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June, 1911 



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LATE COMERS ENCOURAGEMENT "Never Too Late ToMend" 



If you arrive late in the season at your country home and find your garden unsuitable and vacant looking: 

 don't wait another year, — it is never too late to plant Palisades Popular Perennials. Besides the large 

 field clumps we send out, we have for LATE COMERS pot grown perennials that can be planted as late 

 as June, without experiencing any change or setback. 



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Visitors always welcome at our Nurseries, where they can make 

 selections from more than a thousand varieties of Hardy Plants. 



A perfect picture in your garden to last for years willbethe resultif you 

 allow us now to plan a scheme, whether of contrasts or of harmonies. 



Our "Artistic" Border, ioo ft. by 3 ft., costs $25.00 only, for 300 plants, freight charges included. Consider what is "saved" by this 

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CLOVER SEED 



How much clover seed can be raised to the acre? 



Arkansas. W. W. D. 



— An average yield of clover seed is one to two 

 bushels per acre, although five to six bushels are 

 sometimes obtained. The second crop of clover 

 is the one that is used for seed, because the first- 

 crop heads are seldom well filled out. For seed 

 purposes the clover should be cut when the heads 

 or blossoms are well browned or ripened. 



HARDY BULBS 



Why is it necessary to lift hardy bulbs every 

 year and store them over winter? 



Wisconsin. J. H. F. 



— The reason for taking up hardy bulbs every year 

 is that the standard of quality may be kept up 

 by sorting out the flowering size each year for 

 replanting. They may, of course, be left in the 

 ground if one wishes to do so, but they are apt to 

 get too thick and the size of the blossoms conse- 

 quently decreases and new, or offset, bulbs may 

 not flower at all! 



RENOVATING NEGLECTED APPLE 

 TREES 





I have on my farm a few seedling apple trees 

 which have been neglected and are full of suckers. 

 Would it pay to trim, fertilize and graft them? 



Vermont. F. M. B. 



— It certainly would be profitable to treat the 

 trees in the way suggested. The method of doing 

 this depends on the size of the trees. If they are 

 small, top work the whole tree. All the nursery 

 stock of named apples is formed from common 

 seed stock grafted over with the named varieties. 

 By all means, try the experiment. Read "The 

 American Apple Orchard," by F. A. Waugh. 



COAL ASHES 



When coal ashes are suggested for lightening 

 the soil, should hard or soft coal ashes be used? 



Iowa. H. L. A. F. 



— It does not really matter whether the ashes are 

 from hard or soft coal. There is more or less 

 sulphur in any ash, but in well-burned ash, most of 

 the volatile matter has been driven off. The 

 amount of phosphoric acid and potash in coal 

 ashes is very small, and therefore they have little 

 value as a fertilizer. Soft-coal ashes contain more 

 potash than those from hard coal, but it is held in 

 such a firm combination as to be of but little 

 value to the soil. 



APPLES FOR ALL YEAR 



I want to plant an apple orchard in Connecticut; 

 what varieties shall I use? 



Connecticut. G. H. L. 



— For early apples, plant Benoni, Bough, Chenango, 

 Early Harvest, Early Joe, Garden Royal, Golden 

 Sweet, Jefferies, Maiden Blush, Porter, Red 

 Astrachan, Williams, Yellow Transparent. Mid- 

 season varieties: Dyer, Fall Pippin, Fameuse, 

 Gravenstein, Mother, Oldenburg, Rambo, Tomp- 

 kins King, Wealthy. Late: Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Bailey, Baldwin, Esopus, Grimes, Hubbardson, 

 Jacob Sweet, Jonathan, Mcintosh, Northern Spy, 

 Tolman, Wagner, Yellow Bellflower, Sutton. 



BULBS NOT BLOOMING 



Narcissus and jonquils planted a year ago last 

 fall bloomed freely and satisfactorily last spring; 

 but this spring, although they came up thriftily, 

 there were only two or three blooms. What was 

 the cause of this and how can I prevent its re- 

 petition? 



Kansas. J- A. E. 



—The reason that your bulbs did not bloom 

 freely this spring is that you planted fully de- 

 veloped "mother" bulbs which, after flowering, 

 broke up into smaller bulbs. These will have to 

 be grown on for a few years before they again attain 

 flowering size. If bulbs are planted very thickly — 

 that is, so that they crowd each other — they are 

 inclined to split up and in this case, also, the flower 

 is lost. Bulbs planted too deeply will not flower 

 either. The best way is to plant them from two 

 to four inches deep, according to the size of the 

 bulb, putting a little sand in the bottom of the 

 hole for the bulb to sit on. 



