —he has
embellished thousands of porches; yet our
own Rose Society has failed to appreciate
the fact so far as any overt recognition is
concerned, despite its slogan, “‘A rose for
every garden.”

SOME GREENHOUSE DATA

A GREENHOUSE twenty feet wide and
more than a thousand miles long
represents the total amount of space under
glass in the United States at the present
time, according to the last census. Illinois
owns the largest share in something over
fourteen million square feet; the other lead-
ing states in order are New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Massachusetts.

Figures obtained from more than one
hundred growers throughout the country
furnish data that the prospective builder
of a glasshouse may find of considerable
value and assistance.

For instance, the average cost of green-
houses that cover less than 10,000 square
feet is 55 cents for every square foot of
space covered; that of houses larger than
this is 39 cents per square foot.

About 113 tons of soft coal, costing
$26.79, delivered, is used per season for
each 1000 square feet of ground space.
And for the same unit some 280 gallons of
water are used daily during May and June.

What was accomplished in one year on an apparently uncongenial soil

However this is used unequally during the
twenty-four hours, practically all of it
within twelve hours at most.

About 92 per cent. of the growers in-
terviewed prefer the even-span house,
and some 70 per cent. stand up for home
construction rather than the purchase of
“ready-to-build structures.”

The use of steam for heating large
houses is advocated by 86 per cent. of
those growers with more than 20,000
square feet of land under glass; 70 per
cent. of those managing a smaller range
believe that hot water gives most satis-
factory results.

Seventy-eight per cent. make use of
overhead watering systems, of which 80
per cent. find them “‘unqualified successes.”’
Only two make use of sub-irrigation, but
both prefer it to any other method espe-
cially during the dull, short days of winter.

A “GARDEN MAGAZINE” GARDEN

Be once in a while, we are gratified

to hear from some subscriber who
has successfully adopted the teachings of
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE and became the
possessor of a real garden. The photo-
graph shown herewith is submitted from
one such reader as evidence of what can
be “accomplished in a year by an amateur
who must learn by making mistakes.”

“Our lot,” continues Mrs. Mary R. King
(Massachusetts), “‘is somewhat short of
200 by 75 feet, the house occupying the
front third. From the first the garden was
planned from ideas taken from THE GarR-
DEN MAGAZINE, and its success is largely
due to the practical instructions given by
the different writers.

“The land itself was of very uneven
quality, with a thin loam and a stiff and
unmovable hard pan of clay and gravel.
A swamp elm was the only tree and there-
fore very precious. It presented a difficult
problem to the gardener, however, as its
roots acted as a giant sponge, sucking up
water. The soil was exceptionally dry, but
by heavy fertilizing it proved ideal for
roses, while a dozen sun-loving plants nearly
killed themselves with blooms.

“To cover the trellises quickly orna-
mental gourds were used and also a few
tall double sunflowers. Dividing our lot
from the next, a California privet hedge
was started, with a closely set line of
dahlias in front, with a line of peonies still
further forward. The hedge will be left to
grow unclipped to serve as a windshield.

“The trellis, concealing the drying yard
on the left, had a planting of purple
clematis, reinforced by ornamental gourds,
for the first season. Salvias, August lilies
and a sowing of candytuft around the tree
gave quick results in covering and color,
but the idea is not a permanent one.
Some fifty or sixty perennials were set out
in the long borders. For fillers the old-
time annuals made a heavy display all
summer.”

We should be glad to receive other photo-
graphs of GARDEN MAGAZINE gardens.

Large Flowered Chrysanthemums for Outdoors—By G. W. Kerr, Siti.

A NEW GROUP OF EARLY FLOWERING HARDY JAPANESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS THAT MAY BE
STARTED NOW TO GIVE A WEALTH OF BLOOM OVER THE FROSTS—PLANTS ANY ONE CAN GROW

HEN “hardy chrysanthemums” are mentioned one
usually thinks of the small pompon or button varieties
which at one time might be found in practically every
old-fashioned garden; but Early Flowering Hardy
Japanese chrysanthemums referred to now are earlier blooming
and have the added beauty of the indoor Japanese varieties,
which grace the florists’ windows from October to December,
and they may be had by any one who will sow seed now, for
blooms in the fall. This type, although largely cultivated in the
British Isles, has not been much grown in America until within
the past two or three years. My earliest recollections of the
large flowered, early
varieties is Mme.
Desgranges and
its sports,
George

Wermig
and Mrs.
Burrell; and
although they
are still largely
grown it is the in-
troduction of such fine
varieties as Mme. Marie
Masse, which with its
many sports, has given
us a large ‘‘Masse” family that has popularized the type. The
earliest flowering varieties of this important type begin to bloom
toward the latter part of August and continue until heavy frosts
occur — two or three degrees of frost do not harm the plants,
although slightly marking the petals of the fully expanded flowers,
and subsequent blooms open quite fresh.

These Hardy Japanese chrysanthemums grown in masses in the
open border make a gorgeous and magnificent display, ranging

Prince actual size, grown outdoors

By disbudding you get large flowers like this Dolly

from white through varying shades of lemon, yellow and orange
to pink, rose, bronze and crimson, with all intermediate shades.
The plants range from two to three and a half feet in height,
so varieties may be selected to fit any special position. When
the’ dahlia has been blown to pieces by the rough winds or rains,
or perhaps killed outright by the frosts of early October, the
hardy chrysanthemum is as bright as ever!
As cut flowers they are very decorative and last long if plunged
into water (almost up to the flowers) for two hours, as soon as cut.
When allowed to grow naturally without disbudding one plant
may carry from two to four hundred flowers.
The early flowering chrysanthemum is easily
raised from seed, but so far only single
flowering varieties are thus offered.
Sow seeds under glass during February
or March, transplanting the seed-
lings into small pots, or three inches
apart in boxes. Keep as cool as
possible until it is safe to put
them in a cold frame to har-
den off previous to planting
out of doors in May, for in
too warm a temperature
they become thin and
spindly.
Last season on May
4th I tried a sowing
out of doors and
the plants came into
flower toward the
end of September;
but I strongly ad-
vise starting the
seed earlier indoors.
If properly hard-
ened-off plants are
procured from the
nursery, they may
safely be planted
out of doors from
the middle to the
end of May. For
mass planting, set
at least two and a half
feet apart and in soil
that has been previous-
ly well enriched with barn-
yard manure; and although
they give good results on
fairly stiff soils, much better re-
sults will be had when grown on
ground that is not quite so retentive,
say a medium sandy loam.
A bed that has done duty during the
summer may be made bright again in the fall
by refilling with chrysanthemums, if a little care
be taken in transplanting. In a sheltered position the
plants may not require much staking, but the trouble of
inserting a stout bamboo or other stake to each plant
and carefully securing the main growth is very little, and the
weight of flowers might otherwise bring the plant to the ground
during boisterous weather. During dry weather give the plants
regular and thorough soakings with water, keeping the surface of
the ground well stirred to conserve the moisture in the soil.
When the plants are in bud, occasional doses of liquid manure
will greatly improve the subsequent flowers, and the following
might be used with advantage: Nitrate of potash one part,

86 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marcu, 1913

phosphate of potash two parts, dissolved in
water at the rate of one half an ounce to
the gallon. Some spare plants might be
grown in the kitchen garden or other spare
places for the special purpose of refilling
beds that have done duty for annuals or
early summer flowers. Transplanting should
not be done until the plants are in bud.
If removed earlier fresh growth might be
induced and flowering delayed or perhaps
prevented entirely.

Before lifting, dig carefully around the
plants and give a thorough soaking of
water, a day previous to transplanting.
If possible choose a day when the sun is
not too powerful, and when there is no
drying wind. Water thoroughly after re-
moval and make the soil firm around the
plant by treading. For house, porch or
conservatory decoration the plants may be
taken up when in full flower and planted
in pots or tubs.

After flowering cut down the tops to
about two inches from the ground and
protect the crowns with ashes, leaves or
coarse litter. Do not use manure as it
holds moisture which would likely result
in rotting the crown of the plant.

The best results follow setting out young
plants each year, although the old ones
may be left for several years without divid-
ing. If you have a cool greenhouse, propa-
gation is of the simplest. Lift the plants
in the late fall, and set in boxes or plunge
in soil on the greenhouse bench. Within
a short time they will commence to throw
up suckers quite freely, and these should
be taken off when about three inches long,
the lower leaves removed and the end cut
immediately below a joint, and inserted in
boxes or pots of soil composed of two parts
sharp sand, one part leaf mould and one
part garden soil.

As a good healthy plant will continue to
produce cuttings throughout the spring
months, many dozens of fine plants may
be had from it. As soon as the cuttings
are nicely rooted they should be potted up

One spray cut from a plant in the open border.
Flowers four inches in diameter (Orange Masse)

singly into two and one half or three inch
pots, and kept in a cool place until they
may be safely transferred to coldframes
in the spring. It is a debated point
among growers of the Early Flowering
chrysanthemum whether the young plants
should be pinched back or allowed to
“break”? naturally. My preference is to
“pinch,” that is, the point of the growing
shoot is taken off, by the finger and thumb
when the plants are about six inches high.

The young plants are apt to become in-
fested with black fly, when grown too hot
but these may be held in check by the
use of tobacco powder or weak kerosene
emulsion. If the latter is used the most
effectual plan is to put the emulsion in an
open can into which each plant may be
easily dipped when grown in pots.

Where neither greenhouse nor frame
is available, stock can be increased by

This is just one plant lifted from the open border
in full flower and potted for indoors

lifting the old plants in the spring —
just after they have begun to make fresh
growth for the season— when it will be
found that they have made quite a lot
of underground suckers. Sever these from
the old plant with a sharp knife, and if
carefully planted (watered and shaded for
a day or two should the weather be dry
and hot) they will make splendid plants
for early fall bloom.

Another successful method is to lift the
plants when they have finished flowering,
(first cutting off the old wood) and set
them quite close together in a sheltered
corner of the garden, working rather rich
light soil with plenty of sand around and
over the crown of the plants to the depth
of two inches, and as soon as freezing
weather sets in — usually late December
or early January in this part — cover all
with four inches of ashes. Immediately
the weather moderates in early spring,

The single flowering Early Japanese chrysanthemum
is excellent for cutting

remove the ash covering and the new
growth will soon start. Sometime in May
— according to weather conditions — they
can be divided and replanted as described
above.

SOME GOOD VARIETIES

Any list of varieties that may be
compiled, when dealing with a large group,
as in the present case, must of necessity
be based largely on personal preferences,
but I have named below only those that
have given me satisfaction and which will
in my judgment prove quite easy to grow.
The names are arranged in color sequence.

Dolly Prince. Pure white, 2 feet, Sep-
tember. An ideal variety for disbudding.

Doris Peto. Pure white, 2 feet, Septem-
ber. When partially disbudded flowers
may be grown six inches across.

Market White. Pure white, 23 feet,
September and October. A most excellent
free flowering variety, much improved by
partial disbudding.

Queen of the Earlies. Pure white, 34
feet. A Japanese incurved variety, bloom-
ing in October. When disbudded the
flowers may be had quite 6 inches across.

Cranford White. Blush white of excellent
quality, late September flowering, 23 feet.

Mme. Desgranges. Opens pale yellow,
but finishes pure white. Two and one half
feet, September and October. Although
now an old variety, being introduced by
Boucharlat of Lyons in 1874, it cannot be
dispensed with. It is among the hardiest,
and when disbudded gives flowers ranging
from 6 to 8 inches in diameter. I have
counted between three and four hundred
flowers on a seven-months old plant.

Mrs. Burrell. Primrose yellow sport
from the preceding and similar in every
thing but color.

Horace Martin. Canary yellow, sport
from Marie Masse and having all the good
qualities of its parent.

Miss B. Miller. Yellow, 2 feet, late
September and October. This would be

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my choice if confined to one yellow variety.
When disbudded it is glorious.

Carrie. Deep yellow, 2
September.

George Wermig. Rich sulphur yellow,
sport from Mme. Desgranges.

Mrs. A. Willis. Yellow shaded red, 2
feet, September. Extremely free and very
large; beautiful in sprays.

Le Pactole. Yellow suffused bronze, 3
feet, early October. Large flower.

Mytchett Glory. Yellow suffused with
bronze, 23 to 3 feet, late September and
October. This must be ranked among the
best of the early varieties. It forms a most
symmetrical plant, with large flowers.

Louis Lemaire. Rosy bronze, shaded
yellow, 23 feet. September.

Pollie. Deep orange, 2 feet. Late Sep-
tember. One of the “must have.” By
disbudding, the flowers may be had from
5 to 6 inches in diameter; Japanese in-
curved type, with heavy broad petals.

Harrie. Beautiful bronzy orange with
broad incurving petals, 2 feet. Flowering
in September.

feet. Early

Crimson Marie Masse. Deep bronzy
crimson, 2 feet. Late August.
Lillie. Pearl pink, 2 feet. Late Sep-

tember. Very large.

Blush Beauty. Pale pink, 2 to 23 feet in
height. Flowering from early September.

Bobbie Burns. Sport from Mme Masse.
Rich salmon pink, 23 feet. Late August.

Henri Yvon. Beautiful shade of rosy
salmon, 2 feet. Late August or September.

Early Beauty. Pale rosy mauve, 2 feet.
Early September. A splendid variety for
disbudding, extremely free flowering and
certainly one of the very best.

Mme. Marie Masse. Color, lilac mauve,
2 feet. Flowering from end of August until
severe frost. This is an extremely free-
flowering variety, habit branching and ro-
bust, one of the very best early kinds for
border culture. The introduction of this
fine variety in 1894 was the beginning of
the triumph of this type. Within a

few years it sported in many gardens,
in a most remarkable manner, giving us
white, bronzy-crimson, cerise, yellow and
many intermediate colors.

Harvest Home. Reddish crimson, tipped
golden, 3 feet. September. An old but
well-tried variety and one of the very
brightest.

Goacher’s Crimson. ‘The petals are broad
and have a‘gold reverse, of Japanese in-
curved type, 25 feet. Flowers throughout
September and October. The largest and
finest early deep crimson variety.

Jimmie. - Purplish crimson, 2 feet.
Flowering from mid-September. A very
large flower.

Sunflowers as Stakes

OR several years I have been bothered
somewhat in keeping my dahlias off the
ground. Last season I tried a new scheme,
which worked. I planted a quantity of
sunflower seed in my garden; and after the
dahlia plants had appeared above the ground
I set a sunflower plant beside each dahlia.
Every few days I would trim off the leaves
from the sunflower, to which I tie the
dahlia — O. C. E., Michigan.

A typical well grown plant of the Early Flowering Japanese chrysanthemum.

when photographed, October 10th (Mrs. Burrell)

It was grown naturally in a border, without disbudding and had 400 flowers

Chart for a Perpetual Vegetable Garden—By P. P. Pierce, «it

ET us understand. This is not a plan

for a specific garden, but a chart

which is adaptable to any vege-
table garden.

The usual garden plan is deficient in that
it fails to show, with respect to any given
section of the plot, what has occupied the
ground before and what is to
come after. In other words,
rotation does not receive de-
tailed consideration. While it
is probable that few gardeners
plant the same vegetables in
the same place year after year,
scientific rotation requires
something more. It is, of
course, possible to grow good
crops of a vegetable on the
same ground for a number of
years if heavy fertilization is
practised. It is believed, how-
ever, that the fertilizer bill
may be greatly reduced or the
yield greatly increased, or
both, by practising careful ro-
tation.

A three year rotation has
been chosen as best adapted to
this latitude (Washington, D.
C.), where the comparatively
long season favors succession
cropping. Farther north a four
or five year rotation would
probably be preferable.

As far as possible plants of
the same general cultural and
manurial requirements will be
placed together, thus the leg-
umes which require a deep,
sweet soil are to be placed this
year in plot No. 1, which is
to be deeply worked and well
limed but which as a whole will
receive no manure. In light
soils a little fertilizer, strong
in potash, might profitably be
applied in the pea furrows, care
being taken to mix it with the
soil and to keep it below the
peas as otherwise the growing
sprouts might be burned.
With the rotation once estab-
lished enough potash and phos-
phorous will be carried over
from the previous crops of po-
tatoes, etc., to grow a good
crop of peas. A little manure
will be placed under each hill
of lima beans.

In planting the succession
crops on this plot a liberal
amount of compost will be
placed under each cabbage
plant, and mixed with the soil
where the drills of kale, spin-
ach and carrots are to be. A
tablespoonful of fertilizer will
also be mixed with the soil un-
derneath each hill of corn.

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I find that it is not advisable to fork the
ground deeply for succession crops, nor is
it advisable to turn under pea vines or
similar refuse as the capillarity of the soil
is thereby destroyed with fatal results
should the late season be dry. The sur-
face, however, should be thoroughly pul-

Grow companion crops whenever possible and economise space

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verized and the soil around the seeds com-
pacted. If available, water may be allowed
to run for some time in furrows where the
late crops are to be planted.

Practically all of the coarse manure to be
used will be applied to the second plot
wherein the gross feeding group of vege-
tables is to be planted. Com-
panion cropping will be prac-
tised on this plot. Squash is
to be placed in well manured
hills at intervals in one row of
corn, pumpkins in every fourth
hill of another row, and the
winter root crops between the
hills of all the rows shortly be-
fore the corn matures. Crim-
son clover will be sown be-
tween the rows when the corn
is last cultivated to be turned
under the following spring.

Such vegetables as may be
most advantageously grown in
a bed will be placed in the last
plot together with the potatoes
and tomatoes. Commercial
fertilizer is to be largely used
on this plot as the bedded root
crops are liable to become split
or forked by manure and the
potatoes scabby; furthermore,
potatoes are not especially
benefited by lime and tomatoes
and the radishes which are to
be planted between them, or
to be more accurate, between
where they are to be, are in-
jured by lime. Compost will
be applied to the bed and
manure will be placed under
each tomato plant. In the bed
drills will be made 8 inches
apart. Onion sets are to be
stuck in the alternate drills,
the remaining drills to be
planted, at the same time, to
root crops, such as _ salsify,
parsnips, etc., in the drills of
which radish seeds will bethinly
sown. The radishes mature
quickly and are removed first,
the onions next, leaving the
ground clear for slowly matur-
ing crops.

It will of course be under-
stood that the vegetables which
occupy plot No. 1 one year
will be planted on plot No. 3
the next, those on No. 2 on
No. 1, and those on No. 3 on
No. 2. It is in this way that
the plan becomes perpetually
available, requiring only such
yearly modification as experi-
ence dictates. I have worked
out this accompanying plan
after several years of personal
experience in rotation, succes-
sion and companion cropping.

| COMP IN FURROW

| SURFACE CULT.

MANURE IN SQUASH HILLS

CRIMSON CLOVER AT LAST CULTIVATION

COMPINH. FERT INH.

THOROUGH SURFACE CULT.

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Starting Flower Seeds in the House— By W.C. McCollom, '%

MAKING USE OF ORDINARY HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES TO START THE FLOWER
GARDEN INDOORS—A COMPLETE SOWING TABLE FOR THE FLOWER
GARDENER WHO WANTS TENDER PLANTS WITHOUT A GREENHOUSE

HAVE often wondered at the lack
of ingenuity that is shown by many
amateur gardeners who fail to have
gardens of character because they

“haven’t got a greenhouse.” Asa matter of
fact the greenhouse is a luxury not really a
necessity if the will is there. And why rest
content with the old stereotyped things
when a little bit of ambition will produce a
better — so much better — garden? Year
after year the lackadaisical one remarks
“What’s the use? I haven’t this or that,”
but still goes on in his half-hearted way,
takes a trip over to his neighbor’s garden
occasionally, and thinks how lucky that
man must be. Flowers, flowers, every-
where! He concludes it must be luck, when
as a matter of fact there is not a particle
of luck about it. It is simply promptness
and perseverance. These are the watch-
words in the successful garden.

A little careful study of your conditions
now will save a whole lot of worry later on.
What kind of flowers do you want? Are
you going to plant perennials along the
garden walk? Or down the path by the
garage? What kind of annuals will pro-
duce flowers all summer? What flowers do
you want for cutting? It is the one that
studies these points now and decides them
now — not next June — who will have the
good garden. The procrastinator’s garden
will just be nicely developing when frost
is due, and what little effort he
does expend will be absolutely
wasted.

Tf you have a couple of good
windows in your house, it is all
you need to start enough seed-
ings to stock a young nursery.
Mind, I do not say this is
quite so convenient as a green-
house and several coldframes.
Acoldframe isa wonderful help,
it is so simple and easy to build
that anybody can make one.
A plain square box is all that
is required, and if you cannot
afford sash to cover it, use
boards, opening them in the

middle of the day to get some lght for
the plants. But get the better appliance
if you can.

It is now time to sow some seed. Have
a pail or two of good soil from the garden
moderately dry, half a pail of sod chopped
fine, a few old tin cans or flower pots, a
little broken stone or sifted cinders for
drainage, and something for a tamp. I
use a glass tumbler.

Here’s the essence of seed sowing in a
nutshell: About one-third the depth of the
seed pan should be filled with drainage.
Then add just enough of the rough sod to
prevent your soil from running down in

Make use of a window like this and your fiower
garden will be an eight months delight

Here are all the tools necessary for a right start

Chopped sod, tumbler for tamping,. cinders for drainage, netting for sieve, etc.

Remember the holes in the bottom of the pans

the drainage. Then cover with about one
inch of fine sifted soil, pack firmly but not
hard, using the fingers; then smooth the
top and sow the seed. Always sow the
seed thinly — never overcrowd; then firm
the seed in the soil with the tamp just
pressing lightly. With a piece of wire
mosquito netting, sift a little soil on
the top — just enough to cover the seeds
nicely, say about twice their thickness.
Water with a fine hose, or lacking this lay
a piece of cloth on top and water gently
through this, but be sure it is resting right
on the soil. Then the pans can be placed
away until germination starts.

Light is not essential for the starting
of seeds, but they must have light just as
soon as they sprout. If they do not get
sufficient light then, the plantlets will
“draw up” and get weak and spindly.
So after germination starts another process
is in order. For this purpose we need
some boxes or something similar. Some
old soap boxes sawed about four inches
deep, with open spaces left in the bottom,
are ideal. Place about one inch of some
drainage material in the bottom and cover
with sod as recommended for seed sowing;
then add about two inches of soil. This
soil should have a little sifted manure
sprinkled through it, or some other ferti-
lizer; but don’t get it too strong as the
young plants are very tender at this age.
Now firm the soil with the
fingers and we are ready for
the seedlings.

The seedlings are right for
handling when they have just
developed their third leaf
which is the first character
leaf. Do not allow them to
get too large as they then get
soft and fall all over, and do
not make strong plants. Lift
the young seedlings with the
thumb and forefinger of the
left hand and with the right
make a hole with the dibble.
A lead pencil can be used for
this purpose or a stick about

Drainage in the bottom of the
seed pan

Soil on top ready to receive

the seed to cover

89

Seeds sown and tamped. Ready

Seed lightly covered and tamped.
Ready for water

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MAGAZINE

Marcu, 1913

the same size sharpened at one end. Drop
in the roots of the seedling, getting them
well down. The seed leaves should be
just above the ground. Cover up, shaking
the box slightly to smooth the surface; then
give a watering.

This may seem to some like a Herculean
task, but if you once try it you will be
convinced of its value. You will not only
prolong the season but you will have
better flowers, and your plants will resist

the dry weather. The fact is you get your
plants ready to set out when the weather
is fit; the plants get ample opportunity to
root before hot weather comes, and this
additional start gives them the strength
to ward off the attacks of insects and
diseases.

Just one last word. Plants do not grow
on deserts; neither do we find gravel beds
clothed with sweet peas or larkspur. Give
your garden a chance; don’t stay up all

night figuring how little manure you can
get for your garden. Manure is very
essential to the garden.

In the following tables I have tried to
tell the easiest way to raise from seed all
those plants that the average gardener is
most likely to want. Many of them you,
perhaps, have never yet tried. Make a
start this year into the unknown. It’s
real fun. For the meanings of the figures
given under the months see page 92.

HARDY ANNUALS (or plants that may be grown as such)

NAME Common NAME 5
Adonis Pheasant’s Eye I
Ageratum Floss Flower 4
Alyssum Sweet Alyssum 4
Amaranthus Amaranth 4
Ammobium Winged Everlasting I
Anagalis Pimpernelle I
Antirrhinum Snapdragon 4
Callistephus China Aster 4
Balsam Lady’s Slipper 4
Browallia Browallia 4
Calandrinia Rock Purslane I
Calendula Pot Marigold I
Cannabis Hemp I
Centaurea, Annual Sweet Sultan, Corn- 4

flower

Cheiranthus Wallflower
Chrysanthemum, Annual] Bridal Robe 4
Chrysanthemum New Single 4
Clarkia Clarkia 4
Coboea Cups and Saucers 4
Cleome Spider Flower I
Coreopsis, Annual Calliopsis 6
Cosmos Cosmos 4
Collinsia Collinsia I
Convolvulus Woodbine 4
Cucurbita Gourd 4
Datura Trumpet Flower I
Delphinium, Annual Larkspur I
Dianthus, Annual Chinese Pink 4
Eschscholzia California Poppy I
Euphorbia Fire Plant 4
Glaucium Horned Poppy 4
Gomphrena Globe Amaranth 4
Gaillardia, Annual Blanket Flower 4
Gypsophila, Annual Baby’s Breath 6
Helichrysum Everlasting 4
Helianthus, Annual Sunflower I
Humulus Hop Vine 4
Hunnemannia Bush Eschscholzia I
Iberis, Annual Candytuft I
Ipomcea Morning Glory 4
Kochia Burning Bush 4
Lathyrus, Annual Sweet Pea I
Linum Flax 6
Lobeha, Annual Lobelia 4
Lupinus, Annual Lupin I
Mathiola Night Scented Stock I
Mathiola Brompton Stock 4
Maurandia Maurandia 4
Mirabilis Four o’clocks 4
Nicotiana Tobacco 4
Nigella Love-in-a-Mist 4
Papaver, Annual Poppy I
Portulaca Portulaca I
Phlox, Annual Phlox I
Reseda Mignonette I
Ricinus Castor Oil Bean 4
Scabiosa The Bride 4
Sitene Catchfly I
Tagetes French Marigold 4
Viola Scotch Pansy 4
Verbena Vervain 4
Zionia Youth and Old Age I
Ornamental Grasses 4

2] mb] wo! 4 g || HEIGHT
|| cs al
2 || 2 2 3 & S ) FLOWER NiREET
i July to frost I
I July to frost I
I Io June to frost I
I Foliage and 2to3
flowers
July to frost I to2
I July to frost 5
I Bie) June to frost I to3
6 6 June to Sept. I to 2
I 10 June to frost I to.1}
I June to frost I to 2
June to frost 4
I Io June to frost I to 2
Foliage 6to8
I Io June to frost 2 to 3
7 7 April, May I
I Io July to frost 2
Aug. to frost I to 2
I Io July to frost I to 13
July to frost | 15 to 20
Tr Io July to frost 3to4
6 6 6 Io June to frost I to3
Sept. tofrost 3 to 6
I July to Sept. I
I July to frost 8 to 10
Ornamental 6 to 8
fruit
I Io July to frost 4 to 5
I to July to frost 2to3
I Io July to frost I to 2
I July to frost I
July to frost 2
i 7 July to frost 2k
I Io Aug. to frost 2
10 July to frost 1}
6 6 6 June to frost I
Io July to frost 2
I to July to frost 3to5
Aug. to Sept. 6 to 8
I July to frost 2
I to June to Aug. I
June to frost 6 to 10
Foliage plant 2to3
Io June to Aug. 4 to 6
5 July to frost I
Io July to frost $
I I To June to frost 2
I July to frost I
I Io July to frost 2
July to frost 6
I July to frost 2 to3
I July to frost 3
I Io July to frost 1}
I To July to frost 1}
I July to frost 4
I to June to frost I
I Io June to frost 4 to 2
Foliage 6
I Io 24
I July to frost 3
I July to frost I
Io July to frost 3
I 10 July to frost I
I Io June to frost 24
Io All season 1 to 6

Cotor oF
REMARKS AGNES
A good edging plant Yellow
A fine little edging plant for formal beds Violet, white
A good edger, fine odor for a cut flower hite
Don’t set out too early, can’t stand cold | Amaranth
A good everlasting flower used dried Yellow
A fine little ground « cover for rock garden Red to white
One of the best cut flowers, give rich soiland | Various
thin the shoots
One of the best flowers for cutting and effect | Various
Will grow anywhere and under any conditions | Various

A fine cut flower, and very profuse bloomer
A great favorite for rock beds, reseeds itself

Blue, violet, white
Red

A free flowering plant that flourishes almost | Orange
anywhere

Good for screens, rapid grower Insignificant

The Sweet Sultans require deep rich soil Various

Wall flowers are best when grown in the | Shades of yellow
manner indicated to brown

Very showy profuse bloomers Yellow, etc.

Large daisy-like flowers Various; not blue

Also makes fine pot plants for the house Purplish to white

Afine vine for a sunny porch, very free flower- | Violet

ing
Very showy but too much odor for cutting
The dwarf ones are fine bedders

Pale purple,white
Yellow

Needs protection from early frost Pink, white
A good edging plant Various
Some of the new var. of this vine are gorgeous Various from
viole
The children love these odd fruited vines, | Insignificant
good for screens s
Very fine flowers but a very bad odor, not | White
good for cutting 2
Don’t stand transplanting, fine for cutting } Blue, white
Old favorite for cutting Various
Very fprethy, edging plants, flowers close at | Orange
night
Very showy red flowers like a poinsettia Bright red
Handle in pots for best results. Won’t stand | Various
transplanting ;
Can be dried for winter use Red, white
Very free flowering, fine for cutting Orange, red
No garden is complete without plenty of this | White
for use with other, cut flowers
One of the best ot the straw flowers Yellow to red,
: brown
Keep well cut and feed when flowers begin | Yellow
to get small ,
Very showy climbers, one with varigated Yellowish
foliage
A grand cut flower, don’t fail to try it Yellow

Some of the new varieties are fine cut flowers
Good free flowering climbers for old fences
and trellises

White to purple
Various

The whole plant turns a vivid scarlet in fall, | Insignificant
fine for formal garden ‘
With proper care, plenty of feed and plenty | Various
of water they will last to frost y
Only used to make up a collection Light blue
Fine edging plant, .very compact and free | Blue
flowering £
Keep in Partially shaded moist place during | Blue, white

midsummer
Only used for fragrant garden effects
Old favorite for cutting
Very ornamental climbers
Fine for fall flowers, either cutting or display
Quick growing, flowers close up in day time,
fine at night

White, purple
White, purple
Rosy pink
Rose, yellow
White is best

Vcr pretty lawers half hidden with feathery | Blue
foliage
Poppies will not stand transplanting Red
Very free flowering little creepers, very showy | Various
Fine for edging or cutting Various
Soil can’t be too rich and plenty of water at | Greenish
all times
Fine foliage plants for backgrounds Insignificant
Keep the flowers cut and plants will flower hite

all summer
Good for edging

Very showy, looks like a marigold
sometimes marked with red

Seems to stand the hot sun, will flower all
summer

Fine for cutting, very free flowerers

Very free flowerers, good for garden effects
Grasses give subtropical effects in the border

Pink, rosy and
white
Yellow or orange

Various
White thro’ lilac

to purple
Various

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Marcu, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 91
HARDY PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
li ee Sy) Ee] Gl os |] 2 |S HEIGHT = COLOR OF
NAME Common Name S S 2 eae 2 Silesia FLOWER IN FEET REMARKS FLOWERS
Acanthus Bear’s Breech 2 2 5 2 2 5 o | Aug., Sept. 3 to 4 A grand perennial for cutting Dull white to
purplish
Actza Baneberry 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June, July 2to3 Rather odd but effective cut flower White, red
Achillea Milfoil 2) ‘2 5 2 2 5 | rr 9 | June, July I to 2 Cut clear to ground after flowering and a | Red or purple
second crop will come in fall
Aconitum Monkshood 2 2 5 2 2 5 | Io 9 | Aug. to frost 3 to5 Needs deep rich soil Blue
Adenophora Bellflower 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug I to 14 | A good perennial for rock beds Blue
Althea Hollyhock 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug 4 to 6 For effects unsurpassed; very stately Various
Amsonia Amsonia 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May, June I to2 A woody perennial for edging shrubberies | Blue
Anchusia Alkanet 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | June, July 2to 4 A grand cut flower, needs protection first | Blue or purple
winter or two
Anemone Windflower 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | Aug. to Oct. I to3 Protect well the first winter, a grand cut flower] White, pink
Anthemis Chamomile 2 2 is 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. I to 2 Won’t stand any shade, give full sunlight Yellow and white
Anthericum St. Bernard’s Lily 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | May, June I to2 Not NG) showy but fine for cutting and rock | White
gardens
Aquilegia Columbine 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10] 9 | June to Sept. I to3 Flowers all summer if well taken care of, | Various
rich soil and water well
Arabis Rock Cress 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May to July 4 A good thing fer the rock garden White or purple
Armeria Sea Pink 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10 9 | June to Sept. I A good free flowering edging plant, also good | Pink, lilac white
for rock work
Artemisia Old Man 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Foliage plant 13 A fine foliage plant with silvery leaves Yellowish, white
Aster Michelmas Daisy 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Sept., Oct. 4 to 5 A grand fall flower, grows in any soil Various
Astilbe Spirea Bil Bi) Bi aij) w 5 9 | Juneto Sept.| 1to6 | Useful for feathery effects in the hardy border} White
Asclepias Milkweed 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Aug. to Sept. 2to3 A ierancachOugs common flower, plant in | Pink, orange
arge clumps .
Asperula Sweet Woodruff 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May to July I A good rockery subject that stands shade well | White
Asphodelus King’s Spear 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June, July 2to4 A flower that should be better known White
Aubrietia False Wall Cress 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May, June I A fine foliage plant besides being a free | Violet or purple
flowerer. Creeping
Baptisia Wild Indigo 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10 o | June, July 2 to3 One of our wild flowers worthy of our garden | Bright yellow
Bellis English Daisy 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May to July 2 One of the best free flowering edging plants ink
Boltonia False Camomile Bi Bil Bil all B 5 9 | Aug. to Oct. 4tos Deserves petten attention, free flowering and | White
easy culture
Bocconia Plume Poppy 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | Aug., Sept. 3 to 6 A very rapid grower. Spreads freely Whitish
Callirhoé Poppy Mallow 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | May to Sept. 3 A good trailer for rock beds Various
Campanula, Perennial Bellflower 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10 | 8 | June to Sept. Ito 4 Grand oe Hower tiwedt ones are also good |} Blue, white
or rock wor!
Cassia Senna Aug. to frost I to2 Free flowering foliage plants Yellow
Catananche Cupid’s Dart 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10] o | June to Sept. 2 A good cut flower, flowers are everlasting Blue or yellow
Centaurea, Perennial Centaury 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10 8 | June, July 2to3 Fine cut flowers for hardy border
Cerastium Snow in Summer 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May, June 3 tor A border plant of weak sprawling habit White
Cephalaria Roundhead 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 4to6 A robust grower for backgrounds, etc. ellowy white,
ue
Chelone Turtle Head 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10} 9 | June, July 2to3 A grand cut flower, long spikes of beautiful | White, red
colored flowers
Chrysanthemum, Shasta, Moonpenny 2 2 5 2 2 5 | I0 9 | June to frost 1to3 Requires deep rich soil and plenty of water | White
Perennia Daisy
Coreopsis, Perennial Coreopsis 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10 |] o | June toSept. 2 to3 Keep flowers cut and will flower all summer | Yellow
Cowslip Cowslip 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Mar., Apr. I One of the earliest of all flowers
Dianthus, Perennial Sweet William 2) 2/ 5] 2] 2 5 9 | June. July 1 to 13 | Very free bloomers and easy to suit Shades of red
Dictamnus Gas plant 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June., July 2 Fine cut flowers, showy for the hardy border | Rose, white
Delphinium Perennial Larkspur 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10] 9 | June to frost 2to5 Keep feeding and will flower all summer Blue to white
Digitalis Foxglove _ 1 7 June, July 3 to4 Very showy and easily grown, reseeds itself | Purple to white
Erigeron Orange Daisy 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | June, July I Good cut flowers but not showy Orange
Eryngium Sea Holly aN Bll Bil all a 5 9 | July to Sept. 2 Very odd, not showy, but greatly admired | Blueinflorescence

2 thistle-like flowers
Eupatorium Thoroughwort 2 2 5 2 2 5 »| o | Aug., Sept. 2 to 4 | Fine cut flowers, very delicate White, pink
Frasera Columbo all all § 2] 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 3 Flowers in clusters. Good for cutting Waite, yellow

A ue. Spotte
Funkia _ p Plantain Lily Al Bil Gg 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 2 Very effective large foliage, plenty of water | White to violet
Gaillardia, Perennial Blanket Flower Al Bil gil all a 5 | 10 | 9 | JunetoSept.} 1 to2 Very highly colored flowers for cutting Orange, red
Gaura Gaura 5 2\| 2il & 2 2 5 9 | July to frost 3 to4 Fine for the shady border White, rose
Gerbera Transvaal Daisy 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10] 8 | July to Sept. 13 Very odd pointed scarlet daisies Scarlet
Galega Goat’s Rue 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June, July 3 Good flower for cutting purplish blue
and white
Gypsophila, Perennial Baby’s Breath 3/1 2|) Bil -g 2 2 5 9 | June, July 2 For mixing in bouquets White
Helenium Sneezewort 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Aug. to Oct. 3 to6 Similar to the helianthus, good for cutting eelew, red,
rown
Heliopsis } Orange Flower 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 4 Daisy-like; very profuse bloomers Yellow
Helianthus, Perennial Perennial Sunflower 2 2 2) sil 2) 2 5 9 | Aug. to Oct. 3 to 6 A grand family of flowers for fall cutting Yellow
Hesperis Sweet Rocket 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 | 10] 9 | June, July 2to4 Very showy for the hardy border Purple, white
Heuchera Alum Root 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. For cutting or hardy border Red
Hibiscus Marsh Mallow 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 2 to4 Pikes moisture, plant in low spots and keep | Pink, white
well watere
Iberis, Perennial Hardy Candytuft A\ all Sil all 2 5 | 10] 9] May, June I A grand plant for the rock garden White
Incarvillea Hardy Gloxinia 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | June, July 2 A rather ney plant, well worthy of a place | Rosy purple
in any garden
Toula Thula 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June, July 2 A\ seed cut flower, not very often seen in | Yellow, orange
; sf , gardens
Lathyrus, Perennial Everlasting Pea Z| All gil Bll a 5 | 10] 9 | May, June 4to6 | Keep flowers picked and they will last well | Various
Liatris Blazing Star al] Bl) & 2 2 5 8 | July to Sept. 3 to4 Very fine flowers, with long showy spikes Rose, red, purple
Lavandula Lavender 2 2 || B 2 2 5 9 | June, July 2 to3 Wes Sueet scented subjects for the hardy | Blue, violet
order
Lobelia, Perennial Cardinal Flower 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Aug., Sept. 2 Good for hardy border or cutting; shade | Deep scarlet
4 or open
Lunaria . Honesty | 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 June 2 Ornamental seed pods, flowers insignificant Purple
Lupinus, Perennial Hardy Lupin 2 2 5 24| 2 5 o | June to Aug. 2to4 Fine sweet scented cut flowers Ble, white, yel-
OW
Lychnis _ Campion 2 2 & 2 2 5 9 | May to Aug. 6 to 3 Very free flowerers, good for any purpose Various
Lysimachia Creeping Jenny 2 2 5 2 2 5 g | June to Aug. $ A quick growing ground cover for rock gardens] Yellow
Lythrum Loosestrife 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July to Sept. 3 Good for the hardy border Os purple,
white
Malva — Musk Mallow 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | July to Sept. 6 Good tall robust growers for backgrounds, etc.| Rose, white
Myosotis Forget-me-not 7 7 10 All summer, I Bedding favorites, delicate odor, good for | Blue
except July carpeting
" A and Aug.
nothera Evening Primrose 2 2 5 2 2 5 | Io 8 | June to Aug. Ito3 Fine cut flowers, every garden should have | Yellow, white,
rose
Pentstemon Beard Tongue All Bil sll ail 2 5 | 10 | 9 | May to Aug. 3 Very free flowering for the hardy border Various
Phlox, Perennial Phlox al Bil gil all a 5 | 1r | 9 | June to Sept. 3 One of the best perennials for cutting or show | Various
Physostegia False Dragon Head 2i Ail gi) ell 2 5 | 10] 9] June, July 3 Very fine cut flowers and hardy border plants Burp, rose,

é white
Polemonium ‘ Jacob’s Ladder 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | All summer I Very profuse bloomers but dwarf Blue, white
Papaver, Perennial Poppy Dll All Bil Bll B 5 8 | June, July 2 Very showy but not very good for cutting, | Various
Pyrethrum Golden Feather All all Bil Bll 2 5 | 10] 9 | June, July I Yellow foliage, fine for edging hardy borders | Yellow
Rudbeckia Corntlower 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | Aug. to Oct. 6 Fine for cutting or back-grounds Yellow
Saponaria Soapwort 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. I Not very showy but good for edging Pink
Saxifraga Megasea 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | May, June r Old time favorites for the hardy border W. Hite elo

F \ purple
Senecio Jacobea 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 4 Also annual kinds good for cut bloom Purple

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ry
92 T H EG A ROD) EON Ay Glee Mancn, 1913
Harpy PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS — Continued
|
; 3 i Ae Nh eS Eth ca dP Sil eS ies | HEIGHT CoLor oF
NAME Common NAME 3 & Sine ie) s & 8 2 A FLOWER Tay) IDeoyane REMARKS TOES
Statice Sea Lavender 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June to Sept. 1} Good for cutting or border work Blue, white, red,
; . yellow
Stokesia Hardy Cornflower 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 | Io 9 | Juy to Oct 2 Fine blue cut flowers s milar to asters Blue
Thalictrum Meadow Rue 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June, July 4 Fine foliage plants and very pretty flowers | Greenish, white,
: purple, yellow
Trollius Globe Flower 2 2 5 2 5 9 | June, July 2 Good for border, not much use for cutting Yellowish, pur-
: plish
Valeriana Spurred Flower 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | June, July 2 Good cut flowers White, pink, rose
Veronica Iron Weed 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 9 | July, Aug. 2 Good for borders or rock gardens lue
Verbascum Mullein 2 2 5 2 2 9 | July, Aug. 6 Some of the cultivated mullein are fine lowers | Yellow
TENDER ANNUALS
|
: H HEIcHT CoLoR OF
NAME Common NAME S FLOWER ae ISG REMARKS GTS
Abronia Sand Verbena July to frost 3 A very free flowering trailer, like a verbena | Pink, rose, yellow
Arctotis African Daisy 4 July to frost I Mies flowerer but must have warm sunny | Whitish rays
location
Begonia, fibrous Begonia 4 July to frost I One of the best bedding plants Red, pink, white
Brachycome Swan River Daisy 4 July to frost I A good trailer for hanging baskets Blue, white
Campanula Bellflower May & June 3to4 ae plant though hardy, is best treated in | Blue, white, pink
this manner
Cardiospermum Balloon Vine 4 July to frost 8toto | A es iptereeUine vine with balloon-shaped | Creamy white
seed pods
Celosia Cockscomb & Plumed 4 July to frost 4 to3 The plumed sorts are fine for cutting Crimson, yellow
Dolichos Hyacinth Bean 4 July to frost 8 to1o | A very fine flowering vine Purple, white
Godetia Godetia 4 July to Sept. 185 A great favorite in England, does well in } Yellow, white,

’ heavy soils pink
Heliotrope Heliotrope 4 4 July to frost 2 Very sweet scented old garden favorites Pale violet
Helipterum Everlasting I July to frost I to 2 Small flowered everlasting, good for cutting | Silver and rose
Impatiens Touch-me-not 4 4 July to frost It Give then the hottest, sunniest position in | Pink, white

the garden
Mesembyranthemum Ice Plant 4 4 Foliage 4 Odd foliage plants for the rock garden White
Petunia Petunias 4 4 July to frost I Free flowering favorites give, good sunny lo- | Purple to white
cation.
Physalis Chinese Lantern Plant 4 4 Aug., Sept. 2 Ornamental seed pods in cardinal red capsule | Insignificant
Rhodanthe Straw Flower 4 4 All summer I A very pretty flower for growing in pots Rose
Salpiglossis Tube Tongue 4 4 July to frost 25 A grand cut flower, far too little known Variously mot-
tled
Salvia Bonfire Plant 4 July to frost 3 Very popular when red flowers are desired | Scarlet
Schizanthus Butterfly Flower 4 July to frost 2 Fine for pots or cutting, resembles an orchid | Rose, yellow and
white
Thunbergia Thunbergia 4 July to frost 5 A trailer , fine for hanging baskets, etc., very | Blue to white
free flowering
Torenia Torenia 4 July to frost I Good for hanging baskets; very tender Violet
Tropezolum Canary Bird Vine 4 Julyto frost 6 Very showy yellow vine, good for verandahs | Yellow
and baskets
TENDER PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
Sls) Sle sls) va || 8 |) |] HEIGHT CoLor oF
NAME Common NAME Ss si S ) || ae a 2 & £ a FLOWER aap ar REMARKS PRES
Begonia, tuberous Begonia 4 4 July to frost I A fine pot plant for house or semi-shade out- | Red, yellow,
doors white
Calceolaria Slipper Flower 7 7 June to July 2 A great favorite in England and can be | Yellow
grown here ;
Dianthus Carnation 4 4 Io July to frost 2 Although a perennial this plant gives best | Crimson; red to
returns treated as an annual white
Celsia Celsia 4 Aug. & Sept. 3to6 Best treated as an annual and sown very early | Yellow
Dahlia Dahlia 4 4 I I Io Aug. to frost 3to5 Feed freely when buds appear. Succeed as } Various
annuals
Gentiana Gentian 7 7 April, May a Considered gems but rather hard to raise well | Blue
Viola Pansy 3 I 7 7 be} All cool 4 Pansies don’t like heat, keep them away from } Various
months hot sun ~ ea :
Rehmannia Rehmannia 3 2 2 5 8 | All summer I Best treated as a tender annual or biennial Light rose purple
Romneya California Tree Poppy 3 2 2 5 2 2 5 | Io 8 | June, July 3 A eG but needs plenty of protection | White, yellow
in fa centre
Tritoma Red Hot Poker 2 2 5 2 2 5 8 | All summer 3 Very odd. Likes moisture; must lift roots | Red shaded, or
in fall yellow

REFERENCES TO THE TIMES AND WAYS OF GROWING SHOWN UNDER THE MONTHS COLUMNS IN THE ABOVE TABLES

1. Sow thinly out of doors as soon as ground can be worked, thin out when large enough.
2. Sow in boxes or in prepared beds out of doors, transplant to beds when large enough.
3. Sow indoors in flats or pans, transplant when large enough into boxes or frame and plant out May rst in permanent quarters, will flower
Blooms first season from seed.

several seasons.

4. Sow indoors in plates or pans, transplant when large enough into boxes or frame and set out when weather is suitable.

border had better not be set out until late in May.
Plant to permanent quarters.
Sow in small batches for successive flowering.

Protect with litter over winter, using extra care to avoid moisture, as roots will rot.
Protect with manure or leaves over winter.

S
6
7. Sow in beds or boxes, transplant to cold frame to be protected over winter and planted out the following spring.
8
9

Keep flowers cut clean and plants will go on flowering.
As soon as plants are through flowering cut to the ground and a second crop will result.
Sow in 8 inch pots, keep cool and set out about April 2oth, don’t let them get pot bound; sow 3 seeds in 4 inch pot and then add one when up.

Those marked for

For small
gardens

Isl AN ily “Gl

you want?

—A sweet
table pea on a tall
vine late in the
season, or a pea of
only fair quality
on a dwarf vine
early in the sea-
son? You can
have plenty of
peas within fifty
days of sowing
the seeds if you
are willing to
forfeit quality.

Originally there
were only two
types — the smooth-seeded
dwarf and the smooth-seeded
tall pea. Later on, came
very much sweeter, wrinkle-
seeded types. The sorts are
invanijably dwarfs, though
some tall midseason varieties mature pods
two weeks ahead of some dwarf late sorts.

Let us consider, for a moment the
adaptabilities of these five types. There
is a place for the smooth-seeded dwarf sorts
because they furnish the earliest young peas
of the season. But the smooth-seeded
tall sorts of the Marrowfat type really do
not deserve a place in the home garden.
Their season of maturity coincides with that
of some of our finest late wrinkled peas, and
while the Marrowfats are without doubt in
a class of their own when it comes to pro-
ductiveness and long season, total absence
of “quality” makes their use inadvisable.

The wrinkled type, in turn, is subdivided
into early, midseason and late kinds, with
vines of various heights and peas or grains
of different sizes and qualities. As succes-
sive sowings of early sorts for a crop suc-
cession are only recommended in the cool
northern sections of the country, a thorough
study of the season of bearing of the dif-
ferent sorts is essential. The small crops
secured from early sorts sown for a succes-
sion later in the season are bound to be dis-
appointing to the planter who harvested
handsome pickings on vines of the same sort
early in the season.

Three factors deserve the planter’s care-
ful consideration when planning for peas:
(x) the space that can reasonably be de-
voted to them; (2) the soil; (3) the climate.
It does not pay to attempt the growing of
peas in the latitude of centfal Ohio during

By Adolph Kruhm, Ohio

FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS AND ENJOY PEAS OF THE
HIGHEST QUALITY IN PROPER SUCCESSION AND OVER
LONGEST SEASON—AN ACTUAL PROVEN SELECTION FOR
THE PLACE WHERE QUALITY RANKS ABOVE ALL ELSE

[Eprtors’ NotE.— This series of articles which Mr. Kruhm began a year ago dealing
with the actual values of high quality vegetables for the home garden, will be continued during the
coming season; and as nearly as possible each one will have a timely significance, so that the
lesson may be applied at once and the benefits had in this year’s garden.]

July and August. But sowings of early
kinds made at the end of July yield peas
of excellent quality during the cool fall
months, though the yields will not equal
those of the same varieties in the spring.

Soil may make quite a difference in the
quality of the variety. On sandy and muck
soils, many sorts will develop handsome,
well-filled pods from four days to a week
sooner than on clayey and loamy soils.
But the peas will be tasteless compared
with those of the same variety grown on
heavy clay soil. The same variety will
often undergo such radical changes on
different soils that even experienced growers
find it difficult to make positive statements
as to its identity.

As a rule, peas thrive to perfection on
cool, well enriched clay soil. But while
this is the ideal for quality in the peas
themselves when cooked, the pods of some
sorts will not be so handsome nor as well-
filled as when the vines grow on rich muck
or sandy loam.

The space at one’s disposal will often
be a determining factor in the final choice
of varieties. The introduction of many
dwarf-growing, prolific, early as well as
late sorts should make the growing of peas
quite attractive to owners of even the
smallest gardens. True, the returns per
square foot of garden area from peas cannot
be compared with the yield of beans, toma-
toessmlettuce, ete. etc) eBut) asa, “short
season’ crop, peas mature in time to afford
room for celery, turnips, late corn, spinach
and other “‘fall” vegetables. Moreover, it is
excellent practice to utilize space between
the rows of peas for growing lettuce,
endive and other plants of compact growth.
The only way to have rich, sweet,
sugary peas that will “melt in your
mouth,” is to grow them yourself, pick
them when just right and cook them shortly
after picking.

Results shown here in word and pictures
are within the reach of all. The season of
1912 in which the pods shown in the accom-
panying photographs were grown, was one
of the most unfavorable recorded in many
years. Throughout the season during which
pods developed, only two good “soaking”
rains, two weeks apart, came to the rescue
of the trial. ‘The soil consisted of poor, stiff
clay soil, such as is usually “filled in” on
suburban lots. Its only favorable point in
connection with pea-growing is that it re-
tains the moisture well and the limited suc-
cess attained in this case has to be credited

93

The Best Ten Peas for the Home ry %

to constant
cultivation.
A dust mulch
was main-
tained be-
tween the
rows which
also sheltered
head-lettuce.
Keeping the
lettuce free
from weeds
gave addi-
tional culti-
vation to the
pea vines
which re-
sponded by
bearing fair
quantities of
well-filled
pods.

Dependa-
ble informa-
tion about Te
peas is ex- Potlach
ceedingly The best dwar
scarce. De-
scriptions in catalogues are
primarily intended to “sell
peas.” All state that ev-
ery variety is sweet, while
logically, some must be
sweeter than others. Few catalogues give
facts about the season of maturity and
length of bearing season of the different
varieties. But exact knowledge with refer-
ence to this is invaluable to the man whose
space is limited and who likes to plan the
correct utilization of every square foot of
ground throughout the season.

The all important question: — where
does this or that sort “belong” by reason of
its character of growth and season of
maturity is answered in few seed catalogues
and then in only an incomplete fashion.
To come to a clear understanding of the
situation the advice of this country’s fore-
most pea-expert, Mr. C. N. Keeney of
New York State, was sought. In replying
to the inquiry, Mr. Keeney in rather humor-
ous fashion replied that he could not make
any statements with reference to the Ten
Best American Peas, because there could
only be one best — Thomas Laxton. Bvt
he gladly aided in the choice of the “Best
Ten” which are recorded here as the finest
representatives of this vegetable to date.

In studying the table submitted with this

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94 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marcu, 1913

article, allowances
must be made for
local conditions gov-
erning soil, climate
and weather. For
instance, Pedigree
Extra Earlies sown two weeks later on muck
soil grew nearly as large as Sutton’s Excel-
sior, with five to eight peas per pod. Sutton’s
Excelsior planted on sandy soil at the same
time as the clay soil trials, furnished neither
the well-filled pods nor as many of them.
Thos. Laxton did not come up to the Little
Marvel in productiveness and it certainly
could not beat it in quality. But a good
strain of all those mentioned will do as well
as any and better than do many of the
multitude of kinds offered by our seedsmen.
Test all of them, find out which do best on
your soil, and how the successive crops turn
out. Study all conditions, make notes and
in a few years you should have the grow-
ing of peas reduced to a science.

Pedigree Extra
Early is the only
smooth-seeded
pea recommen-
ded in this col-
lection of ‘“‘ten
ideal”? American
peas. It is a
wonderful sort
in many respects, truly “pedigreed”
and will always do as expected. Un-
less conditions are exceptionally ab-
normal, Pedigree Extra Early will produce
a crop in fifty days from date of planting.
The crop will be ready all at once — often
a great advantage, since one picking will
clear the vines which may then be “dug
under” and the space be utilized for a
second crop. Sown rather thickly in a
broad furrow, this sort will prove very
productive. On an average, I counted five
light green pods to a plant and each pod
averaged six peas of only fair quality.
But the ‘first peas of the season” are
always sweet and Pedigree Extra Early is
of ‘delightful’ flavor until you taste
Gradus, five to six days later — then the
birds can have the rest of Pedigree.

Gradus, while only five to six days later
than the preceding variety offers an un-
rivaled combination of quality and size in
a pea of great earliness. Notice, however,
that quantity is absent — Gradus by nature
is a shy yielder, and those, who study cata-
logues thoroughly, may have noticed
that this reflects on the price of the seed.
Nevertheless, Gradus maintains its place
as the earliest, largest podded, wrinkle-
seeded pea of fine quality. On vines
only slightly taller than those of Pedigree
Extra Early, Gradus bears handsome, dark
green pods three to four inches long. They
contain on an average five large, elongated

Boston Unrivalled
Useful for succession

For first late

Alderman
For midseason

dark green peas which are literally “as
sweet as sugar.” The bearing season of
Gradus is just at its height when Pedigree
Extra Early is exhausted, so that there need
be absolutely no gap in the supply of early
green peas in a well managed home garden.

Little Marvel is one of the latest pets of
Mr. C. N. Keeney, who has more really
valuable sorts of peas to his credit than any
other breeder in America. A marvel in
earliness and productiveness, with vines
even dwarfer than those of Pedigree Extra
Early, Little Marvel presents the “comme il
faut” in peas — as a French friend of mine
expresses it. Think of a dandy, dwarf but
robust vine, not more than eighteen inches
tall, bearing five to eight good-sized

pods, frequently in pairs! These pods are
filled with seven to eight medium sized,
dark green round peas of superb quality.
So tightly are these peas ‘“‘squeezed”’ in the
pods that frequently the end of a pod is

forced open. No other pea that has come
under my observation in the last ten years
has created as much just enthusiasm.
Sutton’s Excelsior is, in my estimation, a
sadly underrated variety. Personally, I
consider it at least equal to Gradus in
quality and surely superior in productive-
ness. While pods of Sutton’s Excelsior are

larger than those of Little Marvel, they will"

not “shell out” as much, but the peas will
certainly taste like more. Four to five
light green pods per plant and six to eight
light, creamy peas per pod constitute the
average. Where gardeners can afford to

a
= aS asi =

Buttercup

wait, it will pay them to give Sutton’s
Excelsior a thorough try-out alongside of
Gradus. While it comes into market about
four days later, it bears longer and there
are more and better filled pods per row
of equal length. Sutton’s Excelsior
beats Little Marvel in looks, but
that’s all.

Thomas Laxton should be called ‘Tall
Marvel.” With pods not unlike those
of Little Marvel, Thomas Laxton de-
velops a prolificacy that is astonishing.
It may be termed “the most thoroughbred
early pea.” It is the tallest of the early
sorts, bears six to eight pods per plant and
the pods average six dark green peas of
superfine quality. In cooking tests made
with a score of sorts a few years ago, four
peas scored distinctly higher points than all
the rest and Thomas Laxton was the only
early pea among the four. However, it now
has a rival in Little Marvel—try them both,
there is room for both in every garden.

Alderman is my choice of the midseason
sort that “saves the day” when the early
kinds begin to give out. It is distinctly
different in habit of growth from all the
sorts described so far, becoming five to
six feet tall on fair soil in favorable seasons.
It should always be supported with
brush or trellises constructed of
stakes and twine. Be not reluctant
to render Alderman this assistance
for it will amply
repay you with

magnificent,

large pods

which are

borne singly,
six to eight. per
plant. Usually,
the pods contain seven large, elongated, dark
green peas fully up to the standard in qual-
ity established by the earlier dwarf sorts.

Boston Unrivalled, with vines fully as tall
as those of Alderman, has a bearing season
that leads us right on to the choice late
sorts described next. While it does not
yield quite as many pods as Alderman and
the pods are not as well filled, the peas are
of darker green color and perhaps a little
sweeter. Its season of bearing makes
Boston Unrivalled indispensable to the gar-
dener who desires an uninterrupted succes-
sion while the handsome pods and delicious
peas always secure a pleasant memory.

Buttercup — When Alderman and Boston
Unrivalled are at their best, contributing
peas fit for a gourmet, along comes Butter-
cup to lengthen the season of bearing and
increase the
quantity of de-
licious peas
‘available by the
end of June.
Buttercup is a
beautiful, light
green pea with

Marcu, 1918

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 95

handsomely curved pods, frequently borne
in pairs. While British Wonder, described
next, yields considerably more pods per
vine, those of Buttercup yield as many
shelled deliciously sweet, creamy-white
peas per row as British Wonder; but it has
a shorter season of bearing. On an average
vines bear six to seven pods containing
seven to eight large peas each.

British Wonder is distinct in possessing
very thrifty, bluish-green vines, which are
marvels in productiveness. It is nothing
unusual to find ten or more pods per vine,
in pairs, not unlike those of little Marvel
among the early sorts. While pods of
British Wonder are decidedly smaller than

those of the two splendid midseason vari-
eties, it is invaluable to the man whose
space is limited, because its vines do not
exceed two feet in height. Pods are of
dark green color and attractive shape, but
often poorly filled with but five to six peas.
However the quality is excellent and
British Wonder is necessary to fill the need
of supply between the midseason sorts and
the finest late sort described next.
Potlach—Decidedly the best of all dwarf,
extremely late peas. Thrifty healthy,
bluish green vines bear loads of handsome
dark green pods. As attractive and pro-
lific a late sort as can be desired. Potlach
is bound to take the place of Improved

Stratagem, over which it is a decided im-
provement. Vines bear on an average
eight pods, frequently in pairs, pods contain
on an average seven fine, plump, delicious
peas, which make you wish that all peas
were a Potlach. As a continuous and pro-
lific bearer of finest quality peas from July
first to fifteenth, Potlach can hardly be sur-
passed.

If I had the choice of but three varieties
of peas, I would say let it be Little Marvel,
Alderman and Potlach, of early, midseason
and late maturity, respectively. But there
would be gaps between times, which even
repeated sowings of these sorts would not
fill in an altogether satisfactory manner.

LUSCIOUS PEAS FOR SIX WEEKS FROM ONE SOWING

Variety Date sown

24 in.
28 in.
18 in.
20 in.
36 in.
52 it.

5 ft.
24 in.
24 in.
28 in.

Pedigree Extra Early
Gradusteee ce. 4h:
Little Marvel ;
Sutton’s Excelsior. . All
Thomas Laxton sowings
Alderman i made
Boston Unrivalled April 14
Buttercup. .
British Wonder
Potlach :

Pedigree Extra Early Gradus (Early)

Useful for its earliness High quality; small crop

Height of Vine™

Pods fully
developed

Flowers

First good
appeared i

picking

June 7
June 12
June 15
June 16
June 16
June 27
June 29
June 29
June 30
July 2

June 3
June 9
June 11
June 12
June 12 -
June 20
June 22
June 26
June 25
June 30

May 14
May 18
May 23
May 21
May 22
June
June
June
June

June July

Little Marvel
High quality; big cropper

Length of bearing season

June 7—June 12
June 12—-June 16
June r5—June 24
June 16—June 24
June 16-June 22
June 27-July
June 29-July
June 29-July
June 30-July
2-July

Sutton’s Excelsior
High quality; medium early Medium early; big cropper

Total yield of
pods for every
to ft. of row

Character of the pods

Pods small, borne singly.
Large pods, borne singly.
Medium pods, in pairs.
Large pods, borne singly.
Medium pods, in pairs.
Large pods, borne singly.
Smaller than Alderman.
Large pods, in pairs.
Small pods, borne in pairs
Large pods, borne in pairs

4 qts.
4 qts.
5 qts.
5 qts.
6 qts.
8 qts.
6 qts.
7 qts.
6 qts.
8 qts.

Thomas Laxton

A Beginner’s Vegetable Planting Table for Measured Results

y VHE vegetable garden is a real suc-

cess only when it is an economy.

The beginner is usually “all at sea”

in deciding how much space he
ought to give any crop —an effort is made
to help him. At the same time this table
like all others of like nature will be most
useful as a framework, the details being
varied to suit local conditions and personal
preferences. The following explanation of
the table seems necessary.

MANAGEMENT — The letters used in this
column have the following significance:

P — Perennial — remaining from one
season to the next for three or more years.

A — All season — occupying the ground
so long as to prevent the raising of a pre-
ceding or succession crop.

S — Succession — sowings-~ should be
made every ten to fifteen days.

T — Transplant — these must be moved
at least once.

I — Indoors — these may be started in
a greenhouse or hotbed to save time.

H — Heat — these must be started under
glass in order to mature in season.

DistTaNcE BETWEEN PLANTS — This re-
fers to the space required by the mature
plants —the distances resulting after

thinning. In the case of tomatoes, cabbage,
peppers, etc., the extra seedlings may be
transplanted to other rows. A three foot
row of tomato seedlings will supply abun-
dant strong plants for a very large family.

DrEptH TO PLANT — Use common sense.
When the soil is very light, the supply of
moisture limited, or the season unusually
severe, plant a little deeper than the
average. Also when planting outdoors
cover the seed a little deeper than when it is
under glass. Small seeds of lettuce, celery,
etc., sown in pots or flats should be barely
covered with fine sand or pulverized
muck.

WHat AND How Mucu to PLant —
Plants of those vegetables that must be
started in March or earlier may be bought
in May and June ready to set out, but this
is the most expensive way to get them.
A ten cent packet of tomato or eggplant
seed started in a flat in a sunny window,
will give you five or six dozen plants that
later would cost between three and four
dollars. In general be more lavish with
seeds for outdoor planting, especially of
vegetables that are not to be transplanted.

GROWING SEASONS — These vary. with
weather and soil conditions, the date of

planting, the variety and many other
factors. Learn from the U. S. Weather
Bureau at Washington or your State Ex-
periment Station the average period be-
tween killing frosts in your locality. Then
compare this with the figures in the table
to ascertain which sorts may be planted to
succeed one another on the same space.
THE YIELDING SEASON — The length of
the harvest season of a row of beets depends
entirely upon the size of the consuming
family and its partiality for that vegetable;
a row of peas may yield two or even three
pickings; while lima and bush bean vines
will continue to bear for several weeks
providing the pods are picked as soon as
edible. This column in the table indicates
the period in which the different vegetables
may be obtained, irrespective of whether it
is produced by one row or several succes-
sion plantings. Kale and parsley, for
example may be harvested from under the
snow, long after active growth has ceased.
Maximum AND Mintuum PLantines — A
man once decided to have a garden, and,
knowing nothing about it, planted fifty
rows of all the seeds he could think of! The
result — more than he could use. The last
columns of the table ought to prevent this.

y Between Seeds (S) Desirable for a family
Manage- ~ a Depth to 9 a .
= plants in Plants (P) Appro; t 1d | Growing season eae = of four (Feet of row)
Name of vegetable araen TOW Ga tae or Tubers (T) wee HOO oe (Days) ‘acing ented!
(Inches) per Ioo it. row Maximum | Minimum
ANS OMNERAUS, 5 5 6 co PA 30 6 40 APs. || eee ree 2 yIs. May 1-June 15 es 25
iReans Bushey eee er S 4 2 Tt Oto Se 30 qts. 40- 65 June 20-Frost He 25
Reans) lima, (Bole) =>) 5 + A 36 2 3 to So Io qts. 50- 80 Aug. 15—Frost hee 30
Beans, Lima (Bush) . . . S 6 2 1 pt.S. | 10 qts. (shelled) 50- 60 July 15-Frost ie a5
RCC tr oe oe eee S 2 I DIOZSs 1000 60- 80 June 30-Winter eet ae)
Beuceels SJOROUNS § 5 95 9 6 ae 24 2 H OZ. = ea See 9Qo-120 Tae oe 100 Io
abbageysiieees, Fara 24 4 He Oa Se 50 S go-130 uly 1—Fros ih Io
Carrot oy wet ben eee f 2 3 TRNOZSS 375 75-110 July 30-Winter we ae)
Cclenycpracacet via ey see TH 6 i OZ. S. 170 hds. 120-150 Noy. -Spring bake Io
Chardieay tor os ora A 6 4 2M OZALSS 83 pks. 60- 75 July 30—Frost I0O * to
Ghiconyaaee le Bon bea eee PA 6 3 TROZ AS fl leeeee eae 150-180 Aug. 15-Winter ie ae)
Cormi(Sweet) ==) eee SI 20 ed 2 Te 7D Sc 10-15 doz 60-100 July 15-Frost aes aifeje)
12 drills
Cucumber SI 60 2 % 0z. S. 600 60- 80 July 30-Frost 30 a
Egg Plant TAH 24 4 SLOZAROE 250 100-140 Aug. to—Frost 15 Be
Endive aU RAS SI 10 2 Tt 4s Se 120 go-180 Sept. 1-Winter ih 20
Kale (Borecole) . A 20 > OLR O Sa ae ee eee gQo-120 Aug. —Winter 20
Kohlrabi . ; S 3 3 OZ SE 400 60- 80 June -—Frost eee 15
Leek TA 6 I 2 OZ. 9: 250 120-180 July 20-Frost ee a
Lettuce S 9 t 33 O45 So 125 60- 90 May 30-Winter — ace)
Muskmelon AI 60 2 3 02. S. 80 120-150 Aug. 25—Frost 200 :
cee a : ‘i A 24 I DQ ho Se 500 90-140 Aug. 10—-Frost 100 we
nion (Seed). AI 3 $ TOZa SS 375 130-150 Aug. 1-Frost ae 20
Onion (Sets) . S 2 I it Gills Se 500 gQo-120 July —Frost 2 25
Be AI 4 t EO ZAAS al | Sears ear eee Qo-120 July © —Winter 50 Sat
eas S 2 4 % jOito O. 3-2 bu. 40- 80 July 4-Frost Se 200
Pepper. TAH 15 5 3 OZ: 450 100-140 Aug. 1-Frost 50 meee
Potato (Irish) S 18 4 22 ony ws \oVbl. 80-140 July 1o—Frost soe I0o
= (cut in 3)
umpkin . AI 128 I FO So 30 100-140 Oct. 1-Frost 200 is
Radish . SI I z TE (OZ. 9: 1100 20- 40 May 20—Winter 200 ae)
Rhubarb . PA 36 3 33 IP too bunches 2 yrs. May 1-Frost 200 50
Salsify A 4 5 Te OZARS 35 bunches 120-180 Nov. —Winter 30
Spinach S 4 I Rh O% Se $ bu. 30- 60 Apr. 15—July and 100
: Oct —Winter
N. Z. Spinach A I5 I TD OZ05cl eee 60-100 July -—Frost & 25
Squash (Bush) AI 40 I 33 Os Sh 2 60- 80 uly to—Frost. iele) Bote
os 75 y
Squash (Winter) A 96 2 LOZAES 40 120-160 Cct. —Winter I0O
Tomato AH 36 a Oe Si 150 lbs 100-140 Aug. 1-Frost igefe) see
‘Turnips ; A 3 re PLOZEBS 400 60-— 80 June 30-Winter are 25
Veg. Marrow AIL 48 I z 0Z. S. 200 ILO—-I40 July 1s5—Frost I0O Due

Ke)
f=)

aplot 50 by 60 feet

PIECE of
ground in
the rear of
the dwel- Hea
ling was made va-
cant by theremoval

of a poultry house
and to this was ad-
ded enough so that

Sketch No. 1.— The first
preparation

was left for garden
purposes. This was prepared for planting,
and then laid out according to the sketch, No.
1. The centre strip was sown with grass early
in the spring, and as soon as it was fairly
green, a path was cut out, as shown by the
dotted lines and filled with yellow gravel.
Gravel paths were put in the locations
marked and these were lined along the side
with a narrow strip of sod, taken from an-
other part of the garden. This sod serves
to keep the path well marked and prevents
mingling of the gravel and the soil. There
was then a garden ready for planting, as
shown in sketch No. 2.

Most of the material which was planted
consisted of annuals and was sown in a
hotbed the latter part of March. This is

not absolutely necessary, as most of these’

flowers may be planted out-of-doors where

Fig. a. Looking southwest

Looking north along centre path

A First Year Garden From Seed—By

Fig. b.

they are to bloom, and thinned out later.
The transplanting was done the latter part
of May and a part of the arrangement is
shown by the sketch. In the position
marked (1) verbenas were planted in a thick
border. Opposite, (2), Phlox Drummondii.
(3) Giant pink zinnia. These positions may
be more clearly followed and the result
noted by reference to the photographs,
Figs. @ and 6, which show the garden about
August 1st. Fig. a is a view in the direction
of the arrow shown in Sketch No. 2. Fig. 6
is a view of the cross path looking from
right to left of the plan.

The other positions were planted some-
what as follows: (4) Dwarf zinnia, edged
with (5) Phlox Drummondii; (6) petunias,
large single fringed; (7) verbenas, mixed; (8)
calendulas; (9) asters; (10) coreopsis; (11)
lark-spur; (12) ten-week stocks; (13) snap-
dragon; (14) nicotiana; (15) dahlia; (16)
sweet pea; (17) kochia; (18) mixture, edged
with sweet alyssum; (19) odds and ends.

The fences were quickly covered by

Sketch No. 2.—The garden ready for seed sowinz.
The letters and arrows show the direction of the
accompanying views.

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View on cross path, looking west

Minne-
apolis

Adolph H. Nietz,
means of wild cucumber and climbing
beans. Woodbine was also planted to help
out the fence covering.

The centres and screened portions of the
four “squares” were used for vegetables
such as lettuce, radishes, beets, carrots,
etc., and it will be seen from the photo-
graphs that their presence was by no
means objectionable. The uprights and
cross-pieces at the ends of the paths formed
supports for a washline when necessary.

The garden as thus planted came into
bloom about June 15th, continuing with
an ever increasing mass of flowers until
frost. By careful arrangement and selec-
tion borders may be planted so as to
always have something in bloom. Such
favorites as zinnia, nicotiana, verbena and
phlox will serve for continuous flowering
during the season, and they should form
the main stay of a garden of this sort.

The other photographs speak for them-
selves, and make it evident that a mar-
vellous change can be brought about on a
small piece of ground with comparatively
little effort. The plan as used is suggestive

of endless modifications and improvements.
Perennials and shrubbery can be intro-
duced with good effect, while the vegetable
garden can be entirely eliminated if desired.

The south end and screen.

The Garden Portor

II.— OFF TO THE COUNTRY HOME

Continued from page 13, February number

Epitors Note: The author of these ‘confessions’ is now well-known as an amateur
a 7. oy “e
gardener, and writes with such genuine humor as proves the efficacy of the “cure’’.
Who she is we do not say at this time, but the future may reveal it.

CHAPTER IV

HE next day Clarky came back.
I didn’t see her until she came in-
to my room in her nurse’s uni-
form, just as if nothing had hap-
pened — but she looked very cheerful.

I hate that barrack-discipline that makes
a nurse stop and change her dress when
you are dying to find out something.

“Tell me everything about it,” I de-
manded.

She laughed. “I’m not going to tell
you a thing — except this. It’s possible.”

“Possible!” I exclaimed. “‘You mean
we can do it?”

She nodded.

“Good for you, Clarky! When? Next
week?”

She laughed. ‘‘There’s snow up there
yet. In four weeks, I should think — end
of April — perhaps.”

“Four weeks!” I exclaimed, “what a
horribly long time! Never mind. Tell
me all about everything!”

““There’s nothing to tell,”’ she answered,
“You'll see it all.”

“But what did you do?” I persisted.

“Well, I drove up to your little house
in a sleigh with a tall youth who had bad
teeth and whose name was Alonzo Kendall.
Your house is off the highway and not
easy to reach. The road hadn’t been
traveled at all. It was what Alonzo called
‘bad goin’.’ The snow was hard on top
and thawed beneath. You don’t know
whether the horse’s foot is going to stay
on top or sink a foot or two. The horse
doesn’t know either.”

“How disconcerting for him. What
else beside Alonzo and the ‘bad goin’?’”

“Mrs. Tarbox. We stopped at her
house for the keys. She lives at the foot
of your hill.”

““Who’s she?”

“Alonzo’s aunt, round and cheerful and
talkative. She will clean the house, have
fires lighted and dinner for us when we
arrive. Alonzo will haul some wood and
have firewood cut in the woodshed. He
promised to clean the spring, too. I went
up the hill with him and looked at it —
waded through the snow —it’s deep by
the spring, that’s in a hollow under a big
maple up the hill. Mrs. Tarbox lent me
her rubber boots.”

“Oh, I remember!” I exclaimed “‘there’s
a great stone over half of it, boards over
the rest, and you can peek through and
see the water.”

“That’s it,” said Clarky.

“And apple trees? Are there apple
trees?”

Ves.”’

“And a barn?”

“Ves,”

“And a lilac bush?”

“Yes, there’s a lilac-bush.”

“And a good place for a garden?”

“Plenty of places for a garden.”

I drew a breath of relief.

“Now what’s the house like?”

“Tt’s a little, old, story-and-a-half farm-
house, just like hundreds of others in New
Hampshire.”

“Pretty?”

“Tt could be pretty. There is good
panelling in the living room. There are
fireplaces, but they’ve had them boarded
up. The paper is in tatters, and the wood-
work is painted pink.”

Pink

“Pink,” repeated Clarky firmly — ‘a
depressing pink with drab panels.

“The McIntyres’s farmer was the last
one who lived there. He must have liked
pink. It’s in the kitchen, too. And the
kitchen walls are papered with a hideous
paper. There’s a big fireplace, but it is
boarded up.”

“Upstairs?”

“You open a door in the kitchen and the
stairs go up from there into an unfinished
attic, but in it are two rooms finished off.”

“Where am I to be?”

“T think you’d best be downstairs, Miss
Caroline. There’s a big room with a
fireplace across the hall from the living
room. It would be easy for you to get
outdoors and back again, and there’s a
little room behind it that I could have.”

“But supplies, Clarky? What about
nanna or quail for our wilderness? or will
Alonzo act the Raven to our Elijah?”

“ve ordered a telephone put in. The
grocer at Enderby Center will send out
twice a week. Mrs. Tarbox will cook for
us — perhaps. She said she’d ‘see about
it.’ Tl contrive that we don’t starve.
Well, do you like it?” she asked, for I
was staring dumbly at her.

“Like it!” I cried. “It’s the most
exciting thing that’s ever happened to me!
It’s the first time I ever went away to do
exactly what I wanted. And such a joke
to do it when I’m limp!”

Clarky sat down in the big chair, leaned
back, took off her eye-glasses and looked
out across the backyards, but she didn’t
see them any more than I did. She was

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looking across the Connecticut to Ver-
mont hills, I think, or her own ones up in
old Medfield.

“Clarky, tell me” —then I stopped,
suddenly remembering that she must be
tired, so for ages —and exactly five min-
utes by the clock —I asked no questions.
I just laid there and thought about Alonzo
and the “bad goin” and the little house
up on the snow-covered hillside, with the
eaves dripping in the warm March noon.

Then I began again — “‘Clarky, tell
me one more thing. What shall I see
from my window?”

She thought a moment.

“From your front windows,” she said
slowly, “you look down a long slope, to the
break in the fence where the gate used to
be. On one side a wide stretch — mowing
land, I suppose it is—on the other the
edge of the woodland. Then you look
over the tops of pines and birches to the
hills beyond, and a mountain in the dis-
tance, blue, a gentian blue it is now. It’s
a lovely outlook. From your side windows
you can look right into the woods; the
little house is almost at the edge of the
forest.”

“That’s like the fairy-books,” I said,
“the little cottages where nice things hap-
pen are always at the edge of the forest.
Snow-white and Rose-red lived there, I
believe. The dwarfs would be in the
woods. And no house within sight?”

“None. There’s a little red house at
the foot of your hill, but you can’t see that.”

“The witch lives there, of course.”

“Mrs. Tarbox lives there,” corrected
Clarky.

b)

“The pasture; did you see the pasture?”’

She shook her head.

“Only the edge, when I climbed the
fence to look at the spring.”

“‘Are there bulbs and things to come up
in the garden-beds, like Uncle Hermann’s?”’

“T can’t tell. There was snow on the
ground. (I drove out in the sleigh, you
know), but the snow was melting in the
sunshine and the water dripping from the
roof — I saw one rose-bush near the house,
but it was a rather forlorn one.”

“What’s the color of the house?”

“White, it was once. It’s gray now,
and the wood-shed’s dropping off.

“There’s the biggest gray squirrel I
ever saw in my life in your woodshed.”

‘And you don’t know what’s to come up
near the house?” I said disappointedly.

“No, I don’t, but even if there’s nothing
near the house, there will be lovely things
in the woods.”

“‘Will there?” I said. ‘What things?”

“Blood-root. Our hillsides were full
of that. It’s the most exquisite white.
You find it under the trees showing above
the dead, brown leaves, it looks like snow
only so wonderfully alive. Then you'll
find the rue anemone and the wood ane-
mone, Dutchman’s breeches—and that
fragile, lovely little star-flower — the woods
are full of that. We’ll find them all in
your wood.”

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“Do you think so?” I asked.

“Surely. And there will be saxifrage
on the rocks and bluets in your pasture —
great patches of them — deep blue in the
shadow, and almost white where they lie
in the sun all day.”

“And you think I can really go?”’

*‘T’m sure of it,’ she said.

CHAPTER V

I was quite ill again for a week or more
after that. I suppose it was the excite-
ment; perhaps it was
my wild orgy of hor-
ticultural industry,
but neither Clarky
nor I changed our
plans for a moment.
When I couldn’t talk
or listen or plan, I
laid still and thought
about the patches of
bluets in the starved
pasture grass, and of
blood-root opening
white and wonderful
above the dead
brown leaves.

All this time next
door, Uncle Hermann
went happily on with
his gardening. He
was planting now,
so Clarky said —I
couldn’t sit up to
watch him — and his
crocuses were in
bloom and his daffo-
dils showing fine
green stalks. I
didn’t much care to
see them,I wanted to
see the little things
come up in my own
garden.

Over and over
again I planned it.
Now I would put hol-
lyhocks by the little
hlouse — great tall
ones that could look
in the windows, and
I made a path and
had daffodils on each
side in rows. I had
roses — climbing
roses over the door
—then I sat on the
doorstep and admired the roses. Then I
changed it and I put the hollyhocks by
the path and the daffodils under the
windows and I trained the roses on the
house, to go under and around the win-
dows. All this was in my mind’s eye, of
course; when you're ill you learn to amuse
yourself in your head until the make-
believe is almost as good as the actual.

I didn’t order anything yet —that is,
not any plants — but I did have some seed
packets. Clarky took my Visiting List
and ordered seeds of all the annuals I

“From your front wind

had down there. I used to lie and finger
the packets; spread them out on the
counterpane. There were — Centaurea,
Mignonette, Marigolds, Shirley Poppies,
Coreopsis — all the old ones I knew and
some new ones I didn’t —such as Arcfotis
grandis —that I got because it sounded
impressive. I read the directions on the
packets which seemed all alike “Sow out-
of-doors when danger from frost is past,
in a light rich soil.’’ Then, in some of the
packets I poked little holes and shook out
a few of the seeds on the counterpane to

ows you look down a long slope, to where the gate used to be.

is almost at the edge of the forest.”’

look at them, and I wondered where the
wonderful blue was hidden in the tiny
silvery shuttlecocks that were to be
corn flowers, where the gold lay in the
little spurs that were marigolds. Most
wonderful of all, was the infinitesimal
grain of life that is a poppy seed. How
can all the wealth of flower and stalk and
bud be hidden in anything so marvelously
small! Then I would look at the seeds,
and wonder how they’d get on together
in my garden and whether they’d like it.
As I held the seeds in. my hand the old

fairy tales seemed very simple—TI re-
membered that one of the Prince, who drew
hundreds of yards of fine-spun linen from a
nutshell and at last out there sprang a
beautiful maiden. Perfectly natural it
seemed beside the miracle of the poppy.
The folk who made the fairy-tales must
have known well the miracles of the plants,
I thought.

And so April passed. The last week
came and the eve of our adventure.

It was an adventure for Clarky. I saw
her look to the priming of her nitro-
glycerine syringe as
a soldier looks to his
gun and cartridge-
belt. Also, I caught
her scrutinizing me
with a keen, profes-
sional eye, and she
took my respiration
when she thought I
didn’t know it; but
I did and I made it
as nice and even as I
could.

I suppose the jour-
ney was something
of a risk, but I didn’t
care in the least.
When you’ve been
ill long enough you
come to consider
your interior decora-
tions and internal
workings as wholly
the affair of the doc-
tor and the nurse;
not your concern at
all. They may do as
they like with them.
Even if there were a
good chance of shuf-
fling off the mortal
coil in this proposed
journey, I shouldn’t
have cared. And
this wasn’t morbid-
ness nor pessimism —
nothing but pure in-
difference. Still, I
realized that an exit
during the trip would
have been embarras-
sing for Clarky, but
there was little dan-
ger of it. Was I not
going to dig in a gar-
den bed and see the
trees come alive? Besides, I might come
alive myself, like those little plant bundles
we have stowed carefully back in their box
—who could tell? Anyway, it was a gor-
geous adventure.

I felt as exultant as Columbus when at
last after all the tedious waiting, Queen
Isabella had equipped his squadron and
sent him off for the unknown seas.

Clarky, I fancy, didn’t feel much like
Columbus on the deck of the Santa Maria.
Spenser’s Una would be nearer her state
of mind. Una when she set out for the

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wilderness with the ass and the dwarf and
the bag of needments — courage mixed
with trepidation. Far more intelligence I
think she had than Spenser’s heroine, and
so long as we had a telephone and supplies
we should need to search for neither Red
Cross Knight nor lion; the telephone, I
thought would answer every purpose more
promptly and effectively. So does the
modern convenience deal hardly with
Romance.

A slight touch of romance we had —a
very prosaic form.

The morning of the day we left came a
box addressed to me; a rough wooden
packing box. They were about to open
it downstairs but Clarky had it brought
up and opened it herself in my room.
LIVE PLANTS, PERISHABLE, NO DE-
LAY was on the top in large, imperative
letters. I’m not fond of packing boxes; I
hate to be hurried. Two months ago I’d
have delayed all I pleased, and if the live
plants wanted to perish, they could perish.
Now, it was different. I was thinking of
coming alive myself.

I made Clarky put the box on a chair
beside me after she had ripped off the cover,
and I leaned over and felt in the cool, damp,
springy moss until I found a bundle.
Wrapped closely in the moss it was and
wound about with a_ string — packed
like an Indian pappoose. A wooden label
was slipped under the string that secured
it on which was scrawled in pencil Viola
tricolor, Trimardeau.

“What are they, Clarky?”
her the bundle.

“Pansies,” she said.

I searched again in the soft, cool pack-
ing, delightful it was to the fingers, and
found another bundle, and another —
six in all.

“Did you order them, Clarky?”’ I asked.

She shook her head.

“Does any one downstairs know about
them?”

(79 No.”’

“T wonder who had the intelligence —”’
I said to myself slowly after Clarky had
gone. Then I picked up one of the little
bundles again and opened it carefully and
looked at the stubby little plants with the
long, brown, sandy roots.

“T like you — you queer, unpromising-
looking little things!”” I remarked to the
pappoose-like bundle, “I like you heaps
better than if you were American Beauty
roses. ‘They’re so insultingly healthy and
prosperous. You don’t look like much,
but yet there’s life in you. We'll go up
to the country together, you and I. If
you can grow and amount to something,
perhaps I can.” Then I put it back in
the box and looked again in the moss.

At last I found in the bottom of the box
(it had been packed as the top, I suppose)
an envelope stained with the damp of the
packing. ‘There was a card in it.

‘Partial shade, rich soil, and individual
attention. The long, dangling things are

I showed

roots, Caroline, and should go in the
ground.”

I knew the writing, though I hadn’t seen
it for a long time — Richard Protheroe’s.
An odd fellow, but he had a lovely garden.

“Can’t we take them with us, Clarky?”
I asked when she came in for one of her
brief visits. ‘“‘People take a kitten or a
pup in a basket; why not live plants?”

“Surely,” she said. ‘‘I’ll find a basket.
We're traveling light.”’

We were indeed to travel light. Every-
thing had been sent before. I didn’t
know much about that; it was Clarky’s
end. My room was kept as quiet as a
cloister, but I know bedding and cots were
sent, blankets and warm clothes a-plenty,
a hammock and a camp-kit. I wasn’t
even to dress properly, just a dark skirt
and sweater over my night-dress, then a
long cloak and a soft hat, for I hadn’t yet
been dressed and didn’t want to get tired.
We were to take the sleeper from the Grand
Central; there was no change; I would
waken in New Hampshire, that was all.
Very neat and simple.

There’s a deal of difference between
traveling when you're ill, but yet a little
responsible, and the being simply toted;
an irresponsible bulk with no more thought
of what may happen than if you were a
bale of cotton. Being in the bale-of-
cotton®state of mind, I rather liked crossing
the city at night, the rapid blurring of
lights, the swift-moving motor; I liked it
when we crossed the bridge, where below
us lay the river, a strip of darkness flecked
with moving lights —spanned by fairy-
like arches of brilliance —on either side
of which rose great dim bulks like giant
castles, the lights blazing from innumerable
windows. [liked the flashing of the electric
signs where petticoats or the charms of
chewing gum were blazoned with a startling
distinctness that would have answered
for the Day of Judgment. I didn’t mind
the Grand Central, nor the crowds that
were so close to the wheel chair. It felt
like going through a picture-book. I was
no more a part of it than that. Only the
pages turned so rapidly! it was confusing.
Then, suddenly, the stuffy dimness of the
compartment and everyone shut out but
Clarky and me.

“Well, do you like it?” she asked, after
she had made me comfortable.

“Yes,” I said, but my head was going
around like the wheels of the wheel chair,
and the people still kept going by, and my
heart was “chugging” like a just-cranked
automobile. So, being an accomplished
invalid, I took out Wordsworth and began
to read. In my head, of course. If
you've been ill long enough, you learn to
“‘turn on”’ verse or prose in your head, set
it going as if it were a mechanical toy, and
the immortal William W., as any neu-
rasthenic knows, is the prince of sedatives,
calm and placid with the large placidity
of a cow content in a succulent pasture.
So I “turned on” the Prelude —

: “In what vale
Shall be my harbor? Underneath what grove
Shall I take up my home? and what clear stream
Shall with its murmur lull me into rest?
The earth is all before me. With a heart
Joyous, nor scared of its own liberty Ey

It ran along like the brook in my pasture.
So the stuffiness was forgotten, and the
loveliness to be was again present, and on
the viewless wings of poesy, as Keats has
it, I went up to the country far ahead of
the train. A most convenient method.
As for Clarky, she leaned back comfort-
ably in her corner, snapped on the electric
light, and opened the Evening Screamer, 1
suppose by way of a farewell to New York,
and began to read.

We were off.

(To be continued)

Plant Breeding For a Bigger
Hay Crop

HAT variety of timothy grass do
you raise?

Oh yes, there are varieties of grass as well
as of corn, beans and sweet peas. In a few
years they will be on the market, thanks to
the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station at Cornell University, and it will
then behoove the hay grower to find out
which particular strain is best adapted to
his conditions.

The Station has recently published Bulle-
tin 313 upon the results of its timothy breed-
ing experiments begun in 1903. At that
time 4,704 individual plants were raised in a
greenhouse, then planted outdoors, from
223 samples of seed collected all over the
United States and in eleven foreign coun-
tries. Variations were observed at once
involving the yield, vigor, quality of stem,
leaf and head, size, habits, rust resistance,
etc. Separate plants varied all the way
from fifteen to fifty-five inches in height,
from four to eighteen inches in diameter of
the clump, from six to two hundred and
fifty in the number of culms or stems to a
plant, and as much as eighteen days be-
tween the dates of blooming.

By means of selection, crossing and
clonal or slip propagation there have now
been obtained seventeen new sorts that are
especially desirable. Two years’ observa-
tion has shown that the average yield from
these varieties is 36% per cent. greater than
that of ordinary timothy of the same age
under similar conditions. If such an in-
crease could be effected in the timothy
crop over the United States it would mean
an increased value in one year of some
$90,000,000.

The Station is increasing its seed supply
of these varieties and plans to get it into
the hands of actual growers and dealers
as soon as possible. It cannot supply seed
in quantity to individuals at this time,
but then, you don’t have to wait for
that. Write to Ithaca, N. Y., for the
bulletin and accordng to its directions
begin breeding your own improved timothy
seed.

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CONDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

Beautifying the School Grounds

Tp school grounds and the home grounds,
too, must be beautiful in mind long before the
time comes for actual work. It often looks like
a hopeless task, especially when it is a school
question. The space is limited; it is all used for
playgrounds; the yard is flagged; the grounds are
too large, too great a task to attempt. These
conditions all exist somewhere. All may be met.

Often it is wise to take only a small area to begin
with, even though the available space is unlimited.
Border planting is effective; a strip along the sides
and back of the school yard would use up little
space and would make a pleasing frame for the
school or playgrounds. Such a border may be used
for bulb planting in the fall. After the bulbs have
finished blooming in the spring the border may
be planted to annuals. It is wise to tuck in a
few perennials here and there to act as starters.
and to add an air of permanency to the garden.
Japanese iris, old-fashioned bleeding-heart, golden
glow, peonies and hollyhocks are all good for
this purpose. If the border garden is backed by a
fence or old wall, plant vines here and there, thus
forming a background for the planting and relieving
the dull monotony of a stretch of enclosing fence
or wall.

One of the New York City schools rung a little
change in this border planting which may be sug-
gestive for other schools. This school had an
enclosed yard for play walled in on three sides,
the school building itself forming the fourth side.
It seemed a hopeless place for gar-
den work. This was done: A strip
Was measured off two feet from the
wall all along the three sides. It
was boxed in, and filled with soil,
the depth of the boxed space being
almost three feet. So a border gar-
den was made. Each grade had a
section of the garden for its own.
Vines were planted here and there
along the wall. Little space was
taken from the playground, and yet
much was added in beauty and in
gardening opportunity to the chil-
dren.

Last month a number of vines
were suggested as good for use on
school grounds. The scarlet runner
bean is most satisfactory, for it is
ornamental and decorative as well
as useful. The hop vine is splendid
to use for a cover and for permanent
effect.

If nothing more can be done this
year than to make an attractive en-
trance to the school, do that. Most
school doorways are either of for-
bidding brick or stone or else of bat-

A Washington, D, C.,

tered wood. A quick growing vine trained up over
the entrance radically changes the aspect. A school
entrance should be inviting. [Even schools placed
almost upon the city sidewalk may have a root of
English ivy or ampelopsis planted by the doorway.
The country or town schools are not so restricted.
The woods offer other vines. A trumpet vine is
charming for a country doorway; wistaria, clematis,
rambler roses and cucumber vine are all pleasing.

So many school gardens and community gardens
have ugly gateways and fences of barbed wire.
The simple entrance to the Rosedale Garden in
Cleveland, O., adds an air of charm and distinc-
tion toit. The idea is a pretty one and comes from
the old Japanese Tori. The Tori were put up
as entrances to cities and harbors to keep the evil
spirits away. Cedar uprights with cross pieces
of the same wood give a rustic and natural appear-
ance to the entrance way for the children’s own
gardens and form a sort of Tori.

Some schools having no ground space may not
be able to have any gardens at all. Why not make
a garden in outdoor window boxes? It is not
necessary to buy plants for these; start with seed.
Petunias, sweet alyssum, morning-glory, climbing
nasturtium, Phlox Drummondi, ageratum, wild
cucumber and gourds will flourish. If gourds are
used order the rather ornamental varieties.

Tt is well to keep in mind the fact that nasturtiums
need a great deal of root space and morning-glories
do not. So in making the necessary calculations
for the outdoor window box plan to have very
few, say not more than four, nasturtiums in a
window box. For this reason they are not quite
so good to use as the morning-glory for vine effect,
because morning-glories require far less root space.

Tf the school is set well back on a good piece of
land with a lawn in front, do not cut up this fine,
free space by planting here and there round beds
of flowers. Border the front walk with flowers, if
you like, but do not chop up the lawn. Gardens
should be confined to side and back yards even in
school planting.

Shrubbery may be massed into nooks and corners.
In choosing shrubbery and trees for the school
ground make your choice educational. That is,
choose different varieties in order that the children
may become acquainted with a number of different
kinds of shrubs, different methods of treatment,
and different ways and seasons of fruiting.

Whenever it is necessary to use barbed wire as
a fencing material, if rough posts of cedar are used
for props these posts may also be used as supports
for vines. Have the posts fairly near together and
plant rambler rose or vines of clematis, moonflower,
gourds or whatever you like at each post. Thus
the barbed wire fence is broken up into centres of
interest as well as beauty.

Long, stupid, main paths in gardens may lose
their hot monotony by having vine-covered posts
and cross bars down their length, or by having
a long pergola covered with vines. This make as

Te

school garden where border planting is used to advantage.
Bulbs form the early spring garden; seeds are planted in the same spaces later

This vine-covered school doorway really invites
entrance

path of shade through the garden, it is decidedly de-
corative and with seats here and there offers places
in which to rest, to study and to enjoy thegarden.

The Work of the Month

PART of this month’s work may be done on
paper in view of the outdoor season soon to
be here. Some things to do are the following:

(z) If it is not possible to try a chemical tonic
on house plants which look badly try liquid manure.
Dissolve barn yard dressing in water. Reduce with
water until it is the color of weak tea. Water the
plants with this once a week. Do not water the
begonias with it. They do not respond to the
treatment.

(2) After a begonia has finished blooming
cut it back. That is cut off the plant until there
is only one third of it left. New growth will almost
immediately spring up. Nip off new shoots when
they are about three inches long, stick them in a
moist sand bed and within two weeks they will
have rooted ready to pot. In the potting of
little seedlings use very sandy soil. Have it at
least one third, if not one half, sand. Keep trans-
planting the little plants until the third time they
are able to stand ordinary soil.

(3) Work out plants best suited to the light and
soil condition of your garden. For the garden with
a sunny exposure almost any plant
will do. But where the garden has
a northern light and thus much
shade it is a problem. Try here
vinca, fuschia, ivy, geraniums, phlox,
begonias, asparagus, and Boston
ferns, myrtle and feverfew. In gar-
dens of east exposure plant begonias,
petunias, wild cucumber vines, nas-
turtiums and heliotropes.

(4) In sandy soils try godetia, por-
tulaca, zinnia, nasturtium and sun-
flowers. In the rocky spaces sow
seeds of running nasturtium, por-
tulaca, columbine, candytuft and
baby’s breath. If the soil in a part
of the garden seems impossible plant
that portion to clover.

(5) Why not teach the children
their lessons in drill making and
seed sowing in boxes of soil or on the
sand table? Radish, lettuce, beet,
beans, corn, and all the other grains
do well for some time thus planted.
A child learns thus to know seedlings
and incidentally a great deal of arith-
metic and language work may be
done with this miniature planting.

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. Jf an ornamental flower garden is to be laid out
on the school grounds plant it in miniature indoors.
he children get quite a different idea from that
which they receive from the regular garden plan.
_ (6) Itisa time to form a department ofagriculture
from one class in the school. Let it be the business
of this class to estimate on the seeds needed for
the entire school, to write to the Department of
Agriculture and to send in the seedsman’s order
too. The seeds should be distributed through
this department to the entire school. Some grade
might make the envelopes for the seeds. Make it
a codperative piece of work for the school.

(7) Keep the manual training department busy
making stakes, markers, flats in which to start
seeds, reels and press boards for seed planting.

(8) The questions concerning the amount of fer-
tilizer necessary for a given piece of land is often
asked. It is a matter of very simple arithmetic.
Measure the length and width of the garden plot
in yards. Multiply to obtain yards in area. Let
us estimate that the amount of fertilizer you would
use for an acre would be 1,000 pounds. Multiply
the area by 1,000 point off four places from right
to left and multiply by two, this will give you the
number of pounds you have to buy. One may
prefer to estimate on 1,500 or 2,000 pounds per
acre. This estimate is for chemical fertilizers and
not for barnyard dressing.

We always say to put on the garden plot all the
old rotted manure available. But often little of
this is to be obtained for the school garden. If the
plot is a small one and the manure is to be spaded
in by hand, spread about two inches of manure
over the garden area. If the plot is to be plowed
and plenty of manure is at hand spread a good six
inches of the fertilizer over the garden. To help
out an insufficient amount of manure and poor
garden soil plant winter rye all over the garden
next fall. The rye will spring up before frost.
Then the following spring spade this rye into the
soil. It will act as a fertilizer.

In considering fertilizers remember that nitroge-
nous fertilizers tend to make luxuriant leaf growth
while potash and phosphoric acid produce flower
and fruit. Manure is the great source of nitrogen;
nitrate of soda is also a nitrogen giver. Potash is
obtained from wood ashes and sulphate of potash;
phosphoric acid may be gotten from bone meal.
If soil is very heavy and clayey mix coal ashes, sand
or lime to lighten it. Lime is a soil sweetener too.

(9) A spray, such as you use for your morning
bath, is good to use in spraying house plants.
Hold the plant top down over a sink or bath tub,
spray water over the under surface of the leaves.
You can do this without even wetting the soil in

the pot if the pot is held right. If the plants
are kept thus sprayed and clean there is less
danger of pests developing. Weak tobacco water
sprayed on will kill lice on plants.

Whenever any of you boys and girls have an
interesting experience to relate about your plant
work or a good garden picture you have taken,
why not send this material in? We shall be glad
to pay you for these just as we would fathers or
mothers if they send articles into the magazine,
if the things you send in are worth using in the
magazine. Here is another avenue of money earn-
ing and a good opportunity to improve your lan-
guage work. Why not try?

This is the month in which to enjoy the bulbs.
Bring them in from the dark and cold. Bring the
pots gradually into the full light of the sun. Shield
the budding plants from drafts. These blast the
flowers. If the hyacinth bulbs start to blossom
close down in the stalk put a paper cone or inverted
flower pot over the bloom thus forcing it up toward
the light entering from the open upper end of the
cone. Watch the tulips for they sometimes develop
lice. If this occurs make a strong soap suds, put a
few drops of kerosene into the solution and wipe off
the infested sprays with a cloth dampened in the
kerosene emulsion. This is an equally good treat-
ment for any home plants thus iniested.

The School Garden Movement
in Rhode Island

HE work of this state is under the immediate

supervision of Prof. Ernest K. Thomas, who

is a member of the faculties of the Agricultural
College and of the State Normal School.

In some respects, of course, Rhode Island is so
much a manufacturing state that it is not con-
sidered the most appropriate place to interest the
schools in agricultural work; but, notwithstanding
this handicap, school gardens have been developed
in all the leading institutions of the state. The
work was first introduced about twelve years ago
by Miss. Ella Sweeney, Assistant Superintendent
of the Providence schools. The Civic League of
Newport began some work in school gardening in
1906 and the Westerly Schools started about the
same time. Even before this (in 1904), a small
garden was started at Kingston under the direction
of the extension department of the College. The
Pawtucket Old Home and Improvement Society
attached a school garden to their school in 1908.

Without doubt the school garden which will
have the most effect in influencing the teachers
of Rhode Island is the one in connection with the

Entrance to Rosedale Garden, Cleveland, Ohio, A single gateway to the children’s garden, Oontrast
this with the usual gateway of barbed wire

Rhode Island Normal School under the management
of Principal John L. Alger.

As I have already mentioned, the city of Newport
has had some most excellent school gardens for a
number of years. The City of Pawtucket has a
very commendable garden, which is interesting
many people in that city in this movement and in
improved home conditions generally. Warwick,
Saylesville, Lonsdale, and a number of other smaller
cities of the state have made commendable progress.

One of the most valuable results of the whole
movement has been that of the home garden, which
has been established in many places as an out-
growth of the interest’ aroused by the school
garden.

E. E. BAtcoms.
Formerly of the Providence Normal School.

Prize Winners in the Children’s
Garden Contest

Ove 1912 children’s garden contest was con-
ducted on the same lines as the contests of the
three preceding years. The prizes presented were
books and magazine subscriptions.

If you will notice, the prize winners come from
all over the country. We are specially interested
in the work of the Canadian boys and girls and
those on the Pacific coast because this is the first
time that these two sections of our country have
entered into the contest to any extent. We hope
to hear much more about their work.

There are always three classes in our contests.
Class I is for children; that is, the prizes are for
children’s individual efforts. Class II and Class
III are for collective efforts of children working to-
gether in school or community gardens, or where the
work and results are considered together as a unit.

In Class I three prizes are offered. Each first

‘prize consists of three books from The Garden

Library; the second prizes, two books from The
Garden Library; the third prize in each case is a
year’s subscription to THE GARDEN MAGAZINE.
In each division of Classes II and III one prize
only is given. The prize in Class I] is The Nature
Library, fifteen volumes on nature subjects.
Twelve volumes, comprising The Garden Library,
is the prize in Class III.
The list of prize winners is as follows:

CLASS I

A. The best flowers raised in a home garden:
1. Mabel Jane Musser, Cleveland, Ohio.
2. Edward Chapman, Toronto, Can.
3. Alice Davis, Groton, Mass.

B. The best vegetables raised in a home garden:
1. Robert Plues, Detroit, Mich.
2. Winthrop DeForest Piper, Keene, N. H.
3. LeRoy Zork, Lancaster, Pa.

C. The best flowers raised in a school garden:
No awards.

D. The best vegetables raised in a school garden:
1. Eugene Kados, New York City.
2. William Hirshman, New York City.
George Marks, New York City.
3. Laurence Marks, New York City.

£. The greatest variety of vegetables or flowers:
1. Howard O’Connell, Providence, R. I.
2. Abram Kuhms, Lancaster. Pa.
Alexander Barclay, Ardonia, N. Y
3. Kenneth Moir, Toronto, Can.

CLASS II

A. The finest looking garden of three years’ or more cultiva-

tion:
Rhode Island Normal School, Providence, R. I.

B. The finest looking garden of less than three years’ culti-
vation:
Woodlawn School, Portland, Oregon.

C. The greatest improvement of school grounds or unsightly
spots under the care of contestants:
I. Under city conditions:
The Seventh Street School, Los Angeles, Cal.
2. Under country conditions: :
The Briggsville School, North Adams, Mass.

