The Garden Magazine 



Vol. II— No. 6 



Published Monthly 



JANUARY, 1906 



) One Dollar a Year 

 ( Ten Cents a Copy 



[Note. — For Table of Contents of this month's number see 

 page Z5Q.1 



How to Have a Better Garden 



YOU can have a better garden than ever 

 before by following this page every 

 month. It mentions only the important 

 things. No items will be repeated. 



Hundreds of beginners followed these 

 directions last year and have had success. 



No matter how good a garden you had last 

 vear, you can have a better one this year. 

 There is only one sure way: 



Plan it in January as thoroughly as you 

 ■would plan a house. 



THE "FUN" OF PLANNING 



Don't say it's "work" to plan. It isn't 

 if you approach it in the right spirit. Re- 

 solve to have a merry time of it, come what 

 may. 



Wholly aside from the practical benefits 

 of planning, you are entitled to the pleasures 

 of anticipation. They are half the fun in 

 gardening, and the way to get the keenest 

 pleasure is to exercise foresight. 



The articles in this number only tell the 

 fruits of foresight, but read between the lines 

 and you will see the joys of planning. 



The pleasures of a shiftless garden are 

 great, but the joys of a well-planned garden 

 are greater. 



IF YOU DON'T PLAN 



You will have too much of a few important 

 things and not enough of others. 



You will have nothing new to pique your 

 appetite and delight your guests. 



You will spend more time, money and 

 effort and get less results. 



THE HOME GARDEN NEVER PAYS 



That is, not in dollars and cents, if you 

 count your time worth as much as the market 

 gardener's. 



It is on too small a scale. A man ought to 

 be ashamed of himself if he cannot sell his 

 time for better pay than thai. 



The whole point of a kitchen garden is 

 this: You get belter things than money can 

 buy — fresher vegetables, better kinds. 



As to freshness, the home gardener can 

 beat the grocer every time. Any beginner 

 can do it. 



But the better kinds — the varieties that 

 stand for quality, not for ability to ship round 

 the world and last forever — that's where 

 study and planning come in. 



And that's what The Garden Magazine 

 is for — quality, not the market-gardener's 

 interests. 



Devote five evenings to planning, and the 

 vegetable garden may pay you a dollar an 

 hour for the time so spent. 



HOW TO PLAN 



seedsmen 

 Get their 



Send postal cards to all the 

 whose advertisements attract you. 

 catalogues. 



Measure accurately the length and breadth 

 of your kitchen garden. 



Draw a diagram of it to scale. 



Then decide which way to run the rows. 

 The article in February, 1905, page 12, will 

 help you. 



Decide how much space you can give to 

 the things that require lots of room — corn, 

 potatoes, cabbages, and vines of the cucum- 

 ber family. 



Then make a line for every single row of 

 vegetables and name each crop. For quanti- 



ties and distances see April, page 132, ar.d 

 the planting tables on page no. 



Then plan your succession crops and put 

 the name of each on the plan, in parenthesis, 

 after the crop it is to follow. The article on 

 "Three Crops from the Same Ground," 

 July, page 284, will show you. 



A COURSE OF READING 



There are three important subjects we all 

 need to study every year — fertilizers, spraying, 

 and varieties that stand for quality. 



If you have the bound volume of The 

 Garden Magazine you might spend three 

 evenings as follows: 



1. Consult "fertilizers" in the index, read 

 those articles, and decide what you will do. 



2. On insects, diseases and spraying read 

 Volume I, pages 22, 32 and 68. 



3. On "quality" varieties read Volume I, 

 page 183. 



IF YOU WANT THE BEST 



You should have a hotbed and a coldframe, 

 so that you can have fresh vegetables in April 

 and May. Therefore read pages 30 and 58. 



Also you should have the best tools. There- 

 fore read "Gardening Without Backache," 

 page 28. 



For the best small fruits for the home 

 garden see page 106. 



Planning the garden 



