The Garden Magazine 



Vol. I —No. 3 



Published Monthly 



APRIL, 1905 



j One Dollar a Year 

 ( Ten Cents a Copt 



The Gardener's Reminder .... 105 



Small Fruits for the Home Garden 



Peter S. Whitcomb 106 



Planting-table for Vegetables E. L. Ful/erton no 



The Best Flowering Shrubs W. E. Pendleton 114 



Photographs: Figs. ra4, r.17 and I4Q, by F. A. Waugh ; 

 146, 148, by Henry Troth; 145, by O. V. Lange 



Planting-table for Flowers Leonard Barron 117 



The Best Tall Perennials Thomas Me Adam 119 



Photographs by Henry Troth, except Fig. 152 by A. 

 Radclyffe Dugmore, and 155 by F. A. Waugh 



Planting the Home Fruit Garden 



5. W. Fletcher 122 



How to Grow Roses Out of Doors 



Aaron IVard 126 



Photographs by Henry Troth, except r8z by J. Horace 

 McFarland, rSi by E. Lee Ferguson, 185 by H. C, 

 Tibbitts, and 187 by F. C. Kendall 



Willi elm Miller, Editor 



Is the Summer Hyacinth Any Good? 



M. G. Kains 130 

 Dried Bush Limas for Winter Use A. R. M . 130 



Three Thousand Plants of Golden Glow in 



Four Years at No Cost . J. S. Reed 131 



Photograph by J. Horace McFarland Co. 

 Artistic Color Combinations with Perennial 



Flowers ...... 132 



How Much Seed to Plant for a Family of Six 



C. E. Hunn 132 

 Fruit Enough for a Family of Six for Table 



Use and Canning . . C. E. Hunn 132 



The Dishrag Gourd or Vegetable Sponge . 133 



Photographs by Helen Lukens Jones 



Vines for the Cellar Window Ida M. Angell 133 

 Cacti That Are Really Hardy 



D. M. Andrews 134 

 Outfits of Tools for Home Gardens . . i-jj. 



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Vines That Bloom for a Month M. G. Kains 136 

 How to Buy Potash for the Home Garden 



•Blanton C. Welsh 138 



How to Fertilize for Asparagus and Rhubarb . 140 



Suggestions ....... 142 



Sow Celery in April ..... 142 



Getting the Poison Ready . E. P. Felt 144 



The Lawn in April ..... 146 



Two Flowering Raspberries Without Prickles 



D. M. Andrews 14S 

 Sweet Peas from June 15th to November 1st . 



Leslie Hudson 150 

 Why and How You Should Whitewash Peach 



Trees . . . . . . .152 



Are There Any Hardy Cyclamens? . . '54 



Garden Publications . . . . 156 



Four-Leaved Water Clover George V. Nash 158 



Cover design by Henry Troth 



Doubleday, Page cjf Company, 133-137 East l6tb St., New York 



I9C5, BY DOUBLEDAY. PAGE A COMPANY. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. JANUARY 12, 1905, AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK, N.Y.. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS. MARCH 3, 1879 



[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.] 



How to Save Time, Worry, and 

 Work in the Busy Season 



THERE is absolutely only one way: 

 Plan every detail before the ground 

 is fit to work. 



You will get more and better vegetables, 

 and more fun too. 



Do it evenings before April ioth. 

 Check off the items on this list as fast as 

 you get them done. 



INDOORS BEFORE APRIL 1ST 



i. Plan the garden; draw a diagram. 



2. Order seeds, plants and tools. 



3. Solve the fertilizer problem. 

 ,1. Get complete spraying outfit. 

 5. Buy or make a hotbed. 



6. Look over roots in cellar. 



7. Clean and sharpen the tools. 



8. Plan better vegetable and root cellars. 



9. Get canning outfit, 

 to. Write all labels. 



OUTDOORS BEFORE APRIL 1ST 



II. 



12. 

 IS- 



14. 



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with 



Clean up! 



Fertilize, roll and repair lawn. 

 Any grading or draining? 

 Prune fruit trees and grapes. 

 Train berry plants. 



16. Spray fruit trees and bushes 

 lime-sulphur before buds open. 



17. Fertilize asparagus and rhubarb. 



18. Mulch strawberry bed. 



19. Plant deciduous trees and shrubs. 



20. Plant hardy roses. 



21. Sow sweet peas. 



22. Sow a few seeds of peas and corn. 



23. Get pea brush ready. 



OUTDOORS ON APRIL I5TH 



(or whenever land is fit to work and before 

 danger of frost is past). 



24. Plow or dig the garden ; rake it. 



25. Sow seeds of all hardy vegetables. 



26. Sow seeds of all hardy flowers. 



27. Divide and replant perennials. 



28. Prune tender roses. 



29. Spray roses with whale-oil soap. 



30. Transplant hardy vegetables 

 hotbed. 



from 



32. Start cannas by April ist. 



t,^. Harden everything in hotbeds. 



WHAT NOT TO DO 



Don't prune early flowering shrubs until 

 after they bloom. If you do, you throw 

 away a lot of flower buds. 



THE "LUCKY" MAN'S GARDEN 



The man of forethought will now enjoy: 



By April ioth, asparagus and rhubarb 

 forced under a barrel outdoors by the aid of 

 fermenting manure. 



By April 30th, the first asparagus and 

 rhubarb from the garden. 



Parsley from the cellar window. 



Radishes and lettuce from the hotbed. 



Spinach, if started in January. 



Pansies, violets ard daisies from cold- 

 frames. 



TRY THIS MArXi 



I5TH 



HOTBED DOINGS 



ji. Sow tender annuals before April 1st. 



Sow the earliest varieties of peas ar_;i corn 

 the first day frost is out of tl. s soil. On frosty 

 nights protect the young plant'' Ath news- 

 papers or anything handy, suppose you 

 fail. What of it? It's fun, and who can't 

 afford to lose ten cents' worth of seed? 

 You can fail three times this season and still 

 get peas and corn two weeks before the 

 croakers! The chances are 'you will beat 

 them by a month. The Fullertons have 

 done this for four years without having to 

 cover a single plant! They use the Golden 

 Bantam corn. 



