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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1911 



Boston 

 Garte 



Fits smoothly and keeps 

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 wearer doesn't feel it 



The Boston Garter 

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nial coreopsis are most faithful in flowering during 

 the summer months. I believe that the simplest 

 way to raise all the above and to avoid contests 

 with weeds at this season of the year is by sowing 

 seeds in boxes, transplanting the seedlings when 

 they have made sufficient growth, and finally put- 

 ting them in their permanent places when they 

 have attained some size. 



All the above do well in the bright sun, but 

 when we come to shady places an even more attract- 

 ive series is available. I do not mean, of course, 

 that dense shade where only the periwinkle (often 

 called myrtle) can be used to cover the ground, 

 but rather the conditions to be found on the north 

 sides of houses or in oak groves, where the tulip 

 and daffodil flourish in springtime. Here in the 

 coast counties pansies and nasturtiums will bloom 

 all summer, if given water, while in the sun they 

 would be burnt up by a few hot days. Many of 

 the pretty California annuals, such as the nem- 

 ophilas, godetias, Clarkia elegans, and monkey- 

 flower (Mimulus), will do well in shady places, 

 and the best asters I saw last summer were growing 

 in semi-shade. 



Of perennials, the best under these conditions 

 in California are the columbines, pyrethrums, hardy 

 larkspurs, perennial phlox, and Japanese anemones, 

 while among summer bulbous flowers the tuberous 

 begonias, after being started in boxes, demand 

 planting in shady north borders to succeed at all. 



California. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



A Frame for All-Year Use 



AN ARTICLE for use in the home kitchen 

 garden that can be made to work the year- 

 round is the little frame made as follows: 



Procure strips of wood 12 to 18 inches wide, and 

 as long as suits your purpose, and make boxes, 

 without top or bottom, to fit under your sash, 

 having the front board a little lower than the back. 

 A '12-inch board for the back and a 10-inch one for 

 the front will be about right. The sash I use is 

 10 feet long, and I find it a very convenient size. 

 If the whole thing is given a coat of paint it will, 

 of course, add to the durability of the box. 



Such a frame has many uses. Starting in spring, 

 there are a dozen or more of the early vegetables 

 that can be pushed along just by placing these 

 little frames over them in the row, and the late 

 frosts that usually catch the first sowing of beans 

 can now be laughed at. In early summer they will 

 be found just right for cucumbers and the several 

 kinds of melons, successfully bringing them through 

 their delicate early stage and being quite a hin- 

 drance to their man)' insect enemies. 



During the extreme heat of mid-summer, it 

 sometimes seems as if transplanting were out of 

 the question, but by using the frame and a cotton 

 cloth or other substitute for the glass, it is done 

 safely with no danger of breaking delicate plants. 

 Later, there may be a row of lettuce or some other 

 vegetable that is liable to be injured by the first 

 fall frosts. 



About November rst, when it seems as if the 

 frames had paid for their "board," I take them 

 up, clean, and do any necessary repairing, and 

 put them over the fall-sown sweet peas, which 

 I sow every year in September and winter over 

 four or five inches high. They are in flower in 

 early May, and one year were of sufficient merit 

 to win a special prize at a flower exhibition. 



Massachusetts. Frank M. Ryan. 



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