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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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tained 4,200 square feet I couldn't begin to imagine 

 myself doing all this trenching. The time at my 

 disposal was limited to a few minutes each morn- 

 ing, and hour or so in the evenings, and Saturday- 

 afternoons. 



The solution of the irrigation problem came about 

 in an unexpected way. A day or two after I had 

 finished planting I was using a crowbar to replace a 

 rotted post in the back fence, and had drilled a hole 

 deep enough for this purpose when I was called 

 away for an hour or more. Returning to the job 

 I was surprised on looking down to see water in the 

 post-hole as high as a clay belt which was imme- 

 diately below the top soil. It flashed upon me that 

 here was the means of irrigation if the ground in the 

 garden was like that on which the fence stood. A 

 hasty examination showed this to be the case. 

 There was water enough below the clay ; all it needed 

 was an outlet. If holes were drilled all over the 

 garden there would be moisture enough to keep the 

 growing things in good condition. 



As soon as the plants had pushed up through the 

 surface I made holes about seven feet apart, between 

 the rows, and in the cucumber and tomato tract, 

 going well down into the soil below the clay belt — 

 the latter being eight inches through. I used an 

 ordinary crowbar. It scarcely need be said that I 

 kept a sharp watch on these water holes from the 

 first. There were only occasional rainfalls that 

 summer. By the Fourth of July other gardens in 

 the neighborhood were looking sick; at the same 

 time the things in my garden were thriving mightily. 



I went over the whole garden with a hoe once 

 during each week, being careful to leave the water 

 holes free and clear. The water in these holes did 

 not dry up entirely until the last of August, and it 

 was an exceptionally dry season at that. Two heavy 

 showers came close together at about the time they 

 went dry so I did not have to use the hose at all. 



In hoeing I kept the ground about the plant 

 stalks lower than the surface, the same as when the 

 planting was done, and continued to do so up to 

 the time of the last hoeing when I hilled up every- 

 thing three inches above the ground-level so as to 

 provide the needed support for the maturing stalks. 



New York. C. C. Clotjgh. 



Cosmos To Follow Sweet Peas 



WE FEEL that we have very successfully solved 

 two of the problems of a small garden: How 

 to grow late cosmos and what to plant after 

 sweet peas. 



Our sweet pea trellis is of 4-foot wire mesh 

 fastened to stout, well-set locust stakes eighteen 

 feet apart, with smaller stakes six feet apart to keep 

 the wire straight. The cosmos plants are started 

 in the coldframe and transplanted into a spare 

 corner of the garden to grow until the sweet peas 

 have lost their beauty. We plant only pink and 

 white cosmos — Lady Lenox and Giant White. 



After the pea vines are removed, the ground on 

 one side of the trellis is spaded up and holes (or a 

 trench) dug for setting the cosmos. One season 

 the plants were more than five feet high at the time 

 of transplanting. If the ground is dry we water 

 the cosmos well before lifting and as the cosmos 

 roots are very compact, quite a ball of earth will 

 cling to them when the plant is lifted with a spade. 

 The plants are thoroughly soaked after being set 

 and, if the weather is dry, we sprinkle the foliage 

 several times during the first few days. The finely 

 cut foliage will not sun-scald when sprinkled in full 

 sun. 



The main stems are fastened to the wire by 

 asparagus twine interlaced with the mesh, and the 

 smaller branches are pulled through the mesh as 

 desired. When well established the top is pinched 

 back to secure branching. The fine green soon 

 hides the trellis and in late September and October 

 there is a wonderful display of pink and white 

 blossoms. 



We give them a top dressing of bone and wood 

 ashes every two weeks till the buds set, then a little 

 sheep manure or nitrate of soda. In front of the 

 cosmos we sometimes put rather dwarf, late- 

 flowering plants, such as chrysanthemum, scarlet 

 sage,[fairy lilies and sweet alyssum. The pink fairy 

 li\ies'(Zephyranlhes Alamasco, var. rosea) bloom and 

 ripen bulbs when planted as late as August 1st, and 

 to me are especially pretty with the cosmos. 



Long Island. C. L. Lawrence. 



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