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VoL. IV.—No. 4 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY 
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Before November First, if Possible 
pest all your hardy bulbs both for 
indoor and outdoor bloom. They 
deteriorate every day after November 1sth. 
It is safe and wise to plant all hardy 
deciduous trees and shrubs except mag- 
nolias and a few others until the ground 
freezes hard. If there is any danger your 
nurseryman will notify you. 
Plant fruit trees and berry bushes before 
November rsth and avoid the spring rush. 
Take no risk on peaches or blackberries. 
The fall is the best time to plant lily 
bulbs, but many do not arrive until Novem- 
ber. Heap manure on the proposed lily 
beds now and you will have unfrozen ground 
in which to plant the bulbs. 
The best of the tall Japanese lilies has 
at last come down in price so that everyone 
can afford to try it this year. Lilium Henryi 
is an orange flower of the turk’s cap type. 
It is one of the four hardiest and most per- 
manent lilies, and you can work up a good 
stock of it at home. 
Try the best tall red lily, our native 
Lilium superbum. It grows taller thana 
man and bears twenty or thirty flowers. in 
a pyramidal panicle. 
Three of the twelve most gorgeous peren- 
nials are the Japanese and German iris and 
phlox. You can plant them anytime before 
the ground freezes. They are as hardy as 
a rock. 
Plant some hardy ferns in that dark, 
narrow passageway near the house where 
no flowers will grow. 
November is the great month for starting 
mushroom beds, because mushrooms are 
most appreciated in early winter. Try the 
American-grown spawn. 
Christmas roses bloom outdoors as far 
north as New York anytime from Novem- 
ber to February. Plant the roots as soon as 
you can get them from the bulb dealers. 
They may give a few flowers this winter 
but it takes two or three years to get a big 
show. 
The only time you can form an intelligent 
opinion about chrysanthemums is from 
NOVEMBER, 1906 
‘October 15th to November 15th. Go to a 
good chrysanthemum show, note the varie- 
ties you want, and order them now for spring 
delivery. Otherwise you run the risk of 
‘substitution’? and objectionable colors. 
EVEN AFTER NOVEMBER I0TH 
Eyen as late as December rst it is better to 
plant bulbs for indoor bloom, rather than have 
ro home-grown winter flowers. The large 
bulbs, for example, tulips, daffodils, hya- 
cinths, and sacred lilies do not deteriorate 
as fast as the small ones. Ask for bulbs 
that have been kept in cold storage. If they 
are soft and shriveled send them back. 
Plant only hard bulbs. 
You can have home-grown Roman hya- 
cinths in bloom on your Christmas dinner 
table if you pot the bulbs before November 
15th. Why not start some now in sand and 
water for Christmas presents? Only six 
weeks from bulb to flower. 
Another way to put personality into your 
Christmas gifts is to grow a lot of Chinese 
sacred lilies for your friends. Start them 
now in bowls of water and you will enjoy 
two pleasures—growing the flowers and 
giving them away. 
The best rose for Christmas bloom in the 
ordinary home is the Baby Rambler. In 
November you can buy from the florist a 
plant loaded with buds and have the pleas- 
ure of watching it come into flower as the 
Christmas season approaches. 
Wholly aside from the ordinary fall- 
planted bulbs, there are seven kinds that 
ought to be planted in November for indoor 
bloom. Read page 188. 
HOW TO HAVE PLEASANT GARDEN THOUGHTS 
ALL WINTER 
Read Mrs. Barron’s article, make a stor- 
age room for vegetables, fill it with good 
things to eat, and keep it so neatly that you 
can show it to your friends with pride. 
There is a powerful satisfaction in killing 
insects by the simple, cheap, and whole- 
sale methods described by Professor San- 
derson. 
What a joy it is to know that all one’s 
trees, shrubs, and fruits are in good shape 
for the winter. ‘‘Come on with your cold!” 
cry the tea roses. “Our master read Mr. 
Graves’ article. Do you not see our snug 
overcoats 2?” 
Make a window garden or miniature 
conservatory, costing less than $50, take 
good pictures and you may be able to sell 
your account of it to the GARDEN MaGazINE 
for enough to pay expenses. Thousands of 
people have good window gardens but no 
one ever writes us about them. 
The best white-flowered narcissus for 
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 
TEN CENTS A COPY 
winter bloom in the house is the Paper 
White. You can have these lovely flowers 
every day from Christmas to Easter if you 
pot the bulbs before November rst. Even 
after November 15th they are worth plant- 
ing for bloom in February and March. 
During the forepart of the month bring 
in the pots of lilies (Lilium longiflorum and 
its var. eximium, known in the trade as 
L. Harrisii) which you intend to have in 
flower at Easter. A temperature of 50° or 
55° will suit them best. About the middle 
of November bring into heat such pots of 
Roman hyacinths, Chinese sacred lilies, poly- 
anthus narcissus, and Duc van Thol tulips 
as you wish for Christmas bloom. 
OUTDOOR WORK ON PLEASANT DAYS 
Make a compost heap! This is the best 
time to make it, because the grass is dead. 
Get sod about three inches thick from an 
old field or pasture and pile them up in 
layers, the grass side dawn. Between the 
layers of sod put a layer of cow manure, 
using about one part of manure to three of 
sods. If turned over a couple of times 
during the winter this will make the best 
soil for potting plants. 
Cut pine or hemlock boughs now to 
cover the rhododendrons. Arrange these 
boughs so that the plants will be protected 
from the sun and the drying winds. 
Gather all the leaves possible! 
burn a single one. 
Put a 4-inch mulch on the rhododendron 
bed and do not remove it next spring, either. 
This is one of the little details which makes 
or mars your rhododendrons. 
Pile some of these leaves near your bulb 
beds but do not cover the beds with them 
until there is an inch or two of frost in the 
ground. Never mind if you don’t get it on 
till Christmas, but. get it on before snow 
covers the ground. Bank up your cold- 
frames with them. With leaves around the 
frame, straw mats and shutters over the 
glass, and sometimes a dash of hay or straw 
on extra cold nights, it is possible to keep 
the frost out of your frame all winter. 
Put the leaves which cannot be used 
for these purposes into leafmold as de- 
scribed in the October GARDEN MaGazINne, 
page Iso. 
Cover strawberries two inches deep with 
hay or straw, not this year’s autumn leaves. 
Cut off asparagus tops and burn them, 
berries and all, as the seeds may sprout 
where they are not wanted. Mulch with 
two or three inches of rough manure. 
Plow the garden, if practicable, and turn 
under all the manure you can get. 
Burn all weeds, so that they may not come 
up next year. 
Do not 
