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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service is prepared to 

 advise parents in regard to schools 



May, 1911 



Saves 

 Cold 

 Storage 

 Charges 



Combines 

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 and 

 Usefulness 



Store Your Winter Garments in Your Own Home 

 Order a Piedmont Red Cedar Chest 



At this time of the year the thoughts of every woman turn towards sending her 

 winter garments, especially furs, to a cold storage plant. It is costly and oftentimes 

 inconvenient to have your clothes stored away from home. 



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We will send you a Red Cedar Chest or Chifforobe on 15 days' approval. If you 

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n, j •% j g<, j fl 'ft I Combine the best features of a Chiffonier and a Wardrobe. 



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Our elaborately illustrated catalog shows a wide range of Chests and Chifforobes to 

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Use this label and know where, when and what 

 you planted: no more weather-beaten, lost or 

 destroyed labels — send for circular. 



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How Everyone Can Grow 

 Muskmelons 



WHEREVER you can depend upon three 

 or four months of warm weather without 

 frosts you can surely have melons. Plant be- 

 tween May 10th and June 20th, according to the 

 locality, in almost any well-drained soil, but 

 rich sandy soils give the best results. 



Although it is not always necessary, melons 

 seem to grow better on hillsides (the southern slope 

 is best) and if they are much exposed to the wind 

 a few rows of "corn planted closely as a windbreak, 

 on the north and west sides of the patch, will give 

 good results in earliness. The hills should be 

 made six or eight feet apart. Take out six or 

 seven spadefuls of earth, so as to make the hill 

 about two feet wide, and leave a little loose earth 

 in the hole; put in three shovelfuls of very rich 

 manure — say two of hen manure and one of 

 well-rotted barnyard manure and mix this very 

 thoroughly, using the spadefork. Tramp it down 

 and cover with one or two inches of earth. Good 

 results will also be had if only barnyard manure 

 is used. 



The hill is now ready. Plant ten or fifteen seeds, 

 cover with one to two inches of earth and pack 

 down with the feet or hoe if the earth is not too 

 damp. 



When the plants are up they should be dusted 

 with dry wood ashes while the leaves are slightly 

 damp, to ward off the striped beetle. Bordeaux 

 mixture will also often prevent the be tile and also 

 certain blights from attacking the vines. The 

 earth should always be kept loose and free from 

 weeds until the vines begin to run, when they 

 should be thinned out to three or four plants in 

 a hill, and afterward disturbed as little as possible. 

 The horse cultivator will be found very useful 

 if it is possible to use it. 



It is often difficult to tell when watermelons 

 are ripe; the little curl which sticks out at the 

 beginning of the stem of each melon, will usually 

 indicate by completely withering whether the 

 melon is ripe or not. Muskmelons will drop 

 from the vine into the hand when ripe. 



Fordhook Early, Halbert Honey, and Kleckley 

 Sweet surpass most other watermelons in flavor, for 

 this part of the country, the first especially rivals 

 the small Coles Early for earliness. 



The salmon-fleshed Emerald Gem muskmelon 

 is about as sweet as can be found; also the Yellow 

 Meated Japan, which will sometimes grow as heavy 

 as eight or ten pounds. 



Connecticut. Henri Wickenden. 



Instead of Labels 



THE confusion arising from the loss of labels 

 so well described in the article on trial 

 gardens by Mrs. Francis King, in the December, 

 1910, Garden Magazine, is easily obviated by 

 making a plan or map of your planting. This 

 may be made on ordinary wrapping paper with no 

 tools other than a pencil or pen and a foot rule, or 

 it can be as elaborate as your skill permits. A 

 scale of one-fourth inch to the foot is a good one, 

 permitting the writing of the name directly on the 

 space corresponding to its position in the case of 

 any number of the same kind being planted to- 

 gether, but where only one of a kind is planted 

 a good way is to mark the plan with a circle inside 

 of which is placed a number. These numbers and 

 the names for which they stand may be listed at 

 one side of the plan or in a notebook kept for the 

 purpose. 



For use outdoors I find it handy to tack plans 

 to a thin board of similar size. Then they are 

 not damaged by being folded or blown away by 

 the wind. 



Such a plan will not only act as an exact 

 record of all plantings but will help in arranging 

 harmonious groups. If a notebook is kept in 

 connection with the plan it may also be used to 

 record dates of blooming and other information 

 regarding the individual plants. When sowing 

 seed I save the envelopes and mark the same 

 number on the empty envelope and on a label to 

 be put with the seed. 



Massachusetts. H. D. P. 



