July, 1916. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



171 



Cultivating, Watering and Succession for the Home Garden 





S the early sowings of flowers 

 come into bloom, provide for 

 their succession by the sowing 

 all annual flowers early this liionth, 

 d thus have a garden full of life 

 your neighbour's is possibly on 

 e do^^'n grade. Keep the faded flow- 

 's picked off as soon as the petals fall 

 'his prevents seed formation, and thus 

 ves vigor and longer life to the 

 ilooming period. Cultivate as freely 

 d as often as circumstances will 

 rmit. 



Last month we told you that it was 

 lot too late to make a garden, if yen 

 had just moved into a new home. 

 Don 't be shocked when we tell you that 

 the first week in Jul}' is not too late, 

 for if there is anything that The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist has constantly in- 

 sisted on, it is the keeping up of inter- 

 est in gardening, by succession, late 

 planting, cultivating, and watering. 

 Vou liave often been out for a walk 

 cither on business or pleasure, on a 

 sweltering hot July day. How glad 

 you were to get back into a shady nook 

 in the garden and have a nice ice-cold 

 drink of water I How it refreshed ard 

 put new life into you ! You also know 

 \vhat a thorough soaking of cold water 

 niean.s to the garden, also, what Stir- 

 ling the soil means, making the beds 

 oose, airy, and congenial. Think of 

 is dui-ing the very hot weather. 

 Did you carry out the directions of 

 ^st month for spraying rose bushes? 

 <;ive them a final spraying early ttais 

 month with one pound of arsenate of 



Geo. Baldwin, F.R.H.S., Toronto, Ont. 



lead to ten gallons of water. Every 

 bug you kill in the freshness of its 

 youth, means several hundred less eggs 

 next year. Don't neglect the lawn be- 

 cause it looks fairly well, but repair 

 any holes which may appear. Dig up 

 these spots, scatter fresh seed and keep 

 the earth moist. 



The house plants which you plunged 

 into the border should now be taken 

 up, repotted, and made ready for the 

 house again in August. Don't forget 

 the necessary evil, the weeds. Keep 

 right after them. To do so means more 

 than mere neatness, they are blessings 

 in disguise, forcing as they do, culti- 

 vation. Remember, also, that if weeds 

 do not thrive, nothing else will. 



Wliat a Garden Does. 



Oui-s is a free country. No one can 

 appreciate this better than the man or 

 Avoman who has a well kept garden. 

 There is a degree of independence con- 

 nected with the possession of a garden 

 that keeps us from running to the flor- 

 ist for flowers, to the grocery story and 

 pedlars for so called fresh ( ?) vege- 

 tables, and to fruit stores for luscious 

 fruits. Who, therefore, would not have 

 a flower border, a strawberry and 

 asparagus patch and a kitchen garden 

 with a few dwarf or trailing fruit trees 

 intermingled? It cuts the meat bill in 

 two, and dispenses W'ith the doctor most 

 of the time, for, having a good garden 

 you do not lack for appetite, amuse- 

 ment, excitement, and fascinating en- 

 tertainment. A garden transforms a 



house into a home, and, above all, the 

 nearer you get to nature, the nearer 

 you get to the Great Gardener of the 

 Universe. 



In Jul}', gardens should be at their 

 zenith of productiveness. Is yours'/ 

 Keep the succession nmnia constantly 

 before you, that you may have a con- 

 tinuity of crops of all kinds. See that 

 your garden is as successful as you an- 

 ticipated in the early spring. In going 

 into the vegetable garden, "cultiva 

 tion" is the slogan. Water them as 

 often as you can. Apply a little nitrate 

 of soda occasionally, lime on cabbages, 

 melons and cucumbers, arsenate of lead 

 for tomatoes, egg plants, and potatoes, 

 hellebore on others that need it. This 

 will disappoint the bugs. 



The cutting of asparagus should be 

 finished. Do not forget the plants. A 

 bed five feet by twenty feet is benefit- 

 ted by four pounds of salt, to one 

 pound of nitrate of soda, tfse helie- 

 boi'e for asparagus beetle. 



The successful cultivator of straw- 

 berries must not delay in getting a well 

 rooted stock of young plants before 

 the old plants are done fruiting. T^iis 

 will not damage the old plants, and ■'.I'ill 

 give you the best stock for a new bed 

 Avhich will develop into fine specimens 

 for the following fruiting season, and 

 thus save a year's time. 



The following is a list of vegetables 

 you can plant now : beans, carrots, cel- 

 ery, corn, cress, cucumber, lettuce, 

 onions, potatoes, turnips, beets, cao- 

 bage, cauliflower, chard, salads, peas. 



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A porliDii of the naiclen of Mr. R, B. An'tfus. of MontreiU, at his sumitier re.sidencu at .Sic. Anne d« Bellevue, Que. 