CLASS III

A. The best display of garden products at an annual exhibit:
The Rural School, Groton, Mass.

Marcu, 1913

TESTED SEEDS

The smallest portion of the cost of your garden is the seed cost, and yet
it is the one in which unwise economy, either in time or money, is very
To get the best and all the possible

often practised with an inevitable loss.

results, you should use the best seeds procurable.
Henderson’s Seeds that is sold has behind it the experience of 66 years of
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High Cost of Living

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feet, will grow all the vegetables an average family will consume.
During the summer half of your living cost is for the things that
should come out of your own garden. Latter day methods and
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tract so that a plot of 25x50 feet with a reasonable amount of
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Vegetable ‘‘Reminders’”’

Wit even the very smallest garden of your |

own and just one old-fashioned hoe, the |

possibility of fresh vegetables for your table during

the summer is multiplied many times.
Peas. Make the first planting in March or early

April. Have the ground full of rich, strawy

manure, and in trenches six inches deep and wide

and two feet apart sow the seeds so that they lie

about one to every two square inches. Put an

inch of fine soil over them until they begin to

prick through it, then another, and let them come

up through that. From time to time as they

are hoed fill the trench. Then keep the surface

stirred to hold the moisture. Do not choose

Why Don’t You Find Out
Wh at a House pe erowine) eee they require supports and
Like This Would Cost? from. Wit the earliest openiea ar teensy

the seeds in drills half an inch deep and do not

6 9 : let weeds choke the tender young plants. Re-
O MANY are just like you — they put off finding out the cost peated sowings through the summer will pay.

of a greenhouse, just because they have a notion it costs too Winter lettuce may be raised readily if sown
much. about August 1st so it can make its growth before
i h ico anetheead 0 severe weather. It may be enjoyed until after
_it greenhouses were priced in the a VGEASSOO TS, as are automo- Thanksgiving if the precaution is taken on cold
biles, you would soon be talking about Hitchings’ “‘ Runabout House nights to cover it with canvas. This should be
for $250,” or their ‘‘Six Cylinder Range for $5,000.” supported on six-inch stakes driven into the soil
Th Aseria “a i" ih ¢ A so as to keep it from injuring the lettuce. If windy,
: You could have a pretty de mite 1dea what greenhouses of various throw soil on the edges. If these heads can be
sizes cost. You wouldn’t hesitate about having one. lifted with the soil and set in a well-blanketed
But you can’t advertise greenhouses that way — it’s not practical se oF ele ere wt He wee

— there are too many varying conditions that it is necessary to care- variety. © ;
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0 . 9 : 9 and lettuce. No more delicious food exists than
One thing is certain, however; be an equal ie es ee it would freshly picked beet \ greens ivtll NOnm it uemneets
be hard to find anything which would give you, and those about you, Sprinkle the seeds half an inch apart in drills

as much genuine pleasure, year after year. fourteen inches apart, the same as lettuce.

: : - Afi t eh t of lant seed i
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Dreer’s
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(Ipomoea Quamoclit Hybrida)

We introduced this sensational novelty
last year, and wherever grown it has created
a furore. No plant in our trial grounds the
past season was so much admired. We
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distinct annual climber ever introduced. It
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The flowers are about 114 inches in dia-
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Like other Ipomoeas, it delights in a
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2.

- is best planted in very rich soil, in hills 4 by 6
eet.

The majority of amateurs believe that cauli-
flower requires infinite skill, but it is no more
difficult to grow than other things provided a
suitable variety is chosen. I have raised snowy
heads from go per cent. of the plants set of Erfurt
Best Early. An ounce of seed will produce 3,000
plants; sow one half in a hotbed about February
ist, and transplant after the ground is settled and
mellowed. These plants head for summer and
early autumn use. But the main crop for fall
and winter use, and for pickling, come from the
balance of the paper of seeds sown in an outdoor
bed in May. Set these where other and earlier
crops have been removed. Hoe frequently and,
if the season of setting (about August 1st) is very
dry, water until well started. If at the beginning
of October they have shown no inclination to head,
do not be troubled. These may remain growing
until the severe freezes of late autumn, without
injury.

Connecticut. HOLLISTER SAGE.

Starting Less Hardy Vegetables

ape SUPPLY a family of five or six persons
there will be needed about one dozen each
of eggplant and tomato plants and a half dozen
pepper plants.

Plant the seed at any time from the middle
of March to April 1st, so as to have plants for
transplanting by May roth, and later.

They may be started in the house in a shallow
box of convenient size. Mine is 43 inches deep
by 20 inches long and 12 inches wide. It has good
bottom drainage, sandy soil, and is in a sunny
window. ‘Make the soil fine, and plant the seed
‘thinly in little furrows about two inches apart.
Wet thoroughly —in the morning —as often as
seems necessary; wetting at night will sometimes
cause the young plants to damp off if the tempera-
ture should fall.

By planting the seed thinly, transplanting may
be delayed until the plants are about 2? inches
in height. They may then be removed to individual
pots or small berry boxes of earth set in a box of
moist sand. To transplant to the open ground
slip the plant and the clump of moist earth from
the pot or cut out the bottom of the berry box
without disturbing the roots, and set into. the
ground. Do not put them out until all danger
of frost has passed.

Put tomato plants deep into the earth. They
also root from the stem above. If the plants
incline to great height and thin stems, pinch out
the tender growth at the apex of the plant and
expose them to outdoor air on mild days. This
will thicken the stems and make them branch
from the axils of the leaves.

New York. M. Roperts CONOVER.

Trials in Growing Cabbages

Piicet years ago this summer, I discovered
that the cabbage wasn’t the meek and guile-
less vegetable it had looked to be. - My experience
was limited that season, for my whole garden was
but thirty feet square, and the part of it allotted
to cabbage was insignificant. In the end, however,
this was a great comfort.

I had planted the cabbages according to Hoyle,
Henderson, or whatever garden authority you
prefer; and the second morning after, I found
that the last plant had succumbed to cutworms.
That was easy. I replanted, wrapping the stems
with paper before setting. That settled the cut-
worms, but at intervals during the following weeks
came other creeping things; first green worms,
which made filigree work of the succulent leaves;
then gray aphids. At this point I lost my temper,
pulled the cabbages carefully out of the ground,
one at a time, and took them in and burned plants,
lice, and worms in the kitchen fire.

Last summer I read that boiling water could be
poured from a kettle upon cabbage plants, and
that by the time it struck it would be just cool
enough not to hurt the cabbage, while it would
cook the bugs on them. I tried it — on a quarter
acre of Danish Ball* Heads; and by evening, I
didn’t have to tell any one that I was sorry: the

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It offers many rare, new and most desirable kinds—
many of them obtainable nowhere else—at prices no
greater than you are accustomed to paying for sorts
that everybody has.

You Will Like

——_ The Globe-Headed Elm
This Stock A Klehm Product

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Klehm’s Nurseriesare cultivated The Globe-headed Elm (Udnus cam-

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and shrubs are trained and pruned worthy and rare English elm, illus-
so they will be specimens. When trated on the cover of our catalog,
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CANTERBURY
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is beautiful in finish and pattern (of which one
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and it will invariably chip the other china with
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Durable

This beautiful ‘‘Syracuse’’ China is thoroughly vitri-
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will not absorb germs. grease or dirt but remain white
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Beautiful

The exquisite colors and charming patterns of
“Syracuse” China are part of the china ztself,
and practically last as long as it does.

When they adorn your table with their ele-
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and rejoice your heart that you insisted on
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Ask your dealer. If he has it, he knows—if he
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WE WILL SEND YOU A SAMPLE

piece. You may then judge for your-
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The Readers’ Service will give you suggestions for the care of live-stock

looks of the cabbage patch told that. Every plant
I had treated was cooked!

It was really my own fault, for I knew how to
deal with most of the cabbage pests long,before last
summer. But that hot water cure did sound easy
—and I was out of spray dope. When, later on,
I found that the worms and aphids were beginning
to get troublesome in a patch of Drumhead Savoys,
I didn’t bother with the tea kettle but took a small
compressed air sprayer—one which holds ten
quarts of liquid — hitched a nozzle with a crooked
neck to it, and filled the tank with the following
mixture: nine quarts of water, three ounces of
whale oil soap dissolved in a quart of boiling water,
one ounce of arsenate of lead. The arsenate of
lead was m.xed with a little of the liquid soap,
then stirred slowly into the rest of the soap suds and
added to the water in the tank. The whole was
thoroughly shaken, and I was ready for the attack!

This spray should be applied at high pressure.
I didn’t bother much about the outer leaves —
those which stood well away from what was to be
the head of the cabbage. If the spray is applied
thoroughly to the central leaves it will catch nearly

Spraying cabbage with arsenate of lead and whale
oil soap to kill worms and aphids

all the worms, and those which escape will work
in toward the centre in their search for the tenderest
parts of the plant and will find the arsenate waiting
for them. Where a plant is infested with aphids
it will be necessary to apply the spray to both sides
of every leaf, as little colonies which escape the eye
are apt to be scattered anywhere. ‘The plants next
in the row to the infected ones need extra looking
after, too. A

After very heavy rains, if the white butterflies
are in evidence, the spray may have to be repeated
although it is quite adhesive —I suppose it is less
so where soap is used in the mixture, but without
this it is almost impossible to get it to stick to the
waxy cabbage leaves. And without the soap, it
would be of no use against aphids.

One year, I used this same spray, with lime-
sulphur (commercial solution) added in the propor-
tion of one part of solution to thirty of water,
around the roots of some cabbage plants which
were beginning to wither under the attack of root
maggots, and saved every one. I had been spray-
ing in the orchard when I noticed that the plants
were wilting, and as I had never found any other
treatment of much avail, I resorted to this rather
desperate one. I’m not sure that it will work
every time, but when one is desperate, it is worth
trying.

I have sprayed cabbages within three weeks of
using them, although that is much later than will
often be necessary, and have never detected any
sign of the arsenate. It is absolutely safe to use

Marcu, 1913

Try These Fifty-five
Hardy Berry Plants

7

Here is a lot of berry plants of the very best
varieties that I want you to try, and let me know
how they do for you. Some are high-priced new
sorts. Others are my improved strains of older sorts.
The fifty-five plants are worth $3.50 at the lowest
retail prices. I will send them to you for $2.00.

Plants set this spring should produce a few berries
next summer, many more in 1914, and more than 100
quarts per year of the finest kind of fruit in 1915, and
afterward—fully $25.00 worth a season if you sell it.

The Himalaya Berry, Macatawa Blackberry, Cur-
rants and Gooseberries will last as long as apple trees.

The Ten Different Kinds

1 Macatawa Blackberry; 1 Twelve-month Himalaya;
2 Two-year Currants, Perfection and Biskoop Giant ;
18 Raspberries, 6 Superlative Red, 6 Shepard’s Pride
Red, 6 Plum Farmer Black ; 8 Gooseberries, 2 Win-
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SEND FOR THE BERRYDALE BERRY BOOK FOR
1913. Full of good advice and money making ideas. De-
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book of its kind printed. Write today.

A. MITTING

Berrydale Experiment Gardens
Garden Avenue Holland, Mich.

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March is the time to sow lawn grass seed in the bare spots. Renovate your
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$3.50, not prepaid.

Stokes’ Shady Lawn Mixture, peck $1.25
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Stokes’ Lawn Restoring Grass Seed, peck, $1,
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Plant Stokes’ Seeds at My Expense
To show their quality, I will send five 1o-
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Lettuce, Big Boston. Greatest heading kind.
Radish, Scarlet Globe. Ready in 20 days.
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A RARE EASTER GIFT

Lily of Valley grown in our

HIS picture shows a mass of Lilies

of the Valley grown by one of our
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It takes just 18 to 21 days to bring
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sturdy roots, full of vitality.

Then, to establish their hardi-
ness, I winter them out of doors.
A Rose from the outside—one that
has had seven months of good
growing weather and five months
of rest, is bound to give you better
results than one taken right from
a greenhouse bench and never giv-
en a dormant period since its life
began.

My Fairfax plants, bred to se-
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easy. They are'so stocky and

thrifty that they are bound to-

thrive for you, and produce an
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My Free Book, ‘‘Fairfax Roses’’
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With Fairfax Roses, and
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My book describes 128 kinds of Roses, including new varieties of real
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My Fairfax Roses
Are Grown Slowly

Sappy growth, secured by forcing Rose plants under glass, lacks
the vitality necessary to enable it to produce good flowers out of
As Fairfax plants are designed for outdoor culture, I let
them grow slowly in nature’s way, forming vigorous wood and

Box 6, Oakton, Virginia

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Marcu, 1913

“Hardy Garden Flowers”
Has 110 Illustrations
All Made to Help You

[s\ BOS is one of them. All were made from photographs taken
especially for Biltmore Nursery. They show the charm of
hardy perennials, new and old, grown as they should be grown.

The book has 64 large pages. It describes all the perennial plants
that are used to produce the pleasing landscape effects illustrated, and
gives concisely and accurately the characteristics and cultural re-
quirements of many others. It breathes the spirit of the charm of
hardy gardens. It depicts the beauties of the modest Pink, the bril-.
liance of the Poppies, the charm of the Peonies, the stately grace of
Foxgloves and Larkspur, and the striking effect obtained by masses
of Hollyhocks and other plants.

How you may get this book
at once, without cost

“Hardy Garden Flowers”’ is too expensive
for promiscuous distribution, since each copy
costs 30 cents and requires 3 cents postage.
If you have a garden of perennials, or contem-
plate planting one soon, and want to know how
to select the most beautiful kinds and use them
to the best advantage, we will be glad to send
you a copy by return post.

Other Biltmore books that will
show you how to plant

“Flowering Trees and Shrubs,’ a valuable
companion to ‘‘Hardy Garden Flowers,” similar
in style and helpfulness. ‘‘ The Iris Catalog,”
showing magnificent flowers in natural colors.
“Biltmore Nursery Catalog,’ a guide to the
cultivated plants of North America, most
valuable to those who have large estates.

Ask for the book you need most.

Biltmore Nursery, high in the mountains of North Carolina, has
extremes of climate that give the stock great hardiness. Biltmore
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during the early and middle stages of the plants’
growth, when worms and aphids are troublesome.
There is another method of overcoming cabbage
pests of all sorts which is worth remembering. It
consists in the application of nitrate of soda —
about half a teaspoonful at ten-day intervals
—around the roots of each plant. This will
stimulate such rapid growth that minor troubles
are overcome by the increased vitality of the plant.
It is good to use in conjunction with spraying, but
the soda should not be applied when the heads are
large and solid, if they are at all inclined to crack.
With kale, gray aphids have given me more

trouble than cabbage worms. The kale plants

usually are vigorous enough to withstand the
ravages of the worms, but the nauseous masses of
gray lice seem to discourage them. Quite often
the infected plants can be picked out from a dis-
tance by their rather wilted appearance, although
when the bugs are bad it is better to go carefully
over the whole patch.

Washington. Paut E. TrRIEem.

A Run-wild Hedge

I LIVE in the city and my back yard, facing
south, measures only 81 feet front by 120
in depth. I can go back into my 81-foot demesne
and see naught beyond but the attic stories and
roofs of the surrounding houses and the sky over
all. I am as shut in as if standing in a forest
clearing! And this is why —

A tall, thick wall of green fringes three sides —
east, north and west —a mixed hedge such as
might grow in any fence corner. So natural and
without apparent plan or design does this hedge
seem that it is always compared to the wild tangle
on the banks of a river.

It originally consisted of a line of soft maples,
which attained their growth and began to die.
But no invalid ever received more careful attention
than did those old trunks, and fortunately I have
a few left whose upper branches are able to support
heavy festoons of wild grape and Virginia creeper.
All along the line grow sturdy young maples, elms
and boxelders, nearly all volunteers from stray
seeds, kept back in growth as they are principally
needed as supports for the vines. These young
trees are kept in bourids by careful pruning every
summer. When in full leaf each branch is closely
studied and, if not needed for screening some
unsightly vista, is cut away as I want all the sun-
light and air obtainable for my hedge. This
seemingly wild growth receives as much careful
attention and planning as the most formal hedge.
The highest branches, fifteen feet and upward, occur
only at intervals, just breaking some undesirable
view.

Here and there are quite open spaces in
the height to permit of a view of my neighbor’s
apple tree in bloom, or a gap where the setting
sun shows through. In one opening a pair of
Lombardy poplars, a mile distant — just as near
as I want poplars — forms one of the pretty pic-
tures in the hedge gallery. In places where a
screen is needed and no branch available I bridged
the chasm with dead branches after the manner
of brushing peas, and. these are soon covered with
the stout woody vines and form a permanent
fixture.

The base of my hedge is studded with clumps of
wild rose and eupatorium, and other flotsam from
the wayside. The rose bushes were seized with a
firm grip and pulled up by the roots in April
when the ground was moist and soft, and the eupa-
toriums secured after the same heroic fashion in
fall, in full bloom. They have grown and thriven
in spite of the brutal method of transplantation.
I exercise more care with ferns and other delicate
wood dwellers but I have never succeeded so well
as in the case of the roses and eupatorium. The
common morning glory, of course, goes in here
and there in the whole extent of the hedge, from
seeds planted in the house in March.

The dead leaves, grass mowings and other refuse
can be deposited in spaces back of the hedge out
of sight till needed. A real necessity in any
garden is such a spot to receive valuable refuse for
future use. The whole space inside the hedge
is sodded, with long, narrow flower beds cut into
the grass and level with it.

Minnesota. Mary MapicGANn.

MA eny 10N8 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 113

I Want to Know You
if, Like Me You Love
The Hardy Garden Plants

ET us become acquainted — write to me about your
garden and I will send you my new book of Hardy
Plant Specialties for both connoisseur and amateur.

In it I tell you of Delphiniums, Irises,
Peonies, Phloxes, Poppies, and other flower-
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varieties.

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I am sometimes asked if it “pays” to grow so
many varieties of Peonies, and Irises, when a shorter
list might answer. I repeat here, then, that I grow
the things I like and because I want them for my-
self, and for the pleasure they give me. Inci-
dentally, I find others want them, too.

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This book not only tells why it is more economical
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The Delphinium of today is a tall and stately plant, con-
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that, to bring out the full beauty of the
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theres nothing like Old English Floor Wax.

The finish lasts, but spots getting most wear can be made
like new by just rubbing on a little wax. There’s no need

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Propagating Roses

OOTING rose cuttings is like raising chickens;
the mortality is heavy in the early stages.
After plodding with many methods to cut down
these losses, I hit upon conditions which bring
good returns. Whenever I get a blossom of a good
rose not in my collection, I put the flower in water
and enjoy its beauty until the petals fall. Then
I break off the head and plant the stem in a bed
prepared for such purposes. This bed is about
eighteen inches wide and runs along the north side of
a solid board fence on the south side of the yard.
There is an overhanging berry vine which makes a
partial shade; just enough sun to warm the surface
and stimulate growth. A lattice of laths half an
inch apart would be a good substitute. The soil
is a heavy clay, called adobe, out West. Such
a soil is preferable to sand as it does not dry out
quickly and slight neglect will not be fatal. Any
sticky, unfertile soil with a little good soil mixed
seems to answer. Cuttings will establish good
roots in about four months. In late fall these are
transferred to their new quarters.

Every year I buy some new roses — not novelties.
By comparing the standard flower catalogues, one
can readily pick out those receiving general en-
dorsement. Two-year old roses are the most
satisfactory and are worth the difference in price.
On the Pacific Coast this maturity is reached in
about eighteen months. These vigorous bushes
may be pruned before planting and thereby provide
cuttings. :

I make most of my cuttings in the summer, using
the flower stems after the petals have fallen. The
stems are cut with a sharp knife close up to the
stalk leaving a short stub. You will notice rings
or nodules close together. These form eyes. The
slips are planted at an angle of 30 degrees, about
one third out of the ground and two inches apart.
Water thoroughly after planting; thence once a
week or two to keep the soil moist, not wet. Long
stems should be cut in two; not to exceed say
seven inch lengths. In the fall slips are made
from regular prunings, but if flowers are cut
with long stems, as they should be, many vari-
eties will require little trimming. In many
climates this fall pruning, setting out of cuttings,
or transferring of little plants, must be deferred
until early spring. I carefully label known varie-
ties of cuttings, using thin stakes coated on one
side with white lead paint and a carpenter’s pencil
for marking; this stands the weather.

Some varieties do not strike root easily; some
rarely except by bottom heat, the Devoniensis and
Lyon for example. The Lyon is in a class by itself
for beauty, color and vigor. Pay the price and
get it! Betty, somewhat recent, well named for
a standby, is a beautiful copper rose. Then Hugh
Dickson is a fine scarlet-crimson holding its color
well in hot sun, and almost a climber in its vigorous
growth. Frau Karl Druschki, snow white, although
introduced about ten years ago, did not get freely
marketed until some five years ago and then
bounded into popularity. The outer petals, un-
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Mildred Grant, cream white edged with pink, are
vigorous and beautiful but will mildew; indeed
a friend of mine calls it “Mildew Grant.”

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Dean Hole, a cream salmon, is a fine big rose and
robust, but the buds will putty up under moisture.
J. B. Clarke, deep scarlet, General MacArthur,
bright scarlet and Lady Battersea, a cherry, are
good reds. Thus the list might be extended, but
these are about my ‘“‘bests” of the newer roses I
have grown.

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The Hardiest Roses

URING the past twenty-one years a large

number of rose varieties have been tested out
at the Central Experimental Farm, and the follow-
ing list of the hardiest roses in Ottawa is taken
from Pamphlet No. 9, “Hardy Roses — Their
Culture in Canada,” by W. T. Macoun, which
has recently been issued by the Department of
Agriculture of the Dominion Experimental Farms.
The asterisk (*) marks those varieties that are
not now generally obtainable in the nurseries:

HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES

Red and shades of red: Abel Carriere, *Bessie

| Johnson, Baronne de Bonstetten, General Jacque-

Moss,

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minot, Pierre Notting, Prince Camille de Rohan,
*Souvenir de Duchess, Thomas Mills.

Pink and shades of pink: *Baronne Prevost,
*Comtesse Cecile de Chabrillant, Comtesse d’Ox-
ford, Caroline de Sansal, *Catherine Soupert,
*Louise Odier, La Reine, *Madame Gomet,
*Madame Joly, Magna Charta, Madame Gabriel
Luizet, Oakmont, Victor Verdier.

White: Madame Plantier.

MISCELLANEOUS ROSES

Moss roses: Blanche Moreau, Perpetual White
Centifolia, Glory of Mosses, and other
named moss roses.

Rugosa roses: White and red rugosa.

Damask rose: Madame Hardy (white).

Rugosa hybrids: Madame Geo. Bruant, Madame
Chas. Worth, Agnes Emily Carman, Mary Amott.

ALTERNATIVE LIST

This second list of Hybrid Perpetuals includes
the roses that, having been under test for the past
five or ten years, have shown satisfactory indica-
tions of hardiness and vigor:

Red and shades of red: Anna de Diesbach, car-
mine; Duke of Connaught, velvety crimson; Em-
press of India, light crimson; Horace Vernet,
velvety red; King of Sweden, dark crimson; Lady
Helen Stewart, dark crimson; Madame Victor
Verdier, cherry red; Marie Rady, brilliant red;
Reynolds Hole, rich maroon; Ulrich Brunner,
cherry crimson.

Pink and shades of pink: Clara Cochet, deep
pink to red; Duchess de Morny, bright rose;
John Hopper, rose pink; Merveille de Lyon, light
pink, white centre; Mrs. John Laing, clear pink;
Mrs. R. G. Sharman-Crawford, rose pink; Paul
Neyron, deep rose.

Miscellaneous roses: Sir Thomas Lipton, white
Rugosa hybrid; New Century, pink Rugosa hybrid;
Universal Favorite, rose climber (Wichuraiana
hybrid); Lady Gay, pink climber; Crimson Ram-
bler, crimson climber; Dorothy Perkins, bright
pink climber; Persian Yellow, yellow brier rose;
Harison’s Yellow, deep yellow brier.

Sunlight for Roses

O* EQUAL importance with the character and
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is the exposure of the plants. Give them always,
where practicable, full sunlight and free air circula-
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confined situations —our native species are per-
haps most tractable in this respect—and the
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to grow, descendants for the most part of sun
loving Asiatic species, fairly demand free and open
situations, and show their inability to endure the
overshadowing. companionship of other plants by
languishing or succumbing to mildew and other
well-known pests.

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morning sun, thus drying and stimulating the
foliage early in the day and enabling it to resist
the disease organisms that are always favored by
darkness and moisture. It is rare to find a rose
plant, even of the susceptible varieties, in the sun
affected with leaf disease while similar plants
nearby, in forenoon shade, may be distressingly
injured. Thus a Crimson Rambler on a west wall
may be powdered with mildew and have abortive
blooms; while with an eastern or southern exposure,
flowers and foliage might be all that could reason-
ably be desired.

Hybrid Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals in particular
should have the most open and sunny exposures
available. Tea and Bourbon varieties, though
revelling in unobstructed sunshine when it can be
had, will endure moderate mid-day shade with but
little harm. Sweetbrier, rugosa, Wichuraiana and
the Austrian or early yellow roses and their hybrids
generally possess highly resistant foliage and will
better endure the shade of trees, walls and buildings
and the proximity of mixed plantings than most
others. Give them liberal culture and they will
endure competition with other shrubs of not too
aggressive growth.

The Noisettes and Prairie Climbers, with the
exception of Marechal Niel and its kindred, are
also fairly well adapted for partially shaded situa-
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China class represented by the well-known variety
Madame Plantier, and the Scotch or spinosissima
roses are also quite suitable for planting in out-of-
the-way nooks in the dooryard and garden.

Possibly the worst rose of all to endure shade is
the charming little Rosa berberidifolia Hardii, with
its yellow cup surrounding an orange-red ‘“‘eye”
or central disc. Though quite hardy as regards
cold, its minute foliage at once collapses if called
on to endure moist shade. I have only been able
to bloom it on a sloping sand bank in the full glare

of the sun.
Maryland. W. VAN FLEET.

Asters and Aster Troubles

Y FIRST attempt at raising asters was a

dismal failure. I sowed the seed, as the
packets directed, ‘‘after all danger of frost” was
over, in the open ground, and in due time trans-
planted the seedlings to a sunny spot in the hardy
border. There they grew fairly well, until nearly
ready to blossom, when for one reason or another
they withered and died. Some were attacked by
that miserable black beetle that was created to try
the soul of the aster lover; others suffered from a
blight; the rest drooped suddenly without any
apparent cause. (I afterward discovered that these
last had the excuse of “aphis at the root”.) The
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talked and which I had so hoped for did not
materialize.

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and fell to studying everything I could find on
the subject. The next spring, on March 6th, I
started the new campaign. I bored holes in cigar
boxes, covered the holes with bits of stone or broken
glass, put a layer of broken flower pots and small
stones in the bottom of the boxes for drainage and
filled them with good, sifted garden soil. I watered
each box well, let it dry out a little, then with a
narrow board lightly marked off the rows and
scattered aster seeds, not too thickly, in them.
Then I sifted earth over the seeds until they were
covered, pressed it down gently, and put over each

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box a piece of cheesecloth and a newspaper. This
covering kept the ground moist until the seeds
germinated. I had only one variety in a box,
and marked the boxes carefully. The seed was
choice seed of the Lavender Gem, Crego, and Late
Branching varieties. They germinated well, and
on April rrth I transplanted the seedlings to larger,
deeper boxes. The sifted soil for these boxes was
mixed with sheep manure, watered and allowed
to dry out a little. Then I took up the little
seedlings carefully, with an old kitchen fork, taking
soil with them when possible, and deposited them
gently, in the holes 2 inches apart, that I had made
for them in the large boxes. I kept the earth
moist, but not too wet. The little plants grew
splendidly, and on May 11th they were ready
to put outdoors.

I determined to try a shady situation this time
and prepared a bed on the northeast side of the
house, where the sun makes only a short visit
every morning. The ground was dug rather deep
and well rotted manure thoroughly mixed with the
earth. The top layer was good soil from the gar-
den, well raked and pulverized. Into this carefully
prepared bed the little asters were transplanted,
ten inches apart each way. I took them out of
their*old boxes, disturbing the roots as little as
possible, set them in holes made with a small
dibble, and then scratched a circle of sifted ashes
into the soil around each little plant. The plants
were kept watered and grew well. On the first
and fifteenth of June I sprayed them with a dilute
solution of bordeaux mixture and arsenate of
lead, coaxed from the gardener when he sprayed
the potatoes. To every gallon of the bordeaux
mixture I added two level teaspoonfuls of the
arsenate. In June I also dug wood ashes into the
soil about the plants twice, and kept the ground
well stirred.

Through July I used the bordeaux and arsenate
mixture every ten days, and in between gave the
roots of the plants a soaking with soap suds, and
one application of tobacco water, to discourage that
miserable root aphis. I also administered manure

water (made by pouring two quarts of boiling |

water over a quart or so of dry sheep manure, letting
it cool, and diluting with two gallons of cold water)
once a week. In spite of everything, the black
beetles appeared on time, but not in great numbers,
and we hand picked them into kerosene and were
soon rid of them. ute

This regime sounds more formidable than it
really was, although I confess to spending two or
three hours a week on the asters. But the result
of my labors was such a mass of bloom as paid well
for all the trouble. The Lavender Gem was first
to bloom, and the blossoms were very lovely. The
late branching asters cannot be hurried much by
early planting, but the early start made the plants
strong and stocky, and I believe, ensured better
flowers. At any rate, they were covered with
white, pink and lavender blossoms almost as large
as chrysanthemums.

New Jersey. Mrs. W. B. RicHarpson.

White Violets for Edging Flower
Beds

Foe several years I have used the white violet
in my garden as an edging around the flower
beds and it has proved the most satisfactory plant
for bordering that I have ever grown. It not only
looks well, but it is clean and thrifty, is unmolested
by blight or any insect and is ironclad as to hardi-
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throw out no runners there is no danger of the
border becoming matted with roots.

I had experimented with many edging plants
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edge. Under cultivation, white violets increase
wonderfully in size and they grow even better in
full sunlight than in partial shade. My garden is
exposed to the blaze of the sun in midsummer until
about three o’clock.

A few years ago, eight little plants were given

me from a friend’s yard where they were growing
in the grass. These increased so rapidly by self-
sowing and had so many good points that I decided
to try them as a permanent edging. They proved
such a success that I now have four hundred feet
of this beautiful bordering. The plants are set
eight inches apart.

In the middle of March when clearing up the
border, the violet leaves are found still green under
last year’s old stems. The plants are soon a mass
of new leaves and during the last week of April
the large creamy white blossoms literally cover the
plants which continue to bloom profusely for
weeks. I have had them in flower by the 1oth
of April, in a border sheltered by a stone wall,
and have picked them as late as July oth.

Quantities of seeds ripen, and self-sow, so there
is a constant supply of new plants. These young
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The plant is of branching habit and not at all
stiff. The flower stalks are long and spring from
the axils of the leaves. When in bloom the effect
is that of a white and green ribbon enclosing the
garden and acting as a delightful foil to the blue
of columbines or the yellow of daffodils, while
in one corner it tones down most effectually the
too vivid coloring of a large clump of bleeding
heart.

In one border white violets make a delightful
combination with spiderwort and German iris.
At the other end of this same border the color
combination is repeated, in a mass of pale blue
forget-me-nots with a violet edging and back of the
forget-me-nots are the feathery flowers of white
valerian. A charming effect is obtained with groups
of pinkish columbine surrounded by an edging
of white violets.

New York. L. Pettit.

Japanese Iris From Seed

HEN I first began gardening years ago, I

bought scarcely any but mixed varieties.
It was owing to this crude idea of planting that
I now have some very fine clumps of iris.

For ten cents I Bauene a packet of mixed un-
named Japanese iris seed. This was sowed in a
carefully prepared drill and soon a row of tiny
grass-like spears were pushing their way through
the earth. Every seed seemed to germinate.
They were watered and cultivated weekly, and
by fall the plants were strong and sturdy. The
ground where they grew was well drained, and
plenty of old manure and leafmold had been
plowed into the soil. In November a light mulch
of litter was placed along the row.

The following April the young iris plants were
given more room in which to develop. I had been
told none would bloom until the second season, so
I was much surprised when in July of that first
year a few of the plants showed buds.

The first to unfold was a glistening white-petalled
sort with a crest of soft yellow on its falls. Another
was a very deep purple, almost black.

The second year all bloomed and among them were
several unattractive in coloring — muddy purples
and faded lavenders. These were weeded out,
leaving only those of clear well defined colors,
some beautifully veined and feathered, others self-
colored. All were given permanent places specially
prepared for them in the border, for they thrive
best in rich, mellow loam well underdrained so that
no water stands around their roots in winter,
although during the growing and budding season
they require a good deal of moisture.

The lovely nameless white and gold flower that
was and is still the first to bloom, is easily the
first in point of beauty as well. Except that it is
single, it is similar to the white variety Tokyo and
indeed they may be seedlings of a common ancestor
in Japan. Another, which I have placed near this,
is a white delicately suffused with lavender.

Connecticut. Mary B. PAret.

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Vegetables and Flowers

DUNS the warm days of March, cabbages
will make rapid growth. A little nitrate of
soda put around them now will promote a more
rapid growth and bring them to earlier maturity.
At this season of the year, the nitrogen in the soil
is not as available as when the soil is warm; there-
fore, nitrate of soda is the best form of nitrogen
to use now for quick crops.

Frost is usually past in the Lower South by this
time and a few tomato plants can be set out in the
open. If you haven’t grown any for transplanting,
order a few from some of the plant growers. In
Florida the plants are usually ready for sale by this
time. It is also very desirable to have extra early
pepper and eggplants.

Plant out canna and dahlia roots now in the
Lower South and begin sowing all sorts of annuals
in the open.

Make a hotbed for sweet potatoes now. Be sure
to put the bed in a sunny place and use manure
in the bottom to make the heat; but don’t mix
cotton seed with the soil, as it has a tendency to
rot the potatoes.

A few peanuts may be planted in the garden,
but not as a field crop.

Years ago Chinese and Japanese pinks were
very popular in the South. While they seem to
have grown less popular here, the many new and
improved varieties make them more worthy of gen-
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Both the double and single sorts are very desirable
for bordering flower beds, or to grow in masses.
They are very free flowering and will bloom until
frost if they are not allowed to seed. Where you
want only a few plants but many colors buy
mixed seed. Probably the most showy varieties
are Nobilis (Royal Pinks) double, large flowers
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Crimson Bell is a very fine single sort, velvet in
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Salmon Queen, a fine single, of salmon color.

A sunny spot is necessary if you want the greatest
number of flowers. March is the time for sowing the
seed in the open ground. They come into flower
very quickly on good soil; on poor soil, too, if a
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Germinating Delicate Seeds

Hoe some years I have seen occasional accounts
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delicate or very slow germinating seeds,
but I have never yet seen my own plan described.

IT use common earthen-ware flower pots, as many
as I have different kinds of the difficult-to-start

small,

seeds. These pots are filled with good garden
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necessity of using earthenware pots, instead of tin
cans, etc., is shown, as they are porous and absorb
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to transplant, they can be pulled out of the loose
soil without any material injury to their roots.
One of my neighbors, who does year-round garden-
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his parsley in this way.

New York. Gorpon H. BELLAMY.

Raising Celery in South Dakota

HERE summers are hot and frosts come early

it is not easy to secure satisfactory results
with celery, yet by study and care it can be done,
at least on a small scale for one’s home garden.
In my own garden the following methods have
proved eminently successful:

I select a strong, quick-growing variety. The
Giant Paschal has not only this advantage, but is
of a tender quality with nutty flavor, and is also a
good keeper, which is of special importance where
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Sow the seed in the hotbed about March 15th,
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careful to “harden off” thoroughly so that the
plants will not suffer from over-exposure when
transplanted to the garden.

Transplant to the open garden about May trsth,
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Take up the plants by inserting a broad, flat shovel
under the row, and carry them to the place of
transplanting by the shovelful. Throw away all
but the sturdiest plants. Pinch off the ends of
the roots and all but the two youngest leaves.
Pinching off the roots causes them to bunch and
spread, while pinching off the larger leaves prevents
the plants being over-worked while getting rooted.
If possible leave a little ball of soil about the roots
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tow, fill with well-rotted manure, and soak thor-
oughly with water. If the row of plants is then
covered with boards raised an inch or so above them
to protect from the sun, and the trenches are soaked
every day for a week the plants will be checked
little in their growing, and practically none will be
lost.

The trenches at the sides, filled with manure
and soaked with water, invite the roots to reach out
in every direction and furnish ample food for vigor-
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night and replaced in the morning until the plants
are safe from the heat of the sun. The main point
in such care of celery is to secure strong, ample
rooting, so that in September and October —
the most rapidly growing months for celery — this
ample rootage will send up large, quick-growing
stalks.

My second transplanting is done about July
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first importance here in South Dakota, for from the
middle of July to the middle of September the
weather is exceedingly hot, and in the trench the
roots are well below the surface, while the water
is kept from running from the plants.

Again, the utmost care must be taken in trans-
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roots so that the growth will not even be checked.
Soak the rows thoroughly with water before
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being preferable. If such manure is fine, however,
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pervious to water.

HOW I STORE MY CELERY

Tt is my custom to store my celery where it grows.
It keeps better this way, and I have had no difficulty
in preserving it from freezing even in forty-below-
zero winter. I begin hilling up about September
ist, following the growing stalks with the soil
until frost threatens, keeping the soil as nearly as
possible just below the leaves. Do not cover the
leaves until frost, so that the plants may have every
advantage of vigorous growth. When frost
threatens cover the tops at night with some loose
hay mixed with leaves. Remove this covering
each morning. In this way I have kept celery
growing here in South Dakota for three or four
weeks after frost.

When freezing begins in earnest cover over the
tops of the celery with soil, being careful not to
break the stalks. Over the soil spread a few
inches of leaves or chaffy straw. As the cold in-
creases keep adding leaves and straw with an
occasional sprinkling of soil to protect the covering
from the wind until the covering is a foot deep.
Care must be taken to protect the sides of the
raised row as well as the top. This method will
preserve celery from freezing in the very severest
weather.

Needless to say, great care must be exercised in
opening the trench in cold weather. I take out
enough at one time to last a week or two and keep
it in a dark corner of the cellar, wetting the roots
a little when it is brought in. In this way the
trench need be opened only on mild days; and if
one is careful not to remove the covering from the
top, but to dig well under, and then carefully pack
back the dry covering there will be little danger of
freezing. To make doubly sure, however, I have
used an old heavy rug to cover the opened end.

If one is careful to replace the covering over the
portion of his celery row from which the celery has
been removed he will find under it plenty of
unfrozen soil in good condition for use in his hotbed
in early March.

South Dakota. Craic S. THOMs.

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““We raise our own Trees’’

Before placing your order for nursery stock get our
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Some species are listed below and many others are
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Comparison of prices will convince you that ours are
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Prices per 1000 Plants

Transplants
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Seedlings
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European Larch. . . . . 25
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Shade Trees Worth $500 Each

New York Supreme Court Decides

A construction company in a New York town cut down several shade trees. The
owner sued. The court awarded him $500 for each tree destroyed and $1,000
as general damages.

The court considered that trees adorn and increase the value of property, and give

health, comfort, enjoyment, and protection to their owners. They cannot be replaced

for years, and during this time the owners are deprived of their benefits.

This is the value of shade trees. If you do not have them you are deprived of their

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The Readers’ Service gives information about insurance

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ARLY this spring when the ] had planted Moon’s Shrubs {this spring.
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Forsythia are dreaming—while your neigh-
making cheer ; : ie bors’ shrubs and trees are
spots on your each season growing more
neighbors’ beautiful.
grounds, you Better make a break right
will again wish now, by sending for Moon’s
that you had Catalog, and then order early
planted some so you can plant early.
of Moon’s Shrubs last fall. There are a few, plain, com-
Later on, when the feathery mon sense reasons why Moon’s
crests of Spirea; the big round Hardy plants, shrubs, and
flowers of the Japanese snow ~~ 3 = ; trees are superior — so reason-
ball and the lovely blooms of — ana'guality ofour shrubs about» feet nigh, able in price.

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Growing Tomatoes for Quality

oP CeTons can be grown anywhere and will
produce some fruit under almost all condi-
tions; but to bear fancy fruit and lots of it, the
plants must be given intelligent care from the day
the seed germinates until the fruit is picked.
Extra care and attention produce wonderful re-
sults, both in the earliness of the crop and the
quality and quantity of the yield, together with
the increased length of the fruiting season.

The large gardener starts his plants in the hot-
bed, but the home gardener may grow them in a
box in a sunny window. The seed should be sown
from forty to fifty days before the time to set the
plants out in the open. Fill the box with rich earth
that has been carefully sifted and is free from stones
and lumps of hard earth, and cover the seeds about
a quarter of an inch deep, keeping the box in a
temperature of about 65 degrees at night and about
80 degrees in the day time. When the young
plants attain the height of one to two inches they
should be transplanted into another shallow box or
hotbed, and set about four inches apart. Here
they remain until they are planted in the garden,
after all danger of frost is over.

Another, and better, method is to take the young
seedling plants and set each one in a 3-inch flower
pot. Treated in this way, the roots are not dis-
turbed when transplanted to the open ground.

Set out the plants in rows 5 feet apart, putting
them every 4 feet in the row. The proper time
for moving the plant is when it is from 12 to 15
inches in height, having a stem as thick through as
an ordinary lead pencil. If cold weather should
threaten after the plants are set out it may be
necessary to cover them at night with a basket or a
plant protector of some kind, which should not be
removed until the temperature has risen to at least
45 degrees above zero. Give plenty of water after
setting out.

As soon as the young plants start to show some
growth, they should be hoed every three or four
days, weather permitting. Top dress the soil
around the plants with well rotted manure at this
stage of growth. For garden culture the vines
should be pruned and tied to a stake or other
support. As soon as the vines have made a growth
of 12 to 15 inches, cut out all the small shoots,
leaving only three or four of the largest and best.
Cut these so the vine will be well balanced on all
sides. :

A stake about 4 feet long should be driven into
the ground near the base of the stalk and the plant
tied to it with raffa or a soft string —not too
tightly, or the plant will be injured. Two or three
stakes may be used if desired. Tying up the plants
in this way allows the light and air to get in among
the fruits, which are kept clean and have plenty of
air space and sun to ripen them early.

If exceptionally large fruit is wanted for exhibi-
tion or for any special competition, pinch off in the
early stages all except three or four fruits on each
vine. This throws the entire strength of the vine
into these special fruits and will greatly increase
their size. Keep off any lateral branches as they
appear and allow only the three or four main stalks
to grow and bear fruit. After the three or four
blossoms on each stalk have made sufficient growth
pinch off the growing end of the stalk. With this
careful treatment, you will have three or four
main stalks with three bunches of fruit stems to
each one.

The fruit should remain on the vine until it is
fully matured, for not until it is thoroughly ripened
does it have its finest flavor. Of course, if it is to
be shipped or carried any considerable distance, it
should be picked greener than when it is to be used
at once, and this illustrates the advantage of the
home garden.

For the very earliest tomatoes use Earliana, but
there is a great difference in the strains of this var-
iety. Some are poor and rough, while others are
smooth and vigorous. Earliana’s only virtue, how-
ever, is its earliness, as it lacks foliage and vigor
of vine, and the fruit is somewhat acid in taste.

Bonny Best Early is within a few days as early
as any strain of Earliana, and produces fruit of the
finest quality in the greatest abundance. If kept
pruned and trained as indicated above, it should
produce fruit in the Middle Atlantic States by the
2oth to the 25th of June. It will continue to bear

Marcu, 19138

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Flowering
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The Spencer Sweet Peas are the latest
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They make a glorious display growing, or
for house decoration.

In our Garden Guide which we will send
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It is also a complete catalog of Bodding-
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This Guide will be of great assistance to
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good size, until September.

Among the good later varieties with scarlet fruit,
Chalk’s Early Jewel, Success, Matchless and Stone
are recommended.

Among the purple or pink fruited sorts June Pink
is early and good. The Globe and Ponderosa are |
also well known purple sorts. The latter is one of
the largest tomatoes grown, but it is apt to be rough |
and irregular in shape.

The little Superb Salad tomato grows in clusters |
and yields heavily. When a small tomato is
wanted to serve whole on the table, with lettuce
leaves, it answers well, but it is too small for a
market variety. ' |

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fine fruit of a rich, deep, velvety, scarlet color of j |
it
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New Jersey. WALTER P. STOKES.

An American Substitute for |
Heather q

LONG the sand dunes of the eastern shore of
Lake Michigan there occur small heaths
carpeted with Hudsonia tomentosa, a. member of |
the rock rose family. The plant occurs in pure
sand, alone or associated with dune grass, and
either completely covers the surface with a heather- |
like growth, or in more exposed places forms |
rounded tufts. Its whole aspect is like heather.
According to Gray it is a ‘‘bushy, heath-like little |
shrub covered with small awl-like, alternate, per- |
sistent, downy leaves,’ and its color and general
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character are decidedly those of heather. As I
have seen these Hudsonia heaths only in the late
summer or autumn I have for several years made
the mistake of thinking it to be heather, for in its
general picture the plant brought back memories
and impressions of European heather. But I never
could find it in flower, and it was quite evident that
it spread rapidily from year to year by seed.

The problem was finally solved for me by Pro-
fessor Gleason, of the botanical department of the
University of Michigan, who had seen the plant =
ee

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many small but showy bright yellow flowers
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Large Yields from Your GROWN IN NEW JERSEY and more hoary, others are more reddish and

in flower. It blooms in May and June, having ]
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under soil and climate advantages, heather-like. A variety intermedia is mentioned
G di : ie Steele’s Sturdy Stock is the satisfactory in Gray, as having more awl-shaped leaves and
QTAEN Thisis the title of a book by Adolph ; nee Gren assorancutiel Saas peduncled flowers. Hudsonia ericoides (downy but i
Kruhm for a number of years with W. Atlee Fouit Plants. Hardy Gi baueeeee: aie, greenish, with flowers on slender naked stalks)
Burpee, the seedsman of Philadelphia. @ ; Bully Described ine my Bea occurs in dry sandy soil on the Atlantic coast from
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The Michigan species is certainly an interesting
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Marcu, 1913 | ehh Ge AGh De neaNe vi AG A Z IN # 133

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Quality Seed Potatoes

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because it had ;
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More About the Evergreen
Bitter-sweet

HE article in a recent number of THE GARDEN
MacazineE, from the pen of Wilhelm Miller,
interested me very much, and I was glad to see
attention being drawn to this most valuable of all
evergreen climbers for North America. That it is
perfectly hardy goes without saying —at least
it has withstood minimum temperatures of as low
as 25 degrees below zero without the slightest
injury. Only on one or two occasions in more than
twenty years have I found any of the foliage even

slightly browned in the most exposed situations-

Compare this with English ivy, which is a beautiful
evergreen climber, but in these cold latitudes it

can only be grown with a northern exposure; and

even then, unless protected, it will brown more

5 = or less every spring. Even in cemeteries, where
THE TRINIDAD-LAKE-ASPHALT it is largely planted, it scalds very badly unless

So. .
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Trinidad Lake asphalt
to make roofing /astingly

waterproof

Roofings made of various compositions give protection and
service only till their “compositions” disintegrate and let
them leak. The roofing for real endurance is

mus radicans growing slowly as compared with other

Many GDC Rr Eatec acne near F climbers; as a matter of fact, it makes rapid headway
y actured products whose oils of value have been ex- | when planted in good soil. For instance, a little

tracted for other purposes, leaving a hard black pitch—a lifeless mass that gives | more than five years ago I rooted some hundreds of
roofing but little resistance. It soon cracks, breaks, and leaks. cuttings which a year later were planted to cover
Genasco—made of Trinidad Lake asphalt—has the natural oils preserved | the walls ofa new mansion being built here. At the

in it “for life”: and the life def : : ; . present time these vines are fifteen to seventeen feet
rea: Bee Zs : a oe eee years of rain, sun, wind, high. One wall twelve feet in height, enclosing a
Gites oe , cold, fire, alkalis, and acids. court yard, was densely covered in a little more than

et Genasco Roofing of your dealer, Smooth or mineral surface. Guaranteed. Genasco smooth three years. Of course, these plants had good soil

surface roofing has the Kant-leak Kleet, that waterproofs seams without cement d . sas
nail-leaks Write us for samples and the Good Roof Guide Book, free. » anc prevents | and in addition a mulch of cow manure each year.

The Barber Asphalt Paving Company So much for the plant being a slow grower.

AN d &
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Asphalt Lake

Largest producers of asphalt, and largest manufacturers of ready roofing in the world : For hedging purposes E. radicans has few equals;
Philadelphia it is also splendid for covering rocks, boulders, and
New York GemtEsncisce Chicago | Old walls. The form Carrieri is the best for hedging

purposes; it is also valuable for use amongst ever-
green shrubs if the plants are wired together a little.

The call for Euonymus radicans increases yearly,
faster in fact than the supply, and it is surprising
that ‘a plant so easy of propagation should still
have to be annually imported by the thousands
from Europe. Any one with a small coldframe
can root this plant with ease. The best time for
propagating is summer — any time from the early
part of July to the middle of August. If cuttings
are taken from walls a large part of them will be
found to have small roots most of their length.
These must not be allowed to lay around to dry
out at all. Place them first in a tub or wooden
pail of perfectly fresh water — be sure that it 7s abso-

@
Save Your Fruit Trees! || Peccueseeces™
KEEP THE BORERS OUT BY USING t inches long, are |

eight inches long, are suitable. Place these thickly

i ¥ Anse ei oV\g in sandy loam in the coldframe, or if preferred,

the ounce of prevention that is worth more | % "yfaeuiiag ; in boxes four inches deep containing good drainage

than a pound of cure. It increases the value |. Ar Mi y: below the soil. Firm well, give a thorough soaking

of your crop from $100.00 to $250.00 per acre. | #2 ff /] of water, and place the sashes over them, which

(Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) It is guaranteed to keep borers out of peach, eat A f should be shaded with lime wash or kerosene and
plum, apple, pear and quince trees. Does not harm the tree, but ; 4 i} white lead. Damp over the plants several times

prolongs its life indefinitely, and also gives protection against the ee TaN i daily in clear weather, less frequently when dull;

ravages of rabbits and field mice. \\ ff air only moderately, and close the frame tight at four

: i or five o’clock. One of the great secrets in rooting
euonymus cuttings is to keep them frequently
damped over and the soil well soaked with water.
_ ah ads Once they are allowed to get at all dry it is all up

Agents Wanted — ——— ‘| with them. Usually in six weeks the cuttings will be

We want live agents in every County in every section of the country where fruit is grown. No cash required sufficiently rooted so that more light and air can

liberal commissions, exclusive territory. Write for free literature and authoritative reports, explaining what the be given, and about the first of September the sash
borer is, how it destroys your trees, and how easily it can be exterminated. Agency preferences granted to fruit may be removed altogether. Cuttings of well

zrowers who have used d 31 3 i $3 u
grow! vho have used, or are now using, Borowax on their own orchards a cured wood’catl belrooted anialwacm greenhouse
at almost any season of the year; after the middle

asin cosy BOROWAX MANUFACTURING CO., Box 225, Little Silver, N. J. of August I find they will also root very easily

outdoors if planted closely in nursery rows, well

Costs, to apply (including labor,) from $3.00 to $5.00 per acre,
according to size and number of trees, and one application every
two or three years is sufficient.

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Marca, 1913

Lawn Grasses

In order to maintain a beautiful
green sward during the entire
season, itis absolutely necessary
to sow Grasses that will re-
spond to both climatic and
soil conditions.

We have made a life study of
Grasses suitable for all purposes
and conditions and will be
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information to those interested
in Lawns, Golf Courses, Tennis
Courts or Pasture Lands.

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Seeds, Bulbs, Plants

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The Newest in Flowers

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Gladiolus Bulbs

We are offering a hundred varieties selected from the
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Mrs. Frank Pendleton, Jr.

The coloring of this flower is exceptionally beautiful, — a
rich, soft pink, shading to a darker tint and in striking contrast
with the brilliant carmine patch on the minor petals. Such
coloring does not produce the delicate, subtle beauty that is
the charm of America, nor the majestic beauty of Rajah, nor
the poetic, winsome beauty of Spring Song and Myrtle, nor
the quiet stateliness of Daisy Rand. But the Pendleton has
a beauty all its own; a brilliant, dashing, compelling beauty
that makes you stop and admire.

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Dahlias, Gladioli, Lilies,
Phlox, Peonies

and other summer-flowering bulbs and hardy
perennials is now ready. Send for it, and we
will also send later our Fall Catalogue of the

Best Dutch Bulbs

procurable in this country

Franken Brothers
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Nurseries also at Sassenheim, Holland

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—is more than a mere catalog of well
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rare and unusual plants you need to give
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unusual hedges that lend
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Meehans’ New Improved Variegated-leaved
Althaea is a splendid flowering shrub, of upright,
sturdy growth — admirably adapted for hedge use.
Can you imagine any hedge more beautiful than
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covering of flowers from late July until September?

For English Garden effects, you need Beech
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Our years of effort and three transplantings have been
well rewarded in the remarkable stock offered now.

Write at once for this 1913 Specialty Plant Book.
If you have a new, unplanted property less than an
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New Strawberries

Our annual plant catalog free to all. Reliable, interesting and in-
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IT’S MADE FOR INTENSIVE TILLAGE

Why Not Grow
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Large crops are the result of giving the
plants plenty of food—of pulverizing the
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Cutaway

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Our CLarK forged-edge disks are the best used
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watered, and the
them.

As soon as the ground is open in spring, cuttings
rooted as recommended should be planted outdoors
in rows twenty-four inches apart, allowing eight
to nine inches between the plants. By fall some
of these plants will be two feet in height and all
will be of sufficient strength for planting wherever
needed. I find that Euonymus radicans can be
successfully transplanted at any time when the
ground is clear of frost, but April, May, August
and September are the ideal months.

In midwinter the form vegetus with round leaves
and smothered with fruit is very attractive.
Even one-year old cuttings of this variety will be
found full of fruit. As between the green and
variegated forms of euonymus I much prefer the
former, it also possessing greater vigor and hardi-
ness; both are, however, easily propagated.

soil tamped firmly about

FERTILIZERS

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Cost of Fertilizing

“pete article by Mr. O. A. Spencer in the January,

1912, issue of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE is very
interesting and I agree with him in the general idea
of mixing your own fertilizer. But he does not go
far enough in his cost reduction, for he pays $9.78
for the small supply of 391 pounds of nitrate of
soda.

Science, as applied to agriculture, has now proved
beyond all question that the planting of a legume
crop whose seeds have been inoculated with a
good bacteria culture will supply the soil with as
much nitrogen as 700 to 1,000 pounds of nitrate
of soda per acre. :

My authorities for this are the Department of
Agriculture, the various state experiment stations,
and the results of long practice of scientific agri-
culture in Europe, where it is necessary to make
every square inch of soil yield its utmost.

In addition to this gain of nearly 3 to 1, nitrogen
added in the form of nitrates lasts but a short sea-
son — the plants take it out of the soil, and if any
remains it leaches or washes out — but nitrogen
added by inoculation, not only supplies the require-
ments of the legume crop, but that of the crop
growing with it as well; and, at the same time, the
bacteria in the root nodules remain in the soil
for the benefit of the succeeding crops the following
seasons.

The difficulty has been to secure bacteria that
were certain to be of the proper kind and alive
and virile at the time of use. The various experi-
ments of dry cotton, liquid or powder seemingly
not having produced positive results in this direction
until the discovery by Doctor Earp-Thomas of a
medium in which the bacteria grow and remain
in the most active condition — guaranteed for at
least two years. This at once makes this culture
a success, in distinction from those which do not
keep or of whose virility we cannot be certain.

Coming back to the costs, they work out as
follows:

Acid phosphate 1484 lbs. at $.75 per 100 lbs ........ $r1.13
Farmogerm (Dr. Thomas’s preparation) for one acre. 2.00
IMiiniate) ofspotashin2sulbsiemajneieieeiiertereisrentennaieets 3.12

Total for one acre........... $16,25

instead of $24.03 by Mr. Spencer’s formula —a
saving of $7.78 or 32 per cent. in first cost, not
to mention the large extra saving in the further and
lasting soil enrichment secured by inoculation.
Connecticut. RupotpeH RIEcE.
[It must be remembered that the inoculation is effective

only on a leguminous crop, however, and on soils that are
deficient in that particular bacterium.—Epr1rors]

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 137

Like These
Dahlia culture is Z
sults most gratifying. Profuse \
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f many shapes add
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Sweet Pea Novelties that are

Worth While

HE RAPID development and improvement in
sweet peas since the introduction of Countess
Spencer in 1904 has been little short of marvellous,
and even should no further improved forms be
forthcoming, the past eight years will, for all
time, be looked upon horticulturally, as epoch-
making, if for no other reason than that.

Introductions of ten or twelve years ago which
were hailed with enthusiastic delight by growers,
are now only cultivated by the uninitiated, never
by the expert and up-to-date grower, as nothing
but Spencer varieties are good enough for him; and
even the older original Spencer varieties are now
being eclipsed. For instance, the original Spencer
— Countess Spencer —is entirely superseded by
Hercules, a glorious pale rose-pink of larger size
and of practically the same color. It is a particu-
larly vigorous grower, and one of the most free-
flowering, while the flowers are usually produced
four on a stem. ;

Elfrida Pearson is a fit companion to the above
and a great and most decided advance on Florence
Morse Spencer (Mrs. Hardcastle Sykes), a pale
pink, rather deeper in tone toward the edge of the
flower.

Lady Evelyn Eyre is very similar to the preceding,
but slightly lighter in color. Both are of great size
and often come with double standards.

Barbara and Melba are large, pure, salmon
colored selfs, resembling Earl Spencer, but decided
improvements on it. ae

Edith Taylor is a most distinct and beautiful
rich rose self, suffused with copper or deep salmon,
an altogether new color in sweet peas. The flowers
are very large and most beautifully waved.

Francis Deal is a most attractive shade of rosy-
heliotrope.

Trish Belle or Dream is a lovely shade of lilac
with a pale pink suffusion. The habit is extremely
robust, while practically all the flowers are pro-
duced four on a stem.

The dark maroon or chocolate colored Othello has
now strong rivals in Nubian and King Manuel.
Of the three I am inclined to favor Nubian, the
flowers being rather larger, while it gives more
“fours” than do the other two.

King Alfred is an immense flower of a quite
distinct and beautiful orange pink shade. It is
somewhat like Helen Lewis, but the color is softer.
The immense flowers are usually produced four
on a stem, while the habit of the plant is very free.

Margaret Atlee is an American variety and one
of the daintiest, the color scheme of this flower
being exquisite. Pinkish apricot on cream ground
would be a brief description of the color tones,
which become darker toward the edges of the
standard and wings. This lovely variety invariably
produces four flowers to a stem, a large majority
of which have double standards, thus greatly
adding to its beauty, especially when bunched.

Loyalty, a rich blue flake on white ground, is
worthy of a place in all collections, other names
for this sort being George Curzon and Bertie Usher.

Blue Jacket is undoubtedly the best navy blue
variety, and although not of largest size, on account
of its color, it cannot be dispensed with. Four
flowers are usually produced on a stem.

There are quite a number of pale blue or French
gray colored novelties, a few of them being Winifred
Unwin, Walter P. Wright, Seamew and Margaret
Madison. Of these my choice is Margaret Madi-
son, another American variety. This is a color

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Victoria—double white, magnificent
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Adventures in Contentment

of which one reader enthusiastically writes:

“Tam sory the adventues in contentmint is over of cause the
real contentmint is still going on with the farmers that is with
some of them I was in hopes that they would go on for some
time we need a tolstoy in this country to learn young men
that labor is holy and the only way to hapeness I want to
thank you very much I can see Mr. Wether stuck often and
I have..not forgot the Infidele and the Book Agent or the
Rector.”’ Extract from letter to David Grayson.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 136

Adventures in Friendship
of which the Outlook says:

“Adventures in Friendship” is to be commended to all those
who imagine that the business of life is to make money; who
are absorbed in dealing with things and have missed the way of
peace and joy; who rush when they ought to loiter, and are in
a fury of action when they ought to be meditating: altogether
a delightful book.

Hardy Roses

Showing Beautiful
Root System

Pruned Ready for Planting

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My Flower Garden

shall bloom in a thousand colors.

Stareyed daisies, velvety pansies,

many hued Asters, golden Coreop-

sis, rose and purple Larkspur shall vie

therein, poppies unfurl their silken flags.

Roses shall run riot, pale lilies lift their

faces to the moon, stately Dahlias flaunt

their gorgeous tints, Paeonias glitter in sil-

very sheen; Iris lift their green spears, the

fragrance of Mignonette, Stocks, Violets,

» Wallflowers, and Jasmine render it honey-

sweet. Vines cling to walls and trellis, masses of

Sweet Peas dance and laugh in the sunshine. This

and much more shall be mine.

From bushes and poles rich pods of PEAS and BEANS will

greet me, succulent beets and carrots will
My Vegetable Garden

yield, luscious melons, crisp radishes, melting lettuce, cool
Cucumbers grow in abundance. To achieve the Best I will
send today for

THE GARDENBOOK for Spring 1913 to

H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren St., New York City

Hardy American

Rhododendrons

CATAWBIENSE (two _ species)
MAXIMUM— CAROLINIANUM
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“Hardy Perennial Plants”

Beautiful Siberian Iris

Fancy Double and Single Hollyhocks

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Hardy Garden Pinks

New Alaska Shasta Daisy

First class field grown plants ready to
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Salem, Mass.

. Boxford Nursery

Highlands Nursery
Boxford, Mass.

In the Carolina Mountains

What is a fair rental for a given property? Ask the Readers’ Service

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Marcu, 1913

These are Floral Masterpieces
— Luther Burbank’s 1913 Original

Gladioli Creations.
Only 50 sets of twelve of these extraordinary bulbs

Suppose you could collect one, two, three or four of the master paint-
ings of the world, or four or five of the finest diamonds in the world,
You would like to possess such treasures, wouldn't you?

Chere is nothing in this world so fine in bulbs —nothing as beautiful as
Luther Burbank’s Gladioli.

They are a new and distinct type —the largest, the most brilliant, and
the most varied ever created.

The opportunity of securing these exclusive creations is now yours, but
as there are only 50 sets in all, you must order at once'to make Sure.

The varieties offered are especially rich in scarlet, salmon, and crimson
shades — the rarest and most desired in all collections. The flowers are
enormous, as remarkable for their size and substance as they are brilliant
in coloring.

Burbank’s Gladioli are the most easily grown of all bulbous plants.
They grow with vigor and freedom from fungous diseases. The growing
season is very long. Plant in cold northern climates from April to July;
in California at any season. Bloom in Summer.

Prices: Each Per 10 Prices: Each Per 10
I. Radioe 3.00 $22.50 7. . Elegance $3.00 $22.50
2. Opaline 3.00 22.50 8. Si 4.00 30.00
3. Esthetic 2.50 18.75 9. Gigantic Sold
4. Graceful 3.00 22.50 ro Harmonious } only
5. Symmetry 3-50 26.25, 11. Conquest in
6. Pinnacle 4.00 30.00 12. Dazzling set

Six first named kinds plus Gigantic for $20.00 — 7 bulbs.

Eight first named kinds plus Gigantic and Harmonious $30.00—10 bulbs.
_ Eight first named kinds plus Gigantic and Harmonious, Conquest and
Dazzling for $50.00 — 12 bulbs.

A Luther Burbank $ 1
Garden For

To have a garden that is not ordinary, you must have some of Luther
Burbank’s original flowers and plants. No matter how modest your
garden is, you can afford the exclusive Burbank features for cottage gar-
den as well as conservatory. The price now within reach of all. We are
sole distributors of Luther Burbank's horticultural productions. None
original without our seal.

Burbank’s Own Selection of $2
his own seeds—10O packages

Enough for a garden of extraordinary character and beauty—a genuine
Burbank garden. These seeds are of highest quality, prepared under
Burbank's personal supervision. The demand is so great that we advise
immediate response. The selection includes: Long Season Sweet Peas;
Rainbow Com; Scabiosa Major, Select double; Gigantic Crimson Morning
Glory; Giant Zinnia; Schizanthus Wisetonensis, very newest, extra select
largest flowers; Dianthus Imperialis, beautiful mixed very large (Japanese
Pink); Verbena, mammoth mixed; New Lavender Trailing Godetia; New
Gigantic Evening Primrose Oenothera ‘‘America.”’

Owing to limited supply and great demand one or two other Burbank
flowers of equal merit may be substituted.

Any 5 of the above, $1

Not including Rainbow Corn

The Garden Novelty of 1913
Burbank’s Rainbow Corn

Beautiful and exquisite in colorings as Orchids—a flower in bloom from
the time the young shoots appear until the heavy frosts of autumn; noth-
ing like it for decorative effects, for garden, cutting, or corsage bouquet;
leaves variegated with brilliant crimson, yellow, white, green, rose and
bronze stripes; a bed of it in your garden looks like its name—RAINBOW.
Hardy and will grow with little attention. Your garden with Burbank’'s
Rainbow Corn will be the admiration of every one who sees it. Order
now — today —while the supply lasts. Fifty cents the package.

Burbank’s New Shasta Daisy
The Westralia

You all know the famous Luther Burbank creation, the Shasta Daisy,
with its huge white flowers with soft, velvety gold centers —the world-
wide popular flower creation of the century.

The Westralia Shasta is a new type, of pleasing cream color, semi-
double, three to four inches across, produced on fairly long stems in
bewildering profusion with remarkable resistant vigor and ability to over-
come ill-treatment and unfavorable conditions. Beautify your garden
with this unusual Burbank novelty. Get it from the true original source.

As with all original Burbank productions, the demand is great. Order
before the supply is exhausted — today. é

One plant, 75 cents; two, $1.25; three, $1.50; six, $2.00; ten, $2.50;
100, $15.00.

You can now get Luther Burbank’s
1913 Rose Novelty—Corona

For your own garden. This, the most unique of all rose creations, has a
bloom which, when cut, will last in perfect condition for two weeks. It
is a semi-climber of the Crimson Rambler type, with immense clusters of
rose crimson flowers, resembling the Chinese Primrose.

The Corona is a hardy plant, and will grow anywhere in the United
States. A row of ‘‘Coronas”’ will make your garden a sight to behold.

Large plants, each, $5.00; per ten, $40.00. Place your orders now,

With every dollar order we will send you upon request Luther Burbank’s
Instructions ‘‘How to Plant and Raise Flowers’'—worth the price of the
order.

Luther Burbank wants the people of all countries to enjoy the beauty
and splendor of his new flower creations.
Now for the first time, the original crea-
tions are within the reach of all. None
genuine without seal.

Send for our 1918 Seed and Nursery
Catalogue at once

The Luther Burbank Co.

Sole Distributor of Burbank's Horti-
cultural Productions

817 Exposition Bldg., San Francisco

The Readers’ Service gives in-
formation about gardening.

TRAWBERRY PLANTS

2 ST Se
Guaranteed as good as grows at $1.00 per 1000 and up.
Catalogue Free.

ALLEN BROTHERS, R. 2, Paw Paw, Mich.

much esteemed for cutting, and makes a most
beautiful color combination with any of the delicate
pink or pale rose varieties.

May Campbell is quite unique in its way, there
being no other variety to approach it in its mark-
ings. The ground color is cream, beautifully
flaked with carmine in the centre of the standard,
the wings also being lightly touched with soft
carmine flakes. :

Of the brighter or more gaudily flaked varieties,
Mrs. W. J. Unwin now leads; the ground color is
white with heavy orange flakes. It is a very
vigorous. grower. If you want only one flaked
variety, choose this.

Orchid is without exception one of the most
vigorous and free flowering varieties in cultivation,
and is destined to be a leader for many years to
come. The color is a rich heliotrope or rosy
mauve. I know of no variety that throws more
four-flowered sprays than this one.

Within the past two years there has been added
a new class which includes some quite new colors,

Orchid sweet pea, one of the most vigorous and
freest flowering varieties in cultivation

the most distinct and best of which are Charles
Foster. salmon pink and bronze; Afterglow, elec-
tric shades of blue; Prince George, a pinkish salmon
with a heavy suffusion of bronze and rosy lilac.
These three varieties are perfectly unique in their
way and worthy of a trial. They invariably
produce four flowers on a spray and when well
grown give many double standard flowers.

King Edward Spencer, although a magnificent
crimson colored flower, lacks the brightness of
Vermilion Brilliant and Scarlet Emperor.

In new lavenders the best are Florence Nightin-
gale and R. F. Felton, though a distinct shade is
found in Pearl Gray Spencer, the color being a
charming pearl or dove-gray with very little rose
suffusion.

Duplex Spencer, as the name implies, is a double
flowered variety, many of the flowers having
double or triple standards. The color is cream and
rosy-pink, and it is of great value for cutting.

Those who admire delicate shades will be de-
lighted with Charm, white suffused pale lilac.

For brilliancy of color Thomas Stevenson takes
first place, the immense, fiery-orange flowers being
really dazzling. Another exceedingly rich colored
variety is found in Stirling Stent, with bright
glowing, deep orange-salmon blossoms. When
introduced two years ago this variety sold at the
unprecedented rate of thirty cents per seed. It
is now, however, within the reach of all.

Decorator is a lovely and most distinct rich
coral-pink, and is especially effective under

Write to the Realers’ Service for information about live stock

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Grow Your Own
the Kellogg Way
KELLOGG’S BIG RED

strawberry garden will pro-
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entire family can eat, sum-
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one cent per gallon, It con-
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LET US RESERVE A GARDEN FOR
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We have for Spring of 1913 the largest and finest assort-
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Our prices are right and cannot be surpassed for the same

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Write today for our free illustrated Catalogue — it will
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Of Interest to Planters

Rock bottom in price, ‘“Huntington’’ in quality.
We are specialists in the production of flower seeds,
hardy flowering plants and bulbs. Our stocks are
pleasing the most critical trade in America. The
few items below are taken at random from our
catalogue. A card will bring it to you.

Aster Chinensis, our own growing, finest stocks in
Americn . . . 2. e+ © © © © + + = peroz.50c. & up

Antirrhinum, finest German ... . - “
Mignonette, finest American. ... - “
Petunias, finest hybrids. . ... =. « G
Poppies, all named annuals... . .- <8
Sweet William, finest strains in American. . U3

>etunias, finest named Giants, fringed, doubles.
: Sioretes «2 eo ew ee per 1000 seeds, ®1.00 3

One of the longest lists of Gladioli offered

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GARDEN MAGAZINE 141

Let me plan
your grounds

After eight years’ service with Mr. E. C. Con-
verse, of Greenwich, Conn., as landscape architect at
his country estate of Conyers Manor, I am now
open for engagements in my professional capacity.

I am qualified to act as consulting gardener and as landscape
architect. My specialty is in laying out an estate, or the grounds

around a country home, along Nature’s own lines so as to obtain
beauty and charm at a moderate expense.

Beginning at the famous Blenheim estate of the Duke of Marl-
borough, I have had a professional experience of twenty years.

My fee is proportionate to the size of the place, and the amount
of time given to it.

I can be of much help to the owner of a small place of a few acres,
as well as to the owner of a large estate.

Tf you are interested _I shall be glad to send you my book “The
Making of a Country Estate,’’ which will give you an excellent idea
of my work. Address 3

Henry Wild

Landscape Architect and Consulting Gardener
Greenwich, Conn.

Native Plants and Trees in Carload Lots |

Rhododendron Maximum, Kalmia Latifolia

(Mountain Laurel), Azalea Nudiflora, Hemlocks,

Pines and Ferns, all sizes.

C. G. CURTIS, Grower and Collector
CALLICOON, Sullivan County. N. Y.

Plant your garden with Selected
Seeds; it pays. Write for my Little
Green Book; it explains. Copy Free.
kt PAUL DOVE (E) Wellesley,’ Mass.

IRIS PEONIES SHRUBS

Send me 50c. I'll mail you 4 named
Tris and tell you about other plants,
FRED W. CARD SYLVANIA, PA.

Specimens Ten to Fifteen Feet

Norway 7 sins for Catalog
The Elm City Nursery Co.
Sp r u Cc e New Hayen Dept.J Conneetieut =

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Two thousand gallons of water
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Write for some more facts

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Do You Know Your
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@ The time is coming (indeed, it is here now) when the library
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Fine Specimens
Send for Catalog
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GADIOLI, CANNAS,
DAHLIAS, LILIES.

Weare the largest growers of these |
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The CHOICEST and BEST at Lowest Prices
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Special stocks of standard varieties and ‘gi
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Fernald’s Hardy Plants
Grown in the Cold State of Maine

Plants that survive Maine winters can

be depended upon to succeed anywhere
Send for catalogue of all beautiful hardy Perennials, the
best hardy Shrubs and my collection of Iron Clad Roses }

W. Linwood Fernald Eliot, Maine

Connecticut

YOU can grow these beautiful flowers

MODERN GLADIOLI

And I will sell you the bulbs of the finest sorts, including
some never before offered, at lowest prices. My gladioli took
premiums at State and County fairsintor2. For only FIFTY
CENTS I will send 50 assorted flowering size bulbs with full
instructions and list of named sorts. Give the box letter.

GEO. S. WOODRUFF, Box B, Independence, lowa

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Marcu, 1913

andl do

care!”

Neither does Mamma — ¢/zs floor is finished with ‘61’? Floor

Varnish.

“61°? Floor Varnish gives a tough, durable
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Send for Free Floor Booklet and Sample Panel
finished with ‘*61’ and test it yourself. Hit it
withahammer—you may dentthe wood but the
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Sent free upon request.

It is water-proof, heel-proof and mar-proof.

The delightful simplicity of your woodwork
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will not crack nor chip.

Vitralite Booklet and Sample Panel
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Pratt & Lambert Varnish Products are used by nainters, specified by architects, sold by paint and hardware dealers everywhere.

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The Readers’ Service will aid you in planning your vacation trip

artificial light, when it appears to be a bright
scarlet.

The foregoing embrace all the best of the latest
introductions, but in addition to those named the
grower cannot afford to be without some of the
older sorts, such as White Spencer (Etta Dyke),
Primrose Spencer (Clara Curtis), Mrs. C. W. Bread-
more, Dainty Spencer (Elsie Herbert), George:
Herbert (John Ingnam), Marie Corelli, Mrs. Hugh
Dickson, Mrs. Routzahn, W. T. Hutchins. and
Queen Victoria Spencer.

Pennsylvania.

The Straight Garden Walk

AEB all there is a great deal to be said for
the straight line in the garden. Nature may
abhor it, but then a garden at best can be no more
than pseudo-natural. As for a straight garden
walk there are two good enough reasons for its
existence as frequently as the occasion arises —
the matter of convenience and the opportunity of
creating a formal vista.

Both of these reasons are admirably illustrated
by the garden walk on the General Joseph Per-
kins place at Lyme, Conn. Incidentally it quite
as well illustrates the idea that the true home
garden is sanctuary for the family rather than an
object of admiration on the part of the passing
public. The place, fronting on the main street,

Gro. W. KERR.

A double border walk which links the house with a
bit of woodland. The planting is in bold clumps

is much longer than it is wide; it stretches some
hundreds of feet back, through a little bit of wood-
land, to the meadows. As the woodland is an
integral part of the home it would have been
foolish to lengthen the connecting link for the sake-
of avoiding an uncommonly long straight line.

The truth is that here the straight line of a few
hundred feet is exceedingly agreeable — the more
so as the approach from the rear of the house is
informal, while at the other extreme the way changes.
to a narrow winding path directly the woodland
retreat is entered. Besides the vista is broken in
two by trees that ‘arch it at one point. Again
the wide border of perennials on either side is
relieved of primness not only by irregular planting
but by glimpses of the long chain of flower beds
and shrubs that form a parallel garden at the left
and of the grass land and trees at the right. In
the spring the right border is paralleled by a
narrow row of various kinds of daffodils. The
border planting is largely given over to clumps, and
in some cases extensive colonies, of such perennials
as the foxglove, peony, German iris, phlox, larkspur,
Daphne Cneorum, lily-of-the-valley and Oenothera
suffructicosa. Where the walk comes to the end
of its straightness, naturalistic planting begins
and a sprinkling of color is carried up to the summer
house among the trees of the thin woods — that
offer seclusion and yet do not shut off the view
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The Bothersome Quack Grass

4 ae remarkable vitality of quack-grass or
witch-grass (A gropyron repens) lies in its under-
ground stems or rootstocks, often called roots. The
distinction between the two is that rootstocks have
buds on them as stems do, while roots have not.
Another very important distinction is that root-
stocks do not absorb material from the ground,
being dependent for their growth upon the material
absorbed by the roots and elaborated in the leaves,
in combination with the material which the leaves
draw from the air. This material forms the under-
ground stems, or rootstocks. The plant is simply
storing up material for next year.

As the material for the growth of rootstocks
comes from the leaves, by limiting the development
of the top in any way the number of underground
stems produced is thereby limited. If little or no
top is allowed to grow, very little rootstock will be
developed.

There are three ways of managing quack-grass
land that will bring about widely different conditions
in the vitality of the plant. The deepest and most
vigorous rootstock development of quack-grass is
found in cultivated fields, due, probably, to deep
preparation of the land. When the plant is left
undisturbed the rootstocks have a tendency to get
nearer the surface every year. Deep plowing puts
the stem back to the bottom of the furrow, and a
mass of tangled growth is then sent out toward the
surface. This new growth lives until the next year.
When the stems are buried deeply to begin with and
cultivation is not kept up long enough to kill out
the grass (and it usually is not on this type of land),
the plant takes a new lease on life after cultivation
stops, the loose deep soil furnishing an ideal place
in which to grow.

If a meadow has been down for several years, and
especially if two cuttings of hay a year have been
secured, the rootstock development is found to be
about half the extent and depth of that found in
cultivated land.

The smallest rootstock development is found in
closely grazed pasture lands. Here the under-
ground growth of quack-grass becomes a few mere
shreds very near the surface.

That quack-grass can be destroyed by persistent
clean cultivation is'well recognized; that the grass
in its worst form (where infesting a cultivated field)
can be killed in one season and a crop produced
simultaneously has also been demonstrated by the
Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, in their
Bulletin 149.

The process of killing quack-grass on sod or
pasture lands, beginning in midsummer, is a very
simple one. The first step is to plow the sod,
cutting just under the turf, which is usually about
three inches deep. To thoroughly turn over a stiff
quack-grass sod as shallow as-.three inches, use a
special type of plow having a very long, gradually
sloping moldboard, called a Scotch bottom. In a
week or ten days later, with a disk harrow, thor-
oughly disk the sod. Repeat this treatment every
ten days or two weeks until fall, when the quack-
grass will be completely destroyed.

Tf the disk alone is to be used, it shouldbe set
practically straight, well weighted with bags of
dirt, and the field gone over three or four times.
The first two cuttings should be at right angles and
the other cuttings diagonally across. The sod in
this way is divided into small blocks. Then the
disk is set at an angle, when it will be found that the
first two or three inches of the sod, which contain
practically all of the quack-grass roots, can be cut
loose from the soil below. The exposure to the sun
and the breaking loose from the lower soil soon kill
the quack-grass. This ground should be gone
over at intervals of ten days or two weeks through-
out the remainder of the season. ;

Mr.-J. S. Gates, in his bulletin 464, “The Eradica-
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Department of Agriculture, after giving this in-
formation, says that the following spring the
infested land, on which the grass has been killed
either by the disking method or by the combination
of plowing and disking, should be plowed to a good
depth in order to thoroughly bury the mass of dead
roots. This will facilitate the cultivation of the
spring crop. If the work has been carefully done
the quack-grass roots will not show up at all in
the spring crop.

Marcu, 1918 Ean Ge Ateke Dek oN MAG AZ TIN. EB 145

The Usetul Book Library

@_ A method of issuing expensive standard works in single volumes at
the price of current novels.

The Cost of Books and Why

When a customer buys a new book, his money goes to pay these distinct charges:

4. Cost of making the book known by adver-
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The Country House

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146 THE GARD EON MAGA Ne

Marcu, 1913

Pandanus Indoors

Nes any expert for a list of plants that ought to
be raised readily in the house and he will at
once begin with the long-suffering aspidistra and
stop after mentioning half a dozen more. It is
anything but a satisfactory variety, no matter how
desirable the plants themselves may be. The mere
fact that a certain sort of plant does not like>house
culture is not always enough to condemn the species.
Some individual plants will often succeed, if they
can be found. This is, I think, more the case with
ferns, palms and some other hard-stemmed plants
than with such as are more succulent.

When I was a boy I used to gaze in astonishment
at some petunias in a box, raised by an old woman
who lived near the school house, which were a mass
of pink-purple bloom all winter. I have never
been able to do anything of the sort in my day.

Once we bought two pots of heliotrope. One of

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them acted just as they usually do in the house.
It went out of blossom after the buds already formed
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from which it did not recover. The other steadily
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the charm of the old-world
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We had had plants of Pandanus ulilis in the
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are perfect. The bed faces Front
St., and every person passing ad-
mires them and a number have

come in to see them.
Mrs. H. H.

Ringtown,

Iam sending with t
photographs of our Canna bed this
summer. It has been the adzzir-
ation and envy of the town. And
two people who were out in Cali-
fornia have said that we had as
good growth as any that were
seen out there.

155 (E510)
Caro, Michigan

HMR

We are, without question, the world’s foremost originators and Write for New Floral Guide

introducers of improved cannas. America’s premier canna onard &z Jones
Propagator, Antoine Wintzer, is our vice-president. Duri In it are described 75 magnificent varieties—in white, yellows,

seventeen years of faithful, enthusiastic hybridizing he has pro- orange, pinks, reds, etc. Many of the choicest are illustrated
duced many magnificent new and unique varieties. He has by photographs. Many are new and shown for the first time.
also doubled the size of some blooms, ¢vebled the variety of anhnnas WRITE FOR THIS VALUABLE FREE BOOK TODAY.
colors, increased the endurance of the petals, and given byvonze It also lists and describes the 360 Best Roses for America and
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<nown as ‘“‘America’s Canna Wizard!”’ is knowledge an ° antine a growing roses and a complete Rose Lover’s
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Burpee-Quality Vegetables

Qu alit is the KEYSTONE of our success! Burpee’s Seeds cost more to produce than do usual commercial grades, but
be worth much more than the difference in cost! Proof of this statement is the acknowledged fact that we have
built up and maintained for so many years the largest mail-order seed trade in the world.

The growing crops, both on our own farms and
under contract, are subject to careful, critical
inspection while samples of every lot are tested
both for vitality and trueness to type. ‘The trials
at FORDHOOK FARMS alone number more

than twenty thousand every year.

Burpee’s New “Dwarf Giant’? Tomato

“Five of the Finest” for 25 Cents

SWEET CORN nae “GOLDEN BANTAM” first introduced (exclusively by

) just eleven years ago (in 1902), this is the sweetest in flavor and
most popular first-early sw oe corn in cultivation to-day. Its hardy character allows the seed to be
planted earlier than any white-seeded sweet corn, so that it gives the earliest ears possible to produce.
For illustrations 10, and 47 of Burpee’s Annual for 1913.

NEW LETTUCE BURPEE’S EARL TEST “WAYAHEAD”—Named “Wayahead”

as aptly descriptive of its superiority over all other early heading
So steadily has it increased in demand from pleased planters that we were scarcely able
We sold ten thousand three hundred and seventy-seven packets
Brittle-Ice. The verdict of

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1913

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Annual for 1913

varieties.
to meet the demand last season.

and packages more than of our next most popular lettuce, Burpee’s will be sent immediately Upontenp cameam eit

the public must be final!
MELO BURPEH’S “SPICY” CANTALOUPE—See Painting from Nature on Last

Cover Page of Burpee’s Annual for 1913. Most distinct both in appearance and
peculiarly rich sugary flavor — the juicy flesh is of a deep rich salmon color, frequently measuring
two inches thick, entirely stringless and exceptionally luscious in flavor — most tender and prac-
tically melting in the mouth. The delicious flavor extends to the very rind. It is prolific, fre-
quently producing as many as ten large melons on a vine.

ONION | BURPEE’S “GIGANTIC-GIBRALTAR” — No other known variety equals

this in size. ‘The trials of Gigantic-Gibraltar at Fordhook each year stand out
wayahead of all other sorts. ‘The huge bulbs of Burpee’s Gigantic-Gibraltar are most delicious
and mild; in fact, far surpassing the smaller sorts for delicate flavor.

TOMATO BURPEE’S “DWARF-GIANT”’—See illustration in this advertisement. A
new tomato that possesses qualities never before seen in the dwarf tomatoes. It
is much the largest fruited of all dwarf Tomatoes! ‘The fruits are truly gigantic in size, and the
most meaty of all’ Tomatoes. It is even superior to its parent Ponderosa in delicious flavor. See
colored plate page 5 and full description page 23 of Burpee’s Annual for 1913.
We will mail one regular sized packet each of the above “Five of the Finest.” Purchased sep-
For 25 Cts. arately these five packets would cost just 55 cts. It is our desire that everyone who has a garden
should have these “Five of the Finest” Quality Vegetables, and can well afford to make this special offer to extend the
popularity of these most justly Famous Fordhook Favorites—all of which were first named and exclusively introduced by us!

W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Burpee Buildings,

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

card will do) to every one who appreciates Qualily
in Seeds.

This Silent Salesman (and we employ no “talking”
salesmen to solicit orders) tells the plain truth about
The Best Seeds That Can Be Grown. Besides
colored plates of Burpee-Specialties, this bright
book of 180 pages shows hundreds of the choicest
vegetables and most beautiful flowers, illustrated
from photographs. It is almost indispensable to
all who garden, either for pleasure or profit.

The “House of Burpee” is known the world over,
not only as Experts in Sweet Peas, but also as Seed
Specialists. No other American firm has ever
introduced so many novelties of sterling value —
and no other growers supply seeds annually direct
to so many planters. It might be to your interest
to read The Burpee Annual. It will cost you only
one cent for a post card to send us your address,
and you are under no obligation to buy. We never
annoy applicants with “follow up” letters. Shall
we mail you a copy? If so, kindly write to-day.

Philadelphia

APRIL Spring Planting Number
1913 The Best Beets Starting An Orchard The Garden Clubs
Vol. XVII. No. 3 “Reducing the Cost of Living,” by Roger W. Babson, begins in this number

COUNTRY LIFE e DOUBEEDAYS RACE & CO} = THE WORLD'S
IN AMERICA Chicago GARDEN CITY, N. Y. New York WORK

BOBBINK & ATKINS
New Hybrid Giant-F lowering Marshmallow

We can highly recommend our New Giant-Flowering
Marshmallow for all kinds of plantings; they appear to
be perfectly at home in every kind of position, grow-
ing with the same amount of vigor and health in
swampy or dry places. They are perfectly hardy and
well adapted for naturalizing or back-ground
effects and for growing as individual specimens,
suitable for lawn and other planting ef-
fects; for grouping in the border
and along the edge of shrubbery.
One can produce wonderful ef-
fects for screening and in
sub-tropical plantings, as
they are more vigorous
than thetype. For plant-
ing near streams, ponds
and lakes they produce
wonderful effects with their
large, handsome flowers
and foliage.

Their average height is
five toeight feet. They are
very floriferous and bloom from the
beginning of July until late Autumn.

Red, Pink and White, 3 year old plants
Each $1.00 $10.00 per doz. $59.00 per 100

Red, Pink and White, 2 year old plants
Each 75c $7.50 per doz. $35.00 per 100

BOBBINK & ATKINS

World’s Choicest Nursery and Green-
house Products

SPRING PLANTING

Our Products are of a higher grade than
ever this season, placing us in a better position
to fill orders with a class of material that will
give satisfaction to all our patrons. Our Nursery
consists of 300 acres of highly cultivated land and
a large area covered with Greenhouses, and Store-

¥

houses, in which we are growing Nursery and Green-
house Products for every place and purpose.

ROSES. We have several hundred thousand
Rose Plants that will bloom this year. Order
now from our Illlustrated General Catalogue
for Spring Delivery.

RHODODENDRONS. _ Many thousands of
acclimated plants in Hardy English and
American varieties are growing in our
Nursery.

ORNAMENTAL SHADE TREES AND
FLOWERING SHRUBS. We grow
many thousands of Ornamental Shade Trees
and Shrubs in all varieties and sizes.

OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOGUE No.
Will be mailed upon request.

to intending purchasers.

HARDY OLD FASHIONED PLANTS.
We grow thousands of rare, new and old-
fashioned kinds, including Peonies and Iris
in a large variety. Special prices on
quantities.

HEDGE PLANTS. We grow alarge quantity
of California Privet, Berberis and other
Hedge Plants adapted to all parts of the
country.

EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES.
Many acres of our Nursery are planted with
handsome specimens.

A flower of our New Hybrid Marshmallow, about !< the size

BOXWOOD. Everybody loves the aroma
of Old-Fashioned Boxwood. We grow thou-
sands of Plants in many shapes and sizes.

BAY TREES, PALMS, and other decorative
plants for Conservatories, Interior and Ex-
terior Decoration.

ENGLISH POT-GROWN GRAPEVINES.
For greenhouse cultivation.

HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING
VINES. We have them for every place
and purpose.

BULBS AND ROOTS. We grow and im-
port quantities of Bulbs and Roots from
Japan, Holland, and other parts of Europe.

LAWN GRASS SEED. Our Rutherford
Park Lawn Mixture has given satisfaction
everywhere.

PLANT TUBS AND WINDOW BOXES
AND ENGLISH GARDEN FURNITURE.
We manufacture all shapes and sizes.

STRAWBERRIES, Poited, and Fieldgrown,
in all the leading varieties.

25 DESCRIBES OUR PRODUCTS ; is comprehensive, interesting, instructive and helpful

THE PROPER WAY TO BUY istosee the material growing. We shall gladly give our time and attention to all intending purchasers, visiting our Nursery
and invite everybody interested in improving their grounds to visit us.

VISITORS take Erie Railroad to Carlton Hill, second stop on Main Line; 3 minutes’ walk to Nursery.
We Plan and Plant Grounds and Gardens Everywhere with ‘‘OUR WORLD’S CHOICEST NURSERY AND GREENHOUSE PRODUCTS.’’

BOBBINK & ATKINS

Nurserymen, Florists and Planters

RUTHERFORD, N. J.

Aeary 1918 fo cee ReDen Ni | MAGAZINE 149

Victor-Victrola XVI, $200 | SSS Li at y Se ; Other styles of the

Mahogany or quartered oak

Victor-Victrola, $15 to $150
Victors, $10 to $100

If the Victor-Victrola did nothing but bring to you the soul stirring arias and
concerted numbers of opera, beautifully rendered by the world’s greatest artists,
that alone would make it a treasured addition to your home.

But besides the compositions of the great masters, the Victor-Victrola brings
into your home a wonderful variety of music and mirth, that satisfies alike the
longing for musical harmonies and the taste for sheer entertainment.

And as you sit and enjoy all these musical riches, you will marvel at the
varied accomplishments of the Victor-Victrola and thoroughly appreciate its value
as a companion and entertainer—a treasured possession in your home.

Any Victor dealer in any city in the world will gladly demonstrate the
Victor-Victrola to you and play any music you wish to hear.

Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., U.S. A.

Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors

Always use Victor Machines with Victor Records and Victor Needles—
the combination. There is no other way to get the unequaled Victor tone.

Victor Steel Needles, 6 cents per too
Victor Fibre Needles, 50 cents per 100 (can be repointed and used eight times)

& aa”
“HIS MASTERS VOICE”

REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.

New Victor Records are on sale at all dealers on the 28th of each month

If you wish information about dogs apply to the Readers’ Service

150 T HE GAR DAE No Me ArGRAy 7aIeNee Aprit, 1913
|

Gardening
With Modern Tools

Saves hard work and
solves three problems

High cost of living

° FE h tabl i
Weatherproof is expense-proof Healeh fan Coercrees “a

Trinidad Lake asphalt makes roofing lastingly tight against rain, sun, wind, snow, heat and cold. oe :
This is the everlasting waterproofer of Nature. We use it to make ae 5
GeNAaSCO Kacyioving
pivaky,

Ready F dy Roo) gee Drills and Wheel Hoes

Trinidad Lake Asphalt

Because it gives absolute protection Genasco is economical roofing — it costs less in the od isa very simple matter—
Ask your dealer for Genasco. Mineral or smooth surface. Look for the hemisphere trademark. The Kant-leak 5
Kleet is in every roll of smooth surface Genasco. It waterproofs seams without cement and prevents nail-leaks. the stand up, straig ht ahead WENy

i : the safe way for the plants—

The Barber Asphalt Paving Company, Philadelphia the most econonitaies for ground,
New York Chicago San Francisco time and money—

Largest producers of asphalt, and largest manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. the most productive way for good
crops—

the only way to get a good garden
in dry times— ~

the healthiest way for all concerned—

Women, boys and girls can handle
them when they cannot depend on
the man making garden.

The Wheel Hoe is just the tool to keep your poultry
yard stirred—the chicks are healthier in fresh
ground.

The tool shown below opens its own furrow, sows
accurately in hills or in continuous rows, covers
the seed, packs the soil, and marks the next row,
all in one operation. As a Wheel Hoe it cultiv-
ates, hoes, weeds, levels, ridges growing crops,
opens furrows and covers them, etc.

Parts are changed quickly. High steel wheels,
steel tube frame, clean scouring hoes are strong
features. All necessary adjustments for close
work.

38 combinations. $2.50 to $12.00

Ask nearest dealer or seedsman to show

them and write us for new booklet,

“ Gardening with Modern Tools.”

Also one on Sprayers for every purpose,
BATEMAN MFG. CO.

Box 535G, GRENLOCH,N. J.

Trinidad Asphalt Lake
Po

Dahlias, Gladioli, Lilies, Wa) FREE FOR A

Phlox, Peonies POSTAL CARD
I want every reader of The Garden

and other summer-flowering bulbs and hardy ‘| Magazine to know the beauty of my
perennials is now ready. Send for it, and we SS
will also send later our Fall Catalogue of the =. , Best Dahlias that Will

Best Dutch Bulbs p> Grow and Bloom

procurable in this country a wealth of bloom all summer
and autumn, until trost.

Send 15 cents (stamps or coin) for
Z a strong root of the grand royal
ra n e n Tt O t e rs purple dahlia, Frank L. Bassett, by
5 B } mail postpaid.
Deerfield ; Illinois : 4 : Sunny Jim. Anew peony flowered
: § : dahlia. A beautiful blending of
Nurseries also at Sassenheim, Holland —<z crimson and gold shades. Postpaid
for socents. Special trial offer, 12
dahlias including 3 show, 3 decora-
tive, 3 cactus and 3 single for $1. Two peony flowered
dahlias for 25 cents; two new collarette dahlias for 30 cents.
All the above, 18 dahlias by mail postpaid for $2.

J. MURRAY BASSETT
P. O. Box 412 Hammonton, N. J.

Your Garden a Month Earlier with

Practical Real Estate Methods
By Thirty New York Experts
Net $2.00 Postage 20 cents

Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N.Y.

PAPER FLOWER POTS

Without Bottoms (Paper Dirt Bands)

Grow your early vegetables in paper pots and plant them in
the garden without taking out of the pots.

Now, while the ground is frozen plant your melons, sweet
corn, cucumbers, beans, and squashes in pots indoors, or in a
hot bed, and when the ground is warm plant them in the garden
without taking out of the pots.

And instead of waiting for the seeds to sprout, you have

cucumbers ready to blossom, corn a foot high, and your garden
A Fence that was only bare ground in the morning, by night will look
as if it had been growing a month.

And Flowers! Think of the pleasure of having asters, morn-
ing glories and all your favorite flowers in bloom a month "earlier.

for a Life Time You haven’t the time to read all the enthusiastic letters we

have, but read these two.

Mr. B. C. Garmon, Birmingham, Ala., writes:
“By using your pots I have been able to get my tomato crop

The Gladiolus, tall, bold, and showy, with its

Posts and wire heavily galvanized. Won’t

get out of line. Wire mesh won’t sag. brilliant colors, is a most attractive flower for
Gan't be climbed f = : sag sold the last two seasons before others got theirs in, and I have beds, borders, and for indoor decorations. By
rom either side, Gives ot a fancy price. I think the pots have made me $500.00 in M
absolute protection. We are extensive the last Re D gy a ge Phe Glaati Peter Oh ee & cone Sanicent ‘i
makers of wire and iron fences for every te ms z summer and autumn. a
place and pape send for catalog, gue fies Ha eioe Tee Gat Mercedes Truck Growers Asso- Three color plates in our New 160 page Catalogue.
€ us what kin 10) ence you nee ne X., writes: ONE YEAR BULBS— MIXED COLORS. Most of
“Please ship via Wells Fargo Ex., 31,000 3-inch dirt bands. these will bloom this year. 20 for 10c; per 100,
I received 10,000 of your bands with R. F. Graham and am 25c postpaid.
AMERICAN FENCE (CONSTRUCTION (9 so pleased that I have recommended same to the association.’ Ns vy wig UES ee eae fe WE Dee te
. ummer, mixed colors, doz. c 3
Sa CREniS “4 Hees cinch or sce gancty ecb ore ey see Post East of the for $1.35; per 100 $2.50, postpaid, with Catalog.
r x ississippi, $x acific Coast and Canada, $1.25 OUR NEW CATALOGUE lists and describes the
ee t. New Yor Fries in lots of Bee f. 0 b., Catonsville 3- see $1.00 the ae 2 Vegetables, iT coe Plants ube
4 ‘ 1000, shipping weight 9 Ibs. 4-inch $1.40 the tooo, shippin; neluding many _ novelties not o nable
Formerly Fence Dept. American Wire Form Co. waist SELB Bnet 9 4 $1.4 Pping elsewhere. Write for it.
>
PHILIP CROSBY & SON, Catonsville, Md. VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE

Dept.12 31-33 W. Randolph St., CHICAGO

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The Readers’ Service will give information about the latest automobile accessories

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AprRIL, 1913 Po he G Ah DEN MAGAZINE 151

“Eg The instructions here given, on this

‘April date of our GARDEN AND
PLANTING CALENDAR, show how
weaim to supply authoritative information
(from the pen of Mr. George T. Powell),
always on the right day, so that it will not
be overlooked, and for 365 days of the
year. THINK WHAT THIS MEANS
TO YOU. With an order for a 5-lb. bag
of MAK-GRO ODORLESS PLANT FOOD at $1.00 or
with a roo-Ib. bag of EARLY-CROP ODORLESS FER-
TILIZER at $5.75, we will be glad to send you a copy of
this unique and artistic Calendar.

Broadcast MAK-GRO on your LAWN now

Renfove all mpch

Plants and Trees
FROM FLORIDA

For Southern planting outdoors and
TRADE MARK for house decoration in the North

WE have made a special study of this matter for
30 years and have achieved a success in grow-
ing beautiful plants and in delivering them in like
beautiful condition to the most distant purchasers.

Saturate part of a clean Blotter with ink—Let it dry thoroughly—
Pour water on it—Notice how the dry ink re-dissolves and runs into
the freshly-moistened fibres of the still clean part of the blotter. This
will suggest how, in like manner, the grains of our EARLY-CROP

ODORLESS FERTILIZER

(and of our MAK-GRO ODORLESS PLANT FOOD), when mixed with the soil, are acted
upon by the rains and the soil-moisture, releasing from time to time, from the fibre base
of the compound, a quantity of immediately available Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash
so that plants are supplied uninterruptedly throughout the entire growing season, with the
food required for their proper growth and, good crop-development.

We want to send you our De-
EAREY-CROP | s«riptive Booklet on the subject, | WIAK~-GRO
ODORLES.

It takes special care and prep- Departments; the plants and trees,
aration to properly pack delicate etc., are all classified in these De-
palms, ferns, etc., to stand a trip partments, with special notes on
of thousands of miles, but we do hardiness to withstand cold, and
it — not just once in a while, but when to transplant, and so on, so
a good many times every workday. that a novice can make intelligent
We issue a large catalog covering _ selections for the living room, con-
all our stock, having 17 special servatory, orchard or garden.

We Have the Stock

so that, being convinced of the ODORLESS

ERTL R value of our product, you will be P ANY FOOD in immense variety, from all over the tropics, Express or Freight. We ship to all our
ae + prepared to try it out in your Gar- eects and are constantly adding to our variety. foreign colonies Mexico, Canada, Europe
SEATS den and Planting Operations this — Whenever you want a rare (or common) and all tropical countries, as well as all

year. FOR ALL GROWING THINGS. FERTILIZER plant or tree merely look in our complete parts of the United States. On receipt of

index in catalog, which shoud be on your your request we shall be glad to send a
desk or library table for ready reference, catalog, and we promise no follow-up
and order it by Parcel Post at catalog Jiterature or passing your name on to other
Price, postpaid, or, if a large specimen, by ms,

Among the dozen or more Book-
lets by Mr. George T. Powell on

5 2 : SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR
Gardening and kindred subjects, THE SMALLER OPERATIONS
which we intend for extensive OF THE HOME AND GARDEN

F.0.B. FACTORY, FARMINGDALE, N-J- distribution, may be several you | QNovOUND Box. Poupald- 25 Cente

IVE PLANTING
& GARDENING OPERATIONS
SHIPPED IN 100-POUND BAGS $3.75
AND IN TON AND CAR LOAD LOTS

ASK FOR PRICES—State Crops to be Grows |

CONSUMERS FER

oyal Palm Nurseries © Proprietors neco, Florida
R y l P ] N REASONER BROTHERS 0 Fl d

might want. SEND FOR THE UIST.

TILIZER COMPANY, “sngecre Blde., Suite B

Two Million
Berry Plants for Sale

The Berrydale Experiment Gardens handle upward of two
million berry plants a year—Blackberry, Raspberry, Straw- if a)
berry, Dewberry, Currant and Gooseberry plants. This
number is about what our customers take in a normal season. ia
But this is not a normal season.

There is every indication as this is written that the spring
of 1913 is four or five weeks earlier than usual. This will reduce
the time for buying plants, and will cut down our orders so
that we will have several hundred thousand perfect plants ii
left on our hands.

High-grade Berry Plants for Unusually ‘
Low Prices on Special Private Sale

We don’t want to burn these plants, for they are the very best varieties, |
so we must induce YOU and many other planters to use them. Write to ; a 3
us, and tell us what kind of plants you are interested in, how many plants ae
you might use, or how much land you might set in berries. i

We will quote prices in a personal letter. Don’t order less than a dozen
plants. We prefer orders for 100 or tooo plants. Understand, these
plants are not culls or seconds. They are the usual Berrydale quality,
well rooted, hardy, strong, healthy, Michigan-grown plants.

DO YOU HAVE THE BERRYDALE BERRY BOOK FOR 10913?
Tf not, it’s a valuable book — send a card for it now.

Alfred Mitting, Berry Specialist
Berrydale Experiment Gardens, Garden Avenue, Holland, Michigan

WE RSERETT

Plant that
hedge now

A hedge set out this
month will grow twice as
much this year as one
planted in May. It is
easy to have a hedge like this one when you use my

Japanese Barberry

grown so it will make perfect hedges. The plants are
even in size, have strong, fibrous roots (transplanted three
times) and stocky, well branched tops (cut back regularly).
These sturdy bushes are bound to thrive—they need no coddling.

To show you how superior this barberry ‘eally is, I want to
send you a hedge on approval—a hedge that needs no trim-
ming, thrives in sun or shade, has beautiful foliage,
showy red berries, and is hardy everywhere.

FRED HAXTON % I willsend youallyou need—every bush a lusty five-year-old

e specimen, 1} to 2 feet high, at $20 a hundred $10 for

% fifty, $3 for ten. Set 18 inches apart, these

Send me........ plants will make a good hedge at once.
13-2-foot Japanese y

barberry hedge plant Mail the Coupon seudNo
es, pon Now wicney

You will like the shrubs—if not, return them
@ at my expense. Tear off the coupon

—use it today. Let me send you
Sininatulalislulelelieie\eiclsicle «isle ese ~~ my 52-page hand-

oo

‘tassardy FRED HAXTON
Binilslcelajelele|sle¥atvweteveveyo\s-«) -Yaa\s ® Snubs — 4717 Winthrop Avenue
cS Edgewater, Chicago, III.

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Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory Information about the selection or care of dogs,

poultry and live stock will be gladly given.

laeavece INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, Tue GarpDEnN MacazineE, 11-13 W. 32d Street, New York.
BURT a Re

Bob White Quail
Partridges and Pheasants

Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails,
Rabbits, Deez, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks,
Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels,
Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals.

WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist

Dept. 55, Pheasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA.

Play House

Hodgson Portable Houses

Artistically designed and finished, made of the most durable materials and practical
at any time of the year in any climate. Made for innumerable purposes. Erection of
buildings extremely simple and can be done by unskilled labor in a few hours’ time.

Send for illustrated circulars and state what you are interested in.
E. F. HODGSON CO., 116 Washington St., Room 311, Boston, Mass.

SITUATION WANTED

as Superintendent or Gardener. Proficient in all
details pertaining to management of large private
estate. Including greenhouse work, such as fruit
forcing, orchids, roses, carnations, and foliage

plants. Twelve years in present position.
Address Box No, 2, care of Garden Magazine, Garden City, N. Y.

Greider’s Fine Catalogue

, and calendar of fine, pure-bred poultry for 1913. This
F book contains many pages of poultry facts. 70 differ-

ent varieties, some shown in natural colors,

illustrated and described, tells how to make hens lay,
raise and care for them, all about the Famous Greider
Incubators and Brooders. Shows photo of the largest
poultry farmin Penn. Prices of breeding stock and
eggs for hatching and supplies within reach of all.
A perfect guide to all poultry raisers. Send 10c for

uby A SHETLAND PONY

is an unceasing source of
Keep. & pleasure. A safe and ideal

@& playmate. Makes the child
strong and of robust health.

