The Garden Magazine 



Vol. Ill— No. 5 



Published Monthly 



JUNE, 1906 



I One Dollar a Year 

 1 Ten Cents a Copy 



Not All Sentiment and Roses 



LAST year a Hartford editor with a sense 

 of poetry and humor objected because 

 we intimated there was gardening work to do 

 in June. 



He said that June was for love's young 

 dream and roses. 



We have no objection to love's young 

 dream, but the bugs will eat all the roses, 

 unless you spray them with arsenate of 

 lead — one pound to ten gallons of water. 



Also, folks must eat; dreams don't kill 

 weeds; weeds check vegetables, and make 

 woody food for dreamers. 



If you use a wheel hoe, you can kill weeds 

 quicker, insure the garden against drought, 

 and gain time for dreaming. 



Unhappily, there are no self-thinning 

 vegetables and flowers. They are their own 

 worst enemy. And no substitute for work 

 has been invented. Even dreamers must 

 awake and do things. 



The big thing to do in June is to thin out 

 vegetables and flowers. You need a cold, 

 stern heart for thinning, and you need to 

 study pages 155, 156 of the April Garden 

 Magazine. 



What shall love's young dream feed upon 

 next fall and winter? Wormy apples? 

 Scabby pears ? 



Without thinning and spraying in June 

 you cannot have quality fruits, vegetables 

 and flowers. 



Even if you cannot have L 's Y 



D you can have the next best thing — 



garden work in June. 



TO THOSE WHO WON'T WORK 



Visit the best nurseries and gardens you 

 can hear of, and see them at their best. 

 There are no trees and shrubs to speak of 

 that flower after June. 



Start a sensible garden note-book — not a 

 diary. You will tire of that, and of the 

 secret hope of beating "Elizabeth and Her 

 German Garden." No book on gardening, 

 with chapters labelled "June," "July," etc., 

 has ever proved of permanent value. 



Instead of a diary, why not note the best 



color combinations you see elsewhere; the 

 worst in your own gardens; and make a 

 shift in September. 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



May 1 5th, or four days before the last pos- 

 sible frost, sow seeds of tender vegetables: 

 corn, lima beans, okra, and the vines — 

 cucumber, pumpkin, squash, muskmelon, 

 and watermelon. 



To get early tomatoes, train to a trellis, 

 and pinch off all side-shoots, so that all the 

 strength will go into one stalk. 



Train your pole limas after every rain, 

 rake the garden, to keep the moisture in the 

 ground from evaporating. 



Stop cutting asparagus, cultivate, and 

 fertilize. (1 : 140) 



This reference and those that follow refer 

 to the volume and page in The Garden 

 Magazine. 



Hand weeding is essential for onions. 

 The young plants are more easily choked by 

 weeds than any other vegetable. 



When thinning beets, do not destroy the 

 superfluous little plants. Cut off most of 

 the leafage, transplant, and water, and they 

 will make good beets. 

 ' •" Plow up strawberry beds that have borne 

 twon crops, and use the land for celery, or 

 any other late-planted crop. 



HOW TO SAVE TIME, TROUBLE, EXPENSE 



Lay shingles near squash plants, and kill 

 the bugs under them every morning. 



Protect melon and squash plants from 

 bugs by boxes covered with cheesecloth or 

 mosquito netting. 



Insure squash vines against borers by 

 layering them. (Press down the joints, and 

 cover with moist soil.) 



Keep tomatoes off the ground, and you 

 can avoid rot. 



To avoid sandy strawberries, mulch them 

 with grass cut from the lawn. 



To avoid wormy cherries and plums, let 

 the chickens run under the trees, and eat 

 the curculios. 



If you see gum or sawdust near the base 

 of a peach, plum, or cherry, dig out the 

 borers, or they will kill your trees. 



If a strawberry plant collapses, dig it up 

 and kill the white grubs on the roots. 



To give all the grape clusters a chance at 

 the light, pinch out lateral growths to one 

 or two eyes. 



To save tearing flesh, while tying prickly 

 canes, and the expense of posts and wires, 

 cut out all three-year old canes of berry 

 bushes, pinch out tips of young shoots, when 

 two and a half feet high, and they will make 

 compact, branching bushes next year. 



Buy cabbage and cauliflower plants, and 



set in rich soil. Cabbages like a well drained 

 clay soil. 



Buy plants of tomatoes, peppers, and egg- 

 plants, and set them out the last week of 

 May, or a week after the latest possible date 

 for frost in your vicinity. 



FIVE SPRAYING JOBS 



Spray all fruit trees and berry bushes 

 twice in June with a combination of Bor- 

 deaux mixture and arsenate of lead — never 

 while trees are in bloom. 



Spray currant bushes with Paris green 

 before the worms appear and until the fruit 

 is set. 



To foil the striped cucumber beetle, 

 spray with Bordeaux mixture, or dust 

 heavily with land plaster or ashes. 



Spray asparagus for the beetle. 



Look out for scurfy and oyster scale. 

 Use whale-oil soap. (1:234) 



Spray tomato vines with Bordeaux mix- 

 ture, thin the foliage, and keep the vines off 

 the ground, and you will have no blight. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN 



Prune all the flowering shrubs that bloom 

 before the leaves appear. (1: 225) 



Mulch small fruits, young trees, ever- 

 greens, and shrubs, to protect them from 

 drought, and save watering. 



If drought comes, water at night, and hoe 

 the next morning. 



Stake dahlias. 



Get some new ideas about veranda boxes. 

 (1: 229) 



Lift bedding or April-blooming tulip bulbs 

 and store in the cellar to ripen. 



Take cuttings of chrysanthemums, or buy 

 young plants for November bloom indoors. 



To extend the season of flowers, pick pods 

 daily — the smaller, the better. 



Syringe daily, palms and other house plants 

 that are put outdoors for summer. 



ROSES 



May 17, spray roses with potassium sul- 

 phide, to prevent mildew and black spot. 



( i: I2 7) , , . 



May 24th spray roses the second time 



with potassium sulphide. 



June ist, or when hybird perpetual roses 

 begin to bloom, spray for the third time 

 with potassium sulphide. 



June 7th and 14th, or when roses are in 

 height of bloom, spray with arsenate of lead, 

 for beetles, commonly called "rose-bugs." 

 (1:127) 



June 21st, spray roses for last time with 

 solution of whale-oil soap, for plant lice. 



June 28th, or when hybrid teas bloom, 

 spray with arsenate of lead for beetles. 



For other reminders see page 304. 



