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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1913 



Should a Married Woman — 



Be absolutely dependent upon her husband financially? Has she the right to a 

 portion of his income legally set aside in her name in return for the part she 

 bears in the home? 



Should she be helpless to prevent her husband from mortgaging home and 

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rants for cions. During the summer the cions 

 will develop into small bushy heads, but care should 

 be taken to pinch back any strong shoots, to rub 

 off all buds that show on the canes and cut out 

 all suckers that start from the roots. 



Late in the fall or early spring the trees should 

 be transplanted to their permanent location and 

 securely tied to stakes. The best soil for goose- 

 berries and currants is a rich deep leafmold, mixed 

 with coarse sand; select a partly shaded place, 

 sheltered from strong winds. White currants also 

 do well in a sunny position. • 



Pinch back strong growing branches in summer 

 and thin out any crossed or very old wood in 

 winter to keep the trees in good health and shape. 

 The gooseberries and currants are sometimes 

 attacked by the larvas of the currant worm, which 

 defoliates the trees in a few days. A thorough 

 spraying with 10 per cent, kerosene emulsion or a 

 solution of arsenate of lead (one pound to 25 

 gallons of water), or a mixture of both, will quickly 

 kill the worms. The kerosene emulsion will also 

 check any fungus growth, such as leaf spot and 

 mildew, if applied as a preventive. 



I have grown the following varieties and have 

 developed large and well ripened fruit; currants. 

 White Bar le Due (almost seedless), White Dutch, 

 White Grape and La Versailles (red); and the 

 May Duke, Lancashire Lad and Keepsake goose- 

 berries. 



Missouri. Rudolf Janicxe. 



For the 



Using Sawdust as a Fertilizer 



NEXT, perhaps, to the wonderful variety of 

 exotic plants, the most striking thing about 

 gardening in Southern California is the prevalent 

 use of wood sawdust and shavings. This material 

 is usually put on in the spring, used as a mulch 

 during the summer, and dug into the ground in the 

 fall, to provide humus for the next season. 



The condition of the soil and climate there are, 

 of course, entirely different from those of the East. 

 The soil generally contains more or less alkali, 

 the term being broadly employed to cover sul- 

 phates, carbonates and chlorides of soda, potash, 

 magnesia and lime. The soil is, on the whole, 

 sandy, but generally carries a certain amount of 

 adobe or clay. The rainfall is light, averaging 

 (here in San Diego) less than ten inches. Ninety 

 per cent, of this falls between December and March, 

 inclusive, while generally more than three quarters 

 falls in February and March. During the rest of 

 the year, with the exception of morning and even- 

 ing fogs, the daylight hours are one continual feast 

 of sunshine. The winter rains appear to leach 

 fresh quantities of alkali from the underlying 

 bed-rock each year; this, together with the adobe 

 of the soil, when baked by the summer suns, forms 

 an almost impenetrable crust — it is an everyday 

 sight to see people gardening with a pick. The 

 only way to keep the soil in a friable, workable 

 condition is to charge it heavily with humus. 



For my first year's garden in Southern California, 

 I had dug into the soil what, from eastern ideas, I 

 thought was a liberal allowance of stable manure; 

 besides this, the weeds and grasses were turned 

 under. Within a couple of months after the rains 

 had ceased, I saw I had been altogether too spar- 

 ing. The soil was baking on the surface, and it 

 was impossible to keep it moist or workable. On 

 examination, there appeared to be no sign of the 

 manure in the soil; the alkali seemed to have 

 acted as a solvent and completely decomposed it. 

 I had hollyhocks that by actual measurement were 

 over sixteen feet high, cosmos nine feet, and other 



The Readers 7 Seniiee is prepared to advise parents in regard to scfwols 



