GARDENING EXPEDIENTS 



much bloom and some beauty in a small given 

 place. This, too, is fully described elsewhere. A 

 note in a recent number of "The Garden Maga- 

 zine" seemed to me full of practical possibilities. 

 It concerned a system of "planting-cards," and 

 I will tell of these in the contributor's own words: 

 "I cut cards of strong white pasteboard, mea- 

 suring eight by twelve inches, and in the middle of 

 the narrow side of these I put a loop of string for 

 hanging. The back of the card is left blank so 

 that garden notes and memoranda may be writ- 

 ten there, and on the face of the card I paste the 

 names of the vegetables to be planted and their 

 cultural directions. These I obtain from the 

 catalogues of the seedsman from whom I order 

 my seeds. For example, with 'Corn 5 I paste 

 first their cultural directions, then under this the 

 names and descriptions of the four varieties I 

 intend planting, in the order of their earliness and 

 lateness. By each variety I make a note in ink 

 of the quantity of seed ordered and another note, 

 'Plant every two weeks till July 15.' This is 

 done for each kind of vegetable and toward the 

 right I leave a margin of one and one-half inches 

 on which to note the dates of sowings. These 

 cards will not take the place of garden note-books 



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