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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1914 



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Wagner Plants for Fall Planting 



PLANTED this fall the growing shrubbery, trees, vines and hardy perennials from 

 Wagner Park will reward you with prodigal generosity all next year. Flowers from 

 March until November and evergreens to keep alive the spirit of the garden through- 

 out the long months of cold weather. Our department of landscape planning will help you, 

 not only to select wisely, but also to plant intelligently and with assurance of success. 



Write today for Catalog D 



WAGNER PARK 

 NURSERIES 



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Choicest 

 Bulbs that 

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 from 

 Europe 



All European markets being destroyed, our 

 experts in the bulb fields of Holland were 

 able to obtain their choice of the finest 

 varieties grown. Shipments have now 

 reached us and are ready for immediate 

 delivery. Write at once for the American 

 Edition of our handsome catalog of 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS. Inc. 



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PLANT 



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and plant the best 



Peterson Peonies 



are the recognized 

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Beautiful Catalog on Application 



George H. Peterson 



Rose and Peony 

 Specialist 



Box 50 

 Fair Lawn, N. J. 



Start a Fernery 



Brighten up the deep, shady nooks on your lawn, or that dark 



porch corner- just the places for our hardy wild ferns and wild flower 



collections. We have been growing them for 25 years and know 



what varieties are suited to your conditions. Tell us the kind 



of soil you have— light, sandy, clay— and we will advise you. 



Gillett's Ferns and Flowers 



will give the charm of nature to your yard. These include not only hardy wild 

 ferns, but native orchids, and flowers for wet and swampy spots, rocky hillsides 

 and dry woods. We also glow such hardy flowers as primroses, campanulas, 

 digitalis, violets, hepaticas, trilliums, and wild flowers which require open sunlight 

 as well as shade. If you want a bit of an old-time wildwood garden, with flowers 

 just as Nature grows them— send for our new catalogue and let us advise you 

 what to select and how to succeed with them. 



EDWARD GILLETT, 3 Main St., Southwlck, Mass. 



For the Southern Gardener 



OCTOBER is cleaning up time in the garden. 

 After saving the seed of special flowers wanted 

 for next year, cut down and burn all dead stems. If 

 thrown in the compost heap, they will germinate and 

 come up in the most unexpected and undesirable 

 places next spring. The dead leaves and rakings 

 from the lawn are fine for the compost heap, and all 

 should be saved. 



Chrysanthemums, roses, and dahlias are in bloom 

 this month, and should be protected on cool nights 

 with cheesecloth or old newspapers. With little 

 thought and trouble and with the usual weather in 

 this climate, one can have roses almost until Christ- 

 mas. Then there are the loyal petunias — it has to 

 be very bitter weather to keep them from blooming 

 — and the verbenas show a bit of color here and there 

 nearly all winter unless it is unusual in its severity. 

 So, with the bright rose hips of the Rosa rugosa, and 

 the various colored berries of the lonicera, barberry, 

 sassafras, Virginia creeper and other shrubs and 

 vines, the garden still has much color. 



After the rose bushes have ceased blooming, cut 

 off the withered roses and dead stems, and put 

 around the plants well rotted cow manure, which 

 serves as sufficient protection against a severe winter. 

 With a spading fork, loosen up the earth in the rose 

 beds, taking care not to disturb the roots by spading 

 too near the bushes. As a ground cover, sow myoso- 

 tis (forget-me-not), mignonette, arabis, Little Gem 

 sweet alyssum, or portulaca. These bloom early 

 in the spring and all summer, and are excellent for 

 shading the roots. Rose bushes planted the first 

 part of this month do well in this climate, and need 

 no more protection than well rotted manure at the 

 base of the plant; and it is a time saver to get 

 all that is possible done in the fall. Evergreens can 

 be transplanted from the woods now. It is far too 

 hot and dry to plant them earlier, and really the 

 preferable time is the end of February or the month 

 of March. Do not allow the roots to get dry. Wrap 

 each one in burlap as soon as dug so as to protect it 

 from the sun or wind. The holes where they are to 

 be placed should be previously dug. Fill with water, 

 put in the evergreen, fill in with earth and press 

 down firmly with the foot on all sides of the plant. 

 Evergreens must not have any fertilizer about the 

 roots, but if the ground is hard and clayey throw in 

 the hole a spadeful of woods earth. In transplanting 

 hollies, pull off all the leaves; and small plants 

 thrive best and grow very fast. 



The lemon verbena (Aloysia citriodora) will stay 

 out all winter; the manure thrown on the flower 

 beds in the fall is sufficient protection for it. Cut 

 back the heliotropes and bury the roots in the cold- 

 frame, and set out slips in the greenhouse. 



Get your plants ready for the window garden or 

 the conservatory. See that the earth in the flower 

 pots is loosened with a hand weeding fork and place 

 moss from the woods around the large plants. This 

 keeps the earth from baking and holds the moisture 

 so essential in a furnace-heated house. 



Trim off the dead leaves from ferns, palms, and 

 rubber plants, and wash the leaves with weak 

 lemon water. 



It is not too late to dig up some young plants of 

 petunias, verbenas, larkspur, and wallflower and put 

 in flower pots for the window or conservatory. 

 Give all plants a thorough watering before putting 

 them in the house. Leave the windows open as 

 often as possible on the mild days, and indeed 

 during the cold weather, flowers should have a little 

 fresh air every day, if it can be arranged so they are 

 not directly in a draught. 



In the fruit sections, farmers are busy gathering, 

 packing, and shipping their Albemarle Pippins; 

 other apples especially fine are Winesap, York Im- 

 perial, and Grimes' Golden. The large crops that 

 are not sold go immediately to cold storage. The 

 fruit from the home orchard is easily kept in an un- 

 heated cellar, especially if the fruit, both pears and 

 apples, are placed on shelves or racks so as not to 

 touch each other, and where the air can circulate 

 freely. None but perfect fruit should be stored. 

 Tomatoes can be kept the same way if gathered 

 green before the frost touches them, and each one 

 wrapped in paper and placed on shelves in the cellar. 



Sow seed of Big Boston or Boston Market, and 

 some Hanson Lettuce in the coldframes for trans- 

 planting later, and transplant lettuce plants from 



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