The Garden Magazine 



Vol. I. -No. 2 



MARCH, 1905 



I One Dollar a Year 

 t Ten Cents a Copy 



The Gardener's Reminder 

 The Making of a Hotbed 



page 

 • 57 

 H. "Barry 58 

 A Beginner's Experience with Hotbeds . 



Julian Burroughs 60 

 A Sudden Transformation in the Boston Public 

 Gardens . . . . . .62 



Photographs by The J. Horace McFarland Co. 

 Pruning the Home Orchard . S. IV. Fletcher 64 

 A Victorious Campaign Against the Insects 



E. L. Fullerton 68 



Twelve Suggestive Home Gardens . . 72 



Photographs by Henry Troth, except 105, 106, 116, by 

 R. B. Whyte, and no by C. H. Thompson. 



Gaining a Whole Month Albert 1{.. Mason 74 

 inihelm Miller, Editor Cover design 



PAGE 



Alpine and Iceland Poppies . W . M. 75 



Better Fruit and Vegetable Cellars A. %. M. 76 



Uncommon Vegetables Worth Knowing — 

 Vegetable Marrow . . /. M. A. 76 



A New Way of Killing the San Jose Scale 



E. P. Felt 76 



The Flowers Shown on This Month's Cover — 

 Ixias . . . Henry Maxwell 77 



How to Raise a Second Crop of Flowers in the 

 Bulb Bed . . Thomas McAdant 77 



The English Ivy as a Ground-Cover Under 

 Trees . . . IF. E. Pendleton 77 



PAGE 



The Art of Lawn Making . F. A. Waugh 78 



Photograph by The J. Horace McFarland Co. 

 How to Buy Nitrogen for the Home Garden . 



•Blanton C. Welsh 80 

 Pruning Roses . . . . . .84 



A New Way to Render Tomatoes Immune 

 from Disease . . . . S. Fraser 86 



Training Berry Bushes . . . . .88 



Why Evergreens Should Be Massed Instead of 

 Planted Singly . . . . .90 



A Garden Book for Children . . .90 



A Plant for the Office Window . . .92 



Forcing Twigs in the Home Window . . 92 



by Henry Troth 



Doubleday, Page & Company, 133-137 East i6tb St., New Tori 



GARDENER'S^ 



[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 One Important Thing 



START early vegetables and flowers. 

 Start them in shallow boxes in the 

 kitchen window sill. 



Start them in a hotbed, if you have one. 

 If not, make one. 



Start them anywhere, but do it now, and 

 beat your neighbors. Why not have fresh 

 vegetables in May instead of July ? 



HAVE YOU NEGLECTED THESE THINGS ? 



i. Have you sent for catalogues? 



2. Have you manured the lawn, the straw- 

 berry bed, and the hardy border ? 



3. Have you studied the fertilizer problem ? 

 Do you see just how to get bigger crops than 

 you ever had before? 



4. Have you "read up" spraying, planned 

 a campaign against insects, and invested in 

 a spraying outfit ? Or will you" let the bugs 

 get the best of you this year ? 



Copyright, loos, by Doubleday, Pa^e & Company 



POTTERING CHORES DOWN CELLAR 



Make the fruit cellar better, and have it 

 separate from the vegetables. 



Look over potatoes, celery, vegetable 

 roots, dahlias, cannas, gladiolus, and, if you 

 are fortunate enough to have any, apples 

 and pears. 



Clean the rusty tools, sharpen the hoes; 

 fix a new and attractive place for the garden 

 implements. Mark a place for each one 

 on the wall, if you like, so that nothing will 

 be lost or misplaced. If you haven't a 

 wheel-hoe, you are behind the times! Get 

 one now, and get enthusiastic about the 

 best new garden-tool of the last century! 



THE GREAT SPRING CLEANING 



Clean up, burn up, bury and hide. 



Plant sweet peas. 



Rake, fertilize and roll the lawn. See the 

 Lawn Department. 



Prune fruit trees and hybrid perpetual 

 roses. 



Tie up vines on the porch. 



Train your berry bushes. 



Put nitrate of soda and common salt on 

 asparagus and rhubarb beds. 



THE HARDIEST VEGETABLES 



Sow outdoors toward the end of March 

 the earliest varieties of these cool-season 

 crops: Beets, carrots, leeks, onions, peas, 

 potatoes, radishes, spinach and early turnip. 



GROWING TENDER PLANTS WITHOUT GLASS 

 PROTECTION 



About March 15th, uncover bulb beds and 

 the hardy border. Leave the mulching 

 material handy, so that you can replace it if 



there is danger of a freeze. Most people 

 uncover too early or too late. Uncover early 

 and do all you can to gradually harden the 

 tender young shoots. Read in the Bulb 

 Department how the beautiful flowers on 

 this month's cover are grown without glass 

 protection in Massachusetts. 



THE GREAT HOTBED MONTH 



Read the first two articles and find out 

 how to make a hotbed. 



Sow. early varieties of beans, beets, Brussels 

 sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, 

 cress, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, parsley, 

 parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach 

 and early turnips. 



A hundred miles south of New York city 

 sow the heat-loving vegetables: melons, pep- 

 pers, cucumbers, egg-plants and tomatoes. 



NEWS FROM THE SOUTH 



(Latitude of Richmond.) 



Everything doing and all at once! The 

 planting season is in full swing. Every one 

 is sowing seeds outdoors of all the hardy 

 vegetables. Under glass, gardeners are sow- 

 ing the hot-season vegetables named above. 



People are planting Irish potatoes and 

 every other "root, bulb and tuber," aspara- 

 gus, rhubarb and onion sets. 



The happy owner of a hotbed is setting 

 out his carefully hardened plants of lettuce, 

 cabbage, cauliflower and onions. 



The mistress oversees the planting of her 

 herb garden. 



The bare spots in the lawn are being 

 sprinkled with blue-grass seed. 



Every one has packets of flower seeds and 

 every one seems happy. 



