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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1914 



they grow; and start watering now with liquid manure to get growth. 



A COUPLE of sowings of beans should be made this month. 

 •^ Hill up the plants just as soon as they are large enough. 



Make a couple of sowings of beets and carrots during the month. 



Kale can be sown this month to provide greens for winter use; 

 it is of little use until it is frosted. 

 Vegetables Once a week is none too often to sow lettuce, as 



to Sow the pl an ts soon run to seed, and to sow in large 



patches is very wasteful. Lettuce should not be 



allowed to suffer from lack of water, and the slight shade from 



a strip of cheesecloth will be found very beneficial during hot 



weather. 



Radishes to be good must be young and tender. The only 

 way you can have them so is to sow once a week in small patches. 



Winter radishes and rutabaga can now be sown. The latter 

 when well grown (which means a fairly good soil and plenty of 

 water) is probably one of our best winter vegetables. 



'"pWO sowings of cucumbers should be made this month; some 

 of the fine grained English cucumbers can be grown in the 

 frames. 



If you haven't already set out an early patch of celery, do so 

 v , . at once. Late celery sown last month should now be 



pi pricked off into beds. If you haven't sown late celery 



it can be done at once. 



Late cabbage and cauli- 



flower should now be ready for 

 planting out from the seed 

 beds. Do not neglect this 

 until the plants become thin 

 and spindly. 



There is still plenty of time 

 to set out well developed 

 plants of eggplants and pepper. 



Better stop cutting aspara- 

 gus early; a good plan is to 

 stop when the peas come in- 

 to bearing; also ease up on 

 the rhubard bed now and give 

 a good heavy mulch of manure. 



Peas should be ready for 

 use early this month. Pick 

 the pods when the peas will 

 cook a deep green and are 

 juicy and tender 



If you wish to avoid eating 

 sand with the spinach, cut 

 the leaves instead of uproot- 

 ing the whole plant. 



Do not neglect to keep lima 

 and other pole beans properly 

 tied up until such time as 

 they are able to take care of 

 themselves. 



Give the strawberry bed 

 a mulch of clean, dry straw 

 or like material, to keep the 

 berries from getting sandy. 



Onions intended for ex- 

 hibition or where size is 

 desired should be fed freely 

 with liquid manure, and 

 plenty of nitrate of soda. 

 Keep the tomatoes tied to 

 the trellis and those that 

 are wanted early can be kept 

 well thinned, removing all 

 the lateral growth. 



CPRAY the fruit trees 



with arsenate of lead 



just as the blooms are falling. 



Remember to prune shrubs after they have flowered to provide new wood for next season. 

 This shows how the growth develops by August from pruning in June 



A couple of sprayings during the month with bordeaux mixture 

 will surely produce better fruit. If you consider two sprayings too 



Insects and many ' do ' xt but once ' but do not ne g le ct it entirely. 



Spraying Spraying is one of the important duties in the 



vegetable garden. There are many diseases that 

 may attack plants during this month, which are rather easy to 

 prevent, but very hard to eradicate. 



Use a fine spray of bordeaux mixture on all plants liable to in- 

 fection such as melons, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, celery, 

 tomatoes, etc. After the disease has a start, the only remedy 

 is to spray with ammoniated copper solution and pick off and 

 burn all diseased parts. 



For eating insects of all kinds use a poison. Arsenate of lead 

 is often preferred to paris green, because it shows on the plants, and 

 the gardener can see more easily how thorough the spraying is. 

 It is also not so liable to burn the foliage. 



If you haven't already done so, spray the elm trees with arsenate 

 of lead immediately for the elm beetle. If not done early in the 

 month there is not much use doing it at all till August. If you 

 have elms and won't spray them, there should be a law to compel 

 you to do so. 



If the weather is excessively dry and aphis appears on the maple 

 trees, spray at once with a good tobacco solution. Such a spray 

 is a wonderful preventive. 



Look out for the rose bug. Pick off all you' can and put them 

 in a pail of kerosene oil. Spraying is of no use as a remedy 



against this bothersome pest; 

 the rose bug must be hand- 

 picked. 



V\0 NOT neglect to cut 



the hedges. Remember 



that a hedge is improved only 



by cutting; once neglected, 



Pruning and Particularly at 



Trimming, etc. tbls season , of 

 the year when 



it is growing fast, it is a very 



hard matter to get hedges 



back into shape. 



The clipping of evergreens 

 should be attended to now — 

 boxwood, retinisporas, yews, 

 etc., which are used in formal 

 gardens. If this clipping is 

 neglected, the plants will soon 

 get ragged looking and bare 

 spots are the result of too 

 late clipping. 



Go right on pruning the 

 flowering shrubs immediately 

 after they flower, only be 

 sure that you don't cut plants 

 that will bear ornamental 

 fruit, such as the bittersweet 

 and strawberry shrub. 



Trees that were trans- 

 planted last spring or fall, 

 which are of any size, should 

 be kept watered if the weather 

 is at all dry; a little foliage 

 spray night and morning will 

 work wonders. 



If English ivy has been 

 partly winter killed and the 

 foliage is now unsightly, clip 

 it off, using a pair of hedge 

 shears. If you think this 

 treatment too severe, brush 

 off the dead leaves with a 

 broom. In doing this, you 

 are more liable to damage 

 the vines than by clipping. 