Large Berkshires
at Highwood

We have for sale service boars, brood
sows and pigs all ages. These are
sired by Berryton Duke's Model, the

Highest type—complete out- boar that headed the first prize herd at ae ;
tahoe Ter censive the Royal in 1909, Highwood Duke B. H. Se book on poultry.
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154-156 T HOE G ARDY Nee i Aw Gea Zee Nat; AprRIL, 1913

The Useful Book Library

@_ A method of issuing expensive standard works in single volumes at
the price of current novels.

The Cost of Books and W hy

When a customer buys a new book, his money goes to pay these distinct charges:
1. Royalty to the author.

4. Cost of making the book known by adver-
2. Payment to the typesetter and electrotyper. tising, salesmen, circulars, and posters, etc.
3. Cost of paper, printing, and binding. 5. Profit to the bookseller.

6. Profit (if there be one) to the publisher.

So far as we know, there is no getting away from any of these six deadly charges on a new book, but there is one
large cost; namely, that of setting the type and making electrotype plates which does not have to be duplicated
with each printing, and this plate or initial cost is one of the largest and it goes far to establish the price at which
the book shall be sold.

This is particularly true of important books of reference, travel, biography, etc., which require many pages of
typesetting, editing and correction, and often elaborate illustrations. A tremendous number of good books have
their first sale at a fairly large price, and just when they reach the stage of having paid expenses, die an ignoble
and neglected death because the market at the high price at which they had to be published has been filled; and
yet the number of people who would care for these books and could afford to purchase them at a lower price has
not been touched —a bad state of things for all concerned.

Doubleday, Page & Company have recently made some experiments with books the sales of which have paid
for the cost of preparation at the higher price, and have started what they call

THE USEFUL BOOK LIBRARY

a collection of books made originally at great expense, but now reprinted in substantial editions with good paper and
printing at half or quarter or less than quarter the original price, retaining all the original matter, and at times con-
taining new and supplementary matter. Here are some results from which our readers can judge for themselves.

The International Cook Book

By ALEXANDER FILIPPINI.

Encyclopaedia of Etiquette

$1.00 net. By EmiLy Hott. $1.00 net.

Published in 1906 at $4.80 net, a reasonable price considering that the
book covers the whole subject and contains 1,075 pages. In four years
we sold 4,000 copies.

About a year ago we put it into the Useful Book Library at $1.00 net,
10,634 copies have been sold, and it is going at this rate now.

The Poultry Book

By Harrison Weir, F. R. H. S. $1.50 net.

The most exhaustive work on this subject. Published in three large
volumes, 1,299 pages, over 600 illustrations, at $13.60. Sold of the ex-
pensive editions about 3,000 copies in six years.

Added to the Useful Book Library in 1912, complete in a single volume
with all original material, selling now at the rate of 4,720 a year and
just started.

The Dog Book

By James WaTsoNn. $1.50 net.

Published in two volumes, 904 pages, 810 illustrations, at $10.00.
Issued later in one volume at $5.00.

Added to the Useful Book Library in 1912 at $1.50, sells about seven
times as fast as before.

Published at $2.00 net, 500 pages, illustrated. Over 26,000 copies sold.
Republished in April, 1912, in the Useful Book Library at $1.00 net
and selling four times as fast as. ever.
The Complete Housekeeper
By Emity Hott. $1.00 net.
Suggestions for the care of the family; the house; the gardens; the pets.
Republished April, 1912, in the Useful Book Library at $1.00.
Music Lovers’ Cyclopaedia
By Rupert HUGHES.
Published in 1903 at $6.00 net.
Revised to date and added to the Useful Book Library in December, 1912,
at $1.50—a better and more complete book at one quarter of the original price-

TO BE ADDED THIS SPRING:
The Furniture Book
By EsTHER SINGLETON.

The Country House

By CHARLES EDwaRD Hooper.

$1.50 net.

Formerly $5.00 now $1.50,

Formerly $4.00 now $1.50.

The American Flower Garden
By NELTJE BLANCHAN. Formerly $5.00 now $1.50.

We want to get in touch with book lovers who desire to build up a library of worthy, authoritative books
and who will cooperate to make this library a success. The reason why our plan is capable of being worked
out to large dimensions is, obviously, that the great expense of item number two in the above list is entirely, or
almost entirely, eliminated, item number one often reduced, since the author has been paid for his original
work, and the remaining items all diminished to make these new prices.

Published by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY Garden City, N. Y.

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fen years

BOOK season for a publisher is good or bad chiefly in proportion as the
}] new list is strong or weak. The ideal condition is to have important new
books by authors whose work is well known and for whom a public is
already made and waiting, and a few new books by new authors whose
spurs are still to be won and who will be favorites in the years to come.

Such a fortunate condition Doubleday, Page & Company have for the spring of 1913.

Books by Well-known Authors Alphabetically Arranged

Lyman Abbott
Letters to Unknown Friends

These were written by Doctor Abbott in response to hundreds of in-
quiries addressed to him on the great fundamental problems of human
life. Net 60 cents. (Just Out.)

Mary Austin
The Green Bough

This is an imaginative reconstruction of the events which followed the
Cruden: Frontispiece and Decorations. Net 50 cents. (Ready
in May.)

John Bigelow

Recollections of an Active Life

In these two volumes, the fourth and fifth of his reminiscences, Mr.
Bigelow brought together the events of that after-the-war-period, one
of the most interesting and vital in our national life. Each volume,
net $4.00; two volumes, net $7.50. Complete set of five volumes,
net $15.00. (Ready in May.)

Grace MacGowan Cooke
The Joy Bringer

Mrs. Cooke will be remembered for her great success ““The Power and
the Glory.” In this new novel of the Arizona desert she presents a
very dramatic story. Illustrated. Net, $1.25. (Just Out.)

Ellen Glasgow

Virginia
Why should a woman outlive her usefulness? is the vital question which
Miss Glasgow asks in this story in which she has pictured the South of

to-day in a romance of the children and grandchildren of those who
fought in the war. Frontispiece. Net $1.35 (Ready in April.)

Maurice Leblanc
The Crystal Stopper

The hangman was adjusting the noose over the head of Arséne Lupin’s
accomplice; the square was filled with hundreds of people. Lupin
cornered at last! He watched the preparations from a window of a
private house nearby. And then, by the cleverest stroke of his
career, he rescued his man. How? Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Just
Out.)

Grace S. Richmond
Mrs. Red Pepper

Everybody remembers “‘Red Pepper Burns.”’ Well, the doctor and his
wife enjoyed their own married life so much that they just couldn’t
help plotting against their friends. There’s a new romance in this tale
and you’ll meet lots of old friends besides. You’ll like the young couple.
Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Ready in May.)

The Readers’ Service gives information about real estate

—and a new book by Gene Stratton-Porter. Ready August 17th

J.C. Snaith
An Affair of State

To draw a vivid picture almost exclusively by brilliant conversation and
produce a novel of such distinction as “ An Affair of State” with almost
no description or interruption of the narrative, is the most unusual
achievement of Mr. Snaith in this delightful story. Net $1.25. (Just Out.)

Dr. Josiah Strong
Our World: New World-Life

In this book Doctor Strong has set forth in the same clear, interesting style
that made.‘‘OurCountry” such a great success, the world-wide influence of
the United States. Cloth, net $1.00; Paper, net 50 cents. (Ready in May.)

Booth Tarkington
The Flirt

You know her. This is the One that Jilted You! The Flirt — the
One You Know. It’s the story of an individual but the portrait of a
type; a type universally known, and the cause of a great deal of trouble
and some happiness on this earth. Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Just Out.)

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
Ever After

“She had money and he had none, and that was the way the trouble
began.”” Lucy Cuyler, inherited from a Yankee grandfather a peculiar
penuriousness. This makes the trouble. You'll like the solution.
Illustrated. Net $1.20. (Ready in May.)

Mrs. Humphry Ward
The Mating of Lydia

“The Mating of Lydia’? adds another name to such tales as “The
Marriage of William Ashe,” “The Testing of Diana Mallory,” “Lady
Rose’s Daughter’? — all of them delightful pictures of English life. In ,
this book one finds an exquisite literary workmanship. Illustrated.
Net $1.35. (Just Out.)

C.N. and A. M. Williamson
The Port of Adventure

These two popular writers have returned to American soil in this story
and have written a charming romance of Western life with the old
romantic mission country of California as a background. Illustrated.
Net $1.35. (Ready in April.)

Harry Leon Wilson
Bunker Bean

The story of Bunker Bean is the most refreshingly American creation
in along time. You’ll roar with the humor and cleverness of it. Illus-
trated. Net $1.25. (Ready.)

Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom

This book is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and
national life. Net $1.00. (Ready.)

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iarigas:

GeAG ER Deh aNa Mra Gov Z IN

Some new friends and old

Prof. Paul Terry Cherington
Advertising as a Business Force

Professor Cherington’s connection with the School of Business Adminis-
tration of Harvard lends an unusual value to this authoritative dis-
cussion of the great. modern force of advertising. It is a book which
every business man should read. Charts. Net, $2.00. (Ready.)

A. M. Chisholm

Precious Waters

Perhaps you remember “The Boss of Wind River”? That was Mr.
Chisholm’s first book, and a live, out-door tale of the lumber country
it was. This is a romance of the West, the background of which is
the struggle of the frontiersmen to hold their water power against the
grabbing railroad. You'll like the bachelor girl who plays so big a part
in the story. Illustrated. Net $1.25. (Ready.)

Elmer E. Ferris
Pete Crowther: Salesman

This story of th adventures of Pete Crowther appeared serially in the
Outlook and attracted wide attention because Mr. Ferris has had the
cleverness to put in his pages the elusive and always interesting genius
of salesmanship in its manifold operations. Net $1.10. (Just out.)

Christine Frederick
The New Housekeeping

A thousand things made easier, half your steps saved, short cuts to
difficult things — these are some of the results of this volume. It is a
sort of “‘scientific management” in the kitchen. Illustrated. Net
$1200. (Ready in April.)

Roy Rolfe Gilson
The Legend of Jerry Ladd

Mr. Gilson has here given us the study of an idealist, who, failing in
this life in so far as his dreams are concerned, but sustained by love,
uplifts others to his high vision. Net $1.00. (Just out.)

Ethel Gertrude Hart
The Dream Girl

“The Dream, Girl”’ wrote the most intimate, delightful, fanciful let-
_ ters that ever beguiled an invalid’s weary hours. Finally Max set
out to find her. She wasn’t really a dream; but she was a great sur-
ptise to Max and will be to the reader, too. Illustrated. Net $1.00.
(Ready in April.)

Gerald Stanley Lee
Crowds

Mr. Lee has achieved an international reputation for brilliant, trench-
ant essays. His “Inspired Millionaires” laid bare some vital truths and
in this new book he has touched upon our social and economic problems
in a way to make one think. He writes vividly and vigorously. Net
$1.35. (Ready in May.)

John Macy
The Spirit of American Literature

The book is animated and spicy and has much the effect of letting
in fresh air to a room that has grown over-stuffy. Net $1.50. (Ready.)

Frederick Ferdinand Moore
The Devil’s Admiral

Who the strange creature known as the “ Devil’s Admiral’’ was, nobody
knew. He exercised an uncanny influence at any rate and a weird
series of events followed in the wake of the Kut Sang. Illustrated,
Net $1.25. (Ready.)

Henry R. Poore, A. N. A.
The Conception of Art

This book is addressed to the question: ‘What is Art?”” The average
reader is very hazy in his definition of it — if he has one — and most of
the works pretending to enlighten him do but lead him farther afield.
Mr. Poore writes with the knowledge of an artist and with the simple
directness of a man who has a very practical end in view. Illustrated.
Net $2.00. (Ready in May.)

Cale Young Rice
Porzia

In this volume of splendid dramatic verse Mr. Rice has reached, if not
surpassed, the high poetic level set in his other volumes. Net $1.25.
(Ready.)

Julia Ellen Rogers
The Book of Useful Plants

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

WHEN WE APPEAR

The recent change of publication date that
went into effect with the March number of
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE seems to have met
with no little approval, both by our readers
and advertisers. We know now that we made
no mistake in making publication on the 5th
date of the month for which the magazine
is dated. On the other hand it does not seem
to suit everybody, as witness this letter from
one subscriber:

Allow me to suggest that the change in date of sending out your
magazine is by no means an improvement. hen it came ten
days or so before the first of the month, it was possible to have
things in readiness to carry out the suggestions for work, but

receiving it, as I have this month, on the 7th, is an entirely
different matter and means lost time or your suggestions wasted.

This was very unfortunate, and we shall try
to obviate any such disappointments in the
future by a careful regard to the time of
publication of any particular article. Also, the
““Month’s Reminder” will embody hints to
help meet the succeeding month’s conditions.

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Our spring numbers naturally have been
specialized — March is the Spring Sowing
Manual and this month, April, is the Spring
Planting Number. The following months will
be of more general appeal, but in May we are
arranging to carry on the planting idea, with
timely instructions for summer flowering bulbs.
Some of the special features for that number
are indicated in the following partial list
of titles:

The Modern Gladiolus

Benefits of Proper and Timely Transplanting
of Seedlings

A Real Cottage Garden in America

The Peony-Flowered Dahlias

The Garden Doctor (the fourth instalment)

Reducing the Cost of Living (second article)

The serial story “The Garden Doctor,”
which will be continued, has generally been
accepted as one of the best written pieces of
garden literature that have been published in
any magazine. The identity of the author
must still remain a secret, no matter how
greatly we may desire to be obliging to a

OF-THE

“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.’’— Antony and Cleopatra.

lady, one of our best friends, who urgingly
writes:

Your last February number of THE GARDEN Mac-
AZINE is remarkably good, I think. “The Garden
Doctor’ is very promising — can you not tell me who
writes it ?

The Little Farm series will be continued and
at the conclusion of “‘Ten Acres Enough” we
have something else for our readers that will
have the same general interest and practical
instruction.

THE ‘“‘COST OF LIVING”

Mr. Babson’s series of articles on ‘‘Reduc-
ing the Cost of Living” the first of which
appears this month, will be continued for five
months more and will cover this vital question
in a very practical way.

The answer to “The High Cost of Living”’
lies very evidently in the greater production
of the earth, and Mr. Babson very truly points
out that none of us wish to accomplish this
end while at the same time reducing our
present luxuries. Higher efficiency must be
the watchword. THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
is endeavoring to accomplish its share in the
promotion of a better living in showing its
readers how to have better products of the
earth than are offered in the public markets;
and at the same time to surround themselves
with scenes of beauty. We should like to
see every backyard in the country made
really profitable to its owner. Rather
a crop of succulent vegetables ready for
the table than the all too common tin cans
and other refuse. But, of course, these
are not the backyards of THr GARDEN
MAGAZINE readers.

ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA

The April number of Country Life in America
contains a continuation of the series of very
successful articles under the general title of
“The Fruitful Land.” In this series Mr.
Seymour is helping along the general line of
greater productivity of the earth, illustrating
by concrete examples. Different soil con-

ditions are taken up in rotation, and a specific

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instance of the successful solution of the
peculiar problem is given to illustrate each
type of soil. Whether the scale be large or
small, the same principle underlies, of course,
and even a very small land owner cannot
fail to find something really instructive in
this series, to which the author has given a
year’s special preparation.

MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING

We have added a new book to The Garden
Library which we think should serve a really
useful purpose — “ Modern Strawberry Grow-
ing,’ by Professor Albert E. Wilkinson differs
from anything else that has been devoted to
strawberry culture because it is an up-to-date
presentation of facts and covers developments
of the last twenty-five years during which
time there have been great changes and a great
deal has been learned about intensive straw-
berry culture. This new volume is a new type
of book and deals with the newer commercial
methods as well as with the home crop. The
price is the same as the other volumes in the
series —$1.20, including postage. Many of the
other volumes in the series have a most timely
interest right now, too. Perhaps you may be
interested in being reminded of them all:

THE FLOWER GARDEN

THE ORCHARD AND Fruit GARDEN
WateErR-LILIES AND How to Grow THEM
Rosrs AND How to Grow THEM

FrerNs AND How to Grow THEM

GARDEN PLANNING

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

HovusE PLANTS AND How to Grow THEem
VINES AND How To Grow THEM
Darropits-NArcIssuS AND How to Grow THEM
Lawns AND How to Make THEem
CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND How To Grow THEM

Speaking about books, we have just pub-
lished a new popular edition of ‘The Ameri-
can Flower Garden,” by Neltje Blanchan,
price $1.50. Perhaps you would like to see
this book, it should certainly be in the
library of every lover of gardens in America.
It discusses the spirit of the American garden
yet from a very practical point, and the text
is supplemented by very comprehensive
planting lists, each one amplifying the
subject matter in the chapter to which it is
attached.

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George Oakes Stoddard

PAGE PAGE
Tue Montu’s REMINDER - - - - - - - = - - = --- = = = 165 FarLty SALADS - - - - - - - - - = - - - - Anna Barrows 196
PLANTING A SUBURBAN Lor - - - - - - - - - - E. Rehmann 167 A OnE-Rop OntIon PatcH - - - - - - - - = - George H. Allen 108
Photographs by William Cone AGES TG A G s M.R.C
Beets THat Are Fir To Eat - - - - - - - Adolph Kruhm 170 TPS IN| Av JERSEY GARDEN = = = = ==) = == ae eager toe |
Photographs by the puthon Att ABouT PIEPLANT - - - - - - - - - - - Mrs. A.S. Hardy 200 I
THE PLANTING OF AN APPLE TREE - - - George T. Powell 172 FLORAL CENTREPIECES- - - - - - - - - - - - M. 4H. Northend 204 |
Photographs by ie E. Angell Photographs by the author i
Bp eING EAN ORCHARD) So S)es sc nm nt BE. Angell 173 GRAPES IN THE Back YarD- - - - - - - - - - EE. S. Johnson 206 |
ae Your eee ae = 5 a ree ae Oa ae cel a Tue GRAPE-VINE FLEA BEETLE - - - - - - - Harold H. Clarke 206 |
Ng a NING NURSERY STOCK TS i rs gece Tue ALPINE STRAWBERRY - - 5p 6 - - HS. Adams 208 |
Photograph by Leonard Rowen Distr oh ae Ae El Hs ea < |
REDUCING THE Cost or Livinc - - - - - Roger W. Babson 177 SO eh 3 Y |
Drawing by the author TREE AND BusH FRUITS FOR THE HoME GARDEN - - W. H. Jenkins 210 |
“DIVISION” IN THE PERENNIAL BORDER - - H. S. Adams 179 A Homr-Mapr LAwNn ROLLER = eae - Elinor S. Brinton 212
Photographs by A. G. Wridreiee Photograph by he mnthon
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Tos Gamo Deseo 6 6 60S yess 5 Fae yar Seen try THE PERSIMMON IN OuR Fruit GARDENS - - - - - - E. P. Powell 218
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NGLISH WALL GARDENING - - - - William Robinson 192 :
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ature—Means Sturdy, Rugged Trees and Plants—Insures Permanent Results

Actual Size

St. Regis Everbearing

The Raspberry for the Million and the
Millionaire. ‘‘There’s Millions In It.’?

_ You can now have wonderful raspber-
ries from June to November by setting
out the plants this spring.

St. Regis produces continuously from
June to Nov. — heavy crops of large, lus-
cious, sugary berries of bright crimson.

Its summer and autumn crops do not
consist of a few scattered berries, but
good to heavy pickings all the time.
One party who had a small patch, say 4
an acre, picked and shipped from it two
or three pickings each week for four
months.

Grows successfully in any soil — en-
dures without injury heat, drought and
severest cold.

Northern
Grown

Hardy English
Walnut Orchards

Are a Commercial Success
in this City and County

Rochester grown — hardier than
Peach Trees. For the lawn, the accli-
mated English Walnut is unmatched,
with its smooth, light gray bark, luxu-
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metrical growth. Grown with temper-
atures far below zero at times, only
strong, rugged trees can survive;
the only kind you ought to plant and
the only kind you can plant with
safety.

ENGLISH WALNUT CROPS
YIELD BIG PROFITS

The demand for nuts is big and prices
give growers handsome profits. Culti-
vation, harvesting and maintenance are
easy and inexpensive. Plant an Eng-
lish Walnut Orchard this spring.

Mantura
Pecans
Reduced

Large Nuts—Paper Shell

Hardy Acclimated Pecan Trees
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but with our Northern Grown trees,
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Sober Paragon
Sweet Chestnut
Actual Size

Sober Paragon

Mammoth, Sweet Chestnut

BEARS FIRST YEAR

Paxinos Orchard Crop brought
$30,000

Plant for profit, for pleasure or for
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United, States Pomologist, G. B. Brack-
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APRIL, 1913

Ole < I Hn
Hardy Garden Plants

FEW dollars spent now

means a life long garden of

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that ought to carry them
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But don’t limit their use to
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in 200 varieties including Ever-
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A Rose of Quality

No Lover of Fine Roses
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The Climbing

American Beauty

The most wonderful rose of its
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beauty, color and perfume of the
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or can be trained to trellises, arbors, walls or fences.
Blooms profusely in June—one plant 4 years old
had over 900 blooms and buds at one time — and blooms
at intervals throughout the entire growing season. Blossoms
3 to 4 inches in diameter, borne on single stems. Fine
foliage that will not burn with the sun; thick dark green,
glossy leaves, which keep on the bush all summer, giving it a
beautiful appearance—quite a contrast to the brown and dead
leaves of the Crimson Rambler and other roses
of that type. Plant the Climbing American
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and you will take joy and pride in the beauty
and fragrance of the roses.

Strong One Year Plants $1.00 each,
$10.00 per dozen. Sent post or
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Unexcelled Nursery Facilities

Our Nurseries cover about 800 acres, where
we grow a full line of Fruit and Ornamental
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Sixty years of experience enable us to. offer
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its branches.

If you contemplate the improvement of your
grounds or the planting of a commercial
orchard, write us for information or prices.

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arden Magazine

VoL. XVII— No. 3

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is

generally taken as a standard. Allow six days’ differ-
ence for every hundred miles of latitude.]

What You Can Do in April

| ae is surely the “‘ month of months ”
for the amateur gardener. Everything
for the future success of the garden is
in his own hands now. So much to be
done —what shall be done first? Take
these things and consider them in order:

1. Plant any kind of fruit tree, bush or
plant.

2. Plant any kind of ornamental bush,
tree or vine.

3. Plant any hardy annual or herbaceous
perennial.

4. Plant any summer flowering root, tuber
or bulb.

5. Plant outdoors all hardy vegetables.

6. Plant indoors all half hardy and
tender vegetables that can be transplanted.

7. Make a new lawn or repair the old
one.

8. Wage active warfare against several
important insect pests.

g. Prune all dormant trees, shrubs and
vines except those that will bloom within
three months.

to. Divide and multiply established
hardy perennials.

11. Uncover strawberry beds and orna
mental borders.

12. Rake off the coarse manure and litter
from the lawn.

13. Make new driveways and paths.

14. Build and repair trellises and sup
ports.

15. Finish that drainage work.

16. Put pea brush in place.

17. Get bean poles ready to hand.

18. Fit the ground for all tender crops
that cannot be planted yet, e. g., corn,
squash, meions, tomatoes, etc. Some indi-
vidual frames or forcing boxes may be set

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in place in anticipation of later trans-
plantings.

19. Take cuttings of geranium, begonia,
carnation and all such bedding plants that
have been carried through the winter.

20. Begin to harden off house plants that
will later enjoy a summer rest plunged in
the garden.

21. Complete all grafting work and do
any necessary budding.

22. Propagate blackberries and rasp-
berries by tip-layering — that is, by bend-
ing down a cane, fastening it with a peg
or stone and covering a joint with earth.
In a few weeks it will have rooted and can
be cut loose, just as strawberry plants are
increased by means of runners.

23. Hasten the asparagus and rhubarb
with a dose of nitrate of soda scattered
thinly along the row or sprinkled in weak
solution, say one ounce to six gallons.

24. Cut back undesirably long vines,
both fruit and ornamental, and train the
main stems where they are wanted. Some
of the best materials for fastening them are
staples, raffia, surgeon’s plaster and narrow
strips of strong cloth.

Planting Ornamentals

| EASTING is like painting a picture.
Trees and shrubs are your colors and
must harmonize to form a unified land-
scape. These principles may help you
avoid the pitfalls of unsightly results:

t. Group shrubbery in masses and bor-
ders, leaving open, unbroken expanses of
lawn.

2. Use vines and shrubs, not to display
their own characters, but to mask sharp
lines of buildings and to frame distant
vistas.

3. Forsythia, magnolia, witch hazel, and
other shrubs that flower before their leaves
open, should always have an evergreen
background.

4. Locate paths, garden seats, sundials,
pergolas, summer houses, etc., only where
they have an obvious purpose. An isolated
pergola in the middle of a lawn is a useless
inconsistency.

5. Use specimens of unusual color and
form, such as silver-leaved, weeping, and
cut-leaved varieties with restraint, as
occasional high lights, not as frequent punc-
tuation marks.

6. Avoid color discords, by keeping
simultaneous bloomers well apart unless of
harmonious shades.

7. Cover bare ground between larger
subjects with such carpeting plants as

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daphne, shortia, galax, arbutus, partridge
berry, vinca, etc.

8. Plan for winter effects with evergreens
and such shrubs as have brightly colored
bark and warmly tinted berries.

g. In starting vines over dead trees, use
the loose drooping types, such as Virginia
creeper and wild grape, leaving the close
clinging ivy and euonymus for buildings,
brick walls, and fences.

to. Don’t try to establish grass on steep
banks. Use ground covers, vines, or the
trailing Wichuraiana rose.

Plan the Fruit Garden

(Pee home fruit garden should be planted
according to a plan no less carefully
made than that of the vegetable and flower
garden. Here are some principles that ex-
perience has approved:

A. In choosing varieties: (a) select a
generous number; (b) make quality the
chief consideration; (c) be sure early,
medium and late season types are all
represented; (d) don’t omit a variety or two
for culinary as well as desert uses.

B. In limited space: (a) don’t reduce the
number of trees—plant dwarfs; (b) train
trees on walls and trellises like grapes; (c)
keep the heads low and open.

C. On larger areas: (a) make a map
locating each tree and each variety of
berry, bush and vine; (b) allow plenty of
room for standard trees, using temporary
fillers of short-lived varieties, berries, and
vegetables.

D. Be sure to interplant varieties of such
fruits as may be self-sterile, e. g., pears,
strawberries, etc.

E. Buy only the best stock from only
well known, well advertised, well estab-
lished nurseries.

Rules for Tree Planting

LL trees, whether fruit, nut or orna-
mental, need the same sort of treatment
until it comes to pruning. The steps are:

1. Unpack the material at once.

2. If to be planted immediately, stand
it in pails or barrels of water. If not to
be planted at once, heel it in; that is, place
in a reclining position in a trench, laying the
trees closely together and packing soil over
and around the roots.

3. Prepare the soil as for any other cul-
tivated crop, then—

4. Dig the hole large enough to give
plenty of room for the entire root system,

5. Throwing some of the richer surface
soil back in the bottom.

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6. Cut back the broken and ragged
roots to a clean, smooth surface.

7. Hold the tree straight, directly in
the centre of the hole, using a planting
board if necessary while you—

8. Spread out the root system evenly,
covering it closely with more top soil. Then

g. Fill in quickly, trampling the soil
firmly from time to time, but—

10. Before the hole is full, pour on
enough water to thoroughly soak the roots.

11. When the hole is full, leave the sur-
face soil loose or mulch it with leaves,
straw or other litter, and—

12. Stake all tall trees, tying them with
cloth or rubber hose, not rope or wire.

PRUNING

Cut back ornamentals, only enough to
balance the root pruning, taking care not
to injure the main leader under any con-
dition. Strip off part of the leaves of broad-
leaved evergreens.

In pruning newly set fruit trees, keep
these points in mind:

a. Prune for a low head: Apples and
pears, 23 to 3 ft.; peaches, plums, and all
dwarfs, 1 to 2 ft.

b. Leave 3 to 5 strong branches radiat-
ing spirally from the trunk. One-year
old peaches are best pruned to a “whip,”
or single, straight stem.

c. Avoid forming crotches.

d. Aim for a spreading, open top.

e. Wherever the bark has been bruised,
cut it away to clean edges and paint the
wound.

PLANTING DISTANCES FOR FRUITS

Apples (standard)
30-40 ft.

Cherries 15-20 ft.
Quince 1o ft.
Apples (dwarf) 1oft. Grapes 8 ft.
Pears (standard) 25 Apricots 10 ft.
feet. Currants 3 ft.
Pears (dwarf) 10 ft. Gooseberries 3 ft.
Peaches 15 ft. Raspberries 3 ft.
Plums 15 ft. Blackberries 3 ft.
Strawberries 2 ft.

Making and Remaking Lawns

HE best lawns are made between March

15 and April 15, but plenty of previous

preparation is needed to give a fine, smooth

seed bed. Use plenty of seed — about a

quarter more than is ordinarily suggested.

Scratch it in with a wooden rake, then roll
lightly.

The best fertilizers to work into the soil
for a new lawn are nitrate of soda and bone
flour for quick results, and sheep manure,
coarse bone meal and wood ashes for slower
but more lasting effects.

To repair poor spots, scratch them with
an iron rake, sow seed, rake again, roll and
water.

Very bad places in a very good lawn
should be sodded, but if there is any great
proportion of them better plow up the
whole thing, relevel, drain if necessary, and
make an entirely new greensward.

Now is the time to dig out the worse
weeds, such as dandelion, burdock, plan-

tain, wild carrot. Cut deeply with a spud
or asparagus knife. A little carbolic acid,
salt, or iron suphate crystal on the cut
surface, will make the job doubly sure.

In many communities the accepted
winter and early spring treatment of pas-
tures and lawns is the burning off of the
dead grass. Some time we will print an
article about this. For the present, just
take our word for it and don’t burn over
your grass land.

Insect Enemies in April

[F asparagus beetles appear, keep the
young stalks cut. If the bed is young,
and this cannot be done, spray with an
arsenical poison.

The bud worm is after the leaf and
flower buds of apple, pear and other fruits.
Lead arsenate in the first application of
bordeaux mixture or in water (one pound
to 25 gallons) will fix him.

The canker worm follows as the blossoms
wither and fall. Use the same poison just
as the petals are dropping.

For the leaf aphides that cause the young
leaves to curl up and die, spray with kero-
sene emulsion before the foliage opens fully.

Burn all webs of the tent caterpillar.
If any worms escape make them share the
fate of bud and canker worm.

Take one last look for the white, cottony
egg masses of the gypsy moth on stone
walls, clumps of trees, fences, etc., and paint
them with creosote. Undiscovered eggs will
begin to hatch in a very few weeks.

Brown tail moth nests can still be seen
against the sky on the tips of bare twigs.
Trim off and burn them at once.

Peach leaf curl, pear or fire blight, and
black knot are not insects but deserve
equally severe treatment right now. For
the first spray thoroughly with bordeaux
mixture or lime sulphur by April 4th.

Fire blight appears first as “‘blossom
blight” and is often fatal. The only
remedy worth while is to cut away the entire
affected part and burn it. Possibly the
rest of the tree will survive.

To get rid of black knot on desirable
stone fruits, destroy all the useless wild
cherries in the neighborhood; then cut out
the occasional knots wherever they appear.

Subjects for April Planting
Bute: — Lilium auratum, longiflorum,

speciosum, tigrinum — in fact, any sum-
mer blooming sorts. Gladiolus, dahlia,
anemone (indoors), red hot poker plant,
cinnamon vine, summer hyacinth (for
massed effects), montbretia, coral drops,
Tritoma crocosmeflora.

VEGETABLES — Outdoors (may be thin-
ned later): beets, cardoon, carrot, chicory,
corn salad, endive, kohlrabi, onions, par-
snips, parsley, peas, potatoes, salsify, sea-
kale, spinach, turnips.

Outdoors (in a seed bed, to be later trans-
planted): artichoke (French), asparagus,
broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celeriac,
celery, leek, lettuce.

In hotbed or greenhouse (to be later
transplanted outdoors): Brussels sprouts,
cucumber, egg plant, musk and water mel-
ons, okra, pepper, pumpkin, squash, tomato.

Here are some short cut reminders of
plants for special purposes:

HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS — Three or

more feet high: widow’s tears, foxglove,
trooper’s feather, larkspur, custard lily,
Canterbury bell, hollyhock, perennial pea,
false chamomile, giant daisy (Chrysan-
themum), New England aster, plume poppy,
golden glow, giant reed, giant knotweed,
peony.

From one and one-half to three feet
high: bleeding heart, columbine, peach
bell, fraxinella, rock chamomile, blanket

- flower, phlox, Oswego tea, bluebell, Jap-

anese wind flower, Scotch thistle, Spanish
bayonet.

Less than one and one-half feet: sweet
keys (pansy), polyanthus, blue-eyed Susan,
forget-me-not, sweet William, bachelor but-
tons, fever few, tickseed, grass pink.

OLD RELIABLE SHRUBS — Syringa, lilac,
hydrangea, snowball, elder, spirea, weigela,
forsythia, deutzia, strawberry bush, smoke
bush, rhododendron, mountain laurel, mock
orange, althea.

SHRUBS FOR HEDGES ——Japan (flowering)
quince, barberry, lilac, privet, Osage orange,
locust.

SOME OF THE BEST EVERGREENS — Ma-
honia, box, American holly (Ilex opaca),
juniper (several horticultural varieties),
arborvitae, rhododendron, sand myrtle,
leather leaf, evergreen thorn, pernettya.

In the Perennial Border

pe and reset plants established
three or more years and which have
become overgrown or crowded. The method
is: a. Dig up plants, laying them to one
side; 6. Spade up the border, adding well
rotted manure and wood ashes, then level it
carefully; c. Cut the crowns in three to
five pieces (four to six eyes in each) with a
sharp spade or knife; d. Replant four to
six inches apart and slightly deeper than
before. To make the border a success:
Keep the tallest plants at the back, graduat-
ing to the lowest in the front;
Arrange for well distributed blossoming
throughout the entire season;
Blend the color scheme so that only har-
monious shades come together.

Little Things That Count

Wy SEN planting anything, press the
soil firmly around it.

When planting bulbs place them on a
layer of sand to prevent their rotting; and
you will get bigger flowers, too!

When cutting weeds from the lawn fill
each hole with soil and a pinch of grass
seed on top.

When pruning, cut flush with the branch
or trunk, leaving no stub. Also, rake up
and burn all the litter.

When transplanting, cut the broken roots
to clean, square edges.

Planting a Suburban Lot — By E. Rehmann, },

SIMPLIFYING A SEEMINGLY DIFFICULT PROPOSITION BY A PROPER SELECTION OF MATERIALS THAT LEND THEM-
SELVES TO THE SPIRIT OF THE HOME — WHAT TREES AND SHRUBS TO PLANT FOR ALL THE YEAR ROUND EFFECT

SHRUBBERY-BOUNDED lawn,
a flower garden, a woods with a
curving drive in it are some of the
understood requisites of a large
estate, but to have all three of them in the
suburbs on a steeply sloping lot of only a
too-foot frontage and 275-foot depth hardly
seems possible until we see a concrete ex-
ample. Such a one is here presented, which
goes to show that size has very little to do
with the making of beautiful gardens.
Not often is a landscape architect asked to
plan a place of so small dimensions, for it is
not often realized that a good design is as
necessary on a small place as on a large one.
This particular lot is fortunate in having
some tall old trees with a mass of under-
growth characteristic of deciduous woods.
The house is well placed, back from the
street, and has a fine suburban spirit, it
is low and rambling, with quaint windows

and quaint roof lines that make it nestle
among the trees. It is this quality that
makes it the nucleus around which the
garden is built.

Mr. Warren H. Manning, who was asked
to visit the place and make the owner a
plan, saw the fine possibilities that the old
trees and the picturesque house offered.

The plan as here produced is of the place
at the present time and not wholly as it was
originally planned. That plan was left
in the hands of the owner to carry out.
Certain things have been changed, by the
owner’s own confession not always to his
advantage, certain things have not yet
been developed in accordance to the
original intent, but the touch of the land-
scape architect’s hand is on it and its
simplicity, dignity and naturalness dis-
tinguishes it from all the thoughtless and
unfinished planting of neighboring lots.

In the making of the garden picture
there are two duties to be performed, a duty
to outsiders and a duty to yourself. The
planting, like the exterior of the house, ought
to be an asset to the street; but the grounds,
like the interior of the house, ought to be
primarily for your own comfort and enjoy-
ment—a place as private as tall trees and
tall shrubbery can make it, so that it can
be in reality the out-of-door room.

From the opposite side of the street a
picture would show the two maples that
flank at equal distances the main entrance.
A barberry hedge has an informality of
habit that suits the house better than the
stiff dignity of the privet, and a simple
break in the hedge at the entrance steps,
with their edging of evergreen rose climber,
is more appropriate than if gate posts or
any other form of emphasis had been tried.
The barberry hedge has more advantages

The shrubbery about the base of the house shows diversity in texture, but each kind is used in a broad mass

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than its informality. It has an all year
around interest in its cycle of changing
colors, from spring’s yellow flowers to
winter’s red berries. It has a spreading,
somewhat graceful habit that makes it
good for its position here on the top of a
low terrace. Hedge and terrace together
form a barrier of six or seven feet, which
gives just enough privacy to the front lawn,
and the trees on the street help toward this
privacy. Hedge and trees do not give the
exclusiveness of a walled garden, but they
do not leave it open to full view so that
nothing is left to the imagination. Over
the hedge you can see the tree near the
entrance porch, the wistaria on the corner
of the house, and you can get glimpses of
the shrubs near the entrance. It gives you
just enough for an hospitable invitation
inside; moreover, it does not disappoint
you when you enter.

The first impression you get, once inside
the hedge, is the feeling of space on the
front lawn, though its irregular space is
no more than 80 feet in width and varies
from 30 to 4o feet in depth. This feeling
of space is due to the smooth, uninterrupted
lawn. A tree or shrub that is put in the
middle of a lawn divides it up into small
sections; every additional plant stuck in at
haphazard adds to the number of divisions
until it is a place of specimens, with little
patches of grass around each one, and loses
entirely that first essential of a lawn, the
uninterrupted greensward.

But there is no picture in just a green
lawn. The second essential of the lawn
and the very essence of it is the surround-
ing line of trees and shrubbery. This is
the source of its beauty; it gives to it the
color of the flowers and the varying green
of foliage; it gives to it the changing shad-
ows which is the best of its charms. Here,
the street trees enter into the scheme again
for they supply the large trees without en-
croaching on the lawn space, and form with
the hedge one of the bounding lines. The
shrubbery along the house and that on the
south side complete the surrounding green.

Shrub planting along the house founda-
tions is a problem in the use of low growing
plants with often a little variety to be
gained through the use of taller shrubs or
vines or small growing trees. It is the
purpose of the small shrubs to soften the
fixed rectangular lines of the house with
graceful curving and spreading branches,
to nestle close to the foundations and be a
link between house wall and lawn. The
masses of curving branches and dense
foliage ought to be without a suggestion of
the stems or trunks that carry them. In
order to do this, the older branches are
gradually cut away so that the new shoots
and branches are given room to develop
vigorously. This will give quite a different
effect from shrubs that are clipped and
trimmed and cut off flat at the top. Such
treatment is shrub mutilation and develops
shrubs with naked old trunks and stiff
branches which make them ungainly and
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land effect at the rear. Note the open lawn

The shrubs should be planted closely
together to give continuous effect of foliage
in summer and of twigs and branches in
winter. The use of but one kind of plant
along the house wall is monotonous; the
use of too many kinds is spotty, not only
in flower effect but in foliage values.

Here, Thunberg’s spirea and Stephan-
andra are planted along the front, an
actinidia vine tumbles luxuriantly over the
porch railing, a wistaria vine climbs up the
corner of the house, and climbing roses and
peonies are planted under the south win-
dows. Together they form a succession
of bloom from late April until late June.
The spireas are exceptionally well adapted
for planting close to the house. Spirea

Thunbergii and Spirea Van Houttei are excel-
lent used together; and these two, with one
of the Deutzias, either the dwarf gracilis,
or the small crenata, or the larger Pride ot
Rochester, do good triple work. Japanese
quince makes an excellent combination
with the spireas and adds a great deal to the
group with its dark foliage and very early
bloom of red or pink flowers. One of the
wild roses, the prairie rose (Rosa setigera), or
the small Rosa blanda, or the always satis-
factory Japanese rose (Rosa rugosa), used
with the spireas, lengthens the bloom into
July while the spireas and the snowberries
(Symphoricarpos racemosus) or the Indian
currants (Symphoricarpos vulgaris), or the
sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia), or
one of the St. John’s worts (Hypericum),
distribute the bloom between the spring
and midsummer. The two symphoricarpos
and the roses have an additional value of
berries during the autumn and winter, and
the spireas vary in misty shades of brown
all winter long.

The variety that the vines contribute
here in height effects can be obtained, very
often, through a few taller shrubs. ‘Some
of the bush honeysuckles are of medium
height and good for this purpose; and the
Russian olive (Eleagnus longipes) combines
well with them in foliage effect and espe-
cially in fruiting time in July. The pearl
bush (Exochorda grandiflora) is a good

shrub for this higher effect and its dark —

foliage and its large white flowers in May
combine well with spireas and wild roses.
A small tree planted close to the house is
another means by which to vary the ae
of the planting.

Some of the magnolias (M. Vulan, u 4
stellata, or M. Soulangeana), or hawthorns
(Crategus cordata, or C. coccinea), are good
for such purposes. Here the Chinese
lilac (Syringa Pekinensis) is used. It is a
graceful tree with large dark foliage and
great clusters of white flowers. Its July
bloom lengthens the succession of bloom
of the house shrubbery while its companion
does the same in the south shrubbery.

The lilacs are used to form the high part
of the south shrubbery. The lilacs, both
white and purple, are the main feature of
the shrubbery. A predominence of one
kind of shrub, especially in so small a
border, is one way to insure a harmonious
foliage effect and to avoid spotty effect
of bloom. With two kinds of golden bell,
rugosa roses, and snowberries the bloom
lasts from very early April to August. The
spirea and forsythia give a white and yel-
low effect which is bright and cheerful in
the early spring; later the wistaria and
lilacs give a quieter effect of lavender and
purple.

Unfortunately for the north side of the
lot, the first attention was given to the
south side which is most naturally empha-
sized as it is seen from the main living room.
The original plan calls for a wall on either
side of the drive and for shrubbery on the
north edge of the lawn. It would hide the
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the picture of the lawn with its surrounding
trees and flowering shrubbery.

The small flower garden which divides
the front lawn from the back is well placed
on the side of the piazza. Besides the
shrubbery bounding it on the front and
the woods at the back, a trellis for vines
on the side opposite the piazza hides it
from the neighbor’s kitchen. The charm
of many a flower garden is due to its
bounding lines.

The plants are placed very close together
to cover the entire space, because, sitting on
the piazza or standing by the railing, you
get a bird’s eye view looking down into the
bloom. Larkspur, peonies, thermopsis,
coreopsis, phlox and yellow day lilies were
some of the suggestions for this garden.

Being in so secluded a spot, shut in on
all sides, it does not need to be kept in
continuous bloom.

It is not easy to handle a steeply sloping
piece of ground such as this one in back of
the house. Many people avoid such lots
because they do not know what to do with
them, they do not see any possibility to
make them attractive and let them grow
up rank with weeds and washed into deep
gullies, for it is impossible to make them
into lawns.

One of the very best ways to treat such
a sloping piece of ground is to transform it
into a bit of woods. Such treatment is
in harmony here with the low informal
character of the house and the simplicity
of the front lawn.

Even if the ground is devoid of trees; a
wood’s effect can be created in a com-
paratively short period of time through the
planting of some extra sized trees and a
thick planting of shrubs and small trees.

On this lot it was not the problem of
creating a wood, for the slope was part of a
century old forest, it was the problem of
preserving the character and spirit of the
woods through the planting of shade-loving
shrubs and woodsy flowers.

The trees are tall tulips and oaks with
an undergrowth of birch, white dogwoods,
sumach, and ferns, and added to these are
hemlocks, azaleas and rhododendron. In
the original design the hemlocks were to have
been planted in an irregular band around
the boundaries. It would have added
a great deal to the planting in giving the
contrast between evergreen and deciduous
trees and by making an interesting back-
ground for the rhododendrons and azaleas.

Rhododendrons for this kind of use ought
to be the hardiest kind, R. maximum, that
can be obtained by the carload direct from
the woods, instead of the more expensive
and often tender varieties of foreign im-
portation. The azaleas, too, ought to be
natives. Azalea nudiflora, Vaseyi, calen-
dulacea and viscosa will give a blooming
season from April to July.

The plantation could be made pri-
marily of evergreens, adding junipers, white
pine, Japanese yews, laurels and androm-
edas, but it is better to make it pri-
marily of deciduous material. In winter,

the red-twigged dogwoods (Cornus alba and
stolonifera) near the hemlocks would give
a splendid color contrast; in early spring,
the spice-bush and the Cornelian cherry
(Cornus mas) would brighten the woods
with yellow about the time the forsythia
blooms; elders and clethra will give sum-
mer bloom while the viburnums, dogwoods,
and mountain ash would give much autumn
color.

The road is a frank straightforward
piece of engineering to get from the street
level to the barn at a grade possible for a
horse. The curve is a little steep for an
automobile but is quite possible except in
very slippery winter weather. The road’s
very picturesqueness is due to its utility,
for the curve which is a necessity provides
a series of woodland pictures; the best of
them is seen from the dining room win-
dows and from the piazza. The open glade
where the road runs along the back of the
house provides a small laundry yard.

The building of the road and the grading
of the slopes will make a lot of this kind
more expensive than ordinary lots, and the
repairs on the road and of the banks will
raise the cost of maintenance, but a thick
plantation of shrubs and trees and ground
covers on the slopes will with their simple
beauty be of utilitarian purpose in prevent-
ing the washing of the slopes. In buying
the plant material deal with a good reliable
nursery. Such planting may cost more in
the beginning but the yearly cost of main-
tenance will be comparatively small. It is
not the initial cost that counts. Yourgarden
ought to be planted with the amount to
spend each year for up-keep clearly in mind.

The cost and maintenance of this place
and all the plant material mentioned here-

tofore, trees, shrubs and flowers of good
stock and hardy variety will be little in
comparison to the yearly outlay so many
people have for shows of dwarf evergreens of
foreign importation that are not accli-
matized, and for the yearly renewal of
beds of tender plants that last long enough
to make a season’s gaudy show at the very
time of year when colors should be of deli-
cate shades and the green foliage of decidu-
ous shrubs should be abundant to make the
summer heat seem less intense.

In such a place as this one the lawn is.so
small a space that it is easily cut and the
edges trimmed in half a day. The main
work comes in the spring and fall when the
shrubs need pruning. Pruning is a serious
art, by slow degrees from cautiously cut-
ting away dead and old wood, you become
initiated into its finer points and become
bolder with the knife. It is the art of pre-
serving the character of each individual
shrub. The quality that you will learn to
love on your place, that quality of seem-
ing always to have been there, comes to
a great extent in pruning shrubs so care-
fully that they seem to grow at their own
free will.

Trees and shrubs, for the most part those
of deciduous material, should predominate
over flowers for they will give interest to
the garden in all seasons. In spring they
will cheer with delicate flowers; in summer
they will rest with abundant green and
shade; in autumn and winter they will
enliven the garden with bright fruit and
colored twigs. This is one of the most
important points to keep in mind in the
planting of small places, for the suburban
garden is the setting for the house that is
in use all the year around.

Beets That Are Fit to Eat — By Adolph Kruhm, oi

THE HOME GARDENERS’ OPPORTUNITY TO PRODUCE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT OBTAINABLE IN THE
MARKET—TEN VARIETIES OF TABLE BEET THAT WILL PROVIDE A SUCCESSION FROM JUNE UNTIL FROST

OTWITHSTAND-
ING the fact that
beets are among the
most easily grown
vegetables, roots of good qual-
ity can rarely be bought. One
of .the principal reasons for
this is that the grower’s views
with reference to quality in
this vegetable differ radically
from those of the consumer.
The man who eats the beets
wants the quality within, while the man
who sells them tries to produce quality in
shape and skin — the two factors that sell
beets. The results are usually fair looking
beets, entirely devoid of the sweet, juicy
flesh one has a right to expect. And let it
be stated right here that the varieties, too,

Eclipse. A well fixed type
show great differences in quality. Some
become tough and woody before they are
really of a fair size, while others quickly
attain the eatable stage and pass it almost
before the planter realizes.

Several years of half-hearted experiment-
ing had firmly established these facts in
my mind and created a desire for beets
that really would be “fit to be eaten.”
The only solution of the problem seemed
to lie in a practical test. A score or more
of the best new as well as standard sorts
were consequently planted on April 29th,
and the results revealed many interesting
and valuable facts. Since repeated sow-
ings were out of the question because of
lack of space and time, a collection of
different varieties was made, covering the
season from early to late — according to the
catalogue descriptions.

May it be placed on record here, that a
large percentage of the catalogue descrip-
tions proved correct — but frequently late

1. Flat turnip (Crosby’s, Electric). 2.
4

- Top (Edmands’).

Early Model. Really a midseason

Typical shapes of beets, marking the five classes into which they are divided

Flat globe (Eclipse). 3. Globular or ovoid (Columbia, Black Red Ball).
5. Globe (Detroit. Early Model. Crimson Globe. Fireball).

sorts were recommended as “‘first early”
and sorts supposed to be very sweet proved
of only fair quality. Of the whole collec-
tion, ten stood the test, incidentally furnish-
ing delicious beets for six weeks or more.

The soil in which these beets grew was
far from ideal for the development of this
vegetable. It was stiff, heavy
clay, not at all rich and friable.
But it retained moisture well,
and constant cultivation made
up for a deficiency in the
natural water supply. While the
roots were not as smooth as they
would have been if grown on
lighter, sandier soil, they were,

One thing is sure —clay soil
produces a quality in the roots
that cannot be duplicated on a
lighter soil where the roots grow
to be better looking. So the
law of compensation works —
what you lose in appearance,
you gain in quality; and what
you gain in earliness, you lose
in size.

What is the “right size” of a
beet for culinary purposes? We
hear so much about the de-
licious beet greens — beets that
are pulled when quite
small and boiled, roots,
tops andall. But com-
parative cooking tests
with all the varieties,
from youth to old age,
showed that all the
varieties described here-
with were at their best
when the ‘“‘root” mea-
sured two inches in
diameter. Some passed
that size very quickly
and still retained their
tenderness and sweet
quality. Others lingered
a week or ten days at
that stage of develop-
ment and then quickly
became tough and
woody. ‘The late sorts
retained their cooking

qualities longest. Electric.

170

in most cases, of typical shape. —

A long season root

The various beets described
below as forming an ideal
assortment for the home gar-
den differ essentially in shape
and season of maturity. All
are good while at their best,
and most are good for a long
time after.

As to the shape, it will be
noticed that no long sort is
included in the collection. I
do not consider long beets
practical for the home garden, since they
cannot be pulled very easily. Besides, they
are very late, and few soils are adapted to
grow long beet roots in fair fashion. All
the sorts recommended here grow nearly

_ half above the ground on which account

they are easily pulled.

In season of maturity the selected ten
sorts cover a period of six weeks in an ideal
manner. If some of the young seedling
plants, thinned out of rows at the proper
time, are transplanted into another row,
this period can easily be extended by two
weeks. more. A sowing very early in the
spring and a subsequent sowing about the
time the first rows are transplanted should
really furnish beets that are “just right”
from June until frost, if the recommended
collection is utilized.

It is really no great trick to grow good
beets, but here are a few hints that will
make it easier to be sure of success. Spade
deeply any kind of soil you have. Place
rows two feet apart ana make drills about
one half inch deep. Cover carefully and
then walk over the row, placing one foot
before the other so that, when you get
through, the row shows nothing but a con-
tinuous string of foot prints. Beet “seeds”

are really composite kernels, each containing
These are em-

several individual seeds.

Detroit Dark Red. Nearly an ideal

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bedded in a rather spongy substance, as a
close examination will reveal. Unless the
soil is pressed into firm contact with this sub-
stance, causing it to decay quickly, you are
apt to have a rather long wait for your seed-
ling plants, or to get an irregular stand.

Just as soon as the seedlings are two to
three inches tall, thin them out to stand
four inches apart in the row. No other
vegetable I know (with the possible ex-
ception of radishes) so much resents being
crowded in the rows as beets. If you
want a lot of small beets for boiling as
“sreens” sow an extra row especially for
that purpose. But do not let those rows
that are grown for good roots suffer for
want of proper thinning early in the de-
velopment of the seedlings. A disregard
of this factor always becomes noticeable
in two ways —the beets develop more
slowly and are apt to be “off” in shape.

Hoe often and thoroughly, and give
shallow cultivation.

TEN GOOD BEETS FOR THE HOME GARDEN

By way of explanation, let it be said that
seed growers talk of ‘‘types” in connection
with vegetables. If a vegetable comes
“true to type” it means that a large per-
centage of the finished product comes up
to the type to which the grower selected.
Applied to beets it means that a good per-
centage of the roots of a certain variety
should be of about the same shape and color.

The varieties recommended below repre-
sent the best types of beets in their
respective classes. For instance, there
is a “turnip-shaped” class, a ‘“‘flat-globe
shaped”-class, etc. All these classes are
represented by quite a number of varieties,
the most dependable of which are recom-
mended below. This selection, however,
let it be understood, is not arbitrary, since
soil, climate and weather conditions are
apt to produce quite a change in the be-
havior of certain varieties, and, after all,
the individual gardener must experiment
to some extent to find the ideal selection for
his peculiar conditions.

Some readers may criticise me for put-
ting old Eclipse at the head of the list.
And yet, there is no other variety so thor-
oughbred in that it will come as uniformly
true to type. While new varieties of merit
cannot have a stronger advocate than my-
self, I consider it quite as import-
ant to give credit to the old ones,

Pe

. Edmands’ Blood Red. Best main crop

to the perfecting of which, growers have
devoted decades of patient toil.

Eclipse produced beets two inches in
diameter in sixty days from date of plant-
ing. No doubt this record can be beaten
on a lighter soil containing plenty of humus.
The roots are of uniformly dark rosy red
color, flat globe-shaped and easily pulled.
Tops are of uniformly light-green color.
Flesh dark purplish red with rose zones.
Eclipse remains in good table condition
for ten days, when it becomes over-grown
and rather tough. While in prime con-
dition, the flesh is tender and sweet.

Crosby’s Improved Egyptian is unques-
tionally the most widely grown turnip-
shaped beet in cultivation to-day and
deservedly so. It is only to be regretted
that there are so many different “strains”
of this on the market which creates quite
a confusion in the amateur’s mind. Some
of the ‘‘strains” of Crosby’s beet are of
almost flat globe-shaped type, while others
are decidedly flat turnip-shaped. The
happy medium between may be consid-
ered an ideal Crosby’s Egyptian, which
will produce 2-inch beets within two days
after Eclipse. Smooth, dark-red roots
are topped with light green foliage which is
prominently speckled with dark red. The
flesh is carmine with white zones and of
uniformly sweet quality.

Detroit Dark Red comes nearer being an
ideal beet than any. It is easily the sweet-
est of the early sorts and while it is about
two days later than Crosby’s Egyptian,
many people prefer it to Crosby’s on
account of its handsome globe shape. The
round, dark red roots are uniformly
smooth. The flesh of the very young

Crosby’s Egyptian. Most widely grown but not of a fixed type

beets is almost black-red, turning to a
dark crimson with dark purple zones
as the beets grow larger. When cooked,
beets are of an appetizing, dark red
color and as sweet as any one can wish a
beet to be. If I were limited to one beet,
I would want that one to be Detroit
Dark Red.

Electric. ‘This I am tempted to call the
most perfect type of the flat turnip-shaped
beets. Uniformly flatter than Crosby’s
and of about the same season as Detroit
Dark Red, Electric goes both these favor-
ites one better in remaining in excellent
table condition for nearly a month. While
it is an exceedingly rapid grower up to the
time that it becomes two inches in diameter,
it is exceedingly slow in growing larger.
As the result, four weeks hardly doubles the
size of the growing roots which are of sur-
prising quality even after they are long
over-grown. With outside skin like
Crosby’s and white-zoned crimson flesh,
Electric is a most valuable beet for the
man who cannot find time to sow beets
every other week.

Fireball may fitly be described as a
globe-shaped Electric. Its essential char-
acteristic is its long lasting quality and
the flesh is sweet at all stages of de-
velopment. This is the latest of the really
early beets, producing 2-inch roots in sixty-
six days from date of planting. There is
a peculiar mellowness about the flavor of
cooked Fireball beets, that is hard to beat.
Moreover, this delicate flavor is noticeable
even in overgrown specimens, which are
entirely free from the bitterness that makes
many other standard sorts undesirable
after they are past their best.

Crimson Globe is of good globe type and
may be termed the dependable midseason
sort. In seventy days from date of plant-
ing, 25 per cent. of the beets in the Crimson
Globe row will be fit for table. A peculiar
characteristic of this as well as the next
variety is that its roots do not reach the
same size all at once, but some grow faster.
others slower, while all are of good quality,
This point is worthy of consideration from
the home :planter’s standpoint — it length-
ens the period of perfection. After the
roots become larger than two and a half

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inches in diameter they prove to be rather
bitter in flavor, but they are always tender.
Flesh, bright red with light purple zones.

Early Model is not as early as it name
would indicate, since it proved of about
the same season as Crimson Globe. Other-
wise it is a splendid sort with symmetrical
roots of dark red color that are models
of smoothness. It grows quickly past the
ideal 2-inch size and is good for a week to
ten days in the overgrown stage when the
flesh will suddenly become rather stringy
and tough. But while at its best, Early
Model is of fine quality and will prove a
good companion sort to Crimson Globe
from which it differs in having almost
purplish crimson flesh with little indication
of zones.

Columbia is of distinct type, with globu-
lar or ovoid roots not met with among any
of the sorts described heretofore. I like
to call this the first of the late sorts. While

it matures 25 per cent. of a crop within
two days after Crimson Globe and Early
Model, it lingers a long time before all roots
are of the best size. As the result I have
pulled roots of Columbia as late as the first
week in August and they were still of fair
quality. No doubt this cannot be done on
richer soils which would force the beets to
quicker maturity. But if you have clay
soil of rather indifferent fertility which
will retard fast growth, try Detroit Dark
Red for an early and Columbia for a late
crop beet. This pair will prove about
ideal. Flesh of Columbia is purplish
crimson with white zones, and the outside
skin is dark red.

Edmands’ Early, of distinct top-shaped
type, proves anything but an early on
heavy clay soil. From seeds sown April
2ist, 25 per cent. of the roots averaged two
inches in size by July 2d or two days later
than Columbia. This I like to call the

ideal main crop beet, since it is far superior
in quality to either Columbia or Black
Red Ball, described next. The skin is
dark red, flesh black-red with purple zones
and almost black when cooked. Of very
sweet flavor at all stages of development
and proves dependable until the last week
in July.

Black Red Ball proved the latest of all
beets in my trial. The distinct charac-
teristic of this variety is its uniformly very
dark red foliage. The roots are of globular
or ovoid shape, dark red on the outside and
purplish black within. This color even
deepens when the roots are boiled, giving
them a most appetizing appearance. From
seeds sown the latter part of April, 25 per
cent. of the roots reached the 2-inch stage
by the fifth of July. For fully a month
after that, Black Red Ball provided hand-
some beets of excellent quality even after
they were long past their ideal size.

The Planting of an Apple Tree—By George T. Powell, #

BEGIN NOW AND PLANT SOME FRUIT TREES—THE CORRECT WAY OF HANDLING YOUNG STOCK FOR PERMANENT TREES

HEN a two-year old apple tree
is received from the nursery,
it looks like a small and some-

what insignificant affair, with
a few spindling branches that generally
appeal to a country boy as good stuff for
making whips.

There will be roots, more or less, some long
and others short, with the fine, delicate
and very essential ones mostly stripped off
and dried from exposure, and to many
persons who receive such a tree there comes
a feeling somewhat of want of faith (even
though it lives) that it will ever amount to
anything. This is
where you should
pull yourself to-
gether and get to
work, not lamenting
and blaming the
nurseryman. A tree
that has endured a
pruning is usually a
sorry looking thing.

This same _ tree,
however, has within
its organization great
possibilities and its
fate lies in your
hands.

After a careful ob-
servation has been
made of the tree
from its physical
standpoint, there
arises the problem of
what to do with it
and how to begin.
The tree must first
be pruned, whereby
it may again begin
to fulfill its function

of growth after recovering from the shock
of removal from where it was growing.
Many of its roots have been reduced, by
being cut off in the process of digging in
the nursery, its growth for a time being
checked.

In order that the tree may be aided in
making a new start the whip-like branches
need to be cut back, and all removed from
the main stem excepting about four, which
should be so left as to be separated from
three to four inches, thus securing for each
branch a firm and strong support from the
body of the tree. These branches are to

This kind of low headed apple tree is easily cared for and fruit can be gathered mostly trom the ground

make the future form of the tree, they are
to carry the weight of the fruit that is to
be abundantly set, and it is important that
they shall have the advantage of the entire
strength of the body from the point where
they are growing. This is essential to
support the heavy weight of apples that,
in the future, will tax the ability of the
tree to carry without breaking. ;
Where branches are left opposite to
each other a crotch is formed, and later
when these branches are heavily laden with
fruit they will be pulled apart by the
weight of the fruit with the result of a
split. Possibly both
branches will break
down and a valuable
tree will be ruined,
long before its use-
fulness should end.
An accompanying
illustration (p. 172)
shows just what has
happened from de-
fective shaping. A
great branch has
gone down, its
strength being weak-
ened by another
branch left too close
to it, and so great
was the strain upon
the body of the tree
that the split ex-
tended to its centre,
which will,in time, re-
sult in the other half
being blown over ina
heavy storm, and a
most valuable tree
lost in the prime of
its productiveness.

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 173

A young apple tree as it grows naturally

A perfectly balanced tree with
strong branches at the base is
seldom met because the future
form is not studied at the start.

The planter of a tree should
be able to carry in mind the

right form of a tree through
several years of its develop-
ment.
A proper treatment of the
roots of a tree is equally im-
portant in its planting. In
lifting or digging trees in the
nursery the roots are cut, with
more or less breaking.

The broken parts should be
cut off and all the roots cut back
at least one-third. Material is
there for making new growth
and the growth is materially
hastened and aided by mak-
ing smooth cuts that the
ends may be quickly healed
when they will be enabled
to throw out new rootlets
How the young which must be done before
Naa ome growth can be made by the

There can be

i makes new
pane buds above.

no new growth of the tree, until a new
growth of roots begins.

Many trees are planted without any
pruning of the roots and such often strug-
gle for years before they can establish a
strong new root system and much time is
unnecessarily lost before fruit will be pro-
duced. With intelligent pruning of both
the top and roots of a tree, it is entirely
possible to so advance the development in
growth and in fruit-bearing that in three
years from planting, specimens of apples
may be had. While there are large num-
bers of trees that give no evidence of bear-
ing fruit under twelve, and in instances
fifteen years, the writer under the system
of pruning outlined, together with good

The whip-like branches are cut back to form the
spreading head

culture, has taken nine bushel boxes of
perfect apples from trees, in the seventh
year from planting.

Starting an Orchard
By H. E. AncEett, New York

ape only satisfactory method of starting
an orchard is to purchase the trees from
a reliable nurseryman. It is worth while
to give personal attention to the selection
of these trees or ‘‘whips” as much depends
upon this initial step in orcharding. Hav-
ing decided upon the varieties desired, pick
out strong, stocky, vigorous one or two-
year-old trees with well developed root
systems. Older trees may be successfully
planted but the one or two-year-old trees
are more satisfactory and profitable in the

long run, suffer less in transplanting, cost
less and are more easily handled.

There are several good
reasons for purchasing stock
from the nearest re
liable nurseryman.
He will be able to
give you advice as to
the varieties best suited
to the location of the
orchard, he will feel
responsible for the
correctness of his
nomenclature, and
the trees will suffer less
from transplanting. The
perpetuation of varieties
is secured by budding or
grafting cuttings from the
variety desired upon seed
grown stock.

Budding consists in remov-
ing a bud from a twig and in-
serting it beneath the bark
of the seedling and tying it
in place. When the bud
and stock have united the
seedling is cut off above the
bud thus forcing the sap
and growth into the
transplanted bud. If
all growth except
through this bud is
prevented all the fruit
of the tree will be of
the desired variety.

Grafting is accom-
plished by fitting
a dormant twig
Cutsirompe ran cree
of the desired var-
iety into a cut in the seedling. There
are several forms of grafting differing more

A nursery tree. It is
to be pruned where the
marks indicate

The foundation for the future tree

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1913

The result of defective shaping when young.

in form than in result. As in budding, all
growth is checked except through the graf-
ted twig. In both methods the result is
the same.

The trees bought from the nursery are
already budded or grafted and if the nur-
seryman knows his business and his hon-
esty can be relied upon it is better for the
amateur to buy such stock than to attempt
to propagate his own trees.

The best time to plant trees depends upon
the latitude. In most of the states early
spring is preferred.

It is important in preparing the land
selected as the orchard site, to till deeply
and thoroughly and it is well when possible
to prepare the soil late in the preceding
autumn. If a large number of trees is
to be planted, it is possible while plowing
to make an open land furrow where each
row of trees is to be set, and then by back
furrowing, throw the earth into the trench
and up about the trees after they are in
place.

Chart Your

DENING CAN

beginners. Every year thousands of

couples build their houses with convic-

tion and approach the planting prob-
lem with fear and trembling. One of the
greatest troubles is, that when any one pro-
poses to you any particular scheme you do
not know “how it will look.” A water
color sketch can be made, but it sounds
expensive and is often too alluring. You
feel the need of some check on florist,
nurseryman, or landscape gardener. You

[= sympathize with the troubles of

want to be sure the proposed plan is the
There ought to be some rational

best.

Could not carry its load

If only a few trees are to be planted, holes
can be dug with the spade to a depth of
about one foot.

In a full grown orchard trees should be
at least 30 feet apart. It is quite practical
however to plant trees 15 feet apart in
rows 30 feet apart, every other tree being
of an early fruiting variety which can be
cut out when the trees begin to interfere
with each other.

Before the trees or “whips” are set they
should be cut back to the point where the
head is to be formed, say about 18 inches
from the ground for the home orchard.

Consider well the form of the tree de-
sired and prune accordingly. Modern
planters prefer a low spreading tree, and
this is secured by discouraging the growth
of upright central limbs.

Fruit trees have many enemies but this
should not discourage the amateur orchard-
ist. In many communities it is possible
to hire experts to spray the trees and this is
perhaps the easiest way, for the man with

A better distribution of strains is shown in this tree

only a few trees, to keep them free from
disease.

The trees should be sprayed at least twice
each year and three or four times is better.
The cost is slight compared to the increased
value of healthy trees and perfect fruit.

The success of the trees is dependent
absolutely upon careful attention.

When a tree has reached the bearing age
and although luxuriant and vigorous in
growth, shows little or no inclination to
blossom, fruit buds may be stimulated by
root pruning. This is done by digging a
circular trench at a distance of 4 or 5 feet
from the tree to a depth of about 3 feet
cutting all the roots encountered or in
reach. The trench should then be imme-
diately filled and the earth packed down
about the severed roots.

With these principles of orcharding well
in mind there is no reason why any one
should fail of success in growing apple trees,
and the same general principles apply to
all the orchard fruits.

Home Grounds—By Wilhelm Miller, tins.

A SCHEME BY WHICH ANY ONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT GAR-
MAKE HIS PLACE ATTRACTIVE THE YEAR ROUND

way by which a beginner can test the value
of any technical proposition, for the alleged
expert may not be worthy of trust.

There is such a way. It will doubtless
be very disgusting to some good people who
proceed by short cuts, intuition and in-
spiration. To them any list, chart, or
table is dead, mechanical, dry-as-dust.
But perhaps they will like this story. Mr.
, a country gentlemen, who has
about 150 acres not far from Philadelphia
wanted a formal garden, a water garden, a
bog garden, a rock garden, a grove, and
‘wild garden in the woods, for his lovely place

naturally suggested all these things. But he
couldn’t imagine what they would look like,
because he did not know the appropriate
flowers for each location. The only thing
he was sure of was that he loved color and
wanted plenty of it everywhere the year
round. So his adviser showed him just
how he could have the best flowers for
each of these very different purposes for
every month in the year. And, wonderful
to relate, he got all this information
on a single page! Nay, more, he even
expressed it in the English language in-
stead of Latin!

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 175

The chart was like the one shown on this
page. First, Mr. H read down the
page and saw what his formal garden would
have every month from March to the end
of winter. Then Mr. H read across
the page and saw how his whole place
would look in March, April, May, etc.
Of course, he did not know many of these
flowers, but he could see at a glance that
every garden would have two or three big
masses of color in it the year round. He
could see that there was no duplication of
effects, i. e. the roses, lilacs, and peonies
in the formal garden were not scattered all
over the place where you would meet the
same things at every turn. And finally,
he could feel that each garden was highly
distinct, appropriate and natural; the
swamp bay being in the bog garden and the
rock cress in the rock garden. It was nota
case of cannas by the waterside or gladiolus
in the woods. In short, this chart gave
Mr. H. a chance to change everything
while things could be changed cheaply,
i. e. before planting.

Now, my inspirational friend, I shall not
ask you to change your temperament, but
I will show you how you can simplify and
make easy the formidable task of choosing
the best plants for whatever needs you have.

And you will surely agree that this plan
will give you something that will fit your
personality better than any ready made
scheme, and will give you something that
the seed and nursery catalogues cannot give.

Suppose you want a simple border of
hardy permanent flowers. The old way
is to consult your catalogue and write
down the names of all the flowers you love.
That is a very sweet, dreamy, precious way
and I would not rob any one of that ex-
perience for worlds. But it is bewildering,
and bewilderment is not a pleasant sensa-
tion. And your favorite flowers are sure to
bunch themselves in a few months, leaving
great gaps in your border for periods that
seem painfully long when your garden is
planted. Sooner or later a great desire
will well up within you to design that bor-
der in the masterful, comprehensive, artis-
tic way, so that it will be a thing of beauty
from March to October or even from New
Year’s to Christmas.

Then you will begin with a list of the
months instead of the flowers. At once it
becomes evident that the next most impor-
tant consideration is color. Therefore,
you rule columns for your blue, red, pink,
white, and yellow flowers. The finest way
for you to put your personality into this

border is to decide which flowers seem to
you the loveliest of their color in each par-
ticular season. This seems a Herculean
task, but you can cut the Gordian knot by
filling these squares. You turn now to
your favorite catalogues with fresh zeal, for
you are no longer their victim, but their
master. They will quickly tell you when
any particular flower blooms. When you
have provided a bit of color for every month
in the year, beginning with the winter
aconite and ending with the Christmas rose,
you will realize for the first time which
flowers you really love the most, and why.

Of course, a chart has one great limita-
tion; it cannot give long lists of flowers,
because the squares are necessarily small.
But the object of a chart is to show the
main masses of color, to help you concen-
trate on the big strong effects. After you
have decided on your floral heroes, it is
easy enough to make a list of “fillers.”

In the same way you can plan better
home grounds in city, suburbs or country,
whether great or small. You can plana bet-
ter rose garden, bulb garden, greenhouse,
roof garden, wall garden, wild garden,
winter garden. And if you have good
results, won’t you let me see some pictures
of your garden?

FORMAL GARDEN

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A CHART FOR YEAR-ROUND BEAUTY

WATER GARDEN

BOG GARDEN

Winter heliotrope

Japanese pussy wil-

low

Marsh marigold
Crested iris
Vernal iris
Redbud

Forget-me-not
Yellow pitcher
Pink lady’s slipper

Lemon lily
Swamp bay
Yellow iris
Wild flag

Giant knotweed
Yellow fringed orchis

ROCK GARDEN

Winter heath
Bloodroot
Adonis Amurensis

Goldentuft
Rock cress
Leopard’s bane
Daphne

Moss pink

Woodruff

Alpine forget-me-not

Rocky Mt. colum-
bine

White pinks
Woolly yarrow
Spanish iris

Snow-in-summer ~
White stonecrop
Butterfly weed

Winter aconite
Scillas
Giant snowdrop

Wild blue phlox
Mertensia
Shooting star

Azaleas
Lily-of-the-valley
English bluebells
Spanish hyacinths

Catawba rhododen-
dron

Mountain laurel

Madonna lily

Rhododendron max-
imum

Single hydrangea

Tree azalea

WILD GARDEN

Hepatica
Common snowdrop
Grape hyacinth

Daffodils
Vasey’s azalea
Leucothoé

Flowering dogwood
Trilium
Tulipa sylvestris
Star of Bethlehem

Japanese dogwood
Viburnums
Shrubby dogwoods

Canada lily

American Turk’s caps

Wild clematis

Sweet pepper bush
Swamp rose mallow
Bee balm

Slender sunflower
Sneezeweed
Fringed gentian

Veronicas
Scotch bluebells
Coral bells

Crocus zonatus
Sternbergia
Powell’s crinum

Henry’s lily
Trumpet creeper

Lilium speciosum
Autumn crocuses

Bugbane
Ground nut

Berries of viburnums

and shrubby dog-
woods

Sweet gum

Crocus speciosus

Blue asters

Witch hazel
Autumn foliage

Glory-of-the-snow Spice bush
MARCH Crocuses Red maple

Russian violets

Early tulips Shadbush

Jonquils Pinxter flower
APRIL Hyacinths Forsythia suspensa

Daisies

Pansies

Late tulips Siberian iris

Poet’s narcissus Japanese wistaria
MAY Lilacs Flame azalea

Columbines

Peonies German iris

Oriental poppy White lupines
JUNE Sweet william Laburnum

Larkspur

Hollyhock Japanese iris
JULY Gaillardia Water lilies

Lilium elegans Indian lotus

Phlox Water lilies
AUGUST Golden-banded lily | Cardinal flower

Panicled clematis Mallow marvels

China asters Giant daisy
SEPTEMBER Japanese anemone Blazing star

Cosmos Giant reed

Chrysanthemums Wild rice
OCTOBER Michaelmas daisies

Christmas rose Yellow and salmon
WINTER Fire thorn willow

Multiflora rose
Japanese barberry

Siberian dogwood

Birch
Winterberry

Wintergreen
Bunchberry

Highbush cranberry | Pachysandra

Red-twigged
wood

dog-

Common barberry
Washington thorn
Cockspur thorn

Mountain ash
Holly

Partridge berry
Bittersweet

Nortr.— This chart is elaborated from one actually used by a country gentleman in Pennsylvania. It is unusually rich in shade-loving plants, because:
the owner had a small grove near the house and a large tract of distant woodland which required very different treatment.
grove” and “wild garden” are both suitable for pleasure woods or landscape forestry.

mentioned under “

Therefore the plants.

Buying and Planting Nursery Stock—By W. H. Jenkins, *%

PRACTICAL HINTS THAT WILL HELP YOU TO AVOID LOSS IN
HANDLING TREES AND SHRUBS — HOW TO BUY INTELLIGENTLY

HE right start in tree planting is
getting a good tree, which means
that it must be of good size for
its age, straight, with a large

growth of fibrous roots. It should be as
nearly fresh dug as possible. If from the
nursery cellars it should have been win-
tered under conditions that did not injure
its vitality, and then it should be so packed
that it reaches the planter without deter-
ioration.

First, we need to know where to buy
trees. There are soils especially adapted
to growing different kinds of nursery stock.
In rich, heavy, clay soils trees and plants
sometimes make long tap roots with few
fibrous roots, while in lighter soils of fine
texture they make a mass of fibrous roots.
Moreover, the climate should be favorable
to their growth. The longer the growing
season the larger the growth of both stem
and root, and the better will the wood
mature, and harden for winter. For these
reasons the bulk of the nursery stock plan-
ted in the United States is grown in cer-
tain great wholesale centres. For examples
we may cite the nurserymen in the vicinity of
Dansville, N. Y., who claim to produce fifty
pec cent of all the fruit trees in the country,
supplying the local retail and general dealers.
Those around Fredonia raise the majority
of the grape vines and small fruit plants.
Few ornamentals are grown in these locali-
ties, but are produced in larger quanti-
ties in the somewhat heavier soils.

It is very evident that the best
trees or plants will most likely be
had from nurserymen so located
that because of soil and climate
they can produce the best in their
specialties. If we buy nursery
stock elsewhere than from these
great nursery centres, we in all
likelihood get stock from nursery-
men, dealers or agents, who get
their stock there. The general
nurseryman offering a great variety
of stock has on the other hand the
advantage of being able to make
his purchases according to condi-
tions and ‘the ultimate buyer has
the advantage of that dealers ex-
pert selection.

We need to know what varieties
to buy, how to buy them, and have
them shipped. The safe way in
selecting varieties is to ascertain
what are thriving well in your
locality, or in similar localities. In
the matter of fruit trees, vines, or
plants, it is economy to buy the
highest quality that is sufficiently
hardy and that is fairly produc-
tive. There are good reasons for
buying one year old trees — they
cost one third less, and are more

cheaply shipped. When one desires fruit as
soon as possible, it may be well to buy part
two year old trees. Buy dwarfs for the small
home garden. Early ordering is a good thing
for the buyer because he can get good first
hand stock before the varieties are ex-
hausted. When sending your order state
how you want it shipped. If the goods do
not weigh more than roo pounds and are
not carried by more than two railroads, the
better way is to have them shipped by ex-
press, especially if you are in a hurry or if
the weather is cold. Large orders will
nearly always come to you safely by freight
if you can wait two or three weeks. Time
your order so that the stock will arrive when
the ground is ready for planting. Plant
before the foliage starts to grow, if pos-
sible.

When the trees arrive, if they cannot be
planted at once, “heel”? them in and keep
roots moist, and tops partially covered with
burlap or straw. This means, dig a trench
put in the tree and cover the roots roughly
with soil. When the soil has been well pre-
pared for planting take a tree from the
trench where it has been heeled, and shorten
the roots, generally about one third, cutting
off the ends of all so as to induce new growth
to start from them. Prune the top to bal-
ance the roots. I presume you will want to

grow the low headed fruit tree because that
is the more easily pruned, sprayed, and the
fruit gathered. The one year old tree you

Cut back the broken and bruised roots before planting any tree,
and remember to reduce the top in proportion. New rootlets will start
vigorously

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shrubs, with slight modifications.

will have no difficulty in heading back to
two or three feet, but with the two year
old, you must use judgment and head back
as much as the previous growth will per-
mit. Whatever you do, leave but little
top to draw moisture from the roots.

Spade out the hole to easily take the roots
of the tree, and deep enough so the plant will
stand slightly deeper than in the nursery.
After some of the fine surface soil has
been scattered in the bottom place the tree
in the hole, spread out the roots, and cover
them a few inches deep with more of the
fine rich surface soil, and press the soil
firmly over the roots with the feet. If the
soil is dry, next pour over it slowly a few
quarts of water. Finish filling the hole
with the soil taken out of the bottom of the
hole, and lastly place a mulch of straw
manure, or material that will hold moisture
around the tree.

Everything here stated applies to the
buying and planting of fruit trees, small
fruits and also the ornamental trees and
While
it is a right and safe thing to do to buy the
mailing size of fruit trees, I have not found
the mailing size of flowering shrubs, roses
and hardly perennials, so satisfactory, I
think because they were grown under glass.
Such stock that is two or three years old,
and has been grown at least one year in the
field, is more hardy and will grow and thrive
with much less nursing and protection. If
you can afford to wait for results
you will find that the mailing size
is all right.

I have had good success in mak-
ing hedges and groups on the lawn,
with evergreens that have had only
one year’s field growth in the nur-
sery, and which were about eighteen
inches high. I planted them in a
nursery row in early spring where
I wanted a hedge, and thinned
them out when I wanted trees for
groups. Here I will say I would
plant all fruit trees and the hardy
ornamentals only early in the
spring. Deciduous trees, like
maples, birches, beeches, elms, etc.,
when of large size, can be more
safely planted than similarly large
sized specimens of the trees and
shrubs mentioned. If one desires
large trees in the shortest time,
the tops should be cut back to
balance the roots. The small
fruit plants, especially grape
vines, may be bought at either
one or two year old size, and
will grow equally well. One-year
old grape vines are usually
selected for vineyard planting
and two-year old for the family
garden.

Your Back Yard and the Cost of Living, I.—By Roger W. Babson,

(Epitors’ NotE:— Is your own garden serving its part in your household economy?

Banker and
Statistician

This is the first of a remarkable series of articles in which Mr. Babson

will show how the back yard garden of every suburban home can be made a vital factor in this all-important problem. A busy man with wide reaching affairs, the
author has come to the solution of the problem by placing himself in the position of “the average man,” and writes from actual experience and as a trained observer.
During the summer of 1912 we had the opportunity of visiting Mr. Babson and of seeing him at work in his vegetable garden.)

E HEAR a great many theories

\ \ / as to the reasons forthe increased
cost of iving. Almost everyone

we meet seems to have a theory

and is willing to sit foran hourand tell us why
expenses are continually rising and why it
is more and more difficult every year to
save. What we are really interested in,
however, is not so much the veason for the
increased cost of living as how to reduce
the cost! With this object in view, I have
been conducting, the past few years, a
series of experiments, endeavoring to place
myself in the position of a married man with
a small salary. The result of these ex-
periments I will endeavor to tell in a
simple manner, in a series of six articles,
of which this is the first; and I honestly
believe that any reader of these six articles
who will follow the suggestions therein
contained, can easily reduce his living
expenses $1 to $2 per week during the
coming year, and at the same time not
forego any pleas-
ure or luxury. In
fact, he will have
more luxuries than
previously. In
other words, this
is not to be a series
on how to be happy
on $10 per week,
or how to build a
house for $1,000,
wherein the reader
is to be advised to
go without sugar
and butter and to
make his kitchen
out of piano boxes.
Instead, I am writ-
ing on the assump-
tion that, although
the average man
is doubtless having
more luxuries than
he can afford,
nevertheless, he will not give them up;
and any practical solution of the cost of
living must be upon that assumption.
Therefore my experiments started out with
the belief that the man, his wife and
children will continue to have just as
many of the luxuries of life as they are
now having, and that any suggestions as
to reducing the cost of living must allow
the continuance of these luxuries and give
additional luxuries for any imcreased efforts.

CAUSES OF THE INCREASED COST OF LIVING

Before laying down the fundamental
principles which must be considered, let
-me first give ten reported causes of the
increased cost of living.

(1) The over-production of gold and the increased
use of credits, checks, etc.

(2) Waste and fraud in the distribution of goods,
with useless selling expenses.

(3) Individual extravagance and social com-
petition.

(4) Growth of cities and the neglect of farming.

(5) Irregularities of tax laws and unjust assessing.

(6) Lack of civic interest and abnormal govern-
ment expenditures.

(7) Exhaustion of natural resources and other
waste.

(8) Unions, the tariff and the trusts.

(9) Change in the tide and character of immi-
gration.

(10) Loss from sickness, idleness of women, and
unproductiveness of the non-producing classes.

Moreover, these are not merely apparent
causes, but are real causes for increased
prices, and they should be carefully con-
sidered by every reader of this magazine. I
might go further and say that the opposite
of these causes might be given as solutions
for the reduction of prices or reducing the
cost of living. For instance, if sickness is
an expense, then we may reduce the cost

Copyright 1912 by Roger W. Babson
Entered at Stationer’s Hall, London

Composite Plot of
American Business Conditions

of living by keeping well. If the women
folk of our household are idle, then we can
reduce the cost of living by tactfully getting
them to do more work. Or, if there is
too much waste, then the cost of living
can be reduced by eliminating a portion
of this waste, and certainly these facts
should be considered.

I well remember, when the cost of living
was under considerable discussion in Massa-
chusetts and the state appointed a com-
mission under the able charge of former
Lieut.-Governor Luce to discuss this
matter, that a reporter visited one of Bos-
ton’s ablest bankers and said: “‘Mr.——
I have come to interview you on the
reasons for the increased cost of living.”
To which Mr. —— replied: ‘“ Young man,

177

don’t waste my time nor yours in asking
these questions. Go home and look in
your garbage pail.”

All ten of the causes given above are
distinct factors in the increased cost of
living, and the expenses of any reader of
this magazine can be reduced by eliminating
some of the causes herein mentioned.
Moreover, I believe that many of these,
especially those which relate to the gar-
bage pail could be removed and the cost
of living proportionately reduced without
depriving any one of the luxuries or pleas-
ures now enjoyed. Jn other words, the
cost of living for many of us can be reduced
by applying to the household some of the
simple principles of scientific management
and the use of by-products, which we apply
to business.

It is only as one considers all of the great
by-products which are now being utilized
in our industries which were formerly
thrown away as pure waste, that it is
possible to realize
the great oppor-
tunity of saving
and developing by-
products in the
household. It
would probably as-
tonish one if the
facts could be
stated showing the
ratio of the profits
derived from by-
products in the oil
industry as _ con-
ducted by the
Standard Oil cor-
poration to the
total profits of the
industry. I know
that I was greatly
surprised at read-
ing the statement
of one of the fore-
most of the meat
packers at Chicago that all the profits of
the industry now come from by-products,
which at one time went to waste.

It was only a short time ago when one
of my men was complaining to me about
his meat bill. After calling on him one
Sunday and seeing something of his house-
hold economies, I suggested that he drown
the cat and buy a cook-book! I thought
no more about it until a few days ago
when he came to me and said: “ Mr.
Babson, my wife and I decided to take your
advice and our meat bill has been reduced
333 per cent. Meat which we had formerly
thrown away, my wife has worked over into
soufflés, salads, etc., which not only saves
us money, but furnishes an exceedingly
dainty and tasteful fare.” It has fre-

178

quently been said that a French family
will live well upon the rejected food ma-
terials of an American family.

Referring to the annexed chart; the
black areas of the Composite Plot of
Business Conditions, shown herewith, repre-
sents what business has actually been
the past ten years. Areas A and C repre-
sent depressions and Areas B and D
prosperity; while the oblique line X-Y
shows the real growth of our nation. Now
some people think that the thing to do is
to “‘boom”’ business and increase the size
of the areas above the line X-Y; but this
is a great mistake. The law of action and
reaction makes it necessary for us to
“rest”? below the line X—Y for all we go
above it. The very best we can hope to do
over an unlimited time is to keep on the
line X-Y, which we have been doing for
the last eighteen months. We, however,
can do something to raise the slope of the
line X-Y. Anything which increases pro-
duction or decreases waste will increase
the net growth of the country which is
represented by the line X-Y. Personally,
I believe that God judges us all by how our
acts effect the slope of the line X-Y.
What are you doing to raise the slope of
X-Y? What can you do to raise this
slope that you are not now doing? Well,
the easiest and most effective thing which
you can do to-day from a truly economic
view is to plant and personally care for a
back yard garden.

THE SOURCE OF EVERYTHING

At the beginning of this article I prom-
ised not to lecture the reader on the general
subject of reducing the expenses or econo-
mizing; but to treat of the problem in a
strictly constructive manner. I therefore
will say nothing more about the over-
flowing garbage pail, the unsifted ashes,
or the empty mending bag; but will strike
at once at the root of the great underlying
cause of the increased cost of living.
Everything that we eat comes directly from
them top —— six sinches) Jor sthe) searthis
surface. Everything that we wear comes
either directly or indirectly from the same
six inches of soil, while the houses in which
we live come from the trees, etc., which
likewise grow. Therefore, 95 per cent. of
our expenditures are for what is produced
from the soil and 75 per cent. of our ex-
penditures are for what is produced in
this six inches of soil.

But this is not all. To everything,
excepting what is produced in this soil,
there is an end. There is an end to our
iron; there is an end to our coal; there
is an end to all our resources excepting
what we can raise on our farms and in our
gardens. Therefore, although this ques-
tion is of great importance to us, it is of
even greater importance to our grand-
children and their successors. The future
of the world rests in this six inches of soil
and in the water powers running over our
precipices

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1913

POLITICIANS CANNOT REDUCE THE COST
OF LIVING

Whenever we read a political platform
or speech we nowadays see a lot about the
cost of living; but most of this talk is
purely for stage purposes. A few months
ago we had a presidential election and as the
various candidates and their friends talked
from one end of the country to the other,
they all told what they would do toward
reducing the cost of living. Now, it is
true that some of these men may do some-
thing to reduce prices; but they will do
very little, if anything, toward reducing
the cost of living. Legislation can raise
prices and lower prices; but it can do little
toward reducing the cost of living, without
a revision of the tax laws on a basis to
encourage production and eliminate waste.
Past legislation has raised prices, but
wages have automatically risen at the same
time; and past legislation has reduced
prices, but wages have also automatically
dropped at the same time. There is only
one way by which the cost of living can be
reduced, and that is by — well, let us see.

KERNEL OF THE WHOLE MATTER

In a previous part of this article I said
that practically all of our money goes for
what is produced in six inches of the soil,
which means that the cost of living depends
upon what is produced in this six inches
of earth. In other words, with a given
amount of waste the more that is produced
per capita, the lower the cost of living;
while the less that is produced per capita,
the greater the cost of living. For every
merchant who quits trading and becomes
a farmer, the cost of living to everyone
in the world is, in theory, reduced; while
for every farmer who quits farming and
becomes a banker, the cost of living for
all of us, theoretically, is increased. We,
therefore, see that there is an intimate
relation between the cost of living and the
amount produced. Consequently, to re-
duce the cost of living, more must be pro-
duced or less must be wasted. This, in
short, is the kernel of the entire matter.
More respect must be given to this six
inches of earth. The garden must become
a more prominent part of the household.
It must be respected, considered, cared
for and looked up to.

The garden holds the solution of our
nation’s problems and the problem of each
individual and reader of this magazine.
I care not whether the garden is large or
small; whether it is more pretentious or
the size of an average backyard, which
contains only 1,500 square feet, or if it is
only a window box in which may be raised
lettuce and radishes. Here lies the solu-
tion of the problem, not only for each
reader, but for the world as a whole; and
it is only as each of us solves this problem
that we can reduce the cost of living for
ourselves and be a factor in reducing it for
everybody else. Truth to speak, there
are at present too many consumers and

too few producers of food products in the
world. Obviously enough, when the ratio
of consumers to producers becomes dispro-
portionate, there is trouble immediately.
The cost of supplying the table gets out of
harmony with the cost of clothing, fuel, etc.,
and a clamor goes up that causes a general
unsettlement of politics, trade and industry.
The observing citizen must see that this is
true if he is alive to his present surround-
ings. If he has kept in touch with the grain
markets, he must have noticed how specu-
lators have sold grain down on favorable
indications regarding the dimensions of the
harvest for wheat, corn and oats, basing
their action upon prospective supply.

While I have in mind the same principle
I am not expecting that every one is to
become a farmer in the accepted meaning
of that term, but purpose to deal with an
application of the principle that is within
reach of very many families. Now, I
promised that each reader can do this
without depriving himself of the luxuries
of life, but rather adding thereto, and this
phase of the subject I will take up in my
next article.

Dandelion Greens All Season
L. G. B., District of Columbia

AVING a taste for the wholesome
dandelion green, I have learned that
it quickly responds to any effort directed
toward its betterment. My dandelion
patch is on the edge of a small plum
orchard having a slight Southern slope.
Nature planted it years ago, when the strip
it occupies was a dividing-fence headland,
never plowed up. A little at a time the
weeds have been rooted out, and now the
strip is just dandelions and grass. The
grass sod is thin and is discouraged by
chopping-up somewhat with a spade during
dry spells, but enough of a sod to protect
the dandelion plants from being washed
full of soil during hard rains is found desir-:
able. The only other attention the patch
receives is an application of a wheelbarrow-
load of old stable manure late every fall —
November rst.

With only these slight attentions leaves
have been produced twelve and fourteen’
inches long by six inches wide, by actual
measure. However, only a few of the
plants are allowed to grow to anything like
full size any year. They bloom and reseed
the bed. The balance of the patch is
picked when the leaves are about four
inches long, thus giving me a steady supply
of tender dandelion greens the season
through. The leaves from these fertilized
and partially cultivated plants are tenderer
and less bitter than the pasture-grown
product. In mid-summer when lettuce is
most difficult of production, I cover some
dandelion plants with a wooden box, in-
verted, for a few days, and the leaves
become blanched and crisp and form a very
good substitute for lettuce. When picking

for greens do not reject the blossom-buds
— they make a delectable addition.

* Division” in the Perennial Border—By H. 8. Adams, %%%

POSITIVELY THE SIMPLEST THING OF ALL THE GARDEN OPERATIONS, YET FEARED BY SO
MANY —LOOK NOW TO YOUR IRISES, PHLOX, ETC., THAT HAVE BECOME DENSE CLUMPS

EPARATING
perennial
clumps into
many pieces

to increase the
stock is just about
the simplest thing
imaginable. Yet
people are afraid to
do it! A curious
thing is this fear
that some folks
have —they are
afraid that they will
lose their plants.
Of course the fear
ought to be the
other way around.

There are a few
perennials — not-
ably the peony,
fraxinella, bleeding
heart, and Japanese
anemone that
ought to belet alone
for a matter of
some years, but as
a rule separation
becomes necessary
whenever a clump
is so large that it is getting rootbound,
and desirable whenever it grows beyond
its allotted space.

In the few cases where a spade is abso-
lutely necessary — the Siberian iris, purple
loosestrife and “live forever,” for instance
— there need not be the slightest hesitancy

Unless a larger effect is
desired at once, hardy
chrysanthemums should
be separated into single
bits. This will bloom the
first year and become a
goodsized plant the next

to cleave the roots with that implement; no
damage will be done, ugly as the wound may
look. Generally speaking, however, there is
nothing like one’s two hands for the job.
The best rule, after digging up the clump,
is to shake off part of the soil in the hole
just made and then figure out the most
natural way of division. One plant, say
aconite, will separate itself readily, directly
the soil is loosened; another will fall into
small clumps if the fingers pull the roots
apart at what seems the weakest points,
or again a mere break of the lump of soil
here and there will do the trick.
Whenever possible, it is well to grasp the
crowns firmly in the fingers of both hands,

Some plants separate naturally into little clumps
like this directly the soil is loosened

When separating hardy primluas grasp the crowns with the finger and pull apart with a sidewise move-
ment, so as to disturb the roots as little as possible

179

Hardy primulas should be separated to a single
crown like this. Long roots of this kind should be
spread out when planted

to avoid breaking the stems and also to
keep the root injury down to a minimum.
Sidewise pulls are the safest. In the case
of plants having a crown with long straight
roots — such as the hardy primulas of the
primrose, polyanthus and cowslip types —
this is even essential, as there is no other
way to prevent serious damage to the tan-
gled roots. These hardy primroses and also
the hardy chrysanthemums should be separ-
ated every two years or so, as the crowns
multiply rapidly. .

Peonies, irises, phloxes, and such like
strong, bold growing plants develop a grow-
ing beauty and richness of effect as they
increase in size — that is to say, as their
clumps become larger. But there is a limit
to thislineof development. After a certain
time, division or separation becomes neces-
sary. Just when this may be is a matter for
individual judgment, in connection with the
soil and general conditions. Such plants
develop year by year in an almost circular
clump of increasing circumference. All the
newer growth is toward the outside and
ultimately a practically inert centre devel-
ops; when this has happened it is high time
to divide, which may be done in the most
simple way, as has been said, by merely
chopping up with a spade. It is as well
at this time to carry the chopping process
a little further and chop off any manifestly
ancient remnants of root or rootstock that
have served their purpose or are too hard
and woody to take on fresh active growth.

Barring a few plants, I have no rule as
to the time of separation but I prefer the
spring totheautumn. Once in a while I do
it In summer without apparent detriment.

Iron Clad Perennials for Town Gardens— By E. McFate, ’"

SOME RARELY HARDY PLANTS THAT WILL ENDURE SMOKE LADEN ATMOSPHERE AND ARE
STRONG GROWING KINDS THAT WILL DO THEIR UTMOST TO FURNISH UNGENEROUS SOILS

Y first lesson in making a truly
hardy garden I learned along a
Pittsburg “slag” pile where

bouncing Bet came traveling
down from an old garden.

The books overflow with good things
about hardy gardens, but the practised
grower will bear me out in saying, that
while the list of good flowers for smoky

The common violet (Viola cucullata) will grow in
between the stones of a walk

places is reasonably long and excellent, it
is not extravagantly unlimited, and I hear
many inquiries for plants that will survive
the trials of poor situations. Let us at once
own up that we can’t try to grow water-
lilies on hill tops, or roses in dry sand.
The wise gardener selects from choice plants
that really fit the existing conditions.

I know a husky brother of live-for-ever
who bears the plebeian name of showy
sedum (Sedum spectabile); I have reason to
respect this good fellow who has never
failed me outside a swamp. It is one of the
few good flowers, which, when broken, will
rise again, even a detached portion taking
root. It is good for walks, over stones, and
in the border proper.

There is a common flag, so common that
it is quite overlooked although it flaunts its
name with great pretentions; it is the
swamp iris (Ivis pseudacorus). To me its
garden purpose lies in the damp, impossible
places it so splendidly fills. The tramping
of cats and dogs in no wise subdues it on
account of its sword-like leaves which offer

stern resistance. Its bright yellow flowers
are held high above handsome leaves.

Plume poppy (Bocconia cordata), a six-
footer with lovely, pale green leaves and
creamy flowers, may readily become a pest,
as broken bits of root soon run into an
unmanageable mass. It is, however, one of
the best plants for smoky, impossible places.

I have been told that scarlet bee balm
(Monarda didyma) will not grow in town,
but my experience does not bear out this.
An old ash heap, dug under and leveled a
trifle below the surface, when planted with
bee balm will perfume a whole neighbor-
hood. Although moisture-loving, this cheery
fellow abhors cold, stiff clay.

Our common violet (Viola cucullata) is a
splendid plant for shade; it will grow among
high buildings with scant light and air,
and although it may not bloom in crowded
quarters, will hold its leaves.

THE HARDIEST PERENNIALS

COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME

Bleeding heart Dielytra spectabile Pink

Butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa Orange

Day lily Hemerocallis flava

False camomile Boltonia latisquama

Tlag Tris Germanica

Garden heliotrope| Valeriana officinalis

Kansas gay Liatris pycnostachya | Purple
feather
Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos White,

crimson

Oriental poppy Papaver orientale

Peach bells Campanula persici- White,
folia lavender

Rocket Hesperis matronalis Lavender

Rosy milfoil Achillea Millefolium | Pink

Lemon yellow

Pink, lavender

Colors in var.

Lavender

Colors in var.

Oriental poppy will stand smoky fog
as few other plants are able. It can even
withstand the damp and fog of a London
winter and is one of our most persistent
perennials. The new salmon and pink
varieties are better garden flowers than the
established scarlets, which for years have
so disgracefully quarreled with their neigh-
bors.

With due respect for the spade of
the hireling, great preference should be
given such plants as the double butter-
cup (Ranunculus repens) and plants of like
character whose roots may be disturbed
and thrown about and yet sustain recovery.
The Pearl achillea, Physostegia Virginiana,
and boltonia are good examples of this
class.

Strong growers with long tap roots which
run below the average digging process are
well worth considering. Among plants

FOR TRYING PLACES

SEASON REMARKS

Good, persistent roots. Foli-
age dies in summer. Plant
with ground cover.

Handsome native with
strong, persistent roots.

H. flava, most fragrant, H.
Dumortiert earlier and
stronger. ahs

Tall grower for shrubbery
edge or back of border.
Small aster-like flowers.

Persistent suburbanite, thriv-
ing on dry soils.

May-June

July-Aug.

June-July

Aug.—Sept.

May-June

June-July Grows by creeping root
stalks. Heliotrope frag-
rance.

Aug.—Sept. Divide by chopping roots.
Strong grower with hand-
some flower spikes.

Aug.—Sept. Good for back of border.
Heavy root, not easily
disturbed.

Plant early or Aug. Late
spring transplanting fatal.
Best campanula for town

August

May-June

gardens. Makes strong
clumps.

May-June Self sows. Young plants
best. Thin with a free

hand for the neighbors.
Good foliage. All yarrows
are strong growers.

All summer

SOME STURDY GROUND COVERS

Creeping Jenny Lysimachia nummu- Yellow

Lily-of-the-valley Conta majalis | White

Periwinkle Vinca minor Purple

Trailing soap- Saponaria ocymoides | Pink
wort

Violet Viola cucullata Purple

Wild stonecrop Sedum ternatum White

Summer Shady places, roots at joint.

Does well under shaded walls
and between buildings.

Best evergreen cover for
mounds or tanks;
well everywhere.

Best showy bloomer for
tanks and dry terraces;
strong root.

Plant anywhere;
cheap; fill in corners.

Grows in dry places when
nothing else can find root.

Early summer

May-Aug. ga

Summer

May-June plants

April-June

APRIL. 1918

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The foxglove and mullein pinks are two good biennials which self sow in

poorly favored spots, making themselves virtually perennial

that grow well in smoke and whose root
systems run deep, are Anchusa Italica,
Crambe cordifolia, Anemone Japonica, and
Oriental poppy. As these plants are grown
from root cuttings, a disaster will not
likely prove fatal.

Plants which cannot endure excessive
winter moisture are to be avoided, as a

smoky atmosphere carries a heavy damp-
ness which is sure death to certain flowers.
Delphiniums seem to be exempt from this
rule, as I have seen splendid blooming
plants grow in heavy atmosphere where
phlox was quite overcome.

Perennials and biennials which self sow,
such as rocket (Hesperis matronalis), the

In a smoky suburban garden. The common iris and the elder proved to

be strong growers

common double feverfew, and sweet Wil-
liam are splendid for town gardens, as the
young seedlings make the best blooming
plants and require no care other than a
spring thinning. Foxgloves are among the
best which self sow, but must be grown
carefully in light, well drained soil where
smoke hangs over winter.

What a Tiny Fruit Garden Produced —By Harry J. Rodgers, ts

POSSIBILITIES OF THE AVERAGE SUBURBAN BACKYARD IN SUPPLYING FRESH FRUIT
IN VARIETY — YOU CAN PLANT NOW AND ENJOY SOME FRUIT THIS SEASON

Y all means I say plant a fruit garden
this spring. The man who does
not make his backyard produce
fruits and vegetables little realizes

what he is losing. He has no idea how
much his small garden would reduce the
cost of living, and how many luxuries it
would supply for his table and pantry if he
would only give the soil a chance.

I have a garden plot 45 x 60 ft. that has
been a source of surprise, satisfaction and
profit to me because of its productiveness.
I rescued it from a jungle of weeds and the
ash heaps of tenants—a laborious job,
I confess — and transformed it into a little
fruit farm, a mere tabloid of a place, it is
true, but very productive considering its
previous abandoned condition. The trans-
formation was begun five years ago, but
not all of the nursery stock was planted
until a year later.

This tiny garden gave me a harvest of

171 quarts and 170 pounds of small fruits
during the season of 1912. The kinds and
the quantities were as tabulated below:

NAME YIELD
Strawberries we? QUARTS 128
BarlyacherricSmas were rnern fe, ko soto ets) | 2
Late cherries 3
White currants 5
Red currants es Se le CONE ea ae aa 7
IRedprasphertieswme ium eet Geter ns 8
Gooseberries . oR td Seisie tn He 8
Four varieties grapes . (POUNDS) 170

In addition I have one early and one
late apple tree that will come into bearing
next summer, and there still remains enough
ground of the little garden for two vegetable
patches that grow an abundance of all
kinds for our family of two.

Reckoned only in dollars and cents, the
cash value of this small farm’s fruit crop
last year was $22.86. This sum does not
include the value of the vegetables, as no

record of them was kept. The garden
contains less than 2,700 square feet, or
one-sixteenth of an acre. Last season it
produced at the rate of $365 an acre, but
the strawberry patch did much better.
It yielded at the rate of 12,800 quarts to
the acre, worth $1,200, and the picking
season lasted longer than four weeks.

The fruits of the crop, figured at the
average prices of the summer, gave the
following cash returns:

128 quartsstrawberries,atrocents . . $12.80
15 quartscherries,at8cents . . . . 1.20
12quartscurrants,at8cents . . . . .96

8 quartsraspberries,at25cents . . . 2.00

8 quarts gooseberries,attocents. . . .80
t7opoundsgrapes,at3cents . . . . 5.10
Total bis Sr SB gt La) NSN enamN slo

The strawberry patch is 20x 22 ft. It
was set to Senator Dunlap and Bederwood
plants in the spring of tg910. They were

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allowed to make matted rows two feet
wide and one foot apart. Sixty-four
quarts of the finest berries, carefully selec-
ted, were sold for $8, leaving sixty-four
quarts for the use of the family.

Two four-year-old Downing gooseberry
bushes, put four feet apart, yielded the
crop of eight quarts. Seven White Grape
and Fay’s Prolific currant bushes, of the
same age, that were set three and one-half
feet apart, bore twelve quarts. One dozen
Loudon raspberry stock, planted four
years ago, made a patch 6x 14 feet, that
yielded the eight quarts of that delicious
high-priced fruit.

