52 PHE  G A RODVE ON = i ASG RAC Amie Nees, 
FEBRUARY, 1916. 
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“Winter Gardening” for the 
Coming Year’s Results 
ARDENING, with me, is a hobby. Every- 
body should have a hobby, to keep his mind 
young and elastic, and to prevent it from hardening 
in the groove of his daily occupation. And where 
is there a hobby that is saner, more wholesome, more 
satisfying, more health-giving, more mind-resting 
and body-refreshing than gardening? 
At any time during the winter I do my real garden- 
ing, for I plan my next year’s garden. 
I take sheets of bristol board of a convenient size 
and shape—about fourteen inches by seventeen 
inches—and lay out my gardens. Good strong 
paper probably will do as well. 
Tf I have a perennial border to make, I map it 
out on one of these sheets, drawing it to scale—half 
an inch to the foot, or a quarter or an eighth or a 
sixteenth, depending on its size. I fill it in, also to 
scale, with the hardy flowers that are to occupy it. 
Tn this way, by a study of colors and heights, I am 
able to get a harmonious grouping, with no discords 
of bloom and with no taller plants in front to shut 
out the sunlight from shorter ones behind. When 
the bed is ready in the spring I take my tape and a 
bundle of small sticks, and mark the exact spot 
where every plant is to go. 
My bed of annuals is mapped out in the same way, 
and is planted with close attention to the map. In 
the same way, the arrangement of spring-flowering 
bulbs is made in advance, and planting in October 
is simply a mechanical carrying out in the beds of 
the garden plan on paper. 
One sheet shows in miniature the whole grounds, 
with the relation of vegetable garden to the flower 
beds and borders, of shrubbery borders to orderly 
arrays of Roses and Peonies and perennial Phlox. 
Another shows where each fruit bush and tree stands 
with its complete name and address, as it were. 
Nor is this the end of the usefulness of this winter 
gardening on paper. I am an amateur at garden- 
ing, and frequently there are many things about it 
I am compelled to look up. One sheet shows a 
table of annuals, with the necessary facts about 
planting, height, color, fertilization, blooming 
period, etc., of each kind. Another performs the 
same service for perennials, including methods of 
propagation and mulching. By this table, when 
fall-covering time comes, I am warned against put- 
ting manure on Iris and Canterbury Bells. By it I 
can see at a glance how often Phlox should be di- 
vided, and when and how. Still another warns 
me not to prune Spiraea van Houttei in the fall, 
because that is cutting off the spring bloom before 
it has a chance to shower out in its white splendor. 
This one gives the names, heights, blooming period 
and pruning time for all the shrubs that are growing 
in my yard. d 
Still another treats bulbs, and shows depths and 
distances, planting time and blooming period, how 
to care for the bulbs during their resting period, etc. 
I particularly like Gladiolus, and lots of them. 
I have a large bed, and when an uncommonly 
striking Elossom appears, I want to know its name 
and pedigree. So I have another sheet for the 
Gladiolus bed. The bulbs are planted at half-foot 
intervals, and on this sheet at half inch intervals 
appear numbers. In the margin of the sheet these 
numbers appear again, and after each is the name 
of the gladiolus planted at the particular spot where 
the number appears on the diagram, and the dealer 
from whom I purchased the bulb. 
Then, when a bloom appeals to me so that I want 
to harvest the bulklets—as well as the bulb—and 
grow more of them, I “have its number.’”’ And 
when a planted bulb is a disappointment, I know 
what variety or dealer to strike off the list. The 
diagram is an aid in planting, because I arrange it 
first and plant from it; it is an aid during the bloom- 
ing season, because from it I can readily get the 
name of every plant; and it is an aid in the har- 
vesting season when the blooms are gone, because 
by its use I can keep each kind of bulb and bulblet 
separate for next year’s planting. 
When I find a hint in THE GarpEN MaGaAzINE 
about the culture of any particular plant, there is 
a sheet on which it can be entered in such a relation 
to the subject that when I want it I can find it at a 
glance. 
Minnesota. S. H. B. 
