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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1 9 13 



Around the Garden 



A MONTHLY KALENDER OF TIMELY CARDEN OPERA- 

 TIONS AND USEFUL HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS 

 ABOUT THE HOME GARDEN AND 

 GROUNDS 



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THE GARDEN IN JUNE cauliflowers such as the specimen illustrated upon this page, 



and these plants as well as cabbages, tomatoes, peppers and 



HEN we walk around our gardens let us not celery should be transplanted during the month of June to 



waste breath in sighing over the absence of the garden beds. 



the plants we neglected or forgot to provide TJ'LOWER-SEEDS, too, will be planted this month and 



nor be envious of our more careful neighbor. J/ thus we will be enabled to provide for a late display. By 



I often think a little disappointment of this examining the garden "lay-out" we can discover those an- 



sort in the leaven which leaveneth the mass nuals that will cease blooming early and can plan to occupy 



of appreciation of those garden delights which, an- their ground in succession with Portulaca and other flowers, 



other time, will be the reward of our forethought. Indeed, few flowers are more valuable to the garden-maker 



It will be hard to miss the Roses we should have and less appreciated than the dear, old-fashioned Portulaca 



set out, the Columbines we overlooked or the Peonies — "Rose Moss" our grandmothers used to call it, and how 



to which we paid no attention last Fall, but we should few of our gardens cultivate to Verbena now-a-days. Of 



take all the more joy in the possession of what we these Verbenas, Verbena venosa is one of the best bedding 



have, learning to love the few things of our own instead plants but one which requires a thoroughly well-drained soil, 



of making ourselves miserable over the many things Among the white varieties V erben'ia Candidissima is one of 



of our neighbors. You see philosophy and garden- the best. The "Defiance" is an excellent red variety, in 



ing are inseparable unless one descends to the state of fact, an intensely brilliant scarlet. 



becoming merely a planter 

 or a harvester. I suppose 

 there will always be in the 

 world some who find no 

 pleasure in growing things 

 to whom Nature appears a 

 matter of dirt, brambles, and 

 potatoes, something to be 

 kept somewhere out in the 

 back yard in contradistinc- 

 tion to the satisfaction they 

 find in unadorned macada- 

 mized expanses of avenue and 

 sidewalk. Fortunately, how- 

 ever, the Genius of Gardening 

 trusts nothing to their keep- 

 ing, and so it happens that 

 the traditions of the gar- 

 dener's art are safe with us. 

 WE who find our en- 

 thusiasm perennial 

 will be occupying ourselves 

 with many things this month 

 of June. There are late 

 vegetable crops to sow — car- 

 rots, potatoes and beets. 

 Again those vegetables for 

 later "succession" which will 

 be going into the ground 

 now are radishes, sweet 

 corn, turnips and beans. 

 The transplanting will like- 

 wise keep us busy. Many of 

 us will look forward to 

 bringing to maturity delicious 



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Cauliflower plants to attain such perfection at maturity as is shown here 

 should be set out this month in rich, well-drained soil 



NSECT pests must be 

 guarded against. Cut- 

 worms are particularly hurt- 

 ful at this time and you must 

 watch the tender young 

 plants carefully. Berry 

 bushes and fruit trees should 

 have a couple of June spray- 

 ings. But even the insect 

 enemies of plants are not 

 more damaging than weeds 

 when allowed to grow and 

 choke the gardens. By be- 

 ginning the weeding early, 

 and by consistently keeping it 

 up the growing plants will 

 have a fair fighting chance 

 to reach unstunted maturity. 

 By this day-by-day weeding 

 the labor attendant on keep- 

 ing the flower beds and vege- 

 table beds in condition will 

 be greatly lessened and the 

 pleasure in gardening in- 

 tensified. Look into the 

 trimming of Privet hedges 

 at this time and put out 

 Gladioli and Dahlias. 

 Among the former some of 

 the best varieties are Ceres 

 (pure white), Charles Mar- 

 tel (rose) and Brenchley- 

 ensis (scarlet-vermilion). 

 The seedsmen offer a fine 

 array of Dahlias for choice. 