The strawberry patch and currant, goose-
berry and raspberry bushes, three bunches
of rhubarb and a vegetable plot, 22 x 30
feet, make the north side of the garden.
The raspberries, currants, gooseberries and
rhubarb take the place of a fence close to
the north line of the lot. Ashes that had
been thrown into a low place, to fill it,
stopped me from pushing the strawberry
patch farther east toward the alley.

A brick walk separates the north from
the south side. Just south of the walk is a
fifty-foot row of nine grape vines, set
seven feet apart and trained on a five-foot
trellis of four wires. The varieties chosen
were Moore’s Early, Campbell’s Early,
Brighton and Agawam. Fresh fruit for
the table, jelly for the pantry and wine for
the cellar was their contribution to the
household stores. The vines were set out
five years ago. The vine at the east end
of the row is trained on an L-shaped trellis
and against the side of the shed. Not being
pruned as closely as the others, its foliage
screens the rather unsightly little building
which, in turn, hides the ash-box and gar-
bage-can that are behind it.

South of the grapes the two apple and
three cherry trees were planted in two rows,
the trees being set seventeen feet apart the
shorter distance. One of the apples is a
Duchess of Oldenburgh; the other is a
Northwestern Greening, a very hardy
winter variety. These trees have grown
rapidly during the five years since they were
set out.

Two of the cherries are Early Richmond;
the third is a Montmorency, a splendid

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later variety, but a slower grower. The
south side of the garden is completed with a
plot, 7 x 13 feet, just south of the shed, for
small vegetables and a hedge of old-fash-
ioned red, pink and white roses. The lat-
ter does service for a line fence on the south.
The little vegetable plot is planted to rad-
ishes, onions and lettuce. Protected and
sheltered by the shed this patch produces
these small vegetables earlier than the
average garden of the neighborhood.

Part of my success with the garden was
due to the care taken in setting out the
nursery stock, so that, with the exception
of some of the strawberry plants, none of it
died. Manure has been applied freely each
spring and the cultivation has been frequent
and thorough. Every winter a mulch pro-
tects the strawberries and grapes. Both
summer and winter pruning has been at-
tended to when needed and some spraying
has been done each season.

Exclusive of the strawberries and late
cherry, the other cherries and the grapes,
raspberries, currants and gooseberries have
borne for two previous seasons, each year’s
crop being larger than the next preceding.
None of them has yet reached its maximum
of fruitfulness.

Mistakes were made, the most serious of
which was setting two of the trees too close
to the grapes. In a few years the vines will
be so shaded that their productiveness will
be lessened. An attempt was. made to
grow black raspberries, but they were not a
success. Rot got into the canes and the
canes spread so by drooping and taking
root, they covered so much ground that
they had to be dug up. The strawberry
patch came very near being a failure before
it was a success, but that’s another story.

Just a word about the vegetable garden.
While it is rather a side issue of this little
fruit farm its roasting-ears were ripe last
summer when they were worth 25 cents a
dozen and early potatoes were dug from it
in June when the grocer was getting 60 cents
a peck for them. All this in spite of the
fact that the soil is a heavy clayey loam.

An unsightly high, tight board fence,
beyond the private alley in the rear of the
lot, was an eye-sore until I coaxed a vine of
a wild grape, that was growing on the other
side, through a large knot
hole in one of the boards.
Encouraged to do its best
by being fertilized and
given strips of cloth,
tacked to the fence to
cling to, this sturdy
climber has spread ram-
pantly north and south

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A little backyard fruit garden 60x45 ft. that gave a family a full

year’s fruit supply

va

This amateurish effort
illustrates the possibili-
ties of a small backyard.

Potatoes and Tomatoes on One
Vine
By C, P, Harrican, Michigan.

Te potato and tomato being closely re-

lated plants, take readily upon each
other when grafted. By growing a potato
plant, then, and grafting the tomato upon
it, we may readily grow plants like the
illustration with tomatoes above and po-
tatoes upon the roots.

The grafting is very easily done. A
potato plant is started in the same manner
as for field culture, and a tomato plant is
grown in a four to six-inch pot so that it
will reach a height of six to ten inches
about the same time as the potato. Then
the tomato plant is placed close enough to
the potato so that the main stems of both
may be tied together without seriously

This is the result one obtains by grafting a tomato
upon a potato plant.

bending either. For a distance of about
an inch along the stem on both plants, at
a point where they may be brought into
direct contact with each other, the outer
bark of each is scraped off, or a very thin
slice is cut away, exposing the inner bark
or cambium layer. The two stems are
then tied firmly together. Sphagnum moss
or other suitable material is then wrapped
about the graft that it may be kept uni-
formly moist. As the winds are apt to dis-
turb the graft, small stakes are used to
support the stems because it is absolutely
essential that they be held perfectly rigid at
the point of graftage until a complete union
has taken place.

Under favorable conditions, there is a
complete union in from three to six weeks
and the stem of the tomato may then be
cut off just below the union.

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IlIl.— THE AWAKENING INTEREST
Continued from page 98, March number

Epitors’ Note: The author of these “confessions” is now well-known as an amateur gardener, and

of the “cure”.

CHAPTER VI

HE little house sat sunning itself

on the warm, brown slope that

April morning. As warm, it was,

as the sudden February day that

first tempted out Uncle Hermann and set

him a-gardening. It was settled cosily into

the great shoulder of a hill, and at its back,

oaks and beeches showed high above the

low broad roof; for from the pines of the

hill a line of woodland reached down like

a protecting arm, sheltering the little house

from the rough Northeasters; and in this

embrace it seemed very safe and warm —

as content in the spring sunshine as a pussy-

cat on a hearth. I think it would have
purred if it could!

It did not seem in the least lonely; the
great lilac bush at the corner had been the
best of company; there were two friendly
apple-trees that stood a little down the
slope and looked across the grassed over
road into its front windows. It was dif-
ferent with the great barns which stood to
the south and farther up the hill; they
looked gaunt and forsaken; but then, they
had neither lilac bush nor apple trees to
bear them company.

Instead of being exhausted, I had felt
better as soon as we stepped out of the train
at the Enderby station. The air seemed
deliciously sweet and clean and fresh; as
sweet as a new-washed baby; it had been
rain-washed and sunned, the scent of the
fresh earth was in it, the pureness of the
snows —as different from the makeshift
stuff of the town as radiant sunlight differs
from badly watered gas. The city air had
simply sat heavily on top of my chest
instead of going inside it; this went into
every nook and cranny of one’s lungs,
swept out all the horrid, dusty corners with
the thoroughness of a vacuum cleaner, and
much more inspiration.

Slowly we drove along the muddy road,
the horses dropping cheerfully into a walk,
which seemed their preferred gait, whenever
Alonzo skirted a puddle. On one side
were the brown meadows, fringed with low
bushes where the river touched them, and
across the river the little town — just as
Clarky had said; on the other side of the
road after we left the river and began to
climb, the bank rose steeply, almost
precipitously. The trees that over-shad-
owed us grew high overhead; through
the light growth of saplings I could see
their strong roots gripping the rocks like

Who she is we do not say at this time, but the future may reveal it.]

giant tentacles. There were hundreds of
tiny streams trickling out of the dripping
hillside, they stole noiselessly in and out
among the roots, slipped over the huge
rocks washing their faces for them. I
could not see any flowers, but there were
green ferns, as vividly green as if it were
June, only they were pressed flat against
the dead brown leaves, as if their blanket
of snow had been drawn off so carefully they
hadn’t even been wakened by its removal.

It was a long, long, climb, then we turned
sharply into the merest lumber-track of a
road. Level it was, and through gaps in
the great pines we looked down on the
meadows which seemed very far below, and
saw the river winding among the blue hills.
Then up a twisting narrow road where
slender birches leaned and touched over-
head and feathery young hemlocks came so
close they almost brushed our muddy
wheels with their pretty greenery and the
hard green ferns asleep against the bank
were so close I could have touched them.

At every ‘“‘thank-you-ma’am”’ the horses
stopped to rest; the steady, rhythmic creak-
ing of the wagon ceased abruptly. Then,
the air was marvellously still; the clear
tap-tapping of a distant woodpecker only
made visible the silence. Once I heard a
quick rustle and a sudden whirr of wings.

“A partridge,” said Clarky.

A coppery chipmunk flashed along a fal-
len tree beside us, but he made no sound.
Overhead, the topmost branches of one of
the trees showed a faint flush, as if Madame
Nature, her garment of snow removed, had
found herself in the “altogether” and was
blushing at her predicament.

Suddenly the trees left us; we passed
through a break in the fence, guarded by
great butternut trees, and entered.

It was what Keats called a ‘“‘wide quiet-
ness,” these outspread acres over which the
little house presided. The land, sloping
softly to the south, closed in by the hill
and the woods and the far-off fringe of
dark trees seemed as detached, as cut off
from the rest of the world, as William
Morris’s “Hollow Hill.” It was not an
even slope, the strong, beautiful lines of
the rough hill above were repeated lower in
the scale—the brown acres lay in long
folds, like softly falling draperies. ‘The rain
and the melting snows had bent the dead
grass and givenit a direction, like brush-
strokes, so that one could see “the way the
hills were put in,” as painters say.

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writes with such genuine humor as proves the efficacy

Soon I stopped thinking of the lines of
the hill. I was looking at the little house
thinking we would never reach it — for I

was beginning to be dreadfully tired. The °

distance that had looked so short, suddenly
had become interminable.

“Well, Caroline,” said a loud, cherry
voice, that, as we drove up to the door made
me start like an unexpected blasting ex-
plosion, “I was afraid you wasn’t coming!
Guess the nine-forty-five was late! Come
right in and set down! ’Lonzo, you get out
an’ hold Mollie so’s she won’t start — she
has a notion of goin’ to the barn herself.
Quite a sick spell, you had, didn’t you!

Now catch right holt 0? me. You want
to set down on the doorstep? Well, all
right! Jes’ Miss Clarke says. Glad to see

you again, Miss Clarke. An’ you got her
up here all right? Such a nice day’s you
had for comin’! Wa’n’t that splendid?”

I sank down limply on the doorstep,
leaned against the post, looked vacantly up
past the billowing expanse of white apron to
a round rosy face lit with gold-rimmed spec-
tacles that were bent on me. But I was as
incapable of reply to the good Mrs. Tarbox’s
talk as the rocks were of saying anything to
the streams that trickled over their faces.

“T ain’t seen you, Caroline,” she con-
tinued, “sence you was a little girl. Must
be twenty or twenty-five years ago, but I’d
ha’ known you anywhere. You look jes’
like Marcia Davenport, your mother’s
sister that was — she went into a decline”
—she added in a whisper turning in
Clarky’s direction and looking significantly
over her spectacles.

“Want I should take the trunk in, Aunt
Cynthy?” spoke Alonzo, breaking in on
the discourse. ‘‘They’s other things down
tothe station. I got to make another trip.”

“Yes,” Clarky answered him, speaking
quickly. “But I want you to help me a
moment first.”

Then she and Alonzo did something with
a cot and pillows. The next I knew I was
lying outstretched on something that was
blissfully comfortable, looking up into the
lilac bush and Clarky was tucking rugs
about my feet.

“You'll rest better here,’ she said, and
left me.

I don’t remember anything more until
she touched me on the shoulder.

“Eleven,” she said. She had a cup of
steaming bouillon in her hand.

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I stared vacantly, first at her, then at the
cup of bouillon, then up into the branches
overhead, wondering how they came to be
united in the same dream.

‘““Have we done it?” I asked, “or am I
asleep?”

““We’ve done it,” she answered, “but it’s
time for your nourishment.”’

I stared a moment blankly, then I com-
prehended.

There’s an inexorable regulartiy of orbit
in a trained nurse that nothing can dislo-
cate. It’s like those dollar watches that
go on ticking if you drop one from a roof or
the brink of a precipice.

CHAPTER VII

For two weeks I did nothing but lie out
of doors, sometimes my cot was set near
the lilac bush where Clarky had put me
that first day; sometimes she dragged it
out to the old, grassed over road, where I
had the apple trees for company.

Meanwhile she did things to the house.
I didn’t much notice what, I only know it
kept getting more and more comfortable.
I would catch the sound of her hammer in
the house; then the big woodpecker on the
apple tree would begin hammering too,
as if he were making fun of her.

Clarky loved a hammer and nails. I
think she had as fine a time with her ham-
mer as I had with the catalogues. But
regularly as a cuckoo pops out of his clock
at the stroke, out she would come at the
tick of the hour. At ten with a glass of
water; at eleven with nourishment; at
twelve forty-five with tonic.

At one we would have a picnic. She
would bring to the side of my cot a little
table she had made of a packing-box top,
and we would have lunch together.

When the afternoon grew cool I was
brought indoors and deposited on the living-
room window-seat. For Clarky put two
cots together, end to end, under the living-
room windows; these, covered with Navajo
blankets made our windowseat. She made
a wainscoting of burlap and tacked it over
the tattered paper, covering the worst.
She stuck hemlock branches in the top of
it, and in the dusk and the firelight —
the only time I was in the room, I found
it charming. Our only other furniture
was a square table and some roomy chairs.

Only people who have lived in furniture-
choked, bric-a-brac cluttered houses appre-
ciate the utter rest of a state of furniture-
lessness. It’s like Eden before the Snake
suggested the necessity of being like other
people. Nude the room might have been,
but it was not naked in our eyes. I
thought it perfect when the whole adorn-
ment was our wainscoting of hemlock
branches and a great branch of budding
maple in an old stone crock.

I hold Clarky’s packing-box table which
was light enough and narrow enough to be
lifted through the doorway and carried
with dinner on top, wherever we would,
on the landscape, the acme of achievement
in modern furniture-making.

Mrs. Tarbox didn’t regard it in that light.
She was really sorry for us! she hoped we
could at least have lace curtains. I am sure
she thought Iwas unsound mentallyand that
Clarky, in her actions, was humoring delus-
ions that might be dangerous if opposed.

My room had funny, old-fashioned wall-
paper on it and a fat little round iron stove
— ‘chunk stove” — Mrs. Tarbox called
it. It had short, wide apart legs, and al-
ways reminded me of a stubby, enormously
fat bull dog, the little round draft at the
front was his muzzle; the stove-pipe, his
tail: it was a cheerful, roaring, little thing
and excellent company. Clarky used to
make a fire in it, at night and in the morn-
ing, when I was undressing and dressing.

During these days that I could only lie
still, it was great fun watching Clarky. I
had expected that the country would have
a reviving effect upon me, but that it would
transform her so speedily and completely,
I never dreamed. She shed the brass-
bound stiffness of the professional nurse as
quickly as a man kicks off shoes and throws
off coat and vest when about to jump over-
board for a rescue. She forgot her cap,
she put her thick dark hair in a knot;
sometimes in a heavy braid: she produced
a pair of tortoise shell full moons of spec-
tacles, and wore them instead of the eye
glasses. She quit her uniform and sub-
stituted a short dark skirt and a man’s can-
vas shooting coat with pockets capacious
enough to hold her beloved hammer and
tacks and nails, and anything else she was
minded to put inthem. She made Alonzo
bring her a saw from Enderby Center and
sundry other tools. She made a rough
ladder herself, climbed it and stuck a few
shingles in the roof, for it leaked a bit, as we
found one night when we had a heavy rain.

“T swan!” said Alonzo, when he saw her
on the ladder, which expressed my feelings
perfectly.

But all this time no garden! Try as we
would, telephone as we would, not a soul
could we get to dig it. Masculine Enderby
Hollow had farming concerns of its own.
Even Alonzo balked. He was working for
Hiram Johnson, he told us and couldn’t
get a single day off.

I didn’t mind much. Clarky had stowed
my pansies in a box with some soil she
bought up in a pail from the ravine, so
they were safe, and I was as well content
to have no gardening done while I was
limply alternating between the outdoor
cot and the bed inside. I was going a-
gardening myself. It might wait until I
was “up and ’round,” as Mrs. Tarbox said.

I was beginning to think of reviving, of
climbing out of my hole like the wood-
chucks I used to watch. For at the top
of each fold of the hill lived a woodchuck,
and every afternoon, I used to see them,
each one sitting by the opening of his hole,
like a shop-keeper sitting at his door of a
leisure afternoon.

One morning I tried it. It was lovely
sunshine. The woodpecker was hammer-

ing on the apple tree outside, Clarky was

hammering inside. The nearest woodchuck,
not content with sitting beside his hole had
come to a ledge of the old barn and was sit-
ting there washing his face with his paw like
a cat. I measured the distance, with my
eye, from the cot to the long, narrow flower-
bed next the house. It looked easy.
Carefully, laboriously I extracted myself
from the tucked in rugs. (Clarky had
dressed me for warmth, rather than action.)
Woolen stockings I had on, woolen socks
and mocassins and a thick dark blanket
dressing-gown that trailed confoundedly.
I tucked it up as well as I could, took a sofa
pillow under one arm and walked unsteadily
toward the house. At the edge of the flower
bed I dropped my pillow and sat down on
it. I looked about me with the sense of
pleased achievement that a toddler might

feel who has escaped from his nurse. Then
I scrutinized the ancient flower-bed.
Unpromising-looking it was. It had

been defined originally by a border of
bricks that now straggled unevenly or lost _
themselves in the grass. The ground
looked as hard-baked as that of an alley
way and there was a hollow filled with small
pebbles, for the leader that should have
been below the eaves was gone and the drip-
ping from the roof had worn away the soil.

I looked about for an implement; then I
sat andthought. Asaresult, I drew a thick
shell hair-pin from my hair and with it I
began to poke in the bed. Ina second one
prong broke off, then the other. After that
I could work with it more conveniently.

Slowly, carefully, I pried up little chunks
of soil, advancing the line of my excava-
tions steadily, symmetrically, working |
with the systematic thoroughness of an
archeologist digging among promising
ruins. For a long time there was no re-
ward, then, near the brick edge, about an
inch below the surface, I found yellowish
points like sprouting onions: the excava-
tions grew intensely interesting; I found
another and another of the hard young
shoots. I covered them up and said noth-
ing of my discovery, but when Clarky came
out with our dinner, I made her put her
light-action table near the doorstep. She
set her chair opposite and I sat on the door-
step leaning against the frame, from which
position I could admire my gardening

Since then I’ve given less passionate
admiration to more worthy examples of
garden art. One is apt to give dispropor-
tionate value to his first efforts in an un-
known art, just as a baby wins exorbitant —
praise from his adoring parents for taking
a few steps, a feat which later they are
able to view with complete unconcern.

“T can’t go a-gardening with a fool thing
like that flapping around my feet!” I pro-
tested. Clarky was helping me dress, and we
had come to the blanket dressing-gown Ihad
been wearing. ‘“‘Haven’t I some Christian
clothes —heathen ones would be more to the
purpose, I daresay— but isn’t there a short
skirt somewhere — and a sweater?”

Clarky grinned and went to find them for
me. (To be continued)

APRIL, 1913

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 185

CONDUCTED BY ELLEN [EppyY SHAW

Making the Small Garden

HE GARDEN SITE — If possible choose
for your garden a spot exposed to the
sun. Do not try to make a garden under
a tree, close to a building or on the north
side of the house. Your garden needs
direct sunlight and the full benefit of rain.
First Steps — To prepare for your gar-
den work first draw the plan. With the
plan made out you can estimate upon the
amount of seed necessary to use. The
average little seed envelope of fine seed
holds 1-32 to 1-16 of an ounce. In plant-
ing a large garden it is better to buy seed
in bulk, thatis, by the ounce. It is cheaper
and then you can choose the variety you
prefer.
Estimate after this order for a drill of
too feet in length:

Beetseemnns csioks 2 Of IPAS Vsc0coc00c0e Oe
@arrotsh 5 2.5.2. THOZ PCA ee en neee et I OZ.
Wettuces snc) cane OF, IRevabisN, soccosococe I OZ.
Onions. 8. hts ss TO IWAN. 0000000er 2 OZ.

The seeds which are planted in hills
follow this order: —1 oz. cabbage seeds
gives 200 plants; 1 oz. of muskmelon seed
will plant 60 hills; allow 1 peck of potatoes
for too hills; 1 oz. of pumpkin seed for 30

A method for making straight drills by stretching
a line through a row of beds

hills; 1 oz. of tomato seed gives tooo plants.
Bush beans may be planted in drills, an
easy way for children to plant. One quart
of bush bean seed is estimated for too feet
of drill.

Have the garden stakes, markers and
cord all ready for the staking of the garden.
Laths may be measured off and cut into
strips for the main stakes. Make the
stakes one foot long and use them as gar-
den rules. Clothes pins split in two are
not such bad emergency markers.

Remove all rubbish from the garden spot.
If it be a large one have it plowed. If
small dig it up to the depth of at least one
foot. Spread with stable manure and
spade it in well.

Look on page 102 of the March ro13,
issue of the magazine for an estimate of the
amount of fertilizer to use.

LAYING OUT THE GARDEN — The gar-
den should be staked off as a whole and
then the indivdual bed, having a stake in
each corner, should be strung about with
cord. This is a great help in a community
garden. The main path of a large garden
may be four or five feet wide, the small side
paths one and one half to two feet. If the
garden is a long narrow strip of land have
narrow paths. Children’s individual garden
plots should not be too large. For the little
children a five by three foot plot is quite
large enough. But the older children
ought to have larger ones eight by five,
ten by six, or fifteen by eight feet.

Stakes or posts of cedar up and down the
main path make places for planting vines
which, as they grow, take the bare look
away from a long main path. Make pro-
visions for the water supply in your garden.

PREPARATION AND PLANTING — Rake
the ground very fine before you think of

A garden divided into beds ready for planting,

Cedar uprights extend the length of main path

planting. It does not pay at all to try to
plant in coarse, stony ground. If your
garden is a small home one two stakes, and
a cord tied between them, make the best
sort of guide for furrow making. In Com-
munity gardens this method may be used,
or amarking board, as shown in THE GArR-
DEN MacazineE for March 1912, page 97,
is a great labor saving device; and the single
line method shown in the picture is also a
good one to employ. In children’s work
have drills about one foot apart to facili-
tate working and so that the children can
walk between the drills. There are two
methods of planting—namely hill and
drill. Drill planting is the planting in a
continuous row: most small seed are
planted in drills. Make the drills, for the
seed usually planted by children, from one
quarter to one half inch deep. The rule
for seed planting is to place the seed to a
depth of four times its own diameter.
Children often plant in too shallow drills
and the first rain washes all the seed out to
the surface of the soil. Hill planting means
planting an individual specimen or a small
group of plants or seeds in isolated spots
so that cultivation can be given all around
them. Or in other words it might be
called a discontinuous row. As the seeds
grow, some of them are thinned out
leaving usually about three seedlings
to the hill. Soil is often heaped or hilled
up about the stalks of the seedlings as
they develop.

TooLs AND SEEDS — Buy good _ tools.
Do not buy toy ones that do not last. Ina
community garden plan for either a hoe
or rake for every two children; a trowel for
each child; for each group of twenty-five,
two spading forks, one wheelbarrow and
five watering pots. Children can use
stakes, markers or any pointed stick as
cultivators.

Seeds from the Department of Agri-
culture should be applied for early. This
Department provides free seeds to the boys
and girls and the schools. For the rest

of your seed order, order from any good
seedsman.

The first step in garden making is to clear the
ground of all rubbish

Significance of The “Garden Clubs” —By Mrs. Francis King, maiea

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POTENT FORCE IN AMATEUR GARDEN-
ING — WHAT THESE CLUBS STAND FOR AND HOW THEY WORK

AVE we progressed in gardening?”’ asks
Dr. Wilhelm Miller in a recent number of
Country Life in America; and then pro-
ceeds to show, that while deprecating all
boastfulness on our part, we have certainly made
great strides as to the amount and the quality of our
horticultural growth in the last ten years. Dr. Miller
adds columns of interesting details to prove his asser-
tion. In a single inconspicuous line occur these
words “‘ First women’s clubs devoted to gardening.”
Insufficient emphasis it seemed and seems to me, to
lay upon the sight of this organization of garden
clubs now proceeding with such amazing rapidity.
To those to whom the art of gardening is dear, to all
heart-felt gardeners, a significance of the very
highest order attaches itself at once to the spectacle
of these clubs rising in every direction in our land
—a significance which is really a prophecy, a
promise of beauty.

Tf the Garden Club of Philadelphia is, as I believe
it to be, the first of its kind to come into being in
this country, then it is one of the greatest horti-
cultural benefactors America has seen, and in time
to come many gardeners will rise up and call it
blessed. To some people it may seem that the
art of gardening is too gentle, too delicate, to admit
of its devotees’ submission to rules made by ordered
groups; on the other hand it is a complex art;
and now so popular a pursuit that I do not exag-
gerate when I say that there has been a suspicion
of midsummer madness in the way in which garden
clubs have been springing up month by month in
the season just past. A deep, persistent and grow-
ing interest in gardening seems to have suddenly
crystallized in this charming and most practical
fashion, with the result that sixteen or more of
these organizations, varying in size and form are
now in existence. Offshoots of these clubs seem
to be multiplying as rapidly as bulblets from a good
gladiolus in a fair season.

It is not the fault of the garden clubs that they
have a distinctly social side. Gardening at its
highest can best be carried on by men and women
of high intelligence, taste, experience — and, alas,
that it must be said — the wherewithal. With the
true gardener this money question, however, is the
last, least requisite — for who that deeply loves a
garden does not know that qualities most rare and
fine shine out oftenest through the flowers of small
and simple gardens? Itis, I have sometimes com-
passionately thought, more difficult for a richer
man to achieve his heart’s desire in gardening than
for a poorer one. Many are the conventional
obstacles to gardening raised in the path of the
owners of great gardens.

But I digress, I seem to violently digress; and
with apologies will try to curb my wandering pen,
bringing it now to bear upon a few details of the
various garden clubs. And first, let it be said that
these garden clubs exist primarily for their own
benefit and enjoyment, though several of them, as
they grow, have quite naturally determined to
help allied undertakings. The clubs I repeat are
private enterprises; I write of them in an imper-
sonal fashion, and it must be understood that no
names or addresses will be given, now or later.

Philadelphia, the oldest Club

THr GARDEN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA was, I
believe, the first of its kind in this country. It isnow
twelve years of age. It has, in these twelve years,
had no change in the offices of President and Secre-
tary; and it has been the active agent in the organi-
zation of many other clubs of a like nature. This
society has perhaps fifty members. It meets weekly
from the middle of April to the first of July; twice in
September, and has besides three winter meetings;
all ‘‘for pleasure and profit.” A paper is read at
each meeting on a seasonable topic, the club study-
ing, besides, plants, fertilizers insecticides, fungi,
birds, bees and moths, quality of soils, climate and
so on, care of house-plants, trees, and shrubs. The
club has visited the gardens of Mt. Vernon, Hamp-

ton near Baltimore, Princeton, Trenton, and many
gardens at Bar Harbor. Specialists on horticul-
tural subjects have from time to time addressed
them. In their library are more than one hundred
papers prepared by members of the club. Their
activities extend beyond their own limits in several
directions, notably toward the movement made by
the Society for the Protection of Native Plants.

At Ann Harbor, Michigan

Now as to the age of the Garden Clubs other
than the Philadelphia I am not informed. In the
following mention of them, therefore, I shall best
undertake to give any one club precedence — but
shall first take up the GARDEN CLUB oF ANN ARBOR,
Michigan, because of its liberal use of the letter A!
This club is unique in its ultrademocratic policy.
Whereas the Garden Club of Cleveland, in two
gentle sentences of its rules and regulations, re-
marks that “‘elegibility to membership in this club
is limited to: A. Those who are fortunate poss-
essors of gardens of unusual perfection. B. Those
who plan and develop personally and enthusiasti-
cally gardens of their own design’? — the Garden
Club of Ann Arbor declares that only he or she shall
enter their ranks who is possessed of “‘an’ active
personal enthusiasm and working interest in one’s
garden,” and follows this with the rigid exclusion
of all others in this explicit language: ‘Only
amateurs doing individual practical work in their
own gardens or yards are eligible for active member-
ship in the club.”’ An interesting question here
presents itself. Were this a discursive article I
should be tempted to set forth my reasons for be-
lieving that the Cleveland Club has the best of it!
But time presses, space also, and one must draw
one’s Own comparisons and conclusions.

The Ann Arbor is a small club, one of most excel-
lent quality, as I, its geographical neighbor, delight
to testify. Itisa club of parts. To dilate further
on this pleasant subject would be agreeable, but
those who read this are soon to have an account of
this society from its president, Dr. Warthin, himself.

Cleveland, Ohio

The GaRDEN CLUB OF CLEVELAND of which
pleasant mention has just now been made, has this
fine sentence in its charter, ‘‘The purpose for which
this corporation is formed is to cultivate the spirit
of gardening in its fullest sense, together with an
appreciation of civic beauty and betterment in and
about Cleveland.” No mean ambition here;
though as their secretary says. their.aspirations are

far more numerous as yet than their experiences! -

Seventy-seven names are upon the roster of this
club — the meetings are in summer weekly, in
winter monthly. Mr. Charles Platt has spoken
at one of these on formal gardening, a lecture on
peonies has been had, and the prizes are already
offered for this summer’s flowers, one for a rose
contest.
Suburban Chicago

Among the younger clubs is one lately originat-
ing in the suburbs of Chicago, Lake Forrest and
WINNETKA. It is so young that its infant steps in
the way of rules or by-laws have hardly yet been
taken — and its limit of membership is hardly, as
yet, known to itself. But it is a club vowed and
destined to success. It has already had various
lectures on the gardening subjects nearest its heart;
the gardening flame burns bright upon its altar.

The largest membership

New Canaan, Connecticut, has, it would appear,
the largest membership of the Garden Clubs. It
carries the name of its dwelling place and shows a
membership of about two hundred — all this
within three years of life! In each of these years
an exhibition of flowers has been held, with none but
professionals as judges. This powerful club has
helped several other similar societies to come into
being, and is a member of the Plant, Fruit, and

186

Flower Guild, assisting that organization in its
work.
The activity of Newport

It may be'that Tur GARDEN ASSOCIATION OF
NeEwport might be called the most ambitious of the
newly formed gardening societies, as may be seen
by mentioning in order its objects. These are:
“First: To increase the knowledge of owners of
gardens in Newport by means of lectures and
practical talks in the garden during the summer
months by well known authorities on trees, lawns,
roses, hardy flowers, perennial borders and so on.
Second: To provide a corresponding secretary who
will keep the association in touch with the develop-
ment of new ideas and improvements in the varie-
ties of flowers among the seedmen and gardeners
of France, Germany, and the East. Third: To
establish a bureau where the seeds of novelties
from abroad can be obtained. Fourth: To de-
velop by means of illustrated lectures on the gardens
of England, Italy and other countries more art,
individuality, sentiment and variety in the planting
of flowers, shrubs, and so forth. Fifth: To increase
the practical knowledge of the care of trees and
plants by demonstrating the methods used in
Europe in the cultivation of flowers, fruit, and
vegetables, and in forestry.”

Objects, these, most excellent, and most excel-
lently set forth. In my judgment the Newport
association is right; we still must go abroad to
find most of that which is highest and best in gar-
dening. This remark may provoke criticism. It
is still true. The fine gardens, the great arboreta
(with the exception of our own Arnold Arboretum,
whose free bulletins no garden club should fail to
get and read), the most perfect use of trees, shrubs
and flowers are not yet found generally in this
country. And the sooner incisive suggestions, such
as these of the Newport Association, wake us to
sense of what we have not, and where we should
go to find it, the better for us. On the other hand
the library of the Newport society seems wofully
behind, in that it has no books but English books,
and that those indeed seem to me to be more the
suggestions of an English gardener or superinten-
dent than of the fine English amateur. Six books,
wanting from this list, some English and some
American are ‘‘in my foolish opinion” indispensable
to the serious amateur in this country, the gardener
whose one desire is to call forth true beauty from
the earth.

The Newport Association has had lectures or
talks during the summer of 1912 on the subjects
of soil, the art of planting, and roses. It is their
intention.to hold a flower show in July, 1913.
No object lesson,in the advancement of gardening
could be more effective than that of the decision of
these dwellers in Newport,—some of them possessors
of as fine gardens as America, has to show — no
object lesson could be better than their admission
that still they need to learn; that. their-gardens,
some of them considered practically perfect, still
need contributions from the charming flowers and ©
plants of that older world beyond the Atlantic.:

At Garden City, N. Y.

The SHEDOWA GARDEN CLuB of Garden City,
N. Y., has for president and secretary two whdse
brains are never idle in working for a progressive
policy for their club. (Shedowa is an Iroquois word
meaning Great Plains.) Their fifty odd members
meet about every fortnight. They have had several
authorities address them during their first year’s
existence, they have already a library of forty
volumes, and they have, taken much interest in
improving the flower exhibit at the Nassau County
Fair. The president of the club is now exerting
herself to the utmost to get the various plants-
men and seedsmen of. the country to adopt the
French chart,““Repertoire des Couleurs,”’ as a stand-
ard of color for their catalogue color descriptions.

(Continued on page 188)

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ANt SHort Hitts, N. J., is a small but vigorous
Garden Club, with so informal an organiza-
tion that there is no officer but the president.
Membership here is limited — but meetings are
frequent, in summer as frequent as once a week
“thus enabling us” to quote a member, “to watch
carefully the development of color schemes and
artistic planting, so enthusiastically started in the
previous season; and to note the growth of plants
tried in our locality for the first time.” The
writer further remarks upon the incentive estab-
lished by the frequency of meetings — and. that
in time of failure the meetings prove a consolation
as well. The Short Hills Club has also for several
years had dahlia shows. In this short account the
most excellent suggestions are interest in novelties
in plants, a subject which always touches one nearly,
and an exhibition devoted to a particular flower.

The GARDEN CLUB of TRENTON, N. J., with a
membership of twenty-four, is limited to twenty-
five (one cannot help envying that twenty-fifth
member!) It holds its regular meetings on the
second Monday of each month, with an extra meet-
ing sometimes on the fourth Monday. The letter of
the Trenton club’s secretary is so beguiling that I
yield to the temptation to quote a part of it ver-
batim — ‘‘We started our club a year ago, and
being perfectly overrun with clubs and rather
tired of them, we have tried to make it as unclub-
like as possible. It has been the greatest success.
We have had delightful meetings with papers and
talks by our own members. We have had two days
in the country with the wild flowers which were
intensely enjoyed. Those who were able went to
a lecture by Hugo de Vries, at Princeton, and in
the spring some of us visited the garden planned by
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, doubtless one of the most
beautiful smaller gardens in this part of the country.
During the summer a number of meetings were held
at the seashore where most of the members had come
together and studied the flowers of the coast, both
wild and cultivated. Some of our topics are:
‘Flowers in Mythology and History, The Christ-
mas Tree, Evergreens from Prehistoric Ages to
our Gardens, Orchids, wild and cultivated, English
Gardens, French Gardens, Italian Gardens, Kew
Gardens and its Research Work, Flowers in Poetry,
Insect Pests, The Hardy Border, Roses, Bulbs’;
and always we have practical discussion for the
last hour.” The range of suggestion here set
forth is remarkable — and if I am not mistaken,
the enthusiasm warming every word of this short
letter will affect others who may read it here, as
it has already affected me.

The GARDEN CLUB of LENox, MaAss., has the
great good luck to exist where backgrounds, both
near and far, are pictures; where planting, however
little, cannot fail to be telling. Disadvantages
may exist. Frost surely arrives too soon; soil
on those glorious hillsides may be scarce; yet
where every prospect is one of beauty, the stimulus
toward the creation of beauty must be unique.
Add to this the fact that for at least a year, a painter
and sculptor was their president, and could the
most eager Garden Club ask for more?

In this club men and women are again associated.
The membership is limited to one hundred and
twenty-five, and has, I fancy, barely reached that
number. Regular meetings are held on the first
Mondays of July, August, September, and October.
Two novel and highly interesting sections occur
in the by laws of the Lenox Garden Club. The
first is this: ‘‘On the third Monday in June, July,
August, and September there shall be meetings of
the officers and council for the closer study of
gardens and gardening problems and the general
management of the club. All eligible to the council
must do manual work in their gardens, and bring
to the meetings, twice during the season, interest-
ing specimens of plants, blights, or insects, giving
their personal experience with them.”

The second follows and concerns a plant ex-
change: “Members having plants to exchange or
give away, may send a postal giving names and
quality to the recorder. Members desiring plants
may send in applications in the same manner. The

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recorder shall keep a list of both and shall bring
the same to all meetings that members may refer
to it.

The younger clubs naturally profit by such wise
arrangements and suggestions as these. Thus it is
not strange to see rules on these general lines in the
book of the GARDEN CLuB oF Lone IsLanp, whose
membership seems to centre about Lawrence and
which, though in existence only since September of
1912, has the astonishing membership “already
yet so soon” as an old German gardener of my
acquaintance was wont to say, of ninety-one! This
club meets twice a month in summer. Miss Rose
Standish Nichols has spoken to them on “‘ Gardens,”’
Miss Averill on ‘Japanese Flower Arrangement,’
and Miss Coffin on ‘Color and Succession in the
Flower Garden.”

Now for the club in which I am most at home —
the GarDENCLUBOFMIcHIGAN. Thiswaspatterned
mainly upon that of Philadelphia, and I here ac-
knowledge with renewed gratitude our debt to that
organization which was most gracious in its assis-
tance; and to the New Canaan Garden Club, also
a friend in need. Our club, like the Philadelphia
one, has sixty members. We have had, during
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with lectures, upon such subjects as roses, new
flowers, gardens of England, necessities and lux-
uries in garden books, color in the garden, the mak-
ing of an old-fashioned garden, the grouping of
shrubs and the planning and planting of home
grounds. ‘‘We have learned,” writes our secretary,
“much about gardens, gardeners and gardening;
also that even garden clubs do not grow of them-
selves!”

For our club I have prepared from time to time

| a list of color combinations in flowers, simple ones,
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seedsmen and plantsmen, including specialists in
this country and abroad, drawn from dealings of
twenty years past. If a seedsman sends me a
specially good sheet of cultural directions for a
given flower I do not hesitate to beg at once for
sixty for our next meeting. Little piles of these
things on the secretary’s table do wonders in
shortening the hard road to good gardening. We
have, as a club joined two or three plant societies,
and during the coming year we hope to help in
some public horticultural improvement in Detroit,
for in that city lies the balance of our membership.
The annual dues of our club, which were two
dollars, have now been raised to five. The dues
of the various clubs average this sum; though in
one club the subscription is fifteen. In all clubs
the meetings are held as a rule in the houses or
gardens of members.

Expeditions are undertaken by some of the clubs,
journeys to fine gardens, public or private. This
is as it should be. In England it is a common
sight, that of horticultural societies going about,
en masse, forty or fifty strong, inspecting gardens.
Many of these must knock daily at Miss Jekyll’s
“close-paled hand-gate.” I would suggest to
members in the eastern seaboard that they avail
themselves of the beauties of the Arnold Arboretum
in lilac time, or in mid-June — and never without
a note-book, for, as at Kew, every tree and shrub
is labeled to perfection.

Other clubs there are of which mention should
be made, as the GARDEN CLUB OF WARRENTON,
Va., an offshoot of the Philadelphia Club; the
GARDEN CLUB OF PRINCETON, N. J.; “ THE WEED-
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and a second in Michigan, about to, be launched
in Detroit. And so the valuable, the delightful
work goes on! :

The Garden Clubs so faultily described in these
pages have been more than generous in helping
me in the congenial task. Nevertheless the best
Garden Club is probably yet to be formed; as it
can now be a composite — adopting the more
important and practical plans of those already in
existence, and starting with the benefit of their
experience. If I have here shown adequately the
power, the force for good in gardening which the
rapid upspringing of these clubs most certainly
constitutes, I shall have done what I set out to do.
And if one more club shall be organized in con-
sequence of what has here been chronicled, then I
shall have done more, much more, than I had any
hope of doing.

AprRIL, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 19]

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FR SEEREING to the picture of the retaining
wall for plants in THe GarDEN Macazinr
for May, 1912, at page 241, let me say, as having
some experience of such a work here in England,
that the right way is not to make pockets, ample
or otherwise. Done in that way the structure is.
nee right and the plants on it will not resist the
eat.

The right way is to build with blocks of stone —
even square blocks if one has them — exactly as
though there were no plants in question; then put
the slightest dusting of soil above each layer of
stone, and on that put the plants — seedlings, they
should be, or cuttings. Put another layer of blocks.
above the plants.

It will be clearly understood that these battered
walls are only made from necessity — to keep up
the banks of earth. It often happens that we have
to cut through the earth and the best way to
support it is to build one of these dry walls. Each
row of stones should be set back from the other an
inch or so, and each stone should, as far as may be,
slope backward and downward so that it may catch
all the rainfall.

Alpine plants have the curious habit of rooting
very deeply, and I have seen a plant not more than
one inch high that had its roots growing twenty
inches deep into the crumbling rock. Therefore.
the roots of such plants make no difficulty about
getting to the back of a dry wall and a sandstone

These sun roses and campanulas were set in this
dry wall as it was being built

A wall of sandstone blocks set without mortar.
Sedum dasyphyllum and alpine toadflax growing
in profusion

AprILt, 19138 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 193

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block ten inches deep keeps the roots of the plants.
quite cool.

I have tried all sorts of rock plants in this way,
from the Kenilworth ivy to the pasque flower, and
the work has been done carelessly. The workman
who built the wall was more accustomed to ripping
out stone; he placed the plants as he went
along, from a basket of seedlings given him for .
that purpose, and our loss was very slight. One
who knew rock flowers and had a good stock to
work with could, I think, make a rock garden as
good as any in this way.

Here in England, putting coarse climbers like
ivy and Virginia creeper in such a structure would
spoil all. The best way is to keep it filled with
rock plants like the rock harebells, a few Kenilworth
ivy, pasque flowers, blue bindweed, Tunica, and
things of that kind.

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The color of the blooms is described as a bright
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Beautiful Lawns

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MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1913

A New Novel
By

.C.Snaith

Author of ‘‘Broke of

Covenden,’’ “‘The
Principal Girl’’ etc.

An
ffair of State

HE British Government with its back to the wall and

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of national life which threatens in a universal strike; and the
reins of control in the hands of a very clever Duchess and James
Draper once haberdasher, now Prime Minister—these are some
of the contending forces in Mr. Snaith’s new romance.

r “HE story is told almost entirely in conversation, brilliant and arresting, and there is not
a lengthy description of person or scene in the book. This is a remarkable feat in itself
and adds wonderfully to a theme essentially dramatic and eventful. Therise of James

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mendous forces of a moribund aristocracy bent on crushing him are described by Mr. Snaith

in a way that makes one eager to know the outcome.

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Early Salads

ae importance of salads has long been rec-
ognized but too often they are looked upon
as luxuries and are made from the most expen-
sive materials instead of the simpler common
plants.

The kind of plant used for raw salads is less
important than that the leaves should have grown
rapidly with plenty of moisture so that they are
tender and free from woody fibre.

Dandelions for use raw or cooked should be cut
before they blossom or show too much bitter milky
juice when broken.

The common milkweed, if gathered when four to

. six inches high before the leaves unfold fully from

the stalk, is a satisfactory form of greens, and after
cooking may be served cold as a salad just like
asparagus.

Purslane or purslain, as it once was spelled, is now
ranked as a weed,but formerly was counted a garden
plant to be sown in a bed of good rich earth. To-
day we do not regard this other than a weed to be
exterminated. Yet its red stems and succulent
leaves, like the sorrel, may be used when young as
salad material. Purslane boiled for greens is almost
as good as beet greens.

All sorts of salad dressings have been devised to
supply larger proportions of fat and protein ma-
terial. Olive and other seed oils, cream, sweet and
sour, and bacon fat all are useful in the manufacture
of salad dressing. :

“Greens” are almost another story but it is often
difficult to decide when they differ from salads.

Spinach boiled, molded and served cold, is not to
be despised as a substitute for raw salad plants.
Sometimes the young and tender central leaves of
the spinach may be served raw like lettuce. This
also is true of the dandelion.

Chives, variously pronounced sives, chives and
shives is a member of the onion family that is
well worth our attention. The sod of bulblets
sold in the city markets from ten to fifteen cents
will grow for weeks in a kitchen window if cared for
like other plants and then may be set out in some
corner of a garden. The long tubular leaves are a
brilliant green and will convey a delicate onion
flavor to any food with which they are associated.
Perhaps the best way to use this is to cut off with
scissors a bunch of the leaves (ten to twenty) near
the roots and, still holding them together, rinse
thoroughly. Then, with the scissors, continue to
snip across until the whole is finely divided almost
like chopped parsley. This may be worked into
cream cheese which is to be made into balls for a
salad or put in mayonnaise dressing or sprinkled
over any combination of vegetables to be served
as a salad with French dressing.

Horse radish used to grow in the old gardens and
the housewives took the smaller roots in the spring
and grated them and combined with vinegar to
give relish to veal or plain boiled beef. Often a
sprinkling of grated horse radish may be added,
like the chives, to some insipid vegetable with good
effect.

The long red radish is seldom seen in the markets
but well may find a place in our vegetable gardens.
The round red ones are often so abundant in the
markets or grow so fast in our gardens that it is
worth while to try cooking them. The skin may
be left on, or part of it at least; if large they may be
divided before cooking. When tender drain and
serve with a white sauce. Some of the water in
which they were boiled may be used in making the

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APRIL, 1918

Farrs New Catalogue of
Hardy Plant Specialties

WRIGHT WIRE CC.

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The Guards are made just like the famous Excelsior Fences, and are
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Ask any hardware dealer for them. Let us send you ILLUSTRATED
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Evergreens, shade trees and a few fruit trees, are worth
$100 each at any home—sometimes $500 each. But they
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It tells of the thousands of varieties of Irises, Peonies,
Phlox, Poppies, Larkspur and other hardy plants
that make up my collection —a man’s garden that
long since over-flowed into the open fields, a glorious
riot of color, an intoxication of delight.

A Business from a Hobby. Some one has said,
“Blessed is he who has a hobby, and can make it his
business.” It is a far cry from a boy’s garden on the
Iowa farm, to a garden of many acres at Wyomissing,
and a business that has reached to every state and
territory, bringing me in touch with thousands of
others who also know the delights of the hardy garden,
and have made it their hobby.

They have told me of their gardens, and

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here and there we see them bursting into new life.

But there is a fascination, too, in the building of a
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own, and its accomplishment the realization of your
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man who is “‘city tired’ may find rest and new life.

About My New Book. Inmy new book I have
tried to express the charm of the hardy plants —
the charm that induced me to grow them by the
thousands at Wyomissing, that led me to secure
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If, as many wrote, they found the last edition “‘so delightful”
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This book is free to all who love the Hardy Plants.
Send for it today, and let it be a help to you.

BERTRAND H. FARR, Wyomissing Nurseries
104 Garfield Avenue, Wyomissing, Pa.

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APRIL, 1913

q’g1913 Specialty
Plant Book
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Meehan

Mee) is full of information on well-grown trees, shrubs and hardy
» garden flowers. Unlike most catalogs, it includes many of
the rarer, more unusual plants that give individuality to

your garden. Includes improved strains of the famous

Meehans’ Mallow Marvels

—the plant creation of the century. Introduced by
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frost comes. Herbaceous—dies to ground in Fall,
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sauce which will give a pink tint. The flavor is
similar to that of young turnips.

“A cheap but wholesome salad from the brook”’
is the water cress which sometimes is cheaper than
other salad materials in the city markets. Another
form of garden cress is really a species of mustard.
This and “peppergrass” have a way of sowing them-
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Thin slices of onion and radish with this cress make
an attractive salad.

Lamb’s lettuce, a corn salad, is a little plant,
often found in the city markets which gives an
agreeable variety for our salad green.

Soon after Christmas small new potatoes begin
to come from the Bermudas to the northern mar-
kets and even at from ten to twenty cents a quart
may occasionally be indulged in for a spring salad.
Such potatoes should be boiled in their skins, until
tender but not broken; then they must be peeled
and sliced or cut in cubes while still hot and dressed
with oil and vinegar, salt and pepper. The exact
proportions must be left to the condition of the
potatoes and the taste of the eaters.

Add a moderate amount of oil—at first a
tablespoon — for each cupful of the cut potato, a
teaspoon of vinegar and small quantities of salt
and pepper. Later, if this is all absorbed add more.
Half as much onion as potato may be added —
but it should be the right sort of onion. The
Spanish onion may be used more freely than the
Bermuda. If only a common onion is available
use the centre, leaving the tough outer portion
to flavor soup. Often chives cut fine will give
sufficient flavor and a dash of color to the pale
potatoes. Or the color may be secured by chopped
parsley. On such a potato salad endless changes
may be made from time to time. It may be served
with cooked dressings or mayonnaise in addition
to the one already described or in its place. Other
vegetables may be combined with it. Especially
useful for this purpose are green peas, red and green
peppers, carrots, celeriac; young turnips, etc.

A potato salad may be served without lettuce,
especially if it contains onions and parsley and then
it may be garnished with something of the meat
order, hard boiled eggs, shreds of herring, dried
beef or even curls of crisp bacon. Such a salad
will provide a substantial meal.

New York. ANNA BARROWS.

A One-Rod Onion Patch

pe area of my onion patch was one square
rod, the same being a piece of ground measur-
ing one rod on each side. Leaving a margin of
six inches within this area all around, the remaining
area was sown with onion seed of the Red Globe
variety, in drills a little more than eighteen inches
apart. The object of the experiment was, of course,
to obtain the largest crop from the small area.
My first error was in the lavish use of seed, result-
ing in a dense forest of little plants, in number
vastly more than could profitably develop, and
crowding each other so closely as to make thinning
by mechanical means almost impossible.

Happily at this time the maggots, apparently
in great numbers, as though informed of the situa-
tion, began their work, certainly with diligence, and
probably with method according to their ideas.
They must have kept at the job all the day through,
and for aught I know continued by the light of
the stars, for the onion patch was rapidly assuming
a changed appearance, and it became a matter of
concern whether the little fellows might not be
overdoing the business, when suddenly and for no
assigned reason they quit the job.

In places the plants were still too thick, but it
seemed best to let them grow to the harvest without
further thinning. They crowded and pushed each
other in the rows until it looked as though some
would be uprooted, but still they struggled to re-
tain their hold upon mother earth, while the luxur-
jant tops aspired upward, reaching a height of more
than three feet, the while they were never allowed to
want for moisture, this being sometimes supplied
in the form of liquid fertilizer, until at last the
season’s end was reached and the tops, wilted and
faded, fell to the ground, proudly revealing the
abundant crop of onions, five bushels (52 Ibs. to the
bu.), and ten pounds over.

Massachusetts. GEORGE H. ALLEN.

APRIL, 1918

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Turnips in a Jersey Garden

URES are among the hardier vegetables.
They may be planted the last week in March
or the first. of April, if the weather is open, with no
greater risk than that attending sand storms. In
an unprotected garden it is wiser to shield the
young plants during a storm of this kind as the
young leaves, when just through the ground, are
easily cut by it.

As soon as the garden soil is plowed and harrowed
mark off the turnip rows eighteen inches apart.
Open a furrow down the rows and sow a good
fertilizer therein. One that gave fine results in
my garden during the past year was made according
to a formula given by the New Jersey Agricultural
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This makes one hundred pounds of fertilizer which
is sufficient for five rows fifty feet long. For a
small family, one fifth of this amount is enough.

After covering the fertilizer with soil, to a level
with the surrounding surface, sow the seed with a
drill which drops it regularly and firms and covers
it. As soon as the young turnips are up so that
the rows are well defined, cultivate them on either
side; do not go too close to the plants. Use a
wheel cultivator set with the rake attachment as
the object is merely to mellow the soil. In a week
or ten days cultivate again, using the double wheel
hoes astride the row or the single wheel hoes at the
side running close to the plants. When they are
large enough to permit one to grasp the foliage they
should be thinned—rutabagas and Purple-
top Globe turnips six inches apart, and the
Early White Milan and flat varieties, four inches
apart. If the turnips are allowed to grow to the
size of small marbles before thinning, growth is
perceptibly checked by the process. Cultivation
should continue between the rows until the foliage
is so large as to prevent it.

The Purple-top, White Milan and the Early
White Milan, planted the beginning of April,
should be ready for use by the last of May. As the
weather grows warmer they lose their delicacy, so
do not plant more than you can use. Purple or Red-
top White Globe turnips, planted the first week
in April, are ready for use by the middle of June.
They are of fine mild flavor. If left in the ground,
they will grow to enormous size, but, although they
retain their mild flavor, will develop a pithy centre.
When grown as a summer vegetable, these turnips
should all be used within a fortnight after the
first are pulled.

For winter use, the Purple-top White Globe is
an excellent keeper. Seed should be sown after
the middle of July and not later than the end of
August.

Rutabaga turnips planted early in April are
ready by the Fourth of July. These varieties may
remain in the ground all summer without injury.

The soil for growing rutabagas must be
mellow so that the tuberous roots may expand
without mechanical resistance. Last season I
grew some rutabaga turnips on hard soil and al-
though they were left in the ground all summer
grew no larger than a tea-cup. Soil that will cake
or bake after rain is very unsuitable, as its capacity
for holding water makes it too wet for the cultivator
until after the surface soil has hardened.

Rutabaga turnips for winter use may be planted
from the middle of July to the middle of August.

New Jersey. M. R. Conover.

All About Pieplant

pene or rhubarb (Rheum Rhaponticum)
grows readily from seeds, from roots, or even
from crowns with the eyes left in. The roots may
be transplanted in the spring or fall. Seeds planted
in spring in good soil and cultivated during the
summer make fine plants ready to be moved in the
fall or the following spring to their permanent
dwelling-places. It is best to plant them three, four
or even six feet apart, as they are lusty growers
with long, far-reaching roots. Linnzeus is the best
variety to grow. Give plenty of moisture but never
allow it to stand in soggy, water-soaked ground.

Apri, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 201

The Fruit and Garden Club

From time to time some of the readers of The Garden Magazine ask us to suggest something that would supplement The Garden Mag-
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In the fall supply it generously with a top dressing
of manure.

Rhubarb can also be forced easily during the
winter months in pits or in cellars. Only healthy,
well developed roots should be used as these are
the storehouses from which the stalks are supplied,
no additional food being taken up by the roots
during forcing. Dig up the roots late in the fall,
cover lightly and allow them to freeze thoroughly,
thus cheating them into the belief that winter has
been short and it is time to be up and doing. Pack
the roots as closely together as they can be crowded,
filling the spaces with sand or garden soil, well
watered but never soaked. Give a steady tempera-
ture of from 50 to 60 degrees (this-may be attained
by small stoves or lighted lamps), and in two or
three weeks the young tender shoots will appear.

While pieplant in gardens revels in the sun, light
is to be excluded from cellars where it is forced,
even the light of lamps; otherwise, leaves develop
which use the root-food needed for the growth of
stalks. The color also is more delicate when grown
in the dark.

Try some of the following recipes:

Stewed rhubarb. The old conventional way was.
to peel the stalks and cut them into inch pieces.
The new, improved process is, mot to peel, but wash
carefully; cut as before, pour boiling water upon

the pieces, and let them stand until the water cools,

which is then poured off. This draws out any
hint of rankness lurking in the stems, while the
delicate color of the skin remains, giving a pink
tinge to the compounds when cooked. To 2 pounds
of pieplant thus prepared add 13 cups of sugar and
enough boiling water to nearly cover. Cook quickly
without stirring. Leave in the saucepan until cold so
that the dainty pieces may be unbroken whenserved.
The skin gives a delicate pink to the whole, besides
imparting a pronounced and pleasant flavor which is
lost when the stalks are peeled before cooking.

Spiced pieplant. Slice 2} pounds of pieplant;
sprinkle one pound of sugar over it and let it stand
over night. In the morning drain off the syrup and
add one cup of sugar and half a cup each of vinegar
and water. Drop into the syrup small bags filled
with a mixture of 3 of a teaspoonful each of cloves,
allspice and ginger, and one teaspoonful of cinna-
mon. Boil until the syrup begins to thicken, then
remove the spice-bags and add the~ pieplant;
simmer altogether one hour. This keeps well and
will be found a tempting relish with cold meats.

Pieplant butter. Do not peel. Wash carefully,
cut fine, pour over it one pint of boiling water, stew
until smooth. To each pint of the stewed pieplant
add an equal quantity of light brown sugar, and
half a grated nutmeg. Cook 15 minutes, stirring
constantly. Pour into tumblers and keep cool.

Pieplant and orange marmalade. One quart of
tender pieplant, pulp of half a dozen oranges with
their grated outer rind (do not use any of the white
inner skin) and 13 pounds granulated sugar. Sim-
mer gently until of the desired consistency.

Pieplant and fig jam. Six pounds of pieplant cut
fine; cover with six pounds of sugar and let stand
overnight. In the morning add the juice, pulp, and
grated rind of two lemons, ; pound seeded raisins
chopped fine, one pound chopped figs. Cook until
thick. Keepin jars. This is also fine for cake filling.

Pieplant punjo. Four pounds of pieplant cut
in small pieces and stewed in one pint of boiling
water: when cooked fine add an equal quantity
of granulated sugar, and one ground pineapple;
simmer half an hour, being careful to keep it from
burning. The acid of the rhubarb, mingled with
the delicate sweet of the pineapple, makes a most
delicious desert.

Pieplant and tapioca pudding. Wash one quart
of pieplant, cut it in small pieces, pour over it two
cups of sugar, and stew in double boiler until tender.
Add no water in cooking as the juice of the pieplant
drawn out by the sugar will suffice. With care not
to break, skim out the pieces of pieplant. Add
enough water to the syrup left in the boiler to make
two pints, and when boiling add two thirds of a cup
of tapioca which has been soaked in water. Let

it boil one hour, add teaspoon of butter and pour.

over it the pieces of pieplant. Bake for half an
hour. When done cover with a meringue made of
the whites of two eggs and one half cup of sugar,
flavored-with orange.

Rhubarb and mint jelly. Cook stalks of pieplant

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Ferns and Flowers
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Why not develop your woodland into a beautiful, natural garden by planting
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thoroughly and strain through a jelly bag. To each
pint of juice add a pound of sugar and enough green
vegetable coloring (which may be obtained at a
drug store) to give a delicate green tint. Pour into
tiny jelly glasses, in each of which has been dropped
a leaf of fresh spearmint. The mint leaf gives
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over it, rises to the top and, before serving, can
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Canned pieplant. Cut the stalks fine, pack the
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| MAKING a centre piece for the luncheon
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Grapes in the Back Yard

pee few people try to grow their own grapes.

A good young vine costs no more than does
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In the third year, five to fifteen pounds is a
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such a way that no strain will come upon the point
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The Grape-Vine Flea Beetle

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This flea beetle is about one quarter of an inch
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After having fed for three or four weeks, during
the latter part of which time they have been de-
positing small, orange colored eggs in clusters on the
under sides of the leaves, they die. These eggs

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hatch shortly, giving birth to brown colored worms
which, when full grown, are about three tenths of an
inch long. They feed upon the leaves and later,
when full grown, drop to the ground and enter it
where they transform into beetles. This second
brood goes through the same life cycle, producing i
another crop of beetles which hibernate in the
ground and damage the next year’s crop. Badly
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larvee eat large, irregular holes in the leaves.
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Pennsylvania.

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The Alpine Strawberry

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An improved variety of the Quatre Saisons alpine
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And Lawn

It’s easy to double the yield of the garden and also
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WHAT WE REALLY PLANT WHAT WE OUGHT TO PLANT
70% E: trees and shrubs | 70% American trees and shrubs,

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APRIL, 1913

Tree and Bush Fruits for the
Home Garden

[BRS may be good reasons for growing cher-
ries, plums, currants: and gooseberries as
campanion crops, especially in the family fruit
garden where the space may be limited. Currants
and gooseberries thrive better in partial shade
than do most fruits, and the shade of the smaller
growing trees such as cherry and plum, or dwarf
pears and apples, affords very favorable conditions
for currants and gooseberries, especially the English
gooseberries, which are often affected by sunscald
when growing without shade.

Success is more easily attained with these com-
bination crops in deep rich loam, and ifitis a rather
heavy clay loam, well drained, the gooseberries and
currants will produce a larger crop. Lighter and
more shallow soils should have humus incorporated
with them, and a mulch that will retain moisture
should be placed on the surface, after early culti-
vation, before mid-summer, If you have no choice
of soils, litmus paper will tell you if it is sour and
needs lime; it needs draining if the water stands on it
after a rain or ifit packs. Ifit will not grow a large
crop of corn, it needs more humus and plant food;
if it will not grow clover, it needs lime.

Generally, it is a good thing to apply stable
manure to the plot selected for the combination
cultivation of tree and bush fruits, and plow it
under in early spring. Then harrow the soil finely,
and plow three straight furrows four feet apart;
the next one six feet away, the next one six feet,
then two four feet apart, etc. With this plan there
are two rows of trees twenty feet apart, and between
them three rows of bush fruits three feet apart.

The trees and bushes should have been ordered so
that they will arrive as soon as the land is ready for
planting, and the planting may be done any time
before the leaves come out. Usually the last of
April or the first part of May is the best time in
New York. Two year old stock from a near-by
nursery is the best, the varieties selected being
those adapted to your climate and location. It is
safest to ascertain what other people near you have
grown successfully, adding a few of the novelties for
experiments. If you cannot grow peaches without
special protection, do not invest largely in-sweet
cherries; but if you can, then buy a few trees of
Windsor, Bing, or Black Tartarian, and a few of such
sour sorts as Montmorency, English Morello, and
Richmond. If you are not in the peach belt, order
only the sour cherries. I would prefer to grow
mostly cherries with bush fruits, and grow plums in
the poultry yard, as the cherries live longer, are
more hardy, and are less susceptible to disease; but
I have seen plums grow well with bush fruits between
them, and I would make my choice from the best of
Japanese and European sorts.

Wilder and Fay currants are among the best of
the reds, and White Grape is one of the best whites.
One needs to give much thought to the selection
of gooseberries. The English gooseberry, Industry,
is being very successfully grown in New York under
special treatment. Generally the American varie-
ties will thrive under about the same conditions as
currants; one of the best is the Downing. The Eng-
lish gooseberry is larger than the native varieties
and much richer, and from it is made the best goose-
berry jam. When ripe it is the best table goose-
berry. To grow it with much success in this coun-
try, it must be thoroughly sprayed. A lime and
sulphur wash best controls mildew and leaf blight,
and arsenate of lead can be combined with it to des-
troy the currant worm.

Plant currants four feet apart in the rows pre-
pared for them. It is better to root prune them
somewhat, then deepen the furrow with a spading
fork, so that the bush will stand a little deeper than
in the nursery. Tread some fine rich surface soil
around the roots, and pour in a little water slowly
if the soil is dry. Place a mulch around the bush,
cut back the top about one-third, and you have
done the job rightly. The same directions will
apply to planting the trees but plant them 20 feet
apart each way. ;

Begin cultivation with a horse and garden culti-
vator soon after planting. The width of my own
cultivator can be adjusted from one foot to six
feet, and it has 12 small teeth, so it is just right for
running between these rows of different widths.

APRIL, 1918

SOLD BY SEEDSMEN

TO DESTROY POTATO BUGS AND CABBAGE WORMS
@nd Pests on Tomato and Egg Plants, Currant Worms. Rose Lice and
Worms, Flea Beetles and Striped Bugs on Melons, Squash, Turnips,

Beets, Onions, Etc. Canker. Worms and Caterpillars on Frult and’

Ornamental Trees A Preventative of the Rose Bug and Cut Worm.
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DIRECTIONS FOR USING.

HAMMOND'S SLUO SHOT when used directly erent pre secre and tender plants of the Relen,
Lima Beans and Cucumber. eheuld be dusted on lightly.
with the finest of perforated tin. When used against at A or wie Warnes put If on the ground around
‘the stems. and its stimulating effect will appear quickly after a rain. When used on coarse Piante,

~ such a3 the Potato. Tomate. Cabbage or Turnip, it can be used teety. and remember that th: Potate d

Bug or Slug ess Goes and dee on the lee!

No Bugs! No Blight!

Fighting insects is the bane of every man who
owns a garden, a tree or a bush. The game is
too minute to hunt with a gun but it can be
reached by

Hammond’s Slug Shot

from a Hammond Duster, or Bellows and once
reached, it dies. ‘““The only good insect is a
dead one.”’ This statement is a bit hard—but
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Hammond’s Products have over quarter-of-a-
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Write for Bugs and Blights Pamphlet

HAMMOND SLUG SHOT WORKS
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Pansy Plants

Our stock is better this year than ever before,
and we have a much greater number to offer
The strain has been improved by additions from
the best growers in this country and Germany.
One doz., 50 cents. Three doz. $1.00
100 for $2.50 1000 for $20.00

Our collection of Dahlias is an unusually fine
one. Send for our list.

MARTINSVILLE FLORAL CO.

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GARDEN MAGAZINE 211

Read About This New Astermum

‘THE dispute between the Aster and the
Chrysanthemum has at last been most ami-

cably settled by combining the beauties of the

Aster and the glory of the Chrysanthemum.

It is now our pleasurable privilege to intro-
duce you to The Astermum — a perfect result
of the hybridizers’ art. When making up your
list, be sure that they receive an invite.

You will find them delightful garden guests.
They have a beauty all their own. They
dress most tastily in snow white, beautiful
rose pink and Aunt Prue Lavender.

Each color 35c a package — 3 packages
$1.00. ‘These Astermums are fully described
in Boddington’s Garden Guide — which is
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A Pretty Garden for a Dollar

; ay ITH the approaching of Spring and
— wa “a Soar,

planting time grows within you the long-
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ing for a pretty garden; and your ambition is to
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makethat garden prettier than ever before.
After careful thought and selection we have
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that willgrow a surprisingly pretty little garden
_ having distinctive individuality and charm.
. Here i is the collection— one regular packet of each:

Po

A Asters Larkspur, Dwarf Phlox Drummondii
Larkspur, Tall Rocket Poppy
Portulaca, Single

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Clarkia Malope Scabiosa
Sunflower
Sweet Alyssum
Zinnia, Dwarf
Zinnia, Tall

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Log AZ Me 44 WG Rhos ae

Collinsia Marigold
Convolvulus, Dwarf Marigold, Dwarf
Cosmos Mignonette
Eschscholtzia Nasturtium, Dwarf
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APRIL, 1913

pnene V ex

Cora turned up the lights at the sides of the cheval-
glass, looked at herself earnestly, then absently, and
Her lifted hands hesitated;
she re-arranged the slight displacement of her hair
already effected; set two chairs before the mirror,
seated herself in one; pulled up her dress, where it
was slipping from her shoulder, rested an arm upon the
back of the other chair as, earlier in the evening, she
had rested it upon the iron railing of the porch, and,
leaning forward, assumed as exactly as possible the
attitude in which she had sat so long beside Valentine
She leaned very slowly closer and yet closer
to the mirror; a rich color spread over her; her eyes,
gazing into themselves, became dreamy, inexpressibly
wistful, cloudily sweet; her breath was tumultuous.

began to loosen her hair.

Corliss.

‘‘Even as you and [?’” she whispered.

Then in the final moment of this after-the-fact
rehearsal, as her face almost touched the glass, she
forgot how and what she had looked to Corliss; she
forgot him; she forgot him utterly: she leaped to
her feet and kissed the mirrored lips with a sort of

passion.
“You darling!” she cried.

—From ‘‘The Flirt’’

Just Out

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Early cultivation should be deep, but more shallow
later on. In midsummer, if the space between the
rows is not mulched, I should cultivate so as to leave
a fine layer of soil on the surface, which is “dust
mulch.’”’ Besides good cultivation, the foilage of the
plant should be protected. Currants only need
spraying with poisons to kill worms, but as men-
tioned, English gooseberries will need spraying for
fungus.

The question of pruning bush fruits is one of per-
sonal taste. Those who prefer the tree form for cur-
rants and gooseberries, will have a more symmetrical
bush, and perhaps a little larger and less fruit. The
bush form will probably yield more and smaller fruit.
Cherries, etc., should not be headed lower than three
feet and the branches that interfere with cultivation
shortened. The upright vase form should be kept
in mind in pruning the trees.

New York. W. H. JENEINS,

A Home-Made Lawn Roller

TPS photograph shows a lawn roller that we
made at home from a section of 12-inch terra-
cotta sewer pipe filled with concrete. A roller is
an absolute necessity if the turf is to be kept in
perfect condition, but good rollers are expensive and
many people do not care to pay the price. A 200-
pound iron roller is catalogued by a standard dealer
at $10 or $12; ours weighs 225 pounds, cost $3.10,
and after three years’ service we term it a successful
experiment.

The bell end of the tile was carefully chipped off
with a hammer and cold chisel, leaving a length of
23 inches. A piece of 1-inch gas pipe serves as an
axle. A circular piece of board was made to fit the
end of the tile and a hole the size of the gas pipe
was bored in the exact centre. This was the bottom

A home-made lawn roller which cost $3.10 to make
and has been used for three years

of the cylinder. The upper end of the gas pipe was
braced exactly in the centre by a narrow board
fitted across the middle. This left space to pour
in the concrete mixture of 1 part cement, 4 parts
sand and crushed stone, mixed with the proper pro-
portion of water. When this was set and hardened
the bottom and top boards were removed and the
spaces smoothly filled with a cement mortar.

The iron framework was made by a blacksmith
at a cost of $1.50. Two iron washers are used at
each end of the axle. The handle was made from
a strip from the home lumber pile, and the hand
piece is from an old lawn mower.

Pennsylvania. Ermor S. BRINTON.

APRIL, 19138

Old Hickory
Furniture

For your lawn or porch it’s
the best in the world.

Made from sturdy hickory by hand,
and gives you more comfort than you've
ever known before.

Stands more use and abuse than any
other furniture made. Youcan’t break
it. Old Hickory stands: exposure, out-
doors summer and winter.

Two simple rules in caring for Old
Hickory are, “It needs no care.’’ To
clean it, “Turn the hose on it.’”’ No
other furniture will stand this test.
That’s why you should insist upon
genuine © Old Hickory.”

See Old Hickory at your dealers
or write for Art Catalogue.

The Old Hickory
Chair Co.

7 506 South Cherry St.
’ Martinsville, Indiana

See that this brand is burned in the wood

~ TRADE
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Trade Mark
burned in
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25 Prize Medal Dahlias

for $5.00.

FORBES & KEITH
299 Chancery St. New Bedford, Mass.

Free illustrated catalogue

Eitan a as Woo We manufacture ee and

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shipping to users only at manufacturers’ prices. Write
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pele beauty of garden spot or court-yard
may be enhanced by an appropriate
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We issue separate catalogues of Display Fount-
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Stable and Cow-Barn.
Address: Ornamental Dept.

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ESTABLISHED 1828

Fifth Avenue and 17th Street, New York

We manufacture hundreds of de-
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

APRIL, 1913

English Life Just Ready

Lydia Penfold is a young and charming artist, drawing in the Lake country for

her living, and of a poetic and unworldly temper.
is the young landowner Lord Tatham who falls deeply in love with her.

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But his

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The novel is a study of rival passions as between Faversham and

Tatham, and of a conflict of conscience as between Lydia and Faversham; while the

sinister and tyrannical figure of Melrose broods over the whole.

By what tragedy

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The Necessary Seedbed

O THE flower lover every step from seed plant-
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take in blossoms of our own raising more than com-
pensates for the small labor involved. Consider the
satisfaction of being the proud possessor of rows of
sturdy hollyhocks, Canterbury bells, foxgloves
and other perennials and biennials from which we
may dig a dozen or more plants to give to some
friend who may have been less fortunate with
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more gaps in our hardy borders, from winter killing
or other causes, which may be bountifully replen-
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Early last fall a kind neighbor sent me a lot of
fine campanulas which I put in my seedbed; several
of these died from some unknown cause but it is
an immense satisfaction to know that snug under
their winter covering of salt hay are plenty of sister
plants which will be ready for transplanting this
spring. Speaking of winter cover —for this class
of plants I find that a slight covering of marsh or
salt hay is the best. It is light and does not smother
the crowns. I do not recollect having lost a plant
covered with it.

The seedbed is a money saver. It costs practi-
cally nothing to raise plants and flowers from seed,
while if purchased the expense is at least a consider-
able item. The saving may well be invested in
manure. My annual joke about Christmas time
is to ask for a present of fertilizer — anything from
a load to a carload. The family claim they are
denied many of the necessities of life, but a load of
manure is likely to arrive any day!

The bed should be in a well drained location and
preferably shaded part of the day, although mine
is exposed to the full sun from early morning to late
afternoon. Some small protection from the north
winds is perhaps advisable but not necessary, mine
being open except for an evergreen hedge to the
east.

Work on the seed bed commences in late fall
when we dig up all the ground not occupied with
plants to be carried over until spring, leaving the
earth in as large lumps as possible, the rougher the
better, the object being to let the frost pulverize
the lumps, to aérate the soil and to help get rid of
the cutworms.

My entire vegetable garden is always dug over
every fall and the soil left in as rough and lumpy
a condition as possible. In the spring, as soon as
the ground is ready to work (that is, dried out suf-
ficiently to crumble well in the hand — and it’s a
mistake to attempt any work in the seed bed before
the earth is in proper condition, as worked too soon
means lumps hard to break up), we spread over the
surface a good covering of manure, preferably cow,
thick enough so that no dirt can be seen. This
is spaded in to a depth of about a foot.

The raking must be very thoroughly done. “As
fine as your grandmother’s onion bed” is an old
saying that well describes the condition in which the
seedbed must be gotten before planting. I rake
mine again and again, and then once again!

The seeds are planted in drills or rows about a
foot apart and the after care consists of a succession
of frequent cultivation, thinning out and very
judicious watering. Usually planting is done at a
time when the ground is quite moist and watering
may then be deferred until the seedlings appear.

Tf the soil is not in this condition care must be
taken that a crust does not form through which
the seedlings cannot break. If watering is neces-
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fine rose on the sprinkler. When the garden or
flower beds are watered, all know they must be
thoroughly soaked, but this on the seedbed would
mean washing away many little seedlings besides
baking the surface. With occasional weeding and
frequent cultivation or mulching, the bed should be
well filled by late summer with sturdy plants. It
is also well at times to grow annuals and leave them
there to bloom. The best larkspur I have suc-
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spring and bloomed there in late summer.

My seedbed is a necessary annex to the vege-
table garden, the celery, cauliflower and other
plants not needing the early start of hotbed or cold-
frames being grown there and transplanted to the
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I-A THE GarvdEN Macazine for January 10912,
I read with interest an article on Boston ferns
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I have had considerable success with this most
generally grown house fern. The one illustrated,
my largest, measures from top frond to the floor,
which it touches, eight feet three inches. From
the top of the tub in which it is growing to the
floor is a few inches more than six feet.

Unfortunately, for lack of space, it must always
stand in a corner and cannot be turned so as to give
it growth on all sides of the tub. The photograph
was not taken in its accustomed corner.

I bought this fern from a local greenhouse about
nine years ago. It was then probably two years
old and was ina five or sixinch pot. It has practic-
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time it has never stopped growth, new fronds coming
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The last time I was assisted by a florist, the soil
being just an ordinary potting soil from the green-

Eight feet three inches from the top frond to the
floor! Has any one a larger fern?

house. The plant is now in an extra good heavy
candy pail, the kind in which mixed candy comes
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Tn all of this time I have used no fertilizer of any
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oughly soaked, the water running through and out
of the pot. It stands close to a large north window
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T have had little success with ferns when the pots
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possible and never touch the fronds. An east
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Planting Outdoors
(Ne to plant outdoors all kinds of

annuals. :

It is a good plan to try to interest the children in
gardening and poultry raising. Ii every town
would make up a fund and offer money prizes for
the best flowers and vegetables grown by children,
and have a show, something like the poultry shows,
this would tend to interest them.

Every farmer should have his name placed on his
State Experiment Station’s mailing list so as to
receive all its free bulletins. Remember the
station is of no benefit to you unless you receive and
read its bulletins.

Transplant sweet potatoes now. Use plants
with long roots and put them deep in the soil, pre-
viously made fine and loose, most especially if it isa
red clay soil, which is best suited for sweet potatoes.
Remember, also, that sweet potatoes require a fer-
tilizer rich in potash.

Late in the month is a good time to thin early
fruit, where it is necessary to thin in order to get
larger specimens.

Plant watermelons for the main crop during the
month. Look out for the black squash bug on
early melons.

Remember that frequent cultivation promotes
rapid growth and will make all vegetable and flower
crops earlier.

Keep the pods picked off the garden pea vines;
if they are allowed to make seed their fruiting period
will be a short one. The same can be said of many
flowers, and especially sweet peas, pansies, and
nasturtiums.

Another planting of sweet peas should be made
now and one of nasturtiums later in the month.
Pansy plants may be set out now, but it is almost
too late to sow the seed.

Georgia. Tuomas J. STEED.

The Persimmon in Our Fruit

Gardens

E SHOULD not be content with ennobling

our gardens from the importations of the
Department of Agriculture. A little codperation
will enable us to find in our native woods a good
many things worthy of development. A few years
ago, after tasting the persimmons of Missouri, I
undertook their culture in New York State, and
with the help of Mr. Lyon of the Missouri Horti-
cultural Society I found it not difficult to make a
selection of the best sorts that were perfectly hardy
as far north as Canada. The native persimmon is
a good garden tree, deserving and filling a place
wherever the plum will grow. It is hardier and
cleaner than the Japanese sorts, and if the fruit is
not as large, it is richer, and the tree bears abun-
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securing a variety that is now known-as Josephine,
and the Josephine grafts give me annually great
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The Josephine persimmon is about two inches in
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The common seedling persimmon is frequently
barren, but seedlings from Josephine have proved
to be nearly all fertile, and very similar in character
to the parent. I am testing them in my Florida
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trees can be grafted in May, in the Northern States,
and in the South we generally bud whenever the
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made a specialty of this persimmon, told me that
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expectation that one of them would be barren. The
wood of the persimmon is our native ebony, very
hard and useful in mechanic arts.

After experimenting with it for twenty-five years,
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test. I find the native persimmon is quite as com-
mon here in Florida as it is in Illinois, but I do not
find the tendency to be markedly in favor of good
crops and good quality. We shall be obliged to
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seedlings of the Josephine. The Japanese sorts,
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the Zengi which is sweet in August, to the Costata
which we were still gathering in January.

The fruit is admirable for a near market, and a
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the consumer just out of flavor, and it will never be
called for again. The Triumph is perhaps the best
for shipping, a flat variety about the size of a well
grown tomato. The flesh of this sort is quite solid,
and its quality is very fine. Other varieties ripen
into a thin jelly, and cannot be shipped at all.
The Tamopan is a new sort just in from China, five
inches in diameter and almost seedless. We must
be left here in the South to develop these foreigners,
but I see no reason in the world why a northern
garden should continue to neglect the native sorts.

Florida. E. P. PoweLt.

Plume Poppy and Golden Glow

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| oes years I have read your pages, enjoyed
and believed all you had to say, so when I
read about the plume poppy (Bocconia cordata) I
immediately ordered some seed and planted them
in an old seed bed.

The bocconia was described as a vigorous grower
“sometimes attaining a height of 6 or 8 feet.”” This
appealed to me strongly as I have never succeeded
in growing anything more than two feet, except
ricinus and that grows like trees, strong enough for
small boys to climb! a

Every seed, apparently, came up; I left them
where they were the first year and had a dozen or
two rather demure looking plants. At the be-
ginning of the second summer the seed bed was
nearly full. I transplanted some of them to a
border near some phlox; the rest I put in a bare
place in the rose bed.

By fall these things had covered every inch of
space in the border, the phlox was uprooted, and the
roses were tearing each other to bits in a mad effort
to get out of the way of those usurping neighbors.

I spent all of my spare time in the garden chop-
ping down those hydra-headed monsters, until
Jack Frost came to my assistance. The next spring
I dug up every bit of remaining root and have
planted it on a rough hillside where I had removed
the golden glow. So far, the golden glow has the
best of it, but I back bocconia to win in the end.

Below the rose bed is an 8-foot wall at the foot
of which is the asparagus bed. I saw no sign of the
bocconia among the roses last year, but I rather
expect at any time to see it make its appearance
in the midst of the asparagus. Perhaps I may
propagate a new kind of asparagus, pale golden in
color, exceedlingly juicy, and warranted never to
die out!

If one only wishes to grow one kind of flower by
all means try Bocconia cordata, but never try to
mix it, as it surely requires an acre all to itself!

Massachusetts. Lucy B. LertcH.

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APRIL, 1913

You to Know the Finest of the Flowers

HIS Biltmore Nursery book will make you acquainted with the

new and glorious forms of the Iris.

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A Glorified Back Yard

A BACK yard was all that it could properly be
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with a sort of “L,” about 15 x 20 ft. running up
between the house and the next property — and
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Every member of the family had a growl at this
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keep the grass green and to grow flowers in the
borders. This plot would have been excellent
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annoyed by the oversight of neighbors — but the
members of this particular family had no vegetable
qualities, and were all in varying degrees annoyed
by the supervision. Did one hope to sit in the sun
and air for a minute there came almost at once a
neighborly greeting over the 3-foot fence.

Trees would help, but they would take so long
to grow to a sheltering size that relief seemed too
far away to plan for and they were never planted.

Then the idea of vines was presented and the
swift growing Virginia creeper was planted. That
soon covered the fence, and an addition of several
feet of wire netting was put up and covered. This
helped some, but still there were those rows of up-
stairs windows! A man was found who would do
as he was told even if he did not approve, and he
was instructed to erect several tall scantlings at
intervals along the fence the length of the “L.”
A cross piece was fastened at the top, and other
pieces from this frame to the side of the house.

This arrangement was most unsightly, and the
originator of the idea was much laughed at, and a
good deal discouraged at first; but those swiftly
growing vines kept up their good work until
by the middle of the second summer the uprights
were fairly well covered, enough for a screen, and
not so close as to exclude the air. The vines
started nicely across the top pieces and this summer
the name “‘Pergola’”’ will be quite as applicable to
this inexpensive erection as to the very elaborate
and costly ones.

Ontario. G. M. LrEprIArp.

Street Sweepings as a Fertilizer

ae THE suburban gardener this has long been
an ever present question, but nobody knew for
a fact what the answer was, although street sweep-
ings have often been suggested as a cheap and
useful fertilizer.

The Bureau of Soils has recently investigated
this practice.

In experiments with wheat, corn and radishes
there were used (1) street sweepings gathered with
brush and shovel, (2) those gathered with the help
of a sweeping machine, and (3) those taken from a
dump pile where they had decomposed for some
time. The results from their use were compared
with those obtained by the use of stable manure
and those on untreated check plats.

Apri, 1913

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 293

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are designed and constructed with that one point always
in view. The Cutaway Grove Harrow, shown to the

- left, is only one of a hundred styles and sizes that we make. There is a
£7 ee | Cutaway for practically every tillage purpose. Ask your dealer to show

n you Cutaway disk plows and harrows. If he can’t supply your needs with
a CUTAWAY, write us. Under no consideration accept a substitute.

CUTAWAY HARROW CO., 902 Main St., Higganum, Conn.

Makers of the original CLARK “‘cutaway’’ disk harrows.

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| For 1913

You Need it Now to Help You Plan Your Spring Work

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Who’s Who in Poultry
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The Readers’ Service will furnish information about foreign iravel

In each case the fresh sweepings proved bene-
ficial, although less so than the manure.

By further tests with the same sort of materials
from which all possible crude petroleum had been
removed, this difference in value was found to be
largely due to the oily matter contained in the ma-
terial gathered from the streets. Herein lies the
possible danger in the use of this convenient and
cheap fertilizer. Where automobiles are very
common, enough oil is taken up by the sweepings
to definitely reduce their plant feeding properties,
and, to a less extent, to injure the soil to which they
are applied. The accumulative effect of their con-
tinual use might thus prove serious.

The gardener must, therefore, use his judgment
and if he is not fortunate enough to live where
motor cars are relatively rare he had best use the
sweepings only occasionally, or as a small part of
a general compost.

Part of the data upon which these conclusions
were based is given briefly in the following table:

INCREASE IN WEIGHT OF
MANURED PLANTS OVER THAT
TREATMENT OF CHECK PLANTS

Wheat Corn Radish

Per cent.| Per cent.| Per cent.

Soil and hand sweepings. . 31 27
Soil and machine sweepings ro 12
Soil and decomposed sweep-

ings OMe tat OT tlic 5 —8
Soil and stable manure . . 46 34
*Hand sweepings (Oil ex-

tracted) Aerie ERB sc 18+ 45
Machine sweepings (Oil ex-

Eracted) mere nn 18+ 54
Decomposed sweepings (Oil

extracted) Steed cine 14 5°
Stable manure (Oil ex-

teed) 5 5 6 os 18 56
Stable manure (Untreated) . 18+ 54

*This and following data from a second experiment.

New York. E. L. D.S.

The Gloxinia

PEN gloxinias in a light, rich soil, with
good drainage; if the soil is heavy and
soggy, the plants will not be strong, and the
flowers, if any, will be few and inferior. A good
soil is made up of turfy loam or leafmold, with
thoroughly rotted manure and sand in equal parts.
A 4-inch pot is large enough for a large tuber; plant
it about half an inch under the soil, water well,
and set the pot in some warm place. Ina few days
the young leaves will begin to show; then bring the
plant to a light, but not very sunny window — an
east window is ideal.

In watering give enough to thoroughly moisten
the soil, but be careful not to give enough to keep
the soil in a soggy, wet condition. A wet soil in-
duces rot and when disease sets in a tuber is worth-
less and might as well be thrown away at once. A
healthy bulb is good for two or three years of bloom.

This is a plant which does not care to have water
sprinkled on its foliage. It is a good plan to cover
the plants with a thin cloth when sweeping so as to
keep off the dust and thus obviate the necessity of
washing the leaves to keep them clean. The foliage
is so soft that it is easily broken in handling. The
leaves on a healthy plant will be as large as one’s
hand, curving down over the pot and completely
hiding it when the plant is well developed.

If planted in April and May the tubers will
bloom by the middle of summer. The flowers are
tubular, in shape something like those of the cam-
panula or blue bell, and of about the same size.
Some are borne erect, while others droop. A
strong and healthy plant will bear from twenty to
forty flowers during the season, each flower lasting
for nearly a week. Often a plant will have half a
dozen flowers on it at a time.

After the blossoming period is over the plant will
commence to ripen its foliage; when the leaves
begin to turn yellow, withhold water gradually
until the soil in the pot is quite dry. Then put the
pots away in some warm place, without disturbing
the tubers, and leave them there through the winter.
In March or April bring out the pots, give warmth
and water, and growth will soon begin again.
After a little, remove as much as possible of the old
soil, substituting some that is fresh.

Pennsylvania, ELIZABETH GREGG.

Pen ics ea

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166 West 23rd St.

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Four Leaf Clover
SALAD

The dis-

A new delicacy of rare flavor.

covery of the four leaf clover bulb,
its delicious qualities as a food is one
of the latest triumphs in horticulture.

You can raise the bulbs in your garden or

back yard. They grow readily, beautify
your garden and make your dinners dis-
tinctive.

Grow them for pleasure or profit

Good luck four leaf clover
Every leaf a perfect leaf

Bulbs may be had from the discoverer 75c a dozen
or $3.50 a hundred

MAX SCHLING

Horticulturist

22 West 59th Street New York City

D
For Your Home Table

Plant a strawberry bed in your garden this spring.
Nothing will give you greater pleasure. Have fresh,
luscious berries on the table every morning — sweet
and crisp from the plant.

Every Home should have a Berry Bed

It saves money on fruit bills; provides finest berries for the
table; gives pleasant, healthful occupation for spare time.
Takes little time, less money — experience not necessary.

Allen’s Book of Berries

Will tell you all about strawberries. A 50-page, beautifully illustrated
book, describing in detail the standard varieties. Explains what kind
to plant and why. Gives full cultural directions. Also contains valuable
information on blackberries, raspberries, currants, small fruits, aspara-
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Every Reader of ‘‘Garden Magazine’’ Should Have It
Copy Sent FREE on Request

& Allen’s Berry Plants

will start you right. Hardy, vigorous,
heavy bearing. Standard varieties in any
quantity. Lowest prices; promptest ship-
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Buy plants from Allen, the largest
grower. In business 28 years. Money

back if not satisfied. Full line berries,
small fruits,asparagus, shrubs and privet.

a Write TODAY for Allen’s Berry Book

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BANS.

One of ground plans
in our booklet on
“‘Hardy Gar-

dens Easily

Made.”’

You Can Afford This Year a Hardy Garden

Of course you will have a garden again this year and why not have a
permanent one that will give the maximum amount of enjoyment with the
minimum amount of labor and cost. Read what a customer writes us:

“In these times of high cost of living when a man wishes to economize all along the line,
your catalogue is indeed most satisfying. I have received probably every catalogue

issued this spring by the large firms in the East and West and the prices presented by
your house run from 33% to 300% less on most every item. As I have purchased
plants of you, I know that the stocks are equal in every instance to those sent out by
the others, so it seems that the payment of high prices for the usual flower garden
this spring is a matter of choice and not of necessity.”

An Easily Made Perennial Garden
is yours almost for the asking. Perennials add a feeling of permanency to
your home surroundings. They change their plumage but not their face
and keep reflecting the seasons all the year around.

Inourattractive booklet—‘‘Hardy Gardens Easily Made for the Busy Man,”
we show simply prepared plans adaptable to most situations with the lowest
estimates of cost. A little money goes a long way and the results are lasting.

On receipt of ten cents in stamps which will be credited to your first order,
we will send you this valuable plan book together with our handsomely illus-
trated catalogue (48 pages 9 x 12, the limit of true economy worked out).

THE PALISADES NURSERIES

Growers of Palisades Popular Perennials and Landscape Gardeners

R. W. Clucas, Mer. SPARKILL, N. Y.

Hardy Garden Roses

ae ; Success in a Rose Garden depends
Ste largely upon the strength and quality
of the Rosebushes you plant. Plant-
ing should be done now if you want
arms full of roses next summer and
autumn. The Rosebushes we supply
now for immediate planting are abso-
lutely guaranteed to bloom profusely
throughout this season and are of the
strongest, most vigorous quality in
genuine varieties as follows:
Alfred Colomb
Frau Karl Druschki Killarney
General Jacqueminot La France
Madame Gabriel Luizet Madame Abel Chatenay
Ulrich Brunner Mrs. R.G. SharmanCrawford
Captain Christy Baby Rambler
Caroline Testout Pink Baby Rambler

Z i Sais Hermosa

Kaiserin Augusta Victoria

Most of this stock was imported to this country two years ago and
grown here. This means they are all acclimated and consequently will
prove much more satisfactory than freshly imported roses.

To introduce our superior quality we offer these Rosebushes at the excep-
tional price of 35 cents each, $3.25 a dozen and $25.00 per hundred deliv-
ered free to your home for immediate orders only. All goods not satisfactory
may be immediately returned and money refunded. We also offer a few
hundred Standard Roses in above varieties at 75 cents each, $8.50 per dozen.

SESE ES ETI

Send us the names of two of your friends who use bulbs and we will send
you free our fall catalogue for bulb planting. Order now our famous $5.00
collection of 1,000 spring flowering bulbs comprising, Jonquils, Daffodils, Snow-
drops, Chionodoxas, Scillas, Aconites, etc., 500 first size bulbs for $3.00. Order
now for fall delivery and take advantage of the low price. Cash with order, please.

JOHN SCHEEPERS & CO., Inc., 2 Stone Street, NEW YORK

296 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

late Fall.

Flower Seeds—the latest introductions.

The Barrie Forcing Frame

——

plant, etc., as well as all tender flowers can be started and grown in the open
ground and brought to maturity much earlier than usual.

The frames placed over rhubarb or other permanent plants, either vege-
tables or flowers greatly hasten their maturity in the Spring.

Lettuce, etc., can be grown under or protected by the frames through the

Excellent for the starting of tender flowers and vege-
table seeds for transplanting into the open ground.
Price, $7.50 per six, $15.00 per doz., 60 for $69.00, 96 for $105.00.
Send for our 1913 Seed Annual and read more about the Barrie Forcing Frames. How they are
made. What they will do. Contains a most complete list, fully illustrated, of Vegetable and

D hh The largest collection in America.
ANMAS Dahlia and Gladiolus Catalogue, mailed free on application. Seed Catalogue Free

Our Seed Catalogue mailed free.
Remember: Our Dahlia Catalogue mailed free.

FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO., Feneuil Hall Square, Boston

Marcu, 1913

is the result of
visiting one of our
leading gardeners
and seeing home-
made frames in
use on the estate;
the idea seemed
good; the results
are surprising. It
was easily seen
how he could pro-
duce vegetables
in the open in
advance of his
neighbors.

Under these
frames, corn, cab-
bage, cauliflower,
lettuce, cucum-
bers, tomatoes,
melons, egg

We issue a special Our 1913

How Any One Can
Grow Mushrooms

Delightful Occupation — Delicious Delicacy for the Home

Table and a Good

Ihave been growing mushrooms for
over twelve years. I probably know
more about the subject of mushroom
culture than anyone else in America.
Froma start witha few dollars capital
I built up the largest mushroom farm
in America, with acres of bed space in
cultivation. By actual experience I
have learned just how mushrooms can
be grown and what’s even more im-
portant, how they can not be grown.

Growing mushrooms is really no
more difficult than growing radishes.

It’s just a matter of knowing how.

Every failure in the mushroom busi-
ness can be traced to poor spawn and
unreliable information.

Income if you Wish.

I have shown thousands of men and
women how to grow mushrooms suc-
cessfully. Most all of them are now in
the business growing for profit and making
a good income without interfering with their
regular occupation with this wonderful, easy,
pleasant pastime. I hope soon that a mush-
room bed will be as common as vegetable
gardens.

I have written a little book which gives
truthful, reliable, experienced information
about mushroom culture, where mushrooms
can be grown, how to have a mushroom bed
in your cellar, etc. It also tells about spawn
and how ‘to secure really reliable spawn. —
I shall gladly send you this book Free.

If you have never tried mushroom grow-
ing, or if you have tried and failed because of
the causes of which I have spoken, write for
my free book in which I will show you be-
yond the shadow of a doubt that you can
have a fine mushroom bed. Address

A. V. Jackson, Falmouth Mushroom Cellars, Inc.

21 Gifford Street

Falmouth, Massachusetts

Formerly Jackson Mushroom Farm, Chicago, Illinois

If a problem grows in your garden write to the Readers’ Service for assistance

isi

Roses for Immediate Effect

Dreer’s two-year-old, field grown roses are dug in the fall, and during the winter months are planted into
five and six inch pots, and stored in cold houses with only sufficient artificial heat to exclude frost.
Under this they develop in the natural way and are far superior to plants carried over in

dormant condition. They will give the immediate results you are looking for.

We particularly recommend the “‘Dreer Diamond Anniversary Collection” of nine Well Tried Recent Introduc-
tions; a combination of high-class Hardy Everblooming Hybrid Tea Varieties which are sure to delight.

Duchess of Wellington: Long buds of a deep, coppery saffron yellow, delightfully fragrant “
and free flowering. 75c each, $7.50 per dozen. George C. Waud: Large, full, sweetly- 8
scented, orange-vermilion. 50c each; $5.00 per dozen. Laurent Carle: Very

large, perfect, brilliant carmine flowers. One of the most deliciously-scented

roses grown and always in flower. 50c each; $5.00 per dozen. Mrs. Aaron Ward:

A distinet shade of Indian-yellow, shading lighter to the edges. One of the most

admired roses in our trial grounds. Beautiful in bud and open flower. 50c each;

$5.00 per dozen. Mary, Countess of IIlchester: A warm crimson-carmine; large, free,

and very fragrant. 75c each: $7.50 per dozen. Marquise De Sinety: Beautiful rich

yellow ochre, suffused with carmine. 75c each; $7.50 per dozen. Mme. Segond

Weber: Cup-shaped, fragrant flowers of a light salmon-pink that appeals to everyone.

50¢c each; $5.00 per dozen. My Maryland: Wonderfully prolific, very sweet; bright but

tender salmon-pink. 50c each; $5.00 per dozen. William Shean: Pure pink of great sub-

stance, with buds four inches long, of perfect form. 50c each; $5.00 per dozen.

One Strong Two-Year-Old Plant Each of the Nine Sorts for $4.50

D ’ For a complete list of roses of all types for garden planting, see

reer s Dreer’s Diamond Jubilee Garden Book. Within its pages you will also
find all the vegetables, plants, hardy flowers—everything worth growing

Garden Boo in this country. Free if you mention this publication. %

HENRY A DREER Puttipeiran\,

Everybody’s Flower The North Eastern Forestry Company
—The Gladiolus “‘We raise our own Trees’’

I have called it everybody’s flower because it is the one Before placing your order for nursery stock get our
flower that will grow for everybody and is loved by every- quotations. It will pay.
body who grows it. It asks no favors. It has no exacting
soil requirements. It is sturdy, vigorous, independent.
It will glorify a king’s garden or the humblest dooryard.

Some species are listed below and many others are
on hand at similarly low rates.

Comparison of prices will convince you that ours are

| S88 yan bp Give 1h a Tel the lowest in the country for best grade stock.

I want you to love it as I do

Love of it and nothing else is the reason °
that I am today the leading grower in Prices per 1000 Plants

America of this beautiful flower. I began Seedlings Transplants
growing it as an amateur. It won my Views INS 5 5 A $6.00
interest, then my love. It is so royal yet Red Pine .

so democratic. If you have never grown it Scotch Pine

let me introduce it to you through one of my Jack Pine

special collections. Western Yellow Pine
Norway Spruce

My new Catalog will delight you BneelmanaSpruce

It tells all about these collections and the Ear °
best of over 25,000 varieties which I have ae ae UF
grown. It tells just how to grow the Arborvite i
gladiolus and is exquisitely illustrated in } Oriental Arborvite
natural colors. It tells how you can have Beech
a succession of these matchless flowers in
your garden frora July until September. I
will send this little book free if you will write
for it at once.

ARTHUR COWEE The North Eastern Forestry Company

Meadowvale Farms ; New Haven Conn.
Box 126 Berlin, N. Y. ;

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BULBS THAT BLOOM |

Cedar Acres Gladioli are as Beautiful as
Orchids and as Easy to Grow as Potatoes

O YOU know that the Gladiolus has been developed and improved until now it is, without exception, the
most useful and beautiful flower in the garden? Richness of coloring, delicacy of shading and profusion
of bloom have been secured without sacrificing the sturdiness of the plant. At Cedar Acres we have

contributed much to the work of making the modern Gladiolus the superb flower that has justly been called the
“orchid of the garden.”’ Some of the finest varieties have been originated at Cedar Acres, and for these and
for our simple and effective methods of culture many awards have been made.

Awards 1912

A nnive rsa ry Offe Yr Cedar Acres Gladiolus blooms exhibited in London

Dawn (Tracy’s). The most beautiful shell-pink Gladioli May 22d-30th, 1912, were awarded the Silver Cup of
ever offered. A long graceful spike of magnificently the National Gladiolus Society and the Diploma of
formed flowers, all open at one time. The keeping Honor by the Royal International Horticultural Society.
qualities of this variety are unsurpassed while The Gold Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural
its color and texture make it indispensable as a Society was awarded September 13th, 1912, for thead-
cut flower and for bedding. $2.00 per dozen, vancement in culture and uses of the Gladiolus as
$r5 per hundred. : ¥ developed at Cedar Acres.

Maize. A valuable addition to the list of The Gold Medal of the Societa Orticola at
light colored Gladioli. A soft light corn Varese, Italy, was awarded in September, IQI2,
color, tinted rose, with slender tongue of to Gladiolus Blooms grown from Cedar Acres
Fuchsia red on lower petals. Its dainty bulbs in the Society’s Gardens at Varese, Italy.

coloring and especially long gracetul spikes ij There is a reason why you should grow Cedar
make it most desirable. $3.50 per dozen, Acres Gladioli.

$30 per hundred.

Mrs. James H. Lancashire. The coloring in
this popular Gladiolus, a deep cream fad-
ing toa rose tinted flesh color, with
contrasting stripe of carmine on lower

My tenth anniversary catalogue tells you the
reason why. and it is free for the asking.

SPECIAL OFFERS

MIXTURES

petals. Invaluable for florists’ use or

for home decoration. Many flowers The famous Cedar Acres Mixture gives a great variety
open at one time, excellent keeping / of wide open flowers of exquisite colors and marking and
qualities. $3.50 per dozen, $30 per | should be planted in large quantities. 50 for $1.00, 125

for $2.00 prepaid. $12 per thousand, express collect.

125 will plant a bed 4 feet square, giving a mass of color

and bloom from July till frost.

Orchid Flowered Seedlings. Seedlings giving a wide range
of color at a reasonable price. To see them blooming is the
only way to give them adequate description. 45 for $1.00,

hundred. 5
McAlpin. Tine brilliant rose, with beau- &

tifully marked throat. Flowers and

spike of great substance. $2.50 per (

dozen, $20 per hundred. Ss
Niagara. A light crocus yellow, throat shaded

deeper. Large open flowers on a strong 100 for $2.00 express prepaid.
spike. For color, texture, and keeping

qualities this Gladiolus is one of the very best.
$3.50 per dozen, $30 per hundred.

Golden Queen. Bright cream color, tinted
yellow, clear cut, diamond shaped carmine
blotch on lower petals. $1.50 per dozen, $12
per hundred.

Liberty. A bright red with strikingly marked
white throat. Strong habit anda favorite. $2
per dozen, $15 per hundred.

Princeps (known as the thousand dollar flower).
Amaryllis-like flowers of a rich dark scarlet,
marked with white on the lower petals. The foliage
of a beautiful dark green and very attractive.
$1.50 per dozen, $12 per hundred.

Sunrise. This exquisite canary yellow Gladiolus is

AMERICA

Too much cannot be said of this beautiful, dainty pink. The
flowers are of immense size and of wax-like texture, borne on a
very strong spike. 75 cents per dozen, $4 per hundred, twenty-
five at hundred rate.

Wild Rose. A remarkably fine delicate pink, with
wild rose tints. The foliage of this variety is es-
pecially beautiful, very graceful and having the
bronze tints on buds and leaves similar to that on
some rose foliage. One of the very best and a
great favorite. $2 per dozen, $15 per hundred.

Willy Wigman. Large flowered bloom of a beau-
tiful blush tint, with long bright Tulipe blotch on

THE GIFT BOX

Let us send it, with your card, to a friend who loves

flowers and has a garden. It is ideal as a gilt, because it
means months of beauty and enjoyment to the recipient.
50c box contains 12 selected bulbs
or Lh Ei wo ra
25

invaluable as a cut flower and for bedding. Long
spikes of dainty flowers clear color with no mark-
ing. Asacut flower, in combination with America
and Baron Hulot it is especially fine. $2 per
dozen, $15 per hundred.

Full cultural directions with each box.

Royale. Dark
throat. One of the best dark purples. $4 per dozen.

velvety Petunia shade with deeper

lower petals. One of the most attractive Gladioli
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One each of the twelve named varieties for $2.00, two each for $3.50, six each for $10.00 prepaid

WRITE FOR INFORMATIO THAN ANY YOU HAVE EVER SEEN

For years I have devoted all my time and thought to improving the Gladiolus and raising better bulbs. It is both my business
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Send for beautiful illustrated booklet, describing many varieties and giving the real truth about each.

B. HAMMOND TRACY Cedar Acres, Box B, Wenham, Mass.

LET ME HELP YOU TO RAISE BETTER GLADIOLI

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

MAY Transplanting Vegetables

1913 Peony Flowered Dahlias Continued Pes ) 1 Se.
: i Roger W. Babson on “The Cost of $1:50 a. Year
Vol. XVII. No. 4 Best Gladiolus it? Living.” ... “The Garden Doctor.”’ ;

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Best of all the New Gladioli

We are growers of Gladioli in a large way and are introducers of the most popular new varieties. The six named
Gladioli described below and shown in color on color plates of our free catalogues are the most popular sorts grown
either for decoration, cut flowers, or for borders and backgrounds in the garden. The even gradation of coloring from
the lavender streaked pure white of the Chicago White down through the pinks of Kunderdi “‘Glory’’, American
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May, 1913

BULBS
That Bloom

Cedar Acres
GLADIOLI

Tenth Anniversary
Booklet — gives a
complete treatise
on how to grow the
gladiolus as well as
use it. It is instruc-
tive and you should
have it. It is free
for the asking.

