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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1912 



DIBBLE'S FARM SEEDS 



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POTATOES 



CORN 



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31 varieties, best early, medium and late. Over 

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four varieties that we have found to be best for crop and the silo. 



We offer the product of 300 acres of the choicest corn we have ever 



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Dibble's Farm Seed Catalog, the leading farm seed book of the year, beautifully illustrated and truth- 

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 culture written by our Mr. Dibble absolutely 



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Dahlias 



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Grow Dwarf Apple Trees 



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75c worth for 25c 



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Aster White Ostrich Plume. 

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Perilla Nankinertsis. 

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Gold Medal Peonies 



THE Massachusetts Horticultural Society awarded 

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If the ground is ready, plant early and gain this 

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E. J. SHAYLOR 



Wellesley Farms - Massachusetts 



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ward, droop them here in such a way as to shade 

 their own roots. To this Nature adds a simply 

 indescribable superfluity of creeping plants. These 

 cover every square inch of the soil, and being al- 

 most always legumes, they put nitrogen into the 

 ground. If plowed under they make humus with 

 immense rapidity. 



Everything in Florida should be mulched. No 

 tree should ever be planted without a heavy dressing 

 of pine needles or other waste stuff. This must be 

 renewed frequently, and the old stuff gradually 

 worked into the soil as more humus. Composting 

 is, of course, a necessity. Compost your muck 

 with lime, compost your legumes and every par- 

 ticle of vegetation that will rapidly decompose, 

 only always add lime. The velvet bean grows 

 fifty feet in a season, and cowpeas fifteen; inviting 

 frequent cuttings for hay, while the balance can be 

 plowed under late in the season. Florida is the 

 greatest hay state in the Union, yet two thirds 

 of the hay that is used is imported, simply because 

 the people have preferred to grow something else. 

 New grasses are being tested, and some of them are 

 proving very satisfactory. 



Of insect enemies we have the curculio and the 

 peach tree borer, and some others with which we 

 are familiar in New England. With these we have 

 unfortunately the root gall, and in a very bad shape. 

 The grape leaf-folder has a capacity for mischief 

 that I hardly ever saw equalled. The gopher or 

 ground squirrel is a fellow of amazing shovel power, 

 who puts his talents for mischief out at interest. 

 He is a real squirrel, with pouched cheeks, only 

 he does his work underground. Sober old turtles 

 of a foot in diameter lug themselves around our 

 gardens, tramping a good deal, and eating our 

 sweet potato vines. Two or three years of garden- 

 ing will, however, pretty nearly get rid of both 

 gophers and turtles. 



On the whole gardening in Florida is full of 

 promise for an energetic and studious person. He 

 must be willing to learn and he must be willing 

 to work; then he has his crops ready for the 

 Northern market ahead of any other possible 

 supply. If he grows for home he can have about 

 everything that can be used, while his chickens 

 are at work over the fence on one side, and bees 

 on the other side. The migrant, I mean the person 

 who regularly spends his winter in Florida, if he 

 gets here by the last of September or the first of 

 October can raise all his own vegetables. If he 

 cannot reach Florida till November he can still 

 have his cabbages and carrots and turnips and 

 lettuce and eggplant, as well as his oranges, lo- 

 quats, grape fruit, and a lot more fruits in his 

 back yard. He can have peaches and plums, but 

 not so easily cherries. He can grow all the grapes 

 he wants, if he can stay late enough to eat them. 

 At any rate he will have all the fruit and all the 

 vegetables he can dispose of. Most of the cottages 

 that are rented are also supplied with fruit. 



E. P. Powell. 



Planting for Summer Harvests 



THE busiest season of the whole year ap- 

 proaches; there are undoubtedly more seeds 

 planted this month in Georgia than in any other 

 month of the year! 



Make another planting of white potatoes and 

 continue to plant every month until August, so as 

 to have them fresh for use during the whole season. 

 If possible, store some for the winter. Irish 

 Cobbler and Green Mountain are the two best 

 varieties for main crop or late planting. 



Plant all kinds of beans now in the middle and 

 lower South. 



Your last chance for sowing onion seed in this 

 section! For a good crop, sets may be planted at 

 any time, but onions grown from sets are not as 

 good as those grown from seed and they will not 

 keep so well, either. 



Continue to sow seeds of beets, turnips, radishes, 

 mustard, kale, lettuce, spinach, sorrel and leeks, 

 also endive, dandelion, Brussels sprouts, carrot, 

 parsnips and parsley. A red, loamy clay soil 

 will produce the largest and sweetest beets. 



Sow seeds of nasturtium, petunia, poppy, 

 marigold, four o'clock, lobelia, cockscomb, candy- 

 tuft, aster, alyssum, balsam, cosmos, phlox, and 

 other annuals. 



Plant out canna roots now. Seed may also be 



