The Garden Magazine 



Vol. I.— No. 5 



Published Monthly 



JUNE, 1905 



( One Dollar a Year 

 i Ten Cents a Copy 



The Gardener's Reminder 



217 



Better Strawberries Than You Can Buy 



James Wood 218 



Some Unusual Vegetables Worth Growing 



E. L. Fullerton 222 



Prune Your Own Shrubs Leonard Barron 225 



The Summer Care of Palms W . E. Pendleton 227 



Unconventional Veranda and Window Boxes 



Daniel V . Casey 228 



Gardening by Proxy Gertrude L. Whitlock 230 



Seven Weeks of Lilac Bloom John Dunbar 232 



IVilhelm Miller, Editor Cover design 



A Quarter-acre Pickle Garden 



Mary Frances IVright 242 



Singular Facts in the Cultivation of Oriental 



Poppies ...... 248 



The Lemon Cucumber . Hugo Erichsen 250 



Water from a Copper Roof Is Safe . . 252 



Rose Beetles, Squash Bugs and Asparagus 



Beetles . . . . E. P. Felt 234 



Late Planting of Dahlias Assures September 



Bloom . . . Leslie Hudson 235 



How to Make and Use an All-round Fertilizer 



A. Vinton 236 

 Tuberous Begonias for Bedding in Shady 



Places ....... 237 



Some Practical Baskets for Garden Use . 



M. L. B. 238 Making a Hemlock Hedge 



The Morning Glory as a Weed . . . Growing Specimen Evergreens 



' ' Swiss Chard an Excellent Vegetable Worth 



Four-leaved Water Clover . . . .240 Canning . . . . B. W . B 



Photographs by Henry Troth 



by Henry Troth 



Big Damage Done by Mice 



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COPYRIGHT. 1905, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGEi 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 



H 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.] 



June Resolutions 



The man writes in his diary : "I promise 

 myself I will pitch into the hard jobs first, 

 and amid all distractions I propose to con- 

 centrate on these things: 



"I will have a neater place than ever. 



"I will positively keep ahead of the weeds. 



"I will beat the insects for once. 



"I will master the art of pruning shrubs. 



"I will resolutely thin vegetables and 

 flowers and have the best of everything." 



The wife: "And I'll agree to can more 

 strawberries, cherries and some vegetables!" 



LAST CALL FOR THESE ! 



It is not too late to sow in June for the 

 first time the vines — cucumber, pumpkin, 

 squash, muskmelon and watermelon. 



Nor to sow late cabbage and cauliflower. 



Nor to set out plants of tomatoes, egg- 

 plants and peppers. 



Get a hive of bees. 



TO MAINTAIN A CONSTANT SUCCESSION 



Be sure oj these first — 



Plant evergreen corn in early June for 

 September use. Toward the end of June 

 plant early and late corn the same day, the 

 latter on a chance for October. 



Plant beans every ten days in May and 

 June. Refugee Wax the best for late summer. 



Sow lettuce every ten days. The black 

 seeded varieties resist heat best. 



Sow beets for winter use. 



Less important, hut — 



Think how good it would be to have a con- 

 stant succession until frost of beets, carrots, 

 cucumbers and endive ! 



Endive is the natural hot-weather substi- 

 tute for lettuce; New Zealand spinach and 

 summer radishes for the common varieties. 

 Sow endive three times in June and once in 

 July; the others once. 



THE FRUIT GARDEN 



Cultivate trees and bushes and apply wood 

 ashes. 



Cut out old and dead wood of bushes, train 

 the rest and pinch out tips of young shoots 

 when two and a half feet high, so that they 

 will make compact bushes next year. 



Jar plum and cherry trees in the early 

 morning when the curculios are torpid and 

 let the chickens eat them, or you will have 

 wormy fruit. 



Spray all fruit trees and berry bushes once 

 or twice in June with the Bordeaux-arsenate 

 compound — never while trees are in bloom. 



If a strawberry plant collapses dig up the 

 hill and kill the white grubs. 



Pinch off suckers from fruit and orna- 

 mental trees. 



Pinch out lateral growths of grapevines to 

 one or two eyes, so that all clusters will have 

 a chance at the light. 



If you see gum or sawdust near the base of 

 peach or plum trees dig out the borers, or 

 they will kill your trees. 



A "SQUARE DEAL" FOR PERMANENT CROPS 



The things that do the most for us we do 

 the least for — especially trees and shrubs. 

 As fast as they flower we ought to prune, cul- 

 tivate, fertilize and mulch every one. The 

 mulch may save watering them in drought. 

 For example, we ought to cultivate, feed and 

 mulch asparagus, strawberries, roses and 

 lilies-of-the-valley as soon as they have borne 

 their crops for us. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN 



The big chores are thinning, weeding, cul- 

 tivating and watering. 



May 15th to June ist plant out bedding 

 plants and fill veranda boxes. 



Many people plant dahlias and cannas 

 about June ist. 



June 20 plant some gladiolus in shrubbery 

 for late September flowers. 



Plant out house azaleas and rhododen- 

 drons. Plunge the pots to the rim in a half- 

 shaded situation and water often. 



Take cuttings of chrysanthemums for 

 November bloom indoors. 



Lift bedding or April-blooming tulip bulbs 

 and store in cellar to ripen. 



When the outdoor rush is done repair 

 greenhouse shelves and benches, clean pipes 

 and boilers, and make all joints tight. 



Pick young pods daily and you will have 

 more flowers. 



