The Garden Magazine 



Vol. IX— No. 5 



Published Monthly 



JUNE, 1909 



One Dollar a Year 

 Fifteen Cents a Copy 



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[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is 

 generally taken as a standard. Allow six days' difference 

 for every hundred miles of latitude.] 



Act Before June ist 



SET out tender bedding plants, if you 

 really want them and danger of frost 

 is past. 



Order water lily plants. 



Sow tender annuals outdoors; e. g., nas- 

 turtiums, Lavatera trimestris, rose moss, 

 and scarlet sage. 



Get a collection of dahlias — ■ say, twelve 

 cactus dahlias, or twelve show; twelve 

 pompon, etc. 



Have better window boxes than your 

 neighbors. Don't depend on the small 

 local florist. Get one of the big seedsmen 

 to send you something different, e. g., 

 white or blue moonflower, lemon verbena, 

 Thunbergia alata. 



Make or buy some window boxes. Have 

 you tried the self-watering or sub-irrigating 

 kind? 



Decide now what you need in the way 

 of tomato vine supports, bamboo stakes, 

 galvanized iron rods, etc., for lilies, gladioli, 

 peonies, dahlias, etc. 



Stimulate all backward vegetables with 

 nitrate of soda or liquid manure. 



Spray roses three times with potassium 

 sulphide to prevent mildew and black spot. 

 About May 17th, 24th, and 31st. 



Water strawberries, and stimulate them 

 with nitrate of soda until crop is ready. 



Don't Miss these Chances 



THE sensational flower feature of this 

 season will be Darwin tulips. Ask the 

 Readers' Service Department where you 

 can see the best collections, and whether 

 there will be any exhibitions. 



See all the May-blooming tulips you 

 can, because they do not need to be dug up 

 every year. Inquire where you can see 

 cottage tulips. 



Ask where you can see the wild and run- 

 wild tulips of Europe. There was a big 

 sale of T. sylvestris and Gesneriana last year 

 because we told how to make them look 

 like wild flowers here. 



Try some alpine flowers. Now is a fine 

 time to sow the seeds. American cata- 

 logues offer some of the common kinds, 

 new and rare kinds can be imported from 

 England without duty. Ask the Readers' 

 Service Department for addresses of spe- 

 cialists in alpine flowers. 



Don't use tender plants for bedding if 

 hardy ones will do. See if you can't get 

 pot-grown plants of kinds that will bloom 

 two or three months; e. g,, Miss Lingard 

 phlox, Napoleon III. pink, subsessile ver- 

 onica, Stokes' blue aster, gaillardias, Eupa- 

 torium ccclestinum, everblooming ragged 

 robin, and Nepeta Mussini. 



You can buy almost any kind of vine 

 and hardy flower now, because the big 

 nurserymen grow them in pots for summer 

 delivery. The vacation habit and auto- 

 mobile are largely responsible for this. 



Between June ist and 15th 



T>UY celery plants now. 

 *-* Buy plants now of cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, celeriac, Brussels sprouts, kale, and 

 kohlrabi. 



Save a year on strawberries by plant- 

 ing pot-grown plants now. 



Send for a midsummer catalogue of 

 vegetable plants and seeds. It will tell you 

 what to sow in summer in order to have 

 fresh vegetables all the autumn and winter. 



Make an outdoor seedbed for the cab- 

 bage tribe, if you are raising them for winter 

 use. 



Set out tender water lilies. 



Spray roses twice, when in the height of 

 bloom, with arsenate of lead, or, one of the 

 special preparations sold under trade names. 



What lawn tools do you need ? A sweeper, 

 sprinkler, trimmer, mower? An auto- 

 mobile lawn mower for your golf club ? 



Get tree guards for your street trees. 

 Do you need any other permanent iron 

 work that will not rust; e. g., flower bed 

 protectors, garden arches, trellises for roses 

 and other vines? 



Opportunities for Early June 



A/TAKE sure that your garden will be 

 -L» A attractive in September and October 

 by making a second sowing of your favor- 

 ite annuals; e. g., marigold, phlox, pansy, 

 nasturtium. 



Make your garden more interesting at 

 night by sowing fragrant white flowers; e. g., 



•sweet alyssum or stocks, or by started seed- 

 lings of white tobacco or verbenas. Or buy 

 pot grown plants of the white day lily. 



Study comfort in the garden. See what 

 your friends have in the way of summer 

 houses, pergolas, seats, benches, tables, 

 wall fountains, platforms built into trees, 

 telescopes for enjoying distant views, sub- 

 irrigation for gardens, hydraulic rams to 

 bring plenty of water, etc. 



Order daffodils by the thousand for wild 

 gardening in June, so as to get the best 

 varieties and best bulbs. Also all rare and 

 costly bulbs. Also the wild and run-wild 

 tulips for naturalizing. Also bulbs in great 

 demand, e. g., Darwin tulips. 



See the evergreens that are grown in 

 willow baskets for summer planting. Don't 

 you need some to make your summer home 

 look better? 



Visit the best rose gardens in your neigh- 

 borhood and note the varieties you want. 

 Read "Roses and How to Grow Them," 

 and you will understand better what you see. 



Prune your own shrubs after blooming 

 by cutting out the old wood instead of let- 

 ting butchers trim everything into balls in 

 March. 



Take a color photograph of your garden 

 and let us see it. 



After June 15th 



P?URN every smutty corn stalk before 

 ~ the black powder is exposed. 



Watch for the second visitation of currant 

 worms. 



Pick cherries carefully. Don't injure 

 bark or fruit buds. 



Secure a second crop of roses, by cut- 

 ting back one-third of the new growth of 

 hybrid perpetuals. Then apply liquid man- 

 ure or nitrate of soda. 



Save labor in watering house plants that 

 are put outdoors for the summer, by plung- 

 ing the pots in the ground or in boxes of 

 sand or moss. 



Cut down the hot, routine work of June 

 by getting better tools. Look in the back 

 of your seed catalogue, or send for the special 

 catalogues of tools. Do you need a wheel 

 hoe, garden plow, a scuffle hoe. They 

 will help you do all the work in half the time. 



Trim privet hedges now, and twice more 

 this season. Cut back one-half of the new 

 wood each time. 



Opportunities of Late June 



SOW Chinese primrose seed now and 

 raise plants to give friends at Christmas. 

 Order freesias for July delivery if you 

 want Christmas bloom. 



