The Garden Magazine 



Vol. I. -No. 1 



FEBRUARY, 1905 



j One Dollar a Yiar 

 t Ten Cents a Copy 



page 

 The Gardener's Reminder . ... 9 



The Best Irises . . Neltje TBlanchan 10 

 How to Plan the Vegetable Garden . . .12 



Edith Loring Fullerton 

 All the Foxgloves Worth Cultivating . . 15 



F . A. Waugh 

 Originality in Gardens . L. H. "Bailey 17 



The Training and Pruning of Grapes . . 18 



John Craig 

 From Dining-Room to Tropics . . .21 



Photograph by Henry Troth Frank H. Presby 



How to Kill the San Jose Scale . E. P. Felt 22 

 Photographs :: Frgs. 36-39 and 41 by-Profs. Lowe and 

 Parrou; 40. and- 44 by j. Horace McFarIand;"42 and? 

 43 by Prof: W. E. Brittorr. 



PAGE 



The Best Evergreen Trees for the Northern 

 United States . . . Henry Hicks 24 



White pine decoration, from photograph by Henry 

 Troth 



Why Hardy Plants Die in Winter, and How to 

 Save Them ..... 



What Coldframes Are Good For and How 

 Make Them ..... 



The Problem of the Wooden Fence 

 How to Buy Fertilizers . 

 Greenhouses Costing $100 to $350 . 

 Gardening Without Backache 

 Flowering Trees and Shrubs . 

 The Famous Georgia Collards 

 The Cultivation of Collards. t. 

 The Southern Gardener's Reminder 



A New Reason Why Roses Should Be Ordered 

 Early ...... 



Cheap Spraying Outfits for Home Gardens 

 A Boston Fern with Fronds Eight Feet Lon 

 The Very Earliest Flowers 

 Forcing Rhubarb and Asparagus Without 

 Expense ...... 



What to Do with Bulbs After Blooming . 

 Inoculating the Soil .... 



More Enjoyment and Less. Work. . . 

 A Successful Home Fruit Garden. . . 



Wilhelm Miller, Editor Cover design by Henry Troth Doubleday, Page C3° Company, IJj~l37 East 16th St., Ni 



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[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York 

 city is generally taken as a standard. Allow six 

 days' difference for every hundred miles of latitude.] 



The Five Most Important Things 



PLAN" your garden; make a diagram. 

 Send for catalogues now. Order 

 seeds, plants, and tools now, if you want 

 better goods for the same money. 



Study fertilizers, and decide what you 

 want, where to get it, and how much to pay. 



Resolve to kill the bugs this year. Study 

 spraying, and get your spraying outfit now. 

 Don't put this off till March. See the new 

 department, "Killing the Bugs." 



Build a coldframe and a hotbed. 



OUTDOOR WORK IN THE NORTH 



On pleasant days, prune apple-trees and 

 grape vines. See article by Professor Craig. 



Mulch strawberries and the hardy border 

 if they were not covered in the autumn. 



Manure the lawn, or, better still, scatter 

 bone-meal on the snow; it harbors no weed 

 seeds. 



Haul out manure to the vegetable garden 



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as fast as it is made, or else keep it under 

 cover and fork it over every week. 



Plan any grading or draining you have 

 in mind. Time will be too valuable for 

 this next month. 



Remove roots and stones. Possibly the 

 stones may help to make a good rockery. 



Unless you have previously spread manure 

 on the ground beneath the vines, shrubs and 

 evergreens, do it now. 



HOW TO RAISE EARLY VEGETABLES 



Make or buy a hotbed before February 1st, 

 and you can have home-grown radishes in 

 February. A crop can be raised in twenty- 

 one days if you know how! 



If you want fresh vegetables in May, sow 

 any time in February in hotbeds the follow- 

 ing seeds, in order to have strong young 

 plants to set outdoors April 15th or when- 

 ever the danger of severe frost is past: 



Early cauliflower, if you want the most 

 delicious member of the cabbage tribe out 

 of season. 



Kohlrabi, one of the good things the Ger- 

 mans appreciate and we don't know. Looks 

 something like an above-ground turnip, but 

 tastes better and has a flavor of its own. 



Lettuce, next to radishes, the easiest and 

 quickest crop. Will make heads in cold- 

 frames by May 1st. 



Leeks, if you want to have savory soups. 



If you care for young onions, crisp and 

 tender, now's the time! 



Tomatoes may gain a little on the season 

 if transplanted into pots and kept pot-grown 

 until settled weather (end of May), then 

 turned out of pots into the open garden. 



If you like a salad plant with a "tang" to 

 it, try endive, and tie up the plants so they 



blanch. When you once acquire the taste, 

 nothing else will do. 



FLOWERS WITHOUT A HOTBED 



Sow now in flats in the home window the 

 following flower seeds: 



To make the autumn red, scarlet sage or 

 salvia. 



To fill gaps in the hardy border, single 

 dahlias. 



For hanging-baskets, the cigar plant 

 (Cuphea Llava). 



If you want it at all, now is the time to 

 start ageratum. 



For May bloom indoors, ten weeks' stock 

 (Matthiola inc'ana, var. amwna). 



To cover permanent bulb-beds after the 

 spring flowers are gone, try verbenas. 



For edging the garden walks, tufted 

 pansies. If sown now, they will bloom all 

 summer. 



For a trailing-vine for a veranda-box, 

 the variegated periwinkle {Vinca minor, var. 

 alba or aured). 



If you want an annual vine en your perch 

 before the permanent ones are large enough 

 to cover it, try Cobcea scandens. 



For a part of the grounds where you want 

 a big mass of ecler in September try cosmos, 

 and tie it to chicken wire. 



For large specimen plants in twelve-inch 

 pots for hall and porch decoration, sow 

 seeds of cup-and-saucer Canterbury bells. 



For a summer bed on the North side cf a 

 building, where there is plenty of air and 

 diffused light without strong winds or direct 

 sunlight, try tuberous begonias. 



If you want a white-leaved fcliage plant 

 for a flower bed, sow seeds now cf one of the 

 dusty millers. 



