PLANTING TABLE 385 



Set strawberry runners in pots for transplanting. 



Watch for squash-bugs' eggs. 



Watch for the cabbage worm. 



Order potted strawberry plants. 



Prune your tomatoes. 



Watch for corn-smut. 



Pick squash bugs into kerosene. 



Tie cauliflowers whenever the heads grow large. 



Balance your accounts. 



AUGUST 



Sow endive for fall use. 

 Prune your tomatoes. 



Two or three sprayings of potatoes are not enough. 

 Write for bulb catalogue. 

 Sow peas and lettuce for the fall. 

 Begin sowing crimson clover for a cover-crop. 

 Prune your tomatoes. 

 Order bulbs for fall delivery. 

 Plant Madonna lilies. 

 Transplant peonies. 



Sow seed of such perennials as foxglove, larkspur, Canterbury 

 bell. 



Cultivate regularly through a drought. 

 Sow forcing varieties of radish. 

 Begin to dig early potatoes. 

 Sow winter spinach. 

 Balance your accounts. 



SEPTEMBER 



Allow tomatoes to set no more fruit. 

 Watch for early frosts. 

 Set out your cold-frames. 

 Set lettuce and endive in frames. 

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