The Garden Magazine 



Vol. X— No. 4 



Published Monthly 



NOVEMBER, 1909 



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REMINS1R 



[For the purpose of reckoning dates, New York is 

 generally taken as a standard. Allow six days' difference 

 for every hundred miles of latitude.] 



Gain a Year Right Now 



YOU will certainly lose a year on bulbs 

 unless you plant them now. 



The chances are that you will lose a year 

 in the development of your place if you put 

 off planting trees, shrubs, vines, and fruits 

 until spring. For vegetables and flower 

 seeds have to be sown then, and those jobs 

 alone are enough to keep one busy. The 

 only way to avoid the spring rush is to do 

 all the gardening you possibly can in the fall. 



More plants are killed by dry summers after 

 late spring planting than by winter cold after 

 fall planting. Therefore, plant all woody 

 stock now, except evergreens and stone 

 fruits. 



The fall planting season for trees, fruits, 

 shrubs and vines is all too short. Normally 

 it begins with the fall of the leaf and lasts 

 until the ground freezes. It can be extended 

 by getting northern trees early in the season, 

 or by planting as soon as frost ripens the 

 leaves enough for the nurserymen to strip 

 them off. 



When in doubt, ask the Readers' Service 

 Department. 



Before November ist 



PLANT hardy bulbs for outdoor bloom 

 as soon as possible. After the first of 

 November they deteriorate. 



If you want flowers indoors all winter there 

 is not a day to be lost. Order your bulbs 

 as soon as possible. The longer time they 

 have to root the better the flowers. 



Under the trees where grass will not grow, 

 naturalize daffodils, crocus, snowdrops, and 

 scillas. Plant them by the hundred where 

 they can multiply without care for years. 



Don't plant lilies in the spring. Order 

 them now and plant them as soon as you 

 can get well-ripened bulbs. 



Start now to grow your own Christmas 

 presents — Roman hyacinths, Chinese sacred 

 lilies, and Paper White narcissus. 



Enjoy the autumn colors to the utmost 

 by visiting a large nursery where you will 

 find many beauties not represented in the 

 landscape or in your own garden. 



You can save a lot of work, when natural- 

 izing bulbs, if the ground is moist. Have 

 everything in readiness to take advantage 

 of the autumn rains. 



A complete greenhouse can now be bought 

 for $250. A coolhouse costs less to maintain 

 than a hothouse. In a coolhouse (45 degrees 

 at night) you can grow chrysanthemums, 

 sweet peas, pansies, violets, mignonette, and 

 gladioli, but not roses. 



Get your pumpkins for Hallowe'en and 

 Thanksgiving. 



Get all the leaves you can and compost 

 them. Leaf mold is worth $2.00 a load or 

 more for improving the soil. Study how 

 to get the most and best for the money. Oak 

 and chestnut are best; elm and maple poorest. 



Divide large clumps of perennials and 

 rearrange plants in your hardy border accord- 

 ing to a definite color scheme. 



You can have four-foot branches of 

 autumn leaves at Christmas by putting them 

 now into drygoods boxes filled with hot 

 sand. 



Gather bittersweet for winter as decora- 

 tions while the leaves are on. 



November ist to 15th 



ATTEND a good chrysanthemum show 

 and note the varieties you want, in- 

 stead of ordering blindly from a catalogue. 



If you wish to force asparagus or rhubarb 

 for Christmas now is the time to begin. You 

 can do it in the cellar. Some of the seeds- 

 men sell roots especially suited for this. 



If you are eager to get the earliest sweet 

 peas prepare a place for them now. Also 

 try fall sowing on a small scale. 



The greatest planting month in the South 

 is January, but it ought to be November. 



You can have violets all winter for $5 by 

 making or buying a coldframe. Can't you 

 buy plants cheap now in your locality? 



You can now fight San Jose scale with 

 stronger solutions than in the summer. 



Field mice do $3,000,000 of damage a year. 

 They eat almost every kind of bulb or root, 

 and are very destructive to fruit trees. Do 

 not mulch your beds, borders and trees until 

 the ground has frozen a little and the mice 

 have found winter quarters. 



Now is the time for all permanent improve- 

 ments, such as road-making, fencing, grad- 

 ing, draining, thinning woodlots, fertilizing, 

 liming, tree-mending, making walks, etc. 



American houses are too hot and dry for 

 flowers. The remedy is to get a small green- 

 house. Even renters can afford them now, 

 for there is a portable greenhouse that costs 

 no more than a piano. 



Mend your own trees, or hire a tree doctor. 



Florists are now sowing seeds of sham- 

 rock for St. Patrick's day. 



Does your garden contain honesty? If 

 not, you can get the beautiful satiny seed pods 

 from some old-fashioned garden about this 

 time. 



Bayberry candles for Christmas! Gather 

 the berries now. 



Don't cover your lawn with manure all 

 winter. It costs more than it comes to. 

 There are far more effective ways of fer- 

 tilizing. The manure dries and the dust 

 blows into the house. Weed seeds are intro- 

 duced. There is little food in manure, 

 anyhow, and most of it is wasted when the 

 lawn is covered with manure in winter. 

 It is unsightly, also. Spend your money on 

 bone meal in April, or nitrate of soda or 

 wood ashes. 



The Latest Fashions in Gardening 



V\/ILD gardening seems to be the most 

 * ^ remarkable movement of the times. 

 Each year it takes on new features. Last 

 year there was a great demand for the 

 autumn crocus. This year people are plant- 

 ing wild and run-wild tulips, especially 

 sylvestris, Gesneriana and Didieri. 



"Rifts" are now considered more artistic 

 than broad, irregular masses. Daffodils and 

 other bulbs for naturalizing are preferably 

 planted in long, rather narrow patches. 



Much money is now spent on winter 

 features for city homes, especially large 

 evergreens and shrubs with brightly colored 

 bark and berries. The movement for win- 

 ter beauty has not affected the great estates 

 since . they are occupied only in summer. 



"Sun parlor" is now considered an objec- 

 tionable phrase. "Sun room" is preferred. 

 And the tendency is to turn bare sun rooms 

 into conservatories or greenhouse living- 

 rooms. 



The "landscape forester" is the newest 

 expert to be employed by owners of great 

 estates. A landscape forester thins out 

 crowded woods and turns them into beau- 

 tiful groves somewhat like English parks. 



Several New York houses are now being 

 roofed with glass. Mr. E. H. Harriman had 

 a sort of outdoor sleeping room on the roof 

 of his New York house, using greenhouse 

 construction. Mr. N. F. Brady has a billiard 

 room under glass on the roof. Dr. Thomas 

 Gaunt has a greenhouse on his roof for a 

 child's playground. 