—

Mrs. Francis King Kunderd’s “Ruffled” Glory
The most popular and effective variety The broadly expanded wide open
for window, store and hotel decorations. flowers, paired by twos, all face in the
A strong grower, vigorous and healthy. same direction and from three to eight
Long strong flower spike with a good line are open at one time. Flowers carried
7 flowers being open at one time. One of reserve buds continually opening. on straight strong stalks, fully 33 feet
of the earliest varieties to bloom, hence Flowers 43 inches across, and five to six high. Each petal is exquisitely ruffled
valuable as a cut flower sort, either for flowers. Color, brilliant Flamingo pink and fluted. A delicate cream pink,
forcing or outdoor planting. Chicago blazed with vermilion red. with attractive crimson stripe, in the
White is soon to make a name for itself. Price each, 8e.; doz., 35¢.; 100, $2.50 center of each lower petal.
Price each, 15¢.: doz., $1.50; 100, $12.00 Price each, 10¢.: doz., $1.00; 100, $8.00

Chicago White — Novelty

Flowers well expanded, well placed
upon the stalk, pure white with faint
lavender streaks in lower petals and
borne on tall, straight stems, from 5 to

DAWN

the most beautiful
pink is reproduced
on the front cover

of the booklet. It is

worth your notice.

I am giving many
special offers and
hope the gladiolus
will be grown in
every garden.

Let me hear from

Wenham

you; I am always
glad to answer
questions.

B. HAMMOND TRACY
(Box B) Mass.

“The Margaret”

Grows 5 feet high with broad foliage
resembling Iris. Flower spike straight
and strong. Flowers large, beautifully
arched and 6 to 8 open at one time;
they are arranged in two rows, facing
the same way, and set without crowding.
A brilliant -carmine, with a large white
blotch on the lower petals, the white and
carmine blending into a violet tint.

Price each, 20e.; doz., $2.00; 100, $15.00

Vaughan’s Princeps

Introduced by us in 1903; now recog-
nized as a leading variety. Flowers 5 to
6 inches broad, petals very wide and
rounded, well reflexed, forming an almost
circular flower. Color brilliant scarlet-
crimson, carrying mostly three white
blotches on lower petals. Spikes 4 feet
in height produce 12 to 15 flowers, open-
ing in succession forming continuous
bloom for two.

Price each, 15¢.; doz., $1.65: 100, $13.00

America

This beautiful variety with its soft,
lavender-pink color, its full symmetrical
spike, and its rounded double row of
many flowers in bloom at one time, has
been accepted with great enthusiasm by
all lovers of the ‘Gladiolus. Can be
planted in the Greenhouse in winter and
thus bloom very early.

Price each, 10c.; doz., $1.00; 100, $8.00

THESE SPLENDID GLADIOLUS IN COLLECTION
PREPAID EVERYWHERE
A. 12 Bulbs (2 each) for only $1.00 C. 50 Bulbs ( 8 each) for only $3.75

B. 25 Bulbs (4 each) for only $2.00

D. 100 Bulbs (17 each) for only $7.00

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May, 1913

(Poultry,

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Poultry Runs

that are Indestructible

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The Newest Type of Dahlia

q The Peony flowered type and its
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Sunny Jim — New 1913 — SOc
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232 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE May, 1913

The Usetul Book Library

@ A method of issuing expensive standard works in single volumes at
the price of current novels.

The Cost of Books and Why

When a customer buys a new book, his money goes to pay these distinct charges:
1. Royalty to the author.

. 4, Cost of making the book known by adver-
2. Payment to the typesetter and electrotyper. tising, salesmen, circulars, and posters, etc.
3. Cost of paper, printing, and binding. 5. Profit to the bookseller.

6. Profit (if there be one) to the publisher.

So far as we know, there is no getting away from any of these six deadly charges on a new book, but there is one
large cost; namely, that of setting the type and making electrotype plates which does not have to be duplicated
with each printing, and this plate or initial cost is one of the largest and it goes far to establish the price at which
the book shall be sold.

This is particularly true of important books of reference, travel, biography, etc., which require many pages of
typesetting, editing and correction, and often elaborate illustrations. A tremendous number of good books have
their first sale at a fairly large price, and just when they reach the stage of having paid expenses, die an ignoble
and neglected death because the market at the high price at which they had to be published has been filled; and
yet the number of people who would care for these books and could afford to purchase them at a lower price has
not been touched — a bad state of things for all concerned.

Doubleday, Page & Company have recently made some experiments with books the sales of which have paid
for the cost of preparation at the higher price, and have started what they call

THE USEFUL BOOK LIBRARY

a collection of books made originally at great expense, but now reprinted in substantial editions with good paper and
printing at half or quarter or less than quarter the original price, retaining all the original matter, and at times con-

taining new and supplementary matter.

The International Cook Book

By ALEXANDER FILIPPINI. $1.00 net.

Published in 1906 at $4.80 net, a reasonable price considering that the
book covers the whole subject and contains 1,075 pages. In four years
we sold 4,000 copies.

About a year ago we put it into the Useful Book Library at $1,00 net,
10,634 copies have been sold, and it is going at this rate now.

The Poultry Book

By Harrison Wer, F. R. H. S. $1.50 net.

The most exhaustive work on this subject, Published in three large
volumes, 1,299 pages, over 600 illustrations, at $13.60. Sold of the ex-
pensive editions about 3,000 copies in six years.

Added to the Useful Book Library in 1912, complete in a single volume
with all original material, selling now at the rate of 4,720 a year and

Here are some results from which our readers can judge for themselves.

Encyclopaedia of Etiquette
By Emity Hott. $1.00 net.
Published at $2.00 net, 500 pages, illustrated. Over 26,000 copies sold.
Republished in April, 1912, in the Useful Book Library at $1.00 net
and selling four times as fast as ever.

The Complete Housekeeper
By Emity Ho tr. $1.00 net.
Suggestions for the care of the family; the house; the gardens; the pets.
Republished April, 1912, in the Useful Book Library at $1.00.

Music Lovers’ Cyclopaedia
By Rupert Hucues. $1.50 net.
Published in 1903 at $6.00 net.
Revised to date and added to the Useful Book Library in December, 1912,

at $1.50—a better and more complete book at one quarter of the original price-

TO BE ADDED THIS SPRING:

a ear

just started.

The Dog Book

By JaAMEes WATSON.

The Furniture Book

By EsTHER SINGLETON.

The Country House

By CuHar.tes EpwarpD Hooper. Formerly $4.00 now $1.50.
The American Flower Garden

By NELTJE BLANCHAN. Formerly $5.00 now $1.50.
We want to get in touch with book lovers who desire to build up a library of worthy, authoritative books
and who will cooperate to make this library asuccess. The reason why our plan is capable of being worked
out to large dimensions is, obviously, that the great expense of item number two in the above list is entirely, or
almost entirely, eliminated, item number one often reduced, since the author has been paid for his original
work, and the remaining items all diminished to make these new prices.

Published by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY Garden City, N. Y.

At all Book Shops and at our own in the New Pennsylvania Station, New York

Formerly $5.00 now $1.50,
$1.50 net.

Published in two volumes, 904 pages, 810 illustrations, at $10.00.
Issued later in one volume at $5.00.

Added to the Useful Book Library in 1912 at $1.50, sells about seven
times as fast as before.

The Readers’ Service will give you suggestions for the care of live-stock

May, 1913

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 233

Birds of Eastern
North America

BY

Chester A. Reed, B.S.

This is a most interesting and thorough
book. The opening and closing chapters
take up bird-lore and make it under-
standable and entertaining to those who
want to learn more about birds. Most
valuable of all is the chapter on how to
study birds.

Good and accurate illustrations give
the key to identifying birds in the field,
and the general appearance of the species.

408 Illustrations in Color.
Cloth, Net, $3.00

Other Books by Charles K. and

Chester A. Reed

Guide to Taxidermy. Illustrated net $1.50
Nature Studies; Birds. Illustrated.
net 60 cents
Nature Studies.—In Field and Wood.
Illustrated. a Sade net 60 cents
Camera Studies of Wild Birds in their
Homes. lllustrated. . . . . net 2.00
North American Birds’ Eggs. [Ilus-
trated. Size64Zxg . . . net 2.50
Goldfish—Aquaria—Ferneries. Illus-
trated. Size34x5%. . . net 50 cents
Bird Guide. In two parts. Pocket size—
Illustrated. Size, 31% x 534.
Part 1. Water and Game Birds: Birds
of Prey. Flexible sock cloth. net
Flexible Leather . . . . . net
Part II. Land Birds East of the
Rockies: From Parrots to Blue
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Flexible leather. : net 1.00
Parts I and II. Bound in a Single Volume.
Size, 3144. x 534. Illustrated. Flexible
leathenmern (fac se net, 2295
Wild Flowers East of the Rockies.
Size, 44x64. Illustrated. . . net 2.50
Flower Guide: Wild Flowers East of
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Pennsylvania Station, New York.

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informal method for telling her story. A story of real life it is, not just a bit of fancy wniting.
Here we have the keen observation of a woman of thought and action combined. There is wise and
suggestive talk about the house and the farm, keen insight respecting the things most worth while in
either urban or rural life, and an intuitive appreciation of true values in nature and in human nature.
D. S. R. in the Boston Times writes:

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

OUNTRY Life Press!” calls the con-

ductor as you draw up to a red _ tiled

station —a brand new one, by the
way, just completed — and if it is your first
visit to the Press, you “follow your leader,”
for there is always some one else bound for
the same place. But it isn’t hard to find.
There it is, just across the tracks from you,
looking very much settled and very busy —
but not too busy to be glad to welcome
all its friends who will steal an hour or two
to visit it.

This third spring finds us very much at
home in Garden City and we extend a fresh
invitation to you to come and visit The
Country Life Gardens. We shall have on
our best garden frock then, so to speak,
a new station will receive you and the
addition to the south wing of the building
will be open for inspection.

Why not come?

17

RECENT RECORDS

All accounts agree that the enjoyment of
Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter’s books during the
past year has been more widespread than that
of any other book or series of books published.
‘These books are sweet and wholesome — they
voice the unquenchable optimism and deter-
mined striving for the best of life of the best
type of American citizenship. They are
realistic without muck-raking or special study
of “problems.” They tell the intimate story
of the life of men and women of decent en-
vironment and wholesome aspirations. Eight
years, beginning with “Freckles,” these books
have regularly increased sales each twelve
months —and the tide of sales is_ still
rising.

“ VIRGINIA ”’

Miss Ellen Glasgow’s “Virginia” is a new
‘book just ready which is thus described in the
‘words of a distinguished Southern critic:—
““She has reached the depth of a woman’s
life —a depth that is seldom stirred. Her
analysis, and interpretation of women, and
the problem that vexes the thousands of
them, could not be done by any one but

a, woman.
“ Virginia’s life is a demonstration that the

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“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.’’— Antony and Cleopatra.

time when love was woman’s whole existence,
is necessarily a thing of the past. Her story
is told entirely without editorial comment.
But after you have read it, you will under-
stand that a woman must work side by side
with men. That she should, and does, love her
work; but that being a woman, work can-
not completely fill her life. She must be
a wife and a mother to achieve perfect
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“Just how Virginia found contentment,
and how to surmount her difficulties, is so
interesting that all women and men will be
interested in reading every word, for Miss
Glasgow’s word pictures are vivid and thor-
oughly delightful.”

FEWER AND BETTER BOOKS

A reference to the advertising of our spring
books in the pages of this issue shows that
we have been able notably to diminish the
number of books published during the
spring season. There is evidence of the
same effort on the part of other Ameri-
can publishers, and this is a service to
all the interests affected — authors, book-
sellers, and readers.

The New Country Life Station

1

THE PEONY GARDEN

The American Peony Society has trans-
ferred to our Garden the finest collection of
named varieties of peonies yet made in
this country. There is thus «afforded the
opportunity to study and know this old-time
favorite in all its improved glory and the
collection is so complete that the whole
story of peony development will be told
in one chapter.

A MATTER OF MOMENTUM

The stimulus of apparent appreciation
attends our efforts during the first quarter
of 1913, for with the books and with the maga-
zines, this period is the most interesting
and largest in volume in the history of the
business.

We hope this larger output indicates that
the business is building up an influence and
following among both readers and advertisers
—which results in a larger service in many
directions. The splendidly interesting adver-
tising of the recent numbers of the magazines
is deserving of attention as well as the text, on
the part of those readers of alert mind who find
it a matter of everyday interest to keep abreast
of what is going on in the world.

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May, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 235

Is Ripe Grape Day

If You Own a Greenhouse

[SENS of the pleasure of going into a month to six weeks, without any fuel
your glass enclosed grape arbor expense whatever. ;

on May Day and picking such fine big So you see graperies are not the luxury
full clustered grapes as these! imagined.
‘Then think of having a continuous Tf you can afford a Ford automobile

supply of various varieties from Muskat for instance, you surely can afford one
of Alexandria to Gros Colemans, from of our graperies or greenhouses.

7 !
May ay, uo S02 Dea And by the way — why not attach
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Cover Dersicn — Gladiolus Dawn

PAGE
Mime MontH’s REMINDER - - - - - - - - - - --- 239
Photographs by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Tse Most Gorcrous SumMER Burp - - Leonard Barron 241
Photographs by G. W. Kerr, A. G. Eldredge and others
Notes oN SoME WortH WHILE GLADIOLUS
Mrs. Francis King 242
Photographs by A. G. Eldredge
Is THis THE Best CottaGE GARDEN IN AMERICA? W. Miller 244
Photographs by A. G. Eldredge
@ae Newest Type or Danria - - - - - G.W. Kerr 247
Photographs by the author
TRANSPLANTING IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN Adolph Kruhm 255
Photographs by the author and J. Horace McFarland Co.
ADDING $1000 TO Your Assets - - - Roger W. Babson 251
PERC RDANPDOCTOR =" =) 92 2-5 = 22 sk) Se aca
Wee Currp’s GARDEN. - - - - - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 256
Photograph by A. T. Washburn
PRSINGRUSMENOUCH) = =.=. Se ee
Kerpine Up With SAMUEL - - - - - - Dalton Wylie 258
HA RAPID TRANSPLANTER - - - - - - W. 4H. Jenkins 258

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VoL. XVII— No. 4

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

MAY, 1913

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is

generally taken as a standard. Allow six days’ differ-
ence for every hundred miles of latitude.]

The Dangerous Month of May

A 7HY? Because, in spite of its smiling,
sunshiny days, it may bring a sud-
den, unheralded frost to blight the
gardener’s hopes. Because, after the en-
forced winter inactivity, we are likely to
rush the joyful outdoor work with more
enthusiasm than judgment. Because it is
the month of tender, succulent seedlings
that are the special delight of lean,
hungry cutworms and white grubs.

Yet with a little care these dangers may
be avoided and the month made, instead,
one of limitless opportunity.

Assuming that you are a busy person
who can give but Saturdays and Sundays
to the garden, and that this magazine
reaches you about May 6th, you have three

more week-ends to use somewhat as follows: |

May 10th, and I1th

You can still plant asparagus, rhubarb,
horse radish, currants, gooseberries and
strawberries. Also ornamental shrubs or
young trees providing the roots are kept
moist and protected from the sun. Dark
cloudy days are the best for all transplanting.

Vegetable seeds that may safely be
planted outdoors now are; lettuce, bush
beans, beets, onions, peas, radishes .and
spinach, all for succession. Why not risk
twenty hills, or so, of corn? If a frost
comes they can easily be protected; if it
doesn’t you will be way ahead of your
neighbors; and even if the crop is lost,
it doesn’t represent much waste or expense.

Hotbeds should be aired regularly, often,
and as freely as the temperature permits.
The smaller plants are the less they feel the
effect of transplanting; the quicker you har-
den them off the sooner they can be moved.

Cucumbers, melons, squash, and pump-
kins may be planted in the hotbeds, also
more lettuce, onions and early celery for
future transplanting.

Some of the early sown cabbage, cauli-
flower, Brussels spouts and lettuce should
be ready to go out in the garden.

In the greenhouse and conservatory,
shade and plenty of water are the chief
requisites. Depending on the plants and
the size of the house, either sliding curtains
inside or whitewash on the glass outside
may prove best. ;

Any of the summer flowering bulbs and
the hardier annual vines may be started.

Harden off and plant carnations outdoors.

Repot chrysanthemums before they be-
come pot bound.

Cannas should be divided and started
in the hotbed; also a few more geranium
cuttings for next winter’s plants.

The lawn may need rolling, a little more
seed on bare spots, or a light top dressing
of bone meal or nitrate of soda.

Give the old asparagus bed an application
of common salt, covering the surface thinly
and working it in.

Get everything ready for the spraying
campaign as described below.

Begin cultivation at once. One weed
prevented is worth a dozen killed, as you
can easily prove if you are called away
for a fortnight and have to leave the garden
uncared for. But

Dow’t cultivate beans while they are moist.
Learn this rule so that you will remember
it all summer long.

May 17th, and 18th

Plant dahlias in ground not too rich
unless you want more foliage effect than
flowers, but you can defer starting four to
six weeks yet if you like.

Sow primulas in the hotbed or in a flat
in the greenhouse for next Christmas.

As soon as the house plants are accus-
tomed to the weather, plunge the pots in
some corner of the garden, or simply set
the plants in a border. The former will
keep the root growth within more con-
venient bounds, but either treatment will
have the same, gratifying effect as turning
a tired, stable weary horse out to pasture.

The lawn will soon need mowing. Moral:
Clean, sharpen and oil the lawn mower.

Pinch off the blossoms of newly planted
strawberries and bush fruits.

Spread clean straw, salt hay or any bright
dry mulch between the established straw-
berry plants. This not only conserves the
moisture, but also keeps the berries clean
and facilitates picking. If birds cannot

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be effectively scared away rig up a simple
tent or cover of mosquito netting.

Remove the coarse mulch and fork or
plow up around fruit trees and bushes.
But don’t plant vines, vegetables or bed-
ding plants in the ground thus broken,
unless you are willing to feed two crops
instead of one. Besides you will want to
plant a cover crop here a little later.

Some of the peas are certainly ready for
brushing. No better material has been
invented than bare branches of birch or
some other twiggy tree, but almost any
sort of home-made support will serve.

Plant again for succession, all the vege-
tables mentioned above, and add more
corn, kohlrabi, okra, and, if it is not too
wet, lima beans. ‘Try the bush limas.

Transplanted seedlings may be protected
from cutworms by means of paper collars,
Less trouble and quite effective is poisoned
bran mash distributed among the plants
at evening. However, in spite of your
precautions expect to lose a few, so plant
all you need and hold a few in reserve.

All but the tenderest of the annual flowers
may now be sown. Get everything ready
for setting out the bedding plants — if you
find time for that kind of gardening. As
a general thing hardy perennials give just
as fine effects, and do away with nine
tenths of the work that annuals require.

Any spare minutes left? Get busy with
the wheel hoe, scuffle hoe, ordinary hoe —
or anything; only cultivate, . cultivate.

May 24th, and 25th

As long as plants continue to grow,
nitrate of soda helps them, but it is most
effective right now, especially on crops in
which leaf and stem growth are wanted.

Dig the Dutch bulbs as soon as the leaves
wither and lay them away in a dry, shady
place to ripen. Now is the time to bring
out some bedding plants to take their place.
Chrysanthemums should be repotted if
they tend to become pot bound.

Prepare tubs, ponds or artificial pools
for water lilies.
aquatics, but don’t know how easy it is

to grow them, look up the Water Lilies.

volume of the Garden Library.

Cucumbers, melons, squash, lima beans
—almost any of the vegetables may be
sown now, in the garden orseed bed. Make
the last sowings for late onions, and start
the winter crops of cabbage, kale, cauli-
flower and celery.

You are probably cutting asparagus now;
cut well below the surface of the ground
but don’t injure the crown. And don’t let
the cutting season last more than six weeks.

If you are fond of these:

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If the rhubarb plants are sluggish and
develop more seed pods than leaf shoots,
they need dividing and replanting. Don’t
try to get a crop, but mulch with manure,
keep the pods picked off and wait for the
fall planting season.

Remember the three ways for keeping
the plants supplied with water: (a) Direct
sprinkling or flooding, (b) keeping a con-
stant mulch of loose soil, (c) eliminating
the thirsty, competing weeds.

Protecting the Plants in May

| NSIC Us and plant diseases are like

weeds in that they are easier to prevent
than to get rid of when established. An
active campaign for the next month or two
will save you many a plant, much fruit,
and a good deal of trouble later on.

Apple. Small leaf areas are eaten and
curled by a very small worm of which the
hind part of the body is protected by a
tiny case made of other bits of leaf. This
is the “case bearer.” Spray with arsenate
or paris green as soon as it appears.

Another borer works in the twig tips
just about as the blossoms open. If you
sprayed with lime sulphur in April, you
probably eliminated him. If not, spray as
ithe blossoms break, with lead arsenate.

Pear. Twigs blacken and die as a result
of the pear thrip’s work. The leaves also
‘become dark colored and brittle as the
psylla works onthem. Both these pests are
very small, but kerosene or whale oil
emulsion for the latter, and the same thing
with a solution of tobacco stems added for
the former will prevent trouble. In either
case spray as soon as the petals fall.

Potato. Don’t let the vines fight the
potato bug unassisted. Begin tospray assoon
as they are four inches high. Paris green
is good, but lead arsenate sticks better.

Strawberry. Plants dying here and there
suggest the work of the white grub or larve
of the June beetle.. There is no possible
treatment, but cultivation may turn up
some insects for the chickens to devour.
Ground severely infested should be plowed
deep, late next fall.

If you find the buds on your fruit trees injured
and bound up like the one shown on the right
.centre here the bud-moth is at work

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Crown borers cannot well be fought
except by rotating crops, but the ordinary
garden millipede may now be found in-
creasing the damage already done by the
borers, and may be trapped with a poisoned
bait. Dip slices of turnip, potato, etc., in
a paris green or lead arsenate spray and
scatter them among the plants — if chic-
kens and omnivorous pets are not around.

Spray Mixtures. Lest we forget, the
standard arsenate of lead formula is one
pound to twenty-five gallons of water, or
the same amount of Bordeaux mixture.

To make the latter, slake four pounds of
quicklime, and dissolve four pounds of
copper sulphate in water. Dilute these to
about five gallons apiece, pour together
into a third vessel and add water to make
fifty gallons of spray.

The ordinary kerosene emulsion consists
of one-half pound of soap dissolved in one
gallon of boiling water, and two gallons of
kerosene churned together violently. Dil-
lute with fifteen to twenty gallons of water
for use and agitate constantly.

Opening buds eaten, bound together with
silk, brown and withered, indicate that the
bud moth is at work. The above treat-
ment will fix him.

Everyone knows the nests of the “tent
caterpillar” in the crotches of branches.
Burn these with a torch; poison on the
leaves will do for any escaping worms.

A small “measuring worm” that skele-
tonizes the foliage and often swings down
on its silken thread is the spring canker
worm. Banding the trees may even now
prevent females from climbing them to lay
eggs, but the arsenate spray is surer.

Plant lice or aphids may appear on the
tender young twigs, in vast numbers, any
time from now on. Kerosene emulsion or
whale oil soap solution is wholly effective.

Asparagus. The larve of the small
asparagus beetle may be found gnawing
the shoots. On an old bed the only thing
is to keep it cut clean. Spray young plant-
ings that must not be cut, with poison.

Brambles. Spray the blackberries with
poison from May 25 to June 9g to kill the
larvee of the blackberry saw fly, which a
little later would produce the effect shown
in the accompanying illustration.

Several kinds of boring worms attack the
canes of both blackberries and raspberries.
The treatment for all is to cut back the
canes as soon as they droop or wilt. The
sooner this is done the better, as the borer
works steadily downward.

Currant. The leaves of this plant and
of the gooseberry curl up quickly under the
attack of their own particular variety of
aphis. Therefore get the kerosene emul-
sion on soon when the leaves begin to
wrinkle. This will also kill the young of
the 4-lined leaf-bug which sucks the juices
ravenously. ‘These are at first bright red,
very small, wingless and found only on the
tenderest shoots.

The hungry, unpleasant looking currant
worm devours the foliage with discouraging
rapidity — if not checked by a poison.

May, 1913

Elm. The leaf beetle is one of the worst
pests of ornamental trees. The only thing
is arsenate of lead, strong and thoroughly
sprayed on both sides of the leaves.

Grape. Buds and young leaves are
riddled by an active, steely blue, minute
beetle. From a few vines these may be
jarred on to sheets early in the morning; in
large vineyards they may be poisoned by
eatly spraying with arsenate of lead, double
strength to which molasses is added, one
gallon to fifty.

Peach. The borer is always at work,
leaving casts of sawdust-like material
around the base of a tree. Probe for
him with a soft, flexible wire.

Bulbs for May Planting

F THE summer flowering bulbs the
gladiolus is easily the most popular,
but of others there are not a few.

Amaryllis and phaedranassa enrich the
dull days of August with a variety of rich
colors. ‘3

Crinums are equally effective though
somewhat more delicate in color.

Callas and the tuberous-rooted begonia
are perhaps better known as house plants,
but are equally useful in the summer garden.
Arums are less beautiful than unique but
often fill a desire for something striking.

Coperia Drummondi offers a touch of
pure white during the season when its cool-
ness is most appreciated.

Hyacinthus or more properly Galtonia
candicans, gloxinia, Bessera elegans, eu-
charis, montbretia, ismene, oxalis, incar-
villea, spider lily, tuberose, tigridia, tritoma
and zephranthus, are all of this group, with
which color effects may be had season after
season with the least possible trouble.

Then there are the bulbous foliage plants
almost indispensable for bedding work and
formal effects. Of these canna, caladium,
and phrynium are the most reliable.

Then there are, of course, the summer
blooming lilies which form a group by
themselves. Hemerocallis and funkia (the
day lilies) may be included with the true
lilies — auratum, tigrinum, speciosum, and
the rest.

The blackberry cane fly must be attacked before
the damage done has reached this stage

Kunderd’s Glory, illustrating the recent
frilled type of flower

Peace, showing one of the best forms of the flower, white.

One of the Groff Hybrids

La Luna, showing the characteristic throat color of
the family

The Most Gorgeous Summer Flowering Bulb— By Leonard Barron, ¥%

THE CLAIMS OF THE GLADIOLUS AS A FLOWER FOR EVERY GARDEN —
ITS LONG SEASON, DIVERSITY OF COLOR, AND EASY CULTIVATION

N THE last analysis there are a host of
good reasons why the gladiolus gains
in popular favor with each succeed-
ing year. Incommon with all “bulbs”

it is certain in results, which means much
to the average amateur. Of all the “Cape
bulbs” it has the greatest multiplicity of
color and varieties —indeed there is an
almost bewildering embarrassment in the
latter respect, but this need not become a
real worry if the beginner but selects those
that are clearly distinct.

A few specially named kinds stand out
prominently before us and any of them are
really worth growing. Varieties are some-
what duplicated under different names by
different raisers, but that is largely a matter
for the connoisseur who buys new high
priced novelties that are palpably much

alike. It is wisdom in all such cases to try
out novelties on a small scale. For the
general amateur who only wants color,
and plenty of it, there are the mixtures
offered by the dealers and these are usually
graded into groups, as red, light, blue, etc.,
yielding a good proportion quite true to the
name. Of course the purist in color will
purchase only named varieties of merit.

By no means the least recommendation

of the gladiolus is that it can be had in

flower over such a very long season by the
very simple expedients of successive plant-
ings or planting variously sized bulbs at one
time. Make the first planting in April or
even earlier, and the last in the early part
of July and you will get flowers from July
to October. The different sized bulbs of
any one planting will flower earlier or later
according the size—the smaller bulbs
requiring the longer time to develop.

As a cut flower for home decoration the
flower has the unusual merit of lasting a full
week, and if the spikes are cut as the first
few flowers are opened the unexpanded
buds will continue to develop in regular
succession. All that is necessary to keep
the bouquet looking fresh and tidy is to
pull off individual flowers as they fade.

Given a fair average fertile soil, the kind
that will produce a crop of corn or on which
you could put apple trees, and you can suc-
ceed to perfection with this plant. The
only cultural requisites that are to be ob-
served for the best results is first to fit the
ground thoroughly by good cultivation
before planting and to follow up by stirring
the surface throughout the season. The
commercial grower opens a. furrow with a
plow and cultivates with a horse culti-
vator all the season. Artificial watering

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is then not necessary. In the home garden,
where grown for the cut flowers only, the
same sytem may be followed as is done for
the regular vegetable crops in rows. When
planting for garden effect the bulbs are
best planted in clumps or masses.

How deep to plant? There is quite a
diversity of opinion here, which tends to
show that after all it is not a vital point. A
depth of six inches is generally approved
however, with less on very heavy soils.
The advantage of deep planting is that the
plant easily supports its flower stalk with-
out stakes, a very desirable result, and a
point that should always be in the mind of
the gardener. The individual bulbs should
be spaced the distance of their own diameter
if in rows or double that distance in groups
or masses. And I repeat — six inches deep.
Another good reason for this depth is the
new bulb forms right on top of the old one
and for the best development of the bulb
itself — that means fine flowers in the suc-
ceeding year — a proper depth is essential.
Shallow planting brings the new bulb
too near the surface.

In the South the bulbs can be left in
the ground all winter and they will not
seriously suffer. In the North they must
be taken up. A slight degree of frost is not

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injurious but a long continued cold winter
causes rot, although even in the latitude
of New England a few bulbs will be occas-
ionally found to have survived the winter
in the ground. It is better, however, to
take up the bulbs each fall, any time after
the tops have died down, and sort them
over and separate the flowering bulbs from
the old dried bulb and the multitude of
little cormels that will be found attached
to the bulb, of varying size from a grain of
mustard seed to a good sized hazel nut. The
larger of these may even flower the succeed-
ing year but the smaller ones will not.
The bulbs and their increase can be taken
up and kept through the winter in a place
that will keep potatoes — they are just as
easy to handle. The following spring they
may be sorted into sizes, the flowering bulbs
planted in the flower garden and the smaller
ones in rows in the vegetable garden for
growing up to flowering size, a process
which will occupy a period of about four
years, some attaining full size each season.
Some varieties increase much more rapidly
than others.

The garden gladiolus is a mixed hybrid
and has several very well marked types,
but there is confusion because the types are
so closely blended that there are inter-
mediate steps connecting the types all
along the line. The principal types are
as follows:

Gandavensis — This is the oldest, from
which all the others are in some way de-
scended. It is adapted to all situations.
The colors are solid, and the spike compact
with the flowers well ranked. It flowers
late in the season.

Lemonei — The earliest flowering group,

Notes on Some of the Newer Gladiolus—By Mrs. Francis King,

T IS November and all tuberous

| things, all tender bulbs have now

“been safely garnered in ere the

winter storms begin.” Dahlias are in

their sandy nests; gladioli repose in labelled

paper bags; tritomas, galtonias are all in
dry cool spots for winter safety.

As we work under leafless trees and where
nothing of green remains save the bright
grass and the rich hues of pine and hemlock
the colors imprisoned within each bulb are
sure to rise before me. I see again the
rainbow of that wonderful exhibit of gladi-
plus as it was to be seen in Chicago last
August; the matchless beauty of such
blooms as Niagara and Panama. And at
the Editor’s request I here set down a few
notes on the gladiolus made last summer,
both at home and away from it.

And first let me say that the best recent
happening for the lover of this flower, and
consequently of course, the best thing for
the grower of gladiolus in this country was
the formation of the American Gladiolus
Society.

America, pale rose pink, Very popular for cut
flowers

sometimes called the butterfly gladiolus
on account of the bright colors with

I have lately come to the conclusion to
use in any future writings upon flowers in
all accurate color descriptions of varieties,
the terms and numbers of the great French
publication Repertoire des Couleurs,* so
that my descriptions can be standard-
ized.

But to the gladiolus! Let me herald
first the coming, the glorious coming of
the lavender beauty, Badenia, by name.
No words can paint the beauty of this
flower. A true lavender in color, not too
blue, its flowers are large, finely expanded,
and many open upon the stem at one
time.

Countless combinations of this with other
flowers crowd upon one’s vision. Which
would be fairer, an arrangement of like
colors? Shall we let Badenia open above
a mass of well staked velvet-purple petunia?
Or shall we see it rise above quantities of
cool pink Ostrich Plume aster? Again, we

*Repertoire des Couleurs issued by the French
Chrysanthemum Society. 2 vols.

strongly marked contrasts. The flower
is somewhat hooded, a character that it
acquires from one of its parents G. draco-
cephalus or the dragon head gladiolus.

Nanceianus — Intermediate in season,
characterized by wide spreading flowers
and the petals well expanded, growth
somewhat slender with a tendency to make
a one sided loose-habited spike. The group
is remarkable for having the greatest range
of coloring.

Childsi — Flowering about the same time
as Nanceianus and very much like it indeed
in range of coloring. This group is most
valuable for all-around purposes, showing
a range of color from pure white to the
deepest crimsons and scarlets and pur-
ples. The flower spikes rank very well
but the petals are somewhat deficient in
substance. ‘

Princeps — Characterized by large flow-
ers opening three at a time, flaming scarlet
with white lines. Season, late.

Brenchleyensis —'The commonest of the
old time gladiolus, very floriferous. -Flowers
small, bright scarlet. This is really a form
of Gandavensis and is, perhaps, responsible
for any prejudice that some people seem
to entertain for gladiolus in the past. It
is too “hot” looking for a mid-August
day.

Groff’s Hybrids — Embracing selections
from all preceding types blended together
and consequently in this class the types
all conform to each of the many classes
which appear in succession. Mr. Groff
selected from each type the varieties that
seemed best suited to his purpose and
blended them into a strain that is known
by this name.

Michi-
gan

might grow it near palest yellow snap
dragon; or, a more subtle arrangement yet
plan to have it late against Salvia azurea
the junction of its stems with the ground
masked by rippling mounds of Phlox
Drummondi, var. lutea. All pale yellows
and buffs, all rich purples, all blues which
are almost turquoise rise to the mind as
I think of the delicious pictures easily
created with this noble gladiolus. Badenia
has but one serious defect, its price is
very high. To remedy that condition let
us wish it the Arab wish “May its tribe
increase.”

Now for the glorious pair Niagara and
Panama. Niagara shall have the first word.
Niagara is quite worthy of several descrip-
tions. I therefore give first its commercial
one, prefacing that by the fact that it has
already secured three honors from horti-
cultural societies including one from the
American Gladiolus Society. ‘In type,”
says its originator “the variety resembles
America, but the flowers appear to be
somewhat larger, measuring 43 inches

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across. In color the flowers are a delight-
ful cream shade with the two lower inside
petals or segments blending to canary
yellow. The flower spike is very erect and
stout and is wrapped with broad dark green
foliage.”

Now to be exact in my own color descrip-
tion of this flower, Niagara is of the tone
known as Naples yellow (color chart,
Jaune de Naples No. 2). Deep in its
throat are lines of faintest lilac (color chart,
Rose lilacé No. 4). These however do not
in the least interfere with the general effect
of palest yellow or cream given by the whole
fine flower.

Two combinations of Niagara with other
flowers flew to my mind, as I held this
beauty in my hand. Phlox E. Danzan-
villers back of it, Ageratum Stella Gurney
below and in front. The phlox can be
made to hold its blooms for some time —
the ageratum, as we know, is incessant.
Again, nothing lovelier, thought I, than
Niagara with salpiglossis of that dark
velvety mahogany known as Faust; or
below Phlox von Hochberg. The color at
the base of the gladiolus, slight though it is
is very little lighter than the wine-purple
of this phlox itself.- Lovely too should
Niagara be with all lavender-hardy asters,
especially with that of the barren name of
James Gauly.

Panama, a sister of Niagara was the
third captivator of the gladiolus show. I
here declare, speaking with all possible
calmness, that it is the softest and most
charming tone of pronounced rose-pink
1 have ever noticed in a flower. It makes
one think of roses, of the best roses, parti-
cularly of Mrs. John Laing, and while I
have never fancied the idea which obtains

here and there of growing gladioli among
roses, because of the leggy look of both
roses and gladioli at their best, yet if it
must be done, Panama is the flower to
place in our rose beds! The pink of
Panama is that called mauve rose (color
chart, Rose malvacé No. 2). Almost in-
visible markings there are, deep in its throat
of purple carmine (Carmin pourpre No. 2).
.A setting of lyme grass, Elymus arenarius
is suggested with perhaps near by a few
blooms of the new decussata phlox of lus-
cious pink, Elizabeth Campbell. While the
phlox is.lighter in tone than the gladiolus,
the pinks are of precisely the same type,
for I have compared the living flowers.
Verbena Dolores might furnish the base of
this planting to charming advantage.

With the older gladiolus, Peace, Dawn
and Afterglow we have a sextette of what
seemed to me the most beautiful of the
newer gladiolus, America excepted, but
America is now established. It will be
noticed too that I am far too modest to
describe my own beautiful namesake, but
I own to such a prejudice in favor of this
flower and its brilliant and unmatchable
flame pink, that I could not under the cir-
cumstances write dispassionately of it.

The above mentioned sextette then, I
would say, comprises several of the newer
varieties of gladiolus whose interesting color
and fine form fit them particularly for garden
groupings of originality and charm. Of
other fine varieties I shall presently speak,
but these are really marvellous for beauty.
One has but to see them to feel ideas for
placing them, flocking like sea gulls,
softly to one’s brain. Next year, oh, next
year!

It is impossible to overpraise the cool

elegance of gladiolus Peace. Its flowers
are milky-white (color chart, Blanc de
lait No. 1) with well-defined narrow stripes
on the lower petals, far back in the throat,
of rosy magenta (color chart, Magenta
rougeatre No. 1). The variety is said to be
unsurpassed for cutting as the flowers kee;>
well in water, and buds will open the entire
length of the spike. Peace is surely the
noblest white gladiolus. Its large flower,
the slender violet markings so well within
the throat that there is hardly an effect

of color, gives one the impression of a pure —

white spike of bloom which had once
looked upon an evening sky.

Two gladiolus with charmingly suggestive
names are Dawn and Afterglow; Dawn,
the lovely and poetic both in name and in
look, has for its general color salmon car-
mine (color chart, Carmin saumone No.
1). In my own tongue I should call this
flower suffused with delicatest coral-pink —
the buds like the palest coral from Naples
—these buds, too, gracefully drooping with
a large softness peculiarly theirown. Dawn
—what suggestion in the name! Dawn
rising among well established groups of the
Japanese anemones Whirlwind or Beauté
Parfaite! Dawn, with the salmon pink ger-
anium Beauté Poitevine! Dawn, in con-
junction with Niagara — all these are sure
‘to prove arrangements to charm one’s eye
in mid-summer. There is a salmon pink
balsam above which Dawn might be en-
chanting. Afterglow greatly caught my
fancy. In general tone it is a flesh pink
(color chart, Rose carné No. 4), with throat
markings very apparent, lilac purple (chart,
Fuchsine No. 4). A rich salmon of gener-
ally the same tone in all its flowers would
be my own description of it.

Gandavensis type, suitable to most situa-
tions, (Dawn)

Vanceianus type. This has the great-

est range of colorings

Childsi type, large flowered, with extreme
range of color

Brenchleyensis, scarlet, the
old small flowered form

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Taconic I had opportunity to observe
closely last August; its general color is
mauve rose (Rose malvacé No. 2) though
the flakes of white very finely distributed
over the prevailing tone make it difficult to
exactly place the color. Its markings are
of carmine purple (Pourpre carminé No. 3),
slim, narrow lines. The effect of the flower
was of a beautiful warm-pink flaked and
feathered with white, as in a Breeder
tulip, the markings however much more
delicate.

Philadelphia and Evolution come next
to mind; the former in color mauve rose
(chart, Rose malvacé No. 1), clear pale
rose-pink tone, fine form, a wide, large
flower with sharp narrow markings in the
throat, of carmine purple (chart, Pourpre
carminé No. 3). Evolution’s prevailing tone
is mauve rose (chart, Rose malvacé No. 1)
flaked with No. 4 on the same plate, and
with dark old rose (chart, Rose brulé No.
3). The anthers of this pair of lovely

gladiolus, with their pale pink tones — the.

anthers are of the shade called bluish lilac
(Lilas bleuatre No. 1)— give a real distinc-
tion to these flowers.

Gladiolus Rosella is a lovely thing. In
its main tone carmine purple (chart,
Pourpre carminé No. 1) with its throat
markings, No. 3 on the same plate, the
effect is of a huge flower of rich orchid-like
pink, very beautiful, a very open spreading
flower. Rosella above Ageratum Stella
Gurney cannot fail to be a success in color
plantings; Rosella below Salvia azurea,
with the annual pink mallow near by; and
last, Rosella with Baron Hulot, that small-
flowered but ever-needed gladiolus of the
color known as Bishop’s violet (chart,
Violet eveque No. 4). Iam myself minded
to grow Baron Hulot in the midst of
Ageratum Stella Gurney — precisely as
one lets a colony of tulips appear above
forget-me-not;, and Baron Hulot would
be also most perfect among the fine
creamy flowers of Chrysanthemum Garza.

With a few very short descriptions I
am done. Senator Volland is an interesting
flower, the general tone of its petals bright
violet (chart, Violet decampanule No. 1);
blotches of amaranth (chart, Amarante
No. 4), with yellow-white spaces below
these, occur on the inferior petals, with a

lovely mottling of the amaranth on these
lower petals as well. ‘Bright violet”
does not describe the color of this
flower to me as well as pale cool
lavender, with richer lavender or purple
on the throat, flakes of a true cream-color
upon the purple. Canary-bird, with its
clear light yellow (no visible markings of
any other color), is most charming in com-
bination with Senator Volland. And the
Senator again might stand to great advan-
tage before tall groups of Physostegia Vir-
ginica, var. rosea, the soft rosy false dragon-

‘head. The color of Canary-bird on the

chart is sulphur yellow (Jaune soufre
No. 1).

Isaac Buchanan, may not bea new gladio-
lus but it was new to me — a lemon-flaked
soft pink, the flakes giving a charming
effect. The flower is not large — but rare
in color, and above Phlox Drummond1, var.
lutea an interesting effect should be got.
Snowbird is a lovely white with pinkish-
violet slender markings in the throat; La
Luna, a soft creamy-white with a very
clearly defined marking of richest Pompeiian
red on the throat; California, a pinkish
lavender gladiolus, is an excellent color for
use with America; Princess Altiere a very
large pure white with royal purple markings
on the lower petals; and Independence, a
magnificent salmon pink, very light in
tone, reminding me in a general way of
the fine old William Falconer, but far
and away better in type — every gladiolus
named here is to me worth getting and
growing.

I so emphatically advise the buying of
small quantities of these bulbs as a starter
as one would with fine tulips; the careful
labelling, staking, comparing with other
flowers differing in form, color and habit
but blooming simultaneously; and, most
necessary of all, the note-making in one’s
little book — that little book which should
never be in the house when the gardener is
in the garden! I was greatly interested to
learn that florists prefer for cutting in some
cases, the gladiolus whose stems are allowed
to bend and twist as they bloom. A hint of
this kind may be valuable for some of us
who grow this superb flower mainly to
put about our houses. It is easy to see
the agreeable variety of line afforded for

such purposes by the gladiolus which has
not been strictly staked.

On going over what has been said I
marvel at my attempt to write om the
glories of this special flower. I have in the
first place left out so many beauties, such
for instance as Sulphur King, Mrs. Frank
Pendleton, Jr., bright rose pink, a little
deeper toward centre of the flower, the
lower petals blotched with carmine — so
remarkable that a connoisseur writes of it:
“Mrs. Pendleton is in bloom, has a five foot
stalk with twenty flowers and a smaller
offshoot with twelve. It is simply magni-
ficent.” William Falconer, America, Kun-
derd’s Glory — dozens which should come
into any article in connection with this
flower, but no flower of the garden proves
more irresistible to me than this. Its
lovely perpendicular line, first, lily-like,
iris-like, then its truly prismatic range of
exquisite color. No wonder that hybridi-
zers in Holland, France, Germany, Great
Britain and this country have been ear-
nestly working now for years upon so
beautiful a subject, or that amateur hybrid-
izers are beginning to crop out in our own
land.

The cultivation of the gladiolus is so
exceedingly simple; the results so wonder-
fully rewarding; the color effects so certain
of accomplishment with flowers which come
as true to type and color as these; there is
everything to praise in this flower, no check

to the imagination when forming one’s .

summer plans with lists of it by one’s side.
Gardens of enchantment might easily be
created by the careful use of two annuals
such as dark heliotrope, Ageratum Stella
Gurney, and the lavender, cool, pink and
palest yellow gladiolus mentioned on these
pages. A mistake of judgment would be
almost impossible with these materials in
hand. In discussing such questions as these,
however, may I be ever saved from the
phraseology of one of our English cousins
who in print lately declared that white
Phlox Mrs. E. H. Jenkins and the scarlet
Gladiolus Brenchleyensis look well “planted

together in the proportion of two parts ~

phlox and one part gladiolus!”” I cannot but
register an objection to the medicinal flavor
of such advice applied to things so gorge-
ous, so poetic as these flowers that we love.

Is This the Best Cottage Garden in America?P—By W. Miller, mos

WHAT A PRINTER AT OTTAWA HAS DONE WITH LITTLE TIME AND MONEY TO MAKE HISGARDEN A FREQUENT
PRIZE WINNER — HIGH PRAISE FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN ARTIST —AN INSPIRATION TO RENTERS

HE best cottage garden I have
seen in America is that of Mr.
G. A. White of Ottawa, Ont.

Mr. White is a printer who
works in the government printing office
from 8 to 6, and all that you see here he
has done with his scanty leisure and with
very little expense. He has hidden un-
sightly surroundings as far as possible,

created four charming little vistas, made
three distinct gardens, and has a profusion
of flowers the whole season.

The main features of this garden can be
perceived by a glance at the sketch, in
which the arrows indicate where the pho-
tographs were taken. The lot is about
133 x 165 ft., and highly irregular. Con-
sciously or not, Mr. White has obeyed some

of the most important principles of land-
scape gardening.

1. Screening unsightly objects. Some day
when the great awakening comes, every
house on every river bank will enjoy a
fine view, but at present most houses so
situated face the eyesores that usually
afflict a river running through a city —
ugly factories, brickyards, dump _ heaps,

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May, 1913

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Fig. 1. Vista of Rideau River, trom Mr. White’s
front yard, over a four-foot fence covered with
vines. Phlox in bloom

and banks covered with weeds and cans.
It is impossible to hide all this in a city, but
along one side of Mr. White’s property
there is a row of trees which screens some
of the worst features, while leaving open
the pretty glimpse you see in Fig. 1.
Another unsightly object on adjacent
property is the barn at the rear (Fig. 2).
Luckily the tall poplars on the next lot
distract attention somewhat from the
ugliness they cannot hide. The worst vines
for such a building are ampelopsis, Eng-
lish ivy, trumpet creeper and the like,
because they are wood destroyers, and
also because they are close clingers —
emphasizing, instead of hiding every ugly
line. The best vines are loose growing

ones, like Virginia creeper, which have the
power not merely of hiding ugliness but
also of transmitting it into beauty. In this
instance Mr. White has done the best he
could by planting tall shrubbery.

2. Protection. A garden that is full of
flowers must be protected from animals
and therefore there is a fence around this
property. Between the lot and the river
is a public walk which runs along the top
of the bank, and this walk is screened by a
wire fence four feet high which is covered
with wild clematis and Virginia creeper.
The vines add to the effective height of
the fence, hide the weed bank and wall
from the yard, and give a certain amount of
privacy, while permitting passers by a
glimpse of the front yard.

3. Vistas. Although this lot comprises
only an eighth of an acre, or thereabouts, it
has four fine vistas. The thing everyone
should think of is the view of his own house
as seen from the point where it first appears
to the visitor. Fig. 4 shows the view
from the street, or rather from a point
just inside the gate. Ideally, only one
house should be seen, but in cities we cannot
control these matters.

The next vista which everyone should
consider is the view from the house toward
the street. The worst thing one can see
is the street itself, with all its traffic, dirt,
and noise. One of the best things one can

see from the front of the house is a private’

garden. The view from Mr. White’s front
porch is even better than Fig. 5 because it
shows more lawn and more flowers.

A third vista is from the front yard down
to the water, as in Fig. 1. Many people
fondly imagine that the finest view is the
broadest. But if you leave one whole side
of your property open in order to get a big
view, nuisances will certainly come along
and spoil it.

The fourth and last of the main vistas
at Mr. White’s is that of the back yard.
Fig. 2 gives some idea of it, but the back

Fig.2. Barn has been partly screened by sumach
and spirea. Poplars help to distract attention. This
back yard has been made into a rock garden

yard is almost fifty feet deep and rises very
steeply. The whole thing is a rock garden.

4. Lawn and borders. The best thing
any one can do is to have an open, central
lawn, flanked by irregular borders of trees
and shrubs. Such an arrangement is ten
times as satisfactory as the common way
of scattering plants over a lawn. The
scattering style is undoubtedly showier,
but it is a lower order of taste. The open
lawn is more dignified, restful, and cheaper
to maintain. Mr. White has even more lawn
than appears in Figs. 3,and5. The borders
are not ideal, for irregular borders of shrub-
bery would be more permanent and nature-
like than straight rows of flowers.

Notice, too, the rich uniform lawn, free

Fig. 3. The side yard garden is filled with phlox, ‘perennial larkspurs, tiger Fig. 4. The home of Mr. G. A. White, Ottawa, Ont., from the street, sug-

lilies, etc., Arch of Virginia creeper

gesting the open lawn, the double border of perennial flowers lining the walk

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MAGAZINE 5

May, 1913

from weeds. It is a remarkably even
mixture of June grass and white clover,
considering that it was nearly all made
from sods cut in the meadows.

5. Masses vs. dotting. Nothing makes a
garden so weak and spotty as the ordinary
mixed border, with a single plant of iris,
or any other flower repeated every few
steps. The right way to plan a border is
to have a few, big strong masses —say one
for each month. For instance; Mr. White
has a good big mass of tulips for May,
another of narcissus, and for the end of
May a good show of columbines. In
June he has three main masses — roses,
German iris, and day lilies. In July his
big effect is larkspurs. In August his
garden is dominated by phlox. September
is a weak month for flowers in this northern
latitude, but Mr. White has two good
masses, China asters and Japanese anem-
ones. He has solved the question of suc-
cession or continuity of bloom.

6. Variety. Having arranged for a few
big masses it is an easy matter to provide
variety by filling in between the big clumps.
Among the “fillers” in the front yard I
noted tiger lilies, sweet alyssum, white rock
cress, scarlet lightning, and moss pink —
all of which flourish in this rich, black,
clay-loam. There are perhaps 200 species
of flowers on this whole property—many
more than a beginner should attempt.
The best plan is to begin with a dozen
main masses, make a success of those, mul-
tiply them, and have plenty of plants to
exchange for rarer kinds.

So much for the garden in the front yard.
The side garden would be little more than
a passage way, were it not for a beautiful
vine-clad arch at eitherend. These arches
frame good pictures, looking either way.
The excellence of the first arch is suggested
by Fig. 3. though it is hard to realize that
this arch is 14 ft. high. Ordinary arches
are only 8 ft. high. The great advantage
of the higher arch is that it allows the vines
to hang down at least 4 ft. without scraping
off the hat of any one passing through.

The back yard garden was new when I
saw it in 1910. Doubtless it has been
greatly improved since then. It rose
steeply to a height of about 30 ft. at a
point about 50 ft. back of the house. A
great deal of work had been done to make
the littie paths by which one clambered
about everywhere. Many of the plants that
year were temporary and inappropriate,
like nasturtiums and other common garden
flowers that will grow without rocks.
There were no true alpines. But I was
glad to see many of the famous rock-loving
flowers which are sure to make good masses
for the beginner at little expense, e. g. pinks,
rock cress, speedwells, stonecrops, peren-
nial alyssums, jacoo’s ladder, and col-
umbines.

They have an interesting way of judg-
ing gardens in Ottawa — just like cattle
or corn. They have a scale of 80 points,
giving 20 points each for perfection along
four different lines. Under the tutelage

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On a scale of too, this would mean 89
points. It is not fair, however, to judge
any garden by a single visit. The Ottawa
judges are so conscientious that they make
five visits to every garden, score it each
time, and take the average.

While this cottage garden is the best
I have seen in America, it is not the ideal.
In another century or less, we ought to
have permanent homes and gardens for
every renter in the land, as they do in
Europe, e. g. at Bournville and Letchworth.
We should have fire-proof or slow-burning
houses, and the grounds should contain
ancient trees and shrubs. Meanwhile,
here is a new standard which can be
achieved by anybody under present day
conditions, provided he is genuinely fond of
gardening. It cannot be attained in a
single year, and many people will live
eighty years and die without ever rising
to the conception of landscape gardening
as here illustrated by the open lawn, vistas,
and screening of unsightly objects. Am
I too enthusiastic in my estimate of this
garden? Here is the opinion of a well
known landscape designer to whom these
photographs were submitted, Mr. Warren
H. Manning.

“This garden is indeed the design of an
artist, for he has recognized and fully
utilized the opportunites for beauty pre-
sented by a small place, having an attrac-
tive outlook over a river from the edge of
its steep bank. Such a bank is too often
the back yard dump, but this man has so
arranged the foliage on its steep slope and
against two very bare, blank walls as to
make a very effective bit of home landscape
composition, and this with common pop-
lars and sumacs to form his background
and _ screen.

“The framed-in river picture is a gem, and
in the arrangement of passages of turf
between these plantations he has gained
an appearance of extent on a small place
of which any designer should be proud.”

Fig. 5.
hidden by the trees.

View of the front yard from a point near the house.

The bridges and wires are not yet wholly
Borders contain phlox, lilies, hollyhocks, spireas, etc.

The Newest Type of Dahlia—c. W. Kerr, "=

THE PEONY FLOWERED TYPE, AND ITS SPECIAL MERITS ‘AS AN ALL ROUND DECORATIVE PLANT —
PLANTS RAISED FROM SEED SOWN NOW WILL BLOOM THIS YEAR— PROPAGATION AND STORING

HERE is one thing sure! The
peony flowered dahlia cannot fail
in popularity because of its rigid
formality, for quite unlike the

old-time types, the peony flowered dahlia
is as informal and irregular in its makeup
as the most stern opponent of the old flower
could want.

The flower is indeed quite different from
anything we have before known in this
family, lacking the symmetry of the show,
fancy and pompon types though at the
same time missing the grace and refined
form of the modern cactus varieties. The
peony type makes its appeal also because
of its general usefulness as a garden flower
in mass effect, being very free flowering,
and for its adapta-
bility for house dec-
oration when cut.

This type origi-
nated in Holland,
and when first ex-
hibited in England
in 1905, its loose
and rather ragged
appearance made its
reception anything
but encouraging. As
with my brethren,
my first impression
on that occasion was
not favorable. But
I purchased a col-
lection and on ex-
hibiting them the
following season
found they were well
received, the ladies
especially becoming
most enthusiastic
over them, as a wel-
come relief from the
old formality.

The flowers usu-
ally averaging six
inches in diameter
are semi-double, the
petals being neither
symmetrical nor of
the form of any
other type of dahlia;
but they may be
compared to the Chinese peony and in
some cases with the clematis, the inner
petals as a rule being twisted and curled
so that they often almost cover the yellow
stamens. Practically all the varieties pro-
duce their flowers on very stiff long stems,
held erect and clear of all foliage, while the
colors embrace all shades to be found in
the other types.

PLANTING AND CULTIVATION

Peony flowered dahlias may be grown
from divided roots, spring-struck green
plants, or seed. When planting the former

in beds for bold mass effects the roots should
be set not less than four feet apart; and in
only moderately rich soil, not nearly so
rich as when planting the show and cactus
types. My experience is that they flower
much earlier and more freely when grown
in soil which has not been manured too
lavishly. At the same time do not assume
that they will succeed in very poor soil;
and in manuring for all dahlias I advocate
the use of farm-yard manure in conjunc-
tion with a little bone meal (a handful to
each root, mixing it with the soil when
planting); and if necessary — that is in the
event of the plants not making the desired
growth — to apply a little nitrate of soda.
This must, however, be given very carefully,

The peony flowered dahlias show a graceful diversity of form. no two flowers looking just alike. The
petals are variously irregular even in the same variety

on no account allowing the material to
touch the stem or foliage of the plants;
the safest method in applying it to growing
plants being in a liquid state, dissolving
one ounce of nitrate in one gallon of water
and applying after first giving a thorough
soaking with clear water.

The best time to plant near Phil-
adelphia is during May, and I invariably
cut back the plants the first week in July,
cutting just above the lower pair of leaves,
because in this section the early growth
invariably becomes so hard and woody
that it is impossible to produce perfect

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flowers; while the plants that are cut back
early in July produce fresh succulent strong
shoots which flower most profusely. This
cutting back is, however, apt to induce the
growth of many suckers from the crown
of the root and these must be cut out as
they appear, otherwise they would take so
much strength from the plant as to seriously
affect the flowering. In northern and cool
sections of the country it is not necessary
to cut back the plants. Disbudding or
thinning out of shoots is not required.

To encourage healthy succulent growth
water liberally during dry weather, and
stir the top soil at least once a week with
the hoe or rake to assist in conserving the
soil moisture. If the roots are planted in
positions which are
apt to be wind-
swept, at least the
main stem should be
secured to a good
stake driven firmly
into the ground

RAISING FROM SEED

Raising from seed
is easy, but of course
all the seedlings will
not come true to
type, a certain pro-
portion of singles
showing. Yet if the
seed has been saved
from a first class col-
lection grown apart
from any othertypes,
the percentage will
naturally be much
smaller.

Do not sow too
early, as the seed-
lings are apt to be-
come very spindly
and weak before the
weather is suitable
for planting out. I
prefer to plant the
seed from the mid-
dle of March to the
middle of April,
though I have had
splendid results by
sowing the seed out of doors early in May,
the plants from that sowing commencing
to bloom toward the end of August and
continuing until frost.

Whensown indoorsthe seedlings should be
transplanted into separate pots or boxes as
soon as the first pair of true leaves appear,
keeping them as near the glass as possible, to
encourage a dwarf sturdy growth. Plant in
the open when all danger of frost is past.

PROPAGATION BY CUTTINGS

A choice seedling can be propagated by
cuttings. For this purpose the roots are

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to be potted up in early spring using pots
6 or 7 inches in diameter. If the roots are
too large for the pots the tubers may be
reduced to the proper size by cutting.
After inserting the root fill up the pot with
soil, leaving the crown of the root an inch
or so above the soil level. Instead of pots
boxes may be used, and if a greenhouse be
not available they may be placed in a
sunny window of a warm room. ‘The
soil should be moderately moist, but
no water given until the eyes begin to
swell.

In from two to three weeks the shoots
will be three inches in length, and as these
first shoots very seldom make good plants
they should be removed with a sharp knife
and thrown away. The majority of the
succeeding cuttings should make good
plants with the exception of any that are
hollow centred. Should only a few plants
be required the cuttings may be taken off
with a heel or small piece of the old root
attached, but should all the cuttings
available be wanted care must be taken
not to cut the shoots quite close to the base
or crown, thus leaving intact the cluster
of eyes, all these will in a few days push up
shoots to be taken off again as cuttings.
The shoots should be taken when from three
to four inches in length; those about the
thickness of a slate pencil will make the
best plants.

MAKING THE CUTTING

In making the cutting use a sharp knife
and cut just below a joint, removing the
leaves on either side and insert in the soil
up to the next joint. Use a blunt stick

for dibbling in the cuttings making sure
that the base of the cutting is resting on
the soil at the bottom of the hole made
by the dibble.

The cuttings must be

Observe the curiously formed inner series of rays
that close over the yellow disk florets (Mrs. A.
McKellar.)

THE GARDEN

This Hower was raised in a lot of mixed seedlings.
It is not necessary to grow named kinds to have
beautiful results

inserted with as little delay as possible after
removal from the old root and before there
is any possibility of flagging. Water im-
mediately and shade from bright sun.

Almost any fresh garden soil will do, pro-
vided it contains a liberal quantity of sand,
though better results will be obtained by
using a compost of half sand and half leaf
mold, first passing the latter through a
small meshed sieve.
either be inserted singly into small pots
or half a dozen or so inserted around the
edges of four inch pots; or they can be
inserted in lines in shallow boxes filled with
the same compost as recommended for use
in the pots. As soon as these are rooted
they should be potted singly into 3 inch
pots, the soil for this shift being composed
of fairly rich moderately heavy soil.

AFTER POTTING UP

Give a thorough watering after potting
and shade for two or three days until the
roots begin to run again. Keep them near
the glass if grown in a greenhouse, while
if in a dwelling house window keep them
close to the light, and shade only while
the sun is directly on them. If a moder-
ately warm hotbed is available remove
the plants to it after the middle of April,
and give air on all favorable occasions, so
that the growth may be stout and the
whole plant sturdy.

It will not be safe, to leave the frame un-
protected until well into May. Therefore
cover the sash at nights with burlap, sacks
or other material to keep out the night
frosts which are so prevalent at that season
of the year. Do not set the plants out of
doors until the end of May or early June,
when all danger of freezing weather be past,
and in sections where it is necessary, do
not omit to cut down the plants in early
July as previously described. To prolong
the. flowering season cut out all spent
flowers before seed pods are formed, as this

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type seeds very freely and the formation
of seed pods shortens the flowering period.

LIFTING AND KEEPING THE ROOTS

We would not hear so many tales about
failures to keep dahlias over winter if a
little common sense were exercised in lifting
and housing them. When lifting the plants
in the fall be careful to avoid damaging the
roots, as, although the long fingers or bulbs
do not of themselves produce plants for the
following year they are necessary for the
future well-being of the plant. Ihave often
seen them so carelessly taken out of the
ground as to be almost beyond further
usefulness by being broken near the collar,
the tuber though attached, being held by
one or two fibres only. This is especially
the case where tubers have a thin or
narrow neck. Lift on a dry day, first
cutting off the tops of the plants to
within three inches of the ground level;
allow them to dry before bringing inside.
Store in a dry, cool frost-proof place, though
not so dry as to allow the roots to shrivel
up, this may be avoided by packing the
roots in boxes of dry sand or chaff, or in
fact anything that will tend to keep them
plump until planting out time in late spring.

HINTS ON CUTTING FLOWERS

When cutting dahlia flowers the stems
should be denuded of all foliage, otherwise
the flowers very quickly fade. This is
true of all the types. [If it is desired to use
dahlia foliage it should be cut separately.
A plan I invariably employed when cutting
flowers which were intended to be used for
several days in succession, was to place the
stems for three minutes in water just off
the boiling point as soon as possible after
they were cut from the plant, afterward
placing them immediately in cold water.

SOME FINE VARIETIES

Really first-class varieties of this type are
easily raised from seed, which adds to the
amateur’s interest. But there is also quite
a host of splendid named sorts offered by
most dahlia specialists, among the best
of which I select the following as fairly
representative:

Queen Wilhelmina, pure white; King
Leopold, pale yellow and exceptionally
free flowering; The Geisha, the color
being orange scarlet, tipped yellow and
with yellow base, one of the brightest
and perhaps most bizarre of this family;
Mrs. A. McKellar, terra cotta with salmon
suffusion; Mrs. W. Kerr, pale pink,
suffused rose. W. H. Morter, scarlet
and gold, one of the most effective; Mrs.
W. E. Whineray, rosy lilac with yellow
base, perhaps the largest flowered of the
family, but inclined to be slightly pendent;
Mrs. Ralph Heaton, a lovely shade of light
rose. Glory of Baarn, soft pink, slightly
flushed yellow toward the base of the
petals; Countess of Lonsdale, deep crimson
maroon; Red Indian, rich blood-red; Lady
Saville, orange-scarlet, tipped buff; H.
Hornsveld, beautiful soft salmon.

Transplanting in the Vegetable Garden—By Adolph Kruhm, o

HOW MUCH SPACE TO ALLOW — INCREASING THE ACTUAL YIELD AND IM-
PROVING THE QUALITY OF VEGETABLES BY PROPER AND TIMELY THINING

AVE you ever observed that the

bush bean plant at the end of the

row usually bears from 2 to 3

times as many pods as the plants

all along the row? The reason for this

lies in the fact that the first and last plants

in a row have a chance to develop per-

fectly in three directions. Those in the

row can only expand on two sides and then

only in proportion to the distance between
the rows.

The “thinning” or proper transplanting
of seedling vegetable plants is but one
phase of intensive cultivation. Some gar-
deners believe in making the ground very
rich, and thus force nature to yield heavy
crops. Others water freely and cultivate
often, thus making available all the stored-
up fertility of the soil. But the proper
way is to practice all these things
and then give each plant as much attention
as time permits in order to encourage the
most perfect development under best
conditions.

No plant can do the very best that lies
in its capacity if it grows in a crowded row.
The tenement child of the city never de-
velops like the country lad, who can stretch
and exercise his body, and his mind, in all
directions. The same principle applies to
plants. Strong, healthy, well-developed
plants bear more and better vegetables
than their less fortunate brethren which
grow in crowded rows and cannot stretch
their limbs.

For the sake of largest srelds from smal-
lest space, the rows in the home garden are
usually placed a great deal closer together
than they would be under ordinary cir-
cumstances. For this reason the question
of maximum yields from the row lies with
the development of each individual plant.

The questions are: how much space is
required by a plant to develop in an ideal
way; and how many plants can be crowded
into a row without curtailing the produc-
tiveness of the individual plant? In this
matter, as in all others, the thing may be
over-done, and both space and fertility
wasted since the over-anxious beginner is
apt to leave in the row fewer plants than
the row can well support.

During ten years of practising “inten-
sive’ gardening I have evolved some
perfectly definite rules to govern these
problems, and these are here given.
All are subject to variation; plants are like
human beings, in that varying climate,
soil, season, and care make all the dif-
ference in the world with them. But for
a basis upon which to carry on further
experiments, these observations will prove
valuable. Only vegetables, the plants of
which are produced by sowing the seeds
into the open ground where they will
bear the crops, are considered. For egg-

plants, cabbages, peppers, tomatoes, etc.,
the distances differ according to the soil,
variety and method of cultivation. From
2% to 34 feet apart each way is the usual
distance in which these WERSHLIOIES ¢ are

grown in the home garden.

For the sake of system, I like to group
the leading vegetables into three classes,
according to their habit of growth, thus:

The angle trowel is the most convenient trans-
planting tool, and indeed, is a handy all around
implement in the flower border too

A. Vegetables that bear their products
on bushes or vines.
B. Vegetables grown for their roots.

C. Vegetables grown for their foliage |

portion.

VEGETABLES THAT BEAR THEIR PRODUCTS
ON BUSHES OR VINES

All “‘vining”’ plants, among which may be
counted cucumbers, melons, etc., can, at
the start, be eliminated collectively, by the
suggestion to let the three strongest plants
grow on each hill. It is customary to sow
at least a dozen seeds of the various vining
vegetables to the hill. When the danger
of insect pests is past, reduce the plants - to
three of the strongest. If more plants
grow to the hill, the soil must be very rich,
or the size and the quality of the product
is apt to suffer.

Foremost among vegetables that bear
their products on bushes are beans and
peas. In the case of beans, seeds are
usually dropped from 2 to 3 inches apart
in the row. When the young plants are
beginning to form the third pair of leaves,
thin them out to stand from 4 to 6 inches
apart in the row, according to the habit of
growth of the different sorts. The observ-
ing gardener soon learns that plants of late
beans, like Refugee, make a much stronger

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growth than those of the early sorts. It is
a fact that plants of beans grown in straight
rows, from 4 to 6 inches apart, will out-
yield the same number of plants standing in
hills with 23 to 3 feet between the hills.
Discard the old method of growing beans
in hills. All the plants grown on hills
will show a lopsided development.

Even experts differ as to which is the
best distance for pea plants to stand apart
in the row. It is a settled fact that most
firmly “fixed” varieties of peas will bear,
on an average, just so many pods to the
vine. The question then is, how many
vines should grow in a row. The practice
of sowing peas thinly, so as to have the
plants stand finally about 2 inches apart
in the row, is the most successful.

VEGETABLES GROWN FOR THEIR PRODUCT
BENEATH THE SOIL — ROOT CROPS

Among these are included such impor-
tant vegetables as carrots, radishes, turnips,
onions, etc. These permit the application
of a broad rule: Thin out the seedling
plants to stand about that distance apart,
which the finished produce will occupy
when fully developed. To illustrate: We
have early as well as late carrots. The
very early sorts, when at their prime, and
ready for the table, would not average
more than 13 inches to 2 inches in diameter.
Consequently, such sorts as Early Scarlet
Horn, Golden Ball, etc., should be thinned
to stand about 2 inches apart in the row.
For the larger and later varieties, corres-
pondingly more space must be allowed be-
tween the roots.

In the case of radishes, this matter is
equally as important, only we have a still
larger number of sorts and it pays to get the
different varieties just the right distance
apart. The extra early spring radishes do
not require more than an inch space for
proper development. The larger growing
midseason and summer radishes should
be left to grow at least 2 to 3 inches apart.
The still later and larger winter varieties
finally require from 4 to 6 inches.

Here is a suggestion which will make the
solution of this problem in connection with
root crops easy: Before you start on the
work of thinning out the different varieties,
go back to a seed catalogue with depend-
able descriptions, and read about how large
the product will be when fully dev eloped.
Then thin out accordingly. It may be laid
down as a safe rule, that in connection with
the majority of root crops (excepting a few
large radishes and turnips) 4 inches is the
happy average.

VEGETABLES GROWN FOR THEIR FOLIAGE

This third and last class includes all
salad plants, spinach, etc., and presents some

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May, 1913

peculiar difficulties, since with each vege-
table the distance differs according to the
variety grown. Take lettuce, for instance.
Golden Queen, a splendid extra early sort,
will develop fine solid heads in a space of
6 inches. Attempt to grow large sorts
like All Seasons or Big Boston in the same
space of row, and the result will be that
plants will “go to seed’? prematurely.
A safe general rule for thinning out young
lettuce plants is to let them first stand 3
inches apart in the row; later removing
every other plant, making the distance 6
inches. Finally let the plants stand 12
inches apart in the row. This may seem
an unusual amount of space for lettuce, but
the result will be fine large heads that will
“stand” long before bursting and be of
superior firmness to those grown in crowded
rows.

Few vegetables appreciate proper and
timely thinning out more than spinach.
Time and time again, I have noticed where
two rows of the same variety of spinach
sown at the same time in the same kind of
soil, prove the necessity of timely thinning.
That row, in which the strongest plants
were thinned to stand the proper distance
apart, would endure before seed stalks
appeared fully 3 to 4 days longer, than the
row in which the plants were permitted

to grow as best they could under crowded
conditions.

WHEN TO THIN AND HOW

The month of May is the time at which
nearly all vegetables require thinning.
The earlier it is done, the better radishes,
lettuce, spinach, etc., will be your reward.
All vegetables will develop more quickly if
“thinned” almost as soon as the seedlings
are past the baby stage, than if left to re-
main in a crowded row for a longer time.

It is very interesting to observe how
lettuce, for instance, will grow to be about
2 inches tall and then wait, so to say, for
the helping hand of the gardener to make
room in the row and give the developing
plant more breathing space. All seedlings
may be thinned out just as soon as they are
large enough for the thumb and the point-
ing finger to take hold of them without
breaking the top from the roots. With most
vegetables, this is the case when they reach
a height of from 1 to 2 inches above the soil.

An excellent helper in this operation is a
short pointed stick, about the size of a
pencil. By pushing the stick about 1
inch away from the plant into the soil, and
then gently lifting the soil, it is easy to thin
out the most crowded row without disturb-
ing that plant, that is going to stay in the

row. Should it happen that the soil
around the little seedling, which is to re-
main, becomes loose, just take the fingers
and press the plant again firmly into the
soil. A little shaking up of this kind will
rarely ever harm the plants. Another
excellent instrument to assist in this opera-
tion of thinning is Cleves Angle Trowel, as
shown in the illustration among the radish
seedlings, and indeed it is a wonderfully use-
ful all purpose trowel to have in the garden.

Hints for Transplanters

Keep all the soil possible about the
seedling roots; otherwise be sure to spread
the root system out evenly and naturally.

Don’t forget to firm the soil thoroughly
around the plants.

Cut back the tops of shrubs etc. to hasten
the recovery of the plant. The first young
leaves usually die anyway, so they will not
be missed.

For safety’s sake shade all newly set
lettuce plants. Tomatoes, eggplant, etc.,
don’t mind the heat, providing their roots
are kept moist.

Above all things don’t let the root system
dry out during the transplanting. Keep
the seedlings in a thin mixture of mud if
large, or take only a few at a time from the
flat if small.

Proper spacing of the plants in this row means a maximum crop and uniform spacing of the rows makes cultivation easier. Keep the garden neat and clean

and your crops will be better

Adding $1000 to Your Assets—By Roger W. Babson, “#2!

{Eprrors’ Note: This is the second article in a series of six that will discuss the present day problem of the “Cost
of Living,” with special reference to the part that the back yard garden can be made to play in its reduction.|

EFORE entering into the details of

this series on Reducing the Cost of

Living, I wish to say a word about

real estate values, how they come
about and of what they consist. We all
know of lots of land in a part of some city,
in which, or near which, we live, where
the land sells at about $5 per square foot
which is at the rate of about $20,000 per
acre. Of course, in New York, Chicago,
and other large cities land sells at very
much higher prices than this. In fact,
I have in mind a lot of land which is valued
at $100 a square foot or over $4,000,000
per acre. In the residential sections of
our smaller cities land sells from to cents
to 25 cents a square foot or at the rate
of about $4,000 to $10,000 per acre. Good
average farm land near the cities in Iowa,
Illinois, and adjoining territory sells for
about $150 per acre, while beautiful wood
lands in northern Maine can be purchased
at only $5 per acre. This you see gives
us five prices for an acre of land, viz:
$20,000 for an acre in the city, $7,500 for
an acre in the suburb, $150 for an acre of
farm land and $5 for an acre of woodland
in northern Maine.

Moreover, when these lands are analyzed,
it will be found that one actually gets more
real property by purchasing an acreinnorth-
ern Maine, covered with fine timber, or an
acre in Iowa with its twenty inches of loam
than an acre in any large city or suburb
thereof. Why is it that the acre which
has the least intrinsic value so often sells
for the greatest sum? I will answer this
by saying that the value of land is deter-
mined to-day by the income which one can
obtain trom it, and for every $50 of increased
net income the price or value becomes $1,000
greater. In other words, the value of land
or the assets of a land-owner depends not
on the intrinsic value of the property,
but on its earning capacity. As its earning
capacity increases, its value increases;
while as the earning capacity decreases its
value decreases. In fact, a real estate
owner’s yield is determined not by the
acres but by the income. If a man has
property from which he obtains a net
income of $50 per acre, this property is
said to be worth $1,000 per acre and he is
rated by “Dun” accordingly. If his net
income is $500 per year, his estate is ap-

praised for $10,000; while if his net income

from this land is $5,000, his real estate
holdings are probably appraised at about
$100,000. This is the basis upon which
all of the real estate experts work, and it
is a fundamental principle which should
be grasped and thoroughly understood.

THE INCOME OF A GARDEN

With this in mind, the purpose of every
man who owns a lot of land twenty-five

or more feet square should be to increase
the income derived therefrom. Increasing
the income from your property $50, is
equivalent to increasing your assets $1,000.
Moreover, if one can do this and simultan-
eously become a producer, he, in addition,
is reducing his cost of living and perform-
ing a distinct service to his nation. Now,
there are various ways by which one can
increase the income of his property and
consequently increase his assets; but I
know of no more practical and truly bene-
ficial way than by having a backyard
vegetable garden. To my mind, a lawn is
no handsomer than a bed of New Zealand
spinach, nor are shrubs so useful as a hedge
of bright red tomatoes.

But even if one wishes to retain the lawn
and shrubbery, there still is an opportunity
for developing a vegetable garden in the
backyard. To havea garden such as our
grandparents enjoyed and to have the
plowing, cultivating and other work done
by horses and machinery, space is nec-
essary; but a large area is not necessary
for success. If one will use sufficient
manure and care, he can obtain to-day
the same crop in value from one eighth of
an acre that his grandparents obtained
from an acre. Of course, this may elimi-
nate raising potatoes and certain other
vegetables requiring a large space; but a
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raised on a piece of land no larger than
the living room; while after the peas and
beans are gone, one or two later crops can.
still be obtained from this same small area.

For instance, this small area may first
be planted with peas with a little space
left for cucumbers and corn, with here and
there a hill of winter squashes. The peas
are picked by the middle of July, and when
the vines are pulled up this will allow the
cucumbers to run; while the beans are
gone about the first of August, and when
these vines are pulled up, the corn will
have plenty of time to mature. Both the
corn and cucumbers will have been gathered.
by September, allowing the winter squashes
air and sunshine, so that they may mature
good and hardy, with a yield sufficient
to carry one through the winter. All of
this can be done on an area no larger than
an average living room.
first thing to remember is that a large area
is not necessary. This can best be illus-
trated by the fact that a squash vine with
two or three good squashes, selling in the
aggregate of $1.50 to $2, can be raised in
a bucket, all that is necessary being dress-
ing, water, and care. Thus, I care not how
small your backyard may be, it is possible
to have a worth while vegetable garden;
and, in fact, there are many small back-
yards, sunny but protected, which after
being properly dressed can be made more
profitable than many much larger and more
pretentious gardens.

SOME FIGURES FROM MY OWN GARDEN

Perhaps this can best be illustrated by
some statistics relating to a small garden
which I personally have planted and cared
for at Annisquam, a part of Gloucester,
Mass., where my summer home is located.
Being much interested in increasing pro-
duction through backyard gardens from
an economic point of view, I determined
to plant a piece of ground about the size
of an average suburban backyard, and
take entire charge of it myself, doing all
the work with my own hands. After
visiting a number of my employees who
live in the suburbs of Boston and New
York, I found that anaverage backyard con-
sists of from 1,000 to 2,000 square feet, and,
consequently, I decided to mark off a plot
of land containing about 1,500 square feet.

Being West on an important business
trip at the time of plowing, I had this
plowing done by a local farmer who charged
me $1.25 for the job. Moreover, as I was
then living at my winter home in Wellesley,
a suburb of Boston, some fifty miles from
this “backyard” garden, it was necessary
for me to do the first planting all at once,
it being impossible to do a little each day.
For the man who has a garden of his own,
this additional expense of plowing is un-

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necessary, unless possibly the first year. A
spaded garden is said to be better than
one which is plowed, and it is possible to
do a little spading each day, thus obtaining
better results without any expense. Plow-
ing, of course, is much quicker, but unless
the plowman is very careful and has plenty
of room in which to turn his horses, plow-
ing is not satisfactory and consequently,
spading is always to be recommended for
a backyard garden. But of this, however,
I will treat in detail in a later article when
it is time to think about spading. My pur-
pose now is to show the real dollars of
profit in a backyard garden where the
work is done by the family. I have also
found that when having the garden plowed
with a horse, it is sometimes neci-ssary to
have a man for half a day to take out the
turf, and do some heavy disagreeable work,
which the plowman did not do; thus the
plowing and making ready has cost me
about $2 per year. However, as above
suggested, if at the time of planting I had
lived near the garden, I would have done
a little spading each day, and so “‘made
ready”’ as I spaded and entirely eliminated
the first expense.

My first expenditures were 50 cents for
a hoe and $1 for a good spade, and these
are the first two purchases for the reader
to make. I also purchased two small
loads of manure at $1 per load instead of
one large load. The first load I spaded
in before the garden was plowed and the
second load I used for putting in the drills
and hills just before planting. To give
this double dressing, however, is un-
necessary, and an amateur may possibly
obtain the best results from one small load
of manure and fifty to one hundred pounds
of fertilizer. The cost of garden manure
varies greatly with different sections of
the country and with the location of the
lot. If the reader’s backyard happens to
be near a stable, he may obtain one load
delivered for $2; while if some distance
from ‘the source of supply,” he may be
obliged to pay $4 or more. The price
of fertilizer is usually standard the country
over, and can be purchased in fifty or one
hundred pound bags at about $3 per
hundred pounds. Therefore, it is fair to
assume that my initial expense was less
than $5, mcluding the hoe and spade, up
to the time of planting. The preparation
of a backyard garden can be commenced
as soon as the frost is out of the ground, and
by doing a little work each pleasant morn-
ing it is only a little while before the plant-
ing is over. In fact, many people com-
mence planting too early and finish too
soon. It, therefore, is perfectly safe to
allow one month between the time when the
frost is out of the ground and the time of
planting, and experts strongly advise wait-
ing at least two or three weeks or until
the ground is warm and “mealy.”

There are two or three things, however,
which can be planted almost as soon as the
frost leaves the ground or planted in that
portion of the backyard which is first

THE GARDEN

spaded. These are beets and spinach.
In fact, all root vegetables can be planted

early. By root vegetables I mean veg-~

etables of which the eatable parts are
underground, including turnips, beets,
radishes, etc. However, of these details I
will treat in a later article when it is time
to consider planting; now I will simply
give some figures which show how I in-
creased my assets $1,000 by developing
a backyard garden. In short, my total
expense for seed was $2.08, as follows:

Golden Bantamcornforr2ohills . . . $ .20
One quart green beans .. ante 25
Two ounces New Zealand spinach ae 5s
One half pound Early Red beet . . . .38
One quart American-Wonder dwarfpeas_. .49
One package Long Greencucumbers . . 05
One package lettuce (Black-seeded Tennis
Ball) : 6 .O5
One package radish (French Breakfast) : HOS
One package Swisschard. . : .05
One package summer squash . . . . .05
One dozen tomato plants . . . . . 235
Total . $2.08

Adding this $2.08 to the $5 for tools,
dressing, fertilizer, etc., made a total
expenditure of $7.08 for the first year.
Now, this is not a guess nor an estimate,
but is an actual statistical fact. Of course
certain critics have claimed that I should
add a proportion of my land taxes, a pro-
portion of the water bill and even my
subscription to THE GARDEN MAGAZINE;
but these are expenses which I was under
long before I thought of a backyard garden
and consequently they cannot justly be
counted. The $7.08 does, however, include
every additional expense to my house-
hold which the garden has cost me, and
when I say everything I mean everything.

Moreover, it is impossible to give an
exact result of what I gathered, and the
following is very conservative:

2adoz.cornat2zoto2sc.. . . . . . $5.46
71 qts. beans at toc 3 7 WS)
30 pecks spinach at 20 to 300. : ; 7.50
(This New Zealand spinach lasts ‘all
summer and is gathered by cutting off
leaves each day with scissors. It is as
fresh in September as in June.)
41 bunches Swiss chard at toc. . 4.10
51 bunches beets at 5c. 2.55
49 qts. peas at 10 to Isc. 2.55
cucumbers at 2c. a: 1.75
24 heads lettuce at 5 to toc . : I.40
to bunches radishes at 5c ara pe .50
ro Summer squash at 5 to toc . . . 79
MGSO, §=5 2 hoo © oo 6 2.00
Tomatoes PaCS Tire AB i hot! 8m 17.14
Total $55.70

Of course, there were some hot hours
while I was hoeing this garden; but really,
the care was very slight after the original
planting and the first hoeing. A lot of
weeds grow during the first month of a
garden from seed carried over the winter.
If, however, this first crop of weeds is
properly and promptly killed, when only
a fraction of an inch high, it is easy to keep
the rest under control.

As to picking the vegetables, this was
really fun. I did not plant potatoes,
celery, nor other vegetables requiring hard

MAGAZINE

May, 1913

manual labor to keep up. To gather a
dozen ears of corn ora few tomatoes re-"
quires only two or three minutes, and often
the maid found it easier to run to the
garden than to the telephone. From an
original investment of only $7.08 I obtained
crops $50 in value. The garden also gave
us splendid fresh vegetables twice a day,
eliminated an expensive and unhealthy
meat bill, and, to my mind, was the best
investment of $7.08 possible. Some of my
Wall Street friends say that “ Babson likes
to preach better than to practice,” and
probably this is so. I do, however, prac-
tice my preachments on “Getting Back to
Earth.”

Although a fairly busy man, I personally
raise all the vegetables which my family
and servants eat, excepting potatoes and
celery. I emphasize the word “personally”’
because the man who takes care of my
places is not allowed to go near the garden,
which is in my own care. To my mind
the cost of living can be checked only by
each of us producing more foodstuffs in
our own backyards. This is a homely
remedy I know, but I have yet to find an
economist who disputes the statement.
Therefore, let every reader of this paper
who has a backyard of any size get busy at
once — this week —and help solve the
cost of living for himself, and at the same
time add $1,000 to his assets by increasing
the net earnings of his place $50 per year.

Beautiful lawns are all right for people
of means; but for the average man to
“raise”? a lawn and then hire someone to
cut the grass each week is a waste of space,
fertility, labor, and money, especially
when Western farmers cannot get help
enough to gather their crops. No wonder
the cost of living is increasing when you
and I will pay 1o cents a head for lettuce,
and then ourselves raise only grass —
while we have to pay $35 or more a year
for the privilege of playing golf in order
to exercise. Moreover, there is a principle
herein involved which should be preached
in pulpit and press. Most of my employees
have gardens. Some raise hens and have
obtained wonderful results, which should
be studied by all. Having a flock of 1,000
or more hens is likely to result in loss.
Small flocks of ten to twenty are, however,
very profitable.

In short, as I stated last month, our
great social problems will not be solved by
any President or Congress excepting as
they increase production and eliminate
waste. They will be solved only when
you and I and the rest of us voters make
the best of our opportunities by producing
more foodstuffs ourselves, going to market
ourselves, paying cash, bringing home our
own purchases, and then eating them
instead of throwing them part into the
garbage pail. So long as we let every one
from the grocer to the doctor run and serve
us whenever a want comes into our heads,
so long may we expect the cost of living
to increase, whoever is President of the
United States of America.

A GARDEN BORDER OF PERENNIALS AND ANNUALS

A border such as this is easily planned to give color all through the season. The annuals are used to fill in the spaces between the other plants, and as a
fronting. Observe how much the pictorial effect is due to the presence of the background of trees NN

IV.— REAL GARDENING BEGINS
Continued from page 184, April number

[Epitors’ Nore: The author of these “confessions” is now well-known as an amateur gardener, and writes with such genuine humor as proves the efficacy

of the “cure’’.

CHAPTER VIII

ATER, when I was resting from the
labor of dressing Clarky brought
me a bright new weeding-fork with
a claw like a hen’s foot — tense for

scratching.

“You'll find that better than the hairpin,
she said. ‘I’ve laid rugs all along on the
grass in front of that bed where you were
scratching. Dig all youlike, Miss Caroline,
but lie down and rest the second you re tired.
If you only dig alternate five minutes, you
will put in thirty minutes work in an hour!”

So I sallied forth, weeding-fork in hand,
with a half embarrassed feeling that
Clarky regarded me as a child sent happily
out to play in the sand with a bright new
‘pail and shovel.

After I got to work I forgot the embar-
rassment of the pail-and-shovel idea — the
feeling of the archaeologist renewed itself;
I worked steadily. Of course I could do
but little at a time, but I,kept at it day
after day, until I had gone over every inch
-of the bed in front — under the living-room
windows—and the one at the side. I
straightened the wavering line of bricks
that flopped hither and thither in a drunken
fashion —a lovely green they were and
moss-covered. And I found lots of things!
Mint there was, running everywhere; there
were daffodils —some inside the line of
bricks, some outside, evidently there had
been a row; there were soft, mushy, whitish
roots that Clarky said were hollyhocks;
mats of clove pinks and some other roots
that she didn’t know.

Which pleased me. I get tired of hav-
ing the part of Rollo fall invariably to me.

T put little circles of sticks around the
roots I had found so that in digging we
should not disturb them.

This was in the mornings.

In the afternoons I lay on the cot out of
doors, rested and watched the friendly
woodchucks, wondering what labors they
thad completed that thus they sat at ease
at the house door. (My little house had
been empty so long, that the wild creatures
-were singularly unafraid. There was a
‘darling little rabbit I used to see every
‘morning under the windows: I don’t
know what he came for; he was brown and
‘sleek and looked exactly like the toy rab-
‘bits you get for Easter and too small to be
out in the world by himself. I hoped he
hadn’t lost his parents. Once, when I was

Who she is we do not say at this time, but the future may reveal it.|

dressing, a phoebe bird flew in the open
window and instead of being in a panic at
finding herself enclosed, sat on the closet
door that was ajar, chirped contentedly a
minute, flew about inquiringly, then out of
the window by which she had entered.
And when I was sitting still for a moment’s
contemplation by my garden bed a young
woodpecker flew suddenly from the lilac-
bush and lighted on my shoulder. For a
half second he and I stared at each other in
astonishment: then he was gone to the apple
tree and contemplated me from there.)

By this time Clarky, having got the
house more to her mind, began to concern
herself with the gardening.

Oh, and lovely it was out of doors those
days! The air was clear and sweet with
the tang of the fresh earth init and the snow
that lingered still in the hollows; far up the
hill we could pick out the trees as one and
another woke to life — here a rose-flushed
maple, there a giant oak with the yellow
of the spring sunshine caught in its hair;
the young birches, a-tremble with life,
stood out clear and delicate and lovely
against the dark pines they chose for com-
pany; groups of slender little poplars that
had slipped in from the woodland and were
advancing toward the house were a charm-
ing yellow — paler than the oaks. And I
saw the black birch — just as Clarky said
it would be — amethyst — but in two days
the color was gone and I couldn’t again
find the tree among its darker fellows.

Clarky’s first work when she set about
gardening, was drastic. She took pruning
shears and cut every sucker out of the
lilac-bush, until the branches and the shape
of the bush stood distinct. Then she got
her ladder, laid it against the bush and
snipped off all that she could reach of the
last-year’s blossoms.

“Now it feels better,” she said.

Next she considered the other flower-
bed — the one which ran from the door-
step to the lilac-bush, under my windows.
The ground sloped, at the lilac bush end of
the house, and the old flower bed was so
badly washed that not only figuratively,
but literally, it was running down hill.
Some two feet of the foundation showed
while on “‘my side,” none at all.

Clarky looked at it. Said the best thing
for that flower bed would be a retaining
wall. She would make one.

By this time I was getting used to her

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large enterprises. Had she not just made
a dining table with handsome legs of black
birch, taking the saw to the woods, sawing
there the legs, and bringing them home one
by one? And with the aid of an iron rake
wriggled the boards for the top of it down
from high, impossibly high, cross-beams in
the barn?

So when she said she would make a re-
taining wall for my garden bed, I simply
said that would be nice; and watched
proceedings.

When the cart from the Center store
came out on its bi-weekly visit with provi-
sions, trailing behind it was a child’s ex-
press wagon. The red cheeked boy who
drove the cart, grinned as he unfastened it
and led it up to Clarky. I grinned, too.
But she didn’t mind. “Precisely what I
wanted, thank you!” she ‘said to him.
It would be far more convenient than a
wheelbarrow, she explained. It would be
useful if my legs crumpled under me when
at some distance from the house — I could
be loaded on it and drawn home: We were
not on Fifth Avenue nor Beacon Street.

I bribed the red cheeked boy to dig my
flower bed, but he would only do part of it
—just the front strip. Still, that was some-
thing. I smoothed it with my scratcher
and sowed things in it. Sweet alyssum
on the edge; patches of poppies and corn
flowers and mignonette, and morning
glory next the house. I know perfectly
well I ought to have had it fertilized and
enriched and all that sort of thing, but who
could wait? 2

J helped a little with the “‘retaining wall”
—a “dry wall’ Clarky called it. She
said it must harmonize architecturally with
the retaining wall below the house against
which the roses grew. She brought down
load after load of flat stones in the express
wagon, getting them from near the barn: I
helped to place the stones and we made a
wall about a foot thick. It was two feet
high at the lilac bush, diminishing until at
the doorstep it was only a line of stones
marking the bed. When Clarky’s bed was
filled with soil it would be on the same level
as mine.

Gradually, as the wall rose, we filled it
up with earth. This ‘‘we” is editorial.
Clarky did the work, fetching pail after
pail of muck from the ravine. Other things
too, she brought back from the ravine —
Jack-in-the-pulpit, root and all, we set him

May, 1913

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under the lilac bush, just where the wall
began and he went on preaching con-
tentedly, not minding in the least the
change in his audience. She brought Herb
Robert, hard little polypody ferns, tiny
white violets and wood violets, baby hem-
locks and maples. I planted these, stick-
ing them into the chinks in the wall that
we had stuffed with soil; they grew as if
they had always been there. I thought it
the loveliest kind of gardening.

We brought the wild gardening into the
house also: violets, and fringed polygola,
star-flower and anemones, and one and
another of the lovely little things I didn’t
know. Clarky didn’t pick them but
took them up, brought them home on top
of the pail of muck and we put them in
little pots in our living-room. Not ortho-
dox flowerpots, we hadn’t any, but small
wooden boxes and any little china or
brass thing that would hold water and
have room for the flower with a bit of
earth beside.

The loveliest of all was the bloodroot;
we had a round, pale green, Japanese
dish filled with that on our table. Just
at breakfast, the sunlight, coming through
our small, old-fashioned window-panes,
' touched the table; then I would move the
little dish of bloodroot into it. One after
one the dazzling white petals would open
as we watched. I thought I had never
seen anything so lovely.

When the flowers had passed, I set out
the little plants in Clarky’s garden. Much
kinder it seemed than to pick and throw
them away. We felt that for all our pleas-
ure from them we had yet done them but
slight injury.

CHAPTER IX

ae creaking of a wagon wakened me.
I sat up to listen sure I must be mis-
taken; no one ever came up our hill.
The fox-sparrows in the roses were tril-
ling their adorable little trill, three sweet
notes, then the trill much higher. Usually
it was they that wakened us. Sometimes
there would be a dozen in the roses below
the house. A thrush there was too, over in
the ravine and another that answered him.

But the creaking of the wagon was un-
mistakable. It was coming nearer. Pres-
ently it came in’sight. I saw it easily
enough for the old road had been close to
the house: it was a lumber-wagon, with up-
right stakes around the platform: two horses
and a man driving —a man in corduroys

with a canvas coat like Clarky’s and a bat- °

tered felt hat on the back of his head. The
wagon passed, and from the sound went up
toward the hill and the pines.

We were at our early supper when it
passed again. It was not yet dusk; Mrs.
Tarbox had just come in with a plate of hot
biscuit; she set it down suddenly on the
table and rushed to the window.

“My land!” she said. ‘Steve McLeod
with a load of wood! Fifteenth of May an’
he’s just begun haulin’!”” She dropped into
a chair aghast.

I didn’t perceive the wickedness of going
down hill with a load of wood of a May
evening, I was only aware that it was a
man on my hill; long sought, ardently
desired. He might be useful.

“Do you think I could get him to dig
my garden?” I asked eagerly.

Mrs. Tarbox eyed me severely. “My
Land!” she repeated. “’Twouldn’t do
at all! That’s Steve McLeod, Caroline!”’

“Couldn’t he dig my garden?” I asked
again.

“T don’t like you should have anything
to do with him. Steve McLeod ain’t all he
should be,” said she ominously.

“None of us are,” I responded, “‘ but what
has he done?”’

5 Why,” she said judicially, puckering her
forehead, “‘I don’t know as he’s done any
thin’ special, it’s what he ain’t done.
He’ ain’t like other folks, And he’s shif’-
less, terrible shif’less.

“He’s always the las’ one in town to get
his seeds in. He’s always doin’ things at
the wrong time — Jes’ as you see now —
he’s hauling wood and he’d ought to be
plowin’, an’ when he’d ought to been
haulin’ wood, when they was sleddin’
he was doin suthin’ else, Heaven knows
what! He’s settin’ up when he ought to
be to bed and to bed when he’d ought to
be up and doin’. Mis’ Sile Holman who
lives jes down the road from Steve says he
sets and reads dretful late — sometimes it’s
eleven, sometimes twelve o’clock ’fore he
puts his light out. It really made her
poorly worriting about it an’ settin up to
see how late it would be when Steve did put
his light out. He ain’t got good sense.
He put his potatoes up the hill where the
ground wa’n’t good and when Sile Holman
asked him why he did sech a fool thing he
gave a dretful fool reason.”’

“What was it,” I asked, interested.

“He said he liked the look of the moun-
tain from there!”

‘“°What’s that got to do with potaters,’
says Sile.

‘Lots,’ says he, ‘I have to spend so much
time hoein’ the durn things I want suthin’
to look at ’sides the potater patch while
I’m a-doin’ it.’

“Folks think he ain’t really responsible.
He’s got a brother though, that’s right
smart — Alan McLeod. He’s a big doctor
down to Boston.”

“T ain’t sayin’ Steve’s bad, but he’s
foolish and he ain’t like other folks. Still,
I s’pose he might stop an’ dig up a place for
you, he’s jes’ that shif’less. If he was doin’
right he’d be gettin’ his plowin done an’
have no time for nothin’.

“Youll ask him?” I said.

“Cert’nly I will, but he ain’t much to
have ’round.”

I was drinking my early coffee the next
morning when I saw Stephen McLeod’s
“team” as Mrs. Tarbox called it, coming
slowly up the hill. (Clarky gave me my
little cup of black coffee as early as six now,
if I was awake — our schedule had been
shoved forward—for I woke so much earlier

and to square things had a long afternoon
nap, like a baby.)

Just as the wagon passed Mrs. Tarbox
must have seen it too for I heard hasty
steps across the kitchen floor, then the slam
of the back door, then —

“Steve!”

““Who-a_ s-s-sh!” was the response.
“Morning, Mrs. Tarbox.”

Then a colloquy in which Mrs. Tarbox’s
strident tones alternated with a man’s
voice that was singularly low and musical
as much of a relief as the ripple of the
water after a motor boat has let off its
whistle.

Presently she came to my room. “He
says he’d jes’ lieves, Caroline, an’ he wants
to speak to you about it.”

Clarky helped me on with my mocassins
and put a long cloak over my wrapper, a
scarf around my head and I went out to the
doorstep.

The man who was standing by his wagon
came toward me, pulling off a dilapidated
felt hat and baring a thick mass of bright
brown hair. He was tall, rather loosely
built, younger than I had thought; I
couldn’t see his mouth, the ragged beard
hid it; his eyes were the eyes of a visionary.
He reminded me a little of the (Ppple seed
Johnny” of legend and history.

“You are Mr. McLeod?” I asked.

“Yes, I am Stephen McLeod. Mrs.
Tarbox says you wish to make a garden.
Can I help you? I should like to?”

He spoke hesitatingly, a little shyly, but
the voice was singularly pleasant.

“T can’t get any one to dig it,” I said.

“That I can do for you,” he answered,
““where had you planned to put it?” I
went with him to the little place back of
the woodshed where evidently had been
some planting before. He looked at it
dubiously.

“Don’t think it’s very sightly,” he said,
““there’s lots better garden-spots than this
up here. You’ve got the finest hill in all
Enderby.” He went over by the apple trees,
and stood looking at the house.

“There’s the place,” he said, pointing
just below the roses. “You’ve got the
mountain to look at, ’stead of the side of
the wood-shed and you'll see the trees
beyond. When you’ve been weeding
and stand up to straighten your back,
you want something to look at,” he ex-
plained.

I thought of the potato field and smiled.
“Tt is a good place,” I said, “I can look
down on it from my windows.”

He was looking at the ground. ‘Have
to plow it,” he said, sod’s too tough for
digging. Ill bring the plow to-morrow —
’t won’t take long, but I’ll have to have it.

He did. It wasn’t easy plowing. ‘There
was one root of an elm that he kept
striking. I liked to see the horses strain
at the collars and go plunging over the
rough land, pulling the plow through the
stubborn soil. I liked to see the sods roll
over and the thick, black earth turn up.

(To be continued)

THE GA ReDIE N 9MFAG Aya aNeE

May, 1913

CONDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

The Month’s Work

l DO NOT try to do any cultivation before the
* little seedlings have poked above the ground.
If there are markers at the top and the bottom of
each rew there will be no trouble in distinguishing
the seedlings. Then cultivate or stir the soil be-
tween the drills. When the seedlings are two inches
high thin out so each plant stands the proper dis-
tance from its neighbors. This stirring of the soil
is called cultivating and the layer of loose soil is
called a mulch. When the soil is thus made loose
moisture is kept in the ground below and does not
evaporate. The ground must be constantly worked
and weeds pulled out from the very start.

2. Some of the discarded seedlings may be trans-
planted; others are not hardy enough to be worth
the transplanting. Asters, lettuce, tomato, stock,
pansy, and others may be transplanted. Never
transplant poppy; radish and beet rarely pay for
the work of transplanting. Flower pots inverted
over the seedlings for the first few days in new quar-
ters shields them from the too intense heat of the
sun.
3. The following score card may be of help in
home and back yard garden work. Such a score
card filled in three or four times during the season
and inspected by a teacher or member of the garden
committee helps in a final judgment of work and is
of great encouragement to the children.

GARDEN SCORE CARD

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GENERAL GARDEN CONDITIONS
Score Possible
Given Score
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AU NIULOLMIb Yap mht nee seca eee 5
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SOIL CONDITION

. Take into consideration the soil, whether good

or poor, cultivation it has received and state of
POCIION MOG? My cccscadconsousscrecpoeganc 40
Signed cacti oe ese

4. Little flower gardens of solid color are pleasing
and the children enjoy them too. Try this for a
yellow garden: helianthus in the back ground, yellow
poppies, marigold and yellow pansies as a border.
A blue garden might be one of larkspur, corn flower,
ageratum or pansies. A pink garden could have
Canterbury bells in the background, stock, pink
asters, sweet William and pink candytuft. It is
fun to work out color schemes. Use white flowers
as asters and sweet alyssum to sow between rows
of rather violent colors to tone these down. Mig-
nonette makes a good color break too.

5. There is always danger of a frost the first -

part of May so do not try to put your little seedling
plants out of doors until after the middle of the
month except in the South, of course. But the
seed of tender plants such as beans, corn, pumpkin
and squash may be planted in the open. If plants
get nipped by the frost water them with cold water
and shield them with newspapers from the direct
rays of the sun.

6. In the early part of this month plant seeds of
gourds, balloon plants and cucumber vines. All
these vines will do well. After the middle of the
month plant dahlias, gladioli, cannas and oxalis,
climbing nasturtiums Japanese hop vines and moon
vines. If there is to be a round bed of cannas and
the plants are to be bought, purchase seven cannas
for a four foot circular bed and nineteen for a seven
foot bed. After the fifteenth of May transplant
seedlings to the open ground. Thin all the little
plants you have started from seed. If any plants
seem backward try using nitrate of soda on them
as you did on house plants using the same pro-
portions.

School Gardens in New Jersey

CHOOL garden work in Montclair was begun

ten years ago at the Watchung School by Mr.
Clifton, the principal, at the suggestion of Mrs.
Turner then supervisor of elementary grades. Four
years later the work was taken up at the Chestnut
Street School. Two years ago Maple Avenue
School had its first gardens and last spring work was
carried on in connection with the Open-Air class
on Cedar Avenue. Various schemes of planting
and caring for the gardens have been tried.

The Watchung plot 72 x 72 ft. on the school prop-
erty is prepared, divided into one hundred and
sixty small plots 3 x 8, planted and cared for by
one hundred and fifty children, kindergarten to
6th grade inclusive. Radishes, lettuce, and onion
sets are planted. The gardens are cleared at the
close of school in June, the ground plowed and
seeded for a crop of green fertilizer.

At Chestnut Street the lot, 100 x 200 ft. is a
block from the school house. It is a building lot,
private property, the use of which is given to the
Board of Education. Here 450 children, kinder-
garten to 7th grade inclusive, do all the work after
the land is plowed and harrowed. The lot is
divided into 400 plots 33 x 7 ft. which are planted
with vegetables that will mature before the end of
June.

The first of July garden is again planted. The
plots this time, 7 x 14 ft. are assigned to children
who wish to have a summer garden. Tomato,
cabbage, and pepper plants (raised in the garden
hot bed), are transplanted, string beans, beets,
carrots, turnips are planted.

Flowers and commercial products are planted in
the early spring: the flowers bordering the central
path and the commercial products bordering the
cross paths. Petunias, phlox, zinnias, marigolds

bachelor’s buttons, nasturtiums, etc., furnish con-
tinuous material for geography and English.

The garden at Maple Avenue is on a lot 100 x 100
ft. across the street from the school. The owner
gives the use of the land. Here 400 children,
kindergarten to 5th grade inclusive, work 200 plots
3.x 7{t. The vegetables planted in the spring are
those that will mature before school closes. Then
the garden is replanted and cared for during the
summer by children who attend the playground
and summer school. Flowers are planted in the
spring and grow the entire season.

A plot 40 x 60 ft. on the grounds used by the
Open-Air Class was made into a garden last spring.
Here the children planted potatoes, beets, carrots,
squash, onions, parsnips, and transplanted tomato
plants.

In all the other gardens the vegetables raised are
taken home, but here they are used in preparing
the lunch which is served to the children. The
children do all the work until school closes, then
the janitor takes care of the garden during vacation,
the children resuming responsibility when school
begins. This garden gives opportunity for whole-
some exercise in the open air and the children are
much benefited physically by the work.

During the spring the work in all of the gardens
is done during school hours, each class spending
about three-quarters of an hour there twice each
week. The actual work of caring for the garden is
only a small part of the garden work. In the class
room experiments are taken to show germination,
effect upon corn or beans of good soil and poor soil,
of growing with sufficient water and air, with air
and no water, with water and no air, etc. These
interest the children and prepare the way for les-
sons on germination, soils, fertilization of soils,
texture of soils, preparation of ground, cultivating,
etc.

