Vol. II.— No. i 



Published Monthly 



AUGUST, 1905 



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 ! Ten Cents a Copy 



Contents 



PAGE 



The Gardener's Reminder .... 9 

 The Culture of Evergreens Thomas McAdam 10 



Photographs by Henry Troth and A. Radclyffe Dug- 

 more 



Evergreens for Every Place and Purpose . 13 



Evergreens for Windbreaks and Screens 



E. V . Warren 14 



The Scientific Moving of Big Evergreens 



How to Save a Whole Year on Strawberries 



Leslie Hudson 32 



The Broad-Leaved Evergreens 



Leonard Barron 18 

 Some Interesting Small Conifers J. T. Withers 22 

 The Best Spruces . . John F. Johnston 24 



The Japan Cypresses, or Retinosporas 



Henry Alaxivell 26 

 Evergreens for Formal Situations 



W . E. Pendleton 28 English Names of Common Conifers 



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Wilhelm Miller, Editor 



Cover design by Henry Troth 



Why Some Dracaenas Die Ernest Braunton 36 

 Four Pests in August . . . E. P. Felt 38 



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Why Evergreens in August? 



ISN'T August a strange month in which 

 to plant evergreens ? 



Not at all. It's quite the proper time ! It 

 is better than May because of the spring 

 rush. It is better than September because 

 the nurseryman is rushed then and we ought 

 to be busy, too — planting bulbs and trees and 

 getting ready for the winter. 



Remember that evergreens are totally 

 unlike deciduous trees in this respect: They 

 are moved not in winter, but while the soil is 

 warm and mellow, so that the roots can begin 

 to work at once. 



Any time during the growing season you can 

 move evergreens provided you do two things : 

 (1) Preserve a big ball of roots; (2) wrap a 

 bag around the ball so that the air cannot 

 dry out the roots, which are far more sensitive 

 than those of deciduous trees. 



Study evergreens now, pick out the best 

 kinds, order them, plant them carefully the 

 last w r eek in August, and you will get the 

 laugh on your friends who have a gardening 

 thought once a year — in spring. 



But don't plant evergreens in October! 



THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT THINGS 



1. Send for midsummer catalogues and 

 save a year on strawberries by planting 

 potted strawberry plants. 



2. The same catalogues will show you how 

 you can have celery this fall, even if you 

 planted none this spring. 



SOW SEVENTEEN KINDS OF VEGETABLES 



Early peas for September eating. 



Bush beans which may mature in forty- 

 five days. 



Black-seeded Simpson lettuce — a heat 

 resister. 



Endive for fall salads. 



Cucumbers for pickles. 



Summer radishes or the Sakurajima. 



Spinach for autumn greens. 



Collards instead of spinach if too hot. 



Corn salad for salad next March. (Cover 

 outdoors in winter with litter.) 



Salsify sown in August and left undis- 

 turbed till spring will be twice ordinary size. 



Welsh onion, and use the leaves next 

 March for seasoning. 



Beets for autumn greens and winter roots. 



Mustard — the Englishman's delight — ready 

 to cook in twenty days. 



Yellow turnips and rutabagas for winter. 



Extra early corn — on a chance. 



If you want to make a delightful new ac- 

 quaintance, sow tuberous or turnip-rooted 

 chervil in August. The seeds lie dormant 

 until next spring. The roots are boiled or 

 eaten in stews, like carrots, but they have a 

 different flavor. They will be ready to eat 

 next August, but improve in flavor if left in 

 the ground. Do not delay this until spring, 

 because seeds kept dry over winter sprout 

 poorly or not at all. 



PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS 



Plant Bermuda lily bulbs for Christmas 

 bloom in the greenhouse. 



Sow primroses, calceolarias and cinerarias. 



Take cuttings of heliotrope and geranium 

 for the winter window garden. 



Sow pansy and English daisy seed for 

 April bloom in coldframes. 



Sow seeds of Alpine and other rock-loving 

 plants which are to be wintered in coldframes 

 and planted out next spring in permanent 

 positions. 



HINTS TO THE HOUSEWIFE 



Are you canning any peaches? 



Have you any surplus of early apples? 



The easiest way to have home-grown 

 vegetables in November and December is to 

 make a coldframe, and during the last week 

 of August transplant into it young lettuce and 

 spinach from the garden. 



MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTIONS 



If you want to move a big deciduous tree 

 "root prune" it now — i.e., dig a three-foot 

 circle around it, then replace the earth, and 

 by fall it will be accustomed to the change. 



The early crop of celery will soon be 

 nearly full grown. Then begin to blanch it. 



