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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1914 



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parts acid phosphate, and one part nitrate of soda 

 is good for lettuce in the frames working in a little 

 between the rows every three weeks. Water the 

 plants in the morning as they will be chilled too 

 much and kept too damp if done late in the day. 

 Be on the alert for aphis and lettuce worms. They 

 should be smoked out with tobacco or the young 

 plants sprinkled with tobacco dust; there are 

 powders which are advertised which are very 

 effectual if dusted over them and which are not 

 poisonous to human beings. 



Those parts of the garden not seeded to crops 

 should be limed and plowed. Plow twice in the 

 same furrow, throwing the earth high and leaving 

 it exposed throughout the winter. It mellows the 

 soil and gets it in fine condition for spring and 

 one also gets rid of a number of garden pests by 

 freezing them out. 



In the Tidewater and milder sections of the 

 country Irish potatoes may be planted this month 

 for a very early crop. This has been called by some 

 a "lazy " bed of potatoes as they lie there all winter. 

 In order to make a success of this method, the fur- 

 rows should be made very deep by running the 

 plow through each row twice. Break up the soil 

 very fine in the bottom of the row, and thoroughly 

 mix with it some good potato fertilizer rich in 

 potash. The sets should then be planted two feet 

 apart in the row, some earth thrown over them, 

 and over this a thick covering of barn-yard manure. 

 Plow furrows from each side so as to thoroughly 

 cover the manure and make a ridge over the sets. 

 In the early spring, harrow this ridge down, and 

 the potatoes will come through. If they should 

 come too early, and there is danger from frost, plow a 

 little soil on to them as soon as they break through. 



Cover the celery beds with pine tags weighted 

 down with old bean poles or planks. 



Level the asparagus bed and cover with hen 

 manure mixed with kainit. 



Dig around the fruit trees and shrubs two feet 

 from the trunks and sprinkle some good fertilizer 

 about them. 



Top dress the lawn when the ground is frozen, 

 then it will not be cut up by the wagon wheels. A 

 thin scattering of tobacco stems and some bone meal 

 is much better than cow manure, which brings weeds. 



Virginia. J. M. Patterson. 



Shrubs for Shade 



THE spireas and weigelas (Diervilla) are ex- 

 cellently adapted for growing in shade. 5. 

 Van Honttei, in my experience, will thrive where 

 other shrubs fail. At my Chicago home I planted 

 it between two buildings, just to the north of one, 

 where the sun never struck and it has good 

 foliage every year although it never blooms. It does 

 much better in the shade for me, than that stock 

 shrub for shady places, the snowberry (Symphor- 

 icarpos racemosus). 



Weigela rosea seems to do better in the shade 

 than the dark flowered variety Eva Rathke. It also 

 is considerably more hardy, if experience around 

 Chicago may be taken as a guide. Do you know 

 that Eva Rathke and other supposed-to-be hardy 

 shrubs, such as Dentzia gracilis and Spircea arguta, 

 often winter kill in the nursery row in Chicago 

 when young? I am inclined to think the heavy soil 

 has much to do with this. 



Illinois. Feed Haxton. 



Two Crops of String Beans 



TWO years ago, after the string bean vines had 

 stopped bearing, I intended to pull them up 

 and plant something else that would mature before 

 the season was over. But I did not attend to it at 

 once, and when I came to tear them up, I noticed 

 that they looked as if they would start out again 

 from the axils. So I decided to cut off the old tops, 

 leaving stumps about six or seven inches high. 

 They leaved out and blossomed and we had beans 

 until frost. Last season I did the samte thing, 

 sprinkling a little nitrate of soda near them, and in 

 one month from the time I cut them back I gathered 

 some beans, the vines continuing to bear through 

 September. v This is especially good to do if the 

 season is too short to make another planting and 

 have it mature. 

 New York. Janet G. Sims. 



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