In the city of Newark this work is carried on by
the Board of Education. In Elmer it is also a part
of the school work but is aided and furthered by the
assistance of the W. C. T. U., and the press. One
of the teachers, Miss Souders, started by teaching
elementary agriculture to the children in her school
building. A plot of ground was obtained for the
children’s use. At the present time the emphasis
is being placed upon home gardens. This side of
the work is carried on in Bridgeton also.

Miss Laura Woodward who has charge of this
line of work in the training school of Trenton writes,
““My efforts are given to the Carroll Robbins Train-
ing School where last year we had eight class gar-
dens and about seventy-five individual gardens most
of which (and the smallest) were five by eight feet
in size. The school and different individual chil-
dren exhibited at the Trenton Inter-State Fair and
we won altogether $46 in prizes.

“Two groups of boys, members of our eighth
grade, formed themselves into garden clubs and
took two vacant lots in the neighborhood. It was
here the most efficient and successful garden work
was done as our school yard is not large.

“For about eight years our school has had gardens
with varying success.”

ANNA WASHBURN.

State Chairman for New Jersey of the National School Garden
Association.

Schoo] garden, Montclair. New Jersey, showing early stages when constant cultivation is essential

Ten Acres Enough*— Chap. VI.

(Continued from page 27, February, 1913)

Quality in the Peach Trees

T WOULD be a most erroneous conclusion for

the reader to suppose that all this long-continued
labor in keeping the ground clear of weeds was so
much labor thrown away. On the contrary, even
apart from ridding the soil of so many nuisances,
it kept the land in the most admirable condition.
Everything I had planted grew with surprising lux-
uriance. JI do think it was an illustration of the
value of thorough culture, made so manifest that
no one could fail to observe it. It abundantly
repaid me for all my watchfulness and care.

My nurseryman came along at the end of the
season, to see how I had fared, and walked de-
liberately over the ground with me, examining
the peach trees. He said he had never seen
young trees grow more vigorously. Not one of
them had died. The raspberries had not grown
so much as he expected, but the strawberry-
rows were now filled with plants. As runners
were thrown out, I had carefully trained them
in line with the parent stools, not permitting
them to sprawl right and left over a great sur-
face, forming a mass that could not be weeded,
even by hand. This he did not approve of. He
said by letting them spread out right and left the
crop of fruit would be much greater, but ad-
mitted that the size of the berries would be much
smaller. But he contended that quantity was
what the public wanted, and that they did not
care so much for quality. Yet he could not ex-
plain the damaging fact that the largest sized
fruit was always the most eagerly sought after,
and invariably commanded the highest. price.
Though he did not approve of my mode of culti-
vation, yet he could not convince me that I had
made a mistake.

Profits in Berries

ROM these we walked over to the blackberries.
They, too, had grown finely under my thorough
culture of the ground. Besides sending up good
canes which promised a fair crop the next season,
each root had sent up several suckers, some of them
several feet away, and out of the line of the row.
The interest in the Lawton berry had rapidly ex-
tended all round among my neighbors, and I very
soon discovered that my nurseryman wanted to buy.
He offered to give me a receipt for the $120 he
was to receive out of the strawberries he had sold
me, and pay me $100 down, for a thousand black-
berry plants. Though I felt pretty sure I could
do better, yet I closed with him. He afterward
retailed the plants for a much larger sum.

I may add that these blackberry roots came into
more active demand from that time until the next
spring; and when spring opened, more suckers
came up, which, with my previous stock, amounted
to a large number. A seedsman in the city adver-
tised them for sale, and took retail orders for me.
His sales, with my own, absorbed every root I
could spare. When they had all been disposed of,
and my receipts were footed up, I found that they
amounted to $460, leaving me $340, after paying
for my strawberry plants. This was far better
than I had anticipated.

Pigs Success; Chickens Failure!

Wek early after taking possession, I invested
twelve dollars in the purchase of seven pigs
of ordinary country breed. When October came
around we had six of them left, the seventh having
died. They were estimated to weigh at least
150 pounds each, and were in prime condition for

*Copyright, 1905 by Consolidated Retail Booksellers

fattening. By the roth of December they were
ready for the butcher, and on being killed were
found to average 224 pounds, or 944 pounds in all.
We sold what we did not need and realized $49.00.

Hogs fatten most rapidly in an atmosphere
neither too hot nor too cold; hence, the months of
September, October and November are the best for
making pork. Be sure to get a breed of pig that is
well formed, has an aptitude for taking on fat
readily, and consumes the least food. The Suf-
folks come to maturity earliest, and probably are
the most profitable to kill at from seven to ten
months; but some people prefer the Berkshires.
The pork of both is excellent; they will usually
weigh from 250 to 300 pounds at the age of eight
or ten months.

As no farm is pronounced complete without
poultry, and as both my wife and daughters were
especially fond of looking after chickens — at least,
they thought they would be —I invested $7 in
the purchase of a cock and ten hens, warranted to
be powerful layers. The hens came home and were
put into a cage in the barnyard to familiarize them
with their new home. They did not lay so freely
as had been expected — in fact, some did not lay
at all and as soon as let out of their cage, they got
over the fence into the garden. They made havoc
among the young flowers and vegetables, and tore
up the beds which had been so nicely raked. They
were marched back into the cage. It happened to
be too small for so many fowls and they were soon
swarming with lice. We clipped their wings,
saturated their heads with lamp oil, provided an
abundance of ashes for them to roll in, and then
turned them loose in the barnyard. The treat-
ment was effective.

I think this little accident, however, took away _

from my wife all the romance of keeping chickens.
I afterward rarely heard her mention eggs, and she
was careful never to purchase chickens with the
feathers on!

An Acre in Tomatoes

HAD one acre in tomatoes, for which the soil of
New Jersey is perhaps without a rival. The
plants are started in hotbeds, where they flourish un-
til all danger from frost disappears, when they are set
out in the open air, with a generous shovelful of

.well-rotted stable manure deposited under each

plant. A moist day is preferred for this operation.
The oftener tomatoes are transplanted the quicker
they are to mature; and as the great effort among
growers is to be first in market, so some of them
take pains to transplant twice. Not owning a hot
bed I was forced to buy my tomato plants.

For the first few baskets of early tomatoes I sent
to market I obtained two dollars per basket of three
pecks each. The price rapidly diminished as the
supply increased until, it fell to twenty-five cents
a bushel, and even less. However, as the season
advanced and the supply diminished, the price
again rose to a dollar a basket, the demand con-
tinuing as long as any could be procured.

My single acre of tomatoes produced for me a
clear profit of $120, quite as much as I had antici-
pated. JI am aware that others have realized more

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than double this amount, but they were exper-
ienced hands at the business.

From all the remainder of the three acres but
little money was produced. It gave me parsnips,
turnips, and pumpkins. Between the rows of
sweet corn a fine crop of cabbages was raised, of
which my sales amounted to $82. I admit that a
few of my vegetables did not yield as large a crop
as some of my neighbors, but on the other hand, I
had gone far ahead of them in the growth of my
standard fruits; and the evident hit I had made with
the new blackberry had the effect of impressing
them with considerable respect for my courage and
sagacity.

Close of My First Year—its Loss and Gain

lee WAS now the dead of winter and the end of my
first year of farming. Having been all my life
accustomed to accounts, I found no difficulty at
the year’s end in ascertaining to a dollar whether
my first season’s experience had been one of loss or

gain. I give the particulars in full:
Cost of stable manure and ashes . 0 5 : . $248
Plaster and guano, not all used 5 ° 9 F e 20
Plowing, harrowing, and digging up the garden : A 30
Cabbage and tomato plants F 5 6 : : 30
Loss on my first cow . F F 5 5 ‘ é 7
Garden seeds . . 5 5 : 6 6 a 8
Cost of six pigs ‘ , 9 6 6 4 6 3 12
Corn-meal and bran . 6 p ; ‘5 : - 28
Wages of assistant for six months . 72
$455

Here was an outlay which was likely to occur
every year, except the two items of loss on the cow
and the cost of buying cabbages and tomato plants,
which have subsequently been raised in a hotbed
at home. The great item is in manure, amounting
to $268 and this must be kept at the same figure, if
not increased unless an equal quantity can, by
some process, be manufactured at home.

Then there was the following permanent outlay
made in stocking the farm with fruit:

Strawberries for six acres 5 $120.00
Raspberries for two acres. 5 3 34.00
804 peach trees, and planting them 72.306

$226.36

This constituted a permanent investment of
capital, and would not have to be repeated, so that
the actual cost the first year was, as stated, $455.
My own time and labor are not charged, because
that item is adjusted in the grand result of whether
the farm supported me or not. There was also
the cost of horse and cow, plows, and other tools;
but these, too, were investments, not expenses.
So, also, with the large item of $226.35, invested in
standard fruits.

It is fair, therefore, to charge the current ex-

penses only against the current receipts. The latter
were as follows:
Sales of blackberry plants . 5 : . : é . $460
Sales of cabbages . 5 5 . 5 9 6 j 5 82
Sales of tomatoes . 5 4 : F 0 : 3 - 120
Sales of garden products . é d ‘ 5 H 5 80
Sales of pork ' : i . : é : ; A 49
$7901
Current expenses, as stated 3 . . ° 3 O 455
Protitin mies ie tas) 0 ie By x 6 G - $336

This was about $1.25 per day for the 265 days
we had been in the country, from April rst to
January ist, and when added to our copious
supplies of vegetables, fruits, pork and milk, it kept
the family in abundance. I proved this by a very
simple formula. I knew exactly how much cash I
had on hand when I began in April, and from that
amount deducted the cost of all my permanent
investments in standard fruits, stocks, and imple-
ments, and found that the remainder came within
a few cents of the balance on hand in January. I

THE GARDEN MA GAZ Ye

May, 1913

10t owe a dollar, and had food enough to keep
my stock till spring.

Tt will be noted that no cash was received for
strawberries, and herein is involved a fact import-
ant to be known and acted on by the growers of
i Most men, when planting them, say
h or April, are impatient for a crop in June.
should never be allowed; as soon as the
appear, they should be removed. The
ansplanted vine has work enough thrown
its rants in repairing the damage it has suffered
ved irom one location to another,
compelled, in addition, to mature a

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Keeping Up With Samuel

GAMUEL is our incarnation oi the Help Problem.
We don’t call him Samuel, but Mr. Henderson.
i he calls us I can only conjecture. For this

a brief account of how we don’t manage a college-
bred farm manager a hundred odd miles from our
base of supplies.

Last year, when we first began long-distance
we didn’t manage the farm at all; it
itself. The greatest activity on the
exhibited by the codling moths and
I The neighbor youth, Henry, worked
fitiully and to some purpose, so that, though the
frost got our corm, the market at last got our
humble crop of potatoes at eighty cents a bushel.
But we got several acres broken im ior apple trees,
and it didn’t cost much.

— year our experience has been quite different
and more plentiful. Since February ist we

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pli Mr. Henderson works the
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fourteen times as much.
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an educated farmer
a ge entleman.

ae es Henderson wasn’t so honest and con-
scientious, and withal so efsaat. we would be
crumbling. As it is, we are congratulated on all
sides. and swagger about, boas z of our phenom-
| man and érying to forget our flat wallets. He
is really a wonder. e€ works ear rly and late.

teaches us and the neighbors
more about agriculture and hor-
ticulture than we ever knew

efore, and brings us as much
iame as if we owned a gallery of
original Corots.

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am not going to tell about
our crops — I’ve bragged ane
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“lopsided skeleton of our bak
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sto my own weakness
oi character and my wife’s utter
failure to make a man oi me.
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almost as soon as it lands us in the poorhouse
—which means incredible rapidity. And we
are hanging on to the tail-board, lifting our weary
feet from the dust as best we may, trying to keep
up with Samuel.

And we don’t dare to whisper “Whoa.” For
Mr. Henderson is sensitive. The few times we
have been emboldened by the distance between
us to ask humbly for a little miormation as to the
progress of certain plans or the meaning of certain
invoices, he has promptly resented our intrusion
as a criticism of his industry or honesty.

We bought a cow, because we needed manure
and Mr. Henderson drinks milk. The cow be-
came a bother to him and he reported briefly that
he had sold her. Wife asked me if I were going
to stand ior that. J wrote most truculenily and
asked if Mr. Henderson would be kind enough io
inform me why he had sold our cow. He replied
that we could rest assured that he would not have
done it if in his judgment it had not seemed best.

He hired August, and so notified us. I asked
him what August would cost. He replied, aiter
a Tepetition of the question, that August had come
as a great personal favor to him at the low figure
of $z. 75 a day. I timidly asked to be miormed as
to what August was doing — what we were hiring
him for. He assured us that it wasn’t a question
of what he could fimd for August to do, but how
he could possibly get through. the season with so
little help. We paid his first August expense item
of $28 and the mcident was closed.

In the matter of the cow, by the way, I after
ward learned that he had confided to a neighbor
that if Mr. Wylie ever tried that sort of thing on
him again, he would leave the plow m the furrow
and the horse in the traces, and throw up the job.

But details are monotonous. We are going up
to the iarm Friday. There autumn winds are
blowing, rosy apples, hand picked and without
blemish, fill our packing shed; our potato bins
are full; over on our hillside the maples flame scar-
let against the pines. The country calls us, but,
like the Maine farmer who said he was going down
to Bangor to get drunk — “Gosh, I dread it!”

Datton WYLIE.

A Rapid Transplanter

VERY season I transplant many thousand
small plants — celery and other vegetables —
and very often cannot wait for wet weather, but
must transplant in the very driest time. Our
method has been to draw a line across one side of
the field, then mark the rows with a wooden marker,
make the holes for the plants with a dibber, then
pour water into these holes, all by hand.

This was exceedingly slow and laborious. It
occurred to me that instead of holding the dibber
in the hand to make holes, a number of them could
be placed around wheels, so that their weight would
drive them in the ground, and make two rows of
holes as the wheels turned. that these wheels
a tank of water Mai would furnish the

could Carry

A home-made transplanter that marks two rows and waters at one time

weight necessary to drive the pegs or dibbers into
the ‘ground: also that water could be conveyed from
this tank into the holes thus made. I obtaimed the
services of a local carpenter and we made the
machine shown im the picture, which marks the
ground, makes holes for the plants, puts water
in them, and marks the next row as fast as it is
drawn along. The machine cost me but a few
dollars. A carpenter can make the machine in two
or three days; the machine will cost $10 or $12,
allowing five dollars for the materials.

The wheels of the machine I made are two feet
in diameter and are oi one-inch thick, hardwood
boards, sawed to a cdrcle, in sections. Three
thicknesses oi these are screwed together, making
the rim three inches wide and two inches thick.
One-inch wide iron bands are nailed around the
outer edge of the rim, leaving a one-inch uncovered
space in the centre, in which are bored the holes
for the pegs or dibbers. These pegs were made of
seasoned hickory, are sharpened a httle, and are
six inches apart. They protrude from the outside
oi the rim two inches for setting small celery plants,
but can be made longer for other plants. The
spokes of the wheels are two hardwood boards,
one inch thick. and five inches wide, mortised
together with an extra thickness of board screwed
on each side to make the hub. Through this hub
is bored a two-inch hole for the axle. The axle is
hardwood, three inches square, and so made that
the wheels are just two and one-half feet apart,
so that the rows oi holes in which to set the plants
are made two and one half feet apart. The ends
oi the axle are rounded to fit the holes m the hubs.

The frame which supports the water tank is
bolted to the axle a little past the centre of the
frame, so that while most of the weight of the tank
is thrown on the large back wheels, a little weight
rests on two small wheels attached to the front end
of the irame. The frame is made of hardwood, two
inches square. Detachable handles are attached
to both back and front of the frame, with which to
draw and push the machine.

The water tank is made of matched | pine boards,
with tarin the jomts. The sides are 24 x 203 inches
and the height is 13 inches. Two pieces of hose
are screwed in the bottom of the tank on either side
and extend to tin cups which are attached to the
machine just back of the wheels. The bottoms
of these cups are periorated like sieves, so that the
water drops irom the cups like rain, and does not
wash the soil back into the holes. Two wooden
rods, with handles on the tops for turning, extend
down through the tank like faucets, and m the
holes in the bottom in which the hose is screwed.
In this way the flow to the cups at the rear is regu-
lated by turning the handles on top of the tank.

If the machine is drawn over the ground a few
minutes before the plants are set the water in the

- holes will settle down so the soil will not be muddy.
_ Small plants can then be set very rapidly by just

dropping the roots in the holes and pressing the soil
around them.

Two persons work better together than one.
A basket of plants is carried on
the machine, the machine is
drawn a little way, the plants
are set, and when the end of the
row is reached the planters walk
back over it and press the soil
firmly around the plants with
their feet.

There is a reversible marker
attached to the machine, similar
to those used on the garden
wheel seed drills. After using a
line for the first time, the ma-
chine is drawn across the field,
and by the use of this marker all
the other rows will be straight.
IT can make different widths of
rows up to two and one half feet
by running the machine between
the first rows made. Of course,
one can make a wider machine
or one in which the width is
adjustable. The machine should
not be used when the soil is dry
enough to crumble in the hand.

New York. W. H. JENKINS.

May, 1913

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Orchard and Forest Planting, new and old varieties of Roses
and Climbing Vines. Copy sent FREE upon request.
Nee We grow in quantity every hardy Tree or Plant worthy
cee of cultivation. Correspondence invited.

Dept. ‘I’

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The Readers’ Service gives information about investments

Gladiolus Flowering the First
Year from Seed

ap most fascinating hobby in connection with
gardening is undoubtedly that. of raising new
varieties, and more intensely so with anything of a
perennial nature. But the bugbear which deters
many amateurs from growing some flowers from
seed is the thought of having to wait two or three
years before the first flowers appear. In this sec-
tion we must include the gladiolus as we generally
know it; but with the introduction from Europe
of the new preecox type, this situation has com-
pletely changed — the new class blooms freely in
from three to four months from the time the seed
is planted. ;

Gladiolus precox is a new and distinct type; the
flowers are five inches in diameter; the plant is of
vigorous growth, averaging three to four feet in
height; the flower spikes are long and full and fre-
quently carry eight fully developed flowers with
more to follow. The colors embrace all shades
found in the! Gandavensis, Childsi and Lemoinei
types. I have grown this precocious gladioltis
now for three years and my appreciation of it has
steadily increased. The first season we'started the

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Flowers of Gladiolus precox, a new type, produced
three to four months after seed planting
t

seed indoors in early spring, transplanting the
seedlings into single pots and afterward planting
out of doors;in May; but gladiolus seedlings do not
take kindly to being disturbed and a great many
were lost. ‘All that survived, however, flowered
bravely in the early fall.

The old adage ‘‘experience teaches” caused me |

to adopt another, and what has proved to be the
proper, method. During the past season I had
several thousand plants which bloomed from Sep-
tember until killing frosts, by the following method:

Seed was;sown the last week in May in a seed
bed composed of very fine soil containing a fair
proportion of sand and made rich by thoroughly
incorporating a liberal quantity of well rotted
manure. The seed — after being soaked in water
for twelve |hours— was sown thinly in drills one
inch deep, the rows being twelve inches apart.
The entire bed was made firm by pressure, and to
preserve the moisture and prevent cracking of the
surface a half inch mulch of rotted manure and
leafmold, passed through a fine meshed sieve, was
spread over all.

Although the first year’s flowers are very fine,
they even improve the second year; therefore the
bulbs (or correctly, corms) should bé carefully
harvested and kept (indoors, away from frost) for
planting the following spring.

Pennsylvania.

G. W. Kerr.

May, 1913

| Plant DAHLIAS

Set out a num- i
ber of well se-
lected roots or
plants between now and early
June, give them just a little
attention and from mid-summer

until late fall you will have a
garden of exquisite beauty, with a
rich variety of shape, size and color
that will be a constant delight and
the envy of your neighbors. Any one
can grow Dahlias, for they thrive best in
the poorest, lightest soil.

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262

Peo our Spring Imports we have a
large surplus on hand which we MUST
dispose of before PLANTING TIME is
over and therefore offer

Fa May Bargains

Every bulb is guaranteed SOUND, strong and sisnifett 3 size

I2 100
Anemones, many beautiful shades $. fe $ .25 $1.75
Amaryllis, including one RARE Giant Hybrid 1.00 2.00
Begonias, single, six colors 35 .60 4.00

double, five colors .60 1.00 6.00
Cannas, six colors, including rare white «50 1.00 7.50
Dahlia, NOVELTY PHONY FLOWERED 2.00 3.75

Rare chance to secure these magnificent sorts

$ .20 $ .35 $2.00
15

Gladioli, named, six colors
choice mixed

Japan Iris, strong clumps I.00 2.00 12.00
Lilies, Auratum, “Roseum, Album, Superbum .75 1.25 8.50
Lil, Henryii, ‘THE YELLOW SPECIOSUM”’ 1.25 2.25 17.50

MOST MAGNIFICENT OF GARDEN LILIES
Lil. Washingtonianom, ROSY DAWN LILY $1.20 $2.25
Paeonias, Japan sorts including the RARE Lotus

Paeonia, white, rose, violet, red $2.25 $4.00
Tigridis, Tigerflowers, brilliant colors 40 .75 $6.00
Tuberoses, double Pearl 20) 11630) 2:00:

Any one or three bulbs at six rate.
Our April offer holds good for May.

Send for our 1913 Spring Garden Book. Do not miss
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Price only $3.75 each. Send
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THE

A Hardy Pink Rose

HERE is a rose, Conrad F. Meyer, which
ought, I believe, to be much better known,

because it is so hardy, so prolific and long-blooming.
It is a cup-shaped, large, pink, rose, in flower from
Decoration Day until the buds are killed by frost.
Of course, its greatest effort is made in June and
after that the size and number of roses depend upon
the attention given to keep off insects and fungi
and to supply the soil with manure water. I have
two beds filled with this rose, each thirty feet wide
and ninety feet long, and the plants have been
blooming for six years. I picked the last flowers last
year on October 19th. The only fungus which has
bothered my plants has been the black spot, which
a couple of sprayings with bordeaux mixture usu-
ally eradicates for the season. The slugs I dispose
of with arsenate of lead, three pounds to fifty gallons
of water applied with a barrel sprayer, though a
hand machine does as well on a smaller bed.

A virtue of this rose, where its location is within
reach of the public (as in a park), is its great briars
on heavy wood stems. An occasional flower may
be lost, but if picked with one’s fingers, the stem
must necessarily be short; no one will attempt to
break down much of the bush, and if the plants are
pretty close together, no one will try to run through
or between them. Although I cut back my plants

every spring twenty to twenty-four inches, they are
six feet high in the fall and make quite a hedge.
Illinois.

A. W. JorDAN.

” for the Month

ROBABLY the amateur fruit grower who wants
all the best fruit adapted to his locality, has been
thinking that sometime he will plant them, learn
about best methods of culture, and do thorough
work at the right time. There are many things in
fruit culture that will be seasonably done, if done in
May, and a kind of schedule for May work, used as
a reminder, will be helpful.

If you are in the latitude of New York and did
not plant the new strawberry bed in April do it
early in May. If the leaves have made consider-
able growth, remove part of them and plant them
as directed in the April, 1912, GARDEN MaGazine.
Early planted strawberries should be given thorough
cultivation all through May. Stir the soil around
the plants with suitable tools just before the weeds
break through the soil. Run as close as possible
to the plants, with horse or hand-wheel cultivators,
and run them deeply between the rows both ways,
if plants are in check rows, and then work close

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

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May, 19138

Gardening
With Modern Tools

Saves hard work and
solves three problems
High cost of living

Fresh vegetables and fruit
Healthful exercise

= IRON AGE

Seed Drills and Wheel Hoes

is a very simple matter—

the stand-up, straight ahead way—

the safe way for the plants—

the most economical way for ground,
time and money—

the most productive way for good
crops—

the only way to get a good garden
in dry times—

the healthiest way for all concerned—

Women, boys and girls can handle
them when they cannot depend on
the man making garden.

The Wheel Hoe is just the tool to keep your poultry
yard stirred—the chicks are healthier in fresh
ground.

The tool shown below opens its own furrow, sows
accurately in hills or in continuous rows, covers
the seed, packs the soil, and marks the next row,
all in one operation. As a Wheel Hoe it cultiv-
ates, hoes, weeds, levels, ridges growing crops,
opens furrows and covers them, etc.

Parts are changed quickly. High steel wheels,
steel tube frame, clean scouring hoes are strong
features. All necessary adjustments for close
work.

38 combinations. $2.50 to $12.00

Ask nearest dealer or seedsman to show
» them and write us for new booklet,
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S b Also one on Sprayers for every purpose.

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rich, emerald-green, velvety appearance which
so many lawns of parks and larger estates have.

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Diseases”’

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Ke Rhododendron

HINK of the joy of having fine
big Rhododendrons like these
around your house just like our

grandmothers used to have lilacs.

Think of having the shady spots at
the border of your woods possessed
by pink, white, and delicate lavender
bloom clusters in May and June.

Then there’s that corner problem
that you have been puzzled so about
— plant some of the lower growing
kind in it with a few of the taller ones
in the back and the result will be
highly satisfactory.

Don’t hesitate to buy Rhododen-
drons fearing they are difficult to
make grow, or too expensive.

Hicks are neither. You will be
surprised at the reasonableness of our
prices and relieved to know how
simple is the care necessary to insure
their being happy and healthy.

Come and pick them out. If you
can’t come, order by phone or from
our catalog.

tg

eon g nce aes growing Sea aals at SR
© during spare time. Pleasant and profitable.
Plenty of berries for your own use. Every home should have a berry bed.

ALLEN’S STRAWBERRY BOOK gives full directioms as to varieties. cultural methods, etc. Will tell
YOU how to make money with berries. Illustrated. Sent PUEIE. Write TODAY.

Allen's 7¢v7e-to-name berry plants, small fruits,

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Fully described in Strawberry Book, Shipments GU ARAN TEED.

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The H. P. Spramotor shown here is
equally efficient on row crop or orchard
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crops greatest possible chance for max-
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This machine will thoroughly spray
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Notre. — There’s a Spramotor
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You owe it to yourself to find out all there
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without placing you under any obligation to buy.

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Buffalo, N. Y.

T HEY G) AVR De EN? Me ANG AGZ ay NEE May, 1913

start onthe plants you can easily cut them off with
one stroke of the hoe. _ ;
Spray, before the blossoms form, the bed of straw-_, \
berries which will fruit this year. Some of the |
best varieties, as Wm. Belt, etc., are less resistant 1
to blight than some of the poorer sorts, and the .
only safe way with them is to keep the foliage cov-
ered with bordeaux mixture (standard strength of |
5-5-50) until almost all the blossoms are out. Most
of the fruiting strawberry beds will need to be
weeded in May. If there are not many weeds, horse
cultivation between the rows is not best; but leave
on the mulch and stir the soil around the plants
with a forked hoe, and the weeds will come out !
easily in the moist soil. After weeding, if sufficient !
mulch was not put on during the winter, add more.
Lawn clippings make an ideal mulch. Coal ashes, . /
1

around the plant with a sharp hoe. If any runners |

t

and such material as will retain moisture and do
not contain weed seeds, are better than nothing.
Heavy mulching around the plants, taking care not
to smother them will keep down weeds, keep the
berries clean, and largely increase the crop.
Do not restrict your fruit garden to small fruits 1
only; have some trees. A row of dwarf trees as a i
border on both the west and north sides of the |
garden will be both ornamental and useful. Some 1
garden soils are too rich, low, and moist, for stand-
ard trees but are ideal for dwarfs, which need rich |
soil and high culture. Dwarf apple, pear, cherry 1
and plum trees can be planted in rows, if one pre-
fers, on one side of the garden, as close as six feet
apart. Apples on Paradise stock, or cherries on |
Mazzard stock, even the semi-hardy fruits as
peaches, sweet cherries, nectarines and tender varie-
ties of plums, can be grown by training the branches
of the trees like a grape vine, on the side of an out-
building (where the water from the eaves does not
fall directly on it), and protecting it in winter with
straw and burlap. The trellis, or garden fence or
wall, may also be used in place of the building. |
Plant early in May (in Central and Southern New
York), while the trees are in the dormant stage.
That is also a good time to do whatever pruning )
and spraying you neglected doing in April or |
March. Spray with lime-sulphur wash for scale
diseases and fungi while trees are dormant, but first
attend to the pruning. |
Bush, vine, and cane fruits, I plant either the last
of April or the first of May up to the time of leafing

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Genuine ‘Standard’ fixtures for the Home
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cut. Raspberries should be planted before the

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AER EEOC EE

A formerly sour, non-productive soil sweetened
by lime and ready for alfalfa

suckers from the roots start or else you might wait
until the last of May or first of June, and transplant
the green sucker plants. For early transplanting
of raspberries and blackberries, dig the last year’s
growth between the rows, shorten the canes to
about six or eight inches, leave on a few inches of
root, and plant in good garden soil. Plant red |
and yellow sucker varieties of raspberries in rows |
eight feet apart and black caps six feet apart. Plant
blackberries in rows ten feet apart.

After cane fruits I plant currants and goose-
berries in rows five feet apart, and grapes in rows
ten feet apart. When the soil is well plowed, har- |
rowed and furrowed, the transplanting is easily
done. Spread out the roots in the furrow and firm
the soil over them with the feet, then place a mulch
around the plants.

Usually about the middle of May the weeds are

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question, go to
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dealer in your
town, and have
him show you
the three pop-
ular priced
grades of these
now famous
window shades.

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For every
important window
choose the Brenlin ‘Unjilled
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unsightly streaks and “pin holes,” a Brenlin
Unfilled shade will last longer and make your
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Sun won’t fade this shade nor water spot it. It is
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For windows of less importance your dealer has the
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|Niagara Hydraulic Ram

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GARDEN

MAGAZINE

May, 1913

Saved $150 in
Six Months

An Illinois poultry raiser bought an
International Motor Truck for no other
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starting to grow through old plantations of the
above mentioned fruits. That is the time to use
the horse and cultivator between the rows, and to
do a little hand hoeing. Taking out old canes,
perhaps shortening the bearing canes, early culti-
vation, and mulching between the rows the last of
May, will give you large juicy, good-flavored berries.

Another very important thing to be done in May
is the building up of the soil without animal man-
ures, for often the renovation and fertilization of
non-productive soil is the greatest problem of garden
fruit culture. Probably there is part of the garden,
or some plot of land where the soil has become sour
and non-productive, or a piece of land you do not
wish to use for a year or two for gardening purposes;
the very best thing you can do, if the soil is well
drained and of a fair depth, and a cultivated crop
was grown on it last year, is to seed the land to
alfalfa sometime in May. There is nothing else
that I have done in many years of gardening that
has given me so much satisfaction. The principle
I know is right, and the progressive gardener and
fruit grower will thus renovate and restore worn out
soils with legumes instead of animal manures.
Thoroughly plow and harrow the soil, apply one
ton of quick or stone lime per acre after plowing,
putting it in piles, covering with earth, and spread-
ing after slaking. Sow one-half bushel of barley
per acre for < nurse crop, and harrow it in about
half an inch deep. Sow 30 pounds per acre of
guaranteed pure alfalfa seed and cover with roller
or plank drag, giving such tillage as will make a
very fine seed-bed.

When you are ready to use the alfalfa bed, per-
haps in a year or two, for a garden, you will find
the soil filled to its lowest depth with large roots
that have erated, lightened and changed its tex-
ture and composition. In this mass of roots, which
are perhaps two or three inches in diameter and
several feet long, is the humus and plant food for
all your garden crop —alfalfa takes more nitrogen
from the atmosphere and mineral food from a lower
depth of soil, than any other plant can reach.

New York. W. H. JENKINS.

Growing Early Cucumbers

ape HAVE cucumbers earlier in the spring than
one’s neighbors affords much satisfaction to a
gardener!

A method which I used in my garden last year
was to plant some cucumber seeds in pots and old
strawberry boxes filled with rich soil. It was done
about the first week in April. Then the pots were
placed in the hotbeds whence the cabbage plants
had been removed. The plants were watered often
and the frames were ventilated well.

When the frost was out of the ground and the
earth was warm, the plants were set out in the open
field. Ineach hill was put acupful of quick acting
fertilizer, such as bone. The fertilizer was well
mixed with the earth, so that the roots of the cu-
cumber would not come in actual contact with the
fertilizer. Weeds were kept out by cultivation and
tobacco dust was sprinkled around the plant to
prevent the ravages of insects. The root system is
so well developed by the time hot weather sets in
that drought does not affect the plants.

Cucumbers grown in this manner should be
ready for use in June. The only cucumbers on the
market at that time are the Southern and forced
ones.

Washington, D. C. Howe ct P. FRENCH.

This
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This is why they are most economical
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fruit and vegetables in E-Z Seal Jars.
They will keep indefinitely.

Most grocers sell E-Z Seal Jars. If :
yours does not, let us know.

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268 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE May, 1913
RRPBPRAAS RAH RATS SNS . :
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BN a process of producing enormous specimens.

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RS s Natures Soil builder fora special exhibit at one of tices anaes
Ss al f the fairs. ad grown
SS : sae : large specimens at other times but the method of
RSS lt is a fertilizing stimulant, plant producing them had not occurred to me until the
x food, and lasting soil builder, combined. procedure of this season’s work was summed up in
3 It is five times stronger and lasts ten my garden diary.

RN times longer than barnyard manures. The first thing to do is to start the seed early.
Rey ‘ ; : i Last year I planted mine in paper pots the first
SS It is neither a flashy, short-lived, chemical week in May, three weeks earlier than the usual
& x xs preparation, nor a high-priced, dried manurial ree pine ae) and sg epee anies

Se : 5 5 : phen bee ig em to their permanent positions in melon frames.

NS EN Peas eu oepy ee ; oe oe rich in The soil was dug away to a depth of a foot and a
BY Bs e ten elements essential for plant life. prepared compost soil placed in its stead, the area
ES ei Nitroge G 9 is being five feet each way. The ground was banked
y < ogen, the vital element of all life, it pos g

Be ax Be ei a ea Paes 2 about six inches high over the entire area and the
RY ws g gree. plants set out in the center of the plot. One pound

RS ae When used freely, it will make even barren, of sulphate of potash and two pounds of acid phos-

RRS sandy soil lastingly productive. phate were broadcasted on the space and raked into

a 5 : : ; the soil.

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== cas ; : watere e ground “baked” an e plants wilte

S ESSS BSS Serene ear fa time of He year. It does away because the plants covered the ground and could
N Se WSeSS entire y with the litter or manures, and attracts not be disturbed on account of their rooting at
SS no flies. Needs no raking off. each joint along the vine. They were sub-irrigated

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Being in powdered form it is easily and quickly
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For shrubbery, trees, and gardens; landscape
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Price F.O. B. Alphano, N. J.

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A lack of water will stunt pumpkins. A method
of sub-irrigation is here shown

—a drain tile was placed in the ground at a depth
of a foot near the hill of plants, with ample drainage
around the bottom of the tile so that the soil would
not wash.

The first blossoms that appear are the ones to
secure the specimens from; and be content in secur-
ing but two specimens froma plant. I donot pinch
the vines back because they take root at the leaf

A bumper crop of pumpkins and squashes that
any gardener can produce in his garden

joints and help the plant to pick up food. I pick
off the extra fruit blossoms as soon as formed
because the greater part of the plant’s energy is
used in producing fruit and if it is spread out on
too many specimens they will be smaller.

When the fruit is the size of a derby hat it should
be placed on the blossom end, flat on the ground; if
this is not done the specimen will be out of shape or
flat sided. If the situation be such that the sun-

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270 THE GARDEN MAG AZINE May, 1913

SDE RORRON AL CENUING CE RANFE TANKS ANT MA
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| light cannot reach all the sides of the fruit it should

be turned once a week to another position to secure
an even color on the surface. Turn the speci-
men with care because if the vine is twisted it
is liable to cause a check in circulation in the same
manner as when a garden hose is doubled or kinked.
Connecticut. Garrett M. Stack.

Leeks for the Home Garden

EEKS have been called the most aristocratic
member of the onion family. Those who dis-
like the onion will remark that that is not saying
much for them, but as a matter of fact leeks should
be compared more with asparagus and celery than
with the common onion. In fact, they are blanched
like celery, though only for a few inches in height,
and if well grown have a tenderness and delicacy
when cooked that remind one of creamed asparagus
tips. Being mild in flavor, also, they do not seem
to taint the breath like their more pungent ple-
beian relative, and for salads they surpass the best
Bermudas. Moreover, they are more easily
grown than the onion. In some seasons, when for
one reason or another onions have not done well
with me, the leeks have been a splendid success.
They can be grown, too, as a second crop, being
transplanted like celery after some early crop like
peas, lettuce, or early potatoes, and being one of the
hardiest of annuals they need not be harvested till
late — mine braved the weather till into December
one year. Their medicinal effect upon the system
is admirable, and they cannot be too highly recom-
mended for persons of sedentary habits.

A five-cent packet of seed will produce more
plants than the average garden will have room for.
The seed should be fresh as it cannot be expected
to germinate if more than a year old. I sow them
rather thinly in shallow drills four to six inches
apart in a spare corner of the garden in May. They
should be carefully weeded, as from their slender
upright habit of growth they cannot themselves
crowd down the weeds. If the seed comes up
“as thick as the hairs on a dog’s back,” the weakest
seedlings should be thinned out, leaving three or
four to an inch of row. ‘These seedlings will be
more stocky if nearly half their length is sheared off
once or twice in the course of their growth.

As summer comes on and some mellow, rich soil is
left vacant by the maturing of an early crop, spade
in some well-rotted manure or commercial fertilizer.
Mark out rows a foot or more apart, and on the
morning of a lowery day or the evening of a bright
one transplant the seedlings to the fresh soil, set-
ting them down to the joint of the first leaf and
two inches apart in the row. If they can be
watered afterward, that will insure their living. A
little nitrate of soda, scattered sparingly along the
rows, will start them up in a few days. Cultivate
like any similar crop. never letting the weeds be-
come established. As the stem begins to develop,
draw the soil up around it as high as is convenient
without intruding on the heart of the plant.

Leeks can be used at any time in the fall, and for
winter use can be taken up, with the soil clinging to
the roots, and packed upright in large boxes with a
layer of earth at the bottom, and placed in the cel-
lar. After a cold night, however, do not handle the
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Classifying Iris

VW ee are the principles governing the classi-
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for the different root growth in the same family? To
what distinctive part of the flower does ‘‘bearded”’

G. B. F.

_and “beardless” refer?

California.

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bulbs and are usually classed among Holland bulbs
and are handled much the same as tulips, hyacinths,
etc; the Japanese, Siberian irises, and others of
this class form very short, tufted rhizomes; while
the Germanica and nearly all the tall bearded sec-
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are those which have a velvety ‘“‘beard,” extending
down the base of the lower petals, and include all
the Germanica section with most of the dwarf irises,
pumila, etc. The beardless irises are those with-
out this beard, included in which are Japanese,
Siberian, orientalis, aurea, Monneiri, etc. Crested
irises are those which have a raised tuft or crest
along the centre of the falls instead of the beard;
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irises not commonly grown in this country. An-
other class is Regelio and Oncocyclus irises. These
are mostly natives of Asia Minor, their season of
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How to Exhibit Peonies

| es amateurs: $25.00 for the best collection
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We had plenty of kinds to choose from and no
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We had been preparing for the show some weeks -

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matter of hours, not of minutes, if you have many
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plant and stakes together. This saves stem and
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loveliness of the flowers.

HOW TO DISBUD

At about the time that the staking was done, we
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six stems of every plant. This should be done
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offers any difficulty, provided the boxes are handled
with gentleness by their owner.

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interest with which the owner of a great estate
reads in the papers the following morning that the
peonies, “staged by his able gardener,” secured a
prize. He feels glad, I suppose; but as for you, your
heart is in your mouth with surprise and pride.

The wrapped flowers will have to be returned to
their boxes and carried to the exhibition hall.
There your assigned place is awaiting you; the ugly
quart preserve jars, which they supply you to hold
your treasures, waiting, each with open mouth,
to take just one bloom. Unwrap the flowers,
shake them lightly, and they fall into lovely form
again at once. Regardless of aesthetic feeling, cut
the stem short enough to enable it to stand almost
entirely under water, the flower resting near the
edge of the glass. With all that water supply the
blooms stand their best chance of preserving their
freshness, until the three judges pass by; and even
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the name of some particular beauty of yours.

Oh! the excitement of the contest, and the pure
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Would that any words of mine could persuade
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A Rare Garden Plant

SOeEON sent me a basket of papaws (Asi-
mina) from Indiana, some thirty or forty years
ago, and from these I raised at my home in Clinton,
N. Y., a single tree. It has borne heavily annually,
with a fruit about three to four inches long and
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sufficiently beautiful to claim a place in the garden
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feet high, with all the limbs drooping. In May it is
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be secured. I have found the seed very difficult
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only make them grow, but will be able to select
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very nearly identical with that of the persimmon,
and the wood has also that tendency to being brittle
which annoys us very much with our persimmon
grafts.

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summer. I have not been able to find, so far, any
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Been cultivation now; frequent cultivation
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Pumpkins may be sown now. Some farmers
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having them in a separate patch.

When onions are nearly grown take the soil from
around the bulbs to hasten maturity.

Remember to plant okra if you have not already
done so.

Make supports for running beans and tomatoes.
Small oak bushes will be found excellent for the
former. i

IN THE FLOWER GARDEN

Continue to plant gladiolus. The largest bulbs
produce the best flowers.

Sow sunflower seed; the double sort is probably
the most beautiful, but the large single headed sort
is the most useful if the seed is wanted for the poul-
try.

Cosmos grows like a weed and flowers freely here
in the South even on loose soil. Sow the seed at
any time during the month. It is also not too late
to plant tuberose bulbs.

Put out chrysanthemum plants. Remember
that they blossom at a time when other flowers are
scarce.

Sow a few seeds of cypress vine and cultivate the
same as morning glories. The fern-like foliage
and small trumpet-like flowers are very pretty.

Continue to sow seed of asters and daisy. Use
good varieties and give them sufficient attention.

Georgia THomaAs J. STEED.

Getting Down to One’s Own
Region

[Ee YOU feel you really must have some formal
planting in your garden and do not care.to use
Eastern material which you know has failed, try
the native plants — say four Spanish dagger plants
(Yucca aloifolia) in the centre, bordering these with
century plants (Magna or Agave) in their varied
forms from white and yellow to olive green; then
have another circle of hardy native spineless cactus
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changeable climate. These interspersed with the:
coral blossomed Hesperaloe and Sutol will grow on
a dry exposed spot in the bright Texas sunshine
where tender eastern plants are impossible. And
these have real “‘local color,” as the artists say.
Texas. H. B. Beck.

May, 19138

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A NEw LOVE STORY
By Mrs. Humphry Ward

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“if 4 The Mating of Lydia

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Tools for Gardening

OR of our most useful garden tools is what we
calla “‘spud.” It is made ofa thin steel plate,
probably 23 inches wide and 6 inches long, bolted
into the end of an old rake handle. The whole
thing is about five and a half feet long. With this
we can cut off the blossoms in a field of straw-
berries in one half the time usually required and do
it easier. The blossoms are more apt to be taken
off the new plants at the proper time if there is an
easy way to do the job. This same spud is also
mighty useful in removing dandelions, plantain,
and other weeds from the lawn.

Another tool which has no name, we made for
weeding onions. The stick or handle is three feet
long and as light and strong as possible. In the
end is set.a piece of hoop iron # of an inch wide. It
may be any length, though ours is three inches long.
This iron is bent in the shape of a hook, the end
being only bent or turned back toward the handle
about 7 of an inch.

We can take three or four rows of onions with
this tool after the wheel hoe is run through and get
practically all the weeds and do a thorough job with-
out bending our backs. The only one objection
to this is that hired help will not take enough care
with it and usually cut the sides of some of the
onions and spoil them.

We also have a seeder and the attachments for
all kinds of cultivating. The seeder and wheel
hoes were bought primarily for the working of
onions. Gradually we found that the wheel hoe
attachments could be used profitably in the short
rows of the home garden, where we now use the
tool almost exclusively. Except for the wheel
hoes we have not found much real use for the other
attachments with which the tool is equipped.
However, the wheel hoes alone make it many times
worth having.

Ohio. R. E. RoceErs.

Measures for the Garden

pe MEASURE the distance from row to row,
or from plant to plant, it may be that you
sometimes use your garden tools instead of bringing
out a yardstick. If your only object is evenness,
you can do this without knowing the precise num-
ber of inches in your tool; but it is the habit of
manufacturers to make their tools exactly to some
ordinary unit of measure; and if you will learn
what these units are you can then use them for
measuring distances expressed in inches and feet.

My own tools are ordinary ones and they give me
the following exact measurements: My spade is
three feet, of which the handle is two feet and the
blade one. My trowel is one foot, the blade being
just one half. The head of my rake is one foot,
divided into halves by the attachment of the handle,
and the teeth are one and one eleventh inches apart.
The handle of my rake is a six-foot stick, but it is
set into the head in such a way that the whole rake
is a little more, and the visible part of the wood a
little less, than six feet. It is clear that with these
tools I can readily measure any desired number of
feet and half-feet, and that by a little calculation
I could make my rake-teeth serve the practical
purposes of a yard stick. Measure your own tools,
for they are probably not all equal to mine (my
neighbor’s rake-head is thirteen inches), and you
will find that the knowledge of their lengths will
often save a trip to the house for the yardstick.

That is, for some purposes. There remain some
things for which the yardstick is decidedly handier.
When you are thinning a row, lay the yardstick
down along the row; don’t move it till you have
thinned the whole three feet. You can work as
rapidly and easily in this way as by guessing at the
distance, and much more reliably. If imperfect
germination compels you to leave your thinning
unpleasantly uneven, you can carry out the re-
duction of ‘‘six inches apart” to ‘three in every
eighteen inches” or ‘‘six in three feet”’ much better
by having the measure lying stationary on the
ground.

I do the same in planting those seeds which have
trouble in breaking through the top of the ground,
such as carrots and parsnips. Their natural way
is for a number of seeds to sort of céoperate in
lifting the surface of the ground. I let them have
their way; if I want them to stand five inches apart

May, 19138

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I lay down the yardstick and drop a little bunch
of seeds at the figures 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 353
move the stick forward, and repeat the planting.
I think they come up better this way than by the
traditional method of planting radish seed with
them; then, when I thin them, to one plant to
each bunch, I am never tempted to leave more for
the sake of sparing an especially fine plant, and even
if my germination was imperfect my plants after
thinning are exactly even in spacing unless a whole
bunch failed. If you like you can plant them at half
distance, three inches apart where they are finally
to be six, and eat the half-way ones half grown.

How much irregularity you can allow in your
thinning, depends on what the crop is and how far
its roots spread sidewise and cross those of other
plants. A great deal of corn has been very suc-
cessfully raised in hills: if you have planted yours
in drills, to be thinned to one foot apart in the drill
but your germination was poor, and in order to get
strong stalks you have to make out the number of
six plants in six feet by spacing them successively
20 in., 9 in., 7 in., 8in., 12 in., 16 in., this simply
means that you have changed your drill arrange-
ment to a sort of compromise between hill and drill,
which may be the best possible thing under your
circumstances. But no one ever heard of raising
turnips successfully in hills. Two turnips or
carrots growing close together will hinder each
other’s development even if there is not another
plant within six feet. Doubtless turnips that are
to be thinned to a foot apart can safely be allowed
to stand at distances of alternately 8 inches and 16
inches; but if you let two spaces of 8 inches come
next each other I do not believe that any liberality
of spacing before and after them will make the
middle turnip of the three grow much larger than
if the whole row had been thinned to the 8-inch
standard. Cabbages, though not a root crop, are
more like turnips than like corn in this respect.

It follows that for the turnips there is no ad-
vantage in having a ruler more than two feet long,
except that you do not have to move it so often;
but for the corn you are likely to want a stick of
six feet or so, attending merely to the two ends of
the stick, and spacing the proper number of stalks
between the ends by your eye and not by any marks
on the stick. I use a six-foot rod that my father
made when I was a boy, with feet notched across
one side and inches notched along one corner.
One thing that I value that stick for is that I can
feel the measurements in the dark. I do not know
how many more people there are who cultivate a
larger garden than they have enough daylight for,
but I do know that a good deal of starlight work
has been done in my garden, and this six-foot stick
has often been carried out for work that, by daylight,
would have been done with the lighter yard stick.

Massachusetts. STEVEN T. ByINGTON.

Brief Fertilizer Notes

Nie of potash is poison to hyacinths,
even to the second season after the salt has
been used on the ground.

Tulips planted in good vegetable garden soil
with no manure dug in and top dressed in February
with muriate, are happy in the diet, and are large,
long stemmed, and early. If it is desired to feed
nearby fruit trees a good salting of equal parts of
muriate of potash and nitrate of soda may be given
before the tulips come up.

The asparagus bed responds to nitrate if well
watered. ‘Tillage alone is not a substitute under
artificial stimulation such as this.

Lettuce grows faster and is better if acid phos-
phate or superphosphate is incorporated in the soil.
The same is true of heliotrope. Beans and string
beans are indifferent to phosphate, but leap ahead,
as do tomato plants, under nitrate of soda. All
narcissus resent nitrate of soda, but Primula ob-
conica thrives and blooms on what they detest.

Of narcissus and muriate of potash, JV. biflorus,
N. Barri conspicuus, N. poeticus, N. poeticus or-
natus (or King Edward), and Emperor, show most
marked liking for it. Horsfieldi is not improved.

Dahlia roots (of the fall of torr) dipped at time
of digging in a bucket of weak lime sulphur solution
kept through the following winter with less rot
than any roots not dipped. It is a powerful disin-
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Pennsylvania. E. S. JOHNSON.

May, 1913

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this spring is a matter of choice and not of necessity.”

An Easily Made Perennial Garden
is yours almost for the asking. Perennials add a feeling of permanency to
your home surroundings. They change their plumage but not their face
and keep reflecting the seasons all the year around.

Tnourattractive booklet—‘“Hardy Gardens Easily Made for the Busy Man,”
we show simply prepared plans adaptable to most situations with the lowest
estimates of cost. A little money goes a long way and the results are lasting.

On receipt of five cents in stamps which will be credited to your first order,
we will send you this valuable plan book together with our handsomely illus-
trated catalogue (48 pages 9 x 12, the limit of true economy worked out}.

THE PALISADES NURSERIES

Growers of Palisades Popular Perennials and Landscape Gardeners

R. W. Clucas, Mgr. SPARKILL, N. Y.

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

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Plants and Trees
FROM FLORIDA

For Southern planting outdoors and
for house decoration in the North

TRADE MARE

E have made a special study of this matter for
30 years and have achieved a success in grow-
ing beautiful plants and in delivering them in like
beautiful condition to the most distant purchasers.

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It takes special care and prep-
aration to properly pack delicate
palms, ferns, etc., to stand a trip
of thousands of miles, but we do
it — not just once in a while, but
a good many times every workday.
We issue a large catalog covering
all our stock, having 17 special

We Have

in immense variety, from all over the tropics,
and are constantly adding to our variety.
Whenever you want a rare (or common)
plant or tree merely look in our complete
index in catalog, which should be on your
desk or library table for ready reference,
and order it by Parcel Post at catalog
price, postpaid, or, if a large specimen, by

Royal Palm Nurseries

Departments; the plants and trees,
etc., are all classified in these De-
partments, with special notes on
hardiness to withstand cold, and
when to transplant, and so on, so
that a novice can make intelligent
selections for the living room, con-
servatory, orchard or garden.

the Stock

Express or Freight. We ship to all our
foreign colonies Mexico, Canada, Europe
and all tropical countries, as well as all
parts of the United States. On receipt of
your request we shall be glad to send a
catalog, and we promise no follow-up
literature or passing your name on to other
firms.

Res romietere Qneco, Florida

Farr’s Bulbs from Holland

Imported to Your Own Order

You who desire the better grades of spring flowering bulbs for autumn
planting will welcome this special import service.

Again this year the most conscientious bulb fanciers in Holland are pro-
ducing their finest stock for me exclusively. These bulbs I offer at prices
no higher than ordinarily are asked for indifferently good stock. To secure
this first selec ion for my clients I must have the orders in the hands of the
growers early in July, so the ‘‘mother bulbs”’ of Farr quality may be sorted

out in the field. Therefore, I offer

Ten Per Cent. Discount on Orders Before July 1

Many rare and valuable daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, bulbous irises and
other plants are described in my 1913 book, “Farr’s Quality Bulbs and
Plant Specialties,’ sent gladly to you who prefer quality to quantity.

Come to Wyomissing June 1 to 7 to see
600 kinds of Peonies in Bloom

Only by seeing can you realize the wealth of beauty of the peony fields at
Wyomissing — acres on acres of glorious bloom, rich with the warmth of
myriad glowing colors. Here you can select your own favorites and study
the newest of the queen of summer flowers. Peonies will be at their best
June 1 to 7, when I will be glad to meet visitors. Come to Wyomissing —

let me know when to meet you.

BERTRAND H. FARR, 104 Garfield Boulevard, WYOMISSING, PA.

If you wish to systematize your business the Readers’ Service may be able to offer suggestions

286 THE GARDEN

Carrara

for the

L the Art Rooms of the Wanamaker Store may
be found a unique and interesting collection of
Italian garden marbles. Many are hand-chiseled in
classic designs of
exquisite Carrara
marble. These
landscape marbles
are extremely
desirable for the
summer garden.
There are seats
and benches of
many shapes and
sizes, central and
wall fountains,

Massive Garden Seat, $125 urns, jardinieres,

Curved Garden Bench, $45. Other benches $30 up.

MAGAZINE May, 1918

Marbles
Garden

tables, lions, flower stands and flower boxes, win-
dow boxes, in fact everything to make the garden
complete and attractive.
All are chosen at first hand from the Italian
studios where such garden
art is a specialty. This fact
has brought about two im-
portant results: —unexpect-
edly moderate prices, and
admirable fitness for the land-
scape purposes for which
they are designed.
To facilitate obtaining
extra pieces quickly, or ex-
ecuting special orders from
particular designs, the
Wanamaker Store has a
code system through which

such orders are promptly Centre Fountain, $145.

filled. Other wall and centre
fountains, $90 up,

The Art Rooms are also
showing many interesting and beautiful terra cottas
of dainty colorings that would be a charming addi-
tion to any garden.

JOHN WANAMAKER

Tenth Street and Broadway

New York

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N the same soil and sortment of such fine stock.
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of handling
stock and in-
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ping facilities

Before placing your order for nursery stock get
our quotations. It will pay.

Some species are listed below and many others
are on hand at similarly low rates.

Comparison of prices will convince you that ours
are the lowest in the country for best grade stock.
To this natural,
climatic and soil
advantage we &
further assist
their develop- aps
ment by careful im
systematic
culture and

Prices per 1000 Plants

Seedlings Transplants
White Pine ore cae ee i $6.00
Red Pine Boe a aa ae
Scotch Pine
Jack Pine
Western Yellow Pine
Norway Spruce
Engelman Spruce
European Larch
Douglas Fir
Arborvite
Oriental Arborvite .
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JUNE Irises for Every Garden

1913 Propagating Shrubs Thinning
Vol. XVII. No.5 Radishes for the Connoisseur

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World’s Choicest Nursery and Greenhouse Products

Our Nursery consists of 300 acres of highly cultivated land and a large area covered with Greenhouses and Storehouses in which we are growing Nursery

and Greenhouse Products for every place and purpose.

THE FOLLOWING ARE AMONGST OUR SPECIALTIES:

ROSES. Pot-grown, we have several thousand Rose Plants
that will bloom this year.

RHODODENDRONS. Many thousands of acclimated
plants in hardy English and American varieties are growing
in.our Nursery.

HARDY OLD-FASHIONED PLANTS. We grow thou-
sands of rare, new and old-fashioned kinds, including Peonies
and Iris in a large variety.

HEDGE PLANTS. We grow a large quantity of California

Privet, Berberis and other Hedge Plants adapted to all parts
of the country.

PALMS AND DECORATIVE PLANTS. We have several
acres of Greenhouses in which we grow Palms, Ferns and a
large collection of Plants for Interior and Exterior decorations.

OUR NEW GIANT-FLOWERING MARSHMALLOW.
Everybody should be interested in this new, old-fashioned
flower. It will grow everywhere and when in bloom is the
queen of all garden flowers.

STRAWBERRIES. Potted and Field-grown in all the

EVERGREENS, CONIFERS AND PINES. Many acres
of our Nursery are devoted to their cultivation.

BOXWOOD. Everybody loves the aroma of old-fashioned
Boxwood. We grow thousands in many shapes and
sizes.

_ ENGLISH IVY. We grow many thousand in trained forms

and ordinary plants from two to eight feet tall.
HARDY TRAILING AND CLIMBING VINES. We have

them in pots for every place and purpose.

BEDDING PLANTS. We grow many thousands of Bedding
Plants in all the popular kinds.

BAY TREES. We are Headquarters for them. We carry
at all times hundreds and often times during the year several
thousands may be seen in our Nursery.

LAWN GRASS SEED. Our Rutherford Park Lawn Mix-
ture has given satisfaction everywhere.

PLANT TUBS, WINDOW BOXES AND ENGLISH
GARDEN FURNITURE. We manufacture all shapes and

leading varieties. sizes.

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OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CATALOGUE No. 25 DESCRIBES OUR PRODUCTS. Will be mailed upon request.

THE PROPER WAY TO BUY is to see the material growing. We shall gladly give our time and attention to all intending purchasers visiting our
Nursery and invite everybody interested in improving their grounds to visit us.

VISITORS take Erie Railroad to Carlton Hill, second stop on Main Line; 3 minutes’ walk to Nursery.

OUR LANDSCAPE DEPARTMENT: Plan and Plant Grounds and Gardens Everywhere With Our “World’s Choicest Nursery and Greenhouse Products”
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( Act This Month To Have ( | SANNA AAS

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. at 10 Per Cent 17
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Darwin tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, iris and lilies — all
the hardy bulbs that, planted this fall, will make your flower
garden a source of greater joy next spring — are being grown for
me now by Holland’s most conscientious specialists.

These bulb fanciers reserve for me the finest of their output—
heavy, solid bulbs that will give the largest blooms. Only a
small part of their product is good enough to meet the rigid
requirements that we have agreed upon, and all is sold before
planting time. These first selection bulbs cost no more than
merely ordinarily good stock, and 10% discount is allowed on
orders entered before July 1, for stock to be imported to your |
individual order. |

Orders received after July 1, will be filled, if possible, but the |
extra quality of the bulbs available then cannot be guaranteed,
as that for import orders is guaranteed.

: My new book ‘‘Farr’s Quality Bulbs and i]
i 7 Plant Specialties” is ready i
It lists the spring flowers that you will want — varieties not
usually offered in American catalogues, including the choice and
rare bulbous-rooted Irises. The book gladly will be sent to you
who desire quality in bulbs and plants.

Hardy Chrysanthemums for You to Plant Now

Now — the sooner the better — is the time to plant hardy chrysanthemums
to make the autumn flower garden beautiful. My collection includes the
choicest kinds, which, if planted at once, will give you in the fall a wealth of
rich oriental coloring unaffected by ordinary freezing. Tell me your garden
needs and let me send you my lists.

Bertrand H. Farr, 104 Garfield Boulevard, Wyomissing, Pa.

QQ

jime To Plant
] Our Hardy
i} Perennials

You know it’s the perennials
that come up year after year,
all by themselves. No care
—no trouble.

Each Spring they seem to compete with
each other in a race to be first to greet
you and then all Summer long bloom
continually.

If you don’t plant them now, you must
wait another year for results and that
would be too bad.

Our plants have the backbone in them
that growing in our sturdy Massa-
chusetts climate gives. It’s a guarantee
against their “winter killing.” Our
word is a bond to those who know us.
Your order will be shipped at once.

Send for our catalog.

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JuNE, 1913

Grow Your Own Vegetables

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Cut down your living expenses. You'll be astonished how healthful it is
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catalogue. Send postal for it today.
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Everyone

: F ree Interested in D ahlias

should send us, today, a post card for our Descriptive
Dahlia Catalogue, entitled, “New Creations in Dahlias,”
containing accurate descriptions and the plain truth about
the best Dahlias that bloom. Beautifully illustrated—
the leading American Dahlia catalogue.

Peacock’s Quality, Dahlias that Bloom

Planted in June will give you those fine large Exhibition
Blooms you admire so much at the shows. No matter
if you have some planted now, you will be delighted to
have a few more that will surpass your neighbors.

Plant in June for Exhibition Bloom
we know it! After atrial you will know it!

Your Pleasure is Our Pleasure

Just that you may know the rare beauty of our Dablias, send us 10c.
(stamps or coin) and receive postpaid by return mail, catalogue and a
strong field grown root of our new Dahlia “Jack Rose’? — the world’s
best crimson.

DOROTHY PEACOCK. Larger, clearer pink, and finer in every way
than Mrs. Gladstone, a strong vigorous grower, early, free and contin-
uous bloomer. The Dahlia withouta fault. Mail postpaid 50c. each.
Special trial offers. To demonstrate the superiority of our Dahlias we
will send the following strong field roots each labeled absolutely true to
name. °3 show 30c., 3 decorative 30c., 3 Cactus 40c., 3 Paeony Flowered
40c., 3 New Century 40c. The5 sets Dorothy Peacock and Jack Rose,
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Of Helping You Get Ahead

Even if it is summer, and too late to plant Hardy Flowers, Shrubs, or Trees, don’t put aside
all thoughts of planting until Spring comes again. Plan for your planting now.

Come to our nursery and make your selections for Fall delivery. Plant this Fall—not next Spring.

Hicks’ evergreens you can plant from the first of August on. Our shipment records of thousands
of evergreens, show as good or better success in August and September planting than in the Spring.
“The réason is the ground is warm and induces extensive root growth before Winter.

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Hicks’ Way
On Your Planting

The foliage evaporation is less in September than May.

The advantage to you is, you get your planting done — your men
have more time to do the work. Your have the advance enjoyment
of the evergreens all this Fall and Winter.

Hicks’ nurseries offer small evergreens by the
thousand at low rates. Big evergreens 15 to 30
feet high that save you 20 years of waiting for
small ones to grow up.

If you have desirable big cedars and pines in
your neighborhood, let us arrange to send our
special apparatus and skilled men to move them
in coOperation with your local men and teams.
They will live and thrive moved Hicks’ way.

It’s worth your while to come to the nursery

If you can’t — do the next best — write.

Hicks’ evergreens have been
Aball of earth onan evergreen tepeatedly root-pruned and
like this does not. do much transplanted until they have
good. Thereare not enough aquantity of fibrousrootsin the
fine rootlets in the ball to ball. tf you have had the ex-
absorb sufficient nourishment perience you know the advan-

to give the treea vigorous tage of buying such root-
start. pruned stock.

Isaac Hicks and Son
Westbury, L. I.

Have a Cool, Airy, Shady Porch

where you can pass the hot,
sultry days and nights

3 Du al Or —

keep out the sun, let in the air,seclude you from passersby. They are strongly
made of light, flexible wooden strips, lock-stitched with seine twine and
indelibly stained (not painted nor dipped) to harmonize with your
house. They give many seasons of comfort and satisfaction.

(J
. Don’t confuse with cheap bamboo screens that scarcely last one season. a
# Look for the Vudor name-plate. Costs $3 to $10 to equip the average porch. oO PAN)
Send for Free Booklet describing Vudor Porch Shades and Hammocks. shes
We send you name of nearest dealer and sample name-plate so you «, ROI i
can identify your shades. oom
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We are makers of the famous oe Sing ef)
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reenforced centers and special
end cords that double their life.

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TAKADA
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Price including receiving box $5 f. 0. b. Chicago.

BLUEBIRD HOUSE—Solid oak, PURPLE MARTIN HOUSE —

cypress shingles and copper 3 stories and attic; 26 rooms.

coping. Price §5, f.o.b. Chicago. Price $12 f.0.b. Chicago. With
all-copper top, $15.00.

Write for Illustrated Folder About Birds
JOSEPH H. DODSON, A Director of the Illinois Audubon Society,

Bob White Quail

Partridges and Pheasants

Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails,
Rabbits, Deez, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks,
Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels,
Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals.

WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist

Dept. 55, Pheasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA.

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Get Rid of Sparrows, Native Birds Will Return

The Dodson Trap Catches Sparrows

_ Successful everywhere. One man writes: “I caught between
“wu 75 and too sparrows the first day.”’

i Remove birds once a day.
some sparrow and attract our native birds to your grounds.
Put up Dodson Bird Houses—designed and built on the
experience of 17 years’ study of birds.

HOUSE FOR TREE OR WHITE
BELLIED SWALLOW—Cypress, $3.00 oak, cypress shingles,
(with all-copper top $4.00) f.o.b.Chicago.
Also made with two compartments for
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This trap works all
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WREN HOUSE — Solid

copper coping. Price
$5.00 f.0.b. Chicago.

909 Association Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

Anyone Can Raise Poultry
with the Colony Laying House

Winter or summer, it
is always healthful and :
comfortable. Com- j
pletely protects against
rats, cats, skunks,
hawks, etc. In stormy
weather the run can be
covered, top and sides.

One man can easily
raise several hundred
chickens in the Colony
Laying House. Com-
pletely equipped with
nests, fountain and feed
trough. Easy to clean
and ventilate. Can be
put together in fifteen
minutes.

We carry a compiete line of poultry houses.

Write today for free Poultry Catalogue.

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MAPLECROFT S. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS

In order to make room for some 1,500 young birds hatched since January tst, we are selling choice young breeding hens

about ten months old at greatly reduced prices, viz. $1.50,

$2. and $3. each, according to quality desired.

Choice Cock birds and Cockerels for breeding purposes at $5. and upward and anyone in need of high class utility breeding
stock should avail themselves of this offer within the next two weeks.

EGGS for SALE from Choice Exhibition Matings—$30. and $15. per setting. Send for Circular

MAPLECROFT FARMS

Pawling, N.Y.

Our Home Study Course in Practical Poultry
Culture under Prof. Chas K. Graham, late of the
Connecticut Agricultural College, teaches how to
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Personal instruction. Expert advice.
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BELLE MEADE FARM
Box 15 Markham, Va.

SITUATION WANTED by Dutch Landscape Arch-
itect, married, 32 years old, 9 years manager and
proprietor from large landscape nurseries (in Holland)

including fruits, greenhouses, orchards, forcing, roses, etc.

First class Dutch and American references. Speaks
English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish. Address
J. T. METZGER, 270 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ont., Can.

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There are some cattle that give more milk when
they are fresh than a Jersey, but there isn’t any
breed that gives as rich milk as

| They Keep It Up

The Jersey

at as small feeding cost, nor is there any breed of
cattle that will keep it up like Jerseys will, year in

and year out. That’s why you ought to buy Jerseys
to increase your herd’s efficiency. Send for Jersey
facts.
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make GREEN MOUNTAIN
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GARDEN MAGAZINE

JuNeE, 1913

LETTERS

We have said it so often that there is no
real excuse for saying it again, but we will:
We like to get letters from our readers; not
letters just saying, ‘‘Enclosed please find
blank dollars for, etc.,’’ these are, of course,
our life’s blood, but we enjoy the letters which
keep us thinking about what our readers want
from us or do not want. Take, for example,
this one which comes from a ranch in Colorado:

“_T had been looking for the Garden Magazine every
day since the 5th, but it did not reach me till last night.
Just time to get supper, but I hastily changed my plans
to something that could be more quickly prepared and
sat down to read ‘The Garden Doctor.’

“You who live where you can see people and flowers
and trees have no idea what such an article means to a
lover of such things stranded as I am, away out here
on the bare prairie, not even in sight of another house,
and from two to five miles to the nearest neighbors.
Those woodsy things like ‘The Garden Doctor’ are
next best to being there myself.

“T also liked the ‘Little Farm’ series, and find
many helpful ideas in the whole magazine.”

Weare sorry about the magazine being late.
The Post Office Department carries the Colo-
rado mail by freight and we can’t help the
delay, but it is worth much to us that this
lady likes The Garden Magazine, and we are
sending her with our compliments a copy of
‘““Adventures in Friendship,’ which is the
kind of out-of-door philosophy which will
warm her heart on that Colorado prairie.

Another reader in near-by Massachusetts
has this to say:

“The serial stories are fine. Do keep on with that
idea. We are intensely interested in ‘The Garden
Doctor.’ I have just read ‘The Harvester’ and these
stories make me wild to have a larger garden. But
you aren’t going to crowd out ‘Readers’ Service?’
Wish that would occupy more space.”

And still another subscriber, who is as kind
as the others, writes to us, -but while she
likes “The Garden Doctor,” has this decided
objection:

ae the illustrations are unusually good, too,

except the bracelet. A neurasthenic of several years’
standing, indifferent to all things, compelled against
her will to sit up a half hour daily, would hardly be
tricked out in a bracelet. It is curious to note how
persistent that bracelet is, especially in advertisements.
The cook-lady, the wash-lady, the scrub-lady, whether
ironing, or varnishing floors, or washing the baby, in
bed or out, dressed or undressed — they are all addicted

“To business that we love we rise betime j
And go to’’t with delight.’ — Antony and Cleopatra

4

to the use of the bracelet, and appear to wear it day and

night, whereas, of actual, live working women, not one
in a thousand ever dreams of wearing one at such
labors, or at such times. The ways of illustrators are
often past finding out.”

We don’t feel like giving up too easily about
that bracelet question; the writer of these
paragraphs knows a young lady afflicted with
that most profitable of all operative diseases,
appendicitis, who refused to go on the table
until her best bracelet had been placed upon
her wrist. This done, she looked the surgeon
in the eye and told him to fall to; and during
a recent trip in the Sudan he has seen many
dark and handsome ladies entirely and com-
pletely satisfied when equipped solely with a
bracelet and a nose ring. Beside all this, the
neurasthenic patient in ‘““The Garden Doctor”
was a woman in a thousand.

We are sending to this writer, in defence of
our position, a copy of Miss Glasgow’s ex-
tremely well written and keen exposition of a
woman soul in a novel entitled “ Virginia.”
If, as we hope, she reads this book with
attention, she will find out many things about
women which many women don’t know or
realize. We should like to send her, also, a
copy of Kipling’s verses, ‘“‘The Female of. the
Species is More Deadly than the Male,” but
we fear she might misunderstand our offering
it and think it an attack on suffrage instead
of a calm and entirely complimentary tribute
to the worth and character of women, with a
few wholesome truths thrown in on the side.

However we may fail in appearing to
appreciate your communications, we want
to say again: We like letters which give an
insight into our business,-and when the spirit
moves you, sit down and write to us and
address it to “‘The Talk of the Office,”’ care
of this magazine. It will cheer and invigorate
us and may do some good. We are not reach-
ing out for flattery; we like it just as every-
body does, but we know it’s bad for us — just
truth, with a kind word now and then to keep
us working for more.

A LITTLE BOOK ABOUT OURSELVES

We are going to send to the writers of these
letters mentioned above a copy of a little
book we are just printing about our home
here in Garden City. It may be very bad

‘form to do this, and worse form still to print

this fragment of a business autobiography at
all, but we have persuaded ourselves to think
that when such friendly letters come from
homes which we have the great privilege of
entering, they might like to see in picture and
in description the home from which these
books and magazines go.

WHERE DO ALL THE BOOKS GO?

One of the nicest things which ever hap-
pened to us was a letter from a lady who had
written a book, and she decided to send it to
us, she said, because she heard that in our
shop no worker was more than forty feet from
a window. That manuscript was “The
Wind Before the Dawn,” and when published
gave joy and hope to a hundred thousand
readers, and it will give joy to many hundred
thousands more before it goes to the place
where all good books must finally go. It is
this touch which comes to us that makes for
inspiration. Some 12,000 books and 20,000
or more magazines go from our doors on
practically every working day except Saturday,’
when we take it easy. Where do they go,
and how in the world do we manage to sell
"em to an overfed public? Every one must
enter a home somewhere and be read, too,
as we can’t compel people to buy. So, too,
they must give pleasure or help in the majority
of cases, but we have wished a thousand times
to know what becomes of these millions of
books and magazines which spread like a snow-
storm over America and Europe and Canada
and Australia and wherever English is read.

TO FRIENDS. NEAR AND FAR

To all of these good friends of ours who keep
our wheels going and who take through our
endeavors the writings of our other good
friends, the authors, we offer our thanks,
and if they would not regard us as too ego-
tistical, we should like to send them our new
little book about our home here in Garden
City —the Country Life Press — which at
this time of year is a fine place to work,
surrounded by gardens with thousands of
irises, peonies, roses, and other business frivoli-
ties. They may not properly be considered
a part of a publishing business, but as in the
case of the friendly letters. we like them.

AES Be GaeAes: D)

JUNE, 1913

Greenhouse Joys

OU remember how the first golden blooms of the Forsythia and
the pink roseated flowers of the double flowering cherry shrubs
filled you with joy when they came this Spring. _

You recall how you came completely out of your Winter shell
when the Daffodils and Tulips burst into their glory of color.
You still have a vivid impression of your regret last Fall when
Jack Frost ruined your Stocks and Canterbury Bells and Cosmos.
To give you a perpetual Spring you have often longed for a green-
house where you could outwit Jack Frost and have your old-fashioned
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But you have perhaps hesitated because you think greenhouses
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Perhaps they don’t!

Send for our Two G’s Booklet — Glass Gardens — A Peep Into
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Published in accordance with the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. F A R M ture.

Editor, Leonard Barron, 4 5 Garden City, N.
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Publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N.
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We believe that more Campaigns have been wrecked
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May we write you a letter explaining our ideas applied
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JUNE, 1913

Pete Crowther
says:

“It’s a big thing in
salesmanship to have
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deal with a man who’s
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E. E. FERRIS

“These fellows that are always
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TRISES FOR EVERYBODY'S GARDEN - - Mrs. W. R. Wilder
Photographs by G. O. Stoddard and N. R. Graves

MRGINNING. THE FRuIT SET - - = - W.C. McCollom

Photographs by the author

RADISHES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR - - -
Photographs by the author

Adolph Kruhm

How J PLANTED AND PREPARED My BACKYARD GARDEN
Roger W. Babson

Photograph by Nathan R. Graves

RAISING VoUR OwN SHRUBS - - - - - -
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PROPAGATING PERENNIALS FROM CUTTINGS -
Photographs by A. G. Eldredge

H.S. Adams 314

Home GROWN CiTRoN MELONS - - Julie Adams Powell 316

STORIES OF FAMILIAR PLANTS’ - W.C. Egan 318

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Two ComMpANION PLANTING IDEAS G. E. Wolfe 322

NeEw LEADERS TO EVERGREENS - -- - - -
Photograph by the author

Fred Haxton 324

WHAT SOUTHERN GARDENERS SHOULD Do Now Thomas J. Steed 326

New Rose BusHes FROM Siips - - Katherine K. Perrigo 326
A New HEtp In BorpER PLANTING Gladys Hyatt Sinclair 328

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This Book is a Guide
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Th its eighty-eight pages it describes a select and exhaustive
number of varieties —a more extensive list of Holland bulbs for

fall planting than is offered by other connoisseurs in America.
Growers of the finest bulbs are proud to have their choicest

new varieties listed in this book. The descriptions, written
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The book is authoritative and complete. It is unique in
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To facilitate the handling of our Bulb orders, we announce import prices
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The high quality of the bulbs that we have been importing will remain
unchanged and will be obtained from the same reliable growers who have
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PEONIES

Visit our Magnificent Display of Peonies

This famous collection of superb varieties in bloom during the month will
probably be at the height of its blooming period beginning the week of
June toth. Each year hundreds of our friends come to see this grand ex-
hibit of color: All readers of The GARDEN MAGAZINE and their
friends are invited to visit us during that week; the marvelous showing
of flowers — including many prize-winning varieties — is a sight not soon
to beforgotten. Our Nursery is at Hawthorne, on the Harlem Branch of the

N. Y. C. R. R., one hour from New York.

S. G. HARRIS

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FROM NOW UNTIL

July Ist
Not Later

There is no more useful garden material than what
are known as Dutch Bulbs, Hyacinths, Tulips,
Narcissi, Crocus, etc. They give for a small outlay
of time and money an abundance of flowers in the
house from December until April, and in the garden
almost before the snow is off the ground in the
spring until the middle of May. These Bulbs are
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quantities, where they are sold at very low prices.
Usually they pass through the hands of two dealers,
and more than double in price before reaching the
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By ordering from us now instead of waiting
until fall, you make a large saving in cost, get a su-
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any price in this country, and have a much
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are selected and packed in Holland, and are shipped.
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from Holland, perfectly fresh and in the best possible
condition.

If you wish to take advantage of our very low
prices, we must have your order not later than
July 1st, as we import: bulbs to order only. They
need not be paid for until after delivery, or taken
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Catalogue of these also if requested.

A Few of the Prices:

Per 100 Per 500
Fine Mixed Hyacinths . . $3.20 $14.75
Fine Mixed Tulips . . . . .70 3.25
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Narcissus Poeticus FT tee .70 3.00
Double Daffodils F 1.90 8.75
Narcissus Empress (Monster Bulbs) . 2.70 12.50
Narcissus Emperor (Monster Bulbs) . 2.75 12.50
Narcissus Golden Spur ue eek ZnSe) 10.50
Spanish Iris, splendid mixture . . 45 1.75

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_ The Garden Magazine

Voi. XVII— No.5

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

JUNE, 1913

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is
generally taken as a standard. Allow six days’ differ-
ence for every hundred miles of latitude.]

Hot Weather Tasks

OT weather is coming, that’s certain;

for be it never so mild, comparatively
speaking, July is sure to be pretty warm and
extremely dry. Therefore, your June task
is to develop deep, extensive, capacious
root systems that will go down out of
reach of surface droughts and keep the
plants growing at full speed throughout
the next two months. To do this:

(a) Prepare the soil deeply when about
to sow seed or to transplant.

(b) Cultivate thoroughly, maintaining a
loose, dry dust mulch to check evaporation
and send the roots downward.

(c) Be generous and frequent in apply-
ing nitrate of soda or manure water.

The latter is one of the most useful and
easily obtained of fertilizers. Simply put
about a bushel of manure in a piece of
‘burlap and suspend it in a barrel of water
for a few days. If diluted to the color of
weak tea the decoction can safely be
applied twice a week.

(d) Supply plenty of water if the rain-
fall is light; and whether you are watering
vegetables, flowers, shrubs or the lawn, be
sure to soak the ground. Better to sell
the hose and watering pot as junk than to
use them to sprinkle the surface and tan-
talize the plants. Moreover the lightly
watered vegetation keeps its roots near
the surface and defeats our chief purpose.

A Little More Planting

| Pie main planting season for annuals
is past, but there are many quick
growers of which a second sowing can be
made now. Alyssum, for instance, and
California poppy, calliopsis, marigolds,

mignonette, dwarf nasturtium, phlox, lava-
tera, nigella, ortulaca, gypsophila (baby’s
breath), candytuft, etc.

Then there are the house plants for next
winter such as calceolaria, mimosa, and
many others that should be started now in
a seed bed.

Start the water lily plants now. Back
in the June, 1907, GARDEN MAGAZINE is
a helpful and readable little article on this
very subject.

Plant the unique Mexican rain lily in
the lawn for this season’s effects.

Of the vegetables at least three plantings
should be made of all that are best when
young and tender such as radishes, lettuce,
beets, kohlrabi, peas, and corn. The
lettuce had best be started in the seed
bed; the others can go in their permanent
rows. x

Main and late potato crops can be
started, although by delaying the latter
you may be able to put it where the earliest

peas grew. In this case don’t pull up the

vines but dig them under and give the
potatoes the nearest possible thing to a
clover sod.

Unless you have raised your plants you
should immediately order cabbage, pepper,
tomatoes, eggplant, cauliflower and celery.
All but the last can be supplied and set
out any time now. Celery is rarely ready
until after June 15th. Save the moistest
part of the garden for it, but see that the
soil is light as well as rich.

No danger of frost now, so plant melons,
cucumbers, squash and pumpkins in the
hills which, if you were wise, you prepared
a couple of weeks ago. A little radish
seed in each hill will sprout quickly and
supply something to draw the attention of
the cutworms from the young vines.
Their liability to wilt, borers, and cut-
worms is the main argument for starting
all these plants in pots or inverted sods
indoors.

Spinach will probably refuse to grow from
now on, so plant the New Zealand variety.
It really isn’t spinach at all, but it is just
as good and may be cut repeatedly all
summer. Of course there are other greens
about ready for eating, several of which are
usually overlooked. Beet tops, for in-
stance, are delicious; pusley or purslane,
that universal weed, has a delicate, charac-
teristic flavor; mustard just suits some
people; chard is extremely easy to grow;
the cresses (garden and water) come up
almost of themselves, and dandelion greens
are far better on the table than in the
lawn. Kale for winter greens can be
sown now.

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sONE DOLLAR FIFTY CENTS A YEAR
FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY

Annual Climbers for Quick
Effects

Time may be saved with any of these by
starting them in a hotbed in March, but
well established plants may be bought and
planted now if you wish to avoid seed sow-
ing bother. Grouped roughly as to color
there are:

Many colored: Morning glory, both com-
mon and Japanese (Jpomea purpurea and
hederacea), sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus),
tall nasturtium (7ropeolum majus).

Brilliant red flowers: Scarlet runner bean
(Phaseolus multiflorus), cypress vine (Ipo-
mea Quamoclit).

Blue to purple flowers: Ipomea rubro-
cerulea, var. Heavenly Blue, hyacinth bean
(Dolichos lablab) cup and saucer vine
(Cobea scandens).

White flowers: Moonflower ([pomea
Bona-Nox), butterfly runner bean (Phaseo-
lus multiflorus var. papilio).

Yellow flowers: Canary-bird vine (T7rop-
agolum peregrinum).

Pink flowers: Allegheny vine (Adlumia
cirrhosa).

Foliage vines: Japanese and common
hops (Humulus Japonicus and lupulus).

The Care of Growing Things

Nea the plants already grow-
ing need generous care. Some details
include:

Asters, not yet planted outdoors may be
potted for house decorations.

Azaleas should be plunged in a bed of
ashes outdoors to rest.

Antirrhinum and begonia cuttings may
still be taken.

Bonvardias should be removed from
their pots and planted outside. Old plants
may be cut back.

Genistas may be plunged anywhere
outdoors or handled just like azaleas.
Treat heliotrope plants the same way.

Pelargoniums should be set in an open
frame and kept somewhat dry that they
may ripen in time for August pruning.

Stake the dahlias. gladiolus and other
tall slender plants if necessary. Use as
inconspicuous a support as possible.

Individual chrysanthemums will need
individual treatment, though all want plenty
of water. Some should be repotted, others
pinched back according to their growth,
They may be set outdoors like carnations.
but this will give fewer flowers but stockier
plants than those kept in pots.

Remove the dead blossom clusters from
lilac bushes before seed pods form. Now

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June, 1913

is the time to trim spring flowering shrubs,
but do it very lightly.

The privet hedge may be clipped, but
if you want the fragrance and beauty of
the blossoms you can wait until after July
4th without doing any harm.

For quality in the tomatoes, set a six
foot stake beside eack plant; prune to a
single stem; tie this to the stake and
continue to pinch off the side shoots for
about four weeks. Pour half a gallon of
liquid manure around each plant once a
week.

Onions started in the hotbed may be
transplanted now. Set them firmly but
not too deep.

Pinch back new raspberry shoots to
about 23 feet. Not later than July do
the same with the blackberries, letting
them, however, make about three feet of
growth.

When your three year old strawberry
bed comes to the end of its second crop,
plow it up—you will get more returns
from late cabbage or some such crop.

In the two year old bed pinch off all
runners except enough to supply new
plants. Of these bury each joint in
a two inch pot, sunk to its rim in the
ground. As soon as roots have developed
cut the new plants apart and put them
in bench or coldframe until repotting
time.

This is exactly the treatment to give
violets, which, however, are more likely
to be in a bench or frame than in the open
ground. There it is easier to let the
runners or offsets root right in the bed,
then cut them loose and pot them like
cuttings.

If you find the plum and peach trees
very heavily set, you will make for better
quality fruit by thinning out a fourth or
even a third of the crop. A little later do
the same for the apples.

A few of the best shaped bunches of
grapes should be tied up in paper bags.
Thus protected they will become fit to
grace the table of any epicure — in appear-
ance as well as in flavor.

Ripening Crops

UNE 25th is an average date for
bringing the asparagus harvest to a
close. Of course the kind of season deter-
mines it exactly, for six weeks is as long as
most beds should be cut. The idea isn’t
to get every possible stalk this year, but to
get a good crop and still permit the plants
to store up food materials for future years.
Keep up the cultivating, however, and
work in another dressing of salt.

After the tops die down you gain noth-
ing by leaving early potatoes in the ground.
Like all quick growers they are to be eaten
while tender.

There should be in full bearing through-
out the month lettuce, radishes, spinach,
rhubarb, parsley, peas, kohlrabi and — by
the first of July — bush beans, and, if you
are lucky, a few ears of corn.

Keeping Up Appearances

IVE the lawn a little extra care in

anticipation of droughts. Soak it

well, cut it at least once a week to develop
a thick sod and roll it once or twice more.

Weeds are probably thriving, because
you hesitated to touch them earlier for
fear of pulling up valuable plants. Make
up for lost time by wielding spud, hoe and
cultivator. A little kerosene on the cut
roots of the worst of the tribe — dandelion,
dock, plantain and thistle — will help.
A strong salt or iron sulphate solution or
some one of the advertised weed killers
should be sprayed over paths and_ brick
walks. The drives are all the better for
an occasional light hoeing and raking which
removes the weeds too.

The edgings and grass borders are like
the frame on a picture and should be kept
trimmed, or the whole garden effect is
spoiled.

Just because most of the work is outdoors
don’t let the greenhouse become slovenly
and inconvenient. Increase the shading
oyer the remaining tenants; throw out all
old, useless plants —such as roses that
have been forced. If possible replace the
soil or at all events sterilize it in some way.
Add lime if you cannot do anything else.

While the soil is outside repair the

benches, ventilators, heating apparatus, etc..

June Pests

Toe really vital times to spray fruit
trees are just before the blossoms
open and just after they fall. If you have
missed the first opportunity see that you
grasp the second. What to use? Why
bordeaux mixture, with arsenate of lead,
two pounds to twenty-five gallons.

All things considered the rose chafer is
the worst June pest. Use arsenate of lead
even at the cost of some discolored foliage,
but to be on the safe side nab every bug
you see and drop it in kerosene. Unfor-
tunately you must look for them on grapes,
peonies, chrysanthemums, and half a dozen
other plants, as well as on roses.

Potato bugs are here, of course. Pur-
sue the same treatment and also look on
the under side of the leaves for clusters of
orange colored eggs which can be crushed be-
tween (preferably gloved) finger and thumb.

If currant worms persist, use hellebore
rather than a more virulent poison.

White grubs often injure lawns in June.
’Tis said that by spraying the ground well
with kerosene emulsion diluted fifteen
times, then watering copiously they can
be eliminated. It’s worth trying, surely.

Aphis, thrips and various leafhoppers
may persist, but they can be rendered
innocuously scarce by the use of whale oil
soap or kerosene emulsion.

All the mildews, rots and other fungi
can be controlled by the use of bordeaux
mixture, ammoniacal copper carbonate, or
potassium sulphide. The latter is pref-
erable for roses and most ornamentals,
and the copper carbonate for all well

developed fruits on which Lordeaux would
cause undesirable stains.

In the greenhouse, red spiders may be
kept down by supplying plenty of moisture;
the damping-off fungus succumbs ‘where
there is plenty of ventilation; aphides can
be wiped out with a solution of ivory soap
(which is pleasanter indoors than whale
oil preparations) or tobacco fumes; and
for other fungus troubles use any con-
venient form of sulphur.

Several kinds of caterpillars are at the
height of their liveliness now. Tent
builders hide in their silken webs which
should be destroyed about twilight. Others
will be glad to roost under bands of burlap’
tied around the trunks. Inspect these
every day if possible and, with two excep-
tions, kill every insect you find. The first
exception is a large steely-blue beetle of
the species Calosoma that preys on gypsy
moth larve; the other is any caterpillar
bearing tiny white coccoons on its back.
These contain another valuable parasite and
while the host will never mature it will help
to distribute the insect as long as it lives.

Ponder over this course of events:
Bird baths, trickling fountains, etc., attract
birds; birds devour injurious insects and
brighten the life of the garden; the de-
struction of insects means less work and
more returns for the gardener.

The one insect that we welcome in the
garden is—the bee. Don’t depend on
your neighbor for the increased fruit and
vegetables, the cheery, musical hum, and
the gifts of comb honey, that are the results
of bee keeping. Get a bee of your own —
or rather a colony. :

Getting Ready for July

HAE you a hoe or some tool that just
suits you, and with which you can
do all the cultivating you ought to next
month? Why not go to some large seed store
now and examine all the types of cultiva-
tors. Read Mr. Kayan’s articles of a
couple of years back and see how much
there is to the subject.

You will want to sow some cover crops
the last of July. Better order your seed now
— rye, clover, cowpeas or whatever you use.

Are you keeping track of the yield from
your garden? If you haven’t done so,
get a pocket notebook and find out exactly
what crops July brings. There is no surer
way of proving what the garden is worth.

Some people stick up for late July and
August as the only safe time to plant
evergreens. We don’t quite agree, but
if you do, it’s time to send in your order.

Next to the loss of fingers and eyes and
such things, the most lasting result of
Fourth of July celebrations is the injury
done to lawns by the “display.” If you are
going to have fireworks and cannot find a
piece of bare or worthless ground, it will
cost less to build a temporary stage than
to rebuild the lawn

And at all events have a hose and plenty
of water on hand ‘“‘in case.”’

Irises for

Everybody’s Garden—By Mrs. W. R. Wilder, ¥%

AN, OEM IPEDS, MONOGRAPH ”’
NARY GARDEN CONDITIONS, GIVING THE LONGEST SEASON OF BLOOM AND EMBRACING
THE WHOLE RANGE OF THIS GLORIOUS FAMILY —SUGGESTED COMPANION PLANTS

HE PERIOD covered by the
blossoming of the iris has ever

been one of keen enjoyment to-

me. Since the time when all my
knowledge of this great family was vested

‘in the common purple iris of old gardens,

‘and the gay flag flowers of our low moist
meadows, thei. spell has been upon me; and
it was a matter of much satisfaction when
I found that these two were but lowly mem-

bers of a great company that would gladly -

bloom in my garden, would
fill it from April through

unexacting throng,

might draw subjects
for almost every
situation. For those
with glass houses,
frames, and gar-
deners (or even for
him who desires,
or is willing to
supply very spec-
ial conditions for
his plants) there
are many rare
irises, Capricious as any
orchid and as strangely
beautiful. But my ac-
quaintance with these
is still a matter of
future intention and the
present deals only with
those which grow cheer-
’ fully tiitder ordinary conditions in the open
garden.

The dwarf
T. pumila
natural size

July with a lovely ©

from whose ranks [-

There are so many species in this great
genus, and the inter-marriages have been
so many and so confusing, that the task of
classification has become difficult, but only a

little of their genealogy is necessary to us
-who wish. simply to realize, in our gardens,
the great decorative value of the many

available. forms of this most alluring

: flower.

For the purpose of the open garden, the

‘genus iris may be roughly divided into four
(1). Pogoniris or bearded; (2)

sections;
Apogon or beardless; (3) Evansia or crested
(are not bulbous roots); and (4) bulbous.
The “beard” is a collection of closely set
hairs on the falls, or drooping petals of the
iris flower. Irises without this “rufi’’ are
termed beardless. The “‘crest’’ is an eleva-
ted line of ridges on the segment.

THE BEARDED IRISES

The bearded section contains the best
known and most easily grown of the irises.
They possess a thick, fleshy root stock,
creeping along the surface of the earth and

delighting in the sunny open border. The
flowers are large and conspicuous, the
foliage strong, erect and sword like,

lasting long in perfection and giving to the
borders the firm vertical line which is
pleasing where so much is uncertain and
sprawling.

Most important among them is the sec-
tion known as Germanica, a composite
group of allied forms blooming in May
and June; as pallida, squalens, amcena,
aphylla, Florentina and others, each of
which in turn has numerous garden hybrids.

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OF HARDY BORDER IRISES THAT WILL GROW UNDER ORDI-

The familiar blue-purple flag of old gardens
is typical of these “‘ German irises,” hardy,
patient, long suffering, thriving and bloom-
ing profusely under the most untoward
conditions. Curiously enough the true I.
Germanica is not-of this group, and has no
hybrids.

But while the German irises and others
of their type will give results under almost
any conditions, save dampness, they
grandly respond to the rich soil and open
sunny situation which they love. A fre-
quent cause of failure with them, is the
practice of ground covering, carried on in
most of our gardens — that is, the planting
of creeping things among the taller subjects.
The stout surface-creeping rhizome requires
to be well ripened by the sun and this of
course cannot take place when the root is
smothered by some determined little trailer.
The best forms of the so called type,
I. Germanica, other than the common purple
are Crimson King, strong, reddish purple;
Kharput, purple; Amas, light and dark
purple; Kochi, fine blue purple; Nepalensis,
the darkest purple.

The other German irises are at their
best in early June. The following is a
representative list of varieties by sections:

I. pallida: vars. Dalmatica — clear lav-
ender, 40 inches, one of the most beauti-
ful; Albert Victor —lavender blue, tall;
Mad. Pacquette — rosy claret, tall; Queen
of May—mauve, pink, 32 inches; Her
Majesty, two shades of mauve.

I. variegata: vars. Innocenze — pure
white; Canary Bird—buff and cream,
fragrant; Daris —yellow, lavender and

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JUNE, 1913

white; Mrs. Neubronner —deep gold and
yellow, fine; Maori King — yellow, crimson
and gold, brilliant; Honoribilis — gold and
mahogany.

I. amena: vars. Mrs. H. Darwin — white
reticulated violet, 2 feet; Victorine — white
edged purple, 27 inches; Comte de St. Clair
— violet margined white, 2 feet; Eugene Sue
—white flecked lavender, 18inches; Thorbeck
—clear violet blue, splashed white, 2 feet;
Calypso — lavender and white, 18 inches.

I. neglecta; vars. Othello — lavender and
purple, 22 inches; Willie Barr — French
gray etched purple; Amabilis — pale laven-
der and claret; Louis Van Houtte — pearly
lavender with lines of deeper color.

I. (syn. plicata): aphylla vars. Mad.
Chereau — widely frilled with clear lavender,
tall; Mrs. G. Reuthe — veined and frilled
lilac; Agnes, frilled and flushed lilac; Mad.
Thibault — bordered violet; Bridesmaid —
silvery gray, veined lavender.

I. squalens: vars. Abdul
Aziz—lavender standards
clouded with gold, falls
purple and white; Gypsy
(Queen — smoky browns,
maroon and old gold, 24
inches; J acquesiana—cop-
per, maroon and fawn;
Mrs. Shaw — purple and
white, fawn; A. F. Barron
—bronze, claret, etched
white; Dr. Bernice — cop-
per bronze, with falls
deepening to rich maroon,
24 inches.

The squalens varieties
do not look well combined
with other German irises.

Next in importance in
this bearded section and
earliest to bloom, are the
two charming dwarfs, /.
pumila and I. Chamevwris
and as these two are so
nearly alike, as to be sent
out by nurserymen under
either name, it does not
much matter which one
has. I believe that the
true pumila has no stem
and is dwarfer than
Chameiris and that the
genuine article, save for
that loveliest of sky-blue
mites, 7. c@rulea, is ex-
ceedingly rare. But for our
purpose Chameeiris (or Ol-
biensis) is just as satisfac-
tory and one is as well
pleased with the prodigal
purple bloom of the var.
Italica, or the soft yellow
of aurea as one would be
with the true 7. pumila.

These dwarf irises grow
from four to six inches
high and increase so rap-
idly in a warm sunny
situation, and bloom so
profusely, that one is re-

warded by solid sheets of color in a very
short time. They blossom with the daffo-
dils, making possible many charming
harmonies with these and such other early
delights as arabis, alyssum, aubretia and
the lovely creeping phloxes.

Iris Cengialti, closely related to pallida,
is very nearly blue — Miss Jekyl gives it
as the nearest to a blue iris. Slenderer
and lighter in all its parts than the German
iris and faintly fragrant, it is a delightful
flower. Here it blooms below the billowy
masses of small blush roses borne on the
charming Scotch brier, Stanwell’s Perpetual,
and the relation of these two is one of the
rarest pleasures of the May garden. These
irises have been crossed with I. Balkana,
the result being a race of dwarf and semi-
dwarf irises blooming in April and May
called Hybrid Crimean irises. They are

said to be very beautiful but I have not
grown them.

Madame Chereau, one of the best known of the ‘‘German’”’ irises,

markings. Fragrant

The yellow flowered J. flavescens is a fine,
fragrant iris growing about 30 inches high,
which may be counted upon to give freely
of its golden bloom in May when there is no
other tall yellow iris in evidence. I believe
this is the only pure yellow flower found in
the Germanica group. J. Florentina, from
the root of which the orris powder is made,
is only less familiar than the common
purple flag. Its lovely French gray blos-
soms are seen in most old gardens, and are
most delightful in combination with the
late pink tulips of the cottage and Darwin
types. The white variety known as Albi-
cans has lived in my garden for several
years without vouchsafing a single bloom.
Perhaps the removal of the fragrant mat of
lemon thyme, which grows about its
rhizome, will solve the problem, for it would
seem that the sunny border answered all its
requirements.

The most beautiful June borders may

be made with these irises

valerian, peachleaved bell-
flowers, foxgloves, oriental
poppies, lemon lilies and
the gray foliage of laven-
der cotton, artemesia and
lyme grass, against a back-
ground of Persian lilacs,
evergreens and great
bushes of such free grow-
ing roses, as the yellow
briers, Mad. Plantier and
Stanwell’s Perpetual.

To increase ones stock
of bearded irises, pieces
may be broken from the
parent clump just after
the plant has flowered, for
then the new growth is
starting. Cut the foliage
back to an inch or so and
set the fleshy root firmly
but only part way in the
earth. Of the two hun-
dred pieces taken from
my plants last June, not
one died and many are
large enough to bloom
this summer. Nursery-
men for convenience,
commonly send out the
plants in the spring or fall
and many are lost by late
autumn planting, as they
do not become established.

THE CRESTED (EVANSIA)
IRISES

The Evansia section is
a small one and only two

me are suitable for the
open garden. A jagged
crest replaces the beard
of the Pogoniris group
and the rhizome is thick
and creeps along the sur-
face of the ground some-

white with blue f
what in the manner of the

intermingled with lupins,

of its members known to’

eS eee eee

JUNE, 1913

I. Florentina, from which orris is I. pallida, var. Dalmatica, often con-

made; has French gray flowers fused with orris, bolder, stronger growth

SEASON OF
BLOOM

SPECIES AND VARIETY

HEIGHT
INCHES

Reticuiata, var. Kre-

la geltread: ooaer 6-8 |Mid Mar.
Reticulata, var. ‘his-
(ap OGlES Sign oaanoac 5-6 |Late Mar.
Reticulataty.\ see oe 6-8 |Late Mar.
April
Hybrid Crimean. ..... g-15|Early April
Pumila and vars...... 4-6 |April 20-
May

Chameeiris and vars. ..| 5-6 |Late April

and May
Gengialti®ss 3.2.0. 18 |Early May
Germanica vars.*..... 12-20] Mid-May
iNlorentina roc eee 18 |Mid-May
Florentina, var. albi-

CANS ys iavenn <aie e 18 |Mid-May
@ristata. 22s: so. 22% 3-4 |Mid-May
Missouriensis......... 12-24| Mid-May
iBenacensiSuen sec 14 |Mid-May
Sambucinasyern eee ee 27 |Late May
Intermediate vars... ..|16-20|Late May
Pseudacorus ......... 24-30|Late May
iBlavescenssae eee 30 |Late May
Spanish ae ee *.| 18 |Early June

*Those marked thus are fragrant.

latter. J. tectorum, the Japanese
roof iris, and from which the ladies
of Japan make an important cos-
; metic, is to me one of the loveliest
I. pseudacorus. The yellow water of irises. The foliage is slightly
a ai aa glaucous; the flower stalk, about 18
inches high, bears several very
large, spreading, blue-purple blos-
soms curiously blotched or clouded, with a deeper color. A var-
iety, rare in its loveliness, is snowy white with a jagged golden crest.
Both varieties grow here with the greatest freedom in a slightly
raised sunny border, protected on the north and east by a wall.
Some writers speak of this plant as not being very amenable,
but this is difficult to believe in the face of the manifest well-
being of my plants.

Small J. cristata, a native American, found in parts of Mary-
land and southward, is another gem — an inexpensive gem too,
for it costs little and appears to thrive anywhere and increase
mightily under all sorts of conditions. I began five years ago
with fifty little plants, which I imported from Holland, not know-
ing that it was a free born American, and it is safe to say that
hundreds have been given away, while the soft lavender bloom
of this baby iris may still be seen in all parts of my garden. The

I. levigata, (or Kempferz, having the I. Stétrica, a slender plant with grass- I. Guidenstedtiana, one of the very
largest flowers of any iris

A TIME TABLE FOR IRIS FLOWERS

[ Note: Both the height and the season of bloom will vary a good deal according to
soil and situation. Nearly all the dates given are the average of several years’ notes
taken in the author’s garden, which is a little north of New York City]

like foliage, best in clumps latest to flower. Flowers dull yellow

SPECIES AND VARIETY g Fs SEASONTOF
ag BLOOM
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Pallida and vars.*. .. . |24-42|Early June
Variegata vars.*...... 15-30|Early June
Longipetala..-...:... 18 |Early June
Squalens vars........ 14-28/Early June
Ameena and vars..... 18-30|Early June
Neglecta vars.........|18-24|Early June
sRectorum meen ee: 12-18) June 7
English and vars. ... .|20-24|Early June
Orientalis, Blue King
and Snow Queen. 229 24 Early June I. squalens, var. Facquesiana flower-

Spuria andivarses eee 12-36 Early June ing in June, AERTS yellow Germanica
Cypriana vars.*... ...|36-44|Mid June
Billiottieeer eee nee 26 |Mid June
Graminea*sneesaece. - 8-10|Late June
UVa eer rarer cis 18 |Late June
Mersicoloras-ieeeee 18-24|Late June
IMonniclin ae eee 36 |Late June

and July
Ochroleucay-5--- ee 48-72|Late June

and July
/ Nii Se Geom Oot 48 |Late June

and July
Guldenstcedtiana.... . 18-24] July
ljapaneseea eter eee 30-48) July

plant grows only four inches high
and the spreading blossoms, made
brilliant by a conspicuous gold
crest, are produced in great pro-
fusion. It makes a good edging as
it is always tidy and, blooming in
early May and June, looks well be-
tween clumps of white fringed pinks,
with orange scarlet geums behind. Further south and in
warmer situations it blooms earlier, even at the end of April.

I. plicata, var. Kridesmaid. One of
he many forms of the ‘‘German”’ type

THE BEARDLESS (APOGON) IRISES

Many delightful plants are to be found in the beardless section
of the rhizomatous irises, and most of these while as easy to grow
and as showy as the German irises, are, save for the great Japan
iris, rare in gardens. As a rule they are quite different in appear-
ance from the bearded (Pogoniris) group. The blossoms are more
delicately modeled and lighter in effect, the foliage more slender
and grass-like, often reflexing gracefully at the tip, and the bunch
of slender rootlets goes straight down into the ground instead of
creeping along the surface. Many of this section are water-
lovers, growing with great luxuriance in damp places, or along
the banks of streams and ponds.

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English iris (variety
Mount Blanc) one of
the bulbous section

Some, as the yel-
low I. pseudacorus,
will thrive with the
water actually
standing about
them, but in spite
of this preference,
I have’ not met
with any which
will not grow and
thrive contentedly
in rich, deeply dug
garden soil.

Of those which
belong more par-
ticularly to the
ditnyiem places w/e
Missouriensis, a
native, is the best.
us Bin Gebre lly
bloomer, growing
about two feet tall
and producing its
y ello w-blotched
lavender blossoms
with great liber-
ality. Others are
I. feetidissima, gra-
minea and fulva.
The first two are not very conspicuous,
but the former has the merit of being a
shade lover, and its rather dull blossoms
are redeemed by the scarlet seeds which
follow and cling all winter to the flaring
pods. The second is a low growing iris,
with small delicately fragrant flowers,
almost hidden by the grass like foliage.
I. fulva, which I have not yet flowered,
is described as possessing handsome terra

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cotta blossoms on stems two feet tall.
Mr. W. R. Dykes gives it among the
“difficult” irises, and says it needs a
hot and dry position if it is to pro-
duce its remarkable blossoms in any
profusion.

Preéminent among the moisture lovers
is the great Japanese iris, J. /evigata, or
I. Kempferi of the catalogues, which is one
of the finest hardy plants we have. The
ideal place for it is the pond (or stream) side
in open sun, but if such a spot is not avail-
able, one may still derive much pleasure
from its beauty, if planted in deep rich

The old favorite German iris abound in a great variety of forms and colors.
They are the most commonly seen in gardens

soil, and watered thoroughly when the
buds are forming. ‘The huge blossoms of
this magnificent plant often measure six
inches across and are most wonderful in
color and texture. Mr. Irwin Lynch, in
his valuable work on the iris, gives the
following as good garden varieties: —
Alexander von Humboldt, pure white;
Chyia, lilac and white; Her Majesty,
violet, speckled white; Keiko, blush suf-

-almost obscure the foliage.

