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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1906 



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Letters and Recollections of 

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FARMING 



The Garden 

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Carnations for Cut Flowers 

 Next Winter 



^|OW is the time to start in order to 

 * secure good plants of carnations for 

 your window garden next winter. If your 

 plants are put out in the garden before all 

 danger of frost is over, it will do no harm, for 

 if the plants have been properly hardened off, 

 a little frost will do them no harm. 



Procure from your neighboring florist 

 some of this spring's cuttings which have 

 become established in two or three inch pots, 

 and which have not become pot bound. If 

 they are healthy it will make no difference 

 if they look rather lank or leggy, because 

 about the first thing to do will be to pinch 

 them back — pinch out the tops. 



WHERE TO GROW 



During the summer grow the plants out of 

 doors. Select a well drained portion of the 

 garden, spade it as deeply as possible with 

 a spading fork, turning under at the same 

 time a dressing of well decomposed manure 

 which has been spread on the ground about 

 three inches thick. After spading thor- 

 oughly rake the soil until it is fine and smooth, 

 and all the stones have been removed. Set 

 the plants eighteen inches apart, in rows 

 which are eighteen to twenty-four inches 

 apart. Cultivate the ground thoroughly all 

 summer long. I have found it an excellent 

 scheme to go over the garden about once in 

 two weeks, loosening up the soil with a spad- 

 ing fork, to a depth of about three inches. 



Water freely all summer, do not give 

 them a little sprinkling every day, which 

 will do more harm than good — give them a 

 thorough soaking once or twice a week, after 

 which the surface soil must be stirred with a 

 wheel hoe, or other tool, to form a soil mulch, 

 to prevent the evaporation of moisture. I had 

 a plot about ioo feet square, of sandy soil, 

 with a gravelly subsoil, so there was no dan- 

 ger of overwatering. This little garden plot 

 held a miscellaneous collection of plants 

 which were grown for potting up in the late 

 summer, for winter flowers, and on this plot 

 a hose ran every day. Some part of the 

 garden had a thorough soaking each day, 

 and each part had a watering about twice a 

 week, so you can see that if your ground is 

 well drained, you need not fear of over- 

 watering your plants or garden. 



SECURE STOCKY PLANTS 



As soon as the plants start to grow, pinch 

 out the top. This is easily done with the 

 thumb and forefinger. This pinching 

 should continue all summer, at intervals of 





