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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1913 



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Have You a Little Greenhouse In Your Home? 



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A Cypress Greenhouse owned by C. C, Converse, Maiden, Mass. 

 Lord & Burnham built it more than 30 years ago— it is still in prime 

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The wet and dry, cold and hot, 

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 sash-bars leak the heat you 

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 also concrete benches break under 

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with scale-killing strength lime-sulphur. Not a 

 leaf of the apparently tender young greenery 

 scorches. Delphiniums like it as a beverage. A 

 well cleaned bed that is liberally dosed with this 

 delicious compound in spring cannot develop 

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The Approach of Winter 



WHEAT, rye and oats are paying crops, as well 

 as soil enrichers. They supply humus, of 

 which the soil in the South is usually deficient; 

 they also tend to exterminate diseases. Therefore 

 I very strongly recommend that wheat and oats be 

 planted now on black root or cotton wilt infected 

 soil. These are also among the cheapest crops to 

 grow; they can be produced with less work than 

 any other. Prepare the soil thoroughly, breaking 

 it fine and even so as to keep down weeds. 



Harvest rutabagas during the month. Store the 

 same way as you do sweet potatoes. See last 

 month's reminder for full particulars. 



Sow more turnips, mustard and kale. Continue 

 to plant onion sets for main crop. Store winter 

 squashes and pumpkins. 



Sow seed of lettuce now; also beets and carrot. 



White potatoes may be planted in Florida, 

 cabbage plants set out in the open, and tomatoes 

 sown in hotbeds. 



Clear the vegetable garden of all rubbish and 

 plow it; let in a few hens while you are plowing so 

 that they can catch the insects. 



Sow cabbage seed in coldframes. 



Keep the stables filled with bedding material, 

 such as leaves and straw, as this is the principal 

 season for making compost to enrich the soil. 



It is a good time to start blanching collard leaves. 

 The Garden Magazine for June 1908, page 290, 

 tells how to do it. When blanched they are almost 

 equal to best cabbage. 



A few horseradish roots may be planted during 

 this month. 



Remember: The fruiting of some vegetables 

 may be lengthened by protecting them from light 

 frost that is likely to occur about the middle of 

 this month. 



Onion seed may be sown in coldframes in the 

 Middle South, in hotbeds in the upper South, and 

 in the open ground in the lower South for trans- 

 planting. In the lower South, when sown in the 

 open, there may not be any need for transplanting. 



Be sure to sow a few sweet peas during the month. 

 Sow again in the spring and note the difference in 

 the plants and flowers. 



Hardy violet beds may be started now. A good 

 collection of violets is well worth while and is easy 

 to grow, more especially if started at this season 

 of the year. 



Do not forget to take in the plants for house 

 decoration before the frost gets them. 



Seed of pansies may also be sown now in cold- 

 frames. 



This month is good time for planting iris; if you 

 can give these a moist spot they will do well. 



Continue to set strawberry plants and fruit and 

 shade trees. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



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