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May, 1911 



By RUDYARD KIPLING 



Rewards and Fairies 



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Early Summer Reminders 



AS MID-APRIL often brings with it the last 

 useful rains of the season, the California 

 gardener has henceforth the additional task of 

 keeping his soil fairly moist and loose. If, com- 

 bined with tillage, coal ashes and vegetable refuse 

 of all kinds have been incorporated in his adobe 

 to loosen it up and manure added to his sandy 

 soils to make them more retentive, his task will 

 be lighter, but in any case from now on every 

 watering or irrigating should be followed by a 

 good surface hoeing so that the ground may 

 be stayed from losing its valuable moisture 

 by the tremendous evaporation of our warm 

 sunny days and may be properly aerated. A 

 dust or other mulch may often take the place of 

 many waterings. 



Recently sown annuals should now be thinned 

 out to several inches apart and seeds of poppies, 

 cornflowers, gypsophila and other transitory vari- 

 eties be put in for later flowers. Plant out now in 

 their permanent places the pentstemons, snap- 

 dragons, gaillardias and other plants raised in 

 boxes or frames, and when choice is possible avoid 

 very bright and windy days as they make the 

 move more hazardous. Tuberous begonias may 

 now go in cool north borders. 



Chrysanthemums can still be propagated, the 

 later started plants generally being considerably 

 dwarfer. Cannas, where they have grown into 

 matted clumps, had better be taken up now and 

 separated before replanting. True, they will 

 grow with absolutely no attention, yet they enjoy 

 it just as well as the rest of us. 



Dahlias enjoy so well the cool, foggy summer 

 weather of the Pacific Coast that they deserve 

 special notice. If the divided roots are planted 

 in May about six inches deep and a place marked 

 for the stake which is later to support the plants, 

 nothing more than an occasional drenching is 

 needed until the sprouts appear. If these are 

 numerous they should be reduced to one or two 

 and those left have their tops pinched out to 

 induce branching. Staking and watering is all 

 they ask after that, with a mulch of manure 

 and disbudding if you want fine individual 

 flowers. 



Where it is desired to increase the stock of any 

 variety, cover the old tubers with a layer of earth, 

 and when the shoots are produced take these off, 

 remove the lower leaves and put the resultant 

 cuttings into a nice sandy soil where they will 

 soon root if given some shade and water. In due 

 time they may be moved to their blooming place 

 in the garden. The flowers, if wanted for house 

 decoration, should always be cut early in the 

 morning or after sundown. 



In the vegetable garden the last things, corn and 

 melons, may now go in and, where water is avail- 

 able and the summers are not too hot, succession 

 crops of other vegetables, such as lettuce, radishes 

 and peas can also be sown. 



California. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



A Hardy Annual for Cutting 



THE basket flower (Centaurea Americana) is a 

 hardy annual that would be met with in gar- 

 dens more frequently were it bettter known. It 

 runs up to the imposing height of three feet or more 

 and the lilac blossoms, four inches across, are very 

 fine for cutting. The plant, which makes a bush of 

 picturesque form if given the necessary elbow-room, 

 is a native of the Southwest. A. C. A. 



