Bee trarden Magazine 
VoL. IV—No. 1 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY 
Opportunities that Beginners Miss 
4 Ree beginner is off his guard in August. 
With the garden yielding its full har- 
vest, the idea of planting anything never 
enters his mind. Yet there are fourteen 
kinds of vegetables worth sowing in August. 
To be sure, four of them are mere “‘stunts,”’ 
but the others are important food items. 
The beginner can save a year on straw- 
berries by buying potted strawberry plants in 
August. They may cost ten cents each but 
they are worth it for if you set out ordinary 
strawberry plants this fall, they will not fruit 
until 1908, while potted plants will give you 
berries next spring. (The leading seedsmen 
and nurserymen now issue ‘midsummer 
price-lists’”” of strawberries and celery. 
Have you ever seen one?) 
Most beginners are afraid to plant celery. 
They think it is too special or too—some- 
thing. Now is your chance to repair this 
mistake. Buy celery plants. They have been 
twice transplanted and prepared for ship- 
ment by express at this dramatic moment. 
We shall never forget our first experience 
with celery. (Perhaps we had beginner’s 
luck.) But what a delicious vegetable! Try 
it. You can’t do worse than fail. 
GETTING OUT OF THE ‘‘AUGUST RUT” 
Every item on this page represents a good 
thing worth doing that is ordinarily forgotten. 
Nearly every one can be done only in August. 
The time to get ahead of your neighbors is 
when they are off guard. Only wide-awake 
people read this page—and they mostly fall 
asleep during its perusal. 
Do you know why you see so few white 
lilies in the gardens of this country? It is 
because the best one has to be planted in 
August. (Unlike other lilies, it has to make 
a leaf growth this fall.) Few know it. 
Most who do forget it. 
Do you know that lovely flower, the Span- 
ish iris or ‘‘poor man’s orchid”? - Same 
reason. 
Then there is the wonderful giant lily with 
spikes four feet long! 
Six other bulbous flowers like these are 
AUGUST, 1906 
{one DOLLAR A YEAR 
TEN CENTS A COPY 
mentioned on page 27. 
And what a goodly 
company they are! 
SAVING MONEY IN AUGUST 
We are ashamed to confess that we never 
heard of Wapanucka, Indian Territory, but 
we are grateful to a subscriber there for ask- 
ing this pertinent question: 
“Will you not publish ways and means for 
poor people who have to stint themselves to 
buy plants? This is the shortcoming of the 
high class periodical literature.”’ 
The time-honored way to save money in 
gardening is to raise plants from seed. It 
takes longer, but it’s more fun. A packet 
of seed costs a nickel and you can often raise 
a hundred plants from it. One good peren- 
nial packed and labelled ought to cost fifteen 
cents and often does cost a quarter—plus 
express. And how those quarters count up! 
Do you realize that August is the time to 
raise perennials from seed? Now is the 
appointed time to sow all those precious old- 
fashioned flowers that are full of sentiment 
and home associations. And the best place 
to sow them is in a coldframe because you 
can keep heavy rains from washing away 
the little seeds and seedlings. Think of 
foxgloves, larkspurs, Canterbury bells, and 
all the well-beloved host! 
We hope our friend in Indian Territory 
will find what*she wants in Mr. Clark’s ar- 
ticle this month. If not, let her speak up and 
she shall have her wants satisfied, if it is a 
possible thing. 
PREPARE NOW FOR CHRISTMAS 
Some of the most precious flowers of the 
holiday season are the ones that have to be 
started in August. You must order your 
Bermuda lilies and freesias in August if you 
want their chaste, fragrant blossoms in time 
for the family reunion on Christmas day. 
ARE YOUR HOUSE PLANTS SATISFACTORY ? 
Is it too much trouble to raise flowers in 
the house? 
Do you have those yellow, leggy, lop-sided 
plants that bend so appealingly toward the 
light—of which they never get enough? 
Those pallid scarecrows, according to a 
learned German physiologist, (Sorauer), are 
suffering from alcoholism! ‘The soggy roots 
actually develop alcohol. 
- Did it ever occur to you that you might own 
a little greenhouse or conservatory that 
would cut out all this trouble and that in- 
stead of continually apologizing for the con- 
dition of your plants, you might have some- 
thing in which you could take pride, as well 
as solid comfort, every day? 
We once heard the great peach king, Mr. 
J. H. Hale, utter a pathetic remark about 
greenhouses. He was visiting a college pro- 
fessor who managed to squeeze out of his 
small salary enough to run a little greenhouse. 
It was in the dead of winter and the snow and 
wind were raging outside. As he ‘‘sized up” 
the snug little outfit, he fetched a long sigh 
and said, ‘“‘Gee! Professor, I’d be willing to 
give two or three of my orchards for some- 
thing like this.” 
But Mr. Hale will never get it. He is in 
the August rut. He forgets to inquire at the 
proper time. He will not have his building 
up before snow flies. His family will have 
no flowers of their own raising for Christmas. 
And he will go through life nursing the de- 
lusion that a greenhouse is beyond his means. 
Isit? No more so than a trip to Europe! 
And both are good to read about. 
PLANT EVERGREENS THIS AUGUST 
Not one word of complaint has reached us 
from the readers whom we advised last year 
to plant evergreens in August. If you plant 
your conifers in August you avoid the spring 
rush and the danger of delayed shipments. 
August is better than September because the 
evergreens have a longer time in which to get 
settled before winter comes. Many ad- 
vanced horticulturists now believe that more 
evergreens are ruined by summer drought 
than by winter cold and therefore the August 
planting of evergreens gains converts every 
year. But remember that August evergreens 
must have a perfect ball of roots protected by 
burlap or other covering. 
VEGETABLES FOR AUGUST SOWING 
Sow New Zealand spinach once a week 
during August. It is the hot weather sub- 
stitute for common spinach. 
The only reliable lettuce for the dog days 
is Black-seeded Simpson. 
Sow Early Valentine beans twice during 
August. They mature in forty-five days. 
Mustard is a pot-herb the young leaves of 
which are ready to cook twenty days after 
seed sowing. 
Did you ever have any vegetables in March 
from your garden? ‘Try corn salad and 
Welsh onion. Sow the seeds in August and 
cover the corn salad in winter with litter. 
Salsify sown in August and left undis- 
turbed till spring will be twice ordinary size. 
Tuberous chervil has -turnip-like roots 
which are boiled or eaten in stews. Sow 
seeds in August as seeds kept dry over winter 
sprout poorly, if at all. 
Sow Nott’s Excelsior or American Wonder 
peas August 1st for September use. 
Last chance to sow Country Gentleman 
sweet corn or whatever is your favorite vari- 
ety. After August rst, the only chance is an 
early variety like Cory. 