JUNE, 1913

fused and speckled rose; Lady Scott
Monorieff, white with rosy halo; Netta,
white edge rose pink; Ozaka, pale sky blue
and white; Lomoye, pure white with light
blue halo. An excellent list of varieties
is offered by specialists in this country,
but hardly any two dealers appear to
list the same names although the plants
may be alike. The length of their blos-
soming period may be quite appreciably
lengthened by planting some in partial
shade. Japanese irises are easily raised
from seed and will bloom the second or
third year.

The next most important group of these
beardless moisture lovers, is the slender
I. Sibirica and its varieties. This has a
hollow stem, slender grass-like foliage and
many small blue, lavender, and white
blosoms that make one think of butter-
flies poised lightly above the foliage.
These Siberians are most effective planted
in rather large groups, as a single plant or
two is apt to appear delicate and unconvinc-
ing, and as the frail character of their
beauty suffers in contrast with the heavier
German irises, they are best not seen in
each others company.

The stronger growing form of the above,
the variety orientalis, is not to be con-
founded with that whose more familiar
name is ochroleuca. The flowers though
larger are more fugitive. [wo varieties of
the Siberian orientalis, Blue King and Snow
Queen, are among the most conspicious
and valuable of garden irises. The former
bears intense blue-purple blossoms with
reddish spathes in such profusion as to
Snow Queen’
has much the same character, but bears.
quantities of pure white blossoms. All the:
Siberians are easily raised from seed and
the plants once established, should be left:
long undisturbed to perfect their beauty.

I. longipetala is the only tractable.
member of the beautiful California group.
It bears a lovely, sprightly flower, with
deep-toned veins on the lavender ground of
its standards and tender gray-white
falls. In my garden it flourished for several
seasons and then passed away apparently
without cause, but I am ordering more
plants and shall try to avert another such
disaster. It is said that this plant should
be moved only when in full growth. J.
spuria and its various forms are well worth
planting in our borders, though I believe
they vary much in desirability. Mrs. A.
W. Tate, the only one I have, is a handsome
plant, with good foliage and a strong stem,
carrying several closely crowded lavender
blossoms. Closely related to spuria is
I. Guldenstedtiana, a dreadful name and a
none too attractive kind, bearing dingy
yellow flowers.

Three very beautiful yellow irises, for
the open border or waterside, are J. aurea,
Monnieri and ochroleuca. ‘The critical

notes on these and on the bulbous irises
(which embrace the English, and Spanish
types as well as the earliest of all reti-
culata) will be given in the July number.

NO

Ee the proper planting of the tree
there is no other one factor as impor-
tant in the production of high quality fruit
as the proper thinning of the young fruit,
which concentrates the entire forces of the
tree in maturing large and perfect speci-
mens rather than a host of imperfect,
“starved” fruit.

A tree that has had its set of fruit prop-
erly thinned each year, especially in its
early stages, will bear annually and will not
go on an annual expedition of restoration
which usually occurs in apple trees from
carrying too much fruit.

The proper time to thin fruit is directly
after the “stoning” period. If you are a
close observer you will have noticed there is
always a stage in the apparent development
of the fruit, when it shows no growth and a
certain number turn sickly yellow and fall
off. That is the “stoning” period. In
apples it occurs when the fruits are about
the size of marbles. If you thin before
this time you are very apt to have an
unbalanced tree because some of the set
will fall during this period; but directly
after this stage has been passed is the time
to thin. The tree is using what energy it
has in forcing the growth of the fruit and
the real object of thinning is to save undue
effort by lessening the load. Very little
energy is expended by the tree in ripening
fruit.

The next problem: How many apples
must be removed; how many left? It all
depends on the tree. It is hard to decide

Pears before and after thinning showing the
proper reduction

“Thinning” the Fruit Set—By W. C. McCollom

GET BETTER QUALITY WITH LARGER SIZE AND
“OFF YEARS’’— REDUCE THE LOAD

NOW

intelligently without first seeing the tree,
as no two trees are alike. ‘Two trees of
the same size might be totally different
in their capabilities of bearing. We take
as a basis a good healthy tree. Trees that
are not in robust health will be the better
for a severe thinning and younger trees
just starting into bearing should be thinned
more than older ones.

Remove any fruit showing signs of
disease. This is important, as it will act
as a sort of check upon any disease in your
orchard. Be certain, too, that, in removing
the fruit, you don’t in any way injure the
stems on the fruit you intend to leave on
the trees, as they will fall off later if the
stems are started from the spur by rough
handling.

A good vigorous healthy tree just coming
into bearing should have about two-thirds
of its crop removed for the first season or
two. This will give you one apple for
about every cubic foot of space the foliage
occupies. Always remove the fruit at
regular intervals and rather toward the
inside of the tree than the tips of branches.

Where the fruit will get plenty of air
and light for several succeeding years, an
average of about one-half of the fruit that
sets should be removed. By removing
one-third of the crop from an old, well
established tree, we get a harvest of fine
big apples, the tree suffers no strain, and
we are preserving for future use an orchard
which might be rendered useless by a few
seasons of overbearing.

Pears require thinning in much the same
manner as apples, although they start
bearing much earlier than apples and re-
quire earlier attention. Varieties differ
in the amount of thinning requisite; I
would not thin a Seckle pear as harshly as

mes Bis *
“4 a
a

Apples before and after thinning.

Observe the
size of the clusters as finally left

301

Special
scissors are
a great aid
in thinning

I would a Bartlett,
because we cannot
expect to increase
the size of a Seckle
to equal a Bartlett.

Peaches should be
vigorously thinned.
They are very free
bearers and if left
unmo lested will
carry tremendous
crops of medium
quality fruit. When
properly thinned, however, the fruit at-
tains a size and quality quite astonishing.
Plums should not be thinned so vigorously
as is recommended for the larger fruits.
But thinning should be done, however,
especially when the trees are just coming
into bearing.

Grapes respond kindly to thinning and
the vines will give large bunches of big,
luscious berries instead of a large number
of bunches with only small berries. Thin
out the berries of each bunch, besides re-
ducing the number of bunches, which
should be cut off immediately after the
berries are set, removing the smallest ones.
Cut out altogether about one-half of the
bunches; when the berries on the remaining
bunches are about the size of small peas,
they also can be thinned, reducing the num-
ber about one-third. Use a pair of pointed
scissors and a small crotched stick to sup-
port the bunches during the operation. The
special thinning scissors are a most useful
tool and indeed are essential to good work.
Be careful at all times not to injure, in
any way, the fruits that are left — a mere
scratch now will become an ugly scar
later.

Raspberries and blackberries are rarely
thinned as it is too tedious an operation
but currants and gooseberries that are to
be used for table or exhibition purposes can
be improved, both in size and quality.
Cut off about half the number of bunches
of currants; there is no need to thin
the berries as with grapes. With goose-
berries, just pick off the less promising
fruits.

Radishes for the Connoisseur—By Adolph Kruhm, om.

CRISP FRESH ROOTS ALL THE YEAR— A SELECTED LOT OF A DOZEN KINDS
THAT WILL GIVE A SUCCESSION— TYPES THAT FIT THE DIFFERENT SEASONS

HE one fact about radishes that
has always most impressed me
is the utter absence of quality
in radishes bought on market.

Grow them yourself! It is easily said,
but only an experienced seedsman realizes
what difficulties confront the home gar-
dener who gets ready to do so and begins
with the ordering of seeds. Ten years
ago, Prof. W. W. Tracy, of the U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture, in his very interesting work
on ‘‘American Varieties of Vegetables,”
reported that the seedsmen throughout
the country catalogued about 600 different
names of radishes. Since then, the maze
has \become more complicated than ever;
seedsmen are just as far from agreeing on a
uniform name for a standard variety as they
ever were. Moreover, every new arrival
in the seed business considers it his per-
sonal right to take any standard sort and
give it a new pet name of, his own. The
result is, that some distinct types of radish
—as, for instance, Scarlet Turnip White.
Tip — masquerade under fifty or more
different names with fifty different seeds-
men.

In order to grow radishes that are
“right,” you need know only the differen-
ces in radishes that are adapted to different
seasons. In each season’s class we find
different shapes; and among the different
shapes in all these classes, we again find
different colors. While shapes and colors
are, of course, only of minor importance,
the classification of all the radishes accord-
ing to seasons holds the key to the solution
of the radish problem.

Radishes may be analyzed in the same
fashion as lettuce, fully treated in the
February, 1913, GARDEN MAGAZINE. Cer-
tain sorts do well only in the spring, while
others positively will not do well except
during the summer. Still others do well
only during late summer and fall. It is
contrary to nature’s laws to attempt to
grow winter radishes during the summer
months, or summer radishes during the
spring months. A disregard of these facts
is, in most cases, responsible for indifferent
success with radishes.

Radishes of quality should have crisp
flesh of mild flavor. They should have a
smooth, thin skin, and be of reasonably
uniform shape. They should “stand”
in prime condition for some time. One
of the chief reasons why radishes bought in
the market hardly ever possess the two most
desirable qualities — crisp flesh and mild
flavor — is that, as in the case of all root
crops, the market grower puts appearance
before quality.

How utterly misleading the appearance
of a radish often proves is demonstrated
through the variety called Long Brightest
Scarlet, or Cardinal. This is a long sort

Eat radishes while they are still young and crisp.
Don’t let them get pithy. Spring varieties; from
top to bottom, Rapid Red, Rosy Gem. Snowball,
French Breakfast, Hailstone, Scarlet Olive Shaped

of early radish, with brilliant carmine skin
and exceedingly handsome white tip. Car
dinal almost ‘“‘jumps” at you from the
market stand! But its quality will deterior-
ate aimost over night. To-day it is solid,
crisp and mild; to-morrow it is hollow,
pithy and tough. But most seed catalogues
will not say so, and the market grower

302

cannot say so, since his work’s reward
depends upon the sale of those radishes.

CLASSES ACCORDING TO SEASON

There are distinct spring varieties, sum-
mer varieties and winter varieties of radish.
Fortunately, some spring sorts “stand”
long enough in good condition to fill the
gap between spring and summer sorts.
A few summer sorts almost rival in solidity
and texture the very late winter ones, so
that no shortage need occur in the supply
of palatable radishes.

As to shape: there are the little round
or “cherry stone” radishes, the olive
shaped sorts, the half long sorts and the
long sorts. Nearly all these differently
shaped radishes come in both red and white.
No hard and fast rules can be laid down as
to which of the score of distinct small,
round, spring radishes are the best three or
four. However, it is wise not to sacrifice a
good old dependable stand-by for the
sake of many new comers.

Three weeks of good growing weather is
usually the earliest time in which you can
hope to grow radishes to a size large enough
to enjoy. After that, your problem will be
a proper succession of sorts that will keep
the table supplied with crisp radishes up to
the time that it becomes too warm for the
extra early spring kinds

The long varieties of the spring radishes
are the happy medium that will fill the gap
between the extremely early turnip radishes
and the midseason or summer radishes.

SOWING FOR SUCCESSION

Up to May 15th, sowings may be made
of the extra early spring varieties. During
the balance of May plant the long spring
sorts. Beginning June ist, sow summer
radishes; and winter radishes should be
planted about the same time as you sow
turnips. In giving my favorite dozen in
the following paragraphs, I have been
careful to put each kind in its proper class
and to state in each description just what it
will do under normal conditions.

EOINTS TO WATCH IN GROWING RADISHES

To have radishes that are always “just
right”? sow short rows often. The best
quality is found in a radish at that critical
moment when it first reaches a certain size.
It must be grown quickly, for which reason
the ground should be very loose, friable and
contain an abundance of humus. Radishes,
to be at their best, need a good deal of
moisture. In dry seasons, do not be sur-
prised when all globe-shaped sorts become
more elongated, and show more fibrous
rootlets than usual.

While French seed yields by far the best
lot of uniformly shaped and highly colored
roots, American seed will undoubtedly

JUNE, 1913

prove more dependable in dry seasons.
American grown radish seed always pro-
duces plants with larger tops than the
French. For this reason, French seed is
preferred for use in hotbeds or greenhouses.

A very important point, and one that is
not sufficiently emphasized by most cata-
logues or horticultural guide books, is the
necessity of properly transplanting or
“thinning out” the seedling radishes, so
as to give them a good chance for quick
and proper development. Radishes in a
crowded row are not only apt to be “off”
in shape, but they likewise will be of in-
different quality. Moreover, they will go
to seed just twice as quickly as when grown
the proper distance apart, and will pass
the ideal stage of development before the
planter has really had a chance to get the
full benefit of the patch.

Growing radishes in crowded rows or
beds is a waste. The ideal thing is
to get busy as soon as the seedlings begin
to form the second pair of leaves. Then
get down on your knees and thin out the
extra early spring sorts to stand from one
to two inches apart in the row. Give the
early long sorts, like Long Scarlet Short
Top and White Icicle, from two to three
inches, let the larger and summer sorts
stand four inches apart; and from four to
six inches is not too much for the very
large growing winter sorts.

- RADISHES AND INTENSIVE CULTIVATION

As a short season crop, radishes lend
themselves readily to growing between
other garden crops of slower development
and later maturity. Since some of the
early sorts, such as Rapid Red, Hailstone,
etc., have only from four to six leaves when
fully developed, with tke tops not exceed-
ing four inches in diameter, they offer an
ideal subject for utilizing space between
rows of other vegetables. It is not even nec-
essary to plant these other vegetables more
than the usual distance apart. Lettuce,
as a tule, stands from 20 to 24 inches apart
in the garden. Since three weeks will
grow lettuce hardly larger than three to four
inches across, it may be seen that radishes
can be used between the rows of even as
quickly growing a vegetable as lettuce.

This applies to nearly all garden crops.
Between tomato plants, for which are
allowed 23 to 3 feet between the row, I
have even grown successfully two rows of
these small early radishes.

Bear in mind, when utilizing radishes
as a companion crop, the time it takes for
them to mature. Do not attempt to grow
long, later varieties like Cincinnati Market
or Chartiers between rows of tall vegetables.
That would hold back the development of
the radishes and therefore give a crop of
indifferent quality.

As mentioned before, the number of
leaves on the top of some of the extra early
radishes is remarkably small at time of
maturity, so do not be deceived in the
judging of roots by the appearance of plants.
When Rapid Red, Rosy Gem, etc., have

six to eight leaves and are from two to
three weeks old, it will pay you to go over
the row every day and pull those roots
that are of the size promising the highest
quality. In all of the extra early round
sorts, we find the highest quality in roots
averaging from # to 1 incl in diameter.
The early long sorts are at their best when
they are between 4 and 5 inches long,
with about 2 of an inch in diameter. Both
the summer sorts and the winter sorts are
of good quality so long as the flesh is of a
firm texture.

The dozen varieties recommended in the
following paragraphs are the ones that

repeated tests of nearly all the dependable”

standard sorts have proved to be the most
desirable and best “fixed.” They come true
to type and are ready when the planter has
a right to expect them. Of course there
are many other sorts, equally attractive, of
equally good quality, with perhaps some
characteristics not found in these.

But to attempt to give all the desirable
varieties here, would be more confusing
than benefiting to the average planter,
whose garden space for radishes is limited
to a few rows.

EXTRA EARLY RADISHES

Rapid Red.— Of all the small “cherry-
stone” radishes, this carries the palm for
producing attractive roots in the remark-
ably short period of 18 days. Sown on
April 28th in cold clay soil, this fine little,

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sort produced perfectly round solid roots
? inch in diameter by May 16th. No
doubt this can be beaten on muck soil
or warmer soil of sandier nature. Skin
bright red, exceedingly thin; flesh pure
white and of remarkable crispness. Rapid
Red will remain in prime condition for 3 to 4
days when it will become spongy and pun-
gent. But while at its best, it holds its own
with all the first early radishes offered to-day.

Hailstone.— This is the pure white com-
panion to Rapid Red, differing only in
color and shape. MHailstone is of decidedly
flat or “turnip” shape, roots averaging
1 inch in diameter by 3 inch deep through.
Like Rapid Red it has very small tops and
a short slender tap root, is solid, crisp and
of mild flavor. For a week after it reaches
the desirable inch size it will ‘‘stand” in
good condition. After that the quality
deteriorates rapidly.

Rosy Gem is the finest of the many strains
of Scarlet Turnip White Tip radish in
cultivation to-day. ‘This sort is, perhaps,
listed under more different names than any
other. A brilliant scarlet, globular radish,
blending into white at the bottom, of un-
excelled quality and appearance. Rosy
Gem becomes fit for use in 20 to 24 days
from date of sowing and remains in good
condition for nearly a week. This is one
of the best for forcing and one of the most
attractive radishes known.

Scarlet Globe.— Perhaps the best known
of all early turnip radishes and a great

White Stuttgart, a popular summer White Strassburg, atypeof the Icicle,along white spring variety.

radish, not so shapely as the next

mid-season or summer radish

Keeps solid for a long time

304 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JUNE, 1913

favorite in many eastern and western
markets. In season, it closely follows
Rosy Gem, reaching marketable size in
25 to 28 days. The bright scarlet, slightly
elongated roots are of very uniform shape
and color, have crisp pure white flesh of
mildest flavor. Scarlet Globe remains in
good table condition longer than any of the
early sorts mentioned above. For nearly
two weeks after it reaches the ‘‘inch”’ size,
the majority of the roots will be found to
be of firm texture and mild flavor.

French Breakfast.— The “olive-shaped”
companion to Rosy Gem. Roots, when
‘Just right,” average 3 of an inch in diam-
eter by 1% inches long. Bright carmine
skin and well-defined white lower portion
make this one of the handsomest early
sorts. Reaches table size in from 18 to 22
days after sowing, thus fitting in nicely
between Rapid Red and Rosy Gem.
Remains crisp and of delicate flavor as
long as either of these, but does not come
up to Scarlet Globe for lasting qualities.

Early Long Scarlet Short Top.— Just
about the time Scarlet Globe is at its best,
with the quality on the decline, this finest
of the early long sorts reaches perfection.
In four weeks from date of sowing, it
reaches a length of 5 to 6 inches, by ? inch
in diameter. The long slender roots are
of bright scarlet color with clear white tip.
The crisp pure white flesh is of mildest qual-
ity. Roots are easily pulled since they grow
partly out of the ground. Has few leaves for
so large a radish on account of which it is
popular for growing in frames. Wood’s
Early Frame is a popular strain of this sort.

Cincinnati Market might be termed an
improved market strain of the preceding
sort. One drawback of Long Scarlet
Short Top on clay soil is that on account
of its exceeding brittleness, the roots often
break in pulling. Cincinnati Market, while
just as crisp, is of firmer texture. It is
about 4 days later in reaching table size,
but grows one inch longer and is thicker
through. It is of choicest quality and ap-
pearance and will ‘“‘stand” longer before
becoming hollow or pithy than Long

Scarlet Short Top. This is the standard
long early spring radish in many parts of
the South and West.

White Icicle.— If I were limited to only
one sort of radish, I would say let that be
White Icicle. In season like Long Scarlet
Short Top, in size like Cincinnati Market;
of a quality that is unsurpassed, it beats
them all by remaining in fine condition
longer than any other early radish. White
Icicle saves the day when all the rest be-
come pithy, and Chartiers, described next,
is still too small for table use. Long,
brittle roots of pleasing paper-white color,
delicate, thin skin and brittle flesh of mildest
flavor combine to make White Icicle the
acme of perfection among early radishes.

THE MIDSEASON OR SUMMER SORTS

Chartiers or Shepherd.— Beginning June
Ist or possibly the last week in May, sow
this and the following sort for a continuous
supply of crisp, mild radishes during July
and August. Chartiers is a handsome,
dark rose colored sort with well defined
white tip. In shape it resembles Cin-
cinnati Market, is nearly 2 weeks later,
however, which fact is offset by increased
size. Chartiers becomes nearly twice as
large as the early long sorts, has much
firmer flesh and will ‘‘stand” for several
weeks during the hot summer months
before deteriorating in quality. '

White Strassburg is a very fine, larger,
pure white sort of European origin. It
grows almost top-shaped and retains its
firmness and mild delicate flavor even after’
becoming overgrown. Well developed roots:
average 8 inches long by 45 to-5 inches in.
diameter at the widest point. With all its
size, White Strassburg remains solid and
brittle and will furnish a constant supply of
palatable roots if repeated sowings are made.

THE WINTER TYPE

Do not attempt to grow winter radishes
during spring or summer.

Long Black Spanish.— Toward end of
June or early in July, just about the time
turnips are sown, sow a row or two of either

this or the next variety to extend your
radish season clear into the winter montks.
Long Black Spanish is, perhaps, the most
widely grown of the solid European winter
radishes. Fully developed roots average
8 inches long by 3 inches in diameter.
They have a thick brown, almost black
skin, are of cylindrical shape and very
firm. Peel off the skin, cut the roots into
slices 4 inch thick, spread on a plate,
sprinkle with salt and let stand an hour
before using. You will then enjoy radish
as crisp and mild as that grown in early
spring. They may be pulled with the
approach of winter and stored in the cellar
like other root crops.

White Chinese or Celestial.— The finest
and largest of the winter sorts. Roots
grow to be a foot long by 6 inches in diam-
eter, of pure white color, and notwith-
standing their enormous size, keep solid.
The flesh is firm, rich and juicy. Since
this sort grows tops of great size, it is ad-
visable to “thin out” to stand 8 to 10
inches apart in the row if you want to
raise some prizetakers!

What is a Seedbed ?

COME people become confused when
directions are given to sow seeds
“first in the hotbed or in flats, and later
in the seedbed.” ‘They argue that where-
ever seeds are sown is a seedbed. Of
course, they are, strictly speaking, correct,
However, in gardening activities we think
of a seedbed as a small section of the garden
especially well fitted, fined and smoothed,
where seedlings are given better chances
and greater care than they could get in the
garden rows. In other words it is the
successor of the hotbed, and in some cases
may be the hotbed itself with the sash off,
and perhaps a cloth or lath screen supplied
instead.

The only special requirements of the seed-
bed is that the soil shall be especially loose,
friable and porous, that it shall be out of the
way of ordinary hasty cultivation and
chance missteps, and that it be given extra
care in watering, weeding and all operations.

Winter radishes (Long Black Spanish, White Chinese, and China Rose).

These may be taken up and stored in the cellar. An essential point in radish
growing is to get the type that is suited to the season

How I Planted and Prepared My Backyard Garden

By Roger W. Babson, Sis

(Epiror’s Nore: This is the third article in a series of six that will discuss the present day problem of the “Cost of Living,” with

special reference to the part that the backyard garden can be made to play in its reduction.

T SEEMS to me that
to write an article on
gardening for THE
GARDEN MAGAZINE

is a good deal like carry-
ing coals to Newcastle or
pouring water into the sea.
There are hosts of trained
agriculturists who forget
more every night about
planting gardens than I
ever knew. Neverthe-
less, as this is one of a
series of articles on re-
ducing the cost of liv-
ing, rather than on
agriculture, it probably
is necessary for me to
tell how an
active busi-
ness man,
who is not a
trained agri-
Swit wie St
with plenty
of time,
money, and men, has planted and cared
for his garden.

As heretofore suggested, the first act
of the drama — or tragedy some may call
it —is to spade the garden. As stated
Jast month, unfortunately I cannot speak
from experience regarding spading; for
when it is time to spade and plant, I am
usually very busy in New York or else-
where, and it is all I can do to get time to
plant the garden, let alone spading it.
I therefore have a laborer do this work
which costs about $1.25. A young man,
however, who has his garden in the back-
yard of his winter home can very easily
do a little spading each day and will find
it unnecessary to hire the work done.
(To spade an entire garden at “‘one sitting”’,
so to speak, is too much of a job for an
indoor man who is not accustomed to any
manual labor.) Such a young man can
go out each morning and work for fifteen
or twenty minutes with great profit.
Moreover, spading the garden one’s self
has another advantage over having the
work done by a common laborer. I
refer to the fact that if a laborer spades the
garden it is all spaded in one day or less,
and, as the garden should be planted only
little at a time so the crops will not mature
at the same time, it then is often necessary
to spade a portion of the garden again
before the final planting is completed. If
one spades his own garden, however, he
can do it as he plants.

When about ready to spade, a load of
manure should be ordered. If possible
get old manure, free from shavings and
wood chips and also free from straw.

Either old horse or cow manure is satis-
factory, but very warm manure in which
the straw or wood has decayed or burned
is far preferable. I also use fertilizer, but
manure alone is perfectly satisfactory,
especially for a man who owns his land and
is truly interested in developing a splendid
garden for the long pull. If one is only
renting his home and is liable to leave at
any time, possibly fertilizer will do as well.
Manure, however, is food for the ground,
whereas fertilizer is more of a stimulant.
Thus a garden which is heavily manured
grows better each year, while a garden
which is simply fertilized with artificial
fertilizer is said to run out. For my
garden, which contains 1,500 square feet,
I use two small loads of manure, one
spread upon the ground before spading,
and the other used with fertilizer in my
rows and hills. I usually order two 50-
pound bags of a standard fertilizer “for a
kitchen garden.”

Assume that the garden is spaded and
we are now ready to commence planting.
In the vicinity of New York, Pennsylvania
and southern New England, planting can
be commenced about the middle of April.
It is, however, a great mistake to decide
upon any definite date for planting. More
people plant too early than too late, and
it is wise to wait until the ground is fairly
mellow and workable. It is also useless
to plant in cold, wet ground, and it is
foolhardy to plant before the frost is com-
pletely out of the ground. The last few
years I have begun to plant my backyard
garden on April 19th, which is a holiday
in Massachusetts. On this day I have
dug with my hoe seven rows and have
planted two rows of early “American-
Wonder” peas, or about a pint in all;
two rows of Early Scarlet Beets, or about
two ounces thereof; and two rows of New
Zealand spinach, using about the same
amount of this; and one row of Swiss
chard, using about one half an ounce.
It is also possible to plant carrots, cabbages,
and certain other “‘root”’ vegetables at
this time; but I usually plant my cabbages
in the house or buy the plants, and do
not plant them in the open ground from
seed.

The reader must be acquainted with all
the above vegetables with the possible
exception of New Zealand spinach, which,
to my mind, is one of the most profitable
and useful vegetables for a backyard gar-
den. Its seed is quite expensive and much
more must be planted than is customary
when planting greens, because only a
small proportion of the seed properly
germinates. I usually buy 50 cents’ worth
and let it come up as it will and do not
bother to thin it out. In about a month

305

The first of the series appeared in April.)

from planting time one can enjoy the first
meal by cutting off the extreme tops of
each plant with scissors and cooking same
about twenty minutes, as one would cook
greens of any kind. Many people make
the mistake of allowing this New Zealand
spinach to grow long or tall; but I never
permit it to get beyond six inches in height,
keeping it continually cut down. The more
one cuts, the more he has. It lacks the
bitter taste of the regular spinach and is
much more tender and sweet. Moreover,
it is always ready to cook as it takes only
about five minutes’ time to gather enough
for a good meal. It is as tender in August
or even September — if kept cut down and
watered —as in June or July. By all
means plant New Zealand spinach and
Swiss chard. Moreover, by planting them
both, it is unnecessary to use the Swiss
chard as greens, but the chard can be
allowed to grow up in stalks and these
stalks can be used as asparagus is used.
When the stalks are about twelve inches
long, they can be gathered, the leaf part cut
off and the stalks cut up in pieces about
one inch long. After these have been
stewed for half an hour with a little salt
they make a most delicious table vegetable.

HOW I PLANT

In planting the above vegetables, the
peas are planted in a trench about eight
inches deep and covered about three
inches; while the beets, spinach and chard
are also planted in trenches, but are covered
with only about one inch of soil. After
planting these vegetables, the top surface
of the rows remain filled up to within two
or three inches below the surface of the
ground. It is very important that a
portion of the trenches be left so that the
earth may later be hoed up around the
roots. This will give the garden a more
level appearance during the summer as
the rows will not project above the rest
of the garden surface. When planting a
garden one should continually keep in
mind that the garden must have sufficient
moisture and hoeing. By having the
rows and hills zmdented in the ground tends
to collect the moisture where it is most
needed, or near the seeds and around the
roots of the plants. Hills and rows which
come up above the level of the garden
serve as the roof of a house and take moist-
ure away from the plant instead of collect-
ing it. This often makes a difference be-
tween a successful and unsuccessful garden.
Remember to leave the ground so as to
collect and hold water about the plants.

I do not plant any more vegetables
until my peas are up, which is usually
about two weeks after planting them,
when I plant two more rows of peas and

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iny first two rows of beans. The first
planting of the beans consists of a pint
or perhaps more, as I do not believe in
being too economical with seed, especially
in planting peas, beans and such things
which do not need to be thinned out.
The beans are also planted in a trench
about six inches deep, but need to be
covered with only a couple of inches of
earth. I always plant bush beans, so as
not to bother with poles and usually use
““stringless,” early, bush string beans.
Next year I shall also plant some bush
shell beans to please Mrs. Babson, but as
yet I have not experimented with both
string and shell beans. I also take a
chance and do my first planting of early
corn about the first of May, but in only
the driest portion of the garden; and some-
times I lose my crop. Squashes, however,
cannot be planted until after the first of
May.

AFTER FROST DANGER

After all possibility of frost has passed,
I plant cucumbers. This usually means
that cucumbers are not planted until after
the middle of May. I have experimented
with various forms of cucumbers — little
ones and big ones, fancy ones and old-
fashioned ones — but I find that the best
results come from what are called Long
Green cucumbers. Small cucumbers for
pickling purposes are rather difficult to
raise unless the soil is perfectly satisfactory,
and I have not had good luck with them.
As stated in a previous article, my land is
only ordinary and is probably below the
average fertility of the reader’s backyard.
As shown by the sketch in my previous
article, I usually plant cucumbers in the bot-
tom of the garden, as they require a large
amount of moisture, or, to state it another
way, I plant them in the lowest and
dampest part of the garden. I always
plant twenty to twenty-five seeds in a hill,
with the hills about four feet apart in all
directions, and after the cucumbers get
about six inches high and too large to
tempt the bugs I thin them out to about
six vines per hill. I confine the dressing
to the hills, but dig a deep hole before
putting in the dressing so that after the
dressing is put in, covered with a few
inches of soil, the cucumbers planted and
in turn covered with about two inches of
soil, the surface of the hill is still about
three inches below the surface of the garden,
so as to collect moisture. As stated above,
all hills and rows should be left in the
form of valleys to collect moisture rather
than in the form of hills to shed the
moisture.

I have a neighbor who does not wish
to use space in his vegetable garden for
tomatoes and cucumbers, and so he digs
holes about one foot deep and three feet
in diameter in his lawn, putting in the
dressing and planting his cucumbers and
letting them run over the grass. I was
brought up to believe that vines must run
on plowed soil; but the good luck which

this man has had makes me believe that
this can not be true. If the vines can
grow just as well in grass as in plowed soil,
this means a distinct saving in space. Of
course, cucumbers must be protected from
bugs either by sprinkling lime on the leaves
or by covering with netting. At the same
time when planting ,cucumbers, I also
plant winter squashes. Summer squashes
can be planted about the first of May, but
winter squashes should not be planted
until all possibility of frost is past. The
same rules apply to planting winter
squashes as I have outlined above rela-
tive to cucumbers. It is very important
to have the hills and valleys about four
feet from one another. I plant squashes
also in the lowest part of the garden with
the cucumbers, so that when the cucumber
vines die off, the squashes may run over
the space allotted for the cucumbers. A
great many people plant their squashes
among the early peas and beans, or ven
among the early corn, and this is an ex-
cellent idea for one who has very little land.
The early peas and beans are out of the
way by the middle of July or just about
the time the squashes begin to run. Next
year I shall use this system of planting
myself. It is, however, very necessary
that plenty of room be given to squashes
even in the earliest stage, and that they
should not be crowded by the peas, beans,
or tomatoes. Squashes need an early
start and it is false economy to try to stint
them on space.

Immediately after planting the cucum-
bers and squashes, I look around for some
tomato plants. Now, if there is any-
thing in which one should be liberal when
buying, it is in the purchase of tomato
plants. Because a dozen good plants cost
fifty cents and a dozen others cost twenty-
five or thirty-five cents, don’t buy the
cheap ones. The highest priced plants
are usually the cheapest in the end. I buy
a dozen plants for my backyard garden,
and set them out in hills about four feet
apart with the ground well fertilized under
the plants. I al.o leave a hollow about
each plant to collect moisture. A great
enemy to the tomato plant in my section
of the country is the cutworm, and con-
sequently, I prepare strips of cardboard
about six inches long and four inches wide
and wind these around the stem of each
plant, so that when they are set out, about
two inches is below the surface and two
inches above the surface of the ground.
With this system I have not lost a single
tomato plant, while neighbors who do not
use these ‘“‘card-board collars” lose one
third to one half of their plants every
season.

I also cut off certain shoots of the tomato
plant. It is not easy to tell in an article
how this is done; but after the plants
begin to blossom, one can easily see off-
shoots appear without blossoms, and these
can be cut off from the main shoots. Of
course, I do not give this treatment to all
plants but simply to about one third of

them which I want to force along early.
The great trouble with tomato plants is
that they do not usually bear ripe tomatoes
till late, and then bear great quantities
all at once. This can be obviated by
forcing one third of them, holding back
about one third and allowing the remaining
one third to ripen naturally. Tomatoes
are very profitable, and, in fact, one of the
greatest cost-of-living reducers. Not only
are they splendid for the table, both raw
and cooked, but they can be picked green
and allowed to ripen in the cellar until
Thanksgiving. Moreover, they can be
pickled, preserved and treated in various
other ways. By all means buy good
tomatoes; set out enough of them; watch
them and care for them, as tomatoes are a
source of great economic value.

The chart given last month shows prac-
tically the arrangement of the backyard
garden which has yielded me such profit
in health, pleasure and money. Against
the various lines are marked the dates when
I have done the planting, and it will be
noticed that these came on Saturdays. A
great many people make the mistake of
planting their garden all at once under
the pressure of enthusiasm. Not only
does this make more work, but it is far
less useful and less profitable. Each
Saturday one should do a little work
and one should only do it at about this
rate.

SUMMARY OF WORK

To briefly summarize the above, it will
be seen that I order my seed about the first
of March, buying good seed —the best
I can obtain. About April first I lay-out
my garden, buying the fertilizer and pre-
paring to do the first planting. This first
planting is done as soon as the ground is
workable — say the first or second Saturday
in April, and it includes lettuce, radishes,
beets, spinach, peas, and other hardy
vegetables such as cabbage, Swiss chard,
cauliflower, etc. The second planting
comes about two Saturdays later and in-
cludes the first early beans and summer
squashes. The third planting comes the
next to the last Saturday in May and in-
cludes the medium beans and medium peas,
and also early corn. The fourth plant-
ing comes the following Saturday, when
medium corn, early cucumbers, winter
squashes and other more tender vegetables
are planted. Soon after this the tomato
plants can be set out and it is safe to plant
anything including melons.

It is unnecessary to hold off any plant-
ing after May 2oth except for the purpose
of getting later crops, second crops, etc.
In short, this briefly tells the story of
how a busy man planted a backyard
garden and the same process can be
followed by every reader of this paper.
Moreover, those who do thus plant a
backyard garden this year will at one
time reduce the cost of living, increase
the family health and perform an economic
service to the whole community.

Raising Your Own Shrubs—By John Dunbar, fe

FLOWERING SHRUBS FROM CUTTINGS —
WHEN TO TAKE THEM, AND HOW TO STRIKE THEM FROM HARD OR SOFT WOOD

EASY WAYS OF GROWING THE COMMON

NY amateur gardener can have a lot of fun by growing
his own shrubs from cuttings. It is generally quite easy
to do it too, and the personality that attaches to the
plants thus raised is indescribable. Many people harbor

the notion that it is only the expert nurseryman

who can go to work and raise shrubs or even
trees from cuttings, whereas the fact is that
any one can be reason-
ably successful. The hot-
bed is the only special
equipment to be pro-
vided, and in some cases
even this can be dis-
pensed with. But since
what is worth doing at
all is worth doing well,
I urge the use of the
hotbed, and write from
the assumption that you have, or will get one.
Every garden should have one anyhow.

There are three methods usually employed
by gardeners in propagating deciduous trees
_ and shrubs from cuttings, as enumerated below:

(z) The young growths of the season are
taken when the wood is quite green (which is
time in June), and the cuttings are placed in

(2) The ripened growths (hard wood) of the
taken in October and placed in boxes (flats)
_house benches.

(3) The ripened growths of the previous year
taken off the parent during the winter), are
drained soil and placed in nursery rows in spring.

There are certain trees and shrubs which can be successfully
propagated, by either of these three methods. On any large
scale of course, the cheapest method of that is of hard wood
taken in winter, and placed in nursery rows in spring. In
the winter season time is not usually so pressing for other duties
and the labor involved in the treatment of the cuttings is much
simpler. In this country however, and in the New England and
northeastern states particularly, on account of the short springs
and excessively hot summers, it is only a limited number of trees
and shrubs that will strike roots in sufficient quantity from
hard wood cuttings made in winter to make it pay.

Some shrubs strike roots quite freely from cuttings made in
October, when the wood is matured, and placed in flats in the
greenhouse benches in a gentle heat. It is also true that quite a
number of these same kinds will “strike” roots when made in
winter and placed in nursery rows in spring, but, again, a large
enough percentage will not be realized to make it really pay.

Some shrubs will not “strike” at all at either of those periods,
or at least in suffic-
ient quantity to
make it worth while,
but they can be suc-
cessfully propagated
from the green wood
taken some time in
June. Among shrubs
that require this
treatment are lilac,
viburnum, hydran-
gea, euonymus, bar-
berry and some of
the spireas.

For the propaga-
tion of green wood
cuttings in summer

lilac cutting.

usually some-
shadedhotbeds.
sseason are
on the green-

(which are
buried in well-

Wrong and right ways of making a
Note how the lower leaf
stems are removed and the upper leaves
cut back to check evaporation

The ideal cutting frame is sheltered in aJl directions from the direct sun

307

a hotbed must be prepared from eighteen inches to two feet in
depth. In some florist and nursery establishments pits are con-
structed of cement or planks to hold the manure, over which the
frames and sash are placed. In this way the heat of the manure

is conserved for a much long-.

er period than if placed on
the surface of the ground.
Where no such arrangement
exists for frames and sash, I
advise digging out a pit in the
ground to the required depth
to hold the manure. Make
the bed of manure one
foot wider and longer than
the frame and sash. For
example, if the frame and

three sash are 6 x ro {t.,

the bed of manure

Shouldi@ibem Oper 2uartts

When frame and sashes
are built permanently over cement or
brickwork it is merely necessary to fill
with manure the space inside the frame
or pit to the required depth. Use
| the horse stables, thoroughly shaken out
a hard bed. There is no danger in making
too hard. On the top of the level sur-
spread six inches of clean gritty sand,
to a hard surface.
should be about three feet above the
extending three feet beyond the area of
the glass and also downward. It must cover the glass
from direct sunshine in all directions. Cheap “factory” cot-
ton tacked to strong 1x 2 in. white pine strips secured to 2 x 4 in.
hemlock bearings on the uprights and cross pieces is all that is
necessary. The frame should be made so strong that the wind
will not blow it down. This method of shading permits the»air
to circulate over the glass, prevents the cuttings from being
overheated, and obviates the necessity of admitting air until the
cuttings begin to root. The frame is now ready for the cuttings.

About the exact condition of the wood to take for cuttings:
It should be sufficiently far advanced in growth to be perfectly
formed — that is in buds, joints and leaves; it should be cut when
it is green, and better success will be obtained if it is not
allowed to harden.

The length of cutting to use depends entirely upon the vigor of
the wood. As a rule, short jointed cuttings are preferable to
those of rank growth; but if the species or variety in question has
the latter growth, there is no choice but to use it. Cuttings may
therefore vary from five to nine inches in length. In the selection
of lilac cuttings we
usually use four nodes
(or joints). A clean
cut is made close to
the lowest node, from
which the leaves are
removed; the leaves
are also removed
from the next one
above; at the third
node the leaves are
partly removed, and
at the top the blades
have part of their sur-
faces cut. This is
done to prevent too
much _ evaporation

manure fresh from
and packed down to
the bed of manure
face of the manure
and pack all down

The shading
glass on the top,

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from the wood by re-
ducing the leaf surface,

face is left to as-
similate food for the
new roots as soon as they
begin to form. A piece of
wood with a sharp edge,
» and the width of the
frame, is pressed into the
sand to make a straight
mark across the bed in
which to firmly place the cut-
tings. Place the cuttings in the
sand for about half their length,
or above the second node, with
about two inches between the
cuttings in the rows and about
three inches between rows. The
different varieties should be
labeled so that the cuttings al-
ways stand behind the label. If
this rule is rigidly fol-
lowed the cuttings can-
not very well be mixed
up. Keep watch daily
on the cuttings for
watering and syringeing. They will not re-
quire very much water in the sand bed,
but if the weather is hot and sunny they
will require frequent overhead syringeing
and dampening.

If all the conditions are favorable, and
the cuttings have been made some time in
June, they will begin to form roots from the
middle to the end of July and about the
first of August they will be sufficiently
rooted to pot off.

There is a remarkable trait in the lilacs
that I have observed. Dark colored
varieties, like Aline Mocquery and
Congo, root more freely and with
a much larger percentage than
white-flowering varieties,
such as Princess Alex-
andra and Marie

Legraye. It is im-
portant, that as soon
as roots begin to form air
be gradually admitted, and
before the cuttings are potted
off the shading should be
gradually removed; but
the admission of air

and the removal of

& the shading should

be a studied, gradual pro-
cess. Three-inch pots are
usually about the right size
to pot the cuttings in.
The potted plants

can be placed on a

greenhouse bench

close to the glass
and kept thoroughly
watered. If they show
any signs of wilting in
the sunshine, news-
papers can be spread
over them for a few days.

Hydrangea paniculata
cutting properly pre-
pared

A June _ rooted

: In one or two months
cutting potted up 7
ini theltall from the time they are

but enough leaf sur-_

How the roots de-
velop. The first process
—the callus formed

After three
months: a few
real roots de-
veloped

At six month’s of
yp age: a strong root
system and ready to
rest for the winter

potted the pots will be full of roots. In-
stead of placing them on the greenhouse
bench they can be placed in the bottom of
a coldframe and the sash placed over them
for a short time, so as to give the neces-
sary ventilation. In three or four weeks
from the potting the sash can be re-
moved entirely.

In the winter months the young plants
can be left in the coldframe with the sash
over them and covered with litter, hay, or
leaves to keep out the frost. In mild

weather they will be benefited by the
removal of the covering, but it must be

put back on the approach of cold weather.
In spring the plants can be turned out of
the pots and placed in nursery rows.

The general treatment as for lilacs can
be applied with equal success to all “‘green
cuttings” of deciduous trees and shrubs,
such as viburnum, euonymus hydrangea,
diervilla, berberis, the early blooming
spireas, Acanthopanax pentaphyllum, some
of the hybrid deutzias, and philadelphus.
In regara to diervilla, berberis, early bloom-
ing spireas, and Acanthopanax pentaphyl-
Jum, it is true a certain percentage of them
will root from matured cuttings in the
fall, but the percentage is so uncertain that
it is safer and more profitable to depend
upon the much larger “strike” that can be
secured from the green cuttings in the
summer time. The berberis species can
all be readily raised from seeds, and propa-
gation from cuttings applies to varieties of
some species which cannot be
depended upon to come true
from seed. Species of berberis
hybridize when grown together,
and if it is desired to keep them
true to type they must be
increased by cuttings. Some
growers do not pot the cuttings
after they have been rooted
in the frames. But they are
taken and placed in flats and
given the necessary harden-
ing off, are kept in frost-proof
frames over winter and planted
from the flats in nursery rows
early in spring while still dormant.

Another method sometimes em-
ployed is to leave them in the
propagating frames throughout
the fall and winter, excluding all
frost in winter, but giving air

on all mild occasions, and
as early in spring as
weather conditions will
permit, and whilst they are perfectly dor-
mant transfer them to nursery rows.
If this method is followed extreme
caution must be exercised in removing
them in the dormant state, for if the
young plants are permitted to start into
growth with their roots still in the sand
and are then placed in the nursery rows,
very few will survive the ordeal of be-
ing handled when so fragile.

Cutting of —
Viburnum
lentago

They are two inches
apart in rows three inches distant

A frame full of cuttings.

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HAD no idea so much skill and deft-

ness was necessary in turning around

and starting the furrow again. It

was nearly ten when he unhitched
the horses from the plow, wiped his fore-
head which was curiously white, threw the
extra whiffle tree into the wagon, and
began fastening the horses back into their
old places.

“T have delayed you greatly, I’m afraid,”
I said, “‘shall you be too late for loading
the wood?”

He hesitated, looked at me keenly a
moment, glanced nervously toward the
house, then a sudden smile broke, he
grinned like a boy, showing very white
teeth and his blue eyes laughed.

“The logging’s an excuse,” he said softly.
“When it comes May, I just have to go to
the woods, the trees are calling —I can’t
help it any more than those Hamelin
children could help going after the Piper.
Soon as the maples are out they fairly
holler to me —I just take a week or so
and say nothing to anybody. I have to go
just like the bees go to that old orchard ’way
up the hill; when it’s in blossom, it calls
them and they come. There’s no one in
Enderby Hollow knows what the May
woods are like but me! All the men-folks
are plowing and planting; all the women-
folks are house-cleaning. It’s only the
children that’d answer. They hear the
woods calling plain enough; but them, they
keep shut up in school ’cept Saturday, and
then they get chores enough to keep them
busy —so they don’t get too close to the
Lord’s miracle. And they teach them
Easter and the Resurrection shut up in-
doors out of a Quarterly, when the blood-
root on the hillside is white as the gar-
ments of the Resurrection Angel, and every
tree in the wood is a-tremble with the
mystery of death transfigured into life!
They’re blind and deaf, those people down
there!”’ he said, passionately, pointing over
toward the little town that lay below.
“The only part of the Lord’s miracle that
they care about is that that helps ’em feed
their bodies — they never think of feeding
their souls with it! ‘Eyes have they, but
they see not, ears have they but they hear
not, neither can they understand.’ They
drive the wild loveliness from the roadside
as if it were pestilence. Do you think
they’ll see the gold in the streets of the new

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Continued from page 254, May number

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is now well-known as an amateur gardener, and writes with such genuine humor as proves the efficacy

Who she is we do not say at this time, but the future may reveal 1t.]

Jerusalem if they can’t see the gold there?”
he pointed to a great oak, leaning toward
us from the ravine. ‘‘Do you think they
could see the Lord in any flaming bush if
they can’t see him yonder?”

I saw the tree he meant, far up the hill-
side —a maple, glowing crimson against
the dark pines.

“Tt’s a wonderful place up there,” he
said softly, ‘“‘no one goes to it but me.
That tree is high on a ledge of rock — very
high; underneath it now the ground is all
soft moss and violets — violets so thick you
can’t help but step on them. Later there’s
a single columbine, just at the edge of the
rock —it stands out clear against the sky,
as you lie under the tree. You go up there
very early —all below is mist, like a sea —
a wonderful radiant sea and the sun just
touches the mountains beyond — then
they become the Delectable Mountains.
IS ag i ==”

He stopped abruptly. “I beg your par-
don,” he said in his embarrassed, hesita-
tie wey, “ll Temot, IS mE So
beautiful — and they don’t see it — none
of them!”

I looked at him for a moment in silence
and felt as if I had always known him, just
as I felt I had always known the little
house and the apple trees —this strange
shy fellow with his uncouthness and his
fineness, his hesitancy and his sudden
vehemence.

“T came up here,” I said slowly, “‘be-
cause I wanted to see the trees come alive.
1 think I must have heard them calling.
Will you take me up the hill some day?”’

“Yes,”’ he said.

He looked off again to the hillside, pulled
the old felt hat from his head. ‘If ever
the time comes when I can’t see wonder
and loveliness in the springtime but only
the deadening round of monotonous work
—may the Lord blind my eyes and stop
my ears!”

I sat for a long time, that evening, after
I saw McLeod pass down the hill, through
the gate; picking up a clod of the soft earth
he had plowed, and crumbling it in my
fingers, I looked off toward Stephen
McLeod’s Delectable Mountains. A thrush
deep in the ravine uttered his note, another
answered; then, far down the hill in the
woods into which McLeod had disappeared
another, faint in the distance, but very
clear; then an answer to that.

“He’s right,” I said, ‘the wonder and

309

the loveliness is the chief thing. I’ve been
blind and deaf all my life!”

CHAPTER X

For some reason Clarky’s garden did
better than mine. I mean her garden bed
with the retaining wall and the muck from
the ravine for soil. The young wild things
in it looked cheerful and sprightly; the
ferns she had brought up the hill in the
little cart grew as luxuriantly as if trans-
planting had never happened— they
didn’t turn a hair; the pansies I had
set there throve lustily and began to
blossom in lovely colors —they and the
maiden hair ferns got on together charm-
ingly. And yet the only thing Clarky
did for the bed was to give it pail after pail
of water.

Mine was different; the little plants
came up joyfully enough; the poppies
changed from a soft green fuzz to real
seedlings; the cornflowers were two or three
inches high and had long narrow gray-
green leaves with a silvery tinge.

Suddenly one after another of them
flopped — toppled over as if suddenly
faint. They didn’t crumple in a heap as
I did when I felt tired but fell full
length, like an 18th century novel heroine.
I had no idea what ailed them; I sat on
my cushion by the flower bed and stared
at them in dismay; then I lifted one poor
little cornflower carefully and tried to help
it up, thinking it had simply fainted; but it
was no use; it couldn’t stand.

Just then Mrs. Tarbox came out;
she had a couple of dish towels in her hand
which she hung irreverently on the fragrant
lilac that was coming into magnificent
bloom.

““What’s the matter?” she asked. “‘You
look kinder peaked, Caroline.”

““What’s the matter with them?” I said,
almost tearfully.

She bent laboriously, poked the poor
limp things casually with a fat forefinger,

then righted herself again. ‘‘Cutwovins,”
she said — ‘‘cutworms; bit the stems
right off.”

“But what can you do for them?”’

“Cuss,” responded Mrs. Tarbox briefly.
“That’s what folks does mostly.”

“Tsn’t there anything else you can do?”
I said in despair.

“Oh, yes, they’s plenty of things you
might do. But you don’t notice the pesky
things till they’ve up an’ done it — bit

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JUNE, 1913

the stems off — jus’ like that. Then you
get out your pizen bait an’ what-not an’
mos’ wear yourself out fixin’ it so’s the
worms’ll get it an’ the chickens wont, an’
by the time you get it fixed, the evenin’
an’ the mornin’s the second day or the third
day —cutworms has had another bite —
seedlings is all gone. If you’re a swearin’
man, you cuss; if you’re,a member of the
Church an’ a Christian woman, you set,
jus’ like you’re settin’ now — an’ think.”

“Tsn’t there any way of getting ahead of
them?” I asked blankly.

“They’s ways enough,” she said dis-
passionately, “‘but you ain’t ahead. You’re
behind ’em, Caroline.”

“Ts there nothing I can do?”

“Waz-al,” she said, judicially, ‘next
year, when you're planting seeds jes’ before
they come up —then’s the time to out
with your pizen-bait an’ whatnot. Then
the cut-worms is there —a-lyin’ there,
jes’ under the surface, with their mouths
waterin’, eyin’ them young things an’
waitin’ for them to be big enough to eat.
Then they’ll take the pizen bait like ’twas
Manna-in-the Wilderness.

“That’s all I know ’bout cut-worms,
Caroline. Course, if you want, you can
set up all night with a lantern, waitin’ till
they come out, an’ when you see one,
lamm him. You can make traps — poke
holes you know — hopin’ they’ll drop into
them an’ let you kill em in the mornin’.
Maybe they will an’ maybe they wont.
I’ve noticed they was pretty deft at step-
pin’ round them.

“But if I was you, an’ didn’t know no
more about plantin’ than you seem to
know, I’d jes’ sow some fresh seed over
to that new patch that Steve dug (tain’t
likely they’s worms there) an’ when those
get grown big enough, why I’d move ’em
into the front bed. Cause by that time
the cut-worms’ll have got through an’
they'll let the things alone.

“Course, if you was more intelligent,
more responsible-like, I’d give you dif-
ferent advice. But bein’ as you are, I
think that’s the best you can do.”

Whereat she left me and went into the
house.

For a long time I sat there, looking
blankly at the poor little cornflowers.
Slowly, insistingly, it was borne in upon me
that Mrs. Tarbox was right. Another
person might do differently, I couldn’t;
I had neither courage, nor energy, nor in-
telligence to fight those horrible worms.

Moreover Reason —the Reason that
loomed large in Doctor Johnson’s ideas,
the Reason that poor Mary Wollstonecraft
urged women to cultivate instead of Feeling
—rose up and backed Mrs. Tarbox. It
told me I hadn’t prepared that garden
bed properly; that the grocer’s boy had
forked it, as it were with a dessert fork;
that it lacked depth, like the female intel-
lect; that the only way to have a really
good garden bed in that place was to take
out all the worthless soil, cutworms and
all, and put in better.

Suddenly, all that in garden books I
had passed over hastily to reach the more
interesting parts, flashed accusingly before
my mind like the handwriting on the wall
before Belshazzar. Phrase after phrase
I recalled — “‘dig to the depth of two feet,”
“remove, and replace with good garden-
soil,” “‘should have deep, rich soil,” “light,
rich, sandy loam” — they became charged
with meaning, freighted with significance.
J felt like a young mother who, in a careless
girlhood, has passed over as irrelevant
information on infants’ diet, and for whom,
her child sick and no doctor at hand, the
aspect changes suddenly; that which was
uninteresting and irrelevant has become
vital, imperative, something she ought to
have known!

But these poor little things were done
for! I make no defense of my conduct in
thus abandoning the luckless seedlings to
their fate; I simply admit that I did it.
Napoleon abandoned his wounded in the
Egyptian campaign; but I didn’t feel like
Napoleon. Sadly, tenderly, I dug up the
little survivors. I looked carefully at
each root, then I set them in a pan of soapy
water and carried them to the new garden
planted them there as skilfully as I knew
how. And I humbly took Mrs. Tarbox’s
further advice, went into the house, got
some fresh seed-packets and sowed in the
new garden two rows of seed.

This done, I went indoors, curled up on
the window seat and read what I might
have done about cutworms, very much as
Red Riding-Hood’s mother might have
taken a natural history and read about the
predatory habits of the wolf after he had
swallowed her little daughter.

For the sad part was, I might have in-
formed myself. Richard Protheroe, who
had sent the Trimardeau pansies, had
sagely followed his gift with one after
another of his garden books — they had
come at the rate of one a week. I suppose
he hoped thereby to insure the safety of
his beloved plants. But I had read none
of them. The out-of-doors and the get-
ting well had been too wildly interesting,
the planting too exciting. Of course I
had poked in them a bit — one can’t help
poking in any new book — but that was
all.

You see, garden books are of two kinds.
There are the rhapsodic ones which are
excellent company when you’re shut up in
your room; then it’s pleasant enough to
see with the eyes of another. But when
all the spring loveliness is yours just for
opening your eyes and ears and taking in
the breath of life in your nostrils, you
aren’t interested in the least in other
people’s rhapsodies, however impassioned
—you can do it yourself; besides, there
are the thrushes who express it very per-
fectly. It’s like being made to read a
translation of a poem when you can have
the original.

As for the other sort —the hard-headed
practical books — they had seemed to me
horribly prosaic; weariful, colorless school-

book prose,a mantle of Gradgrind fact
thrown over the bright colored poetry that
your imagination lent to the planting of
seed and flower, which for me had been full
of charm and wild excitement.

It was the catalogues that had been my
joy. The catalogues where, soberly ranged
in alphabetical lists, stood all my plants,
glowingly described, not as they ap-
peared when arranged by Jane or Elizabeth
or Mary Ann in their admirable gardens
but an account of the radiant beauty
that was to spring from the very seed that
I had dropped in the ground and which
would arise —the wonderful creature —
in all its loveliness right outside my living
room window. That was the hope; and
the hope had been devoured by cut-
worms.

Gardening is much like marriage. The
catalogues are its Romantic Novelists;
they tell you little about the hazards and
vicissitudes of the adventure, but dwell only
on the “happy forever after” idea; the
joy in the possession of the adored object.
You don’t think about cutworms when you
plan a garden any more than people about
to be married think of children with
measles, and rent, and fleeting cooks —
it’s afterward.

CHAPTER XI

The new garden was more hopeful.
Stephen McLeod, for all his shiftlessness
had done the work well. Even Mrs. Tar-
box said that.

First he plowed it, as I said. He made
the long furrows curl over evenly until the
““oreen-tressed goddess” became brown-
tressed, and looked as if she had been
Marcelled; then he took the harrow, de-
stroyed the Marcel effect and gave our
worthy Mother a more decorous coiffure
—smooth and only slightly crimpy.
Moreover, he brought manure and _har-
rowed it in (which doesn’t fit in the
simile unless you consider it hairdressing).

“He ain’t so foolish about doin’ the
work,”’ conceded Mrs. Tarbox, as she
stood inspecting the smooth brown square
of the new garden, one evening just after
Stephen had gone, “It’s his way of goin’
at it that’s so crazy. Look how he’s doin’
here. ‘Stead of givin’ you two or three or
four whole days’ work, like any sensible
man ’d have done, here he is, stoppin’ in
an’ working’ an hour or two in the evenin’
when he’d oughter be settin’ down to
home with his work all done. I ain’t
sayin’ it’s hard on the horses — Steve’s
really foolish about horses an’ they don’t
hey’ far to go up the hill, but it —it ain’t
right!” she ended severely..

I liked Stephen’s shameless way of doing
things; it suited me, exactly. We had our
early supper (for Clarky and I kept child-
ren’s hours), then she would spread a rug
for me on the grass, as near as was safe to
the scene of action — below the stone wall,
where the roses lost themselves in the grass
— and from there I watched the work.

(To be continued)

JUNE, 1913

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

311

Aa ee we x Suk

CONDUCTED BY ELLEN Eppy SHAW

Working the Garden

GREAT deal more could be raised on one

little garden spot than most boys and girls
imagine to be possible. It pays to keep your
garden hard at work and to use all the available
space in it. Also have in mind what you are
going to put in the place of a given crop after it
has matured and been taken out. Suppose you
have taken out the early peas, as you will be doing
later; what are you going to put in their place?
Perhaps late celery or late turnip.

Then, too, it is possible and economical to plant
companion crops. This means to plant two crops
right together in the same drill or place. Radishes
may be planted with carrots, beets, parsnips or
parsley. This may be done because radishes
germinate and mature before these others.

Lettuce may be planted between hills of corn
or beans and transplanted into these spaces, too.
There are always spaces between rows and these
spaces are used profitably in this way too.

The other day there came to us from head-
quarters, the Department of Agriculture, a girl’s
story of how she made her garden work hard for
her. The seeds came from the Department and
so she wrote of her results to Washington. The
size of her plot was only 16 x 8 ft., not larger than
many rooms in dwelling houses. She kept it neat
and clean all summer long; nicely corded about
was the garden plot with each row of plants labeled
as to variety and time of planting. On this page
is shown her garden plan. Notice how much she
has crowded into one small garden plot. Here is a
part of Hermine’s letter, too:

I would like to let you know how I made out with the seeds
you sent me last year. The beans were very poor; the beets
were fairly good, small but sweet; the lettuce was good; the
radishes were poor; the tomatoes were very good. I had some
lovely samples exhibited in Horticultural Hall where I received
three prizes for vegetables I grew in my garden.

I received first prize again for the best garden from the
Community Club in Roslindale. This makes the second year
I have won the first prize. It was my first year that I put
things on exhibition in Horticultural Hallin Boston. Ireceived
first prize for the best six ears of sweet corn which was three
dollars, and third prize for four cucumbers. Mine would have
been first prize if judged by size, for they were over a foot long
and perfect in shape and the judges told me to be sure and save
the seeds. I also raised them from a prize cucumber I grew
in}torr. I won fifth prize on remaining collection of vegetables.
This made eight dollars I won on prizes in 1912, ona little gar-
den eight by sixteen feet. I am trying to beat the record this
year on a larger garden. I am thirteen years old now.

My little sister won three prizes also, on a little flower garden
not more than five feet square.

Hermine does not tell in this letter the amount
of produce she raised on that little 3x 16 garden
plot. But this I know; that she supplied her
own home table all summer long with nice fresh
vegetables. We urge you, boys and girls, to keep
track of the amount of produce raised from a given
plot. And also figure out the money value of your
garden. If you never sell anything at all you can
figure values from the market prices of vegetables
for the time when a special crop of yours matures.

There is a certain amount of satisfaction in this.
Then, if you have kept the record of what your seed
cost, you can figure out later the profits for the
season of 1913.

Watch your garden with greater care than ever
this year and see if you can puzzle out what are the
needs of the soil. You remember that plants are
very dependent upon nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash. These are plant foods. And they are
the least likely to be found in the soil all ready and
available for plants. You will wonder how you
are to tell what the soil needs. Watch your plants
and they will tell you. If their foliage is fine and
green you may know that nitrogen is not lacking
in your garden — at least, it is rot lacking this
season. It is well to remember that nitrogen is
the easiest of all plant goods to lose out of the soil.
Nitrogen, then makes leaf growth or foliage. So
you will see that this is the food needed for such
crops as lettuce, cabbage and spinach, for example:
that is, those vegetab'es the leaves of which are
to be used for food. The grains need nitrogen,
too, for their best development.

Second, suppose the flowering plants are not
doing well, not blossoming freely or even beautifully.
What does this fact say to you? It says this:
add phosphoric acid to the soil. Phosphoric acid,
then, helps the flowering pert of plants. If the

Making garden labels would seem to be a most
engrossing occupation!

fruits of a plant (currants, for example) are poor,
potash is needed.

June is a very busy time in all gardens for it is
the month when a great deal of the thinning and
transplanting must be done. The following tables
give the distances which some of the common
vegetables and flowers should stand apart.

VEGETABLE TABLE

Distance Distance

(inches) | Name (inches) }
Beets Ofte 3-4 Onion 4
‘Cabbagemueane 18 Parsnip 4
Carrot 3 2-3 Radish 2-3
Lettuce. . . Io Tomato 24-36
Kohlrabi 5; 6 Turnip 4-6

FLOWER TABLE

Distance Distance

Name (inches) Name (inches)
Alyssum, sweet 4-6 Pans yen unis cree 6
INSTI eh B55 Io Retuniagarn se Bite}
Calendula. . 8 Phlox . Sl (uth 6-10
Calliopsis .. Io Poppy Baty eae 4-8
Candytuit. . 6 IRorellacap aman 5
Centaurea : 6 Stockiin as acre 12
Cosmos . . 12 Sunflower Bee 12
Godetia . . 6 Sweet peas . . 8
Hollyhocks . 12 Sweet William . 6
Mignonette . 6 Verbena =) -. : I2
Nasturtium . 8 Zinnia Shean 6

How can one get these different foods into the
soil, is the next natural question to ask. Wood
ashes contain potash; bone meal supplies phos-
phoric acid, while manure, nitrate of soda and
humus are all rich in nitrogen. That old black soil
you call muck is excellent to work in with your
ordinary garden soil. There is another way to

nature.

supply nitrogen to the soil. Some plants, the
legumes or pod bearers, take nitrogen right out of
the air and store it on their roots in lumps or
nodules in a form ready for the soil to be benefited
by it. So clover, alfalfa, cowpeas and soy beans,
all of the family of legumes, may be planted late
this summer in a vacant place in your garden.
That is, if there is such a space. Then, next spring,
spade all that plant matter carefully into the soil
and you have extra nitrogen ready for plants to
use. But, remember, even in the case of legumes,
while they take nitrogen for themselves from the
air, the other foods must be supplied to the soil
direct. It is hard for root crops, such as beets, pota-
toes, etc., to gather food successfully for themselves
out of the soil; so help them out by adding all
these foods to the soil.

In your little garden plot try each year to vary
the arrangement and do not always plant the same
vegetable in the same place. For you see from
taking into account this fact — that different crops
take different foods to mature them — you can
plan not to take from a given area of the garden
the same food year after year. When a second
crop is planted use the same reasoning about it.
Let us suppose you have taken out of a bed the first
crop of radishes, a root crop. What are you next
going to put into the bed? You might try pepper
plants or cabbage plants, a crop of a different
For second plantings use beans, turnips,
and sweet corn. Certain other crops you can
keep running throughout the entire season by
planting seeds at different times. These are
called succession crops. You can make plantings
of dwarf beans from early May until the middle
of August; of kohlrabi from April to July; of
lettuce, April to August; of peas from April to the
middle of July; and of radish from April until
September.

Look carefully over the garden and see what
needs attention. ‘Tomatoes, peppers, cabbages and
little celery plants are all ready for transplantings.
The tall plants, perhaps, are beginning to bend over.
This is doubtless true of the tomatoes and cosmos.
Tf so, tie the plants neatly to stakes, but not too
tightly. In early June set out roots of dahlias, also
cannas and gladiolus. If you have any old house
plants, gifts of last winter,{put them into the ground,
pots and all, into a shaded spot of the garden. They
will bloom again next winter. Finally, during all
these June days, weed, cultivate and transplant.

SEED BED on
BEETS LATER

CUCUMBERS
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ASPARAGUS 32

SEED LETTUCE »1

(@) MUSTARD

(2) ENDIVE SWEET CORN 10

CABBAGE
CARROTS

() BEANS

QP LETTUCE SPINACH

() EARLY LETTUCE,”
@ KIDNEY BEANS

(1) EARLY LETTUCE a (@) RADISH
@ LENTILS (2) COLLARDS

15-16

ONIONS

LIMA BEANS 23 CUCUMBERS /8

TOMATOES,
HOHL-RABI (rennet)

| BRUSSELS = SPROUTS
2!

FLAX 22 POTATOES 20

There are thirty-four kinds of vegetables in this
16x 8 ft. garden

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Ten Acres Enough*— Chap. VII.

(Continued from page 257, May, 1913)

Y HORSE, and cow, and pigs, all slept in

leaves. Their beds were warm and easy, and
the saving of straw for litter was an item. The
remainder was composted in the spring with the
contents of the barnyard, and made a very im-
portant addition to my stock of manure.

The leisure of the season gave us greater oppor-
tunity for intercourse, both at home and abroad.
The city was comparatively at our door, as acces-
sible as ever—we were really mere suburbans.
We ran down in an hour to be spectators of any
unusual sight, and frequently attended the evening
lectures of distinguished men. It was impossible
for the world to sweep on, leaving us to stagnate.
How different this winter seemed to me from any
preceding one! Formerly, this long season had
been one of constant toiling; now, it was one of
almost uninterrupted recreation. How different
the path I travelled from that in which ambition
hurries forward — too narrow for friendship, too
crooked for love, too rugged for honesty, and too
dark for science! Many a dainty happiness and
relishing enjoyment may come between the slices
of every-day work, if we only so determine.

My Second Year—Trenching the Garden—
Strawberry Profits

INTER passed away, and long before the land

in Pennsylvania was fit to plow, the ad-
mirable soil of New Jersey was turned over, and
planted with early peas. The sandy character
of the soil, instead of being a disadvantage, is one
of its highest recommendations; it is two to three
weeks earlier in yielding its ripened products for
market. Peas are the first things planted in the
open fields.

A mulch three inches deep of well-rotted stable-
manure, was spread over the soil, which cost $200,
and every inch of soil not occupied by standard
fruits was trenched. The trees had been arranged
in rows in borders by themselves; I estimated the
open ground to be very nearly half an acre. I
began by digging a trench three feet wide and two
deep from one end of the open space to the other,
removing the earth to the further side of the open
space. Then the bottom of the trench was dug
up .with a fifteen-inch spade, and covered lightly
with manure.

The adjoining ground was then thrown in, mixing
the top soil as we went along, with also an abundance
of manure, until the trench was filled. As all this
soil was taken from an adjoining strip three feet
wide, of course, when the trench was full, another
of corresponding size appeared beside it. With
this the operation was repeated until all the garden
had been thoroughly gone over. The earth re-
moved from the first trench went into the last one;
I was careful not to place the top soil in a mass at
the bottom, but scattered it well through the whole
of the filling. On the whole job we bestowed a
great amount of care, but it would not require
repeating for years. The manure for the trench-
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The principal means for making a perfect garden
soil are draining, trenching, and manuring.

The ten peach trees in the garden were thoroughly
manured by digging in around them all the coal
ashes made during the winter, first sifting them

well. No stable manure was added, as it promotes
too rank and watery a growth in the peach. Then
the butts were examined for worms, but the last
year’s application of tar had kept off the fly, and
the old ravages of the enemy were found to be
nearly healed over by the growth of new bark.
A fresh coating of tar was applied, and thus every-
thing was made safe.

The failures of the last season were all avoided.
Several kinds of seeds were soaked before being
planted, which prevented failure and secured a
quicker growth. In addition to this, we raised a
greater variety of vegetables expressly for the store;
and from some, such as radishes and beets, we
realized high prices. Then the high manuring and
extra care bestowed upon the asparagus were
apparent in the quick and vigorous shooting up of
thick and tender roots, so superior in quality that
they sold rapidly at city prices. The trenching and
manuring was evidently a paying investment. In
addition to all this, the season proved to be a good
one for fruit. The garden trees bore abundantly.
My ten peach trees had by this time been rejuven-
ated, and were laden with fruit. When as large
as hickory nuts, I began the operation of removing
from five of them all the smallest peaches, and of
thinning out unsparingly wherever they were ex-
cessively crowded. The other five were left
untouched.

Profits from Thinning Fruit

HE peaches on the five denuded trees grew

prodigiously larger and finer than those on the
other five. I gathered them carefully and sent
them to the city, where they brought me $41 clear
of expenses; while the fruit from the other trees,
sent to market with similar care, netted only $17,
and those used in the family from the same trees,
estimated at the same rates, were worth $9, making,
on those five, a difference of $r5 in favor of thinning.
Thus, the ten produced $58; but if all had been
thinned, the product would have been $82. The
amount running up when the season had closed,
the total returns from the garden were $63 without
peaches, or $121 by including them. But some
money had been paid for seeds; but as an offset
to this, no cash had been expended in digging.

As to the farm, I planted an acre with tomatoes,
having raised an abundance of fine plants in a hot-
bed, as well as eggplants for the garden. I set
them out in rows, three and one half feet apart
each way, and manured them well, twice as heavily
as many of my neighbors did. This gave me 3,760
plants to the acre. The product was almost in-
credible, and amounted to sor bushels, or about
five quarts a hill, a far better yield than I had had
the first year. From some hills as many as ten
quarts each were gathered. I managed to get
twenty baskets into the New York market among
the very first of the season, where they netted me
$60. The next twenty netted $25, the next twenty

312

only $15, as numerous competitors came in, and
the next thirty cleared no more. After that the
usual glut came on, and down went the price to
twenty, and even fifteen, cents. But at twenty
and twenty-five I continued to forward to Phila-
delphia. From 200 baskets at these low prices I
netted $35. But as the glut gradually subsided
the price again rose in the market to twenty-five
cents, then to fifty, then to a dollar, and upward.
I realized $40 at the fag-end of the year, inaiine a
total net yield of $190.

Tomatoes vs. Potatoes

‘HE amount realized from an acre of tomatoes far
exceeds that of potatoes. A smart man will
gather from sixty to seventy bushels a day. The
expense of cultivating, using plenty of manure, is
about $60 per acre, and the gross yield may be safely
calculated $250, leaving about $200 sure surplus.

The other acre was occupied with corn, roots, and
cabbage, for winter feeding, with potatoes for
family use. Turnips were sowed wherever room
could be found for them, and no spot about the
farm was permitted to remain idle. But of potatoes
we did sell enough to amount to $24. On the acre
occupied with blackberries, 4000 early cabbages
were planted. Many of these, of course, were
small and not marketable, but I sold 3,120 sound
cabbages, at an average of two and one quarter
cents, amounting to $70.20.

The strawberries came first into market. I had
labored to allow no runners to grow and take root
except such as were necessary to fill up the line of
each row; thus the whole strength of the plant
was concentrated into the fruit. In other words,
I set out to raise fruit, not plants; and my rows
were, therefore, composed of single stools, stand-
ing about four to six inches apart in the row. The
ground between the rows was consequently clear
for the passage of the horse-weeder, while there was
no difficulty in getting between the stools with
either the hand, or a small hoe. The stools were
consequently strong and healthy, and stood up
higher from the ground than plants which grow in
matted beds, thus keeping the berries clear of sand
and grit. The ground for a foot all round each stool
ought to have had a covering of cut straw or leaves
for the fruit to rest upon, thus to keep them clean,
as well as to preserve them from drought.

Points on Marketing

HE greatest care was used in preparing the

berries for market. When taken from the
vines they were carried to a shed adjoining the
kitchen, where they were spread out on a pine
table, and all the larger berries separated from the
smaller ones, each kind being put into boxes which
were kept separate from the other. Six hundred
quarts of the finest fruit we had ever beheld were
sent the first week, to New York. It was, of
course, nearly ten days ahead of the season in
that region — there could be no New York-grown
berries in market. At the week’s end the agent
remitted me $300 clear of freight and commission!
They had netted me half a dollar a quart.

The small boxes were packed in chests each
holding from twenty-four to sixty. The lid, when
shut down and fastened, held all snug.

The half dollar per quart which I obtained for
the first and best strawberries, by equalization
with the lower prices through the remainder of the
season, was unable to raise the average of the whole
crop above sixteen cents net. But this abundantly
satisfied me, as I sent to market 5,360 quarts, thus
producing $857.60. And in order to send this
fruit to market, I was obliged to purchase 3,000
quart boxes, and 50 chests to contain them. These
cost me $200.

(To be continued)

June, 1913 SE eG eA EN) a eAe Gy vAnZ, TIN E 313

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Propagating Perennials from
Cuttings

BY FAR the simplest way to accumulate
quickly a large stock of certain perennials
is by means of cuttings. In some cases, as com-
pared with seed, they put you at least a year ahead
of the game.
_Begin in June. First find a place for them.
If the seedbed that always ought to be a garden
adjunct is still occupied, make a bed near by or in the
vegetable garden. This should be about four feet
wide, and as long as the season’s needs seem likely
to demand. Mark rows across, eight inches or so
apart, and then go to your garden, or your neigh-
bors’ gardens — perhaps both — for your cuttings.
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staple of every bed devoted to “slips.” It is well
enough to use seed to get variety, but, aside from
the saving of time, you can be sure of perpetuating
choice kinds only by using cuttings. When the
grass pinks are in bloom, the foliage tufts that
make the cuttings are ready to be taken. That is
the best time if there is any question of later identifi-
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flowering season is past. The cuttings should not
be cut off but pulled away gently by grasping be- |
tween the fingers near the main stem that carries
the tufts. This gives a good end for rooting. Bury |
the cuttings in the rows nearly up to where the )
leaves begin and allow six inches between the plants |
in the rows. Sprinkle well, see that the ground
does not dry out later, and if the sun seems too hot
at first, shade with laths during the heat of the day.
These pinks will bloom the following June and a
year later be large plants. After the third year
grass pinks are apt to get scraggly and then would
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316 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE ee tone

. This process may seem synonymous with separa-

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N JUNE 3oth of last year, I planted two hills
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The vines stretched out to the tomato trellis several

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Stories of Familiar Plants

VEEN you look at your Teas’ weeping mul-
berry do you realize that it is a compound
tree — the product of nature, and the cunning of
man? That is, it is one tree placed upon another
—a two-storied tree, the lower story being the up-
right form, and the drooping branches a weeping
form — each story being part of separate and dis-
tinct trees. Nature is somewhat fickle at times,
and in her reproductive moods often varies from the
type, and produces what we of the gardening world
call a “sport.” A sport is a departure from the
type form — a departure in color or form of flower
or leaf, or in the habit of growth. If this change
is an attractive one, man perpetuates it, and it
soon becomes a habitant of our garden. How does
man perpetuate it? Often by rooted cuttings, but
mainly by budding or grafting; a sport seldom per-
petuates itself by seed.

Now it seems strange that in the case of this
mulberry, the same sap gathered by the feeding
roots of an ordinary upright form, and carried up
through its trunk, should produce a pendulous
growth the moment it enters that part of the head
representing the growth of the graft or bud. Any
branch. growing from the trunk below the graft
would assume an upright form, and any branch
from above the graft would be pendulous.

The reason is plain when we stop to consider
the fact that all extending growth of a tree is
caused by the multiplication of its sap cells; that
each sap-cell matter produces only a- like cell
matter, which in turn produces the same form of
growth the parent cell did. When the grafting
or budding took place the cells of the stock and
cion coalesced, and the passage of sap was unin-
terrupted; but the form of the new growth pro-
duced by the descending sap is influenced by the
cell matter through which it passes. The cells
at the top of a tree are remote multiples of those
that existed perhaps fifty years ago at the base.

They are the continuation of life-matter that
existed years ago, and that continuation of life
may, through grafting, be carried on indefinitely.
The original sport may die, yet live in its own cell
multiple. Successful results in grafting are only
obtained generally when the stock and cion are
very much alike. There are exceptions to this
rule, however, the lilac often being grafted upon the
privet. A tomato vine may be grafted upon a
potato vine, and both fruit and tuber gathered, as
both are solanums, but they are both of poor
quality.

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to me is interesting. I grew most of them, and
have endeavored to ascertain their origin, which
is here given.

BECHTEL’S DOUBLE FLOWERING CRAB

This splendid hardy acquisition to our gardens
seems to be of comparatively recent introduction.
Still it was known to exist more than fifty years ago,
but only by those who took but litile interest in
ornamental horticulture. It is a sport of Pyrus
Toensis, or P. angustifolia (of which Professor Gray
says: ‘Perhaps a variety of P. coronaria”) and
presents the usual case of “doubling” — the pistils
changing into petals. In 1898 I wrote to Mr.
Theo. Bechtel of Staunton, IIl., for particulars re-
garding its history and he kindly replied as follows:

“Some time in the ’seventies, when my father
the late E. A. Bechtel, was conducting a little
nursery four miles west of Staunton, Ill., we used
to hear the most wonderful tales of a flowering

JUNE, 1913 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 319

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tree, or clump of trees, situated some six or eight
miles northeast of us in what was known as ‘ Upper
West Prairie,’ but as the wild tales were too much
to be believed, coming from a class of old settlers
whom we. knew to be given to exaggeration, we
paid no attention to the matter until about ten
years ago, when we made a trip during the bloom-
ing season and saw what a valuable thing had stood
there, as near as we could find out from old settlers,
about forty years. We at once made arrange-
ments with Mr. Woodbridge, in whose pasture the
original clump of trees were standing, to propagate
and introduce them to the trade. As the trees

Bechtel’s double flowering crab has flowers two
inches across and is the most showy of the orna-
mental apples

were identical with the single-flowered wild crab
growing around and in the same clump, we had to
mark these during blossoming time, so as not to
make any mistake in procuring buds or cions.
The indications all go to show that it is an accidental
sport from the single flowering wild crab.”

TEAS’ WEEPING MULBERRY

In 1883 Mr. John C. Teas, of Carthage, Mo.,
found growing in his nursery, among a batch of
seedlings of the Russian mulberry, one plant that
sprawled upon the ground instead of growing in
the usual upright form. This plant is still living,
and is less than four feet tall. Buds from it were
“worked” upon an upright growing form, and
thus Teas’ weeping mulberry was introduced to the
horticultural world. One tree, budded at about
six feet, was exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition
in 1904, but it was not distributed for general
planting until one year later. It is quite difficult
to bud or graft it on stock more than six feet tall, but
I have one worked at a height of nine feet, which is
now fifteen feet tall, an unusual height.

HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS, VAR. S@ERILIS

In 1902 ar 1903 Mr. James Semple, of Semple’s
China aster fame, and Mr. John A. Shafer, at one
time Secretary of the Alleghany (Pa.) Botanical
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a sterile form of our native tree hydrangea (H.-
arborescens) growing wild. Mr. Semple, being
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frost, the faded flowers turning to a greenish hue,
which color they retain until near frost. This is a
more accommodating plant than its cousin H.
paniculata in that it will stand considerable shade,

JUNE, 1913

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although doing well in the sun. It has one fault,
however. Its flower heads, which resemble H.
paniculata, var. grandiflora, are too heavy to stand
up well.

Some years later there was found growing wild
on the rocky bluffs near Yellow Springs, Ohio, a
sterile form of Hydrangea radiata, catalogued as.
H. cinerea which is now upon the market, and by
some considered as good as any of the above. I
have not grown it, so can express no opinion of its
worth.

Rhus typhina, var. laciniata is a sport of the tall
growing “‘stag-horn sumach,” so-called because the
“fuzz” on the new growth resembles the velvet on
astag’s horn. Quite a number of years ago, the late
Jacob W. Manning, father of the eminent land-
scape architect Warren H. Manning, found on the
ledgy shore at York Beach, Me., one specimen of
this sumach with finely cut, or laciniated foliage.
He brought it home to his nursery at Reading,
Mass., where it was propagated, and sent out to the
gardens of the world. Sometimes a natural sport
will show evidence of a reversion.to the type or
original form, but this sumach never has.

RUDBECKIA “‘GOLDEN GLOW”

This is a form of a well known prairie plant,
Rudbeckia laciniata, belonging to the black-eyed
Susan family, and known as one of the cone flowers.
Tn this, as in all of the cone flowers, the true flowers,
many in number, are situated around the cone,
while the yellow or orange ray florets produce
the color shown at a distance. In the golden glow
the majority of the true flowers have changed into
ray florets, thus producing what we call a double
flower. Undoubtedly, to my mind, it originated on
the prairie near Chicago, where one plant was
found sometime prior to 1894. In the summer of
that year Mr. Falconer, then editor of Gardening,
saw it in the hands of Mr. John Lewis Childs at
Floral Park, Long Island, who intended [to intro-
duce it to our gardens the following season under
the name of golden glow. Mr. Childs did not
know where it came from; some one had sent it
to him, but he had lost track of its donor. In the
fall of 1894 Mr. Jens Jensen, the leading landscape
architect of the West, found some plants of it in
the garden of a German on the west side of Chicago,
and procured a stock of it, sending me three plants.
I had secured some from Mr. Childs, and as Mr.
Falconer’s description and that of Mr. Jensen’s
tallied I was convinced that both ‘‘finds” were
identical, and made one group of both lots, which
was illustrated in Gardening, September 15, 1806,
that being the first illustration of it in America.

Illinois. W. C. EGAN.

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Shirley poppies should be cut with long stems
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blossoms, or at night. They will last in water for
forty-eight hours.

PANsIES AND ParstEy.—After the pansy plants
are established in the bed, drop a few seeds of parsley
or put in a few parsley plants. The parsley will
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is that the ground about the pansy plants is so
shaded that the pansy roots are always cool and
moist. The pansy, in its endeavor to reach the
sunlight, will send up branches sometimes a foot
high.

Pick the parsley freely, and remove the pansy
blossoms daily by reaching down close to the ground
and breaking off the branch of the plant that bears
the flower. In this way you will have pansy blos-

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JUNE, 1913

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soms on a spray of leaves. You will do the plant
no injury, for severe pruning is good for them.

This arrangement of planting parsley and pansies
together is especially recommended to produce fall
flowers.

Minnesota. G. E. WoLre.

New Leaders to Evergreens

eee particularly spruce trees, are
liable to lose their “leaders.” Without them,
the trees generally become misshapen, and _ fre-
quently grow two tops, making them worthless
except for mass planting. Planters have observed
that the tip of a spruce is particularly liable to
turn brown and die after transplanting, or to cease
growth during a drouth; it happens frequently, too,
that a specimen evergreen, after being moved,
“warps” to a certain extent. This condition, if
allowed, would result in spoiling the shape of the
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To form a new leader, tie one of the lateral
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A new leader can be trained into place by the use
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erally are so pliable that they may be bent upward
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A Brilliant Bedding Shrub

OM of the most brilliant bedding effects we
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Last October we saw a European elm which was
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when American elms were leafless and after the
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JUNE, 1913

Copyright by G. E, Purdy
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‘branches.

What Southern Gardeners
Should Do Now

LANT nasturtiums or other annuals in the
bulb beds.

Continue to sow collard seeds; get the improved
short stem white heading sort.

White potatoes may be planted after oats, sweet
corn or beans. Irish Cobbler and Lookout Mount-
ain are reliable for late planting.

Continue to plant pumpkins and winter squash.

Very fine cannas, dahlias, and chrysanthemums
can be grown from roots planted even now. Give
them a good soil and sufficient cultivation and it
will be surprising how rapidly they will grow.

This is the month for budding fruit trees. On
page 24, Volume VI., THe GARDEN MAGAZINE,
Mr. P. T. Barnes, in his article ““The Simple Art
of Budding Stone Fruits,” tells how to do this.

Early melons will begin to ripen during this
month. In some sections crows are bothersome,
picking holes in the watermelons. Strings stretched
around and across the patch, fastened to poles four
or five feet high, will usually frighten them away.
Melons for late crop may be planted now.

Keep the flowers picked off the plants so as to
insure a continuous display during the summer.

Plant more gladiolus; by planting once a month
until August they can be had in flower until frost.

It is important that the garden be frequently
cultivated during June and July so that weeds and
grass will not become established in places where
they do not belong.

Lilies and peonies should be through flowering
now; marigold seed may be sown among them.

Georgia. THomas J. STEED.

New Rose Bushes From Slips

HAVE read and heard much about sand afford-

ing the best conditions for starting rose slips,
and in THE GARDEN MacazineE I have also read
that roses like a clayey soil. I had always wanted
to try an experiment with rose slips, so two years
ago as sand was not available, I selected a semi-
shaded place in my garden, where there was more
clay than anything else, north of the baseboard of
an east and west chicken wire fence.

On the 17th of June, after a rainy day, I cut slips
from an American Beauty, Pink Killarney and
Baltimore Belle climbing roses. I selected flower-
ing stalks that had three or four leaves or side
I made a clean cut at the top above a
leaf bud, left one bud at about the middle of the
stalk, and then made another clean cut just below
a third bud at the bottom. (On taking up some of
the sprouted roses the following May, I found the
rootlets had sprung from the bud place at the
bottom.) JI trimmed off all the leaves and side
branches leaving one green leaf at the very top.
As long as this remained green, there was hope of
rootlets and new leaf buds sprouting.

Some of these slips I grouped by twos or threes
when I stuck them into the ground about four
inches north of that baseboard, which kept the
stalks in the cool shadow of the board while the
rootlets got the warmth of the soil through the
ground on my neighbor’s side of the garden. All
this was done in June, some time after the old
roses blossomed. The plants had an occasional
stirring of the top soil about them, enough water
to quench their thirst, and mulching in July and
August.

I did not move the new rose bushes until the
following year, some in May and some in September,
according to the places I could get ready for them.
The first winter’s protection consisted of manure
just about the base of the bushes; then on each
side of the short row I placed brush so that it reached
above the top of the roses. On top of all that I

.put a good sized piece of old Brussels carpet. I

found that the brush afforded a good circulation
of air all winter, and the carpet shed the excess
moisture, and also the following spring was a pro-
tection from the hot rays of the sun until about
the middle of April, when it was safe to remove the
carpet without any danger to the young plants.

In removing the brush there was not the danger
of breaking the spring growth as when straw is
heaped about the roses.

Illinois. KATHERINE K. PERRIGO.

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We have a surplus of some varieties of

Prize Medal Dahlias

which we deliver for $1.50 per dozen.
They are packed and will be shipped
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Housewives swelter over hot
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If women would use

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Write for Free Book of recipes

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A New Help in Border Planting

H«. WHO sets out to make a bit of ground
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place too stiff and park-like, laid out with a chalk
line, straight with the world, or, having read much
of ‘‘masses” and “drifts,” he sows and plants with
reckless disregard of plan or propriety, trying for
grace and freedom of effect.

Now, a mass without reason or restraint is a mess,
yet a yard-stick bed is an abomination. The plans
made with curly-cue drawings to represent dif-
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to plant accordingly some plants are found too big
and others too small for the alloted spaces. Borders
that have grown for years, only being thinned or
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and through it lengthwise. This is enough to give
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If your eye is not to be trusted, stretched lines
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the planting is done. Using plants of different
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the nightmare of indecision, confusion and utter
failure to realize the effect he had in mind!

Michigan. GLapys HYAtTT SINCLAIR.

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JUNE, 1913

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SEER ETOCS AOSD ERB

KIMBALL PIANOS

The choice of the world’s greatest artists

S AN institution the house of Kimball has for more than half acen- |

tury used its great experience and extensive capital for that which
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Result of 55 Years’ Over 250,000

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found it more profitable to devote or so universally distributed. Whether
greater thought to the making than in the little wayside hamlet or the
to the selling, hence the demand for mighty metropolis, youll find the
Kimball Pianos is always in advance name of Kimball to be a synonym

Style 38 “i ; y
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Pleasing in tone from childhood to old age

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is beautiful in finish and pattern (of which one
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The

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By C. N. and AQ VE

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Pete Crowther
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“Tt’s a big thing in
salesmanship to have
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you. People like to
deal with a man who’s
stuck on his job.”

E. E. FERRIS

“These fellows that are always
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From

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By

ELMER E. FERRIS

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There is picturesqueness in Pete’s exper-
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AINT on the Outside of the House preserves wood
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Paint on the Inside of the House preserves Health.

Paint the Interior with Modern Flat Washable Wall
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The Readers’ Service gives information about automobile accessories

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If you are going to build a New
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—send for a copy of “Modern
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O room in the house is so important as the

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(Qutside Venetians
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iq. yet exclude sun rays; can be
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For Illustrated Booklet
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Jury, 1913

Bob White Quail
Partridges and Pheasants

Capercailzies, Black Game, Wild Turkeys, Quails,
Rabbits, Deer, etc., for stocking purposes. Fancy
Pheasants, Peafowl, Swans, Cranes, Storks,
Ornamental Geese and Ducks, Foxes, Squirrels,
Ferrets, etc., and all kinds of birds and animals.

WILLIAM J. MACKENSEN, Naturalist

Dept. 55, Pheasantry and Game Park YARDLEY, PA.

There’s Money in Poultry

Our Home Study Course in Practical Poultry
Culture under Prof. Chas. K. Grahain, late of the
Connecticut Agricultural College, teaches how to
make poultry pay.

Personal instruction Expert advice.
250 Page Catalogue free. Write to-day.

THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
Dept. G. P., Springfield, Mass.

Prof. Graham

Butter Profits

You ought to get more butter profits. Jer-
sey cattle mean more butter profits, be-
cause they yield more butter fat at less
net cost of keep than any other breed.

THE JERSEY

excels in beauty of dairy type. She is a persistent
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and keep healthy. They mean steady butter profits.
Write now for Jersey facts. Free for the asking.

AMERICAN JERSEY OATTLE CLUB
824 W, 28d 8t., New York

Delight the
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A Shetland Pong

—is an unceasing source
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ideal playmate. Makes
the child strong and of
i robust health. Inexpensive
Y to buy and keep. Highest
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Entire satisfaction. Write
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Dept. 15 Markham, Va.

For Soil Improver and Top Dressing
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Try Our LEAF MOLD

Also Peat Moss Litter for poultry, horses and cattie.
Booklet and samples free. Agents wanted.

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Poultry, Kennel and Live Stock Directory

| Address INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, THE GarDEN MaAGazineE, 11-13 W. 32d Street, New York.

Anyone Can Raise Poultry
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Winter or summer, it
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Write today for free Poultry Catalogue.

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The Readers’ Service gives in-
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Large Berkshires
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We have for sale service boars, brood
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Photography, Good Sport

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He is a Pest!

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THE DODSON SPARROW TRAP catches as many as 75 to 100 spar-
rows a day. Works all the time. Sparrows removed once a day.
Made of tinned wire 36 x 18 x 12 inches. Price including receiving
box $5 f.0.b. Chicago.

Write for Illustrated Folder About Birds.

oak,

JOSEPH H. DODSON, (A Director of the Illinois Audubon Society,)

Do You Want Song Birds —
Native American Birds —About You?

The sparrow is their greatest enemy.
sparrows—erect Dodson Bird Houses—and you can have Purple
Martins, Bluebirds, Wrens, Tree Swallows, Fly Catchers and other
beautiful bird neighbors.

If you agree with all true bird lovers in believing that the only
good sparrow is the one in a pot-pie—get a Dodson Sparrow Trap.

WREN HOUSE — Solid
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$5.00 f.o.b. Chicago.

Get rid of

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Information about the selection or care of dogs,
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New Popular Edition

THE DOG BOOK

By JAMES WATSON

This is the final authority upon any question
that may arise about dogs. Every interest
has been covered including the history, de-
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and how to take care of it. There are 128
full-page pictures.

The author has been a dog-breeder for forty
years here and in England. Long experience
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THE
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Compiled by the greatest
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New Popular Edition
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1299 pages, 375 illustrations

COMPLETE,
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It covers every branch of poultry raising from incubating
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PART ONE describes the varieties best adapted to different
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PARTS TWO AND THREE contain chapters by specialists
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by which they are judged.

Former Price Three volumes, $13.50
Now
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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

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Cover Drsicn — A Vine-covered Entrance

THe MontnH’s REMINDER

Photographs supplied by Robert H. Tinker
How I Carep ror My BackyarD GARDEN Roge W. Babson 339

THE Lire Story or A Tomato Prant - - M. E. Haught 341 TEN Acres ENoucH
Photographs by the author ‘

Maxine Fruit TREES Bear Earirer - - W.C. McCollom 342
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SUCCESSFULLY Movinc A GarpEN - - Halvorsen Hough 344
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More Asout Borper Irises - - - - Mrs.W.R. Wilder 345 ;
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The Legend of [sz
Jerry Ladd

By ROY ROLFE GILSON

Author of “Ember Light,” “The Wistful Years,” etc.

q Jeremy Ladd was a dreamer, one of those men
who, try as they will, cannot see the coarser realities
about them, but who think only of what the golden
future may have in store. Jerry's dreams were

beautiful and they were inspiring because they
were true, but they somehow lacked the practical
side which he found to be more important when
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“Tt sometimes happens—not often, but sometimes—that after
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blessed, which was the sincere desire of one reader, at least, of Mr.

Gilson’s charming little sketch. Itisinner, ultimate truths that
Mr. Gilson, through his lovable creation, ventures to portray.

New York Times.
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BULBS
Imported to Order |

HERE is no more useful garden material than what are
known as Dutch Bulbs, Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi,
Crocus, etc. They give for a small outlay of time and

money an abundance of flowers in the house from December until
April, and in the garden almost before the snow is off the ground
in the spring until the middle of May. These Bulbs are grown
almost exclusively in Holland, and in enormous quantities, where
they are sold at very low prices. Usually, they pass through the
hands of two dealers, and more than double in price before reach-
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If you order from us NOW, you
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in cost, get a superior quality of Bulbs not usually to be obtained
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY

TUL, 1908

[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is
generally taken as a standard. Allow six days’ differ-
ence for every hundred miles of latitude.]

The Month of Reckoning

pee is the month of compensation in
the garden. When you wake up
early, knowing that you should go out and
cultivate, but wanting to sleep an hour
or two longer; when, at eventide you real-
ize that the hose ought to be dragged out,
but really want to sit quietly on the
piazza; when, picking corn just before
dinner, you feel the blistering heat of the
sun on the back of your neck, and reflected
from the ground against your feet — at
these times you wonder why you ever
started a garden.

But look on the other side of the page.
When you bite into that melting, juicy
corn; when you set on the table a dish of
fragrant, luscious raspberries fresh picked;
when you look out across a soft green lawn
toward tier upon tier and mass against
mass of harmonious, smiling blossoms;
then, and half a thousand other times a
day, you know the answer, and all the work
is more than paid for.

Cheer up. The work isn’t so hard after
all — not nearly so exacting and contin-
uous as in the spring planting season.
Just a little regular attention of a morning
and an evening, and these are the things
you can and should accomplish:

For Better Fruit

BECIN summer pruning, which is but
a light shaping process. Take out
suckers; and one of every pair of branches
that chafe or interfere.

Multiply brambles by tip layering, which
consists of bending over a cane, covering
the tip with earth and holding it down with
a stone or peg. By fall roots will have
developed and new plants may be cut
loose and transplanted.

Increase gooseberries by mound layering.
The principle is the same, for you simply
heap soil up around the base of the plant,
and later remove as cuttings such branches
as have sent out roots. At this time, how-
ever, cut out weak shoots that would pro-
duce poor plants.

For all orchard spraying from now on use
ammoniacal copper carbonate. The formula:
6 ounces of copper carbonate dissolved in 3
pints of ammonia, diluted tomake 5ogallons.

Stop the lateral growth of grapes under
glass by pinching back. Remove leaves
here and there if necessary so as to let
the berries color up well. As soon as the
crop is picked, clean the vines thoroughly.
scraping off all loose bark, etc.

Continue cultivating until July 2oth.
Then, as soon as possible, sow cover crops.
Crimson clover is about the best, cow peas
next, then rye and lastly buckwheat for
very poor soils.

Where Flowers Bloom

2 YOU can get some gladiolus bulbs
within three days of the time you get
this magazine, plant them and keep them
moist, for results late this summer.

If you want star of Bethlehem in your
lawn or among your trees, and must buy the
bulbs, doitin September. But if you know
of a field where you can get them for the
trouble of digging, now is the time to dig
and replant them.

Cut back H. P. roses that have bloomed.
You may force another crop, and you will
surely produce strong wood for next sea-
son’s flowers.

Sow hollyhock seed as soon as you can
gather it, four inches apart in drills an
inch deep and eighteen inches apart. By
fall the seedlings can be transplanted later
to be mulched well for winter.

Three hints that sound unimportant
but are really valuable, are: (a) Pinch
back tall plants to cause bushy, floriferous
growth. (b) If you must economize with
the water use it not on the plants in full
bloom, but on the growing and budding
specimens. And apply it only in the
evening. (c) Keep the beds either culti-
vated or covered, between the large plants,
with trailers. These look well, keep weeds
out and take less moisture than the bare
soil would evaporate.

Start new rose plants in the cleaned and
disinfected greenhouse benches. Remem-
ber to put tobacco stems in under the soil
to deter aphides. The best rose soil is
good loam and rotted cow manure in ap-
proximately a 5 to 1 proportion, with a
bit of bone meal added. -

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save it for next season.

The Garden Magazine

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Take gloxinia cuttings from year old
plants. Stick an inch or so of the leaf stem
into the soil and a bulb will form at its
base by fall, giving a good plant next year.

To keep the greenhouse from being bare
and uninteresting all summer keep these
blooming and store them under the benches
or in the cellar over winter: caladium,
tuberous begonia, ferns, fuchsia, achimines,
gloxinia, palms, selaginela, allamanda,
gesneria, and even aquatics to be grown
in tubs.

Gardens Can be Made in July

ND you can prove it! Read I. M.
Angell’s account of her “after July
4th” garden in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
for July, 1906. Study also the tables on
page 333 of that issue and page 356 of the
July, 1911, number, then go and do likewise.
Of course there are a few special hints.
Plant only black seeded lettuce and endive
for instance, and shade them both if pos-
sible. Wax beans, beets, corn, cucumbers
for pickles, kohlrabi and radishes may be
sown as usual.

Transplant more cabbage and celery for
the main crop. Among the invariable garden
rules is: ‘‘When in doubt, water the celery.”

About the middle of the month, start
a brand new crop of tomatoes in flats, the
seedlings to be later put in tubs or solid
beds indoors and forced for Christmas fare.

Also, with winter in mind, sow corn salad,
late turnips and winter radishes outside.

Tie up cauliflower leaves as soon as the
inflorescence can be seen nestling in their
midst. But be sure it is dry, or the whole
head will rot.

Put a bit of shingle under each ripening
muskmelon to keep it clean and free from
that disfiguring yellow blotch, always
associated with hucksters’ stuff. Of course,
if you can get the vine up on some sort of
a trellis and support each fruit in a ham-
mock or sling, it will be handsomer and
more delicious than ever.

Harvest each crop promptly when at
the height of its quality. If you simply
cannot use it all let some seed ripen and
To forestall the
inevitable question about the “mixing”
of melons, squash, etc., we suggest that
this plan be not tried with the cucurbi-
tacee. Although a melon and a squash
grown within five feet of each other will
not produce a “‘squalon” or a ‘“‘meash,”’
or any other sort of a hybrid the first year,
yet they may cross fertilize and produce
seeds that would produce something new
and less desirable.

However, of our other crops — peas,

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Juuy, 1913

beans, radishes, tomatoes, and the other
annuals — you can save the seed with
perfect peace of mind.

Let all the asparagus shoots grow and
give them plenty of encouragement in
the form of salt, liquid manure or nitrate
of soda, and cultivation.

When crops begin to mature too late to
admit a succession sowing, start a cover
crop just as you doin the orchard. Crimson
clover will not only build up the soil, but
will supply you with some very beautiful
blossoms later on—a type rarely seen
in house decoration but almost invariably
admired.

By the way, here is a field for investiga-
tion the whole summer through — dainty,
artistic, inexpensive: Try to devise new
color schemes, combinations and arrange-
ments of blossoms for house beautification.
Take into consideration the season, the
architecture of the house, the style and
arrangement of the furniture, the wall
paper, your own personality — oh, there
is a lot in this simple little amusement.

Heterogeneous Hints

yur is a, good canning month. Get
a “blue flame” kerosene oil stove,
set it out under the trees and do your
preserving without the usual personal
discomfort. Write to the Department of
Agriculture at Washington for Farmers’
Bulletins 205, 359, and 426 on canning
and preserving that tell the whole story
in small space, and simple terms.

Any time is the time to doctor trees that
need it. As in human or veterinary or
any other kind of surgery, disinfection is
the keynote. Use some coal tar prepara-
tion or carbolic acid solution freely; in
filling cavities, chisel out every bit of
diseased tissue; and never leave an opening
or an unpainted scar or cut surface through
which spores of rot and decay can enter.

Worms have a distinct place in agri-
culture according to Darwin, and ants
too may be useful, but they occasionally
disfigure a lawn till they simply have to
be done away with. For ants, find the
nests and pour into them boiling water or
a few teapoonsful of carbon bisulphide.
The creation of acetylene gas has also
proven effective. Drop a few pieces of
calcium carbide such as is used for automo-
bile and bicycle lamps, in the nest, pour
some water into it and stop up the opening.

If you are away from home for some
weeks and the weeds invade your paths,
one way to get them out is to scatter dry
rubbish over them for a few days, then burn
it off. A little care will prevent any injury
to the border and the ashes can be swept
on to the grass with beneficial results.

Otherwise all rubbish should go on the
compost pile, except, perhaps lawn clip-
pings which make a splendid mulch for
roses, tomatoes, asparagus and shrubs.

The time to weed and cultivate is the
early morning, not only for your own sake,
but because the weeds can be thoroughly

baked all day and prevented from going
back into the soil.

As August is almost a repetition of July
so far as gardening goes, there is only one
thing to look ahead to: Get your order for
autumn bulbs made out.

Why to Spray in July

| (Nees are not very fierce just now,
but there is a little spraying to do. The
main treatment for all fungous enemies of
fruits is mentioned on the preceding page.

Use hellebore for the currant worm;
potassium sulphide for the gooseberry mil-
dew; tobacco dust or lime for bugs on
melons and squashes; bordeaux mixture
for potato rot and scab and the equally
destructive rot of the tomato.

News and Comment

IS A STATE STYLE OF GARDENING
POSSIBLE P

fe highest ideal that any community
can cherish is to have a character of
its own, and this must always depend
largely upon the native trees and shrubs.
For instance, Scotland owes her wonderful
picturesqueness to her native heather,
rowan, birch, and Scotch pine. England’s
peculiar charm is largely due to the Eng-
lish oak, English yew, and English holly.
New England is full of local color, witness
her white pines, American elms, red cedars,
and junipers. The South has a charm of
her own, owing to her magnolias, live
oaks, American holly and other broad-
leaved evergreens. And now the prairie
is eagerly striving to achieve a prairie style
of landscape gardening. Perhaps the most
important plants yet discovered for in-
tensifying the prairie feeling, are the native
hawthorns and crabapples, because their
horizontal branches repeat so beautifully
the dominant lines of the prairie.

Illinois is ambitious to have an Illinois
style of landscape gardening and is per-
haps the first state consciously to conceive
such an ideal. Of course, no state may
expect to add any important new principles
of design; it must get its local color by
planting chiefly its own natiye trees,
shrubs, and perennial flowers. Illinois
has already done enough to demonstrate
that a state style is possible. Examples
are the prairie river and rose garden in
Humboldt Park, Chicago; the Rubens
water garden at Glencoe; the Loeb bird
garden; Mr. Clow’s estate near Lake
Forest; and ‘‘The Clearing” at Ravinia
—— all designed bya Vira |enSem-aeae Vir
Simonds’ work at Graceland Cemetery,
Sinissippi Farm, the Higginbotham estate
at Joliet, and in many places at Winnetka,
contains much local color and both have
helped build up a state pride in Illinois
gardening. The Hutchinsons at Lake
Geneva have a meadow filled with prairie

flowers and a wood in which local plants
have produced wonderful pictures.
Every state can hasten the process of
finding a perfect and unique beauty by
encouraging various forces to work to-
gether. There should be at least one
arboretum or botanical garden where all
the plants native to the state may be
studied by architects, botanists, entomolo-
gists, foresters, horticulturists, landscape
gardeners and painters. There should
be at least one testing ground for each

‘important climate and soil type within the

state. Every state should publish a state
flora. The state university should have
model homes and grounds to illustrate
the state style of domestic architecture
and gardening. ‘The nurserymen should
have show grounds, illustrating solutions of
all typical problems with native materials.
Real estate promoters should save the
native vegetation when subdividing.

