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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1910 



Best by Te^ Why Buy Wash Water? 



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I WHY? 



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 CI PEARLINE IS CONCEN- 



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Large fully illustrated 

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Digging the Garden in Fall 



IN DIGGING up the soil in the garden a uniform 

 depth should be preserved throughout, the full 

 length of the spade or fork being inserted nearly 

 vertically, and the spit turned over, so that the under 

 soil is exposed to the air. An open trench the length 

 of the ground to be dug should first be made, and 

 the soil thus removed transferred to the place where 

 it is intended to finish. Keep the trench tolerably 

 straight, and of about an even width. 



Ground that has been occupied by garden crops 

 in summer is best thoroughly dug in the autumn, 

 and manure added. It should not be broken with, 

 the spade but left for full exposure to the frost and 

 for consequent aeration during the winter. 



The same rule applies to ground that has just 

 been cleared of autumn and early winter crops. 

 The following spring such soils will be found to 

 work well, and may be prepared for any desired 

 crop by levelling down. The strength of the 

 manure will also have become incorporated with the 

 soil underneath — a condition that cannot be 

 obtained by adding it at planting time. 



For pulverisation and mixing in of rnanure 

 digging is best preformed in dry weather, but for 

 the purpose of aeration a degree of moisture and 

 tenacity in the soil is more favorable. Digging 

 should never be done when the soil is frozen 

 or covered with snow. Light soils or those resting 

 on a gravelly bottom may be worked at any time 

 when it would be very unwise to tread on those of a 

 clayey nature. The workman, when digging, should 

 stand nearly "erect, insert the spade vertically to 

 secure the removal of soil to the full depth, and then 

 turn the spit away from the position in which he is 

 standing. 



Double digging is performed by having a tirench 

 of double width, removing a spit of the top soil, and 

 then digging underneath and allowing that portion 

 to remain. Another width is then marked out, the 

 top soil on this placed on the other, and each portion 

 treated successively in a similar manner. This 

 method is often adopted where subsoils are poor 

 so that the depth of two spits may be reached with- 

 out bringing the inferior soil to the surface. Excel- 

 lent carrots and other vegetables may be obtained 

 from soils deepened in this way, which previously 

 yielded but a very poor return. 



Canada. W. R. Gilbert. 



Wild Flowers Worth Improving 



VI. THE GIANT PARSNIP 



NO PLANT in my entire collection causes so 

 many questions to be asked about it, or has 

 so many admirers in its season, as does a single 

 huge specimen of the common, native, giant 

 parsnip {Heracleum lanatum) that I have grown 

 for over twenty years, having planted it without 

 any particular expectations. Its huge leaves and 

 immense umbels of pure white flowers cause most 

 people to think it to be some rare tropical plant; 

 few ever recognize it, under cultivation, as being the 

 same plant they see in its native wilds. 



I have grown it in the most conspicuous place in 

 my flower garden for over twenty years, and care 

 more for it than I did when I first planted it. In 

 its season it is the first plant that visitors and 

 passers-by see and admire, and it furnishes me 

 with a considerable supply of excellent cut flowers. 



Michigan. W. A. Brotherton. 



