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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1907 



For Poultry House 

 Roofs and Sidings 



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 Nothing is more susceptible to these influences than 

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Save the good coal. Coal saved is money earned. Turn- 

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Start with the largest stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty years 



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Plant Strawberries Now 



NOVEMBER is the best time for setting 

 out strawberries in the South; set 

 out now they will produce a good crop next 

 spring. The strawberry prefers a rich, moist, 

 sandy loam and is best grown in hills. 

 Set the plants twelve to eighteen inches apart 

 and the rows about three feet apart. 



Give the ground on which the strawberries 

 are to be grown a complete commercial 

 fertilizer at the rate of 1,000 pounds per 

 acre; it is impossible to get the soil too rich. 



This month is an excellent time to prune 

 fruit trees and vines, and it is also the best 

 time for setting out trees and vines. Fruit 

 trees and vines do best on a well drained, 

 rich, sandy loam with a subsoil so porous 

 that the roots can go down through it. 



Sow burr clover, crimson clover, red top, 

 orchard and other grasses and vetches for 

 early spring pasturage and hay. These 

 crops do best on a rich, sandy loam with 

 loose subsoil. The ground should be broken 

 deeply with a two : horse plow a few days 

 before sowing the seed. Commercial fertil- 

 izer is the best for these crops with the 

 exception of grass, for which barnyard 

 manure is best. The clovers and vetches 

 require more potash and phosphoric acid 

 and less nitrogen, while the grass crops 

 require more nitrogen and less potash and 

 phosphoric acid. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Phloxes in Wyoming 



THE climate up here, at an altitude of 

 7,000 feet, with short growing season 

 and the arid conditions, is a very trying one 

 to most plants. Many are hardy enough, 

 but are so slow-growing that they fail to 

 bloom before the frosts cut them down. 

 This is especially true of hardy phlox; the 

 variety Miss Lingard is the only one of a 

 number that I have tried that is early enough 

 to escape the frosts. It is in bloom now 

 (September ist). It was planted three years 

 ago in a deeply dug, rich border. I have 

 dug up and destroyed dozens of good roots 

 of the varieties Pantheon and Jean d'Arc, 

 because they were too late and were cut down 

 by frost with the buds still unopened. Dur- 

 ing the winter there is an almost perpetual 

 wind from the southwest, and very bright 

 sunshine; both of which are very destructive 

 to all plants having stems above ground. 

 Oriental poppies do remarkably well ; some of 

 mine have been forty-two inches tall and 

 had flowers eight inches in diameter. 

 Wyoming. F. W, BECKwrrr. 