WHAT GOOD SEED IS WORTH

Vy do so many gardeners insist on
buying cheap, unreliable, worthless
seed? They would never think of turning
chickens or cutworms or soft rot loose among
their crops to decrease the yields by a half or
more. Yet year after year they buy low
priced seed from irresponsible sources, har-
vest a fraction of a crop of mediocre quality
and fool themselves into calling it economy!

They may buy unlimited fertilizers,
spray materials and tools; they may labor
to improve the soil and increase the mois-
ture content; they may look to the cli-
mate, the topography, and other environ-
mental conditions; but rarely do they aim
at larger crops and better quality along
that most natural and least expensive course
—hereditary tendencies.

How important are these? Listen. The
Pennsylvania State Experiment Station
has been working for four years with some
two dozen strains of nine varieties of cab-
bage seed. Between the yields of the best
and the poorest is an average difference of
more than seven tons per acre! The weight
of a head of Jersey Wakefield, for instance
varies from .g5 to 1.72 pounds, and the
yield per acre from 6.93 to 10.76 tons; the
heads of Early Spring vary from 1.70 to
2.77 pounds apiece and the yield from 6.60
to 15.43 tons per acre, according to the
“family.” All the varieties tested, both
early and late show similar variation.

Seed of all strains — good and bad —
is for sale and, unfortunately, all are
bought. We have no desire to “injure
legitimate business,” but we would like
to see the traffic in weak, impure, worthless
seed languish and die. You can help bring
this about by patronizing well-known,
widely advertised, thoroughly honest con-
cerns and, if you use home grown seed by
taking it only from the strongest, most
productive plants; but the best results will
usually be had by relying on the seed spec-
ialist because he harvests only from plants
specially raised for seed purposes.

A Refuge From City and Prairie
By Wilhelm Miller, %%

A SNUG HARBOR WHERE A WESTERN FAMILY
ENJOYS THE WILDNESS OF RIVER, ROCKS, AND
WOODS THOUGH SURROUNDED

BY A CITY OF 50,000 PEOPLE

The home framed by a white oak which is probably 150 years old and by festoons of wild grape which has overgrown two dead specimens of Norway spruce.
Yucca in bloom

RAIRIE homes,” says the East-

ern critic, ‘‘are fearfully new,

bare, raw. They have no big

trees; they lack the mellowness
that age alone can give. The home
grounds have no privacy; they are exposed
to the public gaze, nakedly and .shame-
lessly. They make no attempt to hide
unsightly outbuildings,
billboards, streets. New
countries know nothing
better than trees in
straight lines, flower beds
in the middle of the lawn,
fancy beds, and gaudy
tropical plants for sum-
mer show.”

“All these bad things
can also be found in the
East,’ the Westerner
might retort, but, he is
also painfully conscious
that some, or all, of these
criticisms are only too
often justified; and he is
in a mood for something
‘better —something that
is more dignified, appro-
priate, and Western. He.
is casting about for a
style of outdoor living
that will arouse an honest
pride.

Here is an ,example
worth while. Mr. Robert
H. Tinker of Rockford,

Creek, a branch of the Rock River.

Ill., has a home which means something
as different as possible from the spirit of
show which is eating the heart out of
home life. It is a refuge from the infinite

prairie and from the artificialities of city

life, where the family may live amid the

wildness of stream, rocks, and woods.
Every home ought to have a theme or

The water, rocks and woods which made Mr. Tinker buy six acres at Rockford, Ill.
There is fishing and skating above the dam; rapids in
foreground. These Silurian rocks have horizontal lines that repeat those of the prairie

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motive. The best theme, ordinarily, for a
dweller on the prairie is a retreat from the
prairie. Not that the prairie is flat, com-
monplace, uninteresting! On the contrary
it is beautiful, inspiring, and has a character
of its own, which man has not altogether
spoiled. The endless cornfields give a
stronger feeling of the breadth and gen-
erosity of Mother Earth
than anything else in the
world. The prairies like
the sea are a symbol of
the infinite. But the
more you feel the infinity
which the sea suggests the
more you need a snug
retreat, like the captain’s
cabin. So with the prai-
rie; the more it means to
you, the more you need a
home which shuts it out,
at least from the window
of one room that is sacred
to your own personality.
The farmer stirs a few
steps beyond his wind-
break and there is a view
as wide as any that the
soul can grasp. The pio-
neers who have no wind-
breaks tend to be crushed
by the prairie; their lives
become hard and com-
monplace, the women
often go insane. It is
because they lack con-

Kent

338 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Hollyhocks and sweet peas seen through an
arch of common hop. There are few flowers
on this place and they are not scattered in
showy ways, but planted near the house

trast. After a day outdoors on the
prairie, a cosy home looks good.
After a day’s housework the prairie
seems lovelier than ever. You can-
not get this contrast in a house that
stares out at the prairie from every
window. You cannot get it in
grounds that are everywhere open to
every passer-by. Somehow we must
all get back to wildness — even if it is
only a tent in the yard or a fireplace

in the flat. We must get into relation
with the infinite. Every home must have
a theme.

I do not say that Mr. Tinker consciously
had this particular theme when he settled
in Rockford fifty-six years ago. But you
can see what made him buy these six acres.
He wanted the music of the creek. He
wanted the wildness of these old, old Silurian
rocks which, with their horizontal strati-
fication, give a thousand delicate reminders
of the colossal beauty of the prairie — its
vast horizontal lines of land, w. _ds, crops,
and clouds. He wanted the wildness of
woods. He built a Swiss cottage in an
effort to harmonize his house with these
rocks, and you realize the snugness of
the home.

Consciously or not, the home-builder
obeyed the fundamental principles of
landscape gardening. Every beginner can
understand these principles. Every be-
ginner can apply them with some degree of
success to his own problem. Let us see
what they are.

(1) Screening unsightly objects. ‘There
were old trees on the place when the present
owner bought it. Those who love show
would have cut away the trees near the
road and put the house directly on the
street. This man set his house back from
the road where he could enjoy the rocks
and the water. The woods, therefore,

hide from the house the passing show of the
He could not,

road and one half the town.

Cataract and Gothic bridge made by Mr. Tinker.
trees are American lindens.
rocks is wild spikenard (Aralia racemosa), noted for the tropi-
cal effect of its foliage and the splendor of its berries

however, shut out that part of the town
which has grown up across the stream.
How can you screen the ugliness on your
place? Do you need evergreens to hide
the outbuildings, vines for the barn, or a
country home far away from city sights?

(2) Privacy. The same trees which hide
the street from the house also shelter the
family from the eyes of the curious. The
fence and shrubbery give some protection
from animals and flower thieves. The
family enjoys a comfortable outdoor living
room—not a lawn exposed to every passer-
by. Visitors appreciate the garden twice
as much because it is secluded. Yet the
spirit of the place is not exclusive. Every
passer-by can clearly see the water and the
rocks, and every one can get a glimpse of
the house. Are you going to have your
grounds open to every eye, or live in them
the year round?

(3) Views. Ina city no one can have a
good comprehensive view free from eye-
sores. We must, therefore, make the most
of little views within the place. One way
to multiply these views is by means of
arbors, summer house, screened porch, or
arches. The most important view always
should be the house from the point where
you first see it after entering the grounds.

(4) Water. This is half the battle in
horticulture, because it makes plants
thrive and prevents trouble with insects
and diseases. Here we have the smooth

The boldest vegetation on the

Jury, 1913

An arched gate of box elder overgrown with
wild grape. A home-made rose arbor. The
verdure clad arch, with bits of color beyond
are features throughout the whole place

pond, the rapids below, and the
little cataract seen under a Gothic
bridge. Mr. Tinker made that cata-
ract and that bridge. Are you con-
tent to live in a city away from sight
and sound of a brook?

(5) Permanence. Flowers are less
permanent than shrubs; shrubs are
less permanent than trees. This
place has many trees and therefore it
is more enduring, dignified, and eco-
nomical than a show place. It hasa
few flowers, where they belong, i. e., near
the house — not scattered over the lawn.
Have 90 per cent. of your planting composed
of shrubs, instead of 90 per cent. flowers.

(6) Mellowness. See the grand old white
oak that broods over the gable of this house
It is about 60 ft. high with lower horizontal
limbs reaching 36 ft. over the lawn. A
still grander one died in the year r1g00.
A fine souvenir of it is preserved —a
polished cross-section of this giant used as
a table top, which is nearly 3 ft. in diameter.
Every tenth ring outlined in black shows
this tree to have been 175 years old. It
had a spread of more than 75 ft.

(7) Native Plants. Probably 95 per cent.
of the plants on these grounds is native
to the place. Its charm is largely due to
the oaks, the ironwoods and lindens the
wild flowers on the cliff and the wild spike-
nard and bluebells which clothe the rock
below the bridge. The “best”’ plants for any
home grounds are those which grow wild
within ten miles of the place. They will
thrive more luxuriantly, live longer, have
fewer troubles, and cost less to maintain.

The garden critic finds here, as every-
where, some drawbacks and limitations.
There are some Victorian details, e. g.,
vases, which seem out of keeping. The
place is poor in evergreens, as every city
home must be on account of smoke; but
there is a wholesome unity and fitness that
make this house attractive.

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SUPPOSE most business men think
the way to care for their backyard
gardens is to let their wives hire a man
to hoe the same and then draw a check

to pay for this man’s services. This,
however, is not the way to reduce the cost
of living. Not only does this way eliminate
all chances of financial profit, but also
the chances of profit to one’s health and
of pleasure. I, personally, have taken sole
care of my garden, have never spent a
dollar for any hoeing, and have obtained
most satisfactory financial and physical
results. My principal method of care has
been to systematically spend two hours
every Saturday in the garden. This has
been practically the only time I have
spent, but I have systematically spent this
amount. A great many people go through
life without doing anything systematically,
and to this fact is the high cost of living
partly due.

There is an old saying: “A stitch in
time saves nine.”
applies to sewing, I do not know; but I
do know that it applies to the garden.
When weeds are only half an inch high,
one hundred of them can be killed with
one stroke of the hoe; but after they are
two feet high, they begin to be plants,
instead of weeds, and must be pulled up
with great care. Indeed, there are many
occasions in gardening when it is wiser
not to disturb weeds than to uproot them
even with care. This is especially true
in the case of running vines like squashes
and pumpkins, which are very tenaceous
of the hold they get upon surrounding
objects through their tendrils or feelers;
and if this hold is broken, the result in
fruit development will be impaired, per-
haps utterly destroyed.

There are many varieties of weeds and
so quickly and generously do they improve
the opportunity to possess the land that
one marvels at the law which seems to
favor them more than those growths which
men cultivate and alone deem valuable.
I have sometimes fancied that every

Whether or not this -

How I Cared for My Backyard Garden—By Roger W. Babson

[Eprrors’ Notre: — This is the fourth article in Mr. Babson’s series (beginning in the April number), in which the economic value of the backyard in relation to
the “Cost of Living” problem is discussed. There are yet two articles to appear.]

growth in the vegetable kingdom has a
value if only it could be discovered. I,
personally, know that several very common
weeds frequently allowed to develop in the
backyard garden possess a considerable
food value.

Common pusley, which will completely
cover the ground as with a mat, if given
half a chance, and a brief one suffices when
the chance is full, makes an excellent green
for the dinner table, while two varieties
of “pig” weed, when cooked as greens, can
barely be told from spinach. Then there
is common sorrel, which many crave when
properly cooked and served. The fore-
going, ragweed and wild turnip and chick-
weed, are the principal garden weeds in
most New England localities.

Somebody has said, and it seems to me
wisely, that anything is a weed which
grows unsown and out of place! There
is often a temptation to allow a thrifty
squash or cucumber vine or a tomato
plant, which comes up where it was not
sown, to grow, even when it interferes with
the symmetry of a garden bed and the
maturing of something useful and of an
entirely different nature. The chances
are many to one that the fruit of the
interloping plant will prove comparatively
worthless as a specimen of its species; and
therefore it is generally safe to cut up
these plants when known weeds are
destroyed.

I referred above to vegetable growths,
meaning weeds chiefly, being useful. There
is no question that they are useful to turn
under as humus to return nitrogen and other
chemical elements to the soil and make it
light and friable, but weeds for this use
should rather be those that are allowed to
make a growth late in the season than
while the useful products of the garden are
being developed for the harvest. In other
words, if the ground is covered with weeds
in the autumn and if they are plowed under
then, of if they freeze during the winter
and what remains of them is plowed under
in the spring, they serve a usefulend. At

Massa-
y chusetts

the same time, there are better leguminous
piants that can be sown in the garden
which will perform a much better service
than ordinary weeds.

There are several of these legumes —
clovers and vetches — and rye which can be
sown even in a small garden between rows
of corn, beans, etc., in late summer, the
seeds being covered with a garden rake or
scuffle-hoe, and which will develop suffi-
ciently to cover the ground and protect
the soil during the winter, and which can
be turned under by the plow or the spade
the following spring to great advantage.
This is not commonly done in small gardens,
but may be done. It is a growing practice
where agriculture is intensive. Then weeds
have great uses —in fact, all rubbish
from a garden may, when available, be
placed around the trunks of fruit trees if
any such there are connected with a garden
or located near it, care being taken not to
have the pile touch the trunks of the trees,
lest it harbor mice, which may gnaw the
bark.

As a general principle, it is better not
to have fruit or shade trees in a garden, but
people having “backyard gardens” may
wish to have an apple tree, a pear, plum,
or peach tree or something of that sort.
If the reader has no such trees, all such
rubbish can be placed in a pile by itself
in some place where it may not be offensive
to the eye or smell, and be allowed to rot
and produce fertilizer of value. All house
waste may be thrown upon such a pile
and covered with loam from time to time.
Such piles are of greater fertilizing value
than is commonly appreciated, and it is
true economy, in case of the farmer or the
gardener, to utilize everything of that sort.
Only by such methods can the cost of
living be reduced.

As the reader must not forget the main
object of this backyard garden, which is
to save the cost of vegetables, I wish to
say that hoeing and harvesting go hand
in hand. In fact, harvesting of radishes,
lettuce, etc., begins at the time of the first

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(b) Some of these cucumbers were used for pickle.

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340 THE GAR DEN MAGAZINE

Juuy, 1913

hoeing and peas, spinach, etc., can be
harvested while the second hoeing is in
process. The foregoing table shows that
my harvesting began last year on June
12th and continued until October 6th, the
night of the first frost. This table shows
what was picked each week and what we
would have been obliged to pay the vege-
table man therefore if we had not had the
backyard garden. These are actual figures
and dates.

THE REASONS FOR HOEING

Being desirous of having my garden a
financial success, I consulted an agri-
culturist for a theory of hoeing; that is,
why we hoe? I wondered whether we hoed
the garden because our grandfathers did
or whether there is some real chemical
reason. I also wondered whether we
should hoe the garden irrespective of weeds
or only when there are weeds.

The agriculturist said he thought
most people managed their farms and
gardens as the elders with whom they had
been associated with in such work did and
without exercising their reasoning faculties
particularly. The way of least resistance
is commonly followed in these pursuits.
Most men have a habit of hoeing crops
just so many times, and have come to
think that they cannot possibly find time
to do any more work in the same line.
These men totally disregard the theory of
hoeing and usually the autumn shows a
crop of weeds as tall or taller than was
the main crop.

These weeds, as before remarked, may be
useful to turn under as humus, though not
half as useful as certain of the legumes
before alluded to; and then every weed
that has fully matured will shed almost
countless seeds to reproduce their kind
the following or some subsequent season,
entailing much labor to the person who has
the future tilling to do.

There is a theory and purpose in hoeing.
The first idea is to kill the weeds, lest they
deprive the soil of plant food and rob the
main crop of nourishment. If there was
no other object, hoeing should begin early
and be repeated systematically while the
weeds are small and barely show above
ground. A few minutes spent in a garden
semi-weekly during the early weeks, will
accomplish more than a larger amount
of time after the weeds have been allowed
to make growth. In other words, it is
an economy of time to keep ahead of the
weeds; and the effect of prompt treatment
of the weed pest upon the backyard garden
crop is of large moment, setting aside the
satisfaction to the person who has the
garden in charge.

Hoeing, however, should be done regardless
of weeds or if the ground is not weedy.
The soil is benefited by the stirring which
it gets from the hoe or whatever implement
is used, and there are many valuable
implements for this use. The ground
should not be hoed when it is wet; but

as soon as it dries sufficiently, the surface
should be stirred to open the pores and let
in the atmosphere, which contains nitrogen
and other chemical elements of great use
to the roots of vegetables and plants.
Neither sun nor air can penetrate a wet
and caked soil, especially one composed
largely of clay.

And also in droughty times there is
especial need to stir the soil of a backyard
garden. The purpose here is to make a
mulch of the dry surface soil with a view
to admit the atmosphere and to conserve
the moisture in the subsoil. In arid regions
they utilize the dust mulch extensively,
and succeed in growing crops where growth
would otherwise be impossible. A great
success is made of dry farming in some
parts of the United States. It is well,
therefore, to hoe the backyard garden as
often as possible in dry times; and it can
be done quickly. There is, moreover,
satisfaction in conquering a difficulty like
drought, and securing a fair result under
adverse conditions.

I don’t suppose the editors will allow me
to lecture readers on the subject of laziness,
but I must state one fact, viz.: the increased
cost of living is not the only result of re-
fusing to work in the garden. Our frail
health, susceptibility to colds, and general
decreased efficiency is primarily due to the
fact that we have got out of the habit of
exercising. Now, let us get back to earth
again! Let us get a hoe and get after the
weeds in the backyard garden. Let us
look at hoeing as a sport, where we and the
weeds are opposed one to the other. Let
us get after them with the vim and
determination of a sportsman. With this
spirit, we will win health and sport with
our backyard garden, while reducing the
cost of living in addition.

Plants, like people, need food, water, and
air. The food consists of good soil which
can only be helped by dressing; the air
is obtained through hoeing, and through
their leaves. There remains the water
factor about which I wish to say a word.
Water is an essential element in the develop-
ment of plant or vegetable growths. Too
little water or too much is bad, although
an excess of water is, in many instances,
better than a deficiency. This principle
is admirably illustrated by the agricultural
developments in the United States in 1911
and 1912.

In the latter year there was a large
amount of moisture accompanied by a
lower temperature. Where the deficiency
of moisture was most marked in rort, the
crops were more or less a failure, as in the

spring wheat regions of the Northwest.-

During 1912, however, in the same regions,
the crops were unprecedented in volume.
A proper amount of heat and moisture is
essential to the highest development of
vegetation. Therefore, it becomes nec-
essary to apply drainage where soils are
very wet, and desirable to supply artificial
irrigation where and when there is lack
of moisture.

THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT LIFE

Chemists tell me that plant life and
growth are derived from a number of chemi-
cal elements, some coming from the air
and others from the soil. The elements
derived from the air are carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen and nitrogen. ‘These elements con-
stitute the greater part of plants, forming
from 95 to 99 per cent. of their entire weight.
The elements furnished to plants exclusively
by the soil are phosphorus, sulphur,
chlorine, silicon, calcium, iron, potassium,
sodium, magnesia, and manganese. Al-
though present in small proportions in
plants, the soil-derived elements are just
as important as the more abundant ele-
ments derived from the air. The total
number of elements actually necessary in
the vegetation of the globe is about four-
teen, and they comprise fully one fifth
of the elementary substances known to
chemists.

The plant-forming elements are generally
combined with oxygen in the soil in com-
bination with other elements. Oxygen,
these chemists tell me, forms eight-ninths
by weight of the waters and nearly one
half of the solid crust of the globe. It
also forms about one third of all animal
and vegetable substances. About one fifth
of the bulk of the atmosphere is oxygen
gas combined with nitrogen. Oxygen and
hydrogen combine to form water. Hydro-
gen is present in all animal and vegetable
substances. Nitrogen constitutes about
four fifths of the bulk of the earth’s atmos-
phere and is an essential and constant
constituent of all plants and animals.
Nitrogen and oxygen do not form a chemi-
cal union in the atmosphere, but are
rather a mechanical mixture in which the
office of nitrogen appears to be to dilute
the ever active oxygen.

Without attempting to enlarge further
upon the chemical side of the backyard
garden, upon which volumes might be
written by the scientist, I will simply say
that plants absorb the chemical elements
mentioned through their roots and leaves,
and they thrive or are stunted according
as they are able to obtain these in forms
which they can appropriate and in the
proper quantities. Some of them, as
above indicated, are supplied in the form
of water, and, in fact, it is doubtful if
plant life would develop at all without the
element of water. Sources of them are
also made available through cultivation
of the soil and in other ways. The owner
of a backyard garden cannot know too
much about the chemistry of vegetable
or plant growth; but he can have a very
good garden if he will do those things
which successful gardeners usually do,
leaving the rest to Mother Nature, who
will not fail to do her part. Therefore,
hoe, hoe, and hoe again. You cannot
hoe too much, too long or too often. In
fact, I believe that hoeing is one of the
very few things in life which cannot be
carried to excess!

The Life Story of a Tomato Plant—Reported by M. E. Haught

HE remi-
niscence
of my
early life

is a pleasant one
indeed. But first
of all, let me in-
troduce myself.
My name is Pon-
derosa, Ponderosa
Tomato. Thefirst
thing I remember
dates back to
about the second
week in March,
when I was a
wee, little seed-
ling, growing
among many of
my brothers and
sisters. Our
home, which con-
sisted of a flat box
filled with good,
rich soil, was lo-
cated on the
sunny sill of a
kitchen window.
For three : or
four weeks we
thrived in this lit-
tle home and enjoyed all the care and kind
attention our mistress bestowed upon us.
As the days grew longer and warmer, our
window was frequently raised —just a
little at first, but enough to permit the
clear sweet air of spring to float in and out.
One bright morning about the middle of
April, our mistress took us to a table on
which were standing a number of little
paper pots. These queer looking little

If surplus foliage is removed
the fruits ripen more quickly

the roots grow freely

pots were to be our new home, she said,
for our old one had gradually become too
small and shallow to accommodate such a
prosperous family as we were. I shall
never forget that morning. We were all
critically looked over, and the less sturdy
members, who had made little progress in
their development, were cast away and
forgotten. The rest of us, who by this
time had become real husky young plants,
were carefully lifted from the box and
gently set into the little pots, where the
soil was firmly pressed around our roots.
We were then well watered and replaced
upon the sill to recuperate from the shock
of this rather sudden and unexpected
change. The advantages these little pots

Planting with a collar of paper (the seedling pot)
left around to counter the cutworm

afforded soon became evident; our roots
which had been confined to such a limited

space in the little box, now found ample

room in which to expand. Then, just
about this time, I noticed that our tops
began to make a rapid growth upward.
Indeed, some of us grew tall so readily,
that it became detrimental to our sturdi-
ness, and as a result the tops were gently
pinched off.

Then there came a long period of miser-
able rainy weather, when it seemed to me
that the friendly sun had forsaken us
entirely.

But it was just after this long, weary
rain, about the first of June, as I remember
it, that we were all gathered into a basket
and carried to a carefully prepared piece
of ground in a beautifully arranged garden.
Here my mistress picked me up, and after
making a hole about five inches deep in
the soil, gently tore out the bottom of my

341

Stake the plants before they make much growth.
Do it early in July

little pot, and placed me into the ground.
Then she proceeded to press the rich, black
soil firmly around the sides of the little
pot which she had purposely permitted to
remain around me. This was to keep,
away the destructive little cutworm which
so often plays havoc with young plants.
Each of my little comrades was treated
in the same fashion, and in a short time
we were all set out in the garden about two
feet apart from one another.

The ideal plant to
set out. Note, too.
how the paper pot
forms a pro-
tective collar

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342 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JULY, 1913

In a comparatively short time, we had
developed many lateral branches contain-
ing an abundance of beautiful green foliage.
Quite frequently, almost every day at first,
our mistress would come out with a hoe,
and gently stir the soil around our roots.
This, I observed, was very beneficial to
our development.

The 3d of July was the memorial day in
our whole history —a day that caused us
much humiliation, much sorrow and not a
little pain. Long straight poles, averaging
five feet in length were brought out into
the garden, and heartlessly driven about
eight or ten inches into the ground at ap-
proximately two inches from our sides.
Then our mistress, who had _ heretofore
shown us nothing but extreme kindness,
came with a big knife and cut off the
beautiful branches, leaving the three

strongest ones. We were then tied with
rafha to these hard-hearted poles and left
to make the best out of our deplorable
situation.

Nature, however, is always kind to her
children, and we were soon amply com-
pensated for all this apparent maltreat-
ment. In the course of a couple of weeks,
I was surprised to discover many clusters
of little yellow blossoms appearing on my
branches. With the aid of the bright
warm sun, the constant and careful culti-
vation, the caressing wind and some quaint
insects which visited us eack day, these
little blossoms became fertilized, and in a
very short time little miniature tomatoes
appeared. We had now grown to the top
of the poles; our mistress again applied
the knife and cut off our tops and all side
branches, or ‘‘suckers”’ as she called them,

in order to enable us to put all our strength
into the development of these little toma-
toes.

The happiest days of our whole life were
those in the first part of August. The
little tomatoes had grown into beautiful,
large fruits, with perfectly smooth glossy
skin; I myself remember carrying more
than thirty handsome specimen tomatoes
at one time. One of these weighed two
pounds, and my mistress had to tie it
fast to the pole to keep the branch which
supported it from breaking under its heavy
weight. All the rest averaged from one
to one and a half pounds.

Finally, one morning, she came out
into the garden and gathered all these
fine fruits, and I heard her remark that she
was indeed proud of the results we had
scored.

Making Fruit Trees Bear Earlier— By w. C. McCollom, *%

SUMMER PRUNING AS AN ASSET TO THE HOME GARDEN IN GETTING RE-
SULTS QUICKLY AND REGULARLY — PLEASANT WORK FOR THIS MONTH.

EALLY the home
gardener ought
to make himself
familiar with

summer pruning, because
it results in (1) the pro-
duction of fruit at an
earlier age than would
otherwise be the case; (2)
annual bearing and (3)
shy producers can be
made to yield abun-
dantly. All these things
are brought about by
diverting the normal
course of growth. It
means some work and
constant attention, during
July and August, but it’s
worth while.

It is obvious that by
restraining the develop-
ment of the “wood” or

branches of a tree while The result of summer pruning is well shown here: every branch is a fruit spur, and you see

it is in actual growth, the

forces that would have

been spent on this growth must go to
some other purpose. If the tree is carry-
ing fruit, the crop receives its share of the
benefit. If the tree has not yet reached
the fruiting age it hastens its advent since
by checking the rampant growth you assist
the tree in forming spurs or fruit buds.

In the growing of grapes under glass the
highest state of perfection in fruit growing
has been attained and those monster
grapes are produced simply by summer
pruning. Grape growers call it “pinching
back,” but that is nothing more or less
than another way of saying summer prun-
mg. Every day while growth is vigorous
the canes are looked over and all unneces-
sary growth removed — not with pruning

no cut wood, no superfluous growth of any sort

shears or knife, but simply by pinching
the growth between the thumb and fore-
finger. Unnecessary growth is any that is
not bearing fruit or designed to replace the
old canes. It is obvious that the parts
removed are quite small. They are never
allowed to develop to any size. It has
been well remarked that the good grape
grower could carry out the prunings from
his grapery in his vest pocket while the
poor grower required a wheelbarrow!

If summer pruning is practised regularly,
after the trees have once formed a good
foundation, they will come into bearing in
almost half the time required for one that is
not summer pruned. This I have proved
to my entire satisfaction. About seven

years ago I planted about
200 pear trees and 100
apples. Part of these I
kept summer pruned and
the balance I did not dis-
turb during the growing
season. The result is that
I am now getting abun-
dant crops of fine quality
fruit from the trees that
were summer pruned,
while the other trees are
just coming into bearing.
The summer pruned trees
have developed spurs
almost like a grape cane
and can be depended
upon to fruit annually.
To produce vigorous,
healthy wood, with which
to lay the foundation for
fruit bearing, prune in
spring, as the new growth
that results from spring
pruning is rank and heavy
and just the thing to form
the framework of a fruit-bearing tree.
The exact opposite is required for a tree
that is wanted to bear fruit. Indeed by
heavy spring pruning you can actually stop
a tree from fruiting as all the forces of the
plant are then thrown into renewal growth.
If summer pruning be practised, spring
pruning loses its horrors; the work is prac-
tically all done the previous season. From
about 150 apple and pear trees around my
garden all the spring prunings can be taken

away in one wheelbarrow load. Under .

the same conditions, if summer pruning
were not practised, it would be necessary
to take out ten times as much material.
With the resulting renewal of this wood
comes a rank, heavy growth, which is not

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Pe GARDEN MAGAZINE 343

These two photographs show the same portion of a pear tree before and after summer pruning.

the fruit producing kind and which, in
turn, must be removed again; and without
that pruning the tree becomes a laggard,
ceasing to bear profitable crops.

I prefer the middle of July for summer
pruning—from July roth onward. If done
earlier, the trees will break out again with
renewed vigor which is what we are trying
to avoid. The object in view is to catch
them just when they have completed their
great spring rush of growth and are settling
down to a slow, steady gait, with the ter-
minal bud formed on the end of the year’s
shoots. Then is time to prune. “Stop”
all the leaders that is, take off their ends
and give the tree a general clearing out of
any weak, thin, interior branches. Remove
such entirely. In most cases the trees will
have to be gone over a second or third time,
keeping a check at
all times on the
shoots that are
showing the heavi-
est growth. In this
case pinching will
usually be found
sufficient. When
stopping the shoots
I always use a knife
and make a clean
cut just above the
last perfect leaf on
the terminal of the
shoot.

The danger that
is likely to trap the
beginner in summer
pruning is over-
doing it from an
anxiety to be in
time. This pruning
must not begin be-
fore the terminal
bud is set. If you

Later in the season, the regularly summer pruned tree has no long woody growths, every limb is studded
with short ‘‘spurs’’ which will produce flowers. as seen on the opposite page

growths, which is done in July

start pinching as soon as growth shows and
pinch all summer the result will be simply
a succession of breaks of young green wood
throwing out new shoots much more quickly
than would be the case on the half mature
wood left by the proper method. Another
point: Foliage is of value to a tree; just as
important to its welfare as are the roots, and
you cannot expect fruit from a tree that has
insufficient foliage. Of the two extremes,
I would prefer to pinch back all summer
rather than to give a heavy pruning only
in spring. If summer pruning is postponed
until growth ceases you are simply practis-
ing spring pruning in early fall — pulling
it forward a few months. In some seasons
it may be necessary to go over the trees a
second time but in ordinary seasons one
pruning will prove sufficient. The method

They

illustrate the method of pinching back the new

just explained applies to trees that fruit on
mature wood, such as the apple and pear.
The peach and plum are handled some-
what differently, although the results are
just as astonishing. These trees bear fruit
on new wood, and the plan of pruning is to
remove all shoots except those of good
healthy sturdy new wood that is fully
qualified to bear good fruit. Look over
the trees and remove entirely any thin,
weak, interior shoots leaving no stub. Do
not be afraid that you are removing too
many of the shoots. The trees take kindly
to a thorough reduction of wood. Some
growers recommend stopping late in the
summer the shoots that are expected to
bear the next year. I cannot see much
benefit in this, but I do believe in and
practise stopping these shoots at the time
Isummer prune. If
the trees are making
a rank growth and
not fruiting, this
will throw them into

fruit.
Blackberries and
raspberries always

should be pruned in
the summer. Im-
mediately after you
are through picking
the fruit go over the
canes and cut right
to the ground all
the old ones that
have borne fruit.
This gives the new
canes a better op-
portunity to develop
and it is these new
canes that will bear
the following sea-
son. Treat them
like Rambler roses.

Caen eyes Ft

Successfully Moving a Garden—By Halvorsen Hough,

Massa-
chusetts

TRANSPLANTING BODILY IN THE SPRING— A RENTER’S EXPERIENCE THAT SHOWS
HOW PERENNIALS MAY BE USED TO ADVANTAGE IN A TEMPORARY OCCUPANCY

OVING is at best a sorry busi-
ness, but as in seasickness,
college, longitude, and other ex-
periences, there are degrees.

Did you ever move your garden even
from one side of the lot to the other, let
alone crossing the town? You would be
surprised to see what an appalling armful
that innocent little clump of perennials
becomes when lifted with its full quota of
roots; and if you have been gradually
accumulating plants for several years, you
will be amazed at the solid
phalanx that confronts
you, each warrior that has
fought to make your gar-
den glorious protesting
against being left behind. ~

The neighbors had al-
ways preached the folly of
establishing a garden on
a rented place; they had
admired; envied, but not
emulated our never fail-
ing succession of blossoms,
venturing no further than
a conservative strip of
nasturtiums or window-
boxes of gay geraniums.
We, however, took counsel
with ourselves thus wise:
“Tt is our home while we
stay here, and why not
make it as fair as pos-
sible? Is there not a
danger that in being very
jealous to avoid benefit-
ing the landlord, we may
cut ourselves out of real
enjoyment?” So we
spaded and watered and
fertilized and planted and
mulched, and then some
more, and the desert blossomed as the rose.

Then suddenly came the chance to buy
just the place we had always wanted and
we went, on a bleak, fall day, with our
perennial treasures stuck fast in a pre-
liminary freeze. We obtained permission
to move them in the spring. Meanwhile,
all we could do at the new home was to
select the spot for our garden, turn over
the sod, fork in a load of cow manure
and some bone-meal, and wait for it to
weather.

In the spring, we again turned it over,
bringing the buried sod to the top. We
shook it, beat it, pounded it, hacked it,
until it was shredded to fine earth, added
some more bone-meal and some pulverized
sheep manure (to avoid fresh manure so
near planting time) and began to transfer
the plants.

Before beginning the actual removal,
we took notes of combinations that had
proved especially effective. Here and there

we took advantage of the moving to better
the composition of our garden pictures in
color and line. We had found especially
beautiful the juxtaposition of Madonna
lilies and delphiniums, with Shasta daisies
and cone flowers in front, edged by sweet
alyssum. At the right, were hollyhocks;
at the left, foxgloves in groups and singly
among the shrubbery. Behind the Mad-
onna lilies were old-fashioned tiger lilies,
which, coming after the former have gone
by, are just in time to catch the second

All the plants in this garden were successfully transplanted from a garden at the

other end of town

crop of delphinium blossoms that may be
had by cutting down the first plumes after
they have spent their glory, and giving a
little bone-meal around the roots. The
cone flower will last through both periods
of bloom.

In the new garden, these fell into line
in the same relative positions, and then the
oriental poppies (we succeeded in moving
them), gypsophila, gentians, ferns, wall-
flowers, lily of the valley, forget-me-nots,
roses, hardy chrysanthemums, garden helio-
trope, various lilies, golden glow, balm,
iris, and shrubs, one by one, we tucked in
wherever the picture and their own re-
quirements demanded. The geraniums,
heliotropes, fuchsias, etc., had been moved
in the fall as houseplants.

A large basket, a wheelbarrow, a tire-
less lady, and a willing husband constituted
the modus operandi. We took up at one
time only so much as we could set out im-
mediately, and for a few days we protected

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the transplanted things from the hot spring
sun with inverted peach-baskets, news-
papers, flower-pots, etc., watering thor-
oughly.

The most critical problem was that of the
lilies, especially the Madonna lilies that had
made heavy rosettes of rich green foliage
with fairly high stalks before we could
attend to them.

Though strongly advised to let the lilies
remain until late summer we finally decided
to risk it, after the manner of people to ask
advice and then disregard
it, and this is how we
managed, managed so
successfully that the lilies
grew and waxed strong
and with their oldtime
consorts, saved our new
garden from rawness. We
removed the earth from
the bulbs and roots, using
the fingers lest a trowel
thrust cut a bulb. We
laid the bulb absolutely
bare and dusted it thor-
oughly with powdered sul-
phur, then having prepared
a rich earth foundation
for the roots to spread
into, we rested the bulb ©
itself upon clean sand,
packed the sa2 7 all around
it and thus prevented earth
or manure from touching
it, covered the top with
ordinary garden loam, and
gave water freely.

All the shrubs and per-
ennials bloomed generously
and fairly put to shame
the annuals, for whatever
their glory, it is as fillers
that they are most desirable, the perennials
being the backbone of the garden.

July Planted Strawberries

By RoBERT SEAVER, Mass.

AST July I prepared a small bed for

strawberries by spading it deeply and
thoroughly, and raking into the soil a
liberal top dressing of commercial fertilizer.
I set out 100 pot-grown plants in the early
evening and gave them a good sprinkling.
Next morning all the plants were dead,
burned up by the fertilizer, applied too
liberally and too near the surface.

Again I soaked the bed, letting it stand
all day; spaded it over that night and
soaked it again, until the water stood in
puddles and the mud was six inches or
more deep. Next morning I gave it still
another spading and soaking to dissolve the
fertilizer as much as possible. The second
nightI set out more plants, and all grew well.

HE three yellow flowered irises
suitable for either the open bor-
der or the waterside are of
the beardless section. The first

I. aurea, bears a pure yellow flower with

slightly crimped petals on long stems held

well above the foliage. J. Monnieri is
lemon yellow and sends its flowers aloft on
stems four feet tall. J. ochroleuca, the
goldbanded iris, known also as orientalis,
rises in its variety gigantea, if well suited
in soil and situation, to a height of six feet.
With care, under ordinary garden con-

ditions, it seldom attains a greater emi-_

nence than 43 feet, but its thick creamy
blossoms, deepening to pure gold at the
base of the petal, are extremely beautiful.
These three yellow irises, with the addition
of Snow Queen, are used here to encircle a
little garden pool. Our pretty native,
I. versicolor, which makes gay the low
meadows in June, and the yellow water
flag, J. pseudacorus, are a bit too free with
their progeny, to make garden habitation
quite the thing for them. Far and wide the
quickly germinating seeds are scattered and
before one knows it, stout clumps are crowd-
ing out the choicer, less pervasive things.

THE BULBOUS (XIPHION) IRISES

With this class of iris, I have had no great
experience, though the few that are known

The English iris has larger flowers than the Spanish
and is a bigger plant. It must have moisture

More About Border Irises, the Bulbous Kinds—By

FOLLOWING UP THE ARTICLE ON THE BORDER IRISES FOR EVERYBODY’S GARDEN LAST
MONTH, THE YELLOW FLOWERED KINDS AND THE BULBOUS TYPES ARE NOW DISCUSSED

to me, have made me most anxious to make
the acquaintance of others. Nothing could
be more lovely than those belonging to the
“reticulata” group. I have grown only
three of these irises, including the type, but
Professor Bailey gives quite a number as
hardy in the vicinity of New York City.
The reticulata irises, have curiously ‘‘net-
ted” bulbs, hence the name, and the type
and its variety Krelagei, are characterized
by peculiar four sided leaves with a horny
tip. The type is the most beautiful of
all. I never cease to be quite overwhelmed
at the appearance of these brilliant purple
and gold flowers, showing through a mist
of narrow gray foliage. Last spring they
flashed forth while the snow still lay thick
upon the ground and in spite of the cold,
their delicious violet fragrance was discern-
ible many feet away. Krelagei bears a
duller flower and neither this nor the variety
histrioides has, save in a slight degree, the
violet perfume. The variety histrioides
blooms a little before the others and bears
larger flowers which often expand before
the leaves are well out of the ground. If
taken into a warm room, both this and
Krelagei will give out more perfume, but
the type seems quite undaunted in its
determination to make sweet the cold
March garden. All the reticulatas are
prone to a deadly disease which shows on
the netted surface of the bulb in ink-like
blotches and soon causes the plant to die.
Professor Michael Foster recommended
lifting and replanting the bulbs every
spring, after the foliage has died down,
discarding those which show the blight.
Another authority advocates soaking for
an hour or so in a solution of formaline of
the strength of one in three hundred parts.

My reticulatas have done fairly well in a
raised border against the wall facing south
where they are kept dry in winter. The
soil is a mixture of sand and rather heavy
loam, but I believe that an admixture of
clay is more desirable.

The so-called Spanish and English irises
are quite indispensable if we have a spot to
suit them. The former is rightly called
I. Xiphium, and comes from Spain and
Portugal. The stem rises stiffly to a
height of about 15 inches, and carries two
flowers, almost conventional in their chaste
formality of outline. They are so inex-
pensive that the bulbs may be set out by the
thousand and I know of no investment
which will bring greater return in beauty
for the outlay. They are best planted in
August, that they may send up their narrow
onion-like growth, which seems to be a
guarantee of good faith, before frost.

Any dry sunny border suits them well,
but they do not like to be crowded by strong
growing perennials or robbed by greedy
annuals, but after the foliage is gone, they
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Wilder

New York

b Mrs. W. R.

The Spanish iris grows almost anywhere and has
a great range of color. Best planted in August.
Most valuable for cut flower

do not object to such lightly rooting annuals
sown above their heads, as Campanula
Altica, Sedum ceruleum, Tlonopsidium {
acaule, and Gamolepis annua. When the
bulbs become overcrowded, it is well to
lift and replant them comfortably. These
flowers have been called the “poor man’s
orchid,” but rich and poor, and all the
middle sized folk between, will make no mis-
take in generously planting Spanish irises.
These are among the few plants which
may safely be bought ‘‘mixed;” inharmony
seems impossible.

The English iris, J. xiphioides, is, in spite
of its common name, native to the Pyrenees.
It makes no autumn growth and the foliage
is taller and broader than that of the Span-
ish iris, while the blossoms which are larger,
appear only in soft porcelain blues, reddish
purple and white and are more loosely i
and gracefully made. This type requires 4
more moisture than is usually to be had in
our dry American gardens and in my own
garden, even with faithful watering, it has
not been happy.

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DHE G A RD EON MyAGAAG 7a Neer

JuLy, 1913

(Epitor’s NoteE.—We want to know how suc-
cessful workers do things in order to put actual
experiences before our thousands of readers in all

parts of the country. Every reader is invited to con-
tribute a short note on some interesting experience.
Just state the facts about some ingenious idea that you
have actually worked out yourself or have seen.)

Roses from slips

Mr. Lange, in his account of growing
roses from slips in the January, 10913,
number, speaks of it as comparatively a
new method. It is a common practice
among the Philadelphia suburbanite dwel-
lers to make rose slips in August, set them
in the open ground, and cover with glass
jars or tumblers. There they remain till
spring. We followed the practice last
year and have a number of thrifty little
plants.— C., Penn.

Sweet woodruff for partial shade

In our country the sweet woodruff of
German forests will stand partial shade
without growing leggy. In full sun I have
used it as a mat between roses of free-
flowering tendencies like La France. If
it takes anything from the rose bushes, the
loss is not noticeable. Surely it could not
rob such things as the ramblers; nor do the
ramblers need bare ground and tillage
which some people are so careful to give
Hoe 1h Sy Wen LA

Card indexing the garden

I grow a variety of bulbs and the only
way that I have found to keep them straight
is to make out an index card for each item
of an order when the order is made out
and sent. Then, when the bulbs are re-
ceived, the card is checked and a note
made of their condition, and shortage or
overt-run on count, if any; and, when they
are planted, the locality, etc., may be
added. Then all is ready for the blos-
soming, unless special methods of forcing
are used, which may also be noted. This
leaves plenty of room on the card for items
of cost and source also, together with full
notes on the flowers produced, and after a
year or so the cards become of considerable
value. They have all of the advantages
of a card index, and there is room on the
ordinary *3 by 5 inch card for at least
three years’ entries. The same scheme may

be used for seeds, and if it is adopted for
plants and shrubs also, each may have
cards of a definite color, as they are to be
had in colors.— F. C., New Jersey.

The Brighton grape

In Mr. E. P. Powell’s interesting article
“Plant More Grapes!” in the January,
1913, issue he speaks of not remembering
where the Brighton came from. It origi-
nated with Jacob Moore of Brighton, N. Y.
(whom he mentions in connection with
Moore Early), and is a cross between the
Concord and Diana Hamburg. Mr. Moore
was a modest, retiring man, averse to
pushing himself or his products, and never
received the pecuniary reward, from the
excellent fruits he introduced, that he was
justly entitled to.— W. H. C., Penn.

The hobble=bush

While on a snow-shoe tramp througna
the Adirondack pine forests one day last
March I noticed a small bush, with large
light colored flower buds growing at the
tips of the branches between two tightly
folded leaf buds, as between a tiny pair of
horns. I gathered an armful of the twigs
and put them in jars of water in a sunny
window. ‘Three weeks later I had two jars
full of lovely white snowball-like blossoms.
The rich green leaves were almost as
beautiful as the flowers and they were a
delight for many days. -This plant is
known as the wayfarers’ bush, witch-
hobble or hobble-bush. It is quite hardy
and one of the first things to blossom in the
northern woods.— F. B. H., New York.

Sowing fine flower seeds

The way I sow poppy, and in fact all
my fine seed, is to put it in a salt shaker
with ten times its bulk of dry sand and

‘sift over beds, firming afterward with a

board. If you ~,ish to be convinced of
the evenness of this way of planting fine
seeds use the shaker over the palm of your
hand and see how evenly the seed is dis-
tributed over the surface. I buy every
year one packet of the best Shirley poppy
seed and place it in good soil very early
in the spring. These poppies I keep well
cultivated and picked, but when frost
comes there are sure to be hundreds of
seed pods on the plants. These I pick
and preserve and find next spring that I
have a goodly quantity of seed which cost
me practically nothing. This seed I sow
lavishly over all beds. Thus I have no
bare spots later in the summer after peren-
nials have gone by. This year I am
trying bachelor buttons in amongst some
of the poppies.— Vipa C. Wess, N. H.

The butterfly pea

In THE GARDEN MacazineE for April,
1912, N.S. T., Pa., takes occasion to praise
the butterfly pea (Centrosema grandiflora).
This is praise well bestowed; for it is an
exceedingly attractive climber, especially
the soft lavender kind which, I believe, is
the type. It varies to white and a “red”
is listed: though very likely the latter is the
“reddish violet” to which your correspon-
dent refers. This is not the only butterfly
pea. There is another, and to my mind,

still prettier one — Clitoria ternata. The
blossom, similar in form to that of the
centrosema, is a rich deep blue. There is
also a white variety. It is classed as a
greenhouse climber in the North, but, by
treating it as an annual, I have secured
bloom in the open garden the first year
from seed. To get the best results, the
seed should be sown very early indoors.
In the Bahamas, where it flowers all winter,
the clitoria has been found a good vine
for a wire tennis screen; it climbs about
fifteen feet.— N. S. A., Connecticut.

Larkspur and cosmos

Last year I had a large bed of the annual
blue larkspur and white cosmos that at-
tracted much attention. ‘The larkspur was
self-sown and came up in the fall. Early
in February I planted broadcast the seed
of white cosmos all through the bed. The
cosmos began to bloom when hardly fifteen
inches high and continued long after the
larkspur had gone to seed.— M. B., Florida.

Roses

I started a rose garden two years ago
with one bed 4 by 12 feet in size. Last
‘year I had three beds of that size. The

centre bed and the two paths between
the beds were spanned by three wire arches
on which I had six varieties of climbing
roses. I did not lose a plant during the
winter, although it was a severe one.
Last fall I made two beds which were filled
with roses this spring. The rose I consider
the finest in my collection is the Lyon.—
Mrs. W. F., Conn.

Morning=glories in January

One of my successes during the past
winter has been a small pot with two
morning-glory vines in it. ‘Two seeds were
planted in the pot after our autumn move
to town early in October, and the pot was
kept in a sunny south window of an invalid’s
room. ‘The first blossom came the end of
November, and by the last of January,
the vine had grown to the top of the win-
dow and bent down again. There was
hardly a day without a blossom, and
most days there have been from three
to seven.— Me EF. B= Conne

Tomatoes on a single stem

Having noted in THE GARDEN MAGAZINE
the many suggestions for raising tomatoes
on a single stem, I resolved last year to
try it in my little backyard garden with
six plants. One of the vines produced,
by this method, 33 fine tomatoes weighing
about 14 pounds. They were the finest
I grew. I was careful to pinch off all
shoots except the top one as fast as they
appeared. There were blossoms at the
top and some small tomatoes forming when
the vine was touched by the frost in Octo-
ber. Total height of vine from ground was
5 feet 1o inches. I gathered the first
tomato the latter part of July and the vine
continued to produce until frost.—R. B.,
New York.

CHAPTER XI (Continued)

T’S the time of all others to be out of
doors — the time that well-regulated
folk devote to dinner. The daylight
is clear as yet, but the hush of evening

is unmistakable. Instead of their wonder-
ful vespers, the thrushes, over in the deep
woods are uttering low, intimate notes —
speech rather than song; for in this hush of
the early evening, when quietness has fallen
like a spell on all the out-of-doors, it is as if
the marvellous new springtime, with all
wonder and beauty and myriad life, were
being put to sleep like a baby on the breast
of its Mother Earth.

I used to lie on the rug and watch the
work —I could have watched for hours.
I liked the motion of the man and the
horses outlined against the sky.

As for Stephen, he worked in silence most
of the time, but sometimes he would talk in
his rapt, eager way. I liked that, but I
never could tell what would start it.

“Why must you do that?” I asked him
once. He had been standing over by the
young poplars, lifting forkfuls of manure
from a brown, velvety-looking pile, and
with one fling scattering it over the plowed
ground with a motion as sure and graceful
as if he had been throwing the discus.
“Why does my garden need it? Those
young poplars haven’t extra rations, and
they’re thrifty enough.”

“You're an invader,” he said. ‘““They’re
in their own country. Invaders always have
the odds against them when they’re driving
out the rightful inhabitants of the land.”

“They’re the invaders,” I said, looking
at the lusty young poplars that had marched
unbidden into my land.

He shook his head. ‘“‘It’s fighting,” he
said in his soft, eager voice, ‘‘all fighting.
It seems peaceful enough — the gardening
and farming — but there’s a bitter warfare
under it all that never stops for a moment.
That’s why the farmers hate the wilderness
so; there’s been a sword between them for
generations. They can drive the wilder-
ness back and hold it at bay, but never
has she ceded the land. Always she is
watching; she throws back at them pests
that never trouble her own. They have
taken her kingdom by violence; if they
relax their grasp for a moment, she seizes
it and makes it her own again.

“Look over there!” he said, pointing
over the wide acres, ‘‘a few years ago ail

The Garden Doctor

Wil
Continued from page 309, June number

this was farm. The road I go up was
worn and travelled; it has violets in it
now; all that,’ and he pointed past the
barns, toward the fringing pines, “was
mowing land, below the barns were field
crops, corn and oats. And now, see! Do
you see those little sharp brown spear-
heads, hundreds and hundreds of them,
down the slope and up the slope? Those
are spireas, come in from the pasture.
Look up the hill. See the sprinkling of
dark green in the mowing? Those are
seedling pines, come down from the pines
on the hill. And here, you see, the woods
are coming in. First the poplars, next
will come oaks and beeches and maples,
not so easy to dislodge. The wilderness
is taking her own again!”

He laughed whimsically. ‘“Can’t you
see how she does it? The haste and the
gladness, as if it were a lost and beloved
child come back to her. How she tries
to make it forget the years of its captivity,
covering with grass and violets the scars
where the roads have bound it, bringing
in trees and flowers and shrubs — what-
ever she can bring soonest, just as a robe
was brought for the Prodigal, new shoes
for his feet, and a ring for his hand, before
he had entered the house!”

I looked about with a sudden, new
interest. Itwasashesaid. The wilderness
was closing in, swiftly, inexorably, as the
tide. Then I looked at the house serenely
content in the late sunshine. ‘The little
house doesn’t mind,” I said, suddenly.

He looked at it, laughed again. “The
little house doesn’t mind,” he repeated;
then he glanced at the barns, standing
gaunt and aloof. ‘Don’t know about
the barns,” he added, casually, as he
turned to his work. ‘‘Guess the barns are
like Mrs. Tarbox; they think it ain’t
right!”

So it happened, that after all my plan-
ning, I did my garden more or less after
the “gospel according to Stephen” as
Clarky would say, when I quoted him.
He showed me where, in the mowing, below
the barn, were old red roses of my grand-
mother’s garden, almost strangled by the
grass, and we dug them up and brought
them home. And I put iris, the many-
colored goddess over in the damp hollow
where the farthest woodchuck could survey
it as he sat at his house door and I had to
make a pilgrimage for the sight. And I
planted the lilacs, even Mme. Casimir

347

Perier and Charles the Tenth by the
kitchen door and the woodshed corner.

“Lilacs are homely things,”’ said Stephen,
“they like to be near the house.”

I put the flowering almond near the
doorstep and the hollyhocks next the
window where my poor cornflowers had
been.

“Tf the house were more elaborate,” I
explained to Clarky, who eyed the planting
with some disfavor, ‘‘we would need an
elaborate garden to connect it with the
wild, but you see this little place has made
perfect connections already.”

“Ts your friend McLeod a landscape
gardener?” she inquired.

“The most difficult thing in art is to
know when to let alone,’ I said. “I
reckon Stephen knows that.”

The garden proper grew more and more
utilitarian, and in its laying out I took the
advice of Mrs. Tarbox, who bestowed that
commodity frankly, if unflatteringly.

“Plant them seeds in rows, Caroline,”’
she advised, “and don’t try anything
fancy till you know more. An’ when you
know more,” she added sagely, ‘‘ you won’t
try it. If they ain’t in rows, you’ll be
pullin’ up your posies ’cause you can’t
tell em from the weeds. But if you see a
straight row comin’ up —all one kind of
leaf — you'll sense that. It may be scrip-
ture for the tares an’ the wheat to grow
together, but if I do say it as shouldn’t,
the wheat’ll grow lots better if the tares
was yanked out. An’ you want to be
so’s you can yank ’em out.”

Again I considered Mrs. Tarbox’s ad-
vice. Again I followed it.

All sorts of annuals I planted — poppies,
mignonette, godetia, gaillardia, and the
rest; and all sorts of vegetables. The vege-
tables and the flowers alternated cheerfully.
I edged beds of marigolds and of poppies
with lettuce and I bordered rows of vege-
tables with dwarf marigolds and nastur-
tium and mignonette. Feebly, in the
rush of belated planting, I tried to follow
my plan and at least arrange the colors
for peace and comfort.

“Land sakes!” said Mrs. Tarbox,
“youll be doin’ well if they grow up an’
flower at all an’ if you have any eatin’
out of the garden-stuff, ’thout fussin’
*bout effects. You can’t tend to too many
things to once, Caroline! If you keep
a-fussin’ *bout color effects, first thing you
know some pest or other has et up your

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JuLy, 1913

plants and they ain’t any effect at all,
’ceptin’ the one on you of disappointment.
Just you try an’ see if you can keep the
weeds out, an’ keep the bugs off, an’ remem-
ber that handsome is as handsome does!”’

CHAPTER XII

The middle of June Mrs. Tarbox left
us. She said I was now up and ’round;
that her housecleaning had been let go so
long that if ‘’twan’t done”’ next week she
didn’t. know what she would do.

Alonzo had come to fetch her. They
had just driven down the hill, leaving
Clarky and me sitting on our doorstep in
the dusk of the Sunday evening, consider-
ing the situation.

Clarky spoke of one and another whom
Mrs. Tarbox had said “‘ might help us out.”

“They’s Mis’ Rayford,” Mrs. Tarbox
had said, ‘‘but you’ll have to fetch her an’
take her home. An’ they’s Josie Pratt
to the foot of the hill; she might come an’
wash up for you.”

The thrushes were singing adorably,
just as they always did at dusk — fluting
out arpeggios that went dizzily, divinely,
high. It seemed wicked to be considering
to such an ecstatic accompaniment the
question of whether or not Josie Pratt
would wash our dishes, or whether she
wouldn’t —as bad as Mrs. Tarbox’s dish
towels on the lilac bush.

“Anything we imported,” said Clarky,
surveying our wide dooryard that reached
acres and acres across to the fringing pines,
““wouldn’t stay — too lonesome.”

There was a long silence, broken only
by the sound of the church-bells that
reached us faintly from the little church
across the river.

“Clarky,” I said at last, “every wild
creature over in those woods has wit
enough to get food for itself without being
served by another. That thrush has
found his breakfast and luncheon and dinner
and yet has leisure for his wonderful
music. Why cannot you and I be clever
enough to devise some form of rations
that will give us enough to eat and not con-
sume our whole time, in this lovely June
weather, in its cooking and preparation.”

Clarky turned and looked at me atten-
tively for a moment, but she said nothing.
She continued watching a chipmunk that
sat on our new stone wall (searching for
fleas I regret to say).

“The loveliest thing we have up here,”
I continued, ‘“‘is our solitude. Why must
we spoil it? Why glue our lives to a three-
meal-a-day orbit with the kitchen stove
as its governing sun? Why drape our
lilac bushes with dish towels? The life
is more than meat and the body than
raiment. We’ve simplified the raiment,

why can’t we arrange the matter of meat ?”

“Listen,” I proceeded, ‘“you can see to
it that we have a properly balanced ration
— carbohydrates, proteins, and all that —
Heaven knows I don’t want to be ill again
—but for the rest, we can have bread
and butter and eggs and cheese sent from

the store, we can import zweiback and
hard-tack. We can live on rice like the
Japanese or on baked potatoes like Robert
Browning. And on a rainy day, we can
have a very orgy of cooking, if you like.

“Besides, I’m not so limp as I once was.
I could do some ‘chores.’ There’s no
work so noble for a woman as domestic
housework,” I said, warming to the sub-
ject, ‘“‘nothing that so suitably exercises
body and soul and spirit as the care of a
house and the preparation of food; nothing:
in which it is so essential that a woman train
her daughter, so that ——”

“So that if she doesn’t marry,” broke in
Clarky, “she is sure of a situation in which
there is little competition. I know all
that sort of thing. You’ve read that in
the women’s magazines that are edited by
men and in articles written by women who
don’t do it. Dve seen plenty of women
broken down by housework, and farmers’
wives go insane from the monotony of this
same charming occupation.”

“Tt’s the monotony, not the work,” I
protested. “There’s no need of its being
so monotonous.”

Then I expounded my theory. That if
we lived out of doors, the house would
keep in good order; that with grass to the
doorstep and no furniture, how could there
be dusting? We could breakfast on wild
strawberries — not spend an hour or so
picking them, but go up the hill and bring
ourselves to the breakfast. For our supper,
we. could go to the doorstep with bread
and milk, like Wordsworth’s Little Cottage
Girl, and we could “take our little porrin-
gers and eat our supper there.” I ex-
plained to her that we would consider the
season; we would put the unavoidable
“chores,” into that part of the day which
out-of-doors was the least interesting.
As for the dishes, once a day they could be
piled in the little cart and I could trundle
them to the brook. I would place them
carefully in the gravel, then, while I was
taking my nap, the brook would be kind
enough to wash them. Undoubtedly they
would be quite as well done as by Josie
Pratt, and how infinitely more poetic the
operation. Thus we would save the most
valuable part of the day for the June
weather.

“According to the thrushes,’” I said,
“‘the evening and the morning are the time
for spiritual refreshment. The wood-
chucks seem to be at liberty at three in
the afternoon.”

Clarky looked at me keenly. “Sounds
like Mr. Stephen McLeod,” she remarked.

“T hope it does,” I answered, ‘Mr.
McLeod is a man of much intelligence and
a fine sense of proportion.”

Clarky took off her spectacles, pushed
her dark hair back as she always did when
considering deeply.

“Miss Caroline,” she said, at last, ‘‘there
are always chores, plain, unaffected unat-
tractive, unavoidable chores, even in keep-
ing a place like this in order. No amount
of garlanding with poetry, or of obscuring

with Stephen McLeod’s hallucination will
make them less chores. Some days it
will be amusing to ‘“‘tote” the dishes to the
brook, as you say. Some days it won’t.
And on the days when it isn’t amusing,
the thing has still to be done. That is
the very devil of housework — its inces-
Sant recurrence.

“However, make a good laundry con-
nection; get a fireless cooker; have Mrs.
Tarbox or her equivalent once a week, and
I’m with you. The wild-strawberry break-
fast is no good; grass is too wet; as for the
Little Cottage Girl supper — she took her
bread and milk to the cemetery, if I remem-
ber correctly, where were the little brother
and sister who probably died of improper
diet or imperfect sanitation; but the rest is
possible. But ——”

“But what?” I asked.

“Tt strikes me you’re getting well,”’ she
said.

CHAPTER XIII

It was after Mrs. Tarbox’s departure
that Aunt Cassandra began to get a bit
nervous about me.

She needn’t have been; we were absurdly
happy. For the first time in my life the
days were one long picnic — that’s not the
right word, for a picnic can be deadly
boring. Rather should I say that the days
were full of joyous adventure, and as for
any sense of Duty, I think I must have
planted it at the bottom of the very deep,
post-like hole we dug for the longest-rooted
hollyhock. Even the cutworms ceased
from troubling; and as for the garden,
Clarky had a charming little cultivator, a
very arsenal in the completeness of its
equipment. It was plow and cultivator
and marker, a sod cutter and sower and
weeder — everything combined. More-
over, it was good to look upon; its handles
were painted red, its teeth and action parts
a fine grass green. Clarky took the greatest
delight in trying its various stops and gaits
and gears. With all its complexity of
resource, the little thing was light to handle
and once a week she pushed it between the
rows. That was the weeding!

As for the watering —she got an in-
terminable length of rubber hose, fastened
it on our one faucet in the kitchen, led it
out of the window and down to the garden
or around the house. Then she’d turn on
the faucet in the kitchen and let the water
run between the furrows as if she were
irrigating; the day after, she cultivated;
and then, for a week, we let the garden
alone. And the plants flourished; they
grew like the wicked and the green bay tree.

“The simple life,” said Clarky, as she
stood surveying her irrigation scheme, “‘is
only possible when labor is reduced to a
minimum by up-to-date conveniences.”

Also once a week did Stephen come up.
That was Sunday afternoon. He had
stock, he said, in the pasture above us, and
had to go up the hill “to see if everything
was all right.”

(To be continued)

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CONDUCTED BY ELLEN EDDY SHAW

The Garden Contest

OW that the gardens are planted and the
summer work of maintenance is all one has to
think of it is time to prepare your statements for
our contest. Each year, for the past five years, this
department has been carrying on a garden contest
for boys and girls. This year we have changed
some of the conditions of the contest and the prizes,
too. The following table shows these changes:

GIRLS’ PRIZES | BOYS’ PRIZES | SCHOOL PRIZES

1. The best color|1. The greatest a 1. The best drawn plan

scheme for a] riety of vege- for school or com-
flower garden. tables. munity garden.

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plete garden|: The best six :
diary. specimensofany| 2. The garden showing
Tec com one vegetable. evidence of greatest

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position on the}; The garden| __ the period of its de-
owner’s flower|” showin g the velopment.
prveactable 8ar-| greatest profit.

en.
4. The finest col-|4. The best plan of 3- Plans for improve-

lection of an-| competitor’s

ment of country
nuals. own garden.

school grounds.

1st Prize in each] 1st Prize in each

1st Prize: The Nat-
class: Gardener’s|class: Camera.

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3 . | stitute).
2nd Prize’ in

2nd_ Prize roe
~ ‘@ps_ajeach class: “Bird
each class: Bidin cighbors” or

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den ” den.”’

3rd Prize: One} 3rd Prize in each
year’s subscription|class: One year’s
to The Garden|subscription to The
Magazine.

2nd Prize: The Lib-
rary of Work and Play

3rd Prize: The Lib-
Garden Magazine.| rary of Work and Play.

The gardener’s basket, our first prize for girls, is
a basket fitted up to take into the garden for real
use. It is not a gathering basket but contains
scissors, measure, cord, and all those little things
one always is needing and does not have in her
pocket, especially as so few girls have nice, useful
pockets in their garden dresses or aprons.

The Woodlawn Garden in Portland, Oregon, won
one of our first prizes, The Nature Library.

A leading local paper in Portland sent its repre-
sentative to the school to see the prize which the
children won in our national contest and to take
pictures of groups of children enjoying The Nature
Library. This is what he wrote about it:

“To you remember, during your school days, how
your heart thumped with fear or, if you harbored
revenge in your tiny breast, how angry it made you
to be sent to the principal’s office? Scores of the
little kiddies who constitute the great family of the
Woodlawn School are sent to the office every week;
and they are the very best youngsters in the school,
too. And what’s still more to the point they go
smiling and happy and even return to their classes
reluctantly. Here’s the answer: As a special
reward for good behavior the children are being

granted the privilege of spending some time in the
principal’s office perusing the wonderful new nature
books which the school won in last year’s justly
famous garden contest.

“Don’t ask if the children enjoy the books. That
is too mild a word. They are crazy about them,
and when I visited one of the rooms and the teacher
asked the children if they would like to tell me about
some of the things they had seen and read in the
books, a dozen hands went up and in their own chil-
dish ways they recalled what they had read about
some of the children of good Dame Nature.”

The following is a part of the report sent to us by
the garden supervisor, Miss Alice V. Joyce. This
came with pictures and a plan of the garden to meet
the requirements of our contest. This report may
be of help to others in working up their -reports.
They should come in to us before November first:

“We received the Nature Library and wish to
express our sincere thanks for the same. The boys
and girls are delighted with the books and best of
all that they won first prize. I assure you we can
use them in our work to a great advantage.”

As the Woodlawn School Garden was a means to
a great end in a very short time, it may help others
who are planning a school community garden to
know just how they did it.

For several years the principal, Mr. T. J. Newhill,
had been helping the pupils in home gardening and
finding how intensely interested they became, he
consulted the parents and teachers as to plans for a
community garden where the work would be done
under close supervision and benefited by the com-
panionship of others interested in the same work.
This plan met with hearty approval. The plot
most desirable was a tract of two and one-half
acres of partially cleared land diagonally across the
street from the Woodlawn School Building.

After deciding to have a garden, plans were made
to have the child’s mind in readiness for it as well as
the garden for the child, so that his time spent there
would be a pleasure as well as a profit

Books, pamphlets from various agricultural
colleges, communications from Luther Burbank,
bulletins from the Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C., were distributed, read and dis-

cussed. Assoon as the weather permitted, the boys
under the leadership of the principal went to work,
with the true Oregon spirit, to clear the land and,
with the assistance of hired help for the most
difficult labor, soon had it in readiness.

The Friday of April 12, 1912, was a gala day for
them when they were given an early dismissal to
gather roots, branches, build bonfires and do final
clearing. The garden tract was divided into six
hundred individual gardens 8 x ro ft. with a centre
which was later designed, planted, and cared for
by the older pupils.

The gardens were planted in uniform direction of
rows extending east and west. The children were
permitted to plant what they wished, encouraging
individuality. The ninth grade pupils, after caring
for their own gardens, planted one section with the
grains raised most successfully in Oregon. Another
section had a variety garden, where many varieties
of plants and flowers might be studied and ex-
changed. One section was planted in the various
kinds of berries best adapted to Oregon soil and
climate.

The centre plot was designed by the older pupils.
In the centre was a fountain, surrounded by cannas
and bordered with salvia, with ground decorations
of pansies and sweet alyssum.

As the E]ks were convening in Portland in July,
they offered a cash prize of $100 for the school
garden showing the best floral design in the Elks
colors or emblems. The Woodlawn School com-
peted for this prize and won it.

The expense of the Woodlawn Gardens may be of
interest to some. Money was raised through con-
tributions and by a flower sale, the entire receipts
being $167.12. The expenses for labor, seeds, print-
ing, etc., were $155.85 leaving a balance of $11.27.

The work was planned and assisted by an advisory
committee consisting of patrons and teachers of the
Woodlawn School and inspected by a board sent
out by the School Garden Contest of Portland.
They expressed high approval of the work done,
which strengthened the assurance of all who had
helped to make the gardens a success that the work
was worth the effort in securing agricultural knowl-

edge for the children.”

The Nature Library has become a part of the school life to Woodlawn boys and girls

Ten Acres Enough*— Chap. VIII.

(Continued from page 312,- June, 1913)

ASPBERRIES followed the strawberries. My

stock of boxes was thus useful a second time.
But raspberries are not always reliable for a full
crop the first season after planting — mine bore
only moderately —but by exercising the same
care in rejecting all inferior specimens, the first
commanded twenty-five cents a quart in the
market, gradually declining to twelve, below
which none were sold. I marketed only 242
quarts from the whole, netting an average of 16
cents a quart, or $38.72. In addition to this, we
consumed in the family as much as all desired.

As my raspberries disappeared, so in regular
succession came the Lawton blackberries. I had
cut off the tip of every cane the preceding July;
by thus stopping the upward growth, the whole
energy of the plant was concentrated in the forma-
tion of branches, which had, in turn, been shortened
to a foot in length at the close of last season. This
process, by limiting the quantity of fruit to be pro-
duced, increased the size of the berries. It also
prevented the ends of the branches from resting
on the ground, when all fruit there produced would
otherwise be ruined by being covered with dust
or mud. Besides, this was their first bearing year,
and as they had not had time to acquire a ull
supply of roots, it would be unwise to let them over-
bear themselves. Some few which had grown to a
great height were staked up with pickets four and
a half feet long, and tied, the pickets costing $11
per thousand at the lumber-yard. But the majority
did not need this staking up the first season; but
many of the canes sent up this year, for bearers the
next, it was necessary to support with stakes.

The crop was excellent in quality, but not large.
I began picking July 20th, and thus had the third
use of my stock of boxes. I practised the same
care in assorting these berries for market which
had been observed with the others, keeping the
larger ones separate from the smallest ones. They
sold rapidly and netted me thirty cents a quart,
the smaller ones twenty-five cents. The crop
of Lawtons amounted to 592 quarts, and netted me
$159.84 an average of twenty-seven cents a quart.

Small Fruits After Cropping

S SOON as the picking was done, while the

plants were yet covered with leaves, all the
canes which had just fruited were cut off at the
ground using a strong pair of snip-shears, which
cut them through without any trouble. These
canes, having done their duty, would die in the
autumn; they could now be more easily cut than
when grown hard after death, and if removed at
once, would be out of the way of the new canes of
this year’s growth.

The latter could then be trimmed and staked
up for the coming year; the removal of all super-
fluous foliage would let in the sun and air more
freely to the cabbages between the rows. The old
wood being thus cut out, was gathered in a heap,
and when dry enough was burned, the ashes being
collected and scattered around the peach-trees.
After this the limbs were all shortened in to a foot.
They were very strong and vigorous, as in July the
tops of the canes had all been taken off, leaving
no cane more than four feet high. The branches
were consequently very strong, giving promise
of a fine crop another season. After this, such as
needed it were staked up and tied, as the autumn
and winter winds so blow and twist them about
that otherwise they would be broken off. The
subsequent practice has induced me to cut down
to only three feet high; and this being done in
July, when the plant is in full growth, the cane

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becomes so stiff and stocky before losing its leaves
as to require no staking, and will support itself
under ordinary storm.

In the meantime the fame of the Lawton black- ©

berry had greatly extended and the demand in-
creased, but the propagation had also been stimu-
lated. A class of growers had omitted tilling their
grounds, so as to promote the growth of suckers,
caring more for the sale of plants than for that of
fruit. Hence the quantity to meet the demand
was so large as to reduce the price, but I sold
enough plants to produce me $213.50. Of this I
laid out $54 in marl, which I devoted exclusively
to the blackberries. I had been advised by a
friend that marl was the specific manure for this
plant, as of his own knowledge he knew it to be so.
A half-peck was spread round each hill, and the
remainder scattered over the ground. A single
row was left unmarled. It showed the power of
this fertilizer the next season, as the manured rows
were surprisingly better filled with fruit than that
which received none.

The Balance Sheet

Wy the sale of pork, amounting to $58, the
receipts of my second year terminated. My
cashbook showed the following as the total of
receipts and expenditures:

Paid for stable manure : : ‘ ; : . $200.00
Ashes, and rawbone superphosphate . : 4 Q2.00
Marl . 2 j 2 : - i J : : 54.00
Wages of assistant ‘ ‘ : 3 5 2 - 144.00
Occasional help é 3 e : . : : i 94.00
Feed for stock. ; 3 - ; : g 2 : 79.30
Pigs bought . 5 é 5 5 3 5 ‘ 12.00
Garden and other seeds : . : A : 4 I3.00
Lumber, nails, and sundries. A 4 j 2 14.50
Stakes and twine . 2 é : 5 : 7 é 7.00

$709.80

The credit side of the account was much better
than last year, and the receipts were as follows:

Strawberries, 6 acres . : ; 3 2 ie . $ 857.60
Lawton blackberries, 1 acre . 5 4 ' ; 159.84
Lawton plants. 3 : 2 7 : 213.50
Raspberries, 2 acres . ‘ i % 5 3 38.72
Tomatoes, I acre : 2 : § é Z 190.00
Cabbages : F 5 3 5 A A : A 70.20
Garden . 3 ‘ : ‘ a ; 5 ‘ 5 63.00
Peaches, 10 trees in garden . ‘ A : : 58.00
Potatoes : A . i s a 5 24.00
Pork Z ; ; E B ‘ : 58.00
Calf 3 ‘ x 5 ‘ 5 : : 2 f 2.00

$1.734.86

In addition to this cash receipt toward the sup-
port of a family, we had not laid out a dollar for
fruits or vegetables during the entire year. Having
all of them in unstinted abundance, with a most
noble cow, the cash outlay for the family was
necessarily very small; and in addition to this, we
had a full six months’ supply of pork on hand.

The result of this year’s operations was ap-
parently conclusive. My expenses for the farm
had been $709.80, while my receipts had been
$1,734.86, leaving a surplus of $1,025.06 for the
support of my family. But more than half of their
support had been drawn from the products of the
farm; and, at the year’s end, when every account

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had been settled up, and every bill at the stores
paid off, I found that of this $1,025.06 I had $567
in cash on hand —proving that it had required
only $458.06 in money, in addition to what we con-
sumed from the farm, to keep us all with far more
comfort than we had ever known in the city. Thus,
after setting aside $356.06 for the purchase of
manure, there was a clear surplus of $200 for invest-
ment.

I had never done better than this in the city.
There, the year’s end never found me with accounts
squared up and a clear cash balance on hand.
Few occupations can be carried on in the city after
so snug a fashion.

(To be continued)

What to Plant In July

WiEX July or August has arrived we almost
always neglect the garden. And this is
just where we fail to get the best out of it. July-
planted sweet corn and often dwarf sorts planted
in early August make the most acceptable corn of
the year; and so far as prices and profits go, if
frost holds off and any of these tidbits can be
spared for sale, everybody wants them. Good
seed should be selected that the late planting may
not be disappointment.

The transplanting of cauliflower and cabbage
and the sowing of turnips should not be over-
looked, as these things are among the most
profitable, especially on the small farm, say four
to ten acres. A peculiar phase of gardening at
this season is that the crops may be raised on soil
from which earlier vegetables have been already
taken. The ground must be fertilized just as much
as in the spring. The failure to raise good crops
of late garden delicacies is traceable usually to
neglect of this one rule.

July and August are the months for the sowing
of lettuce to be grown fully and then retarded for
the early and middle winter sales. This is easy to
do, as the crop is very readily produced, if planted
early enough before the days become too short.
That for sale before Thanksgiving may be protected
at night by covering with canvas which must be
kept from injuring the delicate leaves by resting
on short stakes driven among the heads just high
enough to hold the cloth off the crop. The edges
of the canvas must be pegged down to keep wind
from turning it over, unless earth is thrown on the
edges, which is good practice, as this aids in keeping
out cold.

Lettuce grown without heat for the holidays must
be sown now in open coldframes, and covered,
sometimes closely blanketed before then. If
good spinach is to be sold next spring while prices
are high, sow it now and keep down the weeds. And
the delectable strawberry is now to be set. One’s
own, home-grown plants have the advantage over
plants brought from a distance, because one may
transplant now with balls of earth on the roots
and be certain that a large percentage of the plants
will live. The sowing of onion seeds for the raising
of sets is made profitable on many small places
and should not be done earlier in the season.
Choose soil that is not too rich; and if the sets
threaten to make too much size, let the weeds choke
them.

A midsummer mistake in most gardens, par-
ticularly on busy farms, is the neglect of things
already grown or nearly ready for use, letting weeds
come in and make the place uninviting and difficult
to harvest because hiding the vegetables. Not
infrequently also they prevent the full culmination
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Fruit prices are continually soaring higher.

The demand is ever increasing. Nothing else
on the farm brings such great returns per acre.
Fruit trees require little time and can be grown by
anyone following the instructions of our experts. These
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i RAC) you what fruit trees are adapted to your soil. They tell

you what varieties of fruit can be grown successfully in
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for trees, and their cost.

In fact, they tell you anything you

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) Our Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Flowers

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Our goods are carefully selected,

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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Juny, 1913

Davey Tree Surgery executed by Davey Tree Sur-
geons, prevents Serious storm injury to trees.
Read this letter!

In regard to the trees which your men worked upon a year ago for the
writer, at Louisville, Ky., will state that the majority of these were large
beech trees. During a storm this spring a number of trees on my place and
in my vicinity were badly damaged, but none of the trees fixed by your men
were damaged in the least. They all look much better this Spring than
| before they were worked upon. I am very much pleased with your work.

! Yours very truly,
May 15, 1913. R. M. CARRIER.’’

Decay weakened trees are sooner or later storm victims.
“¥ It is cheaper to prevent damage than to repair it. Learn the
| facts about your trees! Let a Davey Tree Expert examine
your trees now—without charge. Write for booklet ‘‘C”’,

The Davey Tree Expert Company, Inc., Kent, Ohio

JOHN DAVEY
Father of Tree Surgery

COPYRIGHT 1912

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Set Out Lovett’s Pot-Grown Strawberry Plants In July or August
and Have a Crop of Delicious, Big, Red, Juicy Berries Next June

I am recognized throughout the country as a strawberry plant grower. For 35 years and more I have
specialized in strawberries, and know my plants almost as intimately as you do your children.

Some of the most widely known and most successful varieties were introduced by me. For instance, the
Gandy, Morning Star, Silver Coin, etc.

Readers of Garden Magazine want berries quickly. None of you want to wait two springs for a crop as
you positively must if you set out anything but pot-grown plants.

This year I have a magnificent lot of plants of the wonderful Van Fleet hybrids, varieties that I have
been testing during the last five years, and I can conscientiously say I have never grown a strawberry
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They are strong, healthy growers, and immense yielders of brilliant red berries of enormous size, with the
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WRITE FOR MY STRAWBERRY BOOKLET. I will gladly mail a copy to you FREE. It tells
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gives full descriptions of many other
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MONMOUTH NURSERY

BOX 125, LITTLE SILVER, N. J.

What is a fair rental for a given property? Ask the Readers’ Service

The Knack of Transplanting

ie YOU ask an experienced gardener the proper
time of the year for transplanting, he is quite
as likely as not to tell you that he moves plants
whenever he has occasion to do so. The fact
is that there is no definite transplanting season.
Evergreens, peonies and a few other things it is
risky to move at all times; but this rule, like nearly
every one, has been broken with impunity.

The knack of transplanting, and doing it quickly,
is easily acquired if the transplanter uses his head.

Try a sub-mulch of wet lawn clippings, covered
with an inch of soil, when transplanting

Common sense, first, last and always, is a requisite
of success. With that, transplanting may be done
in the full heat of summer.

The first thing to remember is that, in lifting a
plant for removal to another place, it is better that

Oarry large plants on the shovel with which they
are dug, so as to keep the soil around the roots

the roots should remain encased in soil; with some
plants it does not matter particularly at some
seasons, nor with a few plants at any season, but
until experience teaches what they are don’t be
afraid of a good ball of earth. If the ground is dry,
give it a soaking before lifting the plant. If it is
very hard let the point of the trowel go down a few

JuLry, 1913

The Stephenson System of
Underground Refuse Disposal

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you, free, our new 48-page book,
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ILLETT’S

Hardy Ferns and Flowers
For Dark, Shady Places

Send for my descriptive catalogue
of over 50 pages, which tells about
this class of plants, It’s free.

Edward Gillett, Box F. Southwick, Mass.

a4 ey Tree Pests san me Tee Bees

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tie G Ak D EIN MAGA ZIN EB 353

The Time To Move Evergreens

Is August and September
Don’t Put It Off Till Next Spring

UR records prove beyond all doubt that if any-
O thing, August-September planting of evergreens
is the most fortunate.

We are frank to admit we began experimenting sev-
eral years ago on August-September planting, in an
endeavor to. extend the planting season, and so relieve
the very serious congestion caused by the early spring

rush. We started it by first making various transplant-

ings in our Nursery. The results far exceeded our
most sanguine hopes; and as a result, we have for
years been selling as many evergreens in August-
September, as in the spring.

If you have large Pines or Cedars in your vicinity,
which you wish moved to your grounds, let us arrange
to do it in August or September. We will send expert
men and special apparatus to work in co-operation

with your local men and teams or motor truck. We
will assume the responsibility of the moving and
transplanting success.

If you want choice evergreens in any size from 6
inches up to 25 feet, we have them. We recommend
the large trees, because results are immediate. You
save from ten to twenty years waiting for them to
grow up.

It’s doubtful if in our Nursery we have ever had so
good a collection as at present. Come and see them.
hick out now what you need and we will deliver them
ater.

If within feasible delivery distance, we will bring
them to your place by wagon or auto truck.

If you can’t come to the Nursery, send for our
catalog.

Isaac Hicks and Son
Westbury, Long Island

TRADE MARK

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USED FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN FOR 29
SOLD BY SEED DEALERS OF AMERICA

Saves Currants, Potatoes, Cabbage, Melons, Flowers, Trees,
and Shrubs from Insects.
Prices. Write for free pamphlet on Bugs.and Blights, etc., to

B. HAMMOND, Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York

YEARS

Put up in popular packages at popular

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RTILIZER, explain. Ifyou have not tried it, send for our liter-

ature and be prepared to use it INDOORS for your
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for seeding down for PASTURE, etc., and learn
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ple Family

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These houses are made of choice Cedar and are very
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strong, durable and will last a lifetime.
and are very attractive Jooking.
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LOG CABIN No. 3
Two Family

£1 $3.50

of America’s Star Roses, Seeds
Bulbs and Plants
Lists and describes 360 of the
Best Roses for America, 75 mag-
nificent Lily-Cannas, hundreds
of varieties of choice flowering
Seeds, Bulbs and Plants, Full
of photographs and valuable gar-
den information. Write for acopy.

The Conard & Jones Co.

Box 24, West Grove, Pa.

Rose Specialists—50 years’ experience.

While you are working out your ideal
in the garden, why not provide a home
for the birds that help to make life in the
country really worth while? A _ rustic
house placed in a tree or on a pole will
make an excellent home and add to the
attractiveness of your garden. The Wren
is particularly fond of houses and will
make them their home.

The robin will build his nest there also
every year if you set it up ina tree not
too close to your home or the much fre-
quented road or street.

STATE whether desired for Robins, Bluebirds or Wrens.

Simp MilteG

50 Barclay Street New York City

354 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE Jury, 1913

HOLLAND D GROWS iehvel
RIINESTOB: S ithe WORLD

Dutch Bulbs and Roots Direct trom the Grower

Flower lovers who discriminate — who seek to raise healthy,
sturdy tulips, hyacinths, narcissi, crocus, etc., of fullest flowering
value — should obtain their bulbs by direct importation from
Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff, the largest growers of high quality
bulbs and roots in all Holland.

Would you like to know how to judge bulbs? How to select
solid, spotless, first-size specimens, full of vitality, and of maximum
flower- -bearing capacity? How to force bulbs? How to select the
choicest varieties for given decorative effects? Every detail of
successful bulb culture is given full explanation in this

REAL DUTCH BULB BOOK

printed in Holland (in English). Contains price list
and full description of latest Dutch introductions.

Order Now for Fall Planting

Our system assures American customers the
finest quality bulbs grown, true to size, name and
color. Your order is transmitted direct to
Holland, packed with exceeding care at our own
nurseries and shipped to our Philadelphia office for
forwarding to your home address or railroad station.

Prices include delivery to your home.

Just one comparison with supplies from any other
source will convince you. As a first step — send for this

Dutch Bulb Book—to-day!

Gt. van Waveren & Kruijff

American Branch House, 140 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. U.S. A.
LOUIS BERGER, Mer.

Home Nurseries: Sassenheim, Holland. Other Branches in Russia, Argentine
Republic, Germany, England, Sweden.

FLORICULTURE

Complete Home Study Course in practical Floriculture
under Prof. Craig and Prof. Beal, of Cornell University.

Course includes Greenhouse Construction and
Management and the growing of Small Fruits and Vege-
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Personal Instruction. Expert Advice.
250 Page Catalogue Free. Write to-day.

THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL ss
Dept. G. F., Springfield, Mass. Prof. Craig

C. G. van Tubergen, Jr.
Haarlem, Holland
Grower of Choice Bulbs

E.J. KRUG, Sole Agent|
114 Broad St., New York
Formerly represented by C. C. Abel & Co.

| Bulbs imported direct from Holland
| for customers. No supply kept here.

JAPAN BAMBOO CANES

Indispensable for staking your Lilies, Roses, Pot
and herbaceous plants, Gladioli, small shrubs, etc.

Strong and durable not decaying like wooden stakes or South-
ern Swamp cane. (Dyed a dark green, very ornamental)
50 100 250 500 1000
$ .35 $ .60 $1.50 $2.50 $4.50
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2.50 4.00 7.50
‘60 I.00 2.00 Ba75) 7.00

EXTRA heavy
Bamboo canes

Necessary to stake Dahlias, Tomatoes, young trees,
Pole beans, etc.
8 ft. long Diameter } inch up 12 50 100
5 $1.75 $6.00 $10.50
Address
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70 Warren St., New York City

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inches all the way around the plant before the
actual digging is done. This lessens the danger of
soil cracking and parting from the roots.

Lay the dug plants carefully in the bottom of a
basket — or on a wheelbarrow, if there are many —
so that the soil will not fall from the oots. If the

If a second watering is needed after transplanting,
dig a shallow trench all around the plant

sun is shining, throw a paper or cloth over them at
once; if they have to lie around all night, sprinkle
them.

Make the hole where the plant is to go as deep as
the ball of earth and loosen the soil below if it is

Then fill the trench with water

over hard. Then, unless it has been raining or the
ground is really moist, fill the hole with water and
let it soak in. Next put the plant in place, being
sure that it is upright, fillin the earth around it and
press the soil down gently with the two hands.
Whether the plant will require more watering de-
pends on the weather. In the case oj a large plant
a good plan is to dig the hole first, the depth can be

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 355

Jury, 19138

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Its low cost makes it possible to $s
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It is not a chemical mixture, but a natu- oF
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It is odorless and absolutely sanitary. < re enh ouse Put-Offs Z H
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Alphano Humus Co,

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(F. O. B. Alphano, N. J.) (2)
Special price on carlcad lots. $4
Send for our Humus Book. $4

Tt explains all about what Alphano
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I Want You To Share My
Superb Oriental Poppies

_ The acres of Hardy Pop-
pies blooming at Wyomissing
this year, dazzling in their
barbaric splendor, inspire me
with the desire to share their
beauty with you.

My collection includes-

magnificent big flowers of
white, pink, scarlet, crimson,
orange and maroon—you will
enjoy them all. Poppies
thrive for generations. They
should be planted during their
six weeks dormant season —
almost here. Set out then,
they are bound to bloom glor-
iously next year. Write now
for my list of Poppies, so you
may enjoy them next spring.
“QUALITY BULBS”
BOOK SENT FREE
Holland’s best growers reserve
for me the first selection of their
choicest varieties of daffodils, tulips,
hyacinths and other hardy bulbs.
This extra-guality stock is described
in my book**Farr’s Quality Bulbs.”
Sent free to those who wantthe best.

Bertrand H. Farr
104 Garfield Ave., Wyomissing, Pa.

keep on saying things like this:

“Yes, we are going to build a
greenhouse before long;” or “Clarissa
and I are thinking about having a
greenhouse one of these days.”
And then sometimes it’s ““As soon as
ever I get the time to look into it,
we'll straightway have that green-
house you have been talking about
for so long.”
And so Mr. Put-Off, puts off from
year to year and nothing ever hap-
pens. And it’s not because he can’t
afford it either; or doesn’t enthusi-
astically want it himself. No, not
this; but in nine cases out of ten, it is

G ier keep putting it off and

NEw Yor«K OFFICE:
1170 BRoADWAY

simply because he has such a vague
idea of what they cost, and what their
up-keep will be, that he hesitates.
If he would say to Clarissa, some
morning: “You had better drop a
card to Hitchings & Co. today and get
that catalog they advertise as such
complete information about green-
houses, then we will look it over
some evening and see if there is a
house in it like we want.”

What do you suppose would happen?
Why don’t you try it and see?

If you want to have summer time
all the time it’s winter time—you
had better have Hitchings & Co.
build your greenhouse now.

PHILADELPHIA OFFICE.
1505 CuHEsTNuT ST.

Factory — Elizabeth, N. J.

This is the most interesting time to visit Andorra

to see our Specimen Trees and Shrubs, espe-

cially the immense stock of Hardy Acclimated

Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Peonies in bloom.
Send for Price List

ANDORRA NURSERIES Box G

WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor

The Readers’ Service is prepared to advise parents in regard to schools

Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia, Pa.

356 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

JuLy, 1913

Dreer’s Potted Plants

for summer planting

T is not*necessary to wait till Fall or next Spring to fill up unsightly
blanks in your Rose bed, Shrubbery or Hardy border. We will furnish
strong, sturdy, well established two-year pot grown plants, — Roses,

Hardy Perennials, Vines, Shrubs, Evergreens, etc. — which can be safely

set out in the dryest, hottest weather.

Our Mid-summer Catalogue

ready July Ist, will be the most complete list of this class of stock ever
published. It contains everything which may be planted during the summer
months. Plants of all kinds. Flower and Vegetable Seeds. Pot-grown
Strawberries that will give a full crop next year. Lawn tools and essentials.
Fertilizers, Insecticides and a host of other helps to make gardening a
Will be mailed to all customers.

pleasure.

Send a postal for a copy if you are not a customer

HENRY A. DREER 7*4,Sheinet, See

Philadelphia, Pa.

Make the Farm Pay

Complete Home Study Courses in Agriculture,
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THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL

Dept. G. A., Springfield, Mass.
the fruit. The longer trees are

APPLE d with “SCALECIDE”’
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fruitful they become. ‘“SCALE-
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one containing distinct fungicidal properties. “SCALECIDE”
will positively kill all soft-bodied sucking insects without injury
to the tree. Let us prove these statements. Send today for free
booklet “SCALECIDE—the Tree Saver.’’ Address B. G.
PRATT CO., Mfg. Chemists, 50 Church Street, N. ¥. City.

HARVESTER with Binder Attachment cuts and
throws in piles on harvester or winrow. Manand
horse cuts and shocks equal with a corn Binder.
Sold in every state. Price $20.00. W.H. BUXTON,
of Johnstown, Ohio, writes: ““The Harvester has proven all you claim
for it; the Harvester saved me over $25.00 in labor last year’s corn
cutting. Icut over 500 shocks; will make 4 bushels corn to a shock.”

Testimonials and catalog free, showing pictures of harvester. Address
NEW PROCESS MFG. CO. SALINA, KANSAS.

A Mess at all Seasons

of fresh Mushrooms Growing in your Cellar

RS 40 t in postage stamps together with the name of your
ty cts. dealer will briny you, postpaid, direct from the

@y~ manufacturer, a fresh sample brick of
’ Lambert’s Pure Culture MUSHROOM SPAWN

the best high-grade spawn in the market, together with large illustrated book
on Mushroom Culture, containing simple and practical methods of raising,
preserving and cooking mushrooms. Not more than one sample brick will
be sent to the same party. Further orders must come through your dealer.

Address: American Spawn Co., Dept. 2, St. Paul, Minn.

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approximated, and then carry to it the plant on the
spade with which it was dug. This prevents the
heavy ball of earth from breaking, as it rests firmly
on the spade.

Transplanting may be done in very hot weather,
sometimes even when little or no soil adheres to the
roots, if this simple plan be adopted. Place the
plant in the hole and do not quite fill the latter with
soil at first. Instead, put in a thin layer of lawn
clippings and wet it. Then cover with the re-
mainder of the soil. If the precaution seems neces-
sary, put another layer of lawn clippings on the
surface. Small seedlings, in very dry weather, are
best transplanted in the following way: Lift a
number of them by passing a trowel or broad knife
underneath and drop them carefully into a pan
containing about half an inch of water. The mud
thus formed makes it possible to safely separate
seedlings that have come up very close together;
they may be taken between two fingers and gently

pulled apart.

Although transplanting may be done at almost
any time, if need be, the wise gardener will en-
deavor to be weather prophet as well. Choose, by
preference, a cloudy day and if you can see rain
coming get ahead of it by all means; there is nothing
like a good rain to follow transplanting. Before a
rain is a great deal better than immediately after-
ward, not only because of the refreshment to the
plant and the packing of the soil but for the
reason that transplanting directly following a
shower is apt to turn the soil into a mud that bakes
easily.

If dry weather necessitates a second or third
watering, avoid the watering can. A better way is
to dig, with a trowel, a shallow trench all around
the plant. Fill the trench with water, one or more
times, and then put back the soil. This is irrigation
on a small and individual scale and it is the only way
to save some plants, whether transplanted or al-
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prolonged drought.

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Real Hot Weather Work for
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CONTINUE to sow peas, sorghum cane and soy
beans for hay. :

White potatoes may be planted at any’ time
during the month; also pole beans, squash, water-
melons, muskmelons and early corn.

Large pumpkins grown for exhibition should be
given liquid manure two or three times a week.
Keep the black squash bugs off the plants; hand
picking is the most effective method of doing this.

Sow seed of pansies now and they will come into
flower in winter or very early spring.

Continue to sow seed of rutabaga. A few tur-
nip seeds may also be sown, but do not risk too
many so early in the season.

Chrysanthemum plants should be pruned and
staked. Late in the month commence to give
liquid manure, especially if you want early as well
as large flowers.

Continue to plant cucumbers for pickles; sow the
early varieties.

Below the frost line in Florida, tomatoes, pepper
and eggplants may be sown for winter use.

Continue to plant collards and cabbage in all
sections of the South.

Continue to plant early flowering annuals such as
marigolds, nasturtiums, asters and poppies. Firm
the soil over the seed after sowing; it will be sur-
prising how rapidly they will grow at this time of the

ear.

Get the bulb catalogues now and begin to plan for
next fall’s bulb garden. Send in your orders as
early as possible. High priced bulbs and cheap
bulbs may occasionally look alike, but probably will
not grow alike. Last year I planted two bulbs side
by side. Both looked just alike, but one cost double
the price of the other. The cheap bulb produced
one flower spike, while the other produced three
large ones. The same is true about seeds; in many
cases you cannot tell which is best until you have
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Plant Madonna lilies very late in this month or
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The elm leaf beetle

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usually near the top, completely covers it in a
short time and kills it. What is the remedy for
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soap, using two pounds to a gallon of water; or,
after the leaves are unfolded, with a ro per cent.
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June. The kerosene should be applied only on
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Like a yard with shade | What can we do to make things grow in our gar-
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360

THE GARDEN MAGAZINE

Jury, 1913

Have you anything in common with
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q Is complete absorption in your chil-
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— The Northern Spy is a good reliable apple both
for home and market use. It is well adapted to
your region, but does not do so well as you get
south. By proper handling you should have trees
bearing in seven years. Plant on light soil, do not
fertilize and, beyond cutting to control shape,
prune not at all. Heavily fed trees of Northern
Spy often keep on growing into fine looking speci-
mens, but will not bear fruit.

Fruit growing in Wisconsin

Is commercial orcharding practical in either
Milwaukee or Waukesha counties, i. e., in the
vicinity of Milwaukee; are there any commercial
orchards in that district now; is the climate of that
district any more severe than that in the Michigan
apple belt; what classes of fruit and what varieties
would be best suited to that district? — J. W. F.,
Wisconsin.

— Milwaukee and Waukesha counties I consider
one of the best fruit sections in Wisconsin and in the
entire Northwest. By reference to Bulletin No.
223 of the University of Wisconsin and charts con-
tained therein, you will note that this is an especi-
ally favored section as to mean annual temperature.
Any apples or other fruits which may be grown in
Michigan may be grown here with the single excep-
tion of peaches. The mean temperature in winter
is rather too low for peach buds. I consider com-
mercial orcharding quite practical in either of the
counties named although there are no large com-
merical orchards there now. Quite extensive farm
orchards may be found in these counties, the trees
being fifty to sixty years old, but the very rapid
advance in dairying during the past twenty years
has prevented the development of fruit raising.
Dairying gives quick returns and the farmers can-
not see the sense of planting an apple tree and wait-

ing seven or eight years for returns, when they can |

get returns immediately from general farming.
The climate in this district is more severe than in
the Michigan apple belt — that is, we have colder
weather in the winter but not cold enough to prevent
the successful raising of standard varieties of apples.
I would advise prospective planters to set kinds
that mature early, such as Wealthy, Fameuse, Mc-
Intosh Red, Dudley, etc., and in this way get the
early market in September and October.— Frederic
Cranefield.

Testing wood ashes

I have a barrel of wood ashes that has stood for

two years under a porch subject to dampness and
possibly some drip. By what simple test can I
ascertain whether or not the ashes are still fit for
use? — E. H., Pennsylvania.
— You can roughly test for potash by leaching a
handful of the ashes with water, and adding a little
fat or oil to the solution. If the mixture saponifies,
i. e., produces a soapy lather, the ashes still
contain lye or potash. But why bother to test
them? They cannot possibly injure your soil,
and even if chemically useless, they will certainly
benefit the physical condition of any heavy soil.

Punixy, 1918 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 361

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GARDEN MAGAZINE

Juuy, 1913

THEE

“VIRGINIA”

Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter, like a good
many other people, has written us about
Miss Glasgow’s novel, “Virginia.” We copy
this from her letter:

The writings of Miss Ellen Glasgow have always
possessed a unique and especial charm for me that has
carried me from one book to another, for the pleasure
derived from reading, with no especial effort on my
part to learn just why I so enjoyed them. Last
summer a man quoted in my presence a line of Miss
Glasgow’s something like this: ‘‘Not being able to
give her the finer gift of the spirit, he loaded her with
jewels.”

My dictionary defines an epigram, “A bright or
witty thought tersely and sharply expressed, often
ending satirically.”” A saying like this almost reaches
that level. At any rate it stuck in my mind, and
when a friend recently sent me a copy of Miss Glasgow’s
latest book, I began reading it with the thought in
mind that I would watch and see if she could say other
things of like quality. My patience! She rolls them,
unendingly. Before I had read twenty pages I
realized just where lay the charm that had always held
me. It was not in plot, not in character drawing, not
in construction: it was in the woman expressing her own
individuality with her pen. What a gift of expression
she has! I know of no other woman and very few men
who can equal her on this one point.

Chesterton does the same thing, with a champagne
sparkle and bubble, but I would hesitate to say that
even he surpasses her, for while he is bubbling and
sparkling on the surface, charming, alluring, holding
one; she is down among the fibres of the heart, her
bright brain and keen wit cutting right and left with
the precision of a skilled surgeon. Not so witty, but
fully as wise.

You have only to read “‘ Virginia,” to convince your-
self.

“Having lived through the brief illumination of

romance, she had come at last into that steady glow
J

which encompasses the commonplace.

“To demand that a pretty woman should possess the
mental responsibility of a human being would have
seemed an affront to his inherited ideas of gallantry.”

“Tf the texture of his soul was not finely wrought,
the proportions of it were heroic.”

“From the day of his marriage he had never been
able to deny her anything she had set her heart upon —
not even the privilege of working herself to death for
his sake when the opportunity offered.”

“You know how Abby is about men.” “Yes, I
know, and it’s just the way men are about Abby.”

“How on earth could she go out sewing by the day
if she didn’t have her religious convictions?”

These lines are offered as a taste of her quality, and
they roll from her pen in every paragraph.

THE USEFUL BOOK LIBRARY
Some months ago we printed in these col-

umns a little treatise on ‘“‘Why Books Cost So
Much” and discoursed upon the subject of what

TALK: OF -THE

“To business that we love we rise betime
And go to ’t with delight.’?— Antony and Cleopatra.

might be called Book By-products. To repeat
just a little, we may state that the great cost in
book-making is the original typesetting, illus-
trating, and preparation; that once this is
paid for, the people who are willing to take
their books a little late may indulge them-
selves in many books at the cost of a few in
the original edition. For example, we have re-
printed the following from the original plates,
with all the hundreds and thousands of expen-
sive illustrations, at prices quite impossible if
the first outlay had not been repaid by the
expensive editions. Here is the present ‘“‘ Use-
ful Book Library,” which will be added to from
time to time as opportunity offers:

The International Cook Book. By Alexander Filip-
pini. Net $1.00.
The Dog Book. By James Watson.

Net $1.50.

- OFFICE: |

.

The Complete Housekeeper. Net

$1.00.

The Poultry Book. By Harrison Weir, F. R. H. S.
Net $1.50. :

Music Lovers’ Cyclopedia. By Rupert Hughes.
$1.50.

The Encyclopedia of Etiquette.

The American Flower Garden.
Net $1.50.

The Furniture of Our Forefathers. By Esther Single-
ton. Net $1.50.

The Country House. By C. E. Hooper. Net $1.50.

We have made arrangements with many
booksellers to show the Useful Book Library
in their stores and these dealers can supply
you, or they will be sent direct on receipt of
price.

We hope to sell a million of these volumes.
You will surely buy one or more sometime —
why not now?

By Emily Holt.

Net

Net $1.00.
By Neltje Blanchan.

Why Don’t You Build

One of Our Greenhouses ie
and Have Flowers by the Bas-
ketful, Anytime, Any Day ?

END for our Two G’s booklet. It tells about our Gardens Under Glass,
S and gives a peep into their delights. It tells you briefly and clearly just
what you want to know about greenhouses.

Tt starts with the simplest kind of a little house and shows various kinds
and sizes up to the one below.

We will enclose with it a little folder pated in colors showing the way a
greenhouse and garage can be economically and attractively linked up.

Then when you are ready to talk the matter over, we will, if you wish,
gladly come and see you.

We have been building greenhouses for half a century.

Lord & Burnham Co.

SALES OFFICES

New York Boston Philadelphia
42nd Street Building Tremont Building Franklin Bank Building

Chicago Rochester Toronto
Rookery Building Granite Building 12 Queen St.—E.

FACTORIES: Irvington, N. Y.: Des Plaines, Ill.

E grow a general line of good sturdy nursery stock. Our soil and
climate here are peculiarly adapted to it. All our trees [are several
times transplanted which insures a fine root system. We give more
than usual attention to care in packing for shipment. There’s a good bit
of frank sincerity of the Puritan ancestors in our business methods which
our customers have said is reflected in the kind of stock we grow and sell.

Send for catalog and price list.

The J Ba: ay St State Nurseries

wait till bugs show

themselves. It’stoolate. Be
ahead of them with a Douglas
pump and be glad in Fall that
you waged war against ’em. This
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“‘essential to success’’

different qualities in Bulbs. And to be successful
with your garden it is essential that you plant Bulbs
of only the highest possible grade. Therefore you can appre-
ciate the importance of being sure you do obtain the best.

In seeds, the effect of poor germination is often offset by
sowing too thickly — but the failure of Bulbs growing, or
their not being true to name, generally spoils the whole
appearance of a bed or a border.

The House of J. M. Thorburn & Co., has built a reputation
for “highest possible quality” in Bulbs, ever since it was
founded — 111 years ago. This reputation is your assur-
ance of reliability.

J.M. Thorburn & Co.

Se are aware, no doubt, that there are ever so many

Established 1802
—111 years ago

Do You Want Our
Bulb Catalog?

|: YOU are one of the countless flower

lovers who know and appreciate the showy.

beauty of flowers grown from Bulbs (which
are planted in the Fall and bloom the very
next Spring) and by chance your name is not on
our mailing list, we would urge that you send it
to us to-day. Just say on a postal: “Send me
your Bulb Catalog” and sign your name.

Thorburn’s Bulb Catalog, issued in August,
contains planting directions that treat fully
on that important phase of gardening. There

are many suggestions as to arrangements that

will lower your garden expenditure and at
the same time materially increase the beauty
of your grounds.

The list of Bulbs is exceptionally compre-
hensive and great care has been taken in its com-
pilation. Exhaustive research work enables us to
state which varieties are the best. Descriptions
are complete to a degree, but not exaggerated.

Send the postal to-day. We know you will
appreciate Thorburn’s Bulb Catalog.

53B Barclay St., N. Y.

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