August, 1917 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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and fairly satisfactory preventive, but cutting 

 the worms out with a sharp knife or a chisel 

 is a sure cure though in serious infestations a 

 "kill or cure" remedy so far as the tree is con- 

 cerned. After cutting, the wounds should be 

 swabbed with concentrated lime-sulphur wash 

 or with an alkaline wash made of soap, water, 

 and caustic potash made into a creamy liquid. 

 The trunks should be swabbed as far up as the 

 lowest limbs or farther. 



if Blackberry and raspberry plants die 

 mysteriously, you say. No disease to be 

 seen. Perhaps it's the raspberry root-borer. 

 Notice whether the lower parts of the stems 

 and the roots are bored out and if the new 



shoots at the crown are girdled. A few plants 

 will tell the story. Nothing to be done but to 

 dig and burn the plants at once. 



tAt Borers in the quince bushes! Most 

 likely the same as in the apple trunks and 

 limbs. The same remedy will apply — dig 

 them out and paint with concentrated lime 

 sulphur wash or caustic potash and soap in a 

 creamy solution. 



~k Where radishes, mustard, cress, cabbage 

 or other plants of the mustard family have been 

 growing early in the season or last season use 

 carrots, beets, celery, or some other crop of a dif- 

 ferent plant family. The mustard family is sub- 



ject to a disease called "club root," which lives 

 in the soil and often does serious damage w 7 hen 

 plants of the family follow each other closely. 



ir If you plan to save seeds of beans and 

 peas for next year's planting, be sure to fumi- 

 gate the shelled seed with carbon bisulphide 

 to kill any weevils that may be present. 

 These little beetles live over from year to year 

 in the ripe seed, having developed from eggs 

 laid in the green seed. The best way to fumi- 

 gate is to place the seed in an air-tight recep- 

 tacle not quite full, then to pour carbon bi- 

 sulphide in a saucer placed on top of the seed 

 and then to close the receptacle tight for 

 two or three hours. 



Cashing-In the War Gardens 



F. F. ROCKWELL 



ORGANIZATIONS BEGUN TO SPEED UP PRODUCTION MUST NOW BE UTILIZED TO PREVENT WASTE OF THE 



PRODUCT— THE PROBLEM OF LOCAL OVER-PRODUCTION 



EACH passing week seems to indicate 

 more clearly that the war will finally 

 terminate in a gigantic struggle for 

 adequate food supplies; that the 

 eventual issue will be settled by the field and 

 garden. It was with a realization of this pos- 

 sibility that the "war garden" movement was 

 given such an impetus in the early summer. 

 Now the fruits of all the earnest endeavor 

 which that agitation stimulated are begin- 



own eyes I would not have found it possible 

 to believe that such a very high percentage 

 would be as well planted and as well cared 

 for as they have been. Unlike most other 

 "waves of popular enthusiasm," this garden 

 movement seems to have had no recession; 

 I believe, simply because it has given the 

 people a chance to do what they really would 

 have liked to do before. The vacant lot 

 campaign and similar enterprises have merely 



along finely, and a great deal more is going 

 to be produced than it would have been rea- 

 sonable to predict at the beginning. 



Are We to Fall Down Then? 



A LL this, in view of the present world 

 ■^*- food situation, is very cheering — except 

 to those who from previous experience know 

 what is likely to happen when nature i as been 

 generous in giving big crops! 



Avoid waste by cooperative distribution Utilize existing organizations like the Garden Clubs, the Boy Scouts, etc 



ning to mature, and we find ourselves con- 

 fronted with the equally important problem 

 of utilizing them to the fullest possible extent. 

 During the last few weeks, in connection 

 with the work of establishing model demon- 

 stration "war gardens" in a number of the 

 largest Eastern cities, I have had occasion 

 to see literally thousands of back yard and 

 vacant lot gardens. If I hadn't seen with my 



opened the door of opportunity to those 

 who were waiting to push through! In the 

 majority of cities, the number of plots avail- 

 able for general distribution were "over sub- 

 scribed" almost as soon as announced. While 

 some of these gardeners will drop out, never- 

 theless there is every indication that most of 

 them are going to stick- The later plantings, 

 in spite of the bad early season, are coming 



Those who do know realize that the per- 

 centage of waste, especially in such things 

 as perishable garden vegetables, usually is 

 tremendous. Not infrequently it amounts to 

 fifty or even seventy-five per cent, of in- 

 dividual crops! The small vegetable gar- 

 den, in which from twenty to fifty per cent, of 

 the stuff raised does not go to waste, is the 

 exception to the general rule. To permit 



