GARDEN plans were worked out last 

 month. Now go a step further by 

 deciding on what you intend to plant. Send 

 for a seed catalogue from some good reliable 

 house and choose the seed. 



Mark with lines on the garden plans the 

 rows of vegetables you intend to put in. 

 Suppose you intend to put a row of radish 

 the full length of the plot. The plot is 

 twenty feet long. Then you must have seed 

 enough to plant a 20-foot drill. The fol- 

 lowing table will help you in estimating 

 amount of seed. 



Name 



Hills or Drills 



A mount oj Seed 





. Hills . 



1 qt. for 100 hills 



Beets . . . 



. Drills . 



1 oz. " 50 ft. 



Carrot . . 



. Drills . 



1 oz. " 100 ft. 





. Hills . 



1 qt. " 150 hills 



Lettuce . . 



. Drills . 



1 oz. " 120 ft. 



Parsley . . 



. Drills . 



1 oz. " 150 ft. 



Radish . . 



. Drills . 



1 oz. " 100 ft. 



Squash . . 



. Hills . 



1 oz. " 50 hills 



It is not a bit too early to buy seed. Later, 

 when the rush comes, you may not be able 

 to get what you choose when you wish it. 

 Another thing to remember is this, that it is 

 rather the best plan to choose one variety 

 of a certain seed and stick to it. 



This is going to be a very busy month. 

 I'd advise you children reading over the 

 monthly reminder on the first page of the 

 magazine. What the grown-up gardeners 

 have to do, we have to do also. 



OUTDOOR PLANTING 



As soon as the ground is workable both 

 garden and sweet peas may be put in. To 

 plant garden peas dig a trench six inches 

 deep. Drop two seeds in together, placing 

 one pair about three inches from the next 

 pair. As the peas grow, fill soil into the 

 trench. Trenches should be about three feet 

 apart. Thin the seedlings out later, if 

 necessary. The ground for peas should be 

 light and moderately rich. No manure 

 should be used unless it is fine and well- 

 rotted. 



"Brush" the peas, that is give them a sup- 

 port of brush to twine upon. Do this when the 

 peas are about an inch above ground. Brush 

 with a great many twigs on it is the best to 

 use. If the variety you have chosen does 

 not grow more than two feet high, then 

 you may do away with brush. 



To plant sweet peas, dig the trench the 

 same as for garden peas. Then sow the 



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'S GARDENS EVERYWHERE 



THIS IS THE LAST MONTH FOR INSIDE 

 PREPARATIONS; HAVE READY FOR OUT- 

 \ DOOR WORK ALL PLANS, SEEDS, TOOLS, 

 EVERYTHING— EVEN TO TOMATO 

 SEEDLINGS. DO NOT PUT OFF THESE 

 THINGS; THERE IS NO TIME BUT NOW 



Conducted by 



ELLEN EDDY SHAW 



New York 



seed thickly in this trench. Later thin out 

 the plants to two inches apart. Fill the 

 earth into the trench the same as for the 

 other peas and put in some brush before the 

 seeds start up. 



Unless you have a place fully and freely 

 exposed to the sunlight, do not plant peas at 

 all. For without direct sunlight these plants 

 will not thrive. 



The soil should be rich; made so by 

 plenty of well-rotted manure. 



Of course you are looking for abundant 

 bloom ? Then keep the blossoms well picked 

 and let no seed pods form. 



INDOOR PLANTING 



It is an excellent time to start indoor plant- 

 ing. That is, to plant those things you wish 

 to get a good start before the ground is ready 

 to work. 



The question next comes up of what seeds 

 we shall start indoors. It is not necessary 

 at all to start certain seeds like beet and 

 nasturtium, for example. It pays to start 

 pansy seed, verbena, salvia, aster, stock, 

 ageratum, petunia, lettuce, radish and 

 tomatoes. The lettuce and radish had far 

 better be planted in the hotbed, if you have 

 one; otherwise leave the radish entirely for 

 outdoor planting. For schools, inside plant- 

 ing had better wait until after spring vacation. 



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When starting with the indoor-box, plant 

 most seeds a half-inch deep in furrows about 

 one inch apart. The pansy and verbena 

 seeds plant nearer the surface than one-half 

 inch. As the seedlings grow, thin out and 

 transplant into another box. If the little 

 seedlings are left in too crowded a condition 

 they will grow yellow and spindling. Look 

 out for this. 



COLOR SCHEMES FOR FLOWER BEDS 



Some of you might like to try flower beds 

 of but one color. If blue be a favorite color 

 of yours, try a blue bed this season. A yellow 

 one might please you. In planning such a 

 one-color bed there are certain points to hold 

 in mind. One point is height, another is 

 combination. You may exclaim, straight- 

 way, "combination of one color!" Surely; 

 certain hues of yellow may clash badly, 

 while others be perfectly harmonious. Do 

 you see ? 



Suppose you choose a blue bed. Let us 

 pretend it is to be a strip of land alongside 

 of an old fence. Use the fence as a back- 

 ground, planting morning glories against it. 

 Now you have a blue and purple combina- 

 tion to start with. What shall come next? 

 Something tall, but not such a high grower 

 as to come above the top of the fence. 

 Neither are those plants desirable which 

 grow so bushy that glimpses of morning 

 glory flowers cannot be caught through the 

 foliage. Cornflowers, do you say ? All right. 

 Let us hunt up the height to which these 

 grow. We find the height to be twenty- 

 four inches. Now, if you hunt up variety 

 and color carefully it is possible to get an 

 aster of a rather light blue, not a purple, 

 but just off the purple. There is a little 

 plant often used for borders called ageratum. 

 It has a bluish flower, too. Ageratum grows 

 eight inches high. How do you like your 

 blue garden? 



Another blue combination, a little more 

 rare, would be purple foxglove which grows 

 about three feet high and either blue Can- 

 terbury bells or larkspur, bordering this with 

 a lower growing purple aster. 



Some one wishes a yellow garden. This 

 is not a narrow strip with a fence as a back- 

 ground, but just an oblong, ordinary-shaped 

 garden spot. You might like marigolds as 

 a mass through the centre. These have not 

 only yellow but heavy orange shades in the 



