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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1907 



Just What Your Plants Need! 



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r The c?/m City Nursery Company, £A£en> Haven, Connecticut 1 



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Nothing so valuable has appeared for 

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The fruit may look as nice as any, but the 

 flavor will not be there. 



The best plan is to place a wire cage in 

 the berry patch and put a cat into it! This 

 may not seem very practical, but try it once, 

 and you will be convinced of its value! 



Being made of poultry wire, it can be 

 built for a dollar or less. You do not have 

 to remove any nets to pick the berries and 

 the plants get the full benefit of air and 

 light. 



I tried the scheme last season and it 

 worked to perfection. I did not have six 

 berries ruined by birds during the entire 

 season. Robins, the worst offenders, are 

 very much afraid of cats, and I have seen 

 them perch around the garden and watch 

 both the strawberry bed and the cat and 

 conclude that the game wasn't worth it and 

 fly off. 



Anyone can give this a trial, as cats are 

 even more plentiful than first-class straw- 

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Long Island. W. C. McCollom. 



A Hot- Weather Transplanting 

 Device 



DURING the hot weather one often wishes 

 to transplant seedlings and plants but is 

 deterred by fear of losing the plants or 

 the work is needlessly delayed by waiting 

 for a rainy day. 



Here is a plan I have tried and found 

 successful for several years. In the spring 

 I save all the rakings of grass and leaves 

 and leave them in a pile to make leaf-mold. 

 When I wish to do any transplanting I dig 

 either a trench or a series of holes, as the 

 plants require, about two inches lower than 

 most of the plant's roots will come. 



Then I take some of those partly decom- 

 posed leaves and put them in a pail and wet 

 the leaves thoroughly and place a layer 

 of them about an inch and a half thick in 

 the bottom of the trench or hole and then 

 level the ground, filling in with the dirt 

 previously removed. I set out the plants 

 then just as anyone does earlier in the 

 spring, using a dibble to make the holes for 

 roots. 



The wet leaves put the moisture where 

 the plant wants it — at its roots, and the soil 

 is not made in a hard cake around the roots 

 which happens ordinarily when water is 

 poured into a trench. By capillary attraction 

 the soil becomes moist all around the plant 

 but remains loose and the leaves hold the 

 moisture for several days, acting much like a 

 sponge. It is also a great saving in water 

 which is an important item wherever it is 

 costly or has to be carried by hand a consider- 

 able distance. 



Of course, one must be very careful in 

 digging up the plants to get as many of the 

 roots as possible and be especially careful 

 not to expose leaves or roots to the wind or 

 sun during transplanting. 



By this method I have done transplanting 

 even in the morning of hot days and seldom 

 met with a loss. If the day is very hot I put 

 something up to shelter the plants the first 

 day. 



Minnesota. Marie I. DeGraff. 



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