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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



MichelFs Distinctive Grass Seeds 



How thick and velvety a lawn you have de- 

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Circular No. 7 of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, March, 1910, speaking of San Jose scale, 

 says: "The Lime-Sulfur Wash, either home-made or commercial, and the soluble oil sprays are the most 

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Gardening in Florida 



WHEN I first went to Florida gardening was a 

 puzzle, nor can I say that it is fully ex- 

 plained as yet. I found after awhile, however, that 

 we were to plant not all things at one time, but 

 some things nearly every month. The wet season 

 is the summer and the dry season the winter of the 

 South. During this dry season irrigation must take 

 the place of showers; that is, from November first 

 until the first of June. It would be folly to under- 

 take to grow sweet potatoes in the dry season. 

 I also found that we were to plant a good many 

 things to hit the Northern market — that is, get 

 into New York and Boston ahead of Georgia and 

 Virginia with our strawberries and our cabbages 

 and lettuce. 



For these reasons we plant potatoes in January; 

 our first celery we put in in October or a little sooner; 

 the next planting in January and the next in April. 

 Melons are planted in March or April, and we be- 

 gin to harvest them the last week in May, although 

 last summer I had watermelons from June 1st to 

 September 15th — muskmelons will cover even a 

 longer period. With extra care there is no reason 

 why they should not be had until November. 



My chief trouble is that there is, for me, no way 

 of marking the seasons. I have to think before 

 I know whether it is summer or winter. I found 

 a peach tree in blossom in September, evidently 

 getting ready for 191 2; not a mere bunch of 

 flowers out of season, as an apple tree will some- 

 times break out in the North, but the whole tree 

 coming into blossom. 



Clearly it had forgotten the time of the year. 

 When I first reached the state, about November 

 1, 1910, there were several peach trees in my or- 

 chard in bloom, and they went on to set their fruit 

 in midwinter. Some of these gave me ripe fruit 

 in March. The loquats act a little sheepish about 

 their work, blossoming from July to January, but 

 they do not undertake to set fruit from their early 

 blossoms. They go on flowering till the proper 

 time comes, and then the trees will be loaded with 

 pear-like golden fruit — unless about that time a 

 frost nips them. How this fits in with excess of 

 bloom I do not know; but it is true that the same 

 bush will blossom twice as long in Florida as in 

 Massachusetts. The Judas tree, which in the 

 North never thinks of more than three weeks' 

 florescence, here goes from one solid bloom into a 

 second, and the leaves impatiently begin to develop 

 before the flowering is ended. Crepe myrtle, 

 which is our Southern lilac, blossoms over and 

 over again for three months, completely covering 

 its bushes with pink or purple or white. 



Wild flowers have to take their turns as they can. 

 After a very close succession of lavender and blue 

 flowers, in which there is a wild pea fully the size 

 and glory of a sweet pea, the partridge pea lifts 

 itself up and covers whole counties with its brilliant 

 and beautiful shades of red and yellow. All under 

 the pine woods this sensitive foliage shrinks from 

 touch and from rain drops. A legume, like most of 

 the rest, it is part of Nature's provision for fat- 

 tening the soil. All through the year this succes- 

 sion of wild plants and flowers crowds, crowds 

 crowds. The little lakes are rimmed with yellow 

 and then with white and then with purple. Oranges 

 blossom in March, but they are not satisfied and 

 blossom more or less in May. The lemon has a 

 monthly growth, and each month's growth has its 

 own flowers and fruitage. Mulberries do not 

 continue fruiting on the same tree month after 



