December, 1917 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



157 



General Landscape Gardening 



A Garden Diary and Country Home Guide: by Loring 

 Underwood. (Stokes), $3.85. A page for each day 

 of the year is divided into four parts, in which to record 

 the observations of four successive years. Short sea- 

 sonable reminders. 



Book of Garden Plans: by Stephen F. Hamblin. (Dou- 

 bleday, Page & Co.), $2.20. Twenty typical plans in 

 blue prints, representing diversified actual problems. 



Hints on Landscape Gardening: by Prince Von Puckler- 

 Muskau. Edited by Samuel Parsons. (Houghton 

 Mifflin Co.), $3.85. An entertaining work and an addition 

 to the series of landscape classics that the publishers have 

 undertaken. 



The Joyous Art of Gardening: by Francis Duncan. 

 (Scribners), $1.93. For the owner of the small place, 

 who works among flowers. 



The Livable House — Its Garden: by Ruth Dean. 

 (Moffat, Yard & Co.), $2.75. Treating the garden from 

 its artistic side as part of the house. Illustrated. 



Milady's House Plants: by F. E. Palmer. (DeLaMare), 

 $1.10. A guide to managing flowers and plants in the 

 home and Ideal Sun Parlor. 



My Garden: by Louise Beebe Wilder. (Doubleday, Page 

 & Co.), $1.65. A story of the year in the author's gar- 

 den, her experiences and trials and triumphs. 



Practical Landscape Gardening: by Robert B. 

 Cridland. (DeLaMare Co.), $1.65. A general treatise 

 on the home garden for the man of moderate income. 



Studies in Gardening: by A. Clutton-Brock, Introduction 

 and Notes by Mrs. Francis King. (Scribners) $2.20. 

 It is in the belief that Mr. Brock's charming studies are 

 of the best of all gardening literature that Mrs. King 



has supervised their American publication. Mr. Brock 

 writes of English gardening, but so largely of the general 

 theory and practice of the art that his work is equally 

 valuable in America. 



Greenhouse and Allied Subjects 



The Garden Under Glass: by Rowles. (Lippincott Co.). 



An importation and possessing all the limitations incident 



to foreign practice. 

 Greenhouses: Their Construction and Equipment: 



by W. J. Wright. (Orange Judd Co.), $1.75. Deals 



with the practical problems of building, heating, etc. 

 Vegetable Forcing: by R. L. Watts. (Orange Judd Co.), 



$2.20. The result of several years' practical work 



and in teaching. Chiefly commercial. 



Manuals of Practice 



Commercial Plant Propagation: by Prof. Alfred C. 



Hottes. (DeLaMare). Well described by its title. 

 Principles and Practice of Pruning: by M. G. Kains. 



(Orange Judd Co.), $2.20. A general manual for the 



student and nurseryman. 

 Pruning Manual: by L. H. Bailey. (Macmillan Co.), 



$2.20. Devotes much attention to the fruit grower. 

 Soils and Fertilizers: by F. L. Lyon. (Macmillan Co.), 



$2.20. Embodying up-to-date principles in modem 



practices. 



Cashing In, The Profits 



Around the Year in the Garden: by F. F. Rockwell. 

 (Macmillan Co.), $1.93. A "reminder" book of definite 

 instruction for the unskilled amateur. 



Everyman's Garden in Wartime: by Charles A. Selden. 

 (Dodd, Mead & Co.), $1.48. A reprint of Selden's 

 "Everyman's Garden Every Week." 



How to Make the Garden Pay: by Edward Morrison 

 and Charles Thomas Brues. (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 

 83 cents. It tells how to raise vegetables for home use 

 and how to raise them profitably. 



Second Wind: by Freeman Tilden. (B. W. Huebsch), 

 $1.10. The ancient theme of the man who went "back 

 to the land" with a new touch which makes it read like 

 romance. The story of a middle aged man who actually 

 did go back to the land. 



Juveniles 



Flower Lore and Legend: by Katharine M. Beals. 

 (Henry Holt and Co.), $1.38. Fascinating old stories 

 retold charmingly. 



Mary and Her Kitchen Garden: by Alice Crew. (George 

 H. Doran Co.), $1.38. Alice Crew has written the verses 

 and Lee Wright Stanley has drawn the pictures that 

 make this book fascinating and instructive. Radishes 

 and potatoes and peas and onions become very real fac- 

 tors in the life and in the dreams of Mary. 



The Treasure of the Land: by Garrard Harris. (Har- 

 pers), $1.32. Deals with tomato canning contests for 

 girls. 



When Mother Lets Us Garden: by Frances Duncan. 

 (Moffat, Yard & Co.), 83 cents. 



