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GARDEN CITY NEW YORK 



Keeping Garden Information 



I HAVE devised several schemes in order to be 

 able to put my hand quickly upon any horti- 

 cultural item that I want. First, I had a scrap 

 book. It was not an ordinary one that could be 

 bought at any stationer's, but was one of the loose- 

 leafed varieties, so that I was able to easily keep 

 clippings in alphabetical order according to the 

 plant name. But a scrap book, as a rule, is a fine 

 place to bury things, unless there is a good index 

 in it. It also necessitates the cutting up of one's 

 magazines and some of the horticultural magazines 

 which I receive are too valuable to be torn apart. 

 So the scrap book was relegated to oblivion. 



What I now use and find most satisfactory is a 

 card index, an extremely simple form of keeping 

 track of interesting items. When reading a maga- 

 zine or a book, I check those subjects which I 

 think may be of use to me later. When I finish 

 reading the publication I get out my card file and 

 some blank cards and make notes of all items that 

 I have marked. 



The card is filed away under the plant name or 

 subject. In making this note upon the card I put, 

 in addition to the subject of the article, a descrip- 

 tion of it. For instance, one card reads as follows: 

 Winter Protection. 



"Getting Ready for Winter," by N. R. Graves. 



An excellent article that is well illustrated telling 



A card index for keeping garden information is 

 most convenient 



how to protect roses, evergreens and other shrubs. 



The Garden Magazine, 4:174 (November, 



1906). 



It is impossible for me to buy all the books on 

 gardening subjects as they are published, so I 

 keep track of them in my card index under the 

 heading of "Books Worth Having." I make a 

 note of the title, author, price, and publisher. 



There are many horticultural papers which, as a 

 rule, are not worth saving and binding because 

 they are so largely filled with advertisements and 

 news items which ha>'e no interest a month after 

 publication. If there is any information in these 

 magazines, I cut out the article, put on it the name 

 of the magazine, the volume, page, and date of 

 publication, and file the clipping in a folder under 

 the plant or subject name. For each one of these 

 clippings I also make a card similar to the one 

 described above, and after having given the refer- 

 ence, state that it is in the clipping file. 



I have found that in this present scheme of mine 

 the information is very accessible and compact, and 

 that it takes but a few minutes of my time to keep 

 up to date. 



Pennsylvania. Parker T. Barnes. 



The Hardy Border 



AS A general proposition, what comes out of 

 my hardy borders goes back into them. In 

 other words, when a plant is through blooming, 

 I cut off the flower stems and put them here and 

 there in the borders where they will not show. I 

 do the same thing with cut flowers that have sur- 

 vived their usefulness in the house. It all helps 

 as mulch and is merely nature's way of doing things, 

 only hastened a bit for the sake of superficial 

 neatness. 



New Y'ork. E. J. D. 



