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I! you wish to systematize your business the TUT? rjARDTTM MAftAZTNR 

 Readers' Service may be able to offer suggestions 1 n Hi <J A ±t U .E, IN 1V1 A VJ A Z; 1 iN £; 



November, 1911 



Your Best Insurance 



against accident when driv- 

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Rayo Driving Lamps are fur- 

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Dealers everywhere ; or 

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 of the 



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SOVTHERN 



Winter is Coming! 



SPADE up the vegetable and flower garden 

 during the month so that frost can kill the 

 insects and the soil is in better condition to hold 

 the winter rains. Fall turning of the soil is also 

 helpful in controlling root diseases. 



Rake up and burn all dead stalks and vines. 

 Disease germs and insect eggs are apt to lurk in 

 garden refuse. 



If you did not practice rotation of vegetables 

 and flowers, plan to do so another season. Corn 

 should be planted after beans and peas, and cabbage 

 after corn; beans and peas after cabbage, onions 

 after peanuts or melons, and squashes after potatoes. 



Continue to plant early spring-flowering bulbs 

 and set out strawberry and blackberry plants. 



Sow seed of sweet peas during the month. 

 Deeply spade the soil, working in a good quantity 

 of rich horse manure. 



During November and December plant out 

 asparagus roots. The richer the soil, the better 

 will be the results. Asparagus is easy to grow and 

 thrives best in a deep, sandy loam. Palmetto is 

 probably the best variety for the South, although 

 Giant Argenteuil is very highly recommended by 

 some of the Southern seedsmen. 



Horse radish and rhubarb roots may also be 

 planted out now. 



Don't forget to sow some seed of mustard, kale, 

 and spinach for winter greens. Also sow the seed 

 of cabbage and lettuce in coldframes in the Middle 

 South and in the open ground in the Lower South . 



Remember this is the month for frost. There- 

 fore be prepared to protect eggplants, pepper, and 

 tomato plants, and thereby make the vegetables 

 last a few weeks longer. 



Cotton fields affected with the wilt disease or 

 black root should be sown in oats, rye or wheat, 

 and when the crop is cut, sown again with iron cow 

 peas and sorgum. This will help to keep down the 

 disease next season. 



Remember to sow small grain now in that section 

 of the South which is subject to the wilt disease 

 or black root. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Wintering Primulas 



I HAVE wintered the Alpine auricula {Primula 

 auricula) very successfully by covering the 

 plants lightly with leaves and then making a roof 

 of a few corn stalks, laid across two low supports, 

 to keep the snow from packing the leaves so much 

 as to rot the foliage. Even seedlings only an inch 

 high stood the winter all right. I was careful, 

 of course, to plant them above the level of the 

 garden walk — a good rule for all primulas. 

 Connecticut. A. C. A. 



Alpine auricula {Primula auricula) has curiously 

 dainty flowers and needs only light winter covering 



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