The Garden Magazine 



Vol. V— No. 2 



Published Monthly 



MARCH, 1907 



One Dollar a Year 

 Fifteen Cents a Copy 



[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is 

 generally taken as a standard. Allow six days' difference 

 for every hundred miles of latitude.] 



Before March First 



Order seeds, trees, plants, tools, fertilizers 

 and spraying outfit. 



You have four things to gain by ordering 

 now instead of April: 



i . You have the leisure now to plan a better 

 garden and learn the "quality" varieties. 



2. You run no danger of substitution now 

 — an odious disappointment. No other 

 variety is as good as the one you want. 



3. You avoid the spring rush on your own 

 place. 



4. You avoid the risk of late planting. 

 Thousands of trees and shrubs are ruined 

 every April and May by delays in transit. 



Think of the poor clerks who work every 

 night during April until midnight, and be 

 merciful ! 



Make or buy a hotbed and coldframe. 



Plan your garden on paper. 



Rearrange your shrubbery. Give every 

 plant room to develop into a perfect specimen. 



Draw diagram of the hardy border show- 

 ing how gaps are to be filled. 



Save wood ashes in a dry place for fertilizer. 



Clean and sharpen tools and invent a per- 

 fect system of keeping them in order. 



Look at the potatoes, dahlias, cannas, 

 gladioli and other roots in the cellar. 



Bring up cacti, geraniums, chrysanthe- 

 mums and other plants that have been 

 wintered in the cellar. 



Cut twigs of fruit trees and flowering shrubs 

 and put them in a jar of water in the window. 



MARCH 1ST TO 15TH 



(or before frost is out of ground) 



Sow vegetables in hotbeds and gain four to 

 six weeks on the season. 



Sow vegetables in coldframes and gain two 

 to four weeks. 



Start a few boxes of vegetables and flowers 

 in the windowsill, if you have no coldframe. 



Clean up and resolve to stay clean. 



Tie up vines on porch. 



Train your berry bushes. 



Rake, fertilize, repair and roll the lawn. 

 Sow grass seed. Do sodding. 



Gradually lift the heaviest part of the 

 covering from bulb beds and the hardy 

 border. Harden the young growth. Replace 

 some litter if a freeze threatens. 



Partly uncover hardy roses. 



Graft old fruit trees of poor varieties with 

 cions of good varieties and they will bear 

 better fruit in three years. 



Transplant deciduous trees from the wild. 



Cut back shrubs that have been moved to 

 new positions. 



Prune all shrubs after they flower. 



Prune fruit trees. 



Remove water sprouts and suckers from 

 fruit trees. 



Remove all dead wood from trees, shrubs 

 and vines. 



Fill holes in tree trunks with cement. Cut 

 out rotten wood and singe cut surfaces with 

 blast lamp. 



Remove and burn twigs infested with 

 eggs of plant lice, tree cricket and Buffalo 

 tree-hopper. 



Destroy cocoons of fall webworms. 



Put bands on fruit trees if canker worms 

 troubled them last year. 



Destroy egg masses of tent-caterpillars. 



Scrape off loose bark from trunk and large 

 limbs of apple trees with a sharp hoe. 



Spray scale-infested trees and shrubs with 

 a lime-sulphur wash. 



Spray pear trees for psylla and blister- 

 mite with a lime-sulphur wash when buds 

 are swelling. 



Spray plums for soft scales with kerosene 

 emulsion. 



Cut off strawberry runners, if you failed 

 to do so last season. 



Make bird houses. Birds eat insects. 



Make veranda and window boxes. 



Manure trees, shrubs and vines. 



Put manure, or nitrate of soda, on the 

 lawn, asparagus, rhubarb, and strawberry 

 beds. 



Scatter salt on your asparagus bed — half 

 a pound to the square yard. It is not nec- 

 essary near the seaside. 



See the best snowdrops in town. 



Who has the earliest garden in town? 

 Why? Isn't it because of his windbreak? 

 Order evergreens for windbreaks now. 



ABOUT MARCH 15TH 



(or as soon as frost is out of ground) 



Sow mignonette the first day the frost is 

 out of the ground. 



Plant sweet peas. 



Beat your neighbors on gladiolus by plant- 

 ing a few as soon as the soil can be worked 



and for succession make a planting every 

 two weeks until July 1st. 



Finish pruning hardy roses already planted. 



ABOUT MARCH 20TH 



(or as soon as the soil is mellow) 



Plow and harrow the garden, or spade and 

 rake it. 



Remove from the garden bricks, stones, 

 and other rubbish that will not decay. 



Spread coal ashes over the vegetable 

 garden and plow them in. They add no 

 plant food, but improve the texture of the 

 soil. 



Put new gravel on walks and drives and 

 roll them. 



Buy sand to lighten your heavy soil. 



Dig out the bad soil in your city yard and 

 replace it with good soil. 



Plant magnolia, tulip tree and rose of 

 Sharon, none of which may be safely moved 

 in fall. 



Plant golden banded and speciosum lilies. 



Who has Siberian scillas naturalized in 

 his lawn ? 



Try to find some one who has the Taurian 

 scilla. Flowers earlier and more on a stalk. 



Who, in your town, grows those lovely 

 blue flowers of March called " glory-of-the- 

 snow," or Chionodoxa? 



ABOUT MARCH 25TH 



Plant new hardy roses. 



Prune newly planted roses a little more 

 severely than established ones. 



Get acquainted with the giant snowdrop. 



Study the best collection of crocuses in 

 town. Note the best varieties. 



Which lawn in your town contains the 

 prettiest scattering of crocuses ? 



Ask your neighbors to let you see these 

 March-blooming flowers: spring adonis 

 (Adonis vernalis); Grecian and Apennine 

 windflowers (Anemone blanda and Apen- 

 nina); winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis); 

 and the winter heliotrope (Petasites jra grans). 



MAKE THESE RESOLUTIONS 



To do fewer things this year and have a 

 higher standard. 



To get one boy or girl started in gardening. 



To try one new vegetable. Do you know 

 okra and gumbo soup ? 



To go to the teacher who has charge of 

 your children and help her make the school 

 grounds more attractive. 



To give a year's subscription to The Gar- 

 den Magazine every year to some person 

 whom you wish to interest in gardening. 



To join your local improvement association 

 or horticultural society. 



To combine with your neighbors to beau- 

 tify the vacant lot in your block. 



