The Garden Magazine 



Vol. I.— No. 4 



Published Monthly 



MAY, 1905 



I One Dollar a Year 

 1 Ten Cents a Copy 



The Gardener's Reminder 



PAGE 



. 169 



The Calendar of a Back-yard Garden . 



H. C. Scbaub 170 



The Experience of a Vine-Clad City 



Daniel V . Casey 172 



Thinning and Transplanting Vegetables 



E. L. Fullerton 174 



Asparagus for the Home Garden . 



Francis Hope 177 



Photographs by A. Radclyrtc Dugmore 



A California Maze . . Charles S. Aiken 178 



• Photographs by Arnold, Del Monte 

 A Flower Garden that Costs Ten Dollars a 



Year L. Sollman 179 



Celery for the Home Garden Barry Loring 180 

 inihelm Miller, Editor Cover design 



A Six-Dollar Water Garden . 



William Macfarland 182 

 Quality Fruits for the Home Orchard 



5. W. Fletcher 183 



The Pearl Achillea . . M. G. Kains 187 



Photograph by F. A. Waugh 



New Points in Raising Cardinal Flowers . 187 

 Photograph by Henry Troth 



Natural Aids against the Asparagus Beetle . 187 



A Garden of Wild Flowers in a City Yard 



Florence H. 'Beckiuilh 188 



Flowers in the Tulip-bed Before the Tulips 



Bloom . . . . J. N. Gerard 189 



How to Grow China Asters for a Prize Com- 

 petition . . . . . . .190 



Photograph by J. Horace McFarland 



Dress and Tools for Women Gardeners . 192 



by Henry Troth Doubleday, Page £5 Company, IJJ 



A Box for Fumigating Plants and Storing 



Bulbs .... Ida M. Angell 194 

 Photograph by the Author 

 Home-made Devices for Transplanting Veg- 

 etables and Flowers . . . .196 

 Important Work in May . . E. P. Felt 200 

 A New Remedy for Squash Bugs . 



H. J. Baldwin 202 

 Hot Water for the Cabbage Worm 



H. L. Palmer 202 

 Home-made Kerosene Emulsion . . . 202 



A Sweet Brier Hedge .'.... 204 

 Wistaria not Flowering .... 204 



Are Coal Ashes Any Good ? . . . . 204 



Why Everyone Should Have a Separate Place 



for Cut Flowers ..... 206 



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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.] 



When Everything Needs to Be 



Done at Once 



TF frost threatens, cover tender vegetables 

 -*- and flowers with empty dry goods boxes, 

 peach baskets, bits of cloth, old carpets or even 

 newspapers. Rake the litter back upon the 

 strawberry patch if the plants are in blossom. 

 Spray plants with cold water from the hose 

 at dusk. Put board screens or miniature 

 fences on the north and east sides of newly 

 transplanted vegetables. Early next morn- 

 ing see if anything important is touched by 

 frost. If so, cover it from the sun and let 

 it thaw out as slowly as possible. 



BEFORE DANGER OF FROST IS PAST 



Sow seeds of tender vegetables if soil is 

 warm and mellow. The important ones are 

 beans, corn, cucumbers, eggplants, melons, 



okra, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet potato 

 and tomato. None of these young plants 

 can stand even a light frost. 



Plan and plant veranda boxes. 



First thinning and transplanting of vege- 

 tables and flowers. Write your labels at 

 night and mark on the labels the distance 

 apart plants should stand when thinned or 

 transplanted. 



Buy the bedding plants you want from 

 your local florist — pansies, scarlet sage, 

 verbenas, petunias. Better omit the coleus. 



AFTER THE DANGER OF FROST IS PAST 



Transplant tender vegetables and flowers 

 from hotbed to garden. 



Set out bedding plants, if you must have 

 them. But think twice. Don't you really 

 want something less gaudy and more per- 

 manent, e. g., hardy perennials? 



Finish second thinning of everything in the 

 garden. Transplant celery the second time. 



Why not can some asparagus? 



BIG THINGS TO WATCH FOR 



Jack Frost. 



First signs of cabbage and cauliflower in- 

 sects; also currant worms. 



The moment when the petals fall in the 

 orchard. Then you want to spray. 



DELIGHTFUL JOBS 



Divide perennials and share the increase 

 with your neighbors. 



Start a wild garden, but don't take things 

 without asking permission and don't dig up 

 rare wildflowers and orchids. 



Send a few seeds to some one at your vaca- 

 tion home, even if it is in the far north. 

 Fresh camp-grown lettuce, radishes and 

 young onions can be had in the wilderness. 



Make bird houses for friends of the 

 garden. 



Get a toad. He is the best insect killer of 

 them all. A toad is worth twenty dollars 

 to a garden. (See Government bulletin.) 



MEAN, NASTY JOBS 



Spray fruit trees and berry bushes with 

 a combination of Paris green, or some other 

 arsenical compound, and Bordeaux mixture. 

 See March number of this magazine, page 7 1 



About May 20th put whale-oil soap on 

 rose bushes. 



The last week of May give liquid manure 

 to roses. (See April, page 127). 



Dust cabbage leaves at nightfall with 

 pyrethrum powder. (See March, page 69.) 



Spray cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels 

 sprouts with the resin-lime mixture (pages 

 69, 71, March) twice before worms appear. 



PLAIN HARD WORK 



Who is going to do these things anyhow? 

 Will you hire extra labor and get ahead of 

 the game for once? 



Make paths and borders neat. 



Provide poles for beans. 



Keep ahead of weeds. 



Dig dandelions out of the lawn. (You 

 can boil them for greens.) 



Make veranda boxes. 



Cultivate strawberries for the last time and 

 mulch them just before they bloom. 



