Vol. I.— No. 6 



Published Monthly 



JULY, 1905 



(One Dollar a Year 

 I Ten Cents a Copy 



Contents 



PAGE 



The Gardener's Reminder .... 265 



Water Gardens for Everybody 



Thomas McAdam 266 



Photographs by Henry Troth and F. A. Waugh (by 

 courtesy of Vermont Experiment Station) 



Spinach and Other Greens . Barry Loring 270 



Shall I Till, Pasture, or Mulch the Orchard? 



S. W. Fletcher 273 



Easing the Summer Work E. L. Fullerton 276 

 Wtlhelm Miller, Editor 



A Garden Worth a Hundred Dollars 



Charles A. Hartley 279 

 Plant Roses in July for Christmas Bloom 



Leonard Barron 2S0 

 Raising Hollyhocks from Seed Sown in July 



E. O. Orpet 282 

 My Practical $500 Greenhouse Irivin Mann 282 



PAGE 



E. P. Felt 28+ 



Three Crops of Vegetables from the Same 



Ground IV. Scott 284 



Cover design by Henry Troth 



San Jose Scale on the Move 



Good Ways to Eat Strawberries James IFood 284 



How to Buy Phosphoric Acid J. S. Cates 286 



Cheap English Books on Amateur Gardening 290 



Strawberries After Fruiting .... 292 



How to Get Rid of Black Ants . . . 294 



Why Some Daffodils Don't Flower . . 294 



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A Surprising Notion 

 1~AID it ever occur to you that you might 

 M-J own a little greenhouse? 

 I Isn't it astonishing what can be done for 

 $500? What a lot of pleasure the owner 

 of that snug little outfit on page 282 must have 

 all winter when there is nothing growing 

 outdoors! 



Which would you rather have — a green- 

 house or a piano ? They cost about the 

 same. Shall we confess that we aren't 

 smart enough to have both? Work harder 

 and rest harder. Why think of a green- 

 house on June 15th? You want a week to 

 convince your wife, two weeks for the plans, 

 and a month to execute them — in order to 

 get things started in time for a Christmas 

 flower show. 



Five Stimulating Thoughts 



I. THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP AHEAD 



Hire extra help in hot weather! It is false 

 economy to postpone this question. Home- 

 grown vegetables are not, as a rule, cheaper 

 than the grocer's. The only point in a 

 garden is to have things better than you can 

 buy. You cannot trust yourself to do the 

 hard manual labor in hot weather. Hire an 

 ignorant man to do the routine work of July — 

 hoeing, weeding, thinning and watering. 

 Have you ever known the joys of being 

 ahead and keeping ahead ? Perhaps not in 

 your business, but you can do it in the garden. 

 It is the prettiest game there is. 



II. MASTERING SUCCESSION CROPS 



"There are no seeds to plant in July." 

 Everybody will tell you this offhand. They are 

 the folks who have commonplace gardens. 



There are nineteen vegetables worth 

 planting in July: Beans, early peas, corn, 

 endive, cucumber, pumpkin and squash, 

 beets, carrots, corn salad, cress, gherkin, 

 kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, nasturtium, okra, white 

 French turnip and rutabaga. 



As fast as crops mature put in something 

 else. Do not waste a day. Read the article on 

 page 2S3, tell your man what to do and your 

 garden will be a wonder in September and 

 October, when most gardens "peter out." 



III. MASTERING THE INSECTS 



Most gardeners distinguish two kinds of 

 insects — "bugs" and "worms" — and their 

 only thought is to kill. Wherefore they are 

 a purblind set, miss a lot of fun and have 

 ordinary vegetables. If you hire a man 



you can study the life histories of every 

 creature in the garden and your eyes will 

 be opened to a wonder-world. Read pages 

 68, 22, 284; and you will have your insect 

 problems solved before your neighbor knows 

 what is eating up his garden. 



TV. MASTERING TOOLS AND FERTILIZERS 



You can get thirty cents' worth of work 

 out of a man whom you pay fifteen cents 

 an hour by supplying him with a wheel hoe. 

 Is he wasting your time with poor tools for 

 hoeing, weeding, thinning and watering? 

 Read those Fullertonaceous schemes for 

 fooling the drought and fattening tomatoes 

 on page 276. 



Is your garden backward ? If it is not a 

 great success right now you want to get a 

 dollar's worth of fertilizer to-day. Or, 

 better still, read page 236 (June), bless the 

 writer and act quickly. 



V. A GARDEN DIARY WORTH WHILE 



Every spring a million garden diaries are 

 started. They all quit in hot weather. That 

 is because dates aren't the main thing. 

 Annals are the dullest part of history. > 



Why not start on a new principle — study 

 some one thing worth while each month. 

 Visit the best collection you can and note 

 the best varieties in some one group — e. g., 

 peonies, German iris, sweet peas, Japan* iris, 

 lilies, larkspurs, hollyhocks, rhododendrons, 

 water lilies, plums or cherries. 



SOMETHING TO ENJOY 



Examine the yucca flowers at night for the 

 little white moth, without whose help it would 

 be impossible for the yuccas to make seed. 



