THE 
GARDEN YARD 282 
Plan your work and work your plan. 
In the month of January prepare for spring 
work in your garden. Whether you devote 
your plot to vegetables or fruit, lay it out now 
in your own mind or, better still, on paper. Get 
catalogues from seedsmen who advertise. Most 
of them get their catalogues out in January. 
They are business men and know the value of 
an early start. Make up your mind what you 
want to grow, being sure to plan for plenty of 
the things you eat,—and then select the things 
you mean to experiment with during the com- 
ing year. Follow a well-arranged planting- 
table, such as was published in Suburban Life, 
of New York City, in March, 1908. 
If you have fruit trees on your plot, this is a 
good time to begin to spray them. If you don’t 
get ahead of insects and diseases, they will soon 
get ahead of you. If you intend to do any 
grafting, secure the cions now and keep them 
buried in sand in a cold cellar, or even out of 
doors, until the sap begins to rise in the trees. 
Then you are ready to work without loss of time. 
If there are holes in the trees, clean them out 
and fill with cement. You won’t have time for 
this in the spring, and the gypsy-moth, or some 
relative of his, will select the hole as a ready- 
made breeding-place. Paint all wounds or 
