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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1910 



Childs' Gladioli 

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Pole Beans Till October 



FROM one planting of seed, we have found 

 that we can have plenty of pole beans until 

 frost. The secret is to keep the ground always 

 moist, and to pick the pods as soon as they are large 

 enough to cook. The vines shown in the photo- 

 graph, which was taken October 15th, are green and 

 thrifty, and full of blossoms and beans. The 

 beans were planted May 20th. 



The variety grown is the Golden Butter Pole, 

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These pole beans were planted May 20th. In 

 October the vines were still full of blossoms and 

 giving a good crop of beans 



ever heard of. Side by side with four other varieties 

 it has excelled all in quantity and quality. The 

 Kentucky Wonder did not do well, while Improved 

 Kentucky Wonder was a flat failure. 



Massachusetts. Ella M. Beals. 



A Lucky Hazard in Asters 



THE soil in our garden has seemed for years to 

 have a grudge against china asters. Each 

 year we have hoped for success, but the plants whose 

 tops escaped the ravages of the blister beetle suc- 

 cumbed to the treacherous red ants and green 

 aphis at their roots. A vigorous, full budded plant 

 in the morning would be discovered withered 

 in the evening and its roots covered with the 

 clinging, malodorous green bugs. Every corner 

 and bed in the garden was tried, until last season by 

 a fortunate chance success was attained. 



We realized then that asters need shade; in the 

 cool planting -out days of May one forgets the burn- 

 ing heat of the August sun, when even irrigation 

 trenches filled at night won't save the plants if the 

 glare has been pitiless and scorching all day long. 

 But the plants need sun in their early growth for 

 full development. 



Last year some potted plants of Truffaut's Peony 



