Vol. II— No. 3 



Published Monthly 



OCTOBER, 1905 



| One Dollar a Year 



'. Twenty-Five Cents a Copy 



Contents 



page page page 



The Gardener's Reminder .... 105 Hardy Perennials for Fall Planting The Home Storage of Fruits S. IV ' . Fletcher 128 



The Fall Planting of Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, If. C. Egan 114 



• ,r- A New Kind of Garden School 



and Vines How to Raise Plants by the Hundred ,, , , . _ , 



I. Fall Planting in the North N.S.Green 116 Mary Leland Butler 132 



Henry Hicks 106 Hardy Bulbs for FalI PIanting W: N.Craig 117 Bulbs for the Window Garden 



II. Fall Planting on the Prairies . W.E.Pendleton 135 



/" 2) Mavnard ioq Original Designs for Bulb Beds Jens Jensen 122 



III. Fall Planting in the South Daffodils Everyone Should Know The Wineberry — An Amateur's Fruit 



J. M. Hunter in Thomas McAdam 125 Ida M . Angell 136 



Wilhelm Miller, Editor Cover design by Henry Troth Doubleday, Page & Company, 133-137 East i6tb St., New York 



COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE 4 COMPANY. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER, JANUARY 12, 1905, AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N.Y., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 



Why Fall Planting Pays 



"V7"OU avoid the spring rush — a big item — 



*■ reason enough. 



You gain a considerable time, in many- 

 cases. 



You can select varieties more intelligently 

 in fall than in spring. 



You have a full stock to select from; less 

 danger of "substitution." 



You do a better job, because you have 

 more time. 



THE DISADVANTAGES OF SPRING PLANTING 



The vegetable garden demands all one's 

 leisure; trees and flowers are slighted. 



Plants may come late from the nursery or 

 suffer in transit. 



Spring is always abnormal; either too wet 

 or too dry. 



Summer drought is a terror to spring 

 planting, but not to fall planting. 



AVCTD RISK IN FALL PLANTING 



Don't plant anything on cold, wet, heavy 

 soil; drain it and lighten it first. 



Don't plant peaches, apricots, plums, 

 evergreens, or trees with " punky " roots. (See 

 page 106.) 



Avoid thin-barked trees, like birch, or wrap 

 them with straw. 



Mulch every tree for winter protection. 



Insist on getting well-ripened stock. 



Order early and plant early. 



Ask your nurseryman if he will guarantee 

 to replace dead trees. 



THE JOYOUS SEASON OF BULBS 



October is the time to plant every kind of 

 "bulb, root and tuber." 



To make formal flower beds. 



To make new informal borders. 



To start bulbs for the window garden, es- 

 pecially Roman hyacinths for Christmas. 



To order hyacinth glasses. Have you ever 

 grown hyacinths in water? 



To get shallow bowls and pebbles for 

 Chinese sacred lilies. 



To put crocuses in the lawn where they will 

 make a charming picture. 



TRY SOMETHING NEW THIS YEAR 



Why not naturalize a thousand poet's nar- 

 cissus bulbs in some meadow, woods, orchard, 

 shrubbery, or on the bank of a stream ? 



Have you ever tried giant snowdrops, 

 snowflakes, or glory of the snow? Try 

 them on the north side of a house where there 

 is not enough light for ordinary flowers. 



Are you acquainted with ixias for the win- 

 ter window garden ? Freesias ? The Ber- 

 muda buttercup (Oxalis luted) ? 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Clean up and burn diseased plants, manure 

 the garden, plow it and leave it all winter. 



Burn asparagus tops and manure the bed. 



You can make new asparagus and rhu- 

 barb beds and plant sets of extra early pearl 

 onions for use next March. 



Put some parsley plants in a box and place 

 it in a light cellar or in a shed. 



Put some frozen rhubarb roots in a barrel 

 of earth in the cellar where they will produce 

 "pie-plant" for winter use. 



Dig chickory for salad and store in sand 

 in a dry cellar. 



Blanch endive by tying lightly at the tips. 



Bury a barrel of cabbage in a well-drained 

 spot and cover with leaves. Or pile cab- 

 bages on the barn floor and cover with straw 

 enough to prevent solid freezing. 



Start a mild hotbed and have home-grown 

 radishes and lettuce at Christmas. 



THE SOUTHERN GARDENER'S REMINDER 



In the latitude of Richmond, sow early cab- 

 bage, turnip for "salad," kale, spinach, let- 

 tuce and mustard. 



Toward the end of the month set out cab- 

 bage and lettuce plants which are to stay 

 outdoors all winter. 



Start new beds of asparagus and rhubarb. 



Set out strawberry plants. 



Fall-sown grass seed generally makes a bet- 

 ter lawn than spring-sown seed. 



Plant spring-blooming bulbs. 



Sow pansies in coldframes. 



A NOVEL EXPERIMENT 



If the witch hazel grows wild in your 

 neighborhood, cut some flowering branches 

 for indoor decoration. Last year's pods will 

 open while you are not looking, and shoot 

 their black seeds ten feet across your parlor, 

 and you will hear strange noises in the night. 



