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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



MELONS FOOD 



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This Mellin's Food baby, when 6 1-2 months old, weighed 191-2 lbs. Her 

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Mellin's Food will do just as much for your baby, and we should like to send 

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[In this department we invite suggestions from amateurs con- 

 cerning anything connected with the home garden. If you have 

 worked out the ideas, so much the better. We offer a five-dollar 

 bill for the best suggestion that comes to us each month. Address 

 Suggestions Department, The Garden Magazine, ijj East 16th 

 Street, New York, N. Y.J 



HPHERE is a crisp, new five-dollar bill 

 A waiting for Mr. C. L. Brown who 

 sent the best suggestion of the month, but 

 failed to give his address. Mr. Brown's 

 letter follows: 



"I think an agricultural paper which 

 could publish something besides 'hot air,' 

 which could give comprehensive, reliable, 

 information thoroughly covering the subject 

 it pretends to write about concisely, instead 

 of filling up space with taffy and useless 

 verbiage would be a great success. I at- 

 tribute Prof. Bailey's success or present 

 reputation to his work in this direction when 

 he wrote his " Horticulturist's Rule-Book." 



"Why not get some competent person to 

 compile a list of common vegetables with 

 the information tabulated about like sample 

 enclosed ? I presume your readers would 

 prefer such a table made for a garden to be 

 planted and cultivated either by hand or 

 by a wheel hoe rather than by horse-power. 

 I think it would be particularly instructive 

 for some good practical man to state as to 

 each vegetable what the ordinary yield would 

 probably be from say each ioo feet of row. 

 This might enable your readers to have 

 some basis from which to estimate and plan 

 their garden." 



Mr. Brown's plan ,s not given here as it is 

 the same general thing as the "Planting 

 Table for Vegetables" and "Planting Table 

 for Flowers" published in this number, 

 which had been prepared before Mr. Brown's 

 letter was received, but his scheme sug- 

 gested several specific improvements which 

 have been incorporated at our request by 

 the authors of those tables, and it is for these 

 improvements that the award is made. Will 

 Mr. Brown please step up and accept our 

 thanks? 



Sow Celery in April 



FOR a continuous supply of young celery 

 plants for the late summer, fall and 

 winter crops, sow seed the first week in 

 April, and every two weeks up to June 15th. 

 A celery plant once checked or stunted is 

 really not worth planting as it is almost sure 

 to "bolt." Sow seeds in boxes having a 

 mixture of well-rotted hotbed manure and 

 good garden soil, two inches deep. Sprinkle 

 the seed evenly on the surface — ten seeds to 

 the square inch. Press dowm with a board and 

 barely cover with fine sand. Press down again 

 and water with a fine hose. Place in a cool 

 greenhouse and transplant as necessary. 



