The Garden Magazine 



Vol. V— No. 5 



Published Monthly 



JUNE, 1907 



One Dollar a Yeak 

 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.] 



Opportunities that Beginners are 

 Likely to Miss 



JUNE is full of chances that even old-timers 

 miss — opportunities to sow vegetables 

 and flowers that would add greatly to the 

 value and beauty of our gardens in the fall. 

 In June we ought to be thinking of Sep- 

 tember, but we are not! We are thinking 

 of — ahem ! roses and things that have nothing 

 to do with work. 



But even roses have their bugs. Will you 

 consider us hopeless Philistines if we suggest 

 that at last, at last, at last! a way has really 

 been found of "fixing" that hardened old 

 sinner the rose bug? 



And then, too, there is only one way of 

 "avoiding" necessary work, viz. by getting 

 new specialized tools that turn work into play 

 If you leave the work undone, you get tougher 

 vegetables or none at all. If you have a 

 wheel-hoe and an up-to-date spraying outfit, 

 you will do the necessary work so much more 

 quickly that there will be plenty of time for 

 — well, anything you like in June. 



Therefore, in order that you may have 

 more time to live among the roses, we offer 

 several hundred dollars in prizes to those 

 who will grasp some of these fleeting oppor- 

 tunities of June. We really haven't time to 

 count up all of these prizes. They are on 

 every page of this number, but they will 

 never be mentioned again, until the prizes 

 are awarded. 



They are not magnificent, world-stirring 

 prizes; they are just friendly offers, as between 

 garden lovers. The sums are little if any 

 larger than we regularly pay for articles and 

 we shall increase them, if desirable, without 

 notice. Conversely, we shall not award 

 prizes for articles we cannot publish. The 

 point is that we should like to fill the June 

 1908 number of The Garden Magazine 

 with personal experiences by amateurs on 

 any of the subjects you see anywhere in this 



number. Please send in your narrative of 

 personal experience by November 1, 1907, 

 and have photographs, if possible, to prove 

 your success. 



BEFORE JUNE FIRST 



Buy cabbage and cauliflower plants. Latest 

 date for small, cheap plants. 



Plant now everything that cannot be safely 

 planted in the fall in your climate, e.g., mag- 

 nolias, yuccas, rose of Sharon, torch lily or 

 poker plant and hardy chrysanthemums. 



You'll have to hurry if you want to plant 

 any evergreens before next August, especially 

 broad-leaved kinds such as rhododendrons 

 and mountain laurel. They can be had 

 in May and June, but only from specialists 

 who are careful to move them with a ball 

 wrapped in burlap. 



HOW TO MAKE LIFE RICHER 



Get a camera and make a photographic 

 record of your garden. Read the articles on 

 photographs by Mr. A. Radclyffe Dugmore 

 in Country Life in America. 



Buy Mrs. Comstock's "How to Keep 

 Bees" and get an observation hive. Through 

 the glass you can see everything. Bees near 

 your orchard mean more fruit. 



Get an opera glass and a good bird book 

 with lots of pictures in it and become a mild 

 bird crank. It goes well with golf. June 

 is a great month for bird study. 



Transform your garden into an outdoor 

 living-room by providing a summer house 

 or seats where one may write, rest or think. 



A supreme happiness in gardening is 

 pruning. Don't hire those shrub butchers 

 who trim everything alike in March. The 

 scientific, delightful and economic way is 

 to prune everything after it blooms. Get 

 a pair of pruning shears and be a free man ! 



EVERY PARAGRAPH WORTH $5 



Every paragraph on this page from this 

 point on, is worth five dollars to somebody. 

 All he needs to do is to work out the crude 

 suggestion contained in any sentence that 

 follows, in any way he likes, and send us 

 an account of his success that is worth pub- 

 lishing in The Garden Magazine. Of 

 course, we will gladly pay more for it if it 

 is worth more. 



Tender annuals sown after June 1st, are 

 said to develop with astonishing rapidity 

 and often bloom before plants that have been 

 started earlier but have received a check. 



Do you enjoy your garden at night ? Would 

 not one or two small lights add greatly to 

 its beauty ? 



Add to your garden the subtlest charm of 

 all — the sound of running water. You can 

 afford it, if only for a little while each day. 



Make a bird's bath tub and drinking 

 fountain. Why not combine it with a min- 

 iature water garden lined with Japan iris 

 or aquatic plants? Make a little concrete 

 basin for it. 



One or two progressive seedsmen in the 

 North now sell artichoke plants which will 

 produce their crop this year. The only 

 other way to grow this biennial in the North 

 is to sow seeds in May, and bank up the 

 plants at the end of August to a height of 

 fifteen inches, leaving only five or six inches 

 of the plant above ground. This will keep 

 the plant from being frozen, and next season 

 it will bear fully. 



Do you know that all the important hardy 

 perennial flowers and vines are now grown 

 in pots or baskets especially for people who 

 cannot plant them before June? This is 

 of great interest to belated movers and 

 those who have summer homes. 



Gladioli are now stored so carefully that 

 they can be safely planted up to July 1st. 

 A brisk demand has grown up for them in 

 June because they enable us to grow an extra 

 crop of flowers almost everywhere in the 

 garden. For example, cut back larkspurs 

 after their June blocm and they will flower 

 again in September. Meanwhile plant glad- 

 ioli everywhere among the larkspurs, so as 

 to have crops of flowers from the same 

 ground. You can put them in anywhere 

 after a first crop of any kind of flower. 



strange but true 



Don't shoot robins to save your cherries. 

 Plant Juneberries and the robins will eat 

 them instead. 



Why Ivory soap, or any other, should be 

 a valuable insecticide is hard to explain, but 

 it is a fact. Eben E. Rexford recommends 

 it for use against rose enemies. It has the 

 advantage of not making the bushes un- 

 sightly as Bordeaux mixture does. A prom- 

 inent nurseryman and florist writes that he 

 has used it for years for an astonishing 

 variety of insect pests. 



Trees are now moved in full leaf in mid- 

 summer! But it is only for people who have 

 "money to burn." They drive over to a 

 nursery in June, see something they want 

 and get it, regardless of price and precedent. 

 And the trees live! Of course, they are 

 carefully taken up with a huge ball of earth 

 which is wrapped with burlap or something 

 to prevent drying out the feeding roots. 



The wonderful Texas rain lilies which 

 bloom in three days after a rain in the 

 South are best planted now in the North 

 where they will flower in August. Cooperia 

 pedunculated and C. Drummondii. They were 

 described and pictured in The Garden 

 Magazine, June, 1906, page 273. 



