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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1911 



The Motor Maid 



By C. N. and A. M. Williamson 



Authors of " The Lightning Conductor," "My Friend the 



Chauffeur," etc. 

 You cannot conjure up a more charming panorama, or a 

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"Set in Silver." $1.50. 

 "The Chaperon." Illustrated. $1.50. 

 "The Princess Virginia." Illustrated. $1.50. 

 "Lady Betty Across the Water." Illustrated. 

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This year I am thinking of having bins made 

 for my potatoes. They will be raised a foot from 

 the floor, and the boards in the bottoms of the 

 bins will be placed an inch apart, and the same 

 on the sides, so as to admit plenty of ventilation. 



Connecticut. Julie A. Powell. 



Make Your Lawn Now 



MARCH is a month when one often does those 

 things which either bad weather or the 

 weakness of the flesh has prevented doing earlier. 

 In many seasons it is the last opportunity to get 

 good results in planting trees, shrubs and roses 

 and is generally considered the best time of the 

 year for putting in the tender Australian trees. 



Except in cool coast counties, sweet peas can- 

 not be relied upon to do much if put in after this 

 month, but many of the hardy annuals may con- 

 tinue to be sown in March and April for succes- 

 sional bloom and the more tender kinds raised 

 in boxes for filling in later on. Perennial plants 

 should now be set out and old clumps of the later 

 flowering kinds, such as sunflowers, Shasta daisies, 

 phlox and Japanese anemones, should be divided 

 and replanted. 



In the vegetable garden continue sowing the 

 hardier kinds for succession, but except in frost- 

 less localities do not set out melons or tomatoes, 

 or sow corn until April. Globe artichokes may 

 now be increased by separating offshoots and 

 replanting about three feet apart. This is a vege- 

 table which is really so decorative as to merit 

 a place in the flower garden where its great deep- 

 cut, gray-green leaves form striking groups and 

 blend particularly well with adjacent plantings 

 of such blue flowers as larkspurs and lupins. 



Keep the weeds down with the hoe and, when- 

 ever the ground is not sticky, cultivate it to retain 

 moisture as long as possible. Where you have an 

 adobe soil do not pay to have your coal ashes 

 carted away, but dig them into the soil — not that 

 they possess any fertilizing qualities, but because 

 they loosen the soil and improve its physical con- 

 dition. Of course manure and vegetable refuse 

 of all kinds will do the same and enrich the land 

 as well. 



March, also, is the best spring month for lawn 

 making, but suggestions on this topic have already 

 been given in the December, 1910, number. 



Don't be in a hurry to propagate your chrysan- 

 themums or dahlias, or to sow your cosmos seed. 

 These are fall flowers and do best when they bloom 

 in the cooler months of September, October and 

 November. 



One fall flower to be raised from seed now 

 is the fine hybrid pentstemons. From seed 

 sown in February in boxes, transplanted once and 

 then put in their permanent places in early June, 

 I had the most beautiful corner in my garden, for 

 they began blooming in late August; and in mid- 

 December, after a couple of rains and some frost, 

 the plants were still bright and gay with their lilac, 

 pink, rose, crimson and scarlet flowers, many of 

 them with white throats and picotee edges rivaling 

 gloxinias in size and' color. With their tall spires 

 they do for the autumn garden what their relatives 

 the foxgloves do in spring and, while dwarfer than 

 these latter, they far excel them in range and 

 purity of colors. Pentstemons may be considered 

 hardy perennials on the Pacific slope, but I believe 

 the best results are obtained by sowing each year, 

 and merely retaining the old clumps over one winter 

 so as to get early bloom from them. 



California. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



