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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1912 



AMERICAN LYRICS 



By Edith Rickert and Jessie Paton 



This admirable collection makes the first attempt at sifting out the 

 distinctively" American poetry from the mass of verse written by Americans 

 but largely influenced by English tradition. Lyrics, the editors believe, 

 should be judged by the degree to which they reflect personal experiences 

 and phases of our own national life. The poems have been grouped by 

 themes to show the tendencies of our literature and to give a clue to the 

 characteristics and promise of individual writers. 



The selection ranges over a little less than one hundred years and 

 includes the best work of the best American poets down to the present time. 



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My greenhouse, a lean-to at the east side of the 

 house, is nine feet long by six wide and opens from 

 a shed on the north where the heater is located. 

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 side and across the south end. The soil is composed 

 of three parts good field soil, three parts good 

 manure, one part finely sifted coal ashes and one 

 part swamp muck. To this is added a certain 

 amount of bone meal. During the summer I 

 used some nitrate of soda. 



The glass over the cress bed is unshaded from 

 the sun. On hot days I often use the hose three 

 or four times during the morning and wet the soil 

 copiously. The brighter and hotter the sun the 

 better the cress grows. You can almost see it 

 spread on a feverishly hot day when the ther- 

 mometer runs well above the hundred mark. I 

 have a ventilator in the roof. There is a cold 

 air pipe from outdoors into the shed, also an east 

 door opens into the shed and a north one opens 

 outward. A window which opened from the 

 kitchen into the greenhouse has been taken out; 

 a door stands open into the shed. The house is 

 all down hill from front to back and very small, 

 and the current of air draws to the front door. 



That winter the bed was practically destroyed 

 by snails and earth worms. On March ist I 

 sifted the soil and cleaned all earthworms out of 

 the six feet of cress bench, and reset the bench 

 with what roots I could save. I added some bone 

 meal and some commercial fertilizer of an ordinary 

 grade. During dull days I had a fire so as to keep 

 the temperature at 70 degrees during the day 

 and 50 at night. 



I have seen no sign of disease of any kind. In- 

 secticides sprinkled on the ground between the 

 rows, about every three weeks, seem to control 

 aphis. Slugs or snails have to be hunted for at 

 night by lantern light. 



We put twenty-four stalks of cress to a bunch, 

 picking them about eight inches long. There is only 

 one grocer in our town who can sell cress and he 

 gives us forty cents a dozen bunches, taking regu- 

 larly one dozen a week and sometimes two or three 

 dozen. In preparing the cress for market we pick it 

 the night before and submerge it in a pan of water 

 in the ice box. Without this treatment it will not 

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November Meetings 



We think that every garden owner should 

 support and visit the local flower show. The 

 exhibitions and meetings of various horticultural 

 organizations to be held during November, so far 

 as we have been able to gather, are as follows: 

 Of course there will be other exhibitions, but as 

 the dates are not fixed much in advance we can- 

 not announce them here. 



Asbtjry Park, N. J., October 29-31, 1912 — Chrysan- 

 themum show, Elberon Horticultural Society. 



Baltimore, Md., November 18-23, 1012 — Annual ex- 

 hibition. Maryland State Horticultural Society, Fifth Regi- 

 ment .Armory. 



Boston. Mass., November 7-10, igi2 — Chrysanthemum 

 show. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural hall. 



Chestnut Hill, Penna., November 1-2 — Thirteenth 

 annual exhibition Chestnut Hill Horticultural Society. 



Cleveland, O., November 12-15, 1912 — First exhibi- 

 tion. Ohio Horticultural Society. 



Glen Cove, L. I., N. Y., October 20-30, 1912 — Chry- 

 santhemum exhibition, Nassau County Horticultural Society. 



Gulfport, Miss. — Eleventh annual convention of the 

 National Nut Growers' Association, October 30th and 31st, 

 and November ist. 



London. Canada — Annual meeting London Horticultural 

 Society, during the first week of November. 



Madison, N. J., October 31-NovEMBER 1, 1912 — Seven- 

 teenth annual flower show, Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society, Assembly Hall. 



Mlddlebltry, Vt. — Vermont State Horticultural Society, 

 November 20th and 21st. 



Mt. Kisco. N. Y., October 31-NovEMBER 2, 1912 — An- 

 nual exhibition, Northern Westchester County Horticultural 

 and Agricultural Society, St. Francis Hall. 



New York, November 5-8, 1912 — Chrysanthemum 

 show, Chrysanthemum Society of America, Berkeley Lyceum 

 Building, 19-21 West Forty-fourth Street. 



St. Paul, Minn., November 8-12, 1912^ — Flower show, 

 Minnesota State Florists' Association, Auditorium. 



Tarrytown, N. Y., November 6-8, 1912 — Fourteenth 

 annual exhibition, Tarrytown Horticultural Society, ^lusic Hall. 



Worcester. Mass., November 7, igi2 — Chrysanthemum 

 exhibition, Worcester County Horticultural Society, Horti- 

 cultural Hall. ..■_.. 



Yonkers, N. Y. — Annual Chrysanthemum exhibition 

 of the Yonkers Horticultural Society at the Yonkers Armory, 

 October 29th to 31st. 



