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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 191 



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SEVERAL items of information have 

 come to me in the last year which I hope 

 to pass along, with The Garden Magazine 

 acting as intermediary. 



As vegetables have the right of way, corn 

 shall be the first number on the programme. 

 The roasting ears have a vicious enemy in a 

 yellow moth which lays its eggs in the corn 

 silk, these hatching into an unpleasant green 

 worm with the appetite of a growing boy. 

 Nothing is more aggravating than to strip 

 the luscious Golden Bantam and find the 

 corn worm has "beaten you to it." Having 

 suffered greatly from these larvae, I wrote to 

 the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Wooster, last spring, for help. The answer 

 came back that dusting the corn silk every 

 three to five days, from the first appearance of 

 the silk, with powdered arsenate of lead, 

 might be tried. I applied this remedy with 

 a bellows and found it quite successful. It 

 did not eradicate the pest entirely but re- 

 duced its ravages to a minimum. 



A second suggestion was also made, to in- 

 close each ear in a paper bag after the pollen 

 was set. As I live on the edge of a golf course 

 and am a sensitive soul, I shrank from the 

 ridicule entailed by such a proceeding. 



The early limas are often victims of late 

 frosts, heavy spring rains, or too deep plant- 

 ing, and a second lot has to be put in, which 

 postpones the harvest several weeks. Provi- 

 dence is inscrutable about the weather, 

 but it is possible to circumvent the other 

 trouble. Make a shallow trench and place 

 the beans at the bottom, so that the top of 

 each is just on a level with the soil, and as they 

 come up fill in the trench gradually. Strong 

 roots are formed in this way without the 

 sprout having to push through so much earth, 

 which it often seems physically incapable of 

 doing when the ground is heavy and cold. 



Pole limas make a good cover for the 

 sunny side of a wire fence, and afford an extra 

 opportunity for intensiveness. 



Is the Golden Queen Raspberry unknown, 

 or why do very few people plant it to furnish 

 fruit for their home tables? It is not mar- 

 ketable on account of its extreme fragility, 

 but the pale yellow color and delicate flavor 

 appeal to eye and palate, and made into jam 

 it is a toothsome thing. Serve the jam with 

 cream cheese and you instantly become a 

 camouflage artist, for nearly everyone mis- 

 takes it for a thick bar-le-duc. 



Now as to flowers. A friendly nurseryman 

 not far from here was chatting about herba- 

 ceous plants one day, and the following nug- 

 gets of wisdom were obtained from him: The 

 hardy blue Salvia is a straggling and untidy 

 fellow, with only a glorious color to make up 

 for disorderly habits. If, however, when 

 he is about two feet tall, you cut him back 

 severely, he will bush out, be easier to handle, 

 and improve the appearance of the border. 

 Heuchera, or Coral Bells, can be made to 

 bloom nearly the entire season by cutting off 

 the first crop of blossoms before they go to 

 seed. I have masses of them with white 

 Dictamnus in front and a privet hedge to 

 supply the green background, and the effect 

 is lovely. Achillea Boule de Neige is a great 

 improvement over Achillea the Pearl, which 

 in my garden seeds itself abominably, gets 

 tangled up in such a way that it is impossible 

 to weed it, and is a general nuisance. White 

 flowers are so indispensable outdoors and for 

 picking that one turns with relief to Boule de 



Neige which is stocky, erect in habit, and al- 

 together a well behaved specimen. 



The same nurseryman has propagated a 

 most entrancing Meadow Rue, pale lavender 

 and apparently a strong grower. Although 

 not on the market yet, I managed to conscript 

 a few plants for my own use, and can scarcely 

 wait to see what they will do next summer. 

 After numerous disappointments I have 

 concluded that the proof of the plant is in the 

 blooming, if such a paraphrase is permissible. 



The garden experts are always asking us 

 to make plans for the spring work during the 

 winter. Why not go a step farther and make 

 them the autumn before while the crops 

 are being harvested? At that time many 

 things come up which we determine to do 

 otherwise the next year, and then promptly 

 forget all about. A map showing how we 

 planted the vegetables and the succession of 

 varieties in 1918, with the results and pro- 

 jected changes tabulated on the margin, 

 would be a great assistance in 1919, and might 

 make a surprising difference on the credit 

 side of the vegetable ledger. 



Ohio. Kate B. Burton. 



Geraniums in Winter 



TLJEALTHY blooming Geraniums are very 

 ■*■ ■*■ decorative and they blossom all winter 

 with less care than most flowers demand. In 

 order to get them select for potting new plants 

 that have not blossomed and the few back- 

 ward ones which failed to bloom. Have small 

 pots for each plant, because the plants will 

 produce all roots and no foliage when there is 

 too much crock room. Good drainage is a 

 necessity. A large hole in the pot and a layer 

 of two inches of pieces of charcoal or broken 

 flower pots in the bottom of each pot will 

 provide the best drainage. Have plenty of 

 rich soil placed rather compactly around the 

 roots; also sand, which is heating to soil. If 

 it is possible, keep the plants in a sunny win- 

 dow of a cool room; when long shoots grow 

 out they should be pinched back. 



Watering is the most important and most 

 difficult task in taking care of potted plants. 

 It is impossible to say exactly how much water 

 should be given to plants in pots as the con- 

 ditions under which plants are grown, the tem- 

 perature, and the state of the weather, influ- 

 ence the answer. Experience alone teaches 

 when water is necessary; but if the amateur 

 takes care to water his plants only when the soil 

 begins to get dry and beforeit has really got dry, 

 he cannot go far wrong. One rule, however, 

 needs to be observed without fail, that when 

 water is applied let the pot be filled to the rim, 

 so that the soil is moistened thoroughly, then 

 give no water until the soil appears to need it. 



One of the chief causes of failure in growing 

 plants in pots is that of giving a little water fre- 

 quently. This practice is bound to result in 

 poor soil, and the consequent ill health of the 

 plants. Geranium leaves should be washed 

 every week and dead leaves picked off. Keep 

 a small stiff brush to give the pots an occasional 

 good scrubbing; even though the pots are set 

 in jardinieres, they need cleaning once in a 

 while. The pots are porous and become easily 

 clogged if not washed. If the pot is kept clean 

 the soil will keep fresh and will never become 

 sour and injure the plants. Turn the flowers 

 each day or so to prevent them from growing 

 one-sided. The box plant food is best for 

 Geraniums, and the easiest applied. Lime 

 water poured over the sour dirt will sweeten it 

 in winter. 



Maryland. Samuel H. Garekol. 



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