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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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with hand tools; but, as it turned out, we dared 

 not stir the soil for fear of disturbing the 

 seedlings. 



Fall planting is much to be preferred to 

 spring planting, especially March planting. 

 March cannot be recommended as a month 

 for outside work. In the first place, the eager 

 amateur gardener is tempted to dig his 

 ground too soon. He could not make a worse 

 mistake, for unless the soil is dry enough to 

 crumble the digging will cause it to become 

 coarse and lumpy, and the effects will last 

 throughout the season and may even extend 

 to future seasons. The most favorable thing 

 that can be said of March sowing is that it 

 makes less to do in April, when everything is 

 happening at once, but the gain on April 

 plantings is really very little. Radishes 

 planted March 29th were only a week earlier 

 than those sowed fourteen days later. Beets 

 planted March 29th and April nth gave their 

 first pickings on the same day, and the same 

 thing happened with peas. 



Not the least of the advantages of fall 

 sowing is that the gardener can do his work 

 on a delightful mellow day in October. 

 •New York. I. M. A. 



The Planting Season 



THE big planting season for the greater 

 part of the Pacific Coast is in January. 

 There is no fall planting season such as there 

 is in the East. For palms and evergreens 

 there is a planting season in September and 

 there is an alternative season in March, but 

 for the majority of deciduous trees such as 

 in the East are planted about October the 

 corresponding season in California is in the 

 "cold" weather — January. 



The season is controlled by the rainfall. 

 The long, dry summer taxes the land for all 

 its available moisture, and it is useless to 

 attempt planting until after the first winter 

 rains have descended sufficiently to moisten 

 the soil to a good depth. It is just as impor- 

 tant, however, to plant soon after the begin- 

 ning of the wet season, because the trees will 

 be much benefited by the rainfall while it is 

 becoming established. Should the season 

 of rain be a short one a late planted tree runs 

 the risk of not getting a proper quantity of 

 water during the first season. This of course 

 means a shock to the plant more or less severe, 

 according to the season. Where irrigation 

 can be practised the planter is of course inde- 

 pendent of the rains, but those conditions are 

 not likely to apply to the amateur gardener. 

 The two factors — which are the same as in 

 the East — are (1) have the tree dormant, and 

 (2) have the soil in a properly moist con- 

 dition to work well. 