[Note : — For the convenience of subscribers the Garden 

 Magazine Editorial Dept. will gladly execute commissions for 

 the purchase of books of all publishers.] 



Vegetables for Under Glass Culture 



A. KRUHM 





EAT less, produce more 

 — that is the slogan 

 of the moment. Mak- 

 ing the available sup- 

 plies go the farthest is the 

 basic idea in all nations now- 

 adays. England is proceed- 

 ing on the plan that it was 

 better to provide maximum 

 supplies, while the Central 

 Powers put the people on 

 minimum rations. Three 

 times in three years the sys- 

 tem of the Central Powers 

 has been changed in an at- 

 tempt to convert it from a 

 failure into a practical suc- 

 cess. England to-day, in 

 many respects, is better off 

 than we are. 



In democracies, like Eng- 

 land and America, it is easier 

 to get people to produce 

 more than to get them to eat 

 less. In this matter of food 

 production, Garden Mag- 

 azine readers (as has been 

 pointed out repeatedly), 

 stand in a singularly peculiar position for the 

 playing of an important part. At this particular 

 season, every owner of coldframes, hotbeds, or 

 greenhouses, should strain every nerve to pro- 

 duce two pounds of green food where only one 

 grew before. The following list of pedigreed 

 vegetables suggests quality types and strains 

 that yield well — strains of proven merit for 

 under-glass gardening. 



Practice intensive cultivation. By select- 

 ing varieties, types, and classes adapted to 

 your particular space and equipment, you 

 may be able to raise four rows in the place of 

 three, and to grow three crops in the place of 

 two, between January and May. Studying 

 the approximate time required for crops to 

 reach edible size, as given below, should en- 

 able you to work out a perfect programme, just 

 as you do for your outdoor garden. 



The most popular vegetables for under glass 

 rank as follows: — Beet, carrot, kohlrabi, 



Hotbeds and coldframes are useful in proportion to the 

 skill with which they are used. With conditions not of the 

 best for growing crops it is essential to make use of selected 

 varieties of proven adaptability to under-glass cultivation. 



lettuce, radish, beans, cu- 

 cumbers, tomatoes, cauli- 

 flower and muskmelons. It 

 is significant that experts 

 do not differ as to the 

 most profitable strains for under-glass vege- 

 table crops. 



The first four are the easiest to grow. Beans, 

 cucumbers and tomatoes require more space, 

 heat and time. Cauliflower and muskmelons 

 are luxuries. Getting special forcing strains 

 for under glass is essential. Most seedsmen 

 have their own selected strains of approved 

 varieties, selected toward individual ideals and 

 differing in minor degrees. 



Beet: Crosby's Improved Egyptian. Car- 

 rots: French Forcing and Gold Ball, ready in 

 forty-five to fifty-five days. Generally grown 

 as a companion crop with radishes and sown 

 in same furrows. Kohlrabi: Early White 

 Vienna or Early Purple Vienna, two and a 



half to three inch roots 

 within fifty-five days from 

 sowing. Lettuce: Grand 

 Rapids (loose leaf), May 

 King, Naumburger, Big 

 Boston and Dreer's All 

 Heart (butterhead). Rad- 

 ishes: Small, short -leaved 

 radishes of the "cherry- 

 stone" type may be gathered 

 in from eighteen to twenty- 

 five days, depending on 

 variety. Among round red 

 sorts are Rapid Red Fire- 

 ball, and Cardinal Globe; 

 White-tipped olive-shaped 

 French Breakfast; and 

 round white-tipped, Spark- 

 ler. Wood's Early Frame 

 is the popular long red sort, 

 and the Pearl Forcing Strain 

 of White Icicle in the long 

 white radishes. Early 

 Wonder Beans: Triumph of 

 Frames and Dwarf French 

 Forcing. All do better after 

 February I st, when sunshine 

 and daylight become 

 stronger and longer. Of 

 Cucumbers there are two 

 distinct types: (i) The 

 long English Telegraph 

 type, requiring from ioo 

 to 125 days to reach full size. A strong 

 grower and where space permits, will yield 

 a quality product beyond compare. (2) 

 The short fruited White Spine type (in- 

 cluding such kinds as Davis Perfect, Vick- 

 ery Forcing and Arlington White Spine), 

 yielding fifty to sixty-five days from date of 

 sowing, according to conditions. Tomatoes: 

 (Small-fruited) Sunrise, Comet and Stirling 

 Castle, all light red; (large) Beauty and 

 Magnus, purple-red. Commercial growers 

 consider Livingston's Globe as the most 

 profitable purple fruited sort of medium 

 size for under glass cultivation. 



The Dwarf Erfurt type of cauliflower, is 

 well adapted for growing in hotbeds. 